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Edmund Morgan, 97; professor, leading historian of Colonial era
Source: Boston Globe, 7-9-13
Edmund Morgan, shown at his home in Connecticut, won a Pulitzer Prize for his large body of work.
Edmund S. Morgan, one of the foremost historians of early America, died of pneumonia Monday in Yale-New Haven Hospital. He was 97. He had taught since 1955 at Yale University, where he was Sterling professor emeritus of history….READ MORE
Edmund S. Morgan, Historian Who Shed Light on Puritans, Dies at 97
Source: NYT, 7-9-13
Edmund S. Morgan, an award-winning historian who illuminated the intellectual world of the Puritans, explored the paradox of freedom and slavery in colonial Virginia and, in his 80s, wrote a best-selling biography of Benjamin Franklin, died on Monday in New Haven. He was 97….READ MORE
Yale historian who wrote book on Ben Franklin dies at 97
Source: New Haven Register, 7-9-13
Edmund S. Morgan, a revered Yale University historian who shared a birthday with Benjamin Franklin and whose insights into early New England enlightened generations of Americans, has died at the age of 97….READ MORE
The following is a reprint of Edmund S. Morgan's History Doyen profiled I edited while I was an Assistant Editor at the History News Network (HNN), as part of the History Doyens series I was the editor of from 2006 to 2010. Morgan's profile was first published on April 16, 2006.
Edmund S. Morgan
What They're Famous For
Edmund Morgan is the Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University. Morgan has authored dozens of books on Puritan and early colonial history, which are acclaimed for both their scholarly focus and their appeal to a general audience. Michael Kammen in the Washington Post Book World described Morgan as "one of the most distinguished historians of the United States." His books have challenged traditional assumptions about the forces that shaped early American history, including the lives and beliefs of the Puritans and the impetus for the Revolutionary War. Morgan has earned a reputation as an historian of people as well as of ideas, and as a writer of wide appeal. Bruce Kuklick, writing in Books and Culture, maintained that "Edmund Morgan is arguably the finest living American historian."
Morgan's most influencial books include The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution (1953), Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (1988), which won Columbia University's Bancroft Prize in American History in 1989, and American Slavery, American Freedom (1975), which won the Society of American Historians' Francis Parkman Prize, the Southern Historical Association's Charles S. Sydnor Prize and the American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Award. Two of his early books, Birth of the Republic (1956) and The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop (1958) which is a standard text on the topic used in University courses.
Morgan has received many awards throughout his prolific career for his work as a writer and a professor, including a lifetime achievement Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for "a creative and deeply influential body of work as an American historian that spans the last half-century." In 1971 he was awarded the Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa's William Clyde DeVane Medal for outstanding teaching and scholarship, considered one of the most prestigious teaching prizes for Yale faculty. In 1972 he became the first recipient of the Douglas Adair Memorial Award for scholarship in early American history, and in 1986 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award of the American Historical Association. In 1965 Morgan became a Sterling Professor, one of Yale's highest distinctions, and was awarded the 2000 National Humanities Medal by the US President Bill Clinton at a ceremony for "extraordinary contributions to American cultural life and thought."
Morgan's own interest in history grew while he was an undergraduate at Harvard, where he went on to earn his Ph.D in 1942. At Harvard Morgan studied under Perry Miller. Since he became a historian, he has witnessed a major change in his field. In 2002, he achieved his first New York Times best-seller with Benjamin Franklin Morgan attributes this to "the geezer factor. There just aren't that many 86-year-olds writing books, so when they do, it's quite an event."
Personal Anecdote
The Calvinist
It was the 29th of August, 1938. After a postgraduate year at the London School of Economics I had been touring Europe with a friend, and we were then spending a week in Freiburg im Breisgau, not far from the French border. In a fit of cultural enthusiasm we had decided to travel to Colmar to view the famous altarpiece by Matthias Grunewald, a day trip by train via Breissach on the German border.
Before describing what happened there and how it affected me, I need to say that I had spent four years at Harvard under the tutorship of Perry Miller, whose respect for ideas and need to share them had given direction to my college years. He, like myself, was a confirmed atheist but at the same time an admirer and profound student of Puritan theology and its elegant scheme of thought. His studies of that scheme would bring him recognition as the foremost intellectual historian of his day. As a student and admirer of Miller, I had devoted much of my college studies to growing familiar with the doctrines of predestination, original sin, divine perfection, human depravity, and theodicy (the defense of God's goodness despite the existence of evil). Puritan theology commanded respect as a rigorous intellectual system. But I had never quite accepted its dire view of the human condition, its insistence on the innate depravity of human beings. At twenty-two most people did not look all that bad to me.
At Breissach I gained a new perspective on humanity. It was exactly one month before the Munich Pact for which Neville Chamberlain became infamous. The morning paper had announced that Hitler had sent an ultimatum to Czechoslovakia demanding the return of the Sudetenland. When we reached Breissach, we were told that there was a two-hour wait before we would be allowed to cross over to the French side of the Rhine to reach Colmar. And as we strolled through the town, we noticed that young men in SS uniform were everywhere, standing conspicuously in every doorway. Without exception they were blond, six feet tall or more, good-looking. They could easily have been taken for American college boys. So we asked one of them what was going on. "Nur Ubung" was the answer: "just an excercise." We came to a road leading to a cathedral overlooking the Rhine. As we walked into a beer garden we were confronted by a man in plainclothes who came over to tell us in a civil manner that we could go no further. Why? Because they were "cleaning the cathedral." We laughed out loud, and so did he. They don't clean cathedrals in Germany, or anywhere else for that matter. Anyhow, we must not proceed. He was obviously Gestapo.
So we sat down in the beer garden, next to a low hedge beside the street. Moments later, a big open-topped Mercedes touring car fishtailed to a stop near us. Top brass in Wehrmacht uniforms stepped down and had the SS arrange everyone on the street (full of people as curious as we were) in a row opposite to where we sat. Blackshirted men stood at six-foot intervals beside our hedge watching the citizenry, hands on pistols. Why we, and a few others, were permitted to stay put is a puzzle. Everyone was aware that some big shot was coming, but we did not expect the man himself. Then Hitler came through, fanning his signature sloppy salute to the crowd, as his touring car drove up past the cathedral that was not being cleaned. There was no mistaking his beefsteak-red face and negligent demeanor. In preparation for the coming war he was inspecting the Rhine fortifications.
We sat quietly, not ten feet from him as he passed slowly by. I could not help thinking that if I had been armed I could have shot him. (Like many American boys of my generation, I had been given a rifle at an early age and shown how to use it on small unoffending animals.) No one had searched me or any other patron of the beer garden, though I assume that more than one SS man had us in his sights.
The point of this story, for me, however, is that I knew I was looking evil in the face. And it looked like my next-door neighbor or a friend of the family, perhaps a bit old-fashioned but solid. What Hitler was already doing to the Jews of Germany and Austria was no secret-although highly-placed officials of the United States government were content to look away and to complain about slanders directed against the German nation.(The American consul at Stuttgart, with whom I had subsequent dealings, was a blatant antisemite.) The part those fresh-faced, and, well, biddable, young men in black were playing was no secret, either. But they all looked so human and so everyday. Even the Gestapo agent could have been a stodgy chance-met tourist rather than a hard man or heavily-armed stooge.
Puritan theology began to make sense, in a way that shook me. I could not believe in the salvation of a few held out by John Calvin or Jonathan Edwards, but human depravity suddenly acquired a face, the cheerful mask that we all learn to wear as the price of belonging to a settled social order. I was still an atheist, as I am now, but that day in Breissach I became a Calvinist atheist. Human beings are capable of great good, but I know that the capacity for fathomless evil is equally human, and it wears a smiling face.
By Edmund S. Morgan
- "We can know what many of his contemporaries came to recognize, that he did as much as any man ever has to shape the world he and they lived in. We can also know what they must have known, that the world was not quite what he would have liked to make it. But we may also discover a man hidden behind the affability and wit that entranced those who enjoyed his presence. We may discover a man with a wisdom about himself that comes only to the great of heart. Franklin knew how to value himself and what he did without mistaking himself for some- thing more than one man among many. His special brand of self-respect required him to honor his fellow men and women no less than himself. His way of serving a superior God was to serve them. He did it with a recognition of their human strengths and weaknesses as well as his own, in a spirit that another wise man in another century has called "the spirit which is not too sure it is right." It is a spirit that weakens the weak but strengthens the strong. It gave Franklin the strength to do what he incredibly did, as a scientist, a statesman, and a man." — Edmund S. Morgan in "Benjamin Franklin"
- How Virginian, then, was America? How heavily did American economic opportunity and political freedom rest on Virginia's slaves? If Virginia had continued to rely on the importation of white servants, would they have headed north when they turned free and brought insoluble problems of poverty with them? Would they have threatened the peace and prosperity of Philadelphia and New York and Boston, where the poor were steadily growing in numbers anyhow? Would Northerners have embraced republican ideas of equality so readily if they had been surrounded by men in "a certaindegree of misery"? And could the new United States have made a go of it in the world of nations without Virginia and without the products of slave labor? Northern republicans apparently thought not. Some could not condone slavery and talked of breaking loose from the South in their own independent confederation. But the fact is that they did not. They allowed Virginians to compose the documents that founded their republic, and they chose Virginians to chart its course for a generation."Eventually, to be sure, the course the Virginians charted for the United States proved the undoing of slavery. And a Virginia general gave up at Appomattox the attempt to support freedom with slavery. But were the two more closely linked than his conquerors could admit? Was the vision of a nation of equals flawed at the source by contempt for both the poor and the black? Is America still colonial Virginia writ large? More than a century after Appomattox the questions linger." — Edmund Morgan in "American Slavery, American Freedom"
- "It looked as though my best friend at Brown, Barney Keeney, was going to be made president, but the corporation didn't do anything about that until Wriston was just about ready to step out of office. I can't remember the exact sequence of events, but I would have been upset if they hadn't made Keeney president; on the other hand, I wasn't sure I wanted to be teaching at a college where my best friend was president. I though to myself , 'Maybe you're just too complacent.' I found myself getting very conservative about practically everything. I didn't want any changes made. I thought, 'Well, you need shaking up. You're sitting here getting just as complacent as you can be.' And then Yale makes me this offer, so I said, 'Oh, well, what the hell.' Hedges made no bones about advising me. He said 'Brown is Brown, but Yale is Yale. You ought not to stay here, you ought to go on.' So, in any case I decided. 'Well, maybe I need some more challemges, maybe I need to be shaken up.' In a sense I left Brown because I was too confortable there." — Edmund S. Morgan in 1985 interview discussing his decision to teach at Yale.
- "I guess The Stamp Act Crisis. That's the one I got the most excitement out of writing, I guess. I felt that I was seeing things fresh in in a major current of American history. Putting it together was more challenging than most books that I've done; maybe it was my firsat real book after my dissertation." — Edmund S. Morgan in 1985 interview discussing his most influencial and also favorite book.
- "I made a point of always teaching undergraduates because they are not a captive audience. If you teach undergrads, you have to make history intelligible to people who are not specialists in your field and that's good for you as a scholar. I always tried out my research ideas first in the classroom to get feedback from people who didn't have to listen to me if I didn't make it interesting." — Edmund S. Morgan on ungraduate teaching in "Humanities"
- "I used to tell my students to try and maintain the capacity for surprise. If you're studying the French Revolution and you come across something that surprises you, you have to ask why it surprises you. Most likely, it's because what you've read about the French Revolution before would not lead you to think that this would happen or that it had happened. So don't say, 'gee, I didn't know that'-you have to ask why you didn't know that. The likelihood is that somebody else gave you the impression it wasn't so…. "You've got to take what people say seriously."… "Don't start with the assumption that they didn't mean what they were saying. It's up to you to show that they don't mean it if you don't think they mean it. All that postmodernism is junk. If the postmodernists are right, there's no point in studying history at all… No matter what people say, history doesn't repeat itself." " — Edmund S. Morgan in a Publishers Weekly interview about historical philosophy
- Looking back on his career as a teacher, Morgan says that his greatest reward in the classroom was "getting students to talk back and challenge my ideas. I always had large classes, but I encouraged students to interrupt me at any time."… "My view has always been that an analysis of historical developments should be embodied in narrative," Morgan says of his approach as both teacher and writer of history. "A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold." — Edmund Morgan in Yale Bulletin & Calendar, January 12, 2001
About Edmund S. Morgan
- "While several previous biographies provide fuller accounts of Franklin's life, none rivals Morgan's study for its grasp of Franklin's character, its affinity not just for his ideas, but for the way his mind worked." — Joseph J. Ellis, London Review of Books on "Benjamin Franklin"
- "So much has been written about Benjamin Franklin in the 212 years since his death that you might imagine there's nothing left to say. But there always is. Now comes another biography of the man, a fairly short one, and in my opinion it's one of the best. The author is Edmund S. Morgan, a historian of early America at Yale University for 47 years, now emeritus. He stands high in his profession, is closely familiar with the 18th (Franklin's) century, and writes with clarity and a pleasing informality. He is an ideal author for this undertaking." — Max Hall, former editor at Harvard University Press reviewing "Benjamin Franklin"
- "Benjamin Franklin generated much controversy in his own times, and historians have reflected this in their treatment of him. Professor Edmund S. Morgan, in his new and readable biography, relies heavily on Franklin's writings to tell Franklin's side of the story. He does it well…Franklin would have been pleased with Morgan's interpretation. Many others, both then and now, would disagree, but, for those who want to know Franklin as Franklin undoubtedly wanted to be known, Morgan's biography is the place to start. — Owen S. Ireland reviewing "Benjamin Franklin"
- For the past quarter century Edmund S. Morgan has been one of the most prolific and respected authors of early American history. Noted for its incisiveness, as well as its graceful crafting, his work on the New England Puritans and the American Revolution has set high standards as a model of careful investigation and sensitive reading of the historical record. For these reasons, any addition to the corpus of Morgan's scholarship immediately commands his colleagues' attention. But American Slavery, American Freedom is attractive in its own right because it is one of the first book-length studies to emerge from the current reexamination of Virginia's colonial history. Furthermore, Morgan's assessment of the Old Dominion's first two centuries is destined to spark controversy among specialists in Southern history and slavery…. American Slavery, American Freedom is a stimulating book. Its insights are provocative and imaginative, and therein lies the book's importance. — Warren M. Billings, University of New Orleans reviewing "American Slavery, American Freedom"
- Edmund Morgan's The Genuine Article is an anthology of book reviews written by one of America's most prolific and knowledgeable scholars of early America for the New York Review of Books. Having said that, one should not assume that his reviews resemble anything that you will read in the book reviews of journalism History. While each review is a means of educating readers about the book or books that he is reviewing, Morgan, who has written and edited twenty other volumes since 1952, is more interested in enlightening readers about issues, people, and events from seventeenthand eighteenth-century America. For Morgan, who taught at Yale University from 1955 until his retirement in 1986, the release of a new volume on early America presented the opportunity to give readers a history lesson while critiquing the scholarship that provided him with a point of departure. The resulting collection is probably the best historiography and introduction to life in early America that one could imagine with each lesson presented in twenty or fewer pages of concise, insightful commentary. The Genuine Article's chapters, which cover nearly forty years of Morgan's reviews, describe most aspects of life in the colonies from the landing at Jamestown through the Revolution… Morgan reiterates this throughout, but, of even more value, he demonstrates what he professes through his reviews. The book's cover claims Morgan "has had a more profound role in shaping our perceptions of the American colonies" than any other living historian. The breadth and depth of the reviews included in this anthology confirm the claim. — David Copeland reviewing "The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America"
- "Edmund S. Morgan remains one of the academy's best secrets. Over a long and fruitful career, he has been one of the most influential historians of early America, a man with a rare gift for telling the story of the past simply and elegantly without sacrificing its abundant complexity. The best known of his books is probably his biography of John Winthrop, "The Puritan Dilemma." Mr. Morgan's "Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles" is the inside favorite of many historians, but the hilarious comparison of Indians with the barbarous Englishmen of 17th-century Virginia in "American Slavery – American Freedom" will delight anyone with a taste for the human comedy and good writing. Yet the work of this artist among contemporary historians remains generally unknown to the reading public." — Pauline Maier in the New York Times Book Review
- "To Edmund S. Morgan, for his brilliant scholarship as one of America's most distinguished historians. With elegant prose, fresh perspective, and exhaustive research, he has enhanced our understanding of American colonial history by challenging traditions and assumptions about the birth of our nation and by bringing to life the people and ideas that shaped America's destiny." — 2000 National Humanities Medal Certificate's commendation
- "Morgan doesn't teach history, he narrates it. Listening to his lectures is like listening to a story." — Anonymous former student
Basic Facts
Teaching Positions: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, instructor in social sciences, 1945-46;
Brown University, Providence, RI, assistant professor, 1946-49, associate professor, 1949-51, professor of history, 1951-55;
Yale University, New Haven, CT, professor of history, 1955-65, Sterling Professor of History, 1965-86, professor emeritus, 1986–.
Johnson Research Professor, University of Wisconsin, 1968-69.
Member of council, Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1953-56, 1958-60, and 1970-72;
Trustee of Smith College, 1984- 89.
Area of Research: Puritan and American colonial history
Education: Harvard University, A.B., 1937, Ph.D., 1942;
London School of Economics, University of London, graduate study, 1937- 38.
Major Publications:
- The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth-Century New England, (Boston Public Library, 1944, new edition, Harper, 1966).
- Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century, Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, VA), 1952.
- (With Helen M. Morgan) The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution, (University of North Carolina Press, 1953, 3rd edition, 1994).
- The Birth of the Republic, 1763-1789, (University of Chicago Press, 1956, 3rd edition, 1992).
- The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop, (Little, Brown, 1958).
- The American Revolution: A Review of Changing Interpretations, (Service Center for Teachers of History, 1958).
- The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795, (Yale University Press, 1962, reprinted, Norton, 1984).
- Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea, (New York University Press, 1963).
- Roger Williams: The Church and the State, (Harcourt, 1967).
- So What about History (Atheneum, 1969).
- American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia, (Norton, 1975).
- The Challenge of the American Revolution, (Norton, 1976).
- The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson, (University Press of Virginia, 1976, 2nd edition, 2004).
- The Genius of George Washington, (Norton, 1980).
- Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America, (Norton, 1988).
- Benjamin Franklin, (Yale University Press, 2002).
- The Genuine Article, (Norton, 2004).
Editor, Contributor, Joint Author:
- (With others) The National Experience: A History of the United States, (Harcourt, 1963).
- (With others) The Emergence of the American, (Educational Services, 1965).
- Prologue to the Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766, (University of North Carolina Press, 1959).
- The Founding of Massachusetts: Historians and the Sources, (Bobbs-Merrill, 1964).
- The American Revolution: Two Centuries of Interpretation, (Prentice-Hall, 1965).
- The Diary of Michael Wigglesworth, 1653-1657: The Conscience of a Puritan, (Harper, 1965).
- Puritan Political Ideas, 1558-1794, (Bobbs-Merrill, 1965, 2nd edition, Hackett Publishing, 2003).
Contributor to The Mirror of the Indian, Associates of the John Carter Brown Library, 1958. Author of introduction to Paul Revere's Three Accounts of His Famous Ride, (Massachusetts Historical Society, 1961, 2nd edition, 1968). Also contributor of articles and reviews to historical journals. Member of editorial board, New England Quarterly.
National Humanities Medal, 2000;
National Book Critics Circle Award nomination, 2003, for Benjamin Franklin;
Organization of American Historians Distinguished Services Award, 1998;
Bruce Catton Award, 1992;
Columbia University's 1989 Bancroft Prize in American History for Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (1988);
In 1971 he was awarded the Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa's William Clyde DeVane Medal for outstanding teaching and scholarship, considered one of the most prestigious teaching prizes for Yale faculty. One year later, he became the first recipient of the Douglas Adair Memorial Award for scholarship in early American history, and in 1986 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award of the American Historical Association.
Douglass Adair Memorial Award, 1972;
William Clyde DeWane Medal, 1971;
Research fellow, Huntington Library, 1952-53.
Morgan has received numerous fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council.
Morgan has received Honorary degrees from Rutgers University, Brown University, Colgate University, Washington College, William and Mary, University of New Haven, Williams College, Lawrence University, and Smith College.
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At Yale, Morgan has been a member of the Administrative Board of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin for more than 30 years and has been its chairman for the last 11. This documentary enterprise, sponsored by the American Philosophical Society and Yale and now edited by Ellen R. Cohn, is in its final few years. It now has 36 volumes and will eventually have about 46. In addition, the documents in all 46 volumes will be available on a CD-ROM.The documents are of three kinds: letters and other pieces written by Franklin, letters to Franklin, and other documents closely involving Franklin.
Morgan is a member of the Society of American Historians, American Antiquarian Society, Organization of American Historians (president, 1971-72), American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Historical Society, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, British Academy, Royal Historical Society.
During World War II Morgan worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, as a tool-and-die make in the Radiation Laboratory, (1942-45).
Morgan has been a professional woodturner for the past decade or so, working on large lathes and other equipment in the basement of his home. His walnut bowls and other creations have been exhibited at the Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven and at the League of New Hampshire Craftsman in New Hampshire, where Morgan maintains a vacation home. He and his wife, Marie Morgan, have also crafted tables and other furniture for their home in New Haven.


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Following a tradition that began on Broken Hearted Toy in October of 2009, here's a profile of a song that's well-suited for the Halloween season. For more Halloween songs, check the month of October for each year in the BHT archives.
Any respectable Halloween rock playlist should include some Jimi Hendrix music. There was a haunting, other-worldly quality to several of his songs; from the heart-pounding, psychedelic confusion of "Purple Haze" to his mesmerizing take on Dylan's mysterious "All Along The Watchtower." Not to mention "Angel" and "The Wind Cries Mary."
There's no mention of ghosts, witches, or zombies in "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)," but after a few moments of chicken scratch guitar and stomping, all hell breaks loose. I haven't seen that new movie Gravity, but from the reviews I've read, the scenes of astronauts careening through space are probably similar to the sensation Hendrix creates on "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)." He cranks his guitar at full volume and then lets it spiral off into the distance. It's easy to imagine debris flying all around you.
There lyrics for "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" are minimal particularly for a track that's over five minutes long. But it begins with an amazing image, as Hendrix boasts, "I stand up next to a mountain/And chop it down with the edge of my hand." The song also includes one of his most frequently quoted lines, "If I'll see you no more in this world/I'll meet ya in the next one/ Don't be late."


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I recently update the system(12.10) on my laptop and after that whenever I plug the power cable in to my laptop it freezes and has no function of the mouse or the keyboard. I have to reboot the laptop and after that it's fully functional.(with the power cable plugged in.)
I need help to troubleshoot this problem or to report it as a bug if that is required.


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I'm reading Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Wb 2.0 Technologies to Recruit, Organize, and Engage Youth, by Ben Rigby. Page 20 talks about Amnesty International starting a blog, and says this:
"One of Amnesty's key objectives is to encourage offline action, which the blog achieves. On the day [the author] visited [the website], a recent post in the "Student Activism" area called for students to spend some of their summer vacation sending postcards … Amnesty's blog both asks for participation and shows results from past involvement, a method of engagement often called "closing the feedback loop." The loop begins when a supporter takes action and closes when the organization shows the results of that action."
That quote, along with my continued thinking and working on implementing the GTD method of personal organization and management, made me wonder what an "actionable" blog would look like in our libraries. Yes, I think it's a spin-off of my earlier idea of inviting participation, so I'm either still stuck in that mode or I'm still developing the idea… you decide.
Back to my actionable blog idea – I think an actionable blog would not simply announce upcoming events or new purchases at the library. It wouldn't even simply invite readers to come to the event or check out the book.
Instead, the content of an actionable blog post would require an action. It would be active rather than passive. Our public library's summer reading program is an example of that. We give kids a sheet to work on – they have to read so many books. It's an actionable thing for them to do (read the books, fill out the sheet). If they do, they get a prize.
Can't our blog posts be a little more like that, too? How would that look in a library setting? I think we would ask for an action to be done. Just like in email, when you really need soemthing to be done, you might say this in the subject heading of the email – response required…Â then you might follow up in a week or so.
I guess one example would be to ask a question. We're doing that in our posts titled "What's in Your Top 5?" We name our top 5 movies, music, etc… and then ask our readers what are their top five? That's actionable, because it's asking for a response.
Can we do this in the social networking services we're starting to use? I think so. Try it out, see what happens. Ask for some participation of your customers, and you just might be surprised.


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The direct use of print or other material must be accompanied by a proper citation. Information about how to properly cite can be found in style manuals and sites on APA or MLA citation.
Example 1*
Original version:
"Such 'story myths' are not told for their entertainment value. They provide answers to questions people ask about life, about society and about the world in which they live" (10). Davidson, Robert. Genesis 1-11. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1973. (This example uses the MLA form of citation).
Plagiarized version:
Specifically, story myths are not for entertainment purpose, but serve as answers to questions people ask about life, about society and about the world in which they live.
Why this is plagiarism:
The plagiarist has copied words and phrases from the original without acknowledging their source. Although some phrases have been changed, the plagiarist still follows the basic wording and structure of the original sentence and repeats ideas as if they were his or her own.
Acceptable version:
Davidson explains that "story myths" answer "questions people ask about life, about society and about the world in which they live" (10).
The student has used quotation marks for all the words that came directly from Davidson. While correct, using such extensive quotation would probably earn a poor grade if the paper was simply a string of quotations from other authors with little or no original thoughts from the student writer.
Better version:
"Story myths" are powerful because they deal with phenomena that people cannot understand in any other way. As Davidson explains, story myths have direct relevance to the everyday lives of their readers by "provid[ing] answers to questions" (10).
The student writer has combined paraphrase and quotation that support an idea asserted by the student writer. By using quotations around "story myth," and introducing the author of the source (Davidson) at the beginning of the second sentence, it is clear to readers exactly where the student writer begins using the source. The page reference clearly marks the end of that source material.
Example 2**
Original version
Robert Sedgewick:. The following computer program appears on page 118 of the textbook Algorithms in C (Addison Wesley, New York, 1990).
Plagiarized version
Why this is plagiarism:
The plagiarist has taken the structure of the program exactly, changing only a few details that do not affect the meaning of the program. Though it looks different to the untrained eye, it has exactly the same meaning as the original program. This is similar to a direct quote; the textbook must be cited to avoid plagiarism.
Example 3***
Original version
Accretion Chart for Illinois tax on OID bond,prepared by John Lindsay, Principal Financial Securities, Inc., 6/12/95.
Plagiarized version:
As the following chart indicates, investment in an OID (Original Issue Discount) bond is taxable by the State of Illinois on the accretion and interest.
Why this is plagiarism:
The plagiarist has copied the entire chart and written about it with no citation. The reader is deceived into believing that the chart is original, created by the student. The
author must be cited to avoid plagiarism.
Acceptable version:
As the following chart indicates, investment in an OID (Original Issue Discount) bond is taxable by the State of Illinois on the accretion and interest.1
¹Accretion Chart for Illinois tax on OID bond, prepared by John Lindsay, Principal Financial Securities, Inc., 6/12/95.
The student has used the chart to support her or his point and properly cited it. If the student had created an original chart, some of the facts used as its basis might need citations.
* Plagiarism and How to Avoid it! Drew University
** Academic Integrity at Princeton Princeton University
*** How to Avoid Plagiarism, Northwestern University


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Dec 06, 2012 - DRUNK DRIVER CRASHES TRUCK WHILE AWAITING TRIAL ON EARLIER CHARGES
Calgary case tossed out after too much time passes
As his impaired driving charges dragged on in a Calgary court for nearly two years, a truck driver got behind the wheel drunk and smashed his semi-trailer into a parked fire truck on a major Ontario highway.
Jetandar Pal Dhillon pleaded guilty in September and was sentenced to four weeks in jail in connection with the incident on Highway 401 east of Toronto this past summer.
But last week a judge tossed the charges by Calgary police laid 21 months earlier out of court, after the prosecutor failed to disclose key evidence and the defence lawyer alleged undue delay.
Witness Tammy MacPherson said the shock she felt when the case was stayed turned to anger after a Herald reporter told her the 31-year-old had been convicted elsewhere.
"I showed up twice to testify in hopes of getting this guy off the road," she said in an interview.
"It's ridiculous that while this case ground along he was involved in another drunk driving incident."
Opposition critics say the case is the latest example of how Alberta's overburdened courts and overworked prosecutors are allowing alleged criminals to escape justice.
"It's another instance where Crown attorneys are dropping the ball and I suspect it's due to a lack of resources and not incompetence," Wildrose MLA Rob Anderson said.
"It's amazing someone didn't get killed because of this."
MacPherson said she was driving home from work in January 2011 when a tractor trailer ran a stoplight and drove over a road median at the intersection of 50th Avenue S.E. and Barlow Trail.
"The truck would have hit me if I hadn't slammed on the brakes," she said.
"I followed it, phoned 911 and gave the licence plate to police when the truck stopped at a rail crossing."
The CTX Logistics vehicle drove off after the train had passed, but McPherson said police phoned back later that evening to say they had apprehended the driver.
Court records show Dhillon was charged with two counts of impaired driving in February 2011. The breathalyzer test result, later entered into evidence, indicated he had over two times the legal limit of alcohol in his blood when he was arrested.
CTX president George McAllister said Dhillon was immediately terminated as per his company's policy.
His trial was originally scheduled for October 2011, but it had to be adjourned for seven months because prosecutor Brian Hadford arrived in court unprepared to proceed.
"Brian showed up in court that day on a completely different file," said Jonathan Hak, the Crown attorney who heads Calgary's criminal driving unit.
"The case had been assigned to him four months before, but for whatever reason he was unaware of that."
At the next trial date this past May, there were more problems.
MacPherson's testimony was interrupted and the trial adjourned again for another seven months because the Crown's office had failed to provide her witness statement to the defence in advance.
Dhillon's lawyer, who had already argued unsuccessfully that his client's constitutional right to a speedy trial had been infringed, then filed a renewed application to have the charges stayed.
But before arguments on that application could be heard in court last Thursday, Hak said Hadford asked the judge to stay the charges because he mistakenly thought the witness statement still hadn't been sent to Dhillon's lawyer.
"Brian was ill that day and he went to work anyway because he knew another adjournment would be fatal to the case," he said.
"This illustrates that prosecutors are human, too, and make mistakes."
Under new rules introduced in Alberta on July 1, Dhillon would have received an indefinite suspension of his licence while he awaited trial on the impaired driving charges.
But back in 2011, the sanction was only 90 days long and it would have disappeared from his licence abstract — a document normally checked by commercial trucking firms before they hire drivers — after it was served.
Surjit Parmar, president of Grace Road Lines, said he was unaware that Dhillon was awaiting trial on the Calgary charges when he hired him last May.
"He was hard-working and polite," said Parmar, "but there's no way we would have hired him if we had known."
In the midst of a cross-country run two months later, Dhillon collided into the rear of a fire truck that had been parked on the highway near Port Hope, Ont., to protect emergency personnel at the scene of a prior accident.
"Our firefighters were in disbelief as they watched this transport ignore the warning lights telling drivers to move left," said Rob Collins, the city's fire chief.
"Two of our guys in the vehicle were pretty shook up, but it could have been a lot worse."
Dhillon was arrested and charged with impaired driving, dangerous operation and possession of cocaine. This past September, he plead guilty to the impaired charge and was given 28 days in jail and a two-year prohibition on driving.
Still, the delayed justice in the Calgary case has MacPherson wondering why she even bothered to call police when she spotted the tractor trailer being driven erratically.
"For whatever reason, the prosecutors clearly didn't have their ducks in a row," she said.
"My faith in our justice system is gone."
Source: The Calgary Herald
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Pharmacy head pleads Fifth at meningitis outbreak hearing
Updated 5:10 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON Barry Cadden, the owner and director of the specialty pharmacy tied to a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak, declined to testify Wednesday morning before a congressional committee investigating the matter.
Cadden, co-founder of the New England Compound Center, told lawmakers he would use his Fifth Amendment right to not answer questions in order to avoid self-incrimination.
After repeated questioning by House lawmakers, Cadden told the House Energy and Commerce Committee: "Under advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer under basis of my constitutional rights and privileges, including the Fifth Amendment."
Lawmakers continued to ask Cadden questions about the contamination of steroids used to treat patients -- many for back pain -- that has sickened nearly 430 people with fungal meningitis and caused 32 deaths. Another 10 patients have peripheral joint infections from injections.
Arecent investigation of the NECCfacility in Framingham, Mass., found numerous sterility issues, including bacterial contamination and mold growth in areas where drugs are prepared. Compounded drugs are supposed to be prepared in temperature-controlled clean rooms to maintain sterility.
The NECC has been closed since early last month, and Massachusetts officials have taken steps to permanently revoke its license. The pharmacy has recalled all the products it makes, including about 17,700 single-dose vials of a steroid that up to 14,000 patients my have received.
Fungal meningitis causes inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord.
Republicans lawmakers, who make up the majority of the House, focused on NECC's history of troubles, when questioning why regulators at the Food and Drug Administration and the Massachusetts board of pharmacy did not take action against the pharmacy years earlier.
"After a tragedy like this, the first question we all ask is: could this have been prevented?" asked Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla. "After an examination of the documents provided by the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy and the FDA - the answer here appears to be yes.
A timeline assembled by the Republican staff shows that the FDA inspected NECC three times since 2002 for sterility issues. The Massachusetts board of pharmacy investigated at least 12 separate complaints involving the pharmacy, dating back to its founding.
"I was stunned and angered to learn that an inspection of the NECC by the FDA and the Mass Board over 10 years ago identified contamination in the very same drug at issue in the current outbreak," said Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., who chairs the Energy and Commerce committee.
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg told lawmakers that the problems uncovered in inspections were "very serious," but that the agency was obligated to defer to Massachusetts authorities, who have more direct oversight over pharmacies.
"The challenge we have today is that there is a patchwork of legal authorities that oversee the action we can take," said Hamburg, who was nominated to head the FDA by President Obama in 2009.
Hamburg asked lawmakers Wednesday in prepared testimony to give her agency more authority and funding to oversee compounding pharmacies.
"In light of growing evidence of threats to the public health, the administration urges Congress to strengthen standards for non-traditional compounding," Hamburg told lawmakers.
Compounding pharmacies traditionally fill special orders placed by doctors for individual patients, turning out a small number of customized formulas each week. They are typically overseen by state pharmacy boards, though the Food and Drug Administration occasionally steps in when major problems arise. Some pharmacies have grown into much larger businesses in the last 20 years, supplying bulk orders of medicines to hospitals that need a steady supply of drugs on hand.
She said Congress should put in place a two-tier system in which traditional compounding pharmacies continue to be regulated at the state level, but larger pharmacies would be subject to FDA oversight.
Cadden's appearance before the committee came immediately after the widow of a longtime Kentucky judge who was the first confirmed victim of the outbreak.
Speaking without notes, Joyce Lovelace told lawmakers her story of more than 50 years of marriage to 78-year-old Eddie C. Lovelace, who was a circuit judge until he died Sept. 17 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
She asked lawmakers to implement laws to police companies like the New England Compounding Center, which distributed steroids that tested positive for contamination.
"My family is bitter, we are angry, we are heartbroken and devastated. I come here begging you to do something about the matter."
- FDA finds contamination, insects and flying bird at Ameridose
- Ameridose, tied to pharmacy in meningitis outbreak, lays off staff
- President of firm linked to meningitis outbreak to testify before Congress
CBS Evening News correspondent Jim Axelrodreported on Tuesday that Rep. Stearns had expected Cadden to take the Fifth and stay silent.
One incident he was hoping to get answers on occurred in September 2004, when FDA investigators asked Cadden if he had "Trypan Blue" solution on hand. The product is not approved by the FDA.
The CBS News investigative team's Laura Strickler reports that investigators then found a drawer labeled Tryban Blue that contained 189 vials of the drug. When presented with their findings, Cadden reportedly became "indignant" and told the company's co-owner Greg Conigliaro to no longer answer the investigators' questions.
Another company owned by Cadden and Conigliaro, Ameridose, wasalso discovered to have sterility issues during a recent inspection when investigators found insects and birds inside the facility. The company will be shut down until Nov. 19 at the earliest, and has had to lay off 650 employees and an additional 140 employees at its marketing and support arm because of the extended closure.


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Jet Li, star of some of the finest Hong Kong martial arts movies ever and Hollywood fare such as Cradle 2 The Grave and Romeo Must Die, is starring in his most unique and action-packed movie yet - and it's only on PlayStation 2.
Rise to Honour is a cinematic action title starring the kung fu king in the role of Kit Yun, a double agent from the Hong Kong Organised Crime Bureau working for a large Chinese criminal gang. When Boss Chiang, the gang's leader, is assassinated following attempts to reform, Kit is charged with heading to San Francisco to deliver an important letter to his late employer's daughter. Unfortunately for him, the gang's ruthless and highly ambitious new leader is prepared to put the lives of all of his loyal underlings on the line to intercept Kit's delivery.
What follows is a non-stop procession of thrilling set pieces in which you, as Kit, must battle foes using all the martial arts techniques at your disposal, as well as the fully interactive environments, devastating hand-to-hand weaponry and, when the time calls for it, an impressive array of firepower. With an innovative 360-degree combat system, movie-style cutscenes and the fully motion captured likeness of Jet Li (who has also loaned his voice to the proceedings), this is likely the closest you'll ever get to directing and starring in a movie with the kung fu-wielding maestro.
Unlike your average fighting game, Rise to Honour utilises the right analog stick of your DualShock for all of your combat needs. By simply pushing the stick in the direction of your attackers, you can unleash a variety of high-kicking combinations and divide your efforts between multiple opponents simply by tapping away in the relevant directions. Combine your movements with the R1 and L1 buttons and you'll open up a variety of deadly throws, cunning counters, gravity-defying special moves and context-sensitive attacks. For example, grabbing an enemy near a hot grill in a kitchen will result in Kit shoving the unfortunate crim's face into the searing hot metal, complete with the wince-inducing sound of sizzling skin.
A similar method is also used for the John Woo-inspired shooting sections, which usually see Kit wielding a pair of pistols or sub-machine guns and blasting felons while ducking behind scenery for protection. 360-degree aiming is achieved with the right analog stick, and the R2 button pulls the triggers; snapping the stick in the direction of up to two enemies will lock your sights onto them for precision aiming, while the L1 button is used to perform dramatic, slow-motion dives that let you take out multiple enemies in a matter of seconds.
Thanks to streaming technology, Rise to Honour's action never lets up; cutscenes immediately blend into the gameplay and vice versa, adding to the game's authentic, movie-like feel. Complementing this atmosphere are other thoughtful small touches, such as the stage selection, which is presented in the same fashion as a DVD scene selection menu.
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If you can't live without baseball…
Be sure to check in on the Japan Series, where Rafael Furcal is playing. MLB.com has created a landing page for all things Japan Series.
While Takashi Saito isn't playing in that series, I'm curious what people's opinions are of him in the NL Rookie of the Year race. I know that some think it should only go to someone who has never played professionally in another league but when you consider that some people compare Japanese baseball to a Triple-A equivalent, I'm not sure I see the difference between being "called up" or "called over" from there. Just some food for thought.
And continuing the international baseball theme, Fernando Valenzuela is back at it again. He made his first start on Sunday and went 4.1 innings for Mexicali, allowing three earned runs in a no-decision. Last year, he went 4-2 with a 4.30 ERA, including a 4-1 mark and 3.89 ERA at home. In 2004, he was 2-2 in the regular season and 1-1 with a 4.02 ERA in four playoff starts. I don't know about you guys, but I find it unbelievably impressive that he can go eight months without pitching, then work himself back into shape and pitch competitively during the winter. Pretty cool. His son, Fernando Jr., is also on the team and is hitting .315 with two homers and eight RBI in his first 15 games.
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aramis ramirez would be a nice fit, but i'd rather see andy laroche in there, i wonder if he is getting passed up now that terry collins is gone.. but lets focus on pitching first, lets go out and get frontline help..
Sammy for ROTY? I don't know about that one. Definitely top ten. He's currently fifth on ESPN's Cy Young predictor- http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/features/cy – and has a fighting chance to get a few rookie votes. Those Florida kids are a crafty bunch. And Zimmerman knocked quite a few dingers this year. I think it's safe to say everyone here would vote for him as the Dodger ROTY. I may be wrong, there is always an intense discussion over something miniscule on this here blog.
Welcome to our little world nkirby4 !!!
Well it may be miniscule but I don't think it's a true ROTY award if it goes to Sammy. I think a new award should be instituted for the best foreign player with International Experience.
But that's just my meaningless opinion !!
Go Ned !!
Go Dodgers !!!
Thanks for the great news as always. I dont look forward to the winter only because there is no baseball. But I love the fact that baseball is 365 days. There isnt a day that goes by where somebody isnt talking about the MLB. This offseason should really be interesting and a very fun one.
Are the Japan games going to be telivised?
I only say miniscule because of the facts at issue most of the time. The posts start with answers to Josh's and end in some other area. This blog and its discussions are not meaningless to me, nor do I think to anyone else who is checking this thing a week after baseball is "over," while sitting at their computer at work counting the days until April 3. Not that I'm at work right now or anything….. right?
No problem nkirby4, I was just having some fun !! It's good to have you here !!
Your right this blog does run off into other areas, but frankly that's what makes this so interesting. Josh gets us started in one direction and we all take it from there !!
Enjoy the offseason, at work, home or where ever !! It's going to be a fun time of year to track what's going on in MLB !!
BTW, my name is Gary and I'm in Orange County and one of the "50's" group !! Harold and "53" still call me one of the kids at 53, while they relate to the players of the 50's.
Have a great day everyone !!
Go Ned !!
Go Dodgers !!
Hey nkirby4 – Opening day is on Monday, April 2nd. That one extra day would kill me! (LOL). Only 123 more day guys!
It's time to look for plane tickets to Spring Training 53 !!!
Go Ned !!
Go Dodgers !!
it's pretty cool that father & son are playing together & very impresive that Fernando can still play competitive ball at his age.
'07 Dodgers
"…at his age"
i forgat how old Sr. is but i'm sure he's above 46 yrs old no?
Aramis in Dodger blue for '07!!
Resign Sammy and Fernando.
Can you at least tell us if we'll be getting an announcement soon about the next phase of stadium renovations over the winter? I know you're sworn to secrecy but at least you can tell us when we can expect to hear about it. Thanks!
Some news about Loney and Kemp, particularly their stat lines and hopefully word about where on the field they're playing and their emphasis would be of great interest: or a site link to the Dominican team's website…if one exists.
Somebody in the front office knows whether Loney is hitting homeruns and if Kemp's strikeout on curves are down, or if he's learning how to go back on balls and is still playing too shallow…
A blog on Kemp and Loney's winter doings would be much appreciated.
Here's a link to a blog about the winter Domincan League- http://dominicanplayers.blogspot.com/ -couldn't find anything official.
Just read the latest on the Dodger web site saying that Dodger announcers are up for the Flick Awards. Vin, Jamie and even Rick are a natural to win once again, but I can not believe that Steiner could be up for anything but worst announcer ever !!! I can only hope that the fan portion of the ballot will clearly show McCourt that this guy is a cancer on this team and needs to be shipped out !! Get rid of the guy !!!
Go Dodgers !!!
Is Sammy a rookie? Technically I guess, but a 36 year old coming out of Japan has a bunch of good experiance under his belt.
As I recall, Japan did pretty good this spring and no one should be surprised if they do well against the MLB team over there now.
I would not give him much consideration for ROTY, but I would make a genuine effort to resign him with a decent pay hike.
Gagne files for free agency. I guess we all knew this was going to happen. How do you think this will play out? I'm hopeful that Eric will do as promised and keep the Dodgers in a position to bargain with him.
I agree blubleeder 3-5 +
Go Ned !!
Go Dodgers !!
It wouldn't surprise me if the Dodgers go as high as $6 million for Gagne (considering that his option is for $11 million). His buy out is $250,000. Unfortunately, I fear that his agent (Scott Boras) will poison Gagne's mind into not accepting anything less than $11 million and a two (or three) year deal.
This will be a very interesting situation, as it will give us a very clear picture of where Gagne's self-proclaimed Dodger loyalty really is. I think that a one-year, $6 million contract with incentives would be a reasonable offer, but since when has Scott Boras been reasonable?
It would be a real tragedy for the Dodgers not to re-sign Saito and Maddux. Takashi is golden and Maddux is always good for 15 wins.
No chance $5M or $6M for Gagne… once, wait, twice- err… 3 times bitten, 4th time shy? If he gets greedy he should be gone. When its not been more than 2 years since he was great you cant throw that kind of money at him. I believe Ned can come up with a better plan than watching the Gagne rehab routine and hoping, again…..
I want Gagne back. We don't know for sure whether or not we'll have Sammy next year, I don't think Brazoban's gonna be himself when he comes back, Tomko should be traded so he can be used as a setup man or closer somewhere else, and I think Brox needs another year before he's ready to take on that role. I agree with everyone else, though. Scott Boras is evil!!! He and Steinbrenner are all that is evil in baseball.
I'll have to disagree with you there dualtone. Boras is doing his job and I bet you his clients are very happy with his work. He is a businessman and has been very very successful. America is defined by Boras' methods, he's a failed minor leaguer and brought himself up by his boot straps. If anyone is to blame, it is the players and owners who allow themselves to be manipulated by his tactics. It is up to the players to make their own decisions. And the owners need to black ball him. As long as he pits clubs against each other and creates these bidding wars, the money-ball trend will continue.
I'm certainly not a football fan, but we should all take a look back at the Patriots and how all their big-money men took pay cuts in order to stick around with their buddies and win championships.
The way ownners throw money around, 3-6 million for one year may be realistic for Gagne. As 53 pointed out, it will be interesting to see how loyal he is.
I think the Dodgers should resign Sammy and Maddux. And Fernando.
I don't see why Saito shouldn't be considered for ROTY, especially since Nomo won it back in the 90's, and he wasn't exactly wet behind the ears himself, having great success with the Kintetsu Buffalos striking out 287 batters in 235 innings his rookie year, and 11 batters in 4 innings in '94 . I think Ichiro won it too in the AL. Maybe one day they'll come up with a different award for veterans of international baseball in the MLB for their first year, but since there isn't, Saito is a legitimate MLB rookie in contention for ROTY.
It all depends on the MLB's definition of the word "rookie", whether it's a first year player in their first season in the bigs, regardless of previous experience in other professional leagues around the world, or a young first year player entering their first year in any professional baseball. I was fine with Nomo winning the ROTY in 95, and he was ahead of Chipper Jones, a young talent achieving his first year of professional baseball. I don't mind it the way it is, but I could see how people would say there's a case that Chipper should have won it.
I have to agree with nkirby4. You really can't blame Scott Boras for doing what he does (and he is VERY good at what he does). Instead, you have to put the blame on the owners (and players) who buy into his tactics. The guy is a wizard at what he does, but unfortunately (at least from my perspective as a baseball fan), the "good of the game" is of little concern to him.
Don't forget that Gagne came out publicly and said that he would be willing to take less than his $11 option to remain with the Dodgers. This is not how Boras operates and, as such, I believe that Gagne will go back on his word. But we shall see. Free Agency declarations end on November 11th. After that, let the bidding wars begin!
Here is what Wikipedia has to say about "The Baseball Antichrist": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Boras
PS: My Bad – Gagne's 2007 Option is $12 million, not $11 million, but you guys probably already knew that.
The NPB manager had an interesting observation about MLB pitchers throwing a "heavy" ball. As a catcher it was always interesting to me how different the pitchers could be, but I'd never heard that comparison coming from from Japan before.
congratulations to mad-dog!
Way to bring some Gold to Chavez Ravine there Mad Dog buddy huh! There there atta boy! First since Izzy in '04, yeah?
Sweet Mother of Pearl I hope the Dodgers can work out a deal with Maddux. The guy is invaluable in so many different ways. We NEED him!
WTG Mad Dog!
james loney will have plenty of gold gloves before his career is over… i hope we dont re-sign Nomar.
I know I'm a few days late to this conversation but I would like to see our Dodgers sign Loney for 1st base and use the money saved from Nomar's contract to get a big bat like Soriano and a front line pitcher like Zito. Does anyone else cringe when they hear talk of the Dodgers signing former Giants? I don't know that I'm old enough to be called "Old School" but the thought of Giants (like Jason Schmidt) in our clubhouse makes me squirm. As someone who has followed LA for over 30 years I have an affinity for players that came up in our system and I sure hope we are able to resign Gagne. He seems to be a class act and he should have something left in that arm.
Has anyone heard anything recently about spring training leaving Vero Beach? I have such great memories of going to Vero to see the big club and it would break my heart to see us train in Arizona. I know that the "A" affiliate will no longer be in Vero, will the big club follow?
I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but did you cringe when we signed Jeff Kent, Bill Mueller, Kenny Lofton, and Ramon Martinez(all former Giants)? Personally, I don't care where they came from, just that they don't go back there. Honestly, with a lot of these guys I'd rather be cheering for them than facing them. On that note, however, has anyone else heard that the Giants are interested in signing Nomar to play either 1st or 3rd?


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The Alliance of the Good
The Evil's Greatest Fear: The Alliance Of The Good
The previous sections of this book stressed the fact that since time immemorial, the evil have been the perpetrators of mischief on earth, have oppressed people, and brought about unrest, insecurity, conflicts and enmity. It is also stressed that the evil have established a strong union to root evil in society. However, it would be a rather pessimistic and negative approach to assume that there is nothing that can be done to change this dismal reality.
A person who adheres to the Qur'an and lives by it does not succumb to such hopelessness, and under no circumstance does he turn a blind eye to the wrongs around him. A conscientious and thoughtful Muslim strives to save not only those around him, but the society he lives in, and even the rest of humanity, from violence, conflict, war, immorality and mischief in general. It is clear that sincerity, conscience, honesty, compassion, love and respect, will eradicate immorality and all wickedness. In other words, the unity and co-operation of the good will defeat the alliance of the evil. In a verse of the Qur'an, God gives glad tidings regarding this fact:
Rather We hurl the truth against falsehood and it cuts right through it and it vanishes clean away! Woe without end for you for what you portray! (Surat al-Anbiya': 18)
Therefore, aside from exposing the true threat the alliance of evil poses to humanity, most beneficial would be the conscientious and sincere coming together against the evil, to support one another and protect the poor and those who are oppressed. This is the approach adopted by those striving to attain the good pleasure of God, and is highly praised in the Qur'an;
...Those who believe in him and honour him and help him, and follow the light that has been sent down with him, they are the ones who are successful.' (Surat al-A'raf: 157)
In the above verse, God commands believers to support, help and defend His messengers. In a similar manner, believers should also support and defend one another.
The Believers are the Guardians of One Another
There are several verses in the Qur'an that relate to us of believers as the guardians of one another. The following is one of them:
And (as for) the believing men and the believing women, they are guardians of each other. They command what is right and forbid what is wrong, and establish prayer and pay alms, and obey God and His Messenger. They are the people on whom God will have mercy. God is Almighty, All-Wise. (Surat at-Tawba: 71)
The word "guardian" means intimate, protector, helper and supporter. In this sense, believers, honest, sincere and conscientious people with high moral values, should support each other, and be helpers and protectors of one another. Our Beloved Prophet (pbuh) also stated this in his following saying:
The stories related in the Qur'an about the prophets provide many examples about this practice. Moses, for instance, killed a man by mistake when he sided with a man who was in trouble. Then, he had to run away from the city to save himself from the cruelty of the Pharaoh and the leaders of the city. This is related in the verses as follows:
A man came running from the furthest part of the city, saying, 'Moses, the Council are conspiring to kill you, so leave! I am someone who brings you good advice.' So he left there fearful and on his guard, saying, 'My Lord, rescue me from the people of the wrongdoers!' (Surat al-Qasas: 20-21)
The Prophet Moses (as) managed to leave the city through a man who helped him as a favour to him. He then reached a watering place in the land of Madyan and helped two women who kept back their flocks because they did not want to mix with the shepherds near the water. Upon their return home, the women mentioned to their father, the Prophet Shu'ayb (as), the help Moses had offered them. Upon this, Prophet Shu'ayb (as) invited prophet Moses to his home. This is revealed in the verses as follows:
One of them came walking shyly up to him and said, 'My father invites you so that he can pay you your wage for drawing water for us.' When he came to him and told him the whole story he said, 'Have no fear, you have escaped from wrongdoing people.' (Surat al-Qasas: 25)
Because Prophet Shu'ayb (as) recognized the inherent goodness and trustworthiness of the Prophet Moses (as), he helped him in his difficult time and allowed him to stay in his household and to work for him. Shu'ayb's manner sets an example for the good in protecting and guarding other good people who encounter hardship. Unless the good offer help and support to one another in times of adversity, then they will leave each another alone and unable to defend themselves against the cruel people. In a verse of the Qur'an, God commanded our Prophet (pbuh): "...take the believers who follow you under your wing" (Surat ash-Shu'ara': 215). Taking believers under one's wing, protecting them against dangers and difficulties is a command of our Lord, and also a Sunnah of our Prophet to follow.
The Good Should Avoid Bickering and Unite
Unity, cooperation, solidarity, friendship, self-sacrifice, support, and similar other qualities are some of the beautiful attributes which are the underlying foundation of the Qur'anic morality. This is stated in many sayings of Our Prophet (pbuh). One of them reads:
The religion of Islam ensures the establishment of a better world where there is love, peace, tolerance and understanding to one another. Societies possessing these features experience rapid development and achieve greater power. Once unity and cooperation are attained, individuals of such a society could channel their strength and energy towards goodness and good deeds rather than into disputes, fights, conflicts and wars. Essentially, a cause to which people commit themselves and devote all their effort, power, zeal and support, both material and spiritual, results in an ultimate success and beauty. What is more important is that God gives glad tidings that individuals working in unity and solidarity for good will receive God's help, support and power. For this reason, God reminds believers not to dispute among themselves so as not to lose strength. The verse below makes this point clear:
Obey God and His Messenger and do not quarrel among yourselves lest you lose heart and your momentum disappear. And be steadfast. God is with the steadfast. (Surat al-Anfal: 46)
Establishing unity among the righteous is an exalted virtue recommended by God. Especially in a time where evil has permeated every aspect of society, not a single evil feature like peevishness, resentment or bickering should be tolerated among the good. Putting forth effort to remove such evil influences and adopting a compromising and conciliatory attitude is a great act of worship:
The believers are brothers, so make peace between your brothers and have fear of God so that hopefully you will gain mercy. (Surat al-Hujurat: 10)
Disputes, enmity, hatred and anger are the features of immoral conduct inspired by the evil. True Muslims never conduct themselves under the influence of these undesirable feelings; they have fear for God and are always modest, friendly, thoughtful and full of love in their relations. People who are not sincere in their cause may feel jealous of their closest friends and even of their own brothers and sisters. Each other's success may stir up feelings of envy in their hearts. On the contrary, a true Muslim takes pride in other believers' success, and is happy for them as if it were his own accomplishment, and feels grateful to God for the blessings He has granted believers. Furthermore, he supports them in their endeavour and offers guidance if necessary. Those lacking such morals, on the other hand, hamper the progress of others. Feelings of rivalry and jealousy spoil the good deeds engaged in to attain the good pleasure of God, and accordingly, ruins any beauty or blessings. God's Messenger, the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), also drew attention to this point and advised the believers to guard against such bad manners:
Said Nursi, also known as Bediuzzaman (the Wonder of the Age) who is one of the greatest Islamic scholars of the 20th century gives extensive reference to these issues in his Risale-i Nur collection, a commentary on the Qur'an. In the sincere style that is peculiar to him, Bediuzzaman relates that believers should strictly avoid corrupt feelings such as competitiveness when they strive for a common goal:
As Bediuzzaman Said Nursi also states, offering one's service towards establishment of the moral values of the Qur'an can be seen as preserving a treasure for the believers; one that is extremely precious. To this invaluable service, everybody must provide his wholehearted support and help. Feeling jealous of another believer who offers his devoted and unwavering support, or considering him as a rival, is unacceptable for a true Muslim. A believer should be proud of others' commitment and provide his support.
Jealousy is an attribute of the evil alliance. The existence of such an evil trait among individuals collaborating for a righteous end does nothing but diminish the strength of the alliance. It is surely the evil alliance that benefits from such detriment. As Bediuzzaman says, the only cure for this illness is not following one's ego and always taking the side of one's fellow.
In the Risale-i Nur collection, Bediuzzaman draws a comparison between the machinery of a factory and believers. The harmonious and smooth functioning of this machinery is essential for a productive output. A similar harmony is also required in the co-operation among believers. Said Nursi explains that believers should avoid talk which could cause jealousy and bitterness as follows:
As also exemplified here, just as how a factory ensures a timely and efficient output only when its machinery works in harmony and does not conflict with itself, so should believers working for a common goal to earn the good pleasure of God exhibit similar harmony. They should strive together without searching for one another's mistakes and defects. In a world where disbelievers ally themselves against the good, are filled with feelings of hatred and envy for the believers, and oppress the poor, the homeless, women, children, and the elderly, all these oppressed people hope for the help of the conscientious. In this case, if wise, sincere, conscientious and honest people use their powers against each other, they may be held accountable for this in the sight of God. It is essential that believers see no limits in improving their alliance, cooperation, friendship, solidarity and affection for another, and never fall into a disagreement which will weaken them. This spirit of believers is best stated in the words of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh):
The solidarity of the people, who purify themselves of every form of worldly ambition, jealousy and competitiveness, who channel every positive feeling, every effort, and every activity for the good of others, without making it a matter of personal pride, will break the resolve of the alliance of the evil.
Not Valuing The Words of the Evil
The ultimate aim of the evil is to stir up enmity among believers, to wreak their unity and weaken them. As the foregoing makes clear, they are known by their efforts in inventing lies and slandering the good, disgracing them and bringing doubt upon their credibility. However, the stance assumed by the good and conscientious will render such efforts of the slanderers and those committed to evil ineffective. That is because, the existence of people who do not take these slanders seriously, turn a deaf ear to them, and state they do not believe in them, will prevent any harm to the wronged and hinder the evil ones from attaining their mischievous goals.
Indeed, we know that the noble wife of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) also became the target of such slanderous accusations. God informs us about the kind of attitude the conscientious people should assume when they hear such slander against a believer:
You were bandying it about on your tongues, your mouths uttering something about which you had no knowledge. You considered it to be a trivial matter, but, in God's sight, it is immense. Why, when you heard it, did you not say, 'We have no business speaking about this. Glory be to You! This is a terrible slander!'? (Surat an-Nur: 15-16)
It is certain that a non-God-fearing person, or someone who has no faith in God, will readily tell lies, concoct slanders, and spread rumours without considering the possible trouble he will inflict on people. That is why, it is unreasonable and wrong to trust people who have no fear in their hearts for God, who have weak religious values, and who thus assume that they will not have to give an account of their deeds in the hereafter. For the same reasons, it is wrong to respond to their accusations without first verifying their validity. In a verse, God explains what the approach of believers should be in such a situation:
You who believe! If a deviator brings you a report, scrutinize it carefully in case you attack people in ignorance and so come to greatly regret what you have done. (Surat al-Hujurat: 6)
An evil-doer is someone who rejects God's commandments. That is the reason why those who are conscientious and just should first investigate the information brought by such people before arriving to a decision.
The Good Only Seek the Good Pleasure of God
That evil, merciless and aggressive people represent the majority, or seem to possess great material wealth, may cause some spiritually weak and ignorant people to develop inaccurate interpretations about them. These people may exaggerate their power and attach more importance to them than they actually deserve. However, the power of people who are distant from God is short-lived and illusory. God is the actual possessor of all the power and resources and it is He who grants such capabilities to people for a time to test them. No man has the power to harm another or to be superior over others merely through his wealth or power. Rather, God grants such potency to test man, though it is all within His grasp.
A man without a strong faith fears cruel people and hesitates to confront them. For this reason, the evil go to great lengths as to please such people and strive to earn their respect. They direct all their talk and behaviour in such a way as to convey the message that they are "on their side", and think that they will earn wealth and power as long as they are under their "wing". Little do they know, however, that such an inclination degrades and dishonours them before God and His sincere servants. It is similar to a man who fears a burglar and thus tries to please him, or someone who tries to behave like a murderer because he is afraid of one.
What is important is to become a person valued by God, the One Who is the Creator and Possessor of everything. For this reason, those who fail to grasp the might of God must be told about the importance of the fear for God and love for Him. They must be told that the evil are actually weak and unable to accomplish anything unless by the Will of God.
In a verse, God informs us of the fact that the good should only have fear for Him and only keep company with those who observe His limits:
You who believe! Have fear of God and be with the truly sincere. (Surat at-Tawba: 119)
The Good Do Not Fear the Censure of Censurers
A devout person only fears God and has a good grasp of the fact that God is the possessor of all power. The only reality these people are concerned with is the Day of Judgement, which they prepare for all their lives. For this reason, it is impossible to threaten such a person with something related to this world, to dishearten them, or to cause them anxiety, fear, hopelessness and pessimism. That is why, the exuberant energy of such a person never abates, no matter what comes upon him in life. Aware that God is his protector, he turns to Him, Who has infinitive mercy, compassion and forgiveness. If he confronts an adversity, a plot, a slander or an unexpected circumstance, he keeps in mind that God is with him, seeing and hearing what the evil are doing. God is the al-Khabir, the one who has knowledge of the most hidden of secrets. That is why, none of those events in life, which would generally be deemed disasters by disbelievers, are intimidating or discouraging to believers. Below are some of the verses in which God mentions people of the past who faced every form of affliction but stood up to them:
How many a prophet has fought with many devout man alongside him! They did not give up in the face of what assailed them in the Way of God, nor did they weaken, nor did they yield. God loves the steadfast. All they said was, 'Our Lord, forgive us our wrong actions and any excesses we went to in what we did and make our feet firm and help us against these disbelieving people.' So God gave them the reward of the world and the best reward of the hereafter. God loves good-doers. (Surah Ali 'Imran: 146-148)
There is another feature to recognise of true believers who are protected and supported by God; they do not fear the censure of any censurers. God conveys this in the answer Prophet Noah (as) gives to his people:
Recite to them the story of Noah when he said to his people, 'My people, if my standing here and reminding you of God's Signs has become too much for you to bear, know that I have put my trust in God. So decide, you and your gods, on what you want to do and be open about it. Do with me whatever you decide and do not keep me waiting. (Surah Yunus: 71)
If one aims to be among the righteous blessed with God's love, favours and the company of His true servants in paradise, then he has to commit himself to remain forthright and honest. Even under the severest threat or unjust treatment, a true believer should not abandon telling and advocating what is true and just. What makes prophets superior is their unyielding insistence in defending the truth, even in hardest of times. Such a resolute and courageous disposition stems from their deep-felt faith. A great example of the commitment and determination of believers is seen in the answer the Prophet Shu'ayb (as) gave under threat of death:
My people! Do as you think best. That is what I am doing. You will certainly come to know who will receive a punishment to disgrace him, and who is a liar. So look out. I will be on the lookout with you.' (Surah Hud: 93)


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