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Families and Development Lab
Rachel Lucas-Thompson, Ph.D.
How do characteristics of the family environment during childhood and adolescence influence physiological stress responding, future relationships, and health?
In the Families and Development lab, we are dedicated to understanding and improving the lives of families and children from diverse backgrounds. Through research, we investigate many factors that affect child and adolescent development. In particular, we examine the links between exposure to marital conflict, the quality of family relationships, stress physiology (including cortisol and cardiovascular responses to stress), relationships with peers and romantic partners, and physical as well as mental health (such as depression, anxiety, and problem behaviors). Of particular interest is the mechanisms (i.e., mediators) by which family relationships influence child and adolescent outcomes, as well as protective and risk factors (i.e., moderators) of the associations between family relationships and later development.
Research assistants (RAs) demonstrating the social-evaluative stressor.
An RA hooked up to the BioPac and blood pressure machines, answering an ACASI questionnaire.
An RA demonstrating the procedures used to collect salivary cortisol.
RAs demonstrating one of the interaction tasks that parents engage in, in which they work together to solve a puzzle.
conduct research with families in the community (see the recruitment
website at:
www.macalester.edu/psychology/faculty/familylab.html), in which
families with a child between 10 and 17 come to the lab; parents engage
in two
interaction tasks (which are videotaped and later
coded for positive and negative communication behaviors)
and answer questionnaires; teens
also answer questionnaires, engage in a standardized social-evaluative
stressor, and watch an episode of marital conflict. We also take
measurements from the teens, including
saliva samples to measure cortisol, blood pressure, heart rate
variability, skin conductance, and respiratory sinus arrhythmia.
The development lab consists of several rooms each equipped with 2 computers with Audio Computer Assisted Self Interview (ACASI) software that is used for gathering information from children, adolescents, and adults of varying reading levels. In addition, the lab is equipped with BioPac equipment and AcqKnowledge software that allows for acquisition and analysis of aspects of physiology such as electrocardiogram, heart rate variability, skin conductance, and respiratory sinus arrhythmia. Also utilized are DinaMap Pro blood pressure machines that allow for manual and automatic assessment of cardiovascular functioning. In addition, the lab is equipped with digital audio and video recording equipment.
Lucas-Thompson, Ph.D.
Links to:
Faculty webpage
Lab recruitment website
Curriculum vitae
Email: email@example.com
Phone: 651-696-6462
Office: Olin Rice 323
Labs: Olin Rice 356 and 357
Current Research Assistants
Current Research Assistants


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What does Ricardo mean?
Ricardo [ri-car-do] as a name for boys is of Old German origin, and the meaning of the name Ricardo is "powerful leader". Ricardo is a Spanish, Portuguese form of Richard (Old German). See also Rico.
VARIANT Riccardo
RELATIONS VIA RICHARD Ricard, Richardo, Richart, Richerd, Rickard, Rico, Rikard, Riocard, RitchardCREATIVE FORMS
(male) Ricardy, Ricarto, ..
(female) Ricarla, Ricarra, .. MIDDLE NAME PAIRINGS
Ricardo Jet (R.J.), ..
How popular is Ricardo?
Ricardo is a very prominent first name for males (#191 out of 1220, Top 16%) and also a very prominent last name for both adults and children (#11123 out of 150436, Top 7%). (2000 U.S. DEMOGRAPHICS)
Ricardo reached its highest position of #115 in the U.S. in the year 1992, and is at #275 presently. (TOP BABY NAMES, 2015)
Which version is better?with its source form and related boy names. Riccardo, Richard (#155 THE PREVIOUS YEAR), Richardo, Rickard and Rico (#1421) are the popular alternative forms of Ricardo (#275). Usage of these forms of Ricardo reached its peak during the years 1930-1939 (ADOPTION OF 3.1%) and is now much lower (ADOPTION 0.2%, 93% LESS), with the version Richard becoming less fashionable.
Similar NamesSuggested similar names are Alcado, Baiardo, Bajardo (see Bayard), Bardo, Bucardo, Duardo, Edgardo▼, Edoardo, Eduardo, Edwardo, Gerardo, Giraldo, Jerardo, Nardo, Reardon, Reinaldo, Renado, Renaldo, Renard, Renardo, Reynardo, Ricco, Rickward, Rinaldo, Riobard, Riyad, Riyadh, Rolando, Ronaldo, Rosario▼ and Rufaro. These names tend to be less frequently used than Ricardo.See names in meaning and etymology.


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We have no machine that does this sort of thing at Noisebridge, and alas, they are alarmingly expensive. ĀOur machines are pretty much one-trick ponies. ĀThe embroidery would prevent the fabric from stretching. ĀThere's no good outcome there.

Probably the closest you could get is the screen print. ĀYou can at least /generate/ the pattern for the screen with a computer. Ā

Your best bet is convincing one of your artist friends to do one up nice for you. ĀTrista comes to mind...

Christie
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"We also briefly discussed having officers replaced by very small shell scripts." -- Noisebridge meeting notes 2008-06-17

The outer bounds is only the beginning. http://www.flickr.com/photos/genriel/sets/72157623376093724/

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Mikolaj Habryn <email@example.com> wrote:

 Interesting, but I think perhaps too limited for my grandiose, over-reaching, world-dominating aims. How about embroidery? Could one use a stretchy thread to machine embroider a spandex garment? Do we have a sewing machine pre-programmed for sigils to summon eldritch horrors, or are they all pretty much restricted to button-holes? I'm visualizing a pattern of runes around my face which I'll claim are mystical, healing, and/or protective but are really selected purely to look cool and mysterious.

Some crude measurements suggest that the spandex section wrapping around my face stretches by around 15-18% when donned; the wrapper around my neck by 10-12%. Is that embroidable without having the stitched runes tear holes under tension? The spandex is pretty thin, but I can't offhand think of a way of measuring it - it's way thicker than even the heaviest denier tights, but not as thick as normal cotton clothing.

And yes, these things are reasonably inexpensive, so I can destroy them without added heartburn.

m.

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 On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Rachel McConnell <email@example.com> wrote:

Fortuitously this was just on the front page of Instructables:

 http://www.instructables.com/id/Screenprinting-Easy-Detailed-Inexpensive/

 This is the simplest of all the silk-screen processes I've ever read
 about. ĀI haven't done any myself though so can't personally guarantee
 results. ĀI'd totally be up for messing around with screen printing at
 NB over the course of a couple days, though; I've been meaning to try
 this for ages.

 I can expand a bit on the notion Sean touched on about stretchiness.
 There is a range of material available to decorate fabrics. ĀAt one end
 are inks or dyes which will sink into the fiber and dye it, and be
 completely stretchy with the fabric. ĀAt the other end are paints, or
 colored glues, that sit on top of the fabric and won't stretch
 significantly, but will be visible on dark or black fabric even if they
 are much lighter. ĀThe former seems better for your purposes but you may
 want to consider starting with a white garment and dying the background
 black around whatever design you end up with.

 Rachel

 Mikolaj Habryn wrote:
 > The stretching pattern is largely predictable, though -
 > http://www.makemeheal.com/mmh/product.do?id=10064 is an example of the kind
 > of thing I have in mind. My foremost random idea involves printing a
 > subcutaneous musculature design that would sit in about the right place.
 >
 > Also, what happened to all those kawaii flu masks that were everywhere a few
 > years ago? Combining a nicely printed one of those with the above would be
 > great, although at that point a ninja theme might be less disturbing than
 > pure anatomy.
 >
 > m.
 >
 > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Sean Cusack <firstname.lastname@example.com>wrote:
 >
 >> I think a print is could hose you bad...just trying to plan for the
 >> stretching and pulling will be a nightmare...even before the washing. Think
 >> tattoo on some 90 year old boobs.
 >>
 >> Why not try something that sits on top of the fabric but has its own
 >> backing - stickers/patches (maybe?) To do pinstripes, maybe consider that
 >> weird puffy paint shit (i.e.
 >> http://www.ssww.com/item/color-splash-puffy-paint-PT3378/?cm_mmc=Data%20Feeds-_-Froogle-_-CMB-_-PT3378&cid=900&aid=FRG).
 >> You'll be able to apply it like makeup after your face thingy is already
 >> stretched out to avoid all the problems with trying to make your pinstripes
 >> straight when the garmet is in non-spandex mode. Is the spandex thingy
 >> expendable? Like, could you buy another if one got toasted? This is the big
 >> problem you could hit with stitching...after several tense to relax
 >> movements (*snicker*), the garment could get shredded.
 >>
 >> Sean
 >>
 >> ...whose underwear is always in non-spandex mode
 >>
 >>
 >> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Mikolaj Habryn <email@example.com> wrote:
 >>
 >>> I'm keen on a some kind of digital print process that will survive washing
 >>> and on a stretch fabric. Does such a thing exist?
 >>>
 >>> m.
 >>>
 >>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Christie Dudley <email@example.com>wrote:
 >>>
 >>>> Well, silkscreen seems the most obvious thing. ĀOf course, it's not great
 >>>> for a one-off. Ā(Why doesn't Noisebridge have a logo silkscreen yet?) ĀYou
 >>>> could probably do something interesting and artistic with fabric paints like
 >>>> these:
 >>>> http://www.dharmatrading.com/html/eng/2518921-AA.shtml
 >>>>
 >>>> Christie
 >>>> _______
 >>>> "We also briefly discussed having officers replaced by very small shell
 >>>> scripts." -- Noisebridge meeting notes 2008-06-17
 >>>>
 >>>> The outer bounds is only the beginning.
 >>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/genriel/sets/72157623376093724/
 >>>>
 >>>>
 >>>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Mikolaj Habryn <email@example.com> wrote:
 >>>>
 >>>>> I'm going to be wearing a "facial garment" that looks somewhat like this
 >>>>> -
 >>>>> https://id217.chi.us.securedata.net/fstubbs.com/merchantmanager/index.php?cPath=11_12 -
 >>>>> for a number of months. While they do apparently come in black, I can't help
 >>>>> but feel that being able to print onto them would be brilliant. Are there
 >>>>> processes that work onto such things?
 >>>>>
 >>>>> I'm imagining everything from basic pin-stripe patterns through to
 >>>>> anatomically accurate windows into musculature layout, or shapelock horns
 >>>>> attached, mohawks, pinhead rigs, you name it. What are the easy places to
 >>>>> start, given that I know thing (I say, *nothing*) about crafty things?
 >>>>>
 >>>>> m.
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Kelly W. Allred
Mary E. Barkworth
Plants annual or perennial; densely to loosely cespitose, sometimes rhizomatous; fragrant. Culms 4–100 cm tall, erect or geniculata, sometimes branched; internodes hollow. Leaves cauline or basally concentrated, glabrous or softly hairy; sheaths open; auricles absent or present; ligules membranous, sometimes shortly ciliate or somewhat erose; blades flat or rolled, glabrous or sparsely hairy. Inflorescences open or contracted panicles, sometimes spikelike. Spikelets pedicellate or sessile, 2.5–10 mm long, laterally compressed, stramineous to brown at maturity, with 3(4) florets, lowest 2 florets usually staminate or sterile, sometimes reduced to dorsally compressed lemmas, subequal to or exceeding the distal floret, distal floret bisexual; rachilla not prolonged beyond the base of the distal floret; disarticulation above the glumes, the florets falling together. Glumes unequal or subequal, equaling or exceeding the florets, lanceolate to ovate, glabrous or pilose, keeled; calluses blunt, glabrous or hairy; lowest 2 florets: lemmas strongly compressed, 3-veined, strigosa, hairs brown, apices bilobed, unawned or dorsally awned; distal florets: lemmas somewhat indurate, glabrous or with hairs, shiny, inconspicuously 3–7-veined, unawned; paleas 1-veined, enclosed by the lemmas; lodicules 2 or absent; anthers 2 or 3. Caryopses shorter than the lemma, concealed at maturity, tightly enclosed in the floret; hila less than 1/3 the length of the caryopses, oval. x = 5. Name from Greek anthos, 'flower', and Xanthos, 'yellow', alluding to the golden color of the panicles of Anthoxanthum sensu stricto.
Anthoxanthum is a cool-season genus of about 50 species that grow in cool temperate and arctic regions throughout the world. There are seven species in North America north of Mexico, five of which are native.
This treatment follows the recommendation of Schouten and Veldkamp (1985) in merging Anthoxanthum and Hierochloë into a single genus which, in accordance with the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, has to be called Anthoxanthum. The two genera are quite distinct in North America but, according to Schouten and Veldkamp, intergrade in Asia. The recommendation was endorsed by Zhenlan Wu and Sylvia M. Phillips (2006) in the Flora of China but it is not universally accepted.
Phalaris resembles Anthoxanthum sensu lato in its spikelet structure, differing in the greater reduction of its lower florets and in not being fragrant when crushed. Anatomical studies (Pizzolato 1984) also support the close relationship of Anthoxanthum and Phalaris. Pizzolato also stated that, although the bisexual florets of Hierochloë are described as terminal, a microscopic fourth floret is developed distal to the third (bisexual) floret.
The fragrance emitted when fresh plants are crushed or burned is from coumarin. In addition to smelling pleasant, coumarin has anti-coagulant properties. It is the active ingredient in Coumadin, a prescription drug used to prevent blood clots in some patients after surgery. A disadvantage of coumarin is that it is metaboloized by species of the fungal genus Aspergillus to dicoumarol. This induces vitamin K deficiency and a susceptibility to hemorrhaging in wounded animals. Because of this, using moldy hay containing Anthoxanthum as feed is dangerous.
Wherever they grow, the species that used to be treated as Hierochloë (species 3– 7 in this treatment) have been used by native peoples. Native Americans used them for incense, baskets, and decorations, in addition, they steeped them in water for a hair-, skin- and eyewash and also used them for a cold medicine, analgesic, and insecticide. Early Europeans spread the species in churches at festivals. They can also be used to make ale (Stika 2003).
November 2010: We accidentally failed to post the treatment of Anthoxanthum earlier, a point that was brought to my attention on November 26, 2010. Unfortunately, the original file is not permitting changes to be made so I am now retyping it. I am giving priority to the parts that will be of greatest interest to the person who inquired about its availability. The remaining species descriptions will be made available before the end of 2010. I have made some revisions. All are minor to trivial (addition of one reference; changes in phrasing). M. BarkworthSELECTED REFERENCES. Aiken, S.G., L.L. Consaul, and M.J. Dallwitz. 1995 on. Grasses of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago: Descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval. http://www.mun.ca/biology/delta/arcticf/aaintro/caaintro.htm; Belk, E. 1939. Studies in the anatomy and morphology of the spikelet and flower of the Gramineae. Ph.D. dissertation, Cornelll University, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A. 183 pp.; Hedberg, I. 1990. Morphological, cytotaxonomic and evolutionary studies in Anthoxanthum odoratum L. sens. lat.–A critical review. Sommerfeltia 11:97–107; Hitchcock, A.S. 1951. Manual of the Grasses of the United States, ed. 2, rev. A. Chase. U.S.D.A. Miscellaneous Publication No. 200. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 1051 pp.; Norstog, K.J. 1960. Some observations on the spikelet of Hierochloë odorata. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 87:95–98; Pizzolato, T.D. 1984. Vascular system of the fertile floret of Anthoxanthum odoratum L. Bot. Gaz. 145: 358–371. Schouten, Y. and J.F. Veldkamp. 1985. A revision of Anthoxanthum including Hierochloë (Gramineae) in Malaysia and Thailand. Blumea 30:319–351; Stika, J. 2003. Sweetgrass ale. http://www.byo.com/stories/recipeindex/article/recipes/113-spice-herb-a-vegetable-beer/1472-sweetgrass-ale. Weimarck, G. 1971. Variation and taxonomy of Hierochloë (Gramineae) in the Northern Hemisphere. Bot. Not. 124: 129—175. Weimarck, 8. 1987. Hierochloë hirta subsp. praetermissa , subsp. nova (Gramineae, an Asiatic-European taxon extending to N and C Europe in the Northern Hemisphere. Symb. Bot. Upsal. 2: 175–181. Wu, z. and S.M. Phillips. 2006. Anthoxanthum, p. 336–339 in Wu, Z., P.H. Raven and D. Hong (Eds.). Flora of China, vol. 22. Science Press, Beijing, China and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
1. Glumes unequal, the lower glumes shorter than the upper glumes; lowest 2 florets sterile: 2
2. Plants annual; ligules 1–3 mm long; blades 1–5 mm wide; panicles 1–4 cm long: A. aristatum
2. Plants perennial; ligules 2–7 mm long; blades 3–10 mm wide; panicles 3–14 cm long: A. odoratum
1. Glumes subequal; lowest florets staminate: 3
3. Staminate lemmas awned, the awns of the upper staminate lemma 4.5–10.5 mm long; plants densely to loosely tufted, the rhizomes rarely more than 2 cm long A. monticola
3. Staminate lemmas unawned or with an awn no more than 1 mm long; plants long-rhizomatous: 4
4. Panicles spikelike, 0.3–0.5 cm wide, with 1–2 spikelets per branch; rhizomes 0.3–1 mm thick; plants of the high arctic: A. arcticum
4. Panicles not spikelike, 1–10 cm wide, the longer branches usually with 3 or more spikelets; rhizomes 0.7–3 mm thick; plants of temperate and arctic regions:5
5. Lowest staminate lemma in each spikelet narrowly elliptic, its length more than 5 times its width; glumes equaling or slightly exceeded by the tips of the bisexual florets; blades 3-15 mm wide A. occidentale
5. Lowest staminate lemma in each spikelet elliptic, its length usually no more than 4 times its width; glumes exceeding the bisexual floret; blades 2–8 mm wide 6
6. Longest hairs on the distal portion of the bisexual florets 0.5–1 mm long, evenly distributed around the lemma tip: A. hirtum
6. Longest hairs on the distal portion of the bisexual floret mostly less than 0.5 mm long, longer hairs, if present concentrated near the midvein: A. nitens
Plants annual. Culms 5–60 cm tall, often geniculate at the base, freely branched. Auricles to 0.5 mm long, sometimes absent; ligules 1–2(3) mm long, obtuse to acute; blades 0.8–6 cm long, 1–5 mm wide. Panicles 1–4 cm long; lowest branches 8–12 mm long; pedicels 0.1–0.3 mm long, pubescent. Spikelets (4)5–9 mm long; lower glumes 3–5 mm long; upper glumes 5–7 mm long; sterile florets about 3 mm long, awn of the first floret 3.5–5 mm long, awn of the second floret 6–10 mm, exceeding the upper glumes by 2–3 mm; bisexual florets about 2 mm long; anthers 2, 2.8–4.1 mm long. 2n = 10, 20.
Anthoxanthum aristatum is native to Europe. It is not established but not common in North America, being found in mesic to dry, open, disturbed habitats of western and eastern part of the continent. All North American plants belong to Anthoxanthum aristatum Boiss. subsp. aristatum which differs from A. aristatum subsp. macranthum Valdés in having well-exserted awns and deeply bifid sterile lemmas.
Hitchcock (1951) stated that another annual species of Anthoxanthum, A. gracile Biv. is occasionally cultivated fro dry bouquets but it does not appear to be widely available at present. It differs from A. aristatum in having longer spikelets (10–12, not 4–9, mm long) and simple or sparingly branched culms.
Sweet Vernalgrass, Flouve Odorante, Foin d'Odeur
Plants perennial. Culms (10)25–60 (100) cm tall, erect, simple or sparingly branched. Auricles 0.5–1 mm, pilose-ciliate, sometimes absent; ligules 2–7 mm long, truncate; blades 1–31 cm long, 3–10 mm wide. Panicles (3)4–14 cm long, the spikelets congested; lowermost branches 10–25 mm long; pedicels 0.5–1 mm long, pubescent. Spikelets 6–10 mm long; lower glumes 3–4 mm long; upper glumes 8–10 mm long; two lowest florets sterile, 34 mm long, awn of the first lemma 2–4 mm long, awn of the second lemma 4–9 mm long, equaling or only slightly exceeding the upper glumes; bisexual florets 1–2.5 mm long; anthers 2, (2.9)3.5–4.8(5.5) mm long. 2n = 10, 20.
Anthoxanthum odoratum is native to southern Europe. In North America, it grows in meadows, pastures, grassy beaches, old hay fields, wasteplaces, and openings in coniferous forests (occasionally in dense shade) or as a weed in lawns. It is most abundant on the western and eastern sdes of North America and is almost absent from the central region. In southern British Columbia, it is rapidly invading the moss-covered bedroockof coastal bluffs and will soon exclude many native species. Diploids (2n = 10) have been referred to A. odoratum subsp. alpinum (À. Löve & D. Löve) Hultén. Because the two ploidy levels can be distinguished only through cytological analysis (Hedberg 1990), the two subspecies are not recognized in this treatment.
Anthoxanthum odoratum used to be included in hay and pasture mixtures to give fragrance but this practice is waning. The aroma is released on wilting or drying. By itself, the species unpalatable because of the bitter-tasting coumarin.
Alpine Sweetgrass, Hierochloë alpine
Plants perennial; densely to loosely cespitose, rhizomes to 2 cm long (rarely longer), about 2 mm thick. Culms 20–55(75) cm tall. Basal sheaths glabrous, brown to deep purple; ligules 0.2–1.5 mm long, truncate, ciliate; blades 1–12 cm long, (0.7)1–3(5) mm wide, flat or folded, abaxial surface glabrous, shiny, adaxial surface sparsely scabrous or pilose. Panicles 1–8.5 cm long, 1.2–2 cm wide, with (3)10–20(35) spikelets. Spikelets 5–8 mm long, tawny; rachilla internodes about 0.1 mm long, glabrous. Glumes subeqaul, 4.8–6.7 mm long, about equaling the lemmas; lowest 2 florets in each spikelet staminate; lemmas 4–6.5 mm long, moderately hairy, hairs to 1 mm long, lemma tips deeply bifid, awned, awn of first lemma 0.4–4(6.5) mm long, awn of second second lemma 4.5–10.5 mm long, usually geniculate, arising from neat the base to above midlength; bisexual lemma 3.55.2 mm long, pubescent towards the bifid tip; anthers 1.5–2.7 mm long. 2n = 56, 58, 63, 66, 72.
Anthoxanthum monticola is circumpolar, usually growing north of the treeline, occasionally in open forets. It grows sporadically on well-drained, weakly acidic to neutral sand, gravel, and rocky barrens in most of arctic North America. It is not common to the south, even at high elevations.
Anthoxanthum monticola is facultatively apomictic but slow to set seed. Revegetation is best accomplished begetatively. It is listed as threatened or endangered in many parts of its range. There are two subspecies in North America.
1. Awns of the upper staminate florets 5–10.5 mm long, attached from near the base to about midlength; awn usually strinagly geniculate, the lower portion usually twisted with 2–4 gyres..... subsp. alpinum
1. Awns of the upper staminate florets 4.5–7 mm long, attached at or above midlength, not or weakly geniculate, the lower portion not twisted or twisted with 1–2 gyres ......subsp. monticola.
Awns of upper staminate florets 5–10.5 mm long, attached from near the base to midlength, usually strongly geniculate, the lower portion twisted with (1)2–4 gyres. 2n = 56, 66, 72.
Anthoxanthum monticola subsp. alpinum is the common subspecies in North America, extending from western Alaska to eastern Greenland and south to the Canadian border in the Rocky Mountains but, east of these mountains, it is mostly north of 60° N except in Quebec and Labrador where it extends south to about 53° N. It usually grows above or north of the treeline in places that are strongly exposed to the wind and have little snow cover during the winter.
. Awns of the upper staminate florets 4.5–7 mm long, attached at or above midlength, not or weakly geniculate, the lower portion not twisted or twisted with 1–2 gyres. 2n = 56, 58, 63.
Anthoxanthum monticola subsp. monticola grows from Greenland through Labrador to the eastern side of Hudson Bay and south to northern New Englan. It usually grows in similar but wetter and more exposed habitats than those occupied by subsp. alpinum.
Arctic Sweetgrass; Hiérochloë pauciflore
Plants perennial; loosely cespitose or the culms solitary; rhizomes elongate, 0.3–1 mm thick. Culms 5–26(35) cm tall. Sheaths glabrous; ligules 0.4–1.3 mm long, obtuse; blades 2–25 cm long, 0.7–2 mm in diameter when rolled, involute to convolute, abaxial surfae glabrous, adaxial surface pubescent. Panicles 1–3(4.5) cm long, 0.3–0.5 cm wide, spikelike, with 1–2 spikelets per branch. Spikelets 3.5–5 mm long, green to purple; rachilla internodes about 0.1 mm long, glabrous. Glumes subequal, 2.9–4.7 mm long, shiny; lowest 2 florets staminate; lemmas sparsely hairy, acute or slightly notched, unawned or awned, awns to 1 mm long; bisexual lemma 2.9–4.4 mm long, with sparse, spreading hairs towards the tips; anthers 1.5–3 mm long. Caryopses about 2.5 long. 2n = 28.
Anthoxanum arcticum is a circumpolar coastal and lowland species that is present in Alaska, Canada, and Russia but not Greenland. It usually grows in wet tundra on acidic, peaty souls. In the warmest sections of the western high arctic, it is customarily rooted in mats of moss that are growing over carbonate substrates.
California Sweetgrass
Plants perennial; loosely cespitose or the culms solitary; rhizomes elongate, 1–3 mm thick. Culms (40)60–90 cm tall. Sheaths scabrous to scabridulous; ligules 1.5–4(6) mm long, rounded to truncate; blades 20–40 cm long, (3)5–15 mm wide, flat, rather stiffly erect, narrowing to the base, glabrous, often glacuous, veins widely spaced, abaxial surface with evident cross-venation; flag leaf blades 3.5–10 cm long. Panicles 8–13 cm long, (1)2–6 cm wide, diffuse, with slender, often drooping braches and 3+ spikelets per branch. Spikelets 4.5–6 mm long. tawny or green to olive-green, sometimes infused with purple; rachilla internodes 0.2–0.5 mm long, glabrous. Glumes subequal, equaling or slightly exceeded by the tops of the bisexual florets; lower glume 4.5–5 mm long, 0.76–1 mm wide; upper glume 3.5–5.2 mm long, 1–1.8 mm wide. Lowest 2 florets staminate; lemmas usually mostly glabrous on the body, sometimes with scattered hairs, margins usually pilose, tops scabridulous, rounded, and shallowly bilobed, unawned or awned, awns to 1 mm long; first lemma 4–5 mm long, 0.75–1 mm wide, narrowly elliptic, length more than 5 times the width; bisexual floret 3.5–4.5 mm long, lemma marginspilose, particularly distally; anthers 2–3.5 mm long. 2n = 42.
Anthoxanthum occidentale grows in moist to fairly dry forested areas from Klickitat County, Washington, south to the coastal mountains of San Luis Obispo County, California. Its long flag leaves and more elongate spikelet parts make it easier to distinguish from A. hirtum than the key suggests.
Vanilla Sweetgrass; Holy Grass; Hiérochloë odorante; Foind'Odeur; Herbe Sainte
Plants perennial; loosely cespitose or the culms colitary; rhizomes elongate, 0.7–2 mm thick. Culms (5)15–50(90) cm tall. Sheaths brownish or reddish, glabrous or puberulent; ligules 0.5–6.5(8) mm long, truncate, obtuse, or acute; blades of basal and cauline leaves 10–30 cm long, 2–8 mm wide, usually flat, sometimes inrolled, abaxial surface glabrous or puberulent, without prominent cross venations, adaxial surface glabrous; flag leaf blades 0.3–1.5(4.5) cm long, 1.5–4.5(6) mm wide. Panicles (2)4–9(12.5) cm long, (1.5)2–5(7) cm wide, open, pyramidal, with 8–100 spikelets; branches with 3+ spikelets. Spikelets (2.5)3.–7.5 mm long, mostly tawny, sometimes tinged with green; rachilla internodes 0.15–0.3 mm long, glabrous. Glumes subsequal, exceeding the florets, glabrous; lowest glume in each spikelet with length 2–5 times its width, usually shorter and wider than the upper glume. Lowest 2 florets: staminate; lemmas hairy, particularly distally, hairs brown, often papillose-based, to 0.8 mm long on the margins and to 0.3 mm long near the tips, margins with 11–26 hairs per mm, midvein usually terminating at the tops or extending beyond as an awn, tips acute to rounded, entire or bifid, unawned, mucronate or with a thin awn up to 0.5 mm long; lowest lemma 3.4–5 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, length usually less than 4 times width; bisexual florets: lemmas 2.5–4 mm long, usually hairy distally, hairs 0.1–0.5 mm long, appressed or almost so at mautiry, longer, divergent hairs, if present, concentrated near the midvein; anthers of staminate florets 0.9–2.3 mm long, those of the bisexual floret 1.2–1.6 mm long. 2n = 28, 42.
Anthoxanthum nitens [= Hierochloë odorata (L.) P. Beauv.] is primarily a European species. In North America, it grows along the eastern coast rom Labrador to New England, It is not known from Greenland although it grows in both Iceland and northwestern Europe. It is found in wet meadows and at the edges of sloughs, marshes, roadsides, and fields. Only A. nitens (Weber) Y. Schouten & Veldkamp subsp. nitens grows in North America; it is also present in Europe. It differs from A. nitens subsp. balticum (G. Weim.) G.C. Tucker in beings almost always awned and in being tetraploid with 2n = 28.
North American taxonomists have generally treated A. hirtum and A. nitens as a single species, A. hirtum (or, more often, as Hierochloë odorata). The two are distinct, although not easy to distinguish. Weimarck (1973) separate d the two based on the density of the lateral hairs and development of the awns of the staminate florets. The distribution and length of hairs on the tips of the bisexual florets was found to be more reliable when preparing this account. M.J. Harvey (pers. comm.), who treated the two as a single species, noted that plants from the Maritime Provinces collected near salt water were uniformly 2n = 28 whereas those from the interior of New Brunswick and westward had 2n = 56. This observation is consistent with Weimark's chromosome counts and distribution maps.
Hairy sweetgrass; hairy holygrass.
Plants perennial; loosely cespitose or the culms solitary; rhizomes elongate 0.7–2 mm thick. Culms 40–85 (110) cm tall. Sheaths brownish or reddish; ligules 2.5–5.5 mm long; blades of basal and cauline leaves 2.5–5.5 mm wide, abaxial surface glabrous and shiny, adaxial surface pilose; blade of flag leaf 1–4.5 (6) cm long, 3–4.5 mm wide. Panicles (5)7–.5–15 cm long, 2–10 cm wide, open, pyramidal, with 20–100+ spikelets; branches with 3+ spikelets. Spikelets 4–6.3 mm long, tawny at maturity; rachilla internodes 0.1–0.3 mm long. Glumes subequal, exceeding the florets, glabrous, often somewhat purplish; lowest 2 florets staminate; lowest 2 lemmas 3–5 mm long, with hairs to 0.5 mm long towards their tips, margins with 16–30 hairs per mm, hairs 0.5–1 mm long, lemma tips acute, emarginated or bifid; lowest lemma 3–5 mm long, 1.1–1.3 mm wide, length usually less than 4 times its width, elliptic, awned, awns 0.1–1.1 mm long; bisexual lemma 2.9–3.5 mm long, hairy distally, the hairs 0.5–1 mm long, evenly distributed around the tops, their bases strongly divergent from the lemma surface; anthers of staminate florets 1.6–2.1 mm long, those of the bisexual florets 1.2–1.3 mm long. 2n = 56.
Anthoxanthum hirtum is the most widely distributed species of Anthoxanthum in North America, extending from Alaska to northeastern Quebec and south to Washington, Colorado, South Dakota, Illinois, Ohio, and New York. It is not known from Newfoundland or Greenland. Outside North America it extends from Scandinavia south to Germany and east to Asiatic Russia. It grows in wet meadows and marshes with sweet, not salty or brackish, water.Because much of its native habitat has been drained, it is becoming less common. It does not grow well from seed.
Its short flag leaf and more circular spikelets distinguish it from A. occidentale. The relative abundance and even distribution of hairs longer than 0.5 mm on the bisexual lemma distinguish it from A. nitens.
Weimark (1971, 1987) has recognized three subspecies in A. hirtum, which he treated as Hierochloë hirta. He stated that only subsp. arctica grew in North America but several North American specimens seem to fit within his circumscription of H. hirta subsp. hirta. Because the variation between the two appears continuous, North American plants are regarded here as belonging to A. hirtum (Schrank.) Y. Schouten & Veldkamp subsp. hirtum


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) --Weatherford International (WFT) fell 3.8% to $13.29 Thursday after issuing guidance well below consensus and announcing it will cut 7,000 jobs by mid-year.
The oil producer said it expects fourth-quarter earnings of 5 cents to 8 cents a share. Analysts surveyed by Capital IQ expect earnings of 26 cents a share. Weatherford also said ii expects 2014 earnings of between $1.10 and $1.20 a share. Analysts are calling for earnings of $1.22 a share for the year.
The company said it will focus on increasing profit in 2014 by "focusing the organization on growing our core businesses," "making cost base more efficient," and "divesting non-core businesses and reducing our net debt." Weatherford said it will cut 7,000 employees in the first half of the year to reduce costs.
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NAN – A bomb scare on Tuesday morning rattled residents of Asaba, the Delta State capital.
An object suspected to be an Improvised Explosive Device was found by a cleaner at the gate of the Delta State Cabinet Office, inw hcih the office of the Delta State Head of Service, Mr. Okey Ofili, is also located.
A witness said the cleaner drew the attention of security officers at the complex and they in turn alerted the police anti-bomb squad.
The object was said to have been bound in a red cloth and had a stopwatch attached to it.
Staff of the HOS office gathered outside the premises before the police anti-bomb squad removed the object.
They later gained entrance into their offices around 10a.m.
The police took the bag away from the scene, which is a minute's drive from Government House, Asaba.
A top government official said the device was an explosive.
But another official said it was later found to be a hoax.
Reacting to the development, the Commissioner of Police in Delta State, Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the device was not an explosive.
He said it was planted by mischievous persons and had been removed.
Aduba, who was in company of the visiting Assistant Inspector General of Police Zone V, Alhaji Hashimu Arugungu, took the device to the Government House, where he said that it was only a plot to scare people.
He said that though the device contained gun powder in one of its compartment, it was, however, not connected and the stop watch was not functional.
"It is a mere scare and there is no way this (device) can explode," said the Commissioner of Police, who addressed newsmen at Government House in the presence of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan.
Also speaking, Uduaghan agreed with the CP that it was an act of mischief, but added that those who planted it were out to distract the government.
The governor said that the government would not be deterred and would remain focused, adding that the package was a fetish substance.
Ofili had in July survived an attempt by some gunmen to kidnap him in the state capital.


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The last time I blog was 1 year ago…
Before I came to Toronto, left everything behind… including my domain name.
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I know when I go to the movies, I often think, "This is great, but it'd be a lot better if there was a four-minute sequence I'd already seen."
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By John Naughton, The Des Moines Register
DES MOINES Kira Long doesn't recall the line drive that smashed into her face. But she does remember the ambulance trip and the overnight stay at the hospital. So now, when the Des Moines Christian softball player steps into the pitcher's circle, she wears a clear acrylic mask she hopes can prevent another injury.
In Iowa high school competition, 40 feet separates the pitching rubber from the batter's box. New, powerful, composite bats — "hot bats" in common terminology — can be a devastating weapon that can drive a ball with dangerous force.
Long, who was injured in April during a spring league game, has helped drive local interest in face masks worn by fielders since a batted ball broke her nose and both orbital bones of her eyes.
"I don't remember the ball coming back at me," Long said. "I like blacked out for a couple of seconds on the ground. Then the ambulance was there."
When the state's high school teams, which play a summer schedule, open regional tournament play this week, pitchers from at least a half dozen schools will wear masks. Meanwhile, state and national athletic associations will continue to discuss whether the gear eventually will become as common as batting helmets and shin guards. None of the states bordering Iowa requires face masks. Iowa permits the equipment to be worn but stops short of requiring it.
Face masks are becoming more common in the Des Moines area. Sales of the masks, which cost about $40, have increased five-fold in the past year, according to Mike McClintock, general manager of Hopkins Sporting Goods.
McClintock said the spike, up to about 60 masks this year, is because of safety concerns after Long's injury. Waukee High coach Andrea Wilmes said her pitchers are required to wear them because of Long's incident.
"If there's a way to keep kids safer, we should do it," Wilmes said.
Tighter-wound softballs and stronger bats can propel balls toward the pitcher at nearly 100 mph. So-called exit speed can last three-tenths of a second, according to former Buena Vista University coach Marge Willadsen, one-time chairwoman of the NCAA softball rules committee.
"The ball trampolines off the bat," she said.
Softball has become more dangerous because of the technology, Willadsen said. From 1983 to 2008, four catastrophic injuries occurred on high school softball fields, according to an annual survey by the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research. One was fatal.
Some coaches and parents want face masks to become required.
"I think next year, you'll see it be mandatory," Des Moines East coach Bob Ligouri said.
Joel Oswald, assistant director of the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union, said the issue will be discussed by the coaches' advisory committee this fall.
Jeff Schoon, a family practice physician who coaches Long's team, said the pitching rubber should be moved back to 43 feet. That change is already slated to occur nationally in 2011.
Long, who said she's embarrassed by her injury, said she's glad to become a pioneer in safety.
"I feel important that I could change that," she said.
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"Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you." - 1PET 5:7
Casting our cares upon Christ is the only sure way of soothing sorrow. What can be a greater consolation than to receive the faith to believe "He careth for you"?
Christian! Do not dishonour the tender, caring love of your Saviour by always wearing a brow of care. Come, cast your burden upon your Lord. You are staggering beneath a weight that your heavenly Father will carry for you. What seems to you a crushing burden, would be to Him but as the small dust of the balance. Nothing is so sweet as to
"Lie passive in God's hands,
Isn't it true that most often our greatest concerns are with regard for tomorrow? Our Saviour gives us such blessed consolation in MAT 6:34 where He says, "Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."
Our blessed Lord gives strength for the burdens of the day--but we all to often attempt to carry the load of tomorrow with it. That is why our burden seems heavier than we can bear. O dear child of God, be patient; our God sends these trials in providence to prove our faith in Him, He has not passed you by in His providence.
See how our Saviour counsels His little flock to trust in our Heavenly Father's providing care! "And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?" MAT 6:28-30.
In His infinite wisdom our God's purpose is to wean us from trusting in an arm of flesh. As we enter His service we find all our spiritual and temporal needs supplied in abundance. Our Saviour says, "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you," MAT 6:33.
Our tender heavenly Father, who feeds the sparrows, will also furnish you with what you need. Do not sit not down in despair; look away from the circumstances unto Christ in faith. See what He says in JOH 3:14, "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up."
As long the Israelites looked upon the fiery serpents, they died, but the command was, "...Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live," NUM 21:8. Even so Christ must be lifted up before the eye of faith, and when we look away from our present circumstances unto Christ--we shall live!
Look unto Christ in a sea of trouble, our text says to, "Cast all your care upon Him; for He careth for you." Our loving Saviour cares. His eye is fixed on you, His heart beats with pity for your woe, and His hand omnipotent shall yet bring you the needed help. The darkest cloud shall scatter itself in showers of mercy. The blackest gloom shall give place to the morning.
Nothing heals any wound like the Balm of Gilead, i.e., the love of our crucified Christ. If you are one of His family, He will bind up your wounds, and heal your broken heart. Doubt not His grace because of your tribulation, but believe. He loves you as much in seasons of trouble as in times of happiness. What a serene and quiet life might you lead if you would leave providing to the God of providence!
With a little oil in the cruse, and a handful of meal in the barrel, Elijah and the widow that sustained him outlived the famine, and you will do the same. Seeing God cares for you, why should you care too? Can you trust Him for your soul, and not for your body? He has never refused to bear your burdens, He has never fainted under their weight.
Come, then, souls! Be done with fretful care, and leave all your concerns in the hand of a gracious Saviour. "Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you." Amen.
My heart is sometimes heavy, but He comes with sweet relief;
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It may be that the historical Gautama, if so he is worthy to be called, merely made the sect or the new religion famous.
The wife of the sage Gautama, she was seduced by Indra the king of the Gods.
They were supposed to be seeking some deeper reality in life, and a passionate desire to do likewise took possession of Gautama.
Gautama was a sage, and the husband of Ahalya, who was seduced by Indra.
Without the sorrow of Gautama, the gods of this under-world are as loving and as amiable.
That they are not strictly in accordance with Gautama's teachings there can be no doubt.
Does the name of Gautama, the Buddha, stand for a sun-myth or for a historic personage?
They did not cease however to address him still as Gautama, after his family.
The names of twenty-four of the Buddhas who appeared previous to Gautama have been handed down to us.
But in the case of the great religion of Gautama they feel sincerely a similarity.
surname of the Buddha, from Sanskrit Gotamah, properly a patronymic, literally "descendant of the greatest ox," from superlative of gauh "ox, bull, cow."


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Subject: DAVIS & PROSSER
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 23:44:22 -0700
HI Rooters, My grandpa Hade Sherden DAVIS lived in florence,
Colorado as a Farmer From 1880 to 1910 maybe longer b Plormo,,Kansas
d 9/mar/1944 Coos Bay, Or. M. Elanore PROSSER BP Newton,Iowa
bt 1Jan1873 D. 8Feb1945 Coos Bay, Or. Anyone have info on
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Fan Gang on the China-Dollar Conundrum
The pan-Pacific debate over the dollar's standing as a global currency continues. On Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama dismissed suggestions raised by China's central bank governor that the world needs a new international currency that can take the place of the dollar in international reserves. Fan Gang, a prominent economist and advisor to China's central bank, watched Obama on CNN in his Hong Kong hotel room, but says he was hardly convinced.
"Of course" an alternative is necessary "in the long run, if we want to avoid the cyclical problems associated with the dollar standard," Fan says in an interview with the Journal on Wednesday. Besides being director of China's National Economic Research Institute, a nongovernment think tank, Fan sits on the monetary policy committee of the People's Bank of China, which means his views carry some weight in Beijing.
Fan describes the dollar as a kind of transmission mechanism for risk. The current crisis, he says, may have begun in the U.S. and Europe, but because of the dollar standard, "the risk of highly leveraged institutions has spread to other countries."
The onus therefore is now on the U.S. in particular to better regulate its banks and hedge funds for the sake of the global economy, he believes. Next, Fan says, "we should monitor capital flows, and monitor leverage, and this information should be reported to the countries where (institutions) are investing."
International trade in goods is heavily monitored and regulated, says Fan. It therefore makes no sense that "you have a regulated real market and an unregulated financial market."
Of course, China is pretty good at keeping a close eye on capital flows. It allows only limited convertibility of its currency, the yuan, and tightly restricts foreign investment in the country's capital markets. Fan, who asserts that "Chinese prudence has paid off," says capital controls are "better for developing markets."
(Later, speaking at a Credit Suisse investment conference here over lunch, Fan reiterated his line about prudence paying off. Privately, one critic in the audience quietly scoffed. China happily financed the U.S. trade deficit by buying low-yielding Treasurys for years, he said. How prudent was it to offer cheap vendor financing to a big customer with a lot of debt?)
Fan says while China is eager to keep its currency stable, there is pressure to let the yuan fall — "not just domestic pressure, but regional pressure," as other Asian currencies weaken, making them more competitive. Rather than let the yuan fall against the dollar, he suggests that China should make reference more to the other currencies in the basket it uses to set the yuan's exchange rate. "Eventually, China's currency should be related to other currencies, not just the dollar," he says.
Fan worries that the Fed's quantitative easing is raising the risk of dollar inflation and devaluation, which "is a concern not just for China but for everyone." He also believes monetary problems will fuel more "China bashing" in the U.S. from members of Congress that have previously railed against China's currency policies. "In the future, you will see, when the dollar devalues, these senators will come back," says Fan. Interestingly, Fan's excitement level seems to peak when he's asked why China is choosing to speak up now about the dollar.
"We have been talking about the risk of the dollar and dollar devaluation for a long time," he says. "We have been talking about U.S. causes behind the imbalances in the trade deficit. No one listened. This is a time to get noticed."
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Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages
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Because Jews and Christians have always affirmed that the Bible is, in some sense, "the word of God," Jaroslav Pelikan admits that it may seem "not only presumptuous but blasphemous" to pose the question that provides the title of his latest work. Pelikan, retired professor of history at Yale whose works on Jesus, Mary, Luther, Bach, Faust, the creeds of Christendom, and the US Constitution have won many admirers (how many writers can boast of dust-jacket blurbs from Rowan Williams, Harold Bloom, John T. Noonan, and Joseph Ratzinger?), here provides a lively and accessible survey of the Bible's history from its beginnings in Israelite oral traditions to its present status as "the book of books."
To oversimplify only slightly, this volume is in large part a commentary on the Bible's table of contents: What, exactly, is in the Bible? How and when did it get there? Why are there differences between the tables of contents found in Bibles used by Jews, Catholics, and Protestants? How has the process of translating and printing the Bible affected how it is organized and received?
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Pelikan addresses each of these questions and pays special attention to the ways in which the answers are contingent upon social, cultural, and even political factors with little explicit connection to the text of Scripture.
Perhaps not surprisingly for an adult convert to Orthodox Christianity (from Lutheranism), Pelikan has a keen appreciation for the historical and theological significance of the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament produced in the Hellenistic period when most Jews were living outside the land of Israel. And for good reason. It is no small matter that when the New Testament writers quote Scripture, more often than not they are quoting from the Greek version.
Pelikan also calls attention to significant non-events: When the lingua franca of the western Mediterranean shifted from Greek to Latin, the apologetic motivations within Judaism responsible for the creation of the Septuagint did not produce a Latin translation. To fill this vacuum, Jerome began work on the Vulgate, which became the official version of the Bible in the west for the next thousand years.
While the bulk of the volume covers the period up through the Renaissance and Reformation, the author also summarizes the cultural impact made by the Bible as well as developments in critical scholarship from the Enlightenment to the present. Some of these effects are mundane, such as the gradual increase in the popularity of biblical names for babies at the expense of saints' names, once the printing press made the Bible more widely available.
And sometimes it seems not to have had any effect. More people read and studied the Bible during the twentieth century than during the preceding nineteen combined, but, Pelikan suggests, it is sobering to remember that the same century has probably seen more persecution and bloodshed than any other in history. "Sometimes it seems that the dominant biblical metaphor of the age has not been the liberating exodus of the people of Israel . . . but the four horsemen of the Apocalypse—war, famine, pestilence, and death."
Pelikan's erudition and love for his topic is evident on every page. If the volume has a weakness, it is perhaps that in some respects it is not long enough. Readers who want to revisit some of the fascinating topics touched on by the author will find the lack of an index a bit frustrating, and the incomplete endnotes will prevent the curious from following up on some of the intriguing historical anecdotes he includes.
Did you know, for example, that for much of the twentieth century, incoming US senators would receive a copy of Thomas Jefferson's cut-and-paste edition of the Gospels? Or that Ulphilas, the fourth-century "apostle to the Goths" omitted the Book of Kings from his translation of the Bible on the grounds that the Goths hardly needed more encouragement in their war-like ways?
By the end of this history, two things about the Bible become clear. One is that, at least in terms of the cultural forces that shaped it and were subsequently unleashed by it, "the Christian Scriptura has never been sola."
The other is that the title was not chosen haphazardly. Whose Bible is it? Pelikan argues that while "it is profoundly true that there are truths in the Bible that only the eyes of faith can see, it is also true that the eyes of unfaith have sometimes spotted what conventional believers have been too preoccupied or too bemused to acknowledge." But even as the Bible has become a book for the whole human race, it seems unlikely that the primary impulse for reading it will ever come from outside the church or synagogue.
Patrick Gray teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife and their two children.
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The Sum of All Fears
Special Collector's Edition
- 2002 (2002) - Paramount
review by Bill Hunt, editor of
The Digital Bits
Film Rating: B
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): B/B+/B-
Specs and Features
123 mins, PG-13, letterboxed widescreen (2.35:1), 16x9 enhanced, single-sided, RSDL dual-layered (layer switch at ??), Amaray keep case packaging, audio commentary (with director Phil Alden Robinson and cinematographer John Lindey), audio commentary (with the director and novelist Tom Clancy),
A Cautionary Tale
documentary (broken into two sections:
(13 mins) and
(17 mins) - both 16x9, DD 2.0), 5 visual effects featurettes (
Carrier Attack
(3-9 mins each) - all 16x9, DD 2.0), theatrical trailer (letterbox only, DD 2.0), animated film-themed menus with sound and music, scene access (17 chapters), languages: English (DD 5.1 and 2.0) and French (DD 2.0), subtitles: English, Closed Captioned
I should probably confess right up front, that when I first heard that Ben Affleck was going to be stepping into the role of CIA analyst Jack Ryan, which had been filled out so well on film by Harrison Ford, I cringed. Like almost everyone else who had grown to love Paramount's big screen adaptations of Tom Clancy's paperback political thrillers, I figured pigs would fly before Affleck would pull the roll off. So as I left the theater after seeing
The Sum of All Fears
, I must admit that I found myself keeping a rather nervous eye on the sky. I'll be damned if Ben didn't click after all.
The Sum of All Fears
, based somewhat loosely on the novel of the same name, finds a now much younger Jack Ryan, a decidedly bright but junior analyst on the Agency's Russia Desk, drawn into much greater political events when the aging Russian leader suddenly drops dead. It seems Ryan's written a rather insightful monograph on the Russian President's likely successor - a man everyone in Washington is now desperate to get a handle on - and so he's called upon by CIA Director Cabot (Morgan Freeman) to help gather intelligence. That intelligence gathering soon involves spur-of-the-moment secret meetings with the President of the United States (James Cromwell), trips to the Kremlin and inspections of former Soviet nuclear weapons plants, much to the chagrin of Ryan's new girlfriend, Cathy (Bridget Moynahan), who thinks he's just a historian. But with the help of field agent John Clark (Liev Schreiber), Ryan and Cabot soon uncover a secret plot by Neo Nazis to explode a nuclear weapon on American soil... and thus get the world's two great powers to destroy each other. And when that plot eventually plays out, Ryan suddenly realizes that he's the only person in possession of all the facts... the only person who can pull the world back from the verge of destruction.
The Sum of All Fears
, despite the liberties it takes with Clancy's original novel and the re-imagining of the Jack Ryan character, is a damn good thriller. It delivers everything you expect from a Clancy film - abundant political maneuvering, megalomaniacs who want to destroy the world, and good cloak and dagger action. It's also surprisingly intelligent, infusing its characters with more than the usual sense of humanity and likability. All of the actors deliver in their roles. In addition to Affleck, who makes a surprisingly believable CIA analyst (being about the right age and disposition for such an occupation), Freeman and Cromwell flesh out their supporting parts well. Bridget Moynahan is likable as Ryan's love interest, and Liev Schreiber is excellent as Clark (a character Clancy fans know is very important in the series). But even the smaller parts are well cast, from Ciarán Hinds (as Russian President Nemerov) to Michael Byrne (as a Russian operative on Nemerov's staff) and Philip Baker Hall (as the American Secretary of Defense). Bottom line... this film is much better than anyone (certainly myself) expected and, as such, it comes as a very nice surprise indeed.
One thing that I think is important to note here, is that you should prepare yourself for the fact that a nuke does eventually end up going off on American soil. Some of you might consider that a spoiler, but the fact is, the studio made a very conscious decision to reveal that plot point in the film's marketing campaign, no doubt so that jittery, post-9/11 moviegoers could steel themselves up for it. If you have any knowledge of the original novel, you'll know that it's coming anyway. Speaking for myself, I know it was a lot easier to take seeing that happen on screen with the knowledge that it was going to happen in advance. It could easily have seemed like crass and tasteless exploitation if it had simply been sprung on audiences, so I'm glad the studio took the approach they did. Nevertheless, when the time came in the film for it to happen (and trust me when I say that it's chillingly clear when it's coming), the theater audience I saw this film with got VERY uncomfortable. It's still tough for me to watch on DVD. A year or two ago, an event like this would have seemed unthinkable. But sadly, we now know that it's all too possible given the realities of the 21st Century.
Moving on to the disc, the video quality is quite good, presented here in anamorphic widescreen. Contrast is excellent, with deep, dark blacks and sufficient (but not quite abundant) shadow detail. Color, in particular, is rich and accurate, from flesh tones in sunlight to the vibrant electronic blues, reds and greens of display monitors in secret government control rooms. There is a degree of film grain visible, but it's nothing you didn't see in theaters. There's also a little bit too much edge enhancement, that you'll particularly notice on subtitles during the opening, and when Russian, Arab and other foreign characters are speaking in their native tongues. But it's never enough to become distracting. In all, this is a very good representation of the theatrical experience.
The Dolby Digital 5.1 sound is about on par with the video. This isn't an especially active surround mix for most of the film, given that much of the intrigue is conveyed in dialogue. But there is a lot of subtle ambiance if you listen for it. And when the action heats up, there's plenty of good direction play and panning, all of which is natural and believably presented. Dialogue is clear and well defined in the mix, the film's soundtrack is effective without ever becoming overwhelming and bass is reliably solid. It's certainly not the most dynamic 5.1 soundtrack you've ever heard on DVD. But when this surround mix needs to pack a punch, it catches you in the jaw with a hefty right hook and doesn't let up.
In terms of special features, the disc includes a number of documentary featurettes. First up is a piece called
A Cautionary Tale
, which has been broken into two sections, no doubt to avoid crossing the 30-minute featurette to documentary line which then requires a lot of legal and financial complications for a studio. The first part is
, while the second is
. Both are exactly what you expect, except that there's actually interesting information imparted. The trouble the franchise has had over the years is addressed, along with why Harrision Ford finally decided to bow out of the role of Jack Ryan. I've heard that it was actually Harrison who contacted Affleck and suggested that he approach Paramount about stepping into the role, but the story here is more generically told. Affleck "heard the role was available" and expressed his interest. In any case, Affleck's star power proved attractive enough that the studio bit on the idea. That, of course, required a lot of rethinking of the film series. After all, Affleck is much younger than Ford, and so there would be no continuity with the earlier films. But it also proved an unexpected asset to the franchise. With Affleck, the whole series could begin again with much more long-term potential. Both parts of the feature include interview footage with virtually every major player in the film, with the exception of Tom Clancy (but he does make an appearance on this disc - more on that in a minute). Affleck, Freeman, Cromwell and all the other featured actors provide anecdotes, and the director and other production people lend their two cents as well. There's even footage of a real CIA staffer who helped to lend authenticity to the production, along with lots of on-the-set footage.
The remainder of the featurettes look at various aspects of the visual effects produced for the film, with breakdowns of each of the major effects sequences, including the detonation of the rogue nuke. All in all, there's about a half hour of material on the effects and it's all interesting and worth looking at. All of the featurettes on the disc are presented in anamorphic widescreen, with Dolby Digital 2.0 sound. There's also a theatrical trailer, presented in letterbox-only widescreen (strange given that everything else here is anamorphic).
But the real treat on this DVD is the audio commentary with director Phil Alden Robinson and novelist Tom Clancy. You know you're in for a good listen when, right at the start, Clancy introduces himself as "the guy who wrote the book that they ignored". He's got a real sort of curmudgeonly air about him, but you can't help but like the guy. A couple of things he says during the course of the track seems to put Robinson on the defensive, making for very interesting listening. Clancy's clearly having fun pointing out all of the places where the film diverges from his novel, or places where the film gets the real-world details wrong. One thing is abundantly clear - Clancy knows his sh_t with regard to the military and intelligence community. Back when I was a video director, I did some work for a military contractor in Minnesota, and had the opportunity to meet Clancy in person at a defense industry trade show in Washington DC. We were both trying our hand on an F-18 flight simulator in the McDonnell Douglas booth (for the record, I put a big, F-18 shaped hole in the deck of a simulated aircraft carrier as I tried to land - Clancy seemed to have no trouble). It was amazing how many Admirals and other very high ranking military personnel flocked to the guy wherever he went, swapping stories with him and inviting him to various functions. Clancy's got access and he's a great listen - the kind of guy you'd love to have a few beers with. Not bad for someone who used to work in the insurance business.
The other audio commentary is much more standard. Robinson and D.P. John Lindey talk about the production and their approach to the filming of each scene. They address the staging and the various cinematic choices they made along the way, and it becomes obvious that Alden is very thoughtful about his craft. But while it's all interesting enough, it's nothing we haven't heard a thousand times before in these kind of commentaries. And it's not nearly as interesting as the Clancy track.
In the end,
The Sum of All Fears
probably isn't going to thrill every fan of the Harrison Ford era of Tom Clancy films. And, because of the changes in the story itself, it probably isn't going to thrill fans of the original novel either. But if you take it for what it is,
The Sum of All Fears
works. It's a smart, well crafted thriller that isn't afraid to land a few pretty tough punches. And it's a surprisingly effective re-imagining of the Tom Clancy film series. If Ben Affleck and Live Schreiber stick with this franchise, the films to come could be well worth the long years of waiting. Word is,
The Cardinal of the Kremlin
is the Clancy novel on the table for film adaptation. And maybe in fifteen or twenty years, if Affleck's fee (and ego) hasn't grown too large, they'll try to tackle Clancy's mammoth
Executive Orders
. Can you imagine Affleck as President Ryan? Just maybe...
Bill Hunt
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