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Again topping the art, antiques and collectibles news is the Damien Hirst auction, which seems to be proving that weirdness sells. But let's not overlook the rare Constable sketch coming out of the closet and finding collectibles in online thrift stores.
Hirst gambles, wins big payoff so far
The results of the first day of Sotheby London's two-day auction of 223 Damien Hirst works is in. Despite the world's markets reeling as America's fourth-largest investment bank, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy, Monday's take exceeded expectations.
Hirst, in a move as audacious as his art, said adios to his dealers—London's White Cube and the Gagosian Gallery of New York and Beverly Hills—and went straight to auction. According to the Independent of London, "it is the first time an artist of Hirst's stature has bypassed his usual dealer and gallery and sold his works directly to the public."
So how did it go? Fifty-four works went for $127 million, topping the estimate of $112 million.
And what was sold? Some animals preserved in formaldehyde, such as the bull embellished with gold-cast hooves and horns that gaveled in at $18.6 million, The New York Times reports, and a tiger shark that brought in $17.2 million.
With the world economy looking more than a little shaky, why are buyers coughing up this amount of money for Damien Hirst? Sotheby's head of contemporary art worldwide feels it's because he is "a global artist that can defy local economies."
For those who wonder why anyone would want to own a strange, to say the least, Hirst creation, take heart. His "Devil Worshiper," a canvas covered with dead flies, found no buyer.
So, what's in your storage room?
In the case of the Solihull Council—Solihull being a little bit south of Birmingham, England— we're talking about a John Constable sketch, reports the Daily Telegraph of London.
Picture this. We have the council drowning in millions of dollars (okay, pounds) of debt finding a very pricey, maybe even priceless, Constable sketch of Malvern Hall, a grand English estate. The Tate museum has the oil based on the drawing.
Under the dire-economic circumstances, the council officials decided to auction it. And the auction house, Bonhams London, was more than happy to oblige. "It's very exciting this has come up," Bonhams' Alexandra Ault told the Daily Telegraph. "There are a number of very serious Constable collectors both here and abroad, and we are expecting the piece to attract a lot of attention."
Takin' it to the Net
Local thrift stores get all manner of collectibles among their donations. PhillyBurbs.com checked out Care & Share Shoppes in Souderton, Pa. It was given a nice little toy car. The asking price, if sold in the store, would have been maybe three or four dollars.
But instead of putting the car up on one of its shelves, Care & Share, went online where the toy sold for $2,025. The money goes to help the Mennonite Central Committee, which provides disaster relief to communities hit hard by wars and Mother Nature.
Adele Meyer of the National Association of Resale & Thrift Shops says that a store will "get something they don't have the right customer for, but they'll sell" online.
Goodwill Industries has sold more than $50-million worth of items since starting up its shopgoodwill.com in 1999. An American Impressionist Frank Weston Benson watercolor brought in $165,000.
If you're looking for collectibles, antiques and art, you might want to stroll the aisles of online thrift stores.
..just curious,,many moons ago I gave to my local high school a painting I did of Abe Lincoln..the social studies dept..for many years it was hung in a classroom,,then disappeared…a few weeks ago I was given a tip and lo and behold my painting was sole on ebay two years ago….do I contact the school to see if they just gave it away and does the school have that right or not..just wondering out loud…..

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The Camel-haired Belt ~ Zali Nash
A furry belt has resulted in the mass mobilisation of five hundred thousand Russians to Moscow town.
My local daily sojourn has been interrupted with guard checks, blocked off streets and thousands of devotees.
Long lines stream down the river bank, where the masses are herded into small flocks. They allowed to walk in ten meter bursts before stopping for about 5 minutes at a time. On the pilgrimage to the hairy icon, you can purchase a snack, a cup of tea or go to the loo. It is a highly orchestrated, beautifully organised event.
I got caught in a line for about 45 minutes, during which time I saw plates of food purchased and handed around for any hungry bellies. I saw frail, tender hands held and guided to higher ground. I witnessed and caught the sublime patience of the faithful. It was wonderful and chokingly claustrophobic.
This camel-hair belt was worn by Mary before she ascended to Heaven. Those who see and touch the case may have fertility issues healed. In just one day this week over 80,000 stolid, faithful Russians went through Christ the Saviour Church to see and touch the case holding the hairy healer. They are even considering a helicopter tour over the city of the icon so that more can be healed.
What is the most remarkable thing about this icon, is the faith it represents. For a culture deprived of openly practicing religion for such a long time, it is a wonder to witness. Current estimates suggest that 97% of the population are devout Russian Orthodox. To have such faith that you travel long distances on a bus, line up all day in sub zero conditions, to spend just one minute in front of an icon is humbling.
The belt is on it's way back home to Greece, but it has made the way into the hearts the two million Russians who have seen it and symbolises a deeply spiritual time in this fascinating country.
Zali is an Australian writer and yoga teacher hibernating in Moscow for a few years. She specialises in personal development and holistic weightloss. You can get more of Zali's articles here.
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My first stop traveling in Asia, I thought I might try to mash up a few videos that I took of Shanghai as opposed to just pictures (my camera has HD video, after all). Sorry in advance for the poor filmmaking skills, but I'm using a point and shoot after all. I thought this video might speak better than my words for the town. It's obviously not exhaustive, but just a few things that caught my eye or are not usually photographed. However, the aspect of Shanghai that I don't think I captured was the sheer size.
I tried to get a lot of aspects of Shanghai, from the materialistic to the spiritual, and even a shot of a John leaving from a "massage" parlor. If people like it, maybe I can put a little more work into them and make videos of the other places I visit.
Overall I really enjoyed Shanghai, first being graciously hosted by the parents of a high school friend. His dad was working on supplier development and had a nice pad on the west part of Shanghai, and it was a great place to adjust to the time change. I also went with his dad to the nearby town of Hangzhou, famous for it's longjing tea and scenery (Hangzhou article is here). I also got the chance to stay at the home of the family of a colleague from the lab at the University of Michigan, which was located on the Pudong side of Shanghai. They generously offered me a comfortable room for a few nights, and Yunzhe, who studies engineering in Australia, gave me a little tour of downtown.
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Metastatic pleural tumor is a type of cancer that has spread from another organ to the thin membrane (pleura) surrounding the lungs.
Alternative Names
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Causes, incidence, and risk factors
The blood and lymph systems can carry cancer cells to other organs in the body, where they can produce new growths or tumors. The spread of cancer cells to other parts of the body occurs in 20-40% of patients who are dying of cancer.
Almost any type of cancer can spread to the lungs.
Patients who have previously had cancer are at risk for developing metastatic pleural tumors if the cancer was not successfully treated.
- Chest pain especially when taking a deep breath
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Saturday, April 21, 2007
Don DeLillo - Falling Man
This here is a conversation from Don DeLillo's latest, absolutely brilliant novel, Falling Man – the 9/11 novel that will wash away all other 9/11 novels:
"He said, 'It still looks like an accident, the first one. Even from this distance, way outside the thing, how many days later, I'm still standing here thinking it's an accident.'
'Because it has to be.'
'It has to be,' he said.
'The way the camera sort of shows surprise.'
'But only the first one.'
'Only the first,' she said.
'The second plane, by the time the second plane appears,' he said, 'we're all a little older and wiser.'"
I honestly thought I was over all that (9/11) until this book reminded me of it all – it's easy to step back into your own life after something like that and revert back to cynicism - I often scoff at people who have bumper stickers that say things like, "We will never forget", as if reading a sticker will make me say, "Oh yeah! September 11! Damn, remember that?" But, that time period in 2001 was the only moment of national unity I've ever experienced in my life, even if it was quick to fade once we went off to war – and stayed there. (Hence the reversion to cynicism, hence this blog, I guess.) I am always hesitant to read 9/11 novels for these reasons, but DeLillo is able to cull together those feelings of isolation, shock, and abandonment by the universe, into a cohesive, emotional, personal journey that leads us to the dusty hilltop where we all stand today, as a people. DeLillo writes about America – not in a political, patriotic sense of America – but in a way that reflects how we feel, think, act, love, hate towards each other. Many Americans felt more bereft of emotion & numb towards the experience after that day, rather than just feeling hateful and vengeful, as politics would have us believe – at least that's my observation. And DeLillo captures that feeling – his characters experience loss, disillusionment, abandonment, isolation, before beginning to heal – and they do heal. But war is never mentioned – this is not part of the healing process here.
Toward the end of the book, he writes this particularly poignant, albeit bleak, conversation between Martin, a European art collector, and an arrogant American librarian at a memorial service:
(Martin) "'Soon the day is coming when nobody has to think about America except for the danger it brings. It is losing the center. It becomes the center of its own shit. This is the only center it occupies.'
'If we occupy the center, it's because you put us there. This is your true dilemma,' (the American library director) said. 'Despite everything, we're still America, you're still Europe. You go to our movies, read our books, listen to our music, speak our language. How can you stop thinking about us? You see us and hear us all the time. Ask yourself. What comes after America?'
'I don't know this America anymore. I don't recognize it," (Martin) said. "There's an empty space where America used to be.'"
Aw shit, that about nails it for me. Goodnight everybody.
Monday, April 02, 2007
Oprah vs Marko, the final act
That's the beautiful thing about literature like this - there are so many facets, that everyone has a different take on what they think a book is ultimately about. I haven't talked to anyone yet who has had the same opinion on The Road, with the exception that they have all recognized its overall worth. Nor am I denying the Christian undertones - or rather, overtones - I simply think that there is more to the story than it being a novel about Christian faith, regardless of what Cormac may or may not say on Oprah. I do not see this as "an affirmation of humanity" either - although I can see the validity in such an argument. It is true that there is a glimmer of hope when the boy is discovered by the last vestiges of humanity - but my point is: hope to what end? We've already done the earth irreparable harm and everything is dead. Does the man really believe that there is a "fire" to be carried or is he just trying to give his son a viable reason to continue? True, this alone may be an affirmation, but I think that the man has actually lost his faith in humanity, but still functions like a father in giving his son hope of survival. Ultimately, I see this as a story about fathers and sons - the "fire" being the spark of humanity - of human tenderness - not a divine spark, as some may argue.
I see it as McCarthy's vision of where we, as a society, are headed if we continue down our current path. And it is bleak and shitty, there's no way to deny that. As far as it being any sort of affirmation of the worth of humanity - humanity is what ultimately destroyed the world in this novel, not the wrath of God or any sort of test of faith. We fucked it all up.
Which opens up a very real debate - one that expands far beyond the pages of this fictional work. I think any of us would be foolish to think that our empire in this country is not about to collapse - indeed, it already is in a state of decline. The world is a bleak place right now - not that I don't see any hope for the future - but things being what they are, it doesn't look pleasant for future generations, regardless of the degree of their faith.
Like I've said, the beauty of books like this is that everyone has a different interpretation or reading of it - I've never seen such different interpretations of a single book as I have with this one. And honestly, I reacted more to the pure father/son storyline than I did to the that involving the horrors of humankind and the death of the planet. It hit me on a much more personal level than any book I have read, at least in recent memory - this is why I was so affected by it - and in turn, affected by the major corporate television program sharing it with their audience. So, when it appears that:
"you...seem to be coming down kind of hard on the rest of the world, it makes (you) sound kind of crazy... kind of like you'd like a selective apocalypse... "
...you're damn right - since I read this book and saw personal themes at its core, I take it personally that there is a major corporate push behind it. I'm sorry if there are people out there who think I'm "not paying attention or projecting too much of my own agenda", but this is my website and is ultimately a forum for my thoughts, just like Cormac's forum is his novels and Oprah's is her show. None of this has been about Oprah-bashing - believe me, I could devote many posts to that topic - and I honestly believe that there is some real worth to her Book Club. I am not a ravenous Cormac fan either - of the 4 books of his I've read, I've read them all in the last 2 years, none before that. So I don't necessarily hold him in some long-standing esteem - it was just this book that resonated for me on such a deep level. I read a book, sometimes two, a week - this is no boast, just a fact. But after I finished The Road, I could not pick up anything else for over a week - everything paled in comparison, and it had opened up enough personal doubts and debates that I had a hard time focusing on any other storylines. This is a remarkable thing for a novel to achieve - therefore, I take it personally, maybe erroneously, that this corporate beast has taken it upon herself to share it with the universe. Take it or leave it.


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After exploring the entire city, Bella Artes is by far the best area to stay in. We booked in for 4 nights and two apartments for three of us. These are studio apartments in a large multi building apartment complex. 'The Andes Apartments' are just a small random collection in this skyrise complex. They are all identical, nicely decorated and very comfortable. They desperately need better quality knives and a coffee maker or French press though. The grocery store is next door and there are lots of restaurants and sites within walking distance (get a map from the front desk at the hostel building check-in). Supposedly, you get a fantastic view of the city from the rooftop at night (we made the mistake of going to The W Hotel, which no longer offers a rooftop bar).
Our stay here was fantastic except that the electricity blew on our second night, so they moved us from one on the 3rd floor to the 8th floor and then for some reason made us move to one on the 6th floor the following night. I thought they were upgrading us for a night, but no they were all the same. This was a hassle with all the luggage and groceries, but at least there's an elevator.
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Across the road from the Bellas Artes subway station, this makes for a great base from which to explore Santiago; we only stayed one night here, alas, but between the rooftop terrace and general vibe, I could see what makes this a popular place. Lots of noise from the common area still present on the first floor though (even at the end of the corridor), which didn't let up until late at night, so perhaps not the best place to stay at if you need your sleep.
Andes Hostel is the best place to stay in Santiago, is very well located just in front of "Bellas Artes" metro station, when there you are close to everything (Palacio de la Moneda, la casa de Neruda, Plaza de Armas, museums, etc)and visit all these places by walking.
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Could have all day coffee and tea, do not see why not.
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It is one of the ironies of history that a man who devoted his whole life to the cause of peace and universal brotherhood should be remembered only for his contributions to educational theory and the text-books which he prepared. It is also characteristic of the politician's state of mind that, when he sought Sweden as a haven where he could work for the great cause which he had espoused, Comenius was advised by [Axel] Oxenstierna [chancellor of Sweden] to devote himself to schoolmastering. "My advice", said Oxenstierna, "is that you first do something for the schools, and bring the study of the Latin tongue to a greater facility; thus you will prepare for those greater matters"—the program of word peace. This attitude of mind was to be repeated three centuries later when the League of Nations turned a deaf ear to the plea that education should also be employed under its aegis as an instrument for the promotion of a new world order.
Comenius, however, showed greater insight into the needs of his age than did the politicians. It is not necessary to attempt to establish a claim to originality for Comenius. If he was not original, he did at least have the ability to see the real bearings of the contributions which had been made by his predecessors and his contemporaries to human thought and to a new world order. He had insight to bring together the somewhat isolated suggestions and recommendations made by other into one program and to go beyond them in an active campaign to convert this program into a practical reality. Others had dreamed dreams and seen visions but it remained for Comenius to attempt to make them the basis of both national and international policy. To trace Comenius's ideas back to their origins is not difficult, but the fact that he may have derived inspiration from others does not in any way diminish the credit which should be his due for the efforts which he put forward throughout his career to make them effective and vital springs for political action. He was heir to the faith in universal brotherhood which had animated every humane man before him and will continue to be an inspiration to all men of good will until it is established on earth. He was in this sense a citizen of the world.
His faith in universal brotherhood and an internationally ordered world did not deflect him, however, from doing all that was in his power to restore his people to the homeland from which they had been ruthlessly driven. If his first thoughts were directed to the education of his people, it was, as he wrote: "with no other intent but that, should God in His mercy toward us restore us to our native land, supports might be in readiness, whereby the harm wrought to our schools and our youth might be the more rapidly repaired." But he was more then a nationalist; he was a humanitarian who wished to see educational opportunities provided for "all alike, gentle and simple, rich and poor, boys and girls, in great towns and small, down to the country villages. And for this reason. Everyone who is born a human being is born with this intent—that he should be a human being, that is a reasonable creature ruling over the other creatures and bearing the likeness of his Maker." Nearly two centuries were to pass before this ideal was to be incorporated in the educational policies of nations.
Comenius was not content, however, with the provision of educational opportunities for all according to their abilities. Universal education must be informed with knowledge garnered from all the world, if universal humane education was to be disseminated. Education must become a way of light "that the young", as Comenius wrote, "might be rescued from the mazes of the world and better instructed about all things from their very elements" and that "men's minds should be gradually raised from darkness to light and withdrawn from the vague and casual opinions to the one straightforward way of everlasting truth".
In the contributions of Comenius to education no longer arouse the interest which they did even as recently as fifty years ago, it is not because they have become obsolete or discredited; it is because they have been embodied in the thinking of the world of education. Of the teacher of Poland, Sweden, England and Holland, whose "Gate of Tongues Unlocked" was translated in his own day into most of the languages of Europe and into Turkish, Arabic, Persian and "Mongolian", Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler could say on the occasion of the celebration of his 300th anniversary: "The place of Comenius in the history of education, therefore, is one of commanding importance. He introduces and dominates the whole modern movement in the field of elementary and secondary education. His relation to our present teaching is similar to that held by Copernicus and Newton toward modern science, and Bacon and Descartes toward modern philosophy."
A great injustice has been done to the work and memory of Comenius in the failure to understand that he was more than a schoolman and that his lifelong devotion to education was based on his desire to lay the foundations for the larger scheme which he developed simultaneously with his works on education. Education, as [Jules] Michelet [one of France's greates historians] pointed out, was, in Comenius's opinion, to be the way to peace and to universal brotherhood. For Comenius was not a dreamer; the times in which he lived were such as to impel any thoughtful man to turn his mind to plans for the amelioration of the ills which overwhelmed the world. A refugee in a world torn by religious dissensions and imperialist aggressions he saw Europe being devastated by prolonged wars and in England, where he hoped to see the fruition of his plans for a better world order, the outbreak of war and civil strife in which men could find no time to consider proposals for perpetual peace destroyed the great hope which he had entertained of seeing his ideas realized. Homeless in a world which refused to turn its attention to plans for the restoration of world sanity, Comenius rejected the offers of a safe haven in the American colonies in order that he might devote himself to the redemption of Europe.
Comenius has been described as a millenarian; devoutly religious, he could not but accept the promise of a better world. Faced with the conditions of his day, however, he felt it his duty to contribute, so far as his powers would permit, to hastening the realization of that promise in his time. It was in this connection that he sought to turn to practical use the new knowledge which was being accumulated. With his contemporaries he shared the hope that the newly discovered sciences would, as [Francis] Bacon had already expressed it, be used "to endow human life with new discoveries and resources", "to extend more widely the powers and greatness of man's estate, to secure the sovereignty of man over nature", "for the finding out the true nature of all things, whereby God might have the more glory in the workmanship of them, and men the more fruit of them".
While Comenius welcomed the new learning, he was disturbed by the threatened danger of specialization in which men would become immersed in their own immediate interests and neglect the practical contribution which could only be made by a synthesis of all the knowledge then in process of being accumulated. He anticipated by three centuries the current movement for the unification and coordination of the sciences as a tool for social progress and human welfare. Comenius was not a scientist but he realized fully the potentialities of the sciences. A disciple of Bacon, he constituted himself a "Merchant of Light", a mission which brought him an invitation to England in 1641. This visit has been described by R. Fitzgibbon Young in his scholarly study of "Comenius in England" and its anniversary was widely celebrated last fall by the British universities. If he did not succeed in securing the establishment of the international center, or Pansophic College, for the coordination of the knowledge and sciences of the world, he did participate in, and probably contributed to, the discussions which ultimately resulted in the founding of the Royal Society.
It can not be emphasized too strongly that, important as where the contributions of Comenius to education, nothing that he did in this field has meaning except as it is related to his larger design for the coordination of the knowledge of the world for the advancement of human welfare. This task, as he wrote in 1669, "would be the work of more than one man, particularly when he was a Comenius, so frankly confessing the scantiness of his own equipment in this regard; wherefore he must be given collaborators, six or eight learned men who would ransack all the libraries and supply him with the more choice materials for his own pen to reduce in order. Nor would the work be of a single age even, if it were brought to its proper perfection. Consequently there would have to be founded at this juncture a college such as the illustrious Bacon desired, dedicated to all the studies of the world, of men whose care was to bring about augmentations, worthy of the human race, in the sciences and arts."
A few years earlier, in his "Great Didactic", Comenius described the kind of college which should be established. Learned men "should make it the object of their combined labors to establish thoroughly the foundations of the sciences, to spread the light of wisdom throughout the human race with greater success than has heretofore been attained and to benefit mankind by new and useful inventions. For unless we desire to remain ever in the same position, or even to go back, we must take care that our successful beginnings lead on to further advances. For this no individual, and no single generation sufficeth, and it is therefore essential that the work should be carried on by many persons, working in concert and using as a starting-point the researches of their predecessors. This Universal College would bear the same relation to other schools that the belly bears to other members of the body, that of a living laboratory supplying sap, vitality and strength to all."
This was the great task to which Comenius dedicated his life—the creation of a Universal College, a Pansophic College, a Temple of Universal Wisdom, "a structure of truth, human and divine", which would take all knowledge as the sphere of its activities and in which learned men from all over the world would cooperate. It was not, however, the accumulation of knowledge for its one sake in which Comenius was interested, but its unification, coordination and advancement for human welfare and universal peace. In expressing his hopes Comenius speaks as any contemporary would speak to us to-day:
"There is needed in this century", he wrote in his 'Pansophiae Diatyposis' (Pattern of Universal Knowledge, 1643), "an immediate remedy for the frenzy which has seized many men and is driving them in their madness to their mutual destruction. For we witness throughout the world disastrous and destructive flames of discords and wars devastating kingdoms and peoples with such persistence that all men seem to have conspired for their mutual ruin which will end only with the destruction of themselves and the universe. Nothing is, therefore, more necessary for the stability of the world, if it is not to perish completely, than some universal rededication of minds. Universal harmony and peace must be secured for the whole human race. By peace and harmony, however, I mean not that external peace between rulers and peoples among themselves, but an internal peace of minds inspired by a system of ideas and feelings. If this could be attained, the human race has a position of great promise."
This system of ideas and feelings could be attained through universal knowledge which, as the foundation and coordinator of all things, would secure order and produce good rulers of states. But it would do more, if the masses would be permitted to learn and understand that the public and private welfare of all depend upon the acceptance of responsibility by each for his own proper function in life. With nations scattered over the whole world and divided by differences of languages much could be gained not only for each nation but for all peoples of the earth, if they had a common basis for mutual understanding which they could share through a common language. Such a common basis could be achieved and disseminated because of the expansion of intercourse between all parts of the world through navigation, printing and the promises of the sciences. Further, the dissemination of universal knowledge was made possible by the discovery of a method whereby all men could learn all things thoroughly (omnes omnia omnino). The great task for the Pansophic College would be to coordinate and unify all knowledge and adapt it for convenient use by this method.
Comenius was not content, however, with the coordination and unification of the knowledge of the past and of his day. The Pansophic College would be concerned with emphasizing the coherence of all things, with stressing the possibilities of constant progress and with insisting on the perpetual interdependence and unification of all knowledge. Directly attacking the current belief that intellectual achievement had already reached its limits, he urged that the duty of the Pansophic College would also be to reveal the unknown areas which still remained to be discovered. Knowledge to be effective must, he urged, be universal and without any serious gaps; it must be true and sifted from the false and useless, and it must be so simplified and free from obscurities and ambiguities that it would of itself exercise an influence on the mind. The light of true knowledge would serve to promote universal knowledge and cultural unity throughout the world.
More than three centuries separate the age of Comenius from that in which we live. Comenius may have expressed his ideas in mold which differs from ours; his faith may have been rooted in sanctions which a world, become skeptical and cynical, has questioned. We may know more of the hidden causes of things than even the optimistic age of Comenius considered possible. And yet we may well ask ourselves whether, with all the apparatus of knowledge and learning and with all the equipment for modern methods of investigation, we have advanced much further toward the realization of the hopes which Comenius entertained for an understanding world of peace and universal brotherhood. The world, again enveloped by the destructive flames of a devastating war which threatens to end in the destruction of ourselves and the universe, is once more setting out on the same quest which makes Comenius as real for our day as for his and gives him his rightful place among those who have labored for an internationally ordered world.
More clearly than the statesman of his day Comenius realized that the ideals which he preached could not be achieved by political methods and conventions alone nor by the increase and dissemination of knowledge alone unless that knowledge were imbued with the common ideals and purposes, shared by the whole of the human race. If any one should be disposed to ignore the design of Comenius, the theologian and idealist philosopher, for a peaceful and harmonious world, he is urged to compare that design with the proposal for a "World Encyclopaedia" put forward a few years ago by H. G. Wells, the secularist and naturalist philosopher.
Like Comenius, Wells deplores "the conspicuous ineffectiveness of modern knowledge and ... trained and studied thought in contemporary affairs". Wells, like Comenius before him, is critical of the intense specialization and compartmentalization of knowledge. Referring to those who watched the birth of the League of Nation, Wells writes: "Possibly all the knowledge and all the directive ideas needed to establish a wise and stable settlement of the world's affairs in 1919 existed in bits and fragments, here and there, but practically nothing had been assembled, practically nothing had been thought out, nothing practically had been done to draw that knowledge and these ideas together into a comprehensive conception of the world ... We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill ... Can scientific knowledge and specialized thought be brought into more effective relation to general affairs?"
Comenius's answer to this question was his design for the Temple of Universal Wisdom; Wells's answer is that "a new social organ, a new institution—which for a time I shall call World Encyclopedia, is the means whereby we can solve the problem of that jigsaw puzzle and bring all the scattered and ineffective mental wealth of our world into something like a common understanding, and into effective reaction upon our vulgar everyday political, social an economic life ... I am sketching what is really a scheme for the reorganization and reorientation of education and information throughout the world."
The World Encyclopaedia of Wells, like the Pansophic College of Comenius, would be a world-wide organization of intellectuals and specialists, corresponding associates of the Encyclopaedia organization.
"Such an Encyclopaedia organization (writes Wells in words which almost sound like quotations from Comenius) could spread, like a nervous network, a system of mental control over the globe, knitting all the intellectual workers of the world through a common interest and a common medium of expression into more and more conscious cooperating unity and a growing sense of their own dignity ... Without a World Encyclopaedia to hold men's minds together in something like a common interpretation of reality, there is no hope whatever of anything but an accidental and transitory alleviation of any of our world troubles. As mankind is, so it will remain, until it pulls its mind together."
So speaks Wells, the modernist; so spoke Comenius, the educator and theologian. It is his community of thought with the present which justified the universities of Great Britain and justifies us in celebrating the anniversary of a man who, as educator and as an internationalist, belongs to all ages. Comenius was a citizen of the world, but he could believe in a world united by a common ideal and a common purpose without surrendering faith in his own people. He could trust God that the rule of their affairs would again be restored to the Czech people, and at the same time cling to his faith in universal brotherhood and peace through universal understanding, which alone can ensure the security of nations and the welfare of the world.
From: School and Society, The Publication of The Society for the
Advancement of Education, Inc., vol. 55, nr. 1424, New York, April 11, 1942


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Singing the Dream: Spirituals & Gospel Music in the Civil Rights Movement.
Rev. Ann Jefferson, a 33-year resident of the Bay Area, currently works as Program Coordinator of the Theological Education for Leadership (TEL) Program at Pacific School of Religion and co-director of Worship. Beyond PSR, Ann serves as Associate Pastor of Worship & Liturgy at City of Refuge UCC in San Francisco (www.sfrefuge.org) and has served as a musician and music director of several congregations throughout the Bay area. She brings 30+ years' experience to her study and teaching of the history of African-American sacred music. She has taught numerous seminars in this subject area including: collaborative workshops with Linda Tillery (founder and artistic director of the Cultural Heritage Choir), several PSR courses, and a seminar on African-American women hymn and gospel pioneers at the 2010 annual conference of the Hymn Society of the United States and Canada.
PSR South Bay Summer Lecture Series at FCC San Jose
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Some views including the ballyard which will see some World Series games.
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Some views including the ballyard which will see some World Series games.
And let us not forget fetching Camden!
I'm sad, this is the second time you are coming to my turf, just minutes away from my home, and I won't be able to catch you. But depending on how long you are in the area, if you would like to come visit our beautiful Villanova University, a Catholic institution run by the Augustinians, please feel free to shoot me an e-mail. I have several friends there who are big time fans of yours, and I can't guarantee but I am confident nonetheless that I could arrange for you to preside over a TLM at either our big church or our smaller chapel (I'm afraid the setup of the smaller chapel might make things difficult, but we can figure that out). If you are interested please e-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com. I have been contemplating my strategy for getting a TLM instituted on campus, and your presence would certainly be a welcome support.
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I am looking forward to tonight's and Sunday's Mass.
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Remember this always: "THE HAWK WILL NEVER DIE!!!" (Sorry 'bout shouting, but we gifted ones from St. Joe's feel that its necessary when speaking to a Wild Cat.)
Mr. Enright,
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Jesuits do tend to shout more. It's the only way they can be heard while their heads remain so far up in the clouds :)
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The 2014 Asheville Holiday Parade will follow the same route as last year - north on Biltmore Avenue from Charlotte Street, making a left on Patton Avenue heading west. The performance stop is located at the corner of Biltmore and Patton Avenues, near the Vance Monument.
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Place the cilantro, onion, chilis and salt in a medium-sized bowl and mash it with the back of a kitchen spoon. Add avocado, tomato and lime juice and mash all ingredients together. Adjust seasoning as necessary.
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Goshen students spend spring break readying cars for upcoming competition
Two high-efficiency prototype cars, built by students, are almost ready for an international contest this month.
The lure of no school didn't keep some Goshen students from the classroom on Monday, April 7 — the first day of spring break.
By 11 a.m., students in the Super Mileage class were hard at work on two prototype high-efficiency cars. In just about two weeks, these small, oddly-shaped machines will be hurtling through the streets of Houston in an international competition.
Problem is, one of the cars is only about 95 percent complete according to Goshen teacher J.J. Johnson.
He has no doubt the cars will be ready in time though.
"This could be a big year for Goshen," he said. "We will probably hit 1,000 miles per gallon this year."
The highest miles per gallon a Goshen car has ever achieved is 728, a record the school has held for three years. At the contest, students' cars will be judged on how much fuel they burn in a 10-lap run, among other things.
And though it's tempting to make the cars look snazzy, Johnson said he told students this year to go for performance.
Cars in the competition are all designed differently, because the design comes from the students' heads.
"No one is going off the same mold or the same pattern," Johnson said. "A lot of it depends on what kind of connection you can make to get your materials."
Companies that donate materials are excited about what the Super Mileage kids are learning, he said. This could be what students do for work someday, he added.
Cameron Gruntman, a junior, created a new steering mechanism for one of the cars. The new design means students can change a flat tire quicker and it also gives the driver a little more leg space.
The group is hoping to win a technical innovation award for Gruntman's design.
Even if they don't win, working on the cars is just fun, said freshman Derick Schmucker.
Students don't mind coming in at 6 or 7 a.m. to work before school starts, and they've even come in on days school was cancelled this winter because of the cold, Johnson said.
"This teaches you more than just building the cars," Mitchell Watts, a senior, said on Monday. "It teaches work ethics, problem-solving...(Johnson) is making us work to solve the problem."
Goshen will be competing in the Shell Eco-marathon on April 25-27. Two other local schools, Fairfield and Northridge, also have Super Mileage teams and will be competing in contests this year.


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Once-esteemed (by the government, at least) mercenary corporation Blackwater is in some hot legal water after the company's former president and four other former employees were slapped with federal charges over the alleged stockpiling of automatic weapons.
The charges are only the latest problem in Blackwater's short but troubled history. Now renamed Xe Services, Blackwater is trying to repair a reputation sullied by a series of allegations about its conduct in Iraq.—JCL
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Haitians flock to cathedral to mark earthquake anniversary
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - One year after a devastating earthquake partially collapsed the national cathedral here, thousands flocked to the site to mark the anniversary of the tragedy.
Clad largely in white and carrying their own chairs or bed sheets to sit on, Haitians arrived from across the city for the morning Mass. For many, if not most, the ceremony marks the completion of a tragic year. A hurricane, cholera and political unrest all followed the tremor, which itself claimed the lives of more than 220,000.
Junita Joseph, 59, arrived at the ceremony with the aid of a cane. She clutched an empty cereal box, her makeshift seat.
Joseph lives in a tent in Carrefour, a poor district on the outskirts of the city. She and her four children survived the earthquake, but Joseph lost her livelihood after a large fire engulfed the market where she vended clothing, Tete Boeuf.
"I'm coming here, because of the grace of God, to pray," she said. "Because I survived, I have to thank God."
Schools and many businesses are closed today. Roads were conspicuously empty of traffic between Port-au-Prince and the nearby suburb of Petionville.
Celebrations range across the city. Some said they would fast to mark the day. In Carrefour, government officials were to offer death certificates for anyone who could bring a photograph of their dead relatives to a church in the neighborhood, one radio station reported.
The past year's toll was visible outside of the cathedral, as well. Mosane Flerimon, 33, sleeps under a collection of tarps and bed sheets leaned against an aluminum fence surrounding the property.
With no work, three children and an absent husband, she said the thought of the past year upset her.
"Sure, because I'm not working, I'm not doing anything," Flerimon said.
The country will mark the time of the earthquake, 4:53 p.m., with a minute of silence.
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some Muslim leaders=Divide and Conquer!
This will bring peace and flowers to Empire's stormtroopers in every Muslim country occupied and terrorized by it for sure.
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Andy is spreading love like a plague but sadly Zessica seems to have been left out and is unable to contract it. Just about everyone else seems to be happy at the academy, while Zessica is all but ignored by Amata and is stuck in unrequited love mode. I guess Kawamori learned a thing or two after finding out just how unbalanced a love triangle could be when Ranka challenged Sheryl. This time Mikono seems to be more than decent and Amata is anything but dithering. Zessica's only hope is that Mikono and Kagura will find alone time, but that hope is fading fast not to mention anything that Mikage wants is likely bad even if it would be a beneficial ship to get Amata and Zessica together. Most of the episode was great, but I find myself becoming increasingly sad as Zessica is the odd one out, Sazanka may be alone but she is getting RICH and reveling in her unabashed fujoshi state. I can't really blame Amata for being consistent even if he is consistently wrong for not choosing Zessica because well there just isn't that much to hate.
Amata while not nearly as forthright as Andy is at least making the attempt and not letting himself go completely emo. For a guy who saw his mother fly away he hasn't brought it up much and best of all he is not using it as a crutch nor does he hate Alicia for leaving him. Now that we have confirmation that Alicia is Amata's mother it opens up for the distinct that Izumo might be the father given Izumo's implied relationship with Alicia. Then again maybe Alicia already had Amata by the time she encountered Izumo. Given how Alicia seemed sad that she had to leave I don't think she really meant to leave Amata behind. If it is as suspect that Alicia went to Altair willingly she might not have been willing to take Amata on a dangerous jump to Altair. Hopefully even if Alicia is in stasis, Izumo is going to fill us in on what happened during the early years of his discovery of Vega.
Jin seems to be well on his way to having a change of heart but if he knew the truth of it and how Kagura had just trashed his home Jin could try to make a desperation jump with Yunoha. If that happens, I really hope that his barrier powers will come into play and Yunoha won't die or worse end up in Mikage's clutches. I still hope that Jin will have no way to make the jump and decided that Kagura and Mikage have to be stopped for both Vega and Altair. I just hope Izumo told Jin that under no circumstances was he to trust Mikage fully if at all. Yunoha seems to have figured out that Jin is more than a lonely socially challenged transfer student. Given how generally forthright Yunoha has been with Jin I do hope she plans on telling him how much she knows about him. With any luck Jin will see more benefit in confessing his intentions and that of Altair in the hopes of decreasing tensions. Fudo and Crea seem to know about whom he is and where he is from, but the other students might not understand or forgive. Donar might go further than Cayenne if the truth were to get out, not that I'd blame Donar for still holding a grudge.
Yunoha may have pieced together where Jin is from and I can't really say I blame her for believing in Jin despite being given ample reason not to. Since Mikage is against Jin and Yunoha being together I want them to be happy now more than ever. Once the truth does come out I hope that she can patch things up with Jin and will vouch for him when Cayenne calls for his head. Jin will likely be very confused and distraught to learn that his home is in shambles and that Kagura now constitutes a genuine threat to all. Yunoha seems to be a passenger for next sortie but I hope that she will not sit idly by as Jin starts the decision process. She gave Jin the benefit of the doubt I just hope that she will still see that Jin is trying to save his people and that the Alteans have not taken people away without reason or simply out of malevolence.
In any case it seems that the Abductor harvest are a relatively recent events and that it was about 12 years ago that Neo-Deeva was founded to presumably combat Abductor incursions. I assume that at first Izumo restricted himself to recon and just taking candidates that fit his nebulous criteria. His near success and subsequent stasis of Alicia just made things more desperate. Given how the crash occurred 14 years ago this is anything but a 12,000 years war. Mikage may have been waiting that long but it seems that Izumo made a deal with a being that is more malevolent and manipulative that Izumo could possibly imagine. The recent breakdown in relations was brewing only things came to a head once Mikono's smelliness factored into the equation. It probably will not be long until Izumo and Mikage have a real falling out though I really doubt such a fight would be won by Izumo.
Love is spreading but I dearly hope that Zessica will find someone. Still the course of true love never did run smooth and even Mix is still apprehensive about fully embracing Andy's love. I have to hand it to Andy though, he may not understand every thought in his head but when he implements the good ideas he spares no effort. Much will be said about how Andy acted as a vehicle for Kawamori to be Kawamori, by bringing Aquarion in your Aquarion back to the table as well as a pineapple joke. I was very much relieved when they declined to have any pineapple be it salad, cakey, or in this case pizza.
Next week will see the conclusion of a test of Jin's loyalty perhaps he will pass with flying colors as Muginami did. Whatever happens I just hope Yunoha doesn't end up dead for it.


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ACTIVE TIME: 25 minutes
TOTAL TIME: 25 minutes
- 4 1/2 tablespoons mirin
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Chinese five-spice powder, or 4 whole star anise, ground
- 3 tablespoons hoisin sauce
- 3 tablespoons toasted sesame seeds
- 3 tablespoons unseasoned rice vinegar
- 1 1/2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 1/2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil (such as Asian)
- 2 10- to 12-ounce rib-eye steaks
- 4 large shiitake mushrooms, stemmed
- 2 baby bok choy, quartered lengthwise
Prepare barbecue (medium-high heat). Mix mirin, Chinese five-spice powder, hoisin sauce, toasted sesame seeds, vinegar, soy sauce, and sesame oil in small saucepan; bring to boil. Cool. Place steaks, mushrooms, and bok choy on baking sheet. Pour half of sauce over; turn to coat. Reserve remaining sauce in same saucepan. Sprinkle steaks evenly with salt and pepper.
Grill steaks, mushrooms, and bok choy until meat is medium-rare and vegetables are partially charred, turning occasionally, about 10 minutes for steaks, 8 minutes for mushrooms, and 5 minutes for bok choy. Slice steaks; divide between 2 plates with mushrooms and bok choy. Bring remaining sauce to simmer; drizzle sauce over steak slices, mushrooms, and bok choy and serve.
Market tip: If you can't find some of the ingredients for the steaks at the grocery store, look for them at Asian markets. Star anise is a brown star-shaped seed pod native to China; it is often an ingredient in Chinese five-spice powder.
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- Calories1,092
- Carbohydrates22 g (7%)
- Fat80 g (124%)
- Protein63 g (127%)
- Saturated Fat30 g (149%)
- Sodium1,213 mg (51%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat11 g
- Fiber4 g (18%)
- Monounsaturated Fat36 g
- Cholesterol213 mg (71%)


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In danger of losing his badge, a big city detective agrees to aid a small town sheriff in a routine missing persons investigation only to discover that at least one girl has gone missing in the sheriff's sleepy fishing town of Grizzly Cove each year for the last two decades. When a body finally emerges on the lake and suspects literally crawl out of the hills, the two lawmen realize they're being toyed with, and to make things worse, the killer seems to have set his eyes on a group of sorority girls who are not only isolated by the lake but have their own nefarious plans in mind. Outnumbered and out of time, the two lawmen must solve the mystery of the missing girls or suffer the same fate.
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