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MOTORISTS planning to tour through Long Island this season will find a number of new improvements in the network of roads on that popular motoring ground. Counties, cities and townships have cooperated in enlarging highway facilities for the accommodation of the enormous army-at-the-wheel which will invade the island during this and coming months.
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|Monday April 15, 2013
|Registration - Capital Terrace
|Welcome - Presidential Ballroom
Chris Waldrop
Director of Food Policy Institute
Consumer Federation of America
|Keynote Address - Presidential Ballroom
A Conversation with the FDA's Mike Taylor
Helena Bottemiller
Washington Correspondent
Food Safety News
Michael R. Taylor
Deputy Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine
Food and Drug Administration
|Facilitated Discussion: The Future of Food Shopping - Presidential Ballroom
The way consumers shop for food is changing rapidly as they seek diverse outlets to purchase food and employ new technologies that allow them to comparison shop at the click of a button. Meanwhile, retailers and other food sellers are developing new strategies and using new technologies to reach consumers and are reshaping the food aisle to meet consumer demand for healthier, safer, and more affordable food choices. A panel of experts takes a look at the rapidly changing marketplace, the implications of these changes for consumers and the food industry, the policy drivers for some of these changes, and how food shopping will continue to evolve in the future.
Beth Johnson
Food Directions LLC
Jennifer Harris
Director, Marketing Initiatives
Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity
Yale University
Yael Lehmann
Executive Director
The Food Trust
Susan Borra
Senior Vice President, Communications
The Food Marketing Institute
Kate Weigle
Senior Vice President & Group Head, Food and Nutrition
|Panel 1: Is Nutrition Research Keeping Pace with Policy and Consumers? - Federal A
A panel of experts explores the gaps between the latest nutrition science and dietary recommendations and the nutritional health of consumers; discusses how best to translate nutrition research into actionable steps to improve the public health; examines the importance of integrity in nutrition research; and explores how best to deal with political intervention efforts.
Glenna McCollum
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Eric Hentges
Executive Director
ILSI North America
Susan M. Krebs-Smith
Chief, Risk Factor Monitoring and Methods Branch
National Cancer Institute
Marlene B. Schwartz
Deputy Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity
Yale University
Linda Van Horn
Professor of Preventive Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
|Panel 2: The Food Safety Modernization Act – Debating the Produce Safety Proposal - South American AB
As required by the Food Safety Modernization Act, the Food and Drug Administration has issued proposed regulations to assure the safe production of fresh fruits and vegetables on the farm. A panel of experts debates the proposal and discusses how implementation of the first mandatory set of on-farm safety regulations will impact consumers, the produce industry, and farmers.
Joan Murphy
Assistant Editor
Food Chemical News
David E. Gombas
Senior Vice President, Food Safety & Technology
United Fresh
James R. Gorny, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor for Produce Safety, Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition
U.S. Food & Drug Administration
Sarah A. Klein
Senior Staff Attorney, Food Safety Program
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Ariane Lotti
Assistant Policy Director
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
|Panel 3: Waste Not, Want Not – Addressing the Problem of Food Waste - Federal B
Experts estimate that thirty percent of all food grown worldwide may be lost or wasted before it even reaches consumers. Food waste can occur at various points along the food supply chain – on the farm, during processing, during transportation and storage, in retail environments, and at home. A panel of experts discusses the importance of addressing this problem – from reducing hunger to improving efficiency along the supply chain to better use of natural resources – and identifies programs, policies and incentives we could employ to help reduce food waste.
Kai Robertson
Director, Food, Beverage & Agriculture Practice
Carrie Calvert
Senior Policy Counsel
Feeding America
Dana Gunders
Project Scientist, Food and Agriculture
Natural Resources Defense Council
Jean Schwab
National Food Recovery Initiative, Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery
US Environmental Protection Agency
Jeanne Von Zastrow
Senior Director of Sustainability and Industry Relations
Food Marketing Institute
|Lunch - Presidential Ballroom
|Keynote Address - Presidential Ballroom
Heather White
Executive Director
Environmental Working Group
Lester Brown
President, Earth Policy Institute
Author, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
|Facilitated Discussion: How Immigration Reform Could Impact Our Food Supply - Presidential Ballroom
As the Administration and Congress tackle immigration reform, the results could have a profound effect on our food supply. A panel of experts examines the role immigrants play in our food system, how the current situation affects and is affected by nutrition policy, food safety, and agriculture policy, how immigration reform efforts at the state level have impacted food production, and how to best address the challenges of this complex problem.
Deborah M. Atwood
Executive Director
Bruce Goldstein
Executive Director
Farmworker Justice
LaQuita Honeysucker
Legislative Representative
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
Maureen Torrey
Torrey Farms
Representative from U.S. Congress
|Networking Break - Capital Terrace
|Panel 1: Improving the Regulation of Food Additives - Federal A
The FDA regulates thousands of ingredients and substances which can be added to food, but is the regulatory system up to the challenges of today's modern food system? A panel of experts examines FDA's approach to assessing the safety and suitability of food additives, identifies key challenges facing the agency, industry and the public, and provides recommendations for needed changes.
Abby Dilley
Vice President, Program Development
Tom Nelter
Director, Food Additives Project
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Kate Houston
Director, Federal Government Relations
Cargill, Inc.
Dennis M. Keefe
Director, Office of Food Additive Safety, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Food and Drug Administration
Mitchell Cheeseman
Managing Director
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
|Panel 2: The Debate on Sugar Sweetened Beverages - South American AB
As cities and states tackle the role of sugar sweetened beverages in our diets, how these beverages are defined will determine the reach of the approach and whether beverages such as energy drinks, teas, enhanced waters, flavored milk and fruit drinks are included. A panel of experts explores how different jurisdictions define SSBs and the implications of those definitions, as well as discuss two of the most controversial policy approaches: bans and taxes.
Marianne Smith Edge
Senior Vice President, Nutrition & Food Safety
International Food Information Council
Sean B. Cash
Associate Professor, Agriculture, Food and Environment Program
Tufts University
Harold Goldstein
Executive Director
California Center for Public Health Advocacy
Michael F. Jacobson
Executive Director
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Susan Neely
President and Chief Executive Officer
American Beverage Association
|Panel 3: The Impact of Changing Animal Welfare Standards - Federal B
In response to consumer expectations and demands, retailers and fast food restaurants are requiring their suppliers to make specific changes in how food animals are raised, handled and treated. A panel of experts looks at what these changes mean for the food industry, retailers and consumers, and how this changing dynamic is shaping the future of our meat, poultry and egg supply.
Steve Clapp
Senior Editor
Food Chemical News
Gail Golab
Director, Animal Welfare Division
American Veterinary Medical Association
Sara Lilygren
Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs
Tyson Foods, Inc.
Paul Shapiro
Vice President, Farm Animal Protection
The Humane Society of the United States
Nicole A. Tocco
East Coast Fellow
Bon Appetit Management Company Foundation
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|Tuesday April 16, 2013
|Continental Breakfast - Capital Terrace
|Registration - Capital Terrace
|Welcome - Presidential Ballroom
Chris Waldrop
Director of Food Policy Institute
Consumer Federation of America
|Panel 1: Priority-Setting in a Time of Reduced Resources - Federal A
As the Administration and Congress seek to address looming fiscal challenges, food policy stakeholders are analyzing the impacts of reduced resources for food safety, nutrition, hunger, agriculture and other issues. A panel of experts discusses the new reality of reduced budgets and provides suggestions for how government agencies should prioritize in a tough fiscal climate and what new approaches may be necessary.
Teresa Green
Linda Golodner Food Safety & Nutrition Fellow
National Consumers League
Diane Katz
Research Fellow in Regulatory Policy
The Heritage Foundation
Monica Potts
Senior Writer
The American Prospect
Clay Ramsay
Research Director, Program on International Policy Attitudes
University of Maryland
Nick Schwellenbach
Senior Fiscal Policy Analyst
Center for Effective Government
|Panel 2: The Impact of Droughts, Floods, and Other Disasters on our Food Supply - Federal B
Last year's drought in the U.S. was the worst in decades and climate predictions anticipate more frequent summer droughts, and other natural disasters, in the future. A panel looks at the effects of these events on food availability and price instability and what a future of volatile weather means for our food supply. The panel will also identify policy approaches to help prepare for and rebound from the short-term impacts of a disaster, and will identify remedies to lessen the impact of a changing climate on our food supply over the longer term.
David P. Lambert
Lambert Associates
Ruth Vargas Hill
Senior Research Fellow
International Food Policy Research Institute
Florence Rolle
Senior Liaison Officer
Food and Agriculture Organization
Richard Volpe
Economic Research Service
Chandler Goule
Vice President of Government Relations
National Farmers Union
|Panel 3: The Opportunities and Challenges of Sodium Reduction - South American AB
The federal government, the food industry and consumer groups are all seeking ways to decrease sodium use to help reduce the health risks linked to excess sodium. Yet challenges in food technology, food safety, and consumer taste preference remain. A panel explores these challenges and identifies ways to adequately address them. The panel also examines whether the current regulatory approach and framework is sufficient, particularly for addressing links between issues such as nutrition and food safety.
Tracy Fox
Food, Nutrition & Policy Consultants, LLC
Gary K. Beauchamp
Monell Chemical Senses Center
Janice Johnson
Applications/Technical Service Leader
Cargill, Inc.
Jessica Leighton
Senior Advisor for Nutrition Science and Policy, Office of Food and Veterinary Medicine
Food and Drug Administration
Kimberly F. Stitzel
Vice-President, Nutrition and Obesity Strategies
American Heart Association
Food industry representative
|Keynote Address - Presidential Ballroom
Carol Tucker-Foreman
Distinguished Fellow, Food Policy Institute
Consumer Federation of America
The Honorable Mark Pryor
Chairman, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies
U.S. Senate
|Facilitated Discussion: Communicating about Food Issues in the Age of Social Media - Presidential Ballroom
In an age of increased information access and fast-paced social media, consumer concern about a food issue can often result in government, the food industry and other stakeholders scrambling to respond. A panel of experts examines the new ways consumers access and evaluate information, make risk determinations, and decide to engage in food policy debates. The panel also explores how risk is understood and put into perspective, how stakeholders can help inform the debate before an issue becomes a crisis, and how best to respond when a crisis does arise.
Alexandra Lewin-Zwerdling, PhD, MPA
Account Director
Powell Tate
Benjamin Chapman
Assistant Professor, Department of 4-H Youth Development and Family & Consumer Sciences
North Carolina State University
Linda W. Eatherton
Partner, Director Global Food & Nutrition Practice
Kent Jarrell
Executive Director, Litigation and Crisis Communication
APCO Worldwide
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Liverpool currently sit seven points outside the top four back in seventh place in the league table, but with the club's domestic form fluctuating so much this season, it seems as if the goalposts have been continually moved by manager Brendan Rodgers to the point that it's difficult to quite know what the minimum expectations surrounding the team are now this term and whereabouts they hope to finish.
It goes without saying that the side want to finish as highly as possible in the Premier League and being seven points adrift of Tottenham is not an insurmountable lead by any stretch of the imagination, but after Rodgers claimed earlier in the campaign that replicating the eight-placed finish under predecessor Kenny Dalglish would be a 'magnificent achievement', the 40-year-old appears to have bought too much into the hype surrounding the side in recent months.
It's still worth noting that Liverpool haven't beaten a club inside the top ten in the league all season, which hardly seems conducive to a top four finish and if the shock FA Cup defeat away at Oldham taught us anything, it's that while the starting XI has been in superb form in recent weeks, that the support cast isn't quite up to the standard required just yet. Doubts also remain over the club's ability to deal with physical opposition, while Rodgers has developed a worrying tendency to get his starting eleven wrong in games of importance.
On November 30th, with the side set to host Southampton at Anfield, they sat closer to the relegation zone than the top four, with four points separating them from Nigel Adkins' third-bottom team and a 10-point gap from fourth-placed West Bromwich Albion in fourth, but Rodgers sounded optimistic when pushed if the club could still finish in the top four: "It is realistic, absolutely. Teams are taking points off each other. Let's be honest, it is a big ask, a massive ask, but that has to be our target. We are going to look to try and get as close to that as we possibly can."
Fast forward to December 14th and perhaps Rodgers' most ill-judged rhetoric during his time in charge reared its ugly head when he stated at a press conference just before the humiliating 3-1 defeat to a struggling and subsequently woeful Aston Villa side: "We lie four points off the top four. For me the ambition is to grow higher. We are 11 points off second and that can all turn around very quickly. You need to get consistency – and that is what we have at the minute."
However, in recent weeks he's sought to play down expectations by labelling a top four finish on the eve of the game away at Arsenal as 'difficult' and it seems that nobody quite knows, not least of all the manager himself, quite what the target in the league is for Liverpool this season. Confused yet? You should be.
What is clear, though, is that this is a campaign of transition and expectations have been dampened to such an extent by Rodgers in the summer that a general consensus has been reached by a fanbase willing to be patient with the new man at the helm, that just so long as they finish eighth or higher, then they will be satisfied with the progress that the club are making both on and off the pitch.
Lest we forget, this is a young squad, with several new signings in key positions which have increasingly come to rely on both Luis Suarez and captain Steven Gerrard in recent months. This is not a fully formed outfit by any means and they are still getting to grips with Rodgers' methods and style of play, while in terms of depth, they come up short compared to many of their rivals.
In that sense, Rodgers is fortunate to have taken over the club at a time when the supporters are tired of false promises and the quick rate of managerial turnover and are willing to place their faith in a new 'project' and 'philosophy', craving stability above all else. Nevertheless, Rodgers seems to have a troubling tendency to keep the media on side and in the loop with regards to his thinking and decision-making almost at every turn.
Of course, being media-friendly is all part and parcel of the game these days and having a poor relationship with them can only make your job all the more difficult, as countless managers have found to their cost in the past, but Rodgers seems to want to create news where none really exists. He's not the first manager to contradict himself within a matter of weeks, but Liverpool fans seem to be straddling that line now between whether to continue to dampen down expectations or dare to dream of something more and a consistent party line above all else is what's required.
With a tough run of fixtures in the pipeline, including Arsenal and Manchester City away from home not to mention the tricky test of Zenit St. Petersburg in Russia in the Europa League, now is not the time to be getting carried away by what has been some good form against opposition you'd expect them to do well against.
The challenges ahead are huge and whether they finish sixth, seventh or eighth, splitting hairs in such a fashion really takes away from what the larger objective in mind is, restoring Liverpool to the top four in a matter of seasons, not months and Rodgers would do well to remember that.


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Unlike the rest of the city, Staten Island is predominantly white. Black Staten Islanders and other minorities are largely concentrated in the area around the St. George Ferry Terminal and along the North Shore. The area, in which Eric Garner also died, is covered by the 120th precinct.
In recent years, the precinct has issued more than twice as many low-level summonses and made more than twice as many stops and frisks on a per capita basis than elsewhere on the island, according to a WNYC analysis of data provided by the New York Civil Liberties Union. The island used to have three police precincts but in 2013 added a fourth.
"If you look at the numbers, you have to ask yourself, 'Why are more people being arrested and stopped by the police, as a proportion on the North Shore, under the 120 precinct?'" said Christopher Pisciotta, attorney-in-charge at Legal Aid's office on Staten Island. "Why isn't this great level of policing that occurs across the island, across the communities, across income levels?"
He said the broken windows approach — focusing on low-level offenses to prevent bigger ones — has created resentment, a sentiment echoed by residents in the area.
"If I don't have ID, they will put me in a car and take me down," said Dwayne Thompson, 31, who lives in the Richmond Terrace Houses, a public housing development. "Over here, I guess, everyone is a criminal."
But the stats show that on the North Shore, it's not just the number of summonses and stop-and-frisks that are high. The precinct also has double the rate of major crimes, compared to other precincts on the island.
"It is a person's behavior that leads to interactions with the police, not who they are, not what they look like, not how much money is in their pocket," said Pat Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, during a press conference this week.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has said broken-windows policing is not going anywhere, because it helps keep the city safe. During a visit to one of the island's largely white neighborhoods, Midland Beach, for the city's Night Out Against Crime this week, he said safe streets help relationships with the entire community.
"We're very fortunate that we have great relationships with the community over here on Staten Island and in the city," Bratton said. "And we're building on the strengths of those relationships. My precinct captains, my cops do a great job. And the relationships, I've found, are very, very good."
Whether those relationships are indeed good is becoming increasingly important for Staten Island. The number of black residents is going up — it increased 18 percent between 2000 and 2010, according to the U.S. Census Bureau — while citywide, it is decreasing. Bishop Victor Brown, who has served a mostly black congregation in the New Brighton area for 30 years, says the police reach out regularly to meet with community leaders. He says many residents want community policing: cops walking the beat, meeting residents face to face.
"How we interface with people, I think, spells the difference between something potentially going good and something potentially not going good," he said.


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Authors: Stephen J. Crothers
A recent Letter to the Editor (Sharples J. J., Coordinate transformations and metric extension: a rebuttal to the relativistic claims of Stephen J. Crothers, Progress in Physics, v.1, 2010) has analysed a number of my papers. Dr. Sharples has committed errors in both mathematics and physics. His notion that r = 0 in the so-called "Schwarzschild solution" marks the point at the centre of the related manifold is false, as is his related claim that Schwarzschild's actual solution describes a manifold that is extendible. His post hoc introduction of Newtonian concepts and related mathematical expressions into the "Schwarzschild solution" is invalid; for instance, Newtonian two-body relations into what is alleged to be a one-body problem. Each of the objections are treated in turn and their invalidity fully demonstrated. Black hole theory is riddled with contradictions. This article provides definitive proof that black holes do not exist.
Comments: This paper was published in The Hadronic Journal, 34, 197-224 (2011) and is an abridged version of the paper, 'The Black Hole Catastrophe: A Reply to J. J. Sharples', http://vixra.org/abs/1011.0062
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Jean Racine 1639–1699
French dramatist and poet.
With Pierre Corneille, Racine was one of the premier authors of French dramatic tragedy during the reign of Louis XIV. His more renowned plays, all of them written in verse, include Bajazet (1672), Mithridate (1673; Mithridates), Iphigénie (1674; Iphigenia), and Phèdre (1677; Phaedra), tragedies which rework themes from classical Greek models. As in Greek tragedy and Corneille's works, Racine's plays emphasize the exposition of character and spiritual conflict, eliminating nearly everything not central to each drama's theme. His accomplishment was summarized in glowing terms by Anatole France, who wrote that Racine's "period, his education, and his nature, conspired together to make of him the most perfect of French poets, and the greatest by reason of the sustained nobility of his work."
Biographical Information
Born the son of an attorney in La Ferté-Milon near Soissons, Racine was orphaned as an infant. He was raised by his paternal grandparents in the fervently Jansenist city of Port-Royal, where his education afforded him a wide knowledge of Greek and Latin literature as well as Jansenist doctrine. (The Jansenists, named after Bishop Cornelius Jansen of Ypres, were a sect within the Roman Catholic Church which emphasized the complete perversity of the natural human will and the belief that sin is overcome only in the lives of individuals predestined for such by divine grace.) Having written several odes to country scenes near Port-Royal by his late teens, Racine was admitted to the College d'Harcourt in the University of Paris. Several years later, having entered into friendships with Molière, Jean de La Fontaine, and Nicolas Boileau, he began writing for the Parisian stage, with the neoclassical theorist Boileau being an especially strong influence upon him. In 1664 Racine's La Thébaïde (The Thebans) was produced by Molière, who also mounted the young dramatist's second play, Alexandre le Grande (Alexander the Great), the next year; these works brought their author much acclaim. But when Alexander opened, Racine acted upon the first of several key decisions that brought him strained relations with friends—if not influential enemies—throughout his career. Immediately dissatisfied by Molière's production of Alexander at the Palais-Royal, he mounted a rival production at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, deeply offending Molière and ending their friendship. At about the same time, due to a misunderstanding, Racine publicly broke with the Jansenist Catholics of Port-Royal by publishing an open letter—which he later regretted—filled with ill-spirited caricatures of
and anecdotes about key Jansenist figures. Having split with the Jansenists and now considered a rising rival of Corneille, Racine embraced the worldliness of the Parisian dramatic world, taking actresses for mistresses and actively competing in dramatic popularity with the older writer. In the drama Britannicus he not only ventured into political drama, at the time considered Corneille's exclusive domain, but he also attacked Corneille himself (though not by name) in his introduction, having come to believe that a cabal led by Corneille had sought to undermine his drama's success. He also answered Corneille's El Cid with his own Andromaque (1667; Andromache) and pitted his superior Bérénice (1670; Berenice) against Corneille's Tite et Bérénice, which appeared almost simultaneously. The other plays by which Racine is most distinguished appeared during the next few years, and in 1674 he was elected to the Académie Française, becoming its youngest member. But by the mid 1670s, the ill will he had engendered among his peers and their admirers affected his own career. One of his more powerful enemies, the Duchesse de Bouillon—a niece of Cardinal Mazarin and sister of the Duc de Nevers—learned of Racine's Phaedra during its composition and persuaded a minor dramatist, Jacques Pradon, to write a rival version of the play, which opened two days after Racine's production. Further, it is said that she reserved many of the main seats for the earliest performances of Racine's play, leaving these seats empty on the crucial opening nights. Although Phaedra was eventually seen as superior to Pradon's tragedy, Racine was badly shaken by this episode and its aftermath, which included having his personal safety threatened by the Duc de Nevers. Thus, at the height of his career, he retired from the professional theatre; he married, became the devoted father of seven children, and accepted the post of Royal Historiographer, a position he shared with Boileau. For two decades Racine enjoyed access to the most influential political and literary circles; he and Boileau also travelled with Louis XIV on military campaigns, recording the Sun King's exploits. In 1689, at the request of the king's wife, Madame de Maintenon, Racine produced a new play, Esther, based on the biblical story, which was performed at a religious school in Saint-Cyr. Praised by the king himself, this play was so well received that Racine wrote another biblical drama, Athalie (Athaliah), which was performed at Saint-Cyr two years later. During his remaining years, he wrote four spiritual hymns (Cantiques spirituelles) and a history of Port-Royal (Abrégé de l'histoire de Port-Royal). Racine died in 1699 after a long illness.
Major Works
Several scholars have written that in Racine, the world of Jansenist Port-Royal and the neoclassical world were in constant warfare. But they were arguably complementary, in style and in form. The influence of Jansenist teaching, which stressed human depravity and predestined salvation, is evident in Racine's dramatic characters, who—like their forerunners in classical Greek drama—are undone by their passions, driven to ruin by ungovernable impulses. The simple neoclassical tragic form was well fitted to Racine's themes and poetic style, which has been praised for its simplicity, harmony, and rhythmic flow; of all his contemporaries, Racine was the first to achieve success within a framework which had been deemed too difficult to master since its inception during the Italian Renaissance. His style has been described as simple yet polished, smooth yet natural. Robert Lowell has praised Racine's dramatic verse for its "diamond edge" and "hard, electric rage," calling Racine "perhaps the greatest poet in the French language." In most of his plays, Racine employed a basic plot structure in which a monarch demands something of a particular underling, often a prince or princess, who denies this demand. The monarch then attempts to force his subject's obedience, with tragic results. Launched upon a course of impending doom, Racine's characters know what must be done to avert disaster but are unable to subdue their desires to take prudent action. This is readily discernable in Phaedra, the tragedy often considered Racine's finest. Based upon Euripides's Hippolytus, this play concerns a woman who wrestles unsuccessfully with her unlawful love for her stepson, Hippolytus, and is struck down by him or her husband, Theseus, each time she moves toward redemption. Kenneth Rexroth went so far as to say that the protagonist of Phaedra "is damned, and predestined to damnation." Racine's only comedy, Les plaideurs (1668; The Litigants), is the single exception to this general pattern.
Critical Reception
During their author's lifetime, Racine's dramas, though popular, were attacked for what some critics considered their crude realism and their focus upon passion. Jean de La Bruyère wrote of Corneille and Racine that "the former paints men as they should be, the latter paints men as they are." Like La Bruyère, many critics compare the intents and accomplishments of Racine with those of Corneille, often to Racine's advantage. "Unlike Corneille," wrote Irving Babbitt, "Racine moved with perfect ease among all the rules that the neo-classic disciplinarians had imposed upon the stage. Indeed, it is in Racine, if anywhere, that all this regulating of the drama must find its justification," here speaking of the unities of time, space, and action prescribed by neoclassical theorists. Over time, Racine's work grew in critical stature and popularity. In one of the seminal discourses upon Racine's achievement, Racine et Shakespeare (1823-25), Stendhal wrote of Racine—in his preoccupation with passion—as an artist of romantisicme, the literary element which satisfies an ever-changing standard of beauty. Several scholars have compared the theatricality of Shakespeare and Racine, with David Maskell observing that they "provide examples of a common visual vocabulary which is the peculiar feature of theatrical language, and which unites dramatists who can exploit its rich potential." Other major French critics of Racine's work have included Jules Lemaître, Ferdinand Brunetière, Jean Giraudoux, François Mauriac, and Roland Barthes, while English-language criticism and translation of Racine's works has been dominated by Martin Turnell, Geoffrey Brereton, and Kenneth Muir, among others. Many scholars concur in spirit with the judgment of George Saintsbury, who wrote of Racine, "Of the whole world which is subject to the poet he took only a narrow artificial and conventional fraction. Within these narrow bounds he did work which no admirer of literary craftsmanship can regard without satisfaction."
Principal Works
La Thébaïde, ou Les frères ennemis [The Thebans, or The Enemy Brothers] (drama) 1664
Alexandre le Grand [Alexander the Great] (drama) 1665
Andromaque [Andromache] (drama) 1667
Les plaideurs [The Litigants] (drama) 1668
Britannicus (drama) 1669
Bérénice [Berenice] (drama) 1670
Bajazet (drama) 1672
Mithridate [Mithridates] (drama) 1673
Iphigénie [Iphigenia] (drama) 1674
Phèdre [Phaedra] (drama) 1677
Esther (drama) 1689
Athalie [Athaliah] (drama) 1691
Oeuvres complètes (dramas) 1962
Elizabeth Inchbald (essay date 1808)
SOURCE: "Remarks: The Distressed Mother," in British Theatre; or, A Collection of Plays, Vol. XVIII, translated by Ambrose Philips, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1808, pp. 3-5.
[Inchbald was an English dramatist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the excerpt below, she remarks upon the dramatic effect of The Distressed Mother, Ambrose Philips's translation of Andromaque.]
The French and the English stages differ so essentially, that every French drama requires great alteration, before it can please a London audience, although it has previously charmed the audience of Paris.
The gloomy mind of a British...
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C. A. Sainte-Beuve (essay date 1855)
SOURCE: "Racine," in Portraits of the Seventeenth Century, Historic and Literary, translated by Katharine P. Wormeley, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, pp. 283-314.
[Sainte-Beuve is considered the foremost French literary critic of the nineteenth century. Of his extensive body of critical writings, the best known are his "lundis"—weekly newspaper articles which appeared over a period of several decades, in which he displayed his knowledge of literature and history. While Sainte-Beuve began his career as a champion of Romanticism, he eventually formulated a psychological method of criticism. Asserting that the critic cannot separate a work of literature from the artist and from the artist's...
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Paul Verlaine (essay date 1894)
SOURCE: "Shakespeare and Racine," in The Fortnightly Review, Vol. LVI, No. CCCXXXIII, September, 1894, pp. 440-47.
[A nineteenth-century French poet, Verlaine captured the musicality of the French language perhaps more than did any other poet. By using rhyme structures and meters that had previously been rare in French poetry, he is said to have liberated French poetics from the strictures of classicism and the rhetoric of Romanticism, and helped define the Symbolist theory of poetics. In the following excerpt, Verlaine compares the accomplishment of Racine with that of Shakespeare, finding the former in some ways superior.]
Some young men, who keep guard over what...
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Brander Matthews (essay date 1903)
SOURCE: "The Development of the French Drama," in The International Quarterly, Vol. VII, No. 3, March, 1903, pp. 14-31.
[An American critic, playwright, and novelist, Matthews wrote extensively on world drama and served for a quarter century at Columbia University as professor of dramatic literature; he was the first to hold that title at an American University. Matthews was also a founding member and president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Because his criticism is deemed both witty and informative, he has been called "perhaps the last of the gentlemanly school of critics and essayists" in America. In the following excerpt, Matthews presents an overview of Racine's...
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Lytton Strachey (essay date 1908)
SOURCE: "Racine," in Books and Characters: French & English, Chatto and Windus, 1922, pp. 3-24.
[Strachey was an early twentieth-century English biographer, critic, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his biographies Eminent Victorians (1918), Queen Victoria (1921), and Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History (1928). According to P. Mansell Jones, translator of Eugène Vinaver 's Racine and Poetic Tragedy (1955), "Curiosity about Racine was considerably stimulated in Anglo-Saxon countries by the publication of Lytton Strachey's essay [in Books and Characters] in 1922." In the following excerpt from that essay, originally published in...
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George Saintsbury (essay date 1911)
SOURCE: "Racine," in French Literature and Its Masters, edited by Huntington Cairns, Alfred A. Knopf, 1946, pp. 68-83.
[Saintsbury was a late-nineteenth and early-twentiethcentury English literary historian and critic. Hugely prolific, he composed histories of English and European literature as well as numerous critical works on individual authors, styles, and periods. In the following excerpt from an article which originally appeared in the 1911 Encyclopœdia Britannica, Saintsbury offers a summary appraisal of Racine's significance, noting his accomplishment as both a dramatist and poet.]
Racine may be considered from two very different points of view,—(1)...
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Malcolm Cowley (essay date 1923)
SOURCE: "Racine," in The Freeman, New York, Vol. VIII, Nos. 187 and 188, October 10 and October 17, 1923, pp. 104-06; 132-33.
[An American critic, editor, poet, translator, and historian, Cowley made valuable contributions to contemporary letters with his editions of the works of such American authors as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, and Ernest Hemingway, his writings as a literary critic, and his chronicles and criticism of modern American literature. In the following excerpt, Cowley places Racine's technical, stylistic, and thematic accomplishment within the context of his era.]
Versailles is one of two perfect expressions of the seventeenth century in France....
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Maurice Baring (essay date 1924)
SOURCE: "Racine," in Punch and Judy & Other Essays, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924, pp. 145-73.
[During the early twentieth century, Baring—along with G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc—was considered one of the most important Catholic apologists in England. He was proficient in a number of different genres, but is remembered mainly as a novelist. He also wrote several acclaimed books on Russian and French literature and introduced English readers to the works of Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, and other prominent Russian authors. In the following excerpt, Baring discursively examines several of Racine's dramas, particularly Bérénice, while...
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Benedetto Croce (essay date 1928)
SOURCE: "The Poetry of Racine," translated by Raffaello Piccoli, in The Dial, Chicago, Vol. LXXXIV, No. 6, June, 1928, pp. 483-88.
[An Italian educator, philosopher, and author, Croce developed a highly influential theory of literary creation and a concomitant critical method. In defining the impetus and execution of poetry, Croce conceives of the mind as capable of two distinct modes of thought, which he terms cognition and volition. Cognition mental activity is theoretical and speculative, while volition is the mind's practical application of ideas originating in the cognitive realm. For Croce, a poem, as an intuitive creation, belongs to the cognitive sphere, and exists within a poet's...
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Jean Giraudoux (essay date 1930)
SOURCE: "The World and the Theatre, in Theatre Arts Monthly, Vol. XIV, No. 9, September, 1930, pp. 727-30.
[A French dramatist and novelist, Giraudoux is recognized primarily for his highly stylized works centering around the elemental themes of love, death, and war. In the following excerpt from an essay originally published in a longer form in La Nouvelle Revue Française, he discusses Racine's method, emphasizing the dramatist's exemplary accomplishment while working within an established context: his own, distinctly literary age.]
Those who believe in genius have the opportunity, when contemplating Racine, to verify the fact that a civilization which has...
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M. Joubert (essay date 1939)
SOURCE: "Racine," in Contemporary Review, Vol. 156, December 1939, pp. 729-36.
[Below, Joubert offers a general essay on the accomplishment and significance of Racine, noting his artistic statements against governmental tyranny.]
In a broadcast for French schools dealing with Racine's place in the history of dramatic literature, the lecturer pronounced the significant words: "In spite of Racine's unquestionable superiority as poet and psychologist, the French nation will, during the time of a national crisis, always turn to Corneille." This statement seems to me to represent in a nutshell the historical and aesthetic valuation of the two greatest dramatists of French...
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A. F. B. Clark (essay date 1939)
SOURCE: "The 'Profane' Plays, 1664-1677, in Jean Racine, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1939, pp. 99-221.
[In the following excerpt, Clark examines Andromache and Brittannicus in depth, noting the close thematic relationships between the plays.]
When one has said the best one can of Racine's first two tragedies, the fact remains that they are mediocre works and give no intimation of the genius that suddenly unveiled its full radiance with the performance of Andromaque at the Hôtel de Bourgogne or at court some time in November 1667. It is no exaggeration to say "its full radiance," for though personal taste may place this or that play...
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Paul Valéry (essay date 1942)
SOURCE: "On Phèdre as a Woman," in The Collected Works of Paul Valéry: Occasions, translated by Roger Shattuck and Frederick Brown, Bollingen Series XLV, Princeton University Press, 1970, pp. 185-95.
[A prominent French poet and critic, Valéry is one of the leading practitioners of nineteenth-century Symbolist aestheticism. His work reflects his desire for total control of his creation; his absorption with the creative process also forms the method of his criticism. In his prose, Valéry displays what is perhaps his most fundamental talent: the ability to apply a well-disciplined mind to a diversity of subjects including art, politics, science, dance, and aesthetics. His critical...
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Wallace Fowlie (essay date 1948)
SOURCE: "Second Cycle: Racine, the Sun in Phèdre" in Love in Literature: Studies in Symbolic Expression, 1965. Reprint by Books for Libraries Press, 1972, pp. 51-7.
[Fowlie is among the most respected and comprehensive scholars of French literature. His work includes translations of major poets and dramatists of France (Molière, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Claudel, Saint-John Perse) and critical studies of the major figures and movements of modern French letters (Stephane Mallarmé, Marcel Proust, Andre Gidé, the Surrealists, among many others). Broad intellectual and artistic sympathies, along with an acute sensitivity for French writing and a firsthand understanding...
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John Gassner (essay date 1954)
SOURCE: "Corneille and Racine: Polite Tragedy," in Masters of the Drama, third revised edition, Dover Publications, Inc., 1954, pp. 267-85.
[Gassner, a Hungarian-born American scholar, was a great promoter of American theater, particularly the work of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. He edited numerous collections of modern drama and wrote two important dramatic surveys, Masters of Modern Drama (1940) and Theater in Our Times (1954; 3rd ed. 1954). In the following excerpt from the former, Gassner surveys Racine's career as a dramatist and assesses his significance in the development of Western drama.]
Racine was fortunate in possessing two...
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Lucien Goldmann (essay date 1956)
SOURCE: "The Structure of Racine's Tragedies," in Racine, translated by Alastair Hamilton, Rivers Press, 1972, pp. 3-22.
[In the following excerpt from a work originally published in 1956, Goldmann narrowly defines dramatic tragedy and then discusses how Racine structured his dramas as tragedies.]
The concept of tragedy and the "science" of literature
If we denote any attempt to understand reality as science or theoretical thought we must admit that a considerable discrepancy has appeared between what are normally known as the "exact sciences"—mathematics, physics, chemistry—and the "human sciences". This discrepancy can be seen not...
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Kenneth Muir (lecture date 1959)
SOURCE: "Racine," in Last Periods of Shakespeare, Racine, Ibsen, Wayne State University Press, 1961, pp. 61-88.
[In the following excerpt from the text of a lecture delivered in 1959, Muir focuses upon the final two dramas of Racine, Esther and Athaliah, finding the latter in particular a reflection of Racine's effort to, in effect, repudiate the libertinism of his middle years and return to the Christian practice of his youth.]
Between 1664 and 1676, between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-seven, a space of twelve years, Racine wrote ten plays. During this next twelve years, between the ages of thirty-seven and forty-nine, he wrote nothing for...
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Robert Lowell (essay date 1961)
SOURCE: "On Translating Phèdre" in Collected Prose, edited by Robert Giroux, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1987, pp. 230-31.
[Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award, Lowell is generally considered the premier American poet of his generation. One of the original proponents of the confessional school of poetry, he frequently gave voice to his personal as well as his social concerns, leading many to consider him the prototypical liberal intellectual writer of his time. Lowell was also a widely acclaimed translator and playwright as well as critic and editor. In the following excerpt from the introduction to his 1961 translation of Phèdre, he comments upon the...
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Martin Turnell (essay date 1972)
SOURCE: "Approach to Racine," in Jean Racine: Dramatist, Hamish Hamilton, 1972, pp. 3-25.
[Turnell has written widely on French literature and has made significant translations of the works of Jean-Paul Sartre, Guy de Maupassant, Blaise Pascal, and Paul Valèry. In the following excerpt, he quotes several critics contra Racine, using them as a springboard to his thesis that "when properly performed, Racine is still the greatest French tragic dramatist" and that the negative pronouncements of Racine's critics speak more to the issue of access than to that of dramatic accomplishment.]
'Of all our authors', François Mauriac once said, 'Racine is one of the least...
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Geoffrey Brereton (essay date 1973)
SOURCE: "Jean Racine," in An Introduction to the French Poets: Villon to the Present Day, revised edition, Methuen & Co Ltd, 1973, pp. 67-81.
[Brereton is an English scholar who has written extensively on French literature of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. In the following excerpt, he examines specifically the poetry of Racine's dramas.]
Racine is considered here almost exclusively as a poet. He was, in fact, a dramatic poet and any division is necessarily artificial. But any attempt to do justice to the dramatist would lead us far beyond the bounds of our subject and we must be content with illustrating this side of his genius with a single...
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Gordon Pocock (essay date 1973)
SOURCE: "The Dramatic Art of Racine," in Corneille and Racine: Problems of Tragic Form, Cambridge at the University Press, 1973, pp. 216-36.
[In the following excerpt, Pocock seeks to demonstrate that "the basis of Racine's art was his concern to express those irrational and even infantile passions that are fed from the unconscious, but that he masked them as far as possible behind a perfect neo-classical façade. "]
After 1670, Racine was the reigning monarch of the stage. Bajazet was acclaimed not just as a success but as an improvement on his earlier plays. Mithridate triumphed, and was Louis XIV's favourite tragedy. Then came...
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SOURCE: "Racine and Shakespeare: A Common Language," in Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3, 1993, pp. 253-68.
[Maskell is the author of Racine: A Theatrical Reading (1991). In the following excerpt from a later work, he compares the theatricality—specifically, the "visual language"—of Shakespeare and Racine.]
When writers' names become symbols this can obscure what they actually wrote. Racine and Shakespeare stand in symbolic opposition. Shakespeare represents full-blooded theatricality; Racine stands for an abstract disembodied form of tragedy. This opposition deserves to be challenged. Of course there are substantial differences between Racine...
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Further Reading
Barnwell, H. T. The Tragic Drama of Corneille and Racine: An Old Parallel Revisited. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982, 275 p.
Investigates various aspects of plot in the dramas of Racine and Corneille with the aim of seeing more clearly "both the parallels and the divergences between the two dramatists, not only in their technique itself (what they called their art) but also in its implication in the presentation of their tragic vision."
Barthes, Roland. On Racine. Translated by Richard Howard. 1960. Reprint. New York: Octagon Books, 1977, 172 p.
In-depth examination of each of Racine's dramas,...
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By Jim Gazzolo / American Press
I remember all those long talks with my father about the difference between right and wrong.
Often they would finish with the worlds, crime doesn't pay or cheaters never prosper.
My father has been gone for over a decade now, but I sometimes find myself chuckling when I remember some of those talks, especially when baseball comes to mind.
For him, baseball was the perfect sport, maybe the only sport.
He talked romantically about the old days, when men were men and players were players.
His generation must be wondering what they taught us, for when it comes to baseball, cheaters are doing pretty well.
Ryan Braun is the best example. He was caught once for using performance-enhancing drugs but beat the rap and kept his money.
His 50-game suspension was dropped and he even lashed out at those who questioned him.
Braun even ripped the poor guy who collected his sample, blaming him for any positive test.
Then the Milwaukee outfielder, whose positive test came the same year as his MVP award, got nailed again. This time there was too much evidence to fight and Braun slinked off into the sunset, cutting a deal with baseball officials. He will miss the final 65 games of this season.
The suspendion is without pay but that hardly matters. After winning the National League MVP in 2011, the amount Braun will lose is a lot to most, little to him. He will be fine financially.
Bruan is the first, but by week's end is not expected to be the last, that baseball will punish in connection with the Biogenesis scandal. Alex Rodriguez, among some 20 others, are on the clock.
But let's look at just what Braun lost.
He left a team that wasn't about to win this year, cutting the deal now instead of later. He will lose close to $3.5 million, but that also means he made almost $7 million in 97 games, some of which he missed while injured.
As for his big deal, that will be untouched. Braun has a $120 million contract that runs through 2020. So now he gets only a total of $116.5 million. I think I could live on that very nicely.
One could argue that without the monster MVP season in 2011, which is clearly called into question now, Braun would not have such a big deal.
See dad, cheaters do prosper, you were wrong.
Braun is not the only one to benefit from this financially. The Brewers marketed their MVP and baseball played him up in commercials over the year.
And yes, Braun lost some endorsement money along the way, but he won't be hurting.
Even better for him is he didn't have to answer to anybody. Bruan has gone on his way, unseen and uninterviewed.
Many say he is ashamed, but after the way he lied to us in the past you have to believe he is laughing all the way to the bank.
This is baseball's big dilemma when it comes to PEDs.
Young kids see what is happening and think, maybe it is worth it.
How do you tell a kid living with little more than a dime to his name that losing just over 1.5 percent of a contract worth $120 million isn't worth the risk of taking steroids. They are not worried about being banned from the Hall of Fame, they are worried about where their next meal will come from.
That is why baseball, while doing the right thing by finally taking action, needs to send a clear message in the future. You get caught, you are done forever. Bruan might have to think twice if everything could be taken away from him with one bad test.
It will never come to this, unless the baseball players union wants it. They are the only ones who can clean up the game.
There does seem to be a trend toward this happening, but it is still hard to tell somebody it isn't worth the risk with so much money on the line.
Don't think so, look at Rodriguez. Before he was ever linked to PEDs he had all the money any man would ever need and that still wasn't enough.
Barry Bonds was considered one of the two best players of his generation before he ever touched the stuff.
And the entire world embraced Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire in 1998 for helping save the game of baseball with their famous home run chase.
All those, and even future numbers, are now forever called into question. The game is tainted from now until it ends.
The only way to at least make it appear clean is to take away the only numbers that really matter to young players, those that are in their bank statements.
That would send a clear message that pops was right, cheaters don't prosper.
Or at least not anymore.
Jim Gazzolo is managing sports editor. Email him at email@example.com


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This article, entitled "Are You and Your Kids Overscheduled?" comes from Pat Persaud, MomsEveryday correspondent from Omaha, NE.
Ready, set go! Be honest, isn't that how most of our days begin? We've become conditioned to expect the busyness as part of life. After all, who wants to deny their kids the opportunity to score the most points, play a musical instrument and get the best grades. If that sounds like you, the experts of child behavior say it's time to re-evaluate.
Are you doing this for your child or for you? Are you involved in these activities because other moms are or because your child really wants to be involved in these activities? Are you constantly rushing but never making it anywhere on time because you're so overscheduled?
No one is suggesting that you should refuse to shuttle your kids back and forth to their favorite activity, but experts suggest maybe choosing one activity per season. The good news in this: there's no reason not to let your kids enjoy non-scheduled time with you and your family.


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The wheels will fit, but it all depends on the geometry of the tire you choose. If you put 70 series, I would say no.
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Ok so I was just watching a movie on my Pc, the movie stopped playing and said it didn't recognize the disk. I tried reatarting the computer and it is now frozen on the windows start up screen........ the computer didn't come with a windows 7 disc and I have over 1,000 dollars in editing software that I really don't want to lose. I doubt its a virus since this computer hasn't been hooked up to internet in over a year. Please help!!!!
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Try safe mode (keep tapping the f8 key on boot up) and see if you can retrieve documents from there.
Having over 1,000 dollars of software, don't you have a backup of these e.g. DVD's CD's, I have similar and have 2 backups of the software including images on separate hard drives!
Once you get the PC up and running I highly recommend creating an Image of the hard drive, you just never know when the little gremlins will attack.
One thing you can try is to disconnect your power cord then unplug your DVD player. Plug your power plug back in and try and start your system.
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FWP considers changes to Whitefish River access
KALISPELL, Mont. - Motorized boats on a part of the Whitefish River could soon be banned from being used.
It's about a 3-mile stretch of the Whitefish River, from the bridge on J.P. Road to the train trestle near the mouth of Whitefish Lake.
The popular recreation spot was recently reopened after a multiyear cleanup effort. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad Company was charged with cleaning up oil and other contaminants that polluted the river for years.
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is considering banning motorized boats from a 3-mile stretch of the Whitefish River that currently allows them on a no-wake restriction.
Sonny Schierl paddleboards the river regularly and believes that the restrictions would benefit the river's ecosystem.
"It's in our hands to take care of something that, for years and years and years, was abused. Now it's nice and clean and all that we're really asking for is to maintain this 3-mile stretch and keep it beautiful and keep it healthy and safe for people to use," Schierl said.
The stretch of the river in question is narrow and shallow for the most part. Schierl believes that it could cause some serious safety concerns for eople recreating on the river, and also for boaters.
"It's a narrow river that winds, and if a boat were to come down it while a paddler would be paddling, that interaction might go haywire really quickly because of the boat might not being able to stop," said Schierl.
While most seem to be in favor of the new restrictions, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Warden Lee Anderson says there are some who don't want to see these new rules passed.
"It's a historic use that people have had. Do we really need to change things? In order to do this, is there a real reason to do this? Those are the real concerns that the opposition to it has had," Anderson said.
No decisions have been made yet on the restrictions, but FWP is expected to make a decision when they discuss it at their board meeting on June 12.


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|Patriots Look Poised For Another Super Bowl Run
|Bruins Trade For Drew Stafford
|Black and Gold Bruins Turn Yellow On Parade Day
|Inconsistency Will Continue For Bruins Unless A Change Is Made
In the most important series in Tampa Bay's history, the Rays played host to the Boston Red Sox for a shot at the division lead. The result? The Rays systematically beat the Red Sox down for three straight games in a sweep, capturing a 3 1/2 game division lead (a franchise record). They also now have the best record in baseball at 52-32. It's extremely likely they'll avoid another 100-loss season, as they'd have to finish 10-68 to get there…
The Sox bats, meanwhile, woke up, but not in accordance with their bullpen. When things are not going well for any team, pitching is good and hitting is bad, or hitting is good and pitching is bad. It's never both good at the same time. Now losers of five in a row, the Red Sox have to turn to the Bronx for a four-game series beginning tonight.
Sox Stud of the Game:
Dustin Pedroia carried the Red Sox offense, going 4-5 with a HR, triple, and two doubles (yes a single short of the cycle) and two RBI. He continues to be white-hot, as his average was down in the .260's in mid-June and is now up to .311.
Diamond Dud of the Game:
The Red Sox bullpen blows recently. How did they do in this game? 3 IP, 7 H, 6 ER, 3 BB. Craig Hansen and Manny Delcarmen each allowed three runs in a horrible seventh inning….Uh….Bring on Brian Fuentes!!!
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Tags: Brian Fuentes, Craig Hansen, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Dustin Pedroia, Manny Delcarmen, Red Sox, Tampa Bay Rays


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Rose-Scented Plum Crumble Tart
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- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1 stick cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
- 2 large egg yolks
- 1 tablespoon ice water
- 2 pounds mixed small plums, halved and pitted
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup packed light-brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- Pinch of coarse salt
- 1 teaspoon rose water
- 1/4 cup packed light-brown sugar
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon coarse salt
- Plum-Rose Sorbet, for serving (optional)
Crust: Pulse flour, sugar, and salt in a food processor to combine. Add butter; pulse until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add yolks and ice water; pulse until dough comes together. Pat into a disk, wrap in plastic, and refrigerate at least 1 hour or overnight.
Let dough stand at room temperature until pliable. Roll out on a lightly floured surface to a rough 13-inch round, about 1/4 inch thick. Fit into an 11-inch fluted tart pan with a removable bottom. Fold over and tuck overhanging edges into pan. Freeze until firm, about 1 hour.
Filling: Toss to combine plums, both sugars, cornstarch, salt, and rose water in a bowl. Spread in tart shell in a single layer.
Crumble: Combine brown sugar, butter, flour, and salt in a bowl and mix with fingertips until clumps form. Crumble evenly over filling.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees with rack in lower third. Bake on a rimmed baking sheet until juices are bubbling and topping is browned, about 50 minutes. Let cool completely. Tart is best served the day it's made, with sorbet.


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EACH week while Europe's legislators debate the pros and cons of a single currency five of the member states' top lawyers meet by telephone to forecast the future of the union's legal profession.
Since its establishment 35 years ago the five-member presidency of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of the European Union (CCBE) has been responsible for canvassing the views of legal bodies across the continent and producing opinions on a wide range of European directives.
Based in Brussels and drawn from practices in France, Spain and Belgium, the current president and his team form the leadership of one of the most influential professional bodies in Europe, enjoying an open door from legislators and having the ear of the Parliament.
The team is supported by a standing committee, comprising the heads of all delegations who meet every two months, and its entire membership of approximately 80 people, nominated by their home countries, who come together at plenary sessions twice a year.
Formed as a focal point for the combined legal professions of the EU, the CCBE has examined a broad range of issues, including the mutual recognition of diplomas and the production of a code of conduct common to all members.
But for a number of years one subject has eclipsed all others, dominating the CCBE agenda and sending the organisation's 17 members into a tailspin. The issue, rights of cross-border establishment for foreign lawyers, has divided CCBE ranks by pitting lead players such as France and Spain against the equally high-profile UK and Germany.
Outsiders have levelled strong attacks against the body claiming it has taken an exorbitant amount of time to resolve the arguments for and against rights of free trade, while the Parliament's legal affairs committee had become so frustrated with the CCBE's inaction that it delivered an ultimatum calling for a resolution by mid-November. The debate finally reached a climactic 14/3 vote at the CCBE's plenary session in Dresden last month, agreeing lawyers should be entitled to practise under their own title on foreign soil.
However, few believe the CCBE agreement came soon enough and many say the group's in-fighting has damaged its profile.
"The CCBE is a necessary organisation but it is not properly used," says the Law Society's new international director Jonathan Goldsmith. "It's under-used and misused."
He adds: "It's clearly necessary for all of Europe's lawyers to get together into a forum, but they've spent so many years on the issue of establishment that they've not tried to tackle any of the other issues that need to be tackled.
"There has been a split on the establishment directive and a difference of approach, but what we want to do now is to make sure that in areas where there are common interests we work together and don't let differences colour relations."
Ian Dunbar, former president of the Law Society of Scotland and now a member of the CCBE's UK delegation along with Goldsmith, says difficulties within the organisation have arisen because it was founded on the "false premise" that a single profession exists across Europe.
Established during the ratification of the Treaty of Rome, the CCBE aimed to speak with one voice for EU lawyers. However, Dunbar, like many, believes it is unlikely unanimously agreed positions will be reached on contentious issues because each of the organisation's member countries is governed by its own national rules and traditions. He says the CCBE's varied membership may find common ground on matters of mutual interest but, on issues such as establishment – which will see Europe's lawyers directly competing for work – opinion is divided.
"There is seldom a way to represent the whole of the legal profession in Europe because we are a number of different professions," says Dunbar.
"There are so many different ways law is practised and it will be years, if ever, before there will be one European legal profession. At the moment the idea just doesn't work"
Dunbar says while the CCBE is beginning to "get its act together" to become more effective, certain factions continue to pursue their own interests rather than campaigning for the needs of the profession transnationally.
"France has tended to put national interests first, there's no doubt at all about that," he says. "They've hardened their attitude if anything while other countries have bent over backwards to compromise."
But CCBE president Heinz Weil, a Paris-based German lawyer who has been involved with the organisation for the past 11 years, believes the reputed split in ranks has been exaggerated. He says claims that the UK and France are bitter enemies are inaccurate and, aside from the drawn-out discussions on establishment, there has been little dissension amongst the membership.
"I have the impression that very often, including in the press, the differences are exaggerated," says Weil.
"There's no doubt that it has taken a very long time to begin to resolve the establishment issue, and I personally would have preferred things to move much faster, but one must also understand that national traditions are different from one member state to the other and it must take some time to reach a common understanding.
"Often the position taken by the national Bars and law societies are taken in view of national considerations and this makes a compromise even more difficult. Nevertheless, considerable progress has been made over the past five years and on most issues which were controversial then, an understanding has been reached."
Weil says the CCBE is now looking at future issues, leaving the preparation of an establishment directive in the hands of the legal affairs committee. He says that while the group will retain its input in the preparation of rules governing foreign practitioners, incoming president Ramon Mullerat is likely to focus on the World Trade Organisation's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATT) and the threat of competition from other professions.
International Bar Association president Professor Ross Harper says issues identified by Weil mean the CCBE must maintain its profile in Europe and "while there will never be unanimous agreement among all countries", the group has a vital role to play in the evolution of the European Union.
"There is so much happening with the law and the European Commission that lawyers have a duty to participate in the legislative process," says Harper. "It is important lawyers combine their intellectual resources to form a view, even if its not a unified view and the CCBE is by far the best vehicle for that."
The Presidential voice
HEINZ Weil is arguably one of the most powerful men working in Europe today.
As the current incumbent of the president's chair of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of the European Union, Weil holds in his hands the future direction of Europe's legal profession.
Throughout 1995 he has been charged with resolving disputes over questions posed by the EU institutions and with directing the union's 17 member states toward a unified position.
Last month he brought an end to the on-going debate over rights of establishment, effectively ending years of infighting among CCBE members by reporting to the European Parliament that the majority supported a permanent right of establishment under home title.
But, after 11 years of working with the CCBE – including an earlier stint as chair of its committee dealing with rules of conduct – he will stand down next month, ending both his year-long reign as president and his role as a delegation member.
"I was a member of the German delegation for eight years and since then I have had three years as a member of the presidency," says Weil. "After 11 years of being involved in an organisation like this one, which requires a lot of time, I would like to do something else."
Originally based in Germany, Weil studied law in Frankfurt before moving to France to take a dual qualification. After being admitted as a French avocat he left the profession to work for a brief spell as general manager at a medium-sized company.
In 1974 he established his own practice, Weil & Sordel, in Paris and the firm now works largely as counsel to German and French companies with activities in each other's countries.
Weil says the main purpose of the CCBE is to represent the interests of the legal profession en masse to the institutions of the European Union.
"I think the most important achievement of the CCBE has been to establish a better understanding between the Bars and law societies of the European Union," he says.
CCBE Facts
The CCBE consists of 17 delegations whose members are nominated by the Bars and law societies of the member states.
The Bars of Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Slovak Republic, Switzerland and Turkey are represented by observer delegations.
The CCBE unanimously adopted its Common Code of Conduct in Strasbourg in 1988.
The last UK president of the CCBE was barrister John Toulmin QC, who presided over the organisation in 1993.
The current president is Paris-based German lawyer Heinz Weil, who stands down at the close of 1995.
Weil will be succeeded by Barcelona-based practitioner Ramon Mullerat, who will have Michel van Doosselaere of Brussels as his premier vice-president and Michel Gout of Paris as his second vice-president. Caroline Goemans of Brussels will remain as the CCBE's secretary general and a second vice-president elect is yet to be named.


text: AMES, Iowa, Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NewLink Genetics Corporation (Nasdaq: NLNK) today announced that the results of a Phase 1 dose escalation study with its proprietary HyperAcute Prostate Cancer Immunotherapy were published in the Journal of Immunotherapy. The article, entitled "Cellular Immunotherapy Study of Prostate Cancer Patients and Resulting IgG Responses to Peptide Epitopes Predicted From Prostate Tumor-associated Autoantigens," is featured in the current edition of the Journal. The study was conducted at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and included eight patients. Patients were scheduled to receive a priming dose on day one, followed by eleven boost doses every two weeks and patients received up to 12 intradermal vaccinations at doses ranging from 30 million to 500 million cells per injection. Patients were tested for safety, immunological and clinical responses arising after immunotherapy. The study demonstrated that the immunotherapy was safe, and that the first immunization differentially increased the anti-alphaGal IgG response in all patients compared with baseline levels. These data indicated that administration of HyperAcute-Prostate immunotherapy increases the immune response against alphaGal epitopes, demonstrating the immunogenicity of the vaccine in prostate cancer patients. The patients that received the highest dose of immunotherapy developed antibody responses against prostate tumor-associated antigens that were not seen in a control group of untreated volunteers. Data demonstrated that 37.5 percent (3/8) of patients responded with Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) level stabilization for more than 100 days. The adverse events data reported in this publication confirm the safety of this immunotherapy, consistent with previous studies on the safety of alpha-Gal-expressing allogeneic vaccines (HyperAcute immunotherapy) in the treatment of lung, melanoma and pancreatic cancers. Median overall survival for the study was 25.1 months with one patient with bone metastases surviving for more than 70 months.


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California Chrome Takes First Place at Preakness
California chrome has placed first at the 139th Preakness Stakes in Baltimore, keeping the hopes of winning a Triple Crown alive.
The Preakness Stakes was the second race in the Triple Crown, with the Belmont Stakes as the third and final race, which will be held on June 7 in New York. The last Triple Crown winner was Affirmed in 1978.
California Chrome, who won the Kentucky Derby was favored to win today's race with 3-5 odds. The next best odds belong to Social Inclusion, at 5-1, who placed third in the race.
There were some reports that California Chrome was suffering from a throat blister, which reportedly led to some coughing in the stable. But it did not seem to affect Chrome's performance in any way.
Chrome was be ridden by jockey Victor Espinoza. Since Espinoza teamed up with Chrome in December, the duo has been undefeated.
The conditions at Pimlico were fair after a day of rain and thunderstorms. But dry and warm conditions have dried out the track. The weather today was mostly sunny.
The course is 1 mile and 3/16ths long and $1.5 million is at stake. More than 120,000 people showed up to watch the race.


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Date of Stay: July, 2013
This park was only used for a overnight stay. This is the only reason we would use it. It had only the basic needs we wanted which is full hookups while on a longer trip. It is an easy access off of US Hwy. 65. The roads are gravel and the pads are grass. i was concerned about the pads being hard enough after an overnight rain, but we were able to drive right out.
Date of Stay: July, 2013
This park is great and we will be coming back. The camp host, plus the other rangers, were also great. We had one of the bigger sites right beside a deep ravine. We saw deer (fawns also) just about every day. It does get buggy at night, but we are in the deep woods. The only negative was the showers need hooks to hang up towels, clothes, etc. The lack of internet/phone service was a minor hassle to us being we did not have a car.