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http://www.investopedia.com/articles/fundamental/04/042804.asp The Bottom Line On Margins by Ben McClure (Contact Author | Biography) Filed Under: Stocks Let's face it, the most important goal of a company is to make money and keep it, which depends on liquidity and efficiency. Because these characteristics determine a company's ability to pay investors a dividend, profitability is reflected in share price. As such, investors should know how to analyze various facets of profitability, including how efficiently a company uses its resources and how much income it generates from operations. Calculating a company's profit margin is a great way to gain insight into these and other aspects of how well a company generates and retains money. Why Use Profit-Margin Ratios? The bottom line is the first thing many investors look at to gauge a company's profitability. It's awfully tempting to rely on net earnings alone to gauge profitability, but it doesn't always provide a clear picture of the company, and using it as the sole measure of profitability can have big repercussions. Profit-margin ratios, on the other hand, can give investors deeper insight into management efficiency. But instead of measuring how much managers earn from assets, equity or invested capital, these ratios measure how much money a company squeezes from its total revenue or total sales. Margins, quite simply, are earnings expressed as a ratio - a percentage of sales. A percentage allows investors to compare the profitability of different companies, while net earnings - an absolute number - cannot. Consider this example. In its final quarter of 2003, personal computer-maker Dell had an annual net income of $749 million on sales of about $11.5 billion. Its major competitor, HP, earned about $990 million for the year on sales of about $19.9 billion. 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Its gross margin rate would be 40% ($1,000,000 - $600,000/$1,000,000). Companies with high gross margins will have a lot of money left over to spend on other business operations, such as research and development or marketing. So be on the lookout for downward trends in the gross margin rate over time. This is a telltale sign of future problems facing the bottom line. When labor and material costs increase rapidly, they are likely to lower gross profit margins - unless, of course, the company can pass these costs onto customers in the form of higher prices. It's important to remember that gross profit margins can vary drastically from business to business and from industry to industry. For instance, the airline industry has a gross margin of about 5%, while the software industry has a gross margin of about 90%. Operating Profit Margin By comparing earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) to sales, operating profit margins show how successful a company's management has been in generating income from the operation of the business: Operating Profit Margin = EBIT/Sales If EBIT amounted to $200,000 and sales equaled $1 million, the operating profit margin would be 20%. This ratio is a rough measure of the operating leverage a company can achieve in the conduct of the operational part of its business. It indicates how much EBIT is generated per dollar of sales. High operating profits can mean the company has effective control of costs, or that sales are increasing faster than operating costs. Operating profit also gives investors an opportunity to do profit-margin comparisons between companies that do not issue a separate disclosure of their cost of goods sold figures (which are needed to do gross margin analysis). Operating profit measures how much cash the business throws off, and some consider it a more reliable measure of profitability since it is harder to manipulate with accounting tricks than net earnings. Naturally, because the operating profit-margin accounts for not only costs of materials and labor, but also administration and selling costs, it should be a much smaller figure than the gross margin. Net Profit Margin Net profit margins are those generated from all phases of a business, including taxes. In other words, this ratio compares net income with sales. It comes as close as possible to summing-up in a single figure how effectively managers run the business: Net Profit Margins = Net Profits after Taxes/Sales If a company generates after-tax earnings of $100,000 on its $1 million of sales, then its net margin amounts to 10%. To be comparable from company to company and from year to year, net profits after tax must be shown before minority interests have been deducted and equity income added. Not all companies have these items, and investment income, wholly dependent upon the whims of management, can change dramatically from year to year. Again, just like gross and operating profit margins, net margins vary between industries. By comparing a company's gross and net margins, we can get a good sense of its non-production and non-direct costs like administration, finance and marketing costs. You'll recall that the international airline industry - comprising companies such as British Airways, United and Quantas - has a gross margin of just 5%. Its net margin is just a tad lower, at about 4%. On the other hand, discount airline companies such as Southwest Airlines and JetBlue generate average gross margins of about 29%. Their net margin is about 11%. These differences provide some insight into these industries' distinct cost structures: compared to its bigger, international cousins, the discount airline industry spends proportionately more on things like finance, administration and marketing, and proportionately less on items such as fuel and flight crew salaries. Then there is the software business. It has an exceedingly high gross margin of 90%, but a net profit margin of 27%. This shows that its marketing and administration costs are very high, while its cost of sales and operating costs are relatively low. When a company has a high profit margin, it usually means that it also has one or more advantages over its competition. Companies with high net profit margins have a bigger cushion to protect themselves during the hard times. Companies with low profit margins can get wiped out in a downturn. And companies with profit margins reflecting a competitive advantage are able to improve their market share during the hard times - leaving them even better positioned when things improve again. Conclusion Margin analysis is a great way to understand the profitability of companies. It tells us how effectively management can wring profits from sales, and how much room a company has to withstand a downturn, fend off competition and make mistakes. But, like all ratios, margin ratios never offer perfect information. They are only as good as the timeliness and accuracy of the financial data that gets fed into them, and analyzing them also depends on a consideration of the company's industry and its position in the business cycle. Remember, margin ratios highlight companies that are worth further examination. Knowing that a company has a gross margin of 25% or a net profit margin of 5% tells us very little without further information. As with any ratio used on its own, margins tell us a lot, but not the whole story, about a company's prospects. by Ben McClure, (Contact Author | Biography) Ben is director of McClure & Co., an independent research and consulting firm that specializes in investment analysis and intelligence. Before founding McClure & Co., Ben was a highly-rated European equities analyst at London-based Old Mutual Securities. Filed Under: Stocks
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not divine, but rather a mere creature. The Council gave him leave to
speak, to defend his claims, and he did, yammering on — I have no doubt —
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Jolly Old St. Nicholas — oh yes, he was a bishop — wasn't having any of it. He tried to listen patiently, he really did, but Arius' speech was just so wrong, that he was compelled to get up in the midst of it and, yep, punch him in the face.
Now if that were the end of the story, we probably wouldn't know about Saint Nicholas, and our children wouldn't be asking him for presents. However, after Nicholas was deposed, the Lord Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary visited Nicholas who was being held in a prison cell for his fist-fight with the heretic.
Our Lord Jesus Christ asked Saint Nicholas, "Why are you here?" Nicholas responded, "Because I love you, my Lord and my God."
Christ then presented Nicholas with his copy of the Gospels. Next, the Blessed Virgin vested Nicholas with his episcopal pallium, thus restoring him to his rank as a bishop.
When the Emperor Constantine heard of this miracle, he immediately ordered that Nicholas be reinstated as a bishop in good standing for the Council of Nicea. Today we recite the Nicene Creed every Sunday so we know how the controversy played out. The bishops at Nicea sided with Saint Nicholas and Saint Athanasius and they condemned Arius as a heretic.
To this very day, we still recite in the Creed that Christ is "God from God, Light from Light, True God from True God, begotten not made, consubstantial with the Father."
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (by Walter M. Miller Jr.)
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"The novel is about the cyclic nature of mankind's history, and how (despite the best efforts of some people) people make the same mistakes over and over again, some of which can have devastating effects. There are figures in the novel that are deliberate parallels of real historical figures (Hannegan, the Mayor of Texarkana and Henry VIII of England, for example), who make the same mistakes and bad/evil/unintended actions that have happened before."
"There are also some particularly gripping scenes, such as the one in which the last abbot instructs the colonists to go and spread across the Universe, taking their religion with them....but never come back to Earth, for fear that God may set up an archangel before as he did with Eden, in the light of a looming holocaust that would destroy the beauty of Earth as Eden was destroyed, or perverted, through evil actions made by mankind."
"Mankind is permanently flawed, within history, will always require the Church to rebuild after men's errors, and will always have such, even unto the stars, until the Parousia."
"Canticle is about the Church of the future, after the Third World War, which leaves the earth full of radioactivity and resentment against technology, science, and literacy. The Church passes through the three historical eras of Dark, High, and Decadent once again, as she has done already. (The implied cyclic, or spiraling, philosophy of history manifests the truth of original sin.) Like Dostoevsky's novels, this one is stabbingly realistic—New Agers must hate it—yet hope is present, in the end, though at a terrible cost. There is humor throughout, which is often sardonic but never sneering. There is an unforgettable surprise ending with a profoundly Marian theme that is grotesquely O'Connerish yet touching and beautiful. It is one of the most stunning plot twists I have ever seen. When this book is made into a movie (it is inevitable), it will be one of the greatest movies ever made."
An excerpt from a New Yorker article by Jon Michaud. The full article is copied and pasted at the bottom of this post.
Walter M. Miller Jr. is best known for the only novel he published in his lifetime, Dune," it remains a hugely influential book and a landmark of post-apocalyptic fiction. Along with Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles," "A Canticle for Leibowitz" was one of the first novels to escape from the science-fiction ghetto and become a staple of high-school reading lists. Its legacy can be seen in the works of Gene Wolfe, Margaret Atwood, and many other speculative-fiction authors who came after him, as well as in the current flood of end-of-the-world novels, TV shows, and movies.
A Canticle for Jew and Catholic
http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2014/11/canticle-jew-catholic%E2%80%8F.htmlIn the summer of 1998, while on my ten-day honeymoon in Idaho, I found a tattered red paperback book in a used bookstore. Amazingly enough, Idaho had a lot of bookstores then, and I remember perusing many of them during our ten days of post-wedding bliss. Whether Idahoans still possess a bibliophilic outlook on life, I don't know. Here's hoping.
Benjamin shrugged eloquently. 'Different, secular scholars,' he echoed, tossing out the words like discarded apple pits. 'I have been called a 'secular scholar' at various times by certain people, and sometimes I've been staked, stoned, and burned for it.''Why you never—' The priested stopped, frowning sharply. That madness again. Benjamin was peering at him suspiciously, and his smile had gone cold. Now, thought the abbot, he looking at me as I were one of Them—whatever formless 'Them' it was that drove him here to solitude. Staked, stoned, and burned? Or did his 'I' means 'We' as in 'I, my people'?'Benjamin—I am Paulo. Torquemada is dead. I was born seventy-odd years ago, and pretty soon I'll die. I have loved you, old man, and when you look at me, I wish you would see Paulo of Pecos and no other.'Benjamin wavered for a moment. His eyes became moist. "I sometimes—forget—''And sometimes you forget that Benjamin is only Benjamin, and not all of Israel.'
An Augustinian Wasteland: A Canticle for Leibowitz Fifty Years Later
or design of the Creator; but such meanings were God's and not Man's, until they found an imperfect incarnation, a dark reflection, within the mind and speech and culture of a given human society, which might ascribe values to the meanings so that they became valid in a human sense within the culture. For Man was a culture-bearer as well as a soul-bearer, but his cultures were not immortal and they could die with a race or an age, and then human reflections of meaning and human portrayals of truth receded, and truth and meaning resided, unseen, only in the objective logos of Nature and the ineffable Logos of God. Truth could be crucified; but soon, perhaps, a resurrection." —A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959; New York: Bantam/Spectra, 1997), pp. 145-146.
A Canticle for Leibowitz has been one of my favorite books for most of my adult life. I have read it and reread it many times. In fact, I have read it and perused it too many times to count. I find the work as compelling as the best of T. S. Eliot. But, while Eliot always leavens, Miller always sobers. In Canticle, one discovers some of Eliot's thought, but also Christopher Dawson's and Jacques Maritain's thought and especially St. Augustine's thought. Much like his fifth-century forebear, Miller places a variety of anthropologies and humanisms before the reader, as well as competing visions of history. Unlike his North African counterpart, though, Miller never answers his own questions and puzzles definitively. The reader remains restless, for he never rests in Thee.
I also have taught the book several times in various classroom settings. With only a few exceptions, bright college students find it intriguing and thought provoking, even if the theology confuses them, Catholic as well as Protestant. The characters of Mrs. Grales and Rachel tend to cause much concern as well as wonder among students.
Walter Miller served as a tail gunner on a bomber during the Italian campaign in World War II. His bombing group, in part, aided in the destruction of Monte Cassino, the oldest monastery in the Western world. The destruction of this Benedictine institution haunted Miller, and after the war he found himself drawn not only to the study of Western Civilization and its preservation, but, more importantly, to the endurance and significance of the Roman Catholic Church as a protective institution. Probably to the chagrin of many of those around him, Miller converted in 1947, shortly after his marriage. He explored many of the ideas of Roman Catholic theology in his many short stories written during the 1950s. As it turned out, this decade proved to be Miller's Golden Age, an age that he spent much of his remaining adult life trying to recapture but unsuccessfully so. In the mid-to-late 1990s, frustrated with God knows what and taunted by who knows what, Miller took his own life. Another author completed Miller's unfinished sequel, St. Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman. This second book takes place during the second of the three eras featured in Canticle, roughly 1,200 years after the atomic war of 1960.
Numerous readings of Canticle for Leibowitz have left me with this: it is a complicated, nuanced, and perplexing novel, a mystery to be enjoyed, time and again, never to be solved. Set in the Intermountain Desert West in the futureless United States of America, A Canticle for Leibowitz offers a vibrant image of a desiccated human culture and a desiccated human politics, an irradiated landscape, and an inevitably dark and shameful future. As with some of its contemporaneous fiction—such as Ayn Rand's much less earnest Atlas Shrugged—Canticle for Leibowitz offers great insight into the nature and power of ideas, set in a dystopian world. While Rand, by far better known in popular culture and in book sales, possesses a stunning power to plot an intricate plot, she cannot match Miller in character development or writing style. As an example of one beautiful sentence: "The water was clouded and live with creeping uncertainties as was the Old Jew's stream of memory" (p. 167).
Certainly, I am not alone in my appreciation of this novel. Edmund Fuller, one of the best literary critics of the 20th century, called Canticle a "memorable fantasia" (New York Times (January 12, 1964, pg. BR2)), and Martin Levin called it "ingenious" (New York Times (March 27, 1960), pg. BR42)).
Many, though, have thought it a waste of paper. An anonymous reviewer in Time magazine, for example, wrote of Miller: "His faith in religious faith is commendable but not compelling," claiming the book intellectually vacuous (n.a., Time (February 22, 1960)).
In the beginning of Canticle, set roughly five-and-a-half centuries from now, a wandering Jew throws pebbles at a confused and seemingly not-so-bright monk, Brother Francis. When the confused Catholic, led by the hand of the perturbed Jew, discovers an underground tavern, office, and bunker, he finds what he considers holy relics: a shopping list, some blueprints, and the body of a dead woman. This encounter, shaped from its beginning by the will and observation of the Jew, starts the cycle of civilization, corruption, decay, and death all over again.
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By Jon MichaudThe abbey at Monte Cassino is situated atop a rocky hill about eighty miles south of Rome and was founded in 529 by St. Benedict of Nursia. It was there that the Benedictine order established the principles of Western monasticism. From Monte Cassino, monks went out and set up monasteries across the Christian world. Generations of scribes labored in the abbey's library to copy texts and preserve artifacts that dated to antiquity. According to "Monte Cassino," a history by Matthew Parker, by the start of the Second World War the monastery's collection had grown to forty thousand manuscripts, including the majority of the writings of Tacitus, Cicero, Horace, Virgil, and Ovid. While the monastery's perch on top of fifteen hundred feet of rock provided security, its location, near the main road between Naples and Rome, made the structure an attractive strategic asset. The abbey has been sacked many times: by the Longobards in 581, the Saracens in 884, and by Napoleon nearly a millennium later. Each time, it was rebuilt grander than before. And with each reconstruction the abbey took on more of the characteristics of a citadel.
From November, 1943, to May, 1944, the hill on which the abbey stood was at the center of one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the Second World War. Monte Cassino was a crucial part of the Gustav Line, a string of fortified German defenses that bisected Italy. In anticipation of the Allied push toward Rome, Hitler ordered that the Gustav Line be upgraded to "fortress strength." Seeing the opportunity for a propaganda victory, the Nazis helped the monks box up many of the abbey's treasures and transfer them to safety before the fighting began. Most of the monks then fled. The Allied command, believing that the Germans were using the abbey as a garrison and ammunition dump, made the controversial decision to bomb Monte Cassino. On February 15, 1944, American B-17s, B-25s, and B-26s dropped more than four hundred tons of explosives on the monastery. (Film of the bombing can be seen on YouTube.) Hundreds of civilians who had taken refuge there were killed. A handful of monks and other survivors left the abbey the next day. The fighting continued for another three months before a group of Polish soldiers planted their nation's flag among the ruins of the monastery, signaling an Allied victory.
One of the American airmen who participated in the bombing of Monte Cassino was a young radio operator and tail gunner from Florida named Walter M. Miller, Jr. Miller, who enlisted in the Army after the attack on Pearl Harbor, flew on more than fifty combat missions in B-25 Mitchells above the Mediterranean region and the Balkans. Following the war, he got married, studied engineering at the University of Texas, and converted to Catholicism. In the fifties, he began publishing stories and novellas in Amazing Stories, Galaxy, Astounding Science Fiction, and other magazines. Miller also wrote scripts for the popular television show "Captain Video and His Video Rangers." The list of writers for "Captain Video" includes some of the biggest names in mid-century science fiction: Arthur C. Clarke, James Blish, Isaac Asimov, and Jack Vance.
Miller is best known for the only novel he published in his lifetime, "A Canticle for Leibowitz." Composed of a trilogy of novellas that originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, "Canticle," which was released in 1959, has never been out of print, selling more than two million copies. While it hasn't attracted the following enjoyed by "The Lord of the Rings" or even "Dune," it remains a hugely influential book and a landmark of post-apocalyptic fiction. Along with Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles," "A Canticle for Leibowitz" was one of the first novels to escape from the science-fiction ghetto and become a staple of high-school reading lists. Its legacy can be seen in the works of Gene Wolfe, Margaret Atwood, and many other speculative-fiction authors who came after him, as well as in the current flood of end-of-the-world novels, TV shows, and movies.
The book's first novella, "Fiat Homo" ("Let there be Man"), is set at a monastery in the Utah desert some six hundred years after a nuclear holocaust known as the Flame Deluge. The war caused a backlash against learning and knowledge, called the Simplification, which wiped out almost all traces of civilization. Most of the people on earth are illiterate. Many are deformed by radiation. The monks who reside in the monastery are devoted to honoring the memory of Isaac Edward Leibowitz, a Jewish scientist at Los Alamos who was martyred for his efforts to safeguard scientific knowledge in the aftermath of the conflict. They collect and transcribe the "Leibowitz Memorabilia," including shopping lists, technical documents, and circuit diagrams that they cannot even begin to understand. The protagonist of "Fiat Homo" is a bumbling but well-intentioned novice named Francis who, during a Lenten fast in the desert, accidentally discovers the fallout shelter Leibowitz used. This discovery results in Leibowitz's elevation to sainthood. Francis makes the treacherous journey to New Rome to witness the canonization and is killed by mutant tribesmen on his way back to the abbey.
The second novella, "Fiat Lux" ("Let there be Light"), takes place hundreds of years later, in the thirty-second century. Like most middle parts of trilogies, it is the least compelling—"the long belly of a dachshund, slung … between two pairs of sturdy legs," as Peter Matthiessen characterized the second volume of his Watson trilogy. After more than a millennium, mankind is on the cusp of emerging from the dark ages brought about by the Flame Deluge. Hostility is brewing among the city-states (Denver, Texarkana, Monterey) that have risen out of the former American nation. A prominent scientist named Thon Taddeo, a latter-day Newton or Einstein, visits the monastery to investigate its holdings. He is astonished to find that one of the monks has created a working electric light, which is powered by a sort of treadmill. Taddeo believes the Leibowitz Memorabilia will lead him to breakthroughs in his work, but the abbot refuses to let Taddeo take items from the library back to Texarkana. Meanwhile, the abbey narrowly avoids being used as a military base for an attack on Denver.
The final part, "Fiat Voluntas Tua" ("Let Thy Will Be Done"), describes the beginning of another nuclear war, this time between the world's two dominant powers, the Atlantic Confederacy and the Asian Coalition. It is the year 3781 and civilization has not only recovered but has developed beyond the level it was at in the mid-twentieth century. Nation-states once again have nuclear arsenals. Space travel between earth and distant colonies has become common. There is even a communication device in the abbey that is a combination of Google Translate and Google Voice. As the war begins, the abbot Dom Zerchi, instructs a group of monks to flee the earth for a colony near Alpha Centauri. They take the Leibowitz Memorabilia with them. After they depart, the abbey, which has stood for nearly two thousand years, is demolished by an atomic bomb. The abbot is crushed in the ruins. The final passages of the book are an eerie imagining of the Earth without mankind:
Every generation conjures its own apocalypses and dystopias. They give us an index of the collective anxieties of the era. In the decades before the First World War, "invasion stories" such as H. G. Wells's "The War of the Worlds" populated the best-seller lists in Britain and the United States. Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We" and George Orwell's "1984" were fuelled by widespread fears of authoritarian governments during the first half of the twentieth century. Postwar American science fiction is overflowing with thinly disguised freak-outs about Communism and nuclear Armageddon. More recently, we have seen a plethora of books that fret about economic collapse, the spread of infectious diseases, and the destruction of the environment. Colson Whitehead's "Zone One," Karen Thompson Walker's "The Age of Miracles," Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Edan Lepucki's "California," and Emily St. John Mandel's "Station Eleven" are all part of this wave. Looming is Junot Díaz's work-in-progress, which combines alien invasion with viral illness and an overheated planet. (Part of the novel was published as the short story "Monstro" in The New Yorker in 2012.)A wind came across the ocean, sweeping with it a pall of fine white ash. The ash fell into the sea and into the breakers. The breakers washed dead shrimp ashore with the driftwood. Then they washed up the whiting. The shark swam out to his deepest waters and brooded in the old clean currents. He was very hungry that season.
"A Canticle for Leibowitz" sits squarely at the heart of the subgenre of novels about nuclear holocaust. (Miller's preferred term was "Megawar.") The subject was enough of an obsession for Miller that he later edited, with Martin Greenberg, an anthology called "Beyond Armageddon," which featured post-apocalyptic tales by Bradbury, Clarke, Harlan Ellison, J. G. Ballard, and many others. In his introduction to the collection, Miller noted that the stories shared a nostalgia for things that have been lost. "Post-Megawar stories are about an afterlife," Miller wrote. "Survivors don't really live in such a world; they haunt it."
Beyond being a repository for his fears about the bomb, "A Canticle for
Leibowitz" was a means for Miller to work through the trauma and guilt that haunted him from his wartime experiences, especially the bombing of the abbey at Monte Cassino. By his own admission, the Miller did not become fully aware of the driving force behind his novel until he was working on its third part. "I was writing the first version of the scene where Zerchi lies half buried in the rubble," Miller recalled. "Then a light bulb came on over my head: 'Good God, is this the abbey at Monte Cassino? . . . What have I been writing?'"
Within the cathedral of post-apocalyptic and dystopian literature, there ought to be a small sanctum reserved for books produced out of the author's personal experience with cataclysmic events. Other works that fit into this niche include Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five," which was inspired by the writer having witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden, and "The Forever War," Joe Haldeman's 1974 novel, which drew directly on his tour of duty in Vietnam. (A lesser case could also be made for Nevil Shute's "On the Beach," which was published two years before "Canticle." Shute was an engineer who worked for the Royal Navy's Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development during the Second World War. He later covered the Normandy landings as a writer for the Ministry of Defense.)
A second link between these works by Miller, Vonnegut, and Haldeman, is humor. While a post-apocalyptic novel set in a monastery may not strike most readers as rich terrain for comedy, "A Canticle for Leibowitz" is a surprisingly funny book, in small ways and large. Even Miller's basic premise—that the Catholic Church, like a cockroach, cannot be killed by a nuclear war—made me chuckle throughout. Miller proves himself a dab hand at slapstick: Francis, the protagonist of "Fiat Homo" is as hapless as one of the Three Stooges, and Thon Taddeo, the brilliant scientist in "Fiat Lux" is a stuffed-shirt academician who would be at home in a David Lodge novel. In "Fiat Voluntas Tua," Miller satirizes the political doublespeak with the rhetoric that obscures the start of the book's nuclear war. Overlying it all is the irony at the core of so many apocalyptic fictions: that self-destruction is an immutable part of the human condition. In "A Canticle for Leibowitz," the knowledge that the monks faithfully preserved ultimately contributes to the obliteration of the world.
"Canticle" has aged well, but for many contemporary readers the book will have a glaring flaw: a nearly total lack of women. Of course, setting your novel in a monastery does limit the opportunities to include female characters, but even among the scenes set outside the walls of the abbey, there is only one significant female character: a two-headed mutant who ends up being a kind of blessed virgin. (The old Madonna-mutant paradox.) Readers could reasonably assume that female members of the species did not survive the first nuclear holocaust. Their absence is a sign of a deeper problem in the book: there is a conspicuous absence of physical and emotional intimacy. Miller is grappling with Big Questions, but I occasionally wished for scenes in which the pressures of those big questions would manifest themselves in private moments of comfort between characters. Those kinds of intimacies are a more common feature of the recent crop of apocalyptic novels.
After the success of "A Canticle for Leibowitz," Miller withdrew into Salinger-like seclusion in Florida. His longtime agent, Don Congdon (who also represented Bradbury), said that Miller was his only client whom he never met in person. When Miller wrote a fan letter to fellow science-fiction author and Florida resident, Lucius Shepard, he added the following post script: "This does not mean I want to meet you." Miller didn't publish any new fiction from 1959 until his death, almost four decades later. ("Beyond Armageddon," which he co-edited, appeared in 1985. Collections of his stories from the fifties were also re-issued.)
"Walt was deeply depressed by post-traumatic stress disorder and had been for half a century,'' Joe Haldeman told the Washington Post. ''I don't know how many people he felt responsible for killing, but it was a lot.'' Miller took his own life in January of 1996. Police found him sitting in a chair on his lawn, with a gunshot wound to the head. Miller himself had placed a 911 call before pulling the trigger. No major newspaper printed an obituary for him, apparently bowing to the wishes of Miller's family to respect his privacy.
Miller had spent years working on a sequel to "Canticle." In the nineteen-eighties, Congdon brokered a six-figure deal for the book with Bantam, based on sixty pages. Miller worked hard but struggled to finish the manuscript. ''He couldn't get rid of it—it was basically depression and booze,'' said Congdon. Miller managed to compose more than five hundred pages, which amounted to nine-tenths of the projected book. At Congdon's request, and with Miller's approval, the respected science fiction author Terry Bisson agreed to edit and complete the manuscript. Bisson recalls Miller saying that "any idiot with a sense of humor can finish the book." The book, "Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman," was released in 1997 to very mixed reviews. Miller, sadly, did not live to see it published, but his début still haunts the world, just as the bombing of Monte Cassino haunted him.
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Study Guide and on-line book: http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/science_fiction/canticle.html
A Thesis by Cynthis Anne Miller Smith (Georgia State Universiry)
Note: The novel consists of three parts: Fiat Homo (Let There Be Man), Fiat Lux (Let There Be Light), and Fiat Voluntas Tua (Thy Will Be Done).
List of Latin Phrases for A Canticle for Leibwitz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_in_A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz
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Sunday, September 14, 2014
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
"Those who worship the Cross must know they may not insult Mohammad."
"…name is above every name and at whose name every knee must bend in the heavens, on the earth, and under the earth and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the Glory of God the Father."
Christian typological exegesis perceives in the bronze serpent an image of the cross itself, which was lifted up in the desert that the Father might draw all things to himself through the death of his Son.
Note to my CIA and SWAT: You are learning Christian typological exegesis at almost every meeting. Isn't that cool?
- the study and interpretation of types and symbols, originally (especially) in the Bible. (noun)
- critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially of scripture. (noun)
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Saturday, September 13, 2014
Bill Maher & Charlie Rose Compare Christianity to Islam
I do not usually have much in common with Maher, but I agree with him in this article from September 12, 2014:
CHARLIE ROSE: It is true.
MAHER: It is not true, Charlie. There is a connecting tissue between --
ROSE: Behind every Muslim is a future member of some radical?
MAHER: Let me finish.
ROSE: I was doing that.
MAHER: There are illiberal beliefs that are held by vast numbers of Muslim people that --
ROSE: A vast number of Christians too.
MAHER: No, that's not true. Not true. Vast numbers of Christians do not believe that if you leave the Christian religion you should be killed for it. Vast numbers of Christians do not treat women as second class citizens. Vast numbers of Christians --
ROSE: I agree with that --
MAHER: -- do not believe if you draw a picture of Jesus Christ you should get killed for it. So yes, does ISIS do Khmer Rouge-like activities where they just kill people indiscriminately who aren't just like them? Yes. And would most Muslim people in the world do that or condone that? No.
ROSE: No.
MAHER: But most Muslim people in the world do condone violence just for what you think.
ROSE: How do you know that?
MAHER: They do. First of all they say it. They shout it.
ROSE: Vast majorities of Muslims say that?
MAHER: Absolutely. There was a Pew poll in Egypt done a few years ago -- 82% said, I think, stoning is the appropriate punishment for adultery. Over 80% thought death was the appropriate punishment for leaving the Muslim religion. I'm sure you know these things.
ROSE: Well I do. But I don't believe --
MAHER: So to claim that this religion is like other religions is just naive and plain wrong. It is not like other religious. The New York Times pointed out in an op-ed a couple weeks ago that in Saudi Arabia just since August 4th, they think it was, they have beheaded 19 people. Most for non-violent crimes including homosexuality.
ROSE: I know that they cut the hands off the thief.
MAHER: Right, okay, so we're upset that ISIS is beheading people which we should be upset about but Saudi Arabia does it and they're our good friends because they have oil. Okay. But they do it too. This is the center of the religion. I'm not saying -
ROSE: But they're now fighting against ISIS too. They're joining us in the fight. As is the Emirates. As is Jordan. They are all Muslim countries.
MAHER: Well, they are both fighting ISIS and they are for ISIS.
ROSE: Well, it's not the government. I mean, some of them --
MAHER: Certainly the governments.
ROSE: It's a bit like today about Qatar. The big story today in The New York Times about Qatar. And some guy there is supporting, who is a Muslim --
MAHER: But I mean in Mecca where infidels, non-Muslims, are not even allowed in the holy parts of the city. I mean, right there, we don't have that example in other religions. They do behead people. Now if they were beheading people in Vatican City, which is the equivalent of Mecca, don't you think there would be a bigger outcry about it? So this is the soft bigotry of low expectations with Muslim people. When they do crazy things and believe crazy things, somehow it's not talked about nearly as much.
ROSE: Would you come to the table and debate this with a moderate Muslim?
MAHER: Find one, yes. Find one.
ROSE: I promise you I'll find one.
MAHER: Find a Muslim --
ROSE: I do believe that what we see with ISIS is not representative of --
MAHER: As I said, connecting tissue.
ROSE: -- not representative of the Islamic religion. I don't think the Koran teaches them to do these kinds of things.
MAHER: Well you're wrong about that. The Koran absolutely has on every page stuff that's horrible about how the infidels should be treated. But for example again ISIS says that they should perform genital mutilation on all women 11-46. Would most Muslims agree with that? No. Or carry it out? No.
But as Ayaan Hirsi Ali points out, she says --
ROSE: I wouldn't expect for her to --
MAHER: And she would know better than --
ROSE: Exactly.
MAHER: But can we really say --
ROSE: She's been a victim.
MAHER: -- women are treated equally in the Muslim world? I mean, their testimony in court is very often counted as half. They need permission to leave the house in some places.
ROSE: But a lot of moderate Muslims would say in fact one of the things that we need to modernize is the idea of the way we treat women.
MAHER: But in this country, if you just use the wrong word about women, they go nuts. And all these other countries --
ROSE: As they should.
MAHER: -- they're doing things like making them wear burqas and I hear liberals say things like, 'they want to.' They want to. They've been brainwashed. It's like saying a street walker wants to do that.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014
To Reject the Tree is to Reject Its Fruit
When Jesus walked the earth, there was much debate amongst the Jews about what books belonged in their canon and which did not. Some sects accepted books like Enoch and Jubilees, others didn't. The Pharisees accepted the prophets. The Sadducees did not.
How, then, did the early Christians know which Gospels and Epistles were inspired, and which should be rejected as apocryphal?
These decisions were officially debated and decided by the Roman Catholic Church at the Council of Nicea in the 4th Century. So, if we reject the Roman Catholic Church and its authority to hold dogmatic councils under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, then... we are also rejecting the Bible! To reject the tree is to reject its fruit.
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Note: I do not know if the book (pictured above) is good . . . . but I just ordered it. :-)
Here is the review:
This is an exceptional little book! Bishop Graham's prose style is delightful, though he can be a bit forceful at times, which may offend some Protestants. (But, if you disagree with him on any point, study up and try to refute it. You'll be sorely disappointed.)
Some reviewers here have complained that the text isn't footnoted, but not many books written around the same time period (1911) were. He does, however, list a brief bibliography in the back, and if you're willing to do the research, his facts check out. It is also slightly outdated, in that he quotes and praises the Douay-Rheims Bible, which has been supplanted by the New Jerusalem and New American Bibles in English-speaking Catholic liturgical use.
It is unfortunate that Bishop Graham isn't around to update this with information about the Dead Sea Scrolls, as they contain even more support for the Catholic canon of the Old Testament. But these trivialities aside, this is an excellent brief history of where the Bible came from, how the canon was determined, and the Catholic thoughts on the Bible. Highly recommended for Catholics, of course, and non-Catholics especially.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014
A Treasure Trove of Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Listen Online)
|1. Misunderstanding the World Misunderstanding the World
|2. Jesus the Eternal Priest Jesus the Eternal Priest
|3. The Drama of the Mass The Drama of the Mass
|4. Memorial of the Cross Memorial of the Cross
|5. The Denial of Sin The Denial of Sin
|6. Triple Transference Triple Transference
|7. Persevering Prayer Persevering Prayer
|8. The Incarnation The Incarnation
|9. The Passion of Christ Continues The Passion of Christ Continues
|10. The Power of the Resurrection The Power of the Resurrection
|11. The Betrayal of Judas The Betrayal of Judas
|12. Mary Mother and Spouse Mary Mother and Spouse
|13. The Hour of Testing The Hour of Testing
|14. The Fall and Conversion of Peter The Fall and Conversion of Peter
Source: http://www.bishopsheentoday.com/school-of-bishop-sheen-2/a-retreat-for-everyone/
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s Department of Prints and Drawings holds more than 80 prints by the Norwegian Edvard Munch (18631944), among them donations by the artist and many acquisitions already made during his life-time. Presenting these impressive treasures, the exhibition Edvard Munch. Prints in the Städel Museum pays tribute to the outstanding expressiveness of Edvard Munchs prints and illustrates their landmark importance for twentieth-century art. Like in his paintings, Munch mainly gave expression to psychological states and interior processes in his prints, too. With his scenic descriptions and symbolic mental landscapes, he created sheets thematizing moods and life experiences such as love, jealousy, anxiety, disease, loneliness, or grief. Portraits, however, also play an important role within Munchs work as a printmaker. He captured friends from the bohemian world such as Henrik Ibsen, Stéphane Mallarmé, or August Strindberg in psychologically profound pictures. The show contextualizes this oeuvre by confronting it with selected positions of artists such as Beckmann, Gauguin, Heckel, Klinger, Redon, or Toulouse-Lautrec as they become manifest in works from the Städels collection. The exhibition will be on show in the Department of Prints and Drawings from 3 July until 18 October 2009. The Städel Museum will set up a special microsite under http://munch.staedelmuseum.de, which offers detailed information on the various printing techniques, the life and work of the Norwegian artist, and the works by Edvard Munch in its collection.
Edvard Munch began to dedicate himself to printing at the age of 31 when he lived in Berlin. The year was 1894. The extensive oeuvre of prints he produced in Germany, Paris, and Norway throughout the following decades into his old age mirrors both his life and his fascination with the specific qualities of the chosen means of expression. Fond of experiments, he succeeded in combining the peculiar possibilities of the etching, the lithograph, and the woodcut with complex contents in a masterly and innovative way.
Most of the motifs he chose resemble those of his paintings executed before. In 1894, Munch was as well known as he was controversial. It was especially the scandal around the exhibition of his paintings at the Association of Berlin Artists in 1892 which was closed down because of the publics and the critics outrage that provoked a discussion on the free treatment of his objects colors and forms. Like the French Impressionists, the Scandinavian was vehemently rejected by the conservative voices in the Berlin of that day.
Doing without color, Munch at first translated decisive motifs of his paintings like The Girl by the Window, The Day After, or The Sick Child into etchings in Berlin. These early dry-point works made in the knowledge of contemporary masterpieces such as the etchings by Max Klinger (18571920), but obviously without having received any lengthy instructions show an astounding quality and evince Munchs promising talent. Together with five other engravings, these works are part of a portfolio with intaglio prints by Edvard Munch published by Julius Meier-Graefe in Berlin in 1895 and unsuccessfully offered for sale at the time. The Städel has been in the possession of the complete portfolio of a special edition printed on rice paper in only ten copies.
Munchs first lithographs date from as early as 1894 when he did his first etchings. The more than 30 examples in this technique presented in the exhibition include impressive pictures depicting changing moods of love (Sea of Love, Separation, and Vampire). Two lithographed versions of Jealousy (1896) suggest a comparison with the later painting of the same name in the gallery of the Städel. Munchs Cordon offers a visionary commentary on the female as an object of desire that has a forebear in Henri Toulouse-Lautrecs lithographic oeuvre.
In an unrivaled way, Munch captures difficult-to-grasp psychological states and emotions between the sexes. It is hardly perceptible how his motifs transcend the everyday world and find their equivalent in todays emotional life. As simple as his symbolically condensed feelings seem to be, as profound is the meaning pervading them.
Both Eros and Thanatos are among the fundamental experiences of life which occupied the artist throughout his career. The pictures of his 15-year old sister Sophies demise in 1877, which he witnessed and depicted again and again in varied forms in paintings and prints, number among his most powerful documents concerning the subject of death. In Paris, where he took up residence in 1896/97, he had Death in the Sickroom (in black on blue-grey deckle-edged paper) and The Sick Child, an incunabulum of color lithography, printed by Auguste Clot. It was under Clots hand, who, commissioned by Ambroise Vollard, began working on series of prints by Les Nabis (Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis) at that time, that color lithography blossomed as a new late-nineteenth-century achievement in printing technology.
Many of Munchs lithographs are empathic portraits of contemporaries. He rendered his patron and friend Harry Graf Kessler as a subtle aesthete in 1895, working with the model in front of him and drawing directly on the stone. The portfolio From the Linde Villa, a special kind of family portrait, was executed on behalf of the Lübeck ophthalmologist and significant sponsor Max Linde in 1902. Since the work was intended exclusively for the familys personal use, only a few copies were printed, which is why it is only rarely to be found in public collections. The exhibition also includes a number of portraits of his bohemian comrades such as the Polish poet Stanisław Przybyszewski, the writer Henrik Ibsen, and the Swedish playwright August Strindberg the latter Munchs partner in regard to the feminine, in drinking, and in neurosis, as Meier-Graefe put it in 1915.
After having done etchings and lithographs, Munch began to try his hand at woodcuts, too, in 1896. Comparing the dry-point work Two People from 1894 with a color woodcut exploring the same subject from 1899 reveals the technically caused differences. But such juxtapositions also disclose how the atmosphere of silence and isolation translates into the idiom of the respective printing medium a creative process always accompanied by the condensation of the pictorial idea and its expression in increasingly concrete terms.
There were only a few artists such as Paul Gauguin and Félix Vallotton who, like Munch, in those days made use of the Japanese woodcut as the oldest known printing technique against the background of the interest developed for it in Paris. As Gauguin, thanks to his experimental attitude, began to break new ground for the woodcut around 1895, Munch also developed innovative methods of production in this field. While he printed his color woodcut Seascape (1897) from two blocks in the traditional way, Two People (1899) and To the Forest II (1915) are the result of a procedure hitherto unknown in this technique. Munch cut up the block with a fretsaw to apply different colors to the various parts and achieve a wide range of variants after assembling them like a puzzle. The influence Munch would exercise on subsequent artists was also based on this method, which would be taken up by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
Today, the Städel Museums Department of Prints and Drawings holds 81 prints by Edvard Munch. Edvard Munch was still alive, when, under Georg Swarzenskis directorship, the outstanding color lithograph The Sick Girl and two etchings were purchased for the Städtische Galerie. Further acquisitions could be made in 1912, 1914, 1916, and 1918. After the artist himself had donated 11 lithographs and woodcuts to the collection in the early 1930s, the holdings had increased to 40 works. While two of three paintings by the artist purchased in the 1920s were confiscated as degenerate in 1937, his prints were spared. The losses to be lamented by the Städel in the field of Expressionist prints were generously made up for by Dr. Carl Hagemanns legacy after World War II in 1948. The transferred prints of his collection also included works by Edvard Munch. Since those days, well-considered purchases were made at auctions to complement and extend the extant holdings in a reasonable manner.
When the Städelsches Kunstinstitut presented its exhibition Edvard Munch. Prints with well over 100 works from 12 October to 23 November 1952, most of them were loans from a German private collection. Today, after more than 50 years, the Städel can draw on its own treasures to pay tribute to the outstanding expressiveness of Edvard Munch as a printmaker.
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HRC, Freedom to Marry, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund launched United for Marriage this morning, a national effort to recruit volunteers for the state marriage campaigns.
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It would have to be the gardening clothes Philippa
I had a 'mother of the groom' situation earlier in the year and dressing up was torture, even the limited version I chose
We're quick here.
A few more photos, the leave particularly, and lets us know how tall it is. Then we can probably say which malva.
When it's all gone to seed, if you pull it and it comes out of the ground it's an annual. If it's firmly fixed it's perennial. Malva moschata will be very firmly fixed
Don't take any notice of me VS, all that stuff makes me cringe.
And the word 'celebrity' brings out the worst in me
Just ignore me
Link to the Barnsdale trip with the group photo on page 13
I might be scary, you'll have to ask the rest of the gang, but no-one else was
I'd do a bit of everything, sow a few now (or when they're brown and ripe) save some to sow in spring and let it seed where it is.
That covers all possibilities.
Those seed pods are Malva rather than geranium. Might be Malva moschata, musk mallow (perennial) or something out of a packet of mixed annuals
Those that write for the papers and mags or perform on the TV I suppose.
Gardening and its presentation to the masses as a competitive sport?
Not for me thanks.
Sounds awful
Mildew. Mint is very susceptible. Cut the old stems down.
It's well after midsummer Pete. Some of mine are turning, especially the earlier flowerers and the ones on dry soil


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