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U.S. to press Nigeria on foreign exchange rate flexibility
29 March 2016 Comments (0) Africa, Business, Latest Updates from Reuters Like
By AfricaMe-Team
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States said on Monday it would press Nigeria in talks this week to adopt a more flexible foreign exchange rate to boost growth and investment in Africa’s largest economy.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, told an audience at the U.S. Institute of Peace that Nigeria should ensure that the value of the naira currency versus the U.S. dollar was “more realistic.”
“While most people complain about the possibility of there being a devaluation, people are already operating on a devalued currency, and the only people who are not, are people who are doing it officially,” Thomas-Greenfield said.
“Our recommendation is, and we will have discussions about it … that they should look at the exchange rate and try to make the exchange rate more realistic to what the value of the naira is to the dollar,” she added.
She spoke before talks in Washington to be launched by Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday and which will focus on Nigeria’s economy, security and development.
Nigeria faces its worst economic crisis in decades as the falling price of oil has slashed revenues, prompting the central bank to peg the currency and introduce curbs to protect foreign exchange reserves, which have fallen to an 11-year low.
Some members of Nigeria’s central bank monetary policy committee have said the naira should be devalued.
Thomas-Greenfield said the parallel currency market in Nigeria was “alive and well,” warning that a rigid exchange rate, capital controls and import bans could undermine President Muhammadu Buhari’s efforts to expand economic growth and fight corruption. Buhari has rejected the idea of devaluing the naira.
“Capital controls that limit access to foreign exchange rewards insiders and undermines the stated goals of Nigeria to increase domestic production because both Nigerian and expat investors alike tell us many businesses are unable to obtain the capital to purchase badly needed intermediate goods,” she said.
The naira trades some 40 percent below the official rate on the black market versus the dollar. The central bank last year pegged the exchange rate to curb speculative demand for the dollar and conserve foreign exchange reserves after it restricted access to hard currency for imports of certain items, frustrating businesses.
The International Monetary Fund called on Nigeria to lift the curbs and let the naira reflect market forces more closely, as the restrictions have significantly affected the private sector.
(Reporting by Lesley Wroughton; Editing by Tom Brown and Peter Cooney)
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Shaping the Change
President Univ.-Prof. Dr. -Ing. Holger Magel, 2003-2006
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel
Date of birth 3 May 1944
Status Married - wife Ansi
Emeritus of Excellence
Technische Universität München has published an article about Holger Magel and his achievements. Read the article
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel, born in Neuburg/Donau in 1944. After doing A-levels in 1963 studies of Geodesy at the Munich Technische Hochschule up to 1968. After first experiences with a sworn engineer's office in Graz completion of the Bavarian Traineeship, and leadership of Land Consolidation measures in Upper and Lower Bavaria.
From 1975 to 1978 position of a curator of the newly established Chair of Rural Development and Land Consolidation at the Munich Technische Universität. In 1977 obtaining the degree of a Doktor-Ingenieur about rural planning.
Acting with the Bavarian State Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry in the Rural Development Department since 1978, in charge of building up the Bavarian Village Renewal Programme as well as establishing a new Method of Landscape and Regionalplanning within Rural Development.
Since 1 Febr. 1995 Head of the Rural Development Department and Director General of the Bavarian Administration of Rural Development.
Since 1986 lectures for geodesists, civil engineers and geographers at the Munich Bundeswehr University (up to 1990) and the Munich Technische Universität. In 1993 appointment as an honorary professor for Rural Development at the Munich Technische Universität.
President of the Bavarian Academy "Ländlicher Raum" (Rural Areas) since 1994.
Advisor of the European Commission for Rural Development in Eastern Germany in 1992/93; chairman of the German Bund-Länder Team for Village Renewal from 1984 - 1995; member of the board of the European Association for Rural Development and Village Renewal.
Chair of the working group land readjustment and land economics of the German Geodetic Commission since 2004
Acting as an expert in Eastern- and South Europe as well as in Asia and South America. More than 250 expert publications and books on land consolidation, Village renewal ,landscape planning , rural development and civil society. Many lectures at home and abroad. Member of several scientific institutions and NGO.
Vice-President (since 1999 ) and then President of the International Federation of Surveyors, 2002-2006.
Since 1 Jan. 1998 Full Professor and Director of Institute.
Changing FIG – Model for a Changing World. Farewell speech at the Handover Ceremony
on 2 December 2006 in Münster, Germany.
Speech in English
Speech in German
FIG Vision, Mission and Activities - Promoting Sustainable Development. Luncheon Address at the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS), 2 November 2006.
Handouts of the powerpoint presentation
FIG President’s Welcome Address to the 50th Anniversary Celebration of WTSUM. Wuhan, China P. R., 28 October 2006.
President Holger Magel: From Surveying to Geomatics and Land Management. About Future Perspectives of a Changing Discipline and Profession. Presentation at the 14th International Conference on Geoinformatics (Geoinformatics 2006) – The 21st Century’s Geoinformatics. Wuhan, China P.R., October 28-29, 2006.
Shaping the Change 2002-2006 – The German Period of FIG. FIG President’s Address at the Opening Ceremony of the XXIII FIG Congress in Munich on 10 October 2006.
Shaping the Change - Congress Summary. Closing Address by FIG President at the Closing Ceremony of the XXIII FIG Congress in Munich on 13 October 2006.
slides of the presentation
Geographic Information for Sustainable Development – Global Trends and Perspectives. Keynote Speech at the 5th Map Asia, 30 August 2006 in Bangkok.
About FIG’s and Surveyors Contributions to building a better world. Keynote presentation at the International Geodetic Students Meeting, Cracow, Poland 30 June 2006.
Closing Remarks at the Habitat Professionals Forum's Networking Event "Public Engagement: The Inclusive Approach" by Chair of the Habitat Professionals Forum, Univ.-Prof. Holger Magel, FIG President, at the 3rd World Urban Forum, Vancouver, Canada 22 June 2006.
Opening Remarks at the Habitat Professionals Forum's Networking Event "Public Engagement: The Inclusive Approach" by Chair of the Habitat Professionals Forum, Univ.-Prof. Holger Magel, FIG President, at the 3rd World Urban Forum, Vancouver, Canada 22 June 2006.
Statement at the GLTN Round Table on Gendering Land Tools by FIG President Professor Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel, at the 3rd World Urban Forum, Vancouver, Canada 21 June 2006.
FIG Statement at the Global Land Tools Network (GLTN) - Networking Event at the 3rd World Urban Forum, Vancouver, Canada 20 June 2006.
From secure tenure towards urban and rural land management - about FIG’s role serving the needs of politics and societies. Presentation at the UNECE WPLA Workshop on Institutional Framework for Securing Real Property Rights in Tbilisi, Georgia 11 May 2006
Zur Zukunft der Geodäsie aus globaler Perspektive. Grußwortadresse zum 9. Österreichischen Geodätentag 2006 am 03. Mai 2006 in Krems
Surveyors Contributions to Science and Society. Welcome address at GEOFORUM 2006, Lviv/Javoriv; Ukraine, 6 April 2006
Closing remarks at the 5th FIG Regional Conference in Accra, Ghana. 10th March 2006.
Opening Address at the 5th FIG Regional Conference in Accra, Ghana. 8 March 2006.
Slides of the powerpoint presentation
About Surveyors’ Commitment, Role and Education for Society and Sustainable Development. Keynote Address at the Opening Ceremony of the 8th SEASC 2005 on 22 November 2005 in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam
Closing Remarks. Closing Ceremony of the 8th SEASC 2005 in Brunei Darussalam, 25 November 2005
Building Modern Land Administration Systems in Developed Economies – Aspects and Experiences from Germany. Presentation at the Expert Group Meeting “Incorporating Sustainable Objectives into ICT, Enabled Land Administration Systems”, Melbourne, Australia, 9–11 November 2005
Handouts of powerpoint presentation
About the Identity, Sociopolitical Role and Technical Tasks of Surveyors on the National and International Stage. Keynote Speech at the 43rd National Conference of Consiglio Nazionale Geometri - New horizons of the profession: Guarantees for the society in evolution, Palermo, Italy 17-22 October 2005
Opening Speech at the 43rd National Conference of Consiglio Nazionale Geometri, Palermo, Italy 18 October 2005
The resources of rural areas. A plea for sustainable land management and an active civil society. Abstract of Presentation at the 5th European Congress on Village Renewal, St. Pölten, Austria, 21 September 2005
About the need of centres of capacity building in urban and rural development. Presentation of President Holger Magel, Chair of the Steering Committee of the Habitat Professionals Forum at the Habitat Professionals Forum Session at the XXII Congress of UIA in Istanbul, Turkey, 5 July 2005.
Surveyors should look after their identity. Address by President Holger Magel at the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Polish Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography (GUGIK), Warsaw, Poland, 23 June 2005.
Article of the presentation and visit in the Przeglad Geodezyjny, Rok LXXVII, 2005 Nr. 9 (in Polish)
Conference Summary. Closing Speech by FIG President, Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel at the FIG Working Week and the 8th GSDI Conference Cairo, Egypt, 21 April 2005
From Pharaohs to Geoinformatics – Shaping the Change. Opening Speech by FIG President, Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel at the FIG Working Week and the 8th GSDI Conference Cairo, Egypt, 17 April 2005
Vermessung urbi et orbi – Gedanken über glokale Geodäten. Festansprache von FIG Präsident Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel zum 50. Geburtstag von FIG-Vizepräsident Dr.-Ing. Andreas Drees. Münster/Westfalen, Germany, 19 March 2005
Surveyors and Politics – the Need for Dialogue. FIG Monthly Article, January 2005 based on the purely orally given lecture at the RICS as the “Christmas Lecture” of the Geomatics Faculty, December 2, 2004.
Memorandum of Understanding between the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA) and FIG. Speech by Prof. Holger Magel, President of FIG at the signing ceremony in Vienna, December 13, 2004
New Challenges to Education in Geodesy and Geoinformation. Presentation held at the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering of the University of Ljubljana, October 1, 2004.
Surveying the Future – Contributions to Economic, Environmental and Social Development in Urban and Rural Areas, Opening keynote address at the 3rd FIG Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific, Jakarta October 4, 2004
Surveying the Future – Contributions to Economic, Environmental and Social Development, Closing address, recommendations and the Jakarta Statement at the 3rd FIG Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific, Jakarta October 6, 2004
FIG Meets the Arab World of Surveyors. Opening Keynote Address at the 2nd International Scientific Conference in Beirut, Lebanon, 21 September 2004.
Closing Speech and Conclusions of the FIG Working Week 2004. Closing address at the FIG working Week 2004 in Athens, Greece 27 May 2004.
Slides as .pdf-file
Breathing the Olympic Spirit - The Mission of FIG in the 21st Century. Opening speech at the FIG Working Week 2004 in Athens, Greece, 23 May 2004.
Greeting to the Ingenieurvermessung 2004 - 14th International Conference on Engineering Surveying. 15-19 March, Zürich, Switzerland
Land Policy and Land Administration - A Challenge for Surveyors. Visions and Experiences in Germany. Keynote presentation at the Annual Surveying Congress of the Danish Association of Chartered Surveyors, DdL, 31 January 2004
Welcome Address at the Annual Surveying Congress of the Danish Association of Chartered Surveyors, DdL, 30 January 2004
The FIG Agenda - Some Remarks and Insights. Welcome Address at the Annual Surveying Congress of the Danish Association of Chartered Surveyors, DdL, 31 January 2004
Handouts of slides as .pdf-file
Urban-Rural-Interrelationship for Sustainable Development. FIG President Professor Dr-Ing. Holger Magel. Keynote speech at the Opening Ceremony of the 2nd FIG Regional Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, 2nd December 2003
Conclusions and FIG-Responses of the 2nd FIG Regional Conference
“Urban-Rural Interrelationship for Sustainable Environment”. Prof. Holger Magel, FIG President’s Closing Speech, Marrakech, 2-5 December 2003
Spatial Information Management for Sustainable Development. Public Lecture. Surveyors Week 2003, October 26-31, 2003,Kingston, Jamaica. (Day of lecture: October 30, 2003)
Shaping the Change: Visions on surveying and surveyors in the new century. Lecture at the University of Technology. Surveyors Week 2003, October 26-31, 2003,Kingston, Jamaica. (Day of lecture: October 29, 2003
An Obligation to Say What We Think. Interview at the GIM International, August 2003
Bridging the Gap: About Integrating Survey and GIS. Opening Speech at the ESRI “Survey and GIS Summit - Bridging the Gap 2003”, San Diego, CA, USA, 6 July, 2003
FIG Article of the Month - August 2003
About Surveyor's Contribution to a Free and Vital Society and Economy, Opening Speech at UN/ECE Committee on Human Settlements WPLA Workshop, Athens, Greece, May 29, 2003
About the Future of Cities, Speech ob behalf of the Habitat Professionals Forum and FIG at a Parallel event during the 19th Session of the UN-HABITAT Governing Council, Nairobi, Kenya, May 9, 2003
Opening Speech at the FIG Working Week and 125th Anniversary in Paris, April 13, 2003
Land Policy and Land Management in Germany, Public lecture at The University of Melbourne, 6 February, 2003
Address at the FIG Handover during the Intergeo 2002 in Frankfurt 16 October 2002 - in German
Ressource Architektur - Perspektivenund Positionen aus der Sicht der International Federation of Surveyors (FIG). Contribution to the Closing Plenary "Perspectives and Visions" of the XXI International Congress of UIA, organised by the International Union of Architects, Berlin, Germany, 26 July 2002
Sustainable Land Development and Land Management in Urban and Rural Areas - About Surveyors' Contribution to Building a Better World. Keynote Presentation at the International Conference on Spatial Information Management for Sustainable Development, Nairobi, Kenya 2-5 October 2001, organised by FIG, ISK and UNCHS(Habitat)
Welcome Address at the International Conference on Spatial Information Management for Sustainable Development, Nairobi, Kenya, 2 October 2001, organised by FIG, ISK and UNCHS(Habitat)
Closing Address and Conclusions at the International Conference on Spatial Information Management for Sustainable Development, Nairobi, Kenya, 4 October 2001, organised by FIG, ISK and UNCHS(Habitat)
Grußwort zur 200-Jahr Feier der Bayerischen Vermessungsverwaltung. 20 June 2001, Munich, Germany
Acrobat file (pdf-file) (16 KB)
Access to Land and Security of Tenure as a Condition for Sustainable Human Development. Keynote introduction at the Discussion of the Global Campaign for Secure Tenure organized by the Habitat Professionals Forum. The United Nations Special Session for an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of the Habitat Agenda, New York, USA, 6 June 2001.
Overheads (pdf-file) (17 KB)
Conference résumé and presentation of the Potsdam Declaration rural 21“. (Veröffentlichung in: Tagungsband/Conference Volume rural 21. Hrsg.: Bundesministerium für Verbraucherschutz, Ernährung und Landwirtschaft, Bonn, 2001, S. 63 – 77.)
Acrobat file (.pdf-file), English
Surveying and Politics - A Relationship of Mutual Benefit. Keynote address at the Plenary Session "Visions on Surveying" at the International Conference "New Technology for a New Century", FIG Working Week, 6-11 May 2001, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Acrobat file (pdf-file) (7KB)
Columns of President Holger Magel
December 2006: Geospatial Information Technology a Means to More Democracy. Interview with Prof. Holger Magel, FIG President
December 2005: Committed to Africa?
Interview - September 2005: Quo Vadis European Surveying, Geodesy and Geomatics? Interview with Prof. Holger Magel, President of FIG
September 2005: Academics and Practitioners Bridging the Gap
June 2005: From Pharaohs to Where?
Viewpoint - April/May 2005: New Challenges to Education in Geodesy and Geoinformation. Master of Science Program in Land Management and Land Tenure at TU Munich. Material provided by Prof. Holger Magel and edited by Joc Triglav.
March 2005: Where Were You When...?
December 2004: Why Are Surveyors so Thinly Represented in the Planning Processes?
September 2004: Strengthening the Voice of Surveying and Geospatial Information Societies
June 2004: Survey and GIS - There Is Still a Need of Bridging the Gap
March 2004: Politics is Such a Bad Thing - We Don't Like to Get Involved in It
GIM International
October 2006: GIM Interviews FIG President Holger Magel: Well-Grounded Specialised Generalists
October 2005: Insider's View: Bridging the GAP: Survey and Planning
May 2004: Together Stronger and More Influential
Other columns and Interviews
The role of education in surveyors' commitment to society and sustainable development. Article on CES April 2006 (Civil Engineering Surveyors, UK). Adapted from President Magel's keynoteaddress at the opening of the 8th SEASC in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam
The Role of Surveying is Critical. Interview on GIS Development, January 2006.
“The role of surveying is paramount and critical”. Interview on GIS Development, January 2006, web version: http://www.gisdevelopment.net/interview/previous/ev077.htm
For a Sustainable Future. Interview in Geospatial Today, November-December 2005
President Magel can be contacted either through the FIG permanent office in Copenhagen or his private address.
International Federation of Surveyors
E-mail: FIG@fig.net
Fax +45 3886 0252
Univ. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel
FIG President
Director of Institute of Geodesy, GIS and Land Management
Center of Land Management and Land Tenure
Arcisstrasse 21
Tel. + 49 89 289 22535
Fax + 49 89 289 23933
Email: magel@landentwicklung-muenchen.de
12 March 2003 - updated 28 December 2006
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40 Year Itch
40 Year Itch : Three We Missed
[Purchase]
This is the end of the month round-up of albums I didn't get to for one reason or another.
Radio has such a short memory. When Dave Edmunds released "I Hear You Knockin" in 1971, there wasn't anything else like it getting played. The music of Chuck Berry, Fats Domino and Smiley Lewis couldn't be heard anymore.
For his debut album, Rockpile, Edmunds recorded the music of his idols, a few originals and some surprising covers: Neil Young's "Dance Dance Dance", Ron Davies's "It Ain't Easy" (which would also show up on David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust a month later) and "Down, Down, Down" from The Move's Trevor Burton. Everything great thing Dave Edmunds has ever done can be heard in these three glorious minutes.
No sophomore slump for Los Angeles slacker boogie artists Little Feat. The critically acclaimed Sailin' Shoes features a second version of Lowell George's classic "Willin'" which I don't think I'll ever get tired of listening to. I managed to grow up without hearing a lot of Little Feat. Even when I bought Dixie Chicken I didn't listen to it much.
In college I had The Neville Brothers and Radiators delivering the same kind of dazed funk --the air on campus smelling like ripe magnolias and sweet weed. In New Orleans "Sailin' Shoes" meant the Robert Palmer cover version recorded with The Meters. It's still taking some time for me to get into this one. Where am I going wrong?
1972 was a great year for Italian progressive rock. We got the first two albums from Premiata Forneria Marconi (the name means Award-Winning Macaroni Bakery) and the first two albums from Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso ("Tour the Mutual Aid"?) as well as Le Orme 's Uomo di Pezza..
Founded by brothers Vittorio and Gianni Nocenzi, Banco specialized in complex, symphonic prog rock a la Emerson Lake and Palmer or Gentle Giant. Frankly, it's not the kind of stuff I listen to for pleasure. The follow-up Darwin!, released later in the year, is said to be their masterpiece.
Labels: Dave Edmunds, Gentle Giant, Little Feat
40 Year Itch: A Rockin Night on the Telly
On May 30, 1972, you could flip on Granada and see Argent perform their Top 5 hit "Hold Your Head Up" then flip over to The Old Grey Whistle Test to see Dutch prog rockers Focus yodel their way through "Hocus Pocus".
In fact fans were so wild about "Hocus Pocus", Sire Records released the single in October and watched in astonishment as the song hit #20 in the UK and #9 in the US.
40 Year Itch: Two Guys Named Bobby
I don't know anything about women. But I have a good excuse. I've only been married ten years. I only have one daughter. I've only had one mother, three stepmothers, one sister, two half sisters and a step sister.
But I know good advice when I hear it. And no song offers better advice about women than Bobby Womack's "Woman's Gotta Have It". Like half of Bobby's songs it begins with a moment on the pulpit:
Fellas I wonder would you mind if I talked to ya for a minute. You know, sometimes we have the tendency, or should I say we forget, what a woman needs every now and then. That is if you wanna keep your thing together.
And then we learn the rules of keeping your woman happy
1. Keep a smile on her face
2. Say the things that make her feel better every day
3. Mind your p's and q's.
4. Make her know she's needed
5. When you kiss her, make her feel it
6. Make her feel secure so she know she's not walking on shaky ground
7. Don't take her for granted even if she's got a smile on her face.
"Woman's Gotta Have It" is the stand out track from Understanding, released May 29, 1972. But not the only noteworthy song. "Harry Hippie", a B side to Womack's cover of "Sweet Caroline", became a top ten R and B hit. Sadly, Bobby had a free spirited brother named Harry who was killed by a jealous girlfriend years after the song was released.
"I Can Understand It' is a groovy six minute jam. Our deep cut is "Got To Get You Back" co-written by Jerry Lynn Williams who also wrote Delbert McClinton's hit "Givin It Up For Your Love" and Eric Clapton's "Promises". Good stuff all around
Womack, recently declared cancer free by doctor, has a new Damon Albarn produced album coming out June 12, The Bravest Man in The Universe.
Bobby Weir also released his first solo album , Ace, in May of 1972. But to call this a solo album might be stretching the definition. Every member of the Dead except Pigpen and Micky Hart played on Ace and almost every song became a staple of the Dead's live repertoire. Especially "Playing In The Band" and "One More Saturday Night".
Our deep cut is "Cassidy", named after the daughter of a crew member and family friend and featuring allusions to Beat associate Neal Cassady. The phrase "Catch-colt" refers to colt born to a mare who accidentally bred with the wrong stallion. Must have made for some awkward birthday parties for "Uncle Bob".
Labels: 1972
40 Year Itch: Southern Child
In May of 1972 Little Richard wrapped the last of his string of poorly selling albums for Reprise Records by knocking out ten tracks for the album Southern Child. Despite shooting an album cover with Little Richard milking a cow, Southern Child wasn't released until, get this, January 2005 ( 32 years later on a Rhino Records anthology). You won't find a piano on any track. And you won't hear any squealing. This is Richard Wayne Penniman rediscovering his roots, perhaps inspired by Taj Mahal, with some of the best session musicians around ( Earl Palmer on drums, Lee Allen on sax and "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow on pedal steel).
The track "If You Pick Her Too Hard (She Comes Out of Tune") has hit legend status in the blogosphere thanks to Moistworks among others.
Labels: 1972, Little Richard
40 Year Itch : Messin With Jim
A former truck driver, and a man who knew how to hammer nails into wood, Jim Croce was a common man with an uncommon ability to write instant classics. His ABC Records debut You Don't Mess Around With Jim, released in May of 1972, sounds like a greatest hits album with the Top 10 title track, the masterful Top 20 hit "Operator", "Photographs And Memories" and "Time in A Bottle" which would hit #1 19 months later--its lyrics (There never seems to be enough time/ To do the things you want to do/ Once you find them) suffused with meaning following Croce's fatal plane crash in September of 1973.
Croce's death propelled this album past the million sales mark to the top of the album charts.
"New York's Not My Home" tells about the period in the late 60's when Jim and wife Ingrid tried to make it as a duo.
Though all the streets are crowded
There's something strange about it
Lived there 'bout a year and I never once felt at home
I though I'd make the big time
I learned a lot of lessons awful quick
Ingrid is still alive, maintaining a website in honor of her husband and running a San Diego eatery, Croce's Restaurant and Jazz Bar.
"My work has been to keep Jim's music and his memory out there," she told The San Diego Downtown News. "That's in appropriate places. I'm not interested in selling something I don't believe in. I don't want to see wine or perfume out there for "Time in a Bottle." I don't want something out there that's not quality."
40 Year Itch : The Who Record "Relay"
Forget what you've heard about Al Gore inventing the internet. Listen to the lyrics Pete Townshend wrote for "Relay" , recorded on May 26, 1972 at Olympic Studios, and you might think he's commenting on social media circa 2012. In fact, Pete introduced the song at the Glastonbury Festival in 2007 in this way :
When you look up on the stage and see all these old fuckers up here talking about the Internet, well in 1971 I wrote a song which we’re about to play which is about the Internet…
From tree to tree,
From you to me,
Travelling twice as fast as on any freeway.
Ev'ry single dream
Is wrapped up in the scheme,
They all get carried on the relay.
"Pass it on."
Someone disapproves
Of what you say or do,
I was asked to see what I could learn you;
Don't believe your eyes,
They're seeing only lies,
What is done in the first place don't concern you.
"Relay" was released in the winter of 1972, reaching #21 in the UK and #39 in the US. It was one of three great singles ( the others are "Let's See Action" and "Join Together") from the aborted Lifehouse project that helped string fans along between Who's Next and Quadrophenia. Had The Who released the Lifehouse rock opera, "Relay" would have come near the end of the album between "Slip Kid" ( from The Who By Numbers) and "Who Are You".
The single's B side is "Waspman" written by Keith Moon.
40 Year Itch: Teen Idol Bares All
David Cassidy posed naked ( for photographer Annie Leibovitz) and revealed his drug use in the May 11th, 1972 issue of Rolling Stone. "The Business of David Cassidy" --which at that point included a Top Ten version of "Cherish" and a hit TV show called "The Partridge Family "-- would never be the same.
It pissed off everybody that was really profiting from the business of David Cassidy. I had fan letters that came to me--and there were hundreds of thousands of them, literally-- in defense of me by fans of mine, that said, "Oh David, I know that you couldn't possibly have done this because I know that you would never have posed nude for photographs", And the fact was, I had, willingly done so, had thought about it. I scratched my head and thought, you know, this David Cassidy business has really gotten outta hand.
~ David Cassidy
40 Year Itch: Carpenters Down Under
The Carpenters play Festival Hall in Melbourne on May 24, 1972. At the time "Hurting Each Other" , from the upcoming album A Song For You, was #20 on the Australian charts. It would move up to #9 the following week and remain in the Top 10 until August 5. The song peaked at #2 on the US Billboard charts.
The Carpenters, brother and sister Richard and Karen, were both millionaires and both still lived at home with their parents.
00:02 - Help [lesser sound quality]
02:37 - Love Is Surrender [lesser sound quality]
04:30 - *Richard explains harmonies
07:30 - Ticket To Ride
11:40 - For All We Know
14:06 - Close To You
17:37 - Cinderella Rockefella
19:35 - Superstar
23:16 - *Band Introduction
26:47 - Medley ---------
Any Day Now ---------
Baby It's You ---------
Make It Easy On Yourself ---------
There's Always Something There To Remind Me ---------
Walk On By ---------
Do You Know The Way To San Jose?
39:04 - Hurting Each Other
42:28 - We've Only Just Begun
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Labels: 1972, The Carpenters
40 Year Itch : Bedroom Secrets
Kris Kristofferson met Rita Coolidge in November 1970 at an LA airport. Both were catching the same plane to Tennessee. When Rita got off in Memphis, Kris followed her. The pair would get married in 1973 and record several albums as a duet before their divorce eight years later.
Here, from May 23, 1972 episode of The Old Grey Whistle Test is an abbreviated version of Kristofferson's classic "Help Me Make It Through The Night". The two lovers share shy and intimate glances. One of television's steamiest moments ever!
Labels: 1972, Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge
40 Year Itch: The Guess Who Is God
On May 22, 1972 The Guess Who recorded their sold out concert at Seattle's Paramount Theatre. Steve Wilson, then 16, was one of the thousands of people who paid $3.75 a ticket to see the band. He drove up from the other side of Tacoma and got to The Paramount early enough to get decent seats.
So you fought for a seat and then during the show most of the people ended up standing on the seats and breaking them. I was actually pretty scared because people around me were smoking pot and I was pretty young at the time. I remember singing along once I finally calmed down, but to tell you the truth I wasn't the biggest Guess Who fan. It was the fact that I got to go to a show. That was the thing!
Fans heard "These Eyes", "Undun" and "Share The Land" but the only major hit that made it to the original live album was a 17 minute version of the band's Number 1 hit "American Woman". This is the song legendary rock critic Lester Bangs celebrated in a review that led him to declare "The Guess Who is God":
I saw the Guess Who do this version of “American Woman” live a year ago, and I have never been more offended by a concert. Just as he does on the record, Burton Cummings indulged himself in a long, extremely cranky rumination on Yankee Yin, in a sort of fallen-out Beat poetic style:
American bitch
American cunt
American slut
American lesbian
American schoolgirl
American beaver etc., etc., etc.
Wouldn’t you be offended by this Canuck creep coming down here taking all our money while running down our women? Sure you would! Until you realized, as I did, eventually, that that kind of stuff is exactly what makes the Guess Who great. They have absolutely no taste at all, they don’t even mind embarrassing everybody in the audience, they’re real punks without even working too hard at it.
Like a lot of people there, Steve was surprised The Guess Who put out a live album of the concert. But of course he bought it and ,even today, he can point to a shadow on the back cover and say that's him. The new CD adds six bonus tracks and is gloriously remastered. Burton Cummings has an amazing voice and the band is incredibly tight. Great stuff!
Steve Wilson is right .............here +
Labels: 1972, Guess Who
40 Year Itch: Inside a Rolling Stones Rehearsal
The Rolling Stones gather in a closed movie house in Montreux, Switzerland on May 21st to rehearse for the upcoming "Cocaine and Tequila Sunrise" North American tour.
With a baby on the way, Keith and Anita decided to clean up their act . Going "cold turkey" in the US, England or France was not an option so they went to a clinic in Vevey, Switzerland, four miles from Montreux.
It is fucking awful. ..the whole body just sort of turns itself inside out and rejects itself for three days...your skin crawls, your guts churning, you can't stop your limbs from jerking and moving about, and you're throwing up and shitting at the same time.
--Keith Richards on going cold turkey in his book LIFE
It was while getting clean that Keith says he wrote "Angie".
Labels: 1972, Rolling Stones
40 Year Itch : Shoo Bee Doo Wah
Great 1972 single from Shocking Blue, the Dutch band that brought us "Venus". The band put out three albums in 1972. A bit later this year we'll check out Shocking Blue Live In Japan.
Labels: 1972, Shocking Blue
40 Year Itch : The State of Teenage Blues
For tax reasons, his accountants suggested Elton John--like The Rolling Stones-- record his albums outside the UK. That's how Honky Chateau, released May 19, 1972, got recorded at the Chateau d'Hierouville, a 17th Century chateau in the french countryside . Guitarist Davey Jonstone joined Dee Murray and Nigel Olsson in Elton's band. They would meet for meals and then walk a few yards through a courtyard to Strawberry Studios, a 16 track recording studio. Lyricist Bernie Taupin says songs could be written in 20 minutes, rehearsed in an hour and recorded that afternoon:
It was literally like a music factory. I'd be upstairs in my bedroom, writing at top speed. I'd give each set of lyrics straight to Elton at the piano.
In just three weeks the album was finished. It would hit #1 in July and stay there for five weeks thanks in part to a hit single Elton thought was too slow. It's opening line came to Taupin as he was driving alone in Lincolnshire:
"She packed my bags last night preflight. zero hour is 9 am". I remember jumping out of the car and running into my parents house shouting "Please dont anyone talk to me until I've written this down."
"Rocket Man" peaked at # 6 in the US and # 12 in the UK. Among other well known cuts: the #8 US hit "Honky Cat" and "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters" which Elton dedicated to emergency works and New York City during The Concert For New York City. Our "deep cuts" selection is "I Think I'm Going to Kill Myself", probably the most upbeat song ever written about teenage suicide. Former Bonzo Dog drummer "Legs" Larry Smith performs the tap dancing on the track.
Honky Chateau has a great feel and it is little wonder Elton John returned to the Chateau d' Hierouville to record Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. He's not the only one who liked the vibe here. T.Rex recorded The Slider, David Bowie recorded Low and The Bee Gees recorded "How Deep Is Your Love" and "Staying Alive" here.
40 Year Itch : Clouds In My Coffee
40 years ago this month Carly Simon met producer Richard Perry at his Laurel Canyon house and played him a new song called "Ballad of a Vain Man".
As Sheila Weller writes in Girls Like Us , the song had been written in four parts. Carly sketched out a melody with the chorus "Bless You Ben". Then on an airplane her musician seatmate pointed to his cup and said "Doesn't that look like clouds in my coffee?" Then, thinking back on some of the men in her life she wrote her most famous lyric "You're so vain; I betcha think this song is about you". It all came together when a man she knew walked into a party ( "like he was walking onto a yacht").
Weller suggests the way Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson shared girls led to the line "You gave away the things you loved; And one of them was me".
When Carly sat down to play "Ballad of a Vain Man" on that May day, Perry grabbed his bongos and started pounding out a thunderous beat. The first time he heard the song Perry says he knew it would be a hit.
Released on December 2, 1972, with backing vocals from Mick Jagger, "You're So Vain" topped the charts for three weeks in January.
Frankly, I've read so much about who might be the subject of the song, I've stopped caring.
Labels: 1972, Carly Simon
40 Year Itch : A Bra To Fit A Car
When In The Land Of The Grey And Pink failed to sell in big numbers, Caravan co-founder David Sinclair left the band to join Robert Wyatt in Matching Mole. So the kings of the Canterbury Scene brought jazz keyboardist Steve Miller aboard and made a very pleasant album full of bouncy pop and long Traffic-like jams. For those who might have missed the sex-capades of "Golf Girl", Caravan offers up "Waterloo Lily" herself:
Waterloo Lily's got enough to turn us all on/
Got a bra to fit a car/
A port upon her back you warm your feet on
Waterloo Lily didn't sell all that well either but David Sinclair returned to the band for their what is often considered their best album, 1973's For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night.
Labels: 1972, Caravan, Waterloo Lily
40 Year Itch: A Mess Of Help
On May 16. 1972...two days after the release of Carl And The Passions, The Beach Boys (minus Brian Wilson and Bruce Johnson; plus Daryl Dragon, Ricky Fataar and Blondie Chaplin) play their new single "You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone" on the BBC2's Old Whistle Test.
What was Brian up to?
The answer is here .
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Labels: 1972, Beach Boys
40 Year Itch : A Heep Of Gothic Metal
For those who want their heavy metal infused with wizards living in mountain homes, rainbow demons riding on horses of fire, a million silver stars, acoustic guitars and heavy handed organs, this is the album for you. Plus you get "Easy Livin'", Uriah Heep's only Top 40 hit in the US , a Roger Dean album cover ( with hidden images of male and female genitalia)... and wisdom: "Today is Only Yesterday's Tomorrow". I'm not sure what to do with that wisdom exactly. Maybe tack it up on the fridge and see if it sinks in.
There are far more painful listens in the early 70's heavy metal sphere. Demons and Wizards offers short, sharp shocks of metal along with a 12 minute epic called "Paradise/The Spell" at the end. Had I mixed more with a different crowd, who's to say this wouldn't be a magic carpet ride back to a youth spent smoking pot in a room filled with black light posters.
Rolling Stone critic Mike Saunders was impressed with Demons and Wizards.
These guys are good. The first side of Demons and Wizards is simply odds-on the finest high energy workout of the year, tying nose and nose with the Blue Oyster Cult...They may have started out as a thoroughly dispensable neo-Cream and Blooze outfit, but at this point Uriah Heep are shaping up into one hell of a first-rate modern rock band.
Labels: 1972, Uriah Heep
40 Year Itch : The Greatest Guitarist Goes Live
"How does it feel to be the greatest guitarist in the world? I don't know, go ask Rory Gallagher." —Jimi Hendrix quote from 1969 Rolling Stone magazine
Legend has it this is the album that inspired future U2 members Adam Clayton and The Edge to learn guitar and play in a band. Live in Europe, compiled from live performance recorded throughout Europe during February and March 1972, captures the immense talent and showmanship of the Irish blues guitarist who knocked Eric Clapton from 1972's Melody Maker's poll as Best Guitarist. Gallagher plays the hell out of the beat up Fender Stratocaster you see on the cover. But he also plays harmonica, acoustic guitar and mandolin. All before an adoring audience completely swept up in the show. The album barely crept onto the Billboard charts stateside but hit Top Ten in the UK. Gallagher sold more than 30 million albums worldwide before his untimely death at the age of 47. By the way, in Rolling Stone's Top 100 Guitarists issue, Gallagher was not even mentioned once.
Labels: 1972, Rory Gallagher
Dave Marsh's Top Ten Albums of 1972
Creem/ Rolling Stone critic Dave Marsh's list of the best albums of 1972:
1. Rolling Stones Exile On Main St
2. "Wonder, Stevie" Talking Book
3. "Mayfield, Curtis" Super Fly (Soundtrack)
4. "Morrison, Van" Saint Dominic's Preview
5. "Green, Al" I'm Still In Love With You
6. "Mitchell, Joni" For The Roses
7. "O'Jays, The" Back Stabbers
8. Al Green Let's Stay Together
9. Stevie Wonder Music Of My Mind
10. Paul Simon Paul Simon
11. "Stewart, Rod" Never A Dull Moment
12. Aretha Franklin Young Gifted And Black
13. "Hendrix, Jimi" Hendrix In The West
14. Allman Brothers Eat A Peach
15. "Temptations, The" All Directions
16. "Nash, Johnny" I Can See Clearly Now
17. "Gaye, Marvin" Trouble Man (Soundtrack)
18. Steely Dan Can't Buy A Thrill
19. "Persuasions, The" Street Corner Symphony
20. "Band, The" Rock Of Ages
21. "Geils, J. Band, The" Live Full House
22. War The World Is A Ghetto
23. Todd Rundgren Something/Anything
24. "Kinks, The" Everybody's In Show-Biz
25. "Franklin, Aretha" Amazing Grace
26. "Jackson, Michael" Ben
27. "Simon, Carly" No Secrets
28. "Bowie, David" The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
29. "King, B. B." L. A. Midnight
30. Creedence Clearwater Revival Mardi Gras
31. "Jackson, Michael" Got To Be There
32. "Stylistics, The" Round 2: The Stylistics
33. "Chi-Lites, The" A Lonely Man
34. Mott The Hoople All The Young Dudes
35. Deep Purple Machine Head
36. "Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The" Will The Circle Be Unbroken
37. "Staple Singers, The" Beatitude: Respect Yourself
38. The Kinks Kinks Kronikles
39. "Lennon/Ono/Plastic Ono Band With Elephant's Memory" Some Time In New York City
40. Elton John Honky Chateau
40 Year Itch : Basement Tapes
All rock records should be made in dank basements of old Nazi strongholds on the Cote d'Azur, with reliable heroin connections in Marseille and Gram Parsons hovering in the paneled hallways. That way they might sound half as good as Exile On Main St.
-Barney Hoskyns, The Observer, 2004
Recorded in the cold and humid basement of tax exile Keith Richards's villa in the South of France, Exile On Main Street is often hailed as the greatest rock album of all time. How it ever got recorded with all the drugs, the booze, the never-ending house party, with anywhere between twenty and thirty visitors making noises upstairs, is a tribute, to of all people, Keef himself. Sure he was strung out and sleeping the day away, but at the oddest hours, Keith was a self described task master churning out song after song:
"Rocks Off", "Happy", "Ventilator Blues", "Tumbling Dice", "All Down The Line" --that's five string tuning to the max. I was starting to really fix my trademark; I wrote all that stuff within a few days. Suddenly, with the five-string, songs were just dripping off my fingers".
Keith might have a line or two in mind to go with these riffs but it was up to Mick to come up with the lyrics. As Keith wrote in his autobiography:
"Most of what I had to do was to come up with riffs and ideas that would turn Mick on. To write songs he could handle. They had to be good records but translatable to being played on stage. I was the butcher cutting the meat"
To this day Mick has referred to Exile as "a bit overrated"...with , again in his opinion, none of the great songs that made Sticky Fingers and Let It Bleed such classics. But Mick wasn't always around for Exile. He would occasionally disappear with his new very pregnant bride Bianca . Keith was living the album-- producing two songs a day on a heroin habit which he said helped him shut out all of the daily stuff and concentrate on the music. "Happy" wasn't even recorded with the Stones but with producer Jimmy Miller on drums, Bobby Keys on baritone and Keith doing everything else.
Even when that legendary summer at Villa Nellcote ended, the Stones still spent four or five months in LA mixing and over dubbing, recording two new cuts ( "Torn And Frayed and "Loving Cup"), adding percussion in some places, backing vocals in others. Richards and Jagger were both at the monumental recording of Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace album at LA's New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, and were inspired to add gospel inflections to songs like "Let It Loose" and "Shine A Light".
Released on May 12, 1972, the album got mixed reviews. Naturally some critics compared it unfavorably to The Beatles double album. Lenny Kaye, writing for Rolling Stone, said "here are songs that are better, there are songs that are worse, and others you'll probably lift the needle for when the time is due."
To listen to Exile in its entirety --even the remastered 2010 deluxe version--is to immerse yourself in a thick stew of roots oriented rock n roll at its most ragged. For the most part, the songs don't sound over practiced ( though sounds can be deceiving-- "Tumbling Dice" was played more than 100 times before they captured that languid intensity we hear today). The bloom of inspiration shines on just about every cut. Still, I'll try to follow Lenny Kaye's lead and, at the risk of losing some of that claustrophobic basement funk, condense Exile into one epic ten song LP:
1 Rocks Off
2 Rip This Joint
3 Tumbling Dice
4 Sweet Virginia
5 Loving Cup
7 Let It Loose
8 All Down The Line
9 Shine A Light
10 Soul Survivor
Labels: 1972, Exile On Main St, Rolling Stones
40 Year Itch : The Metric System
As The Meters, guitarist Leo Nocentelli, keyboardist Art Neville, bassist George Porter Jr and drummer Ziggy Modeliste backed just about every artist who found his way to New Orleans and producer Allen Toussaint : Dr. John, LaBelle, Robert Palmer even Paul McCartney. When the label for whom they made three instrumental records, Josie Records, went backrupt The Meters signed with Reprise and released their first album on May 11, 1972. Cabbage Alley brought percussionist Cyril Neville on board and the album combines the New Orleans funk ingrained in The Meters' DNA as well as some Caribbean island flavor
(especially on "Soul Island").
"Do The Dirt" ( pronounced "Doit" in that Jersey-like New Orleans accent) offers a better glimpse of what the Meters would be doing down the road: earthy funk that would hit its peak on 1974's Rejuvination ( a rare 5-star album according to The Rolling Stone Record Guide). But if Josie failed The Meters by going bankrupt, Reprise wouldn't be doing The Meters much of a solid either. All of the Reprise records quickly went out of print. When I ran into George Porter in the mid-90's, he said his only copy of Rejuvination was on a squeaky cassette tape.
Since 2000, Sundazed Records has earned the worship and hard earned money of music fans by releasing The Meters catalog. I would suggest buying Rejuvination first, one of the instrumental albums second ( maybe Meters over Look A Py Py), and Fire On The Bayou before you get Cabbage Alley.
Labels: 1972, The Meters
40 Year Itch : Dadgummit-ah!
Bill Withers followed up the folk soul of his debut Just As I Am by taking over the production reins and enlisting members of the Watts 103rd Rhythm Band to raise the funk. And the funk do cometh especially on raunchy cuts like the #2 pop hit "Use Me" and "Who Is He ( And What Is He To You)?". Makes you wonder if some Foxy Brown kind of lady entered his life right about the time "Ain't No Sunshine" hit Number One. You know, the kind who is too much woman for one. But not enough for two. Using him until she used him up.
No matter how funky things get, Withers plays it cool . We've all probably heard "Lean On Me" too many times by now. But next time, listen to the song in the context of all the gospel soul that was hitting the charts in 1972: Aretha Franklin's Young Gifted And Black and Amazing Grace, The Staple Sisters's "I'll Take You There", Jesus Christ Superstar. The Rolling Stones's "Let It Loose" and "Shine A Light"? Could the compassionate singer be JC himself?
Labels: 1972, Bill Withers
40 Year Itch : The Doors Carry On
On May 8, 1972, ten months after Jim Morrison's death, The remaining Doors played on BBC2's Old Grey Whistle Test. Naturally, it wasn't the same thing. While the band could always find a great riff, there's something kind of pathetic about watching Robbie Kreiger sing a song as sophmoric as "I'm Horny, I'm Stoned".
The song comes from the 1971 album Other Voices. Recordings for Other Voices began while Jim Morrison was on vacation in France with the expectations that the Lizard King would not die in a Parisian bathtub. Robbie and Ray Manzarek recorded the vocal tracks and the album peaked at #31 in the charts.
In the Spring of 1972, The Doors got back together to record another album. Full Circle appears to be an effort by the band to forge a new musical direction which may explain the album's single "The Mosquito".
Inspired by a traditional Mexican tune, Robbie wrote what may be the best know post-Morrison Doors song, It peaked at #85 in the singles chart. Full Circle , released in August of 1972, was aptly named. It was the last Doors album.
Labels: 1972, The Doors
40 Year Itch : Two From The Q
Al Anderson has already joined NRBQ when he recorded this delightful album to fulfill a five year contract with Vanguard Records. Some of the NRBQ boys helped out on the album including Tom Staley on drums, Terry Adams on piano and his brother Donn Adams on trombone. Most of the songs are happy foot-tappin' ditties that will remind you of the Q ("Be My Woman Tonight", We'll Make Love", "Don't Hold The Line"). In the few that don't really work for me , Al's just trying too hard ("Ain't No Woman Finer Lookin'","I Haven't Got The Strength To Carry On"). Apparent effortlessness was always part of NRBQ's charm.
In 1972, NRBQ released Scraps, their first album with guitarist Al Anderson. In fact Al had only been in the band for two weeks when they recorded the album and he contributed no songs. ( Possibly due to his Vanguard contract). Among the highlights are Terry's "Howard Johnson's Got His Ho-Jo Working", the Adams/ Joey Spampinato tune "Magnet", and Joey's "Only You" with its toy piano solo. This is the last album featuring vocalist Frank Gadler. There are still legions of NRBQ fans who believe this is the band's high point but I'm stinking with Yankee Stadium.
Labels: 1972, Al Anderson, NRBQ
40 Year Itch: Brian Wilson's Beach Girls Gem
Having withdrawn from The Beach Boys following 1971's Surf's Up , Brian Wilson instead devoted "some" of his time to the girl group sounds of his wife Marilyn and sister in law Diane Rovell, both former members of The Honeys. In May of 1972, as Spring ("American Spring" outside the US), they released a record that absolutely vanished There are only two used copies of the CD for sale at Amazon and both are prices at just under $130.
Brian with his wife and 2/3's of Wilson Phillips
This is a collector's item because it gives us some insight into Brian's frame of mind during his missing years. Marilyn said at the time "The idea was to record all the songs that we ever loved. Brian helped out in all departments--he sang, arranged most of the backgrounds, wrote some of the songs and picked the material. He was very emotional throughout and would cry at the sessions because he liked a song so much he couldn't believe it."
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Among the songs Brian picked were Carole King's "Now That Everything's Been Said", Tommy Roe's "Everybody", Delaney and Bonnie's "Superstar", The Shirelles's "Mama Said" and three songs from the Wilson Brothers. Two came from Dennis Wilson. "Fallin In Love" ( recorded as "Lady" on Pacific Ocean Blue) and "Forever" from The Beach Boys album Sunflower. Also from Sunflower came "This Whole World" with an extra bridge ("Starlight/Star Bright"). That's the song The Mojo Collection-The Greatest Albums Of All Time calls the highlight of this mostly unheard album..."as fine as anything Brian Wilson ever produced"
Listening to the album I was struck by how commercial it must have seemed to at least a few United Artists record execs. After all didn't Carole King just re-record a whole bunch of girl group songs for Tapestry?
History proved them wrong but this is still an absolute delight of an album.
Labels: 1972, Brian Wilson, Spring
40 Year Itch : The American Badfinger
Has any band announced itself with as much aplomb as The Raspberries in those first ten seconds of their debut album? Wally Bryson lays down some fat stabbing chords, Eric Carmen answers with four syllables "Ma Ma Yeah. Wooh!" and the radio speakers rattle with the million-selling teen sex anthem "Go All The Way". Those who bought the album got a scratch and sniff sticker that presumably smelled like a raspberry and an album full of power pop promise. Wally sings lead on "Come Around And See Me" which , to my ears at least, sounds like a long lost Wings tune. There's also a second single "Don't Want To Say Goodbye" that features Eric quavering a la George Harrison.
That was actually a problem within the band. As Wally put it many years later "What had always been happening was that Eric would want our songs to sound like The Beach Boys, The Who or The Beatles. He'd say 'Play a Who drum roll there, or play a Townshend guitar riff here'. I wanted us to be The Raspberries."
The Raspberries would record four sensational albums in the 70's : their debut, Fresh, Side 3 and Starting Over. When the last one sold poorly, the band broke up and the American Badfinger went down in history as the fathers of Power Pop
Labels: 1972, Raspberries
40 Year Itch : Feminist Boogie
Joy of Cooking is overdue for that kind of reappraisal that plucks great artists from the past and makes them the new big thing. And not just because two women led this band of confident purveyors of in-the-groove-boogie or that some of the lyrics offered feminist takes on love lost and gained. Joy of Cooking simply rocked.
In a 1971 article entitled "Female Rock" Time Magazine wrote:
"The one outfit so far that can compete with top-level male band quality is Joy of Cooking, and it is only partly female. The group is owned and led by two 32-year-old women. Terry Garthwaite, a tough rock singer, plays electric guitar and sings with a scratchy authority that can suggest Janis Joplin. Her partner, Toni Brown, a pretty Bennington graduate, sings, stomps around the stage, plays electric piano and organ, and writes songs about what it is like to be a woman ("Time goes, and the baby keeps growin', and I can't help knowin', baby I love you"). The girls —backed by three males, Fritz Kasten, 27, drums, Ron Wilson, 37, congas, and Jeff Neighbor, 28, bass—produce a reasonably rich mixture of blues, wailing gospel and riffs of pure country, folk and hard rock, all curiously overlaid with Latin conga rhythms."
Formed in Berkeley during the hippie era, Joy Of Cooking had to wait four years before recording their major label debut. They spent a lot of that time playing house parties, finding the grooves of their songs and making them last for the people enjoying the show. We only got three initial Joy Of Cooking albums. Castles , released in May of 1972, was the last. It earned an A- from critic Robert Christgau who wrote "the music has grown crisper and fuller while continuing to flow as swimmingly as you'd hope."
Toni and Terry each had kids in the 70's. Both moved on. Toni is a full time artist. Terry has been exploring the healing power of music. In 2006, the two put together a Joy of Cooking compliation made of unreleased tunes and a live concert.
Labels: 1972, Joy of Cooking
40 Year Itch: Job Number 79682
Forty years ago today, Bruce Springsteen made his first "formal" studio audition at CBS Studios in New York City. John Hammond produced the twelve song demo session which became known in the studio logs as job number 79682. Half the songs Springsteen played would appear on his debut album Greetings From Asbury Park the following year. Among them, "Growin' Up", seen below performed live in 1972 at The Gaslight, the same club in which he performed for a half dozen CBS record execs. ( One of whom dismissed Bruce as another Dylan clone)
The songs Springsteen played in his audition were MARY QUEEN OF ARKASAS ( two takes), SAINT IN THE CITY, JAZZ MUSICIAN (two takes), IF I WAS A PRIEST, ARABIAN NIGHTS, GROWIN' UP, DOES THIS BUS STOP AT 82ND STREET?, TWO HEARTS IN TRUE WALTZ TIME, STREET QUEEN, ANGELS, SOUTHERN SUN and COWBOY OF THE SEA. The Mary, Saint, Bus and Growin' Up demos all appear on the 1998 box set Tracks.
Hammond, who also discovered Bob Dylan and Stevie Ray Vaughan, said “I couldn’t believe it. I reacted with a force I’ve felt maybe three times in my life. I knew at once that he would last a generation.”
Hammond took the tapes to his boss, Clive Davis, who found Springsteen's act "amusing". They offered Bruce a $25k advance to record his debut album, fully expecting to get a singer-songwriter effort because that was the only thing selling in 1972. Instead Bruce went back to Jersey and gathered together the boys in his band. And the rest is history...
Labels: 1972, Bruce Springsteen
40 Year Itch: The Sunset Cowboy Dies On Stage
It was May 2nd, 1972 at The Top Rank Ballroom in Swansea .1200 fans were lined up outside the club waiting to get in. Stone The Crows guitarist Les Harvey ( far left in above photo) was playing during a sound check when, with wet, sweaty hands apparently, he touched a microphone that wasn't grounded. Harvey was electrocuted--thrown into the air by the shock --and killed instantly. He died at that most infamous of rock star ages: 27. ( The same age Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison. Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse passed away).
At the time, Stone the Crows was a band on the rise, in the midst of recording what would be their top selling album Ontinuous Performance. Harvey and the band backed "Britain's answer to Janis Joplin" and Harvey's girlfriend, Maggie Bell, who would win the 1972 NME Pop Poll for Best Female Singer. (That's Maggie who goes toe to toe with Rod Stewart on "Every Picture Tells A Story").
After some time off the band finished recording Ontinuous Performance adding a new song , "Sunset Cowboy" written for Les. Ex Thunderclap Newman guitarist Jimmy McCullouch took Harvey's place until the band broke up the following year and he joined Wings.
Labels: 1972, Les Harvey, Maggie Bell, Stone the Crows
40 Year Itch: The Snark Sails Away
That Randy Newman didn't sell anywhere nearly as many albums as his more famous contemporary singer-songwriters is an indication of only one thing: Americans don't get satire, irony or sarcasm. We prefer to have a point jabbed into our chests. Randy Newman nonchalantly drawling out strip tease requests in "You Can Leave Your Hat On" (" Baby take off your dress/ Yes, yes, yes") only works for us when Joe Cocker is squeezing the meaning out of every line while Kim Basinger strips for Mickey Rourke in 9 1/2 Weeks.
But dig it. Randy Newman invented "Snark". When Newman uses the politician's throwaway applause line "It's great to be an American", it's coming from a slave trader trying to get Africans on a boat setting sail for Charleston in "Sail Away".
There is something for everybody on this album. Play "Simon Smith and The Amazing Dancing Bear" for the kids and "Dayton, Ohio-1903" for the grandparents ( and iced tea fans). C'mon! He calls Cleveland the "city of light, city of magic" in a song about the Cuyahoga River catching fire. Have you been to Cleveland?
Anyway, the version of another classic Sail Away cut, "Political Science", you'll hear is from a 1974 live show in Sausalito,CA . Randy was out pushing the follow up Good Ole Boys at the time. Another magnificent album that would be as misinterpreted and forgotten as Newman's anti-prejudice anthem "Short People" would be in 1977.
Newman still records the occasional pop album but we've mostly lost him to the movie soundtrack business. He's been nominated for twenty Academy Awards, winning twice.
Labels: 1972, Randy Newman
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Home / Artist / Sirens & Sailors
Doug Court - Drums
Todd Golder - Guitar/Vocals
Kyle Bihrle - Vocals
Jimm Lindsley - Guitar
Steve Goupil - Bass
Sirens & Sailors
Hometown: Rochester, NY
Genre: Metal / Hardcore
Metalcore is out of control.
Taking a cue from technically-minded metal acts like Meshuggah and Cynic, metalcore bands are cramming 939 guitar riffs into single songs these days. But how many of them can actually craft something memorable – and dare we say – timeless? Thankfully, Rochester quintet Sirens and Sailors put as much time into the actual craft of songwriting as they do on their labyrinthine arrangements. Skeletons, Sirens and Sailors’ sophomore album and debut for Artery Recordings/Razor & Tie, finds the band masterfully striking a balance between ferocity and hook-laden melodicism throughout its 12 tracks.
Recorded and mixed by Carson Slovak (August Burns Red) and Grant McFarland (Affiance), Skeletons is the result of years of hard work and DIY touring. It’s no surprise since Sirens and Sailors call the blue collar city of Rochester, N.Y., home. “Once we had material we were proud of, we didn’t wait till we got a booking agent to go out on the road,” says singer Kyle Bihrle, who helped form the band in 2005. “I actually booked the first tour we ever went on and it was a disaster since we had gigs locked in all the way to Texas, but then nothing on the way back to New York. But the funny thing is that it was all worth it.”
With more touring, plus two EPs and a full-length called Still Breathing under their belts, Sirens and Sailors – who besides Bihrle features Doug Court [drums], Todd Golder [guitar, vocals], Jimm Lindsley [guitar] and Steve Goupil [bass] – knew it was time to start a new chapter in their career.
“Mike Milford from Artery started talking with us around the time we self-released our Still Breathing album. Once the band had about half of the new album written, we let Mike know that we were looking for a label and that our ultimate goal was to be on Artery. He was onboard and we made the deal happen,” reveals Bihrle who is also thrilled that Sirens and Sailors can now say that they are part of the family of artists at the labels. “No one understands this kind of music better than Artery. The fact that they go through Razor & Tie makes it even cooler since they have such a diverse roster of artists.”
As undeniably heavy a statement as Skeletons is, the album is still a diverse affair, featuring dynamic peaks and valleys from end to end. “We wanted Skeletons to be a diverse record and reflect many of the different types of metal and other genres of music we all love in the band. But listening to the album now, it all feels cohesive and I’m really proud of that,” says the singer.
Besides its diversified influences and technical feats, Skeletons proves that Sirens and Sailors know their way around the kinds of arena-ready melodic hooks that are both timeless and instantly satisfying.
“Before we have final titles for our songs, we give them jokey working titles. ‘Not That Easy’ – one of the songs that ended up on the album – was originally called ‘Pop-Punk Song’ when we were working on it since it was so catchy and upbeat. I think when people listen to ‘Not That Easy’ on the album, they’ll understand why we originally had the pop-punk thing in our heads,” laughs Bihrle.
Sirens and Sailors also take a moment on Skeletons to pay tribute to their east coast, blue collar roots. “We’re extremely proud to be from Rochester and to be able to represent our city the way we do,” Bihrle says while discussing “Born & Raised (Flower City),” a relentlessly propulsive track on the album dedicated to their beloved city. Another standout moment on Skeletons that stays true to the band’s working class upbringing is “Exorcist,” a song featuring a particularly savage vocal from Bihrle. “I wrote that one during a time when I was working a job and struggling to find the money to be able to stay in the band and make it all work. I think that’s why my vocals sound so angry on that track.”
Bihrle’s show stopping vocal performances are matched in intensity by Golder and Lindsley’s dizzying guitar work, which blends spidery fret work and shred-crazed solos with the fluidity of jazz fusion. All in all, Skeletons transcends the metalcore label Sirens and Sailors have been tagged with in the past. “The album is a journey. If you listen to it from start to finish, you’ll see how it’s not just about one song or a single concept. We wanted the listener to sit with the record and take it all in as one complete thought. We weren’t worried about whatever people expected from us or a genre. I think we pulled it off.”
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A new characterization of $L_2(q)$ by the largest element orders
Document Type: Research Paper
Q.H. Jiang 1
C.G. Shao 1
W.J. Shi 2
Q.L. Zhang 3
1 School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Jinan, 250022, Shandong, China.
2 Department of Mathematics, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, 402106, Chongqing, China.
3 School of Science, NanTong University, 226019, Jiangsu, China.
We characterize the finite simple groups $L_2(q)$ by the group orders and the largest element orders, where $q$ is a prime or $q=2^a$, with $2^a+1$ or $2^a-1$ a prime.
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Bronx officials and residents unite against plans to bring medical facility to vacant lot
Friday, November 15, 2019 6:36 PM EST
Bronx officials and Riverdale residents have recently united together against rumored plans to bring a high-rise medical facility to a vacant lot on Riverdale.
This is not the first time officials and residents have expressed negative feelings toward the idea of a renovation project. Montefiore Health System and development company Simone Healthcare stopped worked on a proposal to bring a 14-story building to the vacant lot near the intersection with West 238th in 2015.
Sources told News 12 that Community Board 8's land-use committee was contacted by Simone Healthcare this week to express a continued interest in still developing the site as a multiservice health care facility. The details of the plan are still in the early stages.
Montefiore Health System officials deny any involvement in these renewed plans.
A spokesperson for the developers says Simone Healthcare has recently communicated with representatives of the Riverdale community to discuss planning for their property at 3745 Riverdale Ave. They also say it will be an ongoing process with the community as planning and ideas continue to develop.
Residents and lawmakers say they have yet to hear directly from anyone involved in the decision about their concerns over the proposed building and the traffic it could potentially bring to what some residents say is already a congested roadway.
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Joseph Bedier, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
Opening Passage: I'll give the full opening passage, despite its length, since it is the key background story. I'll take it from Belloc's original version, rather than the version supplemented by Paul Rosenfield, which is slightly longer.
My lords, if you would hear a high tale of love and of death, here is that of Tristan and Queen Iseult; how to their full joy, but to their sorrow also, they loved each other, and how at last they died of that love together upon one day; she by him and he by her.
Long ago, when Mark was King over Cornwall, Rivalen, King of Lyonesse, heard that Mark’s enemies waged war on him; so he crossed the sea to bring him aid; and so faithfully did he serve him with counsel and sword that Mark gave him his sister Blanchefleur, whom King Rivalen loved most marvellously.
He wedded her in Tintagel Minster, but hardly was she wed when the news came to him that his old enemy Duke Morgan had fallen on Lyonesse and was wasting town and field. Then Rivalen manned his ships in haste, and took Blanchefleur with him to his far land; but she was with child. He landed below his castle of Kanoël and gave the Queen in ward to his Marshal Rohalt, and after that set off to wage his war.
Blanchefleur waited for him continually, but he did not come home, till she learnt upon a day that Duke Morgan had killed him in foul ambush. She did not weep: she made no cry or lamentation, but her limbs failed her and grew weak, and her soul was filled with a strong desire to be rid of the flesh, and though Rohalt tried to soothe her she would not hear. Three days she awaited re-union with her lord, and on the fourth she brought forth a son; and taking him in her arms she said:
“Little son, I have longed a while to see you, and now I see you the fairest thing ever a woman bore. In sadness came I hither, in sadness did I bring forth, and in sadness has your first feast day gone. And as by sadness you came into the world, your name shall be called Tristan; that is the child of sadness.”
Summary: The tale of Tristan and Iseult is perhaps famous enough that there is no need to re-tell it; but it is worth a moment to re-trace its lineaments nonetheless. Tristan, nephew of King Mark of Cornwall, comes to serve his uncle. Hardly has he arrived when he takes up the challenge to fight the greatest champion of Ireland for his uncle's honor and to win the right of Cornwall to be free of tribute; he kills the champion but is wounded with a poisoned sword. (Poison is a theme throughout the story.) Tristan begs his uncle a last favor, which is simply to go out to sea, perhaps to find some land where he can be healed, and it is granted; he is too weak to use sail or oar, so he is simply laid in the boat with his harp and set adrift. Eventually he is discovered, on the verge of death, by fishermen, who bring them to their lady, a generous woman of extraordinary ability in herbs and the like, which she had learned from her mother. The lady's name was Iseult the Fair, or Iseult of the Golden Hair, and she was a princess in Ireland. Not realizing it, she healed the wounds of her country's greatest enemy, the wounds inflicted by her country's greatest champion. He returns home for a while, and, because Mark, having no son, treats Tristan as if he were a son, some of Mark's other barons are jealous. They attempt to get him to marry, but as it happens their attempt leads to Tristan setting sail to retrieve for Mark Iseult the Fair. He does this by slaying a dragon, thus both managing to remain alive once the Irish know who he is, and get Mark a queen, and establish peace between Ireland and Cornwall. His handling of it, however, already shows a devious streak. All this is merely preparatory.
Iseult's mother gives Iseult's lady-in-waiting a special philtre. This potion is to be placed in the cups of Mark and Iseult on their wedding night; and its result will be to make them love each other wholly for their whole lives. Due to mischance, Tristan and Iseult happen to drink of it, and thus the second phase of the tale begins. They are both seized with an obsessive love. Up to this point, Tristan has done everything for honor and his king and uncle. These never cease to be important to him; but now he feels bound to Iseult in his every thought and desire. It is the beginning of the destruction of everything Tristan is; and it is also the beginning of the destruction of Iseult, as well. The philtre, of course, is not a mere appurtenance; it is utterly essential to the course of the tale. What seizes Tristan and Iseult is in itself not their fault, and it is not in itself resistible. This is the primary reason the two lovers can be reasonable objects of sympathy through the rest of the tale; the madness that has seized them will end up degrading them in ways neither could have imagined, but precisely because it is a kind of madness it shields their honor from their shame. In some versions of the tale it is made clear that at some point their actions are motivated less by the madness of the philtre than by their complacency in the deed, so that necessity transforms into an excuse for sin, as it often does; but Bedier carefully leaves it more ambiguous, so that by default compulsion remains the most obvious explanation until the end -- but it is notable that Tristan and Iseult both refuse penance.
The tale continues from there with many twists and turns. There is much trickery and both Tristan and Iseult expend considerable ingenuity in deceiving Mark and others without actually lying. They are not exactly in a state conducive to prudence, however, and they eventually are caught and have to go on the run. This problem is resolved, but they end up in a forced separation, painful to them both. For this is a significant feature of their love: they literally love so much it hurts, "Anguish without end". And yet -- when each is offered a chance to ease the hurt, each gives it up because they each refuse to be comforted if the other suffers.
The third phase of the story sees them both increasingly irrational due to their separation. They both become paranoid that the other might be falling out of love. Tristan, for reasons that are obscure -- but all their reasons become increasingly obscure -- and to a woman who, rather ominously, is named Iseult as well, Iseult of the White Hands. One of the important aspects of the story is the sheer burden Tristan and Iseult place on the two originally innocent people in the arrangement, Mark and Iseult of the White Hands; Iseult the Fair and Tristan marry them already betraying them. And yet, because Mark truly loves Iseult the Fair and Iseult of the White Hands truly loves Tristan, they both exhibit the same symptoms, the same irrationalities, and they both do terrible things. The only thing that makes them less sympathetic is that they were not poisoned by the philtre.
Tristan eventually is wounded by a poisoned spear, and symmetry asserts itself. Tristan sends for Iseult the Fair; but he fears that she no longer loves him, so he arranges a sign. If the ship returns with white sail, Iseult comes; if the ship returns with black sail, she does not. Unfortunately, Iseult of the White Hands overhears the arrangement and its reason, and when the ship appears on the horizon with white sails, she reports that its sails are black. Tristan dies of grief even as Iseult the Fair comes to shore; and she dies of grief beside him. The philtre as a poison was long in acting and there was never any guarantee of when it would achieve its mark; but it was an effective one, and more effective than the poisons that were designed to kill. They at least had a cure.
In passing, talking about some of Mark's barons, who were almost obsessively out to foil the two lovers, the narrator describes how they, too, will die, and says, "Thus God who hates all excess will avenge the lovers on their enemies" (p. 97). It is a remarkable thing to say in a story in which no one acts with moderation. But it is consistently true that the only excesses in the story that do not automatically call forth their own punishments are those committed early on by Tristan and Iseult, operating under the influence of the philtre. And the implacable enmity with which the narrator regards the barons is not entirely misplaced. They are the ones who started it all. Tristan destroyed the Irish champion because the barons would not; their jealous intrigue leads to Tristan's return to Ireland; and when he returns they aggravate every situation. They don't genuinely care about the honor of Mark, as Tristan and Iseult both do even while disgracing it; they are doing it to maintain their power and influence in the kingdom, and to get rid of Tristan, who seems likely to be Mark's heir and yet is too talented to kill directly. It's a twist that I think can easily be lost in the rest of the story: Tristan and Iseult do what is dishonorable but nonetheless struggle to do what is honorable, whereas the barons do what is superficially honorable out of dishonorable motives. And thus we see another aspect of it: despite the wild excesses of Tristan and Iseult -- they are trying to be moderate. We see this reflected in the fact that, to the end, they are both comforters of the poor and suffering around them. It's just that under the circumstances there is no way they can succeed very well. The barons, on the other hand, never try to moderate themselves; they only stay their hand out of fear or calculation.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the story is how it reflects the paradox of love. Love raised to passionate excess is folly, shame, death. Yet something in love seems only to attain perfection when it is love so great one may die of it. The tale itself provides no solution, only the paradox. Well, perhaps it does suggest a solution, in Ogrin the Hermit's insistence on penance; but of that route the story can tell us nothing.
Favorite Passage:
One day when the wind had fallen and the sails hung slack Tristan dropped anchor by an Island and the hundred knights of Cornwall and the sailors, weary of the sea, landed all. Iseult alone remained aboard and a little serving maid, when Tristan came near the Queen to calm her sorrow. The sun was hot above them and they were athirst and, as they called, the little maid looked about for drink for them and found that pitcher which the mother of Iseult had given into Brangien’s keeping. And when she came on it, the child cried, “I have found you wine!” Now she had found not wine — but Passion and Joy most sharp, and Anguish without end, and Death.
The Queen drank deep of that draught and gave it to Tristan and he drank also long and emptied it all.
Brangien came in upon them; she saw them gazing at each other in silence as though ravished and apart; she saw before them the pitcher standing there; she snatched it up and cast it into the shuddering sea and cried aloud: “Cursed be the day I was born and cursed the day that first I trod this deck. Iseult, my friend, and Tristan, you, you have drunk death together.”
Recommendation: The tale in general is one of those that every educated person should have read in some form, and Bédier's is easily the most accessible and coherent of the versions. Highly recommended.
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Potentiality and Actuality
In what I am now there lies something that I am now not actually, but will become actually at some time in the future. And what I now am actually, I already was previously, but not actually. My present being contains the possibility for future actual being and supposes a possibility in my earlier being. My present being is at once actual and potential being; and insofar as it is actual, it is the actualization of a potency that already exited earlier. As modes of being, actuality and potentiality are contained in the sheer fact of being [schlichte Seinstatsche] and from it they are to be inferred.
St. Edith Stein, Potency and Act, Redmond, tr. ICS Publications [Washington, DC: 2009] p. 12.
I have very little serious German. I take it that 'schlichte Seinstatsche' literally means something like 'definitive apprehension of being'? [ADDED LATER: Arsen notes that it's a typo (mine, rather than Redmond's) -- it should actually be 'Seinstatsache', which means pretty straightforwardly 'fact of being'.]
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Too Fierce for Bodies of Mortals
Libera Me
by Ernest Dowson
Goddess the laughter-loving, Aphrodite, befriend!
Long have I served thine altars, serve me now at the end,
Let me have peace of thee, truce of thee, golden one, send.
Heart of my heart have I offered thee, pain of my pain,
Yielding my life for the love of thee into thy chain;
Lady and goddess be merciful, loose me again.
All things I had that were fairest, my dearest and best,
Fed the fierce flames on thine altar: ah, surely, my breast
Shrined thee alone among goddesses, spurning the rest.
Blossom of youth thou hast plucked of me, flower of my days;
Stinted I nought in thine honouring, walked in thy ways,
Song of my soul pouring out to thee, all in thy praise.
Fierce was the flame while it lasted, and strong was thy wine,
Meet for immortals that die not, for throats such as thine,
Too fierce for bodies of mortals, too potent for mine.
Blossom and bloom hast thou taken, now render to me
Ashes of life that remain to me, few though they be,
Truce of the love of thee, Cyprian, let me go free.
Goddess the laughter-loving, Aphrodite, restore
Life to the limbs of me, liberty, hold me no more
Having the first-fruits and flower of me, cast me the core.
Aristotle and Absolute Space and Time
In Aristotle's physics, is there an absolute space and time (or absolute motion and rest)? I've come across a number of places in which people assume that it does. Obviously, to some extent it depends on what you mean by absolute space and time. Suppose we use Newton's definition of absolute space and absolute time from the Principia:
I. Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year.
II. Absolute space, in its own nature, without relation to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces; which our senses determine by its position to bodies; and which is commonly taken for immovable space; such is the dimension of a subterraneous, an aerial, or celestial space, determined by its position in respect of the earth.
By these definitions Aristotle's physics has no absolute space and no absolute time -- indeed, in Aristotle's physics absolute space and absolute time are simply impossible. 'When' for Aristotle is by definition relative to motion; 'where' is by definition relative to body. This is why we get the kinds of discussions in physics that we find in the medieval scholastics; whenever they talk about time, they are always talking about clocks, and whenever they talk about space they are always talking about containers (in a broad sense of the term). Aristotle's physics has no absolute time or absolute space in Newton's sense; time is always relative to some clock and space is always relative to some container.
Indeed, given some of the way Newton phrases things, I actually wonder if Newton might be deliberately anti-Aristotelian here. Newton posits absolute space and absolute time because his physics crucially requires us to break away from the purely sensible -- Newtonian physics can explain a great many things, but it does so by abstraction from the sensible. Taking time itself, or space itself, to be a measure, as Aristotelian physics effectively does, from his perspective means that physical theories never talk about realities, but only about measurements. At least, this seems to be one of the ways his scholium on the subject can be read.
There is a sense, though, in which the Aristotelians admitted something that we could think of as absolute space and time. For while time is relative to clocks or changes and place to containers, the old Aristotelian universe had something capable of operating as a general clock or container: the primum mobile, which as that which has the first and most general change can serve as both a universal clock and a universal container. Time is necessarily relative to a change that can act as (in some sense) a clock -- but there happens to be a change that can be a clock for any other change. Place is necessarily relative to a body that can act as (in some sense) a container -- but there happens to be a body that can be a container for every other body. If by 'There is an absolute time' we meant 'There is a universal clock', and by 'There is an absolute space' we meant 'There is a universal container', the Aristotelians typically did hold that there was an absolute space and time. But this does need to be distinguished from Newton's sense; these things are relative, not absolute, space and time for Newton.
(The fact that Newton thinks of relative space and time as tied to the senses does complicate this conclusion somewhat, it should be said; the way in which the primum mobile works as a 'clock' or a 'container' in Aristotelian physics doesn't so obviously tie it to the senses. There are also some variations among Aristotelians, and there was some puzzlement arising from the fact that if place is relative to a container, the primum mobile is not in any place, which sounds a bit odd.)
A Brief Guide to Reading Kant
Today we started Kantianism in my ethics course. Very difficult to teach students properly. Here's the one-page reading guide I gave them.
1. Don’t panic. If you have difficulty understanding him on your first reading, you’re in the position practically everyone is. The flip side of this is that if you think you’ve understood him on your first reading, you should stop lying to yourself.
2. Kant likes to approach the same ideas from multiple angles. If you don’t understand something, read on, and he will likely cover the same ground in a different way later on.
3. The key concept for understanding Kant is a priori, which in the Kantian context means ‘prior to, and thus independent of, experience’. All of Kant’s philosophy consists of arguing that much of the order with which we experience the world does not come from the world but from our minds; he thus is trying to identify the features of our mind that make it possible for us to interpret the world in the way we do. This includes our experience of the world in a moral way.
4. If you’re having difficulty with a passage, you might consider reading it out loud. Many of Kant’s stylistic peculiarities are linked to the fact that he tends to write as if he were lecturing. Hearing the lecture rather than trying just to look at it on the page can often make a difference. When heard rather than simply read, one often finds that the style is more accessible than it might at first appear.
5. Much of the key to understanding Kant lies in the vocabulary; he’s using a technical and quasi-technical vocabulary that would have been very familiar to educated people in his day, even if it has since become less common. Don’t just skip words you don’t know! Sometimes they are the key to the whole argument.
6. Kant is a systematizer. It’s never enough merely to understand particular arguments; you also need to understand how they fit into the overall structure of thought he is trying to build.
7. There is some excellent Kant scholarship out there. Onora O’Neill, David Velleman, and others have often studied particular passages in close detail and also have written useful summaries of basic ideas. Don’t be afraid to draw on the secondary scholarship – it’s foolhardy to study someone like Kant entirely on your own, no matter how clever you are. If you come across a difficult passage, you can practically guarantee that someone else has looked at it in close detail, so look around to see what other people are saying. When you’re reading Kant, it is time to take some initiative.
8. There are reasons Kant is so influential, and there are reasons why reading groups sprang up to read Kant when his work first came out. If you aren’t seeing them, you need to look harder for the unique and distinctive features of his ideas. He will often take an idea, even a very mundane idea, and raise it to an entirely new level.
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The End of the World Was Long Ago
Before the gods that made the gods
Had seen their sunrise pass,
The White Horse of the White Horse Vale
Was cut out of the grass.
Had drunk at dawn their fill,
Was hoary on the hill.
Age beyond age on British land,
Aeons on aeons gone,
Was peace and war in western hills,
And the White Horse looked on.
For the White Horse knew England
When there was none to know;
He saw the first oar break or bend,
He saw heaven fall and the world end,
O God, how long ago.
For the end of the world was long ago,
And all we dwell to-day
As children of some second birth,
Like a strange people left on earth
After a judgment day.
When the ends of the world waxed free,
When Rome was sunk in a waste of slaves,
And the sun drowned in the sea.
For some reason I've been thinking recently of G. K. Chesterton's best poem, The Ballad of the White Horse, which is a serious candidate for the best narrative poem of the twentieth century. The above, which opens Book I, is about the collapse of the western half of the Roman Empire, the end of the world long ago, as the barbarians began to march. In the midst of the chaos, the hero of the story, Alfred, becomes King of Wessex in a time of Danish invasion, when it seems that Wessex might not survive. He attempts to stave it off, but then there comes an invasion he cannot hold off. He has a vision of the Virgin Mary and asks her what the fate of his people will be. And she tells him that while the pagans may mark their times and triumphs, the fate of those who drink the blood of God is to go singing to their deaths, to have joy when there is no cause for it, and to have faith when there is no hope.
In Book II Alfred begins to gather his army, and when they ask why they should come, he tells them the truth:
"I am that oft-defeated King
Whose failure fills the land,
Who fled before the Danes of old,
Who chaffered with the Danes with gold,
Who now upon the Wessex wold
Hardly has feet to stand.
"But out of the mouth of the Mother of God
I have seen the truth like fire,
This—that the sky grows darker yet
And the sea rises higher."
And they come, to fight and die.
In Book III, Alfred is surveying the territory when he is captured by a band of Danes, who, not recognizing him and seeing that he has a harp, drag him back to the army, vast like the sea, to play for the chieftains. Other bards play, singing songs of ancient defeat and the dark fate of the world, and then Alfred sings his defiant song in response:
"What sign have we save blood and smoke?
Here is my answer then.
"That on you is fallen the shadow,
And not upon the Name;
That though we scatter and though we fly,
And you hang over us like the sky,
You are more tired of victory,
Than we are tired of shame.
"That though you hunt the Christian man
Like a hare on the hill-side,
The hare has still more heart to run
Than you have heart to ride.
"That though all lances split on you,
All swords be heaved in vain,
We have more lust again to lose
Than you to win again.
Book IV, after he has escaped, gives the famous story of Alfred and the cakes, and the army of Alfred goes to war. Book V sees preparations for the Battle of Ethandune, which we see in Book VI as the chiefs of Alfred's army fall in battle, one by one; and in Book VII Alfred leads the last desperate charge:
Wild stared the Danes at the double ways
Where they loitered, all at large,
As that dark line for the last time
Doubled the knee to charge—
And caught their weapons clumsily,
And marvelled how and why—
In such degree, by rule and rod,
The people of the peace of God
Went roaring down to die.
But Alfred sees the Virgin again, and the tide of battle turns. Guthrum the pagan king dies; and Book VII ends lauding him for his greatness and burying him. With Book VIII, we find Alfred prophesying of things to come: heathen will again come to conquer, with new ways:
"By all men bond to Nothing,
Being slaves without a lord,
By one blind idiot world obeyed,
Too blind to be abhorred;
"By terror and the cruel tales
Of curse in bone and kin,
By weird and weakness winning,
Accursed from the beginning,
By detail of the sinning,
And denial of the sin;
"By thought a crawling ruin,
By life a leaping mire,
By a broken heart in the breast of the world,
And the end of the world's desire;
"By God and man dishonoured,
By death and life made vain,
Know ye the old barbarian,
The barbarian come again—
But how such barbarians are to be defeated, Alfred does not know; but he rides off to finish his task.
Antony on Epistemic Peers
I've had a significant upsurge of hits for this old post on epistemic peers and equal weight arguments. I think the reason is probably due to this interview on atheism with Louise Antony in "The Stone", in which the topic comes up:
G.G.: No, they may both be rational. But suppose you and your theist friend are equally adept at reasoning, equally informed about relevant evidence, equally honest and fair-minded — suppose, that is, you are what philosophers call epistemic peers: equally reliable as knowers. Then shouldn’t each of you recognize that you’re no more likely to be right than your peer is, and so both retreat to an agnostic position?
L.A.: Yes, this is an interesting puzzle in the abstract: How could two epistemic peers — two equally rational, equally well-informed thinkers — fail to converge on the same opinions? But it is not a problem in the real world. In the real world, there are no epistemic peers — no matter how similar our experiences and our psychological capacities, no two of us are exactly alike, and any difference in either of these respects can be rationally relevant to what we believe.
G.G.: So is your point that we always have reason to think that people who disagree are not epistemic peers?
L.A.: It’s worse than that. The whole notion of epistemic peers belongs only to the abstract study of knowledge, and has no role to play in real life. Take the notion of “equal cognitive powers”: speaking in terms of real human minds, we have no idea how to seriously compare the cognitive powers of two people.
Very much agreed with Antony on this; I discussed something in the broad vicinity of Antony's argument in another post on epistemic peers. In any case, it's nice to see a top-notch epistemologist pointing it out.
ADDED LATER
Helen De Cruz has an interesting counterargument on the point. It seems to me that the argument conflates epistemic peerage with another kind of peerage, which I call intellectual peerage in the post at the link in the last paragraph above. But this is a purely practical assessment. And contrary to her suggestion, I see no way in which it can salvage Gutting's argument; why would one think that disagreement of informed people or even experts should lead to agnosticism, given that the differences will in principle allow you to assess which one is right, or more likely to be right? All we seem to get is that each person should continue to develop their views, taking into account the arguments and reasons of the other, not retreat to agnosticism.
Renewal of Lost Innocence
Extreme Unction
Upon the eyes, the lips, the feet,
On all the passages of sense,
The atoning oil is spread with sweet
Renewal of lost innocence.
The feet, that lately ran so fast
To meet desire, are soothly sealed;
The eyes, that were so often cast
On vanity, are touched and healed.
From troublous sights and sounds set free;
In such a twilight hour of breath,
Shall one retrace his life, or see,
Through shadows, the true face of death?
Vials of mercy! Sacring oils!
I know not where nor when I come,
Nor through what wanderings and toils,
To crave of you Viaticum.
Yet, when the walls of flesh grow weak,
In such an hour, it well may be,
Through mist and darkness, light will break,
And each anointed sense will see.
If the standard of excellent poetry is to say something about a subject in the best way to say it, I think this poem comes close to doing so; the one thing it is lacking is the recognition that extreme unction expresses by sign the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead and bodily life in the world to come. It comes very close to this in the last stanza, but doesn't quite express the theology of redundantia or overflow -- i.e., that the grace and glory of the beatified soul will overflow the body. (I've been meaning to write a post on the subject for ages; perhaps this will motivate me to get around to it sooner.) We get almost there -- maybe, maybe, maybe we get there in the last line -- but if so, it's left a bit obscure. At the same time, extreme unction is not exactly the easiest sacrament to express in words.
I know very little about Dowson. Indeed, before some recent reading I'm not sure if I had ever even heard of him before. Apparently he's usually considered one of the Decadents and was a friend of Oscar Wilde.
Debrabander on "Stand Your Ground"
Firmin Debrabander has a truly bad post at "The Stone" on so-called "Stand Your Ground" laws. I am just baffled at his argument. He gives us a characterization of the particular features of "Stand Your Ground" in which he is interested:
Florida’s Stand your Ground statute says that a person may use force, “including deadly force if [he] reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself …” It is a logical extension of the increasingly expansive gun legislation in many parts of the country. Ohio recently approved its own version of the law, and others are poised to join in. Still, controversies surrounding the law continue to pile up.
OK, so Debrabander himself tells us that the law is that you are protected from penalty if you kill someone when you "reasonably believe" that if you don't you yourself will be killed or maimed. And he gives us his overall opinion of "Stand Your Ground", which is that it encourages the wrong kind of society. That is fine, as well. Where the whole post goes obviously haywire is when he goes beyond merely giving his personal opinion and tries to build a relevant philosophical argument on the subject.
The philosophical argument is based on Locke's concept of the 'state of nature'. Locke gives us a whole discussion of the state of nature, so we have a pretty good idea of what it is supposed to be. But what does it have to do with "Stand Your Ground" laws? According to Debrabander:
Proponents and defenders of Stand Your Ground effectively wish to return us to a State of Nature and its attendant “Inconveniences” — and dangers. LaPierre urges individuals to presume the worst about supposed assailants — damn the consequences.
Err, no; this is obvious hyperbole, and at a fatal point in the argument. In Locke's state of nature there is no civil society at all; there would be no SYG laws in the state of nature because the only law in the state of nature is natural law. Further, in the state of nature, each human being is executive enforcer of every single law, and thus may punish someone for any actual crime under natural law; but SYG laws -- as Debrabander well knows, having actually quoted a typical one -- are restricted in scope. They do not say that you can use deadly force in the face of any crime.
In addition, the distinguishing feature of civil society as opposed to the state of nature is, as Debrabander says, that civil society is based on the principle that men should not act as magistrates in their own cases. But obviously this does not imply that men can do nothing unless authorized by the magistrate; it means that there should be common magistrates determining such cases as prevent abuses involving violence and partiality to one's cause. And SYG laws don't do away with the common magistrate or judge; they depend on them, because it will be such magistrates who determine that yes, the person in question is protected under the law. Locke recognizes one kind of state of nature in our age of civil societies: the state of nature existing between sovereigns. But SYG is based on there being a higher magistrate to which one may appeal and before which one may be held accountable.
We see the problems with Debrabander's hyperbole in one of the arguments he makes:
Without recourse to a Common Judge, violent reprisals spawn violent reprisals in turn, which are each seemingly just, and a cycle of violence — a state of war — is born. Civil society, and its institution of a Common Judge who takes over executing the law of nature, relieves us of the “Inconveniences of the State of Nature,” Locke argues — which can be dire indeed.
This is what leads directly into his claim that proponents of the SYG laws are advocating the state of nature. But SYG has nothing at all to do with reprisal; Debrabander explicitly noted that they were concerned with self-defense, which is not reprisal.
So not only does SYG not establish, or even get one anywhere near, a state of nature, depending as it does on common judges, but the state of nature is not a state of war at all, and civil society does not make the state of war impossible. In fact, if we go back to the scenario envisaged in Florida's SYG law, which Debrabander had quoted, it is clear that it's a law protecting the right to defend yourself, even if it means killing, if someone else initiates a state of war against you. That's how would one characterize it in Lockean terms. And what is more, it is clear that Locke would think this thoroughly reasonable:
... the law, which was made for my preservation, where it cannot interpose to secure my life from present force, which if lost is capable of no reparation, permits me my own defence and the right of war, a liberty to kill the aggressor, because the aggressor allows not time to appeal to our common judge, nor the decision of the law, for remedy in a case where the mischief may be irreparable.
Indeed, Locke thinks that this means that you could kill someone deliberately trying to steal your coat (his own example). But contrary to Debrabander this has nothing to do with the state of nature; it has everything to do with the fact that the other person has initiated a state of war against you, whether you are in a state of nature or in a political society. (He is quite clear that the state of war is initiated by anyone who violates the natural rights of another, regardless of the kind of society in which they live.)
Now, in fact Locke does think that in civil society we give up our executive powers to the commonwealth government. But the government has this power in order to sustain the natural law, in which individual preservation ranks high. Thus the people in civil society, according to Locke's view, have the right to demand that the government pass whatever laws are required to protect the people against aggressors. While Locke obviously doesn't consider the matter in detail, it's clear enough that Locke's conception of how the commonwealth relates to natural law directly implies that the legislature has no right to demand that people let other people kill or maim them: so either it guarantees that this will not happen, or it recognizes under law the ways in which people can defend themselves. This does not return matters to a state of nature, because it is under law. It does not establish a state of war; it protects people against whom someone else has established a state of war.
None of this, of course, has much to do with whether SYG laws are any good; nor does it imply that you couldn't have a general argument on Lockean principles against them. Rather, it's that Debrabander's attempt to turn Locke 'round against it collapses under its own exaggeration. In reality, the real question of SYG is this: How far can the state go in recognizing your right to defend yourself against someone threatening your life and body? That's pretty much it; no need for talk about states of nature. (It's worth noting that David French, to whose argument Debrabander is responding, never appeals to Locke on the state of nature; he quotes Locke on the state of war, and on the natural law, both of which would be stronger points to press. Why Debrabander takes this turn into talking about the state of nature is beyond me.)
Notable Notes and Linkable Links
* Between visitors and misplacing the book for several days, the fortnightly book was delayed, so I decided just to extend it an extra week; we'll be getting Tristan and Iseult on Saturday.
* The backstory on the Ukraine can be found in Timothy Snyder's "Fascism, Russia, and Ukraine" (ht)
* Angela Roothaan discusses the recent movie about Hannah Arendt.
* Charlie Huenemann on Leibniz's foray into the field of mine engineering.
* Sayeh Meisami on the great Persian philosopher, Mulla Sadra.
* A recent fatwa apparently claims that going to Mars is not acceptable under Islamic law. It's worth pointing out, perhaps, that while fatwas are authoritative, they are not definitive; their authority is that of a legal opinion, and you can have conflicting fatwas from different authorities. Most Muslims online, at least, seem to find this one more amusing than anything.
* The McGrews have in recent months been talking about undesigned coincidences in evidential assessment of texts:
Tim McGrew at "Christian Apologetics Alliance"
Lydia McGrew at "What's Wrong with the World"
What We're Reading: Horae Paulinae
* In comments recently, Lucian of Samosata's Double Indictment came up recently, since it's a Menippean satire about Menippean satire. As I mentioned there, Menippean satire is a philosophical genre (Menippus was a Cynic philosopher, and historically the genre has been used as a way of handling matters suitable neither to more traditional dialogues nor to treatises). If you want the basic idea of how Menippean satire works, this is the best source.
* George Demacopoulos discusss, from an Orthodox perspective, what caused the sacramental rupture between East and West.
* Enbrethiliel at "Shredded Cheddar" has been doing a book club on Michael Crichton's State of Fear. I haven't read the book, but I thought the following comment she made on a passage in it, about the blunders of environmentalists, interesting:
You could have knocked me over with a dodo feather when I got to that passage and realised that you could substitute "environmentalists" with "Traditionalists," make other context-appropriate changes, and have basically the same moral. For despite what some butt-hurt bloggers will tell you, the real problem of the Traditionalist Catholic movement is not a supposed "lack of charity," but a lack of understanding of what it takes to preserve an environment. (Hint: it's not with capes, cigars and Chesterton.)
* The Norwegians have investigated Anders Behring Breivik's claims he is being tortured in prison by not being allowed to upgrade his Playstation and being forced to use non-weaponizable pens and by having to use a desk chair instead of having a nice armchair. Unsurprisingly, they have concluded that he is not being tortured.
* Canada's National Post had an interesting article on a Catholic priest in the Central African Republic protecting fleeing Muslim refugees from being slaughtered by Christian militia:
He and his friends laugh when asked if they ever thought they would live at a church. However, they recognize the gravity of the situation that now faces them.
“If it weren’t for the church and the peacekeepers, we’d all be dead,” says Mahmoud Laminou, who has been here for two weeks.
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The Assailant Position
The opponents of Christianity always choose their own position; and the position they choose is always that of the assailant. They bring forward objections; but never attempt to defend themselves against the objections to which they are exposed.
The cause of this it is easy to perceive. Objections—not only plausible, but real, valid, and sometimes unanswerable objections—may be brought against what is nevertheless true, and capable of being fully established by a preponderance of probability;—by showing that there are more and weightier objections on the opposite side. If, therefore, any one can induce you to attend to the objections on one side only, wholly overlooking the (perhaps weightier) opposite ones, he may easily gain an apparent triumph. A barrister would have an easy task if he were allowed to bring forward all that could be said against the party he was opposed to, and to pass over in silence all that could be urged on the other side, as not worth answering.
Richard Whately, in the Introduction to his annotated edition of William Paley's Evidences of Christianity.
Whately, of course, is an important figure in the history of logic, being one of the central movers in the logical renaissance of the nineteenth century. One of his more famous works (which he goes on shortly after this passage to allude to) is the hilarious Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte, in which he 'proves' on Humean principles that Napoleon didn't exist and was probably made up in order to sell newspapers. The work was published in 1819 and Napoleon, of course, was still alive (he died in 1821), having only been defeated at Waterloo, after an immense war effort, four years before.
I Would Not Change for Thine
Song to Celia
by Ben Jonson
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I’ll not look for wine.
The thirst that from the soul doth rise
Doth ask a drink divine;
But might I of Jove’s nectar sup,
I would not change for thine.
I sent thee late a rosy wreath,
Not so much honouring thee
As giving it a hope, that there
It could not withered be.
But thou thereon didst only breathe,
And sent’st it back to me;
Since when it grows, and smells, I swear,
Not of itself, but thee.
Dashed Off V
Exchanges and markets, like everything else, must be set in order.
rhetoric as the logic governing the social use of knowledge, belief, and suspicion
Kant is curiously quiet about teleological judgment of human design -- scattered mentions, but he seem to have no clear way of recognizing design in things we know to be designed by others like us. -- Consider how oddly sect. 77 reads when we are considering human products. -- Also note the antinomy; the proposition would include products of human art.
The human body clearly exhibits technique as well as the mechanism of nature.
Forgiveness of sins is not merely something the Church receives from God; it is a mission of the Church (Jn 20:22-23) as Spirit-filled.
Catechesis is in part a teaching of the forgiveness of sins.
taste as partly precedent-governed
All inquiry is a pursuit of the beautiful in some form or another.
the implicit civilization of forensic investigation
The kinds of inquiry one pursues demonstrate one's character; the pursuits of inquiry come from deep inside us.
If we are genuinely interested in truth conditions, we should use a typed logic.
Note Kant's ironic diagnosis of Spinozism as an outgrowth of teleological judgment!
One of the key skills of a good democratic citizen is to know what preferences not to politicize.
sacramentalia & liturgical purposiveness of things, given purpose
We feel ourselves analogous to other things.
presential self-knowledge as allowing self-knowledge by remotion (cp Malebranche)
Note that Kant seems to give more weight to analogy than probable opinion (it is causal parity).
Proofs tend to conviction not because of the proofs but because of the end and tendency of the intellect.
Steiner is in effect what Kant was trying to avoid. We see something of this in Kant on Swedenborg; Dreams is a tracing of rationalized vision and visionary reason to show them the same.
To posit an end is to posit many means.
pleasure as the minimum of (discernible) good with respect to a faculty
Kant's account of happiness is inconsistent with attributing happiness to God.
A soldier must make sense of his orders or he is a liability he has the duty not to be; and the same is true with a commander giving orders that make sense, in themselves and in context. Battles and wars are won and lost on the basis of understanding or failures of understanding.
We can await grace while doing much; waiting for grace does not mean doing nothing.
Integrity in inclinations is the result of prudence.
Life-giving is the work of love.
natural law as prefiguration of total good & thus the Beatific Vision
Kant's account of Christ's use of Mosaic law borders on Marcionite.
As a teaching faith, Christian faith must be both scholarly and open to all, even the simple, for we are all in the school of the Holy Spirit as students, and yet we are all also teachers in the same school, each specializing in his own way and teaching according to his own method, according to talent, vocation, and gifts. For it is really the Holy Spirit who teaches; but He calls us all to be instruments of His teaching, each one in his or her own way.
Some saints, like visionaries, teach us by encouragement or warning; others, like the just, by example to imitate; others, like extraordinary mortifiers or great ascetics, by showing us that human nature is not so limited as we think, and thus that we cannot easily appeal to such limits as excuses in our own tasks, which are usually far from the limits they show; others, like doctors, by words of doctrine; others, like virgins and martyrs, by being themselves signs and in a special way human sacramentals; and many by some mix of these.
Kant's view of anthropomorphism is almost backward; theoretical anthropomorphism is more dangerous than the practical.
Not all grace is invisible and secret.
Without good life-conduct, none can be pleasing to God, but from this it does not follow that, when it is had, nothing over and above it can be pleasing to God.
The yoke of law is not a pseudo-service, whatever its limitations.
Kant's account of conscience is rigorist (unsurprisingly -- no room for prudence).
rites as schemata for duties
Kant is so worried about the problem of us being well-pleasing to God that he neglects the problem of us finding God well-pleasing.
The sacraments, being signs of the Word, point to something from which even reason itself comes.
Kant mostly assumes that the means of grace are our means rather than God's.
We serve God by receiving His grace.
Contingent truths of history prove necessary truths of reason by establishing possibilities.
The natural law leads directly to God, serving as a pledge of divine reason; God reveals Himself through it.
To want to be worthy of happiness is certainly to want to be happy; for who can be worthy of happiness who does not want those worthy of happiness to be happy? (Kant gets this, although he sometimes does not explain it clearly; many of those who have studied Kant don't.)
the Ideals as providing genetic explanations of real experience
The possible is not opposed to the real.
teleological judgment in historical work
Human language develops primarily between humans, but also between man and environment (including other animals).
If philosophy is the love a reasonable being has for the ends of human reason, the question of the Beatific Vision is of crucial philosophical significance.
The constitution of something *as appearances* depends on the cognitive powers.
discursive reason as the faculty of as-if
the interest of wisdom as above the speculative and practical interests of reason
beauty, sublimity, and design as forms of order in experience
There are many different kinds of pleasure, not all qualitatively the same.
trying things out as a philosophical activity
occasions of rational reluctance vs occasions of deliberate evasion
some kinds of beauty can be known only by inference.
Through the sacraments God consigns His truth to perpetual remembrance. Those who are moved by the Holy Spirit are taught through the sacraments, which as instruments of the Holy Spirit carry their own evidence with them, so that participating in them we find ourselves sealed with the divine image, and our faith is not merely one of inference or opinion, but union with that in which we have faith.
the wrath of God: holiness as swift and overwhelming (furious in the sense that storm is furious)
inclusively disjunctive transcendentals vs exclusively disjunctive transcendentals
the sense of novelty as being in some (all?) cases a sense of apparent causation
Artistic movements represent possible world situations as ideals.
the preternatural in Shakespeare as expressing objectively the secret subjective
Appearances must themselves at some level be treated as things in themselves.
Polytheistic gods are shadowy without rituals, stories, and art to mark them out. Even then they can blur into each other.
Humor is at its highest when it makes "what is substantial emerge out of contingency" (Hegel).
Nothing disenchants the world except by sapping our ability to tell stories about it.
the sense of the magical -- liminality, perhaps, rather than sublimity
Luther's faith, like the Calvinist Scripture, is an indirect way of talking about the Holy Spirit.
the sublime, the beautiful, and the magical as the numinous-suggestive
Phil 3:8-14 receiving the righteousness of God depends not merely on faith but on the power of His resurrection & sharing in His passion
the conditions for rational suspicion that there is more than experience thus far shows
music as the natural analogue of signs and wonders
the power of the keys as the effluence of Christ's kingship
Our relation to Christ and our relation to the Church must be two facets of one relation.
divine causality as posited by the experience of absolute dependence
As rational we both are one or individual and yet already belong to a whole greater than ourselves.
Faith is a Godward attitude participating in a confidelity, which confidelity is itself the work of the Spirit of God.
the prophet as the artist of religious proclamation; the artist as the prophet of aesthetic proclamation
The Eucharist is the homiletic sacrament because it expresses in fact what the homilist is to express in words; it is the truth of which the homily or sermon is the caption or poetic description. The homilist intimates verbally what the Eucharist accomplishes internally.
'Quality of teaching' is too general a label to be of much practical use to anyone.
Autobiography is argument.
Every metric presupposes a mereology.
Grothendieck's heuristic: never try to prove anything that is not already almost obvious
Civilization is rooted in the power of exchanging good for good.
adultery as looting
The future is a usurious lender.
The key issue in distributive justice is prioritization of needs.
To philosophize is to recognize the consolation of lucidity, and to theologize is to recognize the freedom in faith.
One who judges for himself will find that this often requires being answerable to another.
It is not enough to recognize that there is a good; one must bear witness to the good.
Sacraments are not only signs; they are questions.
One can imagine an account of obligation modeled on Hume's account of necessary connection.
hell as definitive self-exclusion from God.
Cast widely, sort strictly.
The blossom does not refute the bud, but explicates it.
scholarly history of philosophy as philosophical culture
It is in actual knowing that philosophy best expresses the love of wisdom.
dreams as symbols of grace
divine wisdom as the final end of philosophy (cf Plato on Eros)
Association of ideas presupposes affinity of ideas.
Christ is judge as Truth.
Christian justice as foreshadow of heaven
liturgy as the social breath of the Church
the public works of the liturgical commonwealth
To veil is to teach, as it is easier to understand what a thing does when one hides or suppresses it for a while; suppresses, in the case of things that can be removed, and hides, in the case of things more essential. Human learning proceeds by a pattern of veiling and unveiling.
We have to be careful about treating disputes as being merely about words; disputes are often categorized as such when they are in fact disputes about the relevance of entire fields of thought.
the importance of the rhetoric of trivial truths: reminding people of what they know, in contexts in which their knowledge is relevant
philosophy as possessing a massively intricate and constantly moving teleology, like a living thing
All inquiry is an unfolding of oneself.
cognition as truth in us, whether clearly or confusedly
quantification as discrete mereology
cut scenes in philosophical argument
Enthymeme as the substance of advice.
To advise well, one must reason logically, cultivate good character, and understand human passions.
The greatest art is that which is truly priceless, in that its proper exchange, the only kind of exchange doing true justice to it, is generous gift rather than sale.
In the Ascension we discover that the body itself is capable of a being-with-God, as we learn in the Transfiguration that the body itself is capable of proclamation of the Kingdom of Heaven.
the Ascension as teaching the destination of the body
the Ascension as the beginning of a sacramental dispensation
Now and Here are not immediate results of sense, certainly not of external sense; they become recognizable through the experience of sensus communis.
human being as a medium
The interpretation of experience in terms of substance and accident presupposes the interpretation of it in terms of being, one, true, good, and so forth.
Divine relevation cannot merely be to us; divine revelation is such that it can be in us.
permanent deacons as clerisy
marriage as sacramental sign of salvation as covenant (and thus as mutual fidelity)
Ordination is distinct from the clerical state as tree is distinct from fruitful tree.
What is contained in the Word of God is written or handed down in Tradition.
Tradition actualizes Scripture.
Since Scripture and Tradition work as a unity in the Church, partim/partim cannot be regarded as egregious in effect even if (as I think) wrong.
Profit on goods derives from the service of making them available to buy.
Tradition as evangelism precisely insofar as its agent is the Holy Spirit
the intrinsic link between liturgy and catechesis -- all catechesis is at least indirectly liturgical & all liturgy is in some way catechetical
liturgy as exchange of gifts
Torah prefigures Christ as Church.
philosophy as interpretation so as to make clear (cf Socratic pursuit of definitions)
body vibration as liminal hearing
Wolff : Stoicism :: Kant : Skepticism :: Hegel : Unhappy Consciousness
After every Palm Sunday in the Church's history there comes a Spy Wednesday.
indelible character as (1) positive disposition to grace (2) seal of divine protection (3) vocation to worship and service
By faith assenting to the word of God, we participate in the sacraments.
Brassington on Euthanasia and Children
Iain Brassington has a rather odd set of arguments on Belgium's recent changes to its euthanasia laws to allow child euthanasia:
The argument here doesn’t require making any claims about the permissibility of euthanasia in general. Rather, I’m inclined to take as my starting-point something much more syllogistic: that if euthanasia is going to be allowed, we should be prepared to allow it for children. The reason for this is pretty straightforwardly an anti-ageism appeal. To have a law that prevents someone from accessing assisted dying of whatever sort on Monday, but allows it on the following day because it happens to be the birthday that tips him over the line that marks the allowed from the forbidden, seems to me to be indefensibly arbitrary. If someone can make the decision on the Tuesday, the chance that he was incapable the day before is small. The same applies to his incapacity on the Monday: quite why it should vanish magically on the stroke of midnight is a bit of a mystery.
I doubt one can set aside claims about permissibility so generally; it is utterly implausible to claim that one's reasons for thinking euthanasia permissible would have no ramifications for who can take that option, or the conditions under which they can take them. To take just the blatantly obvious example, one could very well hold that the permissibility transaction of this magnitude depends directly or indirectly on full powers of autonomous contract; there is no society that recognizes such powers in children, for a rather long list of reasons. And this is unsurprising; the reasons that establish something as permissible are what usually establish the conditions under which it is permissible. Thus Brassington's argument starts in the wrong place, and what is more, it can be seen that most of Brassington's argument depends crucially on doing so, because it requires the apparent symmetries created by simply proposing the permissibility of euthanasia as a hypothesis without any further grounds, so that this indefinite permissibility -- permissible under we know not what conditions -- gets treated as if it were general permissibility -- permissible under any conditions.
Even if we set this aside, the anti-ageism appeal is also problematic. As anyone can see from the argument Brassington gives, the direct implication Brassington's appeal is that there should be no age-based boundaries for anything. It's worth noting that this means that on Brassington's account the Belgian law is not legitimate. The law requires things in the case of children that it does not in the case of adults, simply because they are children. Brassington recognizes this, but seems not to grasp its implications:
That is, children still have to jump through administrative hoops that adults don’t. That may be defensible; it may even be morally required. Given the possibility that younger people are not as sophisticated as older, we perhaps would want to advert to someone who knows them well for reassurance that the request is authentic.
The general point, though, is that the law has been reformed so that it applies in more like the same way to adults and children. In many ways, that strikes me as a good thing.
But how could the anti-ageist appeal work here if it were even possible for it to be "morally required" for children to jump through administrative hoops that adults don't? How can "the possibility that younger people are not as sophisticated as older" even be functioning as a moral reason in the context of Brassington's argument? If it can be morally required for children to jump through administrative hoops that adults don't, it may well be the case that the administrative hoops that are required may well make it more practical to assume that people under a certain age cannot in general manage it on their own -- to go through administrative hoops presupposes and requires some designated competence for doing so, and nothing prevents one from judging that children will not usually be able to have such competence or, if they do, cannot be guaranteed to have it with sufficient ease to be taken into account under law. Likewise, sophistication is not a minor issue in matters of consent; if we are already allowing people to treat children differently based on sophistication when it comes to being able to take requests as "authentic", it becomes a question why we should not also consider the position that they simply may not be, in the main, sophisticated enough to make determining the authenticity of the request feasible.
In addition, we have to take into account the fact that anti-racism, anti-sexism, and in this case anti-ageism get their primary moral bite from being compensatory: they are intended to recognize inequalities leading to some populations being significantly more vulnerable than others. They also have the problem of being easily co-opted for any number of things that only sound like they might have to do with this kind of compensatory use. The real test of whether they are being used reasonably is whether they are being used explicitly and definitely in light of such vulnerabilities. But the kinds of things that Brassington's anti-ageist appeal would eliminate are precisely the things societies put into place in order to protect children as a vulnerable population. The reason we don't recognize children as having full competence in matters of contract is not that they can't make contracts but that others can easily take advantage of them. Children as inexperienced dependents can be pressured into doing things, or accepting things, that it would be much more difficult to pressure most adults into doing or accepting. (It is perhaps worth noting that Brassington's anti-ageist argument here is exactly parallel to certain common arguments against affirmative action as racist. And Brassington needs to address the same issue that people making those arguments need to address: how does one otherwise handle the vulnerabilities of the populations in question?)
A further problem with Brassington's argument is the conflation of legal and moral permissibility. The former depends in some ways on the latter, but they are in other ways rather different, and even the link between the two is not always straightforward. The fact that we pick a birthday as a cut-off point is purely a matter of positive law. It is not concerned with the question of actual competence or ability, because law is not about whether people are actually competent in some moral sense but about whether and in what practically feasible ways society as a whole can officially recognize that competence. In the case of children, for instance, the reason for age cut-offs is not because anyone thinks that suddenly everyone after age X is mature enough to drink, or drive, or what have you, nor that no one prior to this age is mature enough to do so; it's because these are thresholds that have been deemed to meet certain basic criteria, like:
(1) by that point we as a society have good reason to think that maturity has been reached by enough people that the law need not worry about the maturity issue as a general matter;
(2) the cut-off is relatively easy to determine by anyone who needs to determine it (as assessments of actual maturity rarely are);
(3) it allows enough time for parents and guardians to prepare people for the responsibilities, dangers, and risks involved in whatever kinds of decisions are in view.
Depending on the situation, there might be others. In other words, these age thresholds are never determined solely on the basis of moral permissibility. As legal thresholds they are deliberate creations through law of new distinctions between the permissible and impermissible, and they are based on a large number of factors. This makes quite clear another point at which Brassington's argument makes an illicit leap. Legal age thresholds are arbitrary in the sense that no considerations will establish exactly when the change-over point should be. For any age threshold, you could just as easily set it a month before or after whenever you do set it, for instance. But it does not follow from this that they are arbitrary in the sense that they have no underlying reasons. No age threshold is set on the assumption that a birthday magically changes someone; they are set on the basis of deliberation about a lot of practical assessments of the typical vulnerabilities of the population, of what's practically feasible for social recognition and for enforcement, and what will be least likely to mire society in nasty complications and consequences if anything goes wrong.
And, indeed, this is a problem with Brassington's argument in general. He says that the most important thing is capacity. But the capacity in question cannot be a mere ability to make decisions; by the very nature of the situation, it has be a capacity that it makes sense for society to recognize through law, given all the concerns society might have on the subject. That is, what matters is not whether the children in question are capable of making decisions but whether it is a good idea to extend a general recognition of such capability as a legal capability, given the ends of society, the vulnerabilities of children, and the practical limitations every society has to face. None of these are given any serious recognition by Brassington's argument, despite the fact that they are all involved in these questions.
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HUTCH MEN BATTLE RED DEVILS ON WEDNESDAY
Allen County Community College
Hutchinson Community College 39 47 86
Allen County Community College 42 45 87
Pts: J.J. Rhymes - 30
Reb: Kai Mitchell - 10
Ast: J.J. Rhymes - 7
Pts: Tyler Williams - 23
Ast: Perry Carroll - 8
J.J. Rhymes and the Blue Dragons head to Allen at 5 p.m. on Wednesday for another important Jayhawk Conference showdown. (Joel Powers/Blue Dragon Sports Information)
BLUE DRAGON MEN'S BASKETBALL
No. 14 Hutchinson (23-4, 19-4) at Allen (7-20, 5-18)
When: Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Where: Allen CC Gym
Game Time: 5 p.m.
Live Radio: KHUT-FM (102.9); KWBW-AM/FM (1450/98.5), 4:50 p.m.
Videostream: Blue Dragon Sports Network, 4:50 p.m.
Twitter: @bluedragonsport
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The Hutchinson Community College men's basketball team goes for a seventh-straight victory on Wednesday when the No. 14-ranked Blue Dragons head to play the Allen Red Devils in Iola.
The Blue Dragons and Red Devils will play at 5 p.m. on Wednesday at the Allen Gym. The game was moved up three hours because of impending wintery weather that's supposed to start Wednesday evening.
The game will be broadcast live on Blue Dragon flagship station KHUT-FM (102.9) and sister stations KWBW-AM/FM (1450/98.5) with Glen Grunwald (play-by-play) and Daren Dunn (analysis) calling the action at 4:50 p.m. The game will be videostreamed on the Blue Dragon Sports Network at 4:50 p.m.
Hutchinson's six-game winning streak has put the Blue Dragons right back in the thick of the Jayhawk Conference title chase. The Blue Dragons, Barton and Coffeyville are all tied for first place with 19-4 record. Last Wednesday's 85-72 win over Barton gives the Dragons the head-to-head tiebreaker with the Cougars. Hutchinson and Coffeyville have split games this season. Barton has a win over Coffeyville this season. Those two teams play again on Saturday in Great Bend.
On Wednesday, Coffeyville plays host to Butler and Barton is at Pratt. Hutchinson closes out with Independence at home on Saturday and at Dodge City on Monday.
The Dragons have had a tremendous 1-2 scoring punch during the six-game winning streak. Sophomores Devonte Bandoo and J.J. Rhymes have averaged 19.3 and 18.0 points per game, respectively, during the winning streak. Bandoo is hitting 51.5 percent overall and 52.2 percent from 3-point range. Freshman James Rojas is third in scoring during the streak at 13.5 points.
Hutchinson will be going for the season sweep over Allen on Wednesday after a 103-75 victory over the Red Devils on January 6 at the Sports Arena.
The Blue Dragons shot 52.6 percent overall and got a combined 56 points from Rhymes (31 points) and Bandoo (25 points). Bandoo hit five 3-pointers in that game. The Dragons limited Allen to 32.5 percent shooting, but Red Devil Tevin Townsend had 20 points on 4 of 7 3-point shooting.
Jan 18, Final - 2OT
91 Hutchinson Community College
94 at Pratt Community College
Jan 15, Final
72 at Garden City Community College
79 Northwest Kansas Technical College
84 at Cowley County Community College
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