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DDNews Special Reports
Throughout each year, we examine specific trends or current topics of importance to the drug discovery arena. These Special Reports dissect the latest news involving global partnerships and business deals and take a closer look at such issues as informatics, diagnostics, automation and instrumentation, 'omics and systems biology, research and development, government issues and the growing contract research services market.
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A decade on, nanomedicines may finally be ready to jump to the fore
Metabolic Disease
Novel approaches are expanding the focus on both prominent and rare metabolic disorders
The pending patent cliff means companies need to take a second look
Developing world diagnostic solutions might make emerging markets merging markets
Basic Science
New technologies and attitudes offer medicinal chemists an evolving role in drug discovery
DNA: A winding string of achievements
Examining 60 years of scientific progress since the discovery of DNA
Vaccine Development
No vaccine is an island
Adjuvant advances, international interactions and personalized preventions are transforming the world of vaccinology
Personalized Medicine
Signals in the noise
Informatics challenges hinder progress in personalized medicine development
Drug Repurposing
Everything old is new again
Drug repositioning provides cost savings, shortcuts
Going for multiple shots on goal
Drugmakers seek more than one application for compounds in early phase of development
Cell Biology
Physics, chemistry and informatics combine to push life into the 4th dimension
For personalized medicine to truly arrive, cell biology may be more important in the end than genomics
Trends in Cell Biology: DDNEWS Interview with Dr. V. Jo Davisson
Expert in the cell biology field identifies some of the themes dominating this growing research area
Stem Cells
A place for my cells
As collections expand, biorepositories are bursting at the seams
Model citizens
Stem cells' promise of disease-in-a-dish opens doors to truly personalized medicine
An eye to stem cell therapies
Despite the renewed research interests in stem cells, therapeutics push the market
The promise, the pitfalls and a paradigm shift
The complex history of stem cell research yields hope for improved human health, unresolved concerns
Just like stem cells, global research efforts with them are many and varied
DDNEWS Editorial Roundtable: Ethics and stem cell research
Researchers discuss the ethical, moral and scientific concerns associated with stem cell research
In new survey, we try to get to the bottom of perceptions on stem cells and other R&D efforts
Staking a claim
Growing stem cell market entices Big Pharma to harness its power for drug screening, toxicity testing
Blazing the trail
Backed by strong venture capital funding, biotechs organize around promise of stem cell research
A roundup of North America's top five academic research institutions in the stem cell arena
Tools of the trade
Life science tool providers provide constant support to ever-evolving stem cell research community
Epigenetics: Half of the picture
Science plugs stem cells into epigenetic opportunities that control various disease states
Regenerating interest in stem cell medicine
Stem cell technologies still hold potential to replace organs and tissues, but initial hype has been toned down
Drug Delivery
Drug delivery: Why getting there isn't half the fun
With evolving dosage forms, the dissolution test is constantly being altered
Plop, fizz ... fizzle
How the "fizz, fizz" part is all too often missing in today's new drug formulations
Screening Technology
Research at the speed of light
High-throughput screening technology leads to advances in drug discovery
Billions of screens have produced … what?
Critics of high-throughput screening ask: Is the approach of building a bigger haystack really the best way to find more needles?
Label-free: The way to be?
In this exclusive editorial roundtable discussion, a panel of companies producing label-free technologies for drug discovery opine on trends, future of this growing market
Plus: Label-free technology primer
A partly impartial and partly commercial introduction to the state of the tech for label-free assays
Are we all fighting for the same endgame?
An aside on side effects
Are we really making things better for cancer patients?
'Good enough' is no longer good enough
Aiming beyond the standard of care in oncology
Pharmacogenomics harnesses power of prediction, personalization
Branch of pharmacology stands at the precipice of the era of personalized medicine in cancer treatment
Getting down to basics
Researchers dig deep into the genome, not just to establish the causes of cancer, but also the best approaches to treatment
Two are better than one
The challenges and rewards of developing companion diagnostics for cancer treatment
Biomarkers: How good a test are they?
Tracing biological fingerprints, known as biomarkers, can be a valuable and rapidly growing part of medical research
Report: Cancer diagnostics market could hit $90 million by 2014
Market research publisher Kalorama Information predicts a $90 million market for pharmacodiagnostics, tests that determine whether a treatment matches the individual patient, by 2014
Knowledge is power
Breakthroughs in cancer research are frequently pioneered in the halls of academia
Federal funding and the 40 years' war on cancer
Government bureaucracy may be thwarting funding of breakthrough cancer research
Financing the fight
Foundations are at ground zero in the battle against cancer
Pink ribbons and yellow bracelets
The strange paradox of cancer's persistence in the face of public optimism about progress toward a cure
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(CNN) -- An Arizona civil rights activist says he accepts Katt Williams' apology for an anti-Mexican rant during a comedy show in Phoenix last weekend, but he's calling on the comedian to return to the city to "show his commitment to the Latino community."
"What he said was borderline hate speech and racially offensive," said Rev. Jarrett Maupin, who is organizing a boycott of Williams' stand-up act. His words could also create "violence and tension" in the community, he said.
Williams, an African-American comedian known more for his erratic behavior than his jokes in recent months, issued a written statement through his publicist Wednesday that included an apology.
"My remarks were not meant to be offensive," Williams said. "I want to apologize if my comedy act was taken out of context."
"I sincerely appreciate my fans within the Mexican community and would never intentionally go out of my way to offend them," he added.
Video of the rant, delivered during a performance at the Celebrity Theater Saturday night, was posted online. Williams singled out a man seated near the stage and asked him if he was Mexican.
"It appears to me y'all like it over here a lot," Williams then said.
He then launched into his tirade.
"Do you remember when white people used to say 'Go back to Africa,' and we'd have to tell them we don't want to? So if you love Mexico, (expletive), get the (expletive) over there!" Williams said to the man.
As the rant turned into a back-and-forth profanity-laced argument with the man, Williams exclaimed, "We were slaves, (expletive). You just work like that as landscapers."
Several times during the outburst, Williams sang parts of the U.S. national anthem and chanted "USA, USA, USA."
"His comments were extremely inappropriate, particularly knowing the climate here in Arizona," Maupin said.
The state has been a political battleground in recent years over passage of an immigration reform law.
"He crossed the line with his comments about going back to Mexico, his comments about the historical aspects of how the Southwest became a part of the United States from Mexico," Maupin said. "Much of it didn't make sense, and that is the dangerous part of this."
Williams' "flippant statements reflect poorly on the African-American community and there's noticeable tension in our community," he said. "Celebrities' comments can lead to violence and tension in the community."
The written apology is not enough, Maupin said. "I accept the apology if it's sincere, but his remarks were offensive."
The "real test of his commitment" is Williams' willingness to do more.
"My challenge to him will be for him to return to show his face, to show his commitment to the Latino community and his commitment to civil rights," he said.
He suggested that comedian Tracey Morgan's return to Nashville, Tennessee, this summer to personally apologize for anti-gay remarks in a stand-up show there is an example of how Williams can make amends.
"We can meet in a church, we can meet in the Celebrity Theater, wherever he feels comfortable," Maupin said.
Maupin said he was surprised by Williams' rant because his previous dealings with the comedian were positive.
"I have compassion for Katt Williams," he said. "It's up to him to let the community know if he's going through some personal or professional challenges."
Williams' often raunchy style has drawn comparisons to comedy legend Richard Pryor, but Maupin said there is a "noticeable difference" in Pryor's joking about race and what Williams said in Phoenix.
Williams began his career as a stand-up comic. His career breakthrough came with the 2006 HBO special "Katt Williams: Pimp Chronicles Pt.1."
The last two years, however, have been highlighted by several arrests and other incidents at clubs.
CNN's JD Cargill contributed to this report.

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Anaheim, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - The Anaheim Ducks signed defenseman Clayton Stoner to a four-year contract on Tuesday and inked veteran goaltender Jason LaBarbera for one year.
Stoner, 29, will add a physical presence to the Ducks blueline after leading all Minnesota Wild defensemen in hits (99) last season. He also topped the club with 84 penalty minutes while chipping in one goal and four assists in 63 regular-season games.
Selected by the Wild in the third round of the 2004 NHL Draft, Stoner has four goals, 27 assists and 296 penalty minutes in 227 career games.
LaBarbera, 34, had a 1-3 record, .870 save percentage and 3.28 goals-against average in seven games for Edmonton last season. He has a .907 save percentage and 2.86 GAA in 182 games for the Rangers, Kings, Canucks, Coyotes and Oilers, mostly as a backup.


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PORTLAND – Water district officials say that a "considerable amount" of its water mains are beyond their useful life, meaning leaks and breaks like the one on Dec. 19 that spewed thousands of gallons of water onto Bayside streets could happen again.
Officials say they don't expect to see more catastrophic breaks like that one, which spilled 20,000 gallons of water per minute for 45 minutes near Somerset and York streets. That water main break caused significant flooding, damaged private and public property, and triggered a 24-hour boil-water order for the entire peninsula.
"The biggest event that could have happened, I think, happened," said Christopher Crovo, executive director of asset management and planning for the Portland Water District. "It was a very unusual break."
The Somerset Street break, however, highlighted the state's aging water delivery systems and the lack of funding to keep that system in good repair.
The Portland Water District provides water from Sebago Lake to about 190,000 people in 11 communities, from Raymond to Cape Elizabeth, including Portland and South Portland, through a 975-mile network of pipes, ranging in age from 1870 to 2012.
Two transmission lines — dating from 1912 and 1939 — supply water to the district's 11 communities. The redundant capacity would allow the district to maintain water service if one of the pipes fails, Crovo said.
About 10 percent — or nearly 100 miles — of the district's water mains are more than 100 years old, which is considered beyond the pipes' useful life. But it's not the oldest pipes that are breaking at the highest rate.
Crovo said pipes from the late 1800s are made of thick cast iron that could probably last 200 years. But pipes laid between the 1920s and the 1930s are seeing the most failures. Crovo said the scarcity of metal during the two world wars and lower levels of craftsmanship are largely to blame.
About 87 miles of pipe was laid during that period, according to district records.
While breaks could become more common as the system continues to age, Crovo says they won't be as severe as the one on Somerset Street, given the size of the pipes involved and their locations. He noted Somerset Street's low-lying location.
Only 100 miles of the pipe system owned by the Portland Water District are 20 inches wide or larger. Those pipes typically run along major roadways in Gorham, Westbrook, Portland, South Portland and Falmouth.
The rest are smaller mains with fewer connections to businesses and residences. They do not cause as much damage when they fail and take less time and money to fix.
The 20-inch Somerset Street main, which dates back to 1912, was large because it used to carry water from a 2-million gallon reservoir on Munjoy Hill. That reservoir was taken out of service in 2003.
A portion of the Somerset Street main — from Franklin Street to Elm Street — was replaced with 16-inch pipe in 2003.
Crovo said the district had been planning to replace the rest of the 20-inch main next year, when a major development project is expected to move forward in Bayside.
Meanwhile, district officials say that factors besides age play a major role in causing water main breaks, such as road construction and weather.
If there is a stretch of cold weather, but not a lot of snow to insulate the ground, frost can cause pipes to break even though they lie 51/2 feet below the ground, Crovo said.
Annually, the district replaces about 3.5 miles of pipe that's 75 years or older, at a cost of $3 million. That's short of Maine Public Drinking Water's annual target rate that recommends replacing at least 1 percent of a system's water mains.
The district is not expected to hit that 1 percent annual benchmark — 10 miles of new pipe a year — until 2023.
Water District spokeswoman Michelle Clements said more than $400 million is needed to fix and replace pipes that are 60 years or older. But the district's general manager says the district's replacement rate is still better than most others in Maine and around the country.
"We're way ahead of the curve in terms of renewal and replacement," said Ronald Miller, the district's general manager.
The American Water Works Association says a "reasonable goal" for annual water main breaks in North American is 25 to 30 breaks per 100 miles of pipe.
This year, the Portland Water District has experienced just over six breaks per 100 miles of pipe, Clements said.
While it may appear as though the area is seeing an increasing number of main breaks, the number of breaks has actually been steadily decreasing since 2009, which saw nearly 140 breaks. That compares to only 75 this year.
The district has experienced 23 breaks in the last four months, including eight in December.
Clements said the perception that there have been more breaks is attributable to the district getting better at using its website and social media to spread the news of main breaks.
"If there is a break that affects traffic, people have a better way of getting the information," she said.
Clements said water district trustees are committed to increasing their investment in water main replacements by $500,000 a year until 2016, when the district will be investing $5 million a year.
The district prioritizes its main replacement schedule to coincide with other ongoing major road projects, which can save anywhere from 10 to 25 percent in replacement costs, Crovo said.
About 2.5 miles of replacements are chosen because they coincide with other road projects, while the remaining mile is dictated by leaks or breaks. Consumer complaints about water quality are also factored into the replacement schedule.
Miller said he would like to invest more money into water infrastructure, but the district is also trying meet new federal mandates for treatment.
For instance, the district is currently spending $12.8 million on a new ultraviolet treatment system near Sebago Lake. Only $300,000 is being funded through a state grant.
"That is not something we would have done," without a federal mandate, Miller said. "From our perspective, that money would have been better spent in main renewals."
While state agencies are tasked with testing water quality and approving water rates, no agency is responsible for assessing the state of water infrastructure.
The Public Utilities Commission oversees only water rate increases. The Maine Drinking Water Program monitors water quality and provides low-interest loans and grants for infrastructure upgrades. The program has distributed $180 million since 1997.
Program funding is distributed based on a district's annual work plan, said Roger Crouse, director of the Drinking Water program. Water utilities are not required to report their long-term infrastructure needs to any agency.
"It's just not a piece of data I think anyone is collecting," Crouse said.
The Environmental Protection Agency typically conducts a needs survey every four years. But that report only samples a few districts and extrapolates the state's needs from there, Crouse said.
A new report is due in early 2013, but the most recent report dates back to 2003. At the time, the EPA extrapolated that Maine needed a $900 million investment over 20 years. "I expect the number will be at least that," Crouse said.
The American Society of Civil Engineers in 2012 gave Maine's water infrastructure a grade of C+, a slight improvement over last year's C grade.
While $900 million in investments are needed, the ASCE said only $22 million in state and federal funding is available annually, creating a potential shortfall of more than $500 million over a 20-year period.
"While there has been improved funding for treatment, storage, filtration and security issues, the funding gap is significant in regard to aging distribution systems," the group wrote in its report.
There are about 1,900 public water systems in Maine, but only 150 are municipal utilities regulated by the Public Utilities Commission.
State law delegates oversight of water infrastructure to local trustees. Local control has its benefits and challenges, Crouse said.
On the upside, local officials are closer — and can be more responsive — to the needs of their community.
But local trustees also face pressure to keep rates low, rather than setting rates at a level that would allow each district to maintain its infrastructure.
"Times are tough. Most boards of trustees for water districts are very frugal," Crouse said, noting some trustees refuse to increase rates. "That's really to the detriment of the utility."
Staff Writer Randy Billings can be contacted at 791-6346 or at:
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Get your kids in the kitchen with sweet jelly treats
IT'S THE last weekend of the school holidays and the kids are possibly bored by now (although I would never admit it when I was a minor).
I worked with a well-known Melbourne chef and cooking school proprietor a few years ago designing a cookbook.
She chatted endlessly about how her two children under the age of nine made their own pasta from scratch when they arrived home from school and cleaned up the mess afterwards.
It left me feeling like an inadequate parent at the time as my son, a similar age, was hard pressed then to make a sandwich; as for cleaning up the kitchen - umm, no.
But he did develop a great love of cooking - to impress girlfriends to begin with, then to impress himself.
I taught him the basics, then moved on to the recipes he loved to eat.
When a new female was coming for dinner he would write the recipe in point form on Post-it notes and stick them in drawers or behind the pantry door so he could surreptitiously check the progress while gathering necessary items.
It's never too soon to start your offspring in the kitchen.
Obviously the littlies will need help, particularly with heat and sharp implements.
It's up to parents to judge when a child is co-ordinated and careful enough to move on to the stage of unsupervised cooking; it differs with each kid.
Don't be daunted by television shows with pre-teens whipping up restaurant-quality meals; start your family off with something simple and if you make it fun, they will want to learn more.
Today's recipe is a really easy dessert with jelly and frozen berries - easy to make and not terribly unhealthy.
It involves boiling water, which can cause a very nasty burn if not handled with care, so help the smaller kids to pour.
It's a bit like trusting your children to go to the shop or cross the road alone for the first time - terrifying, but with proper initial guidance the benefits are enormous!
Berry jelly delight
Serves 4
200g frozen mixed berries
2 packets port wine flavour jelly crystals
500ml boiling water
200ml cold water
plain yoghurt or vanilla ice cream, to serve
Place berries in a bowl to thaw slightly before making dessert - about 15 minutes is ideal.
Pour jelly crystals into a heatproof jug and add boiling water. Be careful pouring the water in; hot water can cause a nasty scald.
Carefully stir the mixture well with a spoon until the crystals have dissolved.
Add cold water and stir, then carefully add partially thawed berries and any juice that may have collected in the bowl.
Stir to combine then pour mixture evenly into four pretty glass bowls.
Cover the desserts with plastic wrap or foil and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Serve berry jelly delights with a big dollop of plain yoghurt - the dessert will be sweet enough to flavour the yoghurt - or a little vanilla ice cream.


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Connecticut health care exchange enrollment means tax credits for some
For all those state residents weighing whether to check out the public exchange for health insurance, a Kaiser Family Foundation report says there likely are 109,000 of you eligible for tax credits if you buy through Access Health CT.
Kaiser, a respected non-partisan think tank on health policy, did a state-by-state analysis of people eligible for the tax credits under the Affordable Care Act.
Across the country, they found 17 million people should be able to get these tax credits, which are designed to help low and moderate-income people buy the private insurance plans on the exchange.
The marketplace is run by Access Health CT for state residents where three insurers — Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Connecticut, ConnectiCare and HealthCT — are offering plans that fall into three categories: Bronze with standard basic benefits; Silver plans with richer benefits; and Gold plans with the most coverage.
Residents who earn between 100 and 400 percent of the federal poverty of the federal poverty level — which is income between $23,550 and $94,200 for a family of four — can get a tax credit to reduce the cost of a premium if they don't qualify for Medicaid or Medicare and are not offered affordable insurance through their employer.
Connecticut also is one of the states that expanded Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act to include uninsured residents with up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level.
A calculator on the Access Health CT website will show potential customers how much they can save through tax credits.
Access Health CT recently released figures showing that 7,615 people have enrolled in health plans through the exchange.
A total of 47 percent, or 3,550, qualified for Medicaid, while 53 percent, or 4,065, are now enrolled in private health plans offered by the exchange.
A total of 55 small businesses also bought plans on the exchange, which covers 306 workers.
The total enrolled slightly reduces the 344,000 people in the state estimated to be uninsured.
Kaiser estimates that across the country there are potentially 29 million people who could take advantage of the exchange, which includes the uninsured and those already enrolled in the individual insurance market looking for a better price.
Have questions, feedback or ideas about our news coverage? Connect directly with the editors of the New Haven Register at AskTheRegister.com.


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Northland is known as "the birthplace of New Zealand". It offers fascinating Māori cultural experiences and is home to the world's largest Kauri Tree.
From historic sites such as the Waitangi Historic Reserve – where the treaty that made New Zealand a British colony was signed – to the mythical Hokianga Harbour and Kauri Coast; Northland is rich in Māori culture and historical places. Enjoy a spiritual experience on the west coast when you visit Tane Mahuta, the world's largest Kauri Tree, or experience the warmth of Māori hospitality with a local marae visit and hāngi (earth oven).


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We support Girls Go Tech events in conjunction with the Girl Scouts of America. Villanova computer science majors helped local K-12 teachers with a capstone project by teaching eight-grade students about computing so that they could collect and process data for the project. They use success stories of women graduates of our programs as examples. They're working to develop a glossy brochure with their stories. They're also working to guarantee four-year housing to women computer science majors. Women have been ACM student chapter leaders over the last four years. Their College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Committee on Women recently completed a report on women faculty and the changes needed to support their careers. More than half the introductory courses for non-majors are taught by women. The first three semesters of required courses in computing for computer science majors are taught by women.


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Forrester: Datacentre Transformation
Forrester: Datacentre Transformation
John Rakowski, advisor and analyst at Forrester, offers five tips on optimising and managing company datacentres.
This presentation, given to Computer Weekly's 500 Club for IT leaders in May 2012, covers infrastructure as a service, converged infrastructure, modular datacentres, and Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM).
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One of the joys of our craft are the discoveries we make while doing research. I love it when I find a poison I've yet to write about, or some sort of technology that is cutting edge spyware.
I also love it when I uncover some historical tidbit that puts the heroines we write about — women sleuths — in perspective.
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NEW DELHI, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Typhoon Phailin slammed into India Saturday night, making landfall at the Indian port town of Gopalpur, with top sustained winds of 124 mph, officials said.
Phailin, the fiercest storm to hit India in more than a decade, was blamed for at least six deaths as it snapped trees and utility lines, blew roofs off homes and flattened crops as it pummeled the region, The Hindustan Times reported.
The newspaper said besides the six confirmed killed, 18 fishermen were missing. Officials had warned all boats not to leave port as the typhoon approached.
A Home Ministry official in New Delhi told the Times an official assessment of the damage would come Sunday morning.
"Till then, we can only keep our fingers crossed," he said.
Heavy rains accompanied the storm as it hit Gopalpur shortly after 9 p.m. local time, the Times reported.
Phailin has been rated a Category 4 storm on a scale of 1-5.
As many as 500,000 left their homes ahead of Phailin making landfall, the BBC reported.
Phailin is a powerful storm that has been compared to Hurricane Katrina, which hit New Orleans in 2005, the BBC said. A similarly powerful storm hit Orissa in 1999, killing more than 10,000 people, but officials say they were better prepared this time.
Phailin was expected to cause a 10-foot storm surge that officials say could cause "extensive damage" to mud houses on the coast.
Anyone in mud and thatched houses in the coastal areas was under mandatory evacuation orders, said Surya Narayan Patra, Orissa's disaster management minister. The army was on standby for emergency operation, and food packages were ready to be dropped into storm-affected areas by helicopter.


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Robert Hatch, icon of Bates athletics, passes away at age 85
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Professor Emeritus of Physical Education Robert W. Hatch, an icon of Bates athletics whose contributions encompassed innovation and opportunity, died Feb. 13, 2010. He was 85.
- View reporter Dan Hartill's story about Hatch in the Sun Journal, Feb. 16, 2010
- View Bates story about Hatch and the 1956 Maine State Series football champions
- View Bates Magazine story published after his retirement in 1991
- View Bates tribute to Hatch on his induction to the Scholar-Athlete Society in 2005
- Visiting hours: Feb. 19, 4-8 p.m., Fortin Funeral Home, Auburn; memorial service: Fortin Funeral Home, Feb. 20, 11 a.m., with a reception in New Commons afterward.
- Friends are sharing their memories at the funeral home's guest book.
Appointed instructor in physical education and freshman football coach in 1949, Hatch's head coaching assignments included varsity baseball (1951-53) and football (1952-72) as well as golf. He became assistant director of athletics in 1959 and succeeded Lloyd Lux as director in 1974, serving until 1991.
Considered an innovator as a coach, Hatch once deployed an unusual spread formation in football versus the much larger University of Maine team in 1961, stunning the undefeated Black Bears with a 15-15 tie.
In 1955, he wrote a coaching article for Baseball Digest suggesting that traditional RBI statistics could be misleading and urging greater use of on-base percentage, twin notions that are central to the modern "sabermetric" approach to evaluating baseball talent developed by Bill James and others in the 1980s.
"There was no bravado. He thought of it as just the right thing to do."
As director of athletics, he oversaw the creation of a women's varsity athletic program in the 1970s. "At a time when few schools were doing anything, he created opportunities for women athletes," sad his immediate Bates successor, Suzanne Coffey, to the Sun Journal. "There was no bravado. He thought of it as just the right thing to do." Coffey is now AD at Amherst.
Kevin McHugh, Coffey's successor as director of athletics at Bates, says that Hatch's "right thing" ethos endures at Bates today. "The current Bates athletics program reflects Bob's idea of quality: good people who care about the institution and its student-athletes. Aside from wins and losses, there's a social conscience and education-centered philosophy here. To me, that came down from Bob."


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From the amount of RPGs talked about, I've decided to just make an RPG thread.
This thread is not intended for RPGs such as Final Fantasy or anything like that, but intended for fan-based RPGs over the internet (not Everquest).
If you would like to discuss the SoSZ RPG, go to that forum and talk about it in the OOC thread.
Any posts talking about games such as those mentioned above, will be deleted as Spam.
Mod Edit (Stuart) : All active RPG's posted in this thread as of 18/01/04 have been incorporated into this post in a similar way to the favourites thread. Posts linking or discussing sites which no longer exsist have been pruned. If yours was deleted in error, please post again.
You can continue posting links, and they will be added to this list as necessary
Internet RPG's
Name: Three Kingoms RPG (Yahoo! Group)
URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3_kingdoms_rpg/
Posted by: Shi Jing Xu
Name:Dynasty Warrior RPG (Yahoo! Group)
URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dynastywarriorrpg/
Posted by: rcsha
Name: Northern Camp RPG
URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shu_north_camp/
Posted by: Jiang Zhi
Name: War of Magi Sim
URL: http://www.kirby-san.cjb.net
Posted by: Jeanne D'Arc
Name: Ancient Warfare
URL: http://www.suikosim.net/Ancient_Warfare/
Posted by:jzdman
Name: Three Kingdoms
URL: http://pub152.ezboard.com/bthreekingdoms
Posted by: FengXian
Name: Star Wars RPG
URL: http://sluglord.hektik.org/phpBB2/
Posted by: Justin
Name: rot3k
URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rot3k/
Posted by: Jiang Zhi
Name: Suiko Sim
URL: http://www.suikosim.net/Gathering_of_Stars/
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This is a gun question on what to buy. Please don't get into gun rights and other political issues or this thread will get killed.
I'm targeting this question to those that already keep guns aboard. I used to keep a handgun with me on camping and boating trips but haven't in a very long time.
This particular weapon would be for self defense only. What I think I need is:
1) Something with as little swinging room needed as possible. The old Kentucky Long Rifle would not work for me on a boat.
2) Easy and non-intimidation for a female to operate - I'm speaking of my wife, not my feminine side.
3) 'Relatively' inexpensive ammo. The more a weapon is used the better it becomes. I'm of 'the most familiar weapon is the best weapon' school. I've known people that could carve you up with a knife well before you even realized you had to defend yourself.
4) Something that would not draw any attention on the boat. Like in, easily stored and easily available.
I know there is no one weapon that will fit all of the categories like a fully automatic shotgun the size of my walley - which is really small. I'm sure I will think of more stuff. If nothing else, tell me what you have on your boat and why you selected that weapon.
One more very important thing: I will only be cruising in the US so foreign laws will not apply. My cruising will be primarily on the eastern inland waterways.
Again, please keep this non-political.
Thanks in advance.


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Volunteer Meeting
Sunday 26th June
We had a meeting.
This is what happened.
1. Indy Media have hired the hall upstairs for the G8 period. Indy Media is an independent news organisation. They have computers and want people to write what's really going down on the streets to go on their websites. Dave from Indy Media gave a presentation of what they will be doing over the next couple of weeks. Volunteers asked some questions…they were answered. Let's help 'em the best we can.
2. The Forest has a booze licence from Monday 27th June to Sunday 10th July. We can sell alcoholic refreshments from 10am to 5am….yes that's 5am! We probably won't stay open that long everyday (unless there are enough people around).We will have 2 or 3 bars around the café at some points. We need volunteers to help out, especially recycling bottles every morning.
3. There will be a new menu to make life easier. No Burritos or stuff like that because it takes toooo long. Sandwiches and wraps mainly.
4. There will be night managers from 7pm to 1am over the G8 period. It's going to be really, very much so, busy. Volunteers…come and help out.
5. We spoke in hushed tones of potential trouble that might arise. We don't want no trouble, honest guv'nor, so if there are any troublemakers in the café they can be told to leave. If there are any serious problems please call the police.
6. We are going to look into the possibility of getting the St. John's Ambulance guys to come and teach us some basic first aid. It might happen this week so come along if it gets arranged (we will send out an email if it does).
7. To assist the influx of newcomers, who will be potentially disorientated by the twisty turns of the Forest, all volunteers must wear some kind of symbol of authority. We decided fake moustaches would be best. If you have a real one you will have to shave it off before putting on the fake one. This futile exercise will be of great expense to the Forest but it was decided once again that money should not stand in the way of ridiculous plans. Kitchen Managers and Night Managers will likewise have to wear googly eyes to differentiate them from the vollies. If they already have real googly eyes they must be taken out before putting the fake ones on.
That was about it.
Volunteer Meeting - Sunday 26th June
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The B-17 Flying Fortress, "Fuddy Duddy," was used as a VIP transport in the Pacific at the end of World War II. It once carried General Dwight D. Eisenhower who later became the 34th President of the United States.
The Birddog was first built in 1950 by the Cessna Aircraft Company, as a reconnaissance plane for the U.S. Army. Between 1950 and 1964 3,398 airframes were built. Originally called the L-19, it was later re-designated the 0-1 in 1962. It saw extensive combat duty in Korea and Vietnam, often at the hands of former fighter and bomber pilots of World War II. The Birddog served with the U.S.
The Invader fought in more wars than any other aircraft type of its era. Americans flew the attack bomber in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, while other air forces fought with it in Indo-China, Algeria, Biafra, Cuba, The Congo, and in at least a dozen other conflicts.
Lyon Air Museum's C-47 Dakota, recently christened "Willa Dean," has had a long and successful service life. Transferred from the USAAF to the French in May of 1945, this aircraft continued to fly for the most part unmodified, unlike so many of its contemporaries. In 1967 it again changed ownership, this time transferring to the Israelis.
The DC-3 airliner was not only comfortable and reliable, it also made air transportation profitable. American Airlines' C.R. Smith said the DC-3 was the first airplane that could make money just by hauling passengers, without relying on government subsidies for transporting U.S. Mail. As a result, by 1939, more than 90 percent of the nation's airline passengers were flying on DC-2s and DC-3s.
The North American Aviation T-6 Texan was a single-engine advanced trainer aircraft used to train pilots of the United States Army Air Forces, United States Navy, Royal Air Force and other air forces of the British Commonwealth during World War II and into the 1950s. Designed by North American Aviation, the T-6 is known by a variety of designations depending on the modeland operating air force.
Named after the controversial champion of U.S. Airpower, General "Billy" Mitchell, the B-25 is best known for the April 18, 1942 bombing of Tokyo. Led by Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle, and flown from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, 16 B-25s successfully completed the first strike on Japanese soil during World War II.


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Bumgarner leads Giants past Brewers 5-2
AP Sports Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – After going four straight games without holding even a single lead, the San Francisco Giants were hoping for a big performance from Madison Bumgarner. He delivered with his arm and bat.
Bumgarner shut down Milwaukee for seven innings and added an RBI double to win his eighth straight home start, helping the Giants snap a four-game losing streak with a 5-2 victory over the Brewers on Saturday.
"He gave us what we needed," manager Bruce Bochy said. "When you have a losing streak like this, you need someone to go out there and have a game like he did. He has a lot of confidence going right now."
Buster Posey and Brett Pill added RBI hits in a three-run sixth inning against Randy Wolf to give Bumgarner (5-1) all the support he needed as the Giants ended a season-worst losing streak.
The Brewers got NL MVP Ryan Braun back in the lineup after he missed Friday's series opener with a sore right Achilles and he hit a solo homer in the eighth inning. But Milwaukee lost shortstop Alex Gonzalez to what appears to be a serious right knee injury earlier in the game in the latest stroke of bad luck to hit the team this week.
"We have to keep playing and get through these tough injuries," manager Ron Roenicke said. "We still have a good club. Randy did a nice job today until the last inning when they got to him but I thought he threw the ball well. We faced a tough pitcher today and scrapped out a couple."
The Giants had not led a game at any point during their recent skid and struggled early against Wolf (2-3), putting just one runner in scoring position in the first four innings.
Bumgarner finally helped them break through in the fifth inning after Hector Sanchez led off the inning with a double. Bumgarner then tied the game at 1 when he lined a one-out double into the left-field corner.
"That kind of got us out of the little funk we were in," Bumgarner said. "We tacked a couple more on. That was nice."
San Francisco broke it open with three runs in the sixth. Melky Cabrera started the rally by tripling for the second straight day and Posey followed with a single through a drawn-in infield. Pill then doubled into right-center with Posey scoring when Norichika Aoki took a bad angle on the ball. Pill later scored on Conor Gillaspie's groundout to make it 4-1.
Bumgarner left after a scoreless seventh, allowing one run and six hits to lower his home ERA to 1.00 during his current winning streak.
"He was on today," Giants center fielder Angel Pagan said. "He's the kind of guy I don't want to face. He's very tough. When he's on the mound every time, he's like a lion, he's ready to compete and win a ballgame."
Guillermo Mota allowed Braun's eighth homer in the eighth before Sanchez added an RBI double in the bottom half for San Francisco. Santiago Casilla closed for his fifth save in as many chances.
The Brewers have had a stretch of injuries this week, starting on Tuesday in San Diego when they lost first baseman Mat Gamel to a torn ACL in his right knee. Braun left early the next day and missed Friday's series opener against the Giants. Outfielder Carlos Gomez went down in that game with a strained left hamstring and will be placed on the disabled list with Gonzalez on Sunday.
Milwaukee will call up infielders Taylor Green and Edwin Maysonet to take their places.
Gonzalez drove in Aramis Ramirez with the first run of the game on an RBI single off Bumgarner but got hurt later in the second when he stole second base. Gonzalez's leg buckled as he slid into second and he immediately called for a trainer. He was helped off the field and will have an MRI on Monday in Milwaukee.
"It's bad, man," he said. "It's kind of sad for me. I was playing every day, I was playing hard and playing pretty good. But you can't control that type of injury. If it's going to happen, it happens."
After the Giants tied the game in the fifth inning, the Brewers missed a golden chance to regain the lead in the sixth. Ramirez reached on a two-base error by Pagan to lead off the inning. No. 5 hitter Corey Hart sacrificed Ramirez to third base, but Cesar Izturis and Brooks Conrad followed with shallow fly balls to right field, keeping the score tied at 1.
Notes: A female fan ran across the entire outfield in the ninth inning before being apprehended by security after she jumped back into the stands in right field. … Pagan reached on an infield single in the third to extend his hitting streak to 19 games. … Matt Cain looks to snap a two-game losing streak when he starts the series finale for San Francisco against Shawn Marcum.


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- Went grocery shopping a couple days ago... now found a bunch of new recipe ideas on Pinterest. Another trip may be in order!
- Woke up today with a bit of a sore throat. I had my flu shot! What the heck! :(
- Still trying to get caught up on tweets and facebook posts from the week I was gone. I still feel so behind!
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The physical or emotional distress resulting from an injury. Though the concept is somewhat abstract, the injured person (the plaintiff) can seek compensation in the form of cold, hard cash. How much the defendant owes for pain and suffering is calculated separately from the amount owing for more direct expenses, such as medical bills or time lost from work -- although sometimes these amounts are considered to arrive at a logical figure.


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Nationals wrap up NL East title despite loss
Amid the postgame delirium on the field, the crushed beer cans and strewn champagne bottles collecting in the grass, pitcher Gio Gonzalez grabbed Washington Nationals owner Ted Lerner and steered him toward the gaggle of players celebrating the club's first NL East championship.
"Ted, this is your party!" the effervescent left-hander yelled. Then, turning toward teammates, Gonzalez shouted: "Hey! Who's got the cooler? This is the man, right here!"
All in all, 21-game winner Gonzalez and the rest of the first team in 79 years to bring postseason baseball back to the nation's capital threw quite a victory party at Nationals Park on Monday night. Thanks to strong pitching from Gonzalez and Stephen Strasburg, Bryce Harper's burst of energy and Adam LaRoche's slugging, the Nationals won enough from April through September that even a loss on the first day of October could not stop them from achieving the sort of success that seemed so far away only a few years ago.
"The puzzle came together," the 86-year-old Lerner said, "a little earlier than we expected."
Despite being beaten 2-0 by the Philadelphia Phillies, the Nationals earned their first division title since moving from Montreal in 2005, because the second-place Atlanta Braves lost 2-1 at the Pittsburgh Pirates.
"This is incredible. The excitement. The joy. The fans. Smiles on everyone's faces, the excitement that's going on," Gonzalez said. "Everyone here just witnessed history. Hopefully we can try to continue that journey."
Washington, in first place since May 22, leads Atlanta by three games with two to play in the regular season. The Braves' loss finished as the top of the ninth inning ended in Washington, and the Nationals congratulated each other in their dugout with hugs, high-fives and spiked gloves.
"The way it happened tonight doesn't really matter," said third baseman Ryan Zimmerman, the Nationals' first draft pick in June 2005. "We put ourselves in that position to have the luxury of having the other team have to play perfect baseball. We played a great 159, 160 games to get to that point, and we should be commended for that."
When Michael Morse led off the bottom of the ninth, the PA announcer informed the crowd that the home team was the champion, and when the game ended red fireworks lit the night sky with the Capitol building off in the distance beyond left field. The scoreboard declared "NL East Division Champions."
It was the second division crown in franchise history. The Montreal Expos won the NL East in 1981, a strike-shortened season, by beating the Phillies in a best-of-five playoff.
When the game ended, the Phillies - winners of the previous five NL East titles; already eliminated from playoff contention this year - gathered in the middle of the diamond for regular post-victory handshakes.
The Nationals, meanwhile, collected in their home clubhouse for alcohol-spraying. They gathered around general manager Mike Rizzo and dumped bubbly over his shaved head. Harper, who has more homers (22) than years on earth (19), shared some apple cider with LaRoche's 9-year-old son, Drake.
"I'll remember being in the scrum in the middle of the clubhouse with all the guys, just elated and all together," Rizzo said later, once the excitement had moved out to the field, where some fans stayed to clap and chant. "We live with each other for seven months a year. Culmination of all that emotion and such a successful season for us."
On Sept. 20, the Nationals assured themselves of no worse than an NL wild-card berth - and guaranteed Washington a postseason game for the first time since the Senators lost the 1933 World Series to the New York Giants.
But even on that night of success, Washington manager Davey Johnson made clear he wasn't all that interested in merely getting a chance to play in a one-game, in-or-out, wild-card playoff. No, he wanted his team to focus on bigger prizes at hand, including a division championship.
With Washington back home from a six-game road trip and on the verge of a big accomplishment, the first roar of the night from the crowd of 35,287 came a few minutes before the first pitch, when a booming voice over the loudspeakers let everyone know that the home team's "magic number is down to one!"
Ready to roar, the spectators often rose at key moments, whether their team was at the plate or in the field. Fans also reacted with applause and cheers when the out-of-town scoreboard in right-center field showed that Pittsburgh had taken a lead against Atlanta in the fifth inning.
All in all, quite a contrast from the mostly silent, mostly empty ballparks that were home to Nationals teams that lost 100 games apiece in 2008 and 2009. Then again, those worst-in-baseball clubs earned No. 1 overall picks in the amateur draft that turned into Strasburg and Harper.
Rizzo also oversaw a rebuilding of a farm system and two very key additions from outside the organization: Gonzalez, acquired from Oakland for four prospects last offseason; and Jayson Werth, signed away from Philadelphia with a $126 million free-agent deal in December 2010.
"These guys have been through a lot. That just goes to show you it's not easy. It's not easy getting to this point," Werth said. "Luck plays into it a lot. You've got to be on good teams - and I'm on a good team."
Werth was brought to Washington, in part, to show the club how to win, having been a part of the Phillies' perennial division champions and 2008 World Series winners. And so it was somehow fitting that the Nationals' title came on a night when they were facing the Phillies.
"Made me mad. Yes it did. Very much so. I'm a bad loser," Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said about watching Washington clinch against his club. "Nobody should be a good loser. I'm a bad loser and I always will be."
Zimmerman lived through plenty of losses in past seasons, but twice decided to re-sign and stay with a team close to where he grew up in Virginia.
As he spoke Monday, Zimmerman wore a pair of white ski goggles around his neck, the better to protect his eyes from the spray of beverages.
Not his purchase. Whose?
"This is from Werth," Zimmerman said. "He's been through a few."
NOTES: Kyle Kendrick (11-12) pitched seven scoreless innings for the win. John Lannan (4-1) gave up two runs in five innings for Washington. ... Nationals reliever Craig Stammen struck out all six batters he faced in the sixth and seventh. ... Harper's No. 34 Nationals uniform ranks fourth among jersey sales this season. MLB and the players' union released the list of most popular jerseys Monday. Harper trails No. 1 Derek Jeter of the Yankees, No. 2 Josh Hamilton of the Rangers, and No. 3 Ichiro Suzuki of the Yankees. ... SS Jimmy Rollins was out of Philadelphia's starting lineup because of an injured right calf. ... Manuel said reliever B.J. Rosenberg (1-2) will start Tuesday for the Phillies.


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On Oct. 6, 2005, a memorial Mass was celebrated at Holy Trinity Church in Washington, D.C., for Monika Hellwig, the distinguished theologian and educator who a month earlier had become a Senior Fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center. It was the very day and time when she had planned to lead a discussion at the center on the outline for her next book, a new introduction to Christian anthropology that was to be called "Fullness of Life." On Sept. 30 Monika had died at Washington Hospital Center from a cerebral hemorrhage. She was 75. Many readers of America will remember her contributions to The Word column from June 1984 to June 1987.
Monika Konrad Hildegard Hellwig was born Dec. 10, 1929, in Breslau, Silesia, which was then a part of Germany. Her Catholic father was an economist. Her mother, of Dutch Jewish background and an adult convert to Catholicism, was an accomplished sculptress. "Comfortably placed," as Monika later wrote, the family moved to Berlin in 1935. When her father was killed that Christmas in an automobile accident, Monika's mother joined other Jewish relatives who were fleeing Hitler's Germany and took Monika and her two sisters, Marianne and Angelika, to Limburg in the southern Netherlands.
In the European cauldron of the time, Limburg still offered the peaceful pattern of a vigorous and cheerful peasant Catholicism that Monika always considered a gift and privilege. In May 1939, as Nazi occupation of the Netherlands threatened, the Hellwig girls were sent to a boarding school in Edinburgh, Scotland. There they had yet another experience of Catholicism, meeting the contrasting styles of the old English families and the newer, chiefly Irish immigrants. When the war ended, the three girls were able, though with great difficulty, to visit their mother in the Netherlands for three months before she died there.
While living happily with Barrett and Winefride Whale, Monika entered the University of Liverpool in 1946; she earned a law degree in 1949 and a master's in social science two years later. During these years she profited from several lecture series sponsored by the Catholic chaplaincy at the university, read through the Summa Theologiae in an informal seminar with friends and undertook a careful study of Marxism. She was also impressed by the Catholic Truth Society and people who worked in it, such as C. C. Martindale, S.J., Frederick Copleston, S.J., Frank Sheed and Maisie Ward, all of whom had an acute sense for contemporary religious thought and the questions of the time.
At 22 Monika joined the Medical Mission Sisters and, after her novitiate, was sent to the United States to study theology at The Catholic University of America, where she earned an M.A. in 1956. (She remained a British citizen for the rest of her life.) Though feeling intellectually at home, she was troubled by the exclusion of modern thought from the course of studies and the often-deficient backgrounds of her seminarian classmates. After several years working for her order in Washington and Philadelphia, a time during which she also became expert in linguistics through study at the University of Oklahoma, she was sent to Rome to be a ghostwriter for a Vatican official. There she encountered the universal church at the Second Vatican Council, "an intellectually and spiritually intoxicating experience," she later wrote, whose new birth of the church in the contemporary world she served for the rest of her life.
Thanks to a generous invitation from the great scholar and mentor Rev. Gerard Sloyan, she returned to The Catholic University of America and, released from vows in her order, completed a doctorate in theology in 1968. (She found the program admirably thorough, "a far cry from the provincialism I had met 10 years earlier.") After telling Willham McFadden, S.J., in her letter of application that she believed she was "prepared to teach any major subject in doctrinal theology—but not Scripture," she began to teach at Georgetown University in 1967. She remained on its faculty for the next 28 years, becoming a full professor in 1977 and Landegger Distinguished Professor of Theology in 1990. Soon a lifelong pattern was set: full participation in her department and the life of the university, regular publication, indefatigable lecture tours, summer courses given throughout the country—and a deep personal commitment to prayer, the sacraments and spiritual direction. In her first years at Georgetown, Monika also adopted her three children: Erica, Michael and Carlos.
Her first published book, What Are the Theologians Saying? (1970), was typical: a slender, remarkably clear and cogent survey of contemporary Catholic thought on topics ranging from dogmatic development to the question of salvation in other world religions. It was her conviction that "all our theology is reflection on the praxis of our lives as Christians, and that all the official teaching of the church is the product of a communal discernment of the appropriateness of what emerges from the theological reflection on experience."
She went on to publish books on the sacraments, the Christian creeds, tradition, the Eucharist and eschatology. She became known as an ardent voice for aggiornamento and was regularly subjected during her lectures to protesters and hecklers. Later she wrote that "it is almost tautologous to say that it is our vocation to be in trouble, to be misunderstood, to be accused of scandal and error, and to be seen as a public danger."
By 1980 Monika had become an acknowledged leader in the church, not so much as a theological innovator but rather as a tireless and eloquent ambassador for the best Gospel news that was being wrung from the wisdom of the tradition in order to respond to the urgent questions of our time. She was already an editor for the Journal of Ecumenical Studies and had spent a sabbatical at Tantur in Jerusalem. She now became an editor for Michael Glazier Publications and Theological Studies, among others, and in 1985-86 was a research fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Her internationalism was evident in her service as a member of the Board of the International Federation of Catholic Universities, based in Paris, and in being a founding board member of the International Federation of Associations of Christian Higher Education, based in India.
Early in the 1980's she published her widely read Understanding Catholicism (1981), which proposes that "the message of Jesus had to do first of all with the powerful and compassionate fidelity of God." Two years later, in Jesus: The Compassion of God, she pursued this basic insight in response to questions raised by the liberation movements of the time. She published on feminism, war and peace, reconciliation and conversion, and the liturgical readings of the church year. During these years she received 13 of her 32 honorary degrees and eight of her 15 named awards, including the John Courtney Murray Award in 1984 from the Catholic Theological Society of America and the Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Award from the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities in 1994. In 1994, with Michael Glazier, she also co-edited the Modern Catholic Encyclopedia.
Monika served as president of the Catholic Theological Society of America in 1986-87, and many of its members well remember her presidential address in Philadelphia, titled "The Role of the Theologian in Today's Church." Reprising an earlier theme, which she had taken up from Bernard Lonergan, S.J., she spoke of the "spiraling sequence" of doctrinal development, which moves from the experience of the Christian people and their first-order reflection, through the specialized work of theological discussion, toward the formulations of the church's official teaching—and then back again to fresh experience of Gospel liberation. With her accustomed deft touch she also sketched the theologian's (and her own) many roles: myth-maker; fool or court jester challenging prejudices; comforter or reconciler; builder of constructive theology; archivist treasuring the cumulative wisdom of the past; critic evaluating how the wisdom of the past serves the needs of the present; archaeologist searching the sources for new insight; and ghost no longer visible because her ideas have been assimilated. After a difficult year for theology and theologians, it was a moment of challenge and encouragement.
In 1996 Monika left Georgetown to become the executive director and then president of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities. It was typical of her to seek the greater good of the Catholic community. American Catholic education was undergoing significant new developments of its committed and vigorous voice on the national academic scene. There was also the question of how it should appropriately respond to the apostolic constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae (1990). Monika was tireless in her defense of academic freedom and institutional autonomy, in part because she knew how much Catholic institutions were contributing to American higher education and what the source was for their deepest inspiration, in part also because her understanding of the church required it to be more communitarian and dialogical. The humanism of her early education, her reverence for the wisdom of the past, her courage in recognizing the real questions of her time, her depth of prayerful dedication and her prodigious energy all combined to make her office indispensable for everyone who was committed both to academic excellence and to the promise of the Gospel.
During her years at the A.C.C.U., Monika continued to conduct workshops and seminars in parishes and at diocesan ministry days. In 2003 she received the Ann O'Hara Graff Award from the Women's Seminar on Constructive Theology of the C.T.S.A. She also managed to write not only a good many essays on theology and education but two books: Guests of God: Stewards of Divine Creation (2000), which was illustrated by her daughter, Erica, and Public Dimensions of a Believer's Life: Rediscovering the Cardinal Virtues (just published by Sheed and Ward). The latter points to the major project on which she had planned to embark, a full exploration of the theological virtues as a way of life. "I want," she wrote to her Woodstock colleagues, "to bring the tradition with its wealth of teaching about the theological virtues to meet inquiring Catholic intellectuals where they really are in their experience and their thinking." Her audience had not really changed, nor had her confidence in the Gospel, and certainly not her courage.
Mourning Monika with her three children, her three grandchildren and her two sisters, we should allow her the last word. In her Marianist Lecture at Dayton University in 1993, she said: "In my journey through the twentieth century as a Catholic scholar, what have I really learned? First of all, that we cannot keep the Holy Spirit out of the church, no matter how much we try to domesticate the whole enterprise. Secondly, that the church is wiser and more faithful when it listens discerningly to many voices, even those from outside its own boundaries. Thirdly, that we, all of us, are the bearers of tradition and the shapers of it for the future, and that we have immense wealth entrusted to us. Fourthly, never to be afraid of the truth, but to seek truth with humility and faith and the readiness to be proved wrong and to begin the search again. Fifthly, that conflict is part of growth and the shaping of tradition, but that hatred and rejection of those who differ need not be. And last, that as educated Catholics of our time we are part of a very important intellectual contribution to our society and to the world—a contribution that is an integral component of the redemption."
Besides these articles, I was moved by the vignette by Leo J. O'Donovan, S.J., (fittingly, not at all a eulogy) on Monica Hellwig. I had no idea of Hellwig's Dutch, Jewish, Medical Missionary background. What an impressive woman; what an impressive career. And the brief piece by Ladislas Orsy, S.J., was wonderful for its quiet reminder of the basics. Finally, the book reviews were right on target: José M. Sánchez's critique of a flawed work on the Holocaust, and Gene Roman's fine analysis of "values evangelists" and "legal secularists," in Divided by God. Really, this was a solid issue!
As a Generation X laywoman, a sometime theology student and pastoral minister, and mother of young daughters, I am deeply appreciative of Professor Hellwig's example of a life of service to the Catholic community. Monika Hellwig, a nationally identifiable Catholic laywoman who lived two vocations, as theologian and mother, was and will remain a shining star for me.


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It may be a little early for the silly season, but if last week's antics by the Home Office and the Daily Mail are anything to go by, it is already upon us.
On Tuesday, the Home Office pioneered an interesting new approach to public information, by making a series of review documents available on their website – and leaving them password protected.
All too ironically, the documents catalogued "non-police power of entry" into your home, and were produced in response to a speech by Gordon Brown in October 2007, calling for greater openness in these matters. At the time, the Prime Minister expressed the view that there might be something like 250 provisions granting right of entry to an individual's home.
However, as the Mail smugly pointed out, "there are now 1,043 laws that give the authorities the power to enter a home or business*. Nearly half have been introduced since Labour came to power 11 years ago."
As examples of ludicrous new powers, the paper cites how officials may:
- Invade your home to see if your pot plants have pests or do not have a 'plant passport'
- Survey your home and garden to see if your hedge is too high
- Seize fridges without the correct energy rating
Soon, authorities may also be able to enter your home to inspect for non-human genetic material, for looted cultural property from Iraq and for 'undeclared' carbon dioxide.
The Daily Mail's response to what the Home Office described as an honest mistake was to call in the "computer experts" and open the documents anyway. We suspect that this required no more expertise than stripping the password out of a .pdf file.
A swift Google reveals a fair amount of software that will carry out this task – or at least claims to be able to do so. Reg readers interested in recovering "lost passwords" should check out products such as elcomsoft, PDFKey Pro or GuaPDF.
Whether it is legal to carry out such password removal – even where the document is intended for public use – is less clear.
Over the years, the Home Office website has attracted its share of criticism. On one occasion, individuals seeking to respond to the Home Office consultation on extreme pornography found their contributions bounced, because they included the word "pornography". That's good use of blocking software, almost on a par with the direct marketing company that invented its own processes for handling rude words, and rejected all addresses containing the word sex.
Readers in Sussex, Middlesex, etc. will instantly spot the flaw in that algorithm.
However, to be fair to the Home Office, there is no evidence that it is any worse than any other government department in this respect. The end of summer term in Parliament is the time for sneaking out as much embarrassing news as possible, in the sure knowledge that parliamentary scrutiny will be at a minimum.
No doubt, in the enthusiasm for getting the news out, someone left a file password-protected. It was unintentional, and readers wishing to catch up on the original release may now do so, without need for any additional hacking skills. ®
* Not so - the documents actually reveal 295 Acts, plus a hodge-podge of Statutory Instruments. These in turn add up to about 1,000 powers.