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Robert Moog
Robert Arthur Moog
(1934-05-23)May 23, 1934
New York City, New York, U.S.
August 21, 2005(2005-08-21) (aged 71)
Asheville, North Carolina, U.S.
Bronx High School of Science
Cornell University[1]
Electronic music pioneer, engineer, inventor of Moog synthesizer Entrepreneur
Shirleigh Moog (m. 1958, div. 1994; three daughters, one son)
Ileana Grams (m. 1996, his death 2005)[1]
Florence Moog (aunt)
Laura Moog Lanier (daughter)
Matthew Moog (son)
Michelle Moog-Koussa (daughter)
Renee Moog (daughter)
Miranda Richmond (stepdaughter, daughter of Ileana Grams)
Bill Moog (cousin, founder of Moog Inc.)[1]
Robert Arthur Moog (/ˈmoʊɡ/ MOHG; May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was an American engineer and pioneer of electronic music. He was the founder of Moog Music and the inventor of the first commercial synthesizer, the Moog synthesizer. This was followed by a more portable model, the Minimoog, described as the most famous and influential synthesizer in history.
Moog created many fundamental synthesizer concepts, such as the pitch wheel, modularity, envelope generation, and voltage control. He is credited for helping bring synthesizers to a wider audience and influencing the development of popular music.
2.1 RA Moog
2.2 Development of Moog synthesizer
2.3 Company decline
2.4 Big Briar and rebirth of Moog Music
2.5 Death
4 Legacy
Robert Moog was born in New York City on May 23, 1934, and grew up in Flushing, Queens.[2] He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1952.[3]
As a boy, Moog's parents forced him to study the piano, but he preferred his time in the workroom of his father, a Consolidated Edison engineer.[4] He became fascinated by the theremin, an electronic instrument controlled by moving the hands over radio antennae. In 1949, aged 14, he built a theremin from plans printed in Electronics World.[2]
Moog completed a bachelor's degree in physics from Queens College and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University before earning a Ph.D. in engineering physics from Cornell University in 1964.[4]
RA Moog[edit]
In 1953, Moog produced his own theremin design, and the following year he published an article on the theremin in Radio and Television News. In the same year, he founded RA Moog, selling theremins and theremin kits by mail order from his home.[2][5] One of his customers, Raymond Scott, rewired Moog's theremin for control by keyboard, creating the Clavivox.[4]
Development of Moog synthesizer[edit]
A Moog synthesizer
At Cornell, Moog began work on his first synthesizer modules with composer Herb Deutsch.[6] At the time, synthesizers were enormous, room-filling instruments;[7] Moog hoped to build a more compact synthesizer that would appeal to musicians.[6] He believed that practicality and affordability were the most important parameters.[6]
In 1964, Moog began creating the Moog synthesizer.[6] The synthesizer was composed of separate modules which created and shaped sounds, connected by patch cords.[2] One innovative feature was its envelope, which controlled how notes swell and fade.[4] Moog debuted the instrument at the 1964 Audio Engineering Society convention in New York.[7] It was much smaller than other synthesizers, such as the one introduced by the RCA a decade earlier, and much cheaper, at $10,000USD compared to the six-figure sums of other synthesizers.[7] Whereas the RCA's synthesizer was programmed with punchcards, Moog's synthesizer could be played via keyboard, making it attractive to musicians.[7] New Scientist described it as the first commercial synthesizer.[8]
Moog's development was driven by requests and suggestions from musicians including Richard Teitelbaum, Herb Deutsch, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and Wendy Carlos.[2] His other early customers included choreographer Alwin Nikolais and composer John Cage.[6] Moog described himself as a toolmaker, designing things for his users, not himself.[2] Universities established electronic music laboratories with Moog synthesizers.[2]
In 1968, Carlos released Switched-On Bach, an album of Bach compositions arranged for Moog synthesizer. It won three Grammy Awards and was the first classical album certified platinum.[4][6] The album is credited for popularising the Moog synthesizer and demonstrating that synthesizers could be more than "random noise machines".[2] The synthesizer was adopted by bands and musicians including the Doors, the Grateful Dead, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and Keith Emerson.[5] It was followed by a more portable model, the Minimoog, the most famous and influential synthesizer in history.[9][10][11]
Company decline[edit]
Though commentators have praised Moog's engineering abilities, they described him as a poor businessman.[4][6] He only patented his filter design; David Borden, one of the first users of the Minimoog, felt that if Moog had patented his pitch wheel design he would have become extremely wealthy.[12] According to Sound on Sound, if Moog had created a monopoly on other synthesizer ideas he created, such as modularity, envelope generation, and voltage control, "it's likely the synth industry as we know it today would never have happened".[13]
In 1971, following a recession, Moog Music took on investors, merged with another company, and moved to "less than ideal" premises in Buffalo.[6] Moog sold Moog Music to Norlin Musical Instruments, where he remained employed as a designer until 1977.[2] He said he would have left earlier if his contract had not required him to remain employed there for four years to cash his stock.[6] By the end of the decade, Moog Music was facing competition from cheaper, easier-to-use instruments by competitors including Arp, Aries, Roland and E-mu.[14]
Big Briar and rebirth of Moog Music[edit]
A mural depicting Moog in Asheville, North Carolina
In 1978, Moog moved to North Carolina and founded a new electronic instrument company, Big Briar.[2] He also worked as a consultant and vice president for new product research at Kurzweil Music Systems from 1984 to 1988.[7] In the early 1990s, he was a research professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.[15] In 2002, he renamed Big Briar to Moog Music after buying back the rights to the name.[2] In later years, he designed electronic instruments including a piano operated by touchscreen.[4]
Death[edit]
Moog was diagnosed with a glioblastoma multiforme brain tumor on April 28, 2005. He died on August 21, 2005 at the age of 71 in Asheville, North Carolina.[6]
Moog's first marriage, to Shirleigh Moog, ended in divorce in 1994. He was survived by his second wife, Ileana, four children, one stepdaughter, and five grandchildren.[2]
Legacy[edit]
Moog has had a lasting influence on music. The BBC describes him as a pioneer of synthesized sound.[5] According to the Guardian, his inventions "changed the complexion of the pop and classical music worlds".[6] Moog's name became so associated with electronic music that it was sometimes used as a generic term for any synthesizer.[2] In 2004, Moog was the subject of Moog, a documentary by Hans Fjellestad, who said in 2004 that Moog "embodies the archetypal American maverick inventor".[14]
Moog's awards include honorary doctorates from Polytechnic Institute of New York University (New York City), Lycoming College (Williamsport, Pennsylvania), and Berklee College of Music.[16] Moog received a Grammy Trustees Award for lifetime achievement in 1970. He received the Polar Music Prize in 2001 and a Special Merit/Technical Grammy Award in 2002.[17] In 2013, Moog was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.[18] In 2012, to celebrate Moog's birthday, Google created an interactive version of the Minimoog as its Google Doodle.[19]
Archives[edit]
On July 18, 2013, Moog's widow Ileana Grams-Moog said she planned to give her husband's archives, maintained by the Bob Moog Foundation, to Cornell University. The foundation offered her $100,000, but Grams-Moog said she would not sell them. She said Cornell could provide better access for researchers, and that the foundation had not made enough progress toward a planned museum to be worthy of keeping the collection. The foundation responded that it had sufficiently preserved the collection and made efforts to improve storage, though it could not yet afford to build the museum.[20]
Moog synthesizer
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^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Kozinn, Allan. "Robert Moog, Creator of Music Synthesizer, Dies at 71". New York Times. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
^ Trangle, Sarina (2012-05-30). "Synthesizer reunion". The Riverdale Press. Archived from the original on 2018-03-03. Retrieved 2018-03-03. In honor of what would've been Robert Moog's 78th birthday, the Bronx High School of Science started its day with a tribute to the 1952 alumnus who began pioneering the synthesizer in high school.
^ a b c d e f g Bernstein, Adam (2005-08-23). "Robert Moog Dies; Created Electronic Synthesizer". ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
^ a b c "Obituary: Dr Robert Moog". BBC News. 2005-08-22. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k Stearns, David Patrick (2005-08-25). "Obituary: Robert Moog". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
^ a b c d e "Robert Moog biography (1934-2005)". Wired.com. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
^ Hamer, Mick. "Interview: Electronic maestros". New Scientist. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
^ "Clear Some Space on Your Synth Rack: The Minimoog Returns". WIRED. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
^ PINCH, T. J.; Trocco, Frank; Pinch, T. J. (2009-06-30). Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674042162.
^ "Red Bull Music Academy Daily". daily.redbullmusicacademy.com. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
^ "Dr Robert & His Modular Moogs". www.soundonsound.com. Retrieved 2018-12-04.
^ a b Kozinn, Allan. "Obituary: Robert Moog, 71, creator of music synthesizer". Retrieved 2018-12-03.
^ "Robert Moog". Obituaries. Variety. 400 (2): 85. 2005-08-29 – via EBSCOhost.
^ Pinch, Trevor (2002). Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer (1 ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. pp. 12–16. ISBN 0-674-00889-8.
^ "The Laureates of the Polar Music Prize 2017 are..." Polar Music Prize. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
^ "Moog Inducted into Inventors Hall of Fame". School Band & Orchestra. 16 (5): 10. May 2013. ISSN 1098-3694 – via EBSCOhost.
^ "Google Outdoes Itself With Moog Synthesizer Doodle (Play It Here)". WIRED. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
^ Frankel, Jake (2013-08-12). "Family feud continues over Moog archives". Mountain Xpress. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
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Ukoy Dulong is a type of Filipino fish fritter with mung bean sprouts. This is one ukoy version that I like most because dulong is one of my favorite fish. I like this fish variety because it is tasty. It is also convenient to prepare and eat. Since these are very tiny (it is around 1/10 the size of anchovies or dilis), I can eat it right away after cooking.
Ukoy is commonly consumed for meryenda. It best when dipped in spicy vinegar. When I was still in Manila, I remember having this along with vegetable egg roll and a bottle of soda pop. On some occasions, I can eat ukoy dulong with rice. However, I prefer it to be eaten all by itself because I can enjoy its taste and crisp texture better.
Ukoy is best enjoyed when it still hot and crispy. I suggest consuming it within the next 10 minutes after cooking. I also recommend that you share your ukoy dulog with your friends and family because it is always best to have a good and sensible conversation while enjoying your food.
Try this Ukoy Dulong Recipe. Let me know what you think.
This is a recipe for fish fritters. It is also known as Ukoy Dulong.
In a large mixing bowl, combine all batter ingredients in a bowl starting with the dry ingredients and ending by adding water and egg. Mix well.
Add the dulong and mung bean sprouts. Gently stir until all ingredients are well blended.
Arrange 1/2 cup of mixture in a saucer. Note: make sure the there is enough batter in the mixture.
Once the oil gets hot, Slide the mixture into the pan. Cook one side in medium het until it turns golden brown and crisp. Turn over using a spatula. Cook the other side the same way.
Remove the dulong okay from the pan. Stack in a plate with paper towels.
Serve with spicy vinegar such as pinakurat or sinamak.
How do I prolong the crispness of this okoy? I noticed that after a few hours, it becomes tough and chewy.
It is meant to be eaten right away. However, you can prolong it a bit by adding more cornstarch into the mixture.


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"Patent trolls"? No thanks, says Apple…probably
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I once took an Uber in Fairfield, Ohio. As we sat at a light, the driver pointed to an empty big box storefront.
"What's that building look like?" he asked. I said it looked like an empty big box storefront.
"That's right. You know where it went?" I said no, confused. He pointed down the street a few hundred yards away to a brand-new big box store.
"There it is. You know why they moved down the street? Taxes. Lower sales tax across the county line."
I was reminded of that story of fiscal competition at its finest when reading about Apple's recent decision to close two of its stores in the Dallas suburbs.
Or more accurately, as Ars Technica reported, Apple's decision to close two stores within the federal court jurisdiction of the Eastern District of Texas. Rumor has it that Apple's move could be in response to intellectual property litigation. Per Ars Technica:
The Eastern District is known for its extremely patent-friendly judges, and so for decades patent plaintiffs have set up shop there and sued defendants located all over the country. Prior to 2017, the law allowed a plaintiff based in the Eastern District of Texas to sue defendants there if defendants had even tenuous connections to the district. And, of course, a company of Apple's size has business ties to every part of the country.
These plaintiffs are often called "patent trolls," which the Electronic Frontier Foundation defines as companies or individuals that cheaply purchase patents (often "overbroad and vague" patents, at that) and then threaten expensive litigation against companies allegedly in violation of said patents:
These letters threaten legal action unless the alleged infringer agrees to pay a licensing fee, which can often range to the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Many who receive infringement letters will choose to pay the licensing fee, even if they believe the patent is bogus or their product did not infringe. That's because patent litigation is extremely expensive — often millions of dollars per suit — and can take years of court battles. It's faster and easier for companies to settle.
The Eastern District has been a favorite venue for this kind of litigation – even after the Supreme Court sought to rein in so-called "venue shopping" in a 2017 decision. Ars Technica explains:
[U]nder the Supreme Court's 2017 TC Heartland decision, a defendant can only be sued in a district where it "resides"—meaning where it was incorporated—or "has a regular and established place of business."
Apple's two stores in the Eastern District would likely count as "regular and established places of business" for patent-law purposes. So under the new rules, continuing to operate the stores makes it easier for patent plaintiffs to sue Apple in the Eastern District.
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Scolopendra
A towering man of mixed ancestry with long, panther-black hair, who has taken his name from the breed of giant, deadly centipede he has discovered. His intricate knowledge of tropical flora and fauna makes him a poisonous individual in more ways than one. Scolopendra has risen from the gutters of Havana to become a rich, powerful and ruthless businessman no one sane would ever cross.
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One of my favourite summer rites is watching the Tour de France.
A mammoth ride of somewhere in the neighbourhood of 2,200 miles over three weeks, these guys are in the saddle for 92 hours or more over that time. The ride takes them up the Alps and the Pyrenees. The sheer effort required to get up some of the mountain passes is exhausting to watch. The next day, they get up and do it again.
Or, the next day may be flat, and they need to push for speed, hoping the legs have some strength in them, and haven't turned to Jello overnight (it happens).
A single crash, as happened to Lance Armstrong this year, can wipe out your Tour. One bad stage (daily race) and the podium is out of the question.
This years Tour had a real edge, with winner Alberto Contador infamously taking advantage of Andy Schleck's broken chain last week. It was bad cycling etiquette, but more importantly Contador went into the last day leading by the exact time that Schleck lost to Contador on that day. One and two would have been up for grabs on the final, possibly a photo finish after 3,600km.
The Tour de France is, it must be said, a truly incredible athletic endeavour. Every one of these guys an incredible athlete. To win is astounding, to finish the damn thing a true accomplishment.
To finish seventh? Ask Canadian Ryder Hesjedal. Each team has a goto guy, who is expected to compete. Everyone else's job is support. For Garmin-Transitions, the go to guy was Christian Vande Velde (*pronounced Vanda-Velt). But Vande Velde broke his ribs in stage two, and the Garmin-Transitions ball fell to Hesjedal. Hesjedal, from Victoria, rode one hell of a race, gaining ground in the last days and finishing seventh, 10 minutes and 15 seconds behind Contador.
So Ryder, what's it like to finish seventh:
It will keep sinking in…
You could be in the form of your life and still not achieve a top 10 in the Tour de France. I was seventh in the Tour. Nobody will be able to take that away from me. I'll see what I can do from here. I'm looking for many years yet to come of great racing. I'll test the limits to see what I can do. Who knows what can happen now? I know now I am capable of riding in the front of any race.
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Australians aren't new to letting performers know when it isn't good enough. Last year they complained bitterly and demanded refunds when Britney Spears was discovered to be lip syncing during her Australian tour.
Celebrity Tweet of the Week: @lance Armstrong Back from a nice/easy 4 hr. ride. Well it was nice til that cat decided to run right in front of me and I go ass over bandbox.
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Actor Andrew Koenig, who played Boner on the 1980's sitcom Growing Pains disappeared in Vancouver on Valentines day. He was due back in Los Angeles on the 16th, but never appeared. His body was discovered this Thursday in Stanley Park, death by what appears to be suicide. he was 41.
One can only offer heartfelt condolences to his family, including his father, actor Walter Koenig, who played Pavel Chekov on Star Trek.
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The first Board consisted of 12 Executive Directors, as provided under the IBRD Articles of Agreement, Article V Section 4(b), of which five were appointed and seven were elected. Increases in the number of elected Executive Directors require a decision of the Boards of Governors by an 80% majority of the total voting power. Before November 1, 1992, there were 22 Executive Directors, 17 of whom were elected. In 1992, in view of the large number of new members that had joined the Bank, the number of elected Executive Directors increased to 19. The two new seats, Russia and a new group around Switzerland, brought the total number of Executive Directors to 24. An additional chair for Sub-Saharan Africa was added effective November 1, 2010, bringing the size of the Board to 25 chairs.
The voting power of each Member country is based on the number of shares it holds. Shares are allocated differently in each organization, resulting in different voting powers.
The Corporate Secretariat is responsible for coordinating the process of membership as well as assisting members to complete their subscriptions to their allocated shares under periodic capital increases in IBRD, IDA, IFC, and MIGA. It provides advice on the procedures for subscribing to additional shares as authorized under resolutions approved by the Boards of Governors, including required documentation and capital subscriptions payments.
The Code of Conduct for Board Officials (pdf) that took effect on November 1, 2018, supersedes the Code of Conduct and Ethics Committee Procedures approved in November 2007.
The Code of Conduct for Board Officials sets forth principles and ethical standards for the Executive Directors, the Presidents of each of the organizations, Executive Director Designates, Executive Director Post-Designates, Alternate Executive Directors, Alternate Executive Director Designates, Alternate Executive Director Post-Designates, Temporary Alternate Executive Directors, Senior Advisors, and Advisors to Executive Directors (collectively, "Board Officials") in connection with, or having a bearing upon, their status and responsibilities in the organizations of the World Bank Group.
The Code of Conduct provides that, as these officials are entrusted with responsibilities as prescribed in the Articles of Agreement, By-Laws, and related documents of the organizations, their personal and professional conduct must comply with the standards and procedures set forth in the Code of Conduct. Pursuant to the Code of Conduct, the Board has established an Ethics Committee to address ethics matters concerning Board Officials in order to ensure sound governance pursuant to the Code of Conduct. The Ethics Committee has the authority to advise Board Officials or the President on matters related to conflict of interests, annual disclosures, or other ethical aspects of conduct in respect of Board Officials or the President, and to investigate alleged misconduct by Board Officials or the President.
*While the IFC Articles of Agreement and the MIGA Convention designate Boards of Directors, when referring to the World Bank Group Board members, they are collectively called Executive Directors.


Examining ZeroWasteChurch.org highlights six organizational dynamics essential for congregations that desire to increase both the number of Jesus people who attend as well as their spiritual depth.
First, ZeroWasteChurch.org emphasizes an issue central to human existence. Perhaps the two most immediate threats to continued human existence are nuclear war and the global warming caused by humans. Scientists detected the first signs of the adverse effect of humans upon the environment in the early nineteenth century. (For a chronology of the emergence of global warming as a significant concern and failed efforts to alter human behavior, read Nathaniel Rich's "Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change," in the New York Times Magazine, August 1, 2018.) Since the problem of global warming was first recognized, ending environmental damage and reversing its ill effects have become ever more urgent. Other issues central to human existence include the need for meaning (what psychologist Abraham Maslow identified as self-actualization) and humans' basic needs for food, water, and shelter.
Most individuals must cope with one or more of these issues central to human life. More broadly, many Christians and non-Christians are committed to helping their local community and perhaps the world address one or more of life's central challenges. Consequently, the potential for congregational growth is pervasive. However, congregations often fail to grow because they (1) focus on that which is of minor or no ultimate importance, such as liturgical niceties or biblical trivia, or, (2) remain content with the status quo regardless of any avowed commitment to growth.
Second, ZeroWasteChurch.org affords congregants and other people multiple opportunities to get involved. At Raleigh's Church of the Nativity, persons may assist with the bird and pollinator friendly community gardens, work to reduce energy consumption at home and in the parish, aid in the continuing installation of solar panels on parish buildings (these now provide in excess of one third of the energy the parish uses), composting organic waste, recycling non-organic waste, commit to a year of personal action, publicize ZeroWasteChurch.org or maintain its website, speak at other churches about the program and ecological stewardship, develop new resources, etc. In sum, the Church of the Nativity aims to have enough options for involvement that most persons can hear a call to support the program in a way that capitalizes on their emotional energy, utilizes their skills and abilities, and fosters spiritual growth.
Third, ZeroWasteChurch.org enjoys ongoing support from the congregation's leadership. For over fifteen years, the parish's clergy, wardens, and vestry have enthusiastically supported what began as a handful of people committed to ecological stewardship that now involves a large portion of the congregation. The leadership's commitment includes: personally participating in the program; encouraging others to participate through sermons, the parish newsletter, and personal contacts; allowing ZeroWasteChurch.org and its associated programs free use of the parish campus; and funding ecological stewardship programs.
Fourth, ZeroWasteChurch.org took fifteen plus years to blossom. It began with a few congregants' interest in the nexus of science and religion. A small grant from the Templeton Foundation funded some early initiatives. Those developed into an adult study program that spanned several years. Congregants slowly started to search for ways to translate environmental concern into action. This spawned a community garden, a short-lived speaking program designed to highlight the theological mandate and scientific rationale for environmental stewardship, a desire to add solar panels on the roofs of parish buildings, and more. The Episcopal Church gave Nativity a 2017 $10,000 Stewardship and Creation grant to promote "carbon farming," i.e., removing carbon from the air and returning it to the soil. Nativity eventually united its varied ecological stewardship efforts under the ZeroWasteChurch.org umbrella.
Fifth, ZeroWasteChurch.org carries the gospel, or at least one central aspect of the gospel, to the world hoping to form the lost into Jesus people. Scripture is a window into God's heart, not a science textbook. The multiple stories of creation Scripture references (e.g., Genesis 1 and Genesis 2) historically situated presume the creation science of different cultures. Israel had no science of its own. When we ignore the anachronistic, erroneous science found in Scripture, we can hear Scripture repeatedly and consistently emphasize creation's goodness. God values not only humans but also everything that God created. Today, God's concern for all creation is a vital issue for both the well-being of the earth and for continued human existence.
Sixth, ZeroWasteChurch.org is a sustainable program with an open future. Its founders metaphorically cast scattered seeds on the ground trusting that the Holy Spirit would bring growth. Signs of that growth include the Church of the Nativity, its members, other congregations, and disparate individuals more fully caring for creation and more closely walking the Jesus path. In the years ahead, some current aspects of ZeroWasteChurch.org will fail, other aspects will morph into new expressions, some aspects will end having achieved their limited objectives, and still other aspects will last many years. Importantly, the Church of the Nativity's fifteen plus years of investment in ecological stewardship has both improved the environment and grown the parish numerically and spiritually.
Congregations of all sizes can adopt and then invest in a program similar to ZeroWasteChurch.org that incorporates the six organizational dynamics enumerated above. For example, St. Elizabeth's Church in Honolulu has achieved numerical and spiritual growth through a set of programs that have dramatically improved the quality of life for many of Honolulu's marginalized and the city's thousands of houseless who live on streets and in the parks.
Conversely, congregations lacking a program(s) characterized by these six organizational dynamics implicitly communicate a lack of knowledge in how to strive for real growth or perhaps a lack of genuine interest in numerical and spiritual growth. These six factors do not represent everything a congregation can or should do to as Jesus people to increase love of God and neighbor but are essential steps for translating laudatory aspirations into effective programs.
Sadly, most of the congregations that I visit, whether as a guest in the pews or as supply priest, do not have a program comparable to ZeroWasteChurch.org. And then we Episcopalians frequently ponder, often with considerable frustration, our seeming inability to reverse the decline of our beloved congregations. We should instead, learn from growing congregations. Like good stewards, prepare the soil and lovingly plant seeds of faith around one of life's central issues; engage the energies and talents of clergy and laity in lovingly watering, fertilizing, and weeding the sprouts; and then joyfully reap a harvest assuredly pleasing to the garden's owner.
Our local newspaper had an article about a family that enjoys many of the local activities in our area. Their issue is the 34-year-old husband who survived pancreatic cancer as an eight-year-old child and now needs help. His cancer treatment removed 85 percent of his pancreas, 50 percent of his stomach, 50 percent of his small intestine, and 60 percent of his colon. Over the years he has had numerous bleeding issues that required over 100 units of blood and many hospital stays to stop the bleeding.
As a result of the cancer, he now needs a five organ transplants. He needs a new stomach, liver, pancreas, large intestine and small bowel. If he has the surgery, he has less than a 30 percent chance of surviving the surgery itself and a 40 percent chance of surviving for a year. If he gets the call, he goes to Georgetown University Hospital for the surgery. He remains in the hospital for six to nine months and will have to live near the hospital for another six months. The family is asking for donations as the surgery will cost one million dollars. This does not include living near the hospital.
Even with all of these health issues, the man married and has four children under the age of ten. He must decide whether to proceed with the transplants should they become available or living with the bleeding issues.
That scenario raises several important ethical issues.
· Doctors choose where to live, with a disproportionate number preferring to live in urban and suburban areas. Consequently, rural areas and some inner-city areas have a shortage of physicians. This makes obtaining healthcare for residents in those areas inconvenient if not impossible.
· Hospitals are closing in rural areas because of the lack of physicians and a lack of sufficient number of patients to justify a hospital's operating costs. This rations healthcare, e.g., the patient who with emergency room will survive and will otherwise die.
· The high cost of some prescription medicines forces some patients to choose whether to buy their medicine or other essentials (such as food or paying the rent).
· The lack of healthcare insurance that includes preventive care leaves some persons unable to afford preventive care. Some of these people will develop serious medical conditions that receiving preventive care would have avoided.
· And, of course, the affluent can buy all of the healthcare they need or desire in sharp contrast to what most people can afford.
Should our healthcare system provide the five transplants? Could those organs make a greater difference in the lives of five other individuals (the US has a shortage of transplantable organs, so organ transplants are a zero-sum game, i.e., what one person receives another will not)? Could the resources expended on the one patient if spent in smaller amounts on multiple patients, still totaling the same amount, do more good?
Second, do doctors have a moral responsibility to guide patients towards solution most likely to promote the patient's quality of life? With only a 30% chance of surviving the surgery and a 40% chance of living for a year, the patient has only a 28% probability of surviving into the second year following surgery. Is allowing the patient to proceed with the surgery a good use of scarce healthcare resources? Is a doctor who fails to actively discourage the patient from proceeding with the surgery still honoring the Hippocratic oath to do no harm?
Third, the cost of healthcare for patients with multi-organ failure and chronic disease totals about 50% of US healthcare spending, yet achieves very limited increases in extending the patient's lifespan or improving the patient's quality of life. Redirecting that spending to benefit those with the least access to healthcare or simply eliminating that half of healthcare expenditures would arguably benefit society more. Should the US make that change?
Healthcare costs continue to skyrocket. Abandoning the myth that the US does not ration healthcare is an important step to improving healthcare for all while reducing the cost of that care.
Importantly, I write as a person who has a chronic disease. Thankfully, my treatment to date has restored me to a semblance of a normal life. I do feel obligated to serve society in partial repayment of care received. I also recognize that at some point in the future, I may need to decline further care when the cost of that care appears likely to exceed any real benefit to me while concurrently imposing an unfair cost on others. I wonder whether my care providers at that time will encourage me to act morally or to seek all of the care I can obtain regardless of potential benefits.
Nonkilling is emerging as a new field of academic exploration.
Scholars of nonkilling argue that humans are not hardwired to kill. These scholars rightly contend, in my estimation, that killing is learned behavior. For a detailed biological argument in support of this view, cf. Piero Giorgi's book The origins of violence by cultural evolution available as a free download by following this link.
This view does require rethinking the traditional understanding of Genesis 3 in which the first humans commit sin that results in God expelling them from the utopian Garden of Eden. The traditional position envisions a God incompatible with a twenty-first scientific worldview in which God is clearly not a deified human. The traditional view of de-evolving is also incompatible with evolutionary theory. Rabbi Harold Kushner helpfully has suggested interpreting Genesis 3 in terms of humans first experiencing freedom, an essential element of the image of God in humans and a vital step in evolutionary processes. This view is also one that resonates with Giorgi.
The definition of nonkilling and an outline of its feasibility as a political project was first articulated by Glenn Paige, a scholar at the University of Hawaii. His seminal book, Nonkilling Global Political Science, is available for free at this link.
Paige distinguishes between negative and positive peace. Negative peace is the absence of warfare and the definition of peace most commonly utilized. Positive peace is the well-being and flourishing of life, a definition congruent with both the Hebrew shalom and the Greek eirene, the two words that the Bible uses for peace.
Nonkilling is an academic discipline and way of life to which those who walk the Jesus path should commit themselves. When Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers," I do not believe that he spoke only of those who brought an end to war (although this is truly valuable) nor to those who found an inner peace. Jesus called all of his followers to live into the fullness of peace, of which the practice of nonkilling is an indispensable component.
Is prayer magic, mystery, or?
Prayer is not magic. Contrary to a widely held misunderstanding, prayer is not a means of manipulating God to produce a desired result(s). No formula, no action, no degree of sincerity in asking God to do something is assured of achieving the desired result.
The occasions on which prayer leads to the requested result are serendipitous. The results are actually attributable to other causes and not to God if the full picture is accurately understood. Concomitantly, chalking up failed prayer to receiving a "No" from God simply avoids the actual, underlying issue of correctly understanding prayer.
Believing that prayer is a means of obtaining specific results from God has three major theological problems. First, the person praying becomes de facto more powerful that God. God is reduced to the means of gratifying the desire(s) of the person praying.
Second, prayers of this genre (e.g., heal this dying individual, cure this person's cancer, give me food for my starving child, etc.) are sometimes answered and sometimes not. Consequently, God appears capricious allowing some to die, some to eat, and so forth. If God genuinely loves all people equally, then God would logically act lovingly toward all, thus ending much suffering and death among both Christians and non-Christians.
Third, prayers of this genre typically require God to intervene in the natural order in a way that contravenes natural law. Illustratively, weather patterns are determined by geo-physical forces and other natural factors. God bringing rain to parched portions of California now ablaze with wild fires would requiring altering one or more of those ongoing natural processes.
If prayer is not magic, is it mystery?
Conceiving of prayer as mystery is less problematic than are the forms of prayer more akin to magic than genuine prayer. We advantageously approach prayer as a human endeavor rather than attempting the impossible task of discerning the presence or acts of the ineffable divine.
Thus, prayer may be talking (the verbal activity most commonly identified as prayer), acting (as in performing a loving deed), or meditating (practicing Christian yoga, for example). These acts may be therapeutic for the person praying: talking to God may relieve emotional stress or provide clarity about one's ideas; acting may redirect the course of one's life, prove redemptive or restorative, or help to form virtuous habits; meditating has health benefits demonstrated in repeated scientific studies. All of the above may offer signs of God's presence or activity if we posit that God desires and promotes both human well-being and flourishing.
If God mysteriously acts to promote human well-being and flourishing in ways that (1) do not entail any problems connected to understanding prayer as magic and (2) are not directly discernible by finite humans because of God's ineffable infinitude, then perhaps prayer becomes dialectical (God's response to human talking, acting, and meditating) when humans receive gifts of wisdom, courage, and strength to grow in love for God and neighbor. Wisdom may connote what Whitehead called God luring a person toward a particular direction, a direction which is always loving and life-affirming. Courage may signify the assurance of God continuing to lure the person God-ward after that first step, an interpretation that helpfully links courage with hope. And strength may point toward a sufficiently strong luring to overcome human inertia against moving in the God-ward direction, thus linking strength and faith.
Approaching prayer as a mystery rooted in love, hope, and faith coheres with a biblical understanding of God as light, love, or the ground of being and with a twenty-first century scientific worldview.
The Episcopal Church's triennial General Convention, which met in Austin a couple of weeks ago and which I did not attend, interested me more for what did not happen that for what actually transpired.
Given the controversial nature of some of these decisions, your list of good decisions may vary from mine.
Regardless of one's opinion of General Convention's decisions, what deeply concerns me is that the preponderance of the Convention focused on issues internal to the Episcopal Church while largely ignoring the elephant in the room. Even resolutions that appear to deal with external matters (e.g., support for justice for the Palestinians) are important primarily because of these resolutions permit our representatives in Washington, at the United Nations, and elsewhere to take actions on our behalf.
The convention's agenda represents an excellent example of the urgent supplanting the important. The Episcopal Church is dying. Short-term numbers notwithstanding, the Episcopal Church has hemorrhaged members for decades. That long-term decline is the elephant in the room. Reversing that decline is our most important, though not necessarily most urgent, agenda item. Unlike many other agenda items, no group of advocates has coalesced around reversing our numerical decline. The issue generally languishes unaddressed, in vestry, diocesan, and church-wide meetings.
General Convention did pass a triennial budget that emphasizes the Presiding Bishop's priorities, one of which is evangelism. However, as I have previously contended on this website, the amount of money programmed for evangelism is insufficient if we really want to make evangelism a genuine priority. Resources are inadequate for us to continue business as usual while prioritizing evangelism.
Obviously, our goal as Christians who live in the Episcopal tradition is not simply perpetuating The Episcopal Church. Our goal is the increase of the love of God and neighbor. Our Presiding Bishop repeats this message over and over in his preaching and other communications. If we collectively are truly to be about God's business, then the rest of us, our denominational structures, and our budgets need substantial realignment to reflect these two priorities.
Realigning our efforts will inescapably entail sacrificing "rice bowls" and "sacred cows" in pursuit of more effectively and efficiently loving God and neighbor. The issue is not whether a particular effort, program, or theme enhances love for God and neighbor but whether there is a way to produce larger results at a lower cost. Business as usual has failed for decades to reverse our numerical decline. We must change or The Episcopal Church, its dioceses, and their congregations will die.
Unfortunately, most diocesan convention vestries agendas are similar to General Convention's agenda. These agendas too frequently focus on business as usual and ignore our numerical decline. Even when a diocese or vestry addresses problems, the problems are typically internal (e.g., improving communications or balancing the budget) and ignore the overarching problem of numerical decline.
Color me an optimist. I believe that the arc of history bends not only toward justice but also toward love. Externalities such as terms of address for the deity or the prayer book's format may change, but individuals and the world as a whole not only need and but also want what Christians claim to offer, that is, experience and knowledge of God's loving, healing, reconciling, life-giving presence.
Therefore, numerical declines indicate a failure on our part to go and make disciples of all the world. I'm not advocating the type of evangelism practiced by more conservative Christian denominations. One blessing in retiring from the military chaplaincy was no longer daily having to deal with chaplains and laity from those denominations. What I am advocating is prioritizing marketing The Episcopal Church and its message of love in ways congruent with our Anglican understanding and practice of Christianity. This involves hard work, trying new initiatives, risking failure, and de-prioritizing if not abandoning business as usual.
The Presiding Bishop's sermon at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle afforded the Episcopal Church an unparalleled opportunity to share the message that God calls us to love God and one another. Since that event, the Presiding Bishop has sought to capitalize on the attendant publicity to further market both The Episcopal Church and our message of love.
Most Episcopalians will never have a similar opportunity to market The Episcopal Church or communicate God's message of love to such a vast audience. We can, however, look for more quotidian methods of incarnating the gospel, of becoming a people in whom and through whom persons experience God's love. The protest against separating children from parents at a detention center for illegal immigrants by General Convention attendees was one small step in this direction. What can you do today to communicate God's love to another person? And what can your congregation, your diocese, and our national structures do differently to communicate God's love more effectively and efficiently?
God has called us for this time. Today is the time for us to set aside the urgent and the comparatively easy (although some ongoing issues are admittedly challenging). Now is the time for us to concentrate on the far more important and difficult task of loving God and others so outrageously and unreservedly that we grow both spiritually and numerically.
A shepherd and his dog are herding a flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW appears out of a dust cloud. The driver, a young man in an Armani suit, Gucci shoes, and Oakley sunglasses, leans out the window and asks, "If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?"
The shepherd looks at the man, who is obviously not a shepherd, then looks at his peacefully grazing flock and calmly answers, "Sure. Why not?"
The driver parks, whips out his smartphone, uses GPS to obtain an exact fix on his location, gets a NASA satellite to take an ultra-high-resolution photo that he exports to an image processing facility. In a few seconds, he turns to the shepherd and says, "You have exactly 1586 sheep."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my sheep," says the shepherd. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
"Wow! That's correct," says the man, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required," answered the shepherd. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew; to a question I never asked; and you don't know anything about my business . . .
" . . . Now give me back my dog. "
This morning I want to you to consider a question, a question to which you may already have an answer, even if your answer is more intuitive than the one I offer. There is, however, no charge beyond a few minutes of your time.
Now for the question: What is truth?
Our culture is increasingly shaped by the pervasive idea that truth does not exist, that is, all truth is relative. Like many ideas, this one has enough truth to make it sufficiently credible that numerous persons, and even some scholars, espouse it.
What is the best color or food? Who is the most beautiful, handsome, or loving person? Is socialism or capitalism the best economic system? Does conservatism or liberalism offer the most realistic hope for a good future? These are all questions of opinion and our answers vary widely depending upon our values, tastes, and criteria for weighing alternatives.
Relativism has its place but relativism is not the whole story. Is a traffic light, for example, presently red or green? I want your answer to be the same as mine. Philosophers, theologians, and others call this second approach to truth pragmatism. Unless a person is color blind, everyone agrees when a traffic signal turns red or green. Yet physicists and neuroscientists tell us that the colors red and green do not really exist. What a person experiences as a particular color is in fact that person's brain processing light waves of a particular frequency and then describing that experience using a mutually agreed upon label.
Pragmatism is essential but has two limitations. First, pragmatism routinely depends upon things that may be at least partially false. People have experienced color for longer than I can guess, but only in the last couple of centuries have we acquired knowledge of both light waves and how the brain processes what the eye sees. For most of us, that discrepancy is not a problem. But sometimes pragmatism unintentionally inhibits scientific advances, as when Einstein and others proposed quantum physics as a corrective to Newtonian physics. Second, pragmatism emphasizes experienced reality, not issues of ultimate reality or truth. On the one hand, I rely upon my legs to walk. On the other hand, I know that my legs are not solid, but comprised of sub-atomic particles to create the illusion of being solid even though my leg consists of more open space than of matter.
Christianity claims God revealed its ideas about ultimate truth. Most importantly, Christianity claims that God has revealed God's self to us. Claims about first principles or ultimate reality are not unique to Christianity. Other religions and even some philosophical systems, such as Plato's concept of eternal forms or ideas, represent similar claims. Philosophically, this is known as a correspondence theory of truth, i.e., our concepts correspond to the nature of ultimate reality.
Correspondence theories of truth have a couple of significant limitations. First, the knowledge that humans develop over time using pragmatism has proven that some correspondence theories of truth are false. Theories of a flat earth and of a three-tiered universe with heaven up, hell below, and earth in the middle exemplify such mistakes. Ongoing advances in human knowledge have prompted many people to discard all correspondence theories of truth in favor of relativism, pragmatism, or some combination of the two. Second, the most basic correspondence theories of truth are inherently non-verifiable. Our finite existence and finite perspective preclude any direct perception of whatever infinite ultimate reality may exist. We therefore must respect other claims about ultimate truth, perhaps searching for commonalities to clarify our own thinking.
Christian living requires integrating these three approaches to truth. First, respecting the dignity and worth of all humans entails respecting diversity and varied opinions. Contrary to some fundamentalists, Scripture actually instructs us to practice this form of relativism. Thus, the Episcopal Church and we at St Clement's repeatedly emphasize that everyone is always welcome and we work prophetically to achieve equal justice and treatment for all.
Second, pragmatism is necessary for daily survival. Paul refers to this approach to truth in today's epistle reading when he enjoins us to put away falsehood and speak the truth to our neighbors. Unless people agree upon facts – not opinion, but facts – both community life and civil discourse become impossible, an increasing danger in the United States today.
Third, a correspondence theory of truth allows us to understand our experience of a love greater than self, a power we call God. We see and hear echoes of these experiences in the Bible, in the sacraments, and in the lives of God's people. This is the type of truth of which Jesus speaks when he describes himself as the bread of life, a symbolic rather than literal statement about God and ultimate truth.
May you know the truth and may it set you free for life today and always. Amen.
 Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984), p. 77.
Portion sizes in both Italy and France have continued to increase in size. And, restaurants now welcome diners to share a course, whether starter, main, or dessert. Sharing courses, while common in the U.S., had previously triggered disdain if not outright opposition from Italian and French restauranteurs. This year I would guess that at as many as a third of the tables in the restaurants where I dined people shared at least one course.
Meanwhile, my anecdotal observation is that Europeans are gaining weight, though they are not yet at the levels of overweight and obesity found in the U.S.
God created humans to enjoy food and wine. One aspect of life in Europe that I have enjoyed in the past is eating a multi-course paired with several different wines, finding myself at the end of the meal pleasantly and comfortably sated but neither stuffed nor inebriated.
Temperance, however, is one of the four Christian cardinal virtues. I find the practice of moderation in all things (a Confucian teaching that helpfully defines temperance) increases my interest in savoring what I consume. Temperance also can help one avoid gaining weight (I was pleased to return from my extended sojourn without having added pounds in spite of having greatly enjoyed the food and wine).
Temperance is an under-appreciated virtue. Hoarders, the greedy, and people who hang on to every item regardless of its serviceability or continued use could all benefit from the practice of temperance. Conversely, those who oppose any consumption of alcoholic beverages, the 19th century Temperance movement that promoted abstinence rather than temperance, gave the word temperance an ugly and lingering negative connotation.
As Tibetan Buddhists, we advocate temperance, which is not unconnected to the environment, since we do not consume anything immoderately. We set limits on our habits of consumption, and we appreciate a simple, responsible way of life. Our relationship to the environment has always been special. Our ancient scriptures speak of the vessel and its contents. The world is the vessel, our house, and we, the living, are its contents.
If Jesus ran for President, would you vote for him? Would the American people vote for him? Would the media reduce his achievements to make us question his value?
Christians too often limit the scope of Jesus' teachings and his significance to issues of personal, interior spirituality. These Christians are sadly blind to, or choose to ignore, the relevance of Jesus and his teachings to issues of human relationships, community, national and international policies, and the stewardship of creation.
If you have a narrow view of the scope of Jesus' teachings, reread any one of the gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John) with the expectation that Jesus' speaks not only about one's interior life but also about life's broader, external dimension. Remember, Jesus calls to love God and our neighbor.
No one issue defined Jesus. Nor does any one candidate ever fully embody the teachings of Jesus. If you would vote for Jesus, how do you translate that commitment into voting for candidates actually on the ballot?
Attentive readers of Ethical Musings will have noticed an almost three-month gap in my postings from mid-April to early July. I appreciated a couple of concerned friends querying whether I was ill during that period. I was not ill and, to the best of my knowledge my cancer remains in remission. Most of that time, I was traveling in Europe, spending about a week and a half in England, four weeks in Venice, and four weeks in France (the rest of the time I was traveling in the U.S., visiting friends and family).
In the late 1990s, I lived for two years in London. Since then, I've traveled frequently to Europe, most years following my 2005 retirement from the Navy spending one or two months there.
On this trip, my first trip to Europe in three years, I noticed some interesting changes.
First, almost all French and Italian sales clerks, restaurant wait staff, museum personnel, etc., began the conversation in English or immediately shifted to English if I started the conversation. Previously, both in Italy and France people appreciated tourists at least exchanging greetings in the local language, initially attempting to conduct business in the local language, and only then shifting to English to aid a floundering tourist.
Some restaurants insisted on providing me an English language menu in spite of my expressed preference for a menu in the local language. Restaurant menus often have misleading if not inaccurate translations; my restaurant Italian and French are sufficient for me to read most menus in the original language.
Perhaps a combination of two factors explain this shift. People may be adopting the faster pace of American life (see below). Concurrently, English is also rapidly becoming the global language, at least in Europe. For example, when an Italian or French person and the individual with whom they were trying to communicate lacked a common language, everyone immediately shifted to English. People from other countries with whom we spoke routinely described studying English as a part of their curriculum from the first years of school through high school.
I suspect that Americans' lack of bi- or tri-lingual skills will become a handicap as globalization increases because not everyone in every country will truly be fluent in English.
Second, the pace of life among the French and Italians has seemed to quicken. Illustratively, McDonalds now sells more hamburgers in France than the French sell of their previously most popular sandwich, a baguette with ham and butter. Street food is more common. Locals now eat while striding purposefully rather than stopping for a long lunch. On a couple of occasions, wait staff or sales clerks actually apologized for keeping me waiting, something that I never before experienced in Europe.
Third, smartphones appeared to be omnipresent. Indeed, companies in the travel business (airlines, train companies, hotels, and others) now presume that their customers have a smartphone. Not having a smartphone, which I don't, sometimes required utilizing awkward or time-consuming alternatives. And by extension, European companies are as diligent and intent on collecting all possible data about their consumers as are U.S. firms. Similarly, I was as bemused in Europe as I am at home in Honolulu by tourists focused on a smartphone instead of visually enjoying the place they have paid to visit.
Fourth, based upon my observation the number of beggars in both France and Italy has increased over the last three years. In Italy, most of the beggars looked as if they were Roma, i.e., gypsies. In France, a disproportionate number of the beggars were black. However, in neither France or Italy did the beggars appear to be as numerous as are the homeless in Honolulu. Furthermore, the beggars did not obviously include the mentally ill or substance abuses so evident among the homeless in Honolulu.
Italy and France are apparently more compassionate than is the U.S., offering more appropriate and adequate assistance to the mentally ill and substance abusers than we do. The increased number of beggars points toward ka fraying social safety net in Europe and, in France, toward a recognized need to improve racial integration and upwards mobility.


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"Porsche Racing Experience" paves the way into motorsport
The extensive program will offer Porsche customers a thorough and professional entry into motorsports.
Porsche has offered its customers race track training as part of the "Porsche Driving Experience" for many years. Now the sportscar manufacturer will expand its activities significantly: From this Autumn, the new "Porsche Racing Experience" announced today will close the gap between the established "Porsche Sport Driving School" and motorsports. The extensive program will offer Porsche customers a thorough and professional entry into motorsports.
"We have set ourselves the goal to take care of our customers from their first Porsche Experience Center visit via the Porsche Sport Driving School through to our motorsports activities with the highest possible quality. Everything that is going to be part of the new "Porsche Racing Experience" is unique and typically Porsche", Detlev von Platen explained, Member of the Executive Board, Sales and Marketing.
A specific search for and support of motorsport talents has long been a tradition at Porsche known as the Junior-program. As a result, world champions and Le Mans winners were established. Timo Bernhard, Marc Lieb, Nick Tandy and Earl Bamber all benefited from the program. The extensive experience gained from the Junior-program and the Porsche Driving Experience, Porsche has now developed a customer friendly initiative that consists of three progressive levels. In level 1, customers will be prepared for their first race season in a five-day long "boot camp" step-by-step. Successful participants move on to level 2, a first full season in racing, like the Porsche Sports Cup or Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge – professionally supported by Porsche. Level 3 features individual career planning and consultancy as well as in depth coaching with a close relation to the motorsport-goals of the customer. In the process, the customer gets access to all national and international Porsche racing series. For example, the Porsche Carrera Cup and the Porsche Mobil1 Supercup.
Porsche Racing Experience customers will benefit from ultra-experienced Manthey-Racing GmbH who will undertake the program on behalf of Porsche. For the supervision within and around the race car, DMSB and Porsche certified instructors will be in charge. Like in the Porsche Junior Program, coach Sascha Maassen will advise and assist the participants of the Porsche Racing Experience.
The Porsche Racing Experience level 1 training starts this year at the Vallelunga racetrack in Italy from 16th to 20th October 2017. In a comprehensive and intensive workshop, a maximum of 20 participants will learn the basics for their entry into motorsports in theory and practice. For example, this will include an introduction into the technical aspects of the car, the medical check with fitness- and mental-coaching, a close-to-reality race simulation as well as virtual simulator-training and of course sufficient driving time on the race track. The racecar for the Porsche Racing Experience is going to be the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup. The price for participation at the level 1 event in Vallelunga is 49.911 Euro. Registration is possible from now on at www.porsche.com/racing-experience.
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Sepp van den Berg loan can repeat the Harvey Elliott success story
Liverpool will hope for a successful loan from Sepp van den Berg. It's their best hope at repeating last year's Harvey Elliott success story.
Harvey Elliott spent last season out on loan with Blackburn Rovers. It was a huge deal for the teenager, who got his first taste of regular senior football.
It proved to be the making of the player, too. Elliott had a phenomenal year, proving himself to be a magnificent talent. But that wasn't the only great part.
Elliott also showed Liverpool that he was ready to play a role in their first-team squad. He showed no signs of being too young, nor did he look too inexperienced.
Instead, Liverpool learned they had someone who could slot right into their plans the following year.
That's a wonderful thing. Elliott is 'like a new signing', to use a terrible phrase. He's an addition to last year's squad and a very exciting one.
The question, then, is who could have the same impact of this season's loan stars? For us, one really sticks out.
Sepp van den Berg – loan star?
Sepp van den Berg returned to Preston North End this season after spending the latter half of last year's campaign there. It was a smart move all-around.
The Dutchman gets to go somewhere without a bedding-in period and where Liverpool know he can play well. We're seeing that immediately, in fact.
Van den Berg has already scored twice this season despite predominantly being a defensive player. But he's showing even more than that.
Per Whoscored, the 19-year-old has already played three different positions. He's started at centre-back, right wingback and right midfield. That's some fantastic versatility, considering he's playing well in all three.
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Defensively, Van den Berg is simply thriving. He's averaging 2.4 tackles and 1.6 interceptions over the first five Championship games. Again, this is while moving around the pitch.
His two League Cup games look even better – 3 tackles and 3.5 interceptions. Those are remarkable stats.
Throw in those two goals and things look very, very impressive. Impressive enough that it's easy to see how Liverpool could use Van den Berg.
He's still only a teenager but is demonstrating a fantastic ability in a utility-man role. Van den Berg could cover three or four different positions at Liverpool – we've got a hunch that he could end up being a centre-midfielder.
That is definitely useful. Especially if Van den Berg continues to develop over the course of the season as Elliott did.
This is one to watch, then. Van den Berg might just be a first-team Liverpool player in waiting.
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Amantle Brown dominates BOMU nominations
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Amantle Brown's Sa Pelo album has earned her 7 nominations for the upcoming 8th Botswana Musicians Union (BOMU) awards slated for Boipuso Hall, Fairgrounds holdings in Gaborone this Saturday.
Brown, 23, is nominated for the best song of the year category (Black Mampatile), best album of the year (Sapelo), best female of all time, best video of the year, best single of the year, best packaged album, and best R&B album of the year. The music of the former My Star finalist has been getting massive airplay across local stations, getting her endless bookings for the past few months.
Folk jazz group, Sereetsi & The Natives who also had quite an eventful 2016, follows close behind with 5 nominations including Song of The Year which is easily "the group of death" as it clashes true heavy weights. This category will seeSereetsi's Robete, Mlesho's hit single Hlomela, Dj Chrispin Sedi Laaka and another Thomela version by Madala vying for the top award.
Addressing hundreds of musicians and media this past Tuesday, BOMU President Michael Mmusi acknowledged that despite the problems the Union has faced, the awards continue to be strong.
"BOMU has been surrounded with so much controversy, but we have continued to strive on and recognize talent that is all over the country. For the artists who have been nominated, they must cherish the recognition because this year we have recorded the highest number of entrants," he said.
Meanwhile, BOMU Awards Chief Judge Rasina Winfred Rasina members of the public should rest assured that the awards will be fair and accurate.
"As judges we always want to nominate and select the best material which will reach international standards. We experienced some problems particularly in the packaging selection where an artist just write a CD title with a black marker and enter for the Best Packaged Album category. We were very strict in the selection process which is why we omitted other categories such as best Kwaito as BOMU is on a mission to growth on local genres," he said.
Time Out has learnt that Song of The Year category winner will perform at Lesotho music awards, courtesy of BOMU's liaison with Ultimate FM in Lesotho. The Maseru based radio station is expected to send delegates to the BOMU awards over the weekend to benchmark.
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The Journal of Arthroplasty, Volume 30, Issue 8, 1414 - 1417
Postoperative Delirium in Patients Undergoing Total Joint Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review
Bin Abd Razak, Hamid Rahmatullah et al.
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We systematically reviewed the English-language literature to assess the incidence, risk factors and prevention strategies for postoperative delirium following total joint arthroplasty (TJA). A total of 10 studies were included in the final review, of which 3 (30%) were Level I studies, 6 were Level II (60%) studies and 1 (10%) was a Level III study. Incidence of postoperative delirium ranged from 5% to 14.3%. Pre-screening of patients was shown to reduce its incidence. Independent predictors include age, history of psychiatric illness, decreased functional status and decreased verbal memory.


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Bernardo Atxaga has been awarded the National Prize for Spanish Literature 2019 for "his fundamental contribution to the modernization and international dissemination of the Basque and Spanish languages," according to the jury.
The prize is awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport to a Spanish author whose body of work, in any of the country's co-official languages, is considered to be an integral part of current Spanish literature as a whole.
This award acknowledges Atxaga for his contribution to the dissemination of the Basque and Spanish languages through storytelling that is "impregnated with poetry that combines reality and fiction in a brilliant way." The prize is 40,000 euros.
Bernardo Atxaga (Asteasu, 1951) began his career as a writer almost 50 years ago, joining the literary movements by Basque artists during the last years of the Franco dictatorship. From those first steps in Bilbao, he has written in all genres, from novel and short story to theater and from poetry and essays to children's literature. He is also considered the greatest champion of Basque narrative; most of his work has been written and first published in Basque, though his works have crossed all borders and can be read in 34 languages.
Throughout his career as a writer he has received countless awards, including the Critics' Award, the Euskadi Prize, the National Literature Prize for Narrative, the Paris Prix Millepages, and he was finalist for the IMPAC European Literary Award for his novel Obabakoak (1988), the Silver Euskadi Prize Award and the Critics' Award for Gizona bere bakardadean (The Lone Man, 1993), the Critics' Prize at the Bilbao Book Fair, the Grinzane Cavour Prize, the Mondello Prize and the Times Literary Supplement Translation Prize for Soinujolearen semea (The Accordionist's Son, 2004), the Euskadi Prize and the Critics' Award for Nevadako egunak (Nevada Days, 2013).
This past month he published Etxeak eta hilobiak (Pamiela, 2019), which will be his last novel. The Spanish edition will be published next February.
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Gloves off in wind farm showdown
Posted By Wind Watch Highlight On August 11, 2010 @ 7:47 am In Ontario | Comments Disabled
A 115-megawatt wind farm project in Arran-Elderslie "is going ahead," the developer said, although one councillor called the turbines unwelcome "floppy monuments to government stupidity."
Charles Edey, president of Leader Resources Services Corp., told council at a meeting in Chesley Monday that not only is Leader proceeding with the 46-turbine project near Arran Lake, it has also pooled $250,000 among seven other developers and manufacturers to fight an Arran-Elderslie bylaw – which uses a section of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in a bid to control turbine development – and the municipality "all the way to the Supreme Court."
"We will build resources, including capital and marketing materials, to challenge this bylaw and any similar bylaws passed in other municipalities including funds to support any legal challenge as a result of delayed issuance of building permits," Edey said.
"That is not to be looked at as a threat, because it is not," Edey told council and about a dozen wind energy opponents at the meeting. "We don't believe going to court is a good use of resources, but if that's what it takes to move the project forward, well . . ."
Edey said he believes council's bylaw "is designed to be insurmountable."
The bylaw, passed in May, calls for "the protection of life, liberty and security of person" under Section 7 of the Charter, claiming wind turbines cause serious health effects. The bylaw, circulated to all Ontario municipalities, has received the support of more than 40 municipalities to date.
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New eCard – Happy Pug Day!
Summer may have just started, but the "Dog Days" are already here. Why? Well, it's thanks to the release of our brand new, pet-friendly "Happy Pug Day" eCard! You can put a friend's mug on this pug and have a doggone good time. Shall we continue, or have you had enough dog puns for one day?
1) If you could be any kind of dog, what would you be? Why?
I would want to be a beagle. I just feel like those long ears would look good on me.
2) Are you a dog person, or a cat person?
Dog person, hands down! Or should I say "Paws down"?
3) How would you celebrate National Pug Day?
With a Pugmas tree, of course!
4) If dogs could talk, what would they say?
5) Any idea why dogs love hanging out car windows so much?
Probably for the same reasons I do… because they just got out of the shower and didn't have time to blow-dry their hair before going to work.
Know someone who would love to be a dog for a day? Send Happy Pug Day today!
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