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Dewey, John
Dewey, John 1859-1952
American philosopher, psychologist, and educator.
Dewey is recognized as one of the twentieth century's leading proponents of pragmatism, education reform, and pacifism. His work in these three areas derives from his belief that humanity is essentially good, and that social deviancy can be curtailed by specific educational methods.
Biographical Information
Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont, the son of a grocer. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1875 and went on to teach high school in Oil City, Pennsylvania, from 1879 to 1881. He returned to Burlington and cultivated his interest in philosophy with the assistance of his former teacher, H. A. P. Torrey. Shortly thereafter, Dewey published two articles in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, and enrolled as a graduate philosophy student at the newly formed Johns Hopkins University, where he studied briefly with American logician and founder of pragmatism Charles S. Peirce, psychologist G. S. Hall, and G. S. Morris, who introduced Dewey to the philosophy of Hegel. He completed his doctoral dissertation on Immanuel Kant in 1884, and began a productive ten-year tenure at the University of Michigan. He strived to make philosophy applicable to all humans by becoming increasingly involved in public education and published several works on psychology. In 1894, Dewey accepted a post as chairman of philosophy, psychology, and education at the University of Chicago. During this period, Dewey worked closely with social reformer Jane Addams, published his Studies in Logical Theory, formed the laboratory school commonly known as the Dewey School, and published several works on pedagogy. In 1904, Dewey left Chicago to join the faculty of Columbia University, where he taught until his retirement in 1930, after which he continued to write, travel, and lecture extensively. In 1921, Dewey joined the American Committee for the Outlawry of War, and published the pamphlet Outlawry of War: What It Is and Is Not, in which he castigated the League of Nations as the "League of governments pure and simple." Advocating the concept of a World Court, Dewey believed that such an institution could be effective in the moral education of humanity. He also joined the Committee on Militarism in Education to protest ROTC programs and to promote pacifism. He also opposed America's military draft as involuntary servitude and as an example of "totalitarianism." In 1937, Dewey was selected to head the international tribunal in Mexico City formed to investigate charges against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials, resulting in the report Not Guilty. Dewey died in 1952 in New York City.
Major Works
Although Dewey's philosophy evolved throughout his life, it is thought by many philosophers and critics to be governed by his concept of experience, which he perceived as a unified albeit constantly changing force, rather than a collection of remembered facts. Differences for Dewey are but variables within a singular, consistent source, a philosophical approach that, along with his rejection of subjectivism and empiricism caused much of his earlier work to be labeled as Hegelian idealism. Dewey, however, eventually rejected the predisposition of idealists to relegate all human experience to knowledge, which he perceived as distorting the initial experience. Humanity, argued Dewey, spends much of its time acting, suffering, and enjoying, not in reflection. Dewey's later work abandoned idealist concepts, instead embracing a theory that life is a sequence of lapidary and concurrent experiences. Borrowing from twentieth-century advancements in the biological and anthropological sciences, Dewey developed a complex and naturalistic theory that an individual's experience is the organic premise of all life. From this concept, Dewey elaborated that there are three levels or plateaus of human interaction with the environment: physiochemical, psychophysical, and human experience. By observing and interacting with the world, humanity's experience grows in knowledge and understanding. This approach directly refutes the scientific theories of Aristotle, which promulgated that science relies on a passive witnessing and contemplation rather than Dewey's view that knowledge relies on active testing and consideration. This theory is consistent with Dewey's writings on logic and education. The objective of inquiry, according to Dewey, is knowledge, but inquiry is a process that continuously alters its original questions and desired conclusions. As for education, Dewey rejected both poles of educational philosophy prevalent during the first half of the twentieth-century. Children were neither passive receptacles of knowledge nor were they mature enough to determine what education they required. Dewey advocated "learning by doing" as a method of active educational inquiry that cultivated a child's inherent curiosity.
Principal Works
Psychology (nonfiction) 1887
Applied Psychology [with J. A. McLellan] (nonfiction) 1889
Outlines in Ethics [with James Tufts] (philosophy) 1891
School and Society (nonfiction) 1899
Studies in Logical Theory (philosophy) 1903
Child and Curriculum (nonfiction) 1906
Ethics (philosophy) 1908
How We Think (philosophy) 1910
Interest and Effort (philosophy) 1913
Democracy and Education (nonfiction) 1916
Essays in Experimental Logic (philosophy) 1916
Creative Intelligence (nonfiction) 1917
Reconstruction in Philosophy (philosophy) 1920
Human Nature and Conduct (philosophy) 1922
Experience and Nature (philosophy) 1925
The Public and Its Problems (nonfiction) 1927
The Quest for Certainty (philosophy) 1929
Characters and Events (nonfiction) 1929
Philosophy and Civilization (nonfiction) 1931
Art as Experience (philosophy) 1934
Liberalism and Social Action (nonfiction) 1935
Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (philosophy) 1938
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SOURCE: A review of Democracy and Education, in The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. XXII, No. 5, March, 1917, pp. 674-76.
[In the following review of Dewey's Democracy and Education, King attempts to elucidate Dewey's theories in order to support his thesis that the work is a worthwhile study of sociology, education, and philosophy.]
All students of philosophy and sociology, as well as of education, welcome this comprehensive and fundamental statement of Professor Dewey's educational philosophy. [Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education]. It will undoubtedly take its place among the world's enduring classics in these three fields of thought. The educator, to whom it is primarily written, will find here a clarifying account of the principles and the practice which must of necessity characterize all sound educational development that is really an expression of democratic ideals. Such a conception of education cannot be stated in any narrow, isolated fashion, and not the least valuable aspect of its exposition, therefore, lies in the accompanying searching and critical examination of the evolution of philosophical thought and the correlated evolution of the ideals of social democracy.
The method of the work is to be found in a series of statements and expositions of various dualisms of thought and practice which have been at various...
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SOURCE: A review of Democracy and Education, in The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. VII, No. 1, June, 1920, pp. 64-5.
[In the following review of Dewey's Democracy and Education, Otto focuses on the sociological aspects of the work, which Otto expresses as the need for education to reflect common experiences.]
The present educational situation presents an interesting paradox. We were never so convinced of the social necessity for public education and never more uncertain what public education should be. We insist that our children must have it even though we do not know what it is they must have. Which is very natural, of course, under the circumstances. With strong vigorous groups threatening the radical reconstruction of the fundamental concepts of life, we are tempted to feel ourselves in a whirl of random movements, a whirl too complicated for analysis and movements too powerful to be resisted. Confused and uncertain, we turn for solace and hope to a compensatory society to be realized through the education of youth. In this we are right—provided we can substitute an intelligent program of education for blind faith in the process itself. In other words, the outstanding need of the contemporary world is an adequate philosophy of education.
Fortunately, a noteworthy statement of such a philosophy is at hand in John Dewey's Democracy and Education. The...
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SOURCE: A review of Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, in Ethics, Vol. L, No. 1, October, 1939, pp. 98-102.
[In the following review of Dewey's Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, Werkmeister declares Dewey's work as a philosophical landmark.]
The publication of [Logic: The Theory of Inquiry] is most welcome and for at least two reasons. In the first place, it represents the final formulation of basic ideas which Dewey first stated some forty years ago in his Studies in Logical Theory and which he subsequently developed and modified somewhat in his Essays in Experimental Logic and the more recent little book on How We Think. In other words, the new book is important as a landmark in the development of the philosophical system of one of America's most influential thinkers; and it will be interesting to the future historians of philosophy who are concerned with the unfolding and the growth of a philosophical idea. But, beyond this systematic importance, Dewey's Logic has a significance also for philosophical discussions at large, notably at a time when the "new" logic is in danger of losing itself in an abstract and intrinsically "irrational" formalism.
Numerous difficulties and confusions of contemporary logic, Dewey believes, are due to "the attempt to retain Aristotelian logical forms after their existential foundations have...
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SOURCE: "Dewey's Conception of Philosophy," in The Philosophy of John Dewey, Northwestern University, 1939, pp. 49-73.
[In the following essay, Ratner examines Dewey 's personal definition and objectives for his philosophy, concluding that Dewey believed philosophy to be an integral element of all human life. ]
In his opening contribution to Studies in Logical Theory, Dewey outlined a conception of philosophy which, from the vantage point of the present time, we can see he has been working on and working out ever since. It has not, however, been a development proceeding on a smooth and unbroken line. It has not been an unperturbed and undeviating unfoldment of an ideally preformed idea, nourished and sustained by an environment ideally preformed for it. Rather has the development been of a more natural, even of a more human sort. Its historic career is marked by crises, by phases of change—and some of them of major importance. Hence in our discussion we shall, to some extent, follow the historic route.
Philosophy, as described in the essay referred to ("The Relationship of Thought and Its Subject-Matter") has three areas of inquiry. For the sake of convenience, these may be provisionally represented in the form of three concentric circles. The first area, bounded by the innermost circle, is occupied by reflective thought, by logic, or what Dewey now...
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SOURCE: "Dewey's Epistemology and Metaphysics," in The Philosophy of John Dewey, Northwestern University, 1939, pp. 195-225.
[In the following essay, Murphy declares that Dewey's philosophical methods are unsound because they do not adopt scientific or practical methodology.]
In harmony with Spinoza's observation that Peter's idea of Paul is likely to give us a better notion of Peter than of Paul, it will doubtless be observed that the essays in this volume reflect the preconceptions and interpretative limitations of their authors at least as much as the actual content and implications of Mr. Dewey's philosophy. The danger in such cases is that what is presented as a critical analysis will in fact amount to little more than a translation of what, from the standpoint of an opposing philosophy of questionable validity, Mr. Dewey really must have meant and ought to have said. This risk is not altogether avoidable, for one can only criticize what he takes to be confused and inadequate by reference to clarity and adequacy as he sees them. It can, however, be minimized if the critic states at the outset the standpoint from which his analysis is to be made and the interest that directs it. The reader should then be in a position to consider the interpretation offered explicitly as an hypothesis, to be tested by its success in clarifying a theory which he has, on his own account, been trying to understand....
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SOURCE: "Some Questions on Dewey's Esthetics," in The Philosophy of John Dewey, Northwestern University, 1939, pp. 371-89.
[In the following excerpt, Pepper examines Dewey's writings on esthetics, which he finds are often contrary to Dewey's purported allegiance to Pragmatist tenets. ]
A personal item may more quickly reveal the grounds of certain issues I sense in Dewey's esthetic writings than anything else I could offer to the same end, and will also perhaps furnish him with a more direct focus for reply than the customary impersonal and more distant modes of statement. About 1932 I came to the point in a manuscript, which I was preparing on types of esthetic theory, where I wished to give an exposition of the pragmatic esthetics. I was not aware of any well considered work on the subject, and accordingly dug the matter out for myself, taking most of the details from scattered remarks on art and esthetic experience to be found in Dewey's writings up to that time, and for the rest following what I believed to be the implications of the general pragmatic attitude in the face of relevant facts. The section I tentatively prepared, therefore, amounted to a prediction of what I thought a pragmatist of importance would write if he undertook to make a carefully considered and extended statement. Accordingly, when Dewey'sArt as Experience came out in 1934, I turned to it with avidity to see how nearly...
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SOURCE: A review of Freedom and Culture, in The American Political Science Review, Vol. XXXIV, No. 2, April, 1940, pp. 339-42.
[In the following review of Dewey's Freedom and Culture, Merriam concludes that Dewey has a firm grasp on the theories of political science.]
[Freedom and Culture] by the Nestor of American philosophy, writing at the age of eighty, is one of the most penetrating and stimulating contributions yet made to modern political science. The theory of government is already deeply indebted to Dr. Dewey's previous contributions—Democracy and Education (1916), Human Nature and Conduct (1922), The Public and Its Problems (1927), Individualism Old and New (1930), and Liberalism and Social Action (1935), not to speak of many other articles and reviews and volumes covering his observations on politics for a generation. This distillation of these works is presented in brief form in the present volume on Freedom and Culture. Space does not permit an analysis of the important philosophical background of Dewey, or of his earlier political writings. In a later discussion, I shall deal more fully with the basic philosophy underlying Dr. Dewey's politics and estimate the trends and meaning of his very important work in political science.
The writer discusses and analyzes at the outset the confusion of the modern day regarding...
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SOURCE: "Dewey's Psychology," in Guide to the Works of John Dewey, edited by Jo Ann Boydston, Southern Illinois University Press, 1970, pp. 1-14.
[In the following essay, Schneider presents an overview of Dewey's writings on the various aspects of human psychology.]
During his years as a student under George Sylvester Morris, from 1882 to 1886, John Dewey thought of psychology not as a science but as a philosophical method and "standpoint." In part, his studies in Vermont, the influence of Coleridge and the writings of the romantic idealists, and in part, the systematic version of this standpoint as it took shape in the mind of Morris led Dewey to believe that for a "critical" understanding of life-mind-nature as an organic whole, it was necessary to show the identity of psychological, logical, and ontological procedure. Morris had conceived such a "dynamic idealism" as a more adequate "experimental" method than the methods of British Empiricism, which had reduced the idealizing functions of mind to a "hard concretion in the sphere of actual particular fact."1 The "psychological standpoint" would liberate philosophy and philosophical imagination so that it could "freely work .. . to reach certain intellectual ends."2
Morris, under whom Dewey did his Ph.D. research at Johns Hopkins, had worked out this standpoint during his studies in Germany under Adolf Trendelenburg...
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SOURCE: "Dewey's Social and Political Commentary," in Guide to the Works of John Dewey, edited by Jo Ann Boydston, Southern Illinois University Press, 1970, pp. 218-56.
[In the following essay, Brickman—a professor of Educational History and Comparative Education—defends his conclusion that Dewey's commentaries on politics and society form a cohesive and consistent whole.]
A milestone in Dewey's intellectual development was his lecture, "The Ethics of Democracy," delivered in 1888 to the Philosophical Union of the University of Michigan. To Merle Curti, this paper was evidence that Dewey possessed "a thoroughly democratic and even radical social point of view as early as 1888."1 The philosopher argued that democracy was a broad concept which necessarily embraced not merely politics, but also the economy and industry. He combined "a criticism of quantitative individualistic theory of political democracy with a definitely moral interpretation in terms of 'liberty, equality, fraternity.'"2 His insistence that no political democracy is possible without economic and industrial democracy was evidently derived from the thought of Henry Carter Adams, a colleague in the field of political economy, who urged "a development in economic life parallel to that which had taken place in politics, from absolutism and oligarchy to popular representation."3 As interpreted by his...
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SOURCE: "Dewey, Ethics, and Rhetoric: Toward a Contemporary Conception of Practical Wisdom," in Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 16, No. 3, 1983, pp. 185-207.
[In the following essay, Johnstone finds similarities between the interrelation of ethics and rhetoric in the writings of Aristotle and Dewey.]
Rhetoric and wisdom are often linked in discussions of the practical functions of speech. For Plato, a genuine art of rhetoric is rooted in wisdom—in knowledge of the true Forms of things—and serves to communicate this knowledge to others.1 Aristotle views rhetoric both as an exercise of practical intelligence and as generative of practical wisdom.2 In the Ciceronian scheme, wisdom without the aid of eloquence is essentially useless, while eloquence without wisdom is deemed harmful.3 Recent inquiries have sought to illuminate further the relationship between these two ideas. Lloyd Bitzer writes that "rhetoric at its best sustains wisdom in the life of the public."4 Kneupper and Anderson argue that "wisdom would not exist without eloquence," and suggest that the unification of the two is the proper concern of rhetorical invention.5
The connections between wisdom and rhetoric, nonetheless, remain unclear, as does the nature of wisdom itself. Indeed, whereas for Plato, Aristotle, and the ancients the idea had roots in language and culture,...
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SOURCE: "The Influence of William James on John Dewey's Early Work," in Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. XLV, No. 3, July-September, 1984, pp. 451-463.
[In the following excerpt, Buxton examines the movement of Dewey's thought from idealism to pragmatism, and identifies William James as a singular influence on the evolution of Dewey's beliefs.]
William James has generally been regarded as the source of John Dewey's rejection of neo-Hegelian absolute idealism in favor of a naturalist position. The intellectual relationship between the two men during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is an important aspect of the history of American philosophy and psychology. Their early association occurred when Dewey was developing his philosophy of education. Yet until recently, Dewey's early work between the years 1882-1899 has been relatively ignored. This has led to the general acceptance of the myth of James's central influence over Dewey particularly between the years 1890-96. Recent textual examination of Dewey's early work has been made under the influence of, and has perpetuated, this myth.
The conventional view of James's influence has been accepted for over fifty years. Wayne Leys writing in 1970 effectively illustrates it. He claims that James "obviously" forced Dewey to reconsider the German theories of the self; that the James-Lange theory of emotion changed Dewey's...
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SOURCE: "John Dewey and the Laboratory School," in Dewey, Russell, Whitehead: Philosophers as Educators, Southern Illinois University Press, 1986, pp. 14-42.
[In the following essay, Hendley presents a history of Dewey's Laboratory School, and focuses on Dewey's philosophical and educational goals for the school. ]
I went to the Dewey School one day,
And saw the children all at play.
But when the tardy bell had rung,
All the classes had begun.
Some to Science, some to French,
Some to shop to work at the bench.
L.o.t.D.o.E., Dewey, Dewey, Dew-ee-ee.
When Thursday afternoon is here
There are excursions if it's clear
To Stony Island in Highland Park,
And they often stay till nearly dark.
Mister Gillett points here and there,
Showing things both strange and fair.
L.o.t.D.o.E., Dewey, Dewey, Dew-ee-ee.1
Thus the students immortalized in song the experimental school run by the Department of Pedagogy of the University of Chicago and headed from 1896 to 1904 by John Dewey. The refrain of the song is shorthand for "Laboratory of the Department of Education." Although the school was officially called the University Elementary School, it became popularly known as the...
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SOURCE: "John Dewey, Spiritual Democracy, and the Human Future," in Crass Currents, Vol. XXXIX, No. 3, Fall, 1989, pp. 300-21.
[In the following essay, Rockefeller—writing from the perspective of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, as well as the student revolts in China—enumerates several concepts from Dewey's social agenda as a desirable antidote to spiritual and social oppression.]
The human race faces the urgent challenge of creating a global community marked by economic opportunity, equal justice, freedom and respect for nature, or its survival as a species is in doubt. The obstacles to achieving community locally as well as internationally are great, for almost everywhere peoples suffer from moral confusion, bitter social conflicts, fragmentation of experience and knowledge, and the deterioration of the environment. In the poet's words, the center no longer holds. There is, then, an urgent need for ideas with integrating spiritual power, for a unifying moral and social faith that is able to affirm the value of cultural pluralism in the process of liberating and harmonizing the self and society on a national, regional and global basis. Such a faith must be comprehensive enough to integrate the technological, economic, social, environmental, moral, and religious dimensions of experience; it cannot otherwise bring the wholeness and harmony that we need....
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SOURCE: 'The Real John Dewey," in The New York Review of Books, Vol. XXXIX, No. 12, June 25, 1992, pp. 50-55.
[In the following review of Robert B. Westbrook's John Dewey and American Democracy, Menand gives an overview of Dewey's life and work, and touches briefly on the influence Jane Addams and Dewey's wife, Alice Chapman, had on his social consciousness.]
In the minds of most people born after the Second World War, John Dewey is an exceedingly dim presence, a figure apparently left stranded on the far side of the Sixties. He has seemed the spokesman for a world view whose day has passed. His ideas have not been thought worth knowing better, and his books, by and large, have not been read.
Once, of course, it was different. For more than half a century, from the time his experimental school for children, founded in 1896, achieved its worldwide renown until his death, in 1952, at the age of ninety-two, Dewey was one of the most celebrated public intellectuals in America. He published forty books, and lectured before almost every kind of audience. He helped to create some of the most prominent political and educational organizations established in his time: the American Civil Liberties Union, the NAACP, the League for Industrial Democracy, the New York Teachers Union, the American Association of University Professors, the New School for Social...
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SOURCE: "John Dewey in Vermont: A Reconsideration," in Soundings, Vol. LXXV, No. 1, Spring, 1992, pp. 175-98.
[In the following essay, Taylor discusses the contradictory nature of Dewey's attitude toward his birth-state Vermont.]
John Dewey was always somewhat ambivalent about his Vermont background. At times he praised the "democratic" character of his Vermont heritage and even drew close parallels between the development of his own ideas and the ideas of his teachers at the University of Vermont. At other times, perhaps more frequently, he distanced himself as much as he could from these political and intellectual roots.
For example, in 1929 Dewey delivered an address at the University of Vermont commemorating the one-hundredth anniversary of the publication of James Marsh's "Introduction" to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Aids To Reflection—a book of profound significance to the whole university community in the nineteenth century and one that Dewey, as a member of the class of 1879, had read as an undergraduate.1 Toward the end of this talk, Dewey reflected on his own Vermont background and education at the university in a now oft-quoted passage:
If I may be allowed a personal word, I would say that 1 shall never cease to be grateful that I was born at a time and a place where the earlier ideal of liberty and the self-governing...
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SOURCE: "Primary Experience as Settled Meaning: Dewey's Conception of Experience," in Philosophy Today, Vol. 38, No. 1, Spring, 1994, pp. 29-42.
[In the following excerpt, Ryan examines Dewey's views on personal experience, concluding that he never was able to reconcile his seemingly contradictory views.]
This essay will examine and attempt to clarify Dewey's conception of immediate or primary experience. In particular, my aim is to extricate Dewey's actual view from an interpretation still popular among pragmatists consisting of: 1) the phenomenology of "blooming, buzzing, confusion" and 2) its ontological correlate designating a "brute" encounter with "primal, pulsative" reality. Dewey himself, to the contrary, is ahead of his contemporary supporters in overcoming this paradigm whose roots lie in Locke and traditional empiricism. His is not the ontology of other versus self, in-itself existential event versus subjective object of experience, even given the "pragmatic" codicil that the latter knows the former by "interacting" with it. Instead, these denote phases of inquiry—settled havings versus problematic challenges that produce knowings.1
We will begin with Dewey's ontology of "mediate-immediacy," whereby a thing of primary experience is just what it is experienced as. But it will be made clear that this sense of immediacy necessarily implicates a mediating network...
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SOURCE: "Sport, the Aesthetic, and Narrative," in Philosophy Today, Vol. 39, No. 1, Spring, 1995, pp. 93-104.
[In the following essay, Feezell humorously examines competitive collegiate sports in light of Dewey's Art as Experience.]
From Paul Weiss's relatively early and legitimating reflections in Sport: A Philosophic Inquiry, to more recent ruminations in books and scholarly publications, numerous philosophers have been fascinated by the fascination of sport. For example, in his recent book, Philosophy of Sport, Drew Hyland again wonders about the "significant and apparently transcultural appeal" of play and sport.1 I won't attempt to catalogue the various attempts to understand why so many of us are attracted to sport, especially those sports that involve the playing of games. Like many people, I've wasted a good part of my life playing and watching these games, and I've given up being ashamed or apologetic about it. But I still want to understand the attraction, as any reflective human being should. I suppose one could read the writings of Hyland (a former college basketball player), George Will, or Bart Giamatti as wholesale rationalizations in defense of triviality. But there must be something "deeper" going on here. Or so we think. What could be deeper?
According to my students (and, of course, many others), the deeper attractive realities of sports...
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SOURCE: "Emerson and Dewey on Natural Piety," in The Journal of Religion, Vol. 75, No. 3, July, 1995, pp. 329-46.
[In the following excerpt, Wilson examines the differences and similarities between the naturalism espoused by Dewey and Ralph Waldo Emerson.]
Today many find themselves to be alienated from a religion with a strong textual tradition and in rebellion against the idea of a transcendent deity. In the nineteenth century, Friedrich Nietzsche said, "it is in one particular interpretation [of distress], the Christian moral one, that nihilism is rooted."1 Rather than simply abandoning religion, some, convinced by Nietzsche's analysis, have sought to combat nihilism by turning to other religious resources. Two American philosophers who have attempted to demonstrate that modern man may yet have a significant religious experience in relation to nature are Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Dewey. Both Emerson and Dewey described forms of naturalism wherein humanity might pursue the ideal ends of their lives in a structured, valuable pattern of practical activity as they interact with nature. It was Dewey who made use of the term "natural piety," but both urged mankind to practice a form of natural piety.2
In this essay, I want to explore the ways that natural piety would be expressed if one adopted the naturalism of Emerson or Dewey. Of course, Emerson was a...
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SOURCE: "Desire and Desirability: A Rejoinder to a Posthumous Reply by John Dewey," in The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XCIII, No. 5, May, 1996, pp. 229-42.
[In the following article, White recounts Dewey's response to White's book Social Thought in America, and White's answer to Dewey's charges.]
Shortly after his ninetieth birthday, John Dewey1 acknowledged receiving from me two publications in which I had criticized some of his views in ethics: my Social Thought in America, and my "Value and Obligation in Dewey and Lewis," both published in 1949.2 Since I never heard anything more from Dewey about them, I surmised that he had probably not read them or that, if he had, he did not think it worth bothering to discuss my criticisms. I was therefore very surprised when I read in the final volume of his Collected Works that he had paid attention to them in a piece entitled "Comment on Recent Criticisms of Some Points in Moral and Logical Theory,"3 published in 1990, along with other posthumous writings of his which testify to his remarkable intellectual vigor in old age. His editors indicate that Dewey's reply was probably written as late as 1950, and this is confirmed by his reference in it to another criticism of my views by Sidney Hook in his article, "The Desirable and Emotive in Dewey's Ethics,"4 published in that year....
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SOURCE: "John Dewey, the 'Trial' of Leon Trotsky, and the Search for Historical Truth," in Historical Truth and Lies about the Past, The University of North Carolina Press, 1996, pp. 13-34.
[In the following essay, Spitzer examines Dewey's role as commissioner of the committee to defend Leon Trotsky, its eventual finding that Trotsky was not guilty of the Moscow purges or of corroborating with Nazi Germany, Dewey's rejection of historical objectivity, and Dewey's conclusion that Trotsky was right although Dewey abhorred his political views.]
For truth, instead of being a bourgeois virtue, is the mainspring of all human progress.—John Dewey
Consider the following historical text:
In 1937, new facts came to light regarding the fiendish crimes of the Bukharin-Trotsky gang. The trial of Pyatakov, Radek and others, the trial of Tukhachevsky, Yakir and others, and, lastly, the trial of Bukharin, Rykov, Rosengoltz and others, all showed that the Bukharinites and Trotskyites had long ago joined to form a common band of enemies of the people, operating as the "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites."
The trials showed that these dregs of humanity, in conjunction with the enemies of the people, Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev, had been in conspiracy against Lenin, the Party and the Soviet state ever since...
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SOURCE: "Democracy and the Individual: To What Extent is Dewey's Reconstruction Nietzsche's Self-Overcoming?" in Philosophy Today, Vol. 41, No. 2, Summer, 1997, pp. 299-312.
[In the following essay, Sullivan finds similarities between Dewey's esthetics and the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche.]
The mere combination of the names of John Dewey and Friedrich Nietzsche in the title of an essay might offend some readers. Many of the scholars of American pragmatism I have met view Nietzsche as just one more of those Continental, postmodern philosophers whose work, while perhaps stylish and currently en vogue, contributes little of value to philosophy because the issues with which they concern themselves in no way connect with the lives of the most people. The reaction of many scholars of Continental philosophy I know to American pragmatism has been to dismiss it as concerned only with "utility" narrowly conceived, e.g., with the usefulness of an idea for making money, ensuring that parking places are available at work, securing good health care, etc.1 I do not want to suggest that members of the two philosophical camps are always or necessarily antagonistic toward one another—certainly there are some who find the intersection of Continental philosophy and American pragmatism to be fruitful.2 Nonetheless, the relationship between scholars of American pragmatism and Continental...
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Further Reading
Levine, Barbara, ed. Works about John Dewey: 1886-1995. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996, 526 p.
Combines the Checklist of Writings about John Dewey (1974; revised 1978) in addition to works published about Dewey since 1977, including books and articles about Dewey, reviews of Dewey's works, an author index, and a title key-work index.
Thomas, Milton Halsey. John Dewey: A Centennial Bibliography. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962, 370 p.
Divided into listings of works by and about Dewey.
Dykhuizen, George. The Life and Mind of John Dewey. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973, 429 p.
Dedicates equal space to each phase of Dewey's life, beginning with his Vermont boyhood, and ending with Dewey's retirement years from 1939 to 1952.
Alexander, Thomas M. John Dewey's Theory of Art, Experience, and Nature: The Horizons of Feeling. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987, 325 p.
Traces Dewey's philosophy from his early embracement of Hegelian Idealism to his later writings, concluding that Dewey's philosophy contained several contradictions.
Gouinlock, James. John Dewey's Philosophy of...
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Source: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2000 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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With news yesterday of an aviation first: a Houston-based Continental Airlines 737-800 became the first U.S. commercial jetliner to fly using a combination of jet fuel and biofuel. Texas appears to at the forefront of the green revolution (ironic, eh?).
And we're doing it all with produce.
Last year, a team of scientists at Texas A&M discovered the — ahem — unique benefits of watermelon. Perhaps someday, utilizing the chemical compounds found within one of summer's staples as an natural replacement for that "little blue pill."
Now, researchers at Baylor have put the mighty coconut to work–using the husks to build, of all things, car parts. Watch out Detroit!"A team at Baylor University has made trunk liners, floorboards and car-door interior covers using fibers from the outer husks of coconuts, replacing the synthetic polyester fibers typically used in composite materials."
This is like the Jimmy Buffett school of auto manufacturing. Not to be outdone, these folks have also discovered a way to engineer a clean burning biofuel out of coconut oil. It is a green source of energy and in abundant supply in areas around the Equator — where some coconut farmers make no more than $500/year.
Don't look now, but Ghana might be on it's way to becoming the next energy superpower.
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Goal Accomplished!!!! - Stacia Naquin
Updated: 2:48 PM - I finally did my pull up!!! It was a New Year's Resolution that took me ALL YEAR! But I did it.
Frontier Airlines will no longer be flying out of Colorado Springs beginning this spring, the Colorado Springs Airport confirmed to 11 News.
The airport released a statement explaining the decision:
The Colorado Springs Airport has been notified that Frontier Airlines will discontinue its service in Colorado Springs. In mid-January, Frontier announced that it will reduce the amount of service it will offer at the Colorado Springs Airport during the first quarter of 2013. With this latest announcement, the last two remaining Frontier routes will be out of the market during the second quarter of 2013.
Frontier advised the Airport that demand for the Los Angeles and Phoenix service was relatively strong. However, Frontier cited the difficulty of marketing isolated non-stop routes in a city with no connecting service to its hub in Denver.
In response to the earlier announcement, management made adjustments to its budget to mitigate the financial impact of Frontier's decision. At this point, only minor adjustments need to be made to account for the removal of the remaining Frontier service.
United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Airlines and Allegiant Air continue to serve Colorado Springs to ten major airline hub cities- Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Through these hubs, travelers have one-stop access to over 1,500 destinations worldwide.
Airport staff will continue in its efforts to attract new service to Colorado Springs through its on-going air service development program. Specific conversations regarding the replacement of Frontier service are currently under way with four airlines.
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powered by DisqusUpdated: 2:48 PM - I finally did my pull up!!! It was a New Year's Resolution that took me ALL YEAR! But I did it.
Updated: 10/11/2013 - I'm SO CLOSE to being able to do a pull-up. So my trainer introduced something new into my training.
Posted: 08/06/2013 - Even if you don't plan to workout on your vacation, you may be surprised at the calories you're burning without even trying!
Updated: 06/18/2013 - We did a quick helicopter tour of the Black Forest burn area. Someone asked why the video looks shaky.
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A Short History of MythThis brilliant, readable synthesis of the history of mythology and the function it serves to humanity is the launch title of the groundbreaking publishing event, "The Myths." "Human beings have always been mythmakers." So begins Karen Armstrong's concise yet compelling investigation into myth: what it is, how it has evolved, and why we still so desperately need it. She takes us from the Paleolithic period and the myths of the hunters right up to the "Great Western Transformation" of the last five hundred years and the discrediting of myth by science. The history of myth is the history of humanity, our stories and beliefs, our curiosity and attempts to understand the world, which link us to our ancestors and each other. Myths help us make sense of the universe. Heralding a major series of retellings of international myths by authors from around the world, Armstrong's characteristically insightful and eloquent book serves as a brilliant and thought-provoking introduction to myth in the broadest sense -- and explains why if we dismiss it, we do so at our peril. |
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A very nice, readable overview. - Goodreads
A good intro to mythology. - Goodreads
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A rather nice overview. - Goodreads
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A non-academic text by a non-academic writer. - Goodreads
Review: A Short History of Myth (Canongate Myths #1)
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Review: A Short History of Myth (Canongate Myths #1)
ユーザー レビュー - Linda - GoodreadsYou would only read a book like this if you were intrested in mythology, so I like it. After reading several European and Norse mythology books and the classic fables, this volume gave an insight on the how and why. Armstrong does due diligence to research and this shows in the finished product. レビュー全文を読む


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Rehabbing soldiers, seniors and surgery patients alike find comfort in a gravity-negating treadmill inspired by efforts to keep astronauts healthy and strong during extended orbital missions
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Returning to the application for "gravity enhanced" space travel, this article "got me thinking." At the far end of a "tube shaped" space capsule, an 18" wide floating ring with 1" rollers between it and the ship's circular shell could rotate easily enough to induce a centrifugal force which would increase with the speed of revolution. A simple mechanism would transfer the jogger's work to gradually speed up the rotation of the rotating ring-- and the "artificial gravity." The faster the ring rotated, the greater the "gravity" would be on the body of the astronaut.
The entire assembly could be light weight fiberglass adding very little to lift off load. When not in use the center of the ring (most of the section area of the space craft) could house removable storage, etc.
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Whether comments are made on a blog, or spread across the social web, every business wants customers to make a (positive) noise about them.
But while they are great for increasing engagement, comments come with problems of their own.
In a week which has seen YouTube finally take steps to clean out the well of eternal torment that it uses as a comment section, and Popular Science is doing away with the chatter altogether, I thought it would be a good opportunity to look at the various systems in place around the web designed to keep us talking...
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by Matt Owen 26 September 2013 16:15pm 1 comment
Twitter is entertainment, so it goes without saying that a humorous Twitter account is going to get followers, reach and engagement.
Here are some of the brands that have decided to navigate (or not) the governance needed to keep a funny and risqué Twitter account in check.
Although these companies are often in industries where rules of taste are fairly relaxed, all have done well in using belly laughs or sass to their benefit.
by Ben Davis 06 September 2013 13:52pm 12 comments
With more than 9,000 messages being sent every second, Twitter can be a noisy place, so it's always important to distinguish yourself from the crowd.
Luckily, Twitter has a few features that can help, including Twitter Cards, promoted tweets and images.
Over on Facebook, posts that include optimised images receive around 120% more engagement. Research suggests that the same is true on Twitter, so I decided to test this out.
by Matt Owen 04 September 2013 10:52am 5 comments
Drinks brand Sprite managed to outperform its rivals and achieve the greatest exposure on Tumblr in July.
This is despite the fact that it only blogged three updates, while second-placed MTV posted a massive 114 times.
The findings, which come from a report by Simply Measured, show the high potential for long-term amplification on Tumblr compared to other social networks, as nearly all of Sprite's 85,000 reblogs were owed to a single post made prior to the study period.
The Sprite post in question is an animated GIF of a game of spin the bottle. Not very complex, but it captured the imagination of Sprite's audience and isn't something that can necessarily be replicated on other networks.
by David Moth 22 August 2013 13:08pm 2 comments
One of the most common obstacles to blogging is the feeling that you haven't got anything to write about.
This prevents new bloggers from getting into the habit, and prevents more seasoned bloggers from keeping it going.
You want to write, but you need something to write about; what's your subject going to be?
by Peter Meinertzhagen 02 August 2013 10:16am 18 comments
From increasing brand awareness to accelerating conversions and transaction volume, mobile has become an integral way for brands to guide consumers along the path to purchase.
The rise of mobile is a key factor in the shift from what used to be a linear path to purchase. The days of "here's our ad, see you at the register" are long gone and have been replaced by a broad, multi-faceted discovery and engagement process.
With this evolution, marketers must make effective investments that use mobile as a connective tissue in the increasingly non-linear purchase cycle.
by Matthew Kates 30 May 2013 16:29pm 4 comments
Chris Buckley is Director of Social Engagement at TMW, a full service agency based in London. Here he walks us through a typical day in agencyland.
If you like the sound of what Chris does then by all means explore the range of social media jobs that are listed on Econsultancy's digital jobs site.
by Chris Lake 29 April 2013 10:54am 0 comments
Building relationships with bloggers can be time consuming, but if done with integrity it can bring fantastic success to a brand in the way of genuine advocacy.
Quite simply, if you take the time to engage with bloggers in the correct manner, then bloggers in turn will engage with your brand as part of a mutually beneficial relationship and more often than not, go above and beyond what they're asked to do.
by Elisa Harca 08 April 2013 10:57am 10 comments
Well, it's that day again. Valentine's Day is here yet again to the delight of retailers everywhere. No wonder, when online sales in the US and the UK have continued to rise year-over-year in the run up to Valentine's Day and retailers have had to learn to scale for seasonal surges.
The folks over at Rakuten, the online marketplace that's quickly catching up to Amazon and eBay, shared a few stats and a lovely infographic (don't say we didn't give you anything for Valentine's!) detailing the global spending trends surrounding this love-sick holiday.
by Heather Taylor 14 February 2013 14:14pm 1 comment
If there's one thing guaranteed to get Facebook page owners riled up, it's a change to the Edgerank algorithm. This month complaints have been springing from every corner of the world's largest social network about the latest tweaks (and frankly, why should I be any different?).
Over the past weeks I've been watching our page reach figures fall... and fall... and fall... with Facebook's latest changes putting severe limitations on the amount of organic content that we can serve to our followers.
I try to make sure the Econsultancy page follows the moving best practice goalposts, so in order to understand the situation and try to arrest the decline, I decided to try out a series of promotions to gauge their effectiveness.
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National Weather Service Advisories, Watches & Warnings
View the news release, veto message and County Attorney's opinion at this link: http://www.kauai.gov/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=JtejVwp2fs4%3d&tabid=346&mid=1449
The County is now accepting 2014 Sewer Credit Applications. The instructions and application are both available on the Sewer Applications & Forms page.
Administration's presentation on the operational impacts of Bill 2491, as requested by the Kaua'i County Council
Bill 2491 Issues Concerns Suggestions
The County is asking residents to participate in an on-line survey that will assist in identifying ways that the public can more easily and conveniently access government services and programs.
Please click here to take the Citizens Technology Survey.
Press Release
Beginning July 15, 2013, the Department will no longer intake and process any written inquiries requesting a Director or Departmental Determination on potential and existing permit or zoning requirements without the required new form. Further, the Department will no longer intake these documents via hard copy, and all requests must be transmitted electronically by email.
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Open to businesses and residents for FREE! Drop off obsolete or unwanted electronics. All brands without quantity limits. eWaste only accepted during designated timeframes. Materials left outside of these dates/times will be deemed as an illegal dumping.
Click to see list of acceptable eWaste items (PDF).
The Department of Parks and Recreation are searching for Employees for our Winter Fun program. If you are interested in working please fill out the Employment Application Online.
Application available by clicking on the link below.
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In an effort to take the guesswork out of what container a recyclable should be placed in, the Recycle Office has developed image-based signage for the public's use. The recycles signs can be accessed at www.kauai.gov/recyclesigns.
This five-minute video showcases the journey of the Kauaʻi Junior Lifeguards squad, from their first practice, to winning their 10th consecutive state championship, and ending their season in Manhattan Beach, CA for nationals. Congratulations, Kauaʻi Jr. Lifeguards!
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KALALAU – A 35-year-old Wailua woman injured her knee yesterday evening while hiking on the Kalalau Trail.
WAILUA – A Kapa'a man has been arrested on animal cruelty charges following the discovery of malnourished dogs at his home.
HANALEI -- The Hanalei refuse transfer station is not accepting green waste today due to muddy conditions. The green waste service will resume when conditions improve.
WAILUA – The Department of Water (DOW) and contractor Goodfellow Brothers Inc. will resurface roads in Wailua Houselots from 7:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., from December 11 to December 24, weather permitting.
WAILUA – A 63 year old Kapa'a woman was injured in a single-vehicle traffic accident in front of Longs Drug Store in Kapa'a this afternoon.
KAPA'A – A blessing was held this morning to mark the completion of the recent improvements to the Kapa'a swimming pool facility. The pool will reopen to the public on Tuesday, December 10.


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Sighting: Johnny Depp at Chicago Music Exchange store
Johnny Depp poses for a photo with a fan outside of the Chicago Music Exchange Store on April 29, 2011.
Johnny Depp shopped at the Chicago Music Exchange store in Lakeview Friday afternoon. The fedora-wearing Depp, who I hear was "supernice" during his visit, bought a vintage guitar and accessories and took photos with fans when he exited the store. Earlier that day, Depp taped an episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and hosted a screening of his upcoming film, "Pirates of the Carribbean: On Stranger Tides," for Oprah audience members at ShowPlace Icon Theatre.
Former "Frasier" and "Cheers" star Kelsey Grammer was spotted at Fox & Obel market in Streeterville Friday evening. Grammer is currently taping a TV pilot in the Chicago area.
Arcade Fire band members stayed at The James Hotel last weekend while in town for their three shows at the UIC Pavilion.


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Vote today for the year's biggest story in sports
So, what was the top local sports story of 2013? Please select the story you feel was the most significant of the past year. The deadline is Dec. 24, and the results will be published Dec. 31. Full Story → |
Every Thursday, get the Gazette's complete listing of concerts, films, theater, music, dance and other performing arts. It's all one click away in the Entertainment Center ... |
Players plan holiday presentation | |
The Indiana Players will present "Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge" at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and Dec. 20-21, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday and Dec. 22 at the Philadelphia Street Playhouse, 725 Philadelphia St. - TERI ENCISO |
Man held for trial on attempted homicide |
BRADENVILLE — A southern Indiana County man was ordered Wednesday to face trial in Greensburg on attempted homicide and related charges arising from the shooting of his former girlfriend in Derry Township. - CHAUNCEY ROSS |
Students get weather lesson | |
Zachary McAdoo, of the Carnegie Science Museum, demonstrated the effects of pressure on an object when it is heated then cooled during a program Wednesday for students at Shannock Valley Elementary School in Rural Valley. |
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INDIANA COUNTY: Tax official faces audit |
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Hoping to figure out why tax revenue due from Blairsville tax collector Carol Tarasovich has been severely lagging, officials have agreed to audit her office. [Read More] |
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It's time again for Gazette readers to vote for the top news stories of the year. Please cast your vote for what you believe was the most important Indiana County area news story of 2013. [Read More] |
County recognizes jail program |
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The Indiana County commissioners Wednesday accepted an award recognizing the success of a pilot program that more efficiently gets jail inmates needed drug and alcohol treatment and saves the county money. [Read More] |
Garden wins award | |
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The Indiana Community Garden, located in the J.S. Mack Community Park, White Township, received the Pennsylvania Horticulture Society's Community Greening Award during at reception at the Pennsylvania Conservancy in Pittsburgh on Nov. 7.James j. Nestor/Gazette [Read More] |
$250,000 gift establishes women's leadership fund | |
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A gift to Indiana University of Pennsylvania from a Baltimore-area family foundation will enable the university to create a new Women's Leadership Program. [Read More] |
Commissioners salute Wildcats football | |
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The 11 seniors of the Homer-Center High School football team and members of the team's coaching staff were congratulated Wednesday by the Indiana County commissioners for their banner 2013 season. [Read More] |
IUP graduation set for Saturday |
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Nearly 800 students will be eligible to receive degrees Saturday at Indiana University of Pennsylvania's graduate and undergraduate commencement ceremonies. [Read More] |
UNITED: School directors add bus to pick up school students |
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In response to drivers in an area of Route 22 that apparently have not been following school bus laws to stop for school bus red-light signals, the United School District Board of Directors on Tuesday approved an agreement with Krise Bus Service Inc. to add a 24-passenger mini-bus ... [Read More] |
Religion page deadlines set |
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The Religion pages containing Christmas Eve/ Day service information will be published on Saturday, Dec. 21, and the pages with New Year's information will be published on Saturday, Dec. 28. [Read More] |
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Apollo-Ridge jumped out to a 12-point halftime lead and improved to 4-0 by thumping host Derry in a WPIAL non-section game. [Read More] |
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL ROUNDUP: Mack's last-second shot saves the day for United girls |
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United's Taylor Mack hit a fast-break layup with two seconds left in the fourth quarter to lift the Lions to a thrilling 49-48 win over host Saltsburg in a Heritage Conference girls' basketball game Wednesday. [Read More] |
HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING ROUNDUP: Indiana drops section match |
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HARRISON CITY — Penn-Trafford beat Indiana, 57-18, in a WPIAL Section 1-AAA wrestling match Wednesday. [Read More] |
A salute to senior Wildcats | |
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The Homer-Center High School football team held its annual recognition banquet Nov. 20 at the Rustic Lodge. [Read More] |
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: INDIANA 66, GREENSBURG SALEM 53 -- Indians breeze to another easy win, 3-0 start | |
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Three games, three comfortable victories. [Read More] |
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: INDIANA 58, KITTANNING 37 -- Indians girls ride stifling defense to victory |
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Kittanning sliced into a big first-quarter deficit, but Indiana's ability to keep the Wildcats off the scoreboard for long periods of time proved to be the difference in the Indians' 58-37 victory in a WPIAL non-section girls' basketball game Tuesday evening at Fifth Street Gymnasium. [Read More] |
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL ROUNDUP: Fetsko pours in 29, leads Marion Center boys to victory |
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Todd Fetsko scored 20 points in the first half and finished with a season-high 29 to power host Marion Center to a 72-50 win over Purchase Line in a Heritage Conference boys' basketball game Tuesday. [Read More] |
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL ROUNDUP: Girls' games |
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Apollo-Ridge handcuffed host Derry in the last three quarters of a low-scoring game to notch a win in a WPIAL non-section game. [Read More] |
JUNIOR HIGH HOCKEY: Indiana stays unbeaten |
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DELMONT — Indiana improved to 5-0-1 by beating Gateway, 6-1, in a middle school hockey game Monday night at Center Ice Arena. [Read More] |
Hunter brings home 9-pointer | |
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Mark McClure, of Homer City, with son Noah, shot a 9-point in Young Township at 7 a.m. Nov. 5. [Read More] |
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania officers responded at 7:53 p.m. Saturday to a report of a male acting suspiciously in Stapleton Library. [Read More] |
Man charged in domestic dispute |
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DERRY TOWNSHIP — State police at Greensburg arrested Jeremy Lamb, 43, of Homer City, and charged him with numerous offenses following a report of a domestic dispute with his wife. [Read More] |
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No injuries were reported in a one-vehicle crash at 9 p.m. Wednesday on Route 954 west of Lake Drive. [Read More] |
Dad: CPR may have saved son |
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SOMERSET — A western Pennsylvania man whose son was hurt when a stove tipped over onto him says the boy's mother performed CPR and likely helped keep him from suffering irreversible brain damage. [Read More] |
Zimmerman won't face charges |
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MIAMI (AP) — Prosecutors say they will not file domestic violence charges against George Zimmerman after his girlfriend said in a sworn statement she did not want to pursue the case. [Read More] |
Senator: Staffer's home searched |
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Minnesota Guardsman accused of identification theft |
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal affidavit accuses a Minnesota National Guard member of stealing classified information from his former military unit at Fort Bragg, N.C. [Read More] |
Review: Officer followed procedure |
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SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — A preliminary review by a Northern California sheriff's office shows a deputy who shot and killed a 13-year-old boy did not violate department procedure governing the use of deadly force, sheriff's officials said. [Read More] |
Prosecutors: Fatal N.H. crash was an attempt at suicide |
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LEBANON, N.H. — A former Fortune 500 executive told police he was trying to kill himself when he drove his pickup truck across the grassy median of a highway and slammed into an SUV, killing an expectant couple inside, prosecutors said Wednesday. [Read More] |
New York City college freshman dies in Pennsylvania fraternity ritual |
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Police in Pennsylvania are investigating the death of a New York City college student during a fraternity ritual. [Read More] |
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1ST BIRTHDAY: Olivia Grace Fonseca | |
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Olivia Grace Fonseca celebrated her first birthday on Sept. 28, 2013. She is the daughter of Tomas Fonseca and Kristy Kirkland-Fonseca, of Elsa, Texas, formerly of Home. [Read More] |
1ST BIRTHDAY: Aubree Makayla Hall | |
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Aubree Makayla Hall, daughter of Adam and Ashley Hall, of Ernest, celebrated her first birthday Sept. 18, 2013. [Read More] |
WEDDING: Kimberly Davies and Travis Keever | |
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Kimberly Rose Davies and Travis Scott Keever exchanged wedding vows on June 15, 2013, at The Timbers in Mount Gretna. [Read More] |
HONOR ROLL: Cambria-Rowe Business College |
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The following students earned honors for the fall semester at Cambria-Rowe Business College: [Read More] |
Gazette readers' birthdays, Dec. 12 |
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Gazette readers' birthdays, Dec. 11 |
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House scheduled to vote on bipartisan agreement |
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WASHINGTON — The House prepared today to vote on a bipartisan budget accord that should calm the spending battles that have paralyzed Congress for nearly three years. [Read More] |
A look at the budget agreement |
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A proposed congressional budget agreement would avoid a government shutdown in January and set spending for defense and domestic programs. It would: [Read More] |
Health care sign-ups pick up, but may not close gap |
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WASHINGTON — With time running short, the nation's health care rolls still aren't filling up fast enough. [Read More] |
Same-sex marriage activists to kick off Pennsylvania campaign |
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HARRISBURG — Proponents of same-sex marriage launched a campaign Wednesday to build public support for legalizing gay marriage in Pennsylvania — the last holdout among the Northeast states. [Read More] |
NASA: Ancient Mars lake may have supported life |
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LOS ANGELES — NASA's Curiosity rover has uncovered signs of an ancient freshwater lake on Mars, which scientists say could have been a perfect spot for tiny primitive organisms to flourish if they ever existed on the red planet. [Read More] |
Interpreter at Mandela event cites hallucinations |
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JOHANNESBURG — The man accused of faking sign-language while standing alongside world leaders such as U.S. President Barack Obama at Nelson Mandela's memorial service said today he saw "angels" at the event, has been violent in the past and suffers from schizophrenia. [Read More] |
Blue Angels set shows in Latrobe |
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LATROBE — The Navy's Blue Angels have committed to perform at one of western Pennsylvania's biggest air shows the next two years. [Read More] |
Marine's family sues Greek entities for missing heart |
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PHILADELPHIA — The parents of a Marine whose body came back from Greece missing his heart amended their federal lawsuit Wednesday to add the Greek government and an Athens hospital as defendants. [Read More] |
Congress renews undetectable gun ban just in time |
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WASHINGTON — The Senate unanimously gave final congressional approval to a bill adding another decade to the prohibition against plastic guns that can slip by airport metal detectors and X-ray machines. The National Rifle Association, which has helped to block firearms restrictions this year, did [Read More] |
AG takes records from pension agency |
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HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania attorney general's office collected computer records Wednesday from the state's large government employee pension agency after its chief investment officer abruptly retired amid unspecified allegations. [Read More] |
All Reader Letters and Gazette Editorials
Letter to the Editor: Minimum wage increase needed now |
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How did we get to the point where 47 percent of our workforce is living at or below the poverty level? Sending manufacturing jobs overseas and automation taking jobs are only part of the story. [Read More] |
Letter to the Editor: Remember to say thanks |
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We fortunate people should remember how blessed we are, especially at this time of the year. Take the time to reach out a hand to help those around us who are not as blessed as you are. [Read More] |
Letter to the Editor: Transportation bill backs future security |
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The Center for Disease Control recently reported that Pennsylvania was one of only three states (out of 40 studied) in the nation to have rising rates of childhood obesity among low-income preschoolers. [Read More] |
Letter to the Editor: System failed shooter |
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White River Fly Shop® Trout Tippet
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Trout tippet is formulated for suppleness. 30 yards.
Rated 3.6 out of 5 by 5
Rated 3 out of 5 by FFJohn Performes well but .....
I bought this tippet with matching brand/style leader in 2x,3x,4x and found the line to be of good quality BUT not expected size. When tying tippet to leader I noticed the tippet felt stiffer and thicker than the leader. After going back and checking the leader diameter with a micrometer I came to the conclusion that the leaders where of the correct diameter at each end but the spools of tippet where grossly miss marked. The 3x leader was the expected .008 inches at the fly end but the 3x tippet measured a minimum of .0105 across the several feet I measured. This was also the case with the 2x with a leader diameter of .009 and a 2x spool of matched tippet coming in at .011. Before measuring the tippets I used them in conjunction with there matching sized leaders and each time I broke line on a snag or fish it broke on the leader side of the leader/tippet knot, never at the fly or mid tippet. Consider asking staff for a piece of leader to compare with the tag end of each spool before buying. Tippet performed well when matched to equal or greater sized diameter leader.
February 26, 2013
Rated 2 out of 5 by Steeliechaser Not impressed
Just got back from fishing for Lake Erie tributary steelhead. I broke off about 10 different steelhead on the 4x-6lb tippet. This should have been more than adequate for these fish as I've used much lighter tippet in the past, but the water was stained so I stayed with the 4x. Sometimes I wouldn't even get past the initial head shake. All broke at the knots. I used uni's, polymar, and improved cinch and it didn't matter. Maybe it was a bad batch, or it was an old batch. Probably should have stopped somewhere to buy fresh, but thought maybe it was something I was doing wrong. Either way, i'll not get it again. The plus side is that it was very supple and easy to work with.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by tampafisherman14 tippet
White River Fly Shop tippet is very Impressive. IT holds knots 100%, and is incrediblely abrasion resistent. In dominican republic, the panfish I catch,(tilapia), have rough mouths. I use 3x tippet for them and have never had a break off. Great tippet!!! highly reccomended.
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Rated 3 out of 5 by Knuckles Sinks!
I bought this to tie my own leaders/tippets. I have fluorocarbon for my nymph rigs and needed mono for my dry flies. This stuff did not do the trick as it drags the fly down as soon as it lays on the water. Interesting quality in a mono.
Having said all of that, it IS a great line. Supple as you could ask for, ties solid knots and holds big fish fast.
I put it into my spinning kit to use as leaders when bait fishing with powerbait, etc.
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It sinks so don't use it for surface presentations, but it should work great for streamers and jigs.
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"Turn the game upside down like a ambigram"
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I designed this totem ambigram for Greg Martellotto in late \'09, and both the front and back labels for the bottle.
Derren Brown is an English psychological illusionist. His career includes many performances both on stage and on television. His latest series, Trick or Treat, debuted in April of.07 on public service British television station Channel 4. The opening of the show teases the audience with the TRICK/TREAT ambigram I designed for Objective Productions and Derren Brown.
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Which SATC Character Do You Identify With?
It's clear that after six TV seasons and two movies, the Sex and the City characters are more like caricatures. Even so, their exaggerated personality traits might make it easier to choose which of the gang we most relate to. Is it serious Miranda, proper Charlotte, sassy Samantha, or single girl at heart Carrie? Back in the day when the show was popular (and good), my friends and I would try to match ourselves to the girls. So as we catch up with the crew one more time, I want to know: which character are you most like?
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Definitely Carrie. (I'm actually surprised more people didn't choose her.) I often find Carrie's choices infuriating while watching the show, and I realize it's usually because I've done something extremely similar in the past or I know I would do something similar in the same situation. Our personalities are just shockingly similar (the good and the bad). And I swear, other people have told me this, too, so it's not just me! On a side note, I had a friend who always talked about how she was so much like Carrie, but was actually completely like Charlotte. And, I completely agree with the earlier comments stating that, while a lot of people are a lot like Miranda, for some odd reason, no one wants to admit it. I wish I could be more direct and practical like Miranda is!
Mostly Charlotte and Carrie. I feel free-spirited like Carrie but I'm a die-hard romantic like Charlotte
I have a little Charlotte & Miranda. But Carrie's the most similar to me. She doesn't want children, neither do I. She's not traditional about relationships & marriage. Neither am I. She's a writer. I love to write. She's very self centered & analytical, so am I. She has some quirky style choices. While I'm not as adventurous as she is I like quirky things as well. She values her independence, which is very important to me. And she loves her friends like family.
I identify with Miranda most of the time, but I was raised to be more 'proper' like Charlotte so I can see where she's coming from and she reminds me of my more 'innocent' (naive) days. Kind of a mixture of both.
But there's no way I'm wearing a vintage Valentino while playing with kids. No designer duds ever when you're handling kids..unless you're ready to not wear them ever again LOL.
Miranda, definitely. I'm a little more girly and unfortunately not so direct, but my views almost always coincided with hers.
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Charlotte = my social view points, Carrie = my love life, Miranda = my career goals, Samantha = my wild side
I'm shocked that so many others chose Charlotte. She's the biggest prude on the show and she associates with people who are so vastly different ferom her. That's me in a nutshell.
MIranda, definitely. She isn't afraid to speak her mind when she thinks something is ridiculous, or if she thinks one of her friends is making a big mistake, even if her friends get pissed at her. I actually think she and Samantha are alot alike in how they view the world.
She has her vulnerable side too, though, and actually is very loyal and protective of her friends. When she had her baby and was trying to balance her job with that, her life was completely out of control, and it was interesting to watch her deal with it.
I liked that about them, too. Charlotte was sensible and thought things through, but she didn't overthink things the way that Carrie did. What I really liked was her naivety and innocence. Sure, she'd had her heart broken like all the girls, but she didn't let that get her down. She was always positive that the right man was out there for her. I guess that's why I most identify with her, because I have snobbishly high standards when it comes to guys, and I feel like our personalities are similar. (ie, very happy, cheerful, a little melodramatic when necessary.)
Miranda was a bit more cynical than her, but that's what balanced the group out. Someone had to step back and say, "That's romantic, but slightly creepy," "That's not sexy, that's weird," etc.
I was just watching the show today and laughed at a Miranda-Charlotte scene where Miranda was getting her butt licked and thought it was disgusting but Charlotte was all for it and Miranda was shocked.
^^ Yeah, but she could be an unfair b!tch too. I liked Charlotte's sensibilities, but appreciates Miranda's drive to speak her truth.
I don't mind partly identifying with Miranda at all. She had her moments, but for the most part she was much more level headed and less prone to ridiculous overanalysis than the others (esp. Carrie).
Studio16, I have noticed that as well! Mostly with Miranda. I remember in high school, some girls called her "MirMANda". I always thought that was such a dumb thing to say. I bet way more girls identify with Miranda than they're willing to admit. Oh, the shame of being a career-minded woman.
I think that's part of the show's appeal--we can identify with all of them or at least parts of them. I would say I'm ~50% Miranda, 20% Carrie, 20% Charlotte and 10% Samantha on most days :)
I can't vote, simply because I feel like I'm a combination of the four. I'd say I'm about 50% Charlotte, 30% Carrie, 10% Miranda and 10% Samantha. I don't think it's that easy to match yourself up to a personality.
I was thinking about this last night though, when I was watching the actual show: So many women claim to identify with Charlotte or Carrie and no one wants to be Miranda or Samantha. I'll bet more women identify with the latter two, but don't want to admit it because they weren't as popular as Carrie and Charlotte.
Well, definitely not Carrie, who has always annoyed me. Not Samantha, because as much as I'd like to be that uninhibited, I'm not. I'd have to say a combo of Charlotte and Miranda.
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I said Charlotte, because to me she is one of the most innocent, and she has always a good smile and a good mood (for what i saw in SATC 1 - the movie)


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St. John's University honored its Brooklyn roots at the 5th Annual Schermerhorn Street Reunion, reconnecting alumni from the University's former "vertical campus."
Photo galleryThe reunion took place for the first time on the Queens campus, allowing guests to see firsthand the University's recent growth. And during a ceremony at St. Thomas More Church, Schermerhorn graduates were honored in a very special way, as University Chaplain Rev. John Kettelburger, C.M. blessed four stained-glass windows that had once been part of the St. Vincent de Paul Chapel of Schermerhorn Street. "We decided to hold this year's event on the Queens campus as a way to link St. John's past and present, strengthening the connection of the Schermerhorn Street graduates to the University today," Fr. Kettelburger said. "That connection is proudly displayed in a number of locations on the Queens campus, including these beautiful stained-glass windows that now serve as a striking feature of our on-campus church." At a reception in the D'Angelo Center, guests were able to look through old Schermerhorn Street yearbooks, watch a photo slideshow and participate in auctions and raffles. Best of all, members of this close-knit alumni group reminisced about their beloved campus. "Schermerhorn Street was a unique place," said Mary I. Mazeau '55MLS, an alumna who also worked as the campus's Registrar for 10 years. "The closeness and camaraderie made it an incredible place. And now to have the Queens campus honoring its Brooklyn roots in this way really shows the appreciation St. John's has for its history. That's something you don't see from most universities." John Tutunjian '59UC agreed and was glad to check out the Queens campus – especially the D'Angelo Center."I enjoyed coming out to Jamaica today and stepping into this wonderful D'Angelo Center," he said. "We've come a long way since our campus at Schermerhorn Street, and it's nice to know the University hasn't forgotten us. The blessing of the stained-glass windows was a nice touch and is a beautiful on-campus reminder of our history." Mary Carole Schafenberg '70Ed, '80GEd – the founder of the Schermerhorn Street Committee and a member of The McCallen Society – noted that because this particular reunion took place in Queens, St. John's was able to merge its past with its present. "The Queens campus was a very foreign establishment to most of us at Schermerhorn Street," she said. "So to hold this event here, to show us the stained-glass windows and plaque honoring our place in the St. John's story, was wonderful to see. It's great that we are being acknowledged in this way and remembered as an important part of the University." In the end, the 5th Annual Schermerhorn Street Reunion embodied what the campus always stood for: closeness, friendship and warm memories. "Seeing my old classmates and friends is precisely why I stay involved," said James Hall '55UC. "It's an opportunity to renew old acquaintances and enjoy the camaraderie that existed. And as this event proves so wonderfully, that camaraderie is still alive and well and an important part of all of our lives."


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WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - A U.S. animal rights group hopes to save a herd of genetically modified pigs from early deaths after funding dried up for a Canadian research project that has stoked controversy about altering animal genes to produce food.
Possible euthanization of the nine so-called Enviropigs, descendants of swine first bred 13 years ago by the University of Guelph in Ontario to lessen the environmental impact of pig waste, has drawn opposition from Farm Sanctuary, a New York state-based group that places abused animals in new homes.
"For the same reason, the university wouldn't be euthanizing healthy puppies or kittens, they shouldn't be killing these pigs," said Bruce Friedrich, a senior official with Farm Sanctuary. "They have a moral responsibility to see that these animals lead out their lives being pigs."
The Enviropig is one of a handful of research projects around the world that could engineer the first genetically modified animal for human consumption. But GMO plants and animals face tough scrutiny from regulators, with some consumers leery about unproven long-term health effects.
Trade repercussions could be considerable if genetically modified meat entered the food supply chain without government approval. Canada is the world's third largest pork exporter.
"It would represent an unacceptable and irresponsible risk for the university to allow these transgenic animals to be under anyone else's control ... with the possibility that they could intermix with either feral or domesticated pigs, or even end up in the human food chain by accident," wrote University of Guelph spokeswoman Lori Bona Hunt in a statement to Reuters. The university is located 90 km west (56 miles) of Toronto.
The university may not euthanize the pigs if it can find a new partner in the Enviropig project, Bona Hunt said, after an Ontario hog farmer group pulled its funding in March.
If it does terminate the pigs, the university has said it would put their genetic material in cold storage and continue research by analyzing data it has already collected.
Enviropig's researchers applied several years ago for approval for human food consumption from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada. Those regulators have not announced decisions.
Finding new homes for GMO pigs would violate Canadian government policies, Bona Hunt said. An official with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency could not immediately comment.
With the university not budging, the next step for Farm Sanctuary, which says it has 250,000 paid members and supporters in North America, is to mobilize a campaign of emails and letters urging Guelph to save the pigs, Friedrich said.
"These pigs have been born into Guelph's research labs and have probably not yet had the chance to take mud baths and bask in the sun and root in the soil, and be pigs.
"Guelph owes them that."
Environmentalists have cheered the setback for the Enviropig project and are also closely watching applications by AquaBounty Technologies Inc's engineered Atlantic salmon, which contain a gene from another fish species, the Chinook salmon, to help it grow twice as fast as normal.
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My thoughts on ability to win after that? not so good. Lol fuck oh well we will see.
Nice FR Rouge must be cool to see someone at that level in person.
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