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Judaism: Noah - A Human Faith
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Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran serves as vice president of communications and marketing of the Orthodox Union's Kashruth Division. His most recent book is "Mediations at Sixty: One Person, Under God, Indivisible," published by KTAV Publishing House. He is the author of "Kos Eliyahu – Insights into the Haggadah and Pesach" which has been translated into Hebrew and published by Mosad HaRav Kook, Jerusalem.A priest and a pastor from the nearby parishes stood along the side of the roadway, holding up a sign that reads, "The end is near! Turn around before it's too late!"
They resolved to hold up the sign to each passing car in an attempt to save the driver and the passengers from the terrible fate that awaited them. However, the road had been unusually quiet that morning and they found themselves with little to do. Finally, they heard the sound of an approaching vehicle. Straightening up, they edged closer to the road, raising the sign high in the air.
"The end is near!" they cried out as the car raced toward them.
"Get lost, you religious fanatics!" the driver shouted at them through his open window as the car sped past.
"But… the end is near!" they called after the disappearing vehicle.
A moment later, the car rounded the curve that the priest and pastor knew awaited it. They heard the squeal of brakes and the screeching of tires followed by a loud splash.
The pastor turned to the priest and asked, "Do you think we should have simply put up a sign that said – 'Bridge Out'?"
"Noah was a righteous man in his generation." So opens Parashat Noah and the epic narrative of the flood. "Noah," according to the text, "walked with God." To the casual reader, these words elevate Noah to a level of faith and holiness that cannot help but awe us. However, just as the ambiguity of the clergymen's sign carried a different message than the one they'd intended, the truth of the story of Noah is likewise, very different than what it might first appear to be.
In fact, according to Rashi's characterization of Noah, rather than a man of great faith, he is actually a man of very little faith. As the Midrash suggests, "…one of those with little faith. He believed yet he did not believe fully that the Flood would come." Noah? A man of little faith? Did he not suffer the derision of his neighbors and peers as he built the Ark at God's command? Did that not require great faith?
The Torah tells us that Noah entered the Ark, "mipnei mei ha'mabul", because of the waters of the Flood. This, to our sages, was ample evidence that Noah did not truly believe in what was to come until the waters were starting to lap up over his very own feet. Until that moment, he wasn't going anywhere…
Rav Kanievsky, the Steipler Gaon, differentiates between two levels of faith/belief. There is the academic or intellectual faith so many of us possess – we study and reflect about truths and beliefs but these truths and beliefs do not touch our cores, they are not essential to us.
If Noah had been asked, "Is the flood coming?" he certainly would have answered, "Yes." But his response would have been an intellectual response, not a fundamental, sensory one. He got the "concept". He wasn't getting the "reality". Even when the rains began, Noah saw just rain, not the beginning of God's great punishment. Not until the waters began to flood over his feet. And so, he is censured. He did not believe that God's warning was real, and should motivate his reaction.
How differently he would have behaved if he had been commanded by a mortal king! If a kind declares a place off limits, punishable by death who would dare test the king's resolve? L'havdil! How much more should be heed God than man? But Noah clearly did not. This is why, the Steipler explains, why we say that Noah was a maamin ve'ino maamin. He both believed and he did not. For if he truly believed, would he have waited for the waters to push him into the ark?
Prior to his passing, Rav Yochanan blessed his students (Berachos 28b), "May it be the will of Hashem that your fear of Heaven should equal your fear of mortals."
Is that all we can expect? To fear Heaven as we do man? The Steipler explains that we understand that fear of heaven must surely exceed fear of mortals, that we know that man's retribution is limited – his punishments can be escaped. But God's outstretched Hand is limitless. His punishment not limited to this world but to the world to come as well.
Rav Yochanan's disciples understood this, and accepted the blessing knowing that he was referring to that other level of belief, the sensory level. For what a person knows may or may not prevent him from sinning, but that which he feels will certainly protect him. Feeling, sensing, actually living the belief is usually limited to those situations one can see, or touch, or smell, even among those with intense yiras shomayim.
So Rav Yochanan blessed – would it only be that his students' fear of Heaven would reach this level, then they would be truly blessed.


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The crash the day before the Daytona 500 injured more than 30 people, raising more questions about fan safety at race tracks.
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on thrones and waters....
So we have... Allah--->Allah's throne---> heavens and earth But the throne is above the water, so where did that water come from? Allah had not created the earth yet.... Also... someone else seems to have a throne like that...what a strange coincidence
So, Allah has a throne, Arsh in Arabic, which by coincidence is a rude word in German. (we have a similar word in English, that's the one.) Well, if allah has an arsh,then he must have an arse as well? What else fits on the arsh? If is arsh is very big, I suppose his ... is big also. Maybe he needs a diet? And why over the water? What kind of "throne" is over the water? I can only think of one kind, the kind that is the the smallest room in the house...Any idea?
Re: on thrones and waters....Basically the Koran is repeating the Bible creation story.
Waters before creation: Genesis 1:2: The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Koran 11:7: He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days - and His Throne was over the waters waters separated with solid barrier: Genesis 1:7: And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so Koran 25:53: It is He Who has let free the two bodies of flowing water: One palatable and sweet, and the other salt and bitter; yet has He made a barrier between them, a partition that is forbidden to be passed. Solid sky keeps fresh water sea up in heavens and salt sea flows on earth. This is why it says Allah let free both seas to flow independently having been mingled together under the throne before creation and refers to waters plural ie both sweet and salty waters. Also note how the verse begins; it is he. The emphasis is on who let free the bodies of water, which indicates the audience was already aware of this myth. Last edited by Connedbymo+co on Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:20 pm, edited 3 times in total.
Islam preys on the ignorant and the cowardly, which one are you muslim?
Re: on thrones and waters....D/P
Islam preys on the ignorant and the cowardly, which one are you muslim?
Re: on thrones and waters....Yes it seems likely that most of the creation material is taken from Genesis but it got somewhat muddled around...
But the bible version start like this:
So AFTER there was an earth, God was above the water, which was on the earth. The Qur'an starts with the throne, which leaves you wondering where the water came from, as the hadith says. Genesis starts with the creation of heaven and earth. Then creation is a gradual move from chaos to order.The main message of Genesis is that God is the creator of all that was, is or will be, and that his creation is GOOD. In itself the beginning of Genesis is a poem as can be easily seen even in the English text,for example it has a chorus line: "and he saw that it was good" I would not suggest that the bible has any claims to teach cosmology, the creation story merely wants to express the belief in a benevolent and caring creator God. The cosmology is supposes would be the one in common use at the time. And it would asking too much to expect scientific rigor in a poem. As the Jewish God has no body, any mention of a throne in other texts is merely an allegory, and only appears in songs, like the psalms or visions. In Islam, Allah's throne is not an allegory. He made his throne. Then he made the earth. The throne is therefore as real as the earth. So it is fair to ask how Allah uses a throne. In fact, the references to creation in the Qur'an are fragmented and wooly, contradictory even. The Qur'an merely ASSIGNS fragments of the biblical creation story to Allah, in a feeble effort to make him appear to be the same God as the God from the bible. The Qur'an cannot even plagiarise properly. While the bible wants to teach something about God and his good creation, the Qur'an's purpose of relating the story at all is to write Mohammed into the line of biblical prophets, by pretending his Allah is also JHWH. The Genesis line "the spirit of God was above the water" ends us with some kind of throne being above the water. "The spirit of God" is not an attribute of God, but a poetic description of God. God is a spirit, a being without a body. Somehow that got all mixed up and we have a "throne", a piece of furniture above the water instead.
Re: on thrones and waters....The Quran says everything was created from water so it almost makes sense. BUT, what was the throne created from and what did Allah use the throne for if he didn't have a bum? Or are Muslims suggesting that Allah has a bum? That's disgusting. SEIZE THE BLASPHEMERS!!
Re: on thrones and waters....To a non religious person it's clear that the Koran copied from the Bible.
It also doesn't make much difference about the throne because they're basically implying the same thing. That two types of water existed together initially and then God separated them. The salty sea was put on earth and fresh water was placed in the heavens and they were separated by a firmament(solid sky). Islam preys on the ignorant and the cowardly, which one are you muslim?
Re: on thrones and waters....
Oh yeah, maybe that's what Muhammad meant by salt water being separated from fresh water by a barrier. He didn't know about evaporation. He thought rainwater came from a huge reserve of fresh water in heaven. That makes it even worse of an error than if he meant fresh and salt water on earth. How could Allah NOT know where rain really came from? Probably because "Allah" was really an illiterate Arab. That would explain it perfectly. That belief was probably common in those days so that may be why people prayed for rain. Last edited by marduk on Wed Jul 04, 2012 11:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: on thrones and waters....Koranic cosmology in Descending Order
1 Allah on throne 2 Water above heavens 3 seven heavens 4 Flat Earth & water below(rivers and sea)
Re: on thrones and waters....
not to worry whether allah's got an arse or not. if allah doesn't, Muhammad can sit on the throne. I am sure that muslims would be more than happy to see that. But i am quite sure allah got one cos' i remember somewhere out there is a hadith which mentioned allah showing his ankle. I suppose allah's ankle would be connected to his arse... Quran miracle (16:69) : Bees eat ALL fruits
Quran miracle (27:18) : an ant SAID, "O ants, enter your dwellings that you not be crushed by Solomon and his soldiers while they perceive not."
Re: on thrones and waters....I knew it, Allah is really just some guy. He has a throne to sit on and ankles to hold his legs up because he's a humanoid, a humanoid ALIEN!!! Gods don't have bodies but aliens do. He lives in the "heavens" because that's what space is. He flies around in a pillar of fire, clearly a space ship.
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New plans for Battersea Power Station would see the iconic building turned into a large-scale performance arena with housing built on surrounding land.
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Property group Knight Frank is now handling the site's sale for administrator Ernst & Young and is hoping to raise up to £500 million for creditors.
Allies & Morrison's plans were drawn up after it was conacted by Save Britain's Heritage president Marcus Binney.
Its scheme involves turning the building's Boiler House into an 11,000-seat arena able to host concerts and events while the neighbouring Turbine Halls would be used to host exhibitions, receptions and launches.
The former coal bunker area and Grade II listed Water Pumping Station would be kept and housing would be built on surrounding land.
Morrison said the Boiler House could be quickly used in a "raw state" as an open air venue with a roof, raised floor and hospitality boxes added in later stages.
It said its scheme was "a very practical idea not romantic nor financially so ambitious".
The plans will be unveiled at event at the Building Centre in London organised by heritage group the Twentieth Century Society.
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It is interesting the view we have on heritage.
If this was a green field site and some one applied for planning permission today to construct a power station of the same scale and size as Battersea it would be rejected and no doubt planners would refer to the negative affect a building of such scale would have on the London skyline as well as lots of other matters.
Yet, when this building is proposed for demolition, despite its legacy industrial heritage and the contamination and pollution it was responsible for, the heritage lobby wish to retain it. This argument makes no sense whatsoever.
If you think sustainability, as this is one of the last two major sites in London, the site should be used as efficiently as it can be to provide the desperately need housing and other facilities this area needs.
It it means demolition, so be it. At least the bricks can be reused to construct many of the buildings that would be built on the site and aspects of the architectural style and heritage could be used in a new scheme.
The easy decision is to retain the structure, however this seems to be to be the wrong decision for a site of such size and location as this one.
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Kate told teachers and students at the private St. Andrew's School in southern England that her 10 years there were "some of my happiest years." She said she enjoyed it so much that she had told her mother she wanted to return as a teacher.
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Belial wrote:gorcee wrote:Persistence is admirable!
Nope! Too broad. All things in context. Persistence for the right cause is admirable. Persistence for its own sake is just bullheadedness. Choosing the hardest path for no reason other than "because it's the hardest" isn't a virtue, it's just masochism.
Fair points.
Sure, but I'm not talking about bullheadedness, really. And I'm not suggesting that anyone is choosing the hardest path for the sake of choosing the hardest path. If I were suggesting that, then I'd be suggesting that STEM students don't care about STEM, they just care about doing hard things. So I am implicitly focusing on the "good persistence", that is, sticking with your chosen field despite all odds to the contrary. You say all things in context. I have already constructed the context.
So in light of your comments, I'll amend point three:
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3a.) STEM students desire a goal. Sometimes the goal is a well-paying job. Sometimes the goal is the ability to work with things you think are really cool. Sometimes the goal is just the desire to learn.
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It was windy and chilly in the early morning hours of Saturday, April 6. Nevertheless, many dedicated volunteers showed up for an assignment. Wearing jackets or sweaters, they signed up to help keep Boca Grande tidy and beautiful. Each person was assigned a segment of the island and, with their bags and pick up devices in hand, marched off to do their work.
The following participants made this year's cleanup another notable success: Roger Nichols, Bob Elliott, Dick Campbell, Andy Ireland, Bayne Stevenson, Mary O'Bannon, Philip O'Bannon, Tom Gilligan, Marian Gilligan, Nat Italiano, George Milne, Chuck Van Zoeren, Jo Van Zoeren, Davis Hammond, Martha Diebold, Deb Martin, Dusty Hopkins, Cheryl Hopkins, Elizabeth Schum, Frank Strong, Barbara Strong, Misty Nichols, Julia Krieg, Louise Mauran, John Stanley, Sarah Watkins, and Scotlyn Steele.
Additionally, we wish to acknowledge the many residents who routinely pick up debris as part of their daily walk or exercise program.
Thank you one and all!
We also extend our thanks and appreciation to the other island businesses and organizations who participated with the GICIA and Italiano Insurance: Boca Grande Chamber of Commerce, Gasparilla Island State Park, and Brook's Hauling.
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"To men I shall speak wisdom where none speak a word on earth; though sons of land-dwellers now eagerly seek after my tracks, I sometimes hide my path from everyone." Riddle 94 of the Exeter Book. In following the dark tracks of the Old English writers who left their almost unrecognizable English words on tenth-century vellum, we will have to acquire skills and tools. This course will ask you to learn the Old English language, but translations will also be provided for most of the texts as a guide only. With these in hand, we will explore the dark world of Anglo-Saxon writing for its illuminations, but our emphasis will be on loss, love, hardship, riddle, wisdom, and the spiritual and magical powers of writing in a culture that stood on the cusp of orality and literacy. Texts: King Alfred, The Chronicles, Aelfric's "Preface to Genesis," "The Wanderer," The Seafarer," "The Wife's Lament," "Wulf and Eadwacer," "Gnomes," "Enigmas," "The Battle of Maldon."
A media-rich course that examines medieval monstrosities: depictions in art, language and literature of demons, giants, dwarfs, elves, fools, shape-shifters, witches, birth-defects, hybrids, foreigners, manuscript illuminations, gargoyles, spells, gibberish, and other (perceived) deformities of the body and mind in mostly British Isles texts. The term "monster" derives from the Latin monstrare, to "show": a "portent" that points not only to the vulnerabilities of the body, but the moral mishaps of soul and society. Monsters occupy the margins (of the city, the manuscript page) and yet are central to any social definition or understanding of medieval theology, medicine, imagination. To what extent are they opposed or akin to visions of angels, martyrs, the torments of Christ? Selections from Old and Middle English, Celtic, and some continental texts.
This course will focus on plays representing each of Shakespeare's major dramatic forms—comedy, history, tragedy, and romance. We learn about the literary and theatrical conventions that would have been second nature to Shakespeare and his audience 400 years ago; consider how Shakespeare's writing responded to his audience's cultural, literary, political, and religious concerns; and ask how Renaissance stage practices might help us to better understand his plays and better appreciate why Renaissance audiences found them so compelling. Classes will center around careful study of individual plays. We also will become familiar with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century theatrical spaces—their geographical location and physical properties, the composition of their audiences, the training and performance practices of their actors, and the aesthetic effects of their productions. Fulfills the pre-1800 requirement for the English major.
This course introduces students to some of the major British novelists during the nineteenth century such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. The course will situate these novelists within the aesthetic and historical concerns of the period and cover an array of topics (e.g. the rise of the novel, the marriage plot as a narrative device, capitalism, gender, sexuality, race, and empire).
The nineteenth-century novel is usually associated with Victorian values: happy marriage; wholesome homes; moral propriety; properly channeled emotions and ambitions. Many of the most popular novels, however, paint a very different picture: with madwomen locked in attics and asylums; monsters, real and imagined, lurking behind the facade of propriety; genteel homes harboring opium addicts; fallen women walking the streets; and sexual transgression and degeneracy popping up everywhere. Indeed, for novels centrally structured around marriage and society, madness and monstrosity appear with alarming regularity. The intertwining of these tropes suggests some of the cultural anxieties unleashed by the new body of women writers and women readers. We will begin with Frankenstein and end with Dracula, two novels from opposite ends of the century. We will also consider such classic marriage plot novels as Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre and some popular sensation fiction of the 1860s.
The course covers the period roughly between World War I and World War II, dealing with the rich creativity we associate with Modernism. We will read and discuss such writers as Eliot, Faulkner, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Steinbeck, etc., studying not only the works but some of the major trends in art, culture, and knowledge that make the modern period so important and exciting. The method will be a combination of close reading, lecture, and discussion with (probably) one short paper and one longish paper.
The history and theory of the novel form in the U.S. from the Revolution to the Civil War. We will read a broad range of the novel's different modes (the epistolary novel, the novel of seduction, the gothic, the historical romance, the sentimental-domestic novel). Along the way we'll trace the development of the form from its emergence after the Revolution, through its dominance at mid-century, up to the emergence of the African-American novel in the years leading up to the Civil War. Readings will likely include: Rowson, Foster, C.B. Brown, Cooper, Sedgwick, Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, Webb.
The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a rejuvenation of poetic language so startling and so lasting that we still, a hundred years later, refer to those poets as the Moderns. This course will concentrate on the most provocative of those poets (Eliot, Frost, H.D., Moore, Pound, Stevens, Williams), reading their often wildly experimental work within the context of the literary and cultural history of the period.
How does literature portray, thematize, and direct the act of reading? From cautionary tales about the dangers of reading the "wrong way" to anti-censorship tracts, literature has long been concerned with what it means to read and what reading "ought" to be or do. A book might warn us about becoming too invested in an author's personal life; another might warn us about applying fictional narratives too directly to our own lives. Certain works might address a changing literary marketplace; but others might be less interested in reading's history and more concerned with reading as an immediate experience, or with its more universal possibilities. Of course, as we make our way through these texts "about" reading, we will also explore how each text asks us to read it—and how each text might be said to "read itself." Authors will include (but not be limited to) Cervantes, Milton, Goethe, Flaubert, James, Nabokov, Borges, and Calvino; texts will draw from over five centuries and more than seven national literatures.
Toni Morrison has emerged as one of the most influential writers and critics in contemporary American culture. This course will approach her work from a broad range of critical perspectives including black feminist thought, trauma theory, biblical exegesis, and critical race theory. Although this class will emphasize rigorous study of her literary works, we will also pay close attention to her contributions to literary criticism, her role in public life, as well as her forays into political and national debates. In our study of her novels, we will explore such issues as the importance of history and myth in the creation of personal identity, constructions of race and gender, the dynamic nature of love, the role of the community in social life, and the pressures related to the development of adolescent girls. We will also examine the changing nature of Morrison's reception by critics and academics, and consider how and why she has achieved such widespread acclaim and influence.
What is steampunk? Steam-powered trains and nineteenth-century dirigibles; the ornately constricting fashions and equally constraining values of the Victorian era; revolutionary movements and class politics such as Communism and Anarchism; the lawless frontier of the American West. All of these come together in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century culture of steampunk, a culture that has its origins in a literary tradition that extends back to the nineteenth century. The purpose of this class is to grapple with the relationship of that still-living tradition to the thriving culture of steampunk today, exploring how obsolescence and anachronism become aesthetic "technologies" for imagining alternative modernities in novels and films such as William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's The Difference Engine, Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age, Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle, Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, Katsuhiro Otomo's Steamboy, Barry Sonnenfeld's The Wild Wild West, China Miéville's Iron Council, and Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day. In reading and viewing these novels and films, we will consider a variety of issues: just what the "punk" in steampunk means; how this genre relates to its nineteenth-century genealogy (the Victorian novel, the Western, Marxist aesthetics, science fiction), not to mention more contemporary modes such as cyberpunk, postmodernism, and neo-Victorianism; historical fantasy and commodity fetishism; the politics of race, gender, sexuality, and class; the poetics of narration and figuration as they relate to the political aesthetics of steampunk; the status of technology and media; how the past comes to take the place of the future in steampunk; and finally how that temporal dislocation is intrinsically linked to the much larger problem of living within the vortex of modernity that defines our present.
This course focuses on the role of literature in representing—and sometimes participating in—processes of inclusion and exclusion. How communities are constructed, around what signs and sets of practices, and the role that exclusion plays in defining a community are topics that we will explore. The course asks, "What does it mean to belong, to be excluded, and just how stable are these categories?" Literature from a variety of traditions, historical periods, and genres will provide examples, case histories, and a critical vocabulary with which such social phenomena can be discussed. Texts include Beowulf, John Gardner's Grendel, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Peter Shaffer's Equus, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Richard Wright's Black Boy, and more.
This course provides a basic introduction to some of the major works and themes in American literature, focusing primarily on the development of the novel and short story, with limited attention to poetry and drama. We will begin in the nineteenth century and work our way through such contemporary writers as Toni Morrison and Tony Kushner. Our focus will be on the creation of a national identity and how issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality intersect in the formation of an American literary tradition. Students will trace a number of important themes such as the relationship between politics and art, the impact of slavery and the Civil War, immigration, the American dream and the development of a national mythology and ideology. In our study of various movements in the American literary tradition, we will also pay close attention to the intellectual debates concerning audience, language, and the purpose of art that have shaped key texts and historical time periods.
This 4-credit intersession course will be conducted in London and Stratford-upon-Avon, UK, from December 29, 2011, through January 14, 2012. We will have a full range of theater experiences in venues as diverse as theater-in-the-round at the Orange Tree to the multiple stages of the National Theatre, from intimate fringe productions and experimental theater to the extravaganzas of West End. See the Theater in England website for descriptions of the program and syllabuses from the past 20 years. This year we will see the best of what is available (twenty or so plays). We will have seminar discussions of the productions which you will then write about in your journals. The fee for the course is $2,700, which includes tuition, tickets to all plays you see, 17 nights housing at the Harlingford Hotel, and transportation to Stratford-upon-Avon and return. The fee does not include transportation to London and back from the U.S.
More than any other legends, apart from those of the Bible, the stories of King Arthur have provided Western Europe and North America with a vehicle for cultural propaganda, reassessment, and pleasure. From the twelfth to the twenty-first centuries, artists in all genres and modes have recast Arthurian narratives and images to explore and redefine the moral and social concerns of their day. After a brief introduction to Arthurian backgrounds, the course focuses on Geoffrey of Monmouth and Arthurian literature of the High Middle Ages (Chretien de Troyes and Marie de France) and England in the fourteenth century, then examines the culmination and decline of that ideology toward the end of the fifteenth century (Malory), the reinvigoration of the myth in new directions in the Renaissance (Spenser), and concludes with readings and art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Tennyson, the PreRaphaelites, Twain, T.S. Eliot, E.A. Robinson, T.H. White). We will also study six movies.
An introduction to the history, technology, and cultural significance of motion pictures of the "pre-sound" era, with screenings of 35mm prints accompanied by live music in the Dryden Theatre. Special attention will be paid to the major pioneers, Dickson, Porter, Lumière, Méliès, and Griffith, but the course will include a variety of internationally produced films selected from the world-famous archival film collection of George Eastman House. Discussion sessions will cover the origins and development of the motion picture industry and its leading genres up to the general introduction of movies with pre-recorded music, sound, and dialog beginning in 1927. Broad issues relating to the transformation of American and world popular entertainment forms and traditions, in relation to the established performing arts of the period, will also be covered. Relevant connections to preserving the world's film heritage will be highlighted, and the film restoration facilities of the Motion Picture Department will be visited in the course of the semester. Students will be expected to take a midterm exam and write one paper. Enrollment limited to 20.
The course will consider that large, unusual, and varied group of motion pictures known, for reasons of style and content, as film noir—dark films—which includes horror, gangster, detective, and crime movies. We will examine some of the history of the term and the kinds of movies it refers to, study some relevant primary and secondary sources, and of course, screen, analyze, and discuss a dozen or more motion pictures. Possible titles to study include Murder, My Sweet, Touch of Evil, Gilda, The Third Man, Double Indemnity, Night and the City. Aside from the films and the reading assignments, the course will require approximately three papers and a final examination. Although no particular expertise in film is necessary, students should be capable of writing clear, forceful, coherent analyses of narrative.
This course introduces students to the poetics of television. We will explore the ways that television tells stories and how it constructs worlds; the significance of genre, style, and form to those stories and worlds; the relationship between television as a medium and the horizons of social and aesthetic experience that television opens up; and how those experiences are inflected by the history of television from the time before its invention to the post-network era in the digital age. Much of our class will be devoted to watching TV and discussing what we watch, from the sitcom, news, reality TV, domestic melodrama, soap operas, and crime procedurals to advertising, animation, mini-series, sci-fi and fantasy, the Western, "art television," and live drama. Students will also come to understand poetics as an approach useful to the study of any medium, especially when combined with the more speculative and conceptual projects of media theory. Readings will draw on Aristotle, Todorov, Lukács, Mittell, and Bordwell in addition to Uricchio, Jenkins, Adorno, Williams, Feuer, Spigel, and McCarthy.
Restricted to "Selznick" students.
Restricted to "Selznick" students.
Restricted to "Selznick" students.
This is a workshop for students who have completed ENG 117 or have some experience writing fiction on their own and are ready to concentrate on more ambitious projects. We'll read short stories by contemporary writers along with fiction by the students in the workshop, and we'll discuss ways writers can sharpen the conversation between text and reader. We'll also consider editing and reviewing techniques. Students will be expected to write and revise at least three original stories or three sections of a longer work of fiction. Permission of instructor required.
Poetic Forms is a creative writing workshop dedicated to the practice and exploration of writing in form. Previous experience in writing in form and meter is not required, but previous coursework in creative writing is suggested. Open by instructor permission only and limited to fifteen students. Email instructor with a poetry sample of 3-5 pages.
This course examines major critical issues surrounding the horror genre, through close study of Classical Hollywood, post-Classical, and international horror films, and readings in critical theory. Issues to be explored include boundary transgression and bodily abjection in the construction of the horror monster; gender, pregnancy, and the "monstrous feminine"; social Otherness (race, class, sexuality) as monstrosity; the figure of the serial killer and the shift from classic to modern horror; the grotesque and the blending of comedy and horror in the zombie film; international horror (especially Japan) and cross-cultural influences with Hollywood. As a research seminar, the course will involve the development of a substantial research project.
From The New Yorker to the blogosphere, successful feature writers bridge the gap between news and commentary, shedding light on people, places, and perplexing issues. We'll study their methods and put them into practice as we write our own articles. Among the feature forms we'll explore: profiles, trend pieces, investigations, science and travel stories, and color pieces. Among our topics: finding and developing ideas; researching; interviewing and quoting effectively and ethically; achieving the right structure and tone; fact checking; revising and pruning; and getting published.
This course will introduce students to the theoretical backgrounds, practical challenges, and creative activity of literary translation. We will survey appropriate theories of language and communication including semiotics, post-structuralism, pragmatics, discourse analysis, and cognitive linguistics. We will consider varied and conflicting descriptions by translators of what it is they believe they are doing and what they hope to accomplish by doing it; and we will study specific translations into English from a variety of sources in order to investigate the strategies and choices translators make and the implication of those choices for our developing sense of what kinds of texts translations actually are. Finally, students will, in consultation with the instructor or with another qualified faculty member, undertake exercises in translation of their own. By the end of this class each student should have a working knowledge of both the critical backgrounds and the artistic potentials of translation.
Introduction to Graduate Studies in English is a semester-long introduction to doctoral study in English.
This course will address medieval and early modern accounts of cultural encounter and the contact zone; readings will include histories and romances of Alexander the Great, the Travels of Marco Polo, Mandeville's Travels, the earliest accounts of African and Asian sea routes by Portuguese and German writers, and descriptions of America from Columbus and Vespucci to the end of the sixteenth century. The recurrent focus for research and discussions will be a series of binaries and mediations, including: the medieval / modern dichotomy in literary and historical studies; global and hemispheric divisions of East and West; the relation of text and image; manuscript and mass production; and the growth of local, national, and supranational language communities. We will pay continuous attention to the material conditions in which media are commissioned, produced, circulated, and consumed.
The seminar might be called "Shakespearean enigmas." We'll be looking at a small group of plays, both comedies and tragedies, with an eye to enigmas and unresolvable questions, thinking about what is most mysterious, contradictory, paradoxical, and opaque in Shakespeare's representations of human character, in his pictures of human experience and knowledge, in his treatments of dramatic language, in his ideas of intention and authorship. Readings will include Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, King Lear, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra.
This course reads examples of the Early English Novel while interrogating what that definition entails. Literary history tells us that the novel "rose," along with domesticity, bourgeois morality, and widespread literacy. Meanwhile, drama allegedly "declined," and with it the values of social identity, public honor, and performativity. We will read such accounts alongside newer ones, while of course adding our own to the mix: how does the novel, as opposed to other genres, approach reality and representation? It is often called a "print-genre" par excellence; how much of its worldview does the novel owe to print and its tendencies toward privacy, descriptive detail, and psychological immersion? How "historically determined" is it as a form? Syllabus includes works by Behn, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Austen; and by Watt, Hunter, McKeon, Bender, Bakhtin, Gallagher, and others.
Beginning in the 1780s, American writers suddenly began to claim that their writing embodied "American" qualities. The only problem was, before writers could offer a truly "American literature" to readers, they would have to figure out what on earth it was supposed to look like. At the moment the idea was born, no one had yet considered what it would mean to write "like an American," nor what sorts of literary characteristics Americanness was supposed to generate. Fast forward to 1855, when Walt Whitman first published Leaves of Grass. Now it seemed completely self-evident to writers, readers, and critics that American writing possessed unique aesthetic qualities that could not possibly exist anywhere else in the literary universe. We will trace the history of this idea through the literary works that were said to embody it, from its first stirrings after the Revolution, through the burgeoning cultural nationalism of the 1820s, and culminating in the solidification of a national literature in the 1850s.
This seminar will concentrate on one modernist poet (Wallace Stevens), one transitional figure (Elizabeth Bishop), and one postmodernist poet (John Ashbery). We will read just about all of their work, both poetry and prose, with one eye fixed firmly on the work as such and one eye gazing farther afield to issues in literary and cultural history—the vexed relationship of modernism and postmodernism; the equally vexed relationship of poetic language to historical event; the interminably vexed relationship of poetic form (especially experimental form) and political ideology.
Since Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault proclaimed "the death of the author" in the late 1960s, the subject of authorship has been hotly debated in literary and cultural studies. Rather than being quietly buried, however, "the author" has been given new life and a precise historical dimension in a range of scholarly work in both literature and other disciplines. Looking at such issues as the gendering of authorship, the history of publishing and the literary marketplace, readership and reception history, the institutionalization of authorship in author societies and university curricula, and the effects of the new electronic technologies on the way we think about the processes of artistic creation, this course will explore the rich body of critical work that has recently emerged on the subject of authorship. We will consider both the impact of this work on the reinterpretation of canonical writers and the tools it provides for reading and revaluing forms of authorship that have not readily fit traditionally accepted categories. Course readings will combine critical and theoretical discussions of authorship with attention to particular literary texts (from a wide range of historical periods) that highlight and focus particular issues and problems in conceiving and reconceiving what we once called "the author." Students will be encouraged to design research projects around authors and works of their own choosing.
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You may think your jiggling spare tire is just along for the ride, an inert mass that slows you down and forces a slackened belt. But far from just sitting there quietly, your body fat is talking. And what it's saying—in a constant stream of messages to your brain, liver, muscles, and points in between—amounts to an urgent reason to finally follow through on that New Year's resolution.
Researchers worried about the obesity epidemic are furiously studying body fat in an effort to decode its effect on health. And they have discovered that fat is as active and important an endocrine organ as the thyroid or reproductive glands. In healthy amounts, it tightly regulates the amount of energy burned or stored by releasing a cadre of hormones. In excess, the fat cells swell and multiply, and their functioning overwhelms the system: Nasty inflammatory factors spew into the bloodstream, and the delicate balance of hormones becomes skewed, altering the brain's normal response to fat's signals. The result: a much-elevated risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and liver disease. Plus metabolic changes that make losing weight—and keeping it off—seem impossibly tough.
"People think obesity is two behaviors: gluttony and sloth," says Robert Lustig, director of the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health Clinic at the University of California-San Francisco Children's Hospital. "That's not what it is. Obesity is a manifestation of a biochemical problem." Excessive fat strengthens the dysfunction, too, trapping the body in a vicious cycle. Even slightly overweight people can be on the path to a disturbed physiology—no matter that their clothes can still disguise a paunch.
For evidence, look no further than the recent surge in type 2 diabetes, which correlates in near lockstep with Americans' expanding waistlines. As fat stores go up, so does the pancreas's production of insulin, the hormone that helps usher glucose out of the bloodstream and into cells where it's used for fuel. So people with too many extra pounds end up with a glut of the stuff, typically leading to "insulin resistance"—and too much glucose in the blood. Meantime, the excess insulin sends energy into the fat cells, causing them to plump up and multiply ad infinitum—and end up in places fat shouldn't be, like muscles, the liver, and deep in the gut, wrapped around vital organs.
Discipline. Insulin resistance has been Jesse Manek's nemesis. Now 15, Manek was told three years ago that—seriously overweight at 283 pounds and prediabetic—he would very likely have full-blown diabetes or a heart attack by the time he reached his 20s. Manek, who lives in Novato, Calif., sought help from Lustig and the watch clinic and has managed to drop more than 75 pounds and bring his body-mass index, a number that relates weight to height, from 41.6 to a closer-to-normal 29.9. His regimen has been ultradisciplined: at least four classes per week at Marin Mixed Martial Arts, weekly sessions of strength training with a personal trainer, and a diet nearly devoid of fructose (found in table sugar and high-fructose corn syrup) and chock-full of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Lustig also has treated Manek with metformin, a diabetes drug, to rein in his insulin-gone-haywire. "It really comes down to a mental battle," Manek says of his struggle. "Do you want to be healthy?" He's now safely out of the prediabetic zone.
Besides upsetting the insulin balance, too much fat seems to unleash a flood of molecules called cytokines that trigger systemwide inflammation. "Obesity is a pro-inflammatory state," says Michael Charlton, medical director of liver transplantation at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Normally, inflammation is a healthy immune response, critical to fighting off infection. But chronic inflammation causes widespread tissue damage. The plumper and more abundant a person's fat cells, the greater the number of cytokine-releasing macrophage cells in the fat tissue. "It's these macrophages that are causing a lot of the trouble," says Rudolph Leibel, a Columbia University geneticist and noted obesity researcher. "They make mischief related to how fat you are."
The cardiovascular system appears to be one victim. Macrophages play an important role in the development of the fatty plaques that lead to atherosclerosis. And cytokines can make tissues resistant to the effects of insulin and cause inflammation in the blood vessels. Meantime, too much insulin can promote salt retention—and soaring blood pressure. "If I hadn't lost the weight when I did, they say [I'd have had] a heart attack or stroke," says Sheri Fanning, 41, a geriatric care manager and now weight-loss coach in Sparta, Wis., who has heart disease in her family and recently experienced a dangerous blood pressure spike.
Corrected on 1/9/07: An earlier version of this article misstated the name of the American Institute for Cancer Research.


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Barracuda Labs, a company that deals with Internet security and the like, has released its 2010 Midyear Security Report. The report was presented last week in Las Vegas at the DefCON 18 and Security Bsides shows. The report focuses on two main topics: malware associated with search engines, and trends in the usage of the popular social networking site known as Twitter. If you're concerned about online security, the numbers aren't pretty.
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Ah yes, whilst Angello, Axwell and Ingrosso amuse all with their 21st century update on Spinal Tap, Rush Hour drop a timely reminder about the real Swedish House Mafia, enlisting Skudge and MRSK to take apart some Frictionalism classics and piece them back together in their own distinct fashion. The ever mysterious Skudge are up first stripping Shakir's classic "Floorfiller" of it's emotive keys and twisting the remains into the sort of highly pressurised, relentless, twisting reverberant industrial thumper you'd expect from the elusive Scandinavian collective. Impressive as that is, MRSK provides an even better take on "Travelers" transforming the future abstractions of Shakir's original track into something dark, sensual and pulsing with an intensity that's comparable to Robert Hood at his finest.
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Played by: Gerd, Roland Schwarz, GummiHz, The Revenge, Shadow Dancer, ASHLEY BEEDLE, Alkalino, Andre Lodemann, Spring Chart, Frawl, The Dead Rose Music Company, Cottam
Kyle Hall aside, it's hard to pick two up-and-coming producers better suited to the task of giving Anthony Shake Shakir's off kilter Detroitisms a contemporary tweak than FaltyDL and Space Dimension Controller. In the first of two Rush Hour-curated releases, Belfast youngster SDC, fresh off a stunning EP released on resurgent Belgian imprint R&S, turns his intergalactic remixing hand on the seminal "Detroit State Of Mind", first released in 1998. He slows down the tempo here, opting for slo-mo, bubbling synths, claps and a vintage analogue electro-disco funk melodies that are fast becoming the SDC signature sound. FaltyDL (real name Drew Lustman) meanwhile remixes "Assimilated". Despite being based in New York, Falty's sound has its roots in the UK, with his releases displaying a clear affection for dubstep, funky and old-school garage as well as house. On this effort he goes for a dense, layered approach, with snare hits busily chopping and changing direction amid a flurry of analogue squiggles, with a bassline groove that is slowed down, tweaked and generally messed with in an insouciant manner that would no doubt make Shakir smile. More than merely a nice idea for a remix project, this release serves as a neat snapshot of what electronic music is all about in 2010: a fertile breeding ground between genres, eras and continents, with one foot respectfully planted in the past and the other holding the door open for the future.
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The second vinyl sampler for Rush Hour's essential Anthony Shakir retrospective finally comes to download, and again it's an essential purchase for fans of high quality house and techno. Lead cut "Arise" - originally released way back in 1998 - is particularly inspirational example of Detroit techno at its rich and emotional best, all touchy-feely synths, tumbling riffs and star-gazing beats. There's more soft centred piano love on the shuffling "Simpatico", while "The Fake Left, Go Right Plan" pushes the groove into the red in its pursuit of stripped-back perfection. Then there's "Mr Gone Is Back Again", as melancholic a Detroit techno track as you'd wish to find.
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The third part of Rush Hour's essential Anthony 'Shake' Shakir retrospective comes to digital download. As with previous instalments, it's an impressive collection, and one that brilliantly demonstrates the breadth and depth of Shakir's musical palette. There is, of course, some pure Detroit techno - in this case the sublime galactic funk of "For The Lamanted" - and something a little rougher ("Frictionalized"). But there's also some delicious old skool house bump (the wonderful "I Get A Feeling", which will send shivers down the spine of punters of a certain age) and, most impressively, a tech-jazz wig-out that sounds like early Recloose given the Shakir treatment ("Assimilated"). Essential as ever.
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Rush Hour's trawl through the back catalogue of the irreplaceable Anthony 'Shake' Shakir comes to an end with a final three-track romp. As with the previous three releases, every track is nigh on essential. This time round, there's a much more obvious funk swing to proceedings, with all three tracks displaying clear soul and disco influences. The relentless military snares and Rhodes riffs of "The Other One" particularly impresses, but there's also little to call between the Detroit techno meets NY disco pomp of "Plugged In" and the simple pleasures of "The Floorfiller". In many ways, it doesn't matter; like the rest of the series, the whole EP is an essential purchase.
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The Security Forces who are now on the final leg of their battle against the LTTE has entered the outskirts of Iranapalai, the last operational centre of the top rung Tiger leaders including Intelligence Wing leader Pottu Amman with the troops clearing the last section of the built-up area in Puthkuduyiruppu East by yesterday evening.
Military sources in the battlefront told the Daily News that the 58 Division under the command of Brigadier Shavendra Silva was in the process of clearing the last section of buildings in the Puthukuduyiruppu East yesterday with the capture of LTTE's last Court complex in Puthukuduyiruppu East.
"After completing their mission in Puthukuduyiruppu East the 20 Gajaba Regiment yesterday entered into the highly fortified Iranapalai, the LTTE's last operational centre amidst fierce battles", the sources added.
The ground troops found that Iranapalai, which had been the hideout of the LTTE Intelligence Wing leader Pottu Amman for decades, was strongly held by the LTTE constructing massive earth bunds.
The LTTE had maintained Iranapalai as their main operational centre with many of their top rung leaders including Sea Tiger Wing leader Soosai handling Sea Tiger operations making his base there in Iranapalai making that area out of bound for the civilians. Military intelligence sources have also confirmed the presence of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran frequently in this area recently.
The 58 Division yesterday captured the Court complex of the LTTE in Puthukudiyiruppu which may be the last Court maintained by the LTTE to keep the Tamil civilian population under their law.
With troops reaching the last terrain under the LTTE once again exodus of civilians started to flow into military controlled areas both from the North and South of Puthukudiyiruppu.
"Yesterday 904 civilians arrived in the 58 Division area alone and hundreds of civilians arriving in the South of Puthukudiyiruppu and towards Jaffna by boats", the sources added.
Military officials had observed that a considerable number of disabled civilians arriving in military controlled areas mingling with these civilians arousing suspicion that they might be disabled Tiger cadres who had distanced from the military operations due to their disability.
Meanwhile, 58 Division troops have also reached some 400 metres closer to the Safe Zone in Puthumattalan where thousands of civilians had taken refuge.


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Luxury spirits company William Grant and Sons will have a large presence at the event showcasing their Milagro, Hendrick's Gin, Sailor Jerry, Glenfiddich and Balvenie brands. Milagro tequila and Hendrick's will both have a 35' x 35' activation area which will include a tent, bar and lounge areas. Stoli, Sailor Jerry, Glenfiddich and Balvenie will share a 4-sided pavilion where they will sample refreshing summer cocktails and many Scotch variants.
The weekend's festivities include a grand tasting from 6pm to 11pm on Friday night with a special mixology demo at 10pm. On Saturday the Grand Tasting runs from 5 – 10pm with a 5- 7pm: Grand Cru Tasting featuring high-end variants of Balvenie, Glenfiddich and others. On Sunday there is a chefs and champagne brunch in the morning with another grand tasting from12 – 5pm including a 3:30 pm demo of Milagro's Freshest Margarita. Tickets are available for individual events or an all-event pass can be picked up at the door for $335.


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It can be hard to figure out your place in the world. As a young person with your whole life ahead of you, having the right guidance and support can make a real difference in figuring out who you are and what you can achieve. Whether kids come to the Y looking to explore their interests, or for support in navigating challenges, the Y is committed to nurturing children and teens and roots for their success.
"Before leaders club, I spent my time with nothing to do but stay home and watch tv. I was lazy, never felt like doing anything and had nothing to look forward to. But one day while signing up for our afterschool program, I decided to try something new and be in leaders club. After I joined, I thought it would be boring, but after a while, it felt like they was [sic] family to me. Leaders Club really changed my life. We go out and help with the community, do fun activities, take trips to rallies, etc. Going through this experience made me feel like there are lots of opportunities and I should go for it."
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Started in Houston, TX in 1967 to provide African American teens with a positive sense of self and aspirations for professional careers in the workforce, the purpose of YMCA Black Achievers is "to help teens of color set and pursue high educational and career goals resulting in graduation and acceptance to an institution of higher learning." Black Achievers programs meet weekly or bi-weekly throughout the year at local YMCAs, high schools or college campuses all over the country. Through academic aid, career exploration and mentoring, this program helps youth to raise their academic standards, develop a positive sense of self, build character, explore diverse college and career options, and learn from role models who inspire them to greater heights.
Leaders Clubs help develop youth ages 12 to 18 as leaders while fostering a culture of service. With adult advisors, teens have role models and mentors who can have a positive impact on their lives as they grow in their desire and ability to be a positive force in the community.
Youth and Government is a national program of the Y that involves thousands of teens nationwide in state-organized, model-government programs. Students from every corner of the U.S. have the opportunity to immerse themselves in experiential civic engagement and to, quite literally, practice democracy. Teens from across every state meet in their local Youth in Government groups throughout the year to discuss and debate issues that affect citizens of their state and to propose legislation. The program culminates with teens serving as delegates at their state conference, debating bills on the floor of the legislature.
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The camp environment provides a unique opportunity for youth to build leadership skills, particularly in assisting counselors with younger campers. The goals of CIT and LIT camp programs are to teach the general skills of leadership that can be used at school, home and community (not just at camp.) For younger camp leaders (ages 13-15), the curriculum includes working with younger kids at camp, but often includes community components like volunteering at senior centers or YMCAs. Counselors-in-Training or "CITs" are the oldest campers who typically want to apply for a job at camp the next summer, maybe as a Jr Counselor or some other supporting role. They need to learn more specific skills for working with kids and co-workers, and more experience planning and leading activities. Both programs give kids age-appropriate challenges that build their skills, confidence and capacity for working with people of all ages.
The Y is pleased to share resources that guide adults in helping youth identify their interests, and connecting those interests to volunteer and service-learning projects in their community. The survey and conversation with adults and other teens helps young people figure out what excites them, and what skills and passions they can share as part of the larger world.
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CNN Health released information on a study stating caffeine may reduce the probability of developing skin cancer, among other diseases.
The study, detailed in the medical journal Cancer Research, said intakes of coffee, alongside other caffeinated products like tea or soda, can help decrease risks of the most common type of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma (BCC). This cancer is not as severe as melanoma, yet still hazardous if left untreated.
According to the Skin Care Foundation, BCC occurs in the basal cells, found in the deepest layer of the outermost layer of skin. Signs of concern include open sores, red patches or shiny bumps. Even though BCC rarely spreads, it can be life threatening if left untreated.
The Skin Care Foundation also says 2.8 million Americans are diagnosed with BCC each year, making it the most frequent of all cancers. With prime victims in their twenties and thirties, BCC is caused by excessive overexposure via extreme, infrequent and collective contact with the sun.
This latest data about coffee, from Nurses Health Study, was compiled from 112,000 participants who consumed more than two cups of coffee per day. In lab results, only one fourth of the participants developed skin cancer.
Dr. Marc J. Inglese, dermatologist at Dermatology Associates of Tallahassee, said while there was association between higher caffeine intake and lower instances of BCC, the study lacked definite cause and effects.
Associations and cause and effect are different, Inglese said. There are too many variables [to conclude coffee prevents skin cancer].
Students such as FSU sophomore Danielle Strong said because of the abundance of cancer-causing pollutants, they are not persuaded coffee can prevent cancer.
The whole idea about what is a carcinogen and what is not is just getting to be too complicated to even follow, Strong said. Its too hard to pin down exactly what causes cancer of any type, let alone what can prevent it.
In spite of the results of this study, Inglese urges people to moderate and not yet alter their caffeine intake exclusively based on this experiment. In not knowing whether these subjects sat inside and drank soda all day, or were jogging, Inglese said, is cause for more studies on this subject.
This is not the first time the benefits and detriments of coffee have been studied. In fact, results of studies on coffee seem to vacillate between saying the drink is healthy and unhealthy. WebMD states that while coffee has been proven helpful in instances such as boosting memory and decreasing fatigue, caffeine can also cause damageother studies have found high blood pressure and a decrease in bone density are linked to caffeine intake.
Seeing the uncertainty the medical field places on the value of coffee, some students, like junior Shannon Mitchell, say theyll take health matters into their own hands.
I personally like going off of natural energy instead, though, because I dont have the famous sugar crash two or so hours later, Mitchell said.
Inglese said if students really want to avoid skin cancer, they should avoid burning in natural light and tanning beds.
Strong said this study, like multiple others before it, will not change many minds about coffee.
Those who drink coffee will continue doing so and feel good about that, Strong said. Most who dont consume the caffeine will continue to not do so, and be waiting for the next study that says how coffee and other caffeinated drinks can kill us.


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