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The Virgin of Guadalupe
Is the Virgin of Guadalupe a miraculous apparition, a dismissable religious icon, or does it have more importance?
by Brian Dunning
Filed under Ancient Mysteries, Religion
|Skeptoid #201
April 13, 2010
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By Brian Dunning, Skeptoid Podcast
Episode 201, April 13, 2010
Today we're going to travel back to the time of the Conquistadors, when Spanish soldiers marched through Aztec jungles and spread Catholicism to the New World. We're going to examine an object that is central to faith in Mexico: An image called the Virgin of Guadalupe.
The Virgin of Guadalupe is basically Mexico's version of the Shroud of Turin. Both are pieces of fabric, hundreds of years old, on which appears an image said to be miraculous. Both are considered sacred objects. But the Virgin of Guadalupe is a much more powerful icon to many Mexicans. There's hardly anywhere you can go in Mexico and not find a reproduction of the image. Its importance as a religious and cultural symbol cannot be understated, for it came from the very hands of The Most Holy Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Queen of Mexico and Empress of the Americas.
A legend well known in Mexico tells how it came to be. In 1531, the Spanish had been occupying Mexico for about ten years. An indigenous peasant, Juan Diego, was walking in what's now Mexico City when he saw the glowing figure of a teenage girl on a hill called Tepeyac. She identified herself as the Virgin Mary, and asked him to build her a church on that spot. Diego recounted this to the Archbishop of Mexico, Juan de Zumárraga (1468-1548). Zumárraga was skeptical and told Diego to return and ask her to prove her identity with a miracle. Diego did return, and encountered the apparition again. She told him to climb to the top of the hill and pick some flowers to present to the Bishop. Although it was winter and no flowers should have been in bloom, Juan Diego found an abundance of flowers of a type he'd never seen before. The Virgin Mary bundled the flowers into Diego's cloak, woven from common cactus fiber and called a tilma. When Juan Diego presented the tilma to Zumárraga, the flowers fell out and he recognized them as Castilian roses, not found in Mexico; but more significantly, the tilma had been miraculously imprinted with a colorful image of the Virgin herself. This actual tilma, preserved since that date and showing the familiar image of the Virgin Mary with her head bowed and hands together in prayer, is the Virgin of Guadalupe. It remains perhaps the most sacred object in all of Mexico.
The story is best known from a manuscript written in the Aztecs' native language Nahuatl by the scholar Antonio Valeriano (1531-1605), the Nican Mopohua. By the European watermark on its paper, it's known to have been written sometime after 1556. This was widely published in a larger collection in 1649 by the lawyer Luis Laso de la Vega. Zumárraga and Juan Diego were both dead by the time Valeriano wrote it, so where did he get his information?
A red flag that a number of historians have put forth is that Bishop Zumárraga was a prolific writer. Yet, in not a single one of his known letters, is there any mention of Juan Diego, his miraculous apparition, the roses, or the cloak bearing the image, or any other element of the story in which Zumárraga was alleged to have played so prominent a role.
Not everyone agrees. In the 2000 book in Spanish, Juan Diego, una Vida de Santidad que Marcó la Historia (A Life of Holiness that Made History), author Eduardo Chavez Sánchez gives, at some length, various quotations from letters by Zumárraga that he believes confirms the Juan Diego narrative. I found his list to be extraordinarily unconvincing, and I would honestly describe it as really desperate scraping of the bottom of the barrel to find a quote-minable quote. In fact, the only quote from Zumárraga I found that was remotely close was:
An Indian goes to Brother Toribio and all will be in praise of God.
That sounds great because he mentions an Indian talking to a Catholic figure, but there's no mention of this Indian's name, no mention in the Juan Diego stories of a Brother Toribio (that I could find), and no elements of the Juan Diego story included in this single-sentence snippet. So unless some more of Zumárraga's writings come to light, I'm going to agree with the historians who say Zumárraga wrote nothing of these events, which casts doubt on his role in something that would have been of such great importance to him.
The name Juan Diego itself suggests that the story was a fictional invention. It basically translates as John Doe, a generic everyman, whose identity is unimportant. This doesn't prove anything, since there certainly were real people named Juan Diego, but it is an intriguing element.
It is the actual image of Mary itself that tells us the most about its true history. As every schoolchild knows, Hernán Cortés (1485-1547) was the Spanish Conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire and placed much of Mexico under Spanish control in 1521. He was born in a region of Spain called Extremadura, and grew up to revere Our Lady of Guadalupe, a statue of a black version of the Virgin Mary, at the Santa María de Guadalupe monastery in Extremadura. This statue is credited with miraculously helping to expel the Moors from Spain in the Reconquista. Cortés brought reproductions of this European image of Mary with him when he went to the New World. Her dark skin resembled the Aztecs, and she became the perfect icon for the missionaries who followed Cortés to rally the natives into Christianity.
One such missionary was Fray Pedro de Gante (1480-1572), a Franciscan monk from Belgium (born Pieter van der Moere) who learned the Aztec language and created the first European-style school in Mexico, San Jose de los Naturales. One of his promising art students was a young Aztec man with the Christian name Marcos Cipac de Aquino, one of three known prolific Aztec artists of the period. In 1555, the newly arrived Archbishop of Mexico, Alonso de Montúfar (1489-1572), successor to the deceased Zumárraga, was looking to commission a portrait of the Virgin Mary, as a sort of teaching aide to help convert the Aztecs. Montúfar found the young artist Marcos at de Gante's school. And so, in 1555, the Aztec artist Marcos Cipac de Aquino painted a portrait of the Virgin Mary, with dark skin, with head slightly bowed and hands together in prayer, on a common cactus-fiber canvas. The painting was named the Virgin of Guadalupe according to the tradition Cortés brought from Spain. Although the Extremadura statue was not in this pose, the pose was still one of European tradition. The most often cited example of Mary in this exact pose is the painting A Lady of Mercy, attributed to Bonanat Zaortiga and on display at the National Art Museum of Catalunya, painted in the 1430's. Marcos followed more than a century of European tradition.
There was a pragmatic element to Montúfar's introduction of this painting and allowing it to be worshipped. Before the Conquistadors, Tepeyac was home to an Aztec temple, built to honor the Aztecs' own virgin goddess, Tonantzin. So rather than replacing the Aztec goddess, Montúfar's plan was simply to introduce Mary by giving Tonantzin a name and a face (recall that Marcos had painted the Virgin with dark skin). This process of using an existing belief system to graft on a new one has been called syncretism. Understandably, this exploitation of a pagan idol caused discomfort among some of the Franciscan priests, while many of the Dominicans welcomed the way it helped baptize 8,000,000 Aztecs.
The primary corroborating documentation of Marcos' painting is a report from the Church in 1556, when this growing disagreement between the Franciscans and the Dominicans prompted an investigation into the origins of the tilma. Two of the Franciscans submitted sworn statements in which they expressed their concern that worshipping the tilma was leading the Aztecs to return to their traditional pagan ways. One described the image as "a painting that the Indian painter Marcos had done" while another said it was "painted yesteryear by an Indian". Appearing on the side of the Dominicans, who favored allowing the Aztecs to worship the image, was Bishop Montúfar himself. As a result, the construction of a much larger church was authorized at Tepeyac, in which the tilma was mounted and displayed.
Significantly, the 1556 report is the most extensive documentation concerning the Virgin tilma of its century, and it makes no mention whatsoever of Juan Diego, the miraculous appearance of the image, or any other element from the legend. If the miracle story did exist at that time, it seems inconceivable that it could have been omitted from this report. This strongly supports the suggestion that the Juan Diego legend had not yet been conceived. It also supports that Valeriano's Nican Mopohua was written later.
The legend did get its first boost of testable evidence in 1995, which (in a case of suspiciously fortuitous timing) was after Juan Diego's beatification in 1990, while there was still debate over whether he should be canonized (he ultimately was, in 2002). A Spanish Jesuit named Javier Escalada produced a deerskin which pictorially depicted the Juan Diego legend and has become known as the Codex Escalada. The Codex also mentioned several historical people, and even bore the signature of a Franciscan historian, Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590), dated 1548. Basically, it was the Perfect Storm of tailor-made evidence proving that the Juan Diego legend was the accepted history at the time. A little too tailor made though; no serious historians have supported its authenticity. The best analysis I've found is by Alberto Peralta of the Proyecto Guadalupe project. Based on its dubious unveiling, numerous inconsistencies, and other factors, Peralta concludes that it's impossible for the document to be authentic.
If the Virgin tilma is indeed a painting, and not a miraculously produced image, then it should be a simple matter to determine that scientifically. There are obvious signs that are hard to argue with, notably that the paint is flaking along a vertical seam in the fabric. But a truly scientific examination involving sampling of the material has not been permitted. The most notable examination was a three hour infrared photographic session by Philip Callahan in 1981, who did note multiple layers of paint covering changes to the hands and crown, but came away with more questions than answers. Callahan found, for example, that most of the entire painting seemed to have been done with a single brush stroke. He recommended a series of more tests, but the only one allowed by the Church was a spectrophotometric examination done by Donald Lynn from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The only result released of his examination was that "nothing unusual" was found.
Much has been made of the claim that figures can be seen reflected in Mary's eyes, with some even identifying these figures as Zumárraga or Juan Diego or other characters from the legend. The Church even went so far in 1956 as to have two ophthalmologists examine the eyes under 2500× magnification. They reported a whole group of figures, including both Aztecs and Franciscans. Why ophthalmologists should be better qualified to identify Aztecs and Franciscans in random blobs of pigment has not been convincingly argued. Photos taken by another ophthalmologist in 1979 have been released, and it's quite obvious that it's simply random noise. I see a dozen or so speckles; if you want to make them into Aztecs, Franciscans, bananas, or Bozo the Clown, then you'll probably also be great at spotting dozens of Bigfoots hiding in any given photograph of a forest.
The Virgin of Guadalupe is yet more one mythical story whose believers are missing out on true facts that are actually more respectful and confer more credit upon them than the myth. The image on the Virgin tilma was painted by a native Aztec artist; and the painting had not only an important role in Mexico's early history as a nation, but also a staggering impact upon its culture ever since. Mexicans with Aztec heritage should take pride in the fact that their original culture, specifically the goddess Tonantzin, was a key ingredient in the spread of modern Catholicism. The Juan Diego myth takes that away, and whitewashes part of Mexican history clean of any Aztec influence. That's a disservice to one of humanity's greatest ancient civilizations, and it's a disservice to history.
When we see the Virgin of Guadalupe image today, most people react in one of two ways: They worship it as a miraculous apparition, or they dismiss it as someone else's religious icon. Both reactions miss the much richer true history. The Virgin of Guadalupe stands not only as an invaluable work of ancient art (possibly the most popular piece of art ever created), but also as a reminder of how the conquest of Mexico was truly accomplished: Not only its military conquest, but one of history's greatest religious conversions as well.
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References & Further Reading
Acosta, M. "Juan Diego: The Saint That Never Was." Free Inquiry. 1 Apr. 2003, Volume 23, Number 2.
Nickell, J., Fischer, J. "The Image of Guadalupe: A folkloristic and iconographic investigation." Skeptical Inquirer. 1 Apr. 1985, Volume 9, Number 3: 243-255.
Olimon, M. La Búsqueda de Juan Diego. Mexico City: Plaza & Janes, 2002.
Peralta, A. "El Códice 1548." Proyecto Guadalupe. ProyectoGuadalupe.com, 19 Dec. 2001. Web. 5 Apr. 2010. <http://www.proyectoguadalupe.com/apl_1548.html>
Sanchez, E. Juan Diego, una vida de santidad que marcó la historia. Mexico City: Editorial Porrúa, 2002.
Smith, J. The Image of Guadalupe: Myth or Miracle? Garden City: Doubleday, 1983.
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Dunning, B. "The Virgin of Guadalupe." Skeptoid Podcast. Skeptoid Media, 13 Apr 2010. Web. 8 Oct 2015. <http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4201>
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The story of the Virgin of Guadalupe's miraculous apparition is patently false, a pious fraud. The story was fabricated as a means to facilitate the conversion of the indigenous masses and the obtainment of complete political power by the invading Spaniards. What a coincidence that the virgin was brown, that she "appeared" unto an indigenous man, and on the precise spot where the Aztecs had once venerated their goddess, Tonantzin, meaning Our Mother, in Nahuatl. Additionally, why are the angel's wings colored in Mexico's national colors? The national colors were not chosen until the 19th century and not as a result of this painting.
Interesting article.
Let´s keep in mind that the spaniards were only the middlemen in the Conquista, of which the Roman Empire, aka The Catholic Church was the real beneficiary.
Without México, The Vatican would go BROKE in a matter of weeks.
On the other hand, the feminine aspect of the deity does operate among us, and every human with a shred of divine understanding simply feels this in his bones, which is why the hijacking of the Shekinah was so successful with the Virgin de Guadalupe image.
My two cents.
It is fun to make up your own facts, isn't it Macklen?
The fact is that Mexico contributes practically nothing to the Vatican.
The countries that contribute the most to the Vatican Budget are the USA, Germany and Italy. However, the largest single source of income for the Vatican state is the operation of their museums.
It was reported that the image flashed on the tilma by one party who is heavily involved in it, I forgot his name. He is a former judge in Massachussets. How about these claims. The Bishop saw the painting Painted in front of his eyes by an invisible hand. I will get his name if you have interest in pursuing it. He is a credible person.
How about these claims?
1. Ophthalmic studies made on the eyes of Mary detected that when the eye is exposed to light, the retina contracts, and when the light is withdrawn, it returns to a dilated state, just as happens with a living eye.
2. The temperature of Juan Diego's tilma, made of a material that comes from fibers of the maguey cactus, maintains a constant temperature of 98.6 degrees, the same as that of a living human body.
3. One of the doctors who analyzed the tilma placed his stethoscope below the black band at Mary's waist, and heard rhythmic beats at 115 pulses per minute, the same as that of a baby in the maternal womb.
4. No sign of paint has been discovered on the tilma. From a distance of 3-4 inches from the image, one can see only the maguey cactus fibers of the material: the colors disappear. Scientific studies have not been able to discover the origin of the coloration, nor the way the image was painted. They cannot detect vestiges of brush strokes or any other known painting technique. NASA scientists confirm that the paint material does not belong to any known element on earth.
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For the skeptics - how do you explain the fact that the tilma did not get destroyed in the bombing of the church in the 1920's? Candlesticks that were on the altar were mangled and melted, the church suffered serious damage but the tilma went unharmed and this was before they put it behind protective glass.
Okay so the writer of this article is severely confused about a lot of things... First off the mexicans and catholics dont "worship" the image of the Virgin. Secondly, one of the main reasons the Juan Diego story cant be true is due to the fact that the people in the story were dead when it was recorded, have you ever heard of Oral History? Homer had the entire Illiad memorized orally, before it was even written down. And now we know that the events of Troy actually happened, making the Epic Poem carried on through the "Dark Ages" of Greece all through Oral Tradition. Thirdly, tons of scientific tests have been done on the Image, including the ones mentioned here. But NASA also viewed the image and detected the image could not have possibly been painted. Sure, there were painted additions on the hands and crown, but those additions wither away while the original image stays constant. Eye specialists have determined the eyes dialate and react to light just as a Human Eye would. One scientific study determined the Tilma maintains a constant human body temperature. Please everyone read this article IN FULL: http://abyssum.org/2013/08/25/the-image-of-our-lady-of-guadalupe-poses-such-a-threat-to-atheists-that-they-will-go-to-extraordinary-lengths-to-discredit-it/ I expected a throughough scientific examination and look into the data by skeptics. But this article ignores critical information and only presents historical arguements against the Tilma.
Also this article refutes the arguement made of the 1556 report by the Franciscans which supposedly proved the image was a painting: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Mexicoweb/factfile/Unique-facts-Mexico15.htm
This link also provides links to scientific studies confucted on the Tilma: http://www.traditioninaction.org/Questions/F034_OLGuadalupe.html
As usual, wonderful post! However, some of the evidence you provided is incorrect. The image has undergone many scientific tests. A documentary (which is obviously going to be biased to the catholic religion, just as you are obviously biased against it) can be seen here. Whether you believe it is a miracle or not doesn't concern me, however, it is a really cool documentary!
Thanks for another amazing post!
Thank God for this image the miracle at luciano, fatima and all the saints that worked miracles. Ha!!! Its all true. Its all Catholic!! Thank you God for all this amazing stuff.We see You when we see that!!
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The doctorate-or-not discussion is roaring along in the comments to the last post, and they're well worth reading. I have a few more thoughts on the subject myself, but I'm going to turn off comments to this post and ask people to continue to add to the previous ones.
One thing that seems clear to a lot of people is that too many chemists get PhD degrees. I'm not talking about the effect of this on the job market (more on that in a bit) so much as its effect on what a PhD is supposed to represent. So, here's my take on what a PhD scientist is supposed to be, and what it actually is in the real world. I'm going to be speaking from an industrial perspective here, rather than an academic one, although many of the points are the same.
Ideally, someone with a doctorate in chemistry is supposed to be able to do competent independent research, with enough discipline, motivation, and creativity to see such projects through. In an industrial applied-research setting, a PhD may initiate fewer projects strictly from their own ideas, but they should (1) always be on the lookout for the chance to do so, (2) be willing and able to when the opportunity arises, and (3) add substantial value even to those projects that they themselves didn't start.
That value is both creative and managerial - they're supposed to provide ideas and insights, and they're supposed to be able to use and build on those of others. They should be able to converse productively with their colleagues from other disciplines, which means both understanding what they're talking about and being able to communicate their own issues to them. Many of these qualities are shared with higher-performing associate researchers, who will typically have a more limited scope of action but can (and should) be creative in their own areas. Every research program is full of problems, and every scientist involved should take on the ones appropriate to their abilities.
So much for the ideal. In reality, many PhD degrees are (as a comment to the previous post said) a reward for perseverence. If you hang around most chemistry departments long enough as a graduate student, you will eventually be given a PhD and moved out the door. I've seen this happen in front of my eyes, and I've seen (and worked with) some of the end results of the system. The quality of the people that emerge is highly variable, consistent with the variation in the quality of the departments and the professors. Unfortunately, it's also consistent with the quality of the students. But it shouldn't be. The range of that variable shouldn't be as wide as it is.
There are huge numbers of chemistry PhDs who really don't meet the qualifications of the degree. Everyone with any experience in the field knows this, from personal observation. You will, I think, find proportionally more of these people coming out of the lower-quality departments, but a degree from a big-name one is still far from a guarantee. The lesser PhD candidates should have been encouraged to go forth and get a Master's, or simply to go forth and do something else with their lives. They aren't, though. They're turned loose on the job market, where many of them gradually and painfully find that they've been swindled.
Over time, the lowest end of the PhD cohort tends to wash out of the field entirely. There are, to be sure, many holders of doctoral degrees in chemistry who go into other areas because of their own interests and abilities. But there are also many jobs that make an outside observer wonder why someone with a PhD is doing them, and that's where many people end up who shouldn't have a doctorate in the first place. Others, somewhat more competent, hold on to positions because they're able to do enough to survive in them, if no more. While there are plenty of bad or irrelevent reasons for people not to be promoted over the years, some cases aren't so hard to figure out.
Those, then, are my thoughts on the doctoral degree. What can be done about this situation, if anything, will be the subject of a future post. I have another set of opinions on the Master's degree and its holders, which I'll unburden myself of a bit later on. Comments, as mentioned, should go into the discussion here.
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Gettysburg vs. Dickinson
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|Joe Brody
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|Kyle Mcgrath
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|Tommy Kehoe
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|Drew Duckworth
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|Pat Vaughan
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|Drew Peace
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|Chris Dodson
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|Ed Lawless
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|GETTYSBURG, Pa. � No. 5 Gettysburg jumped out to a 4-0 lead early in the second quarter and held on for an 11-8 victory against No. 20 Dickinson in Centennial Conference (CC) action at Shirk Field at Musselman Stadium on Wednesday afternoon. The Bullets have won three in a row for the second time this season, and they have now defeated Dickinson 33 straight times in the all-time series.
Bullet (6-1, 2-1 CC) freshman attackman Joe Brody (Bethesda, Md./Walter Johnson) matched his career high with four points on two goals and two assists. Junior attackman Trip Dyer (Ocean View, Del./Worcester Prep [Md.]) and sophomore attackman Rob Triplett (McLean, Va./McLean) added two goal apiece. Triplett�s two-goal day matched his career best.
Senior goalie Pat Vaughan (Cockeysville, Md./Loyola Blakefield) made five stops to earn the win. In doing so, he passed Andrew Barter for fourth on the Gettysburg career list with 644 saves. His performance on Wednesday also moved him from eighth place into a tie for fifth on the Centennial Conference career list with McDaniel�s Brian Nottingham.
For the Red Devils (5-3, 1-1 CC) senior attackman Drew Peace led all scorers with three goals. Classmate Brian Mohler tied for the game high with four points on two goals and two assists. Senior goalie Kevin Riley stopped 14 shots on the afternoon.
Gettysburg dominated possession in the first quarter. Senior midfielder Jimmy Gates (Basking Ridge, N.J./Ridge) got the early edge on Dickinson senior Bernie Nolan in a matchup of the CC�s best faceoff men, winning 3-of-4 in the quarter. He would take 13-of-22 on the day.
The Bullets started the scoring with just 3:27 gone. Brody was behind the net and found sophomore attackman Drew Duckworth (Rye, N.Y./Hotchkiss School [Conn.]) crossing from left to right in front of the goal. Duckworth caught the pass in front of him and whipped the ball behind his head for a spectacular opening strike. Less than six minutes later, Gettysburg had a 3-0 lead with junior midfielder Ben Sufrin (Mahopac, N.Y./Mahopac) and Dyer adding goals. Brody got his second assist on Sufrin�s goal.
Gettysburg�s first man-up situation carried over into the second quarter after a late-period penalty on the Red Devils in the first. At the 4:18 mark, Triplett converted a pass right in front from sophomore attackman Zach Pucci (Ridgewood, N.J./Ridgewood) for the man-up goal.
It appeared the Bullets were beginning to take control of the game, but Triplett�s goal began what would prove to be a wild second quarter.
Peace scored Dickinson�s first goal just 52 seconds later, but Gettysburg answered immediately off the next faceoff. Sophomore midfielder Tommy Kehoe (Coraopolis, Pa./Sewickley Academy) picked up the ground ball and sprinted in, firing a point-blank shot to put the lead back to five. Only 19 seconds later, Triplett scored his second goal of the game to give Gettysburg its biggest lead of the day at 6-1 with 12:41 to play before halftime.
The Red Devils then broke loose for four of the next five goals before the break. Brody scored for the Bullets, but their lead was just 7-5 going into the locker room.
Senior midfielder Ed Lawless had scored the final goal of the first half for Dickinson with an assist going to Mohler, and that pair would connect again at the 13:48 mark of the third quarter. That strike pulled the visitors within one at 7-6, but that would be all the closer they would get.
Gettysburg reeled off the next three goals spanning the third and fourth quarters. With 8:47 to go in the third, Dyer made a nice move to elude a defender about 15 yards out to Riley�s left. He then sneaked a laser beam just inside the far post for the game winner. Senior captain Greg Montgomery (Asheville, N.C./St. Andrew�s School [Del.]) scored on freshman midfielder Kyle McGrath�s (Randolph, N.J./Randolph) second assist of the day just 1:23 into the fourth quarter to extend the lead to 10-6.
Mohler scored twice in the fourth quarter to pull Dickinson within striking distance at 10-8 with 6:56 to play, but one minute later, Brody sank the dagger. He got control of the ball behind the net and charged to the front to convert a turnaround shot.
Gettysburg will now turn its attention to Saturday�s showdown against No. 1 Salisbury, a team that has won 79 of its last 80 games. The opening faceoff is scheduled for 2 p.m. at Sea Gull Stadium.


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Most people and institutions jealously guard their credibility. It's hard to get people to trust you, and nearly impossible to get people to believe you after you've abused their trust. Nearly everybody who throws their good name away lives to regret it.
I wonder if member institutions of the American Bar Association are starting to realize that throwing away their credibility for the sake of masking a few bad years of employment statistics is a bad idea. I wonder if they're starting to get that the American Bar Association's laissez-faire approach toward transparency is going to have consequences far beyond the yearly bloodsport of the U.S. News law school rankings.
As a couple of elite law schools are learning this week, right now their word and credibility carries significantly less weight than the New York Post's….
It should be a sad day when you are looking at something in the New York Post versus contradictory information from an Ivy League law school like Columbia, yet you don't know who to believe. But thanks to years of statistical shenanigans that the ABA didn't put a stop to, we live in a world where we can't really trust anything that comes out of the mouth of a law school administrator. It's like what's happened in baseball because of the steroids scandal: not every ballplayer took steroids, but all are assumed to be guilty because Major League Baseball did not act to stop the problem.
This week, the law schools at Columbia, NYU, and Fordham have come under fire for their allegedly inflated employment statistics. A story in the New York Post specifically called out the top New York-area law schools for shady reporting of graduate outcomes when it comes to graduates employed by the schools. Paul Campos also wrote a post highlighting the discrepancy between the number of Biglaw jobs reported by the schools versus the National Law Journal's reporting — where the NLJ gets information directly from employers.
I guess Columbia and NYU aren't used to being treated like the law schools who seem to inflate employment statistics as part of their business model. Both schools fired back with posts disputing the numbers reported in the Post and on Campos's blog. You can read Columbia's response here and NYU's response here. Essentially both schools claim that not every top-250 law firm reports statistics to the National Law Journal, hence the discrepancy.
It's not nearly that simple, of course. Campos gets more into the statistics in his rebuttal than the law schools. And the point remains that these schools are still counting a percentage of graduates employed by the law school as "employed upon graduation," a technical truth that seriously misleads prospective law students who are trying to gauge the legal job market.
But I want to take a step back and look at what we're really fighting about here: some of the best law schools in New York City have put out a statistic about how many graduates get jobs, and the New York Post and a bunch of other people immediately called "bulls**t." Think about that. Even if the law schools can somehow convince people that, technically, their published information isn't riddled with lies, we're living in a world where such data can be assumed to be false absent a long and detailed explanation and discussion from the law schools. When somebody notices a discrepancy between a school's numbers and what's in the newspaper, we assume the school was full of crap, not that the newspaper got it wrong.
That's not the fault of the New York Post, or Paul Campos, or "the media." That's the fault of the American Bar Association. The ABA is supposed to represent lawyers and law schools to the public. It's supposed to relegate them so that the public can trust that moral and ethical standards are being upheld and enforced. And on that scale, the ABA has been an unmitigated failure. It's done a disservice to all law schools. Nobody can trust any law school because the ABA has failed to impose effective oversight over all of them.
That's tragic. A society is supposed to be proud of its institutions of higher learning, but the ABA has robbed us of that pride in our nation's law schools. We no longer get to feel like our justice system is populated by people trained to the highest ethical standards, because we can't even trust our law schools to tell us the truth about how many people got hired.
Columbia Law should be able to win a credibility war with the New York freaking Post without firing a shot. The Post can't even get it straight if Biglaw jobs pay $150K or $160K "out of the gate."
But if I ask you: "Do New York law schools inflate job figures, true or false?," how many of you really believe that Columbia and NYU have a shown a fealty to accuracy throughout this downturn?
See, that's sad. And that's the ABA's fault as much as anybody's.
NY law schools inflate job figures: critics [New York Post]
Law school numbers [Inside the Law School Scam]
Letter to the Editor of NY Post re: Article on Employment Statistics [Columbia Law School]
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This is a photograph of a beautiful, little "Jesus" donkey standing in a field of bluebonnets (the state flower of Texas.) This type of donkey has it's name because the stripe down his back and across his shoulders resembles a cross. This image was taken near Brenham, Texas, one of the most prolific sites for bluebonnets and wild flowers in Texas. If you have never been to Texas during the month of April, you have missed one of God's greatest watercolor creations. In the central Texas area and the hill country of Texas...around Austin, Brenham, Fredricksburg, the LBJ Ranch...you will see field after field of some of the most beautiful wildflowers anywhere. The fields are full of blue, and pink, and red, and white and chartreuse, and yellow...oh, my! I'm not talking about a little patch of color here and another patch of color there, I'm talking FIELDS of color, sometimes as far as you can see. It is absolutely breathtaking, and you can't help but feel that you are sitting right in the middle of God's watercolor canvas. This image would be so great hanging over your fireplace, on the wall of your home, in any Texas office building, bank, hotel or hospital. This little guy just warms your heart and the bluebonnets are the extra touch.
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Audrey Raines
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At least that's what it sounds like 24 EP Evan Katz told EW's Ausiello. According to Katz, some of the things they have planned for the FOX drama's eighth season don't involve a Jack/Audrey reunion.
Can you blame them? 24 has had some doosie plots in the past that are pretty hard to swallow, but the last we saw of Audrey was at the very end of season six, and she didn't look so good. If she somehow ended up in the fold again next year (which takes place in New York City), I can't see people being too happy about it.
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(S06E20) *Warning, spoilers from the latest episode ahead.*
There were a number of unhinged people populating 24 in the 20th hour. There were tears. There was betrayal. Sex. Intrigue. An evil doctor. And, oh yeah, a potential U.S.-Russian military skirmish after CTU accidentally botched a plan to recover a Russian defense component from the Chinese that Jack Bauer had handed over.
Just your average day in 24-land.
Thankfully, there was a heck of a lot more of Jack in this episode as well as some action, albeit low-keyed action that was confined to darkened CTU corridors, though there was enough story during this hour to keep me entertained.
24: 12:00am -- 1:00am
(S06E19) *Warning, spoilers from the latest episode ahead.*
A dirty old man. A trigger-happy agent. A politically cut-throat spouse. Wildly inappropriate personal bickering in the workplace. Special guest star Jack Bauer.
What do those five things have in common? The 19th hour of 24.
Maybe I'm just growing more cynical, but this episode bummed me out on many fronts. Overall, it felt like filler to just inch the story forward to the final episodes. All I know is that throughout the hour, I wanted to see more Jack, much less of Chloe and Morris "Drill-Bit" O'Brian and felt nauseated by that scene with Acting President Noah Daniels. You know the one.
Raver: "Surviving" on 24 is "quite a feat"
Actress Kim Raver is profiled in this week's People Magazine where she talks about her return to 24 as Audrey Raines and how charming actor Kiefer Sutherland can be.
On the topic of "Audrey's not quite dead yet:" Raver said she's a romantic and thinks Audrey and Jack Bauer should be romantically reunited, adding that "you die when you just look at him [Bauer]."
On the topic of Sutherland being a gentleman: "Well, if you're at dinner, he stands up when you get up to go to the ladies' room." But if you're playing a terrorist on 24, I wouldn't advise getting up to use the facilities unless Jack gives you permission. You might wind up hanging by a chain. Or missing your jugular.
4 from 24: More on hour 17
* Warning: Spoilers ahead from the latest episode.*
The suitcase nukes have been located. Audrey Raines is alive, but in peril. Jack Bauer is likely going to be coerced into making a horrendous deal in exchange for her safe return.
While 24 fans mull these new developments, here are four choice moments from hour 17:
Quote of note: "My God! They were lying to us all the time! Withholding information. And you knew it!" an incredulous chief of staff, Tom Lennox, said to the uber-tricky President Wayne Palmer after Palmer pretended to launch a nuclear missile attack in order to get the Country Whose Name We Shall Not Mention to cough up intel on a terrorist.
A 24 resurrection
*Warning, spoilers ahead from the recent episode.*
Yeah, I know all of those who haven't yet watched the recent episode of 24 on their TiVos or DVRs are going to be upset about this post, but it's about THE issue that's been lingering in the air following the final moments of hour 17:
Audrey Raines is alive. And being held hostage. After an avalanche of complaints about this season (including from me), does this turn of events please you?
Show executive producer Evan Katz told USA Today that bringing back Jack Bauer's great love "takes the story in a radical direction." He apparently felt as though they'd "stuck with the suitcase nukes a relatively long time for us."
24's Nadia: A red herring?
*Spoilers from new episode ahead*
There's a long history of 24's CTU agents being accused of traitorous behavior, of being taken into custody and tortured because the panicked higher-ups think they've been up to no good. So before we muse on whether this season's selected CTU analyst -- Nadia Yassir -- is being unfairly detained, let's review what's been done in past seasons:
During Jack Bauer's first very bad day, CTU analyst Jamey Farrell was accused of collaborating with terrorists. After being brusquely questioned, she was found dead in a CTU interrogation room. Jamey did admit taking money from a bad guy in exchange for intel, but the single mom said it was purely about getting money to help raise her son. CTU agent Nina Myers was the true CTU turncoat, and framed Jamey by killing her and making it look like a suicide.
Could Jack Bauer ever die?
He told the Chicago Sun-Times' Doug Elfman he sometimes thinks that, at the end of 24's run, it might make sense to have the intrepid Jack Bauer character meet his maker.
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TV Squad: Why did you decide to start live-blogging about 24? You don't regularly blog about other TV shows on your web site.
Dave Barry: It was gradual. I started watching the show a couple of years ago with some friends, and then I started mentioning it on my blog, and then it seemed natural to start blogging about it while it was going on.
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dogs4jen wrote:I just have the liquid stuff, I think I just give a bit less than a kid's dose. I sure hope you can get him back to normal soon.
randomroads wrote:Have you tried cooked hamburger? I've given it to dogs who have stomach issues and it 'dries' them right up to the point of being constipated (if you give them too much). I just mix in about 7 ounces for a 50 pound dog per feeding with the regular kibble, and then add some water until it's all floating so the dog doesn't choke on the dried up meat pieces. I don't strain out the grease, and it makes their coats super shiny, too.
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The next generation of Mario Kart is blazing a new path on Wii! New tracks, new racers (including Miis), new rides and 12-player racing via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection makes for the ultimate Mario racing experience!
With all the new additions, don't expect Mario Kart Wii to skimp on the details. All your favourite Mario Kart franchise features return, such as classic tracks, cup modes, battles, boosts and ghost data. Mario Kart Wii isn't an update - it's a breakthrough!
Similar to Mario Kart DS, players will be able to take full advantage of Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. You'll be able to race against up to 11 other players from around the world in massive online races or race against your friends. You can create rooms for friends to join and even text chat while you're waiting for other racers. The online function of Mario Kart Wii also lets you join a friend's race in action and be a spectator until the next course launches.
When you're not going full-throttle toward the finish line, you can see how you stack up against others in the Mario Kart Channel . Here, your best times on tracks are compared to other racers from around the world. You can also see which characters and control methods were used to record this time. See someone with a better time than yours? The Mario Kart Channel also lets you download their ghost data to your Wii and race against the best!
The other massive expansion to come to the Mario Kart franchise is the addition of a new type of vehicle: bikes! Although bikes have fewer wheels than karts, they have a different set of advantages. On a bike, you can pop a wheelie, which can make you go faster but also makes you vulnerable to other racers and environmental effects. Plus, bikes and karts can launch into the air from certain boost ramps, and once in the air, you can perform special tricks to gain a boost when you hit the ground.
All these new bikes and cool karts won't just tear up new courses. Retro tracks are back! Along with new courses like Mushroom Canyon and Wario Mines, you'll be racing on old favourites such as Sherbert Land, Waluigi Stadium, Peach Beach and 13 others. How will riding a bike on these new retro tracks stack up to the karts? You'll just have to play it to find out.
You've been racing as the Mushroom Kingdom's finest for a long time, but now there's a new racer in town: Your Mii! Put your Mii behind the wheel and take on all comers! Shaped like a steering wheel, you place the Wii Remote inside the Wii Wheel's casing and get ready to ride! In addition to the Wii Remote, you can also use the Wii Remote and Nunchuk controllers in combo, or use a GameCube Controller to take those tight turns and challenges Mario Kart Wii throws at you.
A new experience in racing is here! The world is waiting for you. Whether you get behind the wheel to go online, race solo or take on up to three friends at your home, you'll find Mario Kart Wii to be a one-of-a-kind experience!
- Play against up to 12 players, download and share ghost data and race friends via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Plus, you can take part in events organised by Nintendo in the Mario Kart Channel.
- Perform special tricks to score some serious speed boost with the new bikes and supped-up karts. Mario Kart Wii gives you more options than ever.
- Race as your Mii! Grab the Wii Wheel and race through the new and retro tracks as your favourite Mii. It's like you're in the game like never before!
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Hazel Dickens, a bluegrass pioneer, social activist, and once one half of the duo Hazel & Alice, died Friday at a Washington, D.C., hospice of complications from pneumonia, reports the LA Times. She was 75. Raised in poverty in West Virginia, Hazel was the eighth of 11 children. Her father was a Primitive Baptist minister and musical instruments were not allowed in his church, teaching her love songs for their content.
"You learn to listen to the lyrics and to the melody," she told the Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette in 1996. "I never thought about it until I got away from home. I used to feel instruments got in the way of listening to the melody and the lyrics. I think it's very beautiful to hear that many voices, untrained, singing from the heart and soul."
Hazel moved to Baltimore as a teenager. In the 1950s, she met Mike Seeger, half brother of folk artist Pete Seeger. The pair started performing together and through Mike she met Alice Gerrard. Hazel and Alice became a fixture on bluegrass circuit in the 1960s and 70s and she continued as a solo artist when they split in the mid-70s.
Hazel was known for being supportive of the working class, penning songs about immigrants and wronged women. She was a voice for coal miners and the poor. Her music was featured in Harlan County, USA, Barbara Kopple's 1976 Oscar-winning documentary about Kentucky coal miners. She also appeared and sang in the film Matewan in 1987 about labor organizing in a mining town.
Hazel was honored with a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A tribute album is being prepared with artists like Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt and the Judds performing Hazel's songs. Naomi Judd has said that a Hazel & Alice LP was a major influence behind the sound of The Judds. A new album from Hazel is close to being released. She was divorced, and a brother was her only immediate survivor.


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Free Stop Smoking Aids That Work
If you have made the decision to finally quit the tobacco habit, congratulations! Without doubt cigarette smoking is a killer and a great danger to health. Did you know that there are some free stop smoking aids that you can apply to your cessation of smoking program and that work nevertheless?
- First, be resolute about your desire and your reasons for quitting.
- See yourself as a picture of recovered health with no more coughs, colds, wheezes , shortness of breath and other conditions that come with smoking.
- Concentrate consciously on deep breathing in and out and enjoying clean air every time you get the urge to smoke.
- Clean out your house of anything cigarette- related. This will strongly support your effort at 'cleaning out ' your body and lungs of anything cigarette- related.
- Drink plenty of water. Replace the cigarette with a glass of water, especially when you feel the craving. Flush out the system, drink water.
- Exercise is good for the body and will keep your mind away from the habit and on better health.
- Save the money you would have spent on that pack in a jar. You will be surprised not at just how much it adds up to, but also what better uses you can put it into.
- Pop some sugar-free mint or gum into your mouth and enjoy some refreshing change of breath. This can be a source of great encouragement.
- If your friends are smokers, try hanging out with non-smokers or ex-smokers now. They could be a great inspiration and they will not tempt you to smoke.
- Avoid places where there is smoking especially when you initially stop. Taking a walk in the park is a better alternative than meeting a friend in a smoke-filled barroom. These are all free stop smoking aids and very useful. However the best tip is , once you stop, don't start again. Stay determined.
Many people think that you need expensive quit smoking aids to stop smoking. However there are many free stop smoking aids that can be applied which are very useful. Click here to get a free stop smoking aids.


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At one time, us squids (Navy Sailors) were notorious for brawling. Shore Patrol used to have their hands full with nightly incidents, bloody fights that cleared out the bar. Thankfully (or not, depending on your old-school love), those days in our naval service are all but over.
From a personal standpoint, it's been years since I've fought in a real fight, not one in Krav Maga class. And I did not expect to be danger-close to putting my dukes up in my two-week naval staff class.
My Navy community is very small, specialized. We embed with the warfighters and (technically) have our own warfare qual. And for the last three years I've been working at a job where I am surrounded by folks of the same feather. Yes, I've gone out on ships and worked on our systems, but I've always had our office to return to.
So in class, I got mildly perturbed when my community was mocked. Granted, I opened my big mouth to explain certain technicalities. I tried to minimize the damage, but one of the aviator instructors in the class took glee in calling me a brain surgeon. Right before he gave me a trig problem to work out. In front of the class. I have a weakness for trigonometry, but I refused to answer his question. Even though I could've figured it out (with the assistance of a cosine table.) I know a set-up when I see one.
Meanwhile, a surface warfare officer's been chuckling under his breath about my community. The first couple of times, I gaffed it off. Sure, we are nerds, but we are the Navy's nerds. Right? And the guy poking at us outranks me (by a rank) and just came off being the skipper (CO) of a very small warship. I should just take a little of their gruff good-naturedly.
Except I can't always laugh stuff off. I turned to the Commander from my community and wondered aloud how he felt. He shrugged it off. Older, wiser maybe. Fine.
A day went by, and then two. A chuckle or three again at our expense. I'm not too angry. They are actually funny, if only directed somewhere else. At a break from instruction, I go into the bathroom to do my military duty. At the urinal, the SWO pulls up next to me, the one who has been chuckling about us. And he mutters our name under his breath. I let it go, but later after he returned to class and tried to get by me, I hulked over him. I'm much taller than'im, but he looked like a wrestler. He glanced up at me, surprised. I wanted to tell him I was fixin' to knock his teeth out if I hear any more of his mouth, but I don't.
After I got home, I googled him. (Full confession, this cyber-stalk does not speak well of me, but I was getting tired of the run-around. I might as well learn who was going to cost me a written counseling.) And the first mention of the guy on the internet is for him being an All-American rugby player! Well, All-Americans bleed, right? Now I know how the Air Force guy in our cubicle feels when we pick on baby blue…
Update: So, after a week of class, I am happy to report that me and my Shipmate are getting along. Honestly, I think it was something petty and minor that made the difference, but I could be wrong. During this second week, I've been wearing my khakis rather than my aquaflage. And my ribbon rack shows a guy whose done a fair amount of operational jobs. Maybe this brought him around and shut him up. That All-American did not know how close he came from getting an old-fashioned whuppin'. (Heh heh. . .)


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Southwest Health District launches toll-free Flu Hotline
Posted: 09/11/2009 - Southwest Health District launches toll-free Flu Hotline in English and Spanish.
Posted: 09/11/2009 - Southwest Health District launches toll-free Flu Hotline in English and Spanish.
Updated: 07/29/2009 - Almost one fifth of Medicare beneficiaries who had been discharged from a hospital went back into the hospital within 30 days and 34% were rehospitalized within 90 days. Most of these rehospitalizations were unplanned and represented a cost to taxpayers of $17.4 billion dollars in 2004.
Posted: 05/29/2009 - Thieves get creative and make fake money using real bills.
Updated: 05/20/2009 - They say every second counts when you're having a stroke, but how do you know if you're actually having an attack? And what should you do to ensure you make it through? We talked with a local neurologist to find out.
Updated: 04/28/2009 - Health officials explain the symptoms of the Swine Flu and how to try to avoid it.
Posted: 03/24/2009 - Georgia lawmakers want to make sure food manufactures have prompt responses at the first sign of food contamination.
Posted: 03/23/2009 - Thomas County's crack down on drug trafficking leads to arrests.
Posted: 03/23/2009 - All Georgians who donate to scholarship programs will now receive a tax credit.
Posted: 03/23/2009 - Graduation may be a year away but many high school juniors are planning ahead.
Posted: 03/15/2009 - Rashard Smith scored 12 points and dished out 11 assists to help Dublin defeat Blessed Trinity 79-64 for the Georgia High School Association's Class AA boy's championship on Saturday night.
Posted: 03/14/2009 - Florida State will face North Carolina in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament semifinals today.
Posted: 03/14/2009 - Hanley Ramirez returned from the World Baseball Classic and doubled, stole a base and scored a run in the Florida Marlins' 9-2 loss to the Atlanta Braves.
Posted: 03/14/2009 - Thrashers captain Ilya Kovalchuk will not play at Buffalo after aggravating an upper-body injury during an overtime victory against Edmonton.
Posted: 03/14/2009 - Former Atlanta Falcons linebacker Ken Tippins has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to cocaine possession.
Posted: 03/12/2009 - Atlanta Braves third baseman Chipper Jones says he's ready to play.
Posted: 03/12/2009 - The wife of NFL player Marquis Cooper is seeking a presumptive death certificate a week after the Coast Guard called off its search for the missing boater and two friends. Rebekah Cooper filed a petition for the certificate Wednesday in civil court.
Updated: 03/11/2009 - One man dies, the is other badly injured while working in Thomas County.
Posted: 03/10/2009 - New fingerprinting machine helps police track criminals.
Posted: 03/09/2009 - An assault on a pregnant woman in Bainbridge has neighbors in an uproar. The woman is expected to give birth to her second child in just three weeks.
Posted: 03/06/2009 - The unemployment rate reaches a new high in Decatur County, GA.
Posted: 03/06/2009 - Hand in Hand Elementary School in Thomasville bring all modes of transportation to school to teach kids about transportation.
Posted: 03/05/2009 - The Orlando Magic are lending a helping hand to give some children a new playground.
Posted: 03/04/2009 - Homeowners left with large repair bills may now benefit from a program geared toward helping them manage the cost.
Posted: 03/03/2009 - The grim economy has destroyed many career options...but the health care field seems to be immune.
Posted: 02/28/2009 - Valdosta city leaders say they want to set an example for the community by being more responsible with their resources.


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A softcover songbook containing the guitar transcriptions for all 11 tracks of the legendary album.
If you're a big Beatles fan and have learned everything by ear up to this point, now The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour songbook by Hal Leonard enables you to play the iconic album note for note. Includes notes and officially-licensed guitar transcriptions for 11 tracks.
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Thursday, May 30, 2002 11:24 AM
I've been scouring the web and cannot see what must be a simple solution to this problem:
I can send an email if I do not create and add the text portion to a BodyPart and just send it with
This will mail the message out fine.
As soon as i attempt to create a MimeBodyPart, and add the message to a MimeMultipart, the message data no longer sends. The mail sends witht the subject line, and useremail sent out fine, but there is no content being added to the messge.
All the headers are there:
Mime-Version : 1.0
Content-Type multipart/mixed;boundry="----_Part_34879 etc
Date: Thu etc etc
but the message text part has not been added.
I did find one person who was having the same problem (getting the email with email address and subject sent only), but it turned out the had not included the activation.jar in their path. However, mine is ok.
Tried two different environments - tomcat on win200 and tomcat on osX and the same results. Also tried two different smtp hosts.
I've been over and over and over the syntax for building a multipart message, but I cannot see what is wrong. Any pointers much appreciated ;>
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Daybreak Kamloops | Aug 28, 2014 | 9:31
Imperial Metals meets with Likely residents on water quality and clean up
Imperial Metals, the company behind the Mount Polley Mine spill, made itself available for questions last night. And the residents of Likely came with plenty. A meeting was held at the Likely Community Hall. At last night's meeting was Spencer


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EDMONTON – Northlands and the Katz Group should find a way to hold Canadian Finals Rodeo week activities at both their arenas, Mayor Don Iveson says.
The Canadian Professional Rodeo Association revealed this week it has discussed moving the rodeo to Rogers Place from Northlands with the Katz Group.
The Oilers have said this is one of many events they'd like to host at the new downtown rink.
But Iveson said Tuesday there has been talk about both facilities becoming involved in one of Edmonton's premier attractions.
"I have certainly heard it suggested that it would make sense to keep the dusty event in the older building and … run sporting events and concerts at the new building," he said.
"That would require a level of collaboration between Northlands and the Oilers that does not now exist, but if it can exist … that would be the ideal outcome."
Northlands and the rodeo association have a contract running through to 2016, the year Rogers Place opens.
While the city hasn't chosen sides on the issue, it will work to ensure Edmonton remains site of the CFR, a huge boost to civic pride and the economy, Iveson said.
"I will intervene if it becomes destructive between the Oilers and Northlands, if it runs the risk of losing us the event," he said.
"But at this point I think as long as everyone is focused on keeping it in Edmonton, then some of this will have to play out on its own."
Iveson took part in the first meeting of a committee set up to look at the future of Rexall once the Oilers and the Oil Kings move out.
They'll consider all options before making recommendations to the Northlands board April 15, he said.
He said it's premature for him to indicate what he thinks the best use of the building would be.
"I'm hopeful one of the things this committee will address is how Northlands and the Oilers can work together … to ensure we attract the right events to Edmonton."
Coun. Ed Gibbons, a former Northlands board member, said it makes sense to add downtown entertainment to the rodeo and Farm Fair International events at Northlands.
"I think after one year, with a bunch of dirt on the rafters in the new coliseum, it would make (Katz Group) wonder if it's worth spending three days cleaning," he said.
"You could really bring in a lot of country and western people at the same time rodeo is going on."


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Fernando Aguerre podcast
January 30 2009 | Jim's Blog,
by Jim
They may also know he's a Wind-an-Sea local and has a board collection that makes most mortals drool.
What they may not know is his life story. He grew up in Mar Del Plata, Argentina and eventually became the driving force behind starting Surfrider Argentina.
He and I caught up on a trip home from San Francisco.
Seeing that he's such a world traveler I thought it would be apropos to capture the podcast in the SFO airport.
Listen in (listener discretion advised, I'm kidding... sorta).
Check out the podcast here.
Other podcasts here. Subscribe to podcasts via itunes here. And if you're wondering why I create podcasts like these, that answer is here.


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08/10 A round up of topical issues in environment law
Environment law watch email
In this round up of legal environmental news, we look at a case of interest to developers that clarifies the extent of protection given to rare species under the European Habitat Directive. We also highlight the first use of enforcement powers by a Local Authority against a fuel company in relation to the Environmental Damage Regulations that came into force last year.
Finally, we remind you of new legislation and guidance in relation to the fast tracking of 'green' inventions, the Environmental Permitting Regime, standards for assessing carbon neutrality, contaminated land and Energy Performance Certificates.
Protected species – case clarifies the extent of protection
The Court of Appeal recently delivered a judgment in the case of R (Morge) v Hampshire County Council [2010] EWCA Civ 608 that will be of interest to developers, clarifying the extent of protection given to rare species.
The European Habitats Directive requires member states to protect natural habitats, fauna and flora that are considered to be under serious threat. Article 12 of the Directive protects against the "deliberate disturbance" of protected species and necessitates assessment of the indirect as well as direct impact on a species.
Hampshire County Council (HCC) granted planning permission for a new bus and cycle route along a disused railway track, which had become home to a variety of animals. The small bats that found in this area are protected species under the Habitats Directive. HCC commissioned a bat survey and concluded that the proposed methods of mitigation would reduce possible harm.
A local resident argued (amongst other things) that the proposed scheme would involve the destruction of bat roosts, a foraging habitat and the area used by bats for crossing from a roost to foraging area, all in breach of Article 12 of the Directive.
The Court of Appeal held Article 12 had not been breached as deliberately disturbing one bat, or even more than one bat, may not amount to a disturbance of the species as a whole so as to have any ecological importance. The objective of the Directive is to ensure that the population of the species is maintained at a level which will ensure the species' conservation in the long term.
The case is a reminder to developers of the importance of ecological surveys incorporating mitigation measures at an early stage in the development process. The fact that the bat survey in this case had detailed mitigation measures was an important factor. This judgment will possibly give some comfort to developers, as it focuses on the conservation of a species as a whole, rather than the loss of a few individual members of that species.
"Green" inventions – fast tracking for patents
Following the launch last year by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) of the "Green Channel" initiative (a fast-track examination process for patent applications relating to inventions with environmental benefits), the IPO has announced a publicly available database featuring applications processed under this initiative.
Under the Green Channel initiative, it can take as little as nine months to get a patent granted, compared with the current average time of two-to-three years.
The new database is available on the IPO website.
Environmental Permitting regime – updated guidance
Changes to the Environmental Permitting regime came into effect in April through the 'Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010'.
Environmental permits are prepared by the Environment Agency and control the environmental impact of business activities. Permits have conditions that must be followed in order to prevent harm to the environment or human health. Failure to comply with a Permit could lead to a fine or imprisonment.
The new regulations extend the existing permitting regime so that operators can consolidate several types of permits (such as water discharge consents, groundwater permits and radioactive waste authorisations) into a single environmental permit.
The Environment Agency has published updated guidance and rules to reflect the changes introduced by the new regulations. The updated guidance covers:
- information relevant to all sectors in assessing risks to the environment and human health when applying for a bespoke environmental permit; and
- guidance on understanding the Landfill Directive as landfills are also subject to the Environmental Permitting regime.
This guidance will be of interest to organisations carrying out activities which may require an Environmental Permit.
New standard for achieving and demonstrating carbon neutrality announced
The British Standards Institute (BSI) announced a new carbon neutrality standard in June called the 'Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 2060'. This standard seeks to improve public, customer and employee confidence in the statements organisations make about their carbon neutrality.
PAS 2060 provides an alternative to the Department of Energy and Climate Change's own guidance on carbon neutrality and sets out general requirements for quantifying, reducing and offsetting carbon emissions so as to achieve and demonstrate carbon neutrality.
It can be used by a range of organisations, including public sector, commercial, and private groups or individuals. It can also be applied to activities, products, services, towns and buildings, projects and events.
Environmental Liability Directive – first enforcement by Local Authority
Mid Devon District Council is the first local authority to have used enforcement powers under the Environmental Damage Regulations 2009 (the Regulations), which came into force in March 2009 and implement the Environmental Liability Directive in England.
The Directive is aimed at the prevention and remediation of environmental damage. It is based on the "polluter pays" principle so that the burden of paying for the prevention and remediation of damage is borne by the polluter, not the taxpayer. The Regulations impose obligations and liability on operators of certain economic activities for three categories of environmental damage: damage to species and habitats, damage to water and damage to land where there is a significant risk to human health.
The local authority in this case used its enforcement powers against a fuel company that had caused the leakage of kerosene oil into a residential property, causing adverse effects on its residents' health. The authority used its powers under the Regulations to remedy the situation through various remediation measures.
It is believed that this is the first time a local authority has used the Regulations. The authority believed that the Regulations were quick and straightforward to use and that they contained tests on determining whether there were adverse effects to human health that were more flexible and easier than the threshold tests under the contaminated land regime.
This case could be an indication of more authorities using their powers under the Regulations in light of Mid Devon District Council's experience. Those who may have caused contamination and owners of contaminated land may therefore find that they are the subject of swifter enforcement action by a local authority. There were, however, no difficulties in proving causation and liability in this case, so it remains to be seen how difficult authorities may find using their powers under the Regulations is in more complex cases.
Contaminated Land – guidance published
The Environment Agency has published a package of documents which contain guiding principles on managing all types of contaminated land.
These documents are aimed at and relevant to:
- Those who may have caused contamination;
- Owners of contaminated land;
- Developers of contaminated land; and
- Advisors of and consultants to any of the above.
The principles explain the importance of risk assessments and how they should be carried out. The documents also summarise the process for assessing next steps and set out how to carry out remediation works, as well as clarify roles and responsibilities in managing land contamination.
Energy Performance Certificates – new regulations reminder
On 21 May 2010, new regulations called 'The Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2010' came into force. These regulations will be of interest to sellers of residential properties and those acting on behalf of such sellers.
There is a £200 fixed penalty for failure to comply with the new regulations. Amongst the changes these regulations introduce:
- Sellers of residential properties will need to commission an Energy Performance Certificate ("EPC") before marketing their property for sale (previously, a seller could not market its property unless a full EPC was available.).
- EPCs are valid for ten years (previously, they were only valid for three years).
- The written particulars for homes being marketed for sale are to include the EPC rating or have the EPC attached only once the EPC becomes available.


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A South African man has been arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport on charges of smuggling cocaine with a street value of more than eight million baht.
Johannes Ben Botha, 34, was taken to a news conference at the airport's customs office on Thursday after an X-ray of his luggage discovered 2,055 grammes of cocaine concealed in a hidden compartment early on Wednesday morning.
He was arrested after disembarking from THAI Airways International flight TG992 from Johannesburg at 5.10am.
Mr Botha allegedly confessed that a Nigerian man hired him to deliver the drug to a compatriot in Bangkok for US$2,000, or about 64,000 baht. He was paid $500 up front before he flew into the kingdom.