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Healthy Crock Pot Lasagna
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- 1 pound(s) lean ground turkey
- 1 whole(s) onion chopped
- 1/8 teaspoon(s) garlic powder
- 2 15 ounce can(s) tomato sauce
- 1 6 ounce can(s) tomato paste
- 1 1/2 teaspoon(s) salt
- 1 teaspoon(s) oregano
- 1 12 oz. can(s) fat-free cottage cheese
- 1/2 cup(s) parmesan cheese grated
- 12 ounce(s) lasagna noodles, uncooked
- 12 ounce(s) shredded non-fat mozzarella cheese
- Brown ground turkey and onions in a skillet. Add garlic powder, tomato sauce, tomato paste, salt and oregano. Cook long enough to get it warm. In a bowl mix the cottage cheese, parmesan cheese and mozzarella cheese. Spoon a layer of meat sauce onto the bottom of the crockpot. Add a double layer of uncooked lasagna noodle (break to fit) and top with cheese mixture (you may have to use a knife to spread it). Repeat layers two more times. Cover and cook on low for 3-4 hours.
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Connect to 9V battery, 12V or any other DC powersource from 8 to 18 volts.
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Chipper Jones is set to retire after the season. Bobby Valentine may be there just to make sure.
Jones hit .348 with a 1.033 OPS in 92 games against the Mets when Valentine was their manager. He hit 21 home runs and piled up 64 RBIs.
The Braves were the class of the National League East in those days and the Mets were always chasing them. Jones hit so well at Shea Stadium (.313/.407/.557 in 88 games) that he named one of his sons Shea.
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A Spanish study has challenged the long-held belief that people in the Mediterranean all enjoy more healthy diets and lifestyles, after discovering alarmingly high cardiovascular risk factors similar to those found in the UK and USA.
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"Cardiovascular diseases account for 33 per cent of deaths in Spain, making it the main cause of mortality in the country" says Dr Ricardo Gmez-Huelgas from the Internal Medicine Department at Hospital Carlos Haya, Malaga.
The study was carried out on a random selection of 2,270 adults attending a healthcare centre in Malaga, Andalucia, a region with one of the highest rates of cardiovascular disease in Spain. The participants ranged from 18 to 80, with an average of just under 44 years, 50.3 per cent were female and 58 per cent had low educational levels.
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Just under 30 per cent of the patients had three or more cardiovascular risk factors that could be modified by changes to their lifestyle or diet.
"Most of the cardiovascular risk factors increased with age, with the exception of smoking and low levels of 'good' cholestererol, and we noted some differences between the sexes" says Dr Gmez-Huelgas.
"We also found that a low education level was associated with a high prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and this association was significant when it came to smoking, obesity, abdominal obesity and high levels of fatty molecules.
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It isn't every day that a mare has two new grade I winners added to her family, let alone in back-to-back races on the same card. But that's exactly what happened on Aug. 24. In the Foxwoods King's Bishop Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga Race Course, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners' Capo Bastone pulled a 28-1 upset in an impressive come-from-behind performance. Less than an hour later, Willis Horton's Will Take Charge nipped Moreno on the line to win the Travers Stakes (gr. I) over pro tem divisional leaders Verrazano, Orb, and Palace Malice.
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Ah well. I am a US citizen living in New Zealand. New Zealand allows all citizens *and* permanent residents to vote in general elections. It makes sense to me that if you live in a place, you should have a say. Even if it's a 300-millionth of an opinion. (or a 4 millionth of an opinion in NZ -- when you think about it my NZ vote is ~100x more powerful than my US one)
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Very true, and all good points. However, I'll bet that that's the same argument that's used for *every* disenfranchised group. I'll bet, before women's suffrage, women were told they *could* be a part of political process by influencing how their husbands would vote. Why would they want a vote of their own, then?
If I'm allowed, in fact encouraged, to do those things you mention, then why can't I vote too?
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The Memphis Grizzlies and Toronto Raptors are actively discussing a trade involving forward Rudy Gay, according to an ESPN.com report. No framework has been established, however, and the Grizzlies maintain that they feel no pressure to deal Gay or another high-salaried player before the Feb. 21 trade deadline. "We really like our team," Grizzlies CEO Jason Levien told reporters late last week, adding that the team is more likely to "do nothing" regarding seperating the quartet of Gay, point guard Mike Conley, forward Zach Randolph and center Marc Gasol. The Raptors remain in pursuit, sources told ESPN.com, and have made point guard Jose Calderon and forward Ed Davis available.
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Pau Gasol's days with the Lakers could be numbered after he was taken out of the starting lineup. (Luis Sinco / McClatchy-Tribune News Service)
CHICAGO (AP) - The struggling Los Angeles Lakers have juggled their starting lineup, moving forward Pau Gasol to a reserve role and replacing him with Earl Clark.
Coach Mike D'Antoni made the move before Monday night's game against the Chicago Bulls, hoping a quicker lineup would spark a team that had dropped eight of 10. It comes after Gasol scored 25 points in Sunday's loss at Toronto.
D'Antoni says he spoke to Gasol and that it's nothing "against him, it's better for us right now."
At 17-23 at the start of the day, the Lakers have been a major disappointment. They've been hit hard by injuries and switched coaches, with D'Antoni replacing Mike Brown.
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The Classification of the Sciences according to the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa'
The Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' (Epistles of the Brethren of Purity) is a unique work in Islamic history consisting of approximately fifty-two epistles (rasa'il) on a wide range of subjects. The authors of this encyclopaedic compendium, who are believed to have lived in Basra in Iraq in the course of the 10th century, are said to have some connections with the Ismaili movement. This article compares and comments on two systems of scientific classification put forward by the Ikhwan: the first of a hierarchical nature and the second as set out by the coterie of scholars in 'Epistle VII'.
Key Words
Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa', Epistles of the Brethren of Purity, Ikhwan al-Safa', encyclopaedia, science, philosophy, Basra, Shi'a
Table of contents
The work most commonly known as the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' (or Epistles of the Brethren of Purity) is a Gnostic and philosophical encyclopaedia which was written in Arabic during the classical age of Islam and whose nature, contents and purposes have no equivalent of any kind both inside and outside the Muslim world. Scholarship specifically devoted to this work has only started to develop in recent times, so that large parts of the encyclopaedia remain unexplored. To this day only one section out of the four that form the whole corpus has been edited on a scientific basis and a vast majority of epistles have never been properly translated into English or into any other European language.
It is now generally agreed that the authors of the Epistles were high-ranked men of learning from the Shi'a community, that they lived in Basra (Iraq) in the course of the 4th century of Islam (10th Century AD) and that they had at least some connections with the Ismaili movement. The encyclopaedia as we know it consists of 51 or 52 epistles, each one roughly dealing with one particular topic of human knowledge, to which one must add a 'Concluding' or 'Comprehensive Epistle' (Risalat al-jami'a) at the end of the corpus. The Epistles are visibly classified according to an order designed to follow a step-by-step progression towards the most difficult of human wisdom. The esoteric nature of certain parts of the encyclopaedia, especially the last part of it, is a remarkable peculiarity of the Rasa'il. Another very conspicuous feature of the corpus is the great diversity and considerable eclecticism of its sources, together with the almost unparalleled scope of the matters involved.
In recent times several important studies have been devoted to the sources and contents of the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa', most notably by Yves Marquet, Ian Richard Netton and Carmela Baffioni. We also find a few studies in which the Ikhwan's way of classifying the sciences is briefly discussed or compared to other famous Muslim systems, such as those of al-Kindi (d. 873), al-Farabi (d. 950), Ibn Sina (d. 1037) or Ibn Khaldun (d. 1395). Yet, to the best of my knowledge, no significant attempt has been made so far so as to appraise the originality of the Brethren's own system. It is the aim of this paper to present some results of my current exploration of this topic.
Two Types of Classification of Sciences in Rasa'il
First of all, one must clarify which kind of classification we are talking about. For, on the one hand, there are those 51 or 52 epistles in the arrangement that has come down to us through the manuscript tradition and whose sequence may indeed qualify as a hierarchy of sciences in its own right. And then we have, on the other hand, the properly so called classification of sciences as the Brethren set it forth in Epistle VII, namely the one entitled 'On the Scientific Arts and their Aim'. Indeed, the two lists differ from each other in several places and certain discrepancies are even so serious that they alone would seem to bear witness to a historical process of re-elaboration.
It seems appropriate to begin with the classification of sciences which the authors themselves outline in the second half of Epistle VII. For us, the most important part of this text is the overall presentation of the system, which begins with the following lines:
These preliminary words look like an invitation to merely single out from the entire corpus of sciences one or two particular fields according to one's tastes. They do not seem to presuppose, as such, any logical or rational sequence of the fields of knowledge that are to be mentioned next. In other terms, they could as well have been part of a typical piece of 'adab literature like the Epistle on the Sciences (Risala fi'l-'ulum) of Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi (d. 1023), which is neither a systematic nor an exhaustive enumeration of sciences. But what comes next in Epistle VII clearly demonstrates that the Ikhwan had a well-organised construction in mind. The main structure is tripartite, as the text makes it plain:
The lines coming next are best displayed in the form of a table. See Appendix, Table 1.
In the first place come the sciences which the Ikhwan call the propaedeutic (or disciplinary or training) sciences and which they define as 'the sciences of education ('adab) which have been set up mainly for the quest of subsistence and for the goodness of the living in this world'. The Brethren do not despise them, as all these sciences prove to be useful in the terrestrial accomplishment of man, yet their very segregation from the rest makes them clearly felt as inferior to the sciences of the two other groups, whose purpose is not restricted to the life here below.
The Ikhwan were not the first thinkers to speak of propaedeutic or training sciences ('ilm al-riyadat). In his Epistle on the Number of Books by Aristotle, al-Kindi uses exactly the same words, yet under his pen the expression unambiguously referred to the four mathematical sciences that make up the so-called 'Pythagorean quadrivium', namely, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music. From Plato at least, the importance of these four mathematical sciences as a prerequisite to any other studies had been endorsed in the West by such great authorities as Nicomachus of Gerasa, Boethius and Isidore of Seville, so as to become a commonplace of any discussion about philosophy and its divisions in the medieval schools of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. This tradition of four liberal arts also went its way through Islam, as we can see from al-Kindi's treatise on the number of Aristotle's books but also from countless other evidence. The Pythagorean quadrivium was sometimes enlarged so as to include engineering and other 'educational sciences' ('ilm al-ta'lim), as al-Farabi calls them in his famous Enumeration of the Sciences. Very often, though, it held its original structure without alteration, as for instance in Avicenna's Epistle on the Parts of Intellectual Sciences (Risala fi aqsam al-'ulum al-'aqliyya). Anyway, what matters most to us here is to see that the Ikhwan al-Safa' do not range any science of the number among their disciplinary or training sciences. Rather, they choose to range the whole block of mathematics as a specific section of their ultimate group of sciences – the philosophical sciences – to which we shall return later in greater detail. As for the training sciences, their list does, indeed, include a section headed 'calculations and operations', but by it the Brethren no doubt refer to a very practical and strictly mundane use of numbers.
The Science of Language
Let us now briefly consider the other sections of this first group. Writing and reading, grammar, poetry and prosody, all these parts of what we would call the science of language, could easily be justified here as other kinds of prerequisite learning. 'In the beginning was the Verb': so does it also seem to be the case with several Muslim classifications of sciences. The first chapter of al-Farabi's Enumeration of the Sciences is the one devoted to the 'Science of Language' ('ilm al-lisan). In a similar way, Ibn al-Nadim's monumental Fihrist, which may stand as a catalogue of sciences of its own, starts with a section which 'describes the languages of people, Arab and foreign, the characteristics of their methods of writing, their types of script and forms of calligraphy'. To see that the sciences of the language receive, in the Rasa'il as well, a place in the beginning is no surprise, then. What is more significant, once again, is to find that all those fields are contemplated in their everyday applications only. There is no need, I think, to justify the presence of disciplines like crafts, trades, cultivation, breeding and the like, which are all clear examples of matters – should we say 'arts' or 'sciences'? – whose interest does not overstep the bounds of this world. Yet the same must be said, we note, of the biographical and historical sciences, and even of magic, alchemy and the like, which are thus all regarded here as exclusively profane activities. In all, the group of propaedeutic sciences leaves us with the impression that it has been primarily set up so as to serve as a kind of lumber-room of mundane practices. But this could be regarded, after all, as a typical feature of 'adab literature.
Passing to the second group of sciences, we first have to take notice of its heading and definition. The Brethren call this the group of religious and conventional sciences (al-'ulum al-shar'iyyat al-wadi'iyya), and then explain that these are the sciences that 'have been set up for the healing of the souls and for the quest of the hereafter'. The notion that has to be emphasised here is certainly that of conventionality. The Ikhwan speak of sciences that 'have been set up', thus exactly as they had done previously with the training sciences. Obviously the religious sciences radically differ from those latter in that they concern, not this world, but the other one. Yet they do share with them the remarkable character of being conventional, that is, purposefully invented or created. The Ikhwan identify six categories of religious sciences and mention for each, the category of people in relation to it. We need not discuss at length about the science of revelation under its Qur'anic form (tanzil) nor about that of 'stories and traditions' (riwayat wa akhbar) and that of 'jurisprudence' (fiqh), for all these branches are quite expected in this context. Worthier of noting, perhaps, is that theology (kalam) which is frequently associated with jurisprudence in many Muslim classifications, is not even named here. Instead, the mentioning of a science of interpretation (ta'wil), as a prerogative of the imams and the successors of the prophets is, of course, a plain indication of the Ikhwan's belonging to Shi'a Islam. Faithful to their eclecticism, the Ikhwan do not hesitate to mention 'mysticism' (tasawwuf) and various types of ascetic practices – whether Muslim or not – as religious sciences too. The last science mentioned in this group is yet another science of interpretation, namely the interpretation of dreams. This is an art, or a science, which is legitimated in Islam by some prophetic traditions (hadith), and even by such a famous Qur'anic passage as Sura Yusuf. As such, it is often mentioned in Muslim classifications of the sciences, as for instance in Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddima, where it is also ranged among the religious sciences.
Philosophical and Real Sciences
So, we finally arrive to the third group which the Brethren call the group of 'philosophical and real sciences' (al-falsafiyya al-haqiqa) and which consists, as they write, of four species, namely the mathematical (al-riyadiyyat), the logical (al-mantiqiyyat), the physical (al-tabi'iyyat) and the divine sciences (al-ilahiyyat). For the present inquiry, this is also the most interesting part of the classification since, as the authors themselves point out in some places of their enumeration, the philosophical sciences are those for which they have composed individual epistles. In this respect, it also seems worthwhile quoting a few lines from the passage by which the Ikhwan assure the transition between the development on philosophical sciences and the final exhortation of the Epistle:
With this last group of philosophical sciences we come to more familiar grounds. So familiar, it looks, that the Brethren did not even seek to define this last group nor tell their readers for which reasons these sciences simply exist. What we are to infer, still, is that the sciences of that group have not been set up, but that they exist per se. It is in that sense, to be sure, that the Ikhwan can claim them to be real. Just a bit of common sense would be enough, I think, to make up what is lacking: namely that, in spite of their difference of nature, the philosophical sciences and the religious sciences both have the same purpose or the same objective, which is the happiness of the soul in the world here-after. In a crucial passage from Epistle XXVIII, which is dedicated to the limits of human knowledge, the Ikhwan compare those different ways to reach a same goal to the various locations of the pilgrims converging towards the Sacred House of God.
Now let us proceed with the Ikhwan's division of philosophy. As is well-known, Aristotle had distinguished physics, mathematics and metaphysics as the three parts of what he called theoretic philosophy, whose purpose is the study of intelligible beings. Physics, he said, deals with those objects which cannot exist nor being conceived of as separate from matter and motion. At a superior level of abstraction, mathematics is concerned with beings which can be rationally isolated from matter and motion, but which nevertheless require both so as to exist. The highest level of abstraction falls to metaphysics, which deals with those intelligible beings that are not only conceivable as separate from matter and motion, but which can also exist without them. The Aristotelian division of speculative philosophy was transmitted to the Western Middle Ages by Boethius who in his De Trinitate spoke of those three parts as 'philosophia naturalis', 'mathematica' and 'theologica'. In Islam, the threefold scheme was taken up by al-Kindi and his successors in the science of philosophy, the only point of discussion being the places in the sequence ascribed to physics and mathematics respectively. According to the ontological point of view, the sequence just mentioned should evidently be preferred. Yet from what has been said earlier we may also understand why the mathematical sciences, that is, ultimately, the Pythagorean quadrivium, could be regarded as a type of propaedeutic learning of its own.
This, we may note, seems to be the case of our text, where mathematics come before physics and metaphysics. With the Ikhwan, that other rational – and quite common – sequence is broken up by the incorporation of logic into the whole system. This is, however, nothing to be amazed at. In the footsteps of the Alexandrian commentators of Late Antiquity, the Arabs had for long been accustomed to regard the whole set of Aristotle's logical sciences as a prerequisite tool (Gr. organon) for the study of every rational science. As a result, logic and mathematics could both be viewed as necessary preliminaries to the general study of philosophy.
Now we may focus on the way the Ikhwan further divide the group of philosophical sciences. It would be interesting to quote verbatim the passage of Epistle VII in which the Ikhwan explain and comment on each one of these subdivisions. For the sake of brevity, I shall here restrict myself to present that part of the text in the form of a table. See Appendix, Table 2.
This table calls for a few explanations. Aristotle's legacy is, of course, paramount. Not only the general structure, but even each part of entire sections such as logic or physics is purely Aristotelian in its very appellation. They will not retain our attention here. Nor shall I come back to the mathematical quadrivium of the first section, as I think enough of it has been said before. Definitely the most original section – and therefore the most interesting to look at – is the last one, which immediately strikes the reader with its non-Aristotelian elements. First of all, we learn that there is no such thing as one divine science, something to be validly compared with Aristotle's 'science of the beings as beings' or with the 'philosophia prima' of medieval scholasticism. Instead, what we are faced with here is no less than five different disciplines, including politics and eschatology, which do not seem to have much in common at first sight. What is more perceptible, it would seem, is a kind of circular movement which has its origin in the most ineffable of beings – significantly enough the Ikhwan speak of the 'knowledge' and not of the 'science' of the Creator – which goes back to the same point – whence, the 'Science of Return' – after a step-by-step descent through other divine entities such as the angels, the souls and the spirits which pervade the universe. As it looks, a very curious place has been devoted to politics in the continuation of the Neoplatonic theory of emanation, especially as the further subdivisions of that science appear to be, for the most part of it, completely out of place in this section of divine sciences. For one part, indeed, the last three subdivisions of politics, i.e. the public, the domestic and the private, appear to agree rather well with the three parts of Aristotle's practical philosophy, that is, politics, economics and ethics respectively. But, then, why did the Ikhwan not simply choose to take up this Aristotelian scheme of practical philosophy as yet another group of sciences of its own? Yet, more puzzling still is to find that the two other subdivisions of politics, i.e. the prophetic and the royal, are part of philosophy at all, whereas they would seem to fit much more easily in the group of religious sciences as described just above in the same passage?
It is at this stage, I think, that we may bring forward the list of the 51 or 52 Epistles that make up the corpus of the Ikhwan as it has come down to us. Table 3 in the Appendix displays the titles of sections and of individual epistles as they have been actually preserved in the manuscript tradition. As may be seen, some of these titles have a much flourished tone.
Let us now put face to face the two systems which the texts would seem to invite us to compare, namely the present list of titles and the group of philosophical and real sciences as described in Epistle VII. In the same way as this group of philosophical sciences, the whole corpus of the Rasa'il as we have it is divided into four main sections. So far, so good. But here come already the first discrepancies, as we can see at once that the main sections of the two systems do not exactly match one another. In spite of its title, Section I incorporates the logical sciences, thus appearing as a combination of the two first sections of the classification in Epistle VII. As a consequence of this blending, the group of physical sciences is shifted to Section II of our list. As for the last group, that of divine sciences, it appears to have been split up into two different sections, dealing respectively with 'the sciences of the soul and of the intellect' and 'the nomic, divine and legal sciences'. These are, to be sure, significant changes. But we immediately notice other differences, as, for instance, the great number of rasa'il whose titles do not frame with any of the subdivisions of Epistle VII.
In the introduction of his La Philosophie des Ikhwan al-Safa', Yves Marquet attempted to find out, in various passages of the encyclopaedia, the evidence for concluding that 'our Epistles keep the traces of a certain vagueness, both in the order of chapters, and in the number of Epistles in each section.' Bringing forward a certain number of indisputable indications from the text itself, the French scholar could draw the following inferences:
Needless to say, the comparison of our two systems confirms each one of these points. The changes, already evident for the mathematical and the physical sections, tend to become even more prominent in proportion as we come closer to the end of the corpus.
This being said, it remains that the Ikhwan's assertion that they have dedicated a specific epistle to each one of the subdivisions is, to a very large extent, valid. The encyclopaedia opens with the four sciences of the quadrivium (arithmetic in I, geometry in II, astronomy in III and music in V). The only peculiarity is that a risala on geography has now been intercalated between astronomy and music, but this is hardly surprising since geography may indeed be conceived of as a sort of natural appendix to astronomy. The titles of the five rasa'il on logic correspond, not to the five sciences mentioned in Epistle VII (that is, poetics, rhetorics, topics, analytics and sophistics), but rather to the famous Book of Demonstration – in other words, the 'Second Analytics' (XIV) and to its four indispensable preliminaries, namely: the 'Isagogue' (X), the 'Categories' (XI) the 'Peri Hermeneias' or 'De Interpretatione' (XII) and the 'First Analytics' (XIII). The section of natural sciences is, as we have said, the one for which the sequence has been best preserved. Each of the seven parts of physics is, indeed, the place for a specific risala (from XV to XXII), with only one intercalation to be mentioned, namely the one on the quiddity of nature in XXII.
Clearly the most remarkable feature of our comparison concerns the last section, where the variations can no longer be perceived as negligible. Thus, apart from the epistle on the spiritual beings which we may indeed find in XLIX, the only other science to be found as such in the encyclopaedia is the last one, the 'Science of Return', but we notice immediately that this risala, which is number XXXVIII, has been placed in the third, not the fourth section. As for the science of politics and its own subdivisions, it would certainly be a mistake to assimilate it too quickly to what the Ikhwan report in their epistle L, on the species of politics.
So, how could these seeming oddities be accounted for? Well, at the risk of being a bit disappointing I would argue that these are typically matters which are best left unsolved for the time being. Surely, one could put forward chronological reasons, and assume, for instance, that a certain lapse of time must have separated the writing of Epistle VII – with its systematic and carefully reflected classification of the sciences – and the overall compilation of the Rasa'il. Those who, like Marquet, favour a longer chronology could certainly pretend that the authors of Epistle VII and those who put the final touch to that global undertaking were possibly not the same Ikhwan al-Safa'. In the present state of our information, one could even surmise that the arrangement of the Rasa'il in the form as we know it should not be ascribed to the authors themselves, but to later partisans or scholars. Yet all this is largely conjectural, and bound to remain so until we get a much clearer picture of the social, historical and epistemological context in which our Epistles began to be produced, collected and dispatched. As for so many other vexed questions about the Ikhwan, this kind of speculation will have much to gain from the forthcoming edition, on a truly scientific basis, of all the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa'.
At any rate, the perfect correspondence between the classification of Epistle VII and the sequence of Epistles making up the actual corpus should be considered an unrealistic expectation from the very moment one is willing to admit that the Rasa'il are but the most visible part of the undertaking. In many places, the Brethren refer or allude to their secret meetings known as majalis al-'ilm (literally, 'sessions of science') and make it very clear that the highest degrees of their teaching programme are not committed to writing. As Marquet rightly summarised in the book mentioned above, 'the Epistles are at the same time the master's book and the student's handbook, yet a handbook which must be completed with some oral teaching'. In this regard, we may add, it is significant that the section of our encyclopaedia for which the discrepancies with the classification of Epistle VII are especially thick on the ground is precisely the last one and that containing the highest level of esotericism.
For the time being, I should like to conclude this paper by emphasising only one point. It is customary to refer to the twofold division of the sciences in Islam: on the one hand, the conventional, religious and properly Islamic sciences; on the other hand, the rational, philosophical and foreign, that is, mainly, Greek sciences. This partition is possibly nowhere better evidenced than in al-Khwarizmi's Mafatih al-'ulum (The Keys to the Sciences), where its author – not to be confused with the great scientist al-Khwarizmi – ranges all disciplines under two different headings, respectively 'the religious sciences and the Arabic sciences connected with them' and 'the non-Arab sciences, from the Greeks as well as from other nations'. In almost every subsequent discussion of the sciences, the same partition may be found again and again. Ibn Khaldun's already mentioned Muqaddima provides us, indeed, with just one of the most famous examples of the distinction to be made between al-'ulum al-naqliyya ('the transmitted sciences') and al-'ulum al-'aqliyya ('the intellectual sciences'). Internal evidence now enables us to date al-Khwarizmi's Keys to the Sciences not earlier than the year AD 977, which means, most probably than it was written later than the Rasa'il. It is, of course, a pity that we do not have more of the works that al-Kindi and al-Farabi are said to have written about the classification of the sciences. Yet, it appears from their extant writings on the subject – let us first think of al-Kindi's Epistle on the Number of Books by Aristotle or al-Farabi's Enumeration of the Sciences – that neither of them had based the classification of the sciences on this partition. As mentioned in the beginning of this paper, my exploration of the classifications of sciences as reflected by Islamic encyclopaedias is far from being completed. Yet, in the present state of my investigation, I would certainly be inclined to credit the Ikhwan with a truly pioneering role in that respect.
Table 1: the general classification of the sciences according to Epistle VII
I. The propaedeutic (sciences), that is, the sciences of education which have been set up mainly for the quest of subsistence and for the goodness of the living in this world, are of nine kinds:
II. The religious and conventional (sciences), that is, the sciences which have been set up for the healing of the souls and for the quest of the hereafter, are of six kinds:
The learned in the science of revelation are those who read the Qur'an and know it by heart. The learned in the science of interpretation are the imams and the successors of the prophets. The learned in the narratives are the specialists of the Tradition. The learned in the laws and the norms are the jurists. The learned in the recollection and the exhortations are the worshippers, ascetics, monks and the like. The learned in the interpretation of dreams are the interpreters.
Table 2: the division of the philosophical sciences according to Epistle VII
2. Logical sciences
3. Natural sciences
4. Divine sciences
Table 3: The list of titles of the Rasa'il
Section I: the mathematical sciences (14 epistles)
Section II: The sciences of the body and of nature (17 epistles)
Section III: The sciences of the soul and of the intellect (10 epistles)
Section IV: The nomic, divine and legal sciences (11 epistles)


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I became aware of this trip only about 5-6 weeks before departure. Andrew owned a local adventure bike clothing/accessory store and after I had stopped by a few times on the 950, he mentioned the possibility to join this little odyssey. In reality I knew him only vaguely and the other three potential riding companions were a total mystery at the time. However, compared to previous experience - particularly the South African affair (sigline link if you're curious), which had been organized exclusively via e-mail with a group of complete strangers - this seemed pretty straightforward and didn't seem to present too much cause for concern. Additionally - and I'm sure this is an issue familiar to many on this forum - encountering a group of riders who are contemplating a ride like this and - more importantly - are prepared to follow through and actually do it, is a rare gift that can't be ignored. So it was then, that - even though I'd blown off a number of alternative spousal trips earlier in the year, on the pretense of incompatible workload - I sheepishly laid out the basic premise of this journey to my wonderful, adorable and ever understanding wife.
As portrayed by Andrew, the riding itself didn't seem like too much of an issue. Even though my off road exposure on the 950 has been extremely limited, and recent experience of any kind amounts to nothing more challenging than a short daily commute, I felt I'd had enough prior dirt riding experience to adequately fake whatever turned up in the way of riding technicalities. I was even less concerned about the daily mileage requirements, given prior excursions into the outer limits of motorized masochism, mainly courtesy of my old buddy Gary - who ensured that 300+ mile tank-to-tank, mixed with a generous 15 minute (max) refueling break, is a recurring nightmare that still delivers. (sigline link)
So, the riding aspect looked like it was reasonably under control. What I was really concerned about, was the CAMPING.
Apart from a couple of nights spent sleeping next to the Colorado River during an organized raft trip, the sum total of my adult experience under canvas (or whatever synthetic material passes for it these days) was one whole night. And while that was with my very lovely wife, this would be in the company of three extremely un-photogenic hairy-arsed locals and a rancid Aussie. The next few weeks therefore were spent frantically trying to become familiar with the intricacies of camping and the myriad of associated gear selections (paying particular attention to selecting an industrial strength bear spray - to fend off the potentially amorous advances of the Aussie, obviously). For the gear selection, I decided that I would place a premium on comfort combined with packing density (paying less attention to weight requirements since there would be 100 horsepower hauling everything around). However, an initial 'test lie' with what the outdoor magazines considered to be the most comfortable Thermorest available left me a little concerned. Let's just say 'inflatable 2x4' was one of the first things that came to mind. Ultimately however - and what hopefully will become apparent in this narrative - camping was the biggest revelation and one of the best parts of the trip (even for this outdoor neophyte).
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In OneNote 2010 Essential Training, instructor David Rivers demonstrates how OneNote can be used to take notes, organize thoughts, do research, and collaborate with others on projects. This course shows how to quickly add rich content to notebooks, format the content with OneNote's new formatting and styles capabilities, organize information to suit individual needs, and retrieve information effectively. It also shows how to take advantage of the robust OneNote 2010 sharing and collaboration features like Outlook integration, change highlighting and page versioning, wiki-style linking, and the OneNote web applications. Exercise files accompany the course.
When you create a brand new notebook like we did with our User Conference 2010 notebook that we see in front of us here, automatically a new section is created for you. It's automatically named New Section 1 and a brand new untitled page also appears in that section and the cursor is flashing in the title area waiting for you to name the page. So we need to discuss now how to create sections, rename them, and then start talking about creating and even deleting pages and sections. So here we are in our brand New Section 1.
The first thing we are going to do is rename it just something meaningful. Something that is going to give us an idea about what content is going to be hidden in this section. So the best way is to go to the tab itself at the very top and just right click. You'll see a pop up menu with many options including right at the top, Rename. When we select that it highlights New Section 1 and by the way double clicking the tab will do the same thing. We can just change the name by typing over what's there. Let's type in the word Facility. So this first section will deal with everything related to the facility for our User Conference in 2010.
When you press Enter on your keyboard, it's locked in. You've renamed the section. It appears on the tap at the top, as well as the tabs that you see in your navigation bar. Notice there is a little tab just to the right off our new facility tab. It's got a star, this is where we go to create a brand new section. So click once and it becomes New Section 1 and we can type right over that. Let's give it a more meaningful name such as Schedule, and when you press Return, you now have a brand new section called Schedule. You'll also notice that there is untitled page here as well.
Notice the color coding too. So you can always tell which tab or section you're in. In this case our schedule is a pinky color. You see that all the way around the outside as well over here where our page tabs appear. When we go back to Facility, you can see this one is blue. So is the area over here on the right hand side. Let's create another section. We will click the Create New Section. You'll notice it's automatically added to the end even though we were on the Facility tab. We will just add one more. We will call it Speakers and press Enter. So there we go, we have got three sections.
Now it's time to start talking about creating the pages. So for our speakers, for example, we might have many speakers coming to the User Conference and we should organize some into their own pages. Well, the first page is already created for you. It's an untitled page, but the cursor is flashing waiting for you to type in a name. So let's just type in Keynote. And when you press Enter here, that locks it in and automatically OneNote is trying to create a brand new note on the page for you. You got that little frame area where you can start typing in notes about the keynote speaker.
Let's go to create another new page though. Now you'll notice with Keynote selected, when we click New Page, a new page is automatically added underneath. It's untitled, but the cursor is flashing in the title area, so all we have to do is type it in. Let's type in your own name. I am going to type in my own name and press Return. And now we'll add one more new page by clicking the New Page button again, there it is. It's untitled. We will add our third speaker for now and we'll press Return. Now of course, we can always go back to these and add information such as the keynote.
If we don't have a keynote speaker at the time, just leave it as Keynote, but when we do get a name, just come in here and we will add that name, maybe put a dash in there and we will type in whoever our keynote speaker is, and when you press Return it's locked in. You rename the page just by changing up the title a little bit. And what if you want to rearrange things? Let's say we want to rearrange these sections. Maybe Speaker should come before the Schedule. All you do is go to the tab itself. Just click and drag. You'll see that little black triangle in between the tabs.
So if you want it at the beginning, go all the way to the left, still dragging. Let's go between Facility and Schedule and release. Now, it's just been reordered. You'll see it's reordered over here in the navigation bar in the left-hand side as well. Same goes for our pages. That makes sense of the keynotes at the top here, but if we go to David Rivers, just click and drag down. In this case you see a black bar. So we want to bring it down below Karen Corey and release. There we go. We have reordered the pages, simple as that. If there is a page you don't need, let's Karen Corey is dropping out, you can go to Karen Corey here, right-click the page and you'll see a pop up menu with a number of options, including right at the top Delete.
So when you click Delete, the Karen Corey page is gone, everything collapses together so it's a nice and organized, and we are ready to continue. So creating your sections and creating your pages, we will be talking about subpages a little bit later on, will help you to stay organized, making it easy to find the content once you get it in there.
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I tell her she needs to use her inside voice or her happy, kind voice. If she is screaming and whining, I don't accept that. I tell her to go to her room until she is ready to use a happy, kind voice. She will then go cry for a few minutes and come out taking deep breaths and say she is happy now.
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My DS has been doing that a TON lately. I can't stand it either. This morning he had a fit because I wouldn't give him any more gummy bears. UGH! He screamed all the way to daycare. Once there he finally settled down. He did it last night as well when we were shopping because he wanted me to carry him and he didn't want to sit in the cart. Oh the drama!
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Geographic Range
Lewis's Moon Snail, Euspira lewisii, ocupies the Pacific Ocean coast, from Vancouver Island (British Columbia) to Isla San Geronimo (Baha California, Mexico). (Morris, et al., 1983)
- Biogeographic Regions
- nearctic
- pacific ocean
Moon snails are inhabitants of soft sand or mud along the Pacific coast in protected bays, low intertidal areas, in the substratum off the coast to a depth of about 150 m. More snails are at the surface at night than during the day. They are found at the surface after heavy rains, but remain buried in cold weather. (Morris, et al, 1983)
- Aquatic Biomes
- coastal
Physical Description
Shell size up to 130 mm in diameter, or approximately 5 inches, although though usually 4 inches or less due to picking. A fully expanded animal is several times larger than its shell, which almost completely covers the body. Shell shape is globe-like, with shallow groove at the shoulder of whorls; columella with a calcereous callus reaching to edge of deep umbilicus. Shell color is yellowish with thin brown periostracum; the horny door (operculum) common to snails is dark brown. The snails plough forward with a foot just below the surface of the sand. When extended, the foot can measure over 12 inches in diameter. It is heavily ciliated, has mucus glands, and is very effective for moving over a shifting bottom. The mucus foot can fold into a grasping organ to hold prey. The foot also can be drawn inside the shell by an aquiferous system, but the snail cannot stay inside the shell for long periods of time because it cannot breathe. Life expectancy of this snail is estimated to be several years. (Morris et al., 1983; Ricketts & Calvin, 1962; Anonymous, 2000; J. Kirkhart, personal communication)
- Other Physical Features
- ectothermic
- bilateral symmetry
- Average mass
- 435 g
- 15.33 oz
Males are smaller than females and their shells are slightly thicker. They begin to mate when they reach a shell length of 55 mm. Eggs are laid in a broad, rubbery "sand collar" about 15 cm diameter which forms around the shell and foot. This collar holds a layer of eggs (eggs are 250 micrometers in diameter) which is then deposited by ocean waves on the beach. The mucus collar is coated by layers of sand held together by the mucus. Moon snails lay eggs in shallow water in spring and summer, and eggs hatch in midsummer. A half-million or so larvae swim around inside the sand collar for several weeks until being released by disintegration of the collar. Young snails feed on diatoms, and on green seaweed called Ulva, at 10-12 m depth for five to six months. Afterwards, they begin to hunt animal prey in the substratum. They do not venture into shallower water until their shell lengths reach about 30 mm. (Morris, et al, 1983; Buchbaum & Milne, 1962; Shaefer, 1997)
Snails are usually found partially buried so that part of the shell is visible above sand, through which they plow easily. They normally avoid each other, but a feeding snail will attract other snails. (Morris, et al, 1983)
Food Habits
The moon snail's method of obtaining food is varied. They feed mostly on clams, mussels, or other mollusks. Moon snails usually clamp the foot around clam shells and proceed with drilling a hole with their radula, which is a long, ribbon-like tongue containing thousands of teeth (denticles) that project from the mouth opening. It is suspected that the foot smothers its victims to make their job easier. Studies indicate there is an enzyme secretion of carbonic anhydrase that has a softening effect on mollusk shells to aid in drilling. Food is extracted by sucking the foot over the hole, or by sucking through the siphon of a clam. Young snails feed on diatoms, and on green seaweed called Ulva, at 10-12 m depth for five to six months. Afterwards, they begin to hunt animal prey in the substratum. They do not venture into shallower water until their shell lengths reach about 30 mm. (Morris, et al, 1983; Buchbaum & Milne, 1962; Shaefer, 1997; Ricketts & Calvin, 1962; Anonymous, 2000)
Economic Importance for Humans: Positive
They are eaten by humans and other animals. (Morris, et al, 1983)
Economic Importance for Humans: Negative
Even though moon snails feed on clams, there has been no impact on littleneck clam farming. (B. Hartwick, personal communication)
Conservation Status
California Fish and Game regulations (1979) have set limits on the amount of moon snails taken, and none can be taken north of the Golden Gate Bridge (in San Francisco). The small crab, Opisthopus transversus, is sometimes found as a commensal of the snail, and hermit crabs are known to inhabit the empty shells. (Morris, et al, 1983)
- IUCN Red List
- No special status
- US Federal List
- No special status
- No special status
Dianne Hoehing (author), Fresno City College, Shirley Porteous-Gafford (editor), Fresno City College.
- Nearctic
living in the Nearctic biogeographic province, the northern part of the New World. This includes Greenland, the Canadian Arctic islands, and all of the North American as far south as the highlands of central Mexico.
- Pacific Ocean
body of water between the southern ocean (above 60 degrees south latitude), Australia, Asia, and the western hemisphere. This is the world's largest ocean, covering about 28% of the world's surface.
- bilateral symmetry
having body symmetry such that the animal can be divided in one plane into two mirror-image halves. Animals with bilateral symmetry have dorsal and ventral sides, as well as anterior and posterior ends. Synapomorphy of the Bilateria.
- coastal
the nearshore aquatic habitats near a coast, or shoreline.
- ectothermic
animals which must use heat acquired from the environment and behavioral adaptations to regulate body temperature
- native range
the area in which the animal is naturally found, the region in which it is endemic.
Anonymous, 2000. ""Snail," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2000" (On-line). Accessed Oct. 26, 2000 at http://encarta.msn.com.
Buchbaum, R., L. Milne. 1962. The Lower Animals, Living Invertebrates of the World. Doubleday & Co., Inc..
Morris, R., D. Abbott, E. Haderlie. 1983. Intertidal Invertibrates of California. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
Rickets, E., J. Calvin, J. Hedgpeth. 1992. Between Pacific Tides, Fifth Edition. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
Schaefer, J. 1997. "The Moon Snail" (On-line). Accessed Nov. 14, 2000 at http://www.hmsc.orst.edu/odfw/sf/pub/moon/moon.html.


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Understanding Child Development 2nd Edition is the new edition of the bestselling, user-friendly book for those studying for Early Years Foundation Degrees, Early Childhood Studies Degrees, and S/NVQ Levels 3 and 4 in Childcare Learning and Development. Jennie Lindon explains all the key approaches to studying child development in a straightforward way that helps students understand the links between theories and their learning and practice. Throughout the book: - Key terms are explained in language that students can understand - 'Making the connection' features link what is being learned to settings and practice - There is guidance on observations and students own research, to apply what has been learned. Anyone pursuing Early Years Professional Status will find this an invaluable resource, whilst experienced practitioners in the whole range of early years settings will find it supports continuing professional development.
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The Plot Against America Author Philip Roth To Continue Pushing Envelope
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JEFFREY BROWN: Philip Roth has been one of this country's leading writers since the 1959 publication of "Goodbye, Columbus."
Ten years later, his bestseller, "Portnoy's Complaint," with its hilarious coming-of-age sexuality, earned Roth both praise and outrage, and made him a literary celebrity.
In all, he's published 26 novels and other works, and won most every literary award available. His new novel, "The Plot Against America," presents an alternate American history in which Charles Lindbergh becomes president in 1940, the nation remains out of World War II, and the Jews in Roth's own childhood neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey, live in fear of anti-Semitic violence.
Roth, now 71, lives a private country life in Connecticut and rarely gives television interviews, but let us come visit recently for a talk about his writing life.
JEFFREY BROWN: Phillip Roth, thank you for letting us come visit.
PHILIP ROTH: It's nice to have you.
JEFFREY BROWN: What is it that you want to do when you start a novel? What are you trying to do?
PHILIP ROTH: Get to work.
JEFFREY BROWN: Get to work?
PHILIP ROTH: Get to work, work. Without a novel, I'm empty. I'm empty and not very happy. So when I get to work on a novel I begin to do what, what I'm supposed to do. It's a long process. Usually, it takes between two and three years to write a novel, for me.
And the first six, eight, ten months can be very difficult because you don't know what you're doing; you don't know what you have. So the work is difficult in the beginning, and it's also difficult in the middle and it's difficult in the end, as well.
JEFFREY BROWN: But put it in terms of us, your readers. What do you want to do for us?
PHILIP ROTH: Oh, I'm going to sound very ungracious — nothing, frankly. I can't worry about the reader, just as the reader can't worry about me. We all have to take care of ourselves, and I don't think about the reader.
I think about the book. I think about the sentence, I think about the paragraph, I think about the page. I go over it and over it and over it. The book begins to make its demands. The demands are intellectual, they're imaginative; they're aesthetic.
JEFFREY BROWN: It's interesting because you're often described as something of a provocateur, sort of throwing out literary bombshells, I mean, you get a lot of reaction to your work.
PHILIP ROTH: I'm a very bad judge of how people will respond to my work, how the general reader will respond to a book, and I'm always surprised by the responses that a book elicits.
I don't think I'm the only writer who experiences this, too. There's… there's a kind of dummy who lives here, too, you know, and you don't know what you've done.
JEFFREY BROWN: Roth lived in London for much of the late 1970s and '80s. Returning home, he began a series of prize-winning books that look at big movements in postwar America through the lives of ordinary people, including "Sabbath's Theater", which won a national book award, "American Pastoral," which earned the Pulitzer Prize and for "The Human Stain," winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award.
In "The Plot Against America," which depicts Roth's own family life in the 1940's, his father says, "What's history? History is everything that happens everywhere, even here in Newark, even here on Summit Avenue, even what happens in this house to an ordinary man."
PHILIP ROTH: Yes, I kind of put my words in his mouth there. That's a moment where I push things a bit. Yeah. History comes into the living room. The large forces that make the world go, they come into our living room, and I like that, I like depicting that.
JEFFREY BROWN: Many observers have noted this great run of books that you've had over the last, say, ten years or so. What happened?
PHILIP ROTH: (Laughs) What did I eat for breakfast, you mean? Um, I don't know, maybe it's a consequence of age. But I did feel energetic and I did feel ambitious, and I did the work.
JEFFREY BROWN: What was your ambition to do?
PHILIP ROTH: To be able to write this kind of book, to be able to broaden the subject, while at the same time keeping it a novel, while at the same time having the subject enacted by people.
JEFFREY BROWN: And "broaden the subject"– what is the subject?
PHILIP ROTH: When I came back to live in America in 1989, all the time, I felt enormously energized by being home.
But also, I realized that I had in front of me a new subject that was an old subject, which was this country; that it was brand new to me in a strange way, yet I knew all about it because I had been brought up here.
So being away for ten or twelve years produced, I think, a burst of writing energy.
JEFFREY BROWN: Are you able to look back now over the long arc of your career and sum it up?
PHILIP ROTH: I look back… with just with a little wonder, really, wonder that I stuck with this thing.
JEFFREY BROWN: This thing of writing, you mean?
PHILIP ROTH: Yeah, yeah.
JEFFREY BROWN: And when you look back and when you think about, now, do you see a different writer, a better writer, a worse writer?
PHILIP ROTH: Oh, I like to think a better writer, a different writer, sure. You begin with, or I began certainly with enormous naiveté and rawness. You're very raw when you begin.
And I don't think I'm… I think I'm only half as naive now, and raw, I'm only raw from the hard work. I'm not raw in the way a young fellow would be raw.
JEFFREY BROWN: Some years ago, I know you were involved with Eastern European writers at a time when they were a kind of moral voice against a totalitarian society. What do you see as your role, or as the role of a writer in our society?
PHILIP ROTH: Your role is to write as well as you can. You're not advancing social causes as far as I'm concerned. You're not addressing social problems.
What you're advancing is… there's only one cause you're advancing; that's the cause of literature, which is one of the great lost human causes. So you do your bit, you do your bit for fiction, for the novel.
JEFFREY BROWN: Why do you think it's become one of the great lost causes of our time?
PHILIP ROTH: My goodness. Um, oh, I don't think in twenty or twenty-five years people will read these things at all.
JEFFREY BROWN: Not at all?
PHILIP ROTH: Not at all. I think it's inevitable. I think the… there are other things for people to do, other ways for them to be occupied, other ways for them to be imaginatively engaged, that are I think probably far more compelling than the novel. So I think the novel's day has come and gone, really.
JEFFREY BROWN: I would imagine you would think this is a great loss for society.
PHILIP ROTH: Yes, I do. There's a lot of brilliance locked up in all those books in the library. There's a lot of human understanding. There's a lot of language. There's a lot of imaginative genius. So, yes, it's a great shame.
JEFFREY BROWN: And what happens for you?
PHILIP ROTH: Me?
JEFFREY BROWN: You.
PHILIP ROTH: (Laughs) I'm going to keep doing it. I'll keep doing it, stubbornly.
JEFFREY BROWN: Okay, Philip Roth, thank you for letting us come to talk to you.
PHILIP ROTH: You're welcome.


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When Alex Rodriguez crossed the plate with the go-ahead run in the eighth inning, New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi must have looked to the heavens and asked, 'What did I do to deserve this?'
In retrospect, the Texas Rangers were only six outs away from capturing Game 1 of the American League Championship Series for the first home playoff victory in franchise history. But like the Minnesota Twins before them, Texas appears to have difficulty handling prosperity against the Yankees in the postseason.
Click here to read the rest of this article on Examiner.com, which includes relevant links and highlights of Game 1 of the ALCS between the New York Yankees and the Texas Rangers.