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Posted on September 2, 2015
Dr. Wayne Stengel has just edited a collection of twenty-two essays, Talking About Pauline Kael: Critics, Filmmakers, and Scholars Remember an Icon, on famed New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael. Contributors include movie critic David Denby, film director Paul Schrader, humorist Roy Blount Jr., Arkansas Democrat-Gazette writer Philip Martin, and UCA English professor Stengel.
Posted on March 18, 2015
Margaret McNeary was the winner of this years Outstanding Intern Award. She was a dramaturgy for the Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre's production of "Pippin" (directed by Jeremy Williams). She completed the internship under Dr. Paige Reynolds' supervision during the summer of 2014.
Posted on February 11, 2015
Dr. Mary Ruth Marotte and Dr. Glenn Jellnik had a book titled Ten Years after Katrina: Critical Perspectives of the Storm's Effect on American Culture and Identity . It was published by Lexington Books in December, 2014. It is an edited collection of essays that charts the effects of Hurricane Katrina upon American cultural identity; the essays do not merely catalogue the trauma of the event, they explore the ways that such an event functions in and on the literature that represents it. Katrina-narratives present an opportunity to interrogate the ways that specific narrative structures inform our understanding and develop our cultural identity. This book offers a critical processing of the newly emerging and diverse canon of Katrina texts, providing essays that raise new questions about the representative genres that structure our stories and the ways stories reflect and produce culture and identity.
Dr. Glenn Jellnik was a co-editor of a scholarly edition of Of Helen Maria Williams's Romantic-period epic poem Peru, and Peruvian Tales, which was published in December 2014 by Broadview Press. This book includes a critical introduction that places the poem (and poet) in literary and historical context, both versions of Williams's epic poem, first published in 1784 and 1823, along with extensive examples of Williams's literary sources, other poetic works, and the many and varied critical responses from contemporary reviewers.
Dr. Wayne Stengel is editing a collection of essays about The New Yorker magazine film critic Pauline Kael (1919-2001) who in her twenty-three years as movie critic for The New Yorker (1968-1991) revolutionized what a movie review could be. The collection contains twenty-seven essays by a variety of film professors, contemporary movie reviewers, and film industry professionals who knew Kael, admired her criticism, or sometimes took issue with her controversial takes on the movies. Talking About Pauline Kael, edited by Wayne Stengel, will be published by Rowman and Littlefield in late 2015.
Posted on February 10, 2015
Fatal Feast
A Tale of Merlin
by Jay Ruud
When an Irish knight dies mysteriously at a banquet she is hosting, Queen Guenivere is charged with murder and faces death at the stake if found guilty. Her loyal page, Gildas, rushes to the woods to track down Merlin and convince him to take up the investigation and save the queen.
Fatal Feast is a fast-paced murder mystery set in the legendary court of Camelot, imagined as it might have existed in the high Middle Ages, with Sir Gawain, Sir Gareth, and Sir Lancelot in pivotal roles, and the young Gildas, enamored of the queen's young lady-in-waiting Rosemounde, an unlikely courtly lover focused on saving the queen and impressing his Rosemounde — not necessarily in that order.
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Posted on January 21, 2015
The faculty and graduate students in the English department engaged to produce three volumes of the works of playwright Terrence McNally have completed the first volume, which will appear later this year from Grove Press. In 2013, Dr. Frontain received the first installment of what would come to a $24,000 grant from McNally's publisher, which has supported the work of three graduate students over two years. Selected Plays will contain eight plays with introductions by McNally, while Vol. 3 of McNally's Collected Plays will be published by Smith and Kraus. Dr. Frontain and his current graduate assistant Darby Burdine expect to complete the remaining volume, which is an edition of McNally's essays on the theater, in summer.
McNally is one of America's most honored playwrights. The winner of four Tony Awards (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Ragtime, Master Class and Love! Valour! Compassion!), he has most recently been represented on Broadway by the Tony Award-nominated Mothers and Sons, and by the record-breaking revival of It's Only a Play. Previews will begin in March for his new musical with John Kander and Fred Ebb titled The Visit and starring Chita Rivera, which opens April 23.
UCA graduate student Eliza Killey (right) chats backstage with four-time Tony Award winning playwright Terrence McNally (center) and six-time Emmy Award winning actor Tyne Daly (left) following a preview performance of McNally's new play, Mothers and Sons. The production, which stars Daly, is McNally's twentieth Broadway play. While pursuing her M. A. in English at UCA, Killey has worked on the team producing three volumes of McNally's plays and prose.
Posted on January 25, 2016
Dr. Michael Kithinji, Director, African and African American Studies Program and Assistant Professor of History has co-edited two books which have recently come out.
Posted on September 3, 2015
History intern Cody Douell, visiting the White house during his Washington Center internship this summer at the Treasury Department.
Posted on April 13, 2015
The History Department is proud to announce the winner of the 2015 Ophelia Fisher Award for the best undergraduate history paper: Johnathan White. Johnathan boldly contacted famous documentary film-makers, activists, and an important journalist to interview them about their early activism leading to the "Free the West Memphis Three" campaign. He was so informed and professional that these contacts helped him connect with and interview Jason Baldwin, one of the three defendants in the West Memphis case. Johnathan's paper is one of the first scholarly efforts to look at the origins of "netroots" organizing, a model which — and I don't think I'm overstating this — elected our current president. Today, the idea of organizing an internet campaign for a political cause is entirely unremarkable, but the activists Johnathan describes had no idea whether their internet-based activism would even work. Joe Berlisky, one of the filmmakers Johnathan interviewed, recalled that "it was the first time that people of like-minded interests started finding each other on the internet. That was new. The fact that they started a website at the dawn of the internet age, I think is really what catapulted this case into an international movement." Congratulations, Johnathan!
History MA Program News
Posted on January 5, 2015
Graduate students in the History Department's MA program were busy in the fall disseminating their research and working on master's theses. Two students, Kevin Cummings and Matthew Foster, had papers accepted to the program of the Mid-America Conference on History held in Fort Smith in September.
While Kevin and Matt's papers represented the culmination of research, other students in the program launched new thesis research projects. Aryn Denette has been carefully examining JET magazine's portrayal of black masculinity during the 1970s and 1980s for her project, "In Search of Identity: Black Masculinity as Presented in Advertisements in JET Magazine 1974-1984." Daniel Klotz discovered a rich archive of sources on school reform that have thus far evaded historians' scrutiny. His thesis, "School Reform in Faulkner County, 1870-1930," promises to shed light on the local history of Faulkner County while exploring broader trends of educational reform that swept the United States. Matt Millsap's work, "Cotton Mather and the American Enlightenment," traces the transatlantic flow of ideas between Europe and the British colonies. He is focusing on tensions between traditional Puritan religious teachings and Enlightenment ideas by examining Cotton Mather's sermons and other writings. All three students plan to finish their work in the spring and present their results at upcoming conferences such as the Arkansas Historical Association meeting in April.
Philosophy and Religion
Posted on February 22, 2016
Dr. Taine Duncan, Assistant Professor in the Philosophy and Religion Department recently presented a paper titled "Fun Home: Self-Censorship and Emancipation, Beyond Trigger Warnings" at the the 37th annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) conference (Albuquerque, NM; February 10-13, 2016)
Dr. Jacob Held, Associate Professor of Philosophy, recently presented ""Stephen King, Horror, and Compassion: Finding Schopenhauer in Haven," the 37th annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) conference (Albuquerque, NM; February 10-13, 2016)
Dr. Held was also a Roundtable Panelist on "Carrie at Forty: Revisiting a Classic," the 37th annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) conference (Albuquerque, NM; February 10-13, 2016)
Dr. Charles Harvey, Professor of Philosophy, was recently the keynote speaker at the Midsouth Philosophy Conference presenting a paper entitled "Human(un)kind and the Rape of the World," at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. (February 19, 2016)
Dr. Bennett McNulty, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, presented his paper "The Heirs to the Kantian A Priori: Cognitive Science and the Conditions of the Possibility of Experience," at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. (February 19, 2016)
Dr. Jim Shelton, retired Professor of Philosophy, recently presented his paper "The Unreality of Time," at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. (February 20, 2016)
Posted on May 26, 2015
At the end of April, Lloyd Kramer presented a strong defense of the humanities at UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School. His TED Talk – "Why Does a Liberal Arts Education Shape Successful Leaders?" – answers the critics who question the practical value of studying the liberal arts as university students prepare to enter the technologically advanced global economy. Lloyd discusses why deep engagement with the liberal arts (including the humanities) remains the creative foundation for so many of America's most successful social and economic leaders. His 15-minute talk can be found TED Talks Kramer.
An Evening With Holocaust Survivor
Gideon Frieder
Gideon Frieder will share his heroic story of survival in the UCA Farris Center on Monday, 9 March 2015 at 7:00 p.m. This event is open to the public with free admission.
The event is sponsored by UCA Department of Philosophy and Religion , UCA Department of History, UCA College of Liberal Arts, UCA College of Fine Arts and Communication, UCA Honors College, Jewish Federation of Arkansas, University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton, and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Political Science
Posted on March 9, 2015
Dr. Gizachew Tiruneh latest book, The Rise and Fall of the Solomonic Dynasty of Ethiopia, was published recently with TSEHAI Publishers.
Two of our students presented research at the 2015 meeting of the Arkansas Political Science Association. Autumn Reddell presented "Education & Development in Sub-Saharan Africa." Kayla Close presented (along with Willis Arnold and Dr. Mark Mullenbach) "Ballots & Observers: Elections, Election Monitoring, and Political Stability in Post-Colonial Africa, 1961-2010."
Arkansas Model United Nations
For more information about the AMUN, please contact Dr. Mark Mullenbach, AMUN Coordinator, at firstname.lastname@example.com or 501-804-0618 (cell).
Please visit the AMUN webpage at: http://uca.edu/politicalscience/student-activities/amun/
Sociology, Criminology and Anthropology
Posted on September 3, 2015
Mr. Desmond Jones, Visiting Lecturer in Sociology, taught Death and Dying as a service-learning class in the spring of 2015. Students volunteered with Hospice Home Care, Inc. of Conway doing yard work for one home-bound client and filling baskets with bed-side necessities for multiple clients. Class field trips included visits to a local funeral home and the Faulkner County Coroner's Office.
Senior Frank Benton, Criminology/Sociology double-major, completed a Washington Center Internship with the United States Marshals Service over the summer.
Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures
Linguistics Program Moves to World Languages
Posted on February 11, 2015
The Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures is pleased to welcome Dr. Lynn Burley, Associate Professor, and Dr. Ramón Escamilla, Assistant Professor, to our department in the College of Liberal of Arts effective January 23, 2015. All of the faculty and staff look forward to working together to encourage students to discover the joys of studying languages and linguistics at UCA.


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greg,Ross Clark from howestreet.com is expecting a bottom in late march I believe. Said possible explosion to $2500-$3000 by October. Is that what McHugh has for his targets?
These assssclowns have been blathering about an "explosion" in gold since the bull began running. It hasn't. It's just another means to get the sheep braying with excitement in an otherwise dull and paranoid community.


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'Language Intelligence' The Audiobook: Listen To 'Lessons On Persuasion From Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln And Lady Gaga'
Many readers asked when Language Intelligence would be available as an audiobook. Turns out Podium Publishing liked it so much, they did the job with a terrific reader Drew Birdseye, who narrates lots of audiobooks.
You can download all 4 hours and 19 minutes of it on Amazon or iTunes.
Given that the whole point of the book is to explain the secrets of history's greatest spoken-word communicators — and that it contains excerpts from the greatest speeches of all time — you may well get more out of listening to the audiobook than you do from reading the print edition or ebook.
In fact, I never would have published this book if it weren't for the power of one terrific oral communicator in particular, Van Jones. I had always been a fan of his speechmaking and wondered how he became was so good at it. After he came to the Center for American Progress, I saw his New Yorker profile by Elizabeth Kolbert, which explained:
When Jones gives a talk, something he does at least two or three times a week, he likes to begin by checking out the crowd; if he can, he will sit in the audience beforehand, absorbing the mood. He spends a lot of time listening to speeches—the way most people download Coltrane or Mozart, he's got Churchill and Martin Luther King on his iPod.
That was my 'aha' moment. Now I understood how he had become such a great speaker. I had been working on my book for two decades, and I thought Van would appreciate it.
After reading it, Van said to me "your book changed my life." Turns out it was a life-changing moment for both of us, since that motivated me take one more crack at improving it.
It is on pace to be my best-selling book — and almost everyone who reads it gets a lot out of it. Below I'm going to reprint Van's HuffPost review, "The New 'Must Read': Joe Romm's Language Intelligence":
by Van Jones via HuffPost
In a war of ideas, the weapon of choice is words. Even when equipped with better and more popular ideas, progressives are losing the fight on ideas because of how we communicate those ideas — or fail to communicate them.
When I read an early draft of Joe Romm's Language Intelligence two years ago, I told Joe it changed my life. I realized what I had learned from osmosis and practice through hundreds of speeches and direct feedback were secrets figured out centuries ago by the Elizabethans and others. Social scientists and advertisers have confirmed these secrets are the key to being memorable and persuasive.
To get our ideas out there, progressives need to communicate more powerfully. We aren't failing to come up with good solutions. We're failing in explaining them to the American people. That's why I am encouraging every progressive to read Joe Romm's new book: Language Intelligence: Lessons on Persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga.
Let me give you a quick example of Romm's Rules, in effect: When Rebuild the Dream campaigned to prevent the doubling of Stafford loan rates this summer, we followed his formulas for effective communication. By doing so, we were able to help millennials and students win a big victory on student loans.
The first rule: keep it short. "Don't Double My Rate" got straight to the point of what we were trying to accomplish. It's hard to envision a campaign slogan like "Keep federal Stafford loans at their current low rates" taking off in the same way.
The second and third rules: Use figures of speech and repetition to make memes memorable. The alliterative nature of "Don't Double" helped make the campaign catchy, effective, and persuasive. As President Obama took up the "Don't Double My Rate" cause, the term was repeated in speeches and the media, and it was constantly trending on Twitter until Congress took action to pass "Don't Double."
That is just one example of the usefulness of Joe's approach. As one of the most impactful climate bloggers on Earth, Joe Romm knows the ins-and-outs persuasive communication. His Language Intelligence is the progressives' field guide in the war of ideas. If you liked Lakoff's Don't Think of An Elephant, you'll love Language Intelligence.
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I finished Language Intelligence a couple days ago. I ordered it as a Christmas present for myself, unfortunately Superstorm Sandy had other ideas and it took 10 days to get here from New York – Language Intelligence and Italian cheeses were both in short supply because of damage to the warehouses. It's a preview of how the climate crisis will cut us off from food and information.
The book kept my mind spinning, thinking up catchy phrases that would transform the world. I could only have been happier if it were two or ten times longer.
Thanks so much!
Persuasive verbal language only impacts listeners. One of the biggest problems for those working to avoid human extinction is that the critical mass is not listening… Not to us, anyway. People listen to claims that confirm their mental belief systems – and ignore the contrary. We need to break through this deadlock. We need to (symbolically) tap their shoulders and remind them that human survival is in their own self interest. We need to bypass obstructed minds and softly touch hearts.
Could "Language Intelligence" help me get my point across? I have lost as many friends being disabled with toxic chemicals as my weekly set of AGW predictions.
For example, "A). … 1). Regular qualitative predictions are US for "normal" catastrophic, violent AGW ecosystems (quakes to CMEs to toxic feticide) from the rotten EssoKochFox's and their willing accomplices. The 2 quake LECs (linear earthquake cannons) are an attempt to get an AGW handle on the potential for tsunami(s), leveled mountain(s), and pyroclastic volcanism about to befall parts of civilization with the energy of 9+ Richters. The poles should magnetically shift, with the north lunging toward Alaska. Expect at least 1 LEC to force some titanic tectonics to treat landmasses as blades in a blender. Again, CMEs will erupt early and often from previous weeks' AGW filaments to hit us with energies <X2. … Even though crime doesn't pay, anybody can arrest Marc "Mengele' Morano for EssoKoch's blank check blood money stored at Climate Depot. "'Yes, we plead guilty … '… proudly … Climate Depot takes full responsibility for the fate of your children and grandchildren from any future man-made climate catastrophe" ("Australian PM warns skeptics 'are too 'dangerous to ignore' and are 'holding the world to ransom'"; By Marc 'legal serial killer' Morano, Climate Depot Editorial, whistlesuckers – perfuming the stink at icecap on or about 11/6/09). …
B). Including the odd chance of JJBAL Fireballs with each prediction, the specifics of the Giulaino – Gansu Model (1/13 – 19/13) of extreme AGW earthquake warnings (n= 24) among tectonic energy lines with individual predictions for regions (magnitude in Richters) are:
1). LEC1: Galapagos Triple Junction Point (5+) – Galapagos Islands (5+) – Jalisco (8+) – Clarion Island (6+) – offshore northern California (7+) – Fox Islands, Aleutians (8+) – Chukchi Sea (6+)
2). LEC2: fracking, Ohio (6+) – Ontario (6+) – Baffin Bay (7+) – Severnaya Zemlya (8+) – Zapadno Sibirskaya (6+) – Kazakhstan (7+) – Hindu Kush (9+) – Rajasthan (7+);
3). Southwestern Indian Ridge (5+) – Reunion Island (6+) – Madagascar (5+) – Kenya (6+) – Djibouti (5+); and
4). Hawaii (5+) – Bonin Islands (8+) – Kyushu (6+) – Shandong (5+).
C). GBRWE official experimental quake, volcano, and other models are US. … A correct for any of these concurrent earthquake models is anything within 0.5 Richters below given prediction and anything above the prediction for the region (within 100 miles, out to150 miles if people felt it). On the open ocean … 400 miles to be correct … 2). standard, 2-weeks model – unless stated otherwise, ALL predictions get at least 2-weeks … 37). A correct in a fireball event is within 400 miles of a predicted tectonic (quake and/or volcano) region only under the standard 2-week model" ("GBRWE 9/18 – 24/11''s Extreme Planetary Warnings for Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Solar/Terrestrial Flares from Human Activities"; Robert Rhodes, Supplemental; GBRWE 9/18 – 24/11, 9/17/11).
D). Including the odd chance of JJBAL Fireballs with each prediction, warnings for the Pickerell Model (1/13 – 19/13) for qualitative AGW volcanic warnings (n=27) among tectonic energy lines with individual predictions for regions are:
1). Kamchatka (Tolbachik, Kizimen, Karymsky, Bezymianny, Kliuchevskoi, and Shiveluch) – Japan: Kyushu (Kirishima and Sakura-Jima) and Ryukyu (Suwanose-Jima);
2). Indonesia: Java (Semeru and Merapi) – Sumbawa (Tambora) – Komba (Batu Tara) – Flores (Ranakah and Lewotobi) – Halmahera (Ibu and Dukono); and
3). Mexico (Popocatepetl and Colima) – Guatemala (Santa Maria, Fuego, and Pacaya) – Nicaragua (San Cristobal, Telica, Apoyeque, and Masaya) – Costa Rica (Poas)."
(GBRWE 1/13 – 19/13''s Extreme Planetary Warnings for Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Solar/Terrestrial Flares from Human Activities; Robert Rhodes, Supplemental; GBRWE 1/13 – 19/13, 1/12/13).
I wholeheartedly agree that listening to the audio version of Language Intelligence is a more satisfying and enlightening experience than reading the words in book form, or at least, for me it was. Drew Birdseye is a superb narrator, adding just the right emphasis and intonation, clearly enunciating and bringing the book alive. The human brain processes audio information differently from written information. It makes sense that some people can more easily let in and ponder, even accept, the spoken word more readily than seeing it in print. After all, for a very long time in human history, the only way learning could take place, e.g. from generation to generation, was through storytelling. And the great thing about audio books is you can listen and multi-task: drive, clean the kitchen, pay the bills, sort papers, or take a long walk in the woods. This is why I believe the climate hawk community should consider things like establishing new radio programs fully dedicated to all aspects of climate change and clean energy, create more podcasts and Ted Talks, perhaps even establish a new TV channel that carries programs all designed to enlighten and educate the citizenry on this most crucial challenge of our time. Effective communication is the key to our survival; I couldn't agree more with Joe Romm that it's important, crucial even, that we get it right.
It's a wonderful book, and an easy read.
One suggestion: I think you should make a 2 page summary of the most important figures of speech, with examples. This could be laminated and sold as a separate product, or sold/given away as a PDF. This would help the reader keep track of the key figures (I had some trouble remembering the technical names for some of these as I was reading).
Well done!
A thought popped into my head, must share with apologies in advance. The price of the audio book on iTunes is $9.99. Nine-nine-nine.
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Under 1/13 – 19/13, there were at least 3 correct of 27 predicted AGW volcanic regions with 3 correct of 7 reported for the start of reports for the given week. As of 1/16/13, Reporting Period 1/13 – 19/13, 1st reporting – volcanoes were reported ("Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report"; volcano.si.edu/reports/usgs):
TOLBACHIK Central Kamchatka;
KIZIMEN Eastern Kamchatka;
SAKURA-JIMA Kyushu;
MANAM Northeast of New Guinea;
COPAHUE Central Chile-Argentina border;
KILAUEA Hawaii; and
STROMBOLI Aeolian Islands.
The offshore northern California was correct for an JJBAL Fireball (AGW fireball) within the standard 2-week/400 miles model for quake/volcano predictions.
Meeting the standards,"offshore northern California (7+)" region was predicted under 1/13 – 19/13. "A fireball lit up the predawn Northern California sky Thursday, according to reports from early risers. … was reported about 5:25 a.m. by people across California and as far away as Fernley, Nev" ("Fireball lights up early-morning sky"; Henry K. Lee; sfgate.com, 1/17/13). "The spectacular bright light in the sky that stunned Young and other Bay Area residents was an exploding meteor called a fireball, said Chabot Space and Science Center astronomer Ben Burress. … People from as far away as Monterey County and into Nevada reported the fireball to the Space and Science Center … "It's a fairly rare and random event. These things can just come out of the blue"" ("Did you see it? Exploding meteor lights Bay Area skies Thursday morning"; By Rick Hurd, Contra Costa Times; mercurynews.com, 1/17/13). Before all the reports came in, from µWatts' San Diego to the capital, "Early risers from Sacramento to S.D. report seeing fireball" (By Bill Lindelof; sacbee.com, 1/17/13).


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Before we begin the Shemoneh Esreh each morning, we say the blessing, "Blessed are You, Hashem, Who redeemed Israel (Ga'al Yisrael)." Then within the Shemoneh Esrei itself, in the "Re'eh va'ahneynu" section, we conclude "Blessed are You Hashem, Redeemer of Israel (Go'el Yisrael)." Aside from the use of the past tense and the present tense, there doesn't seem to be much difference in the blessing. Moreover, as I understand it, our tradition is to not to say anything between the blessing of Ga'al Yisrael and the Shemoneh Esrei so that we don't make a break in the connected concepts of redemption and prayer. O.C. 66:7. What is the substantive difference between these two blessings, if any?
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What is the difference between the blessing of Ga'al Yisrael preceding Shemoneh Esrei and the blessing of Go'el Yisrael?
The first, recited before Sh'mona Esrei, is a b'racha of praise and testimony. We are blessing Hashem for having redeemed us from Egypt. Ga-al Yisrael is in the past tense and means "who redeemed Israel".
The b'racha in Sh'mona Esrei is a request to be redeemed now. Go-el Yisrael means either "Who redeems Israel" or "Redeemer of Israel".
One major difference, according to some commentaries (Rashi to Megillah 17b, Ein Yaakov), is that the beracha of גאל ישראל is referring to national redemption, whereas the beracha of גואל ישראל is referring to individual redemption from personal suffering.


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The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.
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Just one phrase: "Their offensive line sucks!"
Worse than ours and that says a lot. Base on Manusky's propensity for masking his pressure in the 3-4, I believe that he will be able to apply pressure and cause sacks due to the fact the OL is so lame.
This will be one of the weakest OL's we've faced. Thank goodness right now as we need every little break and opportunity we can get, don't you think? Therefore, we must take advantage of GB's weaknesses and not look back.
Singeltary MUST trust his offensive as much as he trusts his D. When that happens, look out. For now, its simply not. When Coach sees it like we do, he gets just as pumped. When he see it like we do, Crabtree dropping a pass and we not even scoring three points?!!!
Yea! That's the players failing, his best, and we get zero points...trust, left by the waste-side for a non-focused rookie and a true ST vet, both, choking on national TV!!!!!
Were is the trust after that folks?
Do you really believe that Coach Singletary, like us, would stop attacking and taking risks if Crabtree or Nedney delivered?
GB gives us the opportunity to go even and still be in striking distance to AZ.
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Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson and Carrie Underwood got their start on this show, which has topped ratings for eight seasons. Last season, "Idol" took a softer approach with new judges Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler. Above, recent winner Scotty McCreery.
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NBC executives call "The Voice," based on a Dutch series, a "rare gift from God" that helped put the struggling network back in the prime-time game. Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Blake Shelton and Adam Levine sit on swivel chairs with their backs to contestants so they can judge singing purely on "the voice." Then they coach teams. The first season's winner, Javier Colon, got $100,000 and a recording contract with Universal Republic.
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No one thought the BBC ballroom-dancing competition show "Strictly Come Dancing" would work in the U.S. But the adaptation that pairs B-list (and sometimes C- and D-list) celebrities with professional dancers draws 19 million viewers each night, mostly on the elderly side. Bristol Palin didn't win, but she came close in season 11, with her mother cheering in the front row.
'The Sing-Off' (NBC)
Based on the success of "The Voice," NBC has rejiggered this series that focuses on a capella groups. Originally scheduled as a seasonal event debuting in December, "The Sing-Off" will anchor NBC's Monday nights this fall, leading into its retro drama "The Playboy Club."
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Contestants' styles range from break dance to ballroom on this competition series that awards winners with prizes like $250,000 in cash, a dance role in a Celine Dion concert and the title of "America's Favorite Dancer." Once a stalwart of summer, it has lost ground to NBC's "America's Got Talent" and ABC's "Wipeout."


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If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those places that represent the most eloquent expression of our species's ingenuity, beliefs, and ideals: the city. In this authoritative and engagingly written account, the acclaimed urbanist and bestselling author examines the evolution of urban life over the millennia and, in doing so, attempts to answer the age-old question: What makes a city great?
Despite their infinite variety, all cities essentially serve three purposes: spiritual, political, and economic. Kotkin follows the progression of the city from the early religious centers of Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and China to the imperial centers of the Classical era, through the rise of the Islamic city and the European commercial capitals, ending with today's post-industrial suburban metropolis.
Despite widespread optimistic claims that cities are "back in style," Kotkin warns that whatever their form, cities can thrive only if they remain sacred, safe, and busy–and this is true for both the increasingly urbanized developing world and the often self-possessed "global cities" of the West and East Asia.
Looking at cities in the twenty-first century, Kotkin discusses the effects of developments such as shifting demographics and emerging technologies. He also considers the effects of terrorism–how the religious and cultural struggles of the present pose the greatest challenge to the urban future.
Truly global in scope, The City is a timely narrative that will place Kotkin in the company of Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and other preeminent urban scholars.
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Editorial Reviews
"A compelling and original synthesis that belongs on the urbanist's bookshelf with Lewis Mumford, Peter Hall, and Fernand Braudel."
–Witold Rybczynski, Martin & Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism, School of Design, professor of Real Estate, Wharton School
"No one knows more about cities than Joel Kotkin, and has more to teach us about them. In The City, Kotkin takes us on a brisk and invigorating tour of cities from the Babylon of ancient times to the burgeoning exurbs of today. It is impossible not to learn a lot from this book."
–Michael Barone, senior writer, U.S. News & World Report, and co-author of The Almanac of American Politics
"If you want to understand why the future of American and European cities is mixed at best, if you want to understand why George Bush won the 2004 election, you need to read Joel Kotkin's account of how and why cities have developed and declined."
–Fred Siegel, author of Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life, senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute
"Unique and powerful insights into urban life . . . This book is a great read."
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Chapter One
Sacred Origins
Long before the first cities rose in Mexico, China, or Europe, the essential patterns of urban life evolved slowly in the Middle East. Homo sapiens is said to have achieved its present basic physical evolutionary form twenty-five thousand to forty thousand years ago and spread throughout virtually the entire habitable planet, including the Americas and Australia, by around 8000 b.c.1
With the end of the last Ice Age, stock breeding and agriculture spread and with them a more sedentary way of life. Small villages developed as centers of artisanal activities and trade. The most advanced, what might be called "proto-cities," appear to have developed most rapidly in a wide region that spread across the Syrian steppes, in Jericho, Iran, Egypt, and Turkey.2
This region—extending from the west coast of Palestine to the Nile Valley in Egypt to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers—constitutes what is called the "Fertile Crescent." In the earliest period of recorded history, the farther one gets from this region, observed the German historian and archaeologist Werner Keller, "the deeper grows the darkness and signs of civilization and culture decrease. It is as if the people on the other continents were like children awaiting their awakening."3
The alluvial basin between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in contemporary Iraq, proved an ideal environment for a precipitous leap to urbanism. Here, in the area later known to the Greeks as Mesopotamia, the arid desert was broken by reedy swamps, with waters overflowing with fish, and banks teeming with wildlife. Here, too, sprouted native grains, wheat and barley, which could be cultivated into reliable crops, rewarding the Neolithic farmer with the critical surpluses upon which the beginnings of urban civilization depended.4
The early city builders also faced many critical challenges in this fecund environment.5 Minerals, building stone, and timber were scarce. Rain was sporadic, and the rivers did not naturally, as in Egypt, inundate the large areas of dry land around them. As a result, the settlers in this region were forced to develop complex systems to irrigate their land.6
This huge effort required a moral and social order allowing for the intricate regulation of society and for a more dominating relationship toward nature, a major step away from the familial and clan relationships that had conditioned traditional village life for millennia. These earliest cities arose as the command posts for the carrying out of these functions. By modern or even classical standards, these urban agglomerations, the earliest of which can be traced as far back as 5000 b.c., were very small. Even by the third millennium, the powerful "metropolis" of Ur may have been no more than 150 acres and accommodated roughly twenty-four thousand people.7
The priestly class emerged as the primary organizers of the new urban order. It fell to them to articulate the divine principles placing man over nature, inculcate systems of worship, and regulate the activities of a large number of often unrelated people around complex communal tasks.
It is difficult, perhaps, to imagine in our current secular era the degree to which religion played a central role during most of urban history.8 Like the Catholic Church, or Buddhist, Muslim, Aztec, and Hindu priesthoods later on, the Sumerian ecclesiastics provided these ancient urban centers with a critical sense of order and continuity. Priests set the calendars that determined times for work, worship, and feasting for the entire population.9
Given the primacy of the priestly class, it is not surprising that temples celebrating the gods dominated the earliest primitive "skyline." One of the earliest of these ziggurats, the shrine at Ur of Nannar, the Moon God, towered seventy feet over the flat Mesopotamian landscape.10 The high temple, suggests Mircea Eliade, constituted a "cosmic mountain" connected directly to the cosmos.11
The temple dominated what might be called the "inner city" of early Sumerian urban civilization. Within this area's walls, the temple rose alongside the palace of the rulers and the homes of the principal citizens. These structures lent the whole district a sense of divine protection and security.12
The construction of these temples stimulated the commercial growth of early cities. In addition to slaves, ordinary workmen and skilled artisans participated in the construction of these first great structures, and many remained to service the needs of the priestly class. It was here as well, by roughly 3500 b.c., that the first recognizable systems of writing emerged, for both religious and commercial reasons.13
The priesthood held powerful sway over the material world. They controlled, on the gods' behalf, much of the land in the community. The "divine household" was in charge of maintaining the canals as well as the storage and distribution of the all-important agricultural surplus. The Epic of Gilgamesh, the origins of which go back to Sumerian times, speaks of the "sacred storehouse" that is the "seat of Ishtar, the Goddess."14
The temple also served as the first urban "shopping center," offering in an open setting a vast array of goods ranging from oils and fats to reeds, asphalt, mats, and stones. The temple even owned factories that manufactured garments and utensils.
Regimes and dynasties would come and go, but only catastrophic change would sweep away the religious institutions. The shrines of Ur, for example, were repeatedly restored by those who conquered the city. The hierarchy of gods or ways of worshipping might shift over time, but the centrality of the religious function remained for millennia.15
This pattern also persisted well past the heyday of the Sumerians. Virtually all the successor societies that emerged from the region—from the Babylonians and Assyrians to the Persians—envisioned their cities as essentially sacred places, with intimate ties to the divine. Babylon, the greatest of the Mesopotamian cities, was called Babi-ilani, or "the Gate of the Gods," the place from which the divinities were believed to have descended to earth.16
It is not clear whether or not Mesopotamia directly shaped the early Egyptian civilization, but the latter may well have been, as the historian Grahame Clark has noted, "fertilized from Sumerian seeds."17 As in the early Mesopotamian cities, the first Egyptian conurbations rested economically on the critical agricultural surplus. The average Egpytian peasant produced, according to some estimates, three times as much food as he needed.18
But there were also many differences between these two early civilizations. In Egypt, control lay in the hands of the pharaoh, who claimed to be a god himself. The civil servants, rather than administering the irrigation and surplus economy for the benefit of the gods or a king, did so for an individual personifying both at the same time.19 The intimate relationship between the civic identity and the priesthood, so critical in the evolution of Mesopotamian cities, was not nearly as pronounced.
For this, among other reasons, early Egypt does not serve us well as a primary focus on the origins of urbanism. Mesopotamian society revolved around city life and a permanent set of religious structures. Egyptian life centered around the royal court.20 Administrators, priests, artisans, workmen, and their slaves identified themselves not with an urban place, but with the personage of the pharaoh. If the dynasty moved, as it sometimes did, so did the priesthood and the government.21
Of course, a civilization as great and as long-lasting as Egypt's still produced some significant cities. Thebes, for example, was praised in a hymn in the fifteenth century b.c.: "She is called city; all others are under her shadow, to magnify themselves through her."22 In the world before the rise of cities such as Babylon, Egyptian cities had populations as large as, or even larger than, their Mesopotamian counterparts.23
Yet despite this, even great cities like Memphis or Thebes never assumed the independent identity, economic dynamism, and divine sta- tus associated with the various Sumerian urban centers. For one thing, Egypt's prolonged periods of universal order—in sharp contrast with unruly, fragmented Mesopotamia—did not promote the development of self-enclosed walled cities. Lack of competitive trade also slowed the development of a marketplace economy. Egypt would remain a civilization whose greatest achievement, the Pyramids, was constructed to house the dead, not provide an environment for the living. "Everything else in Egypt seemed to have found durable form," observed the urban historian Lewis Mumford, "except the city."24
India and China
What Egypt did share with urban Mesopotamia was the religious focus of its civilization. Similarly, Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, constructed around 2500 b.c. in the present Pakistani provinces of Sind and Punjab, also placed monumental religious architecture at their core. As in Sumer, with which they maintained a trading relationship,25 theocrats played a dominating role in the running of the city. Much of the worship seems to have been focused on the Mother Goddess, an important feature as well to the fertility cults of the Middle East.26
This religious orientation also applied to cities that had little or no direct connection with the Fertile Crescent. In China, around 1700 b.c., the Shang dynasty rulers placed temples at the center of their urban spaces. Priests or shamans played a critical role not only in divine matters, but in administration as well.
From the Shang as well we see the pattern of worship of ancestors that would play an important role27 in the evolution of China's enduring and continuous model of urban civilization.28 Religious devotion and practice was critical to the raising of mass conscriptions of peasant labor needed to build walls and city foundations. As an ancient Chinese poem has it:
They set their plumb-lines vertical
They lashed the boards to hold [the earth]
And raised the Temple [of the Ancestors] on the cosmic pattern.29
Great cities throughout most of classical Chinese history would be dominated by adherence to the "cosmic pattern." Temples of the gods and ancestors, along with the palaces of the rulers, stood at the center of the city. Through propitiating these deities, the rulers hoped to regulate both the natural universe and the human one.30
The Americas
The primacy of the religious role was, if anything, even more striking in the earliest cities of the faraway Americas—places unlikely to have contact with either the Mesopotamian or the Chinese urban center. Like their counterparts in Mesopotamia and China, the first cities built in Mexico, Peru, and other early civilizations of the Americas also placed religious structures at the heart of their metropolitan centers.31 Over a millennium before the rise of Tenochtitlán, Teotihuacán, a short drive from contemporary Mexico City, was home to over a hundred temples along its main avenue, the Street of the Dead.
To the south as well, among the Maya and in Peru, early cities center around temples, religious ceremonies, and regulations. On the northern highlands of Peru, the Chavin builders of the early first millennium b.c. constructed massive religious structures that represented both a major cultural advance and a foundation for future urban civilization on the west coast of South America.32 Roughly two thousand years later, the Incas also built temples in the middle of their cities. Incan society rested on the notion that their rulers were gods and their capital, Cuzco, constituted "the navel of the world."33
Historians, amateur or otherwise, have tried to explain the similarities among the religious origins of ancient cities by insisting on some vague transmission of culture across vast distances. Perhaps a more fruitful approach would be to assume, as the American historian T. R. Fehrenbach notes, the existence of a "psychic unity" among early city builders in all parts of the world.34
From the Hardcover edition.
Meet the Author
Joel Kotkin is an Irvine senior fellow with the New America Foundation, which is based in Washington, D.C. He is the author of five books, including Tribes and The New Geography, both published by Random House. Kotkin is a frequent contributor to The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Inc. magazine, The American Enterprise, and the Los Aneles Times "Opinion" section. He also serves as a senior fellow of the Newman Institute at Baruch College of the City University of New York and lectures at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. He lives in Valley Village, Los Angeles, with his wife, Mandy, and two daughters, Ariel and Hannah.
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Lancaster Post 31 will be home tonight at it hosts Rock Hill Post 34 in a League V baseball clash at Eggleton Field.
The game tonight is the second meeting of the season between Lancaster and Rock Hill.
Lancaster, which entered the week with a 2-2 record in League V play, downed Post 34 in the first contest, taking a 12-2 victory in Rock Hill last month.
In that game, Evan Flynn smashed a two-run home run and Druw Rollings drilled a solo home run to spark the 10-run win in seven frames.
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Veteran driver Andrew Baker highlighted the night, taking two wins.
u The Montgomery Towing Super Stock main event front row had Matthew Cauthen and Brandy Baker.
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Langley's Super Late Model checkers earned him $4,000 with the 40-lap victory at the Georgia track.
"It was good to win and I'm thrilled to get that first one," Langley said. "We have had our share of tough luck, so this win really was exciting.
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The Lancaster Dixie Baseball A (6U) stars will open play in the District 2 tournament in Union at the Timken Sports Complex June 16.
The tournament continues to June 18.
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Buford High School golf standout "T" Sutton and Michael Long each posted a 76 to tie for the top spot in the boys 15-18 division.
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Miles, who signed with Presbyterian College in the fall, will play for the North Class AA-AAA all-star team at the Ripken Experience.
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Lancaster Post 31 capped a long night with a walk-off home win in extra innings Wednesday.
P-31, in the nightcap of a League V twin bill at Eggleton Field, avoided a diamond nightmare – getting swept – with a 4-3 win over Fort Mill Post 43.
P-43 opened the doubleheader with a 5-3 win in nine innings.
Regulation Legion baseball games are nine innings, with doubleheaders each seveninning contests.
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Lancaster Super Speedway returns to racing action with the weather forecast looking much better Saturday night.
LSS fans and drivers with rainout tickets from the May 28 race will need to bring their tickets/arm bands from that race to be admitted free Saturday night.
The track has been idle for the last two weekends with back-to-back rainouts.
The admission prices are $25 for the pits and $12 for the track grandstands.
LSS pit gates open at 4 p.m. and 5 for the grandstands.
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When Microsoft needed an executive last fall to manage its third-largest and fastest-growing business, it tapped senior VP Bob Muglia to build bridges between the company's rough-and-tumble engineers and sometimes overlooked marketing staff. This month, Muglia, an 18-year Microsoft veteran who took over the company's key server software and development tools business in October, took on more responsibility, becoming the point man in Microsoft's still-simmering antitrust battle with the Justice Department that's dragged on for more than a decade.
Muglia will be center stage next year, when Microsoft ships the long-awaited update to Windows for servers. During a keynote speech at Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference last week, he introduced a second test version of Longhorn Server, the next version of Windows for servers. "There's a trend towards industry standardization, it's unstoppable, and Windows is leading in that space," he said.
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Vice-President Joe Biden asked for God's blessing for the late mother of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen during a White House celebration of St. Patrick's Day except the elderly lady is very much alive.
"God rest her soul," Biden said Wednesday night as he introduced Cowen and President Obama.
CBS Radio News White House correspondent Mark Knoller reports that the Vice-President quickly caught himself.
"Although, wait, your mom's still alive. It's your dad who passed," said Biden, adding, "God bless her soul."
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John Oliver should probably get used to his cushy new home at HBO.
After more than seven years as a correspondent on "The Daily Show," the Cambridge graduate has stepped into the spotlight with his own topical humor show, "Last Week Tonight," which premiered Sunday on the premium cable network.
In a sign of his ascension to the top of the comedy ranks, Oliver now commands a prime piece of real estate on HBO's marquee night.
Less than a year ago, Oliver was eagerly downplaying expectations as he prepared to step in for "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, who was about to take an extended hiatus to direct his first feature film.
At the time, Oliver's stated goal was simply: "Don't have this building on fire when Stewart returns." But during Stewart's 12-week absence, the native of Birmingham, England, proved to be more than just a diligent housesitter.
He received rave reviews out of the gate and was performing so well by the end of his first week in the desk that guest Fareed Zakaria suggested he was staging a "brilliant, slow-motion coup."
Ratings for the long-running satirical program, which typically ebb during the summer, held steady. By August, observers had declared Oliver the heir apparent to "The Daily Show." Instead, he landed at HBO in a deal announced in November.
The chronically self-effacing Oliver is reluctant to take credit for his successful stint, arguing the show is as strong as it is only because of Stewart's steady leadership.
As a host, Oliver stayed true to the tone established by Stewart while infusing the show with a boisterous, slightly goofy energy all his own. Like a true pro, Oliver even pulled off an interview with Aaron Sorkin conducted nearly in the dark after an unprecedented power outage at "The Daily Show" studio.
"I think we all felt very, very strongly that the only person who could do that job would be Oliver," said Tim Carvell, former head writer at "The Daily Show" and now an executive producer on "Last Week Tonight." "The only person who didn't know it was Oliver himself."
Though he likes to joke that, as an Englishman, he's "not in touch with 95 percent of my feelings at any given moment," in truth Oliver comes across as a bit of a softy.
As he puts it, he cried "like a little girl" during his last "Daily Show" appearance, and his wickedly sharp humor seems to derive from genuine concern rather than condescension.
"He fully recognizes how awful and bizarre the news is," Carvell said, "but he covers it with this weird sort of glee. There's not a cynicism or sourness to him."
Oliver, who for years had played the role of "Senior British Correspondent," also discovered that he loved hosting. "After that first week," Oliver recalled, "some guy came up to me in the street and said, 'I've never seen you smile before.' And I realized he's probably right."
By his own account, Oliver agonized over the decision to leave "The Daily Show," where he made his debut the very day after he landed in New York in 2006. "Every part of me wanted to stay at 'The Daily Show.' I wasn't really ready to go, but I don't think I was ever going to be. I needed to be given an offer it was just insane to say no to."
That offer eventually came from HBO, though Oliver was courted by other networks, including CBS, which met with him to discuss taking over "The Late Late Show."


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Does this fork have a tapered steering...
Does this fork have a tapered steering tube?
It comes with both tapered and non-tapered, but it would appear that the only size left in stock (in the dropdown menu under the price) is a 1.5 taper.


text: You bring up a fair point. We were looking on their website to see what type of distribution network they have so we can buy their engines for our generator builds. They show none, but i did see a few websites that offer their engines. Most are out west and we are in the Southeast. Currently we have to buy a packaged unit with a skid and generator from an OEM and then dress it out like our customers want. We only build about 5-10 a year so I'm sure we wouldn't have OEM status.