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Forest carbon credits could help development in Congo:
Interview with Nadine Laporte, remote sensing expert
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Dr. Nadine Laporte, an associate scientist with WHRC who uses remote sensing to analyze land use change in Africa, says that REDD could protect forests, safeguard biodiversity, and improve rural livelihoods in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and other Central African nations.
"REDD is perhaps the most promising way to protect forests in much of the tropics, including all the central African countries," Laporte told mongabay.com. "Carbon credits represent the largest potential flow of revenue to support sustainable development in tropical forest regions, particularly because most of the ecological services provided by these ecosystems (biodiversity, hydrology, sustenance of forest peoples, etc) do not have strong mechanisms to promote their conservation."
Dr. Nadine Laporte
"It is necessary to reinforce national capacity to monitor forests and identify the best alternatives to reduce degradation and deforestation, despite wide variation between regions and types of land use," she said. "Moreover, most people in the DRC, for example, rely on fuel wood for their energy needs. As such, it is important to develop REDD programs in synergy with the forest, agriculture and energy sectors."
Laporte says that remote sensing can help the effort by identifying where and why deforestation is occurring; the suitability of land for different types of uses including agriculture; and the carbon stocks of forests. Recently Laporte has used satellite imagery to map the potential for REDD and assess the extent of logging roads in some of the most remote parts of the Congo Basin. In conjunction with the remote sensing, Laporte also works on the ground, training people in central African countries to use satellite remote sensing for forest mapping and monitoring. She engages a wide range of stakeholders including scientists, conservation groups, government forestry departments, forest peoples, and logging firms.
Laporte discussed these projects and more in a May 2008 interview with mongabay.com.
Mongabay: What is your area of research?
Nadine Laporte with Olivier Desmet CIB Forest Management Unit in a logging concession
Mongabay: Is most of your work done in the field, via remote sensing, or a combination of the two?
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Nadine Laporte: My group uses a combination of satellite imagery integrated with field information. We rely on field information for the calibration of our models and also for the validation of our results. To produce our maps of the distribution of above-ground biomass of tropical Africa, for example, we collected field information from foresters and national institutions. In the Republic of Congo some of our remote sensing analyses have been used to develop national mapping standards for forest management plans. In the DRC our biomass map was used to calculate the level of compensation necessary reduce emissions from deforestation.
Mongabay: How did you become involved in the work you do today?
Nadine Laporte: I studied tropical biology in Toulouse France, when the French space program was just getting started. Using satellite imagery for monitoring tropical forests appeared to me an ideal area of applied research, and I decided to study forests from space. Remote sensing was not taught at the University (Paul Sabatier) yet, but I was able to get an internship in the Laboratory for International Mapping run by a Professor Blasco. At the time they had one computer as large a Fiat and I started learning the basics of satellite remote sensing analysis. I have always been fascinated with tropical forests, and working on better forest conservation and management has become ever more critical as conversion to crops and pasture continues to increase in most tropical countries.
Mongabay: Given the state of infrastructure in DR Congo, is remote sensing an effective way to monitor remote parks in the country? What can remote sensing tell you beyond the extent of forest cover?
Forest management maps from CIB logging concession + web site address CIB
Mongabay: You recently completed a preliminary assessment for the potential of REDD in DR Congo. Can you highlight some of your findings?
Nadine Laporte: We found that more than 17 billion metric tons of carbon are stored in above-ground biomass across the DRC. During the period 1990-2000, the annual CO2 emissions from deforestation were estimated to be 226 million tons. Some of this carbon is not immediately released to the atmosphere but remains as dead wood or as wood products removed from the forest, both of which have slower decay and emission rates. We estimated that for a 50 percent reduction in carbon emissions, total rural household compensation would likely range between $120 million to $400 million per year for 10 years, depending on the level of compensation required (i.e. between $300 and $1000 per household per year). The mean carbon price to accomplish this compensation would range from $19 to $65 per ton with, importantly, more than 30 million tons of carbon available to the carbon markets for less than $10 per ton. Carbon credits represent the largest potential flow of revenue to support sustainable development in tropical forest regions, particularly because most of the ecological services provided by these ecosystems (biodiversity, hydrology, sustenance of forest peoples, etc) do not have strong mechanisms to promote their conservation. In the DRC, we are focusing on building capacity in the government and with civil society to take advantage of this new mechanism.
Mongabay: Do you see REDD as a viable form of land use in DR Congo for the future? Will REDD be a good way to protect forests in the region?
Distribution of deforestation and mining concessions (insert-top-left) in the DRC. Economic necessity and a potentially vast income from mining epitomize the trade-off s between development and resource protection faced by the DRC. Deforestation in the DRC is in large part a result of household clearing for slash-and-burn agriculture.
Mongabay: Beyond REDD, do you recommend other ways to protect forests and wildlife in DR Congo
Central African rainforest road. Photo by Nadine Laporte.
Mongabay: You have published some interesting research on the role of logging roads on market hunting in the Congo Basin. Is logging likely to continue being a driver of poaching in the region? Will logging roads facilitate the development of agro industry in forest areas?
Mongabay: Do you have any advice for students wishing to follow in your footsteps?
Nadine Laporte: I would recommend students to volunteer in research labs and various projects in the tropics. The need has never been more urgent or the timing more critical. We have only one blue planet - and who wants to live on Mars?
Mongabay: What is your favorite place in the tropics?
Nadine Laporte: I don't have any particular favorite - there are many places that are unique and special in their own way, and each contributes to the diversity of life and cultures in Central Africa.
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A proposal to pay the Democratic of Congo (DRC) for reducing deforestation could add 15-50 percent to the amount of international aid given to the warn-torn country, reports a new study published by scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC). The funds would help alleviate rural poverty while cutting emissions of greenhouse gases and protecting threatened biodiversity. The authors, lead by WHRC scientist Nadine Laporte, estimate that a 50 percent reduction in carbon emissions from deforestation in DRC, would require a mean carbon price of $19-65 per ton and generate $120-400 million per year for ten years for rural households. Carbon currently trades at more than $90 for certified emission-reduction credits ($25 per ton of carbon dioxide) in Europe.
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He was choked up while giving his post-game speech to his team after they won his first South Carolina Independent School Class AAA championship, and the team's first since 2005.
The Lions reclaimed the title with a 21-14 win over Hammond, the six-time defending champion, finishing the season a perfect 13-0. The win was the second of the year for Augusta Christian over Hammond, whose only losses came to the Lions as the Skyhawks finished 12-2.
Augusta Christian completed a perfect season Saturday night and claimed the South Carolina Independent Schools Association state title with a 21-14 victory over SCISA powerhouse Hammond.
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In a game that quarterback Tyler Roberson would call surreal afterward, the Lions won their first state championship since 2005, beating six-time defending champion Hammond 21-14 in the South Carolina Independent School Class AAA state championship.
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Evidence presented by Samsung
Apple SVP of Marketing Phil Schiller took the stand again today in the Samsung Patent Trial v2. Schiller was grilled on a number of emails Samsung came up with in discovery that painted Apple as paranoid about the rise of Android and Samsung's Galaxy line in particular. CNET covered one such email where Schiller seemed concerned with the quality of Samsung's Superbowl ad campaign:
After watching one Samsung pre-Super Bowl ad Schiller wrote an email to Vincent, commenting on the ad. "It's pretty good and I cant help but think "these guys are feeling it" (like an athlete who can't miss because they are in the zone) while we struggle to nail a compelling brief on iPhone," Schiller wrote in an email, presented in court on Friday. He added: "Something drastic has to change. Fast."
The concern was apparently so strong that Schiller wrote an email to CEO Tim Cook contemplating firing its dedicated marketing agency Media Arts Lab (MAL), a subsidiary of TBWA Chiat Day which itself is a subsidiary of Omnicom. Steve Jobs brought in Lee Clow at Chiat Day to create the Think Different campaign when Apple was teetering on bankruptcy in 1997 and the agency has been Apple's only outside ad team ever since. In 2013, Apple's "Designed by Apple in California," was its first new branded ad campaign since 1997. Samsung positioned that campaign as a response to its Android threat…Re/code notes other emails regarding Samsung and other Android players outspending Apple in marketing and carrier channels to gain traction.
"Competitors have drastically improved their hardware and in some cases their ecosystems," a member of Apple's sales team wrote in a document that was prepared as part of a fiscal 2014 offsite meeting. Portions of the document were shown Friday to the jury in the Apple-Samsung case. The document, which was presented as part of Samsung's cross-examination of Apple Senior VP Phil Schiller, noted that all the growth in smartphones was coming either from large-screen devices costing more than $300 or from devices that cost less than $300, with the segment that included the iPhone showing decline. Other concerns noted in the document included the idea that Android rivals were "spending 'obscene' amounts of money on advertising and/or carrier channel to gain traction" and that mobile carriers had an interest in limiting iPhone sales because of, among other things, the high subsidies they had to pay on the device.
Schiller said he didn't agree with the assessment which was made by lower level sales execs within Apple. Apple did however eventually lower the price on some of its phones and is expected to unveil a much bigger iPhone 6 in the fall.
Following Schiller, one of Apple's iPhone Engineers, Greg Christie testified, reiterating many of the details of the genesis of the iPhone which Apple had previously detailed to the WSJ (including the room where the first meetings were held).
The trial is expected to last the entire month with each company getting 25 hours of arguments followed by jury deliberations. The Apple v. Samsung trial will continue next week.
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So how is this news? Schiller is concerned that Samsung (using a lot of purloined ideas and technology) was gaining momentum and advertising its butt off to "gain traction." Schiller was right to be concerned. I fail to see how this is any help to Samsung's or Apple's case. Clarifications? If you put out a piece like this, please try to make it make sense and have a point. Samsung stepped up to the plate and started manufacturing phones that were better than the average plastic schlock, which made Schiller concerned… and… what?
Can't See? Why? Apple realized that it could not beat Samsung in the marketplace, so it resorted to suing. Lets see what crappy "prior art" patents we can pull up and then sue, and get the Samsung patents banned. Samsung is proving that this is about a "business strategy" to monopolize through court action. Then the books monopoly thing will come up as just another piece of evidence that the Apple "business strategy" is anti-competitive, anti-trust and monopolistic. Don't do any R&D just intimidate the competition, intimidate the DOJ and attempt to scare the competitions customers. See Now?
Samsung is making the argument that yes, they copied Apple's patents, but the patents aren't that important. Samsung could have easily found work arounds. And even so, the patents in question aren't so vital that Samsung was gaining market share off them. In other words, Apple may deserve $100 million, but it doesn't deserve $2B. Apple is going to try to say that the copying of their IP allowed Samsung to steal significant market share. But Apple's own leaders never said anything about IP in their internal email exchanges. What they did say is that Samsung's hardware and their advertising is why they were gaining market share, not the stolen IP. To summarize, Samsung is using Apple's emails to make their case that they IP wasn't essential to their business and hence not worth $40 per phone.
This does NOT help Samsung at the trial. This only establishes that Samsung's theft and copying of Apple was working and/or a serious concern. Had Samsung had to pay $30 or $40 per phone to Apple for the theft, this would have increased the cost of the Samsung phone by $60+, making Samsung more expensive and not a competitive threat.
The only reason for Samsung to bring this out is to hurt Apple PR and NOT to win the trial. Indeed, the $2B sought at this trial by Apple is pocket change compared to Samsung's $14B marketing campaign. The only risk to Samsung is a loss that Apple could use to ban new phones going forward or getting damages as to ALL past phone sales, but this could only come years down the line after appeal because Judge Koh has twice ruled against Apple on an outright ban.
"Schiller said he didn't agree with the assessment which was made by lower level sales execs within Apple. Apple did however eventually lower the price on some of its phones and is expected to unveil a much bigger iPhone 6 in the fall."
Once again, Apple is *following* — not leading. Where is the innovation I once loved?
Sounds like you should do business elsewhere. Personally, I don't see the problem. Everything is honky-doorie as it relates to my Apple devices.
Just goes to show you how weak Samsung thinks their case is. Very obvious misdirection by their attorney. What does Phil Schiller's feelings on how well Samsung is competing with them have to do with whether or not they violated patent law? Very little. Apple's claim is that Samsung is stealing their intellectual properties. Whether their execs feel the theft of that property is helping Samsung is not the point. Or maybe it is. Samsung could be undermining their own case by saying by essentially saying they've made a lot of money and competed with Apple using pilfered technology.
I don't know why Apple is worried about Samsung. Pickup an LG G2, which is a vastly superior phone to both the 5s and even the Galaxy S5 (huge bright almost bezel free display), rear controls, very nice Android skin/UX, blazingly fast, stabilised camera etc. Apple have not innovated or progressed with the iPhone UX or form factor since the original iPhone, focusing instead on it's jewel like build, which is obsoleted the second the customer puts it in a case.
I run a business, and I want a large display and customisable UX, something I can do with my Note 3, plus the stylus makes it a productivity beast.
Apple are the problem, not Samsung. If Apple innovate again, then customers will leave Samsung/LG etc.
Even the Moto G is better value and more intelligent than the iPhone and it's 1/3 of the price.
I'm glad I only own an ipad an no phone (line2 is my phone on ipad while still in college). They only apple product that people need is an ipad and an android phone.


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Erm 43-44/54 on each paper and coursework equivalent? If that makes sense.
So about 80%
So if I didn't do my Speaking and Listening (20%) I couldn't get an A?
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Unfortunately no. At least I don't think so. (EDIT: Well you could if you got 100% in everything else - which seems unlikely)
However I don't think you need to worry, have you spoken to your teacher yet? I suggest speaking to your teacher when you get back to school.
I know one teacher teaching my year that actually assessed her class' speaking/listening on them reading from a book that they needed to study, some teachers probably assess their students during lessons and give them a mark.
I think it's highly unlikely that your teacher will have forgotten to give you a S/L mark because they need to fill a form that requires your S/L mark.
Unless of course you weren't present when your teacher did your S/L?
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in my coursework i got A*AAAAABBBB (something like that)
thats s&l and written coursework
so what would that be and what marks would i need in the exam to get an overall A?
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But Huffington declined to specifically endorse Bustamante, merely urging her supporters to "vote strategically" in an effort to stop a Republican takeover of California. She urged people to vote against the recall and then consider their options for the second half of the Oct. 7 ballot.
Van Jones, Huffington's chief grass-roots organizer, said she was trying "to position herself so she can maximize opposition to the Schwarzenegger coup."
Huffington, a 53-year old columnist and TV pundit who transformed herself from Republican to fiery populist, drew a loyal following on the Internet and on the campaign trail.
But in a CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll released Sunday, she had only 2 percent support among the most likely voters, compared with 40 percent for Schwarzenegger and 25 percent for Bustamante.
Asked about Huffington's decision at a campaign stop, Democrat Davis praised her and wished her well. "I think Arianna Huffington has brought some wisdom and some clarity to the second question on this ballot, and I believe she's made a contribution to the dialogue that has begun over these last 70 to 75 days," he said.
Huffington had repeatedly criticized Bustamante's acceptance of big donations from Indian casino interests. But she called it "wonderful news" Sunday when Bustamante made a surprise endorsement of her initiative to publicly finance state election campaigns.
"As you know, I believe in conversions, and I believe in redemption," said Huffington, who called herself a "recovering Republican" after her divorce from wealthy GOP Senate candidate Michael Huffington.
In recent days, the recall race has focused on the match of Davis vs. Schwarzenegger, the leading Republican replacement candidate.
GOP state Sen. Tom McClintock had 18 percent in the Gallup poll, but he has repeatedly vowed to stay in the race despite pressure to pull out and avoid splitting the Republican vote.
The poll showed 63 percent of "probable" voters were in favor of removing Davis. Other polls depict a much tighter race on the recall issue and among the replacement candidates.
Green Party candidate Peter Camejo, who had 5 percent in the Gallup poll, said Huffington called him Sunday to let him know she was considering getting out of the race.
"I advised her against it," said Camejo, who early in the campaign had an unofficial pact with Huffington that one would drop out if the other appeared close to victory. Camejo said he has no intention of withdrawing.


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Reached for comment, Jones admits that he doesn't see the humor in the gag.
"I'd be happy to take Milhaven to the game because I already have Rams tickets through my law office," says Jones. "Though I don't know if he and I would have an enjoyable time together."
Jones adds that he had a legitimate scheduling conflict for Milhaven's Wednesday broadcast and that the KTRS host has only approached him twice for radio interviews in his six years in office. Both times the requests have been about what Jones perceived to be negative issues. (Milhaven says he wanted to talk to Jones last October about a House resolution praising Lockheed Martin and not Boeing, which has a manufacturing plant in St. Louis.)
"I've done thousands of interviews around the state," says Jones, "and he only wants to talk about these items that have nothing to do with serious public policy?" (This from a man, mind you, who is a documented birther, is known to tweet about avenging the "left wing trolls", and was only too willing to advocate for laxer gun laws the day after a gunman killed 12 people in a Colorado cinema this past summer.)
Besides, says Jones, he doesn't need to talk to Milhaven because, as he sees it, he's already discussed the lobbying issue (and laid it to rest) in an interview Tuesday afternoon with KMOX's right-wing afternoon host, Mark Reardon.
Says Jones: "Maybe he (Milhaven) is just jealous that I was on the competition first."
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Selby got a vital 3 points on Saturday which sees them secure in Division 2 for next season, as they are comfortably sitting mid table with no threats underneath them.
The ladies started strong and held possession very well. Key links were made between defence and midfield to ensure that Valley had no way through. Player of the match Alice Wood made her presence known from centre midfield linking well with Captain Kelly Cauley and Megan Birch. It was Cauley who sent the ladies ahead with a nutmeg on the Valley keeper.
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It was Mrs O who sent a long ball down the centre of the pitch, which landed on the end of Cauley's stick, who in turn took on numerous Valley players including the keeper and slotted in Selby's second.
Half time came at the right time, as the ladies were tiring. A lot of fluids were taken on board, due to the heat. Selby continued the pressure and forced a short corner. Franii Brooks took control of the pass out, sending the ball to Cauley, who passed to Davey. Davey then stumbled to the floor but amazingly got up before the Valley defender reached her and reversed the ball into the back of the net.
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Oct 7 2012: Alcohol intoxication results in a state of euphoria and lowered social inhibitions. Intoxication causes most people to derail from socially acceptable behaviour; and it also results in loss of body coordination and erratic behaviour.
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Piazza Venezia is the central hub of Rome, Italy, in which many thoroughfares intersect, like Via dei Fori Imperiali and Via del Corso. It takes its name from Venice ("Venezia" in Italian), after the Venetian Cardinal, Pietro Barbo (later Pope Paul II) who had built Palazzo Venezia, a palace set next to the nearby church of Saint Mark, the patron saint of Venice. Palazzo Venezia was the former embassy of the city of the Republic of Venice to Rome.
The piazza or square is at the foot of the Capitoline Hill and next to Trajan's Forum. The main artery, the Viale di Fori Imperiali starts there, leading past the Roman Forum and to the Colosseum. It is dominated by the imposing Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II, first king of Italy. In 2009, during excavations for the Rome C Metro Line, ancient remains of what has been identified as emperor Hadrian's Athenaeum were unearthed in the middle of the square.[1]
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Playoff NBA Picks: Chicago Bulls vs. Atlanta Hawks Game 4 Preview
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Things are getting awfully shaky for the Atlanta Hawks, as they have lost home court advantage once and now need to win at least one more game at the United Center to move on to the Eastern Conference Finals. The Chicago Bulls will hope to get rid of these pesky Hawks once again in Game 4 to take a 3-1 series lead, while Atlanta is going to try to level the NBA betting proceedings up in this series.
The Bulls are finally starting to really look like one of the best teams in the league, and they finally think that they have the best team in the Eastern Conference and a phenomenal chance of getting to the NBA Finals. Derrick Rose is not only the league's MVP from the regular season, but he is, almost certainly without a doubt, the MVP of the playoffs as well. Rose had the best game of his career in Game 3 on the road here at Phillips Arena, scoring 44 points to go with seven assists. He might have ended up with the points, thus getting the glitz and the glamour, but if you look at the stats from the rest of the team, you can see that the rebounding advantage really made the biggest difference. A rebounding advantage of 47-34 was the key. Chicago had double the offensive rebounds as the Hawks. Joakim Noah had 15 rebounds and five blocks to make up for a 1-for-8 shooting day from the field. Taj Gibson also had a double-double with 13 points and 11 rebounds. Luol Deng, Carlos Boozer, and Rose all had at least five rebounds as well. Only two players on the Hawks had more than five boards.
Have the Hawks finally had it? We know that this team doesn't really have the ability to fight back from problems. They haven't been able to claw back from a significant deficit in the playoffs this year in spite of the fact that they have more wins than losses on the postseason. Now, they have their first deficit on a series that needs to be made up, and it really seems questionable whether Atlanta is going to have the wherewithal to get off of the mat. We know that a Game 4 loss to go down 3-1 in this series would be the beginning of the end. The pain for Head Coach Larry Drew is that his team really didn't shoot that poorly in Game 3, and it hasn't had a game lost in which it shot this well. There just weren't enough opportunities. The Hawks only took 70 shots for the whole game. Sure, they went 33-of-70, shooting 47.1 percent, but 1-of-6 from beyond the arc and 15-of-25 from the foul line just weren't good enough.
Chicago Bulls vs. Atlanta Hawks Pick: The Bulls just have their foot on the throats of the Hawks, and there is no way that they are going to let them off the mat. With Kirk Hinrich out of the lineup once again, the talent just isn't there to be able to keep up with Rose. We have to go with the Bulls -3.5 on Mother's Day night.
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AT least 10 people were reported dead and several others seriously injured, when a bus they were traveling in from Tarime veered off the road before hitting a house along the Tarime-Mwanza Highway in Simiyu Region.
Simiyu Regional Police Commander (RPC), Charles Mkumbo, confirmed the accident, saying it involved the bus christened Lehuye Express with registration number T410 AWQ.
Mr Mkumbo told the 'Daily News' over the phone that the accident occurred at around 11.10 in the morning at Ichira area, Itwimila village in Busega District, Simiyu Region. Only two bodies had been identified as we went to press last night.
The RPC named the deceased as Mgambo Lukas, a student at St Augustine University of Tanzania (SAUT) in Mwanza and Wangwi Moris, Assistant Education Officer (Primary Schools) in Shinyanga District.
The regional police boss added that casualties were rushed to Bunda, Magu and Bugando hospitals for treatment.
"There were also some children in the house with their grandmother; thank God they all survived except one child who was injured and rushed to hospital," he said, adding that two goats, which were in the house, were also killed. According to Mr Mkumbo, the source of the carnage was yet to be established.
However, police suspect speeding might have been the cause. The bus driver was reportedly trying to avoid a pedestrian when he lost control, before the bus hit a house belonging to one of the late Mwalimu Lazaro Mbofu.
The rescue exercise was still continuing by noon yesterday, with the RPC saying that the rescue team faced difficulties as the bus was badly damaged.
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Flavius Claudius Julianus, known also as Julian or Julian the Apostate (331 or 332 to 26 June 363), was Roman Emperor (Caesar, November 355 to February 360; Augustus, February 360 to June 363) of the Constantinian dynasty. He was the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, and expended much energy during his reign attempting to supplant the growing power of Christianity within the empire with officially revived traditional Roman religious practices.
He is sometimes termed Julian the Apostate, because of his rejection of Christianity in favour of neoplatonic paganism; Edward Gibbon wrote:
The triumph of the party which he deserted and opposed has fixed a stain of infamy on the name of Julian; and the unsuccessful apostate has been overwhelmed with a torrent of pious invectives, of which the signal was given by the sonorous trumpet of Gregory Nazianzen.''In 363, Julian began a campaign against the Sassanid Empire. He died later that year from a wound received during a retreat during the campaign.
Flavius Claudius Julianus, born in May or June 332 in Constantinople, was the son of Julius Constantius (consul in 335), half brother of Emperor Constantine I, and his second wife, Basilina, both Christians. His paternal grandparents were Western Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus and his second wife, Flavia Maximiana Theodora. His maternal grandfather was Julius Julianus, praetorian prefect of the Orient under emperor Licinius from 315 to 324. The name of Julian's maternal grandmother is unknown.
In the turmoil after the death of Constantine in 337, in order to establish himself as sole emperor, Julian's zealous Arian Christian cousin Constantius II led a massacre of Julian's family. Constantius II ordered the murders of many descendants from the second marriage of Constantius Chlorus and Theodora, leaving only Constantius and his brothers Constantine II and Constans I, and their cousins, Julian and Gallus (Julian's half-brother), as the surviving males related to Emperor Constantine. Constantius II, Constans I, and Constantine II were proclaimed joint emperors, each ruling a portion of Roman territory. Constantius II then saw to a strictly Arian Christian education of Julian and Gallus.
Most descriptions of the life of Julian speculate about his early psychological development and education; very little information about them has survived. Initially growing up in Bithynia, raised by his maternal grandmother, at the age of seven he was under the guardianship of Eusebius of Nicomedia, the semi-Arian Christian Bishop of Nicomedia, and taught by Mardonius, a Gothic eunuch, whom Julian wrote warmly of later. However, in 342, both Julian and Gallus were exiled to the imperial estate of Macellum in Cappadocia. Here Julian met the Christian bishop George of Cappadocia, who lent him books from the classical tradition. At the age of 18, the exile was lifted and he dwelt briefly in Constantinople and Nicomedia.
Julian wrote, in his thirty-first year, that he had spent twenty years in the "way of error" and eleven in the true way. He became a lector, a minor office in the Christian church, and his later writings show a detailed knowledge of the Bible, likely acquired in his early life.
Julian studied Neoplatonism in Asia Minor in 351, at first under Aedesius, the philosopher, and then Neoplatonic theurgy from Aedesius' student, Maximus of Ephesus. He was summoned to Constantius' court in Milan in 354 and kept there for a year; in the summer and fall of 355, he was permitted to study at Athens; Gregory Nazianzus met him there.
Julian's personal religion was bookish and philosophical; he viewed the traditional myths as allegories, in which the ancient gods were aspects of a philosophical divinity. The chief surviving sources are his orations on Helios and the Great Mother, and they are panegyrics, not theological treatises. While there are clear resemblances to other forms of Late Antique religion, which variety is most similar is controversial. He learned theurgy from Maximus, a student of Iamblichus; his system bears some resemblance to the Neoplatonism of Plotinus; Polymnia Athanassiadi has brought new attention to his relations with Mithraism, although whether he was initiated remains debatable; and certain aspects of his thought (such as his reorganization of paganism under High Priests, and his fundamental monotheism) may show Christian influence. Some of these potential sources have not come down to us, and all of them influenced each other, which adds to the difficulties.
The later emperor's study of Iamblichus of Chalcis and theurgy are a source of criticism from his primary chronicler, Ammianus Marcellinus.
Constantine II died in 340 when he attacked his brother Constans. Constans in turn fell in 350 in the war against the usurper Magnentius. This left Constantius II as the sole remaining emperor. In need of support, in 351 he made Julian's half-brother, Gallus, Caesar of the East, while Constantius II himself turned his attention westward to Magnentius, whom he defeated decisively that year. In 354 Gallus, who had imposed a rule of terror over the territories under his command, was executed. Julian was summoned to court, and held for a year, under suspicion of treasonable intrigue, first with his brother and then with Claudius Silvanus; he was cleared, in part because the Empress Eusebia intervened for him, and he was sent to Athens.
When Constantius found a Persian War on his hands, he needed a representative in Gaul. Julian was thus summoned to the emperor in Mediolanum (Milan) and, on 6 November 355, made Caesar of the West and married to Constantius' sister, Helena.
In the years afterwards Julian fought the Germanic tribes that tried to intrude upon the Roman Empire. He won back Colonia Agrippina (Cologne) in 356, during his first campaign in Gaul. The following summer he led an army of 13,000 men to victory against the Alamanni at the Battle of Strasbourg, a major Roman victory. In 358, Julian gained victories over the Salian Franks on the Lower Rhine, settling them in Toxandria in the Roman Empire, north of today's city of Tongeren, and over the Chamavi, who where expelled back to Hamaland. During his residence in Gaul, Julian also attended to non-military matters. He prevented a tax increase by the Gallic praetorian prefect Florentius and personally administered the province of Belgica Secunda.
In the fourth year of his campaign in Gaul, the Sassanid Emperor, Shapur II invaded Mesopotamia and took the city of Amida after a 73 day siege. In February 360, Constantius ordered Julian to send Gallic troops to his eastern army. This provoked an insurrection by troops of the Petulantes, who proclaimed Julian emperor in Paris, and led to a very swift military campaign to secure or win the allegiance of others. From June to August of that year, Julian led a successful campaign against the Attuarian Franks.
That same June, forces loyal to Constantius II captured the city of Aquileia on the north Adriatic coast, which was subsequently besieged by 23,000 men loyal to Julian. Civil war was avoided only by the death of Constantius II, who, in his last will, recognized Julian as his rightful successor.
Among his first actions, Julian reduced the expenses of the imperial court, removing all the eunuchs from the offices. He reduced the luxury of the court established with Constantius, reducing at the same time the number of servants and of the guard. He also started the Chalcedon tribunal where some followers of Constantius were tortured and killed under supervision of magister militum Arbitio.
After ascending to the imperial throne, Julian instituted political reforms distinct from his religious activities. Julian's own personality tended to ascetism and this was reflected in his new court, which was swiftly purged. Thousands of servants, eunuchs, and superfluous officials were summarily dismissed. This was Julian's attack on a system which he viewed as inefficient, corrupt, and expensive. He continually sought to reduce what he saw as burdensome and corrupt bureaucracy within the Imperial administration whether it involved civic officials, the secret agents, or the imperial post service.
Julian saw his role as emperor differently than his immediate predecessors. He made no attempt to restore the tetrarchal system begun under Diocletian. Nor did he seek to rule as an absolute autocrat. His own philosophic notions led him to idealize the reigns of Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius. In his first panegyric to Constantius, Julian described the ideal ruler as being essentially primus inter pares, operating under the same laws as his subjects. Functionally, this meant that the authority of the cities was expanded at the expense of the imperial bureaucracy as Julian sought to reduce direct imperial involvement in urban affairs. For example, city land owned by the imperial government was returned to the cities, city council members were compelled to resume civic authority, often against their will, and the tribute in gold by the cities called the aurum coronarium was made voluntary rather than a compulsory tax. Additionally, arrears of land taxes were canceled.
These reforms were not prompted by some sense of ancient liberalism. Just as he ceded much of the authority of the imperial government to the cities, Julian also took more direct control himself. For example, new taxes and corvees had to be approved by him directly rather than left to the judgment of the bureaucratic apparatus. Julian certainly had a clear idea of what he wanted Roman society to be, both in political as well as religious terms. The terrible and violent dislocation of the 3rd century meant that the Eastern Mediterranean had become the economic locus of the empire. If the cities were treated as relatively autonomous local administrative areas, it would simplify the problems of imperial administration, which as far as Julian was concerned, should be focused on the administration of the law and defense of the empire's vast frontiers.
In replacing Constantius's political and civil appointees, Julian drew heavily from the intellectual and professional classes, or kept reliable holdovers, such as the rhetorician Themistius. His choice of consuls for the year 362 was more controversial. One was the very acceptable Claudius Mamertinus, previously the Praetorian Prefect of Illyricum. The other, more surprising choice was Nevitta, Julian's trusted Frankish general. This latter appointment reflected the fact that for all his literary refinement and philosophic ideals, Julian's authority depended on the power of the army, especially the Western army which had acclaimed him.
He restored pagan temples which had been confiscated since Constantine's time, or simply appropriated by wealthy citizens; he repealed the stipends that Constantine had awarded to Christian bishops, and removed their other privileges, including a right to be consulted on appointments and to act as private courts. He reversed some favors given Christians. For example, he reversed the declaration that Majuma, the port of Gaza, was a separate city. Majuma had a large Christian congregation while Gaza was still predominantly pagan.
On 4 February 362, Julian promulgated an edict to guarantee freedom of religion. This edict proclaimed that all the religions were equal before the law, and that the Roman Empire had to return to its original religious eclecticism, according to which the Roman State did not impose any religion on its provinces. Practically however, it had as its purpose the restoration of paganism at the expense of Christianity.
During his earlier years, while studying at Athens, Julian became acquainted with two men who later became both bishops and saints: Gregory Nazianzus and Basil the Great; in the same period, Julian was also initiated to the Eleusinian Mysteries, which he would later try to restore.
Julian's religious status is a matter of considerable dispute. According to one theory (that of G.W. Bowersock in particular), Julian's Paganism was highly eccentric and atypical because it was heavily influenced by an esoteric approach to Platonic philosophy sometimes identified as theurgy and also neoplatonism. Others (Rowland Smith, in particular) have argued that Julian's philosophical perspective was nothing unusual for a "cultured" Pagan of his time, and, at any rate, that Julian's Paganism was not limited to philosophy alone, and that he was deeply devoted to the same Gods and Goddesses as other Pagans of his day. According to Christian historian Socrates Scholasticus (iii, 21), Julian believed himself to be Alexander the Great in another body via transmigration of souls, as taught by Plato and Pythagoras.
Since the persecution of Christians by past Roman Emperors had seemingly only strengthened Christianity, many of Julian's actions were designed to harass and undermine the ability of Christians to organize resistance to the re-establishment of paganism in the empire. Julian's preference for a non-Christian and non-philosophical view of Iamblichus' theurgy seems to have convinced him that it was right to outlaw the practice of the Christian view of theurgy and demand the suppression of the Christian set of Mysteries. The Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches retell a story concerning two of his bodyguards who were Christian. When Julian came to Antioch, he prohibited the veneration of the relics. The two bodyguards opposed the edict, and were executed at Julian's command. The Orthodox Church remembers them as saints Juventinus and Maximos.
In his School Edict Julian required that all public teachers be approved by the Emperor; the state paid or supplemented much of their salaries. Ammianus Marcellinus explains this as intended to prevent Christian teachers from using pagan texts (such as the Iliad, which was widely regarded as divinely inspired) that formed the core of classical education: "If they want to learn literature, they have Luke and Mark: Let them go back to their churches and expound on them", the edict says. This was an attempt to remove some of the power of Christian schools which at that time and later used ancient Greek literature in their teachings in their effort to present Christian religion superior to paganism. The edict was also a severe financial blow, as it deprived Christian scholars, tutors and teachers of many students.
In his Tolerance Edict of 362, Julian decreed the reopening of pagan temples, the restitution of alienated temple properties, and the return from exile of dissident Christian bishops. The latter was an instance of tolerance of different religious views, but may also have been seen as an attempt by Julian to foster schism and division between different Christian sects, as conflict between rival Christian sects was quite fierce.
Because Christian charities were beneficial to all, including pagans, it put this aspect of the Roman citizens lives out of the control of the Imperial authority and under that of the Church. Thus Julian envisioned the institution of a Roman philanthropic system, and cared for the behaviour and the morality of the pagan priests, in the hope that it would mitigate the reliance of pagans on Christian charity:
His care in the institution of a pagan hierarchy in opposition to that of the Christians was due to his wish to create a society in which every aspect of the life of the citizens was to be connected, through layers of intermediate levels, to the consolidated figure of the Emperor - the final provider for all the needs of his people. Within this project, there was no place for a parallel institution, such as the Christian hierarchy or Christian charity.
After his arrival in Antioch in preparation for the Persian war, the temple of Apollo burned down. Since Julian believed Christians to be responsible, their main church was closed.
In 363, Julian, on his way to engage Persia, stopped at the ruins of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. In keeping with his effort to foster religions other than Christianity, Julian ordered the Temple rebuilt. A personal friend of his, Ammianus Marcellinus, wrote this about the effort:
The failure to rebuild the Temple has been ascribed to an earthquake, common in the region, and to the Jews' ambivalence about the project. Sabotage is a possibility, as is an accidental fire. Divine intervention was the common view among Christian historians of the time. Julian's support of Jews, coming after the hostility of many earlier Emperors, meant that they called him Julian the Hellene.
After a food shortage in the city, his relationship with the citizens of Antioch worsened even more. He tried to fix the prices for grain and import more from Egypt. Then landholders refused to sell theirs, claiming that the harvest was so bad that they had to be compensated with fair prices. Julian accused them of price gouging and forced them to sell. Various parts of Libanius orations may suggest that both sides were justified to some extent while Ammianus blames Julian for "a mere thirst for popularity".
Julian's ascetic lifestyle was not popular either, since his subjects were accustomed to the idea of an all-powerful emperor that placed himself well above them. Nor did he improve his dignity with his own participation in the ceremonial of bloody sacrifices. As David S. Potter says:
He then tried to address public criticism and mocking of him by issuing Misopogon or "Beard Hater". There he finally blames the people of Antioch for preferring that their ruler have his virtues in the face rather than in the soul.
In March 363, Julian began his campaign against the Sassanid Empire, with the ambitious goal of laying siege on the Sassanid capital city of Ctesiphon and retaking many of the lands the Romans had lost under Constantius II. His motivation for this ambitious operation are, at best, unclear. There was no direct necessity for an invasion, as the Sassanids sent envoys in the hope of settling matters peacefully. Julian rejected this offer. Ammianus states that Julian longed for revenge on the Persians and that a certain desire for combat and glory also played a role in his decision to go to war. He also saw the opportunity to replace king Shapur II with his brother Ormisdas.
It should also be considered that even Julian's authority rested on shaky ground. It was true that he was, as a grandson of Constantius Chlorus and a cousin to Constantius, a member of the ruling dynasty. Yet his ascension to Augustus was not a smooth promotion, but the result of military insurrection eased by Constantius's sudden death. Julian could count on the wholehearted support of the Western army. But the eastern army was an unknown quantity originally loyal to his cousin, and he had been compelled to make concessions to it at the Chalcedon Tribunal. Only by leading its soldiers to victory could Julian fully count on its loyalty, and the Persian campaign offered such an opportunity.
Receiving encouragement from an oracle in the old Sibylline Books mailed from Rome, and moving forward from Antioch with about 90,000 men, Julian entered Sassanid territory. Julian decided that the best way to assault the Sassanid capitol was to split this force. An army of 30,000 was sent, under the command of Procopius, to Armenia, whence, having received reinforcements from the King of Armenia, it was to attack the Sassanid capital from the north. Julian victoriously led the rest of the forces under his command into enemy territory, conquering several cities and defeating the Sassanid troops. Upon his arrival under the walls of the Sassanid capital, the forces sent to come from the North under Procopius had not arrived. Julian's forces defeated a superior Sassanid army in front of the city of Ctesiphon (Battle of Ctesiphon), however he could not take the Persian capital. Also another Sassanid force, much larger than the one he had just defeated was approaching rapidly on his position. So Julian decided to lead his army back to the safety of the Roman borders.
During this retreat, on 26 June 363, Julian died during an indecisive battle near Maranga, when the Sassanid army raided his column. While pursuing the retreating enemy with few men, Julian acted valiantly yet foolishly by rushing into battle without wearing armor. He received a wound from a spear that reportedly pierced the lower lobe of his liver, the peritoneum and intestines. The wound was not immediately deadly. Julian was treated by his personal physician, Oribasius of Pergamum, who seems to have made every attempt to treat the wound. This probably included the irrigation of the wound with a dark wine, and a procedure known as gastrorrhaphy, in which an attempt is made to suture the damaged intestine.
In 364, Libanius stated that Julian was assassinated by a Christian who was one of his own soldiers; this charge is not corroborated by Ammianus Marcellinus or other contemporary historians. Joannes Malalas reports that the supposed assassination was commanded by Basil of Caesarea.. Fourteen years later, Libanius said that Julian was killed by a Saracen and this may have been confirmed by Julian's doctor Oribasius who, having examined the wound, said that it was from a spear used by a group of Saracen auxiliaries in Persian service. Later Christian historians propagated the tradition that Julian was killed by a saint. Julian was succeeded by the short-lived Emperor Jovian who succeeded in reestablishing Christianity in ethos of power within the Empire.
Libanius says in his epitaph of the deceased emperor (18.304) that "I have mentioned representations (of Julian); many cities have set him beside the images of the gods and honour him as they do the gods. Already a blessing has been besought of him in prayer, and it was not in vain. To such an extent has he literally ascended to the gods and received a share of their power from him themselves." However, no similar action was taken by the Roman central government, which would be more and more dominated by Christians in the ensuing decades.
Considered apocryphal is the report that his dying words were Vicisti, Galilaee ("You have won, Galilean"), supposedly expressing his recognition that, with his death, Christianity would become the Empire's state religion. The phrase introduces the 1866 poem Hymn to Proserpine, which was Algernon Swinburne's elaboration of what a philosophic pagan might have felt at the triumph of Christianity.
The religious works contain involved philosophical speculations, and the panegyrics to Constantius are formulaic and elaborate in style.
The Misopogon (or "Beard Hater") is a light-hearted account of his clash with the inhabitants of Antioch after he was mocked for his beard and generally scruffy appearance for an emperor. The Caesars is a humorous tale of a contest between some of the most notable Roman emperors. This was a satiric attack upon the recent Constantine, whose worth, both as a Christian and as the leader of the Roman Empire, Julian severely questions.
The most important of his lost works is his Against the Galileans, a denunciation of the Christian religion. The only parts of this work which survive are those excerpted by Cyril of Alexandria, who gives extracts from the three first books in his refutation of Julian, Contra Julianum. These extracts do not give an adequate idea of the work: Cyril confesses that he had not ventured to copy several of the weightiest arguments.
These have been edited and translated several times since the Renaissance, most often separately; but all are translated in the Loeb Classical Library edition of 1913, edited by Wilbur Cave Wright.


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