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SUNNYVALE, Calif., -- May 15, 2003 -- Artisan Components, Inc., (Nasdaq: ARTI), a leading provider of physical intellectual property (IP), today announced its newly formed Analog and Mixed-Signal Business Unit in San Diego, California. The company's acquisition of NurLogic Design, Inc. in February 2003 is the basis for expansion into this segment of high-performance analog IP and high-bandwidth connectivity cores.
With NurLogic's analog products, specialty I/Os, Serializer/De-Serializer (SerDes) and PCI ExpressTM interface cores, Artisan now adds products and in-house design expertise up to the system level, providing a broader portfolio of IP to accelerate system-on-a-chip (SoC) design and production. To head this new operation, Artisan has appointed Callan Carpenter as general manager.
"Until recently, standard cells, memories and I/Os have met the key needs of designers. However the design community is now demanding a higher level of IP integration such as analog, specialty I/Os and system interface cores," said Mark Templeton, president and chief executive officer. "Callan brings the technical, management and operational experience required to expand the already solid base of system-level expertise and products."
"The offer to join the Artisan team was one that I just couldn't pass up," said Carpenter. "As an IP market leader, Artisan is uniquely poised to serve the needs of IC designers by making analog and mixed-signal IP as available to the market as its well-known digital foundation IP."
Carpenter has spent over 18 years in the electronics industry, most recently as president of Silicon Metrics Corporation, a start-up in circuit characterization, modeling and analysis. Prior to Silicon Metrics, Carpenter was vice president of marketing at Mentor Graphics. Carpenter holds his BSEE and MBA degrees from the University of Texas in Austin.
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This post is intended to be a summary of the major externally visible changes in v0.7 compared to v0.6.
EDIT: latest edits in the following list will be in italic.
Changes already in the repository:
- the mitchell filter now has a "bool supersample" option to fake rendering in higher resolution and downscaling, this interface is subject to change before v0.7 final, the size of the filter is automatically multiplied by 5/3
- the old "quad" shape has been removed, use the "mesh" shape instead, quads is the "mesh" shape shape was already supported in v0.6
- float versions of the following textures have been removed (they were useless): blackbody, equalenergy, frequency, gaussian, irregulardata, lampspectrum, regulardata
- luxconsole and luxrender now accept the new -e and -E switches to set the min and max values of the automatically adjusted epsilon used to prevent numerical inaccuracies, a new luxSetEpsilon API call is also available
- the "infinite" light intensity has changed, you need to adapt to the new behaviour (it should however make it easier to use environment maps with the expected output), this could still change before v0.7 final
- new texture type "fresnel" (not yet usable in materials)
- new "constant" fresnel texture, the parameter "float value" defines the IOR over the visible range
- new "cauchy" fresnel texture, the "float cauchyb" parameter is the B parameter of the cauchy equation, then you can use either "float cauchya" to define the A parameter of the cauchy equation or "float index" to define the mean IOR over the visible range and infer the A parameter from this value (the index is usually more widely available than the A parameter)
- new "sopra" fresnel texture, the "string filename" parameter specifies the file to load
- the "turbulance" parameter of blender textures has been renamed "turbulence"
- blender textures are now only available in float form, they need to be used as the amount of a mix texture to get the old color form (it's faster than before)
- most integrator now support much more options to sample the light sources thanks to Dade rendering hints framework
- the mix material now select the first material when amount=0, it previously selected the second material which wasn't the expected behaviour
- new "luxpop" fresnel texture to load luxpop files, the parameter "string filename" specifies the file to load
- new "preset" fresnel texture, the parameter "string name" allows to use one of the presets available from the metal material
- new "sellmeier" fresnel texture, the parameter "float A" gives the constant part (usually 1), the parameters "float B" and "float C" are the lists of B and C parameters (lengths must be identical) to define index of refraction with the Sellmeier equation available for lots of glasses
- new conversion between roughness and exponent for the "glossy" material: roughness = sqrt(2/(exponent+2)) or exponent=2/(roughness^2)-2
- new "MakeNamedVolume" keyword, must be followed by an identifier, a volume name and the corresponding parameter list, it allows to define volume properties that will be later accessible by the identifier
- new "Exterior" keyword, must be followed by a named volume identifier, defines the exterior (side of the shading normal) volume properties of subsequent shapes
- new "Interior" keyword, must be followed by a named volume identifier, defines the interior (opposite to the shading normal) volume properties of subsequent shapes
- new "clear" volume property, parameter "texture fresnel" defines the index of refraction of the volume, parameter "color absorption" or "texture absorption" defines the absorption spectrum of the volume, if the index of refraction has an imaginary part, this absorption will be added to the fresnel absorption
- new "glass2" material, parameter "bool dispersive" selects wether light rays should be split upon transmission to get dispersion, parameter "bool architectural" selects wether light rays should be bent upon transmission, this material has no other parameter as it uses the new volume properties to define the material color
- the brick texture has seen significant enhancements allowing more realistic patterns
- the float version of the imagemap texture now has a "string channel" parameter allowing the selection of any image channel ("red", "green", "blue", "alpha", "mean" or "colored_mean") thus removing the need for separate alpha maps
- checkerboard, dots, fbm, windy and wrinkled are now float only textures
- new tabulateddata color texture that allows loading of spectral color data from a file (it supports PBRT2 file format)
- spherical mapping has switched U and V coordinates, now U is latitude and V is longitude, it also has new float parameters uscale/vscale/udelta/vdelta to move and scale the map
- cylindrical mapping is now slightly switch to match most 3D apps conventions and has new float parameters uscale/udelta to move and scale the map
- new "white" clamping for image maps: every point outside the [0-1) UV range is made white (uniform 1 value)
- new "uvmask" float texture allowing selection of textures depending on UV range
- you can use "" with Exterior and Interior to disable volume properties (useful to redefine instances properties)
- metal material "string name" parameter is deprecated in favor of "string filename" when using a file, it will ensure proper file transmission for network rendering


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Are there some vegetables you can't stand? It may be genetic.
Ever wonder why some people think cilantro tastes like detergent while others scatter it over everything? Or why brussels sprouts are delectable to some and disgusting to others? Part of that difference of opinion may lay in our genes.


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If you earn around $60,000 or less, then you could be eligible for help from the Australian Tax Office volunteers who will provide free advice and help with basic tax returns.
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Let me first start out by saying that I love Windows. It must be the easiest operating system to learn and use. Unfortunately, it is also one of the easiest in which to find holes. One of my favorite past times is finding privilege escalation vulnerabilities in windows and windows applications. They exist everywhere. So I want to talk about a privilege escalation that exists in many of the Windows operating systems simply because of a misunderstanding of how Windows works.
First, some background information on how Windows launches applications:
1. Start, Run, C:\Winnt\system32\cmd.exe
This is pretty simple and straight forward...Windows will locate the file cmd.exe and launch it.
2. Start, Run, "C:\Program Files\WIDCOMM\Bluetooth Software\bin\btwdins.exe"
This is almost identical to the first. Windows will locate the file btwdins.exe (the default Bluetooth service executable that appears on most HP/Compaq SOHO machines) and launch it. However, note the use of the quotes in the path because of the spaces. In the old 8.3 notation this could be written as follows and the use of quotes would not be necessary.
3. Start, Run, C:\Program Files\WIDCOMM\Bluetooth Software\bin\btwdins.exe
This may look the same as the previous example but the quotes are missing. This can be bad and I will discuss why further down but here is how Windows interprets this statement because of the spaces.
- Windows will try to locate and launch the file C:\Program.exe
- If that file does not exist Windows will try to locate and launch the file C:\Program Files\WIDCOMM\Bluetooth.exe
- If that file does not exist Windows will finally try to locate and launch the original intended file C:\Program Files\WIDCOMM\Bluetooth Software\bin\btwdins.exe
You might be thinking one of two things right now...wow or so what. Well let's say you are logged into a machine as a user with only local guest privileges. You can't do much but you want to try to interact with other process that are running with higher privileges so that you can manipulate them to elavate your privileges. So what runs with higher privileges...services. Most services in Windows run as LocalSystem which has basically god rights for the local machine.
Thinking back to the examples, what if I told you that Bluetooth was a service set to startup automatically with Windows and run under the context of LocalSystem. The path to the executable is C:\Program Files\WIDCOMM\Bluetooth Software\bin\btwdins.exe without the quotes. When Windows starts it will try to start the Bluetooth service automatically as LocalSystem but since there are no quotes around the path to the btwdins.exe file it will try to launch the following as LocalSystem first:
- C:\Program.exe
- C:\Program Files\WIDCOMM\Bluetooth.exe
So you could hack up your own Program.exe service or Bluetooth.exe service and place it in the location where Windows will accidentally run it. The service you create could simply create a new account and add it to the local Administrators group.
However, you can't do much as with your current guest privileges. The default permissions for the Program Files folder in Windows 2000 and above prevent a guest account from even entering the folder. So how are you supposed to plant your custom C:\Program Files\WIDCOMM\Bluetooth.exe file? You can't. But what about using the root of C:\ for a custom Program.exe file? You can...in Windows 2000 and below. In Windows XP and above the default permissions of Everyone - Full Control where removed (which was a smart move by Microsoft).
So plant your custom C:\Program.exe file that will create a new account and add it to the local Administrators group and restart the computer. Log in as the new admin account.
Want the tools discussed in this article?
This is a simple PERL (http://www.activeperl.com/) script that you can run to enumerate the executable paths of all services. Just run it and look through the output for paths that have spaces and do not have quotes.
This is the custom Program.exe service file that can be used to add a new user and add that user to the local Administrators group. Just copy the Program.exe file and the runme.txt file to the root of C:\. Add as many commands as you would like Program.exe to run to the runme.txt file.


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This week in Island history
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago From the Newport Journal, June 4, 1910
At a special meeting of the town council…it was voted to lease the stable at the Four Corners belonging to J.H. Tefft and others, for use of the town's horses, at $36 per year.
W.E. Wright was the only bidder for the caring of the streetlights at Conanicut park and was awarded the contract
at $10 per month. For lighting the street lights in the town proper, R.E. Sherman was the only bidder and was awarded the contract at $40 per month from June 1 to Oct. 1, and $45 per month from Oct. 1 to May 31.
Councilman Arnold was appointed a committee to purchase oil and lights for Conanicut park. Councilman Barber was appointed a committee to expend $150 for the purchase of oil to be used on the streets
The West Bay service of the ferry company was inaugurated Sunday for the season.
The telephone men have completed the work of changing the telephones made necessary by the opening of the central office in the Gardner House.
Commencing Wednesday, the summer mail service went into effect. The postmaster will be a busy man for the next four months, as the new schedule calls for seven incoming and five outgoing mails daily.
75 years ago From the Newport Daily News, June 3, 1935
(At the Town Council meeting) it was voted that Arthur B. Mitchell be granted permission to sell fireworks from 12 o'clock noon, Tuesday, July 2, to midnight, Thursday, July 4, subject to certain conditions. From the Newport Daily News, June 1, 1935
Andrew Jackson Williams of Columbia Avenue, Jamestown, has the distinction of being the only veteran of the Civil war now residing there. He was born June 15, 1842 and will be 93 years of age on his next birthday. He enlisted in the Tenth Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers, of which Colonel Bliss was in command. …Mr. Williams has been a resident of Jamestown for the past 53 years, where he moved shortly after his marriage to Miss Waity Wright of Point Judith. Both are in good health. Mr. Williams was for many years an employee of the Jamestown & Newport Ferry Company and worked for some years on Jamestown's first steamboat, the old Jamestown.
50 years ago From the Newport Daily News, June 1, 1960
Francis R. Costa, Jamestown Town Council president, and Daniel J. Murray, town solicitor, received assurance in Washington yesterday that the town will be granted a hearing before any legislation is passed that would extend tolls on the Jamestown Bridge. … The General Assembly last month passed legislation authorizing fi- nancing of the proposed Newport Bay Bridge by the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority to include pooling of tolls from the Jamestown Bridge and Mt. Hope Bridge with the proposed bridge. From the Newport Daily News, June 2, 1960
The Jamestown Little League will open its season Sunday with a doubleheader at the Holy Ghost Society Field.
25 years ago From the Newport Daily News, June 4, 1985
The Town Council is seeking ways to gain more control over the granting of septic system variances. The council asked the town administrator and solicitor Monday night to develop a course of action — possibly a proposal to the state legislature — to give the town control. Town officials have repeatedly expressed their concern over septic variances, approved by the state without public notification.
15 years ago From the Jamestown Press, June 2, 1995
Residents criticized and scoffed the proposed $2.2 million East ferry renovation project during a public workshop last Monday at the Community Center. About 300 people …turned out for the session.
Jamestown's sewage treatment plant at Taylor Point has received an excellent rating from the state Department of Environmental Management. Staffed by three full-time operators, the island's treatment plant was one of 19 plants discharging into Narragansett Bay evaluated in DEM's annual performance report for 1994.
10 years ago From the Jamestown Press, June 1, 2000
Although water has been overfl owing the spillway at North Pond reservoir for much of the spring, summer restrictions on outdoor water use go into effect today, meaning that boat washing, residential car washing and lawn watering are no longer allowed.
Alongside the deposit and withdrawal slips, customers of Bank of Newport are likely to find some unusual banking instruments tomorrow — ketchup, mustard and relish among them. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Jamestown branch, the Bank of Newport is inviting everyone to a lunchtime cookout.


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German Chancellor Angela Merkel used her first visit to Greece in five years to maintain pressure on Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to meet austerity pledges, proclaiming her desire to keep the country in the euro.
The two leaders stood side by side at a press conference as protesters massed outside the Parliament building in a capital city on virtual lockdown. Merkel has become the face of austerity in a country suffering a fifth year of recession, which many Greeks blame on German-led conditions attached to emergency loans.
"I want Greece to remain in the euro," Merkel told reporters today halfway through her six-hour visit. "A lot has been done, much remains to be done."
At stake is Greece's membership in the 17-nation euro and the payment of 31 billion euros ($40 billion) from bailout commitments first made in 2010. Since then, the debt crisis has frustrated policy makers and stunted the region's economy. Spain is considering asking for help and Cyprus is in talks for a lifeline, following Ireland, Portugal and Spanish lenders.
"Merkel is on a carrot and stick exercise: Show support and hope for the plight of Greeks with the reminder that there has to be a quid pro quo," Ralph Brinkhaus, a lawmaker from her Christian Democratic Union and a member of parliament's finance committee, said in an interview today. "Merkel's primary constituency is Germany, not Greece: she knows what millions of voters back home expect her to say."
Athens Protests
Athens was the scene of protests on and around its main Syntagma Square as thousands of Greek citizens vent frustration over Merkel's perceived role in the country's economic misery. Some 7,000 police were deployed in the capital, with some firing tear gas. Merkel's destinations are cordoned off.
Merkel's trip to Athens, her first since July 2007, reciprocated a visit by Samaras to Berlin in August this year and underscored her desire to silence the calls from her own coalition to kick Greece out of the currency union.
"Merkel's visit to Greece first of all proves that we are breaking an international isolation that existed to now. And this was due to our mistakes as well. The political power and image of a country corresponds to its credibility."
Merkel has softened her tone on Greece since Samaras's election earlier this year. He formed a coalition after beating back a challenge by parties that advocated tearing up the terms of Greece's rescues and calling the bluff of the so-called troika of international creditors -- the IMF, the European Central Bank and European Commission -- at the risk of triggering global meltdown in financial markets.
Calling Greece a friend contrasts with the threat she delivered in November 2011, when former Prime Minister George Papandreou proposed a referendum on austerity measures. She said the ballot, subsequently rescinded, "will revolve around nothing less than the question: does Greece want to stay in the euro, yes or no?"
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- Blocking: X-ray - 1150nm, T=0.0001% or OD5


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As posted [above] I still don't have any answers as to whether SpyBotS+D v1.4 is a valid release ?Originally posted here by foxyloxley
I got this, and I could have SWORN I've seen SpyBot S+D 1.4 out there, yet at safer networking it shows 1.3
I REALLY need to sleep more
On my system it worked OK, until I looked for updates, then it just switched off
I've installed it on a unit at work, and it worked fine, even updated .....................
BUT : It only scanned 29 items, whereas v1.3's latest was around 24 500 items.
So, is it me ?
or is it something else ?
I cannot get a proper answer, so I will ask here.


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Okay, I need serious virus help...I have been infected with the W32.Nimda.enc virus....I have it out of most of my files, but I have two that are read only files....both of them README.EML files....what do I do to get rid of them?
It came from a hotmail account last night.
Please tell me how to change these files so I can delete them.... I know this is a newbie question, I am a newbie....Please don't flame, just help!!!


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You could make an Offspring-themed meal!
That sounds like a life to me! You are practicing for your future. Soon, the future will be now.
Being an Offspring fan is life enough! You are young, you have plenty of time to get a life.
<- This man hugged me.
Junior Member
Senior Member
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FY 2013 Budget Call: New revenue source on tap?
The government's budget call letter for fiscal year 2013 — which begins on Oct. 1, 2012 — says "additional new source of revenue is anticipated" in the new fiscal year, but didn't provide specific details of the new revenue source.
The three-page June 13 budget call letter came from Malemo Tausaga, director of the ASG Office of Program Planning and Budget with the approval of Gov. Togiola Tulafono.
"As global economic challenges and uncertainty persistently linger, the current pulse for growth in our local economy is projected to be rather weak to modest," the letter says. "While drawn out economic woes may weaken our local revenue collections pool; [an] additional new source of revenue is anticipated and projected to inject a much needed boost for FY 2013 proposed budget."
"Although cautiously optimistic; as always, I strongly encourage each department and agency to be prudent in the expending of our limited pool of financial resources to insure its consumptions are fully optimized," wrote Malemo.
The letter didn't identify where the new revenue source is coming from but this issue will be clarified by ASG officials when the FY 2013 is presented to the Fono for review next month. Malemo is currently off-island and Samoa News could not confirm with any other ASG finance official as to any new source of revenue.
The only tax approved this year by the Fono bringing in new revenue is the 2% wage tax, which funds the repayment of the $3 million loan from the ASG Workmen's Compensation Account for LBJ Medical Center. After the loan is paid off, any revenues collected thereafter will go to LBJ.
In his letter, Malemo reminded all departments that ASG must be in compliance with the federal Labor Fair Standards Act, and each department is to allocate sufficient funding to cover the minimum wage rate increase of $4.91 — for government employees — effective Sept. 30 this year. (Federal legislation is pending in the U.S. Congress to again delay the next wage hike, or halt it).
"Furthermore, additional funding must be obligated to absorb the separation compensation payouts for outgoing directors," said Malemo.
As ASG moves "forward and beyond", Malemo said adequate financial resources and bold sacrifices are needed to further improve government operations and basic services in the best interest of our people.
He said Executive budget allocations have been prioritized and implemented for departments and agencies given the anticipated increase in revenues for FY 2013 budget.
According to Malemo, final budget submission is due at 4 p.m. on June 29 at his office.
The FY 2013 budget will be the top priority item for Fono review, debate and approval when lawmakers convene next month for the fourth and final session of the 32nd Legislature.
The budget law signed last year by the governor for FY 2012 totaled $383.2 million.
Each department and agency has been given a revised budget ceiling for FY 2013 because of the anticipated additional new revenues, according to the letter, which also requested the support of each director "to thoroughly review and scrutinize" their budgetary requests in "an effort to assist the government in streamlining your operational costs."
Directors and heads of agencies were also informed that there will be no new positions allowed in the FY 2013 budget and all vacant positions need to be omitted from the budget request.
"Additionally, all step increments should be pro-rated," said Malemo. "Any extraordinary requests over and above the ceiling allotment will need to be withheld for fiscal year 2013 as funding allowance does not permit this."
Departments and agencies funded with federal grants have been requested to prepare their budgets according to the most recently approved federal grant award. Additionally, any budget over the authorized amount of the grant award will not be accepted.
"There is absolutely 'no' local funds to cover any additional costs or supplement your grants," said Malemo, who requested agencies to provide a copy of the latest grant award or the proposed grant request.
ASG offices and semi autonomous agencies whose budgets are considered "Enterprise Funds" are asked to prepare their budget requests based on actual revenue collections from the current fiscal year 2012. These entities are also required to submit a profit and loss statement. This would include ASPA, ASTCA and LBJ Medical Center, among others.


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Quartersawn Animation
Quartersawn white oak is one of my favorite woods, and we're fortunate in Cincinnati that the largest source for this wood in North America is just a couple hours away. Frank Miller Lumber in Union City, Indiana has been producing this wood for more than one hundred years, and it's worth a visit, as Glen Huey and I did a couple years ago. The way the logs are cut produces the flaked figure. The vertical lines on the end grain in the photo below are the growth rings, and the thin, almost horizontal lines are the medullary rays that radiate from the center of the tree out to the edge. When a ray crosses the surface of a board, the flaked figure appears.
I was looking for an illustration of how the end grain relates to the figure, and visited the Frank Miller Lumber website this morning. I found an entire new section of the site called the Learning Center where I came across a cool animation about how the logs are cut. Here is a link to the video on the FML site: Quartersawing Process or you can see the YouTube video below.
Click Here to read Glen Huey's blog post about a road trip to Frank Miller Lumber
Click Here to watch a video about picking lumber for a project
Nice animation, thanks


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in this section
Research in Electrical and Computer Engineering covers an extremely broad range of topics. Whether in computer architecture, energy and power systems or in nanotechnology devices, the research conducted in ECE is at the cutting edge of technological and scientific developments.
Research Themes
- Bio-signal and Systems
- Biosensors and Biomedical Devices
- Computer Architecture
- Control Systems Theory and Applications
- Electromagnetics and Plasma Sciences
- Electronic Design Automation
- Energy and Power Systems
- Imaging and Information Processing
- Information Theory and Communications
- Microelectomechanical Systems (MEMS)
- Nanoelectronic Devices
- Networks
- Optoelectronics and Nanophotonic Devices
- Robotics
- VLSI Circuits and Systems
Research Centers and Labs within ECE
- Cornell Highly Integrated Physical Systems (CHIPS)
- Computer Systems Laboratory (CSL)
- Foundations of Information Engineering (FOIE)
- Center for the Study of Pulsed-Power-Driven High Energy Density Plasmas
Research Centers Across Departments with Strong ECE Faculty Presence
- Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (ASCF)
- Cornell Center for Materials Research: An NSF MRSEC (CCMR)
- Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility (CNF)
- Kavli Institute at Cornell (KIC)
- Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC)
- Platform for the Accelerated Realization, Analysis, and Discovery of Interface Materials (PARADIM)


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*The mid-May SF Site is alive and kicking. It includes, among other things, a review I wrote of four recent titles from the Wesleyan Early Classics of SF series, all of which were impressive in some way or another, although I must say the one book that most enchanted and amazed me was The Twentieth Century (first published in 1882) by Albert Robida, here receiving its first English translation in a beautiful edition filled with weird, whimsical illustrations.
*Alan DeNiro has changed both the address and title of his weblog. What once was Ptarmigan is now Goblin Mercantile Exchange. He has also entered the fray of discussing the SFWA's push poll on Amazon's "Look Inside the Book" feature by translating part of the SFWA FAQ about "ePiracy" into PirateSpeak, with good results: "Information may want t' be free, but ye get what ye pay fer." (For more background on -- or, rather, against -- the poll, check out what John Scalzi, Cory Doctorow, and Tim Pratt have to say.)
*There's a new Strange Horizons posted. Lots of good things there.
*A couple of fun posts at SF Signal: Design Your Own Dream Anthology (that is, the anthology you might dream of making, not an anthology of dreams) and a report on a 1973 Cliff's Notes book about science fiction.
*Teresa Nielsen Hayden sparks an in-depth testing and deconstruction of a popular little poll to discover "Which Science Fiction Writer are You" (I was Octavia Butler). I love that Gregory Benford took the poll and the result wasn't Gregory Benford.
*The Tensor takes a close look at linguistics in Robert Heinlein's "Gulf".
*Speaking of linguistics, there's a new blog in the blogosphere: Invented Usage, which looks at a variety of subjects (including supposed differences between poetry and prose) from a linguistic point of view, but without lots of jargon. I look forward to seeing where the writers go with this. (via LanguageHat)
*Sarah Weinman writes about books that are impossible to review and points to Crime Fiction Dossier, a blog that's new to me, where there's been some good discussion of the ins and outs of book reviewing.
*Sonya Taaffe's poem "The Laying-Out" is now a featured poem at Mythic Delirium.


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Gone are the days of using cork only for corkboards and wine preservation. With the emergence of cork as a furniture-building material, designers are able to create eco-friendly pieces with a unique look. Recently debuted at ICFF 2009, Iannone Designs's new Cork Media Console is crafted from renewable material harvested from the bark of the cork tree – a sustainable process that doesn't harm the tree itself.
Iannone Design is a Philadelphia–based design firm specializing in eco-friendly modern furniture. Among their new offerings this year is their Cork Media Console, a minimalist storage unit that celebrates the raw character of cork. The unit features four beautifully marbled cork doors and routed detailing that shows off its bamboo plywood construction.
But don't be mistaken – Iannone Design doesn't only work with cork. Another 2009 design is their best-selling Dandelion Dresser, constructed of FSC–certified plywood with kirei doors. The kirei doors are made from reclaimed stalks of the sorghum plant. The grain, which is harrvested in Texas to be used primarily as animal feed, also makes incredibly beautiful eco-friendly furniture. In addition to their less common materials, Iannone Design also uses metal and plastics in their all eco-friendly furniture.


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Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin
The Laundress.
1733. Oil on canvas. 37.5 x 42.5 cm. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden.
Additional Links
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin Main Page
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin Complete Biography
Additional Works by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin
Self-Portrait with an Eye-Shade.
The Billiard Game.
The Ray-Fish.
Carafe, Silver Goblet and Fruit.
The Buffet.
Wild Rabbit with Game-Bag and Powder Flask.
A Green-Neck Duck with a Seville Orange.
The Attributes of the Sciences.
The Fast Day Meal.
Still Life with Herrings.
A "Lean Diet" with Cooking Utensils.
Lady Sealing a Letter.
Woman at the Urn.
Soap Bubbles.
Copper Cauldron with Three Eggs.
The Copper Water Urn.
Portrait of the Painter Joseph Aved.
Portrait of Charles Godefroy.
Lady Taking Tea.
Rabbit with Copper Cauldron and Quince.
The House of Cards.
The Embroiderer.
Young Student Drawing.
The House of Cards.
Girl with Shuttlecock.
The Smoker's Case.
The Young Draughtsman.
Portrait of Auguste Gabriel Godefroy.
The Attentive Nurse.
The Scullery Maid.
The Governess.
The Return from Market.
The Diligent Mother.
Saying Grace.
The Young Schoolmistress.
The Morning Toilet.
The Bird-Song Organ.
The Butler's Table.
The Jar of Apricots.
Flowerpiece: Carnations, Tuberoses and Sweet Peas.
The Olive Jar.
Glass of Water and a Coffee Pot.
Basket of Wild Strawberries.
Grapes and Pomegranates.
The Brioche.
Wild Duck with an Olive Jar.
The Attributes of Music.
The Attributes of the Arts and Their Rewards.
A Basket of Peaches.
Self-Portrait at an Easel.
The Silver Goblet.
Pears, Walnuts, and a Glass of Wine.
The Left-Overs of a Lunch, also called the Silver Goblet.


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Gwyneth Paltrow & Blythe Danner: London & L.A. Ladies
Gwyneth Paltrow is glowing as she leaves a dance class in north London on Monday (October 12).
Across the pond in L.A., Gwyneth's mom, actress Blythe Danner, was seen on crutches but still looked in high spirits as she went shopping on Sunday (October 11). Hope her recovery's a fast one!
Blythe, 66, will be reprising her role as Dina Byrnes in Little Fockers, starring Ben Stiller, Robert DeNiro and Jessica Alba.
Gwyn, 37, recently finished work on Iron Man 2, which will be in theaters next May.
10+ pictures inside of Gwyneth Paltrow and Blythe Danner around town…


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Are you familiar with crowdsourcing? Do you know what the benefits are?
Social media has changed the way businesses engage with consumers—fans and followers don't want to be told, they want to discover. It's no longer a one-way (or even a two-way) conversation.
It's now a multiplayer experience that relies on collective, thoughtful engagement.
Consumers have the tools, time and desire to be involved on a much deeper level than we've ever seen before. There are several distinct ways that you can take these ideas and build social media campaigns that use existing tools and technologies to achieve powerful results.
Today, brands big and small are homing in on the tactic of crowdsourcing, defined as the act of outsourcing tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor to an undefined, large group of people or community (a "crowd"), through an open call. Hidden within this utilitarian definition are powerful cultural drivers that can be catalyzed to achieve powerful social engagement and activation.


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AntiqueTrader.com features select half- and full-page ads from the print magazine, extending our promise to help our customers find new customers. In this space you'll see fresh updates to the latest antiques auctions, shows and events. Weekly Auction & Show Ads: Aug. 22-Sept. 30, 2012.
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BELLEVUE, Wash., May 12, 2009 - Puget Sound Energy yesterday (Monday, May 11) received the hydropower industry's highest environmental award for an innovative system the utility built to aide juvenile-salmon migration around tall hydroelectric dams.
In a Capitol Hill ceremony in Washington, D.C., the National Hydropower Association bestowed one of its four 2009 Outstanding Stewards of America's Waters Awards on PSE. Specifically, the award recognizes PSE's development of a new, widely heralded "floating surface collector" at the utility's Baker River Hydroelectric Project in northwest Washington.
"This award serves to validate the incredible effort so many dedicated people, inside and outside our company, invested to build a state-of-the-art fish-migration system on the Baker River," said Ed Schild, director of hydroelectric resources for PSE. "I couldn't be more proud."
Schild, joined by John Jensen, PSE's Baker River operations manager, and Mark Killgore, project implementation manager, accepted the award for PSE during yesterday's ceremony.
A National Hydropower Association news release said PSE and the three other 2009 award recipients "all have developed groundbreaking, collaborative projects that expand the U.S. hydropower industry's work in providing clean, affordable, domestic energy."
PSE's 1,000-ton fish collector floats above the Baker Lake reservoir's 280-foot-deep bottom. Together with an updated shore-to-shore, surface-to-bottom guide-net system, it is designed to attract, guide and safely capture young salmon for downstream transport around PSE's two Baker River hydroelectric dams.
In its first year of operation in 2008, the $50 million apparatus induced the highest outmigration rate on record for juvenile Baker River sockeye. An estimated 90 percent to 95 percent of the watershed's sea-bound sockeye were safely guided into the collector for water-truck transport around PSE's two North Cascades dams. And just last week, the new collector twice smashed the old record for the number of young salmon gathered in a single day. On Saturday, the facility collected 60,629 juvenile sockeye, followed by 58,275 on Sunday. The old one-day record, set in 2006 by PSE's first-generation floating surface collector, was 28,294.
The National Marine Fisheries Service has called PSE's new system a model for other high-reservoir dam operators. Representatives from some two dozen domestic and foreign utilities already have toured PSE's Baker River operation, with several of those utilities either exploring or actively pursuing fish-migration systems based on PSE's so-called "gulper."
The new floating surface collector is a one-of-a-kind, 130-foot-by-60-foot barge equipped with a series of submerged screens, water pumps, fish-holding chambers, a fish-evaluation station, equipment-control rooms, and a fish-loading facility. The guide nets, extending from each side of the collector to the opposing lake shores and from the lake's surface to its bottom, form an impassible netting funnel to lead small migrating fish to the facility. PSE completed the collector in March 2008. The 14-month construction period was preceded by several years of collaborative discussions with government resource agencies, Indian tribes and other outside stakeholders.
Government fisheries agencies expect PSE's new floating surface collector, together with more than $100 million in other PSE fish-enhancement projects on which they're collaborating, to quadruple the Baker River's already rebounding sockeye numbers. These projects include construction of a new Baker River fish hatchery, a new trap-and-haul facility for migrating adult sockeye, improved spawning beaches, and a new floating surface collector on Lake Shannon, behind Lower Baker Dam.
Earlier this year, Engineering News-Record, one of the country's top construction journals, named PSE biologist Cary Feldmann as one of the magazine's "Top 25 Newsmakers of 2008" for his leadership role in the design and development of the floating surface collector. Other key members of the PSE team included project manager Brian Doughty, project engineer Don Thompson, fish biologist Nick Verretto, and senior engineers Matt Macartney and Ryan Murphy.
URS Washington Division served as the project's design-engineering company and the constructor was Natt McDougall Company.
Washington state's oldest and largest energy utility, with a 6,000-square-mile service area stretching across 11 counties, Puget Sound Energy serves more than 1 million electric customers and nearly 750,000 natural gas customers. PSE, a subsidiary of Puget Energy, meets the energy needs of its growing customer base primarily in Western Washington through incremental, cost-effective energy conservation, procurement of sustainable energy resources, and far-sighted investment in the energy-delivery infrastructure. PSE employees are dedicated to providing great customer service to deliver energy that is safe, reliable, reasonably priced, and environmentally responsible. For more information, visit PSE.com.


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Pausing during an exclusive interview with the La Jolla Village News, Lightner relayed a message to her constituents.
"I haven't really thanked people for giving me this job," she said. "It's been an amazing growth experience for me. With what I've learned — and the people I've worked for — we're going to get a lot done in the next four years."
After a hard-fought campaign against opponent Ray Ellis, Lighter prevailed 55 percent — 31,264 votes — to Ellis' 45 percent and 25,706 votes.
"I ran a fact-based campaign — and I won," proclaimed Lightner on election night at Golden Hall.
Concerning that long road to the Nov. 6 election, Lightner reflected on the candidates' stamina.
"It's kind of awe-inspiring to know how many times the mayoral candidates debated (20-plus), and how many times we (District 1 candidates) debated, compared to how much the presidential candidates debated (three times)," she said.
Pressed on what she likes most about being a councilmember, Lightner quipped, "I know where I can park every day," then added, "serving my community — doing things that actually make a difference."
Lightner said there will be a great deal of continuity carrying over into her second term.
"We will be continuing, of course, the constituent services, the fiscal reform at the city, bringing more and more public services back online," she said. "We've started repaving streets. We've repaved more streets in the last two years than in the prior eight years combined."
One subject near and dear to Lightner is water: both conserving it and reusing it. She cited reutilization of grey water — wastewater generated from domestic uses — as an example of an untapped resource.
Pointing out grey water can be reused for irrigation, something a lot of other cities have successfully done, Lightner said, "There's some talk that it could be done similar to the stormwater program, where they have created incentives for folks. You simplify [the reuse of it], provide rebate programs, make it part of our sustainable building policy."
Lightner said grey water could be mandated for new construction for single-family homes so the system would be "good to go when you move in."
"It's showers, baths and laundry, not kitchen or bathroom sinks," she added.
Pointing out up to 55 percent of San Diegans' water is used outside, the councilwoman said that by recovering even a portion of grey water for reuse, "You've done a lot."
"We want to be in a situation where we don't rely on Metropolitan Water District for our water," Lighner said, emphasizing the importance of looking at the long-term picture. "Sooner is better. To just be in control of our water destiny is huge because it's everything for us here."
Another subject of paramount importance to Lightner is economic development. More specifically, plotting a strategy for it moving forward.
"The city should take a more active role in planning the economic development for this region," she said. "We are the big dog in the area. We need to take the lead. We need to be willing to step up and do the most we can for this region."
The most fun thing for her right now, she said, is chairing the city's Economic Strategies Committee.
"It's something I advocated," she said. "We've spent a year doing a new economic development strategy for the city. It's what we want to achieve and how we see the future … improving manufacturing … taking advantage of all our tech sectors including blue (aqua) tech … and taking advantage of the (Mexican) border."
Getting Torrey Pines Road Corridor "resurrected again" has been one of the major projects of her first term, and it most definitely will carry over into her second, said Lightner.
"That needs money, but we're making progress on it," she said. "Clean up is being done on the north side of Torrey Pines Road, getting fencing fixed up, modest improvements with the million dollars we have and getting the plan done for the Phase 4 portion (TP Road from Little Street to LJ Shores Drive)."
A grass-roots politician who worked her way up through the community planning group process, Lightner gave a nod to her constituents for their knowledge and expertise.
"I'm very fortunate to represent a lot of very smart, engaged people," she said. "They have some very amazing, wonderful ideas I'm delighted to follow up on. Some of it is just putting it in a form we can actually take action on."
Asked whether she is encouraged about the future, Lightner said, "I'm always encouraged about the future. That's the whole reason I'm doing what I'm doing."
Will San Diegans be better off in the future?
"If we work on it, we will be," Lightner said. "We just need to keep working. You can't leave it to chance."


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In part two of Lide Remembers Childhood, written in 1924, Lide Plowman tells about childhood play and her brothers and sisters in their mid-1800's home in rural Michigan. The family tree chart is at the end of this post.
When Brother George came after four girls, it was a great treat and he was the idol of all, with his black eyes and clear white skin. Nothing was too good for him. Father made him a wagon with all the parts of a big one.
Lute had for his pet and plaything an old root something the shape of an animal, called Thompson, who lived many years with us as a companion for "our punch." About that time we had a "pork sprout" (a little runty pig), which was also a pet, called Porky, which grew into a fine pig, but no one wanted to eat him. These pets were as to Lute as Paul's horse was to him.
Till, Jule and Sate found much pleasure with their little families of home made rag dolls, about seven inches tall consisting of father, mother, boy and girl. The house the top of a box about two feet square, with little rolls of cotton for beds to fit their size, and covers etc. And these families were put to bed and gotten up in the morning every day while the girls talked and talked.
Saron's and my pet was the checker board, which helped us to pass many happy hours, only sometimes we were not good losers and had disputes. At those times the board flew to the shelf, mailed to the beams, where things were kept away from children.
It was from that shelf that I found Ivanhoe and Father Clement and Thaddeus of Warsaw, which I regret to say that I never read. Father thought it a great book.
I have been thinking much lately of the time Ezra left home for Gratiot. Father had bought Ezra 169 acres of land from the government for $80.00 and with a wagon and yoke of oxen and provisions and bedding he started out to make a home for himself in the wilderness. He was 20 years old. Jon Hendernshott and Harvey Troop were with him.
Of all the leaving home of our family, this seems the most lonesome and far away, although only 50 miles away, but at that time 1855, there were not many settlements north of Maple Rapids and no roads, only trails.
Father made Ezra a black walnut chest with a till for papers. The corners were mitered and it made a nice piece of furniture. The chest was burned and father made him another, but as I remember it was not so nice as the first one.
It was a happy day for us when Ezra came home on a visit, and the little ones thought candy grew on trees where he lived as he always brought some for them, and later that was not all he brought. I think in about two years Barbara came with him. She was about the size of Florence and was very kind to all the children. Her nice dress was a white lawn with yellow set flowers, very pretty, and what won my heart, she made my doll a dress like it.
Barbara with her father and brother came from Ohio about the time Ezra went north. She walked bare-footed behind the wagon and drove a cow and calf. They had to ford rivers and they were with one family when they upset and their baby was drown. They lived at first in a shack with no frool and all their furniture was made of rough longs. Her broom was also home made with which she swept the dirt floor.
Ezra once signed a note with a man, who skipped off and left him to pay. This was what put the mortgage on his farm and left Barbara without means in her old age. They had no children of their own but brought up three, and no matter how much trouble they had they were always cheerful.
Our brother Ezra was not to accumulate wealth here, but out of kindness of his heart, his help to those in need, especially to children and mothers, he had a mine of wealth stored where "neither moth nor rust could not corrupt, nor thieves bread through and steal."
I might say here that Ezra's neighbors had moved from near Grand Ledge and made the trip home with ox teams, which was a slow way of traveling and our place was the stopping place the last night. With one man as driver and all the women and children a lumber wagon would hold, it would tax the bedding of the house to furnish a place for all to sleep. We were always glad to hear from Ezra, and I think Father considered that as pay for all the trouble and expense.
George was a baby when Ezra went away, so you see there was no time when all of us children were at home, only 8 at that time. Charley must have married soon after Lute came, and Saron about the time the twins came to cheer our household, and how we all loved them.
John Gensterbloom had been living with us since I was 12 or 14. You may be interested in how John came to be a member of our family. His parents moved here from Germany and lived near Mrs. Petch's father, and John and his father worked for him. Our father needed help as Ezra had gone then, and John first to work and finally to stay. He could not have been more than 13 and was one of the family ever after. After the three older boys moved away the children still had an older brother and I am sure Nora and Dora knew no difference, as he took care of them as any of the family. He was always helping mother and arranged his work so he could go for Jule every week, while she was teaching in Bengal.
Although we were 11 children, there were never more than 8 or 9 of us at home at the same time, but with Father, Mother and the school teacher 7 months of the year, we were still quite a family with plenty of work for all.
Charley and Saron being our elder brothers were very kind to take us out when we had no other escort. We had no theaters and moving pictures were undreamed of, but we much ___ the association of our schools.


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The following is the second response from Paige Hochschild:
It is a great pleasure to have Brad Gregory here with us at the Mount. The best thing about his book is that a number of us read it together—an indirect sort of thanks to the author! The Unintended Reformation was the occasion for the display of some real intellectual rigour and inter-disciplinary conversation. It was also the occasion for intra-denominational combat, pro- and anti-modern hymnody, methodological crises, and political-theoretical indignation. In the end, however, as a small Catholic institution attempting to ask just the kind of questions about "Catholic identity" to which Gregory alludes, reading this book was (I hope) a constructive move on the part of our faculty to take on-going intellectual responsibility for our heritage and mission.[1] John Haldane, a celebrated intellectual who spends about half of his time at Notre Dame, recently passed through town, giving a fine lecture on the modern Catholic university. He proposed that small institutions like the Mount might become the last places where learning for wisdom could prevail over the forces of specialization, research outcomes and technical-career preparation; as a place where history would dominate broadly over the humanities as a method and sensibility; and finally as a place where something like Newman's university could at last be instantiated—non-sectarian, but ordered to truth.
Gregory's book has received plenty of press, with some critiques more substantial than others.[2] Even the title, over the striking cover design, immediately provokes a reaction. I believe this is the intent, given that the final two chapters find Catholics and magisterial Protestants united as both perpetrators and victims of modernity. While Gregory concludes without any trace of "nostalgia," many readers wonder what the wistful praise of the Benedictine ideal might really conceal. Gregory is not an ideologue; he is a cultural critic and an untimely prophet, and his overall "genealogical narrative" is deeply compelling.
Whether one considers outcomes such as economic injustice or environmental degradation (as Gregory frequently does), or whether one considers cultural symptoms such as the negative effects of social mobility, the shallow tone of public discourse, or the sad eschatology proclaimed from the side of a Walmart semi-trailer: "buy more stuff, for less money, and you will have a better life"—one must receive Gregory's book as yet another warning about the dangers of modern forgetting. Gregory freely admits that his argument is not original, following as it does in the line of Nietzsche, Funkenstein, MacIntyre, Lasch and Berry. It is hard to celebrate our apparent inability to negotiate properly moral categories in a polity that prizes "negative liberty."[3] It appears that religious pluralism can only be preserved by the combination of a powerful secular state and the near-total subtraction of religion from public discourse: this is a crucial theme in Gregory's book. We all feel in our daily lives the price that we pay for the great benefit of progress through technological economy—and if we do not feel it, we should. We should reflect upon the costs of our luxury, our ease, our shallow carelessness with the lives and well-being of others; we should feel that our excess de iure belongs to the wounded neighbor at our doorstep.
I offer two comments, one a constructive critique of Gregory's philosophical starting-point, and the second as a word of encouragement to my colleagues to continue the conversation occasioned by Gregory's book. First, the foundational argument about a univocal metaphysics that almost inevitably generates Weberian disenchantment: this part of Gregory's genealogy is familiar from various narratives of intellectual decline from the high Middle Ages on. I am sympathetic with these, as a student of Augustine. It is not clear what Gregory would like to see as a corrective, "non-dualist" theology of creation. A world in which the God of Israel is appropriately transcendent, and yet "related to" creation not only in the order of grace—this could take many theological forms. For Thomas Aquinas, the order of secondary causality can offer a total account of itself (even when it remains at heart unknown).[4] It is not clear what it would look like to "invite God" into the university curriculum, or into a new, modern polity. Disenchantment, at least for St. Thomas, might be a price worth paying for keeping philosophy and theology at the table of scientific wisdom.
The subordination of the divine to natural reason and a mechanistic world-view might be more effectively challenged through the hermeneutic-epistemological approach of Gadamer. The criterion of certitude, and thus of scientific respectability, has been narrowed: reserved on the one hand to the empirical research of the hard sciences ('empirical' construed as quantifiable), and on the other hand to the conscience of Luther, who cried "faith that is not certain, is not faith at all!" The "failure" of modern philosophy that Gregory diagnoses is at heart a matter of epistemology. Before we issue an invitation to God to return to the university, we must challenge our own disciplinary narratives of self-sufficiency.[5]
My second point, offered to my colleagues with whom I have shared these few weeks of conversation: with all the negatives, I think Gregory stands for us as a good example of a historian mindful of his limitations, even in his willingness to range far and wide in the hope that his story will resonate as truth-telling. I am inclined to be as negative as Gregory—things are surely getting worse! (I am waiting for another St. Benedict.) However, I will offer a word of hope in the form of a non-triumphalist Catholic exhortation to the modern, over-specialized academy. In 1998, a genuinely odd Polish Pope offered an encyclical to Catholics, particularly academics, which he claimed had special value and significance to him: Fides et Ratio said many things, but most important was the Pope's conviction that the modern university was a microcosm of spiritual and intellectual malaise at large. Could this place once again awaken and address the deepest questions of the human spirit? Who am I? What am I for? What are we humans about?[6] This text was not really about faith, but about human knowing: it was a call to return to a conviction that a) there is truth; b) we cannot know that truth exhaustively, ever, but we can still know things; and c) this truth is more precious than any other thing in life. The encyclical was John Paul II's treasured life-work, speaking to the arts, sciences, humanities and the social sciences: look for the truth proper to your discipline; just don't forget what you are.
In 2008, a planned lecture by another Pope (at La Sapienza University, Rome) was cancelled due to protests led by faculty. In the text of this address, the autonomy of the secular university, founded originally by Pope Boniface VIII, was warmly acknowledged. He claimed nevertheless good reason to speak in such a context, because of his role as Bishop of Rome, but even more because of the moral authority of a Church that could no longer claim anything like political authority in a pluralistic society. He said it was his task to remind that university that its sole authority was truth. What is truth? Good question, and what would the Church have to say? Well, Pope Benedict XVI talked about Rawls, and Plato's Euthyphro; he asked, "what is the good that makes us to be true?" He looks to the university, with its "proper autonomy of reason" embodied above all in the supreme place that Newman gives to philosophy (as the discipline that holds all others accountable to humane reasoning). But the role of theology is significant: while the academic study of both philosophy and theology draw from a "great dialogue of historical wisdom," theological reflection above all reminds human reason ("as a purifying force") that it is limited.
There is no tone here of sectarian anxiety over "Catholic Identity", but a strong confidence that if the disciplines in the academy a) seek to order their work, by their proper principles, to truth-seeking; and b) converse openly, critically and above all humbly with one another, then a significant gesture is being made in the restoration of human culture. Gregory at the end of his book opposes within Catholic intellectual life the "propositional" to the "participatory" (363). This may be a true statement about the modern condition. The reduction of "theological speech" to praxis-theory always runs the risk of 'historicist black-holes.' I would not give up too quickly on the transformative power of genuinely contemplative truth, even in the "historical and humanistic sciences."[7]
PAIGE E. HOCHSCHILD is an Assistant Professor of Theology here at the Mount, and this is her second year full-time. She graduated from King's College and Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with a BA and MA in Classics; she spent three years at Notre Dame in the Medieval Institute before completing her PhD at University of Durham, England. Her dissertation was last year published by Oxford University Press, "Memory in Augustine's Theological Anthropology." In addition to Patristics and medieval theology, she has recently been doing research in modern Catholic theology and history before, during and after the 'Modernist Crisis."
[1] Gregory, 363.
[2] Gregory has received plenty of scholarly criticism: from Mark Lilla, for writing an homage to After Virtue while pretending to do history; from Mark Noll, for a narrative that is basically correct, but which fails to lay adequate blame upon the medieval Church; from Dale Van Kley, for being an "unapologetic exercise in Catholic apologetics"; from Thomas Pfau, for inadequate hermeneutic attention to the sources that themselves have shaped the modernity that Gregory laments.http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/107211/wittenberg-wal-mart?page=0,1; for a video of the Lumen Christi event at University of Chicago (May 9, 2012), see http://vimeo.com/41909963; for Van Kley, see http://www.booksandculture.com/articles/2012/marapr/rotstarted.html?paging=off; for Pfau, see http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2013/11/06/history-without-hermeneutics-brad-gregorys-unintended-modernity/.
[3] 18-9. By contrast, Gregory does not support argumentatively his use of the term "teleological Christian morality" (233, 244); certainly this is not the only form of distinctively Christian morality. Does the "fissiparous" genre of this book require the articulation of this teleology in philosophical terms, or not? Are 'practices' (364; 266) enough to bring this morality to light? On "negative liberty" see Isaiah Berlin, "Two Concepts of Liberty" (1958), upon which Quentin Skinner patterns a "gothic," Rawlsian (cf. 'negative' liberty of) freedom from restraint, as opposed to a positive, "Roman," republican sort of liberty; cf. "A Third Concept of Liberty," Proceedings of the British Academy, 117 (2002), 237-68. By referring to Nietzsche, the association with Gregory is one of method, and not of the historiographical telos of the will-to-power.
[4] Thus Milbank may not constitute the most metaphysically reliable diagnostician of modernity; cf. Summa contra Gentiles 2.18.2, "creation is not a change, but the very dependency of the act of being upon the principle from which it is produced"; and on the non-redundancy of the perspectives of theology and (natural) philosophy, which "considers the proper causes of things… [which] belong to them by nature" (2.4.2). On the essential unknowability of the "principles of things" see In Aristotelem De Anima, 1.1.15 and J. Pieper, The Silence of St. Thomas (South Bend: St. Augustine's Press, 1999), 59-65.
[5] To my esteemed colleagues in history, a friendly provocation: yes, Skinner and Pocock admit that, at the end of the day, the historian has to buckle down and tell a story (even if cautiously described as a 'narrative'). This acknowledges that the historian must possess a measure of prudence and mature good sense in intuiting the whole that she cannot see materially or linguistically (as Skinner does, for example, at the end of Foundations of Modern Political Thought (1978), where he submits the striking historical generalization/story that "political thought became modern through a process by which 'the state' came to be seen as an impersonal structure and not merely an attitude of the ruler…"). Pocock says that philosophers who do history are no better than "historiosophers"—fair enough, and perhaps Gregory reveals his basically philosophical interests too quickly. However, the supposition that (all?) philosophers are unaware of the history within which their own questions are formed, precisely by making history into something that of itself generates knowledge and/or wisdom (and not by mere attempts at "relevance"), implies in turn that a good historian is safely committed to "what can be shown or said to have happened." Admitting the real danger of writing "historical fiction," it seems that there is an opposite danger for historians who reckon that they attain "facts" through the methodological assumption that words are deeds—and in so doing, run the risk of making the facts of history to be the interpretation of history. See J. G. A. Pocock, "Quentin Skinner: The History of Politics and the Politics of History," Common Knowledge 10:3 (2004), 532-50.
[6] Fides et Ratio, 1.
[7] And I would take a look at Grant, on the university. Cf. La Sapienza Address: "And that means at the same time that reason, in the end, bows to the pressure of interests and the charm of utility, constrained to recognize it as the ultimate criterion. To put this in terms of the point of view of the structure of the university: The danger exists that philosophy, no longer feeling itself capable of its true task, might degenerate into positivism; that theology, with its message addressed to reason, might become confined to the private sphere of a group more or less sizable. If, however, reason -- solicitous of its presumed purity -- becomes deaf to the great message that comes from the Christian faith and its wisdom, it will wither like a tree whose roots no longer reach the waters that give it life. It will lose courage for the truth and thus it will not become greater but less. Applied to our European culture this means: If it wants only to construct itself on the basis of the circle of its own arguments and that which convinces it at the moment -- worried about its secularity -- it will cut itself off from the roots by which it lives; then it will not become more reasonable and more pure, but it will break apart and disintegrate." Accessed at http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/benedict-xvi-s-planned-lecture-at-la-sapienza.


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|Scientific Name:
|Epinephelides armatus (Castelnau, 1875)
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|Near Threatened ver 3.1
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|Cornish, A. (Grouper & Wrasse Specialist Group)
|Sadovy, Y. & Russell, B. (Grouper & Wrasse Red List Authority)
The Breaksea Cod is a poorly studied grouper endemic to Western Australia. It is primarily taken by the recreational fishery (J. St John, pers. comm., 2003) and is common in mixed reef catches with hook and line (Prokop 2002). There are no data from the commercial fishery as this species has only recently been recorded as a separate species to other groupers (J. St John, pers. comm. 2003). Breaksea Cod taken by the recreational fishery were between 2 and 21 years old. Of those, the strongest age class were 4 year olds with all ages between 2 and 13 years well represented (Eastman 2001). A catch curve constructed from this data revealed that total mortality Z = 0.26, which is below acceptable fishing pressure and indicates the species is not being overexploited (J. St John pers. comm. 2003).
Although the Breaksea Cod does not appear to be overexploited at present, there are several reasons to indicate this species could be vulnerable to overexploitation in the future and as such, should be re-assessed at regular intervals.
1). The species has a relatively small global distribution.
2). It occurs in shallow waters, and is easy to catch by the recreational fishery (Prokop 2002) which has increased dramatically in recent years (J. St John pers. comm. 2003).
3). Like many other groupers, the Breaksea cod is large (> 50 cm max. length), slow to mature (3–4 years) and long-lived (> 20 years) making it vulnerable to overexploitation.
4). The youngest individuals taken by the recreational fishery were not sexually mature.
5). There are no restrictions on the commercial fishery.
In contrast, it is reassuring that data from the commercial fishery is now being collected and that the species is solely distributed in Australia, a nation that places great emphasis on trying to manage its fisheries sustainably.
This species is classified as Near Threatened as current data indicates a population reduction of ≥30% is possible (but neither definite nor probable) due to fishing over a 10 year or three generation period where the time period includes both past and the future i.e., just misses IUCN Criteria VU A4d.
Jill St. John (Department of Fisheries, W.A. Marine Research Laboratories) provided important data for this assessment.
|Range Description:
|Epinephelides armatus occurs in southeast Indian Ocean, where it is endemic to western Australia from Recherche Archipelago to Shark Bay (Hutchins and Swainston 1986, Prokop 2002).
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|"Inhabits coastal reefs of south-western Australia, where it is commonly encountered by both anglers and divers" (Hutchins and Swainston 1986). "Often found around bommies and shallow reefs" ( Prokop 2002). "An inquisitive species, it readily approaches divers, but is also sighted resting on the bottom" (Hutchins and Swainston 1986). Grows to a maximum length of 56 cm (FishBase 2003).
Females can spawn from 231 mm, at the age of 3, with 50% mature at 260 mm. Males can spawn from 272 mm, at the age of 4, with 50% mature at 360 mm (Eastman 2001).
There is no evidence that this species forms spawning aggregations (J. St. John, pers. comm. 2003), as do some other large groupers, a trait that increases vulnerability to overexploitation.
|Major Threat(s):
|Overfishing is the only threat known at present.
|Conservation Actions:
|There is a recreational bag limit of four fish per day for E. armatus but no commercial or other restrictions (J. St John pers. comm. 2003).
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