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New International Version
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
New Living Translation
Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.
English Standard Version
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Berean Study Bible
Now faith is the assurance of what we hope for and the certainty of what we do not see.
Berean Literal Bible
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not being seen.
New American Standard Bible
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
King James Bible
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen.
International Standard Version
Now faith is the assurance that what we hope for will come about and the certainty that what we cannot see exists.
NET Bible
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Now faith is the conviction concerning those things that are in hope, as if it were these things in action, and the revelation of those things that are unseen;
GOD'S WORD® Translation
Faith assures us of things we expect and convinces us of the existence of things we cannot see.
New American Standard 1977
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Jubilee Bible 2000
Faith, therefore, is the substance of things waited for, the evidence of things not seen.
King James 2000 Bible
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
American King James Version
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
American Standard Version
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Now faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the evidence of things that appear not.
Darby Bible Translation
Now faith is [the] substantiating of things hoped for, [the] conviction of things not seen.
English Revised Version
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the proving of things not seen.
Webster's Bible Translation
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Weymouth New Testament
Now faith is a well-grounded assurance of that for which we hope, and a conviction of the reality of things which we do not see.
World English Bible
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
Young's Literal Translation
And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,
Parallel CommentariesMatthew Henry's Concise Commentary
11:1-3 Faith always has been the mark of God's servants, from the beginning of the world. Where the principle is planted by the regenerating Spirit of God, it will cause the truth to be received, concerning justification by the sufferings and merits of Christ. And the same things that are the object of our hope, are the object of our faith. It is a firm persuasion and expectation, that God will perform all he has promised to us in Christ. This persuasion gives the soul to enjoy those things now; it gives them a subsistence or reality in the soul, by the first-fruits and foretastes of them. Faith proves to the mind, the reality of things that cannot be seen by the bodily eye. It is a full approval of all God has revealed, as holy, just, and good. This view of faith is explained by many examples of persons in former times, who obtained a good report, or an honourable character in the word of God. Faith was the principle of their holy obedience, remarkable services, and patient sufferings. The Bible gives the most true and exact account of the origin of all things, and we are to believe it, and not to wrest the Scripture account of the creation, because it does not suit with the differing fancies of men. All that we see of the works of creation, were brought into being by the command of God.
Pulpit Commentary
Verse 1. - Now faith is the substance (so A.V., with marginal readings, "or ground, or, confidence") of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. On the senses in which the word ὑπόστασις (translated "substance") may be used, see under Hebrews 1:2. As to the sense intended here, views differ. There are three possible ones, expressed in the text and margin of the A.V., substance, ground, and confidence. The first is understood by the Fathers generally, the idea being supposed to be that, inasmuch as things not yet experienced, but only hoped for, become real to us by faith, faith is metaphysically their substance, as substantiating them to us. So Theophilus: Οὐσίωσις τῶν μήπω ὄντων ὑπόστασις τῶν μὴ ὑφεστηκότων: and Chrysostom, who illustrates thus: "The resurrection has not yet taken place, but faith substantiates (ὑφίστησιν) it in our souls." So also Dante, following St. Thomas Aquinas, in a striking passage quoted by Delitzsch ('Paradise,' 24:70-75) -
"Le profonde cose
Che mi largiscon qui la lor parvenza
Agli occhi di laggiu son si nascose,
Che l'esser lore ve in sola credenza,
Sovra la qual si fondu Palta spene:
E pero di sustanza prende Fintenza."
"The things profound
That here vouch safe to me their apparition
From all eyes here below are so concealed
That all their being is in faith alone,
Upon the which high hope doth base itself:
And therefore faith assumes the place of substance." The rendering ground, which involves only the simpler idea of faith being the foundation on which hope is built, has not much support from the use of the word elsewhere, nor does it seem suitable here. For it is not the things hoped for, but rather our hopes of them that are grounded on our faith. The subjective sense, confidence, or assurance, is most in favor with modern commentators, principally as being the most usual one (cf. Hebrews 3:14; 2 Corinthians 9:4; 2 Corinthians 11:17; also Psalm 38:11, Ἡ ὑπόστασις μου παρὰ σοῦ ἔστιν: Ezekiel 19:5, Ἀπώλετο ἡ ὑπόστασις αὐτῆς: Ruth 1:12, Ἔστι μοι ὑπόστασις τοῦ γενεθῆναι με ἀνδρί). One objection to this sense of the word here is that it is usually followed, when so intended, by a genitive of rite person, not of the thing; though Ruth 1:12 is an instance to the contrary. But apart from this consideration, the consensus of the Greek Fathers is a weighty argument for the retention of the rendering of the A.V. Either rendering, be it observed, gives the same essential meaning, though under different mental conceptions. Faith is further said to be the evidence of things not seen; ἔλεγχος meaning, not as some take it, inward conviction of their existence, but in itself a demonstration, serving the purpose of argument to induce conviction. So Dante, in continuation of the passage quoted above -
"E da questa credenza ci conviene
Sillogizar senza avere ultra visa;
E pero intenza d'argomento tiene."
"And from this credence it is fit and right
To syllogize, though other sight be none:
Therefore faith holds the place of argument." Is this meant as a definition of faith, or only a description of its effect and operation, with especial regard to the subject in hand? Virtually a definition, though not in the strict logical form of one. At any rate, "the constituents and essential characteristics of faith are here laid down" (Delitzsch); i.e. of faith in its most general sense - that of belief in such things, whether past, present, or future, as are not known by experience, and cannot be logically demonstrated. "Licet quidam dicant praedicta apostoli verba non esse fidei definitionem, quia definitio indicat rei quidditatem et essentiam, tamen si quis recte consideret, omnia ex quibus fides potest definiri in praedicta descriptione tanguntur, licet verba non ordinentur sub forma definitionis" (St. Thomas Aquinas, 'Secunda Secundae,' qu. 4, art. 1). Faith, in the general sense indicated, is and has ever been, as the chapter goes on to show, the very root and inspiring principle of all true religion. And be it observed that, if well grounded, it is not irrational; it would rather be irrational to disregard it, or suppose it opposed to reason. Even in ordinary affairs of life, and in science too, men act, and must act, to a great extent on faith; it is essential for success, and certainly for all great achievements - faith in the testimony and authority of others whom we can trust, faith in views and principles not yet verified by our own experience, faith in the expected outcome of right proceeding, faith with respect to a thousand things which we take on trust, and so make ventures, on the ground, not of positive proof, but of more or less assured conviction. Religious faith is the same principle, though exercised in a higher sphere; and it may be as well grounded as any on which irreligious men are acting daily. Various feelings and considerations may conspire to induce it: the very phenomena of the visible universe, which, though themselves objects of sense, speak to the soul of a Divinity beyond them; still more, conscience, recognized as a Divine voice within us, and implying a Power above us to whom we are responsible; then all our strange yearnings after ideals not yet realized, our innate sense that righteousness ought to triumph over iniquity, as in our disordered world it does not yet; - which things are in themselves prophetic; and, in addition to all this, the general human belief in Deity. And when, further, a revelation has been given, its answering to our already felt needs and aspirations, together with the usual considerations on which we give credence to testimony, induces faith in it also, and in the things by it revealed; natural faith is thus confirmed, and faith in other verities is borne in upon the soul; which is further itself confirmed by experience of the effects of entertaining it. In some minds, as is well known, and these of the highest order, such faith may amount to certitude, rendering the "things unseen" more real to them than "the things that do appear." It cannot be said that to accept such faith as evidence is contrary to reason; our not doing so would be to put aside as meaning nothing the deepest, the most spiritual, the most elevating faculties of our mysterious nature, by means of which, no less than by our other faculties, we are constituted so as to apprehend the truth. And we may observe, lastly, that even to those who have not themselves this "fullness of faith," its very existence in others, including so many of the great and good, may surely be rationally accepted as evidence of realities corresponding to it.
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,.... The "faith" here spoken of is not a mere moral virtue, which is a branch of the law; nor a bare assent to anything revealed, declared, and affirmed in the Gospel; nor a faith of doing miracles; nor an implicit one; nor a mere profession of faith, which sometimes is but temporary; nor the word or doctrine of faith; but that which is made mention of in the preceding chapter, by which the just man lives, and which has the salvation of the soul annexed to it: and it does not so much design any particular branch, or act of faith, but as that in general respects the various promises, and blessings of grace; and it chiefly regards the faith of Old Testament saints, though that, as to its nature, object, and acts, is the same with the faith of New Testament ones; and is a firm persuasion of the power, faithfulness, and love of God in Christ, and of interest therein, and in all special blessings: it is described as "the substance of things hoped for"; and which, in general, are things unseen, and as yet not enjoyed; future, and yet to come; difficult to be obtained, though possible, otherwise there would be no hope of them; and which are promised and laid up; and in particular, the things hoped for by Old Testament saints were Christ, and eternal glory and happiness; and by New Testament ones, more grace, perseverance in it, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal life. Now faith is the "substance" of these things; it is the ground and foundation of them, in which there is some standing hope; in which sense the word is used by Septuagint in Psalm 69:2. The word of promise is principal ground and foundation of hope; and faith, as leaning on the word, is a less principal ground; it is a confident persuasion, expectation, and assurance of them. The Syriac version renders it, the "certainty" of them; it is the subsistence of them, and what gives them an existence, at least a mental one; so with respect to the faith and hope of the Old Testament saints, the incarnation, sufferings, and death of Christ, his resurrection, ascension, and session at God's right hand, are spoken of, as if they then were; and so are heaven, and glory, and everlasting salvation, with regard to the faith and hope of New Testament saints: yea, faith gives a kind of possession of those things before hand, John 6:47. Philo the Jew (e) says much the same thing of faith;
"the only infallible and certain good thing (says he) is, that faith which is faith towards God; it is the solace of life, , "the fulness of good hopes", &c.''
It follows here,
the evidence of things not seen; of things past, of what was done in eternity, in the council and covenant of grace and peace; of what has been in time, in creation, and providence; of the birth, miracles, sufferings, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ; of things present, the being, perfections, love, &c. of God; of the session of Christ at God's right hand, and his continual intercession; and of the various blessings of grace revealed in the Gospel; and of future ones, as the invisible realities of another world: faith has both certainty and evidence in it.
(e) De Abrahamo, p. 387.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
Heb 11:1-40. Definition of the Faith Just Spoken of (Heb 10:39): Examples from the Old Covenant for Our Perseverance in Faith.
1. Description of the great things which faith (in its widest sense: not here restricted to faith in the Gospel sense) does for us. Not a full definition of faith in its whole nature, but a description of its great characteristics in relation to the subject of Paul's exhortation here, namely, to perseverance.
substance, etc.—It substantiates promises of God which we hope for, as future in fulfilment, making them present realities to us. However, the Greek is translated in Heb 3:14, "confidence"; and it also here may mean "sure confidence." So Alford translates. Thomas Magister supports English Version, "The whole thing that follows is virtually contained in the first principle; now the first commencement of the things hoped for is in us through the assent of faith, which virtually contains all the things hoped for." Compare Note, see on [2584]Heb 6:5, "tasted … powers of the world to come." Through faith, the future object of Christian hope, in its beginning, is already present. True faith infers the reality of the objects believed in and honed for (Heb 11:6). Hugo de St. Victor distinguished faith from hope. By faith alone we are sure of eternal things that they ARE: but by hope we are confident that WE SHALL HAVE them. All hope presupposes faith (Ro 8:25).
evidence—"demonstration": convincing proof to the believer: the soul thereby seeing what the eye cannot see.
things not seen—the whole invisible and spiritual world: not things future and things pleasant, as the "things hoped for," but also the past and present, and those the reverse of pleasant. "Eternal life is promised to us, but it is when we are dead: we are told of a blessed resurrection, but meanwhile we moulder in the dust; we are declared to be justified, and sin dwells in us; we hear that we are blessed, meantime we are overwhelmed in endless miseries: we are promised abundance of all goods, but we still endure hunger and thirst; God declares He will immediately come to our help, but He seems deaf to our cries. What should we do if we had not faith and hope to lean on, and if our mind did not emerge amidst the darkness above the world by the shining of the Word and Spirit of God?" [Calvin]. Faith is an assent unto truths credible upon the testimony of God (not on the reasonableness of the thing revealed, though by this we may judge as to whether it be what it professes, a genuine revelation), delivered unto us in the writings of the apostles and prophets. Thus Christ's ascension is the cause, and His absence the crown, of our faith: because He ascended, we the more believe, and because we believe in Him who hath ascended, our faith is the more accepted [Bishop Pearson]. Faith believes what it sees not; for if thou seest there is no faith; the Lord has gone away so as not to be seen: He is hidden that He may be believed; the yearning desire by faith after Him who is unseen is the preparation of a heavenly mansion for us; when He shall be seen it shall be given to us as the reward of faith [Augustine]. As Revelation deals with spiritual and invisible things exclusively, faith is the faculty needed by us, since it is the evidence of things not seen. By faith we venture our eternal interests on the bare word of God, and this is altogether reasonable.
Hebrews 11:1 Additional Commentaries
Faith is Being Sure
1Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 2For by it the men of old gained approval.…
Cross References
Romans 8:24
For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have?
2 Corinthians 4:18
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
2 Corinthians 5:7
For we live by faith, not by sight.
Hebrews 3:6
But Christ is faithful as the Son over God's house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.
Hebrews 3:14
We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.
Hebrews 10:39
But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith.
Hebrews 11:27
By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king's anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible.
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Hebrews 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having …
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Acts 20:21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward …
1 Corinthians 13:13 And now stays faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest …
Galatians 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision; …
Titus 1:1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according …
1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold …
2 Peter 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ…
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Psalm 27:13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD …
Psalm 42:11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within …
substance. or, ground, or, confidence.
Hebrews 2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the …
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2 Corinthians 9:4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, …
2 Corinthians 11:17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were …
hoped. See on ch.
Hebrews 6:12,18,19 That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith …
the evidence.
Hebrews 11:7,27 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved …
Romans 8:24,25 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for …
2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things …
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The solution to the global warming crisis? Roll out the factories!
Yes, according to a study out of Chalmers University, Sweden, an answer to looming global warming*(citation needed) could be to pump collected CO2 back down into the ground from whence it came.
Hi-tech new bio-energy plants could reverse global warming by pumping carbon dioxide into old gas wells - lowering temperatures by 0.6°C per century, according to a study.
There are already 16 projects around the world working on the technology - aiming to generate power for local homes by burning vegetation such as wood or straw and then burying the carbon dioxide it produces deep underground.
Its like drilling for natural gas, but in reverse, says Niclas Mattson of Chalmers University, Sweden, co-author of the study.
Because trees and other plants absorb carbon dioxide while they grow, the technology, known as BECCS - Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage - is carbon negative.
The bio-energy plants will capture thousands of tons of CO2 per day, and then pipe the gas down into rock formations, or depleted oil and gas wells. By 2050, the researchers believe, the BECCS plants could bury billions of tons of CO2 per year.
The first BECCS plants will be here within a decade, Mattson says. They are likely to be expensive relative to coal-burning power stations - but the researchers say that even if the technology only becomes widespread in 2050, it would enable governments to beat current climate goals.
Study author Professor Christian Azar said: We can reverse the warming trend and push temperatures back below the 2°C target by 2150.
The issue of leakage is critical from both global and local perspectives. Even gradual leakage from numerous sites may provide enough CO2 reentering the atmosphere to undermine efforts to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations. Locally, leakage from an underground storage site could present an immediate hazard to humans and ecosystems.
The most dramatic type of CO2 release would come from a blow-out at an injection well, which could produce high enough concentrations (710%) of the gas in the vicinity to endanger human life.
Undetected leakage from a faulty well or through ground fractures would probably be more diffuse and primarily affect groundwater and surface ecosystems. In particular, aquifers used as a source of drinking water could be harmed, either by acidification resulting from direct contact with large amounts of CO2 or by the seepage of brines displaced by CO2 during the injection process.


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BOSTON — The Rockies evidently were finished in the World Series after the first Red Sox batter in the first inning of the first game. Done for. Washed up. Over and out. Kaput.
On an 0-1 pitch provided by Jeff Francis, Boston leadoff hitter Dustin Pedroia let fly. The Green Fiend in left field is 37 feet, 2 inches high. The ball soared 37 feet, 2 1/2 inches high.
Just outside Fenway Park, on Yawkey Way, as Pedroia was rounding third and heading for home, Red Sox Nation immediately dissed and dismissed The Republic of Rockies.
"This Series ain't coming back to Boston. Bring on the Yankees," said a man engulfing a Monster Dog.
"The Red Sox are so good, and Colorado's no good," said a female poet eating a pizza slice.
"We'll win in three," said a kid, obviously not a math student, inhaling fries.
And these proclamations were made even before the Sox scored two more runs in the first, one in the second, two in the fourth and seven - count 'em, seven - in the fifth, and you get the idea.
Sox Devours Rox on Fox.
Rocky Mountain Empire in Mourning This Morning.
The game was "not the way we drew it up," Rockies manager Clint Hurdle said. But, "one of the strengths this club had throughout the season is our confidence hasn't been shaken by the results of a game. ...We've always been a no-excuse ballclub." Not shaken, but stirred.
Boston manager Terry Francona was asked about how "people are going to start writing off the Rockies." He wasn't ready to join the thundering horde.
"Sometimes," he said, "a lopsided score can happen."
The Series opener was begging for a 10-run mercy rule in the fifth.
It was, of course, the Boston Massacre.
Novelist Stephen King left after the fifth inning, apparently never having seen anything that scary. Rockies Horror Picture Show.
"The Departed" wasn't this bloody.
The Rockies were in danger of losing worse than the Broncos did in that 55-10 Super Bowl.
The international media and the crowd of 36,733 were laughing at the Rockies in the sixth.
City official completed plans for the parade in the seventh.
The fans were singing Neil Diamond songs in the eighth.
Major League Baseball started engraving "Red Sox" on the World Championship Trophy in the eighth.
The TV audience was gone to bed long before the ninth.
You can blame The (Ultimate) Farce At Fenway on World Series jitters, the lengthy layoff, the rain, terrible hitting, shaky defense, atrocious and appalling pitching from Francis and Franklin Morales and sensational pitching from Josh Beckett and the uber-awesome hitting display by the Red Sox. Blame the Rox Tix Debacle. Blame the British.
Blame "The Curse Of Wally Madison."
Who is Wally Madison? That was my question.
I didn't attend Hurdle's news conference Wednesday afternoon because I was preparing mentally for the Rockies' first-
game defeat that I predicted here and nationally. Baseball officials handed out a transcript of the questions and answers.
"Q. Wally Madison didn't have any AAA. What has he done differently at the major-league level...
"Clint Hurdle: A lot of difference of opinions ..."
Did the Rockies bring up some unknown phenom and activate him just in time for the World Series? How did I miss Wally Madison (who does have a great baseball name), and was he responsible for that humiliating mess in Game 1?
Turns out, the court reporter is not too familiar with the Rockies. She misunderstood the name Ubaldo Jimenez, the Game 2 starter, and typed "Wally Madison." Don't ask me.
The people in Boston don't have a clue who the Rockies are, and don't care. The Red Sox could have been playing a team from Spain - and probably wouldn't have beaten it so thoroughly.
And maybe the Rockies should be playing under assumed names - like Wally Madison.
But, before the wonderful citizens of Colorado jump off all the Fourteeners and the Rockies bandwagon, a 13-1 loss counts the same as a 2-1 loss.
The Rockies are not behind in the Series six games to none.
The Red Sox lead 1-0, and teams have been known to rally from 1-0 deficits to win the World Series.
The Red Sox can't get 17 hits and 13 runs every night, can they? Beckett can't pitch every game. The Rockies can't pitch and hit and play defense like Oscar Madisons and Felix Ungers every game, can they?
Beckett left after seven, not because he had to, with nine strikeouts and made the Rockies look like banjo players and guitar pickers. Hurdle is fond of using the term "get the barrel on the ball." The Rockies, especially Matt Holliday and Brad Hawpe, couldn't have gotten a hit if they were swinging with a barrel.
Francis disappeared after four innings after making all the Red Sox hitters look like Ted Williams.
First rodeo, Rockies? Yes.
But, the World Series is never over when the first game is over.
In 1960, the New York Yankees beat the Pittsburgh Pirates by scores of 16-3, 10-0 and 12-0.
Pittsburgh won the world championship on Bill Mazeroski's home run in the ninth inning of Game 7.
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Management of Acute Renal Failure - Article
ABSTRACT: Acute renal failure is present in 1 to 5 percent of patients at hospital admission and affects up to 20 percent of patients in intensive care units. The condition has prerenal, intrarenal, and postrenal causes, with prerenal conditions accounting for 60 to 70 percent of cases. The cause of acute renal failure usually can be identified through an appropriate history, a physical examination, and selected laboratory tests. The initial laboratory evaluation should include urinalysis, a determination of the fractional excretion of sodium, a blood urea nitrogen to creatinine ratio, and a basic metabolic panel. Management includes correction of fluid and electrolyte levels; avoidance of nephrotoxins; and kidney replacement therapy, when appropriate. Several recent studies support the use of acetylcysteine for the prevention of acute renal failure in patients undergoing various procedures. The relative risk of serum creatinine elevation was 0.11 in patients undergoing radiocontrast-media procedures (absolute risk reduction: 19 percent) and 0.33 in patients undergoing coronary angiography (absolute risk reduction: 8 percent). In patients pretreated with sodium bicarbonate before radiocontrast-media procedures, the relative risk of serum creatinine elevation was 0.13 and the absolute risk reduction was 11.9 percent. Dopamine and diuretics have been shown to be ineffective in ameliorating the course of acute renal failure.
N-Acetylcysteine: Multiple Clinical Applications - Article
ABSTRACT: N-acetylcysteine is the acetylated variant of the amino acid L-cysteine and is widely used as the specific antidote for acetaminophen overdose. Other applications for N-acetylcysteine supplementation supported by scientific evidence include prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation, prevention of contrast-induced kidney damage during imaging procedures, attenuation of illness from the influenza virus when started before infection, treatment of pulmonary fibrosis, and treatment of infertility in patients with clomiphene-resistant polycystic ovary syndrome. Preliminary studies suggest that N-acetylcysteine may also have a role as a cancer chemopreventive, an adjunct in the eradication of Helicobacter pylori, and prophylaxis of gentamicin-induced hearing loss in patients on renal dialysis.
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Turn the Liberty Bell into a symbol that divides Americans? Now, that would take some doing.
Let groups like this week's small band of protesters at Independence Mall continue the public debate over the Liberty Bell and slavery.
But don't halt the work that's properly under way at Independence National Historical Park. That work is about moving ahead, even as the story of American independence is reshaped and tempered by a renewed look at slave-owning founders.
The National Park Service's challenges are two-fold:
Build a spectacular new home for the old statehouse bell at Sixth and Chestnut Streets. The $12.6 million glass-enclosed pavilion debuting next year will frame a memorable view of 18th-century Independence Hall.
At the same time, brainstorm the best way for park rangers and exhibits to explore a troubling historic irony: President George Washington's housing of eight slaves - in Pennsylvania, where slaves were being freed - just beyond the threshold of the pavilion site.
The two initiatives are linked by geography, and much more. The slave quarters stood behind the Robert Morris mansion at Sixth and Market Streets, long gone, where Washington lived as president for 61/2 years.
When the bell was moved from Independence Hall during the 1976 bicentennial, it became a near-neighbor to the site where the Morris mansion once stood. The new pavilion will sit nearer the slave quarters.
Beyond proximity, of course, the Liberty Bell is linked to the nation's painful slavery past by 19th-century abolitionists. They took it as the icon for their struggle, finding hope in the etched words of "Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land..."
If anyone doubts that history has the power to stir emotions, recent months' debate over the Washington slave quarters erases them.
When prominent historians in March suggested digging for more artifacts, the pavilion's construction was blasted as a cover-up.
It proved nothing of the kind, since the Park Service undertook thorough archaeological work. Experts now say that construction during the 1850s probably destroyed the site.
As local historian and Morris mansion expert Edward Lawler Jr. wrote in The Inquirer yesterday, "It is likely any trace of the slave quarters was obliterated before the Civil War."
The history of the slaves' lives has not been lost, of course. And the Park Service has embarked upon an impressive effort to interweave it with the story of the bell's tolling for the struggle for independence.
If done right, visiting the newly sited Liberty Bell should provoke greater soul-searching. And the old bell will live up better to its unifying role - of proclaiming liberty "throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants."


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heXen:Edge of Chaos will be a new and free game, based on the original Hexen game that was developed by id Software and Raven Software. As of 2012 we have moved development to a standalone environment using the id tech 4 GPL engine.
The Doom3 engine (also called IDTech 4) is still a great engine that can compete with the latest games coming out today. It was with this in mind that we began, many years ago, the development of heXen: Edge of Chaos.
Edge of Chaos is being developed by a team of fans who have always loved the original Hexen since it came out. In fact, most of us spent countless hours with the entire series. When id Software released Doom3, we immediately saw immense potential in the engine itself; the 'Hell' maps gave us the inspiration to make a hack-and-slash game based, primarily, on the original Hexen.
Our story ties into the expansion packs and also touches upon the Heretic narrative; especially the incredible atmosphere painted into these rich worlds and their darkling journeys. We are still looking for talented team members, so if you have some work to show and think you might be able to help us, make sure to drop us a line!
2013 was a slower than desired year. 2014 will not be. The year has kicked off with an excited vigor and focus which has the team pretty pumped. First, we welcome programmer Calavera_Jo to the team who has helped bring some of this energy into the team. Very talented and enthusiastic, he's already tackled a wide range of tasks from a refined blocking system to editor fixes to cleaning the environment of our code more.
The maps have continued to make progress as Caffeine Freak has become much more efficient in his terrain modelling. H2m2 is nearing it's completion of layout and detailing with game play to follow. Zurra has been taking care of some of our art needs. We still would love to add more members to our team (especially artists!), so if interested please contact us.
We'll be looking to assemble a small testing team once again with a current eye around late second quarter. More on that to come in the next few months.
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People saying this is dead has probably not followed this mod for long. They will update when they have news and i'm sure its taking even longer to bring news since they are dropping the mod version to make it into a standalone free game. Have some patience people.
its dead.
This game must be finished!!!
this project seems dead, please prove otherwise
If you guys are going to work on it again . new sounds effects would be great! These are too soft i think . it needs more hard and rude sounds especially when hitting . thanks . pls finish it !
So as I read in your forums, you're determined to finish this project. However, there haven't been any signs of progress for almost a year. Again.
What's the hold-up? Yes, you're busy. Everybody's busy. But is there anything that we could help you with?
If you're looking for more people, let the world know. Reactivate your twitter, or better yet: open a tumblr blog.
Hexen: Edge of Chaos needs to be finished. (Though perhaps you might want to switch to a better, less archaic game engine. Hardly anyone owns Doom3 anymore. This is 2015.)
I agree with both of you . the engine is still good and this great game has to be finished ! I m following it since 2007! Thanks for the work so far
Disregard what I said about the engine. I just tried out the "Absolute HD" mod. idTech4 still rocks.
is this game still alive?
Highest Rated (6 agree) 9/10
Guys , I think what you've done here is quite impressive. You've taken an aging engine and turned it to your advantage , rendering picture perfect recreations of the original Hexen environments and creatures. Hexen fans like myself will be welled up with nostalgia. The movement feels satisfying and the weapons pack a punch. You've done a great job of including all of the original hexen inventory items - all the flasks and so on look identical to their old school counterparts , with the added benefit…
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Pacific Islands Development Program/East-West Center
By Gerard Finin
HONOLULU (Pacific Islands Report, Nov. 21) Smiling and waving soldiers at military checkpoints, relative quiet among students at the University of the South Pacific and a ratcheting down of public tensions between ethnic Fijians and Fijians of Indian descent initially suggested something very unusual may have happened here in the South Pacific.
Had the world witnessed a transformation that is not supposed to happen in democratic societies: The emergence of a "good" military coup?
On Dec. 5, 2006, Fiji's military leader, Commodore Vorege "Frank" Bainimarama, following up on pronouncements made months earlier, instituted his coup. Citing rampant corruption and the doctrine of necessity to justify military intervention, Bainimarama dismissed the government, dissolved Parliament and appointed an interim administration.
The coup, Fiji's fourth since independence [1970], was largely peaceful. In practical terms, soldiers visited government offices and demanded that officials surrender keys to their official vehicles and cease reporting to their offices.
Communications, including telephone lines and the Internet, remained open.
One year into the coup, the verdict is still out. There remains considerable support for the current military leadership, which has brought stability and has led a deliberate attempt to lessen ethnic tensions.
And indeed, Fiji stands today in a far more favorable light than many countries that simply, because they hold elections, claim to be highly democratic. It's not hard to argue that Fiji under military rule is managing better than some other Pacific island nations where regular elections have failed to produce governments capable of advancing the standard of living for their people.
But for all the stability, there are troubling signs that the military leadership has allowed matters to deteriorate.
The rule of law is threatened, with the judicial branch in limbo. The chief justice and the chief magistrate were summarily dismissed and the military has made it clear it will ignore judicial decisions not to its liking.
Human rights abuses remain a concern, although coup leaders deny that those who have spoken out against the regime have been beaten.
By most measures, Fiji's economy is stagnant or even declining. Tourism has yet to rebound.
Corruption remains a concern, although there is no indication that Frank Bainimarama wishes to enrich himself in the style of Philippines' dictator Ferdinand Marcos, who under the guise of creating a "new society" during the martial law era allowed rampant graft and corruption on an unparalleled scale.
By almost all accounts, the Commodore lives modestly, works hard and wants to see a future where all the people of Fiji enjoy a satisfying standard of living in which their children have bountiful opportunities.
At the one-year anniversary of "interim government" rule, there remains a small window of opportunity for Bainimarama and his colleagues to find a path that will lead Fiji toward a brighter future. Unlike many of the world's dictators who see themselves as saviors with lifetime appointments, the Commodore has articulated his dislike for the Office of Prime Minister.
Not long ago, in fact, he proclaimed "I hate this job."
The recent promise of national elections by March 2009 is a hopeful sign, but much can happen before then. Waiting another fifteen months poses a distinct danger that the absence of effective checks and balances could well result in a burgeoning of the types of corruption and economic decline the coup leaders decry.
Alternatively, there is much that can be done to advance national unity, increase accountability, and address major issues such as the future of the sugar industry. With hard work, bold decisions and the right forms of assistance from the international community, the questions becomes: Can Bainimarama make this a "good coup" by restoring democratic rule and possibly once again become the Fiji Post's "Man of the year?"
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Throughout the West, Christians, Orthodox, Protestant and Catholic, are now enrolled in a school of ecumenism as we make common cause to end the killing of our youngest neighbors. We have been thrown together in a common defense of life in a western culture which has lost its moral compass. Our Marching together for Life is becoming a road to our unity and a sign of our growing communion.
The March for Life
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
1/17/2013 (3 years ago)
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Keywords: Pro-Life, 40 years, Roe v Wade, Doe v Bolton, March, March for Life, Pope Benedict XVI, Blessed john Paul II, Ut Unum Sint, unity, week of Christian unity, Deacon Keith Fournier
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - After his Wednesday catechesis Pope Benedict XVI noted that Friday, the 18th of January begins the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. This year, the theme of the week is "What does God require of us?" inspired by a passage from the prophet Micah.
The Pope invited all "to pray, asking insistently of God, for the great gift of unity between all of the Lord's disciples. May the Holy Spirit's limitless strength arouse us to the sincere commitment to seek unity, so that we might all profess together that Jesus is the savior of the world."
On January 25, 2013, hundreds of thousands will gather in Washington, D.C. to give their voice to our neighbors in the first home of the whole human race. These are the children who await their welcome among us upon birth. These littlest neighbors need our voice because theirs is being muffled behind the wall of their mother's womb, once considered the first refuge of safety.
There, in their first experience of the interdependency which reveals the truth about our humanity, where they are supposed to be embraced by the warmth of love, they are vulnerable to the worst kind of domestic violence. At any moment the weapons of the first pre-emptive war, voluntary abortion, may be wielded against them for any reason.
Make no mistake; these are weapons of death and destruction - chemical, surgical or suction - being used to kill these children deliberately for any or no reason. The cold, hard truth about every procured abortion is that it takes an innocent human life.
No one with integrity any longer argues that the little girl or little boy killed through procured abortion is not a human being. When the abortion occurs through miscarriage we properly enter into the mourning of the mother over the loss of the one we call "her baby". However, when the mother is deceived into a voluntary abortion, we use a different vocabulary.
Most people now acknowledge that these children killed by abortion are human persons. A few hold on to the dangerous notion that dependency upon others makes someone less of a person. However, medical science has confirmed what our consciences and the Natural Law told us all along, these victims of the first preemptive war called intentional abortion are human beings just like us.
We frame "baby's first pictures" in their 3D or 4D image through sonogram technology. We use intrauterine surgery to intervene to save them or correct anything which they may need before they are born. We prosecute an offender who, in the evil act of harming their mother, causes their death as well. It is all so very clear what we are really doing in every procured abortion.
The argument now used in a futile attempt to somehow justify this preemptive war on little girls and boys is that the choice to kill them should be left to the mother in consultation with her own Doctor and/or other counselors. This profane argument is couched in a language of freedom and clothed with a counterfeit compassion. What other group of human persons can be killed because someone else determines they do not want them to live?
There is no moral difference between the killing of a child after birth and the killing of a child before birth.
We now legally excuse fetal homicide when it is committed by a misguided mother through the agency of a deceived or corrupted Doctor who once pledged to "do no harm" in his or her professional oath. We now routinely refer to this intentional taking of innocent human life as healthcare. We try to claim that the decision to take their life is somehow a "reproductive" choice.
Procured abortion is not health care, it is an execution. And, there is absolutely NOTHING reproductive about taking the life of that little boy or girl.
There is a horrid irony in the fact that this 40th Anniversary March for Life will take place only days after President Barack Obama is sworn in for his second term. He will take the oath of office placing his hand on two bibles, one owned by Abraham Lincoln, the other owned by Martin Luther King Jr.
Both of those American heroes stood against the evil idea that some human persons are less worthy of being welcomed within our National family than others. With President Obama's election, our Nation celebrated a great advance against another intrinsic evil, racism, and the horrid memory of its once institutionalized expression, slavery.
Yet, sadly, President Obama has been blinded by the culture of death. He is advancing another form of slavery with his refusal to defend the Right to life of our youngest neighbors in the womb.The Right to life Movement is a solidarity movement. These little children our brothers and sisters and we are indeed their keepers.
Evil ideas have a horrid way of repackaging themselves. This President is the most anti-Life President in our modern history. He regularly claims to hear the cry of the poor, yet he fails to hear the cries of those whom Blessed Teresa of Calcutta properly called the "poorest of the poor", our first neighbors in the womb.
It is noteworthy that in the 40 years since the evil Supreme Court decisions in Roe and Doe were issued some unexpected good has come to Christians involved in this great human rights struggle. In our insistence that the positive law recognize what the Natural Law demands, that these children have a right to life, Christians separated from one another by divisions in the Body of Christ have now found one another. I have long referred to this fact as the silver lining in the dark cloud of the culture of death.
That is why I believe it is no accident that the March for Life always falls within the National Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Our human rights struggle has been the most fruitful and authentic form of ecumenism the world has ever witnessed; what I call trench ecumenism. We found one another in our common concern for the poorest of the poor.
The Prayer of Jesus echoes in a new missionary age: "I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. And I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may be brought to perfection as one, that the world may know that you sent me, and that you loved them even as you loved me." (John 17:20-23)
There is a reciprocal relationship revealed in those words of the Savior. The world will believe our gospel when we demonstrate our own unity of love with one another. The prayer of the Son of God will be answered; the only question is how soon it will happen. We hasten that day when we choose to pray together and work with one another in this great human rights struggle.
That is the message that the great apostle Paul proclaimed to the Ephesians: "Brothers and sisters: I, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love, striving to preserve the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace; one Body and one Spirit, as you were also called to the one hope of your call; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all, and in all." Ephesians 4: 1-6
Paul was the apostle of unity between the early Jewish and Gentile believers who were deeply divided. He knew the corrosive effect of divisions within the Body of Christ. We will march on the day when the Catholic Church, in her liturgy, commemorates his conversion to Jesus Christ.
The God who is One, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, places the impulse toward Christian unity in our hearts. In his Encyclical letter on Christian unity (May They Be One, 1995), Blessed John Paul II underscored the language of communion as the preferred vocabulary between Christians not yet one:
"It happens for example that, in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount, Christians of one confession no longer consider other Christians as enemies or strangers but see them as brothers and sisters. Again, the very expression 'separated brethren' tends to be replaced today by expressions which more readily evoke the deep communion linked to the baptismal character which the Spirit fosters in spite of historical and canonical divisions. Today we speak of "other Christians", "others who have received Baptism", and "Christians of other Communities"(Par. 42)
The authentic ecumenical mission was at the heart of John Paul's pontificate and is at the heart of Pope Benedict's. I remember that day, April 20, 2005, when the newly elected Pope Benedict XVI gave his first message at the end of a Mass he had concelebrated with the members of the College of Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel. He signaled his mission with these words:
"Nourished and sustained by the Eucharist, Catholics cannot but feel encouraged to strive for the full unity for which Christ expressed so ardent a hope in the Upper Room. The Successor of Peter knows that he must make himself especially responsible for his Divine Master's supreme aspiration. Indeed, he is entrusted with the task of strengthening his brethren (cf. Luke 22: 32).
"With full awareness, therefore, at the beginning of his ministry in the Church of Rome which Peter bathed in his blood, Peter's current Successor takes on as his primary task the duty to work tirelessly to rebuild the full and visible unity of all Christ's followers. This is his ambition, his impelling duty."
The authentic ecumenical mission of restoring the full and visible unity of the Church has been the beating heart of Pope Benedict's years of service in the Chair of St Peter. That is because it reflects Heart of the Lord. To be a faithful Christian should mean to long for our full communion. Blessed John Paul called all of the faithful to carry forward the task of ecumenism with a practical and spiritual urgency in that letter on Christian Unity:
"Relations between Christians are not aimed merely at mutual knowledge, common prayer and dialogue. They presuppose and from now on call for every possible form of practical cooperation at all levels: pastoral, cultural and social, as well as that of witnessing to the Gospel message. Cooperation among all Christians vividly expresses that bond which already unites them, and it sets in clearer relief the features of Christ the Servant."
"This cooperation based on our common faith is not only filled with fraternal communion, but is a manifestation of Christ himself. Moreover, ecumenical cooperation is a true school of ecumenism, a dynamic road to unity. Unity of action leads to the full unity of faith."
"Through such cooperation, all believers in Christ are able to learn easily how they can understand each other better and esteem each other more, and how the road to the unity of Christians may be made smooth. In the eyes of the world, cooperation among Christians becomes a form of common Christian witness and a means of evangelization which benefits all involved."
Throughout the West, Christians, Orthodox, Protestant and Catholic, are now enrolled in a school of ecumenism as we make common cause to end the killing of our youngest neighbors. We have been thrown together in a common defense of life in a western culture which has lost its moral compass. Our Marching together for Life is becoming a road to our unity and a sign of our growing communion.
Come, let us lock arms together again and offer our voice for those who have none. Marching to Restore the Right to Life to Our Youngest Neighbors during the Week of Christian Unity is Prophetic. The Killing will end. The divisions among Christians will be healed.
By Deacon Keith Fournier
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I have never tested the MMS service of RGSM. However, yesterday, I decided to give it a try.
The problem is - I get a SMS informing that I have a MMS and that I must visit http://mms.reliancea...m:9999/webtop2/ to view it. A message key is also supplied with this SMS, which supposedly helps me view this MMS.
Now when I visit this portal and enter the mobile number as well as the message key, I get an error message stating that there are "no slides to display"!
Help me out - has anyone faced this problem?
Reliance customer care agents are clueless - they have noted it down as a complaint and told me that they would revert within 48 hours.
For the sake of information, the MMS sender is situated in Tamil Nadu and uses the same network. This phone (N79) is also configured with the appropriate MMS and GPRS settings.
Problem Viewing MMS - Reliance GSM Prepaid
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Shakespeare for amateurs
Michael Dobson
A cultural history
265pp. Cambridge University Press. £50 (US $85).
978 0 521 86234 9
W hy should we care about amateur performance of Shakespeare, which in the past half-century has been more a subject of ridicule than a topic for academic study? Michael Dobson's readable, entertaining and provocative book is neither "anecdotal" nor a series of "accounts of notably worthy amateur performances", but rather an analysis of such performances in contrast to "professional" performance since Shakespeare's own time. No axe is ground: as Dobson observes, amateur performance has mostly been "traduced by cultural critics of both right and left, for whom it has seemed either inadequately avant-garde, or inadequately populist, or both". Happily, Dobson is content to inquire selectively into the auspices, aims and cultural claims of various kinds of amateur performances of Shakespeare across almost four centuries.
The subject is enormous, discontinuous, often badly documented, and essentially non-teleological. Nor can it be fully disentangled from amateur performance more generally. A book ten times this size could not provide a "history" of its subject, even if, like this one, restricted largely to Britain and Ireland (with a bit on North America) and omitting school and university performances. Dobson addresses four varieties of amateur performance: domestic (e.g. country house theatricals); civic (theatre clubs); "expatriate" (by diplomats and prisoners of war); and "outdoor" (mostly a recent development). In each instance, he asks what Shakespeare's dramatization of "national identity" means to participants and spectators, and what issues of gender, class and status the plays have helped articulate.
The book does not offer a chronological survey as such, but the chapter structure takes us from aristocrats' private theatricals in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the amateur dramatics of the nineteenth and early twentieth, and on to the outdoor festival tourist enterprises of the later twentieth century. What counts as "amateur"? The borderline is very smudgy: as Dobson remarks, nominally "amateur" productions often employ full-time professional personnel, whether as actors, musicians, or directors (and management is often paid). Public performances by amateurs have rarely been free. In the early nineteenth century, the Kilkenny Theatre charged 6s for most of its seats – the top price at Drury Lane and Covent Garden at the time. In practice, "amateur" often means merely that many of the performers receive no pay and that those who do are drafted in on a temporary basis.
Amateur companies have varied enormously in their characterizing features. Kilkenny, for example, stressed intérêt d'état in its scripts, display of its sponsors' precocious offspring, and conspicuous utilization of ostentatious props and costumes. Many later nineteenth-century companies featured burlesque (ragging Hamlet being easier than making it work). The famous and still-active Minack open-air theatre by the sea in Cornwall has favoured what Dobson calls classicism, naturalism and (a slightly preposterous) Elizabethan antiquarianism. It also features highly vocal peacocks (a showy but dubious blessing in my own experience).
Performance venues have ranged from strictly temporary found spaces in drawing rooms and inns to purpose-built permanent theatres. A huge advantage for many amateur ventures is intimacy. The vast, echoing barns of patent theatres in the early nineteenth century (however "sacred to Shakespeare" they claimed to be) were dreadfully unsatisfactory for spoken drama in which one needed to comprehend complex speeches. Contrariwise, with the exception of the 250-seat Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich (1921), few amateur venues have resembled an Elizabethan theatre with its thrust stage and absence of scenery. Indoor amateur companies have often favoured ponderous scenery if they could afford it – in which respect outdoor theatres tend to be preferable.
A recurring issue across four centuries is class. The private theatricals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were decidedly aristocratic. Amateur performance moved downmarket in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, inhabiting middle-class drawing rooms and gentlemen's clubs of varying loftiness. The further descent into "spouting clubs" populated by "apprentices and mechanics" takes Shakespeare into a wholly different social realm. The crux was ultimately whether Shakespeare was a jolly entertainer one could josh for fun – or alternatively, a Great Writer who should be staged alongside cutting-edge modern drama by Ibsen and Shaw. For an operation like the Stockport Garrick Society c.1905, the Bard was an elite, not a popular author. For others, he was appropriate grist for artisan amateur theatricals.
The participation of women remained a troublesome problem well into the twentieth century. Upper-class women were subject to "stringent codes of propriety and decorum". If permitted to participate in country-house theatricals they were usually cast in morally proper "she-tragedy" of the Nicholas Rowe variety: Shakespeare's female characters were insufficiently decorous. The dramatist Richard Cumberland was far from alone when he fiercely denounced amateur performance by women in any play in his "Remarks upon the Present Taste for Acting Private Plays" (1788). Changing social mores and bowdlerization facilitated change. Ben Greet (godfather of the Regent's Park open air theatre) turned Shakespeare into an educational, morally safe family entertainment. His high moral tone persuaded parents to allow their daughters (the young Sybil Thorndike among them) to participate in his productions.
The heyday of amateur theatre in Britain was the first half of the twentieth century. In 1934 the British Drama League had 2,500 affiliate societies and claimed that over 5 million people each year (of a total population of 44 million) paid to see amateur performances. Such experience no doubt helps explain the extensive POW theatrical activity in Germany, fascinatingly chronicled by Dobson. Cross-dressing was unavoidable and reportedly effective: female leads were considered "heart-throbs". Prison camp documentation is surprisingly extensive, and I confess myself quite wild to see Shamlet: A drammer, evidently a burlesque to end all burlesques.
Dobson is an enthusiast for amateur Shakespeare, though not an uncritical one. Without thumping any tubs, he raises some sobering present-day questions. In a world of television and DVDs, with musicals dominating live theatre, Shakespeare is not thriving in the commercial theatre, and subsidy for theatre appears to be in a death spiral. University performances have fallen off significantly since 1995. Where Shakespeare now flourishes is in open-air venues frequented by holidaymakers – and at Shakespeare's Globe in London, a venue whose productions have mostly been treated with condescension by academics.
What literary critics tend to seek in Shakespeare is quite different from what intelligent non-intellectuals reasonably want What literary critics tend to seek in Shakespeare is quite different from what intelligent non-intellectuals reasonably want – which is entertainment and perhaps some provocation of thought. You can go to the theatre for concept and idea, but before the twentieth century people mostly went for story and character. Dobson reminds us that amateur performance can be a great deal of fun for the participants, and that such performances can still attract and please a broad audience, especially at reasonable prices (Minack charges £9.50 for adults).
Is the function of amateur Shakespeare to uplift the masses (supposing that they want to be lifted)? Or is the point to give the audience a good time while breeding familiarity with difficult but ultimately rewarding texts? Michael Dobson argues that for the audiences amateur performance is at least as effective as professional theatre – and he has a point.
Robert D. Hume is Evan Pugh Professor of English Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the co-editor, with Harold Love, of the two-volume Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings Associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, 2007. As author, he is working on a book titled The Economics of Culture in London, 1660–1820.
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Port Warwick free concert schedule includes Code Blue, Deloreans, FAB
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The Summer Sounds on Styron Square concert series at Port Warwick in Newport News will return June 1. The lineup announced this week covers stylistic bases ranging from rock to bluegrass, blues, jazz and salsa. Concerts are free and take place 6:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Sept. 21.
Here's the schedule:
June 1 -- The Office (pop and rock covers)
June 8 -- Quatro No Bossa (world music/Latin)
June 15 -- USAF Rhythm in Blue (jazz, blues and funk)
June 22 -- Mercy Creek (folk rock)
June 29 -- The Dreams Band (jazz fusion)
July 6 -- Code Blue (bluegrass)
July 13 -- Narissa Bond (acoustic singer-songwriter)
July 20 -- Skylark (jazz and swing)
July 27 -- Andi Rae Healy (pop)
Aug. 3 -- Henry Johnson Band (guitar jazz and blues)
Aug. 10 -- Deloreans (1980s hits)
Aug. 17 -- MSG Piedmont Blues (blues)
Aug. 24 -- Tinsmith Duo (folk rock)
Aug. 31 -- USAF Blue Aces (variety)
Sept. 7 -- William Walter/Tucker Rogers (country)
Sept. 14 -- Gerry Laverty (acoustic singer-songwriter)
Sept. 21 -- FAB (beach music)
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Wednesdays 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Pack a snack, grab your lawn chairs and get ready for Summer Sounds on Styron Square. Throughout the entire summer, Hampton Roads' best musical performers will take you away on wafts of sound and sensation. Make this concert series your regular date with the greats!
6/1 The Office Pop/Rock (cover tunes/a la Squeeze, Rick Springfield)
6/8 Quatro No Bossa World Music/Latin Sound (Full sound/light)
6/15 USAF Rhythm in Blue Jazz, Blues and funk
6/22 Mercy Creek Folk Rock/edgy (Drums/Bass/upbeat)
6/29 The Dreams Band Jazz Fusion/Full Sound
7/6 Code Blue Bluegrass (Classic Bluegrass/Very Full sound
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7/27 Andi Rae Healy Pop
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8/31 USAF Blue Aces Energetic - Broad spectrum of music styles
9/7 William Walter/Tucker Rogers Country
9/14 Gerry Laverty Acoustic/Singer/Songwriter
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Continuing California's quest to decrease dependence on fossil fuel-based power plants, the largest solar array farm [2] in the world will be built in the Golden State, providing zero emission electricity to Central Valley residents.
To be created by Cleantech America, in conjunction with the Kings River Conservation District, the plant will produce over 80 megawatts, producing twice as much power as the next largest planned power plant to be built in Germany. It will be built in three different phases, with a total final energy output of 80MW by 2011. To put it into perspective, the largest planned solar power plant in the US is a 15MW plant located at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.
Interestingly enough, this wasn't the only solar power plant announced by this company. Last month, it announced a partnership with PG&E (last seen here [3], and here [4]) that they would be building the third largest solar array [5] in the country, also in California.
As we all know, solar power in-grid zero emission provides peak power when it is needed most, during the hottest times of the year. And at this scale, solar power starts to become economically viable. "This is a visionary step by Kings River Conservation District. The extraordinary economies of scale which can be achieved by facilities of this magnitude would have a dramatic effect on helping solar energy achieve grid parity." said Bill Barnes, CEO of CleantechLLC [5] America .
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