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Campanella, Tomasso
Tomasso Campanella 1568–1639
Italian philosopher and poet. The following entry contains discussion of Campanella's life and works published from 1922 through 1992.
An important philosopher of the late Italian Renaissance, Campanella proclaimed himself to be the prophet of a new age that combined the best ideas of the old world with those of a new, modern society. His Utopian vision is most clearly conveyed in his La Citta del sole (1623; City of the Sun), his most famous work. A man of action as well as of words, Campanella attacked both the Church establishment and the Spanish monarchy: he was involved in planning a revolt against Spain—which was unsuccessful—and was repeatedly imprisoned for his heretical beliefs. Contributing numerous volumes of philosophical and political writings, Campanella is also recognized as a courageous and rebellious individual, often hailed as one of the first great reformers of the modern age.
Biographical Information
The son of an illiterate shoemaker, Campanella was born Giovanni Domenico in Stilo, Calabria, on September 5, 1568. At a young age he displayed remarkable intellectual abilities. He joined the Dominican order at fourteen years old to study the philosophy of Aristotle. To his superiors' dismay, Campanella soon displayed Anti-Aristotelian tendencies, preferring a more intuitive and less analytical natural philosophy. In 1588 Campanella was sent to the theological house of studies at Cosenza where he first encountered the writings of Bernardino Telesio, a natural philosopher who also objected to Aristotle's teachings. He read Telesio's De rerum natura juxta propria principia (1565, 1586), and was thrilled to discover a kindred spirit. Telesio died before the two could meet, but his writings continued to inspire Campanella, becoming the cornerstone of his own philosophy. In 1589 Campanella completed his first significant work in just seven months' time, Philosophia sensibus demonstrata, in which he attempted to vindicate Telesio from the attacks of his detractors, especially Giocomo Antonio Marta. Around that time Campanella encountered a Jewish rabbi, Abraham, from whom he acquired strong interests in astrology and magic. As these interests (as
well as his anti-Aristotelianism) were contrary to Dominican teachings and traditional Thomistic doctrines, Campanella was arrested, charged with heresy, and tried. He was instructed to reject Telesian doctrine and was ordered back to Calabria in 1592. Ignoring his sentence, Campanella went to Padua where he encountered Galileo and Paolo Sarpi. For almost a year Campanella continued to develop his thinking along Telesian lines in works like Apologia pro Telesio (c. 1593-94) and Nova physiologia iuxta propria principia (c. 1593-94). He was again arrested in 1594 by the order of the Holy Office in Padua who seized all of his manuscripts. Campanella was accused of many offenses, including being critical of Church doctrine, and was severely beaten and tortured. In his own defense he wrote several volumes including Defensio Telesianorum, all of which, unfortunately, have been lost. Released in December 1597 Campanella returned to his native Stilo on condition that he confine himself to the monastery in Calabria. The socio-political upheavals of the time and Campanella's belief in astrology and prophecies, however, compelled him otherwise. Convinced that great changes were at hand and that he was both a prophet and a leader of the millennium, Campanella helped instigate a revolt in Calabria against the Spanish monarchy. Unsuccessful in his attempt to replace the existing form of government with a Utopian republic founded on religion and natural magic, he was subsequently arrested in 1599, but feigned madness to avoid being put to death. He spent the next twenty-seven years in prison, eight of which were spent in a windowless dungeon. During this period Campanella penned what is often considered his most significant prose and poetry, including City of the Sun, Monarchia di Spagna (1620), Metaphysics (1638), and Theologia (c. 1613). He also wrote letters appealing to the Pope, cardinals, or to anyone who could help him gain his freedom. Successful in these efforts he was released by the Spanish authorities in 1626. He was arrested less than one month later, however, by the Holy Office because of his philosophical opinions, and remained in prison until January, 1629. After spending nearly thirty years in prison and being continuously kept under observation by both the Papal and Spanish authorities, Campanella left Italy for France in 1634, where he was received with favor by Cardinal Richelieu and King Louis XIII. During his last years, as throughout his life, Campanella engaged in political and literary activities: he attempted to influence French politics by initiating anti-Spanish campaigns and prepared the final editions of his works. Campanella died on May 21, 1639 in France at a Dominican monastery in Rue St. Honoré.
Major Works
Throughout his life, Campanella wrote more than one hundred volumes ranging from metaphysics and theology to political theory and Utopian fiction. His philosophical writings include Philosophia sensibus demonstrata, De sense rerum et magia, and De gentilismo non retinendo (1636), and contain strong anti-Aristotelian notions influenced by the new empirical ideas of Telesio and Galileo. This new mode of thinking is clearly evident in the City of the Sun as Campanella combines elements of abstract and rational modes to form the philosophical foundation of his ideal society. Moreover, his Monarchia del Messia (c. 1605) and Atheismus triumphatus (c. 1605-7) confim his theocratic convictions toward governing the new society, while his Monarchia di Spanga and Ecloga in Principis Galliarum delphini admirandam nativitatem (1639) provide the means to realize his Utopian ends. Campanella's poetry also reveals both his optimism in his role as a prophet of the new age and his frustration at his inability to fulfill the mission. "I live as I write" wrote Campanella in a letter to Cardinal Antonio Barberini. Considered in their totality, the scope and complexity of Campanula's writings indeed reflect his turbulent yet courageous life.
Critical Reception
Reaction to Campanella's ideas varied from repeated imprisonment and torture to a milder form of censure from his contemporaries Gaspar Schopp and Samuel Sorbière, the latter once referring to Campanella as a "most inefficient and ignorant monk." Campanula's supporters such as Tobias Adami and Gabriel Naudé, however, lauded his extraordinary intelligence. During his own lifetime, both Campanella's admirers and detractors lacked objective critical analysis, while critics in the eighteenth through the twentieth century grappled with determining the extent his anti-Aristotelianism. Many recent critics are concerned with Campanella's political writings and with examining the apparent contradiction between his overtly stated antipathy to Machiavelli and the strategic opportunism of his political theories. This focus also sparked an interest in examining the City of the Sun in relation to the whole tradition of utopian writing. The majority of recent criticism, however, focuses on the historical elements of Campanella's philosophy, interpreting his paradoxical thought as reflecting the social and political climate of the late Italian Renaissance.
Principal Works
Philosophia sensibus demonstrata [Experimental Philosophy] (philosophy) 1589
De sense rerum et magia (philosophy) c.1591
* Apologia pro Telesio (philosophy) c. 1593-94
* Nova Physiologia iuxta propria principia (philosophy) c. 1593-94
Monarchia del Messia (political treatise) c. 1605
Atheismus triumphatus [Atheism Conquered] (prose) c. 1605-7
Quaestiones physiologicae, ethicae et politicae (prose) c.1613
†Theologia (prose) c.1613
‡ Quod reminiscentur [On Converting the Heathen] (prose) c. 1616
Del senso delle cose e della magia [On the Sense and Feeling in All Things and on Magic] (philosophy) 1620
Monarchia di Spagna [A Discourse Touching the Spanish Monarchy] (political treatise) 1620
Scelta d 'alcune Poesie filosofiche (poetry) 1622
Apologia pro Galileo [The Defense of Galileo] (prose) 1622
La Città del sole [City of the Sun] (utopian fiction) 1623
De gentilismo non retinendo [On the Gentilism that must not be adhered to] (prose) 1636
Metaphysics (philosophy) 1638
Poetica (poetry) 1638
Ecloga in Principis Galliarum delphini admirandam nativitem (political treatise) 1639
§ Lettere (letters) c. 1601-39
* Date of composition. Date of first publication is unknown.
†Published in 1936.
‡Published in 1939.
§Published in 1925.
Lewis Mumford (essay date 1922)
SOURCE: An excerpt from The Story of Utopias, Boni and Liveright, 1922, pp. 103-08.
[In the following excerpt from his critical study of Utopian thought, Mumford characterizes Campanella 's City of the Sun as a "utopia of means, " largely concerned with mechanical inventions and the material perfection of society.]
A Genoese sea-captain is the guest of a Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller. This sea-captain tells him of a great country under the equator, dominated by the City of the Sun. The outward appearance of this country is a little strange—the city with its seven rings named after the seven planets, and its four gates that lead to the four quarters...
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Marie Louise Berneri (essay date 1950)
SOURCE: "Tommaso Campanella: The City of the Sun," in Journey Through Utopia, 1950. Reprint by The Beacon Press, 1951, p. 88-102.
[In the following excerpt, Berneri provides an overview of Campanella's philosophical ideas, political activities, and lengthy imprisonment, and notes that "The City of the Sun is in fact closely related to Campanella 's unsuccessful attempt to create a Republic of Calabria"]
There is none of More's literary elegance and fine irony in Campanella's City of the Sun, for unlike him he did not write in the pleasant circle of refined humanists but with his mind and limbs still aching from the tortures of the Inquisition....
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Ernst Bloch (essay date 1959)
SOURCE: "Counterpart to More: Campanella's City of the Sun or the Utopia of Social Order," in The Principle of Hope, 1959, translated by Neville Plaice, Stephen Plaice, and Paul Knight, Basil Blackwell, 1986, pp. 523-34.
[In the following excerpt from The Principle of Hope, originally published in German as Das Prinzip Hoffnung, Bloch contrasts the Utopian vision of Campanella with that of More, arguing that these two writers influenced two opposing traditions of Utopian writing: social order and freedom.]
The Baroque is the age of centralized royal power, and it was progressive at that time. A totally authoritarian and also bureaucratic utopia:...
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Bernardino M. Bonansea (essay date 1969)
SOURCE: "Political Theory: The Ideal State," in Tommaso Campanella: Renaissance Pioneer of Modern Thought, The Catholic University of America Press, 1969, pp. 264-98.
[Reacting against interpretations of The City of the Sun as a communist or rationalist Utopia, Bonansea views Campanella's Utopian text as depicting an ideal society "in the pure order of nature," "modeled after the system of early Christian communities."]
The City of the Sun, which in its Latin edition appears as an appendix to the treatise Politica in aphorismos digesta, is a fictional dialogue. In it a Genoese Sea Captain tells a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitalers about his...
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Timothy J. Reiss (essay date 1973)
SOURCE: "Structure and Mind in Two Seventeenth-Century Utopias: Campanella and Bacon," in Yale French Studies, Vol. 49, 1973, pp. 82-95.
[Reiss compares Campanella's and Bacon's Utopian texts as illustrating two types of Utopian vision—"the dynamic and the static."]
The Utopian thinker, according to Marx, writes as a bourgeois who, in the silence of his study, gives free play at once to his reason and his imagination, and it may be supposed that this acknowledged duality of cause has its reflexion in the result. For the utopian ideal is at once a meditation upon history or an historical situation and a proposing of an "ideal" solution to that history. Indeed,...
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Jon Snyder (essay date 1985)
SOURCE: " The City of the Sun and the Poetics of the Utopian Dialogue," in Stanford Italian Review, Vol. 2, Fall, 1985, pp. 175-87.
[In the following excerpt, Snyder examines the poetics of Campanella's Utopian text, arguing that Campanella deliberately chose the dialogic form since dialogism is intrinsic to the liminal nature of all Utopian fiction.]
Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) is known today chiefly for his famous work of Utopian fiction, La Città del Sole (The City of the Sun), still widely considered among the most important texts in the Renaissance Utopian tradition. Despite its status as a specifically literary work, though, The City of the...
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Jackson Spielvogel (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "Reflections on Renaissance Hermeticism and Seventeenth-Century Utopias," in Utopian Studies, Vol. I, 1987, pp. 188-97.
[In the following excerpt, Spielvogel traces the influence of Hermeticism on Campanella 's philosophy in relation to the combination of science and magic that characterizes his ideal society.]
Although modern historians rarely agree on any significant issue, there is a fair degree of unanimity on viewing the seventeenth century as the turning point in the emergence of modern Western history. It was a century full of plagues, constitutional crises, famines, population declines, economic depression, almost constant warfare, and widespread...
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Anthony Stephens (essay date 1984)
SOURCE: "The Sun State and its Shadow: On the Condition of Utopian Writing," in Utopias, edited by Eugene Kamenka, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, pp. 1-19.
[In the following essay, originally presented at the Fifteenth Annual Symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1984, Stephens discusses the dystopian "shadow" in Campanella's City of the Sun, and contrasts the fictional techniques used by utopian writers of the Renaissance with those of later centuries.]
Any beginning for an essay such as this has to be arbitrary. Rather than begin with Thomas More, I shall instead take one of his successors, who wrote about a century later, namely...
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John M. Headley (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: "On the Rearming of the Heaven: The Machiavellism of Tommaso Campanella," in Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 49, No. 3, July-September, 1988, pp. 387-404.
[Despite his avowed aversion of Machivellian philosophy, Campanella is often viewed as a Machiavellian writer. In the excerpt below, Headley concludes that despite seeming similarities between the two political philosophers, their differing historical contexts lead to fundamental ideological conflicts, especially with respect to the role of religion in civic society.]
After Aristotle the greatest single intellectual antagonist of Campanella was Niccolò Machiavelli. Although Campanella was born forty...
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John M. Headley (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: "Tommaso Campanella and the End of the Renaissance," in Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2, Fall, 1990, pp. 157-74.
[In the following excerpt, Headley argues that the contradictory elements in Campanella's philosophy are representative of a changing historical movement as the Renaissance gave way to the modern age at the beginning of the seventeenth century.]
Do historical periods, or better yet historical movements, have an end, a definitive termination? It is hardly necessary to observe that historical periods exist in historians' heads as means of defining the past; such periods can only begin to have substantive meaning insofar as...
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John M. Headley (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: "Tommaso Campanella and Jean de Launoy: The Controversy over Aristotle and his Reception in the West," in Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. XLIII, No. 3, Autumn, 1990, pp. 529-50.
[Focusing on Campanella's polemic, On the Gentilism that must not be adhered to, Headley argues that Campanella's anti-Aristotelianism derives from his commitment to Christianity and the new spirit of empiricism.]
In his first published work, the Philosophy Demonstrated by the Senses (Naples, 1591), Tommaso Campanella evinced at the outset of his long intellectual career that abiding and most pronounced feature of his entire philosophical position, namely, an opposition to...
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Stephanie Laggini-Fiore (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "Messianic Vision in the Poetry of Fra Tommaso Campanella," in Romance Languages Annual, Vol. 4, 1992, pp. 270-77.
[Focusing on Campanella's poetry, Laggini-Fiore discusses the autobiographical aspects of Campanella's utopian vision.]
Little has been written on what Franc Ducros [in Tommaso Campanella Poète, 1969] calls Fra Tommaso Campanella's rôle messianique, yet the messianic vision of the poet is central to both his poetry and his life. It was the direct result of his relationship with the world and with society: his poetry was written while he languished in the jails of the Inquisition for many years; his defense of Galileo was a response...
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Further Reading
Abramowitz, Isidore. The Great Prisoners: The First Anthology of Literature Written in Prison. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1946, 879 p.
Views Campanella's City of the Sun as the yoking together of the medieval world of astrology and the new spirit of enquiry and experimentation.
Blodgett, Eleanor Dickenson. "Bacon's New Atlantis and Campanella's Civitas Solis: A Study in Relationships." PMLA XLVI, No. 3 (September 1931): 763-80.
Highlights the similarities between the two utopian texts and sees the differences as a product of the...
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Running through the Range of Light
Mountain runners and elite roadies explore trails from Mammoth to Bishop
Hit the trails around the town of Mammoth Lakes, California, and you might get passed by some of America's top distance ...
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Hit the trails around the town of Mammoth Lakes, California, and you might get passed by some of America's top distance runners. Olympians Deena Kastor, Meb Keflezighi and their teammates on the Mammoth Track Club spend roughly half their summer training on trails and dirt roads that ring multiple lakes, craters and rugged peaks in the area.
And when the white stuff blankets Mammoth, these pros head to the drier neighboring town of Bishop, about 40 miles south and join it's growing community of diehard trail runners.
Yosemite National Park to the northwest and Mount Whitney to the south may be more famous, but this region in between, known as the Eastern Sierra, crests like a great wave of chiseled granite across the high desert landscape of the Owens Valley.
The dull-brown valley floor spreads out in a windswept expanse, sprouting shrubs like a stubbly beard, until it hits the edge of the Sierra Nevada range. The Sierra escarpment juts up some 10,000 feet, riddled with countless canyons and peaks. A parallel range, the Inyo-White Mountains, rims the valley's east side.
In Bishop, trail runners get gear and guidance at Sage To Summit on Main Street. "Bishop is a fastpacking and mountain-running mecca," says Howie Schwartz, who co-owns the store with his wife, Karen. "You have 14,000-foot peaks on both sides with a 4000-foot valley floor, so year round you can run through varied climate zones and ecosystems—from high desert sage to riparian forest, to sub-alpine aspen groves, to craggy alpine ridgelines."
Numerous trails in the region cut west over the Sierra Crest and intersect with the John Muir Trail, which runs 211 miles from Mount Whitney to Yosemite Valley. "There's a lifetime's worth of trails and dirt roads to explore here," says Bishop resident and accomplished trail runner Jeff Kozak, who also works at Sage To Summit.

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The U.S. Department of Education has approved Bluegrass Community and Technical College (BCTC) as one of a hand full of post-secondary institutions offering a Comprehensive Transition Program (CTP) for students with intellectual disabilities. BCTC already was working with the University of Kentucky's Supported Higher Education Project (SHEP) to support students with intellectual disabilities as they enroll in courses at BCTC. Additionally, SHEP provides professional development and technical assistance for faculty and staff.
"The approval of BCTC's Comprehensive Transition Program is a tremendous step forward in making higher education a reality for anyone, regardless of disability, who consider themselves lifelong learners," said Barry Whaley, director of the Supported Higher Education Project at the University of Kentucky Human Development Institute. "We value our long-term partnership with BCTC, and we are committed to our continued work to make higher education inclusive and diverse."
The approval of BCTC's CTP application allows SHEP students to apply for federal financial aid, which will support their academic endeavors at the college. For this program, students with intellectual disabilities are defined as those who have cognitive disabilities and received special education in secondary school.
"SHEP students are an important part of the BCTC community and have the opportunity to experience campus both academically and socially," said Dr. Rebecca Simms, BCTC director of Post-secondary Partnerships. "We promote an inclusive college culture in which diversity is valued. Our goal is to enrich each student's experience and improve individual achievement."


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By Brad Horn
The summer celebration of baseball fans of the Midwest continued on Saturday at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, one week after Hall of Fame Weekend welcomed visitors to Cooperstown to celebrate Cincinnati's Barry Larkin, Chicago's Ron Santo, and three generations of St. Louis Cardinals managers, honored for their World Series titles.
Saturday's VIPs gained fame in a different ballpark than baseball's heroes, but their love for the game was on display as they toured the Museum and soaked in baseball history. And their Midwest ties continued to connect among common themes celebrated by the Hall of Fame in 2012.
Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, who hails from outside of St. Louis, and John Stirratt, a longtime Chicago resident, were in town for a Saturday evening concert in Cooperstown. Making their first visit to the Museum, the duo visited the Library and Museum collections, while stopping by the Photo Archives, to learn more about the important role the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum plays in preserving the game's history.
Tweedy and Sirratt viewed historical documents in the Library, studied photos from the early 1900s and explored selected artifacts from the collection, include Fergie Jenkins' glove from his final season of 1983.
"These photos are like an analog recording that sounds so clear and vivid," remarked Tweedy as he viewed items in the Museum's Photo Collection.
As they completed their tour and headed back on the road, they left with a lifetime of memories and a deeper appreciation of the role of preservation the Hall of Fame plays in keeping alive the stories of the game.
Brad Horn is the senior director of communications and education at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
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Advanced Micro Devices plans to release its new FireStream compute accelerator cards based on the Evergreen graphics processing units (GPUs) shortly. The new devices promise to be something more than just data crunchers.
Although ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, released its latest family of DirectX 11-compliant Radeon HD 5000 graphics boards well ahead of its arch-rival Nvidia Corp., the latter was quicker to roll out its Tesla 20-series stream computing accelerator cards powered by the latest Fermi-architecture processors, which are now available in servers from Dell and IBM. However, AMD has not been wasting time and plans to introduce the new generation FireStream cards later this month.
Sources close to AMD said that AMD intends to launch "a new AMD FireStream compute accelerator specifically designed for HPC, cloud gaming and server-side rendering, all of which require maximum compute density" by the end of June, 2010, which is nine month after the latest DirectX 11-capable graphics boards for consumers emerged.
Initially AMD FireStream solutions were only designed for a variety of high-performance computing (HPC) applications and the vast majority of such solutions were highly proprietary. However, it is rather noteworthy that the new-generation of AMD FireStream compute processors are also designed for "server-side rendering", which is something that previous-generation solutions were not intended for.
Actual details about specifications of the new AMD FireStream solutions are not known at the moment, but it is highly likely that they will carry code-named Cypress graphics chips with up to 1600 stream processors.
AMD reportedly plans to promote the new FireStream solutions along with its Maranello (2P, 4P) and San Marino (1P, 2P) server platforms which feature AMD Opteron 6000-series processors with up to twelve cores and AMD Opteron 4000-series chips with up to eight cores, respectively.
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Skip to comments.Obamacare will share personal health info with federal, state agencies
Posted on 06/17/2013 7:17:32 AM PDT by george76
A new rule issued late Friday requires state, federal and local agencies as well as health insurers to swap the protected personal health information of anybody seeking to join the new health care program that will be enforced by the Internal Revenue Service.
Personal health information, or PHI, is highly protected under federal law, but the latest ruling from the Department of Health and Human Services allows agencies to trade the information to verify that Obamacare applicants are getting the minimum amount of health insurance coverage they need from the health "exchanges."
The ruling, explained on pages 72-73 of the book-thick guidance, does not mention any requirement that applicants first OK the release of their PHI.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
My God, what have we allowed our nation to become, and still no one stands up against the onslaught of fascism in America.
The purpose is to allow state agencies to use even the smallest bits of psych data to deny carry permits and/or come and take your guns.
A law that lets them make up any new rule they want, any time they want??? How convenient...
And people thought electronic medical records were about improving quality of care and preventing mistakes. Suckers. Its all about Big Brother having access to everything at the push of a button. Imagine your whole health record plugged into your NSA phone, credit card and email records. No hiding from the Beast.
It's way more than guns - and I think this is an important front to fight Obamacare on. Ask the american people if they really want all their personal medical information entrusted to federal agencies - that can "share" that information with whoever they want.
And yet people still post their life stories (with film) on the internet. Nobody cares. I have railed against this cloud data trend since the late 90's. Once your medical data (and data financial, family, debt, voting record, donations, email, phone) is computerized anyone can get it at anytime. Data security is a joke and those that attempts to tell you they can protect it are lying to your face. The only protection is a disconnected computer and even then thumb-drives can be used (see Snowden).
The bottom line is...........they will want to see all your assets so they can withdraw payments from your accounts and put a lien on any property for services rendered. This is going to do away with any lookback as is now attached to Medicare etc..
Everybody else has free-rein.
I hate to use nazism as an example but there is a parallel. It has to do wth assumptions and one's premises. Once the premise was that jews had to be eliminated then it came down to devising most efficient method etc
On ObamaCare once they accept the premise that the government is really running healthcare then of course they need your health data. Scarey stuff.
I think the Snowden issue as of late has proved this true, and I can personally confirm, having working in IT for a major healthcare network, that the people overlooking your personal data are generally incompetent or simply "beginners" and are taught how to use security applications and appliances that do their jobs for them.
The problem is that most of those appliances are built in China and have been shown to be susceptible to attacks.
We had peopel callign durign electio ntime stating "I see you haven't voted yet, we woudl like to encourage you to get out and vote' and thought "Hmmm- Did you see me take a dump too? Wonder how they know, wonder IF they know WHO I'm votign for?"
At least when people are posting their own files, they do so voluntarily. I have no problems with that. What is happening with obamacare is against our will.
About 6 months ago, I was at Kaiser to see my doctor. The nurse informed me she was giving me an appointment which would last about 40 minutes, to get information from me that they needed, and she said it would be sent to the government. I asked why the government, and she said it was required. I let her make the appointment (blood boiling) and 3 days later I cancelled the appointment. I know they will eventually make me do this, if I want to see a Dr there... and I don't know how to get around it when it kicks in. But every fiber of my being rejects this... final and forever!
At least, I can do the same with my answers as Obama does with his. But it still angers me... all of this angers me. The whole Washington angers me. I can't stand the bunch in there... and that goes for the so called republicans also. They say every day, "To hell with you folks out there."
You have no right nor should you have any expectation of privacy or due process.. when the knocks on the door happen in the middle of the night.. just comply. The gulagization of
America is about to begin.
Revolt is coming.
Back before a bunch of lawsuits destroyed the practice, the federales would target someone they didn't like and subject him or her to a FITNESS FOR DUTY EXAM. That invariably led to the creation of a body of medical reports tied to the personnel jacket (which I call a dossier), and they'd pass that around to each other, laugh and giggle, and then move on to fire the person.
The common practice in USPS was for managers having such reports to toss them in an open file once the case was closed. That way everybody could take a look.
Eventually the unions caught on to that one.
What I always wondered was why so terribly many government managers had no sense whatsoever of the need for privacy. It's almost universal with them and may have to do with the way they are selected ~ bribery is not unknown, and other criminal behavior is suspected. Worst were the ex union officers.
ObamaKKKare is a license to turnloose the fascists and the commies both on your medical records. How utterly stupid of people to vote for that.
Revolt is coming.
You do post this a lot. I'm not sure you are correct, for many reasons. If you are correct, it will make CWI look like a walk in the park on a warm spring day.
Who is going to start this revolt and what are we waiting for. The dumb will never catch up as long as the freebies are out there. Those most affected by all this are nice people who are not into getting ugly or raising a ruckus. Just when will enough be enough. As far as I am concerned, we've surpassed the 'enough' line, and are now just belly aching about the chains being applied.. day by day...
[[Even your typical federal employee knows that federal agency management will instantly misuse any medical information they receive. ]]
NY ALREADY IS abusing it- they are demanding health care providers turn over patient info, so that they can see if patients have EVER sued, even if briefly, any anti-depressents, physchotics, anxiety medications, and NY IS usign htis info to confiscate guns from law abiding citizens with NO trial and NO formal diagnosis by a professional psychiatrist/cologist
[[At least, I can do the same with my answers as Obama does with his.]]
Nope- dear leader and ilk are allowed to lie- we peons are not- we wil lbe arrested if we lie on a questionaire-
well said!
I hope nobody is the least bit surprised about this. Some of us have been predicting this would happen since the day nobamacare became official.
Just a matter of time.
If you haven't, read George Orwell's book 1984. A chilling, dead on description of what's happening to our poor country.
If it was good enough for the C.C.C.P. it's good enough for us.
You can imagine this scene. This cynical guy shows up at a new doctor's office. The doctor asks sixty questions, where the new patient gives all scripted answers. He's never been vaccinated for anything because he grew up in the Yukon territory. He grew up eating only vegetables and wild game. He is only allergic to loose women and Dr Pepper.
Once he finishes with that new doctor....he starts to canvas the region for another new doctor in three months...giving him sixty completely different answers. Repeating this over and over.
Then imagine a thousand guys like this in just one state doing that. It would corrupt the system in a mere ten years. Kids would do it. College kids would do it. Everyone would start to provide fake data. We might even have to build a annex onto the Utah facility in a decade, because of all this new stuff.
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The plotter is an HP DesignJet 300. It is connected to the network using an HP JetDirect EX interface. The printserver's IP address is 10.13.0.50. Please don't change the printserver's IP address or configuration, it is not at fault.
Not sure about Macs. Based upon what's in the Use the Printer HOWTO, this seems pretty straightforward. Just know that "port 9100" is the protocol to use, and if it gives you a choice between PS and HPGL, use HPGL.
On a Windows box, you need to ignore the temptation to click "add a network printer", and instead, "add a local printer", then "create a new port", then port type "standard tcp/ip port", then enter 10.13.0.50, and everything else should be sensible.
Since this is an older plotter, HP is no longer writing the drivers for Vista and later versions of Windows. However, there is a set of drivers available for Vista and Windows 7 here: http://www.mediafire.com/?njmtmnizmjm Use them at your own risk!


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Placer Herald - 12/17/2007 - LOCAL BANK CHAIN KEEPS THE GREEN GOING INSIDE AND OUT. The Mechanics Bank Rocklin Office is featured in this article about the new growing trend in many communities to "Go Green". The article emphasizes our bankwide decision to become environmentally friendly.
San Francisco Business Times - 12/7/2007 - IN BRIEF: WHERE CREDIT IS DUE: BUSINESS LENDING GOES CRUNCH. Steven Buster was quoted, along with others, on the current environment of business lending, and specifically, on "Capital pools evaporating". Mechanics Bank CEO Steve Buster is keeping a close eye on retail clients who may feel the impact of consumers keeping a tighter hold on their wallets this holiday season. That could be bad news for owners of retail commercial space as well. "In uncertain times … it's time to rebuild trust," says Mechanics' Buster.
Contra Costa Times - 10/31/2007 - ENVISIONING A GATEWAY TO PITTSBURGWith commercial activity becoming very brisk in the downtown area of Pittsburg, being the only bank in the Old Town Pittsburg has proved quite successful for The Mechanics Bank.
Contra Costa Times - 10/30/2007 - FROM BOARDED UP- TO BUSY BANK. The Mechanics Bank Pt. Richmond Office, occupying the historic, restored Trainmasters Station building, celebrated its Grand Opening to a large group of leading City officials, residents and Bank employees.
Sacramento Bee - 10/13/2007 WORK FINALLY BEGINS ON 34TH RESIDENTIAL PROJECT. The Mechanics Bank funds a loan to kick-start the long awaited East 34th project to have 30 Single-family homes completed by Spring of 2008.
East Bay Business Times - 9/28/2007 - IN BRIEF: BANKING ON SCHOOLS. The Mechanics Bank for the fourth-straight year sponsored an Oakland Athletic's ticket sales program to raise money for locals. The Bank donated $49,000.00 to the West Contra Costa County School District after a season-long fundraising effort for the "Step Up To The Plate for Education" program. The Mechanics Bank distributed ticket order forms and underwrote promotional spots and radio airtime for the program. It also held its annual employee picnic day at the A's gaem, with proceeds from the ticket purchases for more than 500 employees and their families included in program revenue.
San Francisco Examiner - 09/27/2007 - BIG BANKS HIKE ATM FEES. The Mechanics Bank rebates other banks' ATM fees.
San Francisco Business Times - 09/24/07 - MECHANICS BANK EXPANDS ESCROW SERVICES WITH S.F. HIRE. The Mechanics Bank's new San Francisco Business Escrow group has Elizabeth McGovern as Senior Escrow Officer.
Sacramento Bee - 09/03/2007 RYAN EMMERT PROMOTED. Ryan Emmert has been promoted to Financial Services Manager for The Mechanics Bank in El Dorado Hills.
ABC 7 News - 06/11/2007 - TRAINMASTER BUILDING STORY. Tom Butt and The Mechanics Bank work to infuse new life into historic Trainmaster Building in Point Richmond.
San Francisco Chronicle - 06/6/2007 - MIND YOUR BUSINESS. RAULY BUTLER, SVP of Retail Banking, was recently quoted in the Business section of the Chronicle, addressing a reader's question about a wife's bankruptcy.
Sacramento Bee - 05/31/2007 - THE MECHANICS BANK'S HOWE AVENUE OFFICE GOES GREEN. An article appearing in the Arden Carmichael section of the Bee quotes Amy Mathews on The Mechanics Bank's commitment to supporting the community's effort to be "Green".
Placer Herald - 05/23/2007 - THE MECHANICS BANK JOINS CHAMBER GALA IN ROCKLIN The Mechanics Bank's 5th anniversary in RocSklin was celebrated recently, but the Children's 100-Year tile wall was the focal point of the Chamber event.
Placer Herald - 05/10/2007 - JACKIE BARTOLUCCI works with local Chamber The article quotes Jackie Bartolucci comments about the Rocklin Chambers forum to promote the success of businesses.
El Dorado Hills Telegraph - 05/09/2007 - The Mechanics Bank promotes SUSAN HAMLIN to Office Manager The article highlights the career, experience and details of responsiblities of Ms. Hamlin, who is also an El Dorado Hills resident.
Sacramento Business Journal - 05/04/2007 - A BANK CONNECTION The Mechanics Bank is considering offering bank account access on cell phones.
Contra Costa Times - 04/20/2007 - BANK INFUSES LIFE INTO HISTORIC BUILDING The Mechanics Bank will be moving into the historic Trainmasters building in Point Richmond.
Central Valley Business Times - 04/20/2007 - The Mechanics Bank elects PATRICIA COCHRAN to its Board of Directors Patricia Cochran, former Vision Service Plan CEO, joins The Mechanics Bank board of directors.
The East Sacramento News - 04/19/2007 - Sacramento Businesses Go Green The Mechanics Bank Howe Avenue Office Has Been Certified as a Green Business.
San Francisco Business Times - 04/18/2007 - The Mechanics Bank elects TWO NEW DIRECTORS Patricia Cochran and Richard Moran bring their experience and expertise to The Mechanics Bank Board of Directors.
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Das Nibelungenlied
Das Nibelungenlied
(Also known as Der Nibelunge Nôt and Lay of the Nibelungen.) German poem.
c. 1190-c. 1204.
The Nibelungenlied is the most celebrated heroic epic of German Medieval literature. In its home country, the tale of honor, murder, and revenge is still read by the general public as well as students. A favorite of critics, the Nibelungenlied is praised for its symmetrical form and its mingling of fiction and history, encompassing Germany's ancient heroic songs, the fall of the Burgundian Empire in 437, and the courtly romance tradition of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Europe. Scholars have been unable to identify its author but linguistic studies and historical references date the poem's composition to sometime between 1190 and 1204, with the year 1203 being cited traditionally. Its literary roots reach back to the Vikings and Scandinavia, possibly to the ninth century, but some scholars believe that the ultimate source was Germany and that the tale spread northward before it came back home in altered form. The message of the Nibelungenlied—if indeed there is a message—is hotly debated by critics. Some of the poem's wide modern appeal is likely due to the fact that it fits equally well with many different interpretations.
Plot and Major Characters
The Nibelungenlied is neatly divided into two parts by most critics. The first focuses on the mythic hero Siegfried and his murder, while the second part, largely historical, concerns the fall of the Burgundians, a tribe residing in the southern part of Germany. The poem opens in Worms, at the Burgundian court of three royal brothers—Gunther, Gernôt, and Gîselher—and their sister Kriemhild. Siegfried, a prince from the Netherlands, travels to Worms with the intention of marrying Kriemhild but must wait a year before seeing her. In the meantime, he distinguishes himself in numerous battles, partly through his own strength and partly through magic. He conquers the Nibelungs (a name meaning "inhabitants of the mist") and wins their treasure—a sword, and a cloak that makes its wearer invisible. Gunther wishes to marry Brunhild, who is an Icelandic queen of fantastic strength, and persuades Siegfried to wear the magic cloak on his behalf and win Brunhild through a series of duplicitous physical contests in which the invisible Siegfried actually performs the feats that appear to be accomplished by Gunther. For his help, Siegfried is given Kriemhild's hand in a double wedding ceremony that includes the exchange of vows between Gunther and Brunhild. Once Brunhild realizes she has been tricked into marrying Gunther she employs Hagen, Gunther's vassal, to murder Siegfried. On a hunting trip, Hagen stabs Siegfried in the back and kills him, after which he sinks the treasure of the Nibelungs in the Rhine, significantly decreasing Kriemhild's power and influence. The second part of the Nibelungenlied begins ten years later. Kriemhild marries Etzel (Attila the Hun) on the promise of his vassal, Rüdiger, that he will defend her against her enemies. Years pass and Kriemhild invites her brothers and their party to Etzel's court with the intention of avenging Siegfried's death. Kriemhild persuades some of Etzel's lords to attack the Burgundians and, after a bloody battle, all the Burgundians are slain save for Gunther and Hagen, who are brought to the Queen by Dietrich of Bern. When Hagen refuses to tell Kriemhild where he has sunk the Nibelung treasure, she has Gunther beheaded. Hagen still refuses to divulge the location and Kriemhild, furious, cuts off his head with Siegfried's sword. Hildebrand, Dietrich's vassal, is outraged by the Queen's ruthlessness and kills her.
Major Themes
Kriemhild provides a theme for the Nibelungenlied when she states that "all joy must end in sorrow." By no means is this accepted by everyone as the main theme, however. Some scholars read the poem in terms of the code of chivalry, represented by Siegfried, or in terms of Christianity, exemplified by Rüdiger. Still others interpret the poem as a tragedy of godless self-will, a revival of Germanic spirit, or a warning against pride. Certainly, elements of fatalism, heroism, guilt, honor, faithfulness, and justice abound in the epic. Many modern critics decry what they perceive as a tendency towards over-analysis, arguing that there may not be a hidden purpose—or any purpose—in the Nibelungenlied beyond the telling of a simple yet exciting tale.
Critical Reception
Popular in Medieval times, the Nibelungenlied gradually lost favor with readers until it was rediscovered in 1755 in a castle in Tirol by J. H. Obereit, and translated from Middle High German into German in 1757. In the early 1800s, the Nibelungenlied was embraced by the German Romantics as part of their national legacy and often favorabley compared with the Iliad. Scholars have also debated whether or not the poem truly is distinctively German; many feel that concentration on the Nibelungenlied as a national work is misguided. The Nibelungenlied has inspired diverse areas of study. Examining the structure of the poem involves oral formulism, semantics, and syntactic analysis. Through this type of work, much has been learned about the development of the oral tale which served as the basis for the written version. Another popular field of study is comparing and contrasting the Nibelungenlied with its Norse versions and studying its mythic elements. Scholars find little argument that the impetus for the second half of the tale was the defeat of the Burgundians by the Huns, but many critics believe that taking a historical approach in analysis is too limiting, and they prefer to study the Nibelungenlied purely as literature. The nature of the poem lends itself to various interpretations since the author incorporates little commentary beyond stock phrases, simply letting the tale unfold without clarifying the motives of the characters. The individual reader is thus left to decide whether or not Hagen is a hero or a villain, for example, or whether the tale promotes honor or warns against it. Frank G. Ryder states the poem is "a true work of world literature, faithful to its time but not bound by it, comprehensible and of significance to an audience centuries removed."
Principal Works
The Nibelungenlied (translated by Daniel B. Shumway) (poetry) 1909
"Song of the Nibelungs:" A Verse Translation from the Middle High German "Nibelungenlied" (translated by Frank G. Ryder) (poetry) 1962
The Nibelungenlied (translated by A. T. Hatto) (poetry) 1965
The Nibelungenlied (translated by D. G. Mowatt) (poetry) 1965
The Nibelungenlied (translated by William Nanson Lettsom) (poetry) 1977
The Nibelungenlied (translated by Robert Lichtenstein) (poetry) 1991
German Epic Poetry: "The Nibelungenlied," the "Older Lay of Hildebrand," and Other Works (edited by Francis G. Gentry et al.) (poetry) 1995
Otto L. Jiriczek (essay date 1902)
SOURCE: "The Saga of the Niblungs" in Northern Hero Legends, J. M. Dent & Co., 1902, pp. 10-61.
[In the following excerpt, Jiriczek discusses the historical and mythical foundations of the Nibelungenlied, and the development, continuance, and extinction of the saga.]
In German and Norse sources mention is made of a Burgundian king Gibich, Norse Gjuki [in the Nibelunlied his name is Dancrât] who is said to have three sons, Gunther, Gernot, Giselher; in Norse, Gunnar, Guthormr, Hogni [Hagen stands for Giselher in the Seyfriedslied also]. The historical origin of some of these...
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Frances E. Sandbach (essay date 1903)
SOURCE: "Influence on English Literature" in The Nibelungenlied and Gudrun in England and America, David Nutt, 1903, pp. 118-35.
[In the following excerpt, Sandbach explores Middle English and Modern English literary works that may have been influenced by or adapted from the Nibelungenlied.]
…—In the literature of the Middle English period there is, so far as I know, only one reference to the Nibelungen story that can be looked upon as at all certain. This was pointed out by Professor W. P. Ker in Folk Lore, ix. 372, and occurs in the metrical romance of "Sir Degravant," in the following passage (vv. 525 ff.):—
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George Fenwick Jones (essay date 1960)
SOURCE: "Rüdiger's Dilemma," Studies in Philology, Vol. LVII, No. 1, January, 1960, pp. 7-21.
[In the following essay, Jones explains how the Germanic ethics of the Nibelungenlied differ from modern values, and urges that the reader be aware of these differences in trying to understand the motivation of the characters in the work.]
We smile at jousts before the walls of Troy in medieval epics and at cannons in early illustrations of Old Testament battlefields; yet we tend to be less critical of modern thoughts and sentiments attributed to historical characters by recent novelists and even by historians and literary critics. Restricted as we are to our own...
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D. G. Mowatt (essay date 1961)
SOURCE: "Studies Towards an Interpretation of the Nibelungenlied," German Life & Letters, New Series Vol. XIV, No. 4, July, 1961, pp. 257-70.
[In the following essay, Mowatt explains why taking a historical approach in analyzing the Nibelungenliedis unsatisfactory; Mowatt then offers suggestions for studying it using a structural approach.]
The Nibelungenlied is a work of medieval literature, and is usually interpreted historically. There are good reasons why this has been, and will no doubt continue to be so. The Court Epic and Lyric are not easily accessible...
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Hugh Sacker (essay date 1961)
SOURCE: "On Irony and Symbolism in the Nibelunglied: Two Preliminary Notes," German Life & Letters, New Series Vol. XIV, No. 4, July, 1961, pp. 271-81.
[In the following essay, Sacker examines examples of irony in the Nibelungenlied and points out some previously overlooked uses of symbolism.]
It has always been recognized that irony plays some part in the Nibelungenlied,1 but so far as I know attention has been concentrated on those instances which make the person or deed appear more heroic and not upon those which tend to undermine the heroic appearance. That this latter possibility also exists...
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Werner A. Mueller (essay date 1962)
SOURCE: "The Essence" and "The Significance" in The Nibelungenlied Today: Its Substance, Essence, and Significance, The University of North Carolina Press, 1962, pp. 59-92.
[In the following excerpt, Mueller explains that the Nibelungenlied's main theme is man himself, particularly how he responds to a dilemma. Mueller also explores the poet's concerns and his relation to his work and contends that the poem, without promoting specific religious values, nevertheless affirms man's need for faith.]
"Die Kunst ist eine Vermittlerin des Unaussprechlichen; darum scheint es eine Torheit, sie wieder durch Worte vermitteln zu wollen. Doch...
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Hugo Bekker (essay date 1971)
SOURCE: "Conclusion: Structural Devices and Their Consequences" in The "Nibelungenlied": A Literary Analysis, University of Toronto Press, 1971, pp. 149-65.
[In the following excerpt, Bekker examines the function of the Nibelungenlied's imagery and symbolism and discusses the epic's abundant symmetry and varied pace.]
The previous chapters have attempted to draw attention to some of the building materials used in the Nibelungenlied, and to the nature of their distribution. What the total structure amounts to is a different matter. In order to attempt an evaluation of the epic as a whole, it is necessary to deal with some devices that are akin to...
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Harold D. Dickerson, Jr. (essay date 1975)
SOURCE: "Hagen: A Negative View," Semasia, Vol. 2, 1975, pp. 43-59.
[In the following essay, Dickerson argues against viewing Hagen as heroic, contending instead that he should be regarded as an evil character.]
Much progress has been made in recent years toward a modern and comprehensive view of the Nibelungenlied. The pioneering studies of D. W. Mowatt,1 Hugh Sacker2 and Hugo Bekkar3—to choose only three—have suggested new solutions to the problem of the work's inconsistencies which up to now have either been left unexplained or attributed to the "postulate" that the poet was courtly but his subject matter was...
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Francis G. Gentry (essay date 1976)
SOURCE: "Hagen and the Problem of Individuality in the Nibelungenlied," Monatshefte, Vol. 68, No. 1, 1976, pp. 5-12.
[In the following essay, Gentry maintains that the Nibelungenlied explores the issue of feudal bonds while it instructs its audience that an individual moral decision can override law and custom.]
The history of Nibelungenlied* scholarship is a fascinating chapter within the larger scope of Germanic philology.1 More than any other work of the Blütezeit the Nibelungenlied has attracted researchers for reasons other than purely aesthetic. Only in the last thirty years has the...
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Michael Curschmann (essay date 1977)
SOURCE: "The Concept of the Oral Formula as an Impediment to Our Understanding of Medieval Oral Poetry," Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 8, 1977, pp. 63-76.
[In the following essay, Curschmann contends that dogmatic advocates of the theory of oral-formulaic composition have rendered a disservice to Nibelungenlied studies by, among other things, relying too much on scientific analysis and failing to take proper notice of the nature of literature in the Middle Ages.]
Over the past quarter-century or so, the Theory of Oral-Formulaic Composition has exerted the most profound influence in several disciplines that have to do with epic literature and related...
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D. R. McLintock (essay date 1977)
SOURCE: "The Reconciliation in the Nibelungenlied," German Life and Letters, Vol. XXX, No. 2, January, 1997, pp. 138-49.
[In the following essay, McLintock explains that the Nibelungenlied is best approached aesthetically, for its literary qualities.]
Recent years have seen numerous interpretations of the Nibelungenlied. Scholars have sought to elicit its 'meaning' or 'message' and imagined they could divine the author's 'intention': he was contrasting 'pagan' and 'Christian' values, deploring revenge, finding fault with old-style 'demonic' heroism, or demonstrating the baleful effects of lay arrogance. Some of these...
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Berta Lösel-Wieland-Engelmann (essay date 1980)
SOURCE: "Feminist Repercussions of a Literary Research Project," Atlantis, Vol. 6, No. 1, Fall, 1980, pp. 84-90.
[In the following essay, Lösel-Wieland-Engelmann provides a personal account of her experiences in promoting the idea of female authorship for the Nibelunglied.]
The following experiences may show how a woman who never was much involved in feminism can suddenly be made aware of a multiplicity of problems that are peculiar to women.
Up to a quiet day in August 1977 I fulfilled my usual duties as a middle-aged part-time secretary to a small number of professors of German. Then I was given some lecture notes to type, the contents of which...
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Winder McConnell (essay date 1984)
SOURCE: "The Reception of the Nibelungenlied in Germany from the Klage to the Twentieth Century" in The Nibelungenlied, Twayne Publishers, 1984, pp. 84-101.
[In the following essay, McConnell offers an overview of the Nibelungenlied's influence on German literature.]
If the number of popular and artistic works based on the Nibelungenlied may be considered evidence of the attraction the epic held for subsequent generations of readers and theatergoers, then we may certainly conclude that the poem has proved to be one of the most inspiring "sources" in the history of German literature. I have already considered in the Introduction the...
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Edward R. Haymes (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: "Conclusion: The Alternative to Heroism" in The "Nibelungenlied": History and Interpretation, University of Illinois Press, 1992, pp. 101-14.
[In the following excerpt, Haymes explores the conflicts between the heroic, the courtly, and the diplomatic in the Nibelungenlied and contends that the tale serves as a warning against the abuse of new values.]
The Nibelungenlied presents us with two fatally flawed heroes, Siegfried and Hagen, representing two sharply contrasted literary and ethical patterns. The first half of the poem demonstrates the problems that arise when social order becomes blurred and the false ideals of chivalric...
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Theodore M. Andersson (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "Interpretations" in A Preface to the "Nibelungenlied", Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987, pp. 144-66.
[In the following excerpt, Andersson summarizes the new approaches taken in critical analyses of the Nibelungenlied during the last half of the twentieth century.]
Two publications by Nelly Dürrenmatt and Friedrich Panzer in 1945 marked a turning point in the analysis of the Nibelungenlied and ushered in a period of postwar criticism that differed distinctly from the work done during the forty years before the war.1 These earlier years were dominated by Andreas Heusler, whose pertinent studies appeared from 1902...
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Joyce Tally Lionarons (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: "The Otherworld and Its Inhabitants in the Nibelungenlied" in A Companion to the "Nibelungenlied", edited by Winder McConnell, Camden House, 1998, pp. 153-71.
[In the following essay, Lionarons explores the relationship between mythical characters and humans in the Nibelungenlied.]
Every reader of the Nibelungenlied soon recognizes that there are at least two different worlds, and perhaps two different times, coexisting within the poem. The first is the "real," historically conceived society of Worms and Xanten: this is a chivalric, courtly world in which normal human beings—albeit sometimes kings and princesses—are born, live,...
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Winder McConnell (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: "The Nibelungenlied: A Psychological Approach" in A Companion to the "Nibelungenlied", edited by Winder McConnell, Camden House, 1998, pp. 172-205.
[In the following essay, McConnell applies analytical psychology to an exploration of the motivations and dreams of the Nibelungenlied's main characters and their relationships, finding much evidence of repression.]
Science, particularly as evinced in the work of the British biologist, Rupert Sheldrake, as well as in the research of the Swiss physician and psychoanalyst, Willy Obrist, has produced yet further evidence of the validity of core ideas postulated almost a century ago by Carl Gustav...
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Further Reading
Bäuml, Franz H. "Transformations of the Heroine: From Epic Heard to Epic Read." The Role of Woman in the Middle Ages, edited by Rosmarie Thee Morewedge, pp. 23-40. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1975.
Historical study that considers three different types of transmission for the Nibelungenlied.
———, and Eva-Marie Fallone. A Concordance to the "Nibelungenlied" (Bartsch-De Borr Text). Leeds: W. S. Maney and Son Ltd, 1976, 901p.
Includes index to structural patterns, a frequency ranking list, and a reverse index.
Bostock, J. K. "The Message of the...
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Kansas teen makes prosthetic for young friend.
Matthew Shields�flashes a smile and high-fives Mason Wilde with the prosthetic on his right hand. Born without fingers on that hand, Matthew, 9, now uses his Robohand to open doors, carry books and catch a ball�thanks to Mason, 17, who made the device with a 3-D printer at the Johnson County Library in Overland Park, Kan.
�It definitely made me proud,� says Mason, a junior at Louisburg (Kan.) High School. Matthew�s mother, Jennifer Shields, noticed last fall that her son�s birth defect was making the third-grader self-conscious and affecting him socially. But even with health insurance, the single mother knew she couldn�t afford a professionally made prosthetic.
Researching online, Jennifer found Robohand, the mechanical hand invented by South African carpenter Richard van As, who lost four fingers in a circular saw accident, and theatrical props maker Ivan Owen, in Bellingham, Wash. The pair posted the free digital design last year on thingiverse.com. �I looked at the plans, but had no idea how to do it,� recalls Jennifer, 43.
Mason, however, eagerly accepted the challenge. A straight-A student who aspires to be an engineer, he previously had read about three-dimensional printer technology. �I downloaded all the files and spent about three hours scaling the hand to fit Matthew,� Mason says.
Feeding and melting plastic filament to make parts on the 3-D printer took about eight hours. Mason assembled the 20 pieces with nylon cord and stainless steel screws. He attached the mechanical hand to a glove-like cuff that he molded from thermoplastic to fit Matthew�s hand. The materials cost about $60.
�It�s awesome,� says Matthew about his Robohand. �I could climb a gigantic mountain. Maybe I could clean my room faster.� Matthew uses backward and forward movements of his wrist to make the fingers open and close. The mechanical hand attracts the right kind of attention, Jennifer says. �Instead of, �What happened to your hand?� it�s, �Hey, that�s cool,�� she says. �We�re very grateful to Mason.�
Meanwhile, Mason has established a nonprofit organization to raise money to buy a 3-D printer and make prosthetics for other people. �It�s an amazing feeling to be able to give someone a hand,� he says, �something we often take for granted.�'This article originally appeared as on American Profile


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If you did not get the email with all the info, email me and I will forward it to you!
If the passenger list for the first bus get's filled up by, let's say 5pm, can it leave earlier than 6:30?
There was no indication prior to now this was going to be a 12 hour event.


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Hi everybody.
I'm new on tea chat and I thought I'd introduce myself.
I fell in love with tea when visiting China in may 2008. Since then I've been ordering tea from China, Taiwan, Malaysia and USA. Good tea is hard to come by in Iceland.
At the moment I'm mainly drinking Cooked pu-erh and various types of Oolong. I've just started to explore green pu-erh, but I haven't yet found one to fall in love with (at least not within my price range). I welcome all recommendations on that (and any tea for that matter).
Cha qi for all of you,
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This week Evan has a VersaEmerge prize package for you. After The AP Tour Spring 2011, Sierra and Blake autographed this poster. We also added in a Sierra Hair Feather and a copy of Fixed At Zero. You can see VersaEmerge on their UK / Euro Invasion Tour going on now!
Winner: Congratulations Mei-Gan Chea, Thanks to EVERYONE who entered!


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Pavilion plans for farmers market
ESCANABA – Draft plans for a large pavilion-style farmers market in downtown Escanaba will soon be drawn up and presented for public input, according to the director of the Downtown Development Authority (DDA).
DDA Director Ed Legault informed board members during their regular meeting Wednesday that he met with architect Barry Polzin of Marquette to discuss the possibility of designing a useful multi-purpose pavilion.
The structure would replace the current vendor stands on the corner of North 9th Street and 1st Avenue North.
A pavilion would improve the present facility and provide for more vendor space for the farmers market while also offer an outdoor building for other local activities, Legault explained after the meeting.
"We want to make it more than a farmers market and look at a community marketplace," he said. "This would enhance Escanaba's reputation and bring a sense of community in the downtown area."
Development of the DDA's farmers market has been an on-going priority for the authority which has also looked into building a new indoor/outdoor facility at its present location. The DDA has also considered renovating a vacant building downtown into a year-round structure.
Legault said the idea for a year-round building became cost-prohibitive so a design for a pavilion-style structure will be drafted and presented to the board and the public for input, possibly by next month. Grants could be sought to help fund the project, if approved, he said.
In addition to more vendor space, the pavilion would include restrooms, storage space, and possibly a kitchen area that could be closed off, explained Legault. The structure would also offer more protection from the weather while also serving as an outdoor facility, he said.
The farmers market would continue to be held during the winter months at the city's Catherine Bonifas Civic Center at 225 N. 21st St., making use of that facility, said Legault.
For the first time, vendors have been setting up shop at the civic center this winter. Sales take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays.
Recreation Director Tom Penegor said the farmers market has been working out good at the civic center especially on the Saturdays when there are basketball games there.
The partnership with the DDA has been a positive one for the community and also makes good use of a room at the center which also provides parking and restroom facilities, he added.
In other business Wednesday, the board welcomed Jeff Slagstad of Wells Fargo as a new member.
The authority agreed to donate $5,000 to a Home Run 5K run/walk sponsored by the Delta County Coalition Against Homelessness on Memorial Day weekend in downtown Escanaba. The funds will allow the event to offer cash prizes for five years.
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....at the end of that article it said there hasn't been a 100 yard rusher yet in the AFC North. That's crazy.......
I can see why, but dont agree with it.
worilds is a bum and always has been no matter how he has been propped up by some here.
at this point in a meaningless season, the coaching staff should be getting JJ as many reps as possible, as it will only help him going forward.
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If a guy is overmatched and lost out there and doing the wrong stuff, the wrong stuff can end up turning into a habit which can also be bad.
we will agree to disagree, flip
jones can use every rep he can get, IMO
worilds gives us nothing going forward


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WORLD WAR II VETERANS HISTORIC HIGHWAY Dedication
On June 6, 2010, the 66th anniversary of D-Day, Sunriver Resort is extremely honored to host a group of WWII veterans as they gather for the official designation of the WORLD WAR II VETERANS HISTORIC HIGHWAY - 325 miles of Highway 97 and a portion of State Route 126.
The Highway will be designated by 19 signs installed near 8 WWII training sites, including Sunriver, which during WWII was a 5,500 acre combat and engineer replacement training center called Camp Abbot.
The 2pm ceremony will take place in the historic Great Hall, the original officers' mess hall that was built in 1944 by the Army Corps of Engineers. The public is invited to attend.
Thank you to all Oregon WWII vets for your service and sacrifice.
The full press release from the Bend Heroes Foundation is below:
Media release: Immediate
WORLD WAR II VETERANS HISTORIC HIGHWAY Dedication
On Sunday, June 6, the 66th anniversary of D-Day, a ceremony will be held at Sunriver's Great Hall honoring WWII veterans and dedicating the WORLD WAR II VETERANS HISTORIC HIGHWAY. The public is invited. Sunriver is located 15 miles south of Bend.
The ceremony begins at 2:00 pm and is expected to draw hundreds of WWII veterans including survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima invasion, D-Day invasion, Battle of the Bulge, the only WWII Medal of Honor recipient living in Oregon, and women who served in uniform during WWII. Brigadier General Charles L. Yriarte is the guest speaker.
Great Hall, a magnificent lodge style structure, was built by combat engineers when 90,000 trained at then Camp Abbot. Great Hall was dedicated thirty-eight days before D-Day. It is owned and operated by Sunriver Resort and is the perfect venue for honoring WWII veterans.
The WORLD WAR II VETERANS HISTORIC HIGHWAY is designated by 19 signs installed near 8 WWII training sites along 325 miles of US Highway 97 from Washington to California and a portion of State Route 126 between Redmond and Prineville.
The WWII highway signs project honors WWII veterans – those who served and those who were killed, wounded, became prisoner of war or missing in action during the war and those who live among us today. Approximately 3,000 WWII veterans reside near the two highways. The signs also educate the traveling public about vital WWII training made possible by the high desert highways.
The signs also display the names of the WWII facilities and the years of operation. The signs are installed near those WWII facilities at Biggs, Madras, Prineville, Redmond, Bend, Sunriver, and Klamath Falls, and the ends of the highways. They will be uncovered before June 6. Signs will also be unveiled at the June 6 ceremony. Attached is an image of a typical sign – overall size of an actual sign is 8 feet wide by 6 feet high.
All branches of the service trained near the highways: Army Engineers river crossings, Army Air Forces fighter pilot and heavy bomber flight crews, Army Combat Engineering, civilian pilot training, Navy combat air crews, and treatment of Marines with tropical diseases. The "Oregon Maneuver", the largest of its kind in the Pacific Northwest, trained 100,000 soldiers across Central Oregon's high desert. All of the airfields built to support WWII training are still in use today.
Flybys of Oregon Air National Guard F-15 fighters and a WWII Navy N3N biplane have been requested. A reception follows the salute to WWII veterans and highway dedications.
It is hoped the signs will cause travelers to reflect on the sacrifices made by the "Greatest Generation" now at an average age of 84. Eight five percent (85%) of our nation's 15.7 million veterans who survived WWII have passed from our midst since the end of that war sixty-five years ago.
Attached is Governor Kulongoski's tribute to Oregon's WWII veterans and the newly designated highways when he signed Senate Bill 449 in Bend on July 15, 2009.
The signs project was funded by donations from more than thirty generous groups and individuals and "In Kind" services. Donors and partners will be recognized at the ceremony. Bend Heroes Foundation manages the project.
This cooperative Oregon Department of Transportation – Bend Heroes Foundation project resulted from a request made to the Oregon legislature by the WWII Veterans Historic Highway Committee. All State Senators and Representatives with Districts encompassing the highways and who also co-sponsored the legislation have been invited to the ceremony.
Highway 97 is also known as a Blue Star Memorial Highway and the Dalles-California Highway. Those names are not changed by the new "honorary" designation honoring WWII veterans and preserving WWII history.
Someone must speak for WWII veterans and that honor has fallen to all of us.
The program for the June 6 ceremony will be available on June 4.
Dick Tobiason 541 388-5591 cell 541 390-9932
LTC US Army Retired
President, Bend Heroes Foundation
Chairman, WWII Veterans Historic Highway Committee
Peter Murphy, ODOT Bend 541 388-6224
Chris Harrison, Sunriver Resort 541 593-7972
LTC Lance McCuiston, Oregon Air National Guard 541 885-6310
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Thursday, July 18, 2013
Budget Cuts Would Further Delay NextGen
Huerta, Scovell updated lawmakers on current and future financial and scheduling challenges for NextGen implementation.
NextGen, already mired by program delays and budget overruns, could be facing more financial and scheduling challenges ahead if a House budget proposal passes.
Calvin Scovel, the Transportation Department's inspector general (IG), said the House Appropriations Committee's proposed 2014 FAA budget, which is $756 million below the agency's current $16 billion reauthorization budget, would provide the lowest funding for FAA facilities and equipment since 2000, forcing the agency to delay segmented NextGen implementation in order to maintain the current legacy system.
In 2014, the House has a proposed budget of $11.8 billion for FAA, which is $756 million below the fiscal year 2013 enacted level, and $103.3 million below the level caused by the automatic sequester cuts that began in March.
"Our understanding, is that at those funding levels, the agency would be required to constrain its efforts greatly in regards to NextGen, and in fact, would have to devote all of its attention to and much of its funding permitted by Congress to simply sustaining the current system as exists in the NAS," said Scovel.
Sequester cuts have already forced FAA to delay the implementation of its metroplex initiative, a segment of NextGen launched in 2010 to improve air traffic flows at the nation's most congested airports in 13 major metropolitan areas.
In his testimony, Scovel said the seven-year metroplex program was recently "halted or delayed due to sequestration." The agency has completed initial design work at 9 of the 13 metroplex locations, but the implementation phase has begun only in Houston. The testimony is significant, since the appropriations committee specifically said its 2014 budget preserves funding for the NextGen programs that are under current deployment.
"The sequester and future funding unpredictability requires the FAA to make sizable budget cuts that affect our operations and our future," said FAA Administrator Michael Huerta.
Outside of the funding, Scovel told the committee the program faces other roadblocks to implementation, including a lack of near-term benefits on newly implemented performance-based navigation routes and an inability to keep the implementation of air traffic control automation systems on track. Through audits of FAA, Scovel's office has found that the agency's "organizational culture" is also an impediment to NextGen.
Scovel's office will be issuing a report later this year regarding an audit of FAA's reorganization, which included the establishment of a program management office in 2011 to bridge the gap between NextGen's requirements and program implementation.
"While FAA has taken important steps to improve NextGen's management, such as establishing a new program management office, the agency had made little progress in shifting from planning to implementation and delivering benefits to airspace users," Scovel testified.
FAA said it is doing its best to address the problems, and despite the issues, Huerta told the committee that he believes NextGen implementation is largely on track, noting that by 2014, the full ground infrastructure for automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B), deployment will be in place. But the agency will have to continue to work closely with the industry to ensure that its 2020 mandate for ADS-B equipage by airspace users is achieved.
"I've heard that some transformational NextGen programs aren't truly transformational, that the FAA will never make the tough decisions required to advance NextGen, and that nobody can really agree what NextGen is today or what it should be in 2025," said Rep. Frank Lobiondo (R-N.J.), chairman of the subcommittee on aviation.
"The NextGen program is a decade old and there are a lot of people that share the responsibility for any problems, including people within the FAA, the aviation industry, and Congress," LoBiondo said.
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We thank the alumni/ae who responded to our email asking for
photographs of their churches for the cover of this issue of inSpire.
The photographs on the cover picture the First Presbyterian Church
of San Anselmo, San Anselmo, CA; Christ Presbyterian Church,
Hamilton, NJ; the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, Hollywood,
CA; Falling Waters Presbyterian Church, Hedgesville, WV; West Hills
Presbyterian Church, Omaha, NE; Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church,
Point Pleasant Beach, NJ; Eastlake Presbyterian Church, Oklahoma
City, OK; Pioneer Memorial Presbyterian Church, Solon, OH; Central
United Methodist Church, Linwood, NJ; Manito Presbyterian Church,
Spokane, WA; the First Presbyterian Church, Tyler, TX; Peachtree
Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, GA; Lake Grove Presbyterian Church,
Lake Oswego, OR; Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, NY;
the First Presbyterian Church, Huntington, WV; Kirkmichael Parish
Church, Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland; the First Congregational
Church, Litchfield, CT; and Christ Church of Oak Brook, Oak Brook,
We received other photographs and are sorry that we could not use
them all.
Pastoral Ministry: The First Office
of the Church
Preparation of women
and men for the pastorate is at the center of Princeton
Seminary's mission.
• Preaching That Fosters "Ecclesial" Identity
by Sally A. Brown
Giving Voice to the
Gospel: An Interview with PTS Speech Communication Professor
Nancy Lammers Gross
• When Your Calling Is Pastor: PTS Faculty and Alums Gather at Montreat, Reflect on the Pastorate
by Barbara A. Chaapel
• Ex Nihilo: Starting a New Church
by Kent Annan
A former student reflects on his
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Line-up for the 26th year of Great Decisions Lecture Series at St. Norbert College announced
Beginning Feb. 6 at 7:30 p.m.
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by Mike Counter, firstname.lastname@example.com, (920) 403-3089
Topics for the series are selected by the Foreign Policy Association of America and are intended to provide a local forum for discussion on current political and economic issues of the day. The speakers themselves are selected by participating colleges and universities. St. Norbert College is one of only two schools in Wisconsin that presents the entire series. (UW-Milwaukee is the other)
The following are the topics and speakers for 2008. All lectures will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Fort Howard Theater, Bemis International Center.


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A gorgeous sunset tonight in Sammamish looking over Lake Sammamish towards Bellevue and the Olympic Mountains. The amazing redness is due to a forest fire over the Olympic Mountains that spread smoke between our location and the setting sun.
One thought on "Sammamish Sunset"
Amazing reds!
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Official *What did you get in the mail today?* Thread!!!
I recieved my first Della Terra Tea order according to tracking Harmey & Sons is coming in today.
Lemon chiffon
Strawberry kiwi
Apricot & peach
Oatmeal Raisin
Samples were:
Swiss mountain
Strawberries & cream
Lime chiffon
I decided to get an accurate digital scale for gram weighing of tea. I received it today from Amazon. Cost about $10. I'm looking forward to see if accuracy in amount makes a difference in the enjoyment of my teas.
One of my swaps. Which had 52 Teas, hurray!
Came home from a week long vacation to my monthly Handmade tea and then my neighbour brought over my huge Harney order that came while I was away. Let the tea tasting begin!
Got my Della Terra order! Now I need to stop ordering tea, make a spreadsheet, or both! ;)
I got:
4 oz. of blueberry crumble
2 oz. of oolong creme de la creme
1 oz. chocolate pumpkin pie (which is new to me and smells delicious!!!)
Three. Three days in a row of tea in the mail. I am definitely starting to get the skeptical eye from my partner. So maybe the order I'm placing with Butiki Teas should be shipped to my office…
Anyway, Nature's Bloom Pu-erh Tea (swap from Starfevre, and a generous one at that), and some samples from Stash Tea. And USPS tracking indicates that my Della Terra order should be here tomorrow, and Tea Forte on Friday. I am a terrible person… but right now a pretty happy one, too.
I received my swap from Starfevre – Rich Berry Pie Matcha, Red Velvet Cake Mate and Lavendar Pu'erh. Yum!
I received my Amoda box :-)
My Teavivre order arrived!! Huzzah for MOAR tea. Now I just need the time to sit and steep all weekend like I had planned to last weekend.


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Hi all,
Just got to try the Bose L1 compact with my imix (ibeam/element) and venue di.
It was amazing! Better than any acoustic amp i have used but I will admit that i haven't used the a-ref yet and would love to try it in the future. the L1 made me appreciate my imix even more!
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Cowboys' six-run fourth sinks ENMU
April 1, 2009
LAS VEGAS, N.M. — New Mexico Highlands put together a six-run fourth to take the lead and designated hitter Jason Carr later added a three-run homer as the Cowboys beat Eastern New Mexico University 13-6 Tuesday in a non-conference baseball game.
The win was the first this season for Highlands (23-13) in four tries against ENMU. Last week, the Greyhounds (19-17) routed NMHU 16-1 at Greyhound Field.
ENMU started off well in this one also, building a 3-0 lead on a sacrifice fly by Chris Eaton in the first, and Ethan Wagner's run-scoring groundout and Richard Urban's RBI single in the third.
With the score 3-1, though, the Cowboys erupted against ENMU starter Jared Wilson (0-2) and reliever Juan Sanchez, sending 11 men to the plate in the fourth in taking a 7-3 lead.
In the sixth, Oscar Sigala drew a two-out walk, Christian Garcia singled and Carr belted his 10th homer of the season to right-center off Sanchez.
Eaton singled and Wagner whacked his team-leading fifth homer in the seventh, and Ryan Pruitt added an RBI single to pull ENMU to 10-6. The Cowboys came back with three runs — one earned — off Ismael Solis in the bottom of the inning, getting RBI singles from Kevin Ayers and Sigala.
Highlands' Gilbert Lopez (1-1) went the first five innings, allowing five hits and three runs, two earned. Meantime, eight of the nine starters in the batting order collected two hits for the Cowboys, who outhit the Hounds 17-13.
The Cowboys scored only nine runs in the first three games against ENMU, including a 9-8 loss in the season-opening Permian Basin tournament in which the Hounds rallied for five runs with two out and nobody on in the bottom of the ninth.
Wagner finished 3-for-5 with three RBIs for ENMU, while Pruitt, Kevin Thompson and Garrett Cook each had two hits.
The Hounds are back in action today with a 3 p.m. (MDT) make-up game at Wayland Baptist. The teams were rained out of an early-season twin bill, and will make up the other game on April 21.


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International Expeditions is the world leader in nature travel for one reason above all others — we feature only the best travel guides—the superb, English-speaking naturalists and historians who accompany you. While our destinations are remarkable in their own right, they become even more so because of the talented world travel guides who breathe life into the details and encourage you to discover. Not just ordinary "tour leaders," our travel tour guides are consummate local experts with the uncanny ability to tell you about all the animals, plants, history and culture you encounter along the way. More than that, they are also warm people who want to see that you get the most from your expedition. Because of them, your International Expeditions journey will be interesting, enriching, memorable and great fun.
Below are just a few of our many travel guides and expedition leaders who enrich our expeditions. Find more about each destination's guides on the expedition Web pages.
Bolivar Sanchez
A true native Galapagos Naturalist, Bolivar Sanchez is an expert in Earth science. He developed a strong interest in wildlife and the outdoors as a small boy, and has been learning as much as possible ever since. For the past 20 years he has worked as a certified naturalist guide in Galapagos National Park, sharing his knowledge of the flora and fauna with guests of his beautiful homeland. His great personality and wonderful sense of humor make him a joy to travel to South America with. Boli's other interests include swimming, snorkeling, kayaking and hiking.
Claudio Vidal
Claudio Vidal is a native Chilean who is one of the leading field naturalists and ornithologists in South America. Living in Punta Arenas on the Strait of Magellan has helped foster his interest in the pelagic birdlife and marine mammals of Patagonia. A birdwatcher since the age of twelve, Claudio has co-authored many books, including Birds of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego & Antarctic Peninsula and Torres del Paine - Wildlife & Landscapes. He continues to develop resource books for Chile's most important natural areas. Claudio has been leading birdwatching and natural history journeys in Chile for years, and has become a favorite of IE guests on our many past Patagonia tours. Travel to South America with Claudio and he will surely educate you in the flora, fauna and culture of Patagonia — with plenty of laughter thrown in for good measure.
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Sequeira has been guiding in Costa Rica for more than a decade. In addition to his education in nature and social sciences, Jonathan received his doctorate for analysis of medicinal plants in the rainforest and volunteered with the National Park Service. Back home with his family on their farm in Sarapiquí, Jonathan has a native tree nursery and breeds poison dart frogs.
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On Friday, July 2, 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in Kyiv, Ukraine. Secretary Clinton and President Yanukovych discussed how Ukraine and the United States can deepen and expand our strategic partnership, as well as other issues, including economic reform, energy reform, and the importance of protecting Ukraine's democracy by supporting a strong civil society.
Secretary Clinton said, "As Ukraine moves forward, the country will face questions about its place in the region and the world. Some have tried to force Ukrainians into a choice between aligning your country with Russia or with the West. We believe that is a false choice. Ukraine is an independent nation, and we hope Ukraine will have good relations with its neighbors -- including Russia -- and that Ukraine will pursue close, constructive relationships with the United States and countries of the European Union."
She continued, "We do not believe in the concept of 'spheres of influence.' We believe that it is up to Ukrainians to chart your own course towards your own future. And in doing so, you can count on the support and friendship of the United States."
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A woman sits next to an icon of Babalú-Ayé at the shrine of Saint Lazarus in El Rincon outside of Havana, Cuba. (photo: STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Each year on December 16–17, thousands of Cubans of different religious persuasions make their way to Saint Lazarus' shrine on the the outskirts of Havana to pray for health and blessings. Some go to honor the orisha Babalú-Ayé. His name translates as "Father of the World" and he's syncretized with his Catholic alter ego, Saint Lazarus. In the Afro-Cuban orisha pantheon, Babalú-Ayé rules over infectious diseases including small pox and AIDS. Practitioners of Afro-Cuban Santeria (also known as La Regla Ocha and La Regla Lucumi) seek his help with healing and protection from illness.


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Jared Mitchell, OF, White Sox (High-A Winston-Salem): 2-for-3, HR (6), R, 2 RBI, 2 BB. 2009 first-round pick who missed all of 2010 has been mostly a disappointment in return, by 5-for-7 with two home runs in last two games for .220/.273/.415 line.
May 27, 2011
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