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Cruz: Political anarchist or genius?
You can get ahead in politics by ticking off some of the people in Washington all of the time, or all of the people in Washington some of the time.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is testing the consequences of ticking off everyone in Washington all of the time.
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With his obviously doomed campaign this month against funding the Affordable Care Act, Cruz triggered a wave of vitriol from his fellow Republicans, who lampooned his outsized ego, over-the-top rhetoric and dubious legislative tactics. The avalanche of criticism both threatens Cruz's status as a GOP golden boy — and strengthens his profile as a kind of tea party folk hero for whom Washington's hatred is a badge of honor.
( Also on POLITICO: Is this a real filibuster or not?)
The GOP's open exasperation with Cruz has mounted over several weeks, as the senator waged a theatrical and hopeless quest that culminated in a 21-hour floor speech denouncing Obamacare. The leaders of his own caucus — Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and John Cornyn of Texas — publicly questioned Cruz's demand that senators oppose cloture even on a House-approved bill with no Obamacare funding, because of the certainty that Senate Democrats would re-insert funding on a later vote. Cruz angered House Republicans, too, by suggesting last week that the Senate would be unlikely to enact the conservative-friendly House bill.
Cruz allies say the senator has long been prepared to go down fighting in an impossible effort to block funding for the ACA. In fact, that was the whole point of his crusade, which was never really expected to function as a legislative strategy.
The question for Cruz, as he weighs the next steps in his rapid political ascent, is whether all this has worked as a political strategy despite the consensus view of him in official Washington as a deeply annoying publicity hound.
( WATCH: Ted Cruz's speech: 10 colorful quotes)
And in the waning hours of Cruz's anti-Obamacare stemwinder, GOP elites grudgingly acknowledged that the same tactics that turned countless Beltway Republicans against Cruz probably only enhanced his standing with the conservative grass roots.
"He's hurting himself with the D.C. establishment in order to help himself with the base in Iowa and elsewhere. D.C. is interested in whether something is going to be effective. Conservative caucus activists aren't concerned about that," said Republican presidential strategist David Kochel, Mitt Romney's former top Iowa adviser.
The downside to the Cruz approach, Kochel said, is that "he looks like it's all just complete grandstanding to no effect whatsoever except to call attention to himself. It's not like the Rand Paul filibuster, which actually did affect public policy and start a real conversation. The conversation on Obamacare was already had and is still being had."
( Also on POLITICO: Boozman thrashes Cruz for Obamacare tactics)
Faith and Freedom Coalition head Ralph Reed, the longtime conservative organizer, said few Republican voters will heed the critique that Cruz's strategy had no hope of actually defunding Obamacare.
"The grass roots understands that this was a very uphill struggle and that it's going to be very difficult to achieve the desired outcome of defunding Obamacare," Reed said. "I think the larger point is that the grass roots of both parties are hungering for two things: one, authenticity; and secondly, intestinal fortitude."
Inside Washington, there's far less regard for what some of Cruz's chief supporters — groups such as the Club for Growth and the Senate Conservatives Fund — view as his political heroics and feature in their fundraising emails.
( Also on POLITICO: Cornyn, Cruz's Texas-size divide)
It's not just entrenched Washington legislators who have recoiled from Cruz's hectoring attitude toward the ACA issue: the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial page sneered at "the supposedly intrepid General Cruz" for urging House Republicans into a potentially catastrophic government shutdown. At a New Hampshire GOP fundraiser in August, Romney, the GOP's 2012 standard-bearer, pointedly warned his party to "exercise great care about any talk of shutting down government."


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If you spend long enough on this forum, you'll come away with all sorts of weird, untrue ideas of Orthodox Christianity.
I would suggest most persons in general avoid any question beginning with why.
Wow, it has been nine years since I first posted this topic.Since then, N.T. Wright has helped shape my understanding of Romans. Ironically, I am about to start reading Karl Barth's Epistle to the Romans.Greg
Does NT Wright's stuff go into detail on explaining how Romans does not support Anselmian atonement?
I have started to blog on the Epistle to the Romans. I invite you to join me in reading and reflecting on this great letter by the Apostle Paul.
I just need to find out how to say it in Slavonic!
Why you are using a contemporary non-Orthodox authors instead of Patristic ones? Aren't there any available?
Quote from: Alpo on July 21, 2013, 10:14:21 AMWhy you are using a contemporary non-Orthodox authors instead of Patristic ones? Aren't there any available?As far as I know, no competent Orthodox biblical scholar has published a commentary on Romans that is available in English. Who do you recommend?I am and will be consulting St John Chrysostom's homilies on Romans, but so far I am not finding him at all helpful, at least as an interpreter of Paul.
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An aggressive skirmish between rival herbicide makers for your soybean input dollar is creating a frenzy of pointed debate that's usually reserved for a congressional filibuster.
The most vocal player, American Cyanamid, a longtime soybean herbicide market leader with Pursuit and Scepter, is taking a vigorous stand due to a Roundup Ready (RR) bandwagon that is pushing to cover 20+ million acres. Other companies also have campaigns underway to keep and grow marketshare in light of this popular technology, most noticeably is DuPont's price slashing of Reliance STS and Synchrony STS for herbicide-tolerant STS soybeans, and Classic for all soybeans.
Cyanamid's plan is to prove the need for residual weed control, a practice it says will out-yield a total-post application of Roundup. In the opposing camp, Monsanto continues its aggressive promotion of data that touts the exact opposite - no need for anything but Roundup. And in printed public information, both sides have used the same university research to prove their respective claims.
Who's right? Given wide-ranging variables that transpire each season, university weed scientists say both camps can claim victory in a given trial and given year. Monsanto has staked claim to a 2 bu./acre advantage for total post control in RR beans compared to use of a soil-applied herbicide, based on 330 grower trials.
In Cyanamid's 86 side-by-side grower tests on RR beans, where imidazolinone residual herbicide programs were compared to a single (1 pt./acre) application of Roundup Ultra, the residual programs showed an average yield advantage of 4.7 bu./acre in 1997.
"Based on research over several decades, it's essentially a standoff," says George Kapusta, Southern Illinois University's veteran weed specialist, who's philosophy on this subject mirrors his peers.
"Crops can compete with weeds for about four weeks after planting with little or no yield reduction, as long as farmers who use post products understand the risks of proper application timing, weed spectrum and germination specifics, and a hard-to-predict weather variable - all which can cut yields."
Iowa State agronomist Bob Hartzler agrees. "We can manage weeds with a single pass, and it's somewhat easier today with Roundup Ready beans, but the risks are greater compared to a two-pass program."
A need to scout. For the thousands of growers facing this total post control decision on RR beans (or on any variety), Hartzler says to consider an application window rule-of-thumb to help prevent yield loss when going total post: "If you have low weed populations you can wait up to five weeks after emergence. But with medium to high weed populations, your spray window narrows drastically to between the third and fourth week," he says.
Risk-aversive growers who want insurance against total post can opt for a soil-applied program first. The obvious goal here is, given proper soil moisture, to reduce the weed load and widen the post application window to increase success. But when adding this step, especially into a RR bean program, input costs must be carefully scrutinized. If you're already paying a seed premium and technology fee, does the cost of a specific soil-applied program add to or subtract from the bottom line?
Cyanamid offers a residual protection package to offset the cost of Roundup Ultra used in-crop. According to Brian Nelson, product manager for Pursuit Plus and Steel, if you use soil-applied Pursuit Plus or Steel, Cyanamid will pay up to $7/acre for Roundup if needed. Or, put Prowl down followed by a Pursuit+Roundup tankmix and receive a discount up to $12/acre.
To complicate the buying decision, the list of rebates offered by many companies appear endless. And these programs may vary by dealer and by how many acres you plan to treat, so check with several reliable suppliers. Or perhaps it's time to consider hiring an unbiased, independent crop consultant to help sort things out and reduce risk.
"If a grower calls me and wants a general recommendation for his weed control program, I tell him it's impossible to generalize," says Maggie Jones, a crop consultant with Blue Earth Agronomics, Lake Crystal, MN. "I begin by asking questions and listening to a grower's weed problems, field history, spray equipment, tillage system, labor supply, time constraints and economic situation."
Only then will Jones, an independent certified professional crop consultant (CPCC-I), begin helping growers sift through field-by-field options. "My approach is education; provide sound, unbiased recommendations and let the farmer make the final choice," she says. "The biggest positive (about soybean weed control) is that a grower's choices are better than ever. Roundup Ready beans may be the best program in some fields, but the worst in others. That's why it pays to sort out all the details."
Irregardless of who helps you decide what herbicide inputs to buy, it pays for you to keep up on the latest news and advances to stifle this year's weed crop.
Resistant seed news. Pricing is the biggest news, and RR beans are driving many players in the industry to reevaluate profit margins. Whether it's in the form of direct price reductions, rebates, discounts for buying several of one company's products, or other such programs, it'll pay to shop around and examine the details. Check out the chart on pages 12, 14 and 16 for more details.
In the fast growing herbicide-resistant seed arena, the significant news is 300 new RR soybean varieties. More choices allow growers to buy a better maturity or disease or genetic package, and gain more yield potential. The incorrectly criticized yield drag of RR soybeans is actually yield lag (see story on page 30), defined as the time frame necessary to properly move genes into top genetic lines. "A much broader varietal selection exists this year from more than 90 seed companies, giving growers more disease resistance options and more northern varieties," says Doug Dorsey, Monsanto's soybean market manager.
The company maintains that 75 to 80% of RR soybean growers use only one application. "If growers start with a clean field, then apply 32 ounces of Roundup Ultra when annual weeds reach 4 to 8 in. (in the north-central region), one-pass control will usually succeed," Dorsey says. "It's best to time application based on annual weed size not days after planting."
There are weed exceptions to this rule. The label recommends earlier application (3 to 6 in. tall) on nightshade, smartweed, and morningglories; later application on giant ragweed (8 to 12 in. tall); and higher rates to suppress or control nutsedge and/or perennial weeds.
Obviously, you can't hit the proper timing of all weeds, and waiting too long can jeopardize yields. That's why university weed specialists recommend sequential Roundup applications or the use of a residual herbicide to stifle such tough species and reduce farmers' risks.
And Monsanto's latest program is targeted to reduce a grower's aversion to total post weed control risks. If growers sign up for the company's Technology Value Package and follow application guidelines, they'll receive up to 24 oz./acre of Roundup Ultra should a second flush of annual weeds require a sequential application.
Speaking of value, DuPont's herbicide-tolerant STS soybean program quickly became competitive this fall when the company dropped the price of Synchrony STS and Reliance STS from $15/acre to $4 to $5/acre. "We believe this program is competitive with Roundup Ready in any scenario, from weed spectrum to crop safety to value," says Fran Castle, the company's STS product manager. "It's especially effective when growers use our new Authority First/Synchrony STS, which will cost less than $20/acre for broad-spectrum weed control."
This two-pass co-pak consists of soil-applied Authority followed by Synchrony STS (Classic+Pinnacle) post, targeted to central Midwest growers where nightshade and waterhemp reign king. One buying caution: If soils have a pH of 6.8 or higher, DuPont recommends using Reliance instead of this co-pak in STS beans. Regarding supply, DuPont says 100 seed companies will offer enough STS soybean seed to cover 5 to 7 million acres in 1998.
Liberty herbicide will make its initial soybean appearance on approximately 100,000 acres of resistant beans in 1998. Croplan Genetics (Cenex/Land O'Lakes) is the only supplier this year, offering one mid- to late-Group II Liberty Link variety.
"Just like in Liberty Link corn, Liberty controls over 100 weeds, and can be applied alone at an early- or mid-post application," says Rick Mohan, AgrEvo's marketing manager for soybeans. "And for growers who are not sold on the risks associated with total post weed control, we also recommend a two-pass program with a good grass soil-applied herbicide down, followed by a mid-post application of Liberty," he says.
Over-the-top control. Cyanamid, out to defend its market position, offers a new post herbicide called Raptor, which received approval in late May last year. "Due to registration timing, we were fortunate to get it out on 60,000 acres (mostly mid-post applications) in 1997 and were pleased with performance of Raptor," says George Fennell, Cyanamid product manager.
It is claimed to provide contact control of more than 50 broadleaf weeds and grasses, and deliver three to four weeks residual or more. "We feel Raptor can fit more acres than Pursuit because it doesn't have the residual concerns. And it'll work on taller (up to 5 in.) weeds than Pursuit which widens the grower's application window," Fennell says. "It can be used as a total post program in certain areas, but for optimum control we recommend starting with a soil-applied grass herbicide first, then come back with Raptor at 4 oz./acre on 3 to 4 in. weeds." See chart for details.
Soybean growers battling white mold disease may want to try a herbicide. A unique label for a herbicide, the EPA just approved a 6 oz./acre post application of Cobra applied at or near bloom stage to suppress this yield-robbing disease. "Farmers and custom applicators first noticed disease suppression six or seven years ago, so we began research work with several universities to confirm it," says Kevin Perry, Valent's product development manager for Cobra and Select.
"A Cobra application ($7 to $8/acre) at or near bloom triggers a physiological systemic acquired resistance (SAR) response that can cut disease incidence in half, saving 2 to 10 bu./acre depending on the varietal resistance to white mold," Perry says. "We've also seen suppression with it when applied at the normal weed control timing of two to three weeks after planting, but we lack enough data to put this on the label right now." The other label change for Cobra is a new tankmix with Synchrony or Reliance for use in STS soybeans.
DuPont's Reliance (Classic+Pinnacle) herbicide's new label allows it to be used on regular soybeans, not just STS beans, at a greatly reduced price. "Growers in the northern Midwest used a product called Concert until we dropped it a few years ago, so we're offering them Reliance (similar ratio of Classic and Pinnacle) that does not have to be used on STS beans," says DuPont's Castle.
New soil-applied options. Dow AgroSciences (formerly DowElanco) offers new FirstRate broadleaf herbicide, which is used either as a post or soil application. From the same chemical family as Broadstrike, it is claimed to provide consistent control of cocklebur, common and giant ragweed and sunflower, along with velvetleaf and morningglories, all without concern for crop injury or carryover to follow crops.
"The weed spectrum varies slightly by application," says Brian Barker, product resource manager for Dow AgroSciences. "Both will control the listed weeds, but a soil application of .6 to .75 oz./acre ($14 to $18) goes further by controlling pigweed and lambsquarter. But that treatment is higher than our .3 oz./acre post rate, which costs $7 to $9/acre," he says.
The post application window is fairly wide, sprayed when the average weed height is 4 to 5 in., but can go up to 6 to 8 in. on some species. "The only broadleaf weaknesses are nightshade and waterhemp, which can be eliminated with a tankmix partner," Barker says.
The accompanying three-page chart (see printed article) has more details on these and other products. Note that we've added "site of action" for each herbicide. This is important when determining a weed-resistance strategy, since many experts say to avoid using the same site of action more than two years in a row.


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Josh Taylor cemented his New Bern legacy with one final moment � a state championship.
Josh Taylor cemented his New Bern legacy with one final moment � a state championship.
The senior shattered nearly every school record � touchdowns (130), wins (41), total yards (11,296), passing yards (7,987) and rushing yards (3,309).
And when his team needed him the most, Taylor delivered.
He pioneered the Bears 80 yards in less than four minutes, setting up Jachin Watkins touchdown run with 26 seconds remaining in New Bern�s 39-38 win over Porter Ridge in the 4-A state championship game in Chapel Hill.
�Just having the state championship at the end of my career is the cherry on top of a good career,� Taylor said. �I�ve enjoyed playing at New Bern and playing with all of my brothers around me.�
Taylor�s efficient passing, elusive running ability, poise under pressure and leadership has earned him the 2012 Sun Journal Co-Player of the Year honor.
New Bern finished 15-0, and won the Mideastern Conference for the third year in a row.
�I�m not one to take all the credit,� Taylor said. �A lot of credit goes to the coaches, the offensive linemen, the defense for allowing us to win games and it�s a team effort every year.
�My stats might stick out, but they get a lot of credit.�
Taylor completed 142-of-230 passes on the season for 2,300 yards and 25 touchdowns. He also made opponents pay with his legs.
He rushed for 1,159 yards and 17 touchdowns.
�I just had to play within myself,� he said. �I tried to do less this year because I had so many great players around me. I did whatever it took.
�That�s what makes us so dynamic. It�s hard to stop just one thing. A lot of people try to stop our option and then we�d throw the ball a lot.�
Taylor made his first start as New Bern�s quarterback as a freshman � in a 24-14 loss at Ashley High School in Wilmington on Oct. 23, 2009.
The past three years, the Bears made it as far as the Eastern Regional Finals.
After two previous losses in the state semifinals, Taylor willed his team over the hurdle with a 23-6 win over Scotland County.
The following week, Taylor was named the Most Valuable Player of the state championship game.
�I can�t really describe it,� Taylor said. �I don�t think it�s completely sunk in yet. I probably won�t realize how big this is until I�ve grown up a little bit.�
On the way to the state finals, Taylor ran for 202 yards against Pine Forest in the first round of the playoffs. In the second round, against Hoggard, Taylor scampered for 230 yards. He ran for 114 yards against Scotland County in the state semifinal game.
�I think I just ran better this year,� he said. �I was a little more physical and I don�t think people saw that unless they were playing against me.�
Just like former NFL quarterback John Elway, Taylor�s final game, at least in high school, ends with a championship.
He also had his memorable �Drive.�
Trailing Porter Ridge, 38-33, Taylor made plays with his legs, connected with wide receivers Bra�lon Cherry and Chandler Powell, and marched his squad to the title.
�I think people are going to be talking about that for a while,� Taylor said. �I�ve already had people come up to me and refer it as �The Drive.�
�It�s pretty fitting considering it was the game-winning drive. We persevered. We worked hard and made big plays. It was the perfect drive.�
Now what�s next for Taylor?
The 5-foot-11, 175-pound quarterback is hoping to play football in college.
While he doesn�t have any formal offers yet, he�s been in contact with William & Mary, The Citadel and Appalachian State. Recently, N.C. State inquired about Taylor walking on.
�I definitely feel like I belong,� Taylor said. �I think my height is killing me and there is no film of me playing any other position. Things will work out if I keep working hard.�
Stats on Taylor
Completions/Attempts: 142-of-240
Yards: 2,300
Touchdowns: 25
Interceptions: 14
Attempts: 186
Yards: 1,159
Touchdowns: 17
4A State Championship Game MVP; Mideastern Conference Player of the Year.
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The Athletics merit badge was one of the original 57 merit badges issued by the Boy Scouts of America in 1911.
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If meeting any of the requirements for this merit badge is against the Scout's religious convictions, the requirement does not have to be done if the Scout's parents and the proper religious advisors state in writing that to do so would be against religious convictions. The Scout's parents must also accept full responsibility for anything that might happen because of this exemption.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- A veteran San Francisco Bay Area transit police sergeant who was fatally shot by another officer during a search knew the dangers of the profession and once remarked that it was fortunate that no agency officers had been killed on the job, colleagues said Wednesday.
Bay Area Rapid Transit police Sgt. Tom Smith was also described as a respected, sincere, passionate and sometimes opinionated person who always looked out for others.
"Tom knew that law enforcement was incredibly dangerous," BART Police Lt. Lance Haight said. "I do remember him once commenting that BART had never had an officer die in the line of duty and how fortunate that had never taken place."
An emotional BART Police Chief Kenton Rainey said the department was in shock over Tuesday's death of Smith, a 23-year veteran and the first BART officer killed in the line of duty in its 42-year history.
"We're numb. Please give us some time to grieve," Rainey told reporters at a news conference in Oakland.
Smith was shot while authorities searched an apartment in Dublin for a smartphone, laptop bag and related items stolen during a recent armed holdup at a train station in Oakland. Police believe the suspect -- identified as John Henry Lee, 20 -- committed several robberies on BART property.
BART Police said in a statement Wednesday that the San Leandro Police Department arrested Lee on Jan. 16 after an automobile burglary and subsequent chase, which ended when the suspect lost control of his vehicle and collided with a tree. The previous morning, Lee allegedly stole a number of items at gunpoint while in the Fruitvale Station parking garage.
Rainey declined to disclose any further details about how Smith was shot, deferring those questions to the Alameda County Sheriff's Office, which is investigating the shooting.
Authorities were trying to determine whether an officer's weapon discharged accidentally, or if Smith was mistaken for someone else, Alameda County sheriff's Sgt. J.D. Nelson said. Either way, it was an accident, he added.
Rainey said seven BART officers and a sheriff's deputy were at the scene when the shooting occurred. Five of the BART officers were detectives in plainclothes, including Smith, and the officers knew a suspect already was in custody, he said, noting the officers were following agency policies and training.
Rainey declined to name the officer who shot Smith but said he was "extremely upset."
"We want to give him and his family a chance to come to grips with what's going on and what's happening," he said.
Wearing bulletproof vests, the officers began the search by knocking twice on the door of the apartment, Nelson said. The knocks went unanswered, but the door was unlocked, so four BART officers-- including Smith-- stepped inside with their guns drawn, Nelson added.
"If your door is unlocked, it usually means that somebody's there, so I'm sure that was in their mind that somebody was in the apartment at the time," he said.
Nelson declined to elaborate on the shooting but said an officer fired at least one shot.
Rainey said it was common for BART officers to do searches as part of follow-up investigations to recover stolen property.
"I'm very confident in the training that our personnel have received to make sure they're prepared to deal with these types of encounters and situations," Rainey said. "Because you never know what's on the other side of the door."
Smith, 42, of San Ramon was in charge of the BART police detective unit. He is survived by his wife, also a BART officer, a 6-year-old daughter and two brothers who are also in law enforcement in the San Francisco Bay Area, Rainey said.
"Tommy was a great law enforcement officer, but an even better son, brother, husband, father and friend," Rainey said. "He touched many lives in a positive way both professionally and personally and he will be sorely missed."
On Wednesday afternoon, Smith's family spoke publicly to reporters for the first time.
"If you're lucky to find the love of your life, you hold onto it. I did," Smith's wife, Kellie, told KPIX-TV in an interview at the family's East Bay home. "I cherished every moment we had."
She added: "Tommy will always be in my heart, and I'll love him forever. He was the love of my life."
Kellie, who is a canine patrol officer with BART Police, was joined in the interview by Tom Smith's brothers Patrick and Ed and his brother-in-law Todd Shaheen. Patrick Smith is a field training officer with the Newark, Calif., Police Department, while Ed Smith works for the Alameda County Sheriff's Department.
Patrick said his heart also goes out to the officer who accidentally shot his younger brother.
"We're going to mourn the loss of our brother. We'll never forget him," he said. "But there's someone else in another family that's affected by this, too, and I feel sorry for them."
After Tom Smith was shot, he was taken to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, where he died. Television reports on Tuesday showed lines of officers outside the hospital saluting as their fallen comrade's body, covered with a large American flag, was loaded into a coroner's van.
BART police have been the center of other controversies. On New Year's Day 2009, Oscar Grant III, an unarmed black passenger, was shot and killed at the Fruitvale station after reports of a fight.
Officer Johannes Mehserle, who is white, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to two years minus time served.
An independent auditor said last month that BART police have made significant progress in meeting reforms instituted after Grant's death, including increased officer training about bias and other issues, along with better reporting about incidents involving use of force.


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Composer John Williams reflects on Tanglewood's enduring spirit
LENOX -- When John Williams comes to the Berkshires -- as he has been virtually every year since 1979 -- he sets up shop in his lodgings, piano, pencil and manuscript at hand, to continue composing film scores in progress.
But after five or six hours of work, six days a week, he takes a break and is often found strolling the grounds at Tanglewood, communing with nature in a quest for further inspiration.
At Highwood Manor on Tuesday morning, just ahead of a rehearsal for the annual Tanglewood on Parade extravaganza, Williams -- who has appeared at the event just about every year since he took over leadership of the Boston Pops from Arthur Fiedler in 1980 -- chatted about the emotional and spiritual sustenance the Boston Symphony's summer hall has provided for him.
On Tuesday night, he conducted music from his classic score, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," as well as his recent "Adventures of Tintin." On Aug. 18 at a gala concert, the BSO will honor him on his 80th birthday year.
"This has been a wonderful place for me to write, I've done so much of my film work here," Williams said. He listed all the "Harry Potter" films, the score for "Schindler's List" -- "written entirely here," he said -- and many other projects that bear the stamp of Tanglewood, including the cello concerto he composed for his friend, Yo-Yo Ma.
"I've loved working here," Williams added, though he noted that his home base, Los Angeles, is "a wonderful place to live, we have a fabulous musical community there, going way back. Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Rachmaninoff lived there."
But he extolled "the quietude, the distance from the exciting but commercial atmosphere of the Hollywood studios" of Tanglewood.
"For me, it's the other side of the coin where I can come and work, it could still be a Hollywood project without the freeways, the traffic jams, a lot of the stresses we have in these metropolitan areas. This is a haven."
"My first sight of Tanglewood was in November 1979 after [former BSO Managing Director] Thomas Morris had invited me to conduct the Pops," Williams recalled as he gazed out at the view of Stockbridge Bowl. "He said to me that I need to see what Tanglewood is all about, and he drove me up on a cold, snowy day in November or December. I was struck, particularly as a Californian, that the contrast was so great."
In the summer of 1980, as he conducted the Pops for the first time here, Williams said that he "got my first view of it in its full, glorious summer dress and gorgeous trees that we don't have in California, the bucolic splendor of the place combined with this artistic institution."
Williams, acknowledging Tanglewood as not only as his own "spiritual home" but also the spiritual center of music in America, told The Eagle: "I don't know of anything else in our country that rivals Tanglewood in terms of the level of music study that takes place and performance experiments with contemporary music through 75 years."
He saluted Tanglewood founder Serge Koussevitzky's dedication to commit the BSO's "permanent attachment to music education" through the institute for advanced young musicians originally known as the Berkshire Music Center. "I don't believe any other orchestra does it quite in the way it's done here.
"So the location, what's accomplished here, the level of students attracted here every year, enhances what is already a very inspirational setting," he added.
During a conversation occasionally punctuated by nearby cannon test-firings for the "1812 Overture" that were to conclude Tuesday night's gala, Williams credited the enduring success of Tanglewood, in part, to "the generosity of Berkshire County and the state to be a partner in the way that they've been."
Noting the 66-year history of the Tanglewood on Parade annual tradition as a showcase for the young musicians who study here all summer, Williams said that "we see in each class wonderful idealism, dedication and commitment to their work. It's all fresh and new to them, not unlike what we feel when we see these young athletes in the Olympics -- complete commitment to pursue excellence in every core of their body, and these young musicians here do the same thing."
"That gives all of us who are older a sense of renewed commitment to the art that we love so much," said Williams, "and an assurance that it's there and will be with us. My sense of it is that these young people are far ahead of those of us who were studying 40 or 50 years ago. The athletes will jump a little further and go a little higher, and we see it happening in music study also."
But, he cautioned, "we need to develop an audience consistent with the quality that these kids are going to be able to produce. The mass media we have on television and even in film would possibly desensitize a broad audience in the way that might be coarsening to public taste.
"The balance between the education of young musicians and the development of their futures and the audiences that will receive and enjoy all of this and support it is a balance that needs to be consciously nurtured, to make the contributions to our culture and society that the arts need to do."
With more than 100 film scores under his belt and a bevy of awards -- five Oscars, 47 Academy Award nominations among many other honors -- Williams often cites his 1977 collaboration with Steven Spielberg, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," as one of his most cherished musical creations.
"I've always felt that the film added up to a sum greater than any of its parts," he said. "When it was put together, its message had more weight than we might have expected. It's uplifting, very positive and romantic, but the idea of celebrating communication in that way where the new arrivals were beautiful and peaceful and friendly, breaking down barriers in the best way, displaying no aggressiveness or defensiveness, that's all been somehow mutated out of them [the aliens] and it's maybe an example of the way we want to try to go. It's a very positive thing."
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Queen B is making her way to the Queen City. The one-and-only Beyonc� brings her Mrs. Carter Show World Tour to Charlotte on Saturday, one of 20 concerts she has lined up throughout North America.
Queen B is making her way to the Queen City. The one-and-only Beyonc� brings her Mrs. Carter Show World Tour to Charlotte on Saturday, one of 20 concerts she has lined up throughout North America.
Unfortunately, tickets are sold out for the show at the Time Warner Cable Arena, but the area is sure to be buzzing with the music superstar in town. Whether you snagged a ticket or not, here are just few things to know about Beyonc�s world:
Joining the spotlight
Beyonc� Giselle Knowles-Carter is no stranger to the limelight. Born Sept. 4, 1981, she grew up in Houston, Texas. She competed in singing and dancing competitions as a child and went on to become the lead singer of girl group Destiny�s Child.
Destiny�s Child released four studio albums from 1997-2004, and some of the group�s biggest hits were �Bills, Bills, Bills,� �Say My Name,� �Survivor,� �Independent Women� and � Bootylicious .�
Meanwhile, Beyonc� put out her first solo studio album in 2003 while the group was on hiatus, and has released three more since Destiny�s Child broke up in 2005.
Beyonc�s work extends past music and onto the big screen, where she has starred in films such as � Dreamgirls,� �Austin Powers in Goldmember ,� �Cadillac Records,� �Pink Panther� and �Obsessed.�
She�s also part of a power couple, marrying rapper Jay Z in 2008. They gave birth to their first child, Blue Ivy, last year.
Belting it out
Beyonc� can create a killer dance song, but with her great vocal range, she also knows how to belt out a ballad. Her music is a mix of R&B, soul, hip hop, pop and funk, and she co-writes most of her songs. Rolling Stone magazine said that Beyonc�s �skittering, rhythmic and hip-hop-derived approach to melody would help shift the entire landscape of R&B singing.�
Beyonc�s had more than 30 singles grace the radio airwaves, and here are just a few of her chart toppers:
* �Bonnie & Clyde�
* �Work It Out�
* �Check on It�
* �Baby Boy�
* �Naughty Girl�
* �If I Were a Boy�
* �Me, Myself and I�
* �Best Thing I Never Had�
* �Irreplaceable�
* �Halo�
Taking the stage
No one can shake it quite like Queen B, and she�s got the diva attitude and confidence to steal any show. If you�ve ever watched a Beyonc� music video or seen her perform live or at an awards show, you know by now to expect great entertainment. Incredible routines with backup dancers, sexy costumes, stilettos and flashing lights are sure to be in order when Beyonc� hits the stage. To get an idea of her dancing skills, check out the music videos for these songs:
* �Single Ladies�
* �Sweet Dreams�
* �Love on Top�
* �Beautiful Liar� with Shakira
* �Crazy in Love�
Did you know?
Here are just a few more facts that make this diva shine:
- Beyonce has won 17 Grammys for her solo work and as a member of Destiny�s Child.
- She has a fashion line called House of Dereon .
- She sang Etta James� �At Last� for President Barack Obama�s Inaugural Ball.
- She appeared on �Star Search� in 1983.
- Knowles created an alter ego, �Sasha Fierce,� as a way to separate her stage persona from her true personality. Her 2008 album was titled �I am � Sasha Fierce.�
Sources: Wikipedia, Biography.com, Rolling Stone


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- "Twitch Plays Pokemon" has drawn tens of thousands of followers
- Game lets crowd control an old Game Boy game through chat commands
- "Social experiment" has spawned Reddit blog, fan art, Twitter feed
- Its creator isn't optimistic about success
How many people can play the same video game? Not in the same video game, mind you, but play the exact same game at once?
With the help of a social-media robot, more than 80,000 people are currently trying.
A version of "Pokemon Red/Blue," a 1990s game for Nintendo's Game Boy, has been streaming on Twitch.tv, an online video platform devoted to gaming, for the past five days.
A user known only by the gamer tag "TwitchPlaysPokemon" set up the "social experiment" to accept chat commands as the equivalent of button pushes. You know, typing "up" moves your character up, "down" moves him down and whatnot.
Except that tens of thousands of other people are doing the same thing at the same time.
The resulting movements of the main character have been spastic, to say the least. Although the horde managed some success in the first few days, capturing several of those elusive Pokemon, the sheer number of people now tapping commands into Twitch's chat window is causing the game's main character, Red, to wander back and forth over the same spot, bang into walls and check his inventory with neurotic frequency.
The page has been viewed more than 10.6 million times, with the number of active users peaking at about 81,000.
"This is one more example of how video games have become a platform for entertainment and creativity that extends way beyond the original intent of the game creator," said Matthew DiPietro, vice president of marketing for Twitch. "By merging a video game, live video and a participatory experience, the broadcaster has created an entertainment hybrid custom made for the Twitch community."
The modified game's creator, whose real identity is unknown at this point, has implemented some features to cut down on trolling and help with coordination.
The "start" command has been disabled, after people started spamming it into the chat, and the game now has "Anarchy" and "Democracy" modes that players can select via a virtual voice vote. "Anarchy" is essentially the experiment's original form, in which everyone's command is applied immediately.
In "Democracy," players are allowed to vote on their character's next move. It takes a vote from 75% of the players to switch modes, though. And you can imagine how easy that is.
Fans of the game have created their own subreddit, Twitch Plays Pokemon fan art, progress tracking via a Google document and a Twitter feed. Twitch.tv hopes this inspires others to transform gaming into entertainment.
"I didn't really have any plans for it from the beginning," the creator said in an e-mail to gaming site Polygon. "I just wanted to put it up to see how people would respond. I put it together and put it up on a dedicated server all within a few days."
He, or she, has been keeping track of players' progress, or lack thereof, and says it would be considered a win if they masses defeat the game's Elite Four -- opponents who need to be bested before a final confrontation.
"But I have my doubts about it being possible without much better coordination," TwitchPlaysPokemon wrote.


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IN a new program centered on Earth Day, eBay is becoming the latest company to promote its green credentials.
EBay is now a green company?
Yes, said Alan Marks, senior vice president for global communications at eBay. Its business model encourages reselling old items rather than throwing them out, and buying used merchandise rather than making new stuff reduces carbon emissions that go along with production.
"We never set out to be a green business," Mr. Marks said. "We realized it's intrinsic."
EBay is rather late to the game in making claims about its environmentalism. Large corporations like General Electric and BP have run advertisements for years promoting their environmental efforts, for instance.
"Over the last couple of years, protecting the environment has become as American as apple pie and Derek Jeter," said Michael Brune, the executive director of the activist group Rainforest Action Network. "Every company wants to at least be seen as being friendly to the environment."
Mr. Brune said he had mixed feelings about eBay's claim for its green business model. "A lot of the things sold on eBay are new merchandise, and last time I checked the Postal Service still used fossil fuels for all of their planes and their trucks, so it's not sustainable," he said, referring to how eBay sellers ship items. "It's fair to say that buying used goods on eBay is better for the environment, but let's not get carried away and say this is the greenest thing since recycled paper."Continue reading the main story
EBay is trumpeting its green claims on a new Web site, www.ebaygreenteam.com, and in inserts that will run in the April issues of Hearst magazines.
"Green Team" refers to an internal group at eBay that works on making the company environmentally efficient. EBay's internal projects include its new building in San Jose, Calif., whose roof is covered by 3,248 solar panels. The company is using carbon offsets and other methods to be carbon neutral.
Andre de Fontaine, a fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change who helps businesses create programs addressing global warming, reviewed the Green Team site at the request of a reporter. He said eBay deserved credit for involving employees and the public, and for the new building. He recommended, however, that the company be clear about how high its emissions were, and how exactly its environmental measures reduced them.
The Web site encourages visitors to join the Green Team, and features discussion pages on how people can shop green, and tips on buying used and resource-saving goods.
Mr. Marks said that the point of the site was not just to dispense advice, but to persuade the eBay audience to change its behavior.
"We think we have a leadership role to play both in the industry and the broader world," he said. "We think we have the ability to help start conversations."
Asked what he meant by starting conversations, Mr. Marks said he was hoping for "robust online dialogue." Offline, he said, the Green Team effort might include partnerships with nonprofit organizations to set long-term environmental goals, or local events for Green Team members.
EBay does not have traffic goals for the Web site, and unlike typical marketing campaigns, which are linked with sales targets, this program does not have sales goals connected to it, Mr. Marks said.
The company will be looking at the site's success through April, he said, to see if it is " building a community around this."
Apart from the site, the way eBay is announcing its green credentials has troubled some environmentalists. A big part of eBay's effort is a five-page insert in all 14 April editions of Hearst's monthly magazines, timed to coincide with Earth Day.
But Hearst magazines do not use recycled paper.
John P. Loughlin, executive vice president and general manager for Hearst Magazines, said that was because "from what we have seen, the supply is less than predictable and stable." He said that Hearst got more than 70 percent of its paper from sustainably managed forests.
But Frank Locantore, who runs a program called the Better Paper Project for the nonprofit Green America, which tries to persuade magazine publishers to use recycled paper, said Hearst's argument was unconvincing.
While he said there was a somewhat limited supply of recycled magazine-quality paper, "what I talk to other large publishers about is, don't switch your entire portfolio of magazines, pick the ones that make sense that are feasible right now."
He listed other consumer magazines that use a high percentage of recycled paper: Inc., Fast Company, Shape, Outside and Every Day With Rachael Ray.
"These are the same claims that are being made by most magazines out there," Mr. Locantore said. "I don't have difficulty finding a recycled paper that will fit somebody's needs."
Mr. Marks said that eBay, as an e-commerce company, wanted an offline company to complement its reach, and that Hearst "shares our environmental values, both in its business practices and its commitment to promoting sustainable consumption conversations."
The Hearst portion of the project represents the first time the publisher has done a customized insert across its entire magazine portfolio: Cosmopolitan; Country Living; Esquire; Good Housekeeping; Harper's Bazaar; House Beautiful; Marie Claire; O, the Oprah Magazine; Popular Mechanics; Redbook; Seventeen; SmartMoney; Town & Country; and Veranda are all running the ad, entitled "30 Days of Green." Content from the Hearst site The Daily Green, which includes news and advice about green living, will appear on the Green Team site.
Each magazine created two pages of green-themed content, and eBay contributed a page of green product selections.
Hearst has sold ads across multiple magazines before; in 2008, it sold 30 such projects, said Michael A. Clinton, the chief marketing officer and publishing director of Hearst Magazines. But to run an ad across all the magazines, he said, "we had to find an idea that was a ubiquitous idea, that was very much in the zeitgeist, that, regardless if you were a Good Housekeeping reader or a Veranda reader or a Town & Country reader, it made sense to you on the subject."
The differences in the magazines' coverage provide an amusing glimpse of how the magazines view their readers.
Cosmopolitan lists "Sexy Ways to Go Green," including showering with your boyfriend, using all-natural lubricants and lounging naked on summer days instead of using air-conditioning.
At Good Housekeeping, the women have almost the same average income as the Cosmopolitan readers, $59,400, but they are almost 20 years older. Good Housekeeping's contribution — "Recycling Made Simple" — would suggest that women lose interest in sex in those two decades, and gain an interest in separating their recyclables.Continue reading the main story


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Ben Adida wrote: > Julian Reschke wrote: >> I think it would be easier to convince them if you wouldn't have >> unilaterally changed the semantics for the rel attribute (note that I >> have less problems with CURIEs in *new* attributes). > > Well, for one, the RDFa task force is a joint effort of the Semantic Web > Deployment *and* the XHTML2 WGs, which was previously the HTML WG. Our > work began before the HTML5 group had anything to do with W3C. So I > don't think we did anything rogue or unilateral. I think what matters more is the end date, not the start date. > Also, I think you're missing an important detail: @rel had *no* > semantics, it was all free-form, without any recommended interpretation > (except for pre-defined link types). So even interpreting it as a URI > involves "adding semantics." We added the URI semantic interpretation, Nope. A URI is a string, and in HTML4, you detect link relations simply by string comparison. > with CURIE syntax, and we ensured that our approach preserved the > existing pre-defined link types. The fact that a link relation can use a string that conforms to the URI syntax doesn't change the way how link relations are compared. > I've yet to see a real problem with this rather careful decision, which > we made and vetted through the normal W3C process. The real problem is - again - that for a relation value of "foo:bar", recipients do not know anymore what to do (or they'll have to ignore RFDa and just continue to do a string comparison). BR, JulianReceived on Saturday, 28 February 2009 15:45:45 UTC
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Despite the ups and downs in recent years, 2015 is poised to be a year of relative calm in IT, according to research from TEKsystems. While budget expectations remain relatively flat, confidence levels among IT departments in their ability to fulfill business needs are increasing. Critical business objectives in the coming year will focus on improving existing apps and infrastructure, improving efficiency and retaining talented staff members. Additionally, given the pervasive nature of data breaches in 2014, security is the top area of concern for 2015.
"It's easy to jump to the conclusion that the reduction in expected budget increases signifies a need to cut back and eliminate important projects, but in reality, IT leaders are simply looking to be more realistic about what they can do with their resources and plan accordingly," said TEKsystems Research Manager Jason Hayman. "Rather than viewing the decrease in the rate of growth of spending as a reason to eliminate projects, IT leaders can instead use that information to implement sound talent management strategies in areas that are truly benefiting the business, and they can allocate resources to solidify those objectives."
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Prayers For Deacons
Deacon Prayer
Lord Jesus, you came to serve, not to be served,
form within us your generous spirit;
Fill us with your love,
that we may love the Father as your love him.
Fill us with your compassion,
that we may see our brothers and sisters
as you see them.
Fill us with your courage,
that we may give our lives in service to the Church
as you gave your life for her.
Fill us with that Spirit which will make us
preachers of your Word,
ministers of your Sacrifice,
servants of your Bride,
friends of the poor,
and the voice of the forgotten.
Transform us through your Holy Spirit
so that we may transform the world into
Your Kingdom of justice and faith.
Fr. Benedict D. O'Cinnsealaigh,
President and Rector
Prayer To The Blessed Virgin Mary
Who as teacher of faith, by your obedience to the
word of God, has co-operated in a remarkable way with
the work of redemption, make the ministry of deacons
effective by teaching them to hear the Word and
to proclaim it faithfully.
Teacher of charity, who by your total openness to
God's call, has co-operated in bringing to birth all the
Church's faithful, make the ministry and the life of
deacons fruitful by teaching them to give themselves
totally to the service of the People of God.
Teacher of prayer, who through your maternal
intercession has supported and helped the Church
from her beginnings, make deacons always attentive to
the needs of the faithful by teaching them to come to
know the value of prayer.
Teacher of humility, by constantly knowing yourself
to be the servant of the Lord you were filled with the
Holy Spirit, make deacons docile instruments in
Christ's work of redemption by teaching them the
greatness of being the least of all.
Teacher of that service which is hidden, who by your
everyday and ordinary life filled with love, knew how to
co-operate with the salvific plan of God in an exemplary
fashion, make deacons good and faithful servants, by
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The term data deduplication increasingly refers to the technique of data reduction by breaking streams of data down into very granular components, such as blocks or bytes, and then storing only the first instance of the item on the destination media, and then adding all other occurrences to an index. Because it works at a more granular level than single instance storage, the resulting savings in space are much higher, thus delivering more cost effective solutions. The savings in space translate directly to reduced acquisition, operation, and management costs.
Data deduplication technologies are deployed in many forms and many places within the backup and recovery infrastructure. It has evolved from being delivered within specially designed disk appliances offering post processing deduplication to being a distributed technology found as an integrated part of backup and recovery software. According to CA Technologies, along the way solution suppliers have identified the good and bad points of each evolution and developed what today are high performance efficient technologies.
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Huldrych Zwingli, Huldrych also spelled Ulrich, (born Jan. 1, 1484, Wildhaus in the Toggenburg, Sankt Gallen, Switz.—died Oct. 11, 1531, near Kappel), the most important reformer in the Swiss Protestant Reformation and the only major reformer of the 16th century whose movement did not evolve into a church. Like Martin Luther, he accepted the supreme authority of the Scriptures, but he applied it more rigorously and comprehensively to all doctrines and practices.
Early life and career.
Zwingli was the son of a free peasant who was a village magistrate. His mother, Margaret Meili, was the sister of the abbot of Fischingen in Thurgau, and his uncle Bartholomäus Zwingli was priest of Wildhaus and later dean of Wesen. Huldrych went to school at Wesen, then Basel (1494), and Bern (1496), where his master, Heinrich Wölflin, inspired in him an enthusiasm for the classics and a love of music. The Dominicans were interested in his musical gifts and almost enticed him to enter a convent. But his father and uncle dissuaded him, and, instead, he moved on to university studies at Vienna (1498) and then Basel (1502), where he was graduated in 1504.
Supported by teaching, he read theology and was deeply influenced by the lectures of the teacher and Reformer Thomas Wyttenbach. Ordained to the priesthood, he went, in 1506, to Glarus, where he proved a good pastor, encouraged education, commenced studying Greek and even Hebrew, and read widely in the Church Fathers. He was sympathetic toward the Renaissance movement and valued his correspondence with Erasmus. Service as chaplain with the Swiss Army led him to oppose the mercenary system. His stand provoked hostility at Glarus, and in 1516 he moved to a new charge at Einsiedeln, where he enjoyed both wide opportunities for preaching to the many pilgrims and fine facilities for study at the convent. Zwingli afterwards dated his evangelical understanding of the Scriptures from the period of transition to Einsiedeln. The difficulties at Glarus gave to this development a more than academic significance.
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Zwingli at once began to preach his new convictions. Apart from topical criticism of abuses, he did not at first attack traditional positions, being content to expound the regular Gospel passages. A minor indulgence crisis arose in 1518, but Zwingli's witty castigation of the abuse found ecclesiastical favour and, finally, a titular honour by the papacy, from which he also drew a chaplaincy pension.
In 1518, despite much opposition, he was appointed people's priest at the Grossmünster (Great Minster) at Zürich. The post gave him little income or official influence but great scope for preaching. He commenced a series of expositions of the New Testament enlivened by topical application. Serious plague in 1519 found him faithful in his ministry, and his own illness and recovery, followed by his brother's death in 1520, deepened the spiritual and theological elements in his thinking and teaching that had hitherto been overshadowed to some degree by the humanistic. In 1520 he secured permission from the city's governing council to preach the "true divine scriptures," and the resulting sermons helped to stir revolts against fasting and clerical celibacy that initiated the Swiss Reformation (1522). In pursuance of his view of the supremacy of Scripture, Zwingli preached his now famous sermons at the Oetenbach convent and, despite local opposition to many of his ideas, he secured fresh authorization from his bishop to continue preaching. A tract On Meats and a printed version of the Oetenbach addresses, The Clarity and Certainty of the Word of God, appeared in 1522.
Victory of the Zürich Reformation.
The year 1523 was crucial in the Zürich Reformation. In preparation for a disputation with the vicar general of Constance (Konstanz), arranged for January in the town hall of Zürich, Zwingli published his challenging 67 Artikel. His main contentions were adopted by most priests in the district and, in consequence, the celibacy of clergy came to be flouted, liturgical reform was begun, and a plan for the reform of the Grossmünster was drafted. A key part of this program was the reconstitution of the cathedral school as both a grammar school and a theological seminary to train Reformed pastors. The question of removing the images from the churches provoked a second disputation in October, in which Zwingli and his most intimate friend and fellow Reformer Leo Jud carried the day. Successive steps taken during 1524 and 1525 included the removal of images, the suppression of organs, the dissolution of religious houses, the replacement of the mass by a simple Communion service, the reform of the baptismal office, the introduction of prophesyings or Bible readings, the reorganization of the ministry, and the preparation of a native version of the Bible (the Zürcher Bibel appeared in 1529). Zwingli fostered the movement not only by his preaching and influence on the council but also by his various writings—e.g., On Education, On Baptism, On the Lord's Supper, and especially the comprehensive Commentary on True and False Religion (1525). He was publicly married to Anna Reinhard on April 2, 1524.
Zwingli's theses.
From the city of Zürich the movement quickly spread not only to the canton of Zürich but to neighbouring cantons as well. Aided by the learned Roman Catholic theologian Johann Eck, the five forest cantons of Luzern, Zug, Schwyz, Uri, and Unterwalden resisted the new trend, but important centres like Basel and Bern declared for Zwingli. Zwingli himself, assisted by his fellow Swiss Reformer Heinrich Bullinger, took part in a disputation at Bern (1528) that formally introduced the principles of the Reformation to that city. The main theses he put forth were (1) that the church is born of the Word of God and has Christ alone as its head; (2) that its laws are binding only insofar as they agree with the Scripture; (3) that Christ alone is man's righteousness; (4) that the Holy Scripture does not teach Christ's corporeal presence in the bread and wine at the Lord's Supper; (5) that the mass is a gross affront to the sacrifice and death of Christ; (6) that there is no biblical foundation for the mediation or intercession of the dead, for purgatory, or for images and pictures; and (7) that marriage is lawful to all. With the friendly cantons of Basel and Bern, Zürich negotiated a Christian Civic Alliance (or League) based on the treaty by which Basel had been received into the Swiss confederacy but also including a common profession of faith.
From 1525 Zwingli's work was hampered by disagreements, both within Switzerland and with the Lutherans outside. In Zürich itself an extremist group quickly became dissatisfied with the Zwinglian program, desiring the abolition of tithes, a severance of the state connection, the creation of a pure or gathered church of true believers (those who have experienced a conversion according to the moral beliefs and precepts of the New Testament), and the consequent ending of infant Baptism. Disputations were held with the leaders of the Anabaptist group in January and March 1525, but these were abortive. The first rebaptisms took place in February, and widespread propaganda was initiated. Seeing its authority flouted, the council imprisoned the leaders and finally, after a further useless disputation in November 1525, brought them under a capital sentence. In theological refutation of the movement, Zwingli wrote a special work, On Baptism (1525), in which his main emphasis was on the significance of water Baptism as a covenant sign. During the following years he devoted many other tracts to the subject, culminating in his Tricks of the Catabaptists (1527).
Relations with Luther.
Meanwhile, his thinking and practice in relation to the mass had led to a sharp disagreement with Martin Luther. The two agreed in rejecting the eucharistic sacrifice. They also agreed in rejecting the medieval notion of a change of substance in the sacrament. Luther, however, felt himself bound by the words "This is my body" to teach the real presence of Christ's body and blood not in place of, but in, with, and under the bread and wine. Zwingli, on the other hand, convinced that the word "is" has the force of "signifies," did not maintain a "real" presence but simply the divine presence of Christ or his presence to the believer by the power of the Holy Spirit, as signified by the elements. He stated his views in two Latin tracts (1525) and the more popular work, On the Lord's Supper (1526). Luther and his supporters responded with much acrimony, refusing to see in the Swiss movement a true work of evangelical reformation. Through the good offices of Philip the Magnanimous, landgrave of Hesse, the Colloquy of Marburg (1529) was arranged with a view to reconciliation; Luther, Zwingli, and Martin Bucer all participated. Cordial agreement was reached on most issues, but the critical gulf remained in relation to the sacramental presence, and Luther refused the hand of fellowship extended by Zwingli and Bucer.
Zwingli would undoubtedly have welcomed agreement with Luther for political as well as theological reasons, for he saw a growing danger in the isolation of the Reforming cantons. The forest cantons had organized themselves against the alliance, and there was a real threat of imperial intervention. In offensive defense, the alliance attacked the forest cantons at Kappel, 10 miles south of Zürich in 1529, and enforced terms on the opposing districts. Attempts also were made to link up with Strassburg and allied reforming cities, but these were at first unsuccessful despite the help of Hesse. The results of division were seen at the Diet of Augsburg (1530), in which the evangelical groups presented three different confessions, including Zwingli's Fidei Ratio.
Lacking other friends, Zwingli turned to Venice and France, partly in view of their political hostility to the empire, partly in the hope of persuading the rulers to accept evangelical views. His Exposition of the Faith (1531) was addressed to Francis I of France to clear up misunderstandings and enlist his sympathy. The project faded, however, and in 1531 Zwingli urged on the alliance a further reduction of the forest cantons. Instead, Bern initiated a useless policy of economic sanctions that simply provoked the foresters to attack Zürich in October 1531. In the resultant Second War of Kappel, Zwingli accompanied the Zürich forces as chaplain and was killed in the battle, the spot where he fell being now marked by an inscribed boulder.
The later preoccupation of Zwingli with ecclesiastical politics should not obscure his true contribution to faith and order. He accepted the supreme authority of the Scripture, although he applied it rigorously to all doctrines and practices. He laid influential stress on the divine sovereignty, though this was tempered by a milder view of original sin and a wide hope of salvation. His rejection of the sacraments as means of obtaining grace and as forms of intervention between the soul and God underlay the deepened conception of other Reformation leaders such as Bullinger, Pietro Martire Vermigli, and John Calvin. If he accepted lay authority in church government as exerted through the council, his personal influence averted both the subservient Erastianism (the supremacy of lay authority in ecclesiastical matters) of Lutheranism and exhausting conflict, as at Geneva. Obvious defects of disjointedness and intellectualism mark his writings. Behind them, however, lay an open, warm, and friendly disposition, and they embody a boldly striking attempt to rethink all Christian doctrine in consistently biblical terms.Geoffrey W. Bromiley
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Christianity: New liturgical forms and antiliturgical attitudes…translating it into German, whereas Huldrych Zwingli in Switzerland attempted to create a completely new liturgy based solely on his reading of the New Testament. The Free churches also showed a strong liturgical productivity; in the Herrnhut Brethren (Moravian) community, Graf (count) von Zinzendorf ushered in the singing worship services.…
Germany: Imperial election of 1519 and the Diet of Worms…the Swiss city of Zürich, Huldrych Zwingli. Luther explicitly rejected the use of the—to him purely spiritual—New Testament as a norm for social reform. But Zwingli affirmed it. On the other hand, Luther's vehemence and forceful rhetoric were so compelling that, rightly or wrongly, his name came to be fused…
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Switzerland: The Reformation…Erasmus's most eager pupils was Huldrych Zwingli, an influential theologian and a dynamic political leader whose new Protestant religious doctrines, paralleling to some extent those of Martin Luther, fueled the Swiss Reformation. Against what he viewed as the decadent Roman Catholic hierarchy, Zwingli favoured the return to the teachings of…
Protestantism: Radical reformers related to Luther's reform…did not essentially differ from Huldrych Zwingli, Gaspard de Coligny, or Oliver Cromwell—three other militaristic Protestants.…
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Sunshine State Standards Benchmarks:SS.A.1.2.1 - SS.A.2.2.3 - SS.A.3.2.4 - SS.A.4.2.2 - SS.A.6.2.3 - SS.B.1.2.1
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- Using a map of Florida, have the students locate and mark where de Soto landed and his exploration route.
- Identify some of the geographical features of Florida that the explorers discovered on their expeditions. Draw these features on a map of Florida. Some examples would be a bog, swamp, wetland, palmetto trees, waterways, etc.
- Have the students create a Character Frame for Hernando de Soto.
- Complete and review FCAT questions.
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