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Troubleshooting the pad-printing process requires the identification and control of associated variables. The tips presented here will help you avoid some of the persistent problems you encounter on press.
By Julian Joffe
Printing larger images
One of the challenges pad printing en-counters is transferring a quality image when printing a large, open area. As the cup passes over the open area, the ring tends to scoop out some of the ink from the etched area, resulting in less ink being picked up and transferred (Figure 6). The print will then appear faint in those areas. Several steps can prevent scooping and improve print quality.
1. Select the correct line screen and halftone pattern. The halftones in the etched area help prevent the ink from being removed as the inkcup passes over the plate. Increasing the dot size and arranging dots in cross patterns prevents much of the ink from being removed. Most pad printers choose either a 300-line/in. 90% or 200-line/in. 80% screen when creating the cliche plates. This allows for a deeper etch with the peaks still supporting the cup.
2. Align the registration of the artwork. Ensuring that the shorter side of the image faces the operator is a technique that works with some graphics. For example, when printing an image that is rectangular, register the image so that the ceramic ring travels in the direction of the longer side.
3. When possible, add lines or text to break up the open area to help prevent scooping. An open circle often presents problems.
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Using excessive pressure during ink pick-up from the cliche and downward force of the pad on the object is a common mistake. Decrease ink pick-up and print pressure to the minimum force needed to pick up the complete image and transfer it completely. This prevents overstretching the pad and smudging/squishing out ink during pick-up or printing.
Check the pad after its pick-up stroke to see if it picked up the complete image off the cliche. Many times the cliche stroke is too short and the extremities of the image are incomplete. Use a mirror to see if the image is complete. In the case of rough substrates, you may need to reconsider the rule of minimum force, as the down stroke on the print side may have to be excessive to improve print quality. The down stroke on the cliche should be as conservative as necessary to pick up the complete image. Center the image on the pad—that also helps to eliminate the need for excessive pressure in the down stroke.
If your ink is drying too fast, could you speed up the machine? Know what your equipment is capable of in terms of programming and use those features. Simply adding a pause before the print phase often helps to cure image-transfer problems caused by a deeply etched cliche or ink that is a bit thin. Whatever you do, be sure to document press settings.
The single most expensive mistake pad printers make is not thinking about problems and the possible solutions. The second biggest mistake is not asking for help when needed. Both of these can quickly become quite costly.
Julian Joffe
Julian Joffe is CEO of East Dorset, VT-based Pad Print Machinery of Vermont.
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General Rules for Drawing Logical Data Flow Diagrams
. Any data flow leaving a process must be based on data input to the process.
. All data flows are named; the name reflects that data flowing between processes, data stores, sources and sinks.
. Only data needed to perform the process should be an input to the process.
. A process should know nothing about, that is, be independent of any other process in the system; it should depend only on its own input and output.
. Processes are always running; they do not start or stop. Analysts should assume a process is always ready to function or perform necessary work.
. Output from processes can take one of several forms:
a) An input data flow with information added by the process (for example, an annotated invoice).
b) A response or change of data form (such as a change of £'s profit to profit percentage.
c) Change of status (from unapproved to approved status).
d) Change of content (assembly or separation of information contained in one or more incoming data flows).
e) Change in organisation (e.g. the physical separation or rearrangement of data).
Maintain Consistency Between Processes
When developing DFDs in more detail it is important to maintain consistency between levels. No new inputs or outputs to a process should be introduced at a lower level that were not identified at a higher level. However, within a process, new data flows and data stores may be identified.
Follow Meaningful Levelling Conventions
Levelling refers to the handling of local files (those that are used within a process). The details that pertain only to a single process on a particular level should be held within the process. Data stores and data flows that are relevant only to the inside of a process are concealed until that process is exploded into greater detail.
Add Control on Lower-Level Diagrams Only
The logical data flow diagrams developed to this point do not include control information. No mention has been made of how to handle errors or exceptions. Although this information is necessary in the final analysis, it should not be a concern while identifying the overall data flow. The secondary diagrams (below second or third level) show error and exception handling in the process being exploded.
Some physical control information is unnecessary in logical DFDs. Copy numbers or annotations for documents (e.g. Copy 1, Copy 2, Shipping copy or Accounting copy), procedural orders (e.g. Find the record; Review the record; Annotate the record), or day-of-the-week triggers (e.g. Do on Monday; Do the last day of the month) do not belong with the logical and data aspects of requirements determination. The important elements for understanding a process during logical data flow analysis are not document copy numbers but descriptions of the data needed to perform the process.
Assign Meaningful Labels
The descriptions assigned to data flows and processes should tell the reader what is going on. All data flows should be named to reflect their content accurately.
Data Flow Naming
The names assigned to data flows should reflect the data of interest to the analysts, not the documents on which they reside. For example, an invoice contains many different elements of information. Analysts are concerned with the contents of the invoice that are important for a particular process. It may be the invoice number and date of issue or the signature or authorisation associated with the invoice. It is not the sheet of paper itself.
Data flowing into a process undergo change. Therefore, the outbound data flow is named differently from the inbound one. (If no change is made to the data flow, what is the purpose of the process?)
Process Naming and Numbering
All processes should be assigned names that tell the reader something specific about the nature of the activities in the process. The names INVENTORY CONTROL, PURCHASING and SALE are too general to be useful in a logical DFD. It is much better to use ADJUST QUANTITY ON HAND, PREPARE PURCHASE ORDER or EDIT SALES ORDER to describe the process.


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Christine O'Donnell
O'Donnell takes Delaware GOP Primary
And yes, it may cost the Republicans a chance to take the seat in November.
So what? Sometimes it is more important to get the attention of the party. If that costs a seat, then so be it. And that message is being sent. Miller, Paul, Angle, and now O'Donnell.
This is what the GOP should take from this race:
"This shows that conservative energy at the grassroots is at tidal wave levels," said Vin Weber, a former Minnesota congressman and GOP lobbyist. "It may well cost us the Delaware Senate seat, but the same phenomenon will help Republicans, particularly in House races in November."
That's right. Key word: "conservative". And that energy is only going to be maintained with candidates of which that "grassroots" group approves. Mike Castle wasn't that candidate. The same story played out earlier in Utah where free spending and GOP establishment candidate Sen. Bob Bennett was defeated. Mike Lee, the eventual winner, ran on a rather simple platform that resonated:
"I'm a lifelong conservative and I've long stood for the idea we need to limit the power of government in order to make life better for Americans," said Lee, a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.
The Bob Bennett's and Mike Castles (one of the only Republicans to vote for cap and trade in the House) of the world don't fit in that scenario. And while it may cost a "probable" Republican seat or two in this election, that's the usual short-term horserace view that continues to get Republicans in trouble. It's not just about the number of seats, but who is sitting in that seat. Republicans will have plenty of seats – enough to block any further big government nonsense by Democrats. But they have to be seats filled with occupants that aren't as likely to side with Dems as the GOP.
What the O'Donnell victory should prove to the Republican hierarchy is the "grassroots" isn't going to support their candidates just because they've been approved by the NRSC or NRCC and the backroom boys. They've been trying to tell them that for years. Now they're actually taking action. The insurgents are alive, well, active and making a statement. And Mike Castle wasn't the answer to their desires.
What the O'Donnell race points out – as it did in the other insurgent victories – is the "base" is not going to stand idly by while the NRSC chooses candidates that don't live up to their wants and expects them to support that candidate. Especially if the candidate is an old establishment moderate that shows up with the other side as much as he shows up with his own side.
Naturally this doesn't sit well with the power brokers in the GOP. Watch the petulant Karl Rove all but denounce O'Donnell after it is affirmed she's taken Mike Castle down (via Hot Air):
Again you hear the number count as the prime motivation for the GOP. "Well we coulda hada seat."
Yeah, and you could of had the usual sort of person in that seat spending as much time caucusing with the big government Democrats as with Republicans. So what good is it, really?
Certainly O'Donnell has baggage. But apparently the conservative voters in DE decided her baggage was much more acceptable than Castle's votes. And, as you heard Rove say, they surged at the end, turning out in much higher numbers than expected. The NRSC can ignore that or they can go with it. It appears the establishment GOP in the form of the NRSC will choose not to help fund O'Donnell's race. And, naturally, Mike Castle, the sore loser, has said he won't endorse O'Donnell. That way, I guess, if she loses the establishment GOP can say, "see, we told you so. Listen to us, we know what's good for you and Delaware". Sound familiar?
Then look around you and take a look what listening to the establishment on either side of the political spectrum has given us to this point.
GOP still clueless – it's not about majorities, it's about fundamental change
Nate Silver is someone I've come to enjoy reading when it comes to election analysis. He knows his business. But he too seems to have missed the significance of the New Hampshire and Delaware senatorial primaries, casting them only as elections – if they go to the "insurgent" Tea Party backed candidates – that could cost the GOP a majority in the Senate if the insurgents win.
Of course, that's not the point, at least as I see them. While Christine O'Donnell may not be the ideal candidate for the US Senate, she's at least fiscally conservative. Mike Castle, the GOP choice on the other hand, is described by Silver like this:
… Michael N. Castle, who has held elected office in Delaware for 30 years as its governor, lieutenant governor and lone United States representative. … Mr. Castle — a moderate who is unambiguously a member of the establishment …
Are any lights flashing and horns sounding in your head right now? Silver describes Castle in terms that make him part of the problem, not part of the solution. He's a perfect plug-in to the Congress the country as a whole seems so unsatisfied with and is on the verge of changing.
Oh sure, he might nominally give the GOP another seat in the Senate – but to what end? Voting with the Snowe/Collins Republicans and the Democrats on bills that expand government and spend more?
When is a seat not really a seat, or a majority not really a majority? When you elect "moderates" of either party who are not averse to expanding the role of government. That's part of the reason you see more and more polarization within the country. Right now the left is having fun characterizing the right as "radical". But one only need look at the size of the liberal caucus in the House to know where the heart of leftist radicalism lies.
I continue to harken back to polls which show the vast majority of Americans think the country is on the wrong track – in numbers which haven't changed much in the last 8 years or so. In other words, the people as a whole are dissatisfied with both parties and their representation. And again, I'll point back to the Ned Lamont/Joe Lieberman race where the left tried precisely what is happening on the right in states such as AK, NH and DE at the moment.
These movements to effect change are indicators. What is described as "radicalism" from "political activists" are the surface bubbles of a molten core of unrest among the majority of Americans. They're thrashing around for ways and means of changing something that seems never to change. The Tea Party movement is one of those bubbles. The Daily Kos left was another. But nothing much has changed, has it? And the "wrong track" numbers continue to remain at a constant level. And the frustration builds.
This isn't about majorities in the Senate. It isn't about the horserace in November. It's about fundamental change – and not many seem to understand that. The people in Alaska have said "enough" with the Joe Miller primary win. The fact that the GOP primary races in both DE and NH are as close as they are should be sending unmistakable messages to the GOP leadership – one's even they can't miss – that establishment moderates aren't who the people want in the Senate. Naturally, it seems the Republicans are as tone deaf as everyone else.
If the GOP only wins 7 seats instead of 9 in the Senate, that's fine, as long as the 7 are of the type that are committed to paring government down – reducing its sized influence and cost. Those 7 are enough to keep the Snow/Collins branch of the GOP from pushing the numbers over to the Democratic side. As it stands, in fact, not having a Senate majority is probably better for the GOP than achieving one right now – they'd just blow it and, as Mitch McConnell once said, being minority leader in the Senate is one of the most powerful positions in Congress. And besides, we'd have to listen to Obama whine for 2 years about the "Republican Congress".
Nope, the hand writing is on the wall if the GOP (and for that matter, the Democrats) would just pause long enough in the partisan bickering and bomb throwing to read it. This isn't about either of their parties, or them. It's about changing the direction of the country. The party that first manages to absorb that message and then elect candidates that actually work toward that end is the party that is going to be in power for quite some time. In principle, that should be the GOP. But as usual, in their normal clueless way, they continue on the same road that put them in the minority two years ago believing instead that all this excitement about the midterms is actually because people are embracing their candidates over the Dems. How they have missed the fact that the Tea Party insurgency indicates they couldn't be more wrong still amazes me.
So continue on your merry blinkered way, GOP, and fight the movement and candidates who're all but lighting the way with the platform you should be embracing. Continue to put up your moderate establishment candidates and then wonder why, in two years time, you're back on the other side of the wave as Democrats are again swept into office while you are pushed out.
It is the usual short term view that drives politics today and drives me crazy. The belief that winning a majority is all that's important because then the party can act on its agenda. No – it can't. Not if those it has elected aren't in tune with the principles of the platform. Not if those elected are "moderates" who have no problem with big government, subsidies, entitlements and high taxes.
If returning to the fundamentals of Constitutional government is "radical" then the GOP needs to become the radical party. Until they absorb that, embraces that "radicalism" and runs candidates who believe in that fundamental principle, the wrong track numbers will continue to remain constant and the GOP will continue to be the clueless lesser of two evils, but not by much.


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Poor Misunderstood Marx!
Commonweal has an article by Marxist literary critic Terry Eagleton in which he argues that Marx was right in his critique of captalism. Go here to read it. Go here to read a post about the article which appeared on the Commonweal blog. ( I will confess to having a very slight grudging respect for Mr. Eagleton ever since his memorable, and scorching, review which may be read here, of Richard Dawkins' inane The God Delusion. The respect is very slight and very grudging indeed, since Mr. Eagleton also wrote a bitter diatribe against John Paul II, which may be read here, after the death of the pontiff. He also views the Catholic Church, the Church he was raised in, as "one of the nastiest authoritarian outfits on the planet", which is rich coming from a Marxist.)
The Marx set forth in the article by Mr. Eagleton is unrecognizable to me. The Marx of history was not some sort of democratic eurosocialist. He was a hard core advocate of terror. The quotations from his works and letters on this point are legion. Here is a typical statement he made in 1850 in an address to the Communist League:
"[The working class] must act in such a manner that the revolutionary excitement does not collapse immediately after the victory. On the contrary, they must maintain it as long as possible. Far from opposing so-called excesses, such as sacrificing to popular revenge of hated individuals or public buildings to which hateful memories are attached, such deeds must not only be tolerated, but their direction must be taken in hand, for examples' sake."
From the same address:
To be able forcefully and threateningly to oppose this party, whose betrayal of the workers will begin with the very first hour of victory, the workers must be armed and organized. The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens' militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed. Where the formation of this militia cannot be prevented, the workers must try to organize themselves independently as a proletarian guard, with elected leaders and with their own elected general staff; they must try to place themselves not under the orders of the state authority but of the revolutionary local councils set up by the workers. Where the workers are employed by the state, they must arm and organize themselves into special corps with elected leaders, or as a part of the proletarian guard. Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary. The destruction of the bourgeois democrats' influence over the workers, and the enforcement of conditions which will compromise the rule of bourgeois democracy, which is for the moment inevitable, and make it as difficult as possible – these are the main points which the proletariat and therefore the League must keep in mind during and after the approaching uprising.
Nothing done by the Communist states that claimed Marx as their ideological father in regard to the suppression of adversaries and the use of mass terror to remain in power cannot find full warrant in the works of Marx.
Of course, Marx goes wrong at the very beginning in regard to his view of Man which is completely materialist. In his A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Marx spelled out his view that religion was an illusion which deterred the revolutionary rage of the people:
The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d'honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.
It is, therefore, the task of history, once the other-world of truth has vanished, to establish the truth of this world. It is the immediate task of philosophy, which is in the service of history, to unmask self-estrangement in its unholy forms once the holy form of human self-estrangement has been unmasked. Thus, the criticism of Heaven turns into the criticism of Earth, the criticism of religion into the criticism of law, and the criticism of theology into the criticism of politics.
Marx was a poor philosopher who completely misunderstood the nature of Man. He had little understanding of economics and his predictions as to the future course of history were twaddle. What he did do however, and that quite successfully, was to produce an ideology for devoted followers to use as an excuse to seize power and to remake humanity in a Marxist shape. This laboratory experiment with entire peoples as lab rats produced death and misery on a scale never seen before in human history.
That a Catholic magazine would give space to a man who thinks that perhaps Marx was right after all, and who is a bitter anti-Catholic to boot, might be considered shocking to some. (Marx would have found it bitterly amusing. He had nothing but contempt for those who attempted to mix Christianity and socialism. His phrase, "Christian socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat", summed up his dismissal of this mixture.) However, this is Commonweal, and it is merely reflecting a readership largely consisting of an aging cohort of uber liberal Catholics who have always had a soft spot in their hearts and heads for most things of the Left. Eagleton, who apparently may now believe in God while remaining a committed Marxist, is a natural for this target audience. For myself, when it comes to religion I will stick with the Church, when it comes to politics with Edmund Burke, the Founding Fathers and Abraham Lincoln, and when it comes to economics, with Milton Friedman, an easier amalgam of beliefs I think than attempting to baptize Marx.
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In addition, Marxism has been ineptly applied by run-of-the-mill megalomaniacs like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot.
Today, Glory-O!, we have geniuses like our messianic magic man Obama and Uncle Joe Biden doing it correctly.
"All attempts to create Heaven on Earth have resulted in hell on Earth." Camus
Ah, hell on earth . . . OTOH they will make the evil rich miserable, too . . . Go for it!
Both Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Reinhardt Marx of Munich have suggested that Marx's critique of alienation under capitalistic forms of economic production is largely correct, while of course maintaining that the Marxist solution, because atheistical and totalitarian in practice (if not necessarily in intent) is a non-starter. Likewise, Pope Benedict XVI quotes approvingly, though critically, the great Marxist philosopher Adorno in his excellent encyclical Spe Salvi; likewise, the phenomenology of labor in JPII's Laborem Exercens is clearly influenced by some aspects of the early Marx's thought.
All powerful lies have to have at least a small amount of truth to them, otherwise no one would believe them. If there is a grain of "truth" to Marxism, it may be in its "critique of alienation under capitalistic forms of economic production." Marx knew there was a problem and he did a fairly competent job of identifying what the problem was, but he was totally wrong about the solution.
I guess "Marx" is philosophical and theological pathology.
Attention all Keynesians!
John Maynard Keynes quote: " . . . socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of opinion – how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and, through them, the events of history." Keynes, "The End of Laissez-Faire."
Here is why there can be no "Gospel According to Saint Marx."
George Orwell, "Reflections on Gandhi"
The Humanistic Ideal: "Man is the measure of all things and that our job is to make life worth living."
"But it is not necessary here to argue whether the other-worldly or the humanistic ideal is 'higher.' The point is that they are incompatible. One must choose between God and Man, and all 'radicals' and 'progressives' from the mildest liberal . . . have in effect chosen Man."
I think Keynes (RIP) and Orwell (RIP) "got" it.
Yes, note that, far from your assertion that Marx was simply a "poor philosopher," Benedict describes him with the following phrases:
"incisive language and intellect"; "With great precision, albeit with a certain onesided bias,Marx described the situation of his time, and with great analytical skill he spelled out the paths leading to revolution;"
The Pope, rightly, goes on to note the "fundamental error" of Marx's thought, but his criticism is so much the more persuasive because he has not fallen in for caricatures of Marx that you present as fact.
By the way, the question whether Marx was, himself, a "materialist"–in the strongly philosophical sense of that word–is more difficult to answer than you might expect. But that's another issue.
"By the way, the question whether Marx was, himself, a "materialist"–in the strongly philosophical sense of that word–is more difficult to answer than you might expect."
How was Marx not a materialist in a "strong philisophical sense?"
I agree with this statement towards the end: "…as long as capitalism is still in business, Marxism must be as well."
That, I think, is the best argument against capitalism.
The only Marx worth remembering is Groucho. As for Karl, he sponged off Engels much of his life. After Marx wrote Das Kapital, his wife was so disgusted with his indolence, she remarked, "Karl, if you had only spent more time making capital instead of writing about it, we would have been better off."
As for capitalism and communism, the old joke applies:
Capitalism is man's exploitation of man; communism is the reverse.
"The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right."
G.K. Chesterton (1922)
That observation is as valid today as it what then and before.
Well, Hume, Locke, Kant and Plato, from a Catholic anthropological standpoint, also "got the fundamental nature of Man wrong", although their errors are, obviously, different from both Marx's and from each other's. Are they poor philosophers too? (I'm leaving aside the obvious riposte that getting the "fundamental nature of Man" *right* is not something attainable by probably any single philosopher.)
On Marx and Materialism, see George L. Kline, "The Myth of Marx's Materialism" in Philosophical Sovietology: The Pursuit of a Science
I stopped reading when Eagleton claimed that scarcity was the result of capitalism. I suppose I shouldn't have expected better from a literary critic, but still.
When I was in college I read the Manifesto and was of course repulsed by it. A friend suggested to me that Marx's really valuable insights were in alienation, so I read some of his stuff on that but it didn't make any sense to me either (IIRC, Marx's views on alienation had a fairly strong anti-religious thread running through it, so I'm surprised that Pope Benedict would say that it is correct, but he is undoubtedly more familiar with the subject than I).
Marx was also a vicious racist. Nathaniel Weyl's "Karl Marx, Racist" shows ol' KM had incrediably racist feeling about Blacks, Jews, Slavs, and even Scandanavians. Racism, it's not just for Nazi's!
Don, reminds me of all those chicken-crossing-the-road jokes:
Plato's answer: "For the greater good."
Marx's answer: "It was an historical inevitability."
Aristotle: "To actualize its potential."
Epicurus: "For fun."
Torquemada: "Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out."
No, of course there are degrees; my point was merely to counter Donald's too easy dismissal of Marx, which actually doesn't allow a *substantive* or philosophically serious criticism of Marx to be voiced, because it has already constructed, and destroyed, a straw-man.
Many things which Marx "got right" are also the sorts of things that Aristotle "got right," especially involving the importance of practice for thinking seriously about ethics, and so on. But I don't think that, from this premise, you can get to the conclusion "Well then you don't need Marx," precisely because Marx makes legible how *one* broadly Aristotelian approach to society and culture might look given modern economies. Not the *right* one, necessarily, but one which, if you are going finally to critique it, you need to understand.
I don't expect to buy Philosophical Sovietology due to the price on-line. Unless you have a copy of the article, I will just go with the general philosophical consensus that Marx was a materialist.
That being the case, Marx, more that Hume, Locke, Plato and Kant fundamentally failed as a philosopher.
As to Marx's critique of capitalism (of the Nineteenth Century) I will defer to others. As to his relevance to the situation today, I suspect the experience of the Twentieth Century answers that.
You can get the article via Interlibrary Loan if that's available in your community (some public libraries support this, others don't; most colleges and some high schools do as well). I wouldn't buy the book either!
I'm not sure that I think that Marx "failed" as a philosopher "more" than Hume or Locke, but I'm also not sure I know what that means absent further specification. I agree that Kant and Plato are (rightly) considered "greater" philosophers than Marx.
The question as to whether the existence of the Soviet Union, and the very great evils perpetrated by that regime (and other, like-minded regimes) constitutes sufficient reason to conclude that Marx is irrelevant today is a complex one. From both the writings of Benedict and Cardinal Reinhardt Marx, one gets the sense that the answer is, "it depends." If you are looking for solutions, then, I agree, Marx is a non-starter; but if you are looking for analyses and trenchant (although somewhat one-sided) criticisms, I believe Marx still has much to offer.
Perhaps I mean failed in the sense of discerning the truth. Clearly all philosophers fall short of this to some degree. (Even Aristotle couldn't discern a personal God.)
But while Hume, Locke and Kant failed in their epistemology, the latter two at least accepted a transcendent even though they denied the ability to know it with any precision. As a result, they held a measure of the truth.
Marx on the other hand, and I still hold this though we may see with the article, through his radical materialism, failed in a fundamental way to understand what is true and in turn what leads men to true happiness.
Don said above the P. Benedict has the best short summary of Marx in Spe Salvi and then quoted it. I'm going to quote part of that quote:
"He forgot that man always remains man."
Now, find me a better anti-utopian one-liner. God bless the holy father.
Don, one more chicken/road answer from Machiavelli:
So that its subjects will view it with admiration,
as a chicken which has the daring and courage to
boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom
among them has the strength to contend with such a
paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the
princely chicken's dominion maintained.
Don, worthy additions! Now you've got me going…
Nietsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road
gazes also across you.
Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself,
the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.
Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.
bada bing
Pope Benedict: The chicken forgot that chicken always remains chicken, no matter what side of the road chicken is on.
John Donne: "It crosseth for thee."
OK, I'll stop now. : )
The alienation that Marx desribes as the worker going through is largely the result of 19th century industrialisation, where through the division of labour, the workers found themselves increasingly deskilled and thus at the mercy of capitalists, who then no difficulty replacing them with women and children. The self-respect that most of us desire is to a considerable extent anchored in the value of the job we do. That the division of labour can lead to the dehumanising of workers, was easily grasped by the Luddites and the distributionists. One needn't be a Marxist to understand it. The supremely assured F1 mechanic is not alienated from the result of his labour – he can see the car taking off at full speed – but an overeducated minion tending to a factory line machine, producing a small part of a small module of a car, certainly can be.
Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road – Saints and Theologians Respond!
I knew I bookmarked that post for a reason!
One of the great errors after the fall of the Evil Empire was not stigmatizing Marxism/Communism as was National Socialism after its defeat. Thus, the bizarre desire to resurrect it in varied forms now. The most bizarre, and vile, is the attempt to raise it again in the Church.
Phil, how is Marxism/Communism being 'resurrected'? Other than its purest form (Cuba), it's about as dead as Julius Caesar. Even the Chi-coms are committed capitalists these days. Marx, Lenin and their ilk have become mere footnotes in Planet Earth Incorporated. Terry Eagleton must have run out of material.
It is certainly being resurrected in Academia. The Eagleton link is one piece of "intellectual" resurrection. Not that that is much of a stretch given the Marxist bias of academia. That's just the beginning.
Phil, granted, Academia is rife with Leftists, but their influence on the whole of society is limited.
I don't see millionaires like Sean Penn and Michael Moore, who rail against capitalism, surrendering their private jets and vacation homes or redistributing their wealth to the have-nots.
Jesus said, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
That is probably a better way to put it. But given the time since the fall of the Wall and the current political/social situation, I think they and more of their ilk are increasing their cries for change.
As opposed to Rahm Emanuel, I think the efforts of those who are radical Marxists/socialists to exploit these crises will have more widespread effects.
I don't think the effect of Academia is so limited. I think they have been quite effective in indoctrinating a whole generation to their thinking. Not that a generation is Marxist in a doctrinaire sense, but certainly more inclined to favor this thinking. Particularly in the "soft, taste great, less filling" form presented by many. This includes some in the Church such as Eagleton.
As for the Hollywood types, they are hypocrites. Few are actual Marxists but some would be more than happy to run a re-education program. Most just want to feel good for ripping off people for their bad movies.
One example of that "soft" indoctrination would be the Howard Zinn/Matt Damon "The People Speak." A collaboration of Communism and Hollywood.
Phil, perhaps easy to underestimate the impact of the Lefties in the classroom, although one wonders how much "education" is being absorbed in light of grim stats such as this: 67% of eight-graders in Wisconsin can't read proficiently.
As for Eagleton, he lost all cred with his diatribe against John Paul II, arguably the greatest man of the 20th century and the most influential pope of the Church.
Back to the well-worn but always instructive mention of the dumbing down of America. John Taylor Gatto in his excellent "Underground History of American Education" offers this nugget:
In 1882, fifth graders read these authors in their Appleton School Reader: William Shakespeare, Henry Thoreau, George Washington, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Bunyan, Daniel Webster, Samuel Johnson, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others like them.
In 1995, a student teacher of fifth graders in Minneapolis wrote to the local newspaper, "I was told children are not to be expected to spell the following words correctly: back, big, call, came, can, day, did, dog, down, get, good, have, he, home, if, in, is, it, like, little, man, morning, mother, my, night, off, out, over, people, play, ran, said, saw, she, some, soon, their, them, there, time, two, too, up, us, very, water, we, went, where, when, will, would, etc. Is this nuts?"
Nowadays, Huck Finn has been sanitized and the dictionaries are filling up with new "words" such as 'LOL' and 'OMG' — further signs of the declining literacy rate in America.
Knowledge, and its ultimate fruit, wisdom, suffer greatly.
Don't deny education has been dumbed down in America.
"67% of eight-graders in Wisconsin can't read proficiently."
But they are probably up to date on the status of the Teachers' Union.
I don't see millionaires like Sean Penn and Michael Moore, who rail against capitalism, surrendering their private jets and vacation homes or redistributing their wealth to the have-nots.
I wouldn't expect them to, nor any other Marxist. Marxists and even many non-Marxist leftists are all for what they deem dignity and justice for the poor or working masses – they just don't want, nor expect to be, part of the working mass. They want to be thoughtful and privileged administrators of the masses. They're really just arrogant elitists and would-be tyrants, but in their mind it is okay because they know better than the common man what is best for him.
Unfortunately, we see too much of that mindset in our mainstream politics and even coming from some Catholics.
Marx was a poor philosopher, if philosophers are developers and discerners of philosophy. Marx had some merits as an observer. As for the rest, it's taken me two days to get through this post, original article, and thread (Marxism is intellectually exhausting!) and it'll take me a bit longer to get my thoughts together.
Forgive the long post, Don, but this, too, from Gatto's book on discipline then and now, for which a link can be found at the end. (A great read, and free on-line for you history lovers).
Rules of the Stokes County School November 10, 1848
Wm. A. Chaffin, Master
1. Boys & Girls Playing Together 4
2. Quarreling 4
3. Fighting 5
4. Fighting at School 5
5. Quarreling at School 3
6. Gambling or Betting at School 4
7. Playing at Cards at School 10
8. Climbing for every foot over three feet up a tree 1
9. Telling Lies 7
10. Telling Tales Out of School 8
11. Nick Naming Each Other 4
12. Giving Each Other ILL Names 3
13. Fighting Each Other in Time of Books 2
14. Swearing at School 8
15. Blackguarding Each Other 6
16. For Misbehaving to Girls 10
17. For Leaving School Without Leave of the Teacher 4
18. Going Home With Each Other without Leave of Teacher 4
19. For Drinking Spiritous Liquors at School 8
20. Making Swings & Swinging on Them 7
21. For Misbehaving when a Stranger is in the House 6
22. For Wearing Long Finger Nails 2
23. For not Making a Bow when a Stranger Comes in 3
24. Misbehaving to Persons on the Road 4
25. For not Making a Bow when you Meet a Person 4
26. For Going to Girl's Play Places 3
27. For Going to Boy's Play Places 4
28. Coming to School with Dirty Face and Hands 2
29. For Calling Each Other Liars 4
30. For Playing Bandy 10
31. For Bloting Your Copy Book 2
32. For Not Making a bow when you go home 4
33. For Not Making a bow when you come away 4
34. Wrestling at School 4
35. Scuffling at School 4
36. For Weting each Other Washing at Play Time 2
37. For Hollowing and Hooping Going Home 3
38. For Delaying Time Going Home or Coming to School 3
39. For Not Making a Bow when you come in or go out 2
40. For Throwing anything harder than your trab ball 4
41. For every word you miss in your lesson without excuse 1
42. For Not saying yes Sir or no Sir or yes Marm, no Marm 2
43. For Troubling Each Others Writing Affairs 2
44. For Not Washing at Play Time when going to Books 4
45. For Going and Playing about the Mill or Creek 6
46. For Going about the barn or doing any mischief about 7
"Whatever you might think of this in light of Dr. Spock or Piaget or the Yale Child Study folks, it must be apparent that civility was honored, and in all likelihood, no one ever played Bandy a second time! I've yet to meet a parent in public school who ever stopped to calculate the heavy, sometimes lifelong price their children pay for the privilege of being rude and ill-mannered at school. I haven't met a public school parent yet who was properly suspicious of the state's endless forgiveness of bad behavior for which the future will be merciless."
Joe Green: Well, I really have to wonder how much Thoreau or Oliver Wendell Holmes the average 5th grader could absorb. Still, it's far better to overreach when it comes to education than it is to dumb down.
One of the most irritating notions of our time is the common conceit that we are brighter than benighted past generations because we're not racist or sexist like they were and besides, those dumb slobs didn't have computers or cell phones or cars. If you are historically illiterate, you never realize that you are as thoroughly a creature of your own time and place as anybody born in any previous era and that the Founding Fathers or great artists like Shakespeare were infinitely less parochial than most human beings, past, present or future. Nor do they grasp that future generations will probably regard our tolerance of abortion with the same disgust people today feel toward, say, antebellum slaveholders. It takes a particular sort of arrogance to know nothing of history and yet feel sure that your own generation somehow sits at the pinnacle of human existence – because hey, Lincoln might have known the Bible by heart, but dude, would he have known what to do with an ipad?
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The ebXML Messaging Service
The ebXML Messaging Service specification (ebMS) extends the SOAP specification to provide the security and reliability features required by many production enterprise and e-business applications. As an OASIS Open standard, ebMS is a mature specification, supported by a variety of commercial and open source software implementations. The interoperability of many of these implementations has been demonstrated in a number of ongoing projects internationally. This makes ebMS a strong complement or even alternative to other web service specifications.
Web Services and the ebXML Messaging Service
Concerns about security and reliability -- as Rich Salz's recent article, "Securing Web Services" made clear -- are among the biggest impediments to widespread adoption of web services. This is particularly true for business-to-business integration applications but also for application integration projects within the enterprise. Several ongoing efforts, in both industry standards organizations and ad hoc vendor consortia, are looking to create additional specifications beyond the core web services specifications to remedy this.
In this article we examine a specification that deserves serious attention in this context, namely, the the ebXML Messaging Service specification (ebMS). ebMS, endorsed in August 2002 as an OASIS standard, adds security and reliability extensions to SOAP and aligns e-business messaging with other e-business integration standards (like trading partner agreements and business process specification). After three years of development, ebMS has become a mature specification. While it is designed to support the ebXML framework, ebMS is a standalone specification that can be used independently of other ebXML specifications. Prospective users evaluating message service or web services technology have a choice of commerical and open source implementations of ebMS, many of which have been verified for interoperability in implementation pilots.
Web Services, ebXML and ebMS
The term "web services" is often defined narrowly as describing applications built using SOAP, WSDL and UDDI, but there are good reasons to interpret the term more broadly. Web services may include a larger range of applications which are built from a larger range of specifications and designed to meet a broader range of requirements. Taking this view, one way to classify web services applications is to distinguish the following types:
- Integration web services that aim at exposing application interfaces or business services to remote systems. An integration web service may provide direct RPC-style, synchronous or asynchronous access to a single application. It may also provide access to several backend systems and provide simple routing and rule-based transformations, but even then it only implements some business logic. The majority of the business logic is still provided by the backend applications.
- Collaborative web services that aim at managing shared business processes between business partners. A collaborative web service often needs to manage business transactions with many different business partners. These business transactions will be role-based, subject to sequencing rules (choreography), and tied to specific message formats. Choreography and message formats are often defined by vertical industry standards bodies. A collaborative web service will need a system to manage and validate these transactions and to maintain some state information to correlate asynchronous responses and check deadlines. It will often be configured for each specific partner according to service-level agreements.
Integration web services are a natural extension of RPC application access or Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) beyond an organization's boundary. They are often referred to as simple web services, although EAI is not necessarily a simpler problem than e-business integration. Similarly, collaborative web services are sometimes called complex Web Services. While simple web services -- like Google search, stock quote retrieval, or parcel tracking -- have either limited requirements for security and reliability or none at all, this is certainly not the case for other integration web services. For example, as web services start to be used for financial applications like credit card verification, security clearly becomes a major issue. The security and reliability features designed primarily for collaborative web services are becoming important for integration web services as well.
The ebXML framework for e-business was a joint initiative of UN/CEFACT and OASIS. The first phase of ebXML was executed as a joint project between 1999 and 2001. After successful delivery of a series of specifications, reports, and whitepapers in May 2001, further development of the ebXML specification has continued in the two organizations. The complete set of specifications in the ebXML framework is too complex to summarize in a few pages (see Professional ebXML Foundations for an introduction); fortunately, the specifications have been designed to be modular and independently useful. This is certainly true for the ebXML messaging specification, currently maintained by the OASIS ebXML Messaging Service Technical Committee. In August 2002, version 2.0 of this specification was endorsed by the OASIS members as an OASIS Open standard.
The collaborative web services category as defined here obviously covers the business-to-business integration scenarios that ebXML was designed for from the start. In fact, if the ebXML project were to start today rather than in 1999, it probably would have been called something like "ebWS", rather than ebXML. The various specifications that make up the ebXML framework and their implementations are of great potential interest to developers of collaborative web services applications and of integration web services with high-end security or reliability requirements. Taking this view, let's see how the ebXML Messaging Service builds on the core SOAP specification, and how it provides additional functionality.
Architecture and Requirements of ebMS
The ebXML Message Service defines both a message format and the behavior of software that exchanges ebXML messages. That software can be implemented as a standalone messaging software product, or it can be part of the functionality of e-business integration products or application servers. Conceptually, the ebXML messaging service can be thought of as having three layers:
- an abstract service interface, which applications use to access the messaging service;
- message service handler functions; and
- a mapping to underlying transport services (for example, HTTP or SMTP).
The following diagram provides an overview of the various functions provided by the message service handler.
|Figure 1: Components in the ebXML Message Handler
Functional requirements for the message service include:
- header processing (building a header from parameters passed from the invoking application);
- header parsing (the reverse of header processing),
- security services; (creating and verifying digital signatures, authentication and authorization);
- reliable messaging (message persistence, retries, error notification, receipt acknowledgment);
- packaging payloads into a SOAP with Attachments message package; and
- error handling.
The ebMS specifies protocol bindings to HTTP and SMTP and allows implementations to support other protocols. For instance, one European car manufacturer uses ebMS over IBM MQSeries in an after-sales support application which exchanges information between a call center and dealer CRM systems. Interoperability is less crucial since this is an internal application.
The ebMS is also payload neutral: it imposes no restrictions on the content it carries, which can be based on any XML vocabulary, EDI, or binary data. Content can also be referenced by hyperlinks only and not transported itself, which is an important advantage that makes ebMS suitable for a very wide range of applications.
Anatomy of an ebXML message
The ebXML Message Service is layered over SOAP with Attachments. SOAP with Attachments (also discussed in another Rich Salz XML.com column) embeds a SOAP envelope as a first part of a MIME container, which contains all information needed for routing and thus allows for very efficient message processing. Other content (possibly multi megabyte EDI or UBL messages) can be appended as additional MIME parts and passed on to the receiving application. The general structure of an ebXML message is displayed in the following diagram:
|Figure 2: Message Anatomy
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July 2006
Yo! AT&T Cribs!
I finally gave in to the relentless barrage of AT&T commercials during the games imploring me to visit seehowtheylive.com and get a tour of Albert Pujols' crib. The house tour only covered the backyard, kitchen, and game room of Albert's Kansas City abode. The tour script involved a lot of plugs for AT&T products – Deion points out the Dish TV with DVR, Albert uses the phone to call for a pizza, and Albert talks about using his treo to stay in touch with his family when he's on the road. It's an interactive video where you can click on hotspots and learn additional fun facts about the annoying Deion (please don't let him get a talk show) and Albert and his family. I was impressed that Albert's class shows through even in this extended commercial. The crib was very nice but not ostentatious, and there was no parade of bling. Albert mostly wanted to talk about his family, faith and his foundation. it's worth a look, if only for the concluding footage of Albert smashing line drives into a cardboard Deion (for each direct hit, Deion donated $100 to Albert's foundation).
So long, Luna…Hello, Ronnie
As dismal as this weekend with the Cubs was, there's a ray of light in the Cards' trade of Hector Luna for Ronnie Belliard. If we were going to give up 1/2 of our 2nd base platoon, I would have rather seen Miles go, but I guess the Indians have better taste. I liked Luna and felt he could contribute at numerous positions, even if he was somewhat inconsistent. I just don't see a lot of fire in Miles. When he struck out with the bases loaded to end the game the other day, I wanted to throw something at the TV. I don't know much about Belliard, but the numbers sound good. It will be good to have some stability at second base from a defensive perspective, and it also sounds like he can offer the offensive pop we need. Now a deal for a new starting pitcher tomorrow would really make me happy… but at least this is something. Plus, Ronnie's got cool hair.
Game Haiku – 07/30/06 – Cubs 6, Cards 3
Carp doesn't seem like
himself. Chicago knocks the
wind out of Cards. Swept.
Game Haiku – 07/29/06 – Cubs 4, Cards 2
Reyes pitched well but
got more support from his jock strap
than his teammates' bats
Game Haiku – 07/28/06 – Cubs 5, Cards 4
Marquis unravels.
Our old friend Mabry makes us
pay for his exile.
Game Haiku – 07/27/06 – Cubs 5, Cards 4
Bad hops and bad luck
doom Cards, despite Juan's highlights.
Too many stranded.
Game Haiku – 07/26/06 – Cards 6, Rockies 1
Another good show
from Suppan, who helps himself
with RBI
Retro Haiku – Get Fired Up for Bruce's Induction
Game Haiku – 07/25/06 – Cards 1, Rockies 0
Carp is sharp, but each
stressful Izzy inning takes
a year off my life.
Trash Can Hug
Check out this video (courtesy of Google Video) of last Wednesday's storm at the Stadium. Some poor fan gets wiped out by a high-speed trash can.


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The beaches of Ludington are no stranger to summer fun! Today, guest blogger Brandy Henderson reminds us to cross these five items off your beach day checklist to make your Pure Ludington getaway complete.
1. Find the perfect beach for the occasion
With 28 miles of sandy shoreline, you are sure to find the perfect place to drop your beach towel in Pure Ludington. Known for beautiful, sugar-sand beaches along Lake Michigan, Ludington is home to award winning beaches with lots of amenities, dog friendly beaches where your furry friends can take a dip and secluded natural shoreline for a more private setting. Ludington's beaches have something for everyone.
Most notably, the public beach at Stearns Park has been the recipient of numerous awards over the years. Recently, USA Today named Stearns Park Beach one of the Top 51 Great American Beaches, representing the #1 beach in Michigan. With well-maintained facilities, groomed sugar-sands, beautiful views of the North Breakwater Lighthouse overlooking Lake Michigan and close proximity to the quaint downtown, this is truly a beach to be experienced.
2. Watch or ride the SS Badger
Stearns Park Beach is also a great place to catch the historic carferry, SS Badger, setting sail across Lake Michigan. This historic ship is the last coal-powered steam ship operating in North America. The 4 hour trip across Lake Michigan aboard the SS Badger can be filled by enjoying the movie theater, enjoying a drink on the bow, watching the kids play in the arcade or just relaxing in the lounge playing games. The Badger operates between Ludington and Manitowoc, WI daily between May and October. Reconnect and relax on the SS Badger!
3. Enjoy A Michigan Craft Brew
Jamesport Brewing Company and The Mitten Bar in downtown Ludington both serve up some great craft beers, as well as some great food. Jamesport Brewing Company is a micro-brewery and at any time you can try any one of their dozen brews. Jamesport is also a great place to catch the sunset or SS Badger making its way home on their outdoor deck.
The Mitten Bar is quickly becoming a "must stop" destination for Michigan beer lovers. The Mitten Bar has created a destination and culture that celebrates craft beer as well as artisan wine and fine spirits from all around Michigan, right here in downtown Ludington. This quaint little bar serves up 13 taps of Michigan craft beer in addition to Michigan-made wine and liquor.
4. Cool off with an ice cream cone at House of Flavors
It isn't a stop to Ludington, without a stop at House of Flavors. This 50's style diner serves up breakfast all day long and have more than 30 flavors of ice cream to fit your fancy. A popular tradition for locals and visitors is to grab an ice cream cone from House of Flavors and walk to the beach or Waterfront Sculpture Park to enjoy one of Ludington's breathtaking sunsets.
5. Reconnect with Nature at the Ludington State Park
One of Michigan's most popular state parks, the Ludington State Park, is comprised of nearly 5,300 acres of scenic sand dunes, marshlands and forests. This beautiful retreat is one of the best places to camp. It is situated between Hamlin Lake and Lake Michigan with several miles of shoreline and beaches on both bodies of water. In addition to several miles of hiking and biking trails you can enjoy, visitors can also take a short hike to the Big Sable Lighthouse. Your stay at the Ludintgton State Park will be filled with lots of adventures!
Brandy Henderson is the Executive Director of the Ludington Area Convention & Visitors Bureau. She is a lifelong resident of Ludington and a Michigan enthusiast.


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A Camp Experience Toasting the Value of Tzedakah
Maddy Brunner of Elkins Park is a camp counselor-in-training who has graduated to a full-fledged Mitzvah Hero.
The 14-year-old daughter of Adam and Julie is earning her CIT stripes at Abington Friends School's Summer Enrichment Program, where she has been a camper since the age of 4.
But this summer has proven to be extra memorable for the rising ninth-grader at Cheltenham High because of a community service component to her training.
As part of a program devised five years ago by Lita Weinstein, the camp's CIT coordinator, and with the full backing of Rusty Regalbuto, the private Quaker school's Summer Enrichment Program director, the 23 counselors-to-be not only help out with the campers but also spend time volunteering at the Mitzvah Circle Foundation and Manna on Main in Lansdale; as well as Fishes and Loaves in Jenkintown.
Weinstein, who also teaches seventh-graders in the religious school at Congregation Beth Or in Maple Glen and a Holocaust course to eighth-graders at Or Hadash in Fort Washington, believes in empirical education — and the Golden Rule.
"We need to start making our young people aware of what is going on around them in the world and the impact that they can have on other people by helping them," she says. "As I say to my CITs, they're the lucky ones; if they can't give back and of themselves, who will?"
Maddy is one who does, enjoying what Weinstein calls the "hands-on, interfacing" nature of volunteerism at the three sites.
"I've never really done communal service work before," says the Jewish teen. "It makes me realize how many people are in need, that you can't take things for granted."
At the Mitzvah Circle, she and the other CITs packed snacks and meals to be given out at food pantries, and attached handwritten notes for kids receiving the lunches at shelters with sentiments such as, "Have a good day!" and "You're not alone!"
"It makes me feel that I've done something right," Maddy says. "And when I see the people's faces — when I serve meals at Fishes and Loaves — they are so thankful. It makes me feel so fulfilled."


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Fourth year English major at the University of Florida. If I'm not at the thrift store searching for the ultimate pair of mom jeans then you can usually find me playing music at one of the local Gainesville coffee shops or inserting as many puns as possible into my daily vocabulary.
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Autumn Harvest
Pasadenans can choose from tasty mix of concerts and club shows this fall
By Bliss Bowen 09/04/2014
Fall? Really? Yes, despite recent scorching temps and a drought guaranteed to make it feel like perpetual summer, autumn is looming around the corner. So, local music lovers, grab your calendar of choice and start making plans, as there are several worthy musical events on the horizon.
Throughout the year South Pasadena Public Library's Community Room (1115 El Centro St., South Pasadena) quietly hosts some excellent classical, folk and jazz concerts, and on Sept. 18 it will host the LA premiere of producer/co-director Paul Kendall's 2013 music documentary "The Byrd Who Flew Alone: The Triumphs and Tragedy of Gene Clark." The film about the late, troubled songwriter includes commentary by fellow Byrds David Crosby, Chris Hillman and Roger McGuinn, and the free, limited-seating screening will be followed by a performance by Carla Olsen and David Plenn. Also at the library, the Restoration Concert Series will continue with performances by the Jolivet Trio with guest Guillaume Sutre on Oct. 12 and the Tall and Small Jazz Quintet on Nov. 9. Info: http://friendsofsopaslibrary.org/concerts.htm
The Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division is currently planning the next ArtNight, scheduled for Oct. 10. Information about participating bands was not available at press time, but the celebratory event, which coordinates live music and other cultural presentations in museums, galleries and performance spaces across the city, is usually an enlightening way to pass a Friday evening. Info: artnightpasadena.org
Fall's biggest local rock event will likely be the 16th Annual Eagle Rock Music Festival, a free, all-day celebration of northeast LA's musical diversity and community slated for Oct. 4; lineup details will be announced right when this issue hits the street. It is the foremost but not the only — nor the only eclectic — musical event coordinated by the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock (2225 Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock). Trevor Anderies Quintet and the Los Angeles Trumpet Quartet will participate in the Open Gate concert on Sept. 7; audience members will be invited to bring blankets or mats to lie down on for "tonal immersion in Planetary Gongs and Crystal Singing Bowls" at the Autumnal Equinox Soundbath on Sept. 18; and adventurous singer Dorian Wood will reprise his stark 2010 album "Brutus" with brass ensemble, plus special guest Simone White, on Sept. 21. Info: cfaer.org, eaglerockmusicfestival.org
If your tastes run to jazz and classical music, check out the offerings at Boston Court (70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena): conductor/pianist Grant Gershon's singing debut in David Lang's "The Little Match Girl Passion" on Sept. 19; pianist Susan Svrcek's artful "Piano Spheres" presentation on Sept. 20; pianists Bill Cunliffe and Alison Edwards' "jazzical" collaboration on Sept. 27; Mirror Visions Ensemble's theatrical "vocal dining music" show on Oct. 3; and French violinist Gilles Apap's "a cappella" Bach-to-Appalachian fiddling program on Oct. 4. Info: bostoncourt.com
Flamenco, tango and Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" are slated to be on the program when tap dancing dynamo Savion Glover makes music with his feet in coordination with an orchestra conducted by Rachel Worby for a MUSE/IQUE production at Caltech (332 S. Michigan Ave., Pasadena) on Sept. 7. This fall various campus venues will also host: folksinger, songwriter and song collector Moira Smiley, celebrating her new album "Laughter Out of Tears" (Sept. 27); Northern California folk-bluegrass veteran Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands (Oct. 18); Cirque Zuma Zuma's exotic mix of acrobats, singers, jugglers and musicians (also Oct. 18); the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (Nov. 9); and Irish ensemble Danú's "Féile na Nollag" Christmas celebration (Dec. 13). Info: caltech.edu
The Music Circle will present Hindustani slide guitar innovator Debashish Bhattacharya and tabla player Subrata Bhattacharya on Oct. 4, and sitar player Partha Bose with tabla player Indranil Mallick on Nov. 2; both concerts will take place at Occidental College's Herrick Chapel (1600 Campus Road, Eagle Rock). Info: musiccircle.org
Global East-West fusion sounds will also be emanating from Cal State LA when Malian desert blues heroes Tinariwen, who recorded their new album "Emmaar" in Joshua Tree, bring their haunting drones and rocking guitars to the Harriet & Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex (5151 State University Drive, LA) on Oct. 25. Brazilian singer-songwriter Seu Jorge, familiar to moviegoers thanks to his onscreen performance in "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou," will headline there Nov. 8. Info: luckmanarts.org
British rockers Coldplay will perform material from "Ghost Stories" as well as older favorites during an evening at Ace Hotel (929 S. Broadway, Downtown LA) on Sept. 17; fans must win tickets through CBS Radio or Beats Music to attend. The LA Bluegrass Situation is coordinating a rootsier extravaganza there with Carolina Chocolate Drops, Josh Ritter and Willie Watson on Oct. 10 and Lord Huron, Blind Pilot, Shakey Graves and Langhorne Slim on Oct. 11. Irish singer-songwriter James Vincent McMorrow will wax introspective with his melodic "Post Tropical" tunes Nov. 20. Info: acehotel.com
The Coffee Gallery Backstage's intimate listening room (2029 N. Lake Ave., Altadena) is a regular tour stop for national Americana, folk and jazz artists, and September alone offers four destination concerts: Austin groove monster Ray Bonneville (Sept. 6), virtuoso gypsy jazz guitarist Gonzalo Bergara (Sept. 11), Hawaiian slack-key guitarist Jim "Kimo" West (Sept. 21) and jazz flutist Tim Weisberg (Sept. 28). Info: coffeegallery.com.
The California Roots Union is bringing more roots-rocking sounds to Pasadena via its third-Saturday monthly residency at T. Boyle's Tavern (37 N. Catalina Ave., Pasadena). Lively bluegrassers the Get Down Boys and sweetly quirky chanteuse Little Lonely will share a bill on Sept. 20; dynamo femme trio Calico will unload an arsenal of instruments and three-part harmonies plus tunes from their new album "Rancho California," and third-generation California honky-tonker Dave Gleason will likewise keep it country, on Oct. 18; OC's Michael Ubaldini will make the trek north on Nov. 15; and multiple artists TBA will chime in for the CRU Holiday Bonanza on Dec. 20 — an entertaining way to wrap up fall and welcome the winter. Info: tboylestavern.com, http://californiarootsunion.tumblr.com
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A 42-year-old man has been given a traffic citation for his actions in a fatal Des Moines collision.
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let A =(440,000/3.8 X 10^9) is how much in km each person would get.
If you want to show this as a percentage take (A/440,000) X 100.
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1) The shorelines of the earth (including lakes and the arctic and antarctic regions) total about 440 000km in length over ten times the earth's perimeter. If everyone of the world population (3.8 x 10*9 in 1974) decided to possess a portion of this shoreline, how much would he have on the average?
km. of shoreline.
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One kilometer = 3, 280.8399 feet.
Each person would get about feet or inches of shoreline for their very own.
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Here is an exclusive first look at the finished art for a series of beer bottle labels drawn by multiple Eisner-winning Nexus artist Steve Rude.
These are for a new run of specialty brews being offered by Edmonton's Sherbrooke Liquor, under the brand of Revere Beer.
Each of the twelve beers in this series features a different beer-related god from the world's various pantheons, from Tepoztecatl (god of the fermented Aztec beer Pulque) to Kamui Fuchi (the hearth goddess of Japan's Anui, who brewers prayed to in order to receive fermentation).
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A calendar is also planned featuring all 12 of the Steve Rude images, which will be available through Happy Harbor Comics chain in Edmonton.
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