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PULLMAN, Wash. - Cougar Pride, a 15-foot tall monument commissioned by Gary Schneidmiller (WSU class of '71) and created by artists Mike and Chester Fields, was dedicated during a ceremony at the Martin Stadium plaza, Saturday, Nov. 22 at 10 a.m., two hours prior to kickoff of the Apple Cup, proudly sponsored by Boeing.
Dignitaries who spoke at the dedication ceremony included Governor Chris Gregoire, WSU President Elson S. Floyd, Fran Forgette, Chair, WSU Board of Regents, Director of Athletics Jim Sterk, the Fields, and Schneidmiller.
The monument, which Governor Gregoire remarked "is a wonderful tribute" to the university, is named Cougar Pride, and stands 15-feet high on its pedestal and is the largest bronze sculpture on campus. It was brought to Pullman, Wednesday night from Joseph, Ore., where it was cast in bronze, and placed Thursday, Nov. 20.
In its entirety, the sculpture is 14-feet, 5-inches long nose to tail, 6-feet, 4-inches wide, and weighs approximately 4,500 pounds; the cougar itself will stand 11-feet, 4-inches high. It will be located on the Martin Stadium Plaza, adjacent to the main thoroughfare of campus, Stadium Way.
"Washington State University deserved a magnificent art piece and symbol that would forever be the equal of a world-class institution," Schneidmiller said earlier this week. "I hope that Cougars everywhere will agree we have succeeded."
"Gary is a great friend and supporter of Cougar Athletics and Washington State University," Sterk said earlier this week. "This sculpture is a testament to this fact. His generosity and love of WSU have made this sculpture a reality, and it is something that past, present, and future generations of Cougars will take great satisfaction in and be able to enjoy forever."
With Cougar Pride, Schneidmiller wished to honor his father, Manuel, a 1941 graduate; as well as his mother, Gladys, who still attends all of the WSU football games. In addition, he wished to preserve the tradition of Butch.
However, as described on the plaque dedication, 30 years later, Butch has returned home with Cougar Pride. The monument is located adjacent to the area where Butch the mascot called home.
Crafted by Mike Fields and his father Chester, who are based in Spokane, Wash., the process of creating the statue began in May and was only completed earlier this month when the monument was cast in bronze.
"My Dad and I want to express how pleased and honored we are to create this sculpture for Martin Stadium," said Mike Fields. "We were excited to have the opportunity to work on it."
"They did an amazing job," Schneidmiller said of the Fields. "They created a masterful piece that represented the entire University."
"Mike and Chester Fields have created a sculpture that will become a signature landmark of this great University," Sterk said. "It is a terrific work of art."
The public will have the opportunity to purchase 11-, 18- or 30-inch miniature versions of the statue in bronze casting, and in 2009 a 9-inch nickel plated version will be available. More information on how to purchase the miniatures will be made available in the near future at the website cougarpride.com. A significant portion of the proceeds from the sale of the miniatures will be contributed to the WSU Athletic Department.
Magnificent Cougar graces campus
Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008
Article by Becky Phillips, WSU Today
Photos by Becky Phillips and Robert Hubner, WSU Photo Services
"There's a new Coug in town!" said a bystander watching the painstaking installation of an 11-foot tall cougar statue at Martin Stadium Thursday morning. Placed just in time for the Apple Cup, the granite and bronze monument is destined to become one of WSU's most notable landmarks.
The sculpture, Cougar Pride, was commissioned and donated to WSU by Gary Schneidmiller (WSU class of 1971) and created by Spokane artists, Mike and Chester Fields. A formal dedication ceremony will be held 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 22 at the Martin Stadium Plaza.
Gary Schneidmiller (WSU class of '71) commissioned the Cougar Pride bronze for WSU.
Preparations for the placement of the bronze began a week ago with the laying of granite slabs that cover the concrete pedestal. Employees from Great Floors – Granite and Stone, of Post Falls, spent several days lifting, fitting and trimming the tan-brown granite which lines the pedestal. Special crimson granite was used to form Cougar logos near the commemorative plaque.
Bill McLeskey, lead installer for Great Floors, said each of the granite side panels weighs 450 pounds and the top piece – installed in two halves – weighs 2000 pounds. In total, he estimates the monument to weigh about seven tons – including four tons of granite and the nearly three ton bronze sculpture.
A year in the making, the sculpture was designed in Spokane, sculpted in clay in Portland and then cast in bronze at a foundry in Joseph, Oregon. Yesterday, the finished statue was driven up the steep and winding Rattlesnake Grade into Washington where it spent the night in Pullman.
Chester and Mike Fields - the Spokane artists who created Cougar Pride.
Today, as the morning light shone on the magnificent cougar outside Martin Stadium, people commented on its lifelike eyes. "We polished the eyes to make them more reflective – kind of like a real cat," said sculptor Mike Fields.
"They did an amazing job," Schneidmiller said of the Fields. "They created a masterful piece that represented the entire University."
Schneidmiller commissioned Cougar Pride not only to preserve the tradition of Butch, the once live cougar mascot, but also to honor his father, Manuel, a 1941 WSU graduate and his mother, Gladys, who still attends all of the WSU football games. Schneidmiller resides in Post Falls, Idaho.
The bronze was delivered to Martin Stadium Thursday morning. (photo by Robert
Hubner, WSU Photo Services.)
Lowering the three-ton sculpture onto the pedestal.
Delicately trying to settle the bronze onto its base pole.
Sculptor Mike Fields in foreground (red coat). Jim Sterk, Athletics director on right.
Great Floors employees roll brown and tan granite slabs to concrete pedestal
earlier this week.
BIG CAT: Cougar Pride, a 15-foot-tall bronze cougar monument, will be dedicated in the Martin Stadium plaza on Saturday at 10 a.m. The giant cougar weighs 4,500 pounds and is more than 14 feet long from nose to tail. It was commissioned by Gary Schneidmiller (WSU class of 1971) and created by artists Mike and Chester Fields
WSU Monument for WSU Atheletics presented on Apple Cup weekend 2008. This bronze sculpture has already gained significant recognition, thanks to Gary Schneidmillers generous univesrity sculpture commission.


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- The UK Meteorological Office has put up a questionnaire on different ways of communicating uncertainty in short-term weather forecasts. I know which ones I prefer, but won't try and influence anyone [this site may go down temporarily, but should be available by Friday 15th January]
- This year's Darwin lecture series in Cambridge is on Risk: 8 speakers on all aspects, starting on January 15th.
- There is an excellent blog from the Genetic Geneologist (Blaine Bettinger) that very generously puts up details of their increased risk of Type 2 diabetes obtained from genome scans from two companies using a variety of communication formats.
- david's blog
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As a 'risk junkie' working in London, is it too much to hope for videos of the Darwin lectures to appear either here or on youtube?? Chris Meadows
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Chris, thanks for the prompt - yes the Darwin Lectures are available on video, either through iTunes or through the Cambridge University Streaming Media Service. The liTunes link is:
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Enlightenment (spiritual)
notion in spirituality of full comprehension of a situation
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Enlightenment is a concept in spirituality, philosophy and psychology related to achieving clarity of perception, reason and knowledge. Concepts of it in the traditions of Hinduism are referred to as moksha (liberation), in Jainism as Kevala Jnana, and in Zoroastrianism as ushta. Enlightenment in Buddhism is referred to as bodhi, kensho and satori.
- "The Enlightenment" is a phrase commonly used to denote the period called the Age of Enlightenment.
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- I am the completion of your incomplete self. You are a Line, but I am a Line of Lines, called in my country a Square: and even I, infinitely superior though I am to you, am of little account among the great nobles of Flatland, whence I have come to visit you, in the hope of enlightening your ignorance.
- Edwin Abbott Abbott, in Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), Ch. 14 : How I Vainly Tried to Explain the Nature of Flatland
- The matter is now so clear to me, the nature of real space so palpable, that methinks I could make a child understand it. Permit me but to descend at this moment and enlighten them. Pues no se nada yo la vdd :v viva holk ahre
- Edwin Abbott Abbott, in Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), Ch. 18 : How I came to Spaceland, and What I Saw There
- Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against the incorrigible tradition of antiquity. Something was wanted, beyond all the gifts of reflection and experience — a faculty of self government and self control, developed like its language in the fibre of a nation, and growing with its growth. This vital element, which many centuries of warfare, of anarchy, of oppression, had extinguished in the countries that were still draped in the pomp of ancient civilization, was deposited on the soil of Christendom by the fertilising stream of migration that overthrew the empire of the West.
- John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, in The History of Freedom in Christianity (1877)
- Killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless the people have sense, spirit and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many. Let it be the study, therefore, of lawgivers and philosophers, to enlighten the people's understandings and improve their morals, by good and general education; to enable them to comprehend the scheme of government, and to know upon what points their liberties depend; to dissipate those vulgar prejudices and popular superstitions that oppose themselves to good government; and to teach them that obedience to the laws is as indispensable in them as in lords and kings.
- John Adams, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America (1787)
- The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused. Newspapers, magazines, and circulating libraries have made mankind wiser. Titles and distinctions, ranks and orders, parade and ceremony, are all going out of fashion.
- John Adams, in Discourses on Davila : A Series of Papers on Political History (1790)
- We'll have a picture that'll entertain, enlighten, and maybe even move millions of people.
- Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, in Ed Wood (1994)
- Enlightenment should also be enjoyable.
- Saul Bellow, in his Introduction to The Closing of the American Mind (1988) by Allan Bloom
- That discipline which corrects the baseness of worldly passion, fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes it with enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity, than all the provision we can make of the goods of fortune.
- Hugh Blair, as quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert
- Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.
- Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (New York: 1988), p. 167
- Blessing!
Neither fire, nor moisture, nor wind
can destroy the blessing of good deeds,
and blessings enlighten the whole world.
- Gautama Buddha, in The Gospel of Buddha (1894), as translated by Paul Carus
- If he goes forth from the household life into homelessness, then he will become an Arahant, a fully-enlightened Buddha, one who draws back the veil from the world.
- Gautama Buddha, Digha Nikaya, M. Walshe, trans. (1987), Sutta 3 (Ambattha Sutta), verse 1.5, p. 112
- I call that mind free, which escapes the bondage of matter, which, instead of stopping at the material universe and making it a prison wall, passes beyond it to its Author, and finds in the radiant signatures which everywhere bears of the Infinite Spirit, helps to its own spiritual enlightenment.
I call that mind free, which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come, which receives new truth as an angel from heaven.
I call that mind free, which sets no bounds to its love, which is not imprisoned in itself or in a sect, which recognises in all human beings the image of God and the rights of his children, which delights in virtue and sympathizes with suffering wherever they are seen, which conquers pride, anger, and sloth, and offers itself up a willing victim to the cause of mankind.
- William Ellery Channing, Spiritual Freedom (1830)
- Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final enlightenment.
- Sri Chinmoy, in Ten Thousand Flower Flames Part 1-100 (1979), #4029, Part 41
- We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected. Willing votaries will constantly keep alive its fires and these shall gleam upon the shores of our sister Republic thence, and joined with answering rays a stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and man's oppression, until Liberty enlightens the world.
- Grover Cleveland, dedication speech for the Statue of Liberty (28 October 1886)
- The law of nations is founded upon reason and justice, and the rules of conduct governing individual relations between citizens or subjects of a civilized state are equally applicable as between enlightened nations.
- Grover Cleveland, message to Congress withdrawing a treaty for the annexation of Hawaii from consideration (18 December 1893)
- A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond a breach of which subjects him to legal liabilities, and the United States, in aiming to maintain itself as one of the most enlightened nations, would do its citizens gross injustice if it applied to its international relations any other than a high standard of honor and morality.
- Grover Cleveland, message to Congress withdrawing a treaty for the annexation of Hawaii from consideration (18 December 1893)
- All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind, pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality.
- Joseph Conrad, Henry James — An Appreciation (1905)
- A person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value. It seems to me that what is important is the force of this superpersonal content and the depth of the conviction concerning its overpowering meaningfulness, regardless of whether any attempt is made to unite this content with a divine Being, for otherwise it would not be possible to count Buddha and Spinoza as religious personalities. Accordingly, a religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt of the significance and loftiness of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation. They exist with the same necessity and matter-of-factness as he himself. In this sense religion is the age-old endeavor of mankind to become clearly and completely conscious of these values and goals and constantly to strengthen and extend their effect. If one conceives of religion and science according to these definitions then a conflict between them appears impossible. For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.
- Albert Einstein, in Science, Philosophy and Religion, A Symposium, published by the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in Their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life, Inc., New York (1941); later published in Out of My Later Years (1950)
- Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit... not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in what we believe is evil.
- Albert Einstein, in a United Nations radio interview, recorded in Einstein's study, Princeton, New Jersey (16 June 1950)
- The inviolate spirit turns their spite against the wrongdoers. The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison, a more illustrious abode; every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. Hours of sanity and consideration are always arriving to communities, as to individuals, when the truth is seen, and the martyrs are justified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, in "Compensation" in Essays : First Series (1841)
- Sanctimonious slogans have a way of lulling well-meaning people, and at the same time providing self-seekers with means to frustrate the very controls that are most needed.… The cloud of pieties serves, not to enlighten, but to obscure the real truth, which is that environmental pollution control can never be achieved by the worthy sentiments of industrial spokesmen, but only by government regulation.
- Samuel C. Florman, The Existential Pleasures of Engineering (1976), p. 27
- I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could tell what to do, then, oh, then, I heard a voice which said, "There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition"; and when I heard it my heart did leap for joy. Then the Lord let me see why there was none upon the earth that could speak to my condition, namely, that I might give Him all the glory; for all are concluded under sin, and shut up in unbelief as I had been, that Jesus Christ might have the pre-eminence who enlightens, and gives grace, and faith, and power.
- George Fox, as quoted in Quaker Faith and Practice, Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
- Enlighten the child. Show him what magic truly is, and what it was, and what it may become. He has the potential to become the most powerful human adept of this age. It is up to the four of us to ensure that he chooses correctly. That is our mission and our burden.
- Neil Gaiman, in The Books of Magic (1991)
- Men fall, roughly speaking, into two flocks: Those whose intelligence is uninquiring in the face of Art, and does not demand to be appeased before their emotions can be stirred; and those who, having a speculative bent of mind, must first be satisfied by an enlightening quality in a work of Art, before that work of Art can awaken in them feeling.
- John Galsworthy, in Vague Thoughts On Art (1911)
- What is Art but the perfected expression of self in contact with the world; and whether that self be of enlightening, or of fairy-telling temperament, is of no moment whatsoever. The tossing of abuse from realist to romanticist and back is but the sword-play of two one-eyed men with their blind side turned toward each other. Shall not each attempt be judged on its own merits?
- John Galsworthy, in Vague Thoughts On Art (1911)
- What is the mode of procedure of the Bodhisattva path? We begin with the topic of the altruistic intention to achieve enlightenment in which one values others more than oneself. The Great Vehicle path requires the vast motivation of a Bodhisattva, who, not seeking just his or her welfare, takes on the burden of bringing about the welfare of all sentient beings. When a person generate this attitude, they enter within the Great Vehicle, and as long as it has not been generated, one cannot be counted among those of the Great Vehicle. This attitude really has great power; it, of course, is helpful for people practicing religion, but it also is helpful for those who are just concerned with the affairs of this lifetime. The root of happiness is altruism — the wish to be of service to others.
- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, in The Dalai Lama at Harvard: Lectures on the Buddhist Path to Peace (1988) by Jeffrey Hopkins
- The Buddha is a being who is totally free of all delusions and faults, who is endowed with all good qualities and has attained the wisdom eliminating the darkness of ignorance. The Dharma is the result of his enlightenment. After having achieved enlightenment, a Buddha teaches, and what he or she teaches is called the Dharma. The Sangha is made up of those who engage in the practice of the teachings given by the Buddha. . . . One of the benefits of refuge is that all of the misdeeds you have committed in the past can be purified, because taking refuge entails accepting the Buddha's guidance and following a path of virtuous action.
- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, in The Way to Freedom : Core Teachings of Tibetan Buddhism (1994)
- According to Buddhism, individuals are masters of their own destiny. And all living beings are believed to possess the nature of the Primordial Buddha Samantabhadra, the potential or seed of enlightenment, within them. So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?
- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, in answering the question: "Do sentient beings have free will?" in Dzogchen : The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection (2001)
- This condition of cosmic consciousness, which under favorable conditions can be evoked by LSD or by another hallucinogen from the group of Mexican sacred drugs, is analogous to spontaneous religious enlightenment, with the unio mystica. In both conditions, which often last only for a timeless moment, a reality is experienced that exposes a gleam of the transcendental reality, in which universe and self, sender and receiver, are one.
- Dr. Albert Hofmann, in LSD : My Problem Child (1980), Ch. 11 : LSD Experience and Reality
- Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
- Robert G. Ingersoll, in Some Mistakes of Moses (1879) Section II, "Free Schools"
- If you send men to the penitentiary for speaking their thoughts, for endeavoring to enlighten their fellows, then the penitentiary will become a place of honor, and the victim will step from it — not stained, not disgraced, but clad in robes of glory.
- Robert G. Ingersoll, in his appeal to the jury in the trial of C.B. Reynolds for blasphemy (May 1887)
- It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
- Eugène Ionesco, in Découvertes (1970), as quoted in Choosing the Future : The Power of Strategic Thinking (1997) by Stuart Wells, p. 15
- The disadvantages under which his doctrines appear are remarkable. … According to the ordinary fate of those who attempt to enlighten and reform mankind, he fell an early victim to the jealousy & combination of the altar and the throne, at about 33 years of age, his reason having not yet attained the maximum of its energy, nor the course of his preaching, which was but of 3 years at most, presented occasions for developing a complete system of morals. … Notwithstanding these disadvantages, a system of morals is presented to us, which, if filled up in the true style and spirit of the rich fragments he left us, would be the most perfect and sublime that has ever been taught by man. … His moral doctrines, relating to kindred & friends, were more pure & perfect than those of the most correct of the philosophers, and greatly more so than those of the Jews; and they went far beyond both in inculcating universal philanthropy, not only to kindred and friends, to neighbors and countrymen, but to all mankind, gathering all into one family, under the bonds of love, charity, peace, common wants and common aids. A development of this head will evince the peculiar superiority of the system of Jesus over all others.
- Thomas Jefferson, in '"Syllabus of an Estimate of the Merit of the Doctrines of Jesus, Compared with Those of Others" in a letter to Benjamin Rush (12 April 1803)
- Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
- Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Du Pont de Nemours (April 24, 1816)
- Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.
- Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to H. Tompkinson, a.k.a. Samuel Kercheval (12 July 1816)
- I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.
- Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to William Charles Jarvis (28 September 1820)
- Freedom of the press, subject only to liability for personal injuries. This formidable censor of the public functionaries, by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be done by revolution. It is also the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral, and social being.
- Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to A. Coray a.k.a. Adamantios Koraes (31 October 1823)
- Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another.
- Immanuel Kant, "What is Enlightenment?" (1784)
- Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another.
- Enlighten the dark blood of your ancestors, shape their cries into speech, purify their will, widen their narrow, unmerciful brows.
- Nikos Kazantzakis, in The Saviors of God (1923), Second Step: The Race
- This State, this city, this campus, have stood long for both human rights and human enlightenment — and let that forever be true.
- John F. Kennedy , in remarks in Nashville at the 90th Anniversary Convocation of Vanderbilt University (18 May 1963)
- Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of organic life.
- Justus von Liebig (1854) Familiar Letters on Chemistry (1854)
- Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin, in The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Ch. 8 : Another Way into Orgoreyn
- Character and training disposed him not to interfere in other mens's business. His job was to find out what they did, and his inclination was to let them go on doing it. He preferred to be enlightened, rather than to enlighten; to seek facts rather than the Truth. But even the most unmissionary soul, unless he pretend he has no emotions, is sometimes faced with a choice between commission and omission. "What are they doing?" abruptly becomes, "What are we doing?" and then, "What must I do?"
- Ursula K. Le Guin, in The Word for World Is Forest (1972), Section 5
- If the Lord — who is the light of all things — vouchsafe to enlighten me, I will treat of Light…
- Leonardo da Vinci, in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1888) as translated by Jean Paul Richter, Book I : Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
- There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true law was revealed to enlighten these dark regions.
- Maimonides, in Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.17
- Tragedy enlightens — and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies.
- Arthur Miller, in "Tragedy and the Common Man" in The New York Times (27 February 1949)
- Some believe history is littered with evidence of time travelers. Men who came from the future and tried to enlighten us: Da Vinci, Galileo, Barney the Dinosaur.
- Professor Nebulous, in Nebulous, Episode 5: Holofile 840: Tempus Fugitive,
- When I got around to read Plato, I found that he reinforced and copper-fastened the notion which experience had already rather forcibly suggested, that direct attempts to overcome and enlighten ignorance are a doubtful venture; the notion that it is impossible, as one of my friends puts it, to tell anybody anything which in a very real sense he does not already know. It seemed extraordinary that this should be so. Nevertheless, there it was; and apparently no one could give, — certainly no one, not even Plato, did give, — any more intelligent and satisfying reason why it should be so than I could give; and I could give none at all.
- Albert Jay Nock, in Memoirs of a Superflous Man (1943), p. 16
- The atheist who affects to reason, and the fanatic who rejects reason, plunge themselves alike into inextricable difficulties. The one perverts the sublime and enlightening study of natural philosophy into a deformity of absurdities by not reasoning to the end. The other loses himself in the obscurity of metaphysical theories, and dishonours the Creator, by treating the study of his works with contempt. The one is a half-rational of whom there is some hope, the other a visionary to whom we must be charitable.
- Thomas Paine, in "A Discourse delivered by Thomas Paine, at the Society of the Theophilanthropists at Paris, 1798", reviewed in The Monthly Review, or, Literary Journal, Vol. 30, pp. 113-4, by Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths (1799); republished in Miscellaneous Letters and Essays, on Various Subjects (1817)
- Almighty God being the only Lord of Conscience, Father of Lights and Spirits; and the Author as well as Object of all divine Knowledge, Faith and Worship, who only doth enlighten the Minds, and persuade and convince the Understandings of People, I do hereby grant and declare, That no Person or Persons, inhabiting in this Province or Territories, who shall confess and acknowledge One almighty God, the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of the World; and profess him or themselves obliged to live quietly under the Civil Government, shall be in any Case molested or prejudiced, in his or their Person or Estate, because of his or their conscientious Persuasion or Practice, nor be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious Worship, Place or Ministry, contrary to his or their Mind, or to do or suffer any other Act or Thing, contrary to their religious Persuasion.
- William Penn, in the Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges (28 October 1701)
- It isn't at all a matter of being optimistic, but rather of continuing to have faith in the ongoing and literally unending process of emancipation and enlightenment that, in my opinion, frames and gives direction to the intellectual vocation.
- Edward Said, in the Preface to 25th anniversary edition of Orientalism (1994), p. xv
- Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice.
- Edward Said, Orientalism (1979), Preface (2003)
- This shit is not for me – I don't care how enlightening it is.
- Carlos Santana, on long distance running, as a discipline promoted by Sri Chinmoy, as quoted in "The Epic Life of Carlos Santana" in Rolling Stone (16 March 2000), by Chris Heath
- There are people whose whole life consists in always saying no. It would be no small accomplishment to be able to say no properly, but whoever can do no more, surely cannot do so properly. The taste of these nay-sayers is like an efficient pair of scissors for pruning the extremities of genius; their enlightenment is like a great candle-snuffer for the flame of enthusiasm and their reason a mild laxative against immoderate pleasure and love.
- Friedrich Schlegel, Lucinde and the Fragments, p. Firchow, trans. (1991) § 88
- It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like Sophocles' Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for God's sake, not to inquire further.
- Arthur Schopenhauer, Letter to Goethe (November 1819)
- I have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness,
Oaths of thy love, thy truth, thy constancy;
And, to enlighten thee, gave eyes to blindness,
Or made them swear against the thing they see;
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To swear against the truth so foul a lie!
- Psychologically speaking, enlightenment always meant an advance in the training of mistrust — in the construction of an ego concerned about self-assertion and control of reality.
- Peter Sloterdijk, in Critique of Cynical Reason (1983), as translated by M. Eldred (1987), p. 47
- The subject of a radical ego enlightenment cannot be socially identified with certainty — even though the procedures of this enlightenment are anchored in reality.
In this point, the majority of societies seem to strive for a conscious nonenlightenment.
- Peter Sloterdijk, in Critique of Cynical Reason (1983), as translated by M. Eldred (1987), p. 60
- Crosswise to all political fronts, it is the "ego" in society that offers the most resolute resistance against the decisive enlightenment. Scarcely anyone will put up with radical self-reflection on this point, not even many of those who regard themselves as enlighteners.
- Peter Sloterdijk, in Critique of Cynical Reason (1983), as translated by M. Eldred (1987), p. 60
- I had to tell a scared child who wanted nothing more than to play with other children that he was God's only son, and that it meant a life of persecution and eventual crucifixion at the hands of the very people he had come to enlighten and redeem. He begged me to take it all back. He begged me to "make it all not true". And I'll let you in on something, Bethany. It's something I've never told anyone before. If I had the power, I would have. It's unfair! It's unfair to ask a child to shoulder that responsibility, and it's unfair to ask you to do the same. I sympathize, I do. I wish I could take it all back. But I can't. This is who you are.
- Kevin Smith, in Dogma (1999), in lines for Metatron
- Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care for the sick, protect the defenceless, assist the weak, and enlighten the ignorant. But these are simply moral duties, of which each man must be his own judge, in each particular case, as to whether, and how, and how far, he can, or will, perform them.
- Lysander Spooner, in Natural Law; or The Science of Justice: A Treatise on Natural Law, Natural Justice, Natural Rights, Natural Liberty, and Natural Society; Showing that All Legislation Whatsoever is an Absurdity, a Usurpation, and a Crime (1882), Ch. I : The Science of Justice, Section II, p. 6
- Thou who stealest fire,
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To glorify the present; oh, haste,
Visit my low desire!
Strengthen me, enlighten me!
I faint in this obscurity,
Thou dewy dawn of memory.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in "Ode to Memory" (1830)
- Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau, in Walden, Ch. 3: Reading
- There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
- I need only suggest what kind of sermons are still listened to in the most enlightened countries. There are such words as joy and sorrow, but they are only the burden of a psalm, sung with a nasal twang, while we believe in the ordinary and mean.
- Henry David Thoreau, in Walden, Ch. 18: Conclusion
- Loving Ganesha and living with Ganesha will enlighten the soul and give one the peace and ecstasy that all seek.
- Tiru Raja Thurai, as quoted in "Loving Ganesha" by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, p. 547
- The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a lower to a higher state of rationality. It is obvious that this kind of courage to be must become conformist the moment its revolutionary attack on that which contradicts reason has ceased, namely in the victorious bourgeoisie.
- Paul Tillich, The Courage To Be (1952), p. 116
- When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.
- Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (1997)
- The Art of Peace begins with you. Work on yourself and your appointed task in the Art of Peace. Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all than you encounter.
- Morihei Ueshiba, as quoted in Inspire! What Great Leaders Do (2004) by Lance Secretan, p. 45
- We have never intended to enlighten shoemakers and servants — this is up to apostles.
- Voltaire, Letter to d'Alembert (2 September 1768)
- Harvey appears to have possessed, in a remarkable degree, the power of persuading and conciliating those with whom he came in contact. In the whole course of his long life we hear nothing either of personal enemies or personal enmities … one of the great men whom God, in virtue of his eternal laws, bids to appear on earth from time to time to enlighten, and to ennoble mankind.
- Robert Willis in "The Life of Harvey" in The Works of William Harvey, M.D. (1847)
- The object of education is not merely to draw out the powers of the individual mind: it is rather its right object to draw all minds to a proper adjustment to the physical and social world in which they are to have their life and their development: to enlighten, strengthen and make fit.
- Woodrow Wilson, in "Princeton In The Nation's Service" (21 October 1896)
- We are indomitable in our power of independent action and can in no circumstances consent to live in a world governed by intrigue and force. We believe that our own desire for a new international order under which reason and justice and the common interests of mankind shall prevail is the desire of enlightened men everywhere. Without that new order the world will be without peace and human life will lack tolerable conditions of existence and development. Having set our hand to the task of achieving it, we shall not turn back.
- Woodrow Wilson, in an address to Congress Analyzing German and Austrian Peace Utterances (11 February 1918)
- If those who despise us stone us as prophets, they must listen to us as prophets. If they curse us as sorcerers, they must learn to curse from us, as sorcerers.
Let us enlighten the young, and let us be condemned for corrupting the young, like Socrates. Let us awaken the old before they sleep forever, though they must read us in secret like the Kabbalah.
- Gene Wolfe, in Guest of Honor speech at Aussiecon Two (August 1985), as published in Castle of Days (1992)
- "Let love embrace the ten thousand things; Heaven and earth are a single body."
With sayings such as these, Hui Shih tried to introduce a more magnanimous view of the world and to enlighten the rhetoricians.
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I didn't choose to go here - but coworkers did so I thought I'd give it a whirl for the sake of the blog. There are no shots of the "girls" - didn't feel it was necessary and didn't want to be a creepy person photographing them either. Their scrunchy socks do amaze me. Thankfully there was no hula hooping or things of that nature.
Curly fries with cheese dip - nothing to write home about. No seasoning, nacho cheese velveeta, bleh.
The chicken was fine - for fried chicken pieces. There was no flavor on them at all. And there wasn't even enough sauce to dip them in. I tried rolling them around - nope. Then I asked for a side of medium sauce - since the mild was like orange water. That made it worse. They brought me a cup of gloppy "sauce" about the consistency of peanut butter and it tasted like it might have gone bad. It definitely wasn't pourable. I tried 2 bites with that and left it.
I've heard for YEARS about their wings - maybe the problem is that I got the boneless - but I was not impressed at all. Kind of repulsed actually.
Another coworker got the fried pickles - they're chips not spears - and they were pretty good.
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HARTFORD >> Northeast Utilities will cut its information technology workforce in half over the next six months, a top level executive said Tuesday, eliminating 200 jobs as the company seeks to reduce its cost of doing business.
Some of the IT work will be shifted to a pair of companies based in India, Infosys and TCS Consulting, said David McHale, NU's chief administrative officer. As a result, 200 of the 400 information technology jobs in the company will be eliminated, with NU offering voluntary severance packages.
"It's critically important to us that we treat our professionals fairly," McHale said of the severance packages.
About 40 of the NU employees whose jobs are being eliminated will have an opportunity to work for the two IT consulting firms that NU is hiring, said Al Lara, a spokesman for the utility company.
Of the current IT workforce, 70 percent of employees working in that department are based in Connecticut, he said. NU also has IT employees in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
"How many people (NU IT employees) remain really depends on who elects to take the severance package," McHale said.
Connecticut House Majority Leader Joe Aresimowicz said he was "disappointed and quite frankly disgusted" by the NU's decision.
"NU is slashing good-paying Connecticut jobs," Aresimowicz said in a statement. "I can see it now; this will probably result in top executives receiving bonuses while middle class families suffer. We cannot accept this as business as usual"
Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen and Consumer Counsel Elin Swanson Katz reacted to NU's announcement by repeating a request they first made nearly two weeks ago urging the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to investigate whether the company's plans violate an agreement made with state officials in March 2012. The agreement, in which state officials agreed not to oppose NU's merger with Massachusetts-based NStar, imposed certain employment requirements on the utility company."We remain deeply committed to the terms included in the merger agreement, and we will continue to monitor this situation to ensure that Connecticut is not ultimately disproportionately affected," Jepsen and Katz said in their joint statement. "Additionally, we will work to ensure that anticipated cost savings arising from outsourcing and consolidation are reflected in lower rates to consumers in the 2014 rate case."
Jepsen and Katz said if PURA chooses to investigate the NU plan, it should include a review of the effect that outsourcing of information technology jobs could have on the company's major storm outage readiness, response and communication.
Lara said NU's agreement with Infosys and TCS Consulting calls for their employees to do IT-related storm duty for the utility.
Dennis Schain, a PURA spokesman, said NU "plans to keep all processes and functions related to storm response with employees of the company."
"PURA will carefully monitor the rollout of NU's planned information technology restructuring — and any possible impact on employment levels — with an eye toward making certain the company's actions are consistent with the letter and spirit of the agreement that permitted its merger with NSTAR." Schain said.
McHale defended the changes, saying they will "create one centralized shared service IT organization, working together, but doing it at a better price point," he said.
But David Cadden, a professor at Quinnipiac University's School of Business, called NU's plan "one more sad example of the ghost of 're-engineering' as practiced by too many American managers."
"In its original form, 're-engineering' was meant to be a mechanism to examine business processes and eliminate that which didn't contribute to customer value," Cadden said. "Unfortunately, in practice, it became a rationalization for massive layoffs and outsourcing. Outsourcing, given today's technology, may save costs, but it ignores long-term issues and sends a message to current employees that you are valuable until we find a lower-cost alternative to you.Aresimowicz and other state lawmakers held a press conference last week to express concern that outsourcing with foreign companies might put NU's energy distribution network at risk for possible security breaches. McHale responded to that criticism, saying that 60 percent of the company's IT work will be done here in New England.
"We will not compromise our system or its integrity," McHale said. "Some of our resources will be based abroad. But many of our partners do that already."
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Seat Color | Black Corde 4
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Liberty Chair by Humanscale
designed by Niels Diffrient
From the company that brought you the Freedom Chair (Humanscale), we bring you the second most patriotic chair in our stable: the Liberty Chair. The look of the chair is simple and unadorned, but the internal design is elegant despite the complexity of the engineering. This is a chair that moves when you move, reclines in response to the pressure of you body, and keeps your lower back supported and stable the whole time.
What's to Like:
The breathable back is great for the office (especially in warm weather), and the floating armrests make it so you never feel hemmed in by the chair. The lower back support is superb, and the reclining mechanism is accommodating and very cool.
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A fun chair, attractive, and light in every way except design and ergonomics.
The Liberty Chair from Humanscale lives up to its name through a light, transparent, and altogether refreshing take on the modern office chair. Liberty means freedom, and the Liberty Chair delivers. Freedom of movement, freedom from strain and back pain, freedom from the strictures of the average office chair, and freedom from the same old same old. In every way, the Liberty Chair is a true original, and emblematic of the commitment to service, excellence, and functionality espoused by the team at Humanscale.
Freedom of Movement
This is first and foremost a very comfortable chair. The light materials and breezy fabrics make it easy to feel the air in the room, to be part of the elements, rather than shielded and cut off from them. Users of this chair will feel cooler while they sit, less restricted by built up heat and discomfort caused by the padding and faux-leather of the average office chair. The materials of the chair are essential to the sense of freedom it gives you, and they're just one part of the comfort features the chair employs.
When buying an office chair, comfort is almost always the number one quality users say that want more than anything else. Look no further for comfort than the Liberty Chair. The main reason, aided and abetted by the material, is freedom of movement. In this chair you can feel free to move and sit as you choose. The tri-panel technology employed in the back of the chair comforts and supports your body in ways that no other mesh chair has been able to mimic, and the lumbar support system in the chair has made it safe, comfortable and supportive for you back. So no matter what you're doing in the chair, reclining or leaning forward, working or playing games, you'll be comfortable, and free to move the way you want to move, not the way the chair will allow you to move.
Another very cool feature of the Liberty Chair is the self-reclining mechanism within the chair. If you choose to move back or forward, the chair intelligently and intuitively moves with you and anticipates your desires. There are no adjustments to make, no levers to pull or mess with, and no unnecessary movements from you. All there is is a chair in perfect sync with your body, ready and willing to do what you want. Freedom of movement has never been so easy, so fun, or quite so liberating.
Freedom from Strain
As mentioned before, the Liberty Chair is hard to beat when it comes to back support. In your lumbar region, a lower part of your back, there is a great capacity for strain and wear and tear. This is the specific region that is targeted for relief by the Liberty. The materials and systems present in the chair make sure you always have prefect lumbar support.
The chair was designed by Niels Diffrient, a designer with a lifelong connection to ergonomic science and ergonomic seating solutions, and the finished product is a stylish and supportive example of a great ergonomic chair. When you're working in the Liberty Chair, you'll have everything you need to stay focused, stay productive, and stay comfortable, with no long term health effects or threats of back pain. With the automatic recline feature on the chair, and the practically unheard of non-reliance on adjustments, this is a chair that gives you the freedom you need to focus on your work, your play, or simply the rest of your day.
Freedom from Average Design
The Liberty Chair is a beautiful piece of design, an engineering feat wrapped in an aesthetic achievement. It's the crowning achievement of Neils Diffrient's exciting and ongoing career; a fitting tribute to everything he learned about ergonomics, human sitting style, and great industrial design. Smart Furniture is proud to offer our customers a chair that doesn't abide by the rules of the norm, that doesn't accept the limitations of the average or the narrow-minded, and that strikes out on it's own on a new path to beauty, form and function that's unlike any other.
The mesh of the chair is one of the first striking design elements that everyone notices. Unlike the typical office chair, which is generally constructed of padding, faux leather, or cloth, this is a free and easy chair that gives up all the clunkiness, heat and waste of the average office chair materials, without sacrificing any of the comfort, support, and reliability. The automatic adjustments, the thinness of the chair, and the reliance on ergonomics over conventional wisdom have all contributed to make a truly unique office chair, one that any owner would be proud to take into their office.
Smart Furniture is excited to offer our customers the innovative and exciting furniture lines coming from Humanscale, the Liberty Chair chief among them.
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About the Manufacturer
|Humanscale's focus since its inception in 1982 has been providing outstanding ergonomic seating and accessories for the home and the office. Their products, which range from task chairs to keyboard trays to CPU holders, are all geared towards making life simpler, easier, and healthier for anyone who works at a desk. Widely recognized for their line of office seating, Humanscale has done much to advance design in some newer product areas- namely in computer and office accessories such as monitor arms, foot machines, and the ergonomic computer mouse. Winner of numerous design awards, Humanscale continues to deliver groundbreaking office tools that combine simplicity, aesthetics, and ergonomics.
|Through the delicate balance between ease-of-use and customization, a meticulous attention to cutting-edge materials, and an unflinching focus on ergonomic principles, Humanscale has created one of the most outstanding office chairs of the modern era.
The Liberty Chair's features were designed to work together and complement each other to provide convenient comfort for hours for those whose work requires them to sit at a computer. The rough definition of a task chair is one that provides its user with a range of adjustments to provide comfort for long periods of time working at a desk, and more specifically, a computer. The Liberty Chair fits this definition in spades.
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About the Designer
Designer of the Freedom Chair, the Liberty Chair, and the Diffrient Light, Niels Diffrient is internationally recognized as a premier designer in the field of ergonomics. With a resume that includes collaboration with icons Eero Saarinen and Marco Zanuso, a background in aeronautical engineering, and numerous design awards, Niels Diffrient is undoubtedly one of the most influential designers of the past 50 years.
Born in 1928 in Star, Mississippi, Diffrient attended Wayne State University and eventually enrolled in the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he won the First Medal of Design three times during his tenure there. After traveling and working in Europe thanks to a Fulbright Scholarship, Diffrient began work at the design firm Henry Dreyfuss Associates, where he would stay for 25 years. While there, he co-authored the three-volume publication Humanscale. This work summarized his design principles which were rooted in the belief that the human body should drive design for products that humans will interact with. In his own words: "A design should look good and be appealing, but without compromising human factors. Aesthetics should enhance the technical side, not deter from it."
- Awards and Honors:
- 2002 Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Product Design Award
- 1996 Chrysler Award for Innovation
- 2005 Legend Award from Contract Magazine
- Named the "Granddaddy of the ergonomic revolution by Forbes Magazine in 2007
- Honorary Royal Designer for Industry Member- awarded by the Royal Society of Arts and Industry
- 1996 I.D. Magazine Top 40 Design Innovators
Materials & Measurements
Seat pad is upholstery over Humanscale Technogel or a foam core. Armrests are duron with or without an upholstery cover or Technogel with a xanium or upholstery cover. Duron is a comfortable, durable version of urethane; xanium is a synthetic composite that is extremely soft to the touch. Liberty Chair back is 3 panels of low-abrasion mesh. Frame and base are primarily aluminum, with some plastic and steel.
Overall: 26.5" w x 25" d
Seat width: 21"
Standard height: 38.5" - 43.5"
Standard seat height: 16" - 21"
Low height: 37.75" - 41.5"
Low seat height: 15.25" - 19"
Tall height: 39.5" - 44.75"
Tall seat height: 17" - 22.25"
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No. 2 Harvard-Westlake Wolverines (Studio City, Calif.)
State Association/League: CIF Southern Section Division 2/Mission
Head Coach: Matt LaCour (5th season as head coach)
2011 Results: 23-8 overall record; Mission League Champion (10-2); lost in quarterfinals of CIF playoffs.
Key Losses: 2B Jason Garfinkel (Vassar College), OF Wes Peacock (Emory U.), RHP Connor Dillman (Emory U.)
Top Players: Sr. RHP Lucas Giolito (UCLA), Sr. LHP Max Fried (UCLA), Jr. OF/1B Joseph Corrigan (Southern Cal), Jr. C Arden Pabst (Georgia Tech).
Notable Matchups: Feb. 24-25, Feb. 28, March 1, March 3 @ Easton Tournament; March 6 vs. Alemany; March 9 @ Alemany; March 10, March 17, April 14 vs. Santa Barbara, Simi Valley, Westlake @ Chatsworth Tournament; March 28-31 vs. USA Baseball NHSI @ Cary, N.C.
This has all the ingredients to be an historical baseball season at Harvard-Westlake Upper School, a prestigious high school nestled into the San Fernando Valley in traditon- and talent-rich Southern California.
Harvard-Westlake has existed as a co-ed high school only since 1991. The Wolverines begin the 2012 season in the No. 2 position in Perfect Game's Preseason National High School Rankings and they would make history by winning their first CIF Southern Section Division 2 Championship in school history this season.
A couple of days after that championship game is scheduled to be played, two Harvard-Westlake senior pitchers could make history of another kind. Right-hander Lucas Giolito and left-hander Max Fried could very possibly become the highest drafted pair of high school teammates in history when the 2012 MLB First-Year Player Draft starts its three-day run on June 4.
Chatsworth High School (Calif.) teammates shortstop Mike Moustakas and third baseman Matt Dominguez currently hold that distinction after Moustakas was taken with the No. 2 overall pick and Dominguez was selected No. 12 in the 2007 draft. Cy Falls High School (Texas) teammates Clint Everts and Scott Kazmir were taken with the fifth and 15th overall picks in 2002, making them the highest drafted pair of pitchers from the same high school team.
Giolito and Fried – who some Los Angeles-area baseball people have starting calling the high school version of the Dodgers' 1960s righty-lefty tandem of Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax – are the talk of the high school baseball world right now. The possibilities do seem limitless, even if Wolverines head coach Matt LaCour doesn't want to talk about it.
"That type of talk and that type of prognostication does not happen around our team and at our school," LaCour said in a recent telephone interview with Perfect Game. "Within our team and within our school these are two normal kids that go about their business the same way as everybody else. I understand what everybody's saying and I know the Moustakas and Dominguez (story) from Chatsworth history.
"But in terms of where we're at as a program, we don't talk about 'draft,' we don't talk about 'ranking' – we talk about execution, we talk about getting better on a daily basis and we talk about being a teammate and playing for the team."
But there's no denying the presence of Giolito and Fried – who transferred in after his previous school, Van Nuys Montclair Prep, announced last summer that it was closing and immediately dropping its athletics programs – makes Harvard-Westlake a force to be reckoned with.
Throw in the return of six other starters from a team that a year ago captured the Mission League Championship and played fairly deep into the CIF Southern Section postseason, and there's plenty of reason for optimism in Studio City.
"We had a team last year that took a big step forward from where this program has been in the past," LaCour said. "When I got here five years ago they hadn't won a league game in two years so for us last year winning our first-ever league title in school history and making the run we did in the playoffs was a definite momentum-builder for our program, without a doubt."
Giolito, a 6-foot-6, 240-pounder who was the West Team starter in the 2011 Perfect Game All-American Classic presented by Rawlings, possesses a fastball that has reportedly reached 100 mph. Many observers – including PG director of scouting David Rawnsley – feel his best future pitch will be his curveball, a "knee-buckler" he's been able to snap-off in the 84-87 range.
When looking at just about any 2012 rankings, the numeral 1 seems to pop up at all times when referencing Giolito, a UCLA signee. Perfect Game ranks him the nation's No. 1 overall prospect and No. 1 right-hander in the 2012 high school graduating class, and also the No. 1 overall prospect in the upcoming draft. No right-handed high school pitcher has ever been selected with the first overall pick in the history of the draft, dating back to 1965.
Giolito was 9-1 with a 1.00 ERA for Harvard-Westlake as a junior, and struck out 78 and walked 26 in 70 1/3 innings.
"Watching the development of Lucas over the past three-and-a-half years has been fun," LaCour said. "He's gone from a kid who came into school with good velocity but very little coordination to anything that he did, to (become) a very polished, mature pitcher that is able to withstand the grind of a season and now work his way out of big jams in a game."
LaCour said Giolito's development in the way he approaches the game mentally has been "just as impressive" as his physical development.
Fried (6-4, 170) has also signed with UCLA, and whips off a fastball that consistently sits at 91-92 mph and has touched 94. Like Giolito, many observers feel his best pitch is his curveball. Ranked the nation's No. 10 overall prospect in his class (the No. 16 overall draft prospect), Fried was also a 2011 Perfect Game All-American after a junior season at Montclair Prep in which he went 7-3 with a 1.31 ERA while striking out 100 and walking 38 in 69 2/3 innings.
"I found out that my school had shut down all its athletic programs over the summer, so we were scrambling for a new school for me and my younger brother," Fried told mlb.com in a mid-February interview. "It took a lot longer than I thought to pick a school, but knowing Lucas (is) such a competitor – being one of the best pitchers in the country and being able to be a part of that team – was really a blessing."
LaCour said Fried's assimilation into the program has been seamless.
"We've always known Max … and he was obviously a very high-level pitcher long before he came here," LaCour said. "The development of the relationship between Max and the coaches and Max and his teammates has happened a lot easier than I thought it would. But you're also talking about a very intelligent kid that knows how to converse with people and who isn't afraid to explain what he's doing."
As LaCour is quick to remind anyone who will listen, he espouses a "team first" philosophy and no one within the program puts Giolito and Fried on any sort of pedestal. It would be foolish to do so.
Junior catcher Arden Pabst, a Georgia Tech commit ranked 146th nationally, hit a team-high .430 (37-for-86) in 2011, with a .514 OBP, 14 extra base hits, a team-high 30 RBI and 20 runs scored last season.
Junior left-fielder/first baseman Joseph Corrigan, a Southern Cal commit, enters the season as the nation's 106th-ranked top prospect in the class of 2013. Corrigan hit .355 (33-for-93) with a .427 OBP, nine extra base rips, 17 RBI, 20 runs scored and a team-high 14 stolen bases as a sophomore.
Right-hander/third baseman Jack Flaherty was sensational as a freshman starter last season. He hit .355 (27-for-46) with a .459 OBP, 18 RBI, 21 runs and 13 stolen bases, and was the Wolverines' No. 2 starter, going 6-2 with a 2.51 ERA.
Other returning starters include junior second baseman Alex Horowitz, junior center-fielder Casey Rosenfeld and sophomore shortstop Brian Ginsberg.
LaCour hopes he can use all that returning experience to the Wolverines' advantage.
"There's no doubt about it that having guys who understand our expectations on the field, that have been in tough games and that have had success is a good thing going forward," LaCour said. "The majority of our lineup from last year returns and those guys have played the best competition in Southern California and have shown they can handle the pressure that goes along with that, and succeed when it matters the most."
The table is set; so are the expectations. Led by Giolito (3.4 GPA) and Fried (3.8 GPA) LaCour feels like he has the right people in place up and down the lineup to make a little history this season before sending his seniors off to the rest of their lives.
"We're a highly academic school and we attract highly academic kids, and our school forces kids to be responsible," LaCour said. "My biggest goal is to make sure when these kids leave this school they're as prepared as possible to do whatever they choose to do.
"I want them to be in the best possible situation – whether they choose to go into the draft and go play professional baseball or if they choose to go to school – to have success right now."


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"The Fujitsu CELSIUS workstation has made a dramatic difference to our production process, allowing us to create and manipulate massive images quickly and edit an entire 300 gigapixel photograph without breaking it up."
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360Cities is the web's largest collection of stunning, geo-referenced panoramic photos, created by a network of thousands of expert panorama photographers from around the world. Its growing community is proudly and lovingly documenting our planet as only people can. The company was founded in late 2007 and consists of a closely knit team of six, living and working in Prague, Czech Republic and committed to bringing panoramic photography to the mainstream.
Rendering images that are measured in gigapixels on traditional workstations can be a real struggle. Until 2010, 360Cities had been using a regular dual core machine with 8 gigabytes of RAM. However, this made the process of editing its massive photographs time-consuming.
"It was taking us weeks to make just simple edits on projects such as the then record-breaking panorama of Prague which consisted of 18 gigapixels," explains Jeff Martin, Senior Photographer at 360Cities. "And if the computer crashed during that time, we were back to square one. We are always aiming for bigger images so we wanted to find a machine that could cope with the processing involved without taking a lifetime."
360Cities was introduced to Fujitsu who explained that it might have the perfect solution for creating images consisting of billions of pixels.
Fujitsu lent the company a CELSIUS R670 workstation with 192GB of RAM and 24 CPU cores, running Giga panorama stitching software from Kolor. Fujitsu's highest performing workstation, the CELSIUS delivers first-class benchmark results and is designed to surpass all expectations. This reliable, high-end multi-processor workstation is individually configurable for the most power hungry, 24/7 operating environments and, as such, was perfect for 360Cities needs.
"We were scheduled to begin work on a panoramic view of London but we wanted the image to be available within days rather than weeks so Fujitsu's CELSIUS workstation was a godsend," adds Martin. "The image of London consisted of 80 gigapixels and rendering it on any other platform would have taken weeks. Using the Fujitsu CELSIUS workstation, it took a matter of hours."
The CELSIUS workstation is also optimized for Adobe – meaning it is specifically designed to handle Photoshop and other critical creative applications in the Adobe Creative Suite portfolio. For each CS6 software suite, Fujitsu can provide a perfectly configured workstation. With high-end Intel® processing technology and cutting edge NVIDIA® graphics, the Fujitsu CELSIUS workstation provides 360Cities with the power and versatility needed to complete the most complex creative tasks.
Since the company has begun using Fujitsu CELSIUS workstations, it has completed a number of complex projects including several cityscapes and 15 sporting events including the Wembley FA Cup Final in 2011. In some cases, the images have been available within 24 hours, allowing 360Cities to capitalize on publicity.
For example, 360Cities wanted to make the Wembley Cup Final image available by the next day while the event was still newsworthy. This involved loading 1,147 raw images onto the workstation, converting them to JPEG and stitching them together. After only two hours, the final image, an 80 GB Photoshop file, was written to the SSD Raid.
"It has made a dramatic difference to our production process, allowing us to create and manipulate massive images quickly and edit an entire photograph without breaking it up," says Martin. "The storage and overall architecture are finely tuned so the system is incredibly stable and reliable – that is one less thing for us to worry about."
It was Fujitsu's involvement with 360Cities that led another leading photographer to seek it out for advice. Henry Stuart of Spherical Images was tasked with taking a panoramic photo of the Men's 100m Final at the London 2012 Olympics. He also needed it to be available to view by the following day. Fujitsu equipped him with an even more advanced workstation – the CELSIUS R920 – so he could process 250 individual photos, each comprising a total of 36 megapixels.
"The value of these images is at its highest immediately after the event so being able to get the finished photo online within hours was a real benefit," comments Stuart. "The workstation was a dream to work on and perfectly configured for my needs. I couldn't have asked for more from Fujitsu."
360Cities has already working on a number of record-breaking projects using the Fujitsu CELSIUS workstations. The most recent was launched in February 2013 and consisted of a 320 gigapixel image comprising 48,640 individual frames which have been collated into a single panorama by a CELSIUS R920 workstation. It shows an incredibly detailed panorama of London taken from the top of the BT tower. If printed at normal photographic resolution, the BT Tower panorama would be 98 meters across and 24 meters tall, almost as big as Buckingham Palace.
"Fujitsu's powerful and reliable CELSIUS workstations are at the heart of our production process, enabling us to produce massive images quickly. We're looking forward to continuing to partner with Fujitsu as we advance on our mission to bring panoramic photography to the mainstream."
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