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Dewey, John
Dewey, John 1859-1952
American philosopher, psychologist, and educator.
Dewey is recognized as one of the twentieth century's leading proponents of pragmatism, education reform, and pacifism. His work in these three areas derives from his belief that humanity is essentially good, and that social deviancy can be curtailed by specific educational methods.
Biographical Information
Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont, the son of a grocer. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1875 and went on to teach high school in Oil City, Pennsylvania, from 1879 to 1881. He returned to Burlington and cultivated his interest in philosophy with the assistance of his former teacher, H. A. P. Torrey. Shortly thereafter, Dewey published two articles in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, and enrolled as a graduate philosophy student at the newly formed Johns Hopkins University, where he studied briefly with American logician and founder of pragmatism Charles S. Peirce, psychologist G. S. Hall, and G. S. Morris, who introduced Dewey to the philosophy of Hegel. He completed his doctoral dissertation on Immanuel Kant in 1884, and began a productive ten-year tenure at the University of Michigan. He strived to make philosophy applicable to all humans by becoming increasingly involved in public education and published several works on psychology. In 1894, Dewey accepted a post as chairman of philosophy, psychology, and education at the University of Chicago. During this period, Dewey worked closely with social reformer Jane Addams, published his Studies in Logical Theory, formed the laboratory school commonly known as the Dewey School, and published several works on pedagogy. In 1904, Dewey left Chicago to join the faculty of Columbia University, where he taught until his retirement in 1930, after which he continued to write, travel, and lecture extensively. In 1921, Dewey joined the American Committee for the Outlawry of War, and published the pamphlet Outlawry of War: What It Is and Is Not, in which he castigated the League of Nations as the "League of governments pure and simple." Advocating the concept of a World Court, Dewey believed that such an institution could be effective in the moral education of humanity. He also joined the Committee on Militarism in Education to protest ROTC programs and to promote pacifism. He also opposed America's military draft as involuntary servitude and as an example of "totalitarianism." In 1937, Dewey was selected to head the international tribunal in Mexico City formed to investigate charges against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials, resulting in the report Not Guilty. Dewey died in 1952 in New York City.
Major Works
Although Dewey's philosophy evolved throughout his life, it is thought by many philosophers and critics to be governed by his concept of experience, which he perceived as a unified albeit constantly changing force, rather than a collection of remembered facts. Differences for Dewey are but variables within a singular, consistent source, a philosophical approach that, along with his rejection of subjectivism and empiricism caused much of his earlier work to be labeled as Hegelian idealism. Dewey, however, eventually rejected the predisposition of idealists to relegate all human experience to knowledge, which he perceived as distorting the initial experience. Humanity, argued Dewey, spends much of its time acting, suffering, and enjoying, not in reflection. Dewey's later work abandoned idealist concepts, instead embracing a theory that life is a sequence of lapidary and concurrent experiences. Borrowing from twentieth-century advancements in the biological and anthropological sciences, Dewey developed a complex and naturalistic theory that an individual's experience is the organic premise of all life. From this concept, Dewey elaborated that there are three levels or plateaus of human interaction with the environment: physiochemical, psychophysical, and human experience. By observing and interacting with the world, humanity's experience grows in knowledge and understanding. This approach directly refutes the scientific theories of Aristotle, which promulgated that science relies on a passive witnessing and contemplation rather than Dewey's view that knowledge relies on active testing and consideration. This theory is consistent with Dewey's writings on logic and education. The objective of inquiry, according to Dewey, is knowledge, but inquiry is a process that continuously alters its original questions and desired conclusions. As for education, Dewey rejected both poles of educational philosophy prevalent during the first half of the twentieth-century. Children were neither passive receptacles of knowledge nor were they mature enough to determine what education they required. Dewey advocated "learning by doing" as a method of active educational inquiry that cultivated a child's inherent curiosity.
Principal Works
Psychology (nonfiction) 1887
Applied Psychology [with J. A. McLellan] (nonfiction) 1889
Outlines in Ethics [with James Tufts] (philosophy) 1891
School and Society (nonfiction) 1899
Studies in Logical Theory (philosophy) 1903
Child and Curriculum (nonfiction) 1906
Ethics (philosophy) 1908
How We Think (philosophy) 1910
Interest and Effort (philosophy) 1913
Democracy and Education (nonfiction) 1916
Essays in Experimental Logic (philosophy) 1916
Creative Intelligence (nonfiction) 1917
Reconstruction in Philosophy (philosophy) 1920
Human Nature and Conduct (philosophy) 1922
Experience and Nature (philosophy) 1925
The Public and Its Problems (nonfiction) 1927
The Quest for Certainty (philosophy) 1929
Characters and Events (nonfiction) 1929
Philosophy and Civilization (nonfiction) 1931
Art as Experience (philosophy) 1934
Liberalism and Social Action (nonfiction) 1935
Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (philosophy) 1938
Freedom and Culture (nonfiction) 1939
Problems of Man (nonfiction) 1946
Knowing and the Known [with Arthur Bently] (philosophy) 1949
Irving King (essay date 1917)
SOURCE: A review of Democracy and Education, in The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. XXII, No. 5, March, 1917, pp. 674-76.
[In the following review of Dewey's Democracy and Education, King attempts to elucidate Dewey's theories in order to support his thesis that the work is a worthwhile study of sociology, education, and philosophy.]
All students of philosophy and sociology, as well as of education, welcome this comprehensive and fundamental statement of Professor Dewey's educational philosophy. [Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education]. It will undoubtedly take its place among the world's enduring classics in these three fields of thought. The educator, to whom it is primarily written, will find here a clarifying account of the principles and the practice which must of necessity characterize all sound educational development that is really an expression of democratic ideals. Such a conception of education cannot be stated in any narrow, isolated fashion, and not the least valuable aspect of its exposition, therefore, lies in the accompanying searching and critical examination of the evolution of philosophical thought and the correlated evolution of the ideals of social democracy.
The method of the work is to be found in a series of statements and expositions of various dualisms of thought and practice which have been at various times more or less dominant in both philosophy and education since the time of the Greeks. The historical analysis which accompanies each discussion presents a viewpoint that is absolutely essential to the adequate understanding of the problems of current educational theory and practice, and on the basis of which alone we can arrive at solutions consistent with our democratic ideals.
The first dualism is the general one between education and life. While a social necessity, education has tended in all times to become more or less isolated from the social order which evolved it, through an inadequate conception of the social function of instruction. This imperfect view of the nature of education has found expression at various...
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M. C. Otto (essay date 1930)
SOURCE: A review of Democracy and Education, in The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. VII, No. 1, June, 1920, pp. 64-5.
[In the following review of Dewey's Democracy and Education, Otto focuses on the sociological aspects of the work, which Otto expresses as the need for education to reflect common experiences.]
The present educational situation presents an interesting paradox. We were never so convinced of the social necessity for public education and never more uncertain what public education should be. We insist that our children must have it even though we do not know what it is they must have. Which is very natural, of course, under the...
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W. H. Werkmeister (essay date 1939)
SOURCE: A review of Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, in Ethics, Vol. L, No. 1, October, 1939, pp. 98-102.
[In the following review of Dewey's Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, Werkmeister declares Dewey's work as a philosophical landmark.]
The publication of [Logic: The Theory of Inquiry] is most welcome and for at least two reasons. In the first place, it represents the final formulation of basic ideas which Dewey first stated some forty years ago in his Studies in Logical Theory and which he subsequently developed and modified somewhat in his Essays in Experimental Logic and the more recent little book on How We Think....
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Joseph Ratner (essay date 1939)
SOURCE: "Dewey's Conception of Philosophy," in The Philosophy of John Dewey, Northwestern University, 1939, pp. 49-73.
[In the following essay, Ratner examines Dewey 's personal definition and objectives for his philosophy, concluding that Dewey believed philosophy to be an integral element of all human life. ]
In his opening contribution to Studies in Logical Theory, Dewey outlined a conception of philosophy which, from the vantage point of the present time, we can see he has been working on and working out ever since. It has not, however, been a development proceeding on a smooth and unbroken line. It has not been an unperturbed and undeviating unfoldment of...
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Arthur E. Murphy (essay date 1939)
SOURCE: "Dewey's Epistemology and Metaphysics," in The Philosophy of John Dewey, Northwestern University, 1939, pp. 195-225.
[In the following essay, Murphy declares that Dewey's philosophical methods are unsound because they do not adopt scientific or practical methodology.]
In harmony with Spinoza's observation that Peter's idea of Paul is likely to give us a better notion of Peter than of Paul, it will doubtless be observed that the essays in this volume reflect the preconceptions and interpretative limitations of their authors at least as much as the actual content and implications of Mr. Dewey's philosophy. The danger in such cases is that what is presented as a...
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Stephen C. Pepper (essay date 1939)
SOURCE: "Some Questions on Dewey's Esthetics," in The Philosophy of John Dewey, Northwestern University, 1939, pp. 371-89.
[In the following excerpt, Pepper examines Dewey's writings on esthetics, which he finds are often contrary to Dewey's purported allegiance to Pragmatist tenets. ]
A personal item may more quickly reveal the grounds of certain issues I sense in Dewey's esthetic writings than anything else I could offer to the same end, and will also perhaps furnish him with a more direct focus for reply than the customary impersonal and more distant modes of statement. About 1932 I came to the point in a manuscript, which I was preparing on types of esthetic...
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Charles E. Merriam (essay date 1940)
SOURCE: A review of Freedom and Culture, in The American Political Science Review, Vol. XXXIV, No. 2, April, 1940, pp. 339-42.
[In the following review of Dewey's Freedom and Culture, Merriam concludes that Dewey has a firm grasp on the theories of political science.]
[Freedom and Culture] by the Nestor of American philosophy, writing at the age of eighty, is one of the most penetrating and stimulating contributions yet made to modern political science. The theory of government is already deeply indebted to Dr. Dewey's previous contributions—Democracy and Education (1916), Human Nature and Conduct (1922), The Public and Its Problems...
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Herbert W. Schneider (essay date 1970)
SOURCE: "Dewey's Psychology," in Guide to the Works of John Dewey, edited by Jo Ann Boydston, Southern Illinois University Press, 1970, pp. 1-14.
[In the following essay, Schneider presents an overview of Dewey's writings on the various aspects of human psychology.]
During his years as a student under George Sylvester Morris, from 1882 to 1886, John Dewey thought of psychology not as a science but as a philosophical method and "standpoint." In part, his studies in Vermont, the influence of Coleridge and the writings of the romantic idealists, and in part, the systematic version of this standpoint as it took shape in the mind of Morris led Dewey to believe that for a...
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William W. Brickman (essay date 1970)
SOURCE: "Dewey's Social and Political Commentary," in Guide to the Works of John Dewey, edited by Jo Ann Boydston, Southern Illinois University Press, 1970, pp. 218-56.
[In the following essay, Brickman—a professor of Educational History and Comparative Education—defends his conclusion that Dewey's commentaries on politics and society form a cohesive and consistent whole.]
A milestone in Dewey's intellectual development was his lecture, "The Ethics of Democracy," delivered in 1888 to the Philosophical Union of the University of Michigan. To Merle Curti, this paper was evidence that Dewey possessed "a thoroughly democratic and even radical social point of view as...
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Christopher Lyle Johnstone (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: "Dewey, Ethics, and Rhetoric: Toward a Contemporary Conception of Practical Wisdom," in Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 16, No. 3, 1983, pp. 185-207.
[In the following essay, Johnstone finds similarities between the interrelation of ethics and rhetoric in the writings of Aristotle and Dewey.]
Rhetoric and wisdom are often linked in discussions of the practical functions of speech. For Plato, a genuine art of rhetoric is rooted in wisdom—in knowledge of the true Forms of things—and serves to communicate this knowledge to others.1 Aristotle views rhetoric both as an exercise of practical intelligence and as generative of practical wisdom.2...
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Michael Buxton (essay date 1984)
SOURCE: "The Influence of William James on John Dewey's Early Work," in Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. XLV, No. 3, July-September, 1984, pp. 451-463.
[In the following excerpt, Buxton examines the movement of Dewey's thought from idealism to pragmatism, and identifies William James as a singular influence on the evolution of Dewey's beliefs.]
William James has generally been regarded as the source of John Dewey's rejection of neo-Hegelian absolute idealism in favor of a naturalist position. The intellectual relationship between the two men during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is an important aspect of the history of American philosophy and...
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Brian Patrick Hendley (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: "John Dewey and the Laboratory School," in Dewey, Russell, Whitehead: Philosophers as Educators, Southern Illinois University Press, 1986, pp. 14-42.
[In the following essay, Hendley presents a history of Dewey's Laboratory School, and focuses on Dewey's philosophical and educational goals for the school. ]
I went to the Dewey School one day,
And saw the children all at play.
But when the tardy bell had rung,
All the classes had begun.
Some to Science, some to French,
Some to shop to work at the bench.
L.o.t.D.o.E., Dewey, Dewey, Dew-ee-ee....
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Steven C. Rockefeller (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: "John Dewey, Spiritual Democracy, and the Human Future," in Crass Currents, Vol. XXXIX, No. 3, Fall, 1989, pp. 300-21.
[In the following essay, Rockefeller—writing from the perspective of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, as well as the student revolts in China—enumerates several concepts from Dewey's social agenda as a desirable antidote to spiritual and social oppression.]
The human race faces the urgent challenge of creating a global community marked by economic opportunity, equal justice, freedom and respect for nature, or its survival as a species is in doubt. The obstacles to achieving community locally as...
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Louis Menand (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: 'The Real John Dewey," in The New York Review of Books, Vol. XXXIX, No. 12, June 25, 1992, pp. 50-55.
[In the following review of Robert B. Westbrook's John Dewey and American Democracy, Menand gives an overview of Dewey's life and work, and touches briefly on the influence Jane Addams and Dewey's wife, Alice Chapman, had on his social consciousness.]
In the minds of most people born after the Second World War, John Dewey is an exceedingly dim presence, a figure apparently left stranded on the far side of the Sixties. He has seemed the spokesman for a world view whose day has passed. His ideas have not been thought worth...
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Bob Pepperman Taylor (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "John Dewey in Vermont: A Reconsideration," in Soundings, Vol. LXXV, No. 1, Spring, 1992, pp. 175-98.
[In the following essay, Taylor discusses the contradictory nature of Dewey's attitude toward his birth-state Vermont.]
John Dewey was always somewhat ambivalent about his Vermont background. At times he praised the "democratic" character of his Vermont heritage and even drew close parallels between the development of his own ideas and the ideas of his teachers at the University of Vermont. At other times, perhaps more frequently, he distanced himself as much as he could from these political and intellectual roots.
For example, in 1929 Dewey...
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Frank X. Ryan (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: "Primary Experience as Settled Meaning: Dewey's Conception of Experience," in Philosophy Today, Vol. 38, No. 1, Spring, 1994, pp. 29-42.
[In the following excerpt, Ryan examines Dewey's views on personal experience, concluding that he never was able to reconcile his seemingly contradictory views.]
This essay will examine and attempt to clarify Dewey's conception of immediate or primary experience. In particular, my aim is to extricate Dewey's actual view from an interpretation still popular among pragmatists consisting of: 1) the phenomenology of "blooming, buzzing, confusion" and 2) its ontological correlate designating a "brute" encounter with "primal,...
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Randolph Feezell (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: "Sport, the Aesthetic, and Narrative," in Philosophy Today, Vol. 39, No. 1, Spring, 1995, pp. 93-104.
[In the following essay, Feezell humorously examines competitive collegiate sports in light of Dewey's Art as Experience.]
From Paul Weiss's relatively early and legitimating reflections in Sport: A Philosophic Inquiry, to more recent ruminations in books and scholarly publications, numerous philosophers have been fascinated by the fascination of sport. For example, in his recent book, Philosophy of Sport, Drew Hyland again wonders about the "significant and apparently transcultural appeal" of play and sport.1 I won't attempt to...
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P. Eddy Wilson (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: "Emerson and Dewey on Natural Piety," in The Journal of Religion, Vol. 75, No. 3, July, 1995, pp. 329-46.
[In the following excerpt, Wilson examines the differences and similarities between the naturalism espoused by Dewey and Ralph Waldo Emerson.]
Today many find themselves to be alienated from a religion with a strong textual tradition and in rebellion against the idea of a transcendent deity. In the nineteenth century, Friedrich Nietzsche said, "it is in one particular interpretation [of distress], the Christian moral one, that nihilism is rooted."1 Rather than simply abandoning religion, some, convinced by Nietzsche's analysis, have sought to...
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Morton White (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: "Desire and Desirability: A Rejoinder to a Posthumous Reply by John Dewey," in The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XCIII, No. 5, May, 1996, pp. 229-42.
[In the following article, White recounts Dewey's response to White's book Social Thought in America, and White's answer to Dewey's charges.]
Shortly after his ninetieth birthday, John Dewey1 acknowledged receiving from me two publications in which I had criticized some of his views in ethics: my Social Thought in America, and my "Value and Obligation in Dewey and Lewis," both published in 1949.2 Since I never heard anything more from Dewey about them, I surmised that he had...
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Alan B. Spitzer (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: "John Dewey, the 'Trial' of Leon Trotsky, and the Search for Historical Truth," in Historical Truth and Lies about the Past, The University of North Carolina Press, 1996, pp. 13-34.
[In the following essay, Spitzer examines Dewey's role as commissioner of the committee to defend Leon Trotsky, its eventual finding that Trotsky was not guilty of the Moscow purges or of corroborating with Nazi Germany, Dewey's rejection of historical objectivity, and Dewey's conclusion that Trotsky was right although Dewey abhorred his political views.]
For truth, instead of being a bourgeois virtue, is the mainspring of all human progress.—John Dewey...
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Shannon Sullivan (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: "Democracy and the Individual: To What Extent is Dewey's Reconstruction Nietzsche's Self-Overcoming?" in Philosophy Today, Vol. 41, No. 2, Summer, 1997, pp. 299-312.
[In the following essay, Sullivan finds similarities between Dewey's esthetics and the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche.]
The mere combination of the names of John Dewey and Friedrich Nietzsche in the title of an essay might offend some readers. Many of the scholars of American pragmatism I have met view Nietzsche as just one more of those Continental, postmodern philosophers whose work, while perhaps stylish and currently en vogue, contributes little of value to philosophy because the issues...
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Further Reading
Levine, Barbara, ed. Works about John Dewey: 1886-1995. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996, 526 p.
Combines the Checklist of Writings about John Dewey (1974; revised 1978) in addition to works published about Dewey since 1977, including books and articles about Dewey, reviews of Dewey's works, an author index, and a title key-work index.
Thomas, Milton Halsey. John Dewey: A Centennial Bibliography. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962, 370 p.
Divided into listings of works by and about Dewey.
Dykhuizen, George....
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MIAMI — Something about playing the Miami Heat brings out the best in the Chicago Bulls. Since March 1, the Heat have lost three times, twice to the Bulls.
The Bulls nearly made it three on Wednesday.
The Heat avoided a disastrous loss, and eliminated Chicago with a 94-91 victory in Game 5.
Miami advances to the Eastern Conference finals for the third consecutive season and will play the winner of the Indiana Pacers-New York Knicks series. If the Pacers beat the Knicks in Game 5 Thursday, they will play the Heat in Game 1 on Monday in Miami. If the Knicks win Game 5, the East finals will start Wednesday in Miami.
BOX SCORE: Heat beat Bulls
SCHEDULE: Second-round times, TV info
Miami is now 9-2 in closeout games since forwards LeBron James and Chris Bosh joined guard Dwyane Wade in the summer of 2010, and as the playoff cliché goes, closeout games are indeed among the most difficult to win.
The Heat almost didn't. They squandered an 18-point lead, overcame an 11-point deficit and finished off Chicago with a 25-14 fourth quarter.
"When you play the Chicago Bulls, you wouldn't expect any finish to be any different, anything less than that," Spoelstra said. "We knew from the beginning of the series we would have to earn everything. … They played well. They came to compete. They made it extremely tough."
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The Bulls, playing basically six players, gave everything they had, and ultimately ran out of everything they had against a more talented team.
"I told the guys this yesterday. Obviously we're disappointed in losing the series, but I was never disappointed in our team," Thibodeau said. "I thought our team fought hard all year long. There was no quit in them. … I thought we would come in and give it everything we had."
Miami backup Norris Cole scored five points in a stretch of two minutes, 27 seconds, and Wade, playing with a bruised and sometimes painful right knee, had two big floaters in the lane and a putback dunk, helping Miami re-take and hold onto the lead in the fourth quarter.
James had 23 points, eight assists and seven rebounds. James made just 5-for-14 shots, but was 12-for-15 from the foul line. Wade had 18 points on 7-for-13 shooting, six assists and five rebounds, proving Spoelstra right. Even with an injury, Wade finds a way to help Miami win.
Bulls forward Carlos Boozer had 26 points and 14 rebounds, and guard-forward indefatigable Jimmy Butler had 19 points in 48 minutes, the fourth time in the past six games he has played the entire game.
Chicago had a chance to tie the score on the game's final possession. The Bulls scrambled to get a shot off, and guard Nate Robinson and Butler both missed three pointers.
PHOTOS: Top shots from Heat's 4-1 series win vs. Bulls
It looked like a Miami route from the start. The Heat raced to a 22-4 lead and James had just four points, setting up his teammates for shots.
When the Bulls had every reason to pack it in and call it a season, they refused, and not surprisingly given their resilient disposition instilled by Thibodeau.
The Bulls have played too many games this season with too many players missing and have overachieved. They weren't finished without a final swing or two.
"We basically just said play for each other, grind it out together and and we did," Boozer said. "We didn't quit. … We had our chance. We just fell a little short."
Said Bulls center Joakim Noah: "It was a hard year. A lot of adversity, a lot of injuries, but there was no giving up in this team," Noah said. "It's always disappointing, always hard to lose, but I'm really, really proud of this team, because it's about always winning and losing, but I'm really proud of the character of this team and how hard we fought all year."
Spoelstra knew the Bulls had it in them, too, despite Miami winning the previous three games by an average margin of 23.3 points.
Never too up and never too down, Boozer said before the game, "It will be fun. Our backs are against the wall. We weren't supposed to be here, but we are. We look forward to it. Like I told everybody last series, closeout games are the hardest ones to win on their side of it.
"On this side of it, we've got nothing to lose. We're going to go out there, play free and hard like we always do. You never know what can happen."
From the point Miami took an 18-point lead with 5:25 left in the first quarter, the Bulls outscored Miami 49-25 and had a 53-47 lead at halftime. Boozer had 19, guard Nate Robinson had 14 and Butler had 12 points.
Seldom-used veteran guard Richard Hamilton gave the Bulls a lift with six points in 19 minutes, and Thibodeau had to explain why why he didn't play Hamilton in the first three games of the series.
"He played well today, and you've got to make decisions that are best for the team, and that's what I did," Thibodeau said. "You have to look at how the team functions. He did a good job today. Give him credit. He's a pro. That's what he's paid to do."
For a five-game series with two blowouts, it was competitive, and after the physical series ended, it became the mutual admiration society.
"I'm not sure of all my closeout games, but this is one of the toughest ones we've had in my career," James said.
Thibodeau praised the Heat.
"They play to win. They play for each other. They're not going to beat themselves. You have to beat them. … You have to play well for 48 minutes," Thibodeau said. "The sacrifices that LeBron, Dwyane and Chris Bosh have made to win says a lot about them."
And both coaches expressed of tinge of disappointment that injuries impacted the series. The Bulls were without Kirk Hinrich (bruised left calf) and forward Luol Deng (illness) for the series, and of course, guard Derrick Rose didn't play one minute this season.
"It's a shame. I think everybody would have wanted to have seen both teams healthy," Spoelstra said. "Even as competitors, we have a bigger goal, and it has to be no mercy. You take care of your business, you survive and move on. We all know they've gone through a great deal of adversity."
The biggest difference between the Heat and Bulls? "Right now, health," Thibodeau said. "To me, that's biggest thing."

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Every July for the last 100 years, Calgary, Alberta has hosted a boot-stompin', bronco-bustin', pancake-eatin', chuckwagon-racin' celebration of all things wild and western known as the Calgary Stampede. This ten-day extravaganza draws hundreds of thousands of would-be cowboys (and girls!) from around the world to experience the "Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth." CNN named it one of the top 10 events in the world to attend this year, but few who pass through the gates of Stampede Park are aware of the deep American roots of this legendary Canadian event.
Starting in the late 1890s, Americans from across the United States began arriving in Alberta looking for good, reliable crop and range land. They came by the thousands -- in trains, in wagons, and on horseback -- to settle here and begin new lives. In a few short years, the American population in the region skyrocketed. In 1894, records showed just 50 Americans living in western Canada; by 1905, that number had jumped to 105,000. This spurred the opening of the first U.S. Consulate in the province in 1906.
One of the Americans who made his way to Calgary was entrepreneur Guy Weadick, a working cowboy and entertainer from New York with a dream of showcasing cowboy skills as a tribute to the "old" west. He shared his idea with another American, George Lane, one of the "Big Four" ranchers in the area who backed Weadick's first exhibition in 1912. Weadick invited another American, Charlie Russell, the famous cowboy artist, to exhibit his paintings of ranchers and native peoples -- depictions that were a huge draw at the first Stampede. And although he didn't participate in the first Stampede, John Ware, a former slave from South Carolina who moved to the western United States following emancipation and then settled in Canada to hone and share his cowboy skills, was instrumental in establishing the rodeo events that remain the mainstay of the Stampede today.
The early cowboy culture and pioneering spirit citizens on both sides of the border shared laid the foundation for the strong historical, business, and people-to-people ties that exist today. The American population has remained significant and strong in the region. The consular section at the U.S. Consulate in Calgary estimates there are 80,000 to 250,000 Americans in the district, one of the largest populations outside of the United States. U.S. two-way trade with Alberta alone is greater than U.S. trade with Brazil.
In recent years, Stampede has become THE networking venue of choice for all levels of corporate and government personnel to do business in western Canada. It's common to see cabinet ministers and company CEOs -- even Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper -- flipping pancakes at open-air events around town where countless deals are made with a handshake and tipped cowboy hats. Last weekend, Governor Nathan Deal of Georgia brought an economic development mission to Calgary to promote Georgia products and explore economic opportunities, taking advantage of the critical mass of business and government contacts "stampeding" around town.
On the 100th Anniversary of the Calgary Stampede and Exhibition, the United States Consulate General in Calgary has been proudly highlighting the role that Americans played in establishing the Stampede. The Consulate supported the efforts of Calgary's Glenbow Museum to re-create the original exhibition of 20 Charlie Russell paintings displayed in 1912 -- many of them now in U.S. collections. Consulate staff also provided a grant for a local poet and playwright, Cheryl Foggo, to stage a theatrical tribute to African-American cowboy John Ware. With the help of the Stampede archivist, we identified historical photos of Weadick, Lane, and other Americans for display at our July 4 party, where the guests included a few real-life professional American cowboys competing in the Stampede rodeo events this week.
The Calgary Stampede grew out of the joint efforts of Canadians and Americans a century ago to preserve traditional values and culture of the North American west. Over the years, countless American cowboys, rodeo callers, wranglers, riders, and visitors have come to Canada to do some "stampeding," making it a truly remarkable example of the lasting and deep friendship Canada and the United States enjoy. This centennial year is no different. Many of the cowboys competing in the professional rodeo events are Americans. Even the announcers and head rodeo clown are U.S. citizens.
As the stampede concludes today, July 15, we wish all who participated good luck and happy trails!


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Very nice finish, but impractical.
Posted by pusscat on Mar 12, 2013
At first when trying this sunscreen I thought it was great - it is so difficult to find a natural sunscreen that isn't ridiculously oily. And the finish of this is definitely beautiful, matt and smooth. It goes on like a primer and makeup goes over wonderfully. Also there was no irritation which I often get from sunscreens. However, after using it for a while in my daily life, I have found it to be very impractical. I haven't had this problem with any other products, but the only way to describe it is that it makes sweat 'sit' on the skin, so when I look in the mirror it's like I can see each sweat droplet, rather than just looking a bit dewy all over. And this is just from the walk to work or it being a warm day, not at the gym or anything like that. It gets very embarrassing having to dab at the face to avoid looking all droplety. Maybe it is just too heavy for a warmer climate. So, maybe if you live somewhere cold, are someone who doesn't reach the point of breaking a sweat throughout the day, or just don't perspire through your face, this would be perfect, but for me sadly it doesn't work.
not good
Posted by 4732527712217425044 on Aug 15, 2013
hard to apply, and white small little cream, can absorb by the skin completely ... not that good and not works for me
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Spreads flaky on my skin
Posted by 5352790319926319037 on Jul 31, 2013
Look through so many good reviews, want to give it a try but then it is horrible, it is not easy apply and after I apply, I feel very sticky in my skin. it is just not my sunscreen
maybe I need to use this more..
Posted by Reviewer1518299 on Feb 28, 2010
..because when I put it on I get white pieces everywhere!
Love MyChelle products
Posted by Reviewer2543227 on Mar 05, 2010
This product was a little cakey.
Good start but now smelling strange
Posted by Reviewer2666233 on Apr 27, 2011
I like this sunscreen. It doesn't have a strong aroma, feels good on my skin and I don't feel like I have a film coating my face. Also matt, no shine. My skin is on the drier side. Wish it came in a stronger SPF as the sun in SoCal is very strong. Post note: over time it seems that this has started to smell not so good. It has an aroma like sour milk, which fades after a bit but is quite strong when applying the cream. Shame as at first it seemed great. I would not buy this product again.
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Topic: What does this code do?
I'm reading through a tutorial and found a solution for it (because I'm
stuck), but I don't understand some code, so I was hoping someone could
shed some light on it:
USERNAME_REGEX = /@\w+/i
class Micropost < ActiveRecord::Base
def people_replied
users = []
self.content.clone.gsub!( USERNAME_REGEX ).each do |username|
user = User.find_by_username(username[1..-1])
users << user if user
This is a blog/twitter like app and I'm guessing self.content should
contain a string like '@mike hi how are you?'. What would be the
result in the users array with such a string? Would it just be 'mike' or would it end up being 'mike hi how are you?'
The class User looks like so:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accessor :password
attr_accessible :name, :email, :password, :password_confirmation,
has_many :microposts, :dependent => :destroy


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Freshman Walsh Scores Five in Colgate Victory
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VESTAL, N.Y. -- The No. 17 Colgate Raiders (6-1) jumped out to a quick 4-0 lead and never looked back, as they defeated the Bearcats (2-3) 17-8 Tuesday afternoon at the Bearcats Sports Complex in Vestal, NY . Nine different players scored for the Raiders, led by freshman Ryan Walsh who led the visiting squad with a career-high five goals.
Binghamton sophomore midfielder Michael Antinozzi scored a team-high four goals in the losing effort, and in the process, stretched his hat trick streak to a program-record five games. The loss snapped Binghamton's seven-game winning streak at home dating back to March 8 last season.
With Binghamton down 8-3 at half, the visiting Raiders quickly scored back-to-back goals just five seconds apart in the third. Junior face-off specialist Robert Grabher won the face-off for Colgate and fired a shot past BU junior keeper Kraig Heston, who made eight saves in relief of freshman Colin Nesdale. After an Antinozzi goal later in the third, Colgate stretched their lead to its biggest of the game,14-4, on junior midfielder Peter Baum's Division I-leading 29th goal of the season, with 3:41 remaining in the third period all but sealing the game for the Patriot League favorites.
All of Binghamton's offense on the afternoon was generated from the midfield, led by Antinozzi, who recorded his second four goal game of the season and improved his team-leading goal total to 19. Junior midfielder Tyler Perrellehad a standout game alongside Antinozzi in the midfield with two goals and career-high tying three assists, while freshman J.T. Hauck added a goal and two assists in the losing effort.
After falling behind 4-0 in the first eight minutes of play, Binghamton showed solid reserve as they strung together a 2-0 run of their own. The run was ignited by Perrelle, who lined a low lefty shot into the back of the net and soon thereafter assisted on a goal just 52 seconds later. With BU down 4-2, Hauck fired a quick shot past the outstretched attempt of Colgate goalkeeper Jared Madison, but unfortunately for the Bearcats, the one goal differential was as close as they would climb.
Senior midfielder Chris Cook filled in solidly throughout the game on faceoffs, winning six of 12 attempts, while adding a team-high three ground balls and his first goal of the 2012 season. Binghamton was perfect on clears (17-of-17), but was outshot 39-30 on the afternoon, allowing a season-high tying 17 goals (allowed 17 vs. Cornell on Feb. 28).
The Bearcats begin a three-game road trip, starting with a visit to Manhattan to take on the Jaspers for the first time in program history. Faceoff is set for Saturday, March 17 at 1 p.m.
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Thank you, Naomi [Levin, Department of Labor], for the introduction. It's great to be here with all of you, with my friend Assistant Secretary of Labor Kathy Martinez, and my OPM team. I always talk about the great teams we have at OPM, whether it's the people doing hiring reform, telework, veterans employment, or our other tasks and initiatives. But we really do have a great team working on hiring more people with disabilities, so even though many of you already know them, I want to take a moment to acknowledge and thank them.
Christine Griffin, our Deputy Director, knows disability employment issues inside and out. She has been deeply involved in expanding employment opportunities throughout her career. John Benison, her Senior Advisor, also brings a wealth of knowledge and experience. He's been a leader in the Federal civil rights community for over a decade, implementing successful disability hiring and reasonable accommodation initiatives at several agencies. Now he gets to apply those skills government-wide.
Our quantitative goal is simple: hire more people with disabilities. Numbers count, and we'll be watching them closely.
But there's also a qualitative aspect to hiring more people with disabilities, and increasing all forms of diversity. It's a concept, rooted in American history, that what seems a weakness is often a wellspring of wisdom and strength. Strength from disability marked the career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It inspired him to work harder, to overcome, to be one of the greatest leaders in American history.
Disability makes many of us stronger by making other challenges smaller in comparison. It's no coincidence that leaders like Dan Inouye, Max Cleland, and Bob Dole rose to the U.S. Senate after sustaining severe and permanent wounds in battle. Living with a disability, you can gain the levelheadedness and persistence to meet the challenges of the civilian workplace.
But someone has to give you the chance.
That's why President Obama gathered leaders of the disability community at the White House on the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. On that day, he announced his commitment to giving people with disabilities that chance to serve the people, or to serve them again. He enshrined that commitment in an Executive Order establishing an ambitious goal: the Federal government will hire 100,000 people with disabilities in the next five years.
The President made it clear in the EO that he wants regular reports to track progress and make sure this gets done. And let me tell you, Kareem Dale, his disability policy advisor in the White House, will make sure those reports get read and acted on.
From cabinet members to frontline hiring managers, everyone is now on notice: disability hiring is not just an OPM thing or a selective placement coordinator thing. It comes from the President. And now that he has issued the call, it's our time to shine.
Each of us is here today because we have an important role to play in realizing President's Obama's goal.
I believe in practicing what I preach, so I'm setting a goal today for OPM: people with severe disabilities will make up 3% of my agency's new hires. No more excuses. Christine and I are going to personally review these numbers every three months until we get there.
That's not all.
We're going to centralize funding for people-based accommodations as well, so I can personally assure that the funding is there.
We're going to train everyone involved in the hiring process on how to hire people with disabilities - not just HR staff. And we're going to do exit surveys. People with disabilities leave our workforce at three times the rate of others and I want to know why. I encourage every agency to consider these steps.
Our nation will only continue to succeed if we leave no talent pool idle and untapped - if everyone in the boat is rowing. And when I look at the unemployment rates of people with disabilities, especially targeted disabilities, I see a vast pool of rowers who want to row, we just have to give them oars. People who are unacceptably underutilized even though they are willing and able to work and there are jobs they can fill. Not just fill, but excel at.
Leaving them out is not good for them, and it's not good for us. We deprive our agencies of talent, and we deprive people living with disabilities of the sense of self worth they get from contributing to society.
This isn't just about what we as a nation can do for people with disabilities ??it's about what they can do for us. We have an enormous need for talent in the Federal government. It's difficult to overstate how much we need the best and the brightest to replace those who are retiring and meet new missions.
Think, just for a second, about some of the new challenges our elected leaders have given Federal workers in the last decade alone: stand up a large new agency to protect Americans from terrorism and other threats; support troops in two wars and other deployments around the world; help tens of millions more Americans get quality, affordable health insurance; build new oversight systems to prevent future financial crises. And of course, all these new missions are in addition to everything else we already do!
If America is to continue to grow and thrive in a world that's more competitive than ever before, we need a civil service that can meet these challenges. Yet our personnel system is broken. That's why President Obama's reforms are so urgent.
Let me be clear: disability hiring is a critical part of the comprehensive Obama Administration personnel policy reform agenda.
It's important to overall hiring reform because Schedule A can help agencies hire better candidates faster. We've set a target of 80 days to hire. Back in your agencies, each of you can remind colleagues that people with disabilities can be hired fast under Schedule A, helping your agency meet that 80-day goal.
Disability hiring is important to the Veterans Employment Initiative as well. We've had very promising early results in that initiative ??veterans hiring is up two percent ??but there's a lot more work to do.
Miraculously, medical science is saving many warriors who would have died of their injuries even a couple decades ago. Even though many of them come home with horrific injuries and lifelong disabilities, their passion for public service may even grow stronger. They still have valuable skills and training. Let's make reasonable accommodations to give them homes in the Federal workplace. It will pay dividends for decades as they grow and develop in civil service careers.
We're watching this closely - and you have my commitment that veterans with disabilities and with severe disabilities will continue to be a focus of that initiative, and they will not be lost in the shuffle.
I am always on the lookout for undervalued pools of talent, and I'm excited at our prospects for tapping into this one. Don't let anyone tell you that we shouldn't prioritize this; that budgets are too tight; or that there's somehow a contradiction between diversity and excellence. Nothing could be further from the truth. There's help on funding accommodations. Dinah Cohen will get you what you need for electronic accommodations. Don't let that be a barrier. For people-based, we're pushing centralization to bring down that barrier as well.
The conditions have never been better for a surge in disability hiring. Now is your time to seize the initiative.
Let me close with a few words about perhaps the most stigmatized form of disability ??the unseen. Post-traumatic stress disorder. Bipolar disorder. Traumatic Brain Injury. Depression.
Most of us know today about FDR's paralysis, but Abraham's Lincoln's struggle with depression is much less well-known. Commonly called "melancholy" in his day, it was documented as early as his twenties, and followed Lincoln for the rest of his life, according to many contemporary accounts.
One school of thought says depression wasn't an obstacle for Lincoln to overcome, but rather a driving force in his life. Author and journalist Joshua Shenk stated it in the title of his book, "Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness."
Shenk makes a powerful argument: as many artists drew inspiration from inner demons, so did Lincoln. He cultivated an "irrepressible desire" for accomplishment to stave off thoughts of suicide, and this led him to fight slavery.
He gained clarity and conviction because he was not weighted down by undue optimism. He drew creativity from an intense fear of failure.
While it is impossible to know for sure exactly how Lincoln's well-documented struggles shaped his life, it clearly didn't stop him from becoming perhaps our greatest President.
What didn't stop Lincoln from reuniting our country shouldn't stop anyone today from working as a defense civilian to continue protecting America.
What didn't stop Roosevelt from fighting poverty and disease as President shouldn't stop anyone from working at NIH to find cures for today's illnesses, both physical and mental.
What isn't stopping Dan Inouye in the Senate, Jim Langevin in the House, and Tammy Duckworth, Kathy Martinez, Kareem Dale, Chris Griffin and many others in the Executive Branch today, shouldn't stop anyone from serving their country now.
Their service enriches our nation, contributing to the work of government, and serving as a model for all of us. Because disability doesn't discriminate. Any of us could join this community in an instant.
While most able-bodied people would fear such a change, the example of these civil servants shows we need not. That you can live with a disability and make profound and lasting contributions to your neighbors, you community, and your country.
Spreading that message, that knowledge, that gospel is our goal. And when we do, we will hire more people with disabilities in government and come closer to building the model workforce of the 21st century.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Major U.S. equity indices closed lower Thursday after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi warned of risks to the eurozone economy. In addition, U.S. economic data came in weaker than expected.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 42 points, or 0.3%, to 13,944.
Breadth was deeply negative as decliners outpaced gainers 24 to six. The biggest decliners were Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) , Caterpillar (CAT) , Pfizer (PFE) and Exxon Mobil (XOM) .
Top advancers on the Dow were Coca-Cola (KO) , American Express (AXP) , Boeing (BA) and United Technologies (UTX) .
Boeing said it would propose battery design changes to minimize fire hazards for its grounded 787 Dreamliner, according to a Wall Street Journal article. The company said it hopes its embattled plane would begin to fly as soon as March. Boeing shares were up 1.5%.
Volumes totaled 3.56 billion on the Big Board and 1.95 billion on the Nasdaq. Losers led winners by a 1.3-to-1 ratio on the New York Stock Exchange and a 1.6-to-1 ratio on the tech-heavy index.
The S&P 500 lost 3 points, or 0.2%, to 1,509. The Nasdaq was shed 3 points, or 0.1%, to 3,165.
The Labor Department reported nonfarm business productivity dipped 2% in the fourth quarter. The number was higher than the 1.3% decrease a consensus among economists had expected. The report comes a week after a surprise 0.1% contraction in gross domestic product last Wednesday.
The Labor Department said initial jobless claims for the week of Jan. 26 came in at 366,000, down 5,000 from the prior week's claims. The four-week moving average was 350,000, down 2,250 from the previous tally. Economists expected claims to print at about 360,000.
Investors have continued to monitor initial jobless claims and other labor market indicators as the Federal Reserve has closely pegged its policy of low interest rates to a target 6.5% unemployment rate. Anything that hits that threshold, the central bank has said, would trigger the Fed to begin raising interest rates. It has also said it would make such a move if inflation rose to at least 2.5%.
Chicago Fed Reserve President Charles Evans spoke Thursday morning in an interview with CNBC and said that quantitative easing may need to continue for the whole year. Evans said he was optimistic that economic momentum would pick up in 2013. Evans has been one of the biggest policy-making supporters for the Fed's unemployment rate target. His comments could also send waves through markets as traders continue to determine whether the Fed will stick with its highly accommodative monetary policy for the long term.


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Western Digital Corp. on Monday announced that it has completed a $65 million cash acquisition of SiliconSystems, a supplier of solid-state drives (SSDs) for the embedded systems market. By acquiring SiliconSystems, WD officially enters the market of flash-based drives.
"The combination will be modestly accretive to revenue and margins as a result of SiliconSystems' existing position as a trusted supplier to the well-established $400 million market for embedded solid-state drives. SiliconSystems' intellectual property and technical expertise will significantly accelerate WD's solid-state drive development programs for the netbook, client and enterprise markets, providing greater choice for our customers to satisfy all their storage requirements," said John Coyne, president and chief executive of WD.
Since its inception in 2002, SiliconSystems has sold millions of SiliconDrive products to meet the high performance, high reliability and multi-year product lifecycle demands of the network-communications, industrial, embedded-computing, medical, military and aerospace markets. These markets accounted for approximately 33% of worldwide solid-state drive revenues in 2008. SiliconSystems' product portfolio includes solid-state drives with Serial ATA, Parallel ATA, PC Card, USB and CF interfaces in 2.5", 1.8", CF and other form factors. SiliconSystems has developed extensive intellectual property to address the stringent embedded systems market requirements to ensure data integrity, eliminate unscheduled downtime, protect application data and software and provide for data security and protection through its patented and patent-pending PowerArmor, SiSMART, SolidStor and SiSecure technologies.
Integration into WD begins immediately, with SiliconSystems now becoming known as the WD solid-state storage business unit, complementing WD's existing branded products, client storage, consumer storage and enterprise storage business units. SiliconSystems' intellectual property and technical expertise will provide additional building blocks for future products to address emerging opportunities in WD's existing markets.
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Acton President Rev. Robert A. Sirico appeared in a a video interview released yesterday by Catholic News Service, following a press conference in Rome last week held to introduce his new book "Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for the Free Economy" to the local media.
CNS Rome bureau chief Frank Rocca interviewed Sirico regarding his own moral defense of market economics and asked his opinion of the libertarian novelist and intellectual Ayn Rand, whose philosophy of objectivism and rational-self interest gained widespread support from laissez faire capitalists in the United States and Europe.
Rev. Sirico expressed his opinion of Rand's "false gospel" of laissez faire capitalism in these words:
Ayn Rand is a very interesting character … She attempts to defend capitalism by the use of Aristotelian and, even at times, Thomistic categories. But I think that Rand has a counterfeit form of Christianity. Her success … to a very great extent, is [due to] the moral passion she brings to the question of economics.


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Wednesday, September 1, 2004
Bogus Parts Broker Gets Jail
Tempio Pausania, Italy--Enzo Fregonese, 75 year old owner of Panavia-tion, an aircraft spare parts broker company located in Rome, Italy on February 26th was sentenced by the District Court of Tempio Pausania in Sardegna to serve a 15-month jail sentence for distributing unapproved aircraft parts throughout the aviation industry. The final ruling followed a three-year criminal investigation, codename "Operation Latin Phoenix," which was conducted by the Italian state prosecutor and a special unit of Italian financial police (Guardia di Finanzia). The investigation did reveal that via Panaviation and several other aircraft parts brokers, highly questionable spare parts have been distributed around the world. This is the first criminal sentence ever in an unapproved parts case in European aviation.
Two years ago an unapproved parts notification (UPN), issued by the Italian civil aviation authority ENAC alarmed the industry. During preceding raids in hangars and storage facilities the authorities seized numerous aircraft parts in questionable condition, though they were ready to be shipped to customers around the world. The investigators further found evidence of falsification of required accompanying paperwork, namely for life-limited parts as well as obviously forged JAA Form Ones and FAA 8130s.
Already back in November 2003 Enzo Fregonese pleaded guilty, but the judge rejected this plea. With this legal step Fregonese was able to save his inventory, approximately 80,000 parts and other private assets, which could have otherwise remained confiscated by the Italian government.
Soon these parts now may reappear on the market, but according to ENAC, "under strict new rules and guidelines." In the wake of the investigation, Italy has considerably enforced its regulations in regards to unapproved parts and parts cannibalized from old aircraft.
During the judicial session on February 26th, 2004 Fregonese voluntarily agreed to four counts of indictment.
Consequently he was sentenced for the attempt to jeopardize the safety of air transport, which is related to the Italian Penal Court Article 432. Fregonese, for example, acknowledged and pleaded guilty to having sold a fuel quantity indicator for an MD80 that was never overhauled by an authorized repair facility, as indicated by accompanying paperwork. Thereby the instrument ended up in an airplane operated by Italian regional carrier Meridiana. He further pleaded guilty to forging official airworthiness certificates (JAA Form One) for material to be installed into Fokker airplanes. The Form One originally indicated that the part belonged to Italian flag carrier Alitalia, but the Italian airline did not recognize the form, once it was made available to it by the U. S. buyer.
In January 2002 the Italian civil aviation authority ENAC alarmed the worldwide aviation industry about initial findings into the investigation. ENAC expressively declared all parts distributed by Panaviation as "suspected unapproved parts," which makes them illegal to be installed on aircraft or be kept in stock, but only few parts were traceable and resurfaced. Investigators believe that affected parts have probably been distributed via consignment sales operation in the U. S. to operators on all continents and urged maintenance and repair facilities to cross check their inventories. Although ENAC has requested feedback upon finding any Panaviation parts, only a few nations complied with this request. The equivalent unapproved parts notification released by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration only five days after the Italian warning did not include the request for feedback to the Italian aviation authority.
Many operators were affected by the scheme. While producing a 52 minute TV documentary (Title: Operation Latin Phoenix, which aired first in February 2003 by German PBS station WDR and later an updated version on January 5, 2004 by SAT1) on the Italian investigation and its consequences, the producers learned that airlines such as Lufthansa, former Swissair, Crossair, AUA, SAS, Singapore, Air France, Alitalia, Air One, Finnair, and Northwest Airlines (to name just a few) were among the customers of Panaviation, and they had to check their inventories and fleets.
Nevertheless the consequences for the industry are alarming and costly: German flag carrier Lufthansa, for example, was forced to change a hydraulic connector, belonging to the thrust reverser for CF6 engines. Unfortunately for Lufthansa it could not recall where its technicians may have installed the total of five connectors it had received and that later were earmarked as suspected unapproved parts. The German civil aviation authority LBA's reaction was sharp: the suspicious part was ordered to be removed from "all engines in operation in Germany." So Lufthansa was forced to exchange it on the 150 engines belonging to its fleet of Boeing 747 and Airbus A300/310 aircraft. Deadline was November 2003.
Italian flag carrier Alitalia was forced to remove more than 640 bearings within the landing gear assemblies of its MD-fleet because of similar tracing problem,s and the local carrier Air One had numerous aircraft grounded by ENAC in order to remove parts purchased from Panaviation. Among the customers listed on Panaviation's customer list are as well very renowned manufacturers, such as Airbus Industrie and repair facilities around the world. Aviation experts estimate the damage inflicted to airlines and maintenance facilities just by accomplishing inspections and specific removals may already exceed several million Euros.
But still thousands of these "suspicious parts" have not been traced yet despite great efforts by law enforcement and civil aviation authorities. The former investigators of the Italian case believe they may be still installed in numerous aircraft, flying somewhere this very moment.
Because of the high risk of sudden failure of such components the investigators refer to them as "ticking time bombs on board of planes." Panaviation has conducted its questionable business since the early 19902, but operators and repair facilities are only required to keep their records for a period of seven years (fewer in the U.S.), thereby making it impossible to trace transactions prior to 1996, though the parts may be still in circulation or on shelves.
In the wake of the investigation it became obvious that the major obstacle for operators, maintenance facilities, and the authorities is the fact that brokers of aircraft parts do not have to be regulated or otherwise certificated or authorized. Further, the required documentation, associated with a spare part is far from being safe against manipulation and forgeries. In fact each and every five-Euro bank note has more safety features incorporated than a JAA Form One or its equivalent, the FAA Form 8130, which makes it easy to falsify such documents with the help of scanners or simple copier machines. And finally, Europe has no specific laws governing the distribution of unapproved parts, while the U.S. introduced a specific new law in the wake of numerous unapproved parts cases throughout the late 1990s. The new regulations provide clear definitions of crimes and penalties up to a lifetime in jail for such offenses.
Some of the affected maintenance facilities such as SR Technics and Austrian AUA would strongly support the idea of regulating brokers and parts dealers with new European regulations. But such steps would require an agreement by all European member states and would only make sense if the FAA would impose similar restrictions upon the trade and distribution of aircraft components.
Last but not least, it has always been the argument of opponents to such stricter regulation that, so far, no fatal accidents associated with the use of unapproved or bogus parts have been reported. This is not true, however.
In 1993 the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) database contained hundreds of accidents, many of them with commercial aircraft, that would pop up if the database was searched by the category "bogus part." In 1995 the FAA asked the NTSB to delete that category. Now those accidents can be found buried within the category "maintenance-related." Such "cleaning" of databases does not address the safety issues. "Especially not," said Bernd Kopf, a Boeing 747 pilot of the German Cockpit Association VC.
"if meanwhile criminal activities have become involved in this business and where unscrupulous minds dare to risk the lives of hundreds of innocent people boarding a plane. The traffic in unapproved parts has reached a criminal stage, because of the high profits one can make in dealing such items. As a matter of fact, it is well known by court records that meanwhile even former drug trafficers deal in aeronautical parts because they do not have to deal with junkies, but with well suited business men and make the same profits with a lower risk, in case they're caught."
In the wake of such statements and even the discovery of bogus parts within the fire-extinguishing system of Air Force One, the U.S. Congress in 2000 released a new law that redefines prison terms and penalties of up to "life in jail" for trafficking unapproved aeronautical and space vehicle parts. As of today no such or similar laws exists in any of the European states.
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Topic: Unsigned Integer Columns
I'm under the impression that creating an unsigned integer column using Rails migrations isn't possible by default. Is there a simple way to make this happen?
Looking through the code which generates the SQL for the column definition, it seems quite clear what parameters are taken into account:
class ColumnDefinition < Struct.new(:base, :name, :type, :limit, :default, :null) #:nodoc:
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add_column_options!(column_sql, :null => null, :default => default)
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Mentioned are :null, :default, and the :limit parameter, but that's it.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (593 votes).
In short: Good venue for taking the girlfriend on a first date ! LOL !In full: Great fun, and mildly tough ! The pig trough seems to get some of the mud off, then go across the last field which is tough but hilarious ! Cant wait till next year !Date of review: November 15, 2010
In short: Muddier than last year - Great!In full: My second Slog and enjoyyed it very much. Plenty of the advertised mud, and good conditions for the race. Support for most of the route and great organisation by Bitton.Seemed harder than last year, maybe the mud slowed me down a little.Roll on 2011Date of review: November 15, 2010
In short: Awesome!!!!In full: 9 miles of mud that will have you grinning from ear to ear. Fantastic organisation. Excellent marshalling.Date of review: November 15, 2010
In short: Very wet & muddy but great funDate of review: November 15, 2010
In short: A great way to spend a wet cold Sunday morning !In full: perfect organisation, brilliant marshalls and tons of mud . I actually love this race ! Will definitely be back next year for more !Date of review: November 15, 2010
In short: Smiling, but good bye to my muddy kit!In full: Great race. Well organised. Felt appreciative to be running after the 2 minute silence pre race. Good facilities, lots of portaloos. Really good fun atmosphere. Friendly. Race itself is really hard work, lots of mud, hills, water and a few fun obstacles. Makes you wonder why spend a fortune on hyped up races like the hellrunner when great value muddy challenges like this are around at half the price.Date of review: November 15, 2010
In short: Mud, mud glorious mud - great funIn full: Ran every step with a grin from ear to ear - even through the bogs, dips and ditches.Date of review: November 15, 2010
In short: A great day outIn full: A Sodbury Virgin! Thoroughly enjoyed the whole day. Marshaling superb, jelly babies and jelly beans a nice touch.Only concern was the PA system before the race and when results were announced, couldn't hear anything. Maybe the horn could be sounded to get peoples attention before making the announcements? Well done Bitton!! Date of review: November 15, 2010
In short: What fun to kick start my running.....In full: I have been having lots of problems lately, with my injuries to my knees, although I had not done much training, I needed this to realise how much fun running was!!Very execellent organisation for a club event, and most definition will make this a regular on my calender!Date of review: November 15, 2010
In short: Lots of mud but shame about the Pig TroughIn full: Very enjoyable run, the hill was quite a challenge, the muddy bogs were a great laugh and the sticky mud was never ending.The only problem was the pig trough, took a good 10 minutes queing to get into it and then it was a stop/start affair of getting through it. Was definitely cooling down too much with all the waiting. Really needs looking at.Date of review: November 15, 2010
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24 user reviews of Nike LunarGlide+ See all
I was really sceptical about them at first. Didn't want to believe the Nike PR hype but they are actually really good. A great balance they feel like one of the Nike Free range but with a touch of stability which suits me just fine. They are really great running shoes.
P.S I got mine from www.ransacker.co.uk for £69.99.
Posted: 04/12/2009 at 10:28
Posted: 04/12/2009 at 10:32
are realy designed for a lot of km?
Posted: 12/12/2009 at 12:23
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Posted: 16/12/2009 at 00:11
I also got my Nike running shoes from Ransacker - or got the best price their anyway -
I run 5km per night and these have had no ill effects on my dodgy ankles!!
Keep up the good work Nike!!
Posted: 22/12/2009 at 16:34
Thinking of gettin these, they look really good!!
Seen them this afternoon in sports direct for £59.99 next door in jjb they're £80
Posted: 26/02/2010 at 14:07
The Lunarglides are a great example of marketing hype for what is a very simple product.
Despite the name (very cynical Nike....) the Lunarglides don't contain the Lunarlite foam the original Lunar shoes did (the Lunar Trainer and Racer). The midsole is no more high-tech than simple EVA foam, albeit different densities in a wedge shape to provide stability.
This means they are nice and soft, but don't last long. Can imagine they're also incredibly cheap to produce and so make Nike lots of cash at £80 a pop.
That said, I have worn them and they're nice shoes. Just don't think you are really buying "Rocket Science" or that they will last long.
Posted: 26/02/2010 at 14:14
Contrary to what Nike will tell you , these aren't for everyone. That "wedge" pushes my feet out to the lateral side, which feels awful and I am now nursing a lovely calf strain.
Might buy some Lunar Elites instead, but more likely go back to Mizuno's.
Posted: 30/04/2010 at 20:27
i tried 'em on and hated them.
they felt like a support shoe for overpronators (thought they were meant for us neutrals?) and also they were very raised, like standing on platforms.
not for me.
can't fail pegasus though.
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Posted: 24/05/2010 at 18:42
I think I must have tried a different Lunar in the shop since I bought a pair recently and they are an absolute dream.
Ran in them for the first time tonight and they are the lightest, most streamlined, soft, responsive ride ever. Incredibly impressed.
Didn't think anything could better Pegasus for me but I stand corrected!
Anyone know how well they hold up i.e. since there's little cushioning on the lugs, are they going to die before they hit 500 miles?
Posted: 11/06/2010 at 22:47
I was in my local running shop today talking about these while buying myself a new running pack.
I'm also a fan of Pegasus, I think I'm a borderline case when it comes to support shoes; plus due to an old injury I think I strike oddly on my right foot. They've suggested I might want to give a pair of these a go if I fancy a change from the Pegasus; next chance I have to nip along to a gait analysis I think I'll give a pair of these a go next to this years new Pegasus (which they've binned the front air chamber in apparently).
I'm interested in any other comments from other Pegasus wearers with regards to these
Posted: 12/06/2010 at 18:21
I find them a similar feel to Pegasus but I sense less cushioning.
Such a swift, pleasurable ride. Although I love my Pegs (or at least I loved the 25th anniversary Bowerman ones I had a while back - now I have a more conventional Bowerman Pegaus and not quite as fond) I can see myself switching to this as my ultimate training shoe. A far cry from the days I used to lug around the Nimbus bricks.
Ran for the second time in them tonight and racing in them tomorrow - confident they'll give me no problems whatsoever (comfort-wise that is, i can't say whether i'll get injured in them...)
I don't know whether I'd feel confident running say, a Marathon in them though. I'm injury-prone (femoral stress fracture last year, metatarsal this year) and suffer overuse injuries so ideally want my shoe to protect me against this somewhat...
Posted: 12/06/2010 at 19:18
Hi D2D. I tried to share Lunarglide stories with you on the other thread you started about them but you seemed too busy chiding us for relpying to notice, so I'll try again here!
You can't have tried a different version in the shop, as Nike have only released one version of the Lunarglide to date, albeit in different colourways. When I spoke to a rep from Nike they told me that the Lunarglide 2 is due for release later this year, with a couple of midifications from the original, as follows.
First, they are going to address the outsole wear problem that many wearers have reported. As I mentioned earlier I have only done 250 miles in my first pair and they already show signs of significant wear, so I think you are correct to be suspicious that they might not last a full 500. I'm fairly sure the problem is specific to the shoes as my running action is rather light despite my size, because I take short strides. Also, I have not had any issues with wear with any previous Nike shoes (Asics on the other hand....!).
The other change they are planning to make is to reduce the size of the toe box. I think this will improve the fit because even I find it a little roomy and my feet are quite wide and boxy.
On the whole though, I love these shoes as they feel quite light and flexible for the amount of cushioning. I've had no problems covering longer distances in them either. I did a marathon as well as a couple of my longer training runs (>20 miles ) in them, and they felt fine and adequately supportive.
Ironically I have since picked up an injury running in my more sturdy Saucony Progrid Triumph 7s, so I've got nothing else to add for now.
Sorry that got so long. I do hope it's helpful. I would be interested to hear your views when you've got some more miles on them, because I know you struggle with injuries too.
Posted: 13/06/2010 at 17:17
WHY, if you have tried some shoes and claim them to be "not for you" would you then go and buy some (even if you got them cheap and second hand on ebay) sorry, but I brought a pair new, didnt get on with them, put it down as a bad experiance, gave the shoes away, and will not be trying any more!
Posted: 13/06/2010 at 20:51
Br1an, I think Nike are wrong to market this shoe as being suitable for all runners. Call me cynical, but common sense tells you that no single shoe is going to be good for everyone!
I'm sorry you had a bad experience with the shoes. Hopefully you have found a more suitable shoe for you now. But why are you so worried about why or why not anyone else might purchase the shoes?
Posted: 13/06/2010 at 21:47
I looked at the Lunar Glide+ in the shop. They seemed to be made of an overly spongy material unlike anything else. Not like the normal cushioning I'm used to on running shoes. I'm sceptical to try them especially as the cheapest price I could find was £72. I like the cool design though. How well do they wear?
Posted: 19/08/2010 at 12:22
They've just brought out the Lunar Glide2 - yet to try it though.
I've found my Glides to be really good although I'm unsure whether I prefer this marshmallow-like sole.
The inners are ridiculously comfy though - really silky, like no other shoe I've ever tried.
I've a pair of Lites that I'm yet to try - they seem narrower in the toe box (Glides seem to run a bit big?) which will be good.
Also Glides don't seem to do well in the rain - very slippery underfoot.
Posted: 19/08/2010 at 13:42
I managed 150 miles in my glides before coming to a sudden halt with stabbing knee pain. up till hen it ws like wearing a apir of slippers -mega comfy, but I have my suspicions about the support they provide.
They are naw a very expensive pai of "leisure" trainers for me and I wont run in them.
I'd say they are good for generally neutral runners with a very slight pronation issue - steer clear if you are a moderate to severe pronator
Posted: 20/08/2010 at 22:08
I supinate and they're fine for me.
Another 16 miler in them today.
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Today I had the privledge to work along side both Michael Cramer , Adagio Owner and Michael Malone at the National Restaurant Association at the McCormick Place in downtown Chicago. I had a great time and was lucky to get a little inside information on what's to come. So with Michael Cramer's blessing I have decided to share what I have learned today with you.
1. Signature Blends will soon be in new resealable pouches with beautiful labels. I was able to see the new packaging first hand and it truly is well designed. We received many compliments on the visual appeal of the packaging at the show.
2. Soon to come, some loose teas will be available in pyramid teabags. I was able to see and touch the new teabags and they should prove acceptible for proper steeping. Very exciting!
3. So Bad News First - Chocolates are going to be hopefully be coming out late this year.
4. Good News: Cookies should be coming out soon. No specifics though.
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Monday, May 19, 2008
Product Review: Rimmel Fix & Perfect Foundation Primer
A few days ago I was strolling through the health & beauty aisles of Wal-Mart, looking for anything new and interesting. One thing in particular caught my eye-Rimmel Fix & Perfect Foundation Primer. I don't know how it is other places, but down here in Atlanta, I haven't been able to find a drugstore primer at all (this doesn't include Monistat Chafing Relief gel). When I saw this, I thought "Why not?" It was $6.99. Currently, I use Smashbox Photofinish Primer – the regular silicone one and the correcting green primer.
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The bottle has a good size of product in it – 1 oz. I noticed that the product has 001 on it…almost as if it was its shade color. However, I looked elsewhere and I noticed that there were no other colors. When I squeezed some of the product out, I was a bit surprised to find out that it is actually has a peachy/orangey tint to it. I was expecting it to be clear, white, or light cream like most primers. Despite the surprise, I proceeded by squirting some on my clean fingertips and smoothing it onto my face. You can also use a foundation brush to apply primer, but when I do it on myself I just prefer to use my fingers. I was relieved to see that the orange actually disappeared as soon as I blending it into my skin. I was left with a nice matte looking finish. When I ran my hand down the side of my face I was shocked to see how smooth it felt! I've been in the market for a new primer…I wanted one that was in between a liquid/cream (like MAC prep & prime) and a silicone base (Smashbox Photofinish). I think I found it! Not only that, but it's super cheap!
I wore my studio mist foundation on top of it and my skin looked really smooth…almost airbrushed. I kept checking throughout the day and my skin stayed just as soft and smooth. The next day, I applied my MSF natural on top using a powder brush to see how powder foundation would react to the primer. At the end of the day…still super soft. The primer actually fills in my gi-normous pores on my nose.
I almost couldn't believe how much I liked the product…I decided to do some internet research to see what others thought. I went straight to makeup alley and was really shocked to see some poor reviews out there. Pretty much, either people really liked it, or really hated it. Apparently, the orange tint to the primer actually made some look orange. I didn't experience this, but others who also did not have a problem noted that this primer probably works on darker skin tones. Complexions in the range of NC15-20 would probably not like this one. However, a few did note how they've never felt their faces feel softer. I agree! I usually don't have too many problems with my skin, but it's never felt better.
This weekend...I was teaching makeup lessons to a client who is Jamaican with a mix of a caramel/mocha complexion. We tried the Rimmel primer on her as well, and it blended just as beautifully into her skin. She too noticed the softness and is also going to purchase the product.
So in sum, for $6.99, this product is totally worth it. You might want to steer clear if you have a lighter complexion. Or maybe check it out and let me know what you think. This product might also make its way into my makeup kit. It's great for MUAs because it has a squeeze top instead of an applicator where you would need to dip into it. This way, I can just squeeze it onto my steel palette and not have to worry about contaminating it with each use. Check it out at your local wal-mart and CVS.
Till next time, Ciao Bellas!
16 comments:
- Ethereal Prey said...
nice review, they don't sell rimmel here in nyc, unless u find a walgreens or kmart...i wonder if its the same consistency as the smashbox primer.
- May 19, 2008 at 11:12 AM
- Vanessa said...
Great review sis! I saw this but was hesitant to get it, glad you tried it out!
- May 19, 2008 at 11:17 AM
- yummy411 said...
yay! another drugstore product to be excited about! thanks for the great review!
- May 19, 2008 at 12:40 PM
- christy. said...
Awesome. I think I'll have to try some. :) Hehe. Thanks for the review <33
- May 19, 2008 at 2:17 PM
- MakeupByRenRen said...
ethereal prey: it's not as siliconey...it's almost like the consistency of a thin foundation
vanessa: thanks honey bunches!
yummy411: i know right! i'm all about the drugstore finds
christy: let me know how you like it!
- May 19, 2008 at 5:56 PM
- Tracy said...
great review! i think i wanna try this out now.
- May 19, 2008 at 6:39 PM
- rmcandlelight said...
How would you compare it to the monistat chafing relief gel?
- May 20, 2008 at 1:41 PM
- Christiana Divine @ Memoirs of A Shopping Addict said...
damn, and i still haven't tried the monistat chafing gel. LOL. thanks for the review. :)
- May 20, 2008 at 6:30 PM
- Lani said...
thanks for the review, i saw this at my drugstore but decided not to get it when i saw that it was orange from the tester. but now i'll have to try it since i'm an nc42. thanks! :)
- May 22, 2008 at 5:48 AM
- Emilee @ GMM said...
Thanks for the review! I'm currently using the Smashbox one too, but for $7, I might just have to give this a try.
- May 25, 2008 at 11:11 PM
- Sara said...
I had gotten this as a free gift when I bought one of there foundations. I has fairly light skin....when i buy foundation i usually get....light ivory. And I must say I LOVE IT!!!! It doesn't leave a orange tint on m face or anything, blends in nicely. :)
- September 5, 2008 at 9:19 AM
- sinyet said...
Ethereal Prey:
I just bought a tube at CVS in Astoria. I assume you can find it at any CVS in the city?
- November 12, 2008 at 4:02 PM
- katescasey said...
It's a good product for old skin too ladies (hope that doesn't turn anybody off). I'm 63 and my skin isn't good--not bad--but sallow and, well, old. The Rimmel primer evened out my skin tone and gave it just enough color that I can avoid those foundations that make old skin look like a death mask. And--as you point out--it's cheap!
- December 23, 2008 at 11:14 AM
- Christina said...
To Ethereal Prey:
I've recently bought a tube of this Primer at a Duane Reade in Manhattan, maybe you can check there?
It wasn't as expensive as I thought it would be, it was about 7.69, a lot cheaper then the Revlon primer I've seen at drugstores which go for about 13.99. Screw That.
- July 22, 2009 at 2:49 PM
- Jameson said...
what kind of skin do you have? because I have oily skin... I worry it would melt off?
- May 11, 2010 at 10:26 PM
- The girl in the yellow shoes said...
Awesome product check out my review on it ! please?
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