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According to a new study of 2,000 people, the average person spends an hour of work each day on personal stuff . . . or just wasting time online. Each day, the average worker does NINE different non-work-related tasks.
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Spend a lot of time on a website called StumbleUpon. You pick things that interest you and press the stumble bottun and it takes you to random pages it suggests you like. Alot of wasted time on there.
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Listen to this show, total waste of time.
My fiancé plans our wedding at work. Wastes at least an hour a day I'm sure.
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Many may have forgotten that Drizzy first came on the scene as an actor (shout out to Jimmy from Degrassi!), but as soon as the 27-year-old hit the stage, fans quickly remembered that he can do more than just rap behind a mike—Drake's got jokes!
So we thought it was only fair to highlight some of the star's best moments from tonight's award show, from his monologue to the Lance Cam to his skit that included Blake Griffin and Chris Brown (yes, you read that right) to his Manny Pacquiao impression, Drizzy gave us a number of memorable gems that made us laugh during the 2014 ESPY Awards.
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King James Goes Back to Cleveland: Drake had to make mention to LeBron James choosing to go back to Cleveland. "Two years, $40 million. Now look, some people are happy about it, some people aren't happy. Me personally, I think it makes sense financially. You know what $40 million gets you in Miami? A really nice house. You know what $40 million gets you in Cleveland? Cleveland. All of it. You get the whole thing."
Johnny Manziel's Druggy Text: Making fun of his friend, Johnny Football, Drizzy told the crowd, "I worry about him sometimes. For example, right before I came out here, I got a text from him asking if I wanted to do mushrooms and watch the ESPYs together tonight. Johnny, I hope you understand this is why I couldn't come. But I'm sure this looks amazing to you right now."
Donald Sterling: Duh. There couldn't be a sports awards show with a mention of the Clippers owner. "We're just a couple hundred yards from Staples Center, which also happens to be as close as Donald Sterling is allowed to get (cut to Blake Griffin)."
PHOTOS: These NBA players sure know how to clean up nice!
The Lance Cam: "So many incredible moments in sports this year, but my all-time favorite—maybe not of this year, but of all time—happened during this year's NBA eastern conference finals," Drake said, and cued a video clip of Lance Stephenson blowing into LeBron's ear during a game. "That's one of the greatest things you're ever gonna see in your entire life, OK?"
But that wasn't all. Drizzy then fired up "The Lance Cam," which is kinda like The Kiss Cam, except you blow into someone's ear. And he did. Twice.
Richard Sherman's Cockiness: "Tonight a man told me that Richard Sherman is the best defensive player that he has ever seen, and that man's name was Richard Sherman," Drake said. "Richie! You're a cocky son-of-a-b, Richie, I'll tell you that much. Nah, I love Richard Sherman, man. Sherman's my guy, like, he's so entertaining. Richard Sherman pissed off more white people this year than a crowded parking lot at Whole Foods. You know they hate when they can't get their almond milk, you know what I'm saying?"
Blake vs. Drake: In an amazing skit with Blake Griffin, the two show off their competitive spirits, going at it with different stunts and pranks after they fight over a movie title. Chris Brown even got involved and tried to help Griffin out! These two.
Singing Time!: Yes, Drake can sing, so he had to show off his pipes during his hosting duties. He performed three new singles, including "Honorable Mentions," which helps promote the idea that "it ain't so bad being No. 2" (and also snubbed Macklemore). He also sang a tune called "Sidepieces" with the help of Brian McKnight, and a jingle about Donald Sterling.
Drake as @MannyPacquiao singing "Let It Go" = HILARIOUS. http://t.co/0fbNM6T18K? ESPYS 2014 (@ESPYS) July 17, 2014
Wait, Manny Pacquiao?!: OK guys, Drake's humor went on another level, when he gave the greatest impression of the Filipino boxer singing Frozen's "Let It Go." This will make you cry-laugh.
Can I Dig In?: Drizzy professed his love (yet again) for WNBA player Skylar Diggins by reading a few poems he wrote for her, including one titled "Can I Dig In?" He gets a surprise by Skylar herself on stage, who asks if he can stop all of his romantic advances. He agrees, as long as he gets a kiss. Unfortunately, he only got a kiss on the forehead, but sparks still flew (literally).
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Best Male College Athlete: Doug McDermott, Creighton Basketball
Best NBA Player: Kevin Durant, Oklahoma City Thunder
Best Female Tennis Player: Maria Sharapova
Best Fighter: Floyd Mayweather, Boxing
Best Breakthrough Athlete: Richard Sherman, Seattle Seahawks
Best Moment: USA Vs. Ghana
Best Game: Alabama vs. Auburn, Iron Bowl
Best Play: Chris Davis
Best Female Athlete: Ronda Rousey
Best Upset: Mercer over Duke, NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament
Best NFL Player: Peyton Manning, Denver Broncos
Best Driver: Ryan Hunter-Reay, IndyCar
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To even make ends meet, freelance writers have to be up-to-date on so many topics and players. It's downright exhausting.
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It's the same thing for non-media organizations needing content. If their focus is mortgages or assisted-living facilities, they screen for new writing talent based on concrete clips and the prestige of where they had been published. In addition, they might require an unpaid original sample done by the writer, custom-made for their specs.
I complied with that new world order for more than four years. Then I got it that I was dancing as fast as I could. Through calculated planning I managed to navigate out of having writing as my primary source of income. I will always write. Both for my own byline and client assignments. But the lion's share of income will come from doing other kinds of work.
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In Thinking of Others, Ted Cohen argues that the ability to imagine oneself as another person is an indispensable human capacity--as essential to moral awareness as it is to literary appreciation--and that this talent for identification is the same as the talent for metaphor. To be able to see oneself as someone else, whether the someone else is a real person or a fictional character, is to exercise the ability to deal with metaphor and other figurative language. The underlying faculty, Cohen argues, is the same--simply the ability to think of one thing as another when it plainly is not.
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Former India batsman Vinod Kambli today announced his retirement from first class cricket, bringing to an end a long career that started way back in 1989.
"I wanted to play alongside Sachin (Tendulkar) for one last time, wanted to play in IPL but unfortunately that did not happen," the 39-year-old left-hander told reporters as tears rolled down his face.
"I had informed about my decision to retire to Sachin, my coaches and family members. They all wished me well. I have Sachin's blessings," said the flamboyant cricketer, who shared a world record partnership of 664 runs with Tendulkar in school cricket in the 80s.
Kambli, who played his last Test when he was 24, rued that despite starting his career in Test cricket with a bang, it did not turn out to be a long one.
"I performed well in Test cricket but unfortunately I didn't have a long career. I was the fastest to score 1,000 runs (in Tests for India). I thank the BCCI, Mumbai cricket for whatever they have given me," Kambli maintained.
"Till the last year, I was raring to go (in domestic cricket). I served Mumbai (cricket) for long, but the selectors ignored me. I'm disappointed," he said.
Kambi made his Test debut against England in 1993 two years after playing in his first ODI against Pakistan.
His last Test was against New Zealand in 1995 while the match against Sri Lanka at Sharjah in 2000 turned out to be his last ODI.
Kambli, who whacked the first ball he faced in first- class cricket for a six, said he wished to take up coaching and produce good cricketers.
Representing India, Mumbai, and South Africa's Boland, he scored 9,964 runs, including 35 centuries, from 129 first- class matches at an average of 59.67.
In 17 Tests for India, he scored 1,084 runs at a phenomenal average of 54.20 with the help of four centuries.
Of the four centuries, three were scored in successive innings and two of them were double tons, with his highest being 224 against England in Mumbai in 1993.
Kambli also scored 2,477 runs in 104 ODIs, including two centuries, with the highest being 106.
Kambli, who had unsuccessfully contested the 2009 Maharashtra Assembly elections and also dabbled in acting in between, had announced his retirement from international cricket in August 2009.
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(11/16/2008) you should consider ALL of my posted prices to be provisional.
There may be changes in any category. This notice will be posted
on a few other pages but not all. But this is your official notice.
(Renewed 1/4/2010 - this is what low level chaos feels like.)
(6/8/2010 chaos continues to build. Think before you act. Think
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so here we are living history. How long has this crisis been going
on? 3 years? 11? 40? 65?
This aviso renewed again 4/10/2011. It hasn't been this eventful since the 60s. And again 10/6/2011. 5 years of financial crisis.
And again 2/26/2012. And of course 8/3/2012. May 26 2013: gold & silver were up, now they're down, there are still prices in my coins inventories that are too low, but probably also some that are too high. I update this notice occasionally, and do so again 7/4/2014. Over time the situation remains volatile. At the moment raw numbers are down.
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1. SHIPPING COSTS & CONDITIONS UPDATE: Continuing a condition of slightly increased losses of first class mail. There were no lost priority mail or express mail losses last year. There were 2 losses of international registered first class mail, there were no losses of international express. It seems that they give enhanced treatment for higher priced services. Over several decades the trend has been to reduce the subsidy for lower priced delivery services. This has mirrored the global economic trends. If you have money the costs are ignorable. $1000 value transaction I'll send it express, spend$35-$100, I'll pay the shipping costs, general red carpet treatment. $10 transaction weighing 4 ounces shipping in USA will cost $2.50 minimum, outside USA will cost $6.55. We are, I guess, supposed to decide it isn't worth doing & go back & watch TV or something, or else we have to pay. I mean you have to pay. What to do about this? Write your congressperson then wait. Pardon please my cynicism. But also, it is not the fault of the postal service. True, they were offered email before it went public & they turned it down, but Congress turned a dirty trick on them when they required them to fund their pension costs 75 years ahead, like no other business in the world. As a result of that they are always running a deficit & are having to cut service.
2. I PRICED a 9 pound package to India. Fedex wanted $1000. UPS wanted $600. Postal service wanted $170. Delivery ~5 days, Guaranteed.
3. I'M NOT a conspiracy nut. I read a book recently: Drug War, by Dan Russell. Apparently out of print but also perhaps updated & retitled. He draws a line from the suppression of paganism through the Inquisition, slave trade, British conquest of India, opium wars, American Indian wars, World Wars I & II, Guatemala, Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, Iran-Contra, etc. - all have drug smuggling & drug suppression as 2 sides of the same coin played by the same people. Seems fantastic, except I've lived through some of it & I know it's true. Someone once showed me a gold bar made by opium kingpin Kung Sa in Burma. Guy had an illegal (back then) night scope, courtesy the navy. I know that LSD came out of the CIA. We all know that heroin used to come from Vietnam, now Europe gets its supply from Afghanistan, we get ours from Mexico. Russell names CIA related Lebanese setting up the Mexico heroin business. Interesting book.
1. SHIPPING COSTS & CONDITIONS: USPS is still cheapest but there are increasing problems. Service is deteriorating (political reasons mostly, far as I can tell, maybe discuss that later) & prices are high. To save bits of money I have begun using a private mailing service to buy discounted postage but still ship through USPS. There have been losses in transit but not more than with USPS all by itself. However, there is an overall slight increase in losses. If your package is insured you will get your money back but if not, not. Generally, for domestic shipments, your best bet (priority) now costs $6.00 minimum: quick, tracked, insured. Less than that seems to be getting increasingly iffy. For international the situation is worse. The best service (quick and with tracking) now costs a minimum of $60.00. Registered first class is trackable but transit time is uncertain, indemnity if lost is limited, there have been losses. Without registration takes an undefined amount ot time, is not trackable, no indemnity if lost, Most shipments get through but not all of them.
2. OVERALL ECONOMY HAS IMPACTED COIN BUSINESS AS FOLLOWS: healthy growth at the top, recession at lower levels, which is where I live & work. There is less stuff available to buy, lower prices at both buy & sell, fewer customers trending older. Low bullion prices don't help of course. My benchmark for a bad year has been 1981. It is not 1981 quite, but the subject comes up. Your collection assembled 20+ years ago is worth a lot more than you paid for it but probably less than it was worth 2 years ago. Now, there is a cyclic thing I've seen in my life, so some kind of recovery is expected. However, in my life every rebound has involved bigger numbers of dollar & people but a smaller percentage of people, so I am not in a position to advise you when & how much things will get better for, you know, "us."
3. THAT SAID, I plan to stay in the business next year, need to buy stuff so I can sell it, have money to do that. Looking for "good stuff," ordinary stuff, bulk low end material, interesting things. Help me out?
4. THIS MAY OR MAY NOT be my last offering for this year. Wishing y'all happy, merry, warm, calm & prosperous next year.
1. I SEE I WROTE ABOUT the nasty stuff happening in northern Iraq back in July. There are a couple of aspects to this complicated situation: 1) Iran is the tip of the spear in the short run & we have to help them do what needs to be done. I am not worried about Iranian nukes because they want them to counter the Sunni nukes (Pakistan, possibly Saudi), threats to Israel are mere diversionary propaganda. But Iran cannot win this Islamic 30 years war (population dynamics), it can only draw. It could lose though, & losing would likely look like ISIS with 100 million people rather than few hundred thousand. So we must, strategically, support Iran. 2) Which means supporting Assad in Syria. We supported Stalin in WWII. We can support Assad. Greater good & all that. We can always go back to hating him again when it gets to be 1946 again. 3) We USAers can't do it on the ground. With all due respect to those what crave it, we, I'm sorry to say, don't know how. Proxies, back channel deals with various flavors of devils. That's not the only way, but I am not at the moment thinking of other ways that would yield any kind of non-worse result. Hard to think of any result less worse than the piles of bodies scenario we have going on there now. "At least" they're not making mountains of the heads they're cutting, a not uncommon spectacle in the past. Yet.
2. THIS IS the third year of no monarch butterflies. Shortage of pollinators have decreased the local zucchini crop, but a fig tree around the corner is heavy with fruit. There was an outstanding mushroom bloom this August from the rains & not-too-hot temperature. A small emergence of big fat annual cicadas, dogs & cats find them tasty and fun.
3. BUSINESS has slowed on both the buying & selling sides. I am finding less interesting stuff to sell at prices worth buying while ordinary stuff is sluggish & also not abundant. I will need a few hundred pounds of poundage soon. I really want to buy whole collections, anyone?
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There are lots of forums about living aboard, and I've seen some that specifically talk about living aboard with a family. There are tons of examples of families that even have gone on long, extended cruises (like months at a time, covering thousands of miles) with kids. A guy working on the boat next to mine in the boatyard about a month ago told me he and his wife took their two kids on a 28-foot sailboat from Canada all the way down to the southern tip of the Bahamas - they lived on the boat for six months.
Google "living aboard" and you'll find the forums and some blogs as well.
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This week the boys filmed a guest appearance on Nickelodeon show iCarly - and it was Harry who scored the largest part, involving Miranda Cosgrove's character developing a crush on him.
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We didn't fall in love with Harry and his backing singers -- we fell in love with all the boys equally.
We don't even understand how they would manage this? Would Harry sing other people's solo parts in concerts? Would he always be front and centre in their photo shoots? Would the other boys just get forgotten about?
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See J. N. D. Kelly, Jerome (1975); B. M. Metzger, The Early Versions of the New Testament (1977). See also the Benedictine and the Stuttgart editions.
Throughout Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, the name Vulgata was applied to the Greek Bible. The Latin Biblical texts in use before the Latin Vulgate are usually referred to collectively as the Vetus Latina, or "Old Latin Bible", or occasionally the "Old Latin Vulgate". (Here "Old Latin" means that they are older than the Vulgate and written in Latin, not that they are written in Old Latin. Likewise the Latin Vulgate was so named because it was the Latin counterpart to the Greek Vulgate; it was not written in Vulgar Latin.)
The translations in the Vetus Latina accumulated piecemeal over a century or more; they were not translated by a single person or institution, nor uniformly edited. The individual books varied in quality of translation and style, and different manuscripts witness wide variations in readings. Jerome, in his preface to the Vulgate gospels, commented that there were "as many [translations] as there are manuscripts". The Old Testament books were translated from the Greek Septuagint, not from the Hebrew.
The older Latin version remained in use in some circles even after Jerome's Vulgate became the accepted standard throughout the Western Church. Some in Gaul continued to prefer the Vetus Latina version for centuries.
Jerome did not embark on the work with the intention of creating a new version of the whole Bible, but the changing nature of his program can be tracked in his voluminous correspondence. He had been commissioned by Pope Damasus in 382 to revise the Old Latin text of the four Gospels from the best Greek texts, and by the time of Damasus' death in 384 he had thoroughly completed this task, together with a more cursory revision from the Greek Septuagint of the Old Latin text of the Psalms. How much the rest of the New Testament he then revised is difficult to judge today, but little of his work survived in the Vulgate text. In 385 Jerome was forced out of Rome, and eventually settled in Bethlehem, where he produced a new version of the Psalms, translated from the Hexaplar Greek text. He also appears to have undertaken further new translations of other Septuagint books into Latin; but again, these are not found in the Vulgate text. But from 390 to 405 Jerome switched to translating directly from the Hebrew, and translated anew all 39 books in the Hebrew Bible, including a further, third, version of the Psalms, which survives in a very few Vulgate manuscripts.
In his prologues, Jerome described those books or portions of books in the Septuagint that were not found in the Hebrew as being non-canonical: he called them apocrypha, but they are found in all complete manuscripts and editions of the Vulgate. Of the Old Testament texts not found in the Hebrew, Jerome translated Tobit and Judith anew from the Aramaic; and from the Greek, the additions to Esther from the Septuagint, and the additions to Daniel from Theodotion. The others, Baruch, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, 1 and 2 Maccabees, 3 and 4 Esdras and the Prayer of Manasses, retain in Vulgate manuscripts their Old Latin renderings. Their style is still markedly distinguishable from Jerome's. In the Vulgate text, Jerome's translations from the Greek of the additions to Esther and Daniel are recombined with his separate translations of these books from the Hebrew.
Called the Versio Romana or Psalterium Romanum, the Roman Psalter of 384 was Jerome's first revision of the Psalter. It was made from the Versio Vetus Latina, and corrected to bring it more in line with the Septuagint. This version was by and large replaced by Jerome's later versions, except in Anglo-Saxon England, where it continued to be used until the Norman Conquest (1066).
Although some early manuscripts of the Vulgate contain Jerome's translation of the psalms from the Hebrew, the version of the psalms that is contained in all later manuscripts and editions is the Gallicana translation from the Hexaplar Greek.
The 20th century saw the creation of two new Psalters for liturgical use. These were the Versio Piana of 1945 and the Versio Nova Vulgata of 1969. The 1945 version was issued by authority of Pope Pius XII by the Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome, under Augustin Bea and is a fresh version from the originals. It is found in most breviaries printed between 1945 and 1970 and has been influential for those who prayed the Divine Office during this period. The 1969 version is used in the Nova Vulgata edition described below.
A number of early manuscripts witnessing to the early Vulgate still survive today. Dating from the 8th century, the Codex Amiatinus is the earliest surviving manuscript of the complete Vulgate Bible. The Codex Fuldensis, dating from around 545, contains most of the New Testament in the Vulgate version, but the four Vulgate gospels are harmonized into a continuous narrative derived from the Diatessaron.
Over the course of the Middle Ages, the Vulgate had succumbed to the inevitable changes wrought by human error in the countless copies made of the text in monasteries across Europe. From its earliest days, readings from the Vetus Latina were introduced. Marginal notes were erroneously interpolated into the text. No one copy was the same as the other as scribes added, removed, misspelled, or miscorrected verses in the Latin Bible.
About 550, Cassiodorus made an attempt at restoring the Vulgate to its original purity. Alcuin of York oversaw efforts to make a corrected Vulgate, which he presented to Charlemagne in 801. Similar attempts were made by Theodulphus, Bishop of Orléans (787?–821); Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury (1070–1089); Stephen Harding, Abbot of Cîteaux (1109–1134); and Deacon Nicolaus Maniacoria (about the beginning of the 13th century). The University of Paris, the Dominicans, and the Franciscans following Roger Bacon assembled lists of correctoria – approved readings where variants had been noted. Unfortunately, many of the readings recommended are now known to be interpolations.
Though the advent of printing greatly reduced the potential of human error and increased the consistency and uniformity of the text, the earliest editions of the Vulgate merely reproduced the manuscripts that were readily available to the publishers. Of the hundreds of early editions, the most notable today is Mazarin edition published by Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust in 1455, famous for its beauty and antiquity. In 1504 the first Vulgate with variant readings was published in Paris. One of the texts of the Complutensian Polyglot was an edition of the Vulgate made from ancient manuscripts and corrected to agree with the Greek.
Erasmus published an edition corrected to agree better with the Greek and Hebrew in 1516. Other corrected editions were published by Xanthus Pagninus in 1518, Cardinal Cajetan, Augustinus Steuchius in 1529, Clarius in 1542, and others. In 1528, Robertus Stephanus published the first critical edition, which formed the basis of the later Sistine and Clementine editions. The critical edition of John Hentenius of Louvain followed in 1547.
In 1550, Stephanus fled to Geneva where in 1555 he issued his final critical edition of the Vulgate, which was the first complete Bible with full chapter and verse divisions, and which became the standard Biblical reference text for late 16th century Reformed theology.
The title "Vulgate" is currently applied to three distinct online texts which can be found from various sources on the Internet. Which text is used can be ascertained from the spelling of Eve's name in Genesis 3:20.
The Clementine Vulgate (Biblia Sacra Vulgatæ Editionis Sixti Quinti Pontificis Maximi iussu recognita atque edita) is the edition most familiar to Catholics who have lived prior to the liturgical reforms following Vatican II.
After the Reformation, when the Catholic Church strove to counter the attacks and refute the doctrines of Protestantism, the Vulgate was reaffirmed in the Council of Trent as the sole, authorized Latin text of the Bible. To reinforce this declaration, the council commissioned the pope to make a standard text of the Vulgate out of the countless editions produced during the Renaissance and manuscripts produced during the Middle Ages. The actual first manifestation of this authorized text did not appear until 1590. It was sponsored by Pope Sixtus V (1585–90) and known as the Sistine Vulgate. It was based on the edition of Robertus Stephanus corrected to agree with the Greek, but it was hurried into print and suffered from many printing errors. It was soon replaced by a new edition by Clement VIII (1592–1605) who immediately ordered corrections and revisions to be made. This new revised version was based more on the Hentenian edition. It is called today the Sixto-Clementine Vulgate, or simply the Clementine, although it is Sixtus' name which appears on the title page. Clement published three printings of this edition, in 1592, 1593 and 1598.
The Clementine differed from the manuscripts on which it was ultimately based in that it grouped the various prefaces of St. Jerome together at the beginning, and it removed 3 and 4 Esdras and the Prayer of Manasses from the Old Testament and placed them in an appendix.
The Psalter of the Clementine Vulgate, like that of almost all earlier editions, is the Gallicanum.
The Clementine Vulgate of 1592 became the standard Bible text of the Roman Rite of the Roman Catholic Church until 1979, when the Nova Vulgata was promulgated.
After Clement's 1598 printing of the Vulgate, the Vatican issued no other official printings, leaving the task to other printers. Although the other printers of the Clementine Vulgate faithfully reproduced the words of the official edition, they were often quite free in matters of spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and paragraph boundaries. In 1906, Capuchin friar Fr. Michael Hetzenauer produced an edition restoring the original Clementine text while taking into account variations in Clement's three printings as well as correctoria officially issued by the Vatican.
In 1982, Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos published a reprint of the Clementine Vulgate (ISBN 8-479-14021-6) omitting the Apocrypha, but containing excerpts from various magisterial documents and the Piana version of the psalms in addition to the vulgate version.
After the publication of the Clementine Vulgate, few critical editions were published. In 1734 Vallarsi published a corrected edition of the Vulgate. Most other later editions limited themselves to the New Testament, most notably Fleck's edition of 1840, Constantin von Tischendorf's edition of 1864, and the Oxford edition of Bishop John Wordsworth and Henry Julian White in 1889.
In 1907 Pope Pius X commissioned the monks of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Jerome in Rome to prepare a critical edition of Jerome's Vulgate as a basis for a revision of the Clementine. Only the Old Testament was ever completed, which however complemented the New Testament edition of Wordsworth and White; the fruit of this labour led to the creation of the Nova Vulgata. The Benedictine critical edition was used as a basis for much of the Old Testament of the Stuttgart Vulgate.
|Edition sigla per Biblia Sacra Vulgata
|Bonifatius Fischer
|Wisdom; Cath
|Walter Thiele
|Paul; Hebrews
|HJ Frede
|4 Esdras
|Robert Lubbock Bensly
|Pope Clement VIII
|Donatien de Bruyne
|JM Harden
|Adolf von Harnack
|Old Testament
|Benedictines of Jerome
|Henri de Sainte-Marie
|New Testament
|Wordsworth & White
|4 Esdras
|B Violet
|1 Cor–Eph
|Henry Julian White
An important feature in the Stuttgart edition for those studying the Vulgate is the inclusion of all of Jerome's prologues to the Bible, the Testaments, and the major books and sections (Pentateuch, Gospels, Minor Prophets, etc.) of the Bible. This adheres to the style of medieval editions of the Vulgate, which were never without Jerome's prologues. In its spelling, the Stuttgart also retains a more medieval Latin orthography than the Clementine, sometimes using oe rather than ae, and having more proper nouns beginning with H (i.e., Helimelech instead of Elimelech), but the spelling is inconsistent throughout, as in the manuscripts. The Stuttgart Vulgate also follows the medieval manuscripts in using line breaks, rather than the modern system of punctuation marks, to indicate the structure of each verse. Because of these features, it initially presents an unfamiliar appearance to readers accustomed to the Clementine text.
It contains two Psalters, both the traditional Gallicanum and the juxta Hebraicum, which are printed on facing pages to allow easy comparison and contrast between the two versions. It has an expanded Apocrypha, containing Psalm 151 and the Epistle to the Laodiceans in addition to 3 and 4 Esdras and the Prayer of Manasses.
In addition, its modern prefaces are a source of valuable information about the history of the Vulgate.
The Nova Vulgata (Bibliorum Sacrorum nova vulgata editio, ISBN 88-209-2163-4), also called the Neo-Vulgata or Neo-Vulgate, is currently the typical Latin edition published by the See of Rome and approved for use in the liturgy. The Second Vatican Council in Sacrosanctum Concilium mandated a revision of the Latin Psalter in accord with modern textual and linguistic studies, while preserving or refining its Christian Latin style. In 1965 Pope Paul VI appointed a commission to revise the rest of the Vulgate following the same principles. The Commission published its work in eight annotated sections, inviting criticism from Catholic scholars as the sections were published. The Latin Psalter was published in 1969; the New Testament was completed by 1971 and the entire Nova Vulgata was published in 1979. A second edition was published in 1986.
The foundational text of most of the Nova Vulgata's Old Testament is the critical edition done by the monks of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Jerome under Pius X. The foundational text of the books of Tobit and Judith are from manuscripts of the Vetus Latina rather than the Vulgate. The New Testament was based on the 1969 edition of the Stuttgart Vulgate. All of these base texts were revised to accord with the modern critical editions in Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic. There are also a number of changes where the modern scholars felt that Jerome had failed to grasp the meaning of the original languages, or had rendered it obscurely.
The Nova Vulgata does not contain some books found in the earlier editions but omitted by the canon of Trent, namely the Prayer of Manasses, the 3rd & 4th Book of Esdras, and the Epistle to the Laodiceans.
In 1979, after decades of preparation, the Nova Vulgata was published and declared the Catholic Church's current official Latin version in the Apostolic constitution Scripturarum Thesaurus promulgated by the Pope John Paul II.
The Nova Vulgata has not been widely embraced by conservative Catholics, many of whom see it as being in some verses of the Old Testament a new translation rather than a revision of Jerome's work. Also, some of its readings sound unfamiliar to those who are accustomed to the Clementine.
In 2001, the Vatican released the instruction Liturgiam Authenticam, establishing the Nova Vulgata as a point of reference for all translations of the liturgy of the Roman rite into the vernacular from the original languages, "in order to maintain the tradition of interpretation that is proper to the Latin Liturgy".
In 1984 and 1992 Kurt and Barbara Aland published the Novum Testamentum Latine (ISBN 1-598-56175-8). The text is a reprint of the New Testament of the Nova Vulgata to which has been added a critical apparatus giving the variant readings of earlier editions. The editions described in the apparatus are the Stuttgart edition, the Gutenberg Bible, the Latin text of the Complutensian Polyglot, the edition from Wittenberg (which was favored by Luther), the editions of Desiderius Erasmus, Robertus Stephanus, Hentenius of Louvain, Christophorus Plantinus, Pope Sixtus V, Pope Clement VIII, and Wordsworth and White.
This new edition of the Novum Testamentum Latine is an updating of an older publication of the same name from 1906, which presented the Clementine Vulgate text with a critical apparatus comparing it to the editions of Sixtus V (1590), Wordsworth and White, Lachman (1842), and Tischendorf (1854), as well as the manuscripts Codex Amiatinus and Codex Fuldensis.
Damasus had instructed Jerome to be conservative in his revision of the Old Latin Gospels, and it is possible to see Jerome's obedience to this injunction in the preservation in the Vulgate of variant Latin vocabulary for the same Greek terms. Hence, "high priest" is rendered "princeps sacerdotum" in Vulgate Matthew; as "summus sacerdos" in Vulgate Mark; and as "pontifex" in Vulgate John. Comparison of Jerome's Gospel texts with those in Old Latin witnesses, suggests that his revision was substantially concerned with redacting the expanded phraseology characteristic of the Western text-type, in accordance with Alexandrian, or possibly early Byzantine, witnesses. Given Jerome's conservative methods, and that manuscript evidence from outside Egypt at this early date is very rare; these Vulgate readings have considerable critical interest. More interesting still – because effectively untouched by Jerome – are the Vulgate books of the rest of the New Testament; which demonstrate rather more of supposed "Western" expansions, and otherwise transmit a very early Old Latin text. Most valuable of all from a text-critical perspective is the Vulgate text of the Apocalypse, a book where there is no clear majority text in the surviving Greek witnesses.
However, all the above evaluations refer to the critical Vulgate text re-established from the late 19th century onwards, reconstituting the form of text current in Italy in the mid 6th Century AD. The standard Clementine text differs in numerous significant readings – such as the Comma Johanneum (1 John 5: 7–8), the gloss from Psalm 22 (Matthew 27:35), and the Angel at Bethesda (John 5:4) – and is much less valuable for textual study.
A recurring theme of the Old Testament prologues is Jerome's preference for the Hebraica veritas (i.e., Hebrew truth) to the Septuagint, a preference which he defended from his detractors. He stated that the Hebrew text more clearly prefigures Christ than the Greek. Among the most remarkable of these prologues is the Prologus Galeatus, in which Jerome described an Old Testament canon of 22 books, which he found represented in the 22-letter Hebrew alphabet. Alternatively, he numbered the books as 24, which he described as the 24 elders in the Book of Revelation casting their crowns before the Lamb.
Also of note is the Primum quaeritur, which defended the Pauline authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews, and compared Paul's ten letters to the churches with the ten commandments. The author of the Primum quaeritur is unknown. The editors of the Stuttgart Vulgate remark that this version of the epistles first became popular among the Pelagians.
In addition to Primum quaeritur, many manuscripts contain brief notes to each of the epistles indicating where they were written, with notes about where the recipients dwelt. Adolf von Harnack, argued that these notes were written by Marcion of Sinope or one of his followers. Harnack noted: "We have indeed long known that Marcionite readings found their way into the ecclesiastical text of the Pauline epistles, but now for seven years we have known that Churches actually accepted the Marcionite prefaces to the Pauline epistles! De Bruyne has made one of the finest discoveries of later days in proving that those prefaces, which we read first in Codex Fuldensis and then in numbers of later manuscripts, are Marcionite, and that the Churches had not noticed the cloven hoof."
In terms of its importance to the culture, art, and life of the Middle Ages, the Vulgate stands supreme. Through the Middle Ages and onto the Renaissance and Reformation, St. Jerome's monumental work stood as a last pillar of Roman glory and the bedrock of the Latin church as it strove to unite a fractured Europe through the Catholic faith. As the version of the Bible familiar to and read by the faithful for over a thousand years (c. AD 400–1530), the Vulgate exerted a powerful influence, especially in art and music, as it served as inspiration for countless paintings, hymns and popular religious plays. Even while the Genevan Reformed tradition sought to replace the Latin Vulgate with vernacular versions translated from the original languages, it nevertheless retained and extended the use of the Vulgate in theological debate. In both the published Latin sermons of John Calvin, and the Greek New Testament editions of Theodore Beza, the accompanying Latin reference text is the Vulgate; and where Protestant churches took their lead from the Genevan example – as in England and Scotland – the result was a broadening appreciation of Jerome's translation in its dignified style and flowing prose. The closest equivalent in English, the King James Version or Authorized Version, shows a marked influence from the Vulgate (especially by comparison with the earlier vernacular version of Tyndale), in respect of Jerome's demonstration of how a technically exact Latinate religious vocabulary may be combined with dignified prose and vigorous poetic rhythms.


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Today, the Supreme Court granted a petition for certiorari in Gabelli v. Securities and Exchange Commission (11-1274). In the appeal from a Second Circuit opinion, the Court will decide whether a governmental claim for penalties accrues on the date that the underlying violation occurs, or when the SEC discovers (or reasonably could have discovered) the violation, for purposes of the 5-year statute of limitations for governmental penalty actions embodied in 28 U.S.C. s. 2462. The precise question presented is:
"When Congress has not enacted a separate controlling provision, does the government's claim first accrue for purposes of applying the five-year limitations period under 28 U.S.C. s. 2462 when the government can first bring the action for a penalty?"
"When Congress has not enacted a separate controlling provision, does the government's claim first accrue for purposes of applying the five-year limitations period under 28 U.S.C. s. 2462 when the government can first bring the action for a penalty?"
The Second Circuit, in an opinion adopting the SEC's position, held that the discovery rule applies to SEC enforcement actions rooted in fraud. Under that rubric, the SEC could bring an enforcement action within five years of learning about a fraud, which, in many cases, can be far more than five years after the underlying violation occurred. The Supreme Court's decision to take the case follows closely on the heels of the Fifth Circuit's August 7, 2012 decision in SEC v. Bartek, previously discussed here. In Bartek, the Fifth Circuit held that the statute of limitations for penalties in SEC enforcement actions began to run on the date of the underlying in violation, and that the discovery rule does not apply to 28 U.S.C. s. 2462. The Bartek decision therefore created a clear Circuit split that the Supreme Court is poised to resolve next term.
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Introduction: Good evening ladies and gentlemen, my name is Tomas Mates, I study at the Univesity of West Bohemia and tonight I would like to guide you through the life and works of Karel Capek. I have read several books written by this author and I consider them one of the best books written in Czech, mainly because of the excellent Czech usage. In my presentation tonight I want to presents you Karel Capek as a writer and Karel Capek as a man.
General Information: Let us start with the general information about this author. As far as I am concerned, I have to say, that I admire this writer for the number of books and plays, he has written during his hard and short life. Another surprising fact, that you may not kn ow is that Karel Capek almost got a Nober Prize for Literature. The details concerning this will be discussed later.
What do we imagine under the name "Karel Capek" ? Or what book or play can we remember ? If you asked some native Czech, you would be probably given such an answer : 'The play "White Disease", "Mother" and >>What did you say - 'Capek'?<< - "From the Inse ct's Life". On the other hand a foreigner would probably say : 'Isn't it the play about the 'robots' - "RUR" and ... maybe "War with the Newts"'
This evening I would like to develop several main points covering the important events in his life and we will also look at his litarary activity. You can see the structure of my presentation on the transparency.
Before we start speaking about the individual topics, I'll tell you briefly, what are you going to hear tonight. We will start with life and career of Karel Capek, then we will look at the main works that were written in five different periods of his lif e. We will continue with his political orientation and relationships with famous people. Lastly, I will summarize the importance of this outstanding Czech writer.
Important places: Speaking about a famous person we usually mention the place where he was born. In the case of Karel Capek it was a small village in the very east Bohemia called "Mal Svatonovice". As you can see in the title, he was born on 9th January 1890 and died on 25th December 1938. Soon after his birth the family moved to Úpice, where his father established his private surgery. As a student, Karel Capek stayed in Hradec Králové and Brno and also in Prague. The whole family moved there about the year 1910. Last three years spent Karel Capek togeher with his wife in the village "Stará Hut" near the town "Dobríz".
Parents: Like an every child, Karel Capek was strongly influenced by his parents. Firstly, he followed his father, when he visited the patients as a private doctor. Secondly, his father was a keen gardener and both brothers inherited this passion too. Later, they even wrote a book called "The Gardener's Year" (Zahradníkuv rok). The mother of Karel Capek was a very sensitive woman, which caused his strong human feeling and understanding.
Education: At the age of 11 he was sent to a grammar-school in Hradec Králové. Here he started to write his first "pieces". Last two years of the grammar-school he finished in Brno. Then he travelled to France and Germany and in the year 1915 he successfully finish ed the Philosophical faculty of Charles University in Prague.
Proffesions: Most of us know Karel Capek as a writer of novels and dramas. However, he also worked as a journalist in the newspapers "National Papers" and "People's Newspaper". In this branch he became famous for his short articles printed in the form of columns and analysing ordinary topics. They should not only entertain the readers, but also make them think about some problems of that time.
Speaking about Karel Capek we have to mention several people with a strong influence on him.
Brother "Josef": The first one was his brother Josef, which was three years older than him. There were several things these brothers had in common. Firstly, they were keen gardeners as well as their father. Then, they oftern worked together (for example as the editors of the "National Papers" (Národní listy)). We can also find several books written by Karel and illustrated by Josef. Finally, they lived many years in the semidetached house - it means - almost together.
Sister "Helena": There were three important women in the life of Karel Capek. We have already mentioned the first one - it was his mother. The second woman was his four years older sister "Helena". She wrote a book of memories called "My Dear Brothers" (Moji milí bratri).
Wife "Olga Scheinpflugová": The third important woman, as you probably expected, was his wife. The actress "Olga Scheinpflugová" and Karel Capek had known each other for almost 15 years until they got married in 1935. In this year they left Prague and moved to their private house i n the village "Stará Hu" near the town "Dob?í". Unfortunately, they did not spend too much time together because Karel is dying of pneumonia in 1938. To the memory of her husband, Olga wrote a semi-biobraphical book "The Czech Novel" (Ceský román) descibing their relationship and their common life.
Karel Capek as a Student: As a student of the grammar-school in Hradec Králové, Karel Capek wrote short articles to the secret students' newspaper. Later, in April 1904, when he moved to Brno, he sent two poems called "Simple Motives" (Prosté motivy) to the weekly "Sunday" (Nedele). It was his first officially published work. At the beginning of the World War One, he was examined by the military doctors. They found him some neck disease reducing his ability to move with the head. That is why, he avoided the compulsory military service and it gave him more time to work.
First Period of Literary Activity: Let us come to the beginning of his art career. His first period of literary activity starts around the year 1910 when he still studied at the Philosophical faculty. His first independent book, which was a collection of short non-action stories called "G od's Torture" (Bozí muka) was published in 1917. In the same year he finished and also published another collection of stories - "Painful Stories" (Trapné povídky). In these stories he tried to express his feeling of anxiety and uncertainty coming from h is personal life and from the society. He also wanted to suggest that there may exist such mysteries one can never understand. In this period there were written two more works. One of them is the drama "Robbery Man" (Loupeník) and the second is the translation of selected French poems which brought his brother Josef in 1912 from his journey to Paris. Karel Capek's effort was to mediate new trends in French literature and there really appeared a book called "French Poetry of the New Age" (Francouzská poezie nové doby) in 1920.
Second Period of Literary Activity: The second period of his literary activity began, when Karel Capek left the newspaper "National Papers" (Národní listy). He worked there together with his brother Josef and after his brother was discharged, he left too. He obtained more time to write and he focused on the utopian topics. His plays "RUR", "Factory for Absolute Space" (Továrna na Absolutno) and "Thing Makropulos" (Vec Makropulos) as well as the novel "Krakatit" deal with some unrealistic invention and des cribe possible results if they were abused. The first play RUR written in 1920 was translated into English in 1923 and it brought a completely new word "robot". This word describes a sophisticated machine that should help man with the hard work. All the plays and the novel finish with a disaster showing, how meaningless the certain invention was.
Third Period of Literary Activity: In 1929 Karel Capek wrote a nice collection of short stories called "Tales from Two Pockets" (Povídky z jedné a druhé kapsy), which tell different human stories in a colloquial Czech. This makes the tales not only easily understandable, but also shows th e brilliant language usage. In the third period we can mainly find short articles and newspaper "columns" analysing simple and common things of everyday's life. For example the story "I had a dog and a cat" (M?l jsem psa a koCku). As you may rememeber, in the first part of my presentation, where you have heard about parents of Karel Capek, I have told you, that his father infuenced him much when working in the garden. Now I shall mention the book "The Gardener's Year" (Zahradníkuv rok) where he used his experiences gained by gardening. This activity caused him a pain in the neck, but he liked to grow flowers and cultivate the grass because it was a way of relaxation, he liked very much. When working as an editor of the "People's Newspaper" (Lidové noviny), he published two very nice works for children. I suppose the each of you have read at least a part of the book "Dáe?ka or a puppy's life" or some tale from the book "Nine Fairy Tales " (Devatero pohádek) which includes quite modern fairy tales and shows how many synonyms could be used in the Czech language. Finally, his five books of travel written almost 70 years ago can give us a lifelike picture of the following countries : Grat Britain, Italy, Spain, Hollan and the countries in the north Europe. Karel Capek did hit the nail on the head when describing t he characters of the nations. It is strongly recommended to read these books of travel before travelling to the mentioned countries.
Fourth Period of Literary Activity: In the year 1933 starts the fourth period of Capek's literary activity. Within two following years he wrote three novels - each of them describing and analysing an interesting human life-stories. The names are called "Hordubal", "Meteor" and "An Ordinary Life" (Hordubal, Povetron a Obycejný zivot).
Fifth Period of Literary Activity: Last period of his literary activity is closely connected with the political situation of that time. We are in the year 1935 and there appears a threat of Fascism in the Europe. The Czechoslovakia bordering on Germany is watching the political situation of its neighbour with fear. Karel Capek wants to express his feelings and so he writes several anti-fascist works. The famous novel "War with the Newts" (Válka s mloky) is published in 1936. Capek is returning to his favourite utopian topics. This novel narrates a story of strange and big animals, that were discovered in Indonesia. People found them quite intelligent and after the newts were taught human language and technology, people started using them as a cheap working power. The support goes so far, that there is suddenly too much newts in the world demanding more and more space. Newts become dangerous and peop le have to start fighting them. Other works forming his anti-fascist campaign were the dramas "White Disease" (Bílá nemoc) and "Mother" (Matka). His last work "Life and works of the composer Foltýn" (Zivot a dílo skladatele Foltýna) remained unfinished.
Common Production with Brother Josef: Finally, I want to mention the common work of the Capek's brothers. Although Josef was first of all a very gifted painter, we can find some works holding the names of both brothers. It is a well known fact that most of the books written by Karel Capek we re illustrated by his brother, especially the books for children. Josef and Karel wrote together several nice works. In 1915, they published their first book called "Shining Depths" (Zá?ivé hlubiny) inspired by the catastrophe of Titanic. As the most important product of their co-operation I would mark the drama "From the Insect's Life" (Ze ivota hmyzu) showing and laughing at the features of a human character.
Political Orientation: As we have heard, Karel Capek was a sensitive person, who tried to undestand people and could not stand any form of violence. His political orientation was liberal. He did not join the Communist Party and he expressed his relationship to this party in th e short story ""Why Did I Not Become a Communist". He could not hate someone simply just because it is a member of another class.
Group of Intellectual Personalities: Friends of Karel Capek used to have a party in his garden on Fridays. Every week there appeared such personalities like Vladislav VanCura, Karel PoláCek, Eduard Bass, Frá?a rámek and sometimes even Tomá Garrigue Masaryk. They used to discuss intellectu al and political topics and helped each other in the field of literature.
Friendship with TGM: It is a well-known fact, that Tomá Garrigue Masaryk and Karel Capek were friends. They often met themselves on Capek's parties, spent several holiday together, relaxed together in the spa and also worked together. Thank to the three books written by Kar el Capek and edited by Tomá Garrigue Masaryk himself, we know a lot of details from the life of the first Czechoslovak president. The titles of the books are : "Talks with TGM" (Hovory s TGM), "New Talks with TGM" (Nov hovory s TGM) and "Reading about TGM" (Ctení o TGM).
Contribution of Capek's work: I hope that those of you, who have not read a book by Karel Capek yet, will do so very soon. Now I will summarize, what do I consider important concerning this outstanding writer.
Firstly, he wrote many works and on very different topics. I mean the fairy-tales for children and also the philosophical detective stories. His approach to people was very human including the readers.
Every teacher of the Czech language can use his stories to show, how many synonyms the Czech language has. He was very intelligent and considered important to warn people against the technology abuse, although it was not as developed as today.
His plays should persuade everyone about the meaningless of every war. This message did he develop in several last plays, he had written. The reason to nominate him for the Nobel Prize was the anti-war message incudede in his plays. Unfortunately, the Sw edish Academy was too afraid to give it to him when Germany was so strong at that time...
Conclusion: Finally, thank you for your attention and if you want ask me questions concerning this topic, you can do it now ...


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