Since the 2016 election, many media sources have stated that libertarians want to abolish the Department of Education; however, they rarely describe why they want to do so.
The Department of Education is inefficient, and, contrary to popular belief, does not provide "quality education". The data which I will be providing in this op-ed provide clarity on why libertarians have the positions they do on education and and their solutions.
To the right is a graph from The Cato Institute, showing that since 1970, the Department of Education's expenditures, adjusted for inflation, have increased by approximately 375%, while K-12 test scores have remained stagnant. In fact, standardized test scores in reading and science scores have fallen in recent years.
Moreover, taxpayers pay a national average of approximately $150,000 per student for education, over the course of a K-12 education. This is an excessive amount to be paid not only by parents who are sending their children to private schools – so they are paying for school twice – but also by parents who send their children to public school, only to receive subpar results.
Some may object to these statistics and graph above, saying increasing test scores is impossible because there are more students enrolled, more students per teacher, and thus higher costs. However, Neal McCluskey, a researcher from The Cato Institute, analyzed the enrollment data trends since 1970. Dr. McCluskey's data shows quite the opposite of this objection – very, very much the opposite, actually.
As seen from the graph at left, the enrollment of students (as a percentage) has stayed fairly consistent – with some decreases in the later 1980s and 1990s, and increases since 2000 – but the teaching staff has rapidly increased – especially since the 1990s!
This brings up an interesting question: Is the increase in teaching staff due to teachers or administrative staff? The Brookings Institution did a study which discovered that the New York public school system had six thousand administrators, while the New York Catholic school system had a quarter of students in the public-school system and only had thirty administrators. Moreover, The Baltimore Sun reported that a county public school system had ten times the number of administrators that the Baltimore archdiocese school system had, for the same number of students.
Shouldn't a school system's focus be on teaching, not administrating? If a private school system can work with fewer administrators, shouldn't the public-school system to be able to do so? I believe teachers are highly underpaid; perhaps their salaries would increase if school systems didn't have so many administrators, who make six-figure salaries, on their payroll. It is evident that some school systems are inefficient in their staffing, and that these inefficiencies not only affect students' test scores, but also limit teachers' salaries and their ability to get hired. If we had more schooling options than just those in local public schools, the inefficiency could be decreased.
Federal Agencies, such as the Department of Education, are a violation of Article I and Tenth Amendment. Article I, Section 8, enumerates certain powers to the federal government – which, in this case, is Congress. Article I, Section 8, makes no mention of the power of education to be within the jurisdiction of the federal government. This is where the Tenth Amendment comes in.
The Tenth Amendment states that all those powers not enumerated to the federal government will be conferred to the states or the people. this is where education should, constitutionally, be governed.
Our founders did this on purpose. The needs of education for students in Massachusetts is vastly different from those of Iowa, and so are the educational needs of Webster, MA, compared with those of Boston, MA. Why should both states be subject to the same regulations issued by the Department of Education? Shouldn't each state, or better yet, each town, or even individual, set the standards for education? Shouldn't parents have the right to choose where their children attend school, if the school meets the family's cultural or religious needs?
So how do libertarians want to fix this?
Given the advances we have in sites such as Khan Academy, we could have education similar to that, and have competition among schools to provide the best education. Competition among schools encourages experimentation among schools to innovate more advanced ways of learning. This experimentation always leads to someone finding the best way to do something, which can then be followed by everyone else (in this case, all the other schools). Competition, by definition, helps drive down costs; so, having competition among schools will also help drive down the costs of education – which is clearly needed, since the expenditures by the Department of Education have done nothing but increase over the past forty years while scores have remained constant. Providing school choice, however, has had positive outcomes on academic performance and money spent— as can be seen in a report on the empirical evidence of school choice by Dr. Greg Foster.
Additionally, providing more choices to students — such as through the voucher system, charter schools, online learning, or not restricting students to public schools in their zip codes — students and their parents would have more options dependent on their needs, religion, and culture. More importantly, this could give some inner-city children – many of whom lack access to quality education, the most, since inner-city education typically is of poor quality — access to better education.
As mentioned, the Department of Education is both unconstitutional and has are provided a poor return on investment for students. Additionally, school choice could help parents who struggled to send their children to private school, but still had pay the taxes that funded public education, not only have the choice of where to send their children but also save money. School choice is an option worth exploring.


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Tom Grandin
(1907-07-19)July 19, 1907
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
October 19, 1977(1977-10-19) (aged 70)
War correspondent
Thomas "Tom" Grandin (July 19, 1907 – October, 19 1977) was an American broadcast journalist during World War II. He was an original member of a team of reporters and war correspondents known as the Murrow Boys.
1 Early career
2 Grandin as a journalist
Early career[edit]
Grandin was born in Cleveland, Ohio.[1] He graduated from Yale University in 1930 and studied international law at the University of Berlin and L'Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris. While Grandin was in Paris he worked at the International Chamber of Commerce.
Grandin as a journalist[edit]
In 1939 Grandin became the second reporter hired by Edward R. Murrow and one of the original Murrow Boys. Though Grandin had no journalism experience Murrow hired him anyway, mostly for his language skills and his expertise in international issues. Grandin began covering Paris for Murrow and CBS but abruptly left Europe in 1940.
Paris fell to the German onslaught in 1940 and Grandin decided he had to return to the United States. His reasons were personal. Initially, Grandin intended to send only his wife back to the States but because she was Romainian and lacked an American passport she would not have been allowed into the country without him. While Murrow understood Grandin's reasoning others at CBS, including William Shirer, saw Grandin as a deserter.
In 1944 Grandin took a job with ABC News covering the war. In June of that year he accompanied the first American troops to land at Omaha Beach in Normandy on D-Day. Grandin retired from broadcasting after the war and went to work as a sales executive.
Bernstein Mark, World War II on the air: Edward R Murrow and the broadcasts that riveted a nation (Illinois: Sourcebooks, Inc, 2003)
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October 21, 2019 - Staff
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The Revealer, The Messenger, The Message
Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr
Publishers Preface
Author's Foreword
Part 1 - The Revealer
Belief in God, The Exalted
The Scientific Argument for the Existence of God, The Exalted
a) Definition of the Method and Delineation of its Steps
b) Evaluation of the Method
How To Apply The Method to prove the Existence of the Creator
The Philosophical Argument
a) An Example of the Philosophical Argument for the Existence of the Creator
b) The Materialist Position toward this Argument
The Attributes of God, Exalted Be He
a) His Justice and Rectitude
b) Divine Justice as Argument for Reward and Punishment
Part 2: The Messenger
Introduction: The General Phenomenon of Prophethood
Demonstration of the Prophethood of the Greatest Messenger, Muhammad (S)
The Role of The Outside Factors and Influences
Part 3: The Message
Everything in this vast universe carries with it its strict divine law which directs it and aids it to rise to the highest possible levels of fulfillment. Thus the seed, under the rule of its specific law, and within the framework of its special conditions, evolves into a tree. The sperm, likewise, in accordance with the divine law operating in it, becomes a human being.
Everything, from the sun to the proton, and from the planets moving in the sun's orbit to the electrons moving in the orbit of a proton, all move according to a special plan and evolve according to a special potentiality. This all-encompassing divine order includes the universe with all its aspects and phenomena, as can be demonstrated by the argument of scientific induction. The most important phenomenon in the universe may be that of human free choice.
Man is a choosing being, and that means that he is a purposive being. That is to say, man acts for a purpose which he seeks to achieve. He digs in the earth to bring forth water, cooks in order to eat tasty food and experiments with the phenomena of nature in order to` know its laws, and so forth.
Other beings in nature, in contrast, act for already set aims and not for purposes which they set for themselves and seek their fulfillment. Thus the lung, stomach and nervous system, in performing their physiological functions, perform a purposive activity. The purpose here, however, is not one which they established through their natural functions; it is rather the purpose of the All-knowing Creator.
Since man is a purposive being whose practical attitudes are closely connected with specific purposes which he comprehends and lives for; it follows that man is not determined by a strict natural law, as for example, a raindrop falling in a predetermined manner in accordance with the law of gravity. Had his circumstances been similar, man would not have been a purposive being acting in accordance-with a purpose existing in his mind. For man to be purposive, it is necessary that he be free in his actions in order that he can act according to whatever purposes may arise in his mind. The link between man's practical attitudes and his purposes, therefore, constitute the law controlling the phenomenon of choice in man.
Human purpose, moreover, does not arise haphazardly. Man bases his purposes on the requirements of his personal interests and needs. These needs are dictated by, the environment and objective circumstances which surround man. The circumstances, however, do not move man directly in the way a storm, for instance, moves the leaves of trees.'
Had this been the case, it would annul man's role as a purposive being. It is therefore necessary for objective circumstances to move man, but only in that they stir him to act in accordance with his own perception of his interest within a specific practical situation. Not every interest, however, is capable of moving the individual to action.
Rather, this is achieved by such interests as the individual discerns to be his own interests as well. Therefore, interests are of two kinds, short-term interests which often benefit the .purposive individual who act strictly in self interest, and long-term interests' which benefit society. Often, however, individual interests come into direct conflict with those of society.
Thus, we observe that man is often moved not by the positive values of an interest but by the special benefits which may accrue to him. We observe also that there should be an objective necessity which can assure individual motivation by group interests as a necessary condition for the preservation and progress of life in the long run.
On this basis, man has to face a conflict between the demands of the law (sunnah) of life and its preservation through an objective conduct aimed at promoting group interests. On the one hand, and individual tendencies demanding man to heed only his own individual interests and to work for his own individual benefit on the other. It was therefore necessary to find a formula capable of resolving this conflict and creating objective circumstances which call for human motivation in accordance with group interests.
Prophethood, in that it is a divine phenomenon in human life, is the law which provides the way to resolve this problem. This it does by rendering group interests and all other great interests which go beyond the short-term aspects of human life, into individual long-term interests. It achieves this by informing the individual of the continuity of his existence after death and of his final journey into the divine court of justice and recompense, where all human beings will be gathered to see their deeds.
"Whosoever does an ant's weight of good shall see it, and whosoever does an ant's weight of evil shall see it." (Qur'an, 99:7-8)
In this way group interests become identical with individual interests considered in the long run.
The paradigm of this solution consists of a theory and the special educational process of man based on it. The theory is the return (ma'ad) to God on the day of resurrection; the educational process is a continuous activity of divine guidance. That it must be a divine activity is because it depends on the last day that is on the unknown (al-ghayb).
This activity cannot take place except through divine revelation, which is prophethood. Thus we see that prophethood and the, final return to God are two aspects of the same paradigm which provides the only solution to that general conflict in human life. This solution constitutes the phenomenon of free choice; and promotes it in the service of the true interests in human life.
As the existence of the wise Creator has been demonstrated by the inductive argument and the methods of scientific argument, so likewise the prophethood of Muhammad, peace be upon him and his household, will be demonstrated by means of the same scientific and inductive argument and through the same method we employ in proof of the various truths in our daily life and scientific investigation. Let us present some examples by way of introduction in proof of this truth as well.
If a man were to receive a letter from one of his relatives who is a youth studying in a small elementary school in a rural area, and if the recipient were to notice that the letter was written in a brilliant idiom, employing learned and precise expressions, manifesting high artistic ability, then he would certainly conclude that another person, highly educated and possessing an unusual ability of expression had dictated that letter to the youth. If we wish to analyze this argument and conclusion we may divide it into the following steps:
1. The letter was written ' by a' country boy studying in an elementary school.
2. The letter is characterized by an eloquent style, a high level of artistic excellence and an unusual ability to arrange ideas.
3. The science of induction demonstrates in such situations that a youth of the characteristics noted in the first step could not formulate a letter of the qualities noted in the second step.
4. It must be concluded from all this that the letter was the product of another person of whose abilities the youth was able, in one way or another, to take advantage.
Let us present another analogy for the same idea, this time a scientific argument. It is the argument which scientists used in studying the electron. A scientist had studied a specific kind of ray which he produced in a closed tube. Then he focused on the middle of the tube a magnetic devise shaped, like a horseshoe. He noticed that the rays tended to move toward the positive pole of the magnetic field and avoid the negative.
He repeated the experiment under different circumstances until he become certain that rays may be attracted by magnetic power and that the positive pole is the one which attracts them. Since this scientist knew through inductive arguments and his study of other rays, such as those of ordinary light, that rays are not influenced by magnetic power or attracted by it and that a magnet attracts bodies, not rays, he was able to conclude that the attraction of the special rays on which he conducted his experiments could not be interpreted on the basis of the usual hypothetical information.
He rather discovered a new force and a new truth, namely, that these rays are made of minute negative particles and are present in all material bodies because they are derived from various elements. These particles were named electrons.
The process of demonstration in both analogies may be summarized as follows: Whenever a specific phenomenon is observed, within the context of specific factors and concrete circumstances, it is noticed inductively that these factors and circumstances in similar situations do not necessarily lead to the same phenomenon. This points therefore, to another unseen factor which must be presupposed for interpreting that phenomenon. In other words, the conclusion, if it is greater than the circumstances and concrete factors in similar situations, as demonstrated through the inductive method, reveal an unseen factor behind these circumstances and concrete factors.
This attests to the proof of the prophethood of the greatest apostle, Muhammad, peace be upon him and his household, and the truth of the message which he declared to the world in the name of heaven. The application of the method to this argument takes the following steps:
1. The man who declared his message to the world in the name of heaven hailed from the Arabian peninsula which was one of most backward areas of the world at the time culturally, intellectually, socially, politically and economically. He belonged specifically to the Hijaz, a region of this peninsula which had not passed through even the limited developments of the cultures in neighbouring regions of the peninsula. Nor had it experienced any social development to speak of, or attained any share of the intellectual wealth of that, period worthy of mention.
Its poetry and literature reflected nothing of the intellectual currents of the world of that era. It was rather immersed, from the point of view of religious faith, in the chaos of polytheism and idolatry. The region had socially disintegrated under the burden of tribal mentality. Its society was therefore pray to tribal allegiances in all aspects of its life.
All this led to deep social conflicts, struggle and senseless, purposeless raids. The country in which this apostle grew up knew no form of government except that which tribal allegiances had dictated. The level of productive energy and the economic circumstances contributed nothing to distinguish the Hijaz from the most backward areas of the world at the time. Even reading and writing, which are the simplest rudiments of education, were rare in that environment, where society in general was an illiterate one.
"It Is He who has sent to the unlettered people' an apostle from among themselves, reciting to them and teaching them the Book and wisdom, although they were before in manifest error." (Qur'an, 62:2)
The Prophet was, from this point of view, a typical person. He did not read or write before his apostleship, nor did he receive any formal or informal education.
"You did not recite before it (the Qur'an) any other scriptures, nor did you inscribe it with your right hand; otherwise the falsifiers would surely have doubted." (Qur'an, 29:48)
This Qur'anic text is a clear depiction of the apostle's intellectual attainments before his apostleship. It is an incontrovertible proof even for those who do not believe in the divine origin of the Qur'an. It is, in any case, a text which the Prophet declared to his people and expounded in the presence of, those who were fully acquainted with his life and history, and no one objected to what he said. Nor did anyone deny his claim:
We moreover observe that the Prophet did not take part before his apostleship, even in the intellectual forms of poetry and rhetoric which were popular among the people at the time. There was no mention of any distinction of the Prophet over the rest of his people, except in his moral commitments, his trustworthiness, honesty, truthfulness and integrity.
He lived among them for forty years before his apostleship without their sensing anything distinguishing him from them, except his pure conduct. No practical indications or trends towards the change which he declared to the world, after forty years of his noble life, reflected themselves in his behavior prior to that time.
"Say: "Had God so willed, I would not have recited it (the Qur'an) to you, nor would He have made it known to you. I have dwelt among you a lifetime: before it; do you not then understand?" (Qur'an, 10:16)
The Prophet, peace be upon-him, and his household was born in Mecca where he lived the entire period prior to his apostleship. He did not leave it to go outside the Arabian peninsula except on two brief journeys. The first was with his uncle Abd Talib when he was still a youth in his early teens. The other was in his mid-thirties when he accompanied a caravan carrying Khadijah's goods for trade.
Because of his inability to read or write, he had no opportunity to read any of the religious texts of the Jews or Christians. Nor did he become acquainted, to any appreciable extent, with these texts through his environment. Mecca was an idolatrous city both in its ideas and customs, into which neither Christian nor Jewish religious thought had penetrated. Religion had not entered into the life of its society in any form.
Even the hanifs (pure ones) among the Arabs of Mecca who rejected the worship of idols were influenced by neither Judaism nor Christianity. Nothing of Jewish or Christian thought appeared to have been reflected in the literary or poetic heritage left for us by Qiss ibn Sa'idah and others of the group. Had the Prophet made any effort to be acquainted with Jewish or Christian thought, it would have been noticed. In such a simple environment which had no relation with the sources of Jewish or Christian thought, such an attempt would not have passed without attracting much attention and without leaving its imprint on many of the moves and relations that followed.
2. The message which the Prophet proclaimed to the world is embodied in the noble Qur'an and the Islamic sacred law (shari'ah) which has many distinguishing characteristics. First, it came in a unique form of divine instruction about God, praised and exalted be He, His attributes, His knowledge and power and the nature of the relationships which exist between him and humankind.
The message also illustrated the role of prophets in the guidance of humanity, the unity of their messages, their unique values and examples. It spoke of God's ways (sunan) with His prophets and the continuous struggle between truth and falsehood and between justice and wrongdoing. It illustrated the close connection of heavenly messages with those who are wronged and persecuted, and the opposition of the messages to those who exploit others through illegal interests and business deals.
This divine instruction, furthermore, was not only greater than the religious level of a society immersed in idolatry; it was also greater than all the religious cultures known to the world at the time. Any comparison would clearly show that it came to correct whatever errors other religious systems contained, to balance whatever deviation they had suffered, and to bring them back to the judgement of the pure, native intuition (fitrah) of man and his untainted reason.
All this was brought by an unlettered man who belonged to an idolatrous society isolated from other societies. He was a man who knew almost nothing of the intellectual heritage or scriptures of his time. Yet he was the criterion of rectification and progress. The message, moreover, came with values and concepts regarding life, humanity, social relations and right action. It expressed these values and concepts in laws and ordinances which have been regarded even by those who do not accept their divine origin, to be among the most precious and noble ordinances known to human. history.
Thus the son of a tribal society appeared on the stage of world history suddenly to proclaim the essential unity of humanity. The son of an environment whose people devised oppressive social forms of distinction and superiority based on ethnicity, lineage and socio-economic status, he came to destroy all such forms and to declare that all human beings are to be equal.
"....Surely the most noble of you in the sight of God is he who is most pious ..." (Qur'an, 49:13)
He made this declaration into a reality for men to live by. He raised the female, previously buried alive, to her rightful place of respect to equal the male in humanity and dignity.
The son of the desert whose people thought only of their petty cares and the alleviation of their hunger; whose men vied in glory within their clan distinctions, came to lead them to shoulder the greatest responsibilities. He unified them in the battle of human, liberty and the salvation of the wronged everywhere from the tyranny of Chosroe (Khusraw) and Ceasar.1
The son of a complete political and economic vacuum, in all its conflicts of usury, hoarding and exploitation, appeared suddenly to fill that vacuum and to make of that empty society an organized unity possessing a complex legal, economic and social order. He came to abolish usury, hoarding and exploitation and to redistribute wealth so that it might not be a commodity exchanged among the rich few. He came to establish social equality and security which other societies called for after centuries of social experimentation and development. All these turning points took place in a relatively short period of time, considering the slow pace of social changes.
This message speaks in the Qur'an of earlier prophets and their communities. It discusses events and crises in the life of these communities in details unknown to the illiterate and idolatrous environment of the Arabian Prophet. Jewish and Christian learned men challenged the Prophet on more than one occasion, asking him to discuss their religious heritage. He met these challenges with great courage. The Qur'an fulfilled their demands without there being any way of explaining how the Prophet himself could have acquired knowledge of these details.
"You (Muhammad) were not at the western side (of at Tur, that is, Mount Sinai) when We decreed for Moses the commission, nor were you among those who witnessed it. But We raised generations, and life was prolonged for them. Nor were you a dweller among the people of Madian, reciting to them our verses: rather, We were the Sender. You were not on the side of the Mount (at-Tar) when We called (unto Moses); rather you were sent as a mercy from your Lord to warn a people to whom no warner came before you, that they, may be reminded." (Qur'an, 28:44-46)
What overwhelms the observer is that the true accounts related in the Qur'an could not have been a simple case of plagarism of the two testaments, even if we allow that the idea that the two Books were well-known in the Prophet's milieu. Plagarism is only a negative way of taking what someone else had to offer, whereas the Qur'an assumed the positive role of correcting and modifying these accounts. It presents details of a story with the purpose of purifying it from any accretions or contradictions which do not agree with inherent faith (fitrah) in Divine Oneness (tawhid), an enlightened mind and an uncorrupted religious view.
Another proof of the truth of the message is that the Qur'an attained such a high level of clarity, eloquence and originality of expression. This made it even from the point of view of those who reject its divine origin, an absolute criterion separating two stages in the history of the Arabic language and the basis of enormous change in this language, and its literary methods.
The Arabs who heard the Prophet recite the Qur'an discerned the fact that it in no way resembled anything they had hitherto known in its power of elucidation and clarity of expression. One of them (al-Walid ibn al-Mughirah) declared when he heard the Qur'an, "By God, I have heard words which are neither the speech of men nor jinn! It is a speech of sweet savour and grace. Its top is fruitful and its bottom is copious. It exalts and none can surpass it. It truly destroys all that falls beneath it."2
The people did not allow themselves to listen to the Qur'an because they felt its great effect and because of their fear of its great power, as .it depicted the state of their souls. This is a clear proof of the great uniqueness of Qur'anic expression. It proves further that the Qur'an is not simply the continuation of a familiar development of a literary expression. The people had to succumb to the growing challenge with which the Prophet confronted them. The Qur'an challenged them to bring one like it, or even only ten surahs like it. It went on to stress their inability to bring even one surah like those of the noble Qur'an.
The Prophet offered this challenge to a society which excelled in no other craft as it did in that of words. It was a society which excelled in the art of story-telling (hadi'th) and the recounting of feats of glory. Their chief aim was to extinguish the light of this new message and destroy it. Nonetheless, this society, which was ready to meet any challenge, however great, did not wish to try itself and oppose the Qur'an in anything.
It was because the people believed that the literary expression of the Qur'an was beyond their linguistic and artistic ability. The curious thing was that the man who brought them this new literary wealth lived among them for forty years without their seeing him take part in a literary debate or display any talent in the literary arts. These are just a few of the characteristics of the message which the Prophet proclaimed to the world.
3. Now we turn to the third step, through which we shall demonstrate, on the basis of scientific induction applied to the history of human societies, that this message (having the characteristics studied in the second step) is far greater than the factors and circumstances which we reviewed in the first step would allow.
Although the history of human, societies has on many occasions, witnessed an outstanding man who led his society a step forward the case with which we are here concerned displays too, many exceptions to be just another instance of human success in history. We first observe here a tremendous power of innate religious intuition (fitrah), an all-inclusive evolution of all aspects of life and a reorientation of values and concepts which relate to the various areas of life, raising it to a better state instead of carrying it simply a step forward.
Thus the society of tribes leaped forward, under the guidance of the Prophet, into the one universal society. The society of idols leaped suddenly to the faith of Divine Oneness (din-ut tawhid) the religion which corrected the other monotheistic religions and removed from them all accretions of falsehood and legend. The empty society became full, even becoming a society of leadership bearing a culture which has illuminated the entire world.
We notice further that any complete revolution of society, if it is the child of concrete circumstances and causes, could not rise suddenly, improvised by one man. Nor could it be without connection with earlier developments which. Pave the way for it. It cannot arise without a preceding current of intellectual and spiritual growth where in a form of able leadership is allowed to mature and assume its role. Such a leader would then work to revolutionize society on, the basis of this new development.
The comparative study of the processes of social evolution has clearly shown that an intellectual process of change begins in any society like seeds scattered in the soil of that society. Then these seeds rise together to constitute an intellectual current and gradually define its peculiar characteristics. It is then possible for a kind of leadership to grow within that current and bring it out onto the world stage as a front for a movement in opposition to the official establishment in society. Through a long struggle, this current widens until it gains control.
In contrast to all this, we find that Muhammad was not simply one link in a chain in the history of this new message. Nor was he part of a general current of social change. The values and concepts which he proclaimed were not simply seeds, or an intellectual wealth growing in the soil of the society in which he grew up. As for the current which developed in his hands, and which consisted of the few elect among the first Muslims it was the product of the message and the leader. It was not the climate which produced the message or the leader.
Thus the difference between what the Prophet brought and that of any other leader is not one of degree, such as can be found among the various elements constituting a new current of thought or social action. It was rather a fundamental and infinite difference. All this goes to prove that Muhammad was not part of a current, but that the new current was part of him.
History has proved that if the intellectual, religious or social leadership of a new trend is concentrated in one centre through a specific movement of intellectual and social change, that centre must possess the appropriate power and intellectual ability. It would also be necessary for these characteristics to be expressed in ways and methods familiar in the life of ordinary human beings. It would further be necessary for that current to have a gradual process of practical application that would produce and direct the development of leadership.
Again, in contrast with all this; we find that Muhammad himself assumed the intellectual religious and social leadership in spite of the fact that his situation, as an unlettered man who knew nothing of the intellectual achievements of his time or its prior religious traditions, did not make of him a candidate for such a role. Nor did he have any prior experience that would qualify him for this sudden responsibility.
In light of all this, we must come to the following conclusion, which alone offers us the only reasonable and acceptable explanation. We must presuppose an additional factor behind these concrete circumstances. It is the factor of revelation, the factor of prophethood which constitutes the intervention of heaven to guide earth.
"Thus have We revealed unto you (Muhammad) a spirit of our command; you did not know what the Book is nor what faith is. But We made it (the Qur'an) a light with which We guide whosoever We wish from among our servants, and you surely guide to a straight path." (Qur'an, 42:52)
The explanation of the message on the basis of revelation rather than the factors and circumstances concretely operating in its history does not mean that we should ignore these circumstances completely. They did play an influential role in accordance with universal social norms. Their influence, however, was in the course of events and its consequences, whether in promoting or retarding the success of the message.
The message in itself is a divine reality above all material conditions and circumstances. When, however, it was transformed into a movement, a continuous activity for change, it became possible for it to be related to its circumstances and whatever conditions and feelings surrounded it. It may, for instance, be supposed that the feeling of the individual Arab of being lost in a society torn by strife, (where he himself represented in 'corporeal form his deity, history or ideal in a stone which he might destroy in a moment of anger, or in a piece of sweet which he could devour in a moment of hunger) made him look up to the new message.
It may be supposed that the feeling of the unfortunate and struggling individuals in Arab society under a heavy yoke of wrongdoing and oppression by usurers and exploiters, compelled them to support a new movement which would raise high the banner of justice and abolish usurial capitalism. It may be further supposed that tribal feelings played an important role in the life of the message, whether on the local level of struggle and rivalries among the clans of Quraysh and the prestige and protection which accrued to the Prophet from his clan identity, or on the nationalistic level in the feelings of the Arabs of South Arabia towards those of the North.
The circumstances of a collapsing world and harsh conditions which the two great powers, Byzantinum and Persia, had endured, kept them preoccupied with their own problems and prevented them from intervening quickly and decisively to abort the new movement in the Arabian Peninsula. All such propositions are reasonable and may be admitted. Such explanations, however, apply to events and not to the message itself.
1. Kisrah and Qaysar, the Persian and Byzantine emperors, as absolute monarchs, became for Muslims a symbol and oppression. (Translator's footnote)
2. The author does not provide his source, but for a variant version, see: Muhammad Yusuf al-Kandahlawi, Hayat as-Sahabah, Muhammad `Ali ad-Dawlah, ed., (Damascus: Dar al-Qalam), N.D., 1st edition, vol. l, p.114. (Translator's footnote)
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When we used to give public examinations, there were multiple revision examinations in order for us to successfully complete the real examinations. In the same lines, as a power house generator of BRM riders from Chennai, WCCG is in the process of gearing up the next set of BRM aspirants to make them ready for next level after 100K. Here comes the WCCG 125 ride. Here are the details... DATE : 26th March, Sunday Time : 5 AM Venue - Track and Trail, Bicycle Hub, Kodambakkam Total Distance - 125 Kms. Ride Route : T&T, Kodambakkam to Pulicat and back (Detailed routemap would be posted later All those finishing within the cutoff time would get a special WCCG 125 kms Hex Badge.


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Bears set to face Colts in Indianapolis
Larry Mayer
Bears Senior Writer
INDIANAPOLIS - The Bears are expected to play their starters well into the second quarter in Saturday night's preseason game against the Indianapolis Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium.
The defense, under first-year coordinator Vic Fangio, will look to improve after allowing a game-opening 15-play, 85-yard touchdown drive in the Aug. 13 preseason opener against the Miami Dolphins.
LB Willie Young during one of the joint practices with the Colts.
"I think we're adjusting great," said cornerback Tim Jennings. "The coaching staff is willing to work with us putting guys in the right position and I think that helps a lot, so we feel comfortable being where we're supposed to be and we're able to make plays."
Rookie fifth-round pick Adrian Amos leapfrogged second-year pro Brock Vereen on the depth chart at one of the safety positions earlier this week and is expected to start against the Colts opposite Antrel Rolle.
"I think he's definitely learning quickly," Rolle said. "He's a smart guy. He catches onto the defense very well. He has a high level skill set, so that's only going to help him out. It's really going to be about communication and how we gel together at safety and so far we've been doing pretty good."
Amos is an intriguing prospect who played cornerback his first two seasons at Penn State, split time between cornerback and safety as a junior and lined up at safety last year as a senior. He excels in coverage and also brings a physical element to the secondary.
"We put a little more stock in games and we're excited to see [Amos] play and I'm sure he's excited to play," said coach John Fox.
Also in the secondary, cornerback Sherrick McManis will look to build on an impressive performance against the Dolphins. In that game, he forced and recovered a fumble and broke up a third-down pass.
"He's very competitive, he's willing to learn and he's a young player that's taking a step," Fox said.
A special-teams standout the past three seasons with the Bears, McManis hopes to also emerge as a regular contributor on defense.
"He's a baller," Rolle said. "He's a playmaker, and that's all you need to see right now from a guy in the secondary."
With two of the Bears' top receivers not expected to play Saturday night—Alshon Jeffery is recovering from a calf injury and rookie Kevin White is out indefinitely with a shin injury—third-year pro Marquess Wilson figures to get expanded playing time.
"I think he's shown good improvement," Fox said. "He's getting better. We're leaning on him some. He's a guy we saw a little bit on tape a year ago and felt pretty good about. He's getting plenty of opportunities and I'm excited to see where he goes with it."
Wilson caught 17 passes for 140 yards and one touchdown last season after missing the first nine games with a broken collarbone he suffered in training camp.
"We just need him to take that next step and get some confidence," said quarterback Jay Cutler. "Getting hurt last year set him back a little bit. Once he gets out there, catches some balls and gets going some he's going to be a threat."
Wilson's versatility is a huge plus for the Bears offense.
"He can do anything," Cutler said. "You can put him inside. You can put him outside. He can break in. He can break out. Man-to-man he's good off the press. He's got a huge array of routes that he can do."
4 things to watch in Bears-Saints game
Senior writer Larry Mayer identifies four storylines to follow Sunday when the Bears visit the Saints in a Wild Card game in New Orleans.
4 things to watch in Bears-Packers game
Senior writer Larry Mayer identifies four storylines to follow Sunday when the Bears host the Packers, seeking to secure a playoff berth on the final day of the regular season.
4 things to watch in Bears-Jaguars game
Senior writer Larry Mayer identifies four storylines to follow Sunday when the Bears visit the Jaguars, including whether running back David Montgomery and the offense will continue to perform at a high level.
4 things to watch in Bears-Vikings game
Senior writer Larry Mayer identifies four storylines to monitor Sunday when the Bears battle the Vikings in a crucial NFC North showdown in Minnesota.
4 things to watch in Bears-Texans game
Senior writer Larry Mayer identifies four storylines to follow Sunday when the Bears host the Texans, including whether the defense can recapture its mojo after two poor performances.
4 things to watch in Bears-Lions game
Senior writer Larry Mayer identifies four storylines to follow Sunday when the Bears host the Lions, including whether the defense will rebound from its poor performance in Green Bay.
Senior writer Larry Mayer identifies four storylines to follow Sunday night when the Bears visit the Packers, including how quarterback Mitchell Trubisky will perform in his first start since Week 3.
Senior writer Larry Mayer identifies four storylines to monitor Monday night when the Bears host the Vikings, including how the offense will fare with coordinator Bill Lazor calling plays for the first time.
4 things to watch in Bears-Titans game
Senior writer Larry Mayer discusses four storylines to monitor Sunday when the Bears visit the Tennessee Titans, including whether the defense will be able to contain NFL leading rusher Derrick Henry.
Senior writer Larry Mayer identifies four storylines to monitor Sunday when the Bears host the Saints at Soldier Field, including whether the offense will break out of its recent slump.
4 things to watch in Bears-Rams game
Senior writer Larry Mayer identifies four storylines to follow in Monday night's game against the Rams, including whether the Bears defense will continue to excel.
4 things to watch in Bears-Panthers game
Senior writer Larry Mayer identifies four storylines to follow Sunday when the Bears visit the Panthers, including whether the offense will play with more of the attention to detail that coach Matt Nagy is seeking.


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Hana Arapović (Zagreb, 26. kolovoza 2004.) je hrvatska stolnotenisačica. Najveći uspjeh joj je prvo mjesto na svjetskom kadetskom ekipnom prvenstvu ITTF World Cadet Challenge 2019. godine u Poljskoj, na kojem je predvodila reprezentaciju Europe do zlatne medalje. Ostali uspjesi uključuju treće mjesto na Europskom kadetskom prvenstvu u paru s Čehinjom Lindom Zaderovom i višestruko osvajanje prvenstava Hrvatske u raznim starosnim kategorijama. Od jedanaeste godine sudjeluje na kampovima namijenjenima najperspektivnijim mladim igračicama svijeta, koji se odvijaju po gradovima Europe i Azije. Trenutno igra za jedan od najjačih ženskih klubova Europe u Linzu u Austiji. Poznata je po svojem sigurnom i snažnom backhand udarcu blizu stola.

Redovita je natjecateljica na ITTF World Tour turnirima. Nastupa u prvoj austrijskoj ženskoj stolnoteniskoj ligi. Čest je gost na dodjelama sportskih i drugih nagrada unutar Hrvatske i Europe, gdje je uručivala i primala nagrade. Hana je poznata kao poštena i samozatajna djevojka, o čemu svjedoči činjenica da je na seniorskom prvenstvu hrvatske 2020. u polufinalu priznala pobjednički poen protivnici koji sudac greškom nije dosudio.

Privatni život
Dolazi iz stolnoteniske obitelji. Stolni tenis počela je igrati u šestoj godini pod nadzorom oca Darka Arapovića, trenutnog izbornika hrvatske ženske stolnoteniske reprezentacije. Tijekom COVID-19 pandemije snašla se trenirajući u obiteljskoj kući s ocem i sestrom.  Nedugo prije šesnaestog rođendana preboljela je benigni tumor u abdomenu koji je u potpunosti uspješno operiran, kako kaže u razgovoru za časopis Gloria. Od rujna 2020. živi u Linzu, gdje igra za istoimeni klub.

Izvori

Hrvatski stolnotenisači
Šport u Zagrebu

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Joanna holds a masters degree in Clinical Counseling from Franciscan University of Steubenville. She is a Lisenced Professional Counselor in the state of Illinois and is working towards her LCPC for full liscensure. Joanna has worked in the community mental health setting doing both outreach and individual and group counseling. She has training and experience working with youth and adults in a parish setting. She is passionate about journeying with others through the counseling process to help them find meaning and purpose in their struggles as well as their accomplishments. She sees the value in identifying the gifts and uniqueness of individuals in order to help them draw strength for the obstacles that life presents, and that finding hope is the first step to healing. Areas of special interest include but are not limited to teen counseling, marriage/family counseling, grief issues, addictions and depression and anxiety.


Yellow-and-black BeeCheck flags are currently offered through registration of apiaries to identify the locations of honeybee hives that are near crop fields. These flags serve as a visible reminder to farmers and pesticide applicators that honeybees and other pollinators are present in the area.
Once a beekeeper registers their hive location, BeeCheck flags are available through the fieldwatch.com website for $9 + shipping. If the beekeeper has their apiary near a field that uses ground sprays, BeeCheck signs are also available for purchase. Fiberglass flag poles (8′) are available online for purchase. Suggested height is 8′.
The Missouri Pollinator Conservancy Program will reimburse costs of bee flags and poles up to $25. You must submit proof of payment to midwestmbcp@gmail.com.
Thanks for registering your beehive on DriftWatch. Flags are made available to producers with approved crop fields and beehives on DriftWatch. All crop and apiary sites that are submitted on DriftWatch first go to the Dept of Ag data steward for approval before being placed on the DriftWatch map. Once approval is made, you will receive an email notification indicating of that approval. Once that happens, log back into DriftWatch, click on your site and the information box that pops up will have the link to purchase signs on line.
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Soon after 7:00A with fair weather we were underway for Santa Cruz Peak minus five of yesterday's group who opted out. From the McKinley Saddle we followed an obvious trail, first dropping about 400', then going around the SW side of San Rafael Mountain and climbing up the main ridge of San Rafael heading south. We next followed an old jeep road for about 2 miles to where it leaves the main ridge below Peak 5484'. We made our way to this point with some serious bushwhacking. Then down another overgrown firebreak to the saddle ENE of Santa Cruz Peak. Another heavily overgrown fire road took us around the north side to the west side to within 100 yards of the summit (11;30A). Without John Backus's skilfull, steady navigation, Santa Cruz would have been a major route-finding, bushwhacking challenge. After the return to McKinley Spring, we had a snack, filled up on water, and at 3:20P headed down to the TH at Cachuma Saddle at our own pace. A bit foot-sore, I arrived at my car at 7:20P, too late to catch my 8:00P flight home from Santa Barbara. So I enjoyed the comforts of a Santa Ynez motel and caught the 7:10A flight home on Monday.


Preliminary Site Investigation & Hydrogeological Assessment at Princes Highway, Officer, Vic.
Phase 1 history review and targeted soil sampling at a rural residential block for a proposed subdivision with separate Hydrogeological Assessment of shallow groundwater was completed for the client.
Preliminary Environmental Assessment for contamination and a Hydrogeological Assessment for subdivisional purposes was conducted at this agricultural property slated for residential use.
14 ha of land was assessed for potential contamination for a future planning application. This confirmed that the site (formerly grazing, then residential and horse training) presented a low risk of environmental contamination.
Hydrogeological Assessment of a proposed residential development due to shallow water tables & salinity issues within the Casey-Cardinia area completed in response to Council permit requirement.
Atma Environmental was engaged to undertake a preliminary investigation of the site to inform development planning of possible environmental constraints in the form of aggressive soil conditions and shallow groundwater.


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On 5th December 2018 has died Joaquim LEÃO, a former portuguese professional rider of the 60's.
On 3rd February 2019 has died Luis BARRADAS, a former portuguese professional rider in 1995 and 1996.
Do you know in wich town they are died ?
Not sure, but Joaquim Leão da Silva was buried in his home town of Sobrado (Valongo) in Portugal, where he was also born.
Joaquim Leão with heart problems and Luis BARRADAS after a long illness.
- Sobrado (J.Leão) and Almodôvar (L.Barradas).


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Karel Dokoupil CSsR (1896 Slavětín – 1966 Moravec), byl český katolický kněz a teolog, člen kongregace redemptoristů.

Život
Na kněze byl vysvěcen v roce 1923. Po vysvěcení vyučoval v libějovickém juvenátě latinu. V období První republiky pořádal redemptoristické lidové misie. V záznamech farností se objevují různé zprávy: Podle nařízení litoměřického biskupa se na památku 1000letého výročí mučednické smrti sv. Václava a 200letého konaly eucharistické kongresy ve všech vikariátech diecéze. Pro turnovský vikariát se konal 23. června 1929. Veden byl Karlem Dokoupilem.. Nebo: 2. června 1934 přijeli z Prahy dva členové kongregace redemptoristů Karel Dokoupil a Josef Hynek. Emil Novák je přivedl do kostela, který byl velmi pečlivě vyzdoben a připraven na tuto slavnost celé farnosti. "Pani misionáři prohlásili, že takového to uvítání se jim nikde nedostalo".
V květnu 1945 působil v Karlových Varech. Po roce 1950 vykonával duchovní službu u řádových sester v severních Čechách. Zemřel na Moravci v červenci roku 1966.

Odkazy

Reference

Literatura
 MERTLÍKOVÁ Terezie: Dějiny farnosti Rtyně v Podkrkonoší v letech 1918 -1939, Diplomová práce, KTF UK, Praha 2006, str. 66-67.

Externí odkazy
  Redemptoristé působící v litoměřické diecézi
  Karlovy Vary a redemptoristé
  Farnost Újezd pod Troskami, záznam od redemptoristické misii

Čeští redemptoristé
Čeští římskokatoličtí duchovní
Osobnosti litoměřické diecéze
Katoličtí teologové
Narození v roce 1896
Úmrtí v roce 1966
Muži
Narození ve Slavětíně (okres Louny)
Úmrtí v Moravci


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Academics claim UNSW course evaluation enables teacher ratings
By Jordan Baker
December 15, 2021 — 12.00am
Academics are blocking an attempt by the University of NSW management to publish information about how satisfied students are with their courses, saying it would break a promise not to identify academics and create the potential for courses and teachers to be ranked.
But the university argues students' opinions about their experience should be given greater emphasis, and that they should be allowed to find out how fellow students feel about the quality of a course and the relevance of its content.
Academics claim the UNSW is trying to break a promise not to identify academics and create the potential for courses and teachers to be ranked. Credit:Brook Mitchell
The National Tertiary Education Union took UNSW management to the Fair Work Commission early this year and won, after arguing that a plan to allow more students to see course satisfaction data breached their enterprise agreement.
But the university is appealing the decision, saying students' opinions are important. "They make a big commitment to come to us," a university spokesman said. "We need to make sure that they can see that their voice is being heard and we're acting on that.
"We know that we are improving, and I think it's very important for any community to know that we're [moving] in the right direction. The student voice is something that often isn't heard loudly enough in universities."
The spokesman said the published information would not include comments from students, and would be limited to data such as whether students felt part of a learning community, whether they found the feedback helpful, and their thoughts on relevance of the course content.
Data would only be published for courses taught by at least two academics, which the university argued would guard against the identification of academics.
"It's not an evaluation of teaching, and it's not an evaluation of the course, it's about how the students were, what their experience was of that course," the spokesman said. "This is a completely different kind of survey from those that used to predominate in the sector 20 years ago."
However, Damien Cahill, the secretary of the UNSW branch of the NTEU, said the university's proposed myExperience portal would allow academics to be identified, particularly if there were few of them teaching a course. He also said there was a broader issue about the quality of the surveys.
"Course evaluations are highly problematic," he said. "There's an abundance of scholarship that shows they are subject to a whole range of biases – gender bias for example. People from non-English speaking backgrounds.
"When they are done properly – and they need to be done with care – they can be really useful for teaching development and pedagogical development. They should only be used for those purposes.
"I know that academics in general feel very strongly about this, and they do see it as the thin end of the wedge and an important test case. There's such potential for misuse, particularly given the inherent biases involved."
The Fair Work Commission case heard whether UNSW would breach the enterprise agreement that prevented management from publishing evaluation data that identified academics. Commissioner Leigh Johns found in favour of the NTEU's argument. UNSW has signalled its intention to appeal.
Jordan Baker is Education Editor of The Sydney Morning HeraldConnect via Twitter or email.


Michael Roberds is a freelance writer and actor seen recently in The Killing and Hot Tub Time Machine, but best known for his role on The New Addams Family TV series as Uncle Fester. Vancouver-born Roberds currently resides in the Fraser Valley where he has been writing about TV and film for over 20 years.
This one-hour special sees host Mark Miller sitting down with heavy rescue chief Jamie Davis and his crew for a few beers at the infamous "Barn" in Hope, B.C. They look back on a critically acclaimed first season in which they ferried viewers along the most treacherous mountain passes in Western Canada.
When Daniel goes off his medication, reality begins to blur, complicating his investigation into the murder of a young conspiracy theorist.
The third season of this special-effects makeup competition concludes with the winner — as chosen by fans — revealed.
When Oliver can't get back on Laurel's good side, he uses his alter ego to solicit her help in saving an innocent man accused of murder. Meanwhile, Walter asks Felicity to investigate a million-dollar withdrawal made in secret by Moira.
Mark gets his job back when financier J.P. Morgan (Chris Noth) arrives to oversee development of the ship. Meanwhile, Sophia finally learns the whole truth about Mark's past, including the baby he fathered back in Belfast.
The Winchester brothers split up when Dean takes a "personal day" to help vampire pal Benny track down his maker. Meanwhile, Sam looks back on the life he had with Amelia while Dean was in Purgatory.
Rayna and Teddy's relationship is tested when Rayna performs with Deacon at Teddy's campaign fundraiser and a woman from Teddy's past shows up to reveal a shocking secret. Meanwhile, Juliette tries to burnish her image with an appearance on Good Morning America.
Chief Boden is accused of leaving a homeless man to die in a warehouse fire after ordering his men to evacuate the scene, creating negative press and bad feeling within the department. Meanwhile, Lt. Severide helps an elderly woman facing some neighbourhood problems.


Lloyd Marcus -- He's Obama! He's Black! So, Shut Up!
I just flew back home to Florida from LA. I was out there shooting an episode of the Right Network new TV show, "Politics & Poker". I had a ball! The host of the show is Thomas F. Wilson, who played Biff Tannen in the "Back To The Future" movies.
Beach bathers kept staring at us. Most smiling. A few stone faced. Then, it dawned on me. I was wearing my, "I didn't vote for this Obamanation" t-shirt.
We fed "Cheetos" to the seagulls. What a great relaxing day. Life is good.


Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper the sturgeon cutlets.
Slice the kumquats into half centimetre thick slices.
Melt 50 g butter in a large frying pan and gently fry the fish slices on both sides for about 2 minutes.
Add the sliced kumquats, 50 g more butter, about 50 more water, cover with a lid and simmer over low heat for 2-3 minutes.
Wash the broccolini and trim their ends.
Melt 50 g butter in another large skillet.
Add the broccolini, 100 ml water and salt to taste.
Cover with a lid and steam like this over medium-low heat for about 3 minutes until the broccolini turn dark wild green but still crunchy.
Remove the lid, add the chopped garlic and remaining butter and sautee them for another minute.
Serve the sturgeon cutlets with the broccolini topped with loads of the sauteed garlic and buttery kumquats.
Halve some kumquats and add them together with the thyme branches in the pheasant's inside and the marinade in the dish.
Set aside to marinate for 2-3 hours.
Slice the purple carrots into 1 cm thin slices.
Spread half of the orange jam over the pheasant, add the rest of the kumquats and roast it for 30 minutes at 200 C.
Baste some more orange jam over the bird, add the sliced carrots in the dish and roast for another half an hour, but lowering temperature to 160 C.
Slice the mushrooms thinly, about 1/2 cm thick.
Smear some olive oil on an oven tray, place the mushroom slices in a single layer and sprinkle some salt and pepper over.
Bake them for 10-15 minutes at 150 C.
Take out the pheasant from the oven and let it rest for 10-15 minutes in order the juices to redistribute in the pheasant.
In a skillet thicken the sauce with the cornstarch.
Serve the pheasant meat with some sauce, carrots, kumquats and roasted mushrooms.


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USS Pasadena (SSN-752), a , was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Pasadena, California.

Pasadena provides the Fleet Commander or Task Force Commander a multi-mission platform. This vessel has unlimited endurance due to the nuclear propulsion plant, advanced sonar, torpedo, cruise missile, and mine delivery systems, a combination of speed and stealth due to quieting and the capacity to fulfill numerous missions.

History
The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut, on 30 November 1982 and her keel was laid down on 20 December 1985.  She was launched on 12 September 1987 sponsored by Mrs. Pauline Trost, and commissioned on 11 February 1989 with Commander W. Fritchman in command.

Originally assigned to Submarine Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Pasadena conducted an inter-fleet transfer in October 1990 to the Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, and was homeported in San Diego, California.

In July 1991, Pasadena became the first Improved 688 Class submarine to deploy, commencing a six-month Western Pacific deployment. In June 1993, she commenced a six-month Western Pacific deployment to the Persian Gulf. While deployed, Pasadena participated in several exercises with the Royal Saudi, Royal Omani and Royal Australian Navies, and was the first United States nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) to conduct exercises with the Indian Navy in the MALABAR Naval Exercise. She also became the first nuclear-powered submarine to visit the port of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea.

In March 1995, Pasadena again deployed on a six-month Western Pacific Deployment. While deployed to the Persian Gulf she became the first nuclear-powered submarine to visit the port of Muscat, Oman; the first to operate continuously inside the Persian Gulf; and the first SSN to be assigned to Commander, U.S. Fifth Fleet.

In April 1996, Pasadena changed homeports to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where she was assigned to Commander, Submarine Squadron Seven. From June 1996 to September 1996, Pasadena underwent a Selected Restricted Availability (SRA) where she was outfitted with improved offensive and defensive weapon systems. In April 1997, Pasadena deployed to the Eastern Pacific for a four-month deployment in support of UNITAS.

In January 2005, she participated in Operation Unified Assistance.

From September 2011 until late 2013, Pasadena was refitted at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Her sonar, fire-control system, and navigation equipment were upgraded. Following the update, Pasadena joined her new posting, Submarine Squadron 11 in San Diego, in November 2013.

Following an intense workup from November 2013 until December 2014, Pasadena deployed to the Western Pacific for six months in January 2015. The deployment saw Pasadena conduct port visits in Yokosuka, Japan, Sasebo, Japan, Busan, South Korea, Singapore and Guam.

Following successful completion of her Drydocking Selected Restricted Availability (DSRA) at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Pasadena returned to the fleet on 31 October 2021.

In March of 2022, she participated in ICEX 2022, which involved surfacing through the arctic ice along with the , . According to the US Navy, "ICEX 2022 was a three-week exercise that allows the Navy to assess its operational readiness in the Arctic"

Awards

 Submarine Squadron Seven Battle "E" Efficiency award (Command & Control), 1998
 Morale and Welfare Recreation (MWR) Fleet Recreation award (for the entire Navy), 2001
 Battle "E" award (now known as the "Battle Effectiveness Award"), (Engineering) 2015
 Submarine Squadron Eleven Battle "E" Effectiveness award, 2017

Insignia
Pasadena'''s insignia is surrounded by a mooring line border with blue background, emphasizing the nautical character of the seal. The surrounding banner carries the ship's hull number and name and bracketed by the motto.  The motto, in addition to enhancing the central combative caricature, states in clear terms the readiness of today's force to fight anywhere in the world on short notice in the national interest. The red rose ties the ship to the City of Pasadena, home of the New Year's Day Tournament of Roses Parade, which dates back more than 100 years. The turtle pugilist ties SSN-752 to , a World War II light cruiser that earned six battle stars.  The emblem for CL-65 was created for the cruiser by Walt Disney. Coincidentally, during the sub's construction at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics in Groton, CT, the crew adopted a North American Snapping Turtle as a mascot. The creature actually rode the boat into the Thames river during its launching. By the time construction was over, the turtle, named Frumpy, which originally fit into the palm of a hand, was over 18 inches long, forcing the crew to find a new home. Cal Poly in Pomona proved a willing host. To get Frumpy to the new abode, two crew members: ET1(SS) Del Laughery, and ET1(SS) Don Hilliker, both pilots, flew the turtle in a private aircraft from Groton to Pomona.

 Popular culture
 Pasadena is featured in the anime, Full Metal Panic!.
 Pasadena is the center of the 1990 novel Boomer, by Charles Taylor
 Pasadena is featured in the Tom Clancy novel Executive Orders as one of several fast-attack submarines tasked to monitor the hostilities growing between The People's Republic of China and The Republic of China (Taiwan). Pasadena is also featured in Tom Clancy's novel Debt of Honor''.

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It's 1937, hard times for the just-managing family. The Monkhams are broke, dreading creditors and bailiffs. The great hope is that the son Clive, bashing at a keyboard and surrounded by crumpled rejects, is about to have a play in the West End, which will make him a fortune and solve everyone's problems. Gaily his mother Rhoda plans it all: her daughters can quit of dead-end jobs and problematic romances, they can move to a bigger flat and even rescue the daily woman Mrs Batley from her foul son-in-law. Clive himself sees the coming success as his chance to marry Frances the depressed, grieving lodger and sail to Hollywood. She meanwhile is being courted by a dull lonely older man in order to have someone "all to herself". Widowed mother Rhoda, remembering her glory days as a second-rate 1990s ingenue , just looks forward to paying off bills and debts, sorting out her children's problems and making anything other than shepherd's pie and treacle pudding (there's a real one demolished on stage later).
Everything hangs on Clive – as he points out, the entire household's future is built on belief in his genius. Chekhov-like, Rodney Ackland's whole play is built on a web of hopes and dependences: a family and its outriders dreaming of the great escape. For a 1937 play it is perfect for now, for anecdotes of quick success fuel dreams of celebrity and fortune. Today it might be a freak Girl-on-The-Train success, a startup website, a viral Youtube that saves the family.
We recognize them all. There's Adam Buchanan's boyish, impatient writer Clive, facing his moment of truth with adolescent eagerness and despairs; the sisters, willowy table-dancer Lou (Peta Cornish) with her exotic, fed-up French husband, and Allegra Marland as Joan, sleeping with her testy, boozy boss. Sad Frances in the corner, bohemian delusional Marigold and even Oliver the starving, studiedly offensive but oddly irresistible poet who disturbs Clive's peace with unsolicited criticism and takes his money (and treacle pudding) as a tribute to his "genius": we know them all.
Kingpin of the play, though, is Ackland's quite marvellous creation of Rhoda, the mother, given vivid life by Sasha Waddell. Determinedly soldiering on, fuelled by the Light Programme, breaking into dated dance routines between outbreaks of worry, she mothers the lot of them, a bustling scuttling beacon of hope and delusion as each daughter returns to the fold and the flat becomes ever more overcrowded. . We watch them through the approach of the crucial first night – and the cruel moments of reviews as they must test the mantra they must all live by .Clive expresses it: "It's a law of nature that we shan't look too far forward. Something to look forward to is something for one's mind to stop at, like a wall in time, between ourselves and death…when the wall is reached it disappears and quickly up goes another wall. Even very old people erect little walls between themselves and death, even if it's only tomorrow's dinner". Glorious, true, perennial.
These revivals of half-forgotten playwrights are gold dust. You learn about your country and its past, as well as about universal humanity. Such rediscoveries only occasionally happen in the West End or even the NT but on the fringes, perilously funded and fuelled largely by love and fascination (and here, backing by Stage One), tiny theatres stage forgotten plays with casts of unmodernised lavishness (eleven of them! I haven't even mentioned Josie Kidd's touchingly funny Mrs Batley, or Andrew Cazanave Pin as Lou's fed-up Frenchman). But these well-made, entertaining, perceptive plays from the pre-John-Osborne era need reviving, just as we rediscover baking, or proper tailoring, or make do and mend. The heroes of this archaeology are the Jermyn and even more this theatre: the tiny, determined, ingenious and always classy Finborough. So thanks for the Ackland. Not least because, with humour, he allows his poor lab-rats a prosaic glimmer of hope in the end. An Ibsen wannabe, or a lot of moderns, would likely have ended on a suicide or a bankruptcy.


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Endometriosis Treatment, Therapy, and Surgery Options
There is no cure for endometriosis, but treatment can help alleviate symptoms.
By Beth LevineMedically Reviewed by Kara Leigh Smythe, MD
Surgery may be recommended to treat endometriosis.Audrey Shtecinjo/Stocksy
Endometriosis is a chronic condition; at present time, there is no cure. Don't let this make you lose hope! While the disease cannot be totally eradicated, women can find a significant reduction of painful symptoms — and in some cases, complete relief — through various traditional and nontraditional treatments as well as diet and lifestyle modifications. Appropriate endometriosis treatments depend on age, severity of symptoms and disease, and whether the woman wants to get pregnant.
Related: What Is Deep Infiltrating Endometriosis? Causes, Symptoms, Treatment, and More
Traditional Medicine for Treating Endometriosis
These are used for controlling pain by reducing inflammation or interrupting or suppressing menstruation:
Nonsteroid anti-inflammatory medication (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen (Advil) and naproxen (Aleve) can help with pain management. (1)
Hormonal therapy, such as birth control pills, patches, and vaginal rings with both estrogen and progestin; progestin-only contraceptives that are available as pills, IUDs, and shots, such as medroxyprogesterone (Depo-Provera); and gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) therapies like elagolix (Orlissa) and leuprolide (Lupron) all reduce pain symptoms. In a review of 15 trials involving 1,821 women, pain scores improved by 60 to 100 percent with the use of GnRH agonists. (2)
Surgery for Treating Endometriosis
Laparoscopic surgery removes endometriosis lesions through excision.
Hysterectomy is recommended less frequently as surgical treatment.
Usually, these procedures can be done without the need for open surgery. A thin tube with a video camera is inserted into the pelvis through a small incision near the navel. The tube also contains surgical instruments. It lights up the internal cavity so the surgeon can see and, with the instruments, excise lesions. You will receive general anesthesia.
Usually, this can be done as outpatient surgery, but depending on the severity of the case, you may need to spend a night in the hospital.
Related: Endometriosis Types and Stages
Tip It Forward for Endometriosis
Join the hundreds of women — plus doctors, nurses, physical therapists, and others — who have shared their best tips for living with endometriosis. Read them all on Tippi.
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Act Soonest if You Wish to Preserve Fertility
Keep your biological clock in mind if you want to get pregnant. See a specialist as soon as you think you may have trouble conceiving or suspect endometriosis. Hormonal therapy will block conception, so you will want to take another path.
Related: The Question of Which to Treat First: Endometriosis or Fertility Problems?
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What Will Happen if Endometriosis Goes Untreated?
Untreated endometriosis can have long-lasting effects, such as chronic pelvic pain; scar tissue, which can cause obstruction; and infertility. Rarely, endometriosis can contain cancer within it, said Leena S. Nathan, MD, an assistant clinical professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at UCLA Health in Westlake Village, California.
Related: Unrecognized Endometriosis: Despite 40 Years of Severe Pain Misdiagnosed as IBS, This Woman Didn't Give Up
Can Endometriosis Symptoms Come Back After Surgery?
Endometriosis is a chronic condition that will recur unless the menstrual cycle is stopped. "After surgery, we commonly suppress recurrent endometriosis by starting continuous birth control pills. This is safe and effective. The goal is to avoid having a period, which can lead to further implants and bleeding within the pelvis," said Dr. Nathan. This can be accomplished with hormonal IUDs and GnRH agonists and antagonists, all of which decrease or stop menstrual bleeding.
The ultimate therapy would be a hysterectomy and removal of one or both ovaries. And endometriosis symptoms overwhelmingly improve after patients transition through menopause, as the menstrual cycle has stopped.
What You Eat and Endometriosis
Eating When You Have Been Diagnosed With Endometriosis Disease
If you already have endometriosis, diet is still an important factor. While studies have been inexact as to benefits, some experts believe certain diets will help reduce inflammation, estrogen in the body, and oxidative stress. (4)
Eat fruits and vegetables, which contain fiber, beneficial nutrients, vitamins, and antioxidants.
Limit foods with trans and saturated fats, such as red meat and high-fat dairy. Focus on fats with omega-3s, found in cold-water fish, tree nuts, seeds, and cold-pressed extra-virgin olive oil. These can reduce inflammation and pump up your immune system.
Go organic, raw, and fresh. Foods that aren't labeled "organic" may contain pesticide residue.
Avoid processed foods, which have additives.
Replace iron lost from excessive bleeding with green, leafy vegetables, beetroot, dried apricots, eggs, and fish.
Try for 30 grams (g) of fiber daily. Found in fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes, and whole grains, fiber helps moderate estrogen and will also help with constipation, which is often a symptom of endometriosis.
Stay hydrated. Avoid caffeine, added sugars, and alcohol.
Another study found that some women reported symptom reduction by using a gluten-free diet. (5) Discuss with your physician to see if this approach is worth it for you, as the studies so far have been very small and need further evaluation.
Eating to Prevent Endometriosis
Some research suggests that certain foods may affect your risk of getting endometriosis, although the overall body of evidence-based studies on this front is small.
In one study, from 2004, women who ate 14 or more servings per week of green vegetables (compared with those who had less than six servings) had a 70 percent lower risk of developing endometriosis. And participants who ate 14 or more servings of fruit per week had a 20 percent lower risk than those who ate fewer than six servings. (3)
The same study also found that a high intake of beef and other red meats was associated with a higher risk of developing endometriosis. (3)
How Can a Low-FODMAP Diet Help Bowel Endometriosis Symptom
Diet can help relieve bowel endometriosis symptoms. Tamar Seckin, MD, an endometriosis excision specialist and the author of The Doctor Will See You Now: Recognizing and Treating Endometriosis, recommends the FODMAP diet, which limits carbs and gluten. (This diet is also often prescribed for IBS patients.)
Research from 2017 suggests the low-FODMAP diet may help some women with endometriosis. Symptoms such as constipation and bloating may improve with the special diet.
FODMAPs, an acronym, stands for fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols. FODMAPs are carbohydrates or sugars that are found in foods. (But not all carbohydrates are FODMAPs.)
The low-FODMAP diet restricts high-FODMAP foods, such as certain fruits, vegetables, and wheat products, to help reduce symptoms like diarrhea, constipation, gas, and cramping.
It is an elimination-type diet, in which you dramatically restrict your intake of high-FODMAP foods for a limited time and then reintroduce them systematically, to see what you can tolerate.
Supplements Used to Treat Endometriosis
Some supplements may interfere with medication you are taking (especially if you are on blood thinners), so run it by your physician before taking anything new. Again, the studies on these are not definitive and need more research:
Combine 1,000 milligrams (mg) of vitamin C and 1,200 international units (IU) of vitamin E daily to reduce aches and pains. (6)
Take 50 mg daily of vitamin B complex to maintain estrogen and hormone balance.
Take 1,000 mg of fish oil daily. (7)
Alternative Therapies and Approaches for Endometriosis Treatment
Caution: If you do decide to try alternative remedies, discuss your choices ahead of time with your physician. Some of these may not be right for your particular situation or may interfere with your medication. Also, the studies so far have used very small samples.
Do not forgo your traditional therapy for an alternative route. You can create a complementary route together as a team with your doctor.
Acupuncture An ancient Chinese practice, acupuncture stimulates certain parts of the body by the insertion of thin needles into skin. A review of studies discovered that it not only can reduce pain from endometriosis, it can also decrease blood levels of CA-125, a protein that is associated with the disease. (8) Researchers believe that the result is achieved because the needles stimulate nerves and certain pain-relieving chemicals, such as norepinephrine.
Exercise There is no conclusive data saying that exercise will help specifically with endometriosis pain, but experts have hypothesized that it may help by reducing estrogen levels and stress, and increasing anti-inflammatory and antioxidant agents, per a 2014 review. (10) And a 2016 study found that practicing hatha yoga, a type of yoga that features physical postures, significantly reduced chronic pain related to endometriosis. (11)
Biofeedback Biofeedback is a process using guided imagery and sensory response that gives you some control over your body's reaction to stress and pain by teaching you to recognize and act on given responses. You can find a trained practitioner at the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance or the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback.
Herbal extracts Curcumin, puerarin, resveratrol, green tea epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), and ginsenoside Rg3 have been shown to reduce endometriosis lesions, according to a 2014 review. (12)
Marijuana Some patients might turn to cannabinoid products to manage their endometriosis, and some research has found that cannabinoids can help chronic pelvic pain associated with endometriosis. (13) But other researchers say more robust research is needed to fully understand cannabinoids' effect on endometriosis and wouldn't recommend its use at this time. (14)
Related: 5 Yoga Moves for Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain Relief
A Final Consideration: Cutting-Edge Research Trials
After considering the options above, you may find that you are among those who can't find significant relief. There is always something new being developed. You can seek help by signing up to participate in current private- and public-funded clinical trials at ClinicalTrials.gov. It has information on thousands of research studies around the world. However, before joining up, first consult with your physician about the risks and benefits.
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