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La economía del Sahara Occidental se caracteriza por la importancia del sector primario por la existencia de la minas de fosfatos de Bucraa y los yacimientos petrolíferos del espacio marino. Se trata de recusos explotados, bien por empresas estatales marroquíes en su totalidad, o bien en participación con empresas extranjeras.
La RASD controla la economía de la zona libre. Además, se opone a cualquier tipo de actividad económica en el Sahara Occidental por su estatus político y, a su vez, negocia la explotación de sus recusos con empresas extranjeras para el caso en el que el conflicto del Sahara Occidental se resuelva a su favor.

Indicadores económicos
Actualmente un 9,8% de saharauis viven en la pobreza contra 15% en el resto de Marruecos.

Sector primario

Fosfatos
Destacar las minas de fosfatos de Phosboucraa (la antigua FosBucraa fundada en época del Sahara español) de la empresa química y minera estatal marroquí OCP group.

La RASD considera ilegítima la explotación de los recuros naturales de del Sahara Occidental, habiendo suscrito acuerdos relativos a la explotación de las minas de fosfatos con empresas mineras como la belga Nettin o la neerlandesa ProFinance, que de harían efectivos en el caso de obtener el reconocimiento de la soberanía política y económica del Sahara Occidental.

Los fosfatos son empleados por la industria química en la fabricación de múltiples productos, especialmente fertilizantes, pero también detergentes, levaduras artificiales o cemento, y son la principal fuente no convencional de uranio.

Gas y petróleo
Existen prospecciones para la obtención de gas y petróleo en el espacio marítimo frente a cabo Bojador imulsadas por el Ministerio de Energía de Marruecos (ONHYM) y la minera israelí NewMed Drilling.

La RASD no aprueba la explotación de los recursos naturales del Sahara Occidental por su estatus político.

Pesca

Señalar la riqueza pesquera del banco pesquero canario sahariano. La Unión Europea ingresó a Marruecos 52 millones de euros (periodo 2019-2023) en concepto de licencias de pesca para un total de 128 pesqueros, siendo 92 españoles.

Sector secundario
Marruecos financia mediante inversiones, directas e indirectas las infraestructuras del Sahara Occidental. En 2009 la inversió alcanzó los 1200 millones de dólares de  y sociales generadoras de riqueza para los habitantes de las provincias saharianas del sur de Marruecos. El buen estado económico, urbanístico, cultural y social de las ciudades saharianas es una realidad hoy en día en el Sahara occidental. Hay que destacar la producción eólica los parques eólicos de Fum el Uad (El Aaiún) y Aufist (Bojador) de GE y Nareva, filial de la empresa estatal Energie Eolienne du Maroc (EEM).

Por otra parte, el informe de Hans Corel, asesor jurídico de la ONU sobre la explotación de los recursos naturales en las provincias saharianas de Marruecos, nunca ha puesto en tela de juicio la competencia de Marruecos en la materia ni puso dudas sobre la legalidad de los contratos de inversiones que Marruecos había iniciado con socios económicos internacionales, tampoco demostró que la explotación de los recursos naturales del Sáhara se hacían en detrimento de las poblaciones locales. Muy al contrario, todo lo es emprendido es primero y ante todo, al servicio de las poblaciones que viven y trabajan en el sahara occidental.

Según el economista Marroquí Fouad Abdelmoumni: «El coste del conflicto, es simplemente el desarrollo de Marruecos». De hecho, el conflicto del sahara cuesta 3% de crecimiento anual a Marruecos. El presupuesto colosal del ejército (cerca del 5% del PIB de Marruecos) pasa cada año delante del parlamento sin discusión ni bloqueo en la comisión de Estado o en las cámaras parlamentarias donde es votado por unanimidad, ya que forma parte de las instrucciones reales, puesto que el rey es también el jefe supremo de los ejércitos. Fouad Abdelmoumni estima que «sin el Sáhara, Marruecos habría estado en la media mundial y gastaría anualmente para su ejército el 1,90% de su PIB». O sea, que el reino economizaría cerca de 20 000 millones de dirhams al año, con los que se podrían pagar fácilmente los intereses de la deuda pública.

Estado de bienestar
Existe un prestación social denominada coloquialmente como la cartilla, de importe mensual similar al Smig (salario mínimo garantizado en Marruecos) o sea 1200 a 1500 dirhams, en torno a 60 euros. Además, los transportes públicos son gratuitos.

La RASD se muestra disconforme con las prestaciones sociales ya que fomentan el retorno al Sahara de los residentes en los campos de refugiados de Tinduf y señalan casos de corrupción en su concesión.

Política fiscal
Existen exenciones fiscales y aduaneras así como condiciones preferentes de financiación para incentivar las inversiones en el Sahara Occidental, especialmente en El Aaiún.

Véase también
 Región de El Aaiún-Saguía el-Hamra

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Centro de Promoción de las inversiones de la región de El Aaiun.
 Centro Nacional Marroquí de Estadísticas
 SADR Oil and Gas exploration, Licence offering.


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Darlington Letters up for pre-order & Duke's Gambit out takes
Posted by Tracy Grant under Laura Dudley, Mélanie and Charles Fraser, Raoul O'Roarke, Suzanne and Malcolm Rannoch, Teresa Grant, The Darlington Letters, The Duke's Gambit, The Glenister Papers, Tracy Grant, Uncategorized | Tags: Laura and Raoul, Laura Dudley, Mélanie and Charles Fraser, Mélanie and Malcolm Rannoch, out takes, Raoul O'Roarke, Suzanne and Malcolm Rannoch, Teresa Grant, The Darlington Letters, The Duke's Gambit, The Glenister Papers, Tracy Grant |
At the 2018 Merola Grand Finale. Photo: Kristen Loken
Happy Fall! I've been busy writing, being a mom, working at Merola (there above are Mélanie and I at the Merola Grand Finale, photo by the amazing Kristen Loken), and haven't been posting enough. But one result of that writing is the The Darlington Letters, a novella that continues the Rannoch series were The Duke's Gambit left off, is now up for pre-order. It will be released November 14. It included a teaser for the next full length novel, The Glenister Papers, which will be out in May 2019.
I'm really excited to have a new story out in the world. Meanwhile here are a couple of out takes that didn't make it into The Duke's Gambit.
The first is a scene between Malcolm and Addison, which I didn't include because getting Addison and Blanca back from Italy in the time allotted proved too complicated.
Addison shook out a black cashmere coat. "Your cravats are sadly in want of starching, but that's easily done. Your coats are in reasonably decent order, but as long as we're in London, we might as well order you a new one from Hobbs. Boots too."
Malcolm studied his valet. "Addison, we won't—"
"Be here long? All the more reason to attend to it while we can. We ordered from the Continent once or twice, but it much better when they can tailor them on you in person."
"Addison, for God's sake, we have—"
"More important things to think about? I won't argue with that." Addison folded the black coat. "It doesn't mean we don't have time for the coats." He twitched a sleeve smooth. "I know the pressures you're under. I'm concerned about Mrs. Thirle myself. I can scarcely imagine how difficult it must before for you. It won't take much of your time. I can handle the rest."
Malcolm got up and went to pour two glasses of whisky. "You should spend the time we have here with your family."
"I will." Addison met Malcolm's gaze as he accepted a glass of whisky. "But you of all people should understand about the need to keep busy."
The second I cut from a longer scene between Laura and Raoul. Part of what's below remained in the published book, but I cut the last part because I think it can oversimplify to say that a current relationship, however strong, renders prior relationships less important. I'm curious about what other's think.
Laura put her hands on his chest. "There's something else to report about the League." She kept her voice as conversational as possible. "One of their members approached me today."
She told him about Sir Lucius Brandon, as succinctly and with as little drama as possible. Raoul listened without interruption, his gaze steady on her face, but his brows drew together.
"I got you into this."
"Not this," Laura said. "I got entangled with the League on my own. I'm rather insulted they know me so little they think there's the least chance they could turn me against you. Or convince me they could or would protect you."
"They're desperate."
"Which could be an advantage."
"Or could make them more dangerous."
"We've always known the League were a potential threat."
"But they hadn't verbalized it this directly." He pulled her to him again, his chin on her hair. "I don't think I could survive anything happening to you."
"That's nonsense," Laura said, voice muffled by his cravat. "You know you could survive anything if you had to. And you'd have to, for the children."
"There are different definitions of survive. I'd find a way to go on."
Laura pulled her head back to look up at him. "And I hope you'd be happy again."
He put his hand against the side of her face. "One doesn't find this again, my darling."
She looked into his gaze. The gaze of a man shaken, perhaps more than he had thought possible. Which in turn shook her.
"You'd like to fling my past in my face?" he said. "I don't deny the other bonds I've formed. I don't deny their strength. This is different, Laura. This, what we've built. We've been playing for keeps from the first. Even before we—I—admitted it."
She slid her arms round him. "For me as well. And of course I also hope it never comes to pass. I feel the same way when you're gone. I know I can't completely deny the risks. I trust you're taking every precaution. I trust you. I trust you trust me."
"You know I do, sweetheart. It doesn't make the terror go away."
"It's part of the lives we lead."
He gave a bleak smile and pressed a kiss to her forehead. "That's my Laura. Throwing my own words back at me."
2 Responses to "Darlington Letters up for pre-order & Duke's Gambit out takes"
Fun to read what didn't make the cut – I like having a scene with Addison, who seems like a man of few words most of the time.
Tracy Grant Says:
Glad you enjoyed them, Lynne! I'm always sad to cut things, so it's fun to be able to share them. I like how this scene shows Addison and Malcolm's relationship evolving. I wonder if with the truth about Mélanie in the open and the move to Italy, they are shifting to a degree from master-valet to friends. To an extent I think they've always been friends, but I also think they've both remained behind their roles to a degree.
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Matthieu Blastarès (en grec Ματθαῖος ὁ Βλαστάρης) est un moine byzantin du début du , théologien, canoniste et hymnographe.

Éléments biographiques

On en sait très peu à son sujet. Selon les manuscrits qui contiennent ses œuvres, il était hiéromoine du monastère de la Péribleptos à Thessalonique, fut disciple d'Isaac, higoumène de cet établissement, et y mourut. La préface de son Syntagma est datée : « l'an 6843 (de la Création) », c'est-à-dire 1334/35.

Œuvres

La plupart de ses écrits sont inédits : on connaît une dizaine de traités dogmatiques (notamment contre les Latins et contre les Juifs), une demi-douzaine d'ouvrages juridiques (principalement des résumés de collections canoniques), un petit traité de rhétorique, les listes des dignités civiles et des dignités ecclésiastiques de l'Empire byzantin de son époque présentées en vers politiques, et de la poésie liturgique (tropaires).

L'ouvrage juridique qui a fait sa célébrité est son Syntagma. Le titre complet est Σύνταγμα κατὰ στοιχεῖον τῶν ἐμπεριειλημμένων ἁπασῶν ὑποθέσεων τοῖς ἱεροῖς καὶ θείοις κανόσι πονηθέν τε ἅμα καὶ συντεθὲν τῷ ἐν ἱερομονάχοις ἐλαχίστῳ Ματθαίῳ τῷ Βλαστάρῃ, Recueil par ordre alphabétique de toutes les matières comprises dans les sacrés et divins canons, à la fois élaboré et composé par le très humble hiéromoine Matthieu Blastarès. Il s'agit d'une sorte d'encyclopédie juridique par ordre alphabétique, où la matière, après un bref historique du droit canon et une introduction sur la foi orthodoxe, est répartie en 303 chapitres introduits par un mot-clef : par exemple, à la lettre Α, on trouve le chapitre « ἀρνησάμενοι » (« apostats »), « αἱρετικοί » (« hérétiques »), « ἀνάθεμα » (« anathème »), etc. ; à la lettre Η, les chapitres « ἡγούμενοι » (« higoumènes »), « ἡμέρα » (« jour », c'est-à-dire comment compter le début et la fin du jour), etc. Les chapitres unissent les « canons » d'origine ecclésiastique et les « lois » (νόμοι) d'origine séculière, comme il était d'usage dans les Nomocanons, mais dans le cadre nouveau de la réforme judiciaire d'Andronic III (1329) : des juges laïcs et ecclésiastiques avaient été institués paritairement, et les métropolites et les archidiacres, devenus « juges universels » (καθολικοὶ κριταί), avaient reçu le pouvoir de trancher les litiges civils. Cependant le droit canon occupe une place prépondérante dans le Syntagma, et la majorité des chapitres portent sur des sujets religieux et ecclésiastiques.

Le Syntagma de Matthieu Blastarès a eu une grande diffusion dans les pays orthodoxes : en 1935, on en connaissait 90 manuscrits en langue grecque ; en outre, il existe au moins 20 manuscrits de la version intégrale et 15 manuscrits d'une version abrégée en serbe, et en Roumanie plus de 20 manuscrits de la version slavo-roumaine et 4 manuscrits en roumain. Le plus ancien manuscrit grec conservé date de 1342, sept ans après la rédaction (codex n° 149 de la Bibliothèque synodale de Moscou). Les manuscrits grecs se divisent en deux groupes : une rédaction dite « de Constantinople », la plus ancienne et la principale, et une rédaction dite « d'Ohrid », qui est la source, notamment, de la version serbe, dont les deux plus anciens manuscrits conservés datent de 1380.

Le texte grec (rédaction de Constantinople) a été édité trois fois. Au , Jacques Goar y travailla, mais mourut sans avoir rien mis sous presse ; l'editio princeps se trouve dans le tome 2 du Synodikon sive Pandectæ canonum de William Beveridge (Oxford, 1672). Ensuite, le texte figure dans le Σύνταγμα τῶν θείων καὶ ἱερῶν κανόνων de G. A. Rhallès et M. Potlès (6 vol. Athènes, G. Charophylakos, 1852-59 ; réimpr. 1966). Enfin, il peut se lire en PG dans les vol. 144 et 145. Pour la version serbe intégrale, il existe une édition de Stojan Novaković (Matije Vlastara Sintagmat ; azbučni zbornik vizantijskih crkvenih i državnih zakona i pravila. Slovenski prevod iz vremena Dušanova, Belgrade, 1907).

Bibliographie
 Alexandre V. Soloviev, « L'œuvre juridique de Matthieu Blastarès », Studi bizantini e neoellenici 5, 1939, 698-707.
 Panteles B. Paschos, Ο Ματθαίος Βλαστάρης και το υμνογραφικόν έργον του, Thessalonique, 1978.
 Jivko Panev, « La réception du Syntagma de Matthieu Blastarès en Serbie », Études balkaniques 10, 2003, 27-45.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Religieux byzantin
Théologien byzantin du XIVe siècle
Juriste byzantin
Canoniste
Hiéromoine

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All About Luther
By Cynthia Eller
When Reading Religion first began ramping up in January 2016, we noticed that there were an awful lot of books rolling in on Martin Luther. "What's up with that?" we asked one another. We even discussed writing a feature noting this peculiar and abrupt rise of new works on the famed Reformer. Obviously, we were very, very slow on the uptake (perhaps just as obviously, none of us were scholars of Christianity), but eventually we were enlightened: October 31, 2017 would be the 500th anniversary of the day that Martin Luther sent his ninety-five theses to the Archbishop of Mainz and, it is thought, posted these theses on the door of the All Saint's Church in Wittenberg, Germany. Publishers and authors were simply preparing to capitalize on this anniversary.
Now that day is upon us.
Just when the Protestant Reformation began is a matter of some dispute among scholars. Trouble was brewing for the Catholic Church in many places and for various reasons in the 15th and 16th centuries, and going back over the history of the Western church from its inception, Martin Luther was hardly the first to proclaim a new, non-Catholic Christian church. But as dates go, the posting of the ninety-five theses makes for wonderful storytelling: it is full of narrative vigor, includes a broadside in church Latin (for fans of material religion), and relies on a dynamic hero (or antihero, depending on your convictions). So we at Reading Religion will follow the Martin Luther trend rather than try to set our own, and share with you the story of his Reformation and its legacy via over fifty recently published books.
But before diving into these resources, it may be worthwhile to point out that according to Reformation historian Peter Marshall of the University of Warwick, the event that is memorialized in this quincentenary quite likely did not occur. Volunteer to review his book 1517: Martin Luther and the Invention of the Reformation by clicking here.
To begin with, the man: Martin Luther himself is a source of nearly endless fascination. Key religious figures don't all share the same personality, Max Weber's theories notwithstanding. But if you are looking for a textbook case of charisma, you need look no farther than Luther. Princeton University, Yale University, and Oxford University Presses, Basic Books, Fortress Press, and Zondervan have all brought us new biographies of Luther, and Augsburg Fortress Press has published a revised second edition of the classic Luther the Reformer: The Story of the Man and His Career, by James M. Kittelson and Hans H. Wiersma. Luther the Reformer has been a standard text for beginning students of the Reformation since its initial publication in 1986. (Perhaps it even served as your introduction to Luther, unless you arrived in seminary or graduate school before the mid 1980s, in which case that honor would probably have gone to Here I Stand by Roland Bainton.) Luther the Reformer aims to be comprehensive, capturing all facets of Luther's life and theology. Inseo Song of Fuller Theological Seminary, who reviewed this title for Reading Religion, tells us, however, that this biography of Luther tends to privilege his pastoral role.
With such a standout biography still in press, Fortress has nevertheless risen to the challenge of publishing another biography of Luther: Resilient Reformer: The Life and Thought of Martin Luther. Started by Timothy F. Lull and completed by Derek R. Nelson after Lull's death, Resilient Reformer gives more attention than most to Luther's collaborators, showing that Luther was a leader, but by no means acting or thinking alone. Student reviewer Jacob R. Randolph of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary describes the book as "dramatic and compelling," steering an admirable middle course between an "oversimplified rendering of a steadfast saint waging war against the oppressive Latin Church" and offering up Luther as "egomaniac, depraved, demonized, and cocksure to the point of insanity."
A deeply personal biography of Luther comes to us from Yale University Press: Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer, by Scott H. Hendrix. According to reviewer Anthony Bateza of St. Olaf College, Hendrix's biography is "the best English-language biography of Martin Luther available today" (though Bateza does hedge his bets, noting that there will likely be several new biographies arriving on the scene shortly). Hendrix makes extended use of Luther's correspondence as well as personal anecdotes about his life, highlighting both the beautiful and the unbeautiful in Luther as befits a man characterized by, in Hendrix's words, "euphoria and dejection."
Luther's Fortress: Martin Luther and His Reformation Under Siege, by James Reston Jr., covers only a sliver of Luther's life, from his ninety-five theses in 1517 through 1522 when, charged as a heretic, he went into hiding in the Wartburg Castle under the protection of Duke Frederick of Saxony. Reviewer Anthony Bateza is considerably less fond of Reston's biography than of Hendrix's. Though he praises Reston as "an excellent storyteller" who has produced an "enthralling story," he believes the book "suffers from a lack of attention to Luther's historical context and a questionable grasp of his theology." Read the full review here.
Bradley Peterson of the Episcopal School for Deacons is currently preparing a review of The Making of Martin Luther by Richard Rex, published by Princeton University Press; this book is described as a biography that focuses on Luther's most creative years.
Lest you are worrying that there are no Luther biographies left for you to review, take heart! There are two more biographies still available for review: Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Upheaval by Heinz Schilling, Professor Emeritus of Early Modern History at Humboldt University in Berlin. This volume, published in translation by Oxford University Press, promises to emphasize the social and political context and impact of Luther's life. Oxford University Press has also published A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation by Craig Harline, Professor of History at Brigham Young University. Harline's biography stresses Luther's famous struggles for salvation, his lengthy "dark night of the soul" that eventually led him to theological views that would change the face of the Christian church over a large swath of Europe and eventually the globe.
Did I mention "the unbeautiful in Luther"? This was on flagrant display in Luther's scathing, repeated diatribes against the Jews. Thomas Kaufmann, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Göttingen, details Luther's anti-Semitism in Luther's Jews: A Journey into Anti-Semitism. Originally published in German in 2014, this book is now available in English from Oxford University Press and is available for review on Reading Religion. Another investigation into Luther's anti-Semitism has a more pointed agenda. Richard S. Harvey, author of Luther and the Jews: Putting Right the Lies, argues that Messianic Jews have a special role to play in bringing forward Luther's anti-Semitism, helping Lutherans to repent of their connection to this hatred, bringing Protestants and Catholics together, and reconciling Christians and Jews. If you'd like to review this title, click here.
And if, like me, you've always wondered just who was the German Catholic nun, cloistered from the age of five, who gave up her vows to marry Luther, bear six of his children, and successfully run a large farm and brewery, then you must volunteer to review Katie Luther, First Lady of the Reformation: The Unconventional Life of Katharina Von Bora by Ruth A. Tucker.
Historical Reception
Martin Luther's life had a great impact—hence, his biographies are worth reading—but if it's his legacy that interests you most, you may want to take a look at these new volumes on the historical reception of Luther's thought. With the straightforward title October 31, 1517: Martin Luther and the Day that Changed the World,Martin E. Marty's slim volume sounds like an introduction to the German Reformation for novices. Instead, as reviewer Jakob Karl Rinderknecht of the Pastoral Institute at the University of the Incarnate Word tells us, the book is in reality an extended meditation on the first of Luther's ninety-five theses: "When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he intended the entire life of believers to be repentance." Marty is interested particularly in how Christians have and should repent of the "scandal of division" among Christians—a scandal created, for Marty, by the Protestant Reformation itself.
Reformation Observances: 1517-2017, by Philip D. W. Krey, places our current quincentennial remembrance of Luther and the Protestant Reformation onto a timeline of previous centennial celebrations by churches from the major strands of Christianity that either weathered or were born in Europe in the early 16th century: Lutheran, Anglican, Reformed, and Roman Catholic. This book is being reviewed by Donald K. McKim, a retired minister of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and a much-published author of devotional and theological works in the Reformed tradition.
Other books discuss Luther's ongoing impact on Christians both close to and far separated from him in time. One edited volume, Luther and Calvinism: Image and Reception of Martin Luther in the History and Theology of Calvinism (edited by Herman J. Sledrhuis and J. Marius Lange van Ravenswaay), turns, after a series of chapters on "Luther in Calvinist Tradition," towards various regions of Europe and particular thinkers from Erasmus to Karl Barth in order to assess Luther's influence. Some chapters are in English, others are in German, and we are counting on reviewer Eundeuk Kim, a doctoral candidate at Calvin Theological Seminary, to help us sift through Luther and Calvinism for its most significant contributions.
Scholars are also unveiling Luther's influence on later theologians, as for example in Michael P. DeJonge's book, Bonhoeffer's Reception of Luther. As reviewer Jordan J. Bailor of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty tells us, this book follows on DeJonge's earlier analysis of Bonhoeffer's theology, but here looks specifically at how Bonhoeffer engaged with Luther's thought, particularly in terms of his Christology and the doctrine of the two kingdoms.
Additional Lutheran activists—beyond Bonhoeffer—are the subject of Radical Lutherans/Lutheran Radicals, edited by Jason A. Mahn. Asking the questions "Can a Lutheran be sociopolitically radical? Can a radical be theologically and faithfully Lutheran?" the contributors answer with the lives of Luther himself and with Bonhoeffer, but also examine Søren Kierkegaard and Dorothee Soelle, among others. Matthew K. Jones, an independent scholar who studied at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, is reviewing this book for Reading Religion.
Contemporary Reception
Luther's influence is still strongly felt among both lay Christians and Christian theologians today. Some authors even make the counter-intuitive case that Luther's theology opened the door to secularism, atheism, and even the so-called "rise of the nones" in the contemporary United States. Brad S. Gregory's Rebel in the Ranks: Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts that Continue to Shape Our World begins as a biography of Luther portrayed as an inadvertent revolutionary, but carries through to a final chapter titled "Separated and Diminished Religion, Secularized and Divided Society" that bemoans Luther's (unintended) legacy. The book is under review by James C. Ungureanu of the University of Queensland in Australia.
A similar argument proposing a role for Luther in contemporary secularism and atheism is presented in very different form by Marius Timmann Mjaaland in his book, The Hidden God: Luther, Philosophy, and Political Theology. Mjaaland is primarily interested in Luther's role as an originator and transmitter of philosophy, arguing that although Luther belonged to the late medieval world, he gestured toward a world to come, deconstructing metaphysics and renewing apocalyptic thought in a way that is still manifest today. Armand J. Boehme, associate pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church in Northfield, Minnesota—the heartland of American Lutheranism—has reviewed this book for Reading Religion.
Two reflections on particular aspects of Luther's theology are still available for review: Passionate Embrace: Luther on Love, Body, and Sensual Presence, by Elisabeth Gerie, Professor of Ethics at Lund University in Sweden, and Martin Luther's Theology of Beauty: A Reappraisal, by Mark C. Mattes, Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Grand View University. Passionate Embrace reminds its readers that one of the things Luther rejected in medieval Christianity was a negative view of the body, and by extension—at least for European men of the era—women. Martin Luther's Theology of Beauty examines Luther's interest in music and art for the Christian church, and the implications of his doctrine of justification by faith for a Christian aesthetics.
Other voices seek to relate Luther to newer Christian movements initiated long after he was laid in his grave. Walter Altmann asks how Luther can be read in the context of Latin America in his book Luther and Liberation: A Latin American Perspective. This volume is being reviewed by Raimundo Barreto of Princeton Theological Seminary. Alberto L. García and John A. Nunes ask how global Christianity engages Luther's theology—in particular the theme of sola fide—in Wittenberg Meets the World: Reimaging the Reformation at the Margins, now under review by Armand Boehme.
Finally, in What Has Wittenberg to do with Azusa: Luther's Theology of the Cross and Pentecostal Triumphalism,author David J. Courey, Canadian theologian and Pentecostal minister, argues that Luther's theology of the cross can solve a problem he perceives in North American Pentecostalism: namely, triumphalism (the belief that Christians can reliably avoid suffering and/or achieve perfection through faith in Christ). As student reviewer Brendon Norton of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary explains, "Courey's application of Luther's theologia crucis is to remind Pentecostals that suffering and descent precede resurrection and victory thus creating the space to admit human frailty into the Pentecostal discussion."
Luther is of interest to all sorts of Christians, but for Lutherans there is a more direct line from the German Reformer to their religious lives. Encounters with Luther: New Directions for Critical Studies is an anthology edited by leading scholars of Lutheranism Kirsi I. Stjerna and Brooks Schramm. Its essays were presented at the Luther Colloquy at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and previously published in the seminary's faculty journal. The topics covered in this volume are many and various, from prayer to marriage to the devil. According to reviewer Inseo Song, while the volume "discusses some traditional topics, it also includes unexpected and provocative claims on Luther's theology."
On Secular Governance: Lutheran Perspectives on Contemporary Legal Issues, edited by Donald W. Duty and Marie A. Failinger, tackles all manner of contemporary legal questions—immigration, human trafficking, church-state relations, environmentalism—from an explicitly Lutheran viewpoint. If you would like to review it, click here.
From the Lutheran World Federation comes the fourth edition of From Conflict to Communion: Lutheran-Catholic Common Commemoration of the Reformation in 2017. From Conflict to Communion is the outgrowth of a Lutheran-Roman Catholic Commission that has, in the years leading up to the quincentenary of Luther's ninety-five theses, been working toward a jointly affirming, ecumenical celebration of the occasion (which was not the case in all previous centennial celebrations). This is part of a longer and potentially more significant dialogue between the Lutheran Churches and the Roman Catholic Church, who, particularly with the leadership of Pope Francis, are moving toward greater reconciliation. A short treatise, From Conflict to Communion is available for review.
With no particular tie to this year's 500th anniversary, Mark Granquist recently offered a study of the Lutheran experience in the United States, titled Lutherans in America: A New History. Jon Pahl of the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia has reviewed the book and concludes that it "delivers the best overview of US Lutheran history currently in print."
Reference Works on Luther
After many of these biographies, histories, and theologies regarding Luther have been shuttled to the library annex, we may anticipate that several new reference works will remain. Two encyclopedias devoted to Martin Luther have 2017 publication dates, one from Rowman and Littlefield Publishers (2 volumes), and the other from Oxford University Press (3 volumes). Edited by Mark A. Lamport, Rowman and Littlefield's Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation aims to be "a comprehensive global study of the life and work of Martin Luther and the movements that followed him." It is being reviewed for Reading Religion by Samuel Dubbelman, a doctoral student at Boston University. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther, edited by Derek R. Nelson and Paul R. Hinlicky, includes 125 entries that cross disciplinary lines to answer traditional questions but also to provide information on questions pertinent to today's religious studies discourse, such as Luther's attitudes towards Islam and Judaism. Bradley Penner, adjunct professor of theology at Biercrest College and Seminary, is reviewing this encyclopedia for Reading Religion.
Let us pause for just a moment, and consider the wisdom of Samuel Dubbelman and Bradley Penner. These encyclopedias are 978 and 2240 pages long, respectively, costing $250 for the 2-volume set and $595 for the 3-volume set. Do you long to have such books on your own bookshelf? Subscribe to the Reading Religionnewsletter, which will arrive in your email inbox every two weeks with lists of new books received. Volunteer to review the reference book of your choice when it first becomes available, and voilà! For the price of as little as four hundred words of prose, these books are yours!
A single-volume Dictionary of Luther and the Lutheran Traditions comes to us from Baker Academic, edited by Timothy J. Wengert. Covering the global Lutheran movement as well as Luther's life, times, and thought, the dictionary has nearly six hundred entries. It is being reviewed by Timothy J. Orr of Simpson University.
In addition to its above-mentioned encyclopedia of Martin Luther, Oxford University Press has also released The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther's Theology, edited by Robert Kolb, Irene Dingel, and L'ubomir Batka. Reviewer David Fink of Furman University commends this volume for the "significant generational and geographic diversity among the contributors" and its engagement with both primary sources and secondary scholarship.
So far we have learned that a whole lot of people want to talk about Luther and Lutheranism from vantage points as various as theology and history to law and philosophy. But Luther spoke for himself…a lot. In the run up to the 500th anniversary, Fortress Press has been releasing the six volumes of their series, The Annotated Luther. The first two, Volume 1: The Roots of Reform (edited by Timothy J. Wengert) and Volume 2: Word and Faith (edited by Kirsi I. Stjerna) have been reviewed on Reading Religion by Terra Rowe of Marist College, giving us a sense of the contents of these individual volumes and also the value of the series. The series includes seventy-five of Luther's "most essential writings," with extensive commentary by scholars and the addition of visual aids including maps, timelines, illustrations, art, and photos.
The general public is no doubt under the impression that Luther was, more than anything else, the firebrand that took down the Roman Catholic Church and invented Protestantism. While he may have done this—intentionally or not, with a lot of help from historical coincidences or through the passionate force of his will—what is often missed is Luther's remaining Catholicity. This is remedied by The Catholic Luther: His Early Writings, a set of Luther's texts collected by Philip D. W. Krey and Peter D. S. Krey to illustrate Luther's continued reverence for strongly Catholic themes even after his official break with the church. Terry L. Christian, a doctoral student at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, is reviewing this title for Reading Religion.
The Greater Protestant Reformation
This piece is titled "All Things Luther," and I've tried to stay within the defrocked monk's life, thought, and legacy. But there has also been a bumper crop of books on the Reformation more generally that are worth mentioning. So if your interest in the Reformation is not yet exhausted, here are some titles still available for review, from the carefully historical to the ardently polemical:
Reformation in the Western World, by Paul Silas Peterson
The Protestant Reformation and World Christianity: Global Perspectives, edited by Dale T. Irvin
Global Perspectives on the Reformation: Interactions between Theology, Politics, and Economics, edited by Anne Burkhardt and Simone Sinn
Remembering the Reformation: An Inquiry into the Meanings of Protestantism, by Thomas Albert Howard
The Reformation 500 Years Later: 12 Things You Need to Know, by Benjamin Wiker
Was the Reformation a Mistake? Why Catholic Doctrine is Not Unbiblical, by Matthew Levering and Kevin J. Vanhoozer
The Unfinished Reformation: What Unites and Divides Catholics and Protestants After 500 Years, by Gregg Allison and Chris Castaldo
God's Word Alone—The Authority of Scripture: What the Reformers Taught…And Why It Matters, by Matthew Barrett
Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds nor Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today, by John Shelby Spong
And here are similar titles either already reviewed or currently under review:
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation, edited by Peter Marshall
Atlas of the European Reformations, by Tim Dowley
Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650, by Carlos M. N. Eire
Protestantism After 500 Years, edited by Thomas Albert Howard and Mark A. Noll
Mysticism in the Reformation, 1500-1650, Part 1, by Bernard McGinn
The Freedom of a Christian Ethicist: The Future of a Reformation Legacy, edited by Brian Brock and Michael Mawson
Eco-Reformation: Grace and Hope for a Planet in Peril, edited by Lisa A.Dahill and Jim B. Martin-Schramm
The Wheat and the Tares: Doctrines of the Church in the Reformation, 1500-1590, by Andrew Allan Chibi
Christ Alone—The Uniqueness of Jesus as Savior: What the Reformers Taught…And Why It Still Matters, by Stephen Wellum
Grace Alone—Salvation as a Gift From God: What the Reformers Taught…And Why It Still Matters, by Carl R. Trueman
Lesser Known Facets of the Lutheran Reformation
And now it is time for dessert! Sometimes the most interesting books are those not easily categorized. Here we have two intriguing volumes that bring to light the music and art of Luther's Germany.
The Whole Church Sings: Congregational Singing in Luther's Wittenberg is the work of musicologist Robin A. Leaver, formerly of Westminster Choir College in the UK. It is reviewed by David R. Bains of Samford University. Examining a German hymnal dating to 1526 and relying on an earlier study of German hymnology (written by Johann Christoph Olearius and published for the 200th anniversary of the Reformation in 1717), Leaver traces developments in German vernacular song and Luther's interest in adapting tunes to the German language to argue that congregational singing—as opposed to singing by choirs—was a very early part of Lutheran worship.
Meanwhile, Katerina Horníčková and Michael Šronėk have edited a volume titled From Hus to Luther: Visual Culture in the Bohemian Reformation (1380-1620), published by Brepols Publishers in Belgium, that provides a glimpse into artwork associated with the Lutheran Reformation. Though Bohemia is fairly far afield from Luther's Wittenberg, especially by late medieval standards, it provides an interesting window onto religious art in a more ethnically and linguistically diverse area. Bohemia was dominated by non-Catholic Christianities in the 15th and 16th centuries, only one of which was Lutheranism. This book is still available for review. Volunteer to review it here.
There you have it! All things Luther at Reading Religion, up to the very date of the quincentenary. However, as all academics know, deadlines—even ones as firm as a 500th anniversary—can be squiggly things. Stay tuned to the Reading Religion newsletter, as we will undoubtedly be receiving even more books on Luther over the coming months.
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Title: Visualization of engine design, simulation and optimization
Authors: Wang, Yan Chao
Keywords: Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Information systems::Information interfaces and presentation
Source: Wang, Y. C. (2019). Visualization of engine design, simulation and optimization. Doctoral thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Abstract: The development of techniques contributes to the digitalization of engine-related procedures, generating a massive amount of engine-related data generated. An effective and efficient understanding of these datasets would provide domain experts with new insights. However, it is impractical for human beings to go through the raw data to have a clear understanding to conduct data analysis, as these datasets have a large-scale size and complex data formats. Hence such data understanding requires closely coupled human and data analysis, where information visualization comes into play. The task on how to utilize information visualization to efficiently understand engine-related datasets can be considered from two aspects. Firstly, visualization can focus on a specific visual analytic target, by integrating heterogeneous datasets and providing meaningful visualization methods. Secondly, visualization can generically provide a tidy and useful view for certain data types. Hence, our work is organized in two aspects: designing specific visualization system for certain analysis target and proposing novel visualization methods for certain data structures in the engine-related dataset, such as high-dimensional data and hierarchical data. For specific visualization system, this thesis presents EngineQV, a single page web-based integrated visualization system that integrates multiple geo-temporal engine-associated datasets, with the aim of assisting domain experts to explore the external factors that affect the aircraft engine performance. The system features a dynamic query on the datasets and incorporates several customized interactive visualizations, which provides intuitive exploration and understanding of the data from various aspects. With the system, a user may query a certain group of engines or compare multiple engine groups, identify an issue, and find its potential causes. The functionality and usability of EngineQV are evaluated by several case studies. The validity of this specific system is confirmed by expert feedback. For generic high-dimensional data visualization, we focus on easing the clumping effect in the two promising plots, RadViz and Star Coordinate. We observe that with the increase of dataset size and dimensionality, the clumping of projected data points towards the origin in RadViz causes low space utilization and degenerates the visibility of the feature characteristics. Hence, to better evaluate the hidden patterns in the centre region, we proposed a new focus+context distortion approach, termed PolarViz, to manipulate the radial distribution of data points in RadViz. PolarViz cannot be directly used in Star Coordinate, as the Star Coordinate does not have a boundary and PolarViz needs the plot boundary to calculate the relative distance. In this case, we proposed a geometric algorithm to determine an axis-aligned bounding box, minimum bounding box, and bounding polygon of the star coordinate with an evenly distributed configuration and an arbitrarily distributed configuration respectively. These boundaries also can provide an overview of the plot and enable a continuous point rendering that adapts to the screen space boundary. For generic hierarchical data visualization, we consider providing a tidy and flexible layout for implicit hierarchy visualization. To achieve this, we propose a novel space partitioning strategy. Starting from a new distance function and neighborhood relationship between sites, we divide the space by axis-aligned segments. Then a sweepline+skyline based heuristic algorithm is proposed to allocate the partitioned spaces to form an orthogonal Voronoi diagram with orthogonal rectangles. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first time to use a sweepline-based strategy for the Voronoi treemap. Moreover, we design a novel strategy to initialize the diagram status and modify the status update procedure so that the generation of our plot is more effective and efficient. We show that the proposed algorithm has an $O(n · log(n))$ complexity which is the same as the state-of-the-art Voronoi treemap. To this end, we show, via experiments on artificial and real-world datasets, the performance of our algorithm in terms of computation time, converge rate, and aspect ratio. Most of our work are implemented in JavaScript and the source code of the proposed PolarViz and the orthogonal Voronoi treemap have been uploaded into the GitHub. The thesis ends with the conclusions of our works and a discussion of future work.
DOI: 10.32657/10356/137190
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Report: Borja Mayoral Could Leave Roma in January
Mayoral's two-year loan with Roma could end six months early if reports from Spain are accurate.
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Borja Mayoral's awkward Roman holiday could reach an abrupt end if reports out of Spain are accurate. The 24-year-old Spanish striker arrived in Roma last summer on a two-year loan from Real Madrid, giving the club an unknown, albeit intriguing, understudy for Edin Dzeko. After surviving on Europa League table scraps early in his Roma tenure, Mayoral quickly found his groove and finished the season with 17 goals in all competitions, converting nearly 27% of his shots into goals. He didn't provide the same physical profile as Dzeko, but thanks to his off-the-ball movement and smooth finishing, he was the best number two striker Roma had in years.
And while Roma actually had two separate options to purchase Mayoral outright (€15 million in 2021 and €20 million in 2022), the club opted to pass on the '21 option, effectively making this a prove-it season for Mayoral in Roma. Mayoral received a vote of confidence from new manager José Mourinho, who may have actually put the kibosh and a move to Crystal Palace late last month, but the arrivals of Tammy Abraham and Eldor Shomurodov, as well as the persistent Sardar Azmoun rumors, have suddenly cast Mayoral's immediate future in doubt.
According to todofichajes.com, the 24-year-old Spanish striker could ask his parent club to sort out a new loan or permanent transfer this January, with Fiorentina, Atalanta, and several La Liga clubs reportedly interested in signing him during the winter transfer window.
Granted, this isn't a source we reference often, but the validity of their reporting—in this instance—is really irrelevant. Considering the circumstances (the new manager and two new strikers above him in the pecking order), the spirit of this report rings true. At 24-years-old, Mayoral is at a critical juncture in his career where he needs to play consistently to continue his upward trajectory; living off secondhand minutes won't aid his development.
With the transfer market closed in most major leagues, Roma, Real Madrid, and Mayoral have three months to sort this out. But considering the Giallorossi just dropped over €60 million on Abraham and Shomurodov, and seem intent on signing Azmoun next June, the writing is likely on the wall: Mayoral's days with Roma are numbered.
The only lingering question is whether he'll bide his time until June, hoping that he can work his way into the rotation, or push for an early exit in January, finding a club with a more immediate need for his skill set.


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Nils Hugo Ragnar Andersson, född 15 december 1930 i Sundals-Ryrs församling, Älvsborgs län, död 11 december 2021 i Vänersborg, var en svensk präst.

Efter studier i Vänersborg blev Andersson student vid Göteborgs högskola 1952 och avlade teologisk-filosofisk examen där 1953. Han blev student vid Lunds universitet samma år och avlade teologie kandidatexamen där 1957. Andersson prästvigdes samma år. Efter tjänstgöring som stiftsadjunkt i Karlstad, domkyrkokomminister i Lund och kyrkoherde i Stora Kil blev han domprost i Luleå 1980. Han hade då avlagt teologie doktorsexamen 1973. Andersson blev emeritus 1990. Han har medverkat i olika tidskrifter.

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Where Do the Millions of Cancer Research Dollars Go?
How much money is raised and spent in fighting cancer?
1. Cancer money:
The Stand Up to Cancer telethon — simulcast Friday night on all four major broadcast networks and 28 cable channels, and live-streamed on Yahoo and Hulu (available on YouTube, see below) — reminded me of a story I have long wanted to read: How much money is being spent on cancer research, where is it going and how well is it being spent?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhzdWgBtgSI
This story, from the CBS Los Angeles affiliate, reports, "Stand Up to Cancer was established in 2008 by film and media leaders as a new collaborative model of cancer research.
"More than $261 million has been pledged to support its programs," the report continued, adding that the organization "has funded 12 teams of researchers, two transnational research teams and 26 young scientists."
A story from the Associated Press reported that organizers said $109 million was raised from Friday's event.
Last weekend was also the Race for the Cure, run through New York's Central Park, organized by the nonprofit foundation, Susan G. Komen. The group's website says it spent $58 million in fiscal year 2012 on grants for breast cancer research. Numerous other nonprofits — such as the Lustgarten Foundation, which funded $13 million in pancreatic cancer research in 2013 — similarly target different cancers.
All that seems like a lot, except that the website of the National Cancer Institute, one of the federal National Institutes of Health, reports that Washington funded $4.8 billion in cancer research in the 2013 fiscal year, and funding has averaged $4.9 billion over the past six years.
As I continue to pay attention to health industry news for a book I am completing, I'm constantly reading stories about one philanthropist or another giving tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars to support — and even build new edifices for — a hospital's cancer research.
So what is the state of play? How useful is the telethon's $109 million likely to be, compared to the billions available from the federal government and other donors? Does it raise the odds of progress or water down resources if 10 research teams are working separately on the same aspect of the cancer puzzle?
Is seeking donors to put their names on two or three cancer centers in the same city a matter of hospitals exploiting egos to build their fiefdoms? Or is it a true force-multiplier?
Is there something special about what the Stand Up to Cancer group says is its "new collaborative model"? If so, who are the most notorious non-collaborators?
Are there consultants who specialize in winning grants for hospitals and other research teams? Does their effectiveness undermine the mission by getting funds for less promising efforts?
In other words, is this like the government contracts business, where some contractors are better at winning contracts than fulfilling them?
How good is the National Cancer Institute at pulling the plug on research that has become a dry hole?
Where does Congress — which funds the institute — fit into the picture?
And where do the drug companies, who claim to spend their own billions on cancer research, fit in?
2. Alibaba and the China risk factor:
On the eve of the public offering of stock for Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, being touted as one of the largest initial public offerings in history, it amazes me that this eye-opening New York Times story by William Alden last May has not gotten more attention.
Alden's story delves into what the Alibaba prospectus reveals are the complicated corporate entanglements and potential conflicts of interest involving its founders, as well as the departures from U.S. standards of public-company corporate governance — all of which could victimize shareholders down the road.
See also: Meet the Latest Cancer Patient who was Cured with the Help of Cannabis Oil
Though the Times story only alludes to it, overhanging all these issues is the elephant in the room that shareholders, who some day may feel cheated by the Chinese founders bringing the company to market with all these potential conflicts and without the usual governance safeguards, are unlikely to be able to rely on U.S. courts for redress.
Similarly, with current tensions with Russia in mind, what protects American shareholders if the Chinese at some point decide to disenfranchise them completely?
So the story I want to see is one where a reporter finds investors who have attended the company's roadshow presentations and finds out from them just how aggressively the bankers and principals selling the stock were asked about that and what their answers were. And which investors decided to plunge ahead anyway or to take a pass.
It's not that Alibaba isn't a juggernaut likely to keep prospering. It's about whether the shareholders can really rely on participating in that upside.
Source | Reuters
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Objective: To present nationally representative data on the prevalence, correlates, and comorbidity of DSM-IV panic disorder (PAN), including the differentiation between panic with agoraphobia (PDA) and without agoraphobia (PDWA) and agoraphobia without a history of panic disorder (AG).
Method: The data were derived from the 2001-2002 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (N = 43,093). Prevalence, correlates, and comorbidity of PAN, PDA, and PDWA with Axis I and II disorders were determined.
Results: Prevalences of 12-month and lifetime PAN were 2.1% and 5.1%. Rates of 12-month and lifetime PDWA were 1.6% and 4.0%, exceeding those of 12-month (0.6%) and lifetime (1.1%) PDA. Rates of 12-month and lifetime AG were extremely low, 0.05% and 0.17%. Being female, Native American, middle-aged, widowed/separated/divorced, and of low income increased risk, while being Asian, Hispanic, or black decreased risk for PAN, PDA, and PDWA. Individuals with PDA were more likely to seek treatment and had earlier ages at onset and first treatment, longer episodes, and more severe disability, impairment, panic symptomatology, and Axis I and II comorbidity than those with PDWA.
Conclusion: PDA may be a more severe variant of PAN. Overrepresentation of PDA in treatment settings reflects increased treatment seeking and the severity of PDA relative to PDWA. The very low prevalence of AG leaves open questions about the meaning of the disorder as a distinct clinical entity as defined in the DSM-IV.


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WRITE CLUB: NICE
Write Club is a monthly, literary bloodsport in which contenders face off against each other with 7-minute essays on competing topics. Below was my combatant essay based on the prompt "NICE," facing off against "NAUGHTY." This essay was performed on December 22, 2009, at The Hideout in Chicago, and was victorious in its bout.
There is an author somewhere who needs an adjective. Perhaps it's for a phrase; perhaps it's an overarching theme of the current work. He needs an adjective that approximates good without actually being good because the author hates the word good, hates the way it bungees from his uvula back up into his mouth, crashes into his teeth like some clown-colored 1972 Gremlin. Good is not an option, good is lingua non grata. Other authors can use good. Other authors are hacks and whores.
The adjective he wants is not all flashy fireworks, is not fantastic, is not amazing, words generally reserved for stretchy scientists and spidery men. It is not astounding, or astonishing; is not the sparkling Visaligned grin of terrific. The author is stuck on the sentence for hours that seem like decades that snap back to mere minutes yet again, and then the roulette wheel of his vocabulary's Rolodex stops suddenly on Nice.
Nice, the author thinks in blue against a background of white. Nice, the author speaks aloud. Yes. Of course. The author will employ Nice. And then the author wonders why it took him so long to think of it, as his fingertips descend towards the top and bottom rows of the keyboard.
The adjective in question, Nice, sits in the metaphorical equivalent of a paid-monthly Florida motel room, with basic cable and HBO and sporadically Showtime whenever there's a space shuttle launch; with a pool in the courtyard, over-chlorinated and slick with hair product; with cast iron railings dented by the hundreds of frustrated kicks from the sorts of people who spend their lives wishing they'd gotten farther away. Nice has a plastic yellow landline that it rarely expects to ring. Once upon a time, yes, and every now and again there are surprises. For some reason a new article needs to be written about Tom Hanks or Ellen DeGeneres or Sandra Bullock. Occasionally the adjective would find featured-extra status in adolescent slang, a gig that ebbs and flows like the securities market; suddenly 14 year-olds in California would grant Nice the saturation of punctuation marks, the way they once did for radical and gnarly, the way they once did for beast.
But Nice doesn't need the steady work anymore. Nice makes do with the residuals from its finest hours working with words like mister and guy and its breakthrough success with the ensemble of Have a day. It enjoys, wistfully, the exposure spikes that come every December (and lately November and sometimes for Chrissakes the end of October) as major market radio begins looping that ominously terrifying song about how Santa Claus ignores your Fourth Amendment rights before Coming to Town; that song that had inextricably linked Nice to Naughty, like Martin & Lewis, like Burns & Allen.
Nice was the straight-edged square to Naughty, always and forever, by nature and design. It knew and accepted its place as the amiable sleight-of-hand specialist who came out onstage while the main attraction sobered up and stretched out. The audience was long tolerant of Nice, but it always came to see Naughty, it came to see Lindsay Lohan's Playboy spread Jell-O wrestling with the Michelle Bachmann parody porn. Nice was Easter and Arbor Day, Naughty was Halloween and Mardi Gras. Every adjective had its place.
The author's offer comes down the wire and Nice accepts it politely, irons its shirt and carefully de-lints the sport coat before grabbing whatever bus is heading that direction. It arrives on time, listens attentively, hits its marks and signs the attendant tax forms in legible block letters. Everybody smiles at Nice and talks about what a pleasure it is to work with Nice and we hope we get to work again with Nice and when Nice walks off the lot everybody immediately forgets that the adjective was ever there. The crew regales each other with the stories of what happened the day before with tremendous and extreme and oh my God you would not believe what they did to the craft services table.
At this point one would guess that the adjective shuffles back to its room in metaphorical Florida and gently falls asleep in an afternoon sunbeam. And the story of the adjective seems sad, or heartwarming, and the ultimate takeaway for the audience is that all adjectives are their own adjectives, and the story of Nice just happens to be, well, nice.
Except maybe the adjective doesn't just go home after all. Because another author remembers that in addition to its Reader's Digest articles and 50th Wedding Anniversary cards Nice is often available for wet work. And this is different, and this is devastating, and this is the sort of thing that Nice can also do while everybody is preoccupied with underestimating it.
This other author spins a story of a young woman, perhaps, whose eyes work in mathematics and hands work in dreams. She is an architect, or a sculptor, or a painter, and she is in college, in the studio, at her lover's house in Vermont. She awakes every morning the exact same way except for one, and on that other morning her inner metal detector pinged on something she had no way of knowing was ever there, this bounty of Spanish bullion that had sunk to the bottom of her imagination before ever setting sail. And this woman, the protagonist in the other author's tale, she excavates this inspiration with determination and passion, spends years shaping and polishing, produces a vessel for the entirety of her pride, something that she is willing to call her life's work. She has wept and agonized over this thing in her mind, she has taken it dancing and fed it from her breast and frantically searched for it with bloodhounds each time it ran away. This creation of hers, the other author continues, is at last finished, and with what remains of her courage she brings it before her mentor, or her mother, or her peers.
The adjective, in the meantime, has been crows-nested for an eternity now, has had the protagonist in its sights, has waited patiently for its moment. The joints in the adjective's knees have gone creaky and calcified, the scope fogged and defogged a countless number of times. The protagonist shows her magnum opus to the audience and the adjective exhales and squeezes as the audience responds:
"Well. That's very nice."
She does not drop dead right then. It is not quick, what the adjective has done to her. It is torturous and insidious and course changing; it is a gale of wind growing from the chaos butterfly of a golf clap. Nice, and she will build caverns in her skull to facilitate the echo, Nice, Nice, Nice, Nice, Nice. She will add the adverbs herself, the only and the merely, and together the syntax will conspire to destroy her, at some point in the future, will plant forests of doubt when the burning wreckage is embers and ashes. Then, only then will the adjective return home, to wait for its next assignment, safe as ever in the cloak of others' underestimation.
And there is a third author somewhere who gets a message to the adjective, not to hire it but to discuss the purchase of life rights, and after a small, metaphorical transaction that third author proceeds to stand in front of another audience in a room in Chicago and offers a grim dissection of the adjective, offers truths about the adjective that the adjective perhaps wishes had remained unsaid.
But the adjective would never let that author know its displeasure. Because that wouldn't really be Nice.
This entry was posted on December 23, 2009 by bilaldardai in Essay, Performance, Write Club, Writing.
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