We put these devices in the hands of 10-year-olds. At some time in the future, will we regulate the age at which an individual can possess a mobile device (similar to the drinking age)?
I disagree. The present is understandable and it is possible to make foresight-rich preparations for the future if we ask the right questions.
One of the categories requiring the sharpest questions about the future is mobility. The mobile present has many moving parts and is very complex, but base patterns are discernible. I believe every human on this planet needs at least to attempt to comprehend the current point to which the mobile revolution has brought us. Furthermore, I believe modern executives have a fiduciary responsibility to think long and hard about where the mobile revolution is taking us.
The most rapidly adopted consumer technology in the history of mankind, mobile technology has had a huge economic impact — more than $1 trillion — and has changed the corporate competitive landscape as well as how people live their daily lives. Some go so far as to argue that mobile technologies have changed what it is to be human.
Are the mobility-now and the mobility-of-the-future receiving the kind of deep-thinking attention they deserve? Are we, as individuals and institutions, asking the right questions about the future of mobility?
We have migrated from a world where 350 million PCs are replaced every five years to one where some 4 billion mobile phones are replaced every two years. Much attention has focused on determining what the future device landscape looks like. Will the smartphone expand from its aspirational beachhead as the universal remote for our personal lives to the device managing the operating system of total digital existence? Will the smartphone be the only device we have to buy? Or will the smartphone be washed away in a tsunami of wearables and implantables? Will this many-device landscape give way to a no-device world of internet of things-enabled ubiquitous computing where access to services is just a voice command or an algorithmically determined action on our behalf away?
These are the questions market research analysts, product designers, venture capitalists and stock pickers tend to focus on.
The question social scientists ask in the face of all this exponential technology innovation is: To what purpose is all this gear directed? What outcomes does using mobile technology make possible? Is all this mobile technology liberating humans to realize our unique individual potential?
Is it totally implausible that at some point in the future a citizen might be required to take a mobility test before being allowed to access publicly provided communication infrastructure?
Humans may not be the only species that uses tools — or even makes tools — but we are very tool-intensive. The question is, Are we tool-savvy enough? Fire is a powerful tool. Used appropriately, it can cook meat and keep the winter chill away. Used poorly, it can burn our house down. The same can be said for just about every technology tool. They can be used for good or evil. A close friend who is a Harvard Business School grad and a Fortune 500 CIO mentioned that in the hands of a trained carpenter, power tools can create homes and furniture of great beauty. In his hands, they create trips to the emergency room. Our economy spends billions — perhaps trillions — developing tools. Are we spending enough to train and educate workers and citizens in appropriate tool usage?
Will mobile use be regulated in the future? Should it be? To drive a car legally, a citizen must take a driver's test. Is it totally implausible that at some point in the future a citizen might be required to take a mobility test before being allowed to access publicly provided communication infrastructure? Will there be fines for doing mobility wrong (as there are fines for poor driving habits)?
The smartphone is more powerful than early supercomputers and increasingly affordable. We put these devices in the hands of 10-year-olds. At some time in the future, will we regulate the age at which an individual can possess a mobile device (similar to the drinking age)?
The empirical data indicates that a subset of the user population doesn't take appropriate care of these powerful devices. About 5% of smartphones in America are lost every year — wasting roughly $30 billion in value.
Henry David Thoreau once commented, "Men have become the tools of their tools." Anthropologists, futurists and now mental health professionals are now having conversations regarding the extent to which digital devices have become tools of digital enslavement or digital engagement. In Cyber Junkie and Escape the Gaming and Internet Trap, author Kevin Roberts describes cyber addiction.
The power and affordability of digital tools is increasing at a pace far in excess of our creation of guidelines for their safe and productive use. Are we the boss of our tools, or are our tools the boss of us?
What might the mobile future look like?
The future of mobility is much bigger than the question of what features and functions the next smartphone will have. Moving forward, mobility will be a mindset, not a screen size or a specific technology stack. Mobility is everywhere every-ware (as in hardware, software, wetware).
One of my favorite science fiction novels is Kiln People (2002, David Brin). In this pretty good whodunit, we are presented with one view of what the future might look like. Real people — folks like you and me — are "Archies" or "Rigs" (shortened from Archetypes and Originals). Archies can affordably create a "ditto" — a color-coded duplicate of themselves that can go out (i.e., be mobile) and perform the quotidian tasks of existence. This frees them up for realizing their full human potential — whatever that might be. Is such a future possible?
My good friend Michael Schrage (MIT research fellow and author of The Innovator's Hypothesis) presents a plausible view of the future, if one less easily made into a movie for the Syfy Channel. Combining the totality of quantified self, surveillance, geo-tracking and social media data collection with advanced analytics enables a capability he terms "selvesware." He extrapolates the recommendation engines at disruptor companies such as Netflix and Amazon to personal assistants. Michael envisions selvesware serving the role of a perpetually present leadership coach providing real-time advice on executive behavior (i.e., when to say something, when to remain quiet, what to say, how to say it and to whom to say it). Imagine having every leadership book you ever read embedded in action-oriented software guiding your actions. Michael believes the end result might be a more productive version of ourselves.
What questions are you asking about the mobile future?


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Fans have been waiting a long time and now the time has come: Rosé's "First Single Album -R-" is finally released. The singer of the popular K-Pop girl group BLACKPINK has announced her solo debut at BLACKPINK's online concert "THE SHOW".
Rosé's first release, "First Single Album -R-" will be released on Monday, March 12, 2021 in three versions:
The regular release includes: Packaging, a 98-page photo book, the CD, lyrics, a sticker set, 4 of 18 random photo cards, 2 of 9 random Polaroids, 1 of 4 random two-sided stickers, 1 of 13 random posters and a poster at pre-order.
The KIT edition features 12 double-sided photo cards, a Thanks to and Lyrics, and a metal badge alongside the packaging and KIT album.
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BLACKPINK is a South Korean group formed in 2016 by YG Entertainment. Members Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa and Rosé debuted with the mini album "Square One" in August 2016. The songs "Boombayah" and "Whistle" quickly gained great success in the South Korean Gaon Album Charts, but also in the American Billboard Charts.
The second single "Square Two" with the songs "Playing on Fire" and "Stay" also achieved great success in South Korea and America. This was followed by the single "As If It*s Your Last", whose music video was clicked over ten million times within 17 hours. After 46 days, the 100 million clicks were reached. German BLINKs also contributed here, as the music video was also featured in German media. Other hits include "DDU-DU DDU-DU", "Kill This Love" and "How You Like That".
Their first concert in November 2017 in Seoul was completely sold out after only two to three minutes and drew over 15,000 people on each of the two days. In May 2019, BLACKPINK performed at the Mercedes Benz Arena in Berlin to a crowd of over 10,000.
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Malawi's Ministry of Energy and Mining is inviting expressions of interest from eligible consulting firms to undertake wind measurement and two site prefeasibility studies for wind power generation.
The assignment, which is part of Malawi's drive to diversify from its overdependence on hydroelectric power, falls under the Malawi Energy Sector Support Project, being financed through a $84.7-million loan from the World Bank's International Development Association.
The Ministry of Energy and Mining says the winning bidder will be required to identify promising sites, conduct physical measurements of wind resources at the selected sites, upgrade existing wind maps, analyse data, model – to feasibility-study level – a minimum of two wind parks and build capacity in the private and public sectors in the field of wind energy.
The preferred consulting firm must have a minimum of five years' experience in wind resource assessment or analysis, feasibility assessment and wind-sector development planning.
The firm should also have a minimum of five years' experience in developing-country settings and in analysing wind projects where data may be uncertain or inadequate.
The other requirements include familiarity with the challenges of weak grids and a minimum of five years' experience covering the economic and technical aspects of wind park development and the incorporation of intermittent wind resources into a relatively weak national grid.


In the olden days, getting ready for the ball is a serious affair. Aristocrats and nobility lavish great time and expense to have the right couturier come into their mansions/palaces/castles to make the right outfit for the right ball. Every ball is themed. Every dress is different. Sometimes they begin planning what they are going to wear as early as eight months in advance. And after the ball, instead of a thank you card, a particularly thoughtful guest would commission an artist to paint portraits of all the guests in their extravagant costumes, and have the book – bound in velvet – sent to the host as a thank you gift.
Nowadays, instead of aristocrats, we have celebrities. Instead of painters, we have photographers. But the idea of the ball hasn't changed. "The thought of a ball awakens the joyful part of our imagination." Like the duchesses of the past, our MET Gala pop stars leave no detail spared in the quest for perfection. Take Rihanna's 2015 MET Gala dress for example, her imperial yellow, fur-trimmed cape took two years to make by hand.
Over the years, the MET ball has seen countless designs at their height of glamour. Let's take a look at 17 of the MET Gala's best dresses of all time.
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Winfrey has traveled to Georgia to campaign for Abrams, whose potential victory would make her the first African American woman to be governor in US history.
"I have this to say to you, black people with ancestors who never had the chance", Oprah said at the event.
"All of us may have been created equal, but if you're woke. you've got sense enough to know that everybody is not treated equally", she said. "I want to make it very clear ..."
Oprah also hosted two town halls with Abrams during her trip.
Ingraham called out Winfrey because she felt the speech is trying to tie the candidacy of Abrams' opponent, Brian Kemp, to the scourge of racism in our country.
"On Tuesday, you can vote for a politics that is decent, for a politics that is honest, for a politics that is lawful, for a politics that tries to do right by people", Obama said after a lengthy condemnation of the all-GOP government that has run Washington since Obama left office last January. "And to vote for myself", Winfrey said to cheers.
Winfrey's first dive into the political arena came in 2007, when she endorsed Barack Obama and campaigned for him in SC and other states. "You are disrespecting and disregarding their legacy, their suffering and their dreams when you don't vote".
Though Oprah is playing it off like a grassroots campaign, her presence ejects much elitism into the political debate, being that she lives full time in a left-wing coastal haven. "I'm not here because I'm making some grandstand because I'm thinking of running myself". I heard Will Ferrell was going door-to-door the other day.
On "Outnumbered", Washington Post editor and Fox News contributor Charlie Hurt said Winfrey is an "entity unto herself", and her endorsement may carry some weight, but he believes Hollywood elites won't swing races for Democrats in next week's midterm elections.


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Red Wednesday for Frontliners and COVID-19 victims
The Red Wednesday, the annual campaign for awareness for persecuted Christians organized by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), will be held online this year on November 25, 2020. With the theme "Red Means Love: One Church Against COVID-19," the campaign is dedicated not only to those being persecuted because of their faith but also to the heroic frontliners responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, to those who got sick with virus and also for the victims of the recent typhoons that devastated some regions in country.
According to Jonathan Luciano, National Director of ACN Philippines, this year's Red Wednesday is dedicated to the "martyrdom" of frontliners who took the risk of being infected by the coronavirus during the pandemic because of their love for their service and for the people they serve.
"For this year, we decided to go back and reflect - love, indeed is the root of everything. Of charity, of hope, of faith. Ang pag-ibig ng Diyos ang pinagmulan ng lahat. We hope that Red Wednesday, together with the Recollection Concert, will inspire the faithful. Despite hard times, there is a reminder of love," Mr. Luciano told the Archdiocese of Manila – Office of Communications.
The 2020 celebration of Red Wednesday will be the first-ever institutionalized celebration in the Philippines, where all dioceses and parishes will participate.
Aside from the churches and shrines that yearly join in the campaign, this year hospitals will be participating and will be decorated and lit in red, simultaneous with the celebration of the Holy Mass at 6 in the evening in Dagupan to be presided by Lingayen Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, ACN Philippine President.
The Mass will be followed by a Recollection Concert at 8 pm with Msgr. Gerardo Santos as the Recollection Master. Kalookan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David will also give a reflection in the vent.
Among the guests who will take part in the concert are Kantabella, Young Voices of the Philippines, selected priests from the Archdiocese of Lngayen-Dagupan and Mr. Jose Mari Chan, who will be joined by his family.
The recollection concert, Mr. Luciano said, is also a reminder of the coming Christ, as the Catholic has just celebrated the Solemnity of Christ the King and is now preparing for the Advent Season.
"Brothers and sisters, the love of God will remain. The recollection concert is also our way of reminding everyone that Christmas is about to come. Christ is about to come, at nararapat tayong magbunyi. There is light at the end of the tunnel. Advent is coming, and dawn is near," said Mr. Luciano.
The Red Wednesday campaign is an initiative of the Aid to Church in Need that creates awareness among Filipino Christians about the severity of Christian persecution and invites everyone "to make a visible statement by wearing red and, if resources allow, light their own parishes or respective buildings or local monuments in red.
ACN is a Papal charity organization dedicated to the service of Christians around the world, through information, prayer, and action, wherever they are persecuted or oppressed or suffering material need. (Jheng Prado/RCAM-AOC)
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A Samaritan State Revisited: Historical Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Aid
Edited by Greg Donaghy and David Webster
Beyond Boundaries: Canadian Defence and Strategic Studies
Canada's foreign aid programs are an area of ongoing interest, yet there is little knowledge of Canada's 70-year aid history, the historic forces that have shaped Canadian aid policy, and the many complex factors that affect Canada's future foreign aid policy.
A Samaritan State Revisited brings together a refreshing group of emerging and leading scholars to reflect on the history of Canada's overseas development aid. Addressing the broad ideological and institutional origins of Canada's official development assistance in the 1950s and specific themes in its evolution and professionalization since the 1960s, this collection is the first to explore Canada's history with foreign aid with this level of interrogative detail.
Extending from the 1950s to the present and covering Canadian aid to all regions of the Global South, from South and Southeast Asia to Latin America and Africa, these essays embrace a variety of approaches and methodologies ranging from traditional, archival-based research to textual and image analysis, oral history, and administrative studies. A Samaritan State Revisited weaves together a unique synthesis of governmental and non-governmental perspectives, providing a clear and readily accessible explanation of the forces that have shaped Canadian foreign aid policy
Greg Donaghy is head of the Historical Section, Global Affairs Canada. He is co-Editor of From Kinshasa to Kandahar: Canada and Fragile States in Historical Perspective.
David Webster is an associate professor of History at Bishop's University. He is author of Flowers in the Wall: Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Melanesia
With Contributions By: David Black, Stephen Brown, Kevin Brushett, Jill Campbell-Miller, Ted Cogan, Sonya de Laat, Greg Donaghy, Laura Macdonald, Dominique Marshall, Asa McKercher, Nassisse Solomon, Stefano Tijerina, Ryan Touhey, and David Webster
Praise for A Samaritan State Revisited:
Canada's international assistance has constituted a significant, yet underappreciated, facet of Canada's role and impact on the world stage. This book provides an illuminating account of how the aid relationship was initiated and evolved over the past seven decades, in Asia, Latin America and Africa. It is a welcome, and overdue, contribution to the historiography of Canada's foreign relations.
—Roy Culpeper, Senior Fellow, School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa
David Webster and Greg Donaghy
Part 1: Entering the Aid World, 1950–1960
Chapter 1. Encounter and Apprenticeship: The Colombo Plan and Canadian Aid in India, 1950–1960
Jill Campbell–Miller
Chapter 2. "Reasonably Well Organized": A History of Early Aid Administration
Greg Donaghy
Chapter 3. Developing the World in Canada's Image: Hugh Keenleyside and Technical Assistance
David Webster
Part 2: Development, Diplomacy, and Trade, 1953–1991
Chapter 4. "A One Way Street": The Limits of Canada's Aid Relations with Pakistan, 1958–1972
Ryan Touhey
Chapter 5. One Size Fits All?: Canadian Development Assistance to Colombia, 1953–1972
Stefano Tijerina
Chapter 6.Samaritanos canadiensis?:Canadian Development Assistance in Latin America During the Trudeau Years
Asa McKercher
Chapter 7. "Trotsky in Pinstripes": Lewis Peribam, CIDA, and the Non–Governmental Organizations Program, 1968–1991
Kevin Brushett
Part 3: Imagery and Symbolism
Chapter 8. Building a Base: The Growth of Public Engagement with Canadian Foreign Aid Policy, 1950–1980
Ted Cogan
Chapter 9. Pictures in Development: The Canadian International Development Agency's Photo Library
Sonya de Laat
Chapter 10. "Tears are Not Enough": Canadian Political and Social Mobilization for Famine Relief in Ethiopia, 1984–1988
Naississe Solomon
Part 4: The Political Economy of Canadian Aid, 1980–2018
Chapter 11. Canadian Development Assistance to Latin America
Laura Macdonald
Chapter 12. CIDA and Aid to Africa in the 1990s: A Crisis of Confidence
Chapter. 13. A Samaritan State?, Canadian Foreign Aid, and the Challenges of Policy Coherence for Development
Chapter 14. Concluding Reflections: Beyond Aid
Dominique Marshall
A Samaratain State Revisited in the Media
Neither Hero nor Villain: Canada Stuck in the Middle of the Pack on International Aid, The Conversation
Chapter 2. "Reasonably Well-Organized": A History of Early Aid Administration
Chapter 5. One Size Fits All? Canadian Development Assistance to Colombia, 1953–1972
Chapter 6. Samaritanos canadienses?: Canadian Development Assistance in Latin America during the Trudeau Years
Chapter 7. "Trotsky in Pinstripes": Lewis Perinbam, CIDA, and the Non-Governmental Organizations Program, 1968–1991 (1.383Mb)
Chapter 13. A Samaritan State?, Canadian Foreign Aid, and the Challenges of Policy Coherence for Development


Synergistic anti-tumor effects of melatonin and PUFAs from walnuts in a murine mammary adenocarcinoma model.
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine the effects of some polyunsaturated fatty acids plus phytomelatonin from walnuts in the development of mammary gland adenocarcinoma.
METHODS: BALB/c mice were fed a semisynthetic diet supplemented with either 6% walnut oil and 8% walnut flour containing phytomelatonin (walnut diet: WD); or 6% corn oil plus commercial melatonin (melatonin diet: MD), or the control group (CD), which received only 6% of corn oil. Membrane fatty acids of tumor cells (TCs) were analyzed by gas liquid chromatography, cyclooxygenase (COX) and lipoxygenase (LOX) derivatives, and plasma melatonin by high-performance liquid chromatography; apoptosis and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes by flow cytometry.
RESULTS: TCs from the MD and WD mice showed significant decreases in linoleic acid compared with the CD group (P < 0.05). Significantly lower levels of LOX-[13(S)-HODE] were found in TCs from the MD and WD group than in CD (P < 0.0001). COX-[12(S)-HHT] was lower and 12 LOX-[12(S)-HETE] was higher in TCs from the MD group than form the WD and CD arms (P < 0.05). Plasma melatonin, apoptosis, tumor infiltration, and survival time were significantly lower in CD mice than in MD and WD mice (P < 0.05).
CONCLUSIONS: This study shows that melatonin, along with polyunsaturated fatty acids, exerts a selective inhibition of some COX and LOX activities and has a synergistic anti-tumor effect on a mammary gland adenocarcinoma model.


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Manicurist Posted Photo Of Nursing Home Resident's Hand And It's Getting Lots Of Attention.
Heartwarming | August 15, 2017
The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) estimates the number of Americans over 65 is 46 million.
Society embraces youth. Take a look at magazines, TV shows, and social media, it is filled with young men and women with impeccable skin. Although, this is the demographics that tends to shop the most, it also leaves out pretty much everyone over the age of 30. Yet, we all age, getting older with every year. Imagine what it does to a person's self-esteem when they are told constantly that beauty really is on the surface.
By 2060, that number will more than double to over 98 million. That is a huge population that is largely forgotten.
For many seniors, living in nursing homes is a stark reminder of their age.
Nonetheless, many of these institutions have come to understand that entertainment, pampering, and social mingling can lift the residents' moods.
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This is why services like manicures and hair styling are provided.
Brandalyn Mae Porter, from Texas, is a nail technician. One of her clients, an elderly woman, had asked her to paint her nails clear.
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The young woman shared this particular experience on her Facebook page.
Surprised that she would be asked for a plain nail polish that lacks in color and pizzazz, she had to ask why. As it turns out the woman was feeling insecure about her hands.
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In fact, the woman described her hands covered in age spots as "ugly."
The elderly lady didn't want to attract attention to that part of her body. Except this woman probably didn't know that Porter is wiser beyond her years.
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Porter is known as being positive and seeing the beauty in everything.
"You never know just how much someone is in need of kind words till you speak them," she shared on Facebook.
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Rather than give in to her client's request, she spoke to her.
Porter went to Aveda hair school and her father-in-law owns a salon that he hopes she will take over when he retires. Yet, Porter loves her job and clients too much.
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"I could never express how much I absolutely love my job. It's a great feeling," she admits.
Porter made the woman see that the age spots on her hands are not ugly, but rather that they speak volumes of a life lived with stories and experiences one can only dream of.
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After hearing Porter's words, the woman chose the color pink.
Porter shared the photo of the woman's hand and her story. "Today I painted a new residents nails at work and as we were going over colors, she mentioned she wanted clear. The only thought that came to my mind was 'CLEAR?! That's no fun,'" she posted. "I asked her why she wanted clear and she said, 'My hands are ugly, I don't want to draw attention to them.' I then carefully responded with, 'Your hands tell the story of your life. They tell the story of love, of care and adventure. These hands have touched and held things that most people can only wish to one day.' And with that, she went with the color pink for her nails.
Sometimes what we are so insecure with, others find beauty in."
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We offer dry cleaning and laundry services, mail service, and of course state-of-the-art fitness rooms and award-winning spas. Just bring your hotel key card to verify your stay to receive the discount.
In addition to shops, bars and a spa, there are 11 restaurants at Pala. Harrah's Rincon Casino has lots of entertainment happening in different on-site venues. As a side note, that should perhaps be the headline in July ofthe FBI raided the Lucky Lady Casino and charged nine individuals associated with the casino of various bookmaking charges.
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Chemical computer that mimics neurons to be created
Each neuron in our brains can be viewed as a chemical computer
The "wet computer" incorporates several recently discovered properties of chemical systems that can be hijacked to engineer computing power.
The team's approach mimics some of the actions of neurons in the brain.
The 1.8m-euro (£1.6m) project will run for three years, funded by an EU emerging technologies programme.
The programme has identified biologically-inspired computing as particularly important, having recently funded several such projects.
What distinguishes the current project is that it will make use of stable "cells" featuring a coating that forms spontaneously, similar to the walls of our own cells, and uses chemistry to accomplish the signal processing similar to that of our own neurons.
The goal is not to make a better computer than conventional ones, said project collaborator Klaus-Peter Zauner of the University of Southampton, but rather to be able to compute in new environments.
If one day we want to construct computers of similar power and complexity to the human brain, my bet would be on some form of chemical or molecular computing
Frantisek Stepanek, Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague
"The type of wet information technology we are working towards will not find its near-term application in running business software," Dr Zauner told BBC News.
"But it will open up application domains where current IT does not offer any solutions – controlling molecular robots, fine-grained control of chemical assembly, and intelligent drugs that process the chemical signals of the human body and act according to the local biochemical state of the cell."
Lipids and liquids
The group's approach hinges on two critical ideas.
First, individual "cells" are surrounded by a wall made up of so-called lipids that spontaneously encapsulate the liquid innards of the cell.
Recent work has shown that when two such lipid layers encounter each other as the cells come into contact, a protein can form a passage between them, allowing chemical signalling molecules to pass.
Second, the cells' interiors will play host to what is known as a Belousov-Zhabotinsky or B-Z chemical reaction. Simply put, reactions of this type can be initiated by changing the concentration of the element bromine by a certain threshold amount.
The reactions are unusual for a number of reasons.
But for the computing application, what is important is that after the arrival of a chemical signal to start it, the cell enters a "refractory period" during which further chemical signals do not influence the reaction.
That keeps a signal from propagating unchecked through any connected cells.
Such self-contained systems that react under their own chemical power to a stimulus above a threshold have an analogue in nature: neurons.
"But the essence of neurons is the capability to get 'excited'; it can re-form an input signal and has its own energy supply so it can fire out a new signal.""Every neuron is like a molecular computer; ours is a very crude abstraction of what neurons do," said Dr Zauner.
This propagation of a chemical signal – along with the "refractory period" that keeps it contained within a given cell – means the cells can form networks that function like the brain.
'Real chance'
Frantisek Stepanek, a chemical computing researcher at the Institute of Chemical Technology Prague in the Czech Republic, said the pairing of the two ideas was promising.
"If one day we want to construct computers of similar power and complexity to the human brain, my bet would be on some form of chemical or molecular computing," he told BBC News.
"I think this project stands a real chance of bringing chemical computing from the concept stage to a practical demonstration of a functional prototype."
For its part, the team is already hard at work proving the idea will work.
"Officially the project doesn't start until the first of February," said Dr Zauner, "but we were so curious about it we already sent some lipids to our collaborators in Poland – they've already shown the lipid layers are stable."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8452196.stm


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Uses and Abuses of Google Wave for Collaboration
Jes A. Koepfler, University of Maryland and Joseph Maki, Software Engineer / Independent Consultant, USA
In this mini-workshop the authors will showcase their experiment using Google Wave as a tool for 1) low-fidelity rapid prototyping, 2) record keeping, 3) establishing a consistent language, and 4) enabling both synchronous and asynchronous communication between an evaluator and a programmer. They will discuss the pros and cons of Google Wave, and then open the floor for questions and a brainstorming session on the possibilities of using Google Wave for work in the cultural heritage sector.
Keywords: low-fidelity, rapid prototyping, evaluation, collaboration tools, usability
Right about the time Koepfler and Maki met at ASTC 2009 in Ft. Worth, TX, they each received their long-awaited Google Wave invites. Call it fate, call it Google evangelism, but they immediately found a use for it. It turns out that the two of them had been working on a large, multi-institutional project together for nearly a year, and although it was Koepfler's job to evaluate the thing that Maki was building, forces beyond their control kept them from getting work done in the way they had envisioned. Further, the timeline for the project had become compressed and they needed to get work done quickly.
The task before them was rapid prototyping of the user interface for STEPS (Science Theater Education Programming System), an authoring tool for museum professionals to create theater-based multimedia shows. This task needed to happen without layers of management and bureaucracy, without slowing down the development process, and without involving too many people. Neither one of them had time nor patience for scheduling teleconferences and working within the constraints of the old "9 to 5".
Enter Wave.
Without hesitation they saw Google Wave as an opportunity to conduct rapid prototypes of the visual components of the interface. Do the icons make sense? Do these tool tips help? Does the juxtaposition of this thing with that thing cause confusion? Can you tell what this is supposed to do just by looking at it?
Fig 1: Screenshot of the prototyping wave
Maki would post a screenshot and timeframe for when he needed feedback. Koepfler would review the interface; make visual interpretations of what the components seemed likely to do; and request additional context if needed. When a second or third opinion was needed, or if that specific piece of the interface was already too familiar for Koepfler to provide a blind review, other individuals could be called in very quickly by adding them to the wave or by quickly copying the components of the wave into an e-mail.
Fig 2: Bringing additional reviewers quickly into the process, reviewer #2
This strategy for testing visual intuitiveness allowed Maki to share versions of the interface quickly without debugging and to push out full builds of the tool. This was crucial for a couple of reasons. First of all, it met the number one requirement of doing testing without slowing down the development process. From experience, both Koepfler and Maki knew that any testing that interfered with the programming timeline simply would not get done, regardless of good intentions. Second, it allowed Maki to continue to code and design in the medium of the future software while working at low-fidelity in the visual prototypes. That meant he was not designing a paper prototype of something that he would then have to convert into a programmed tool, for example.
Maki could also do A/B testing of two versions of the same thing at once.
Fig 4: A/B Testing
Some might say that there is no way usability testing can be done with just one other user, but others in the field would argue that testing with one person is always better than the alternative – testing with none (Krug, 2006 & 2010; Nielsen & Norman, 2000; among others). Further, this was just the first quick and dirty layer of user testing, based solely on visual intuitiveness, more like having someone proofread the graphic design of something. Cycles of task-based testing, debugging, and remedial beta testing are intended for the final year of product development.
The Joys of Wave in Beta
Not surprisingly, in the process of prototyping, other uses for Google Wave evolved.
Fig 5: Wave devoted to craft beers
In fact, the application itself continued to evolve, with new features being released and new extensions and gadgets being developed. Some potentially useful project management tools were collected into a gadgets wave. Below are examples of Napkin (http://my-wave-gadgets.appspot.com/wave/NapkinGadget.xml) and Planny (http://code.google.com/p/google-wave-gadget-planny/l). There are and will be many, many more to come.
Fig 6: Screen capture of Napkin gadget used in a wave. Illustration courtesy of Maki
Fig 7: Screen capture of Planny gadget used in a wave
Now that some practical and professional case uses for Google Wave have been made clear, here is the background story and how it works. Google Wave was developed by the same brothers who developed Google Maps: Lars and Jens Rasmussen. (That should be the first clue that it is an incredibly useful tool.) As the story goes, Jens pointed out to his brother that
'two of the most spectacular successes in digital communication, email and instant messaging, were originally designed in the '60s to imitate analog formats – email mimicked snail mail, and IM mimicked phone calls. Since then, so many different forms of communication have been invented – blogs, wikis, collaborative documents, etc. – and computers and networks have dramatically improved.' So Jens proposed a new communications model that presumed all these advances as a starting point… (Rasmussen 2009)
The brothers asked themselves the following questions:
Why do we have to live with divides between different types of communication — email versus chat, or conversations versus documents?
Could a single communications model span all or most of the systems in use on the web today, in one smooth continuum? How simple could we make it?
What if we tried designing a communications system that took advantage of computers' current abilities, rather than imitating non-electronic forms? (Rasmussen, 2009)
After expanding on these ideas and testing prototypes, two years later Google Wave Beta emerged, first for developers on May 28, 2009, and then slowly for the 'common' people in the same way that Gmail was rolled out – through a painfully slow snowball invite process.
In Google Wave, someone initiates the wave and adds people to it. From there anyone can add images, documents, gadgets, downloaded extensions, etc. into the wave at whatever point in the wave that makes the most sense. Thoughts within conversations are easily collapsible, and there is a playback feature that shows how the wave evolved – particularly useful for project collaboration.
Koepfler and Maki have been using Google Wave for three months (November 2009-January 2010) at the time of this paper. They have formed some initial opinions on what Google Wave might be good for and what situations it seems clear it will not be as effective for (at least not in the foreseeable future). Wave may not be the "be-all, end-all" of text-based communication; not yet, anyway. However, it has already proven incredibly useful for a number of collaboration solutions.
Wave allows for real-time, persistent conversation. All contributions to a wave are live, and any contributions throughout the history of the wave can be reviewed at any time. Wave uses a system of threading which allows conversations to move forward on many fronts: replying to the top level of the wave is good for bringing up a new but related idea that should be explored. One can also reply to a reply, and start a sub-thread or conversation. Blips can be inserted into a reply in order to start a discussion on a particular sentence or idea.
Fig 8: Invented terminology for identifying parts of a wave
External to any individual wave is an inbox full of waves. The first level of organization that was addressed when Koepfler and Maki were creating their collaboration solution was creating a separate wave for testing and evaluation, apart from the general project talk. Once the evaluation wave was created, the two quickly realized that they needed to be somewhat consistent in the structure for replying to ideas within a wave so that the threading and flow of the conversation would stay clean and easily navigable. If a comment could be inserted directly into a sub-thread, this was the optimal choice, because these can be temporarily collapsed.
At times, interface review was only needed from one person as a check to confirm that a small change made sense. Bigger questions necessitated feedback and evaluation from at least one or two additional sets of eyes. In order to make these items stand out Maki began highlighting the requested timeframe for feedback in bright purple, so while scrolling through the wave any user tester could see the outstanding items. Once all of the evaluation was done, the highlighting was removed.
Fig. 9: Screen capture of highlighted timeframe for ease of wave navigation and outstanding tasks
In addition to its flexibility in terms of organization, Koepfler and Maki also found Google Wave useful for establishing a shared language. Various terms needed to be clarified from both the evaluation and programming perspective to create a common language (cf. Figure 2 above). Also, the goals of the evaluation and user testing were easily identified so that everyone could participate in the effort with an understanding of the underlying strategy and purpose.
Wave supported remarkable turnaround times for the user testing (less than 36 hours for review from 3 individuals spread across the country): remarkable considering that at some points, there were participants ranging from Massachusetts and Maryland to California and Hawaii. Mashing up Wave with a quick e-mail to an additional user tester allowed the team to maximize its efforts.
Below is a list of just a few more "pros" the authors have identified in the past three months:
Fewer teleconferences. The small team did not have to plan or schedule their interactions/communications. This allowed for a more natural way of working together and administrative time saved.
When multiple people were on a wave, it was possible to have a group conversation; however, it was also possible to throw something on the wave and get a well-thought-out response from someone the next day.
There was no requirement for responding to ideas in order. There could be multiple threads within a conversation, each evolving at its own pace, rather than forcing conversation about something that might not be ready, as sometimes occurs on teleconferences.
Wave is a wonderful tool for record keeping. One only needs to explain him or herself once and the thought is recorded in context of a full conversation. This was particularly helpful during prototype testing when testers tried to remember the difference from one interface variation to another. Wave records the evolution of the conversation, so that everyone knows – even newcomers - how the product progressed from point A to point B.
Although some protocols were established within the evaluation wave, Google Wave allowed for easy enough clean-up of rogue blips and replies so that the team could have semi-structured conversations that allowed the process to be organic. Conversations naturally stray, and sometimes the resulting tangents can yield helpful ideas. On the other hand, unlike e-mail, true tangents and non-sequiturs could be cleaned up without ruining the conversation.
There was also a component of Wave that seemed to allow for more humanity in the text-based communication. Unlike the burden of having to proofread an e-mail before sending it, and the inherent danger of something in an e-mail being taken out of context, Wave was a more relaxed space for work (since society has not yet ruined it). Typos could be dealt with later (if ever) and any misunderstandings could be broached in real time. Indeed ,the notion of self-editing while typing would reduce the flow of conversation, because the other person would have to endure the backspaces even though he or she clearly knew what the intent of the statement was.
Because Wave is cloud based, conversations can be accessed from anywhere that has a browser, just like other Google services. Further, because it is HTML 5 and Javascript driven, it does not require plugins. Enough said.
Maki summed up the use of Wave perfectly: Wave is for getting work done; not making everyone else see that you are getting work done. It is not a tool for micromanagement or layered bureaucracies.
Fig 10: Maki's proclamation
And now for the list of "cons" or things that would make Wave a less likely solution for a given problem:
People without the Google Chrome browser, or with considerably slow Internet, will find Wave very frustrating to use until it is out of Beta. In the same way that Microsoft builds its tools to work best on Internet Explorer, Google Wave was built to work on Google Chrome. Accessing it through Firefox, IE, or other browsers reduces its functionality and makes the application grind to a near halt.
People who are overly obsessed with heavy editing and proofreading of their own content should stick with asynchronous communications until they can train themselves out of it. Watching people type can be bad enough if the correspondent is a poor typist, but add to that frequent backspacing, and the experience can become dizzying.
Micromanagers may panic at the use of Wave, because they are not privy to every detail of every conversation.
As mentioned above, Wave keeps a record of the evolution of a conversation, which means nothing is ever truly deleted. This could be a problem for some people, especially if it is ever used against them in the court of law. (Consider this the Surgeon General's warning for just about everything on the Internet.)
Like other popular and well-developed tools on the Web, Wave can be addictive for the same types of people who are unable to discipline themselves away from things like Facebook and Twitter.
Although Wave is a better tool for the things that need to happen on the ground, users will probably still want to access a word processing tool to fancy up a memo report.
Due to the conversational nature of Wave, future users need to be prepared to blur the lines between personal life and work life. However, one strategy against this is to have a distinct work vs. personal wave, so that nonsense conversations can occur alongside deliverables-based efforts.
One word – Beta. Currently, many features are not yet optimal, such as copying and pasting (it does not allow for specific selections within waves to be easily copied into a new wave), privacy settings (there is no way to kick someone out of a wave), scrolling and navigating (it is still pretty clunky), and backups (if someone decides to paste 300 lines of source code into a wave it can crash; not that anyone ever would…). Patience and open-mindedness are virtues of a happy Beta Waver.
Fig 11: Maki killing the first prototyping wave with 300 lines of source code
One of Wave's greatest assets can also be one of its biggest challenges. Ideas and conversations in waves can move extremely quickly, becoming full-blown conversations or debates in a matter of minutes. Although they are much easier to catch up with than e-mail alternatives, the prospect of hopping into mid-wave for someone who was in a different time zone and still waking up while the wave conversation was happening, can be daunting.
Live typing has the potential to bring with it new issues of communication. One should be as careful and thoughtful when using synchronous chat as when speaking to a person directly, throwing aside old notions of self-editing in text formats.
Riding the Wave into the Future
So, should one use Google Wave to collaborate with friends and colleagues? Yes, most definitely. Should one try to convert everyone in his or her organization to using Google Wave for primary communications? Maybe not, not yet. Check back in another year. Should one give up on all other forms of Web-based communication – down with e-mail, down with Skype and gchat? No, probably not, although it is a lovely thought. In the end, like all other applications and new technologies, the key is to pick the right tool for the right job, and having Google Wave in one's toolbox will only support the many collaboration and communication projects facing users today.
For a few other views and perspectives on Google Wave (as of the writing of this paper), check out some of the links below:
The Official Google Wave Blog: http://googlewave.blogspot.com/
Lifehacker review of Google Wave: http://lifehacker.com/5370738/google-wave-first-look
FAQ from someone who has already written a book about Wave: http://lifehacker.com/5446406/frequently-asked-questions-about-google-wave
Cool Use Cases of Wave: http://lifehacker.com/5381219/google-waves-best-use-cases and http://www.bspcn.com/2009/11/15/5-impressive-real-life-google-wave-use-cases/
10 negatives about Google Wave: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Top-10-Complaints-About-Google-Wave-502278/
Discussing Wave as a protocol (not just Google's implementation of it): http://jasonkolb.com/weblog/2009/09/why-google-wave-is-the-coolest-thing-since-sliced-bread.html
A list of Google Wave gadgets and tools (as of October 14, 2009): http://techpp.com/2009/10/14/ultimate-list-of-google-wave-gadgets-and-tools/
Krug, S. (2010). Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems. Berkeley: New Riders Publishing.
Krug, S. (2006). Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. 2nd Edition. Berkeley: New Riders Publishing.
Nielsen, J. & D. Norman (2000). Usability on the Web Isn't a Luxury. InformationWeek Online. Accessed January 29, 2010, at http://www.informationweek.com/773 /web.htm;jsessionid=3EOH41QEUGBBFQE1GHPSKH4ATMY32JVN.
Rasmussen, L. (May 28, 2009). Went Walkabout. Brought back Google Wave. The Official Google blog. Accessed January 14, 2009, at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/went-walkabout-brought-back-google-wave.html
Koepfler, J. and J. Maki, Uses and Abuses of Google Wave for Collaboration . In J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds). Museums and the Web 2010: Proceedings. Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics. Published March 31, 2010. Consulted http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/papers/koepfler-maki/koepfler-maki.html
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Team 2577 - Pingry Robotics (2017)
the Pingry School
From: Basking Ridge, New Jersey, USA
District: Mid-Atlantic Robotics
Rookie Year: 2008
2020: INFINITE RECHA...
2019: DESTINATION: D...
2018: FIRST POWER UP
2017: FIRST STEAMWOR...
2016: FIRST STRONGHO...
2015: RECYCLE RUSH
2014: AERIAL ASSIST
2013: ULTIMATE ASCEN...
2012: Rebound Rumble
2011: LOGO MOTION
2010: BREAKAWAY
2009: LUNACY
2008: FIRST Overdriv...
2017 Home Championship: FIRST Championship - St. Louis
2017 Sponsors: the Pingry School
Please select a tab to view detail about Team 2577's performance in the 2017 Season as well as detail of each event they attended.
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Team 2577 had a record of 9-17-0 at their 2 official events (this includes a Qualification record of 9 - 15 - 0 and Playoff record of 0 - 2)
MAR District - Mount Olive Event
March 10 to March 12, 2017
This event counted towards Team 2577's District Ranking Points for 2017. A summary of district rankings points earned specifically at this event is shown here.
Qualification Matches View Qualifications Event Page
Record: 5 Wins, 7 Losses and 0 Ties - 12 Matches Played (0 Disqualifications)
Red Final
Blue Final
Qualification 4 Sat 3/11 - 11:21 AM 4281 3515 2577 1811 555 5310 - 97 -	 95
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Qualification 29 Sat 3/11 - 3:16 PM 1228 5438 2577 4035 303 747 - 105 -	 160
Qualification 32 Sat 3/11 - 3:37 PM 2577 303 1089 6016 747 1403 - 215 -	 220
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Qualification 62 Sun 3/12 - 10:33 AM 1672 3142 5992 2554 2070 2577 120	 - 110 -
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Qualification 70 Sun 3/12 - 11:29 AM 2554 1279 75 41 2577 747 245	 - 191 -
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41	 2577	 747	 -191-
Playoff Matches View Playoffs Event Page
Record: 0 Wins and 2 Losses
Alliance Selection: Round 2 of Alliance 3
Quarterfinal 4 2577 555 1228 219 11 1811 - 165 -	 305
Quarterfinal 4
MAR District - Montgomery Event
Qualification 3 Sat 4/1 - 11:16 AM 5624 303 11 2577 6327 1672 295	 - 162 -
11:16A 5624	 303	 11	 295
Qualification 8 Sat 4/1 - 11:56 AM 2577 4575 5438 5666 102 1403 - 146 -	 211
Qualification 15 Sat 4/1 - 12:52 PM 223 1279 102 2458 2577 222 257	 - 205 -
12:52P 223	 1279	 102	 257
Qualification 25 Sat 4/1 - 3:12 PM 75 11 2577 2554 303 4361 - 307 -	 272
3:12P 75	 11	 2577	 -307-
Qualification 31 Sat 4/1 - 4:00 PM 2577 6016 2495 25 4637 5624 - 190 -	 330
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Qualification 34 Sat 4/1 - 4:24 PM 4573 2577 3314 1279 265 2458 - 280 -	 235
Qualification 40 Sat 4/1 - 5:12 PM 4954 4573 4637 2577 102 1391 313	 - 282 -
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Qualification 49 Sat 4/1 - 6:24 PM 5438 1672 2016 3637 2577 555 235	 - 330 -
Qualification 53 Sat 4/1 - 6:56 PM 1391 75 4575 2577 2070 25 256	 - 215 -
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Qualification 60 Sun 4/2 - 10:10 AM 1403 5624 56 714 1279 2577 295	 - 330 -
Qualification 68 Sun 4/2 - 11:14 AM 3314 11 1923 225 136 2577 401	 - 136 -
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Qualification 71 Sun 4/2 - 11:38 AM 2554 2577 1403 1676 303 4653 - 243 -	 322
Playoff Matches
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Team 2577 did not win any awards in the 2017 season
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Rank: 93 of 120 teams in the Mid-Atlantic Robotics District (Full Rankings )
Qualified for District Championship: No
Qualified for FIRST Championship: No
Team 2577 had the following district points activities in the 2017 season:
Event/Activity
MAR District - Mount Olive Event 11 3 0 0 -- 14
MAR District - Montgomery Event 9 0 0 0 -- 9
If Team 2577 is tied with any other Mid-Atlantic Robotics teams in total District Ranking Points, the tie will be broken using the following criteria:
Level 1 Total Playoff Round Performance Points 0
Level 2 Max Playoff Round Performance Points 0
Level 3 Total Alliance Selection Points 3
Level 4 Max Alliance Selection Points 3
Level 5 Total Qualification Points 20
Level 6 Highest Match Score 330
Level 7 Second Highest Match Score 330
Level 8 Third Highest Match Score 307
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May being mental health month, it seemed appropriate last week for the New York Times to run an article on well-being in the legal profession. The article focused on a new study of 6200 lawyers. The study asked these lawyers about their jobs, their health and their general well being. One of the more remarkable findings of the report was that there was no correlation between the typical metrics of attorney success (income, partnership, etc.) and lawyer happiness. To the contrary, according to the findings in the study, those lawyers making the least amount of money were the most likely to report being happy.
While I used the word "remarkable" above to describe this finding, the study only confirms the notion that money doesn't make us happy. That's hardly news. Our grandmothers told us that (as well as our Sunday School teachers). The finding seems "remarkable" because (for many of us) the switch got flipped somewhere along the way.
We graduate from law school and land a job and pretty soon we begin to think about success in terms of how quickly we can grab the golden ring. Success is the income that rises well into 6 figures…making partner…becoming a shareholder in the firm and getting our percentage of the profits. Money and status are easily measurable, so they become the best indicators of achievement.
Lately, I've found it worthwhile to take a cup of coffee and my journal to the back porch and spend some time trying to articulate, in writing, my answers to these questions—knowing that no one else can answer them for me. It's hard work—to explore those deep parts of myself in an effort to uncover what it is that really brings value to my life and gives it meaning. But I have no doubt it is worth doing.
The problem is trying to find the answers to these questions is only the first step. The next, and much more frightening step, is re-orienting life in such a way that what I do and how I do it serves those values and honors those things that bring my life meaning.
I'm not exactly sure. I only know that the answer lies somewhere on the other side of a lot more coffee and a lot more early morning journaling sessions.


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ENCULTURATION
A clever way to impose an Amazonian liturgy
The Roman Missal in the Zairean rite is the first one to be enculturated and lends itself to becoming a precursor to a future Amazonian rite. There are two risks in this undertaking: introducing pagan elements and producing a new liturgy inspired by the objectives of Church politics as opposed to the Church's mission. On this matter, Benedict XVI warned, "A liturgy is not born by means of decrees."
Liturgical enculturation is a major problem. Should we start from native cultures or the Church's liturgy? Replying "from both" is no answer, it dodgers the question. Only one can be a priority, otherwise we end up having a superficial approach. Moreover, Benedict XVI warned: "A liturgy is not born by means of decrees."
Liturgical enculturation is typically a post-conciliar issue and is now back in the limelight with the issue of the new liturgy in the Zairean rite. The recently published Zairean rite is the first enculturated example of the Roman Missal. Indeed, it is the first enculturated Missal but it certainly won't be the last. In the Missal's preface, Pope Francis announces another future step with an Amazonian rite: "The Zairean rite suggests a promising way forward for the eventual creation of an Amazonian rite." In his papal exhortation Querida Amazonia, in fact, Francis wrote it is necessary to "take up into the liturgy many elements proper to the experience of indigenous peoples in their contact with nature, and respect native forms of expression in song, dance, rituals, gestures and symbols." (n. 82) Thus, one thing is for sure: the Zairean rite is just the first step in a long-term process of change.
It is easy to understand two grave dangers inherent in such liturgical enculturation. The first regards "to take up into the liturgy many elements proper to the experience of indigenous peoples" means incorporating pagan elements as well. The second danger is that the process of change reeks of a committee working to produce a new liturgy suited to its own ecclesiastical policy goals rather than the Church's mission.
Joseph Ratzinger also dealt with this issue, but he proposed a very different path from the one that now seems to have begun with the Zairean rite and will continue with other rites and eventual liturgies created for each and every culture. In 1977, during an interview appearing in Communio magazine and later republished in his book Das Fest des Glaubens, Ratzinger commented on this precise subject. Even back then, many advocated for liturgical adaptation in terms of the local cultures in mission territories. It was believed that if a liturgy contained expressive forms or prayers of local origin, it could bring those populations closer to the Catholic faith.
Ratzinger, however, said just the opposite: "A liturgy cannot be born by means of decrees, in fact, one of the shortcomings of the post-conciliar liturgical reform undoubtedly is due to the professional zeal of committees that sought in theory that which necessitates developments in life. Only when and to the extent that a solid Christian identity has been formed in mission countries, can one, on the basis of this identity, cautiously move on to Christianise pre-existing forms, to merge Christian elements with the forms of daily life."
These are fundamentally important observations. If the immediate pastoral intent prevails, then attempts will be made to change the liturgy in order to encounter native populations. The pastoral urgency will make it necessary to act quickly, and therefore involve commissions of experts who will change the liturgy, transforming it into a pastoral instrument, when the real encounter should be between heaven and earth. One cannot help but think of the same process that occurred not in mission lands but here in the lands of ancient Christian faith immediately following the Second Vatican Council. The pattern is the same, with the difference being the pastoral intent was directed toward modern man here and toward indigenous pagan populations elsewhere.
Ratzinger's proposal suggested not abandoning the Roman liturgy even in mission territories and, even so, to proceed with great caution to "Christianise the pre-existing forms" and only when the Catholic identity of those communities was well formed.
The different approaches of Pope Francis and Ratzinger on this specific point should be noted. Francis speaks of "taking up" into the liturgy the many pre-existing elements of local cultures. This approach invites us to bend over and gather what is to be found locally and precisely in the manner we find it. Ratzinger, on the other hand, spoke of "Christianising" pre-existing forms. In Francis's argument, cultural customs enter the liturgy exactly as they are found; in Ratzinger's reasoning, cultural customs are eventually incorporated but only after being transformed by Christian evangelisation. The first position presupposes the idea that they are already in some way Christian, while the second assumes the natural elements of non-Christian cultures need to be purified of the idolatrous and pagan elements found in them.
Returning to reflect today on these problems also means going back in our thoughts to the post-conciliar liturgical reform. Regarding such reform, as Ratzinger said on many occasions, these two visions are to be confronted. That, according to which the liturgy had to come to terms with history, experience, language, the expressiveness of the world and adapt to all this by making it part of it as a good in and of itself. And that according to which, the liturgy could illuminate concrete life in a certain historical context if it could strike with transcendent rays of light, not in order to crush such context, but to illuminate its inner truth and therefore allow it to be reborn.


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