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Is Historicity Important To The Book of Mormon?
By Ray Agostini,
September 3, 2009 in Miscellaneous
Ray Agostini
Kevin Christensen:
Does New Approaches offer alternative paradigms of faith within Mormonism that could serve as a viable "distribution of risks" for some Saints, or as a means of communicating the worth of the scripture to outsiders? I have a few friends in the Church who have been impressed by the sorts of arguments presented in New Approaches but who remain committed to the faith. The message of the Book of Mormon is sufficiently relevant to contemporary life that it should be possible for someone to read it for the purpose of "likening it to ourselves" without being concerned about historicity. Lessons regarding wealth and charity, peace and war, crime and government, faith and doubt can be profitably likened to contemporary life without reference to the ancient context. The text of the Book of Mormon is sufficiently rich that it offers all sorts of poetic forms to explore, archetypal imagery to investigate, stories to analyze, and complex themes to unravel. For instance, the truth value of the epistemology in Alma 32 is independent of historicity. Such matters could be profitably studied by people who do not believe Book of Mormon historicity, but who do have a desire to appreciate our scripture. There is much to appreciate, and I would have been gratified to encounter such appreciation from whatever source. But of such matters, offered up so we could learn to be more wise than the Book of Mormon peoples, New Approaches provides little. Taken as a whole, New Approaches does not come as an alternative view that distributes risk within the faith. With all due respect to those contributors who do keep the faith, the book overall has been designed to provide an escape from that faith.
Paradigms Crossed.
Questions regarding the historicity of the Book of Mormon, then, involve the key issue in paradigm debate: that is, whether our community provides better descriptions of the divine nature, better access to the divine, and whether the religious problems that Mormonism solves, or promises to solve eventually, are the most important ones to have solved. The questions raised in New Approaches usually have to do with the historicity of the Book of Mormon, and thereby relate most directly not to issues of faith, but to community.
If I understand Kevin correctly, historicity is less important than whether or not the Book of Mormon gives us " better access to the divine". I could have directly communicated with Kevin about this, and my post is in no way intended to "intimidate" Kevin into "providing answers", which I think he does in his essay anyway, from his perspective.
The reviewed book can be found online: New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology
Note to Kevin: I welcome any clarifications or further thoughts you have to offer by way of explanation, lest I misunderstand your points or take anything out of context. Are you suggesting, for example, that it's very possible that the Book of Mormon may in fact not be historical, but still important to gaining "better access to the divine"? Perhaps you'll agree that historicity is still an open question? But it's just that you feel the way Metcalfe, et.al, have approached it does not "generate faith"? Which seems paradoxical and raises the question: Is historicity necessary to faith? Or just "faith in the Church"?
mfbukowski
Location:Los Angeles Area
Interests:My purpose in being here is to influence others to understand how the philosophy of Pragmatism relates to Mormonism. I found the church through my philosophical understanding of Pragmatism.
I believe the BOM is historical, but it's historicity is totally irrelevant to its "truth"
The value of the book is the way it has changed my life and the lives of others.
Let's say, hypothetically of course, that one day you discovered that it was not historical. Would you still believe in "its truth"?
Anticas
Location:Northern Utah
The book of mormon cannot be both true and not a historical document. Historicity is absolutely vital to the foundation upon which we stand as LDS. HOWEVER, using any method to establish said historicity other than the promise in Moroni 10:3-5 is absolutely unreliable either way. The Lord meant for us to gain a knowledge of the truthfulness of the book by communicating with him and not by any other means. So shall it continue to be until his triumphant return. Otherwise he might as well just send his legions of angels to declare it to the world and be done with the whole mess of Geographical, archeological, and other viewpoints based on the everchanging views of science.
Key words with emphasis added:
Historicity is absolutely vital to the foundation upon which we stand as LDS.
But does it contain other "spiritual concepts" which may be valuable to ALL? And should those concepts be thrown out "because it's not historical"? They suddenly become null and void because Nephi never lived?
Of course. Is Genesis historical? What historical proof do we have that Jesus of Nazareth is not a myth? Are you familiar with the cult of Mithras?
How historical is the bible? And even if it IS "historical" why should we give it any spiritual credibility as a guide for our lives at all?
The answer is that we "know it is true" because of the effect it has in our lives. Nothing more, nothing less.
If Nephi never lived then JS was a Liar and there is no Authority in the church. Furthermore, assuming there is a God that would make the LDS church a complete fraud and by necessity an enemy to him regardless of any warm fuzzy ideas it contains.
But Nephi did live. JS was a prophet. And the BOM is an actual account of Christs visit to a society in ancient america. That makes its contents scripture instead of a bunch of "good" ideas coming from a slightly deranged mind.
There really is no inbetween here. Either the BOM is authentic in its historicity or the church is false and everything coming from it is not binding to man. I of course am planted firmly on the side of the BOM being just what its writers and translator claimed it to be.
A-M-E-N.
If Nephi never lived then JS was a Liar and there is no Authority in the church.
I will look for your eventual appearance on RFM.
Assuming RFM is a disscussion board where anti-non-ex-mormons do business don't hold your breath. I recieved a testimony of the BOM that can never be diminished from an outside source. One of the very few times in my life that I was ABSOLUTELY sure I was being communicated to by my Father in Heaven was when he confirmed the truthfulness of the BOM (this does and must include both its historical reality as well as the spiritual truth of its teachings)
With all due respect, did the Holy Ghost tell you specifically that the BoM is historical? But my question is really related to this dilemma: If it is NOT historical, does it still contain truth? Kevin has already referenced NDEs, which the BoM covers somewhat insufficiently. But my point is, does any truth that the BoM contains become null and void because it's "not historical"?
I would consider that a rather partisan view. For example, does the phrase "wickedness never was happiness", depend on the Book being historical?
In that area I would suppose we are in agreement. (the wickedness never was happiness part)
There are a lot of books that contain spiritual truth that are not scriptural at all.
And yes, my prayer that was unequivically answered was: "Did all this really happen? Did JS actually translate and ancient record and is he a prophet of God?" Anyway, my prayer and personal strugle was actually ongoing for 3 weeks until I finally recieved my answer. Or to put it more correctly, the HG had been softly testifying of the books truthfulness but I was too logical and unwilling to go on feeling unless I was absolutely convinced it was from God and not connected to something I had for lunch or my own agreement to what seemed reasonable in the book.
I might need to stop here as what I am saying might be seen as bearing witness and I be struck down by the Mods into posting oblivion.
So let's get into more "historicity":
12 Wherefore, all things which are good cometh of God; and that which is evil cometh of the devil; for the devil is an enemy unto God, and fighteth against him continually, and inviteth and enticeth to sin, and to do that which is evil continually.
13 But behold, that which is of God inviteth and enticeth to do good continually; wherefore, every thing which inviteth and enticeth to do good, and to love God, and to serve him, is inspired of God.
14 Wherefore, take heed, my beloved brethren, that ye do not judge that which is evil to be of God, or that which is good and of God to be of the devil.
15 For behold, my brethren, it is given unto you to judge, that ye may know good from evil; and the way to judge is as plain, that ye may know with a perfect knowledge, as the daylight is from the dark night.
16 For behold, the Spirit of Christ is given to every man, that he may know good from evil; wherefore, I show unto you the way to judge; for every thing which inviteth to do good, and to persuade to believe in Christ, is sent forth by the power and gift of Christ; wherefore ye may know with a perfect knowledge it is of God.
17 But whatsoever thing persuadeth men to do evil, and believe not in Christ, and deny him, and serve not God, then ye may know with a perfect knowledge it is of the devil; for after this manner doth the devil work, for he persuadeth no man to do good, no, not one; neither do his angels; neither do they who subject themselves unto him.
18 And now, my brethren, seeing that ye know the light by which ye may judge, which light is the light of Christ, see that ye do not judge wrongfully; for with that same judgment which ye judge ye shall also be judged.
19 Wherefore, I beseech of you, brethren, that ye should search diligently in the light of Christ that ye may know good from evil; and if ye will lay hold upon every good thing, and condemn it not, ye certainly will be a child of Christ. (Moroni 7)
I don't see how any of this is connected to historicity.
Hmm...you are not being sarcastic now are you
I already told you I agree hypothetically that there are parts of the book that could be considered solid spiritual truth without the book being historicitally (is that a word?) acurate. My point was that even so it would still render the most important aspects of the restoration null and void. Namely the calling of JS, the line of priesthood authority, the temples and all their ordinances, and just about every other doctrine that, speaking from a christian sense of things, doesn't flow in clarity from the bible alone.
BCSpace
Without historicity, the BoM does not give us any access at all to the divine because the Church makes certain truth claims about the BoM that are historical. If those are not true, then the BoM is false. This is not to say that some details about the history given can't be figurative or metaphorical.
A Biblical example would be the garden of Eden. The rib and the forbidden fruit may be figurative. Even the garden itself may be a metaphor. But there must have been two parents who fell in some way that can be explained by some of the details given.
Abulafia
Interests:Child Development, Theology, Education, Wildlife Photography, Bird Watching, Astronomy. Christian Origins
Questions regarding the historicity of the Book of Mormon, then, involve the key issue in paradigm debate: that is, whether our community provides better descriptions of the divine nature, better access to the divine, and whether the religious problems that Mormonism solves, or promises to solve eventually, are the most important ones to have solved.
I'm not sure whether the Book of Mormon, or the Doctrine and Covenants or Pearl of Great Price for that matter, do provide better access to the divine. I think that the NT comes closest simply because it's the closest we have to the historical life of Jesus of Nazareth who claimed to be the son of the divine. For me, that's just common sense.
The Book of Mormon and other mormon scripture is dripping in a developing 19th century worldview in my opinion, and it's greatest strength is there and in the idea that God loves all his children around the world. Having said that, the Nephites and Lamanites are sons of Israel, so in that sense the Book of Mormon retains the genetic elitism of Judaism.
It can only be "null and void" if you don't have a wider "spiritual" perspective of the BoM.
Adam and eve were absolutely not Jews. Neither was anybody else until Judah of the twelve sons of Jacob(Israel) had posterity. The lord speaks of believer and non-believer often as Jew and Gentile simply because it was through the group politically known as the jews that the gospel in its then current form was carried. I am no Jew. But I am of Israel through the tribe of Ephraim (joseph). Most importantly I am a member of the Church that has Christ at its head.
I disagree. JS was either a prophet, a liar, or a nut job. The prophet part can only be true if the BOM's historicity is authentic. All of those other things flow from his calling as a prophet and therefore would become null and void were he not one. It is past my bed time so I'm going to have to bow out of this debate. Have a great night everybody.
Anticas, yeah I completely agree with you on Israel...that's why I took my end quote off...it's early in the morning over here in the UK and I've just woken up!
I disagree. JS was either a prophet, a liar, or a nut job. The prophet part can only be true if the BOM's historicity is authentic. All of those other things flow from his calling as a prophet and therefore would become null and void were he not one.
I wish I could accommodate your fundamentalist view. But alas, all is lost.
It is past my bed time so I'm going to have to bow out of this debate. Have a great night everybody.
You have a great night, too.
But just think about this for a minute.
Right now, you have pretty much only Joseph's word for any of these points, and the confirmation of the spirit. Chances are, that is all you will ever have.
And yet (I am presuming) you find your life enriched by this "reality" to which you subscribe
You will never know if it IS "historical" either way, so it really makes no difference in your life today if it IS or IS NOT "historical" (whatever that means, which is a whole other issue)
So how relevant is its historicity really?
And how can you really know anything about history which was that long ago and so remote in context? What year was Alma the Younger born? How does that matter? And who's version of history do you believe?
None of us were there!
handys003
It's really about faith. I have found through other discussion boards, that both whether it is science or historocity, both are irrelevant to a majority people except for a minority. The BoM will always have it's detractors of it's authenticity. You can provide evidence right in front of their noses, and they will still doubt it's validity. The fact that even J. Smith "invented " the BoM in such a short period demonstrates it's truthfulness to it's historical status. If it's not historical then J. Smith needs his kudos for writing the one of the greatests novels of all time. I do not believe any other author could have done the literary work in 88 days or less.
Where as the Bible does have some historical truths prove by archaeologists, it's books are short and written by various authors. I believe in both books, but to some they will always be blind because they have built a prejudicial opinion already. "The parable of the mustard seed' still holds true today.
Kevin Christensen
Location:Canonsburg, PA
I'm afraid that you did not understand me correctly. It's not that historicity is less important than whether the Book of Mormon gives us better access to the divine but that historicity resolves the question. If it is historical, if the plates were real, Moroni real, Nephi and Lehi real, Benjamin real, Alma real, the appearance of Jesus to the Nephites real, then Mormonism does indeed provide better access to the divine through living prophets, valid priesthood and ordinances, and inspiration through the Holy Spirit. What is real is binding. What is binding raises the issue of meaningful covenant.
What is metaphorical may point to something real elsewhere, but does not bind in the same way. So covenants based on a metaphorical account don't have the same binding power or promise or meaning.
I do not think individuals have to approach either Mormonism or the Book of Mormon as an all-or-nothing issue relative to historicity. Individuals can start with a portion of the word, a particle of belief, and enough desire to work from there. The point of my Meridian essay on "A Model of Mormon Spiritual Experience" was to demonstrate that Mormons can and do experience all of the kinds of spiritual experience than any people anywhere report. That means what have is far from "nothing" regardless of historicity. We have something real. I have consistently argued that the all-or-nothing approach inherently means that an individual who does not nurture the seed in the best soil, with the best care and protection from predation, is vulnerable to premature judgments about historicity that may lead them to decide that we have nothing.
I have also argued repeatedly in essays in Sunstone, Dialogue, the FARMS Review, the Meridian, the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, and online, that historicity is what defines and binds our community. I have observed what has happened to the community formerly known as RLDS when their leadership decided to redefine their relationship to the Book of Mormon. I have also observed that the kinds of arguments they offered in justification, however persuasive and compelling they may have seemed in the 60s-80s, they have dated badly. I'll have an essay in FR 21:2 demonstrating that Professor Russell's arguments from 1982, for instance, have all turned out to be dead wrong. And that he ignored everything positive that was available to him. The soil in which he put the seed was as hospitable as a rock, and the nurture amounted to burning the seed with a highly focused magnifying glass. He selected from the light available for destructive purposes only. Of course the seed failed to grow for him.
Brent Metcalfe's approach clearly does not generate faith. Logical positivism is not designed for that purpose. We're near the same age, and have been involved in amateur LDS scholarship for the same length of time. Yet somehow in his efforts he overlooked the things that I have discovered. For instance, he could have just as easily been the one to show how Margaret Barker's research has profound relevance to the question of Book of Mormon historicity, particularly the ongoing charge that the text is too Christian before Christ. She puts the roots of Christianity in the First Temple, Jerusalem 600 BCE. But he did not put the seed in that bit of soil, let alone nurture it there. His explorations in New Approaches involved counting the distribution of wherefore and therefore in the text. Along the way, he claims that a four step pattern revival is sufficient to account for Benjamin's discourse as a nineteenth century composition. He footnotes Tvedtnes and Welch and Nibley, but does not account for their observations. Nor did he anticipate Mark Wright's recent observations of the relevance of the San Bartelo murals for contexualizing Benjamin's discourse, which just happen to be contemporary with the Book of Mormon time-frame and near the geographic context. At a Sunstone panel in 1999, I heard him predict that the DNA studies would soon settle the question of the Book of Mormon historicity, dooming our faith. Well, he was wrong about that too. We're still here, especially the top LDS DNA experts. Paradigm choice, as Kuhn explains, always involves deciding which problems are more significant to have solved. Should it be his "wherefore" and "therefore"? Or the implications of the First Temple?
I see a huge amount of evidence for the Book of Mormon, but I understand very well how and why someone like John Charles Duffy can dismiss it all, as he admitted, "as a matter of course." It's there for those who look for it. It is not there to compel faith. Anyone can just shrug and say, "So what?" There are open questions against which anyone can choose to demonstrate their faith, or upon which anyone can choose to discard it. But to this day, I have never seen any argument against the Book of Mormon, or explanation of it, that dares to fully define the problem it represents against the context that it claims for itself.
If any individual wants to find spiritual value in the Book of Mormon, without regard to historicity, I welcome it. Our community has room for such. However, historicity defines and binds our community. If we ever collectively dropped a belief in the Book of Mormon, it would be appropriate for us to change our name, just as the RLDS did, because that would amount to giving ourselves a new identity, and a new definition.


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UK-Australia trade deal useful as a warm-up for tougher negotiations
Michael Gasiorek is a Senior Lecturer in Economics, in the School of Business, Management and Economics and a member of UKTPO. He is also Managing Director of InterAnalysis, a University spin-out company focusing on trade policy.
There has been talk in the past week about a future free trade agreement (FTA) between the UK and Australia – and indeed Australia expressed interest in such an FTA soon after the Brexit referendum. For the UK government this seems to be an affirmation of the future possibilities for the UK, as and when it assumes full responsibility for trade policy post Brexit. In reality, our trade with Australia is relatively small and so the real value may be in the opportunity for the UK's fledgling trade negotiators to get round the table with friendly faces and hammer out a low-stakes trade deal.
'The real value may be in the opportunity for the UK's fledgling trade negotiators to get round the table.'
It is worth considering what such a trade deal might look like for the respective parties.
Although some of the reporting has alluded to an existing EU-Australia FTA, this is mistaken. There is no existing FTA. There is currently a political framework agreement with some provisions on economic cooperation, and an agreement to launch negotiations for a future FTA. It is also important to remember that Steven Ciobo, Australia's trade minister, has reportedly stated that Australia wishes to sign an agreement with the EU before any agreement negotiated in parallel with the UK. Given that it took the EU and Canada seven years to reach a free trade agreement, if this remains Australian policy, the UK may have a long wait.
The desire to first negotiate and sign an agreement with the EU may be a reflection of the greater importance of the EU for Australian exports in goods (3%) than the UK (1.4%). Though in contrast the latest UN data suggests that the UK accounts for just over 7.5% of Australia's services exports (and is Australia's third largest single export destination), while the key other EU destinations account for slightly less than 6.5%, and where services exports to the UK slightly exceed exports of goods.
The importance of services for both the UK and Australia is likely to mean that both parties will be keen on a more comprehensive services-rich agreement as opposed to focussing primarily on the liberalisation of trade in goods. This is also likely to be an objective of the EU which has been keen on comprehensiveness in its recent agreements.
For the UK, whether a comprehensive agreement is worth waiting for will partly depend on the significance of a UK-Australia FTA. To put this in context: over the period 2013-15 Australia was the 14th largest destination for UK exports of goods, accounting for 1.24% of total exports in 2015. On the import side Australia was the 20th largest supplier of imports of goods to the UK, accounting for just under 0.5% of the UK total. In services Australia accounted for 2.1% of UK exports in 2014, and 1.72% of imports. It could be, of course, that the trade shares are low because of high barriers (which could be tariffs or non-tariff barriers), and that there is much to be gained from the liberalisation of these barriers. But this does not appear to be the case for tariffs. The average tariff applied by Australia on imports from the UK is just over 3%; and the average UK (EU) tariffs, slightly higher at just over 4%. These figures do not suggest that a free trade agreement is going to bring much discernible change in trade in goods.
These are, of course, aggregate figures, and may mask considerable differences across sectors. This is explored in Table 1 below, which looks at the top 10 sectors that the UK exports to Australia over the period 2012-15. The first column of the table gives the level of exports, and the second column gives the share of the sector in the UK's total exports to Australia. The largest sector was vehicles (HS code 87), with a share of 21.2%. The third column captures how important the Australian market is for the UK in that sector. For example, for Vehicles 2.35% of total UK exports went to Australia. The final column gives the average applied tariff levied by Australia on imports from the UK.
TABLE 1: TOP UK EXPORTS TO AUSTRALIA (2012-15)
HSCODE
EXPORTS (MILLION $)
EXPORTS SHARE
SHARE GOING TO AUSTRALIA
AUS. TARIFFS
87 Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock 1,207.4 21.2 % 2.4 % 3.2 %
84 Machinery and mechanical appliances 852.2 15.0 % 1.3 % 3.1 %
30 Pharmaceutical products 510.0 9.0 % 1.4 % 1.3 %
85 Electrical machinery, equipment and parts thereof 392.2 6.9 % 1.4 % 2.8 %
90 Optical, photographic, cinematographic… 303.2 5.3 % 1.6 % 0.7 %
49 Printed books, newspapers, pictures … 267.8 4.7 % 6.1 % 1.1 %
22 Beverages, spirits and vinegar 215.0 3.8 % 2.1 % 3.6 %
62 Articles of apparel and clothing accessories 167.2 2.9 % 3.4 % 4.5 %
39 Plastics and articles thereof 144.8 2.5 % 1.2 % 4.7 %
29 Organic chemicals 139.3 2.4 % 1.1 % 0.6 %
Total 4,199.0 73.7 %
Source: UN Comtrade. Calculations undertaken using the TradeSift software (www.tradesift.com).
Note: The 2-digit level of the HS trade in goods classification has 99 chapters (sectors). The table gives the 10 biggest UK export sectors.
The table shows that three sectors (vehicles, machinery and pharmaceuticals) account for nearly 50% of UK exports to Australia. However, what is also clear is that for these sectors Australia is not a significant destination as it comprises a small proportion of total sectoral exports and faces relatively low existing tariffs. The sector for which Australia is the most important relative destination is HS 49 Printed Book etc., but even here the Australian market only accounts for 6.12% of UK sales.
Table 2 gives the same information now for Australia's exports to the UK. Here we see that four sectors account for over 50% of Australia's exports, and once again we see that the currently applied EU tariffs are typically very low. The relative importance of the UK is, however, more important for three Australian sectors – Lead, Beverages, and Optical, Photographic, Cinematographic equipment.
TABLE 2: TOP AUSTRALIAN EXPORTS TO THE UK (2012-15)
SHARE GOING TO UK
UK (EU) TARIFFS
71 Natural or cultured pearls… 650.5 24.14 % 5.12% 0.78 %
22 Beverages, spirits and vinegar 291.7 10.82 % 13.51% 3.94 %
90 Optical, photographic, cinematographic…. 272.2 10.10 % 9.01% 2.00 %
78 Lead and articles thereof 354.5 13.16 % 30.46% 2.75 %
27 Mineral fuels, mineral oils … 184.2 6.84 % 0.39% 0.85 %
02 Meat and edible meat offal 170.7 6.33 % 1.71% 1.98 %
84 Machinery and mechanical appliances 128.5 4.77 % 2.41% 1.65 %
85 Electrical machinery and equipment… 119.1 4.42 % 4.44% 2.50 %
30 Pharmaceutical products 96.1 3.56 % 5.23% 0.00 %
87 Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock 62.2 1.91 % 2.02% 5.84 %
Total 2,329.3 86.05 %
There are two key messages which emerge from this. First, for neither the UK nor Australia does it seem likely that a free trade agreement focussed primarily on goods would have a significant impact on trade and thence economic activity. It is possible that there exist significant non-tariff, regulatory barriers to trade and that considerably more benefits could derive to either or both parties from reductions in these. However, negotiating and signing such an agreement is likely to be considerably more complex and time consuming than a simple tariffs-on-goods agreement. Second, the key export sectors that matter most for each of the countries are somewhat different. This applies both to goods and may well apply to services. This may make negotiations more difficult depending on each countries defensive interests.
This therefore raises the question of how much effort the UK should invest in such an agreement. One reason to invest may be not because of the anticipated economic benefits, but because the practice and experience of undertaking a trade negotiation would be useful. Indeed arguably the UK's new cohort of trade analysts and negotiators should cut their teeth on an agreement with a closely allied country with which the economic stakes are not too great.
The opinions expressed in this blog are those of the author alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the University of Sussex or UK Trade Policy Observatory.


It took me years to gumption up the courage to go through the pain and suffering of getting my ears pierced! Call me crazy, but isn't it funny how so many of life's most glorious achievements and assignments are often laced with suffering?
We were so poor – poor people called us poor.
We lived in a little shotgun Kentucky house but it was cozy with crisp curtains and hand-sewn slipcovers Mom created with great tenderness and skill. There were always fragrant flowers artfully arranged, big bowls of brightly colored fresh fruit, and yummy homemade treats tempting me on grandmother's tiered crystal compote.
Even though we were poor, I didn't know it.


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Lance Bass and husband Michael Turchin are on their sixth egg donor
The singer and his partner have been trying to start a family of their own
Lance Bass has revealed he and his husband Michael Turchin are on their sixth egg donor.
The singer married his husband back in 2014 after two and a half years dating, and the couple are desperate to start a family together, and Bass recently revealed they have a surrogate but are still looking for an egg.
Now, while speaking to Page Six, the singer admitted he is surprised how long the surrogacy process takes.
He said: "The most surprising part about the surrogacy process was how long this takes.
"We had several friends going through this and it took a little while, but I think we've broken the record for how many donors we've gone through.
"We're on donor number six right now and we don't even know if that one's gonna work. So, it has been a lot longer than I thought.
"But hey, here's to a 2019 baby! You would think I would get so many offers for eggs but not many people have come to me with their eggs!
"I think I'm going to have to tweet it out right now!"
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British tennis player Liam Broady sports rainbow laces at Australian Open to highlight lack of out gay male players


I have realized that spending time with someone who is disabled to see how they live in their day-to-day is all it takes to see the world in a much different light.
Dining and travel is a luxury that should be for everyone - and I mean everyone.
From ramps into restaurants, bathroom design and how to get on and off an airplane, there are many minor adjustments that can be made by business owners and their staff to ensure that all persons of all abilities can enjoy their services.
To see what I mean...the next time you dine out and have to use the washroom, walk slowly, with purpose and notice the path you take, any obstacles and imagine doing all of it in a wheelchair.
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[Some excerpts from a Zenit article today. There were a couple of issues in the piece, such as identifying the usus antiquior as the "Latin-language Mass" which isn't accurate of course since the modern Roman liturgy can be equally that as well. But the piece does contain some interesting thoughts on the part of Cardinal Hoyos which makes it worth sharing.]
ROME, JAN. 13, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Six months after Benedict XVI issued an apostolic letter on the extended use of the 1962 missal, the Vatican says it is seeing fruits of reconciliation with Catholics who objected to the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
[Of course, we should also remember that the purpose of Summorum Pontificum is not just as regards unity. It has a broader purpose, including one simply related to the ancient Roman liturgy and its worth in the life of the Church, as well as relates to the modern Roman liturgy.
To be more precise as well, we really do need to distinguish between the Concilar document on the liturgy, and the actual liturgical reforms themselves which are post-conciliar. Too often these are made synonymous, but this is not necessarily so, a point the reform of the reform movement brings to the fore.]
Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos told ZENIT that after the June 7 document, one group has already asked to return to full communion with the Church.
"We have already received responses [to the letter]," Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos said. "Here in Rome we have a community that has asked to return and we have already begun mediating their full return."
Requests, he continued, are coming in from around the world: "Many of the faithful have contacted us, written and called, to say they want full communion."
Sewing unity
Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos clarified the current status of members of the Society of St. Pius X due to excommunications issued by the Vatican to group members in 1988, in the wake of the schismatic gesture by Lefebvre of ordaining four bishops illicitly.
He explained: "The excommunications for the consecration done without the Pope's permission affects only those bishops who carried out the consecration, and those bishops who received episcopal ordination in this illicit form in the Church, but it does not affect the priests or the faithful. Only those bishops are excommunicated."
According to the Vatican prelate, what is needed now is "to sew back together the ecclesial fabric, because our brothers -- I know them, I know some of the bishops even better -- are all people of good will, people who want to be disciples of Jesus."
"In this moment," he continued, "with a little humility, with a little generosity, we can return to full communion, and the faithful want this because they do not want to participate in the rites when the priest is under suspension because the Church does not permit them to say Mass and absolve sins -- so the faithful want this full return."
Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos said he hoped that everyone involved will continue "to work with the Holy Father to sew back together this unity so that these good people can have the fullness of holiness that comes from union with the only Church of Christ, founded upon Peter and his Successors."
Posted Sunday, January 13, 2008


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I saw this the other day when a blogger on my site posted up a new article with a long title. when you view an article and it lists the previous and next article at the top, if the title is long, the two articles that it lists sit on top of each other.
I personally think it would look A LOT better like the above mentioned example so the two articles don't sit on top of each other.
I don't think there's an easy way to do that, especially since the wordpress' next_post_link() and previous_post_link() functions both echo the links instead of returning it.
You might want to look at the Ambrosite Next/Previous Post Link Plus plugin.


Mary Morris is an artist living in East Sussex. She uses a variety of media, including oil and encaustic painting, photography and textiles to convey her abiding interest in both the natural and man-made landscape.
My work explores the connection between time and memory and how it affects our relationship with place. Each place has layers of signification that trace the natural and man-made past. Marks in the landscape are traces of past events, signs of occupation and evidence of lives lived. Our memories (even fragmentary recollections and half-remembered narratives) combine with what we see to inform our response to place. Places reveal and conceal their past and provide a sort of visual archaeology or accretion which can disclose an interplay between the objective and historical, and the personal and interpretive.
A great many artists whose work relates to landscape, describe walking as a vital element in their practice. It has become clear to me, however, that while walking is necessarily a part of exploring and understanding landscape, more important is time for stillness and quiet absorption when sometimes even the meditative rhythm of walking can become an intrusion.
Photography plays an important role in my work – it can be a way of collecting and recording visual information, a sort of mechanical sketchbook, or it can be an intrinsic part of the work itself. I often use the camera as a way of looking without even taking a photograph at all, a way of seeing and instilling an image; absorbing the feel and atmosphere of a place or landscape.
Designer Crafts at the Mall 2015, 8 January – 17 January. Open daily 10am to 5pm. Closes 4pm 17 January.
The Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1.
Unwrapped, 1 December — 22 December, at The Stables Theatre, Hastings.
I am happy to run workshops for groups to explore exciting textile and encaustic techniques. I can accommodate very small groups in my studio in East Sussex, or for bigger classes please contact me and we can discuss location and cost.


Feeling a little closer to your fellow man today? You're not alone. Facebook has discovered that the classic "six degrees of separation" is now down to exactly 3.57—at least, if you're connected to the social network.
If you somehow missed the 1990s, when the "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" game was popular, "six degrees of separation" refers to the theory that everyone on Earth can be connected through six (or fewer) people. The extent to which this is true is a matter of debate, but it's one of those cultural truisms that seems to resonate with the population.
But according to Facebook, research conducted on the site indicates that for its users, that degree of separation is only 3.57. "The calculation includes only connections between the network's 1.59 billion users, ignoring the approximately 5.7 billion other humans who have yet to set up accounts," notes Jonah Bromwich in the New York Times.
This is actually down from 3.74 in 2011, the last time this research was conducted, when Facebook had only half the users it has today. And in 2008, the number was even higher: 4.28, according to Husna Haq in the Christian Science Monitor.
And certainly some Facebook users are closer than others; founder Mark Zuckerberg's number is 3.17, while COO Sheryl Sandberg's is 2.92.
Frankly, these findings aren't terribly surprising. While Facebook claims to have a very large number of users (around 1.04 billion daily users for December 2015), these users do, after all, have a lot in common: They all are literate, live in places with electricity and Internet, and have access to computers (or smartphones) with Facebook accounts.
All this may be very interesting, but how does it help you in business? The point is, degrees of separation is more than just a fun parlor game. It can help you promote your product, solve a business problem, or get a job.
It turns out that a similar factor is at play when job-hunting. You may think that the best way to network to find a job is to make sure you're good friends with a whole lot of other CIOs. While there's some truth to that, what can help more is knowing people who aren't CIOs, and not necessarily being good friends with them.
This is why you need a Lois Weisberg in your life.
And that's the crucial factor, Gladwell adds. It is not merely that Lois Weisberg – who passed away in January – knew lots of people, but that she belonged to lots of different worlds.
This finding also fits in with other research. British anthropologist Robin Dunbar theorized in the early 1990s that a human being can have only up to 150 "meaningful" relationships. This became known as "Dunbar's number," Haq writes.
And while Facebook and other social networks aren't necessarily good at helping you find close friends, they can be good at creating the "weak ties" that cross social and demographic boundaries – essentially helping to find the Lois Weisbergs,. "Social networks allow people to cultivate casual friendships, which don't require much emotional investment," Haq writes.
This isn't a bad thing. Facebook friends may not be the sort of person you'd turn to for support in a crisis, but they're just the "weak tie" you'd need when you want to promote your product or look for a job.
Look for three criteria—Breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—to help use your network to help with business needs, recommends Herminia Ibarra in Harvard Business Review.
Breadth: How diverse is your network? It should include people both inside and outside your company, as well as both senior and junior people.
Connectivity: Ibarra provides a technique for measuring the "density" of your network, or how many of the people in it already know each other. Networks that are too dense don't help you expand.
Dynamism: How much does your network change over time? You need to be adding people continually, as well as curating your relationships within your network. How often do you contact them to find out what's new with them and how you can help each other?
"If you leave things to chance and natural chemistry, then your network will be too inward-facing and not diverse enough," Ibarra warns.
Using your network is only one way to work smarter. Get your copy of The Simplicity 2.0 Guide to Working Smarter and learn other creative ways to simplify the work you do every day.


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Despite Guilty Plea, 50 Child Porn Charges, Cop Gets NO JAIL, Will Not Register as Sex Offender
Despite facing more than a century behind bars for trafficking in child sexual abuse, a Maryland cop flexed his privilege and walked out of court a free man.
Ocean City, MD — This month, former Ocean City police officer and sheriff's deputy Jarrett "Jay" Wise, 53, got himself a PBJ. No, it was not a peanut butter and jelly, but rather probation before judgement. This made him a free man despite pleading guilty to multiple child pornography charges. Blue privilege is real and if you doubt it, you need only look at the following case.
Wise was ensnared in a child pornography investigation last year when the Internet Task Force Program, a national child abuse and exploitation investigation network, sent a tip to the Worcester County Bureau of Investigations (WCBI).
Dorchester State's Attorney Doug Jones said that the Federal Bureau of Investigations received a similar tip about this sick child predator and coordinated with county investigators.
According to court records, the FBI obtained a subpoena for Comcast records that showed two IP addresses connected to Wise's home and business computers. When the devices and email accounts were searched, investigators found a trove of child pornography. According to investigators, some of it contained short videos of young children engaging in sexual activity with adult women.
When police moved in to arrest Wise, he waived his Miranda Rights and immediately admitted to possessing the files as well as distributing them. On January 28 of this year, Wise was indicted and hit with a slew of charges.
This trafficker of child abuse was charged with five felony counts of promoting and distributing child pornography, as well as 50 misdemeanor counts of possession of child pornography. To show you how much time he was facing in prison, each one of the 50 misdemeanors alone, came with a sentence of up to 5 years in prison, a fine of up to $2,500, or both.
Just two days after his arrest, Wise posted a $25,000 bond and was released. He would never spend another day in prison. Instead he would make a plea deal with prosecutors, who somehow thought dropping all but three of the misdemeanor charges was a just move.
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Still, he faced the possibility of 15 years for the three charges, right? Wrong.
As Ocean City Today reports, as part of his plea deal, Wise waived his right to a jury trial and pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of child pornography possession, which are punishable of up to 5 years in prison, a fine of up to $2,500 or both. A pre-sentence investigation was ordered, with the sentencing date contingent upon those findings.
Last week, Wise was "sentenced" to no jail. After the hearing, Wise walked out of the court room a free man. On top of his insulting lack of punishment, Judge Thomas Groton also said that as he complies with his probation terms for the next two years, no convictions will be entered on his record — meaning he could become a cop again. However, he is not likely to do this as he is currently selling real estate in Ocean City.
That's not all. Despite being on probation for admitting to being a literal sex offending pedophile, this former "hero" in blue will not have to ever register as a sex offender.
"In this case, the state recommended a sentence consisting of a period of incarceration, suspending that period of incarceration down to what is effectively a time-served sentence, crediting him for time he has served awaiting trial," Jones told Ocean City Today.
But Wise spent just 48 hours in jail waiting to post bail. That is all. Does this judge think it is acceptable to spend two days in jail and face no additional consequences for trafficking in the sexual abuse of children? Apparently he does.
In the meantime, in the same state, and around the same time as Wise was arrested, Harold Junior Morris, 30, was also arrested. Morris was not arrested for trafficking in child porn or distributing images and videos of the sexual abuse of children. He was arrested for selling a plant, cannabis. Last year, Morris was sentenced to 40 years in prison for selling this plant as the child abusing pedophile cop walked free. And we still have the audacity to call this country the "land of the free."
Disgusting indeed.
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"The Himmelfarb Library Annual Art Show: Celebrating the Creative Abili" by Christopher D. Cook, Kelly Knight et al.
Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library at the George Washington University has held an annual art show since 1987. Students, staff, faculty, and clinicians from the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, the School of Public Health and Health Services, the School of Nursing, the GW Hospital, and Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library are invited to submit artwork to be displayed throughout the first floor of the library in a month-long display. The talent of the artists is celebrated at an opening reception where light refreshments are served and students, staff, and faculty mingle and view the art.
Library art shows serve as an opportunity to share and celebrate talents outside of the health sciences and as an avenue for networking between all members of the library and medical academic arena. The Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library Annual Art Show fosters a sense of community; the spirit of creativity and imagination weaves its way through the opening reception as well as throughout the library during the span of the show. In addition, the art show helps to promote the visibility of the library, not only through art show marketing efforts but also by attracting new and returning patrons to visit and view the art.


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Floroaica – wieś w Rumunii, w okręgu Călărași, w gminie Vâlcelele. W 2011 roku liczyła 627 mieszkańców.

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Clip Studio Paint moves to subscription model
By Georgia Coggan
And people aren't happy.
Celsys has announced plans to abandon Clip Studio Paint's one-time payment structure in favour of a subscription model, and the creative community is not happy. While there are many reasons to choose – or avoid – creative software, how creatives are asked to pay is a big deal, with many even steering clear of heavyweight Adobe because of its subscription-based payment constraints.
Though Clip Studio Paint used to cost a single payment ($49.99, rising to $219 for the Pro version), from 2023, customers will have to pay monthly to use the software if they want to receive any updates. The Pro version is currently high up on our best digital art software list, but will the creative community continue to value it so highly under the new regime?
Changes to the Windows/macOS One-time Purchase (Perpetual) Version in 2023https://t.co/OOHq7tT8uD pic.twitter.com/fQ75YRNUKhAugust 22, 2022
If the Twitter response to the above message (opens in new tab) is anything to go by, Clip Studio Paint is in danger of losing fans. "This is awful," said Alix Balica. "I switched from Paint Tool SAI to Clip Studio because it was more affordable and it wasn't subscription based like Photoshop, now I gotta look for another alternative since I am NOT willing to pay for a piece of software on a yearly or monthly basis."
The new model is explained by a flowchart, which details the different upgrades to choose from. Users can keep the perpetual license for version 1.x, but will not get any official updates from version 2.0 in 2023. They can then buy another perpetual license for version 2.0 but won't get any updates after that.
Comments range from "absolutely abhorrent decision" to "everyone trusted you dude everyone thought you were one of the good ones". Many assert that they would be happy to pay again for an upgrade, and others are disappointed with the over-complicated model (with one stating that if you need a flowchart, it's too complex).
THIS is exactly it. I would gladly pay for a 2.0 or a 3.0I don't want a subscription.August 22, 2022
However, some defended the decision. "I'm laughing at all the people in the comments," said WitheringAurora. "Somehow it's fine for Final Fantasy, but when a cheap art program, that wants you to pay for major updates it suddenly isn't? One that has been rolling out free updates for years for only 10 dollars? I can't help but laugh."
Others believe the decision isn't as bad as the community first thought because Clip Art Paint won't be entirely subscription-based, and artists can pay a single fee if they don't mind missing out on updates.
Confused by the change? Twitter user Austen Marie (opens in new tab) made a helpful video to help clarify the "messy" graphic – see it below.
A very quick video for visual learners like me on #clipstudio changes. pic.twitter.com/5MRcOkkI8OAugust 22, 2022
Other creative software social media accounts with a single payment model have leapt on the situation accordingly. Affinity sent a single wave and Krita retweeted the Clip Studio tweet with a message confirming its free download status. Note: artists have responded to that tweet with some excellent examples of their own Krita art – a further marketing win.
As far as we can see, Clip Studio hasn't weighed into the barrage of criticism on its Twitter account. We wonder if it planned for such a backlash and decided to take the chance anyway, or if they genuinely didn't assess the strength of anti-subscription feeling out there. We'll keep our eyes peeled for further comment, but until then have you seen what surprises could be in store for digital artists with the next-gen Apple Pencil?
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 Esztergomi Nemzetközi Gitárfesztivál
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Mt. Lemmon Highway Open as of 1/12/2016.
People visiting Tucson may be confused as to the freezing weather but we desert dwellers know better than to mistaken this winter for anything except normal.
Although always an element of shock, snow is nothing new and with a long line of cars waiting to get in since early this morning, the Catalina Highway up to Mr. Lemmon has finally opened, authorities said.
Only vehicles with chains or four-wheel drive will be allowed up, due to icy conditions on the road, according to the Pima County Sheriff's Department Road Conditions Hotline.
So if you are planning a trip up there to be a snow bunny this weekend, please drive safe (with the appropriate vehicle) and go with someone!


Americans stumble across the landscape in a love-drunk stupor borne out of our archnemesis, the crossover. "Give me unusually heavy and tall wagons that are okay at a lot of things but truly great at not much," they cry. And because of the insatiable hunger, the Chevy Sonic, the Chevy Impala, the Ford Fiesta, and the Ford Taurus may all die, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Oh, and the Ford Fusion might go, too.
GM, for instance, is also considering discontinuing the Chevy Impala large car in the next few years, these people said, a decision that would kill a 61-year-old car line. Ford Motor Co, meanwhile, plans to stop building the Fiesta small car for the U.S. market within the next year, and discontinue the Taurus large sedan, according to people briefed on the plans.
Executives are still considering the future of the Ford Fusion, once billed as an answer to the Honda Accord or Toyota Camry, these people said.
To us this seems incredibly shortsighted. The crossover boom has been driven in large part by a healthy economy and cheap gas prices. But that seemingly healthy economy is threatened by a looming trade war with China that has already sent stock markets plummeting and a presidential administration that today expressed the desire to keep most people poor. Gas prices, as well, can be extremely volatile and the global market is highly dependent on Middle East stability, which is fine, except the Middle East isn't very, you know, stable.
And that's without even mentioning the terrifying subprime auto loan bubble.
Though that's not exactly a denial of the rumors of the death of the Fiesta, Taurus, and Fusion. Chevy declined to comment.
We're going to start building a Prius stockpile now, for the coming Second Carpacolypse. See y'all in a couple of years when we're rich as hell.


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One of the most heinous crimes a member of a Christian clergy can commit involves sexual contact with a child. Over the past 20 years, the media has shown the public outcry against sexual abusers and their atrocious actions. Because so many survivors of all types of sexual abuse have recently come forward to report these criminal acts, it has come to light that this type of highly inappropriate and unlawful action is not rare.
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Representing Victims of Sexual Abuse in Religious Organizations
The physical and mental effects of sexual abuse on children, adolescents, and teens are wide-reaching and can be devastating. One of the most heinous crimes a member of a Christian clergy can commit involves sexual contact with a child. Over the past 20 years, the media has shown the public outcry against sexual abusers and their atrocious actions. Because so many survivors of all types of sexual abuse have recently come forward to report these criminal acts, it has come to light that this type of highly inappropriate and unlawful action is not rare.
Thousands of reports of child sexual abuse are filed each year in the United States and the annual estimated cost of abuse around the country is nearly $94 billion. It has been estimated that 15 to 25 percent of women and 5 to 15 percent of men are sexually abused as children, and most incidents go unreported and untreated.
Sadly, the recent clergy sexual abuse scandals have shown that some religious organizations are primarily interested in protecting their image. Instead of expelling clergy members who are guilty of sexual abuse, some religious groups harbor them. Instead of reporting the abuse, some church groups conceal the situation, fearing that it will harm their good name. In essence, they shelter child molesters, enabling them to victimize other children. At the law firm of Schmidt & Clark, LLP, we are committed to ending these horrible practices.
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Can we be friends at work?
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Anne-Sophie Moreau
is the chief editor of Philonomist. After studying at France's ESSEC business school and graduating in philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), she joined Philo Éditions (the editor of Philosophie Magazine) in 2010. A year later she oversaw the launch of the German version of the publication, Philosophie Magazin, for which she served as the editorial supervisor. Anne-Sophie is now in charge of Philonomist, the online media specially created by Philosophie Magazine for the world of business and economics.
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It's something we've all experienced: you're deep in thought, staring into space, and suddenly you realise that someone is looking at you.
Colleagues might first appear to be the opposite of friends, since they start off as total strangers with whom we're forced to spend time. But this "accidental" relationship can conceal a joyful like-mindedness, and sometimes even an exceptional kinship of spirit...
"We're colleagues but friends in spite of that" is how my friend and I introduce ourselves at social events. We laugh about it, of course, but the words ring true; they touch on a certain incongruity of relationships born in the workplace. Deep down, can we really be friends with someone we work with?
The open plan office, that friendship killer
Of the many strange figures of contemporary societies, that of the colleague certainly stands out. From the Latin collega, "one selected at the same time as another", the word refers to that stranger your boss deemed a good idea for you to work with, without asking you what you thought. If you despise your colleague, there's a good chance the feeling is mutual. Ridiculed in films and TV series, they tend to be portrayed as clumsy, rude, and mostly designed to ruin our lives. And to make matters worse, the invention of the open plan office ensures they're ever present (in fact you might spend more time with them than with your partner at home). This is our common fate: you don't choose your family… or your colleagues. Relationships at work are therefore the opposite of friendship, which is supposed to be the result of a free choice. How can an intimate connection arise from this imposed sociability?
'The colleague possesses something of that "uncanny strangeness" described by Freud: they're at once perfectly familiar yet uniquely strange'
Managers can organise as many afterwork drinks and team-building exercises as they like: no-one really wants to get close to their colleague. When we don't outright despise them, we still prefer to keep a certain distance. No amount of physical proximity can change the fact that they remain an object of surprise or curiosity, and an inaccessible one at that. The colleague possesses something of that "uncanny strangeness" described by Freud: they're at once perfectly familiar (you know minute details about them, such as the sound they make when they're eating a sandwich) yet uniquely strange. You don't know how they spend their evenings (bridge or poker? Romcom or BDSM?) and prefer not to know...
"Self-interest well understood"
Yet friendship at work is a real thing. More often than not it comes about as a result of a shared interest, or rather, as 19th century philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville put it, "self-interest well understood": "Oh, you didn't understand Barry's presentation either? Come, let's talk about it over coffee...". Philosophers are purists and therefore tend to look down on these "accidental" relationships, borne of sheer circumstances rather than mutual admiration. Aristotle believed we should distinguish between friendship based on utility ("why don't we lead this project together?") or pleasure ("are you up for some apple pie?") on the one hand, and another which he saw as superior, and which he described as a friendship shared by virtuous people who appreciate each other's moral qualities. It can be hard to distinguish between the three at work… But must we discard professional friendship just because it's not purely moral? Perfect friendship is a "black swan", says Immanual Kant, in that it's exceedingly rare. So why not give interest-based friendship a chance?
It must be said that affinities borne of idle chit-chat by the coffee machine seldom involve moral considerations: we don't tend to enjoy talking about the company's carbon footprint as much as we do other people's shortcomings or misfortunes. What's more delectable than a quick gossip session between meetings? And are such interactions so immoral anyway? After all, discussing some scandalous love affair involving a stuck-up colleague can be a good way to humanise the otherwise clinical atmosphere of the workplace. And we shouldn't rush to judge these little breaches of etiquette: according to "gossip theory", the practice reinforces group cohesion, allowing us to bond with other people. So much so that writer Yuval Noah Harari even sees it as the foundation of Sapiens' domination over their Neanderthal rivals. Fancy that: gossip, the secret to humanity's success!
The right amount of familiarity
But friendship in the workplace involves more than commenting on other people's private lives; in fact it's more commonly our own which we discuss with our close workmate. We share our flaws, failures, and vices, from the most innocent to the most shameful. We laugh with them about our struggles without losing face, letting our guard down for a moment. The office friend is all the more amused because, unlike your other friends, they can appreciate the stark contrast between the "real you" and the fake "office you". Far from being a hindrance, the workplace can foster unforeseen complicity, as well as the joy of discovering that beneath our strictly determined roles we play, deep down we're all human. Rousseau saw friendship as an extension not of self-love (amour-propre), an obsessive need to be admired which can make us envious and cruel, but of one's love for oneself (amour de soi), a feeling he says we all share in the "state of nature". It's this need for authenticity which underlies the most sincere of office friendships.
It's the distance we maintain between ourselves and our colleagues, no matter how close they may be, which allows office friendships to outlast many other relationships. Because we protect them from the very thing that tends to threaten friendships: the overly intense fusion of the individuals concerned. For the austere philosopher Immanuel Kant, friendship strikes a perfect balance between love, "a kind of attraction", and respect, "a kind of repulsion". "The first principle demands that we get closer to the other," he writes, "while the second demands that we remain at an appropriate distance." But a friendship which sinks into excessive familiarity risks turning into drama, which in turn can lead to a break-up. In the workplace this risk is more under control: we know how to behave, which makes the connection more durable.
"Other lives but mine"
Then there are great professional friendships, like great love stories – the kind which seamlessly elevate us to a better version of ourselves.
In his novel Other Lives But Mine, Emmanuel Carrère tells the story of one such friendship, between his sister-in-law Juliette Devynck and her colleague Étienne Rigal. Both were judges. Both stand out for their handicap – cancer in their teenage years had cost Juliette Devynck one leg and Étienne the use of both of his – as well as their immense passion for law, which they practiced with surprising fervour in the seemingly lacklustre field of debt collection. The pair draw a true kinship of spirit from their past suffering and common ambition of bringing justice. Together they scrutinise texts and contracts, searching for loopholes that might allow duped clients to defend their rights in the face of unscrupulous credit organisations. At his colleague's funeral, Étienne makes a point of reminding everyone that she was a great judge – as if it were important to reveal to her grieving family that other dimension of her personality which no one other than himself could have known.
'How can we describe such a strong bond with someone we never see outside work?'
Yet Étienne rejects the word friendship. They weren't friends, they were close, he explains, and these are two different things. In doing so he touches on the ambiguous nature of professional friendship: how can we describe such a strong bond with someone we never see outside work? Étienne and Juliette didn't talk about their private lives. Their kinship lay elsewhere, in the intellectual pleasure they took in taking on misleading small print and other legal traps. Carrère does a remarkable job of describing the libido sciendi [desire for knowledge] which unites these two devotees of law.
The Greeks distinguished between eros (sensuous desire), agape (altruistic love), and philia – the fraternal tie between friends as well as members of the city. But what if all three could discreetly intermingle? Take Étienne and Juliette: their affinity feeds on their shared intellectual joy, but also their desire to help people and a sense of justice which ultimately seeks to preserve the social body. They might have started working together out of a shared self-interest, but it's in their concern for the common good that their friendship took root. Were Étienne and Juliette colleagues? Yes – but friends in spite of that.
This is an updated version of a text previously published in Philosophie magazine
Picture © Lars Tunbjork / Agence VU
Translated by Jack Fereday
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Centre for Young Musicians Taunton is delighted to be presenting a Music Teachers' CPD Seminar on Understanding Autism.
The Music Teachers' CPD Seminar on Understanding Autism is designed for instrumental / vocal teachers who work with students who have Autism. It will be delivered by expert in the field of Autism, Ruth Garbett, Advisor to The Cedar Centre.
Centre for Young Musicians Taunton (CYMT) is delighted to present this seminar for music teachers' Continuing Professional Development (CPD). It promises to be a very worthwhile event. There will be a chance to ask questions which we hope will lead to interesting discussions, and the opportunity to network over a free coffee / tea / juice.
Ruth Garbett is an Advisor to The Cedar Centre Autism Base at Heathfield Community School, a large comprehensive secondary school near Taunton, where she was a Special Needs Co-ordinator for many years. Ruth has taught children across the whole range of ages and she has been a playgroup supervisor. She has a wide range of experience of both mainstream students and students with additional needs.
The Cedar Centre is a purpose built facility designed to support students with autism to access mainstream school life at Heathfield Community School. Opened in 2012 the Centre aims to promote inclusion and enable students to become independent learners; encourage and support students in academic and social processes of school life.
CYMT provides high quality sustainable musical training for young people on Saturdays in term time. Launched in March 2014, CYMT is open to all committed young musicians aged 5-18 to attend on Saturdays in a sustained programme of weekly training comprising ensemble work including orchestra and bands, singing, instrumental lessons, music production, history of music, theory of music, and aural classes, all taught by a high quality team of dedicated and enthusiastic tutors. Based at Richard Huish College in Taunton, and with bursaries available from the Guildhall School and Sound Foundation Somerset, all children aged 5 – 18 interested in music can join CYMT, from beginners to advanced, and there are no auditions. Students have regular opportunities to perform any styles of music they wish, and CYMT strives to support all students with a friendly, welcoming and all-inclusive atmosphere.


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Lowery came to Lipscomb in 2009 as the assistant director of the dietetic internship program and moved up to become an assistant professor and director of the internship program in 2010. Lowery holds a bachelor's degree in nutrition from Lipscomb; she carried out her dietetic internship at National HealthCorp; and earned a master's in nutrition and food science, with an emphasis in hotel and restaurant management, from Auburn University in Auburn, Ala. Professionally, Lowery has worked as the food service director for The Health Center at Richland Place, as a consultant dietitian at Providence Place of Mount Juliet, both in the Nashville area, and as a field specialist at EcoSure in Illinois. Her research interests include childhood obesity, healthy food in schools and sustainable gardening for schools and communities. In 2012, she was voted the Nashville District Dietetic Association's 2012-2013 Outstanding Dietetic Educator of the Year.
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Behold the First Ever Hybrid Audi RS6 Avant
The 1,005 HP ABT Audi RS6-E Prototype even has a NOS-like Magic Button to increase power for short durations.
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ABT Sportsline, the tuning company responsible for Audi's Formula E race cars, has created the world's first Audi RS6 Avant with a hybrid powertrain. The 1,005 horsepower ABT RS6-E concept gives us a glimpse of what tuning hybrid and electric vehicles will be like in the future.
To create the RS6-E, ABT took the already venerable 597-horsepower RS6 Performance and added an ABT Engine Control module and new exhaust system to the car's 4.0-liter, biturbo V8, bumping power up to 720 horses. The car also has a 286-horsepower electric motor attached to its transmission tunnel, which can boost the RS6-E's total output to 1,005 horsepower and 952 pound-feet of torque when the driver pushes the ABT "Magic Button" on the steering wheel.
Think of it like the boost system in Porsche's E-Hybrid models, or as Formula E racer Daniel Abt puts it, like the NOS button in The Fast and the Furious movies. Unfortunately, this button can only be activated above 60 mph and for only about 10 seconds at a time due to heating problems. Boosted or not, the RS6-E darts to 60 mph in 3.3 seconds and to a top speed of almost 199 mph. Not bad for a wagon that weighs 4,300 pounds stock and has a 13.6 kWh battery in the trunk.
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Other modifications to the car include an ABT front lip, rear spoiler, side skirts, fender inserts, mirror caps, and front and rear fascia add-ons. It also sports ABT's new 21-inch Sport GR wheels with aero rings, a design that first debuted on Jon Olsson's ABT RS6+ Phoenix.
Sadly, the RS6-E is but a prototype for now, and ABT has no plans to put it into production. Rather, the car is a fun side project to help the tuners experiment with hybrid performance. Daniel Abt, son of ABT Sportsline owner Hans-Jurgen Abt, explains his vision for the RS6-E and demonstrates the car's insane acceleration in the video below.
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Aspen Swim Club ends season with strong performances coast to coast
It's been a whirlwind month for the Aspen Swim Club. The Speedos recently finished their long-course season with a multitude of swimmers competing at five high-profile meets around the country. Below are the highlights with comments from head coach Gordon Gerson.
Shea Card comes up big at zones
Gerson wanted to start with the biggest highlight among the five meets, and that was Basalt High School freshman Shea Card. Card qualified to compete with Team Colorado at the 2017 Western Zone Age Group Championships from Aug. 9 to 12 in Roseville, California.
The meet effectively included the best 14-and-under swimmers in the western United States, outside of some of the top swimmers in southern California.
"Might there be a few good 14-and-under boys missing from this meet? Yeah, but he's right up there. Those were really legitimate swims," Gerson said. "The performances he laid down were really spectacular."
Some of Card's highlights include taking 13th in the 100 backstroke, 13th in the 200 IM, eighth in the 400 IM, and seventh in the 200 backstroke. His 200 backstroke time of 2 minutes, 17.33 seconds is believed to be the fastest by any Aspen swimmer ever, any age.
He also swam on Colorado's 400 medley relay team that took third.
Quist gets taste of the big time
A year in the making, 2017 Aspen High School graduate Kennidy Quist finally got to experience one of the biggest stages in the country when she competed at the Aug. 8 to 12 Speedo Junior National Championships in East Meadow, New York. Junior nationals include most of the top 18-and-under swimmers in the country.
Quist, who will swim for Harvard University, didn't score, but did set personal-best times in two of her three events.
"Why is that important? I don't know if it's the nerves, I don't know if it's a slow pool, but basically only about 10 percent of girls made best times at the meet," Gerson said. "It was a great experience for her. When you are a post-graduate senior and you are still making best times in the summer, your college coaches have got to be looking forward to you doing well."
Shining stars in Texas
Before Quist went to junior nationals, she was one of four to compete at the USA Swimming Futures Championships from Aug. 3 to 6 in Lewisville, Texas. There are four Futures competitions held around the country, with this meet including the best of the best from the Midwest not competing at junior nationals, with a few exceptions.
Quist used the meet more as a tune-up for juniors, while Charlie Mechling, a Glenwood Springs product who will be a sophomore at the University of South Dakota, used it mostly to get back into competition shape for the college season.
L.J. Fetzko, a Glenwood product who will swim for the University of Hawaii this year, and AHS senior Davy Brown were the other two Speedos swimmers competing at Futures.
"For Davy it was a big breakthrough because she has sometimes struggled with believing she was racing superhuman aliens at some of these bigger out of state meets," Gerson said. "This meet was a time I saw her realize she could compete with them."
The girls combined for a pair of top-five relay finishes and a seventh-place team finish. The highlight was Quist winning the 50 free race despite being in "tune up" mode.
Brown's best race came when she finished sixth in the 200 backstroke. Fetzko took third in the 200 IM.
In July, before the bigger national meets, many Aspen swimmers had their seasons come to a close at the state championship meets in Fort Collins. The older 13-and-over swimmers went first from July 21 to 23, while the younger 12-and-under swimmers followed July 28 to 30.
The main thing to note from the senior meet was the performance of AHS senior Emily Driscoll. She, along with Brown and Hannah Freeman, are expected to be the heart of the AHS girls swim team this winter. Those three, alongside Quist, led the Skiers to the 3A state championship last year.
"I'm not going to make such a bold statement as they will defend that state championship without Kennidy — those are large shoes to fill — but Emily showed something in long course that is going to translate really well to short course," Gerson said. "Every heat Emily was in at states, she was the underwater winner. And at long course that does you a bit of good. At short course that does you a lot of good. She got something figured out there. She got nothing but best times at state."
Driscoll's highlight came when she finished fifth in the 200 backstroke.
Freeman, Mechling and Kelli Callahan, an AHS graduate and sophomore at the University of Puget Sound, all had strong swims at the senior state meet as well.
More than any of the meets, it was the younger swimmers who have Gerson excited.
"For the future of the team, the group I'm most excited about is the 12 year olds and the young 13 year olds," Gerson said. "Those are the people we are going to be talking about for the next few years. They are all starting to realize what it takes to be great at this sport. We've had good role models for them."
Swimmers who particularly stood out were Eddie Zane, Micah Sanders-Silva and Gavin Boggs. Zane had a pair of top-10 finishes, Sanders-Silva had three top-six finishes and Boggs four top-10 finishes.
"We had more pleasant surprises than I've ever noticed before," Gerson said. "Through these five meets, I'm going to be bummed if we are not better (next year). I saw the pathway. It's pretty cool."
Also competing for the Speedos at the 12-and-under meet were Lillie Boggs, Bennett Jones, Laila Khan-Farooqi, Sara Michelin, Andrew Sprenger and Penelope White.
The Aspen Swim Club will soon get to work in preparation for their short-course season, which starts with a meet in Durango in late September.
"I probably sound like a broken record, but I'm just amazed what we are able to do sometimes in this little place for swimming," Gerson said. "I couldn't be more proud of the kids. For me, it's all about developing the cloth."


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Jane T. Chandler, 79, of Montrose, PA passed away, Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at Endless Mountains Health Systems, Montrose, PA. Born March 19, 1939 in Churchville, PA, she was the daughter of the late Harry and Bertha [Kichline] Tomlinson. Her husband Ronald Chandler predeceased her in 2014.
She was employed as a math teacher.
Survivors include sons, Kendal T. Chandler of Montrose, PA, and David H. Chandler of Nazareth, PA, and sister, Nancy Tomlinson of Tucson, AZ.
Services: 3:00 pm Saturday at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Montrose, PA 18801.


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