A Wednesday evening launch party kicked off this year’s St. Paul Center Bible study, “The Bible and the Church Fathers,” at 7 p.m. in the Gentile Gallery.
The Bible study, a six-session video series, will be played for participants weekly throughout Lent, and three of the program’s major contributors — Scott Hahn, John Bergsma and Mike Aquilina — spoke at this introductory event.
The night began with the showing of the program’s trailer, which highlighted the importance of the Church Fathers in understanding Scripture.
Scott Hahn, who holds a doctorate in biblical theology and is the founder and president of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, then took the stage to introduce the speaker of the evening, John Bergsma. Bergsma, who holds a doctorate in theology from the University of Notre Dame, focused his speech on his conversion story.
Once an evangelical Protestant studying to become a pastor, Bergsma began to doubt the ideas of salvation through faith alone and truth in Scripture alone.
He explained that a “faith alone” mentality often led people he knew to not bother living truly holy lives. And “Scripture alone” did not make sense to him, either, he said, since there were hundreds of different Protestant denominations that interpreted the same Bible in completely different ways.
“All this was bothering me quite a bit,” said Bergsma, so he left his Protestant church.
“I did something rash,” he said. “I applied to graduate school.”
Bergsma enrolled at Notre Dame, where he met a Catholic who explained to him where many Catholic doctrines are in the Bible and also where the Bible affirms the authority of the Church and its tradition.
“My goodness,” Bergsma remembered saying to himself, “what else might there be in Scripture that I haven’t seen before?”
While all of this was tempting him to become Catholic, Bergsma explained that the final push into conversion was reading the writings of the Church Fathers. These great Christian thinkers, some of whom personally knew the apostles, wrote strikingly Catholic material, he said.
In was in that “beating heart of the Church,” said Bergsma, that he was finally convinced. And that is the focus of this new Bible study.
After the talk, Bergsma, Hahn and Catholic writer Mike Aquilina answered audience questions about the Bible and the Church Fathers in a Q&A.
The Gentile Gallery was full, and even more audience members were tuning in to an online livestream of the event. Those present received free Chick-fil-A at the end of the night.
This party was hosted by the St. Paul Center. “The Bible and the Church Fathers” study will take place Wednesday nights from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Pugliese Auditorium from Feb. 26 to April 15.


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An introduction to the Anglican heritage. The early chapters explore the Anglican consciousness, authority within the Church, and how Anglicans read the Bible. Other chapters cover Anglican understandings of the Incarnation, sacraments, liturgy, the Episcopacy, pastoral care, spirituality, mission, church and state, and prophetic witness.
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What is Anglicanism?
By Urban T. Holmes III
Church Publishing IncorporatedCopyright © 1982 Jane Neighbors Holmes
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The Anglican Consciousness
Anglicanism is a mode of making sense of the experience of God. To put it another way, Anglicanism is a particular approach to the construction of reality, or to the building of a world.
What do I mean by "building a world"? The point is crucial for our discussion; so this illustration may help. Three couples are planning to take a vacation together and they are discussing whether or not to go to the beach. One couple strongly urges that they go. Think of the sun, the sound of the ocean, they say, lying on the beach with nothing to do but relax. They recall their own youth when trips to the beach were the happiest occasions of their lives. Another couple resists. One of them recalls when as a small child she almost drowned in the ocean. She retains a deep fear of water. The husband finds lying on the beach a waste of time. He recalls a life of having to prove himself by hard work. The third couple is willing to go, but memories of sunburn and a week of rain two years before dampens their enthusiasm.
What is the question here? It is not what is intrinsically the nature of an experience of the beach — "the beach in the raw." None of us ever experience the beach that way. It is what each couple makes of the experience of the beach based upon their memory and its way of shaping their consciousness of the beach that makes the difference. It is not necessarily a matter of whether one couple is right and the rest are wrong, although it would be if one insisted the beach was inhabited by man-eating tigers. Each couple has a distinctive way of building a world of meaning or constructing a reality around the experience of the beach. That world of meaning obviously determines each couple's willingness to go to the beach.
One way of understanding Anglicanism is to know that it is a unique way of looking, making sense, and acting in the experience of God disclosed to us in the person of Jesus Christ. This is to say that it is a manner of being conscious, which manner was given birth in the history of a people whose culture, language and institutions came into being in the British Isles. It is well to remember that these islands, until the discovery and colonization of the New World by Europeans, were the frontier of the civilized world, removed from the centers of culture. It was the end point of successive invasions from the north and east: the Celts, the Anglo-Saxons, the Norse and the Normans (who were Norse that had originally settled in France). Anglican consciousness is the product of a montage of geographical, social, political, economic and racial forces that have created a peculiar historical memory. That memory has been handed on through the centuries, and while modified by subsequent events (e.g., the colonization of North America) remains distinctive at heart.
An example of Anglican consciousness is Julian of Norwich, an obscure fourteenth century anchorite. In some ways Julian was a commonplace phenomenon of her age. She lived in a cell attached to the parish church in an East Anglia town. From a window in her cell she could view the Eucharist and from another window she could assist people seeking spiritual counsel. There were many such persons in later medieval England, but none known to us of the genius of Julian.
In 1370, Julian received a series of revelations or showings, in which the crucified Lord appeared to her. The image of the suffering Christ, which was the persistent form of these visions, was not remarkable for the times. It was consistent with the popular religious art of the century. What is arresting is Julian's reflections upon this experience setting forth the world she constructed out of her experience.
Julian lived in a time of suffering and confusion. The Black Death had wiped out perhaps as much as a third of the population of England. The once proud and noble warrior-king, Edward III, was living out his last years in senility, mourning the death of his promising son, the Black Prince. Edward III was followed by his grandson, Richard II, who was broken against the misfortunes of his times despite his efforts to resolve England's problems. Deposed, Richard II died in prison. Throughout this period England was enduring an incredibly cruel and draining war with France, which we know as the Hundred Years War.
It is in this world that Julian spoke with a certain calm. "Our life is founded," she said, "on faith with hope and love." The basis of her faith was the Christ, who described himself to her as "the ground of her beseeching." Julian was no foolish optimist. She had a deep awareness of our sin, yet believed that God has allowed us to fall that he might raise us up that much higher. "Sin is necessary," she says; but immediately adds in her best known words, "All will be well, and every kind of thing will be well."
What kind of world does Julian see which allows her such confidence in a time of confusion and despair? It begins, first, with sensibility. I use the word "sensibility" in an unfamiliar meaning. It is the ability to apprehend or incorporate into our awareness the totality of an experience in all depth and breadth. Sensibility refers to the capacity to be sensitive and to accept what our senses tell us, even when that is not what fits into our neat categories. It implies an openness to experience, even when the meaning of that experience is ambiguous, incongruous and obscure.
Julian's sensibility is seen in her insistence that God lets us rebel against him in order that he might raise us up even higher, which is a profound paradox. She said that there are five activities that arise in her at the same time: rejoicing, mourning, desire, fear and true hope, meaning that we know Jesus in both consolation and desolation. We are repelled by God and drawn to him at the same moment. There is an ambiguity to our awareness that reflects a consciousness of the experience that is not neatly drawn. Life is like that when perceived in its fullness, light and darkness, with shades of gray in between.
Secondly, Julian is aware that the extraordinary love of God is to be found within the ordinary. The vision of a hazelnut comes to mind, from which Julian learns three things: that God made, loves and preserves his creation. What could be more ordinary than a little hazelnut? Julian had a gift for perceiving what another Englishman, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) called the inscape or inner reality of things. This takes a way of seeing beyond the common sense reductions of the cynic, who can only see the outer appearance.
This gift for the extraordinary sometimes works in another direction. The commonplace ideas of the culture can be elevated to illumine the meaning of God in a new way. Julian takes the dying ideal of feudal chivalry, with its notion of the courteous knight, and applies it to God. "For God sees one way and man sees another way," said Julian. "For it is for man to meekly accuse himself, and it is for our Lord God's own goodness courteously to excuse man." The word "courteous" carries all the meaning of mercy, gentleness and compassion. God is seen in a startling new, but recognizable light. He becomes almost human in his goodness.
Thirdly, Julian attributes to God the consciousness of a mother. She is, in fact, placing upon God that awareness which is characteristic of herself and her English church. "Jesus is our true Mother," she said, "and he is our Mother of mercy in taking our sensuality." This is a remarkable statement, which, while not original with Julian, has been made most evident in her writings, that Christ thinks as a woman is one way of translating what she is saying. What could she mean? God is caring, intuitive, receptive and open. As Christ was incarnate he knew what it was to live in a body, and like a pregnant woman to sense in the body the joy of new life.
Perhaps Julian could be criticized for not revealing the dark side of that motherly or feminine consciousness, which through the ages humankind has associated with death, the unpredictable and the ominous. The awareness at one and the same time of good and evil, so characteristic of a feminine mode of consciousness, is dread. Dread is a property of that sensibility of what we have already written. It is the knowledge that in nature where there is life there is death, where there is joy there is pain, and where there is knowledge there is ignorance; but ultimately, Julian tells us, there is also true hope.
Julian provides a prototype of Anglican consciousness. In order to explain how this is so I need to describe a theory — perhaps we could call it a model which challenges us to look further — of human consciousness. It is that our thinking falls into one of two patterns or modes. Traditionally these modes have been called "thinking with the right hand" and "thinking with the left hand." Right hand thinking is analytical, logical, requiring one-to-one unambiguous representations, and is characteristic of computers. Left hand thinking is intuitive, analogical, metaphorical, symbolic and characteristic of poetry, art and music. If our primary goal in thinking is to be as clear as possible with no loose ends, and the experience related to a system, we think with the right hand. This is the consciousness of science, but it only describes things as they appear to be. If our intention in thinking is to draw together as much of an experience as possible, with items unresolved and with large, nagging questions in the middle of what we have described, then we are thinking with the left hand.
Fantasy literature is an example of thinking with the left hand. The English are rather good at this kind of writing. The Inklings, a literary group that met in Oxford during World War II to criticize one another's work, produced some remarkable fantasies. They included Dorothy Sayers, who wrote mystery novels; C. S. Lewis, who wrote the Narnia chronicles and three science fiction novels; Charles Williams, who wrote novels dealing with the occult; and J. R. R. Tolkien, who is famous for the stories of the Hobbits. I would claim that there is a relationship between the gift for writing fantasy literature found among the English and that thinking with the left hand which is characteristic of Anglicanism.
We Anglicans are not given to writing great theology. There are notable exceptions, but they are difficult to remember; but when Anglicanism is at its best its liturgy, its poetry, its music and its life can create a world of wonder in which it is very easy to fall in love with God. We are much more adept at the left hand than at the right.
In this spirit the three points we made about Julian of Norwich are to be understood as characteristic of our particular way of constructing reality.
First, there is the Anglican proclivity to sensibility, the taking into account the whole of an experience — ambiguity and all. Sensibility is a difficult quality. T. S. Eliot suggested that English literature has failed to capture it since John Milton. The antidote to sensibility is common sense and if we wish to avoid living in a perpetual paradox, we insist that everything is simply a matter of common sense. Anglicanism can appear this way; but we are at our best when we acknowledge the penultimate nature of our answers to the character of God and his will for us. This modesty is often expressed as a "yes, but." "Yes, Jesus is my personal Savior, but this does not mean he is a white, upper middle class American. Yes, I believe that God has a purpose for me after death, but I am skeptical of the accounts of people who claim to have died and lived again. Yes, I believe that Christ is present in the bread and wine of the Eucharist, but this does not mean that for a particle to fall on the floor is tantamount to sacrilege."
Sensibility requires a willingness to face the darkness of chaos without romanticism. One of the reasons that Anglicanism sometimes appears merely cynical or sentimental is that we do not have the courage of our best instincts. We refuse to enter the darkness. Obscure essays from the pulpit, a fascination with the past and a fondness for empty, polite chatter are among the ways we defend ourselves from our birthright.
Sensibility is a recognition that the inexpressible nature of God can never be reduced to our categories or our simplistic notions of the divine will. This leads us to acknowledge the metaphorical nature of all religious conversion and theological discourse. For Anglicanism this recognition is coupled with the fact that God is the creator of everything that is, and that the knowledge of God requires only that we look at his handiwork. This is the second point. It is why British empiricism and its ally, American pragmatism, are very much a part of the Anglican way of thinking. For example, an Anglican approach to miracles might be that God does not run around suspending the predictable course of nature, but that there is more to God's creation than that for which our intellectual constructs can account.
Radical Protestantism and its expectation that the presence of the Holy Spirit is evident in unusual phenomena, such as speaking in tongues, finds its adherents within Anglicanism from time to time. We have no need to repudiate this. After all, Julian of Norwich, for one, exhibited some fairly unusual behavior. Our tendency is to look for a natural cause for such phenomena, not because we do not believe God speaks to us in this way, but because we believe that God makes himself known and is known in the ordinary routine of life. The Carmelite mystic, Brother Lawrence (1605-1691), who came to know God in the kitchen, is someone whom we can appreciate more than Simon Stylites (c. 340-459) sitting on a pillar for forty years.
Taken too far, of course, this fondness for the ordinary can make us very dull. Unless we enter into the world of the left hand, we will end up like a theological Scrooge (a character typical of English literature). The mystery of the ordinary will be dismissed with a "bah" and a "humbug." There is a perversity within us to carry the metaphor along, which produced in Puritan times the town crier, wandering the streets of the village on the night of December 24, calling, "No Christmas tonight." It is not that we should reduce our transcendent to the ordinary routine. It is that for the sensible consciousness the extraordinary shines through the ordinary.
Thirdly, the consciousness of Anglicanism is dominantly feminine. In medieval times England was known as the "land of Mary." The devotions that developed about the Mother of Jesus have always found a receptive home in the British Isles. This should not be too surprising in a country which counts among its greatest monarchs several queens. There is something peculiarly compatible between a feminine consciousness — be it in a man or woman — and the Anglican outlook. This is another way of speaking of the sensibility of Anglicanism, but one that will lead to some distinguishing characteristics discussed later in this book.
We often speak of Anglican "comprehensiveness." If this is a way of making relativism palatable or a means of accommodating all shades of opinion with no regard for truth, then it needs to be rejected. If by comprehensive we mean the priority of a dialectic quest over precision and immediate closure, then we are speaking of the Anglican consciousness at its best. This sense of a community of thought as opposed to a well-defined, definitive position, is what is meant by a feminine consciousness. This is why Anglicanism has never been a confessional church, as in the case of Lutheranism and Presbyterianism. It is the reason that while Puritanism, Latitudinarianism, Evangelicalism, Ultramontanism, Modernism and American Protestantism (i.e., a kind of banal "practical religion") have all been embraced by some Anglicans, none of them have been capable of comprehending the Anglican experience. They are all ultimately out of place.
A particular danger of the feminine religious consciousness is that it becomes dotty, what the dictionary defines as "amiably eccentric." In the 1980 movie "10," the role of the priest was obviously that of an Anglican. His insincere grin, his huge dog, the flatulent, ancient housekeeper, his inane conversation, the grossly lighted portrait of himself in vestments and his terrible music were all a caricature of the dotty Anglican. It is the same genre as the novels of Anthony Trollope.
Feminine consciousness possesses a darkness, as well as a light, and it is this which protects itself against amiable eccentricity. It is helpful to keep in mind that Mother of God was the person who held both the infant at Bethlehem and the crucified body of the dead Savior. The angels and demons inhabit the awareness of reality, and herein lies the ability to speak to people in the very depths of their souls. The Puritan Richard Baxter (1615-1691) reminded us that "Christ leads us through no darker rooms than he has gone before," and if we are not aware of those dark rooms we are missing the point. Julian put it this way. "For our sin is so foul and so horrible that our Lord in his courtesy will not reveal it to us except by the light of his mercy."
The form of our consciousness obviously shapes what we make of our experience. This initial chapter has far-reaching implications, therefore, for the rest of this book the reader needs to carry the awareness of this particular outlook with him or her as the exploration proceeds in the subsequent chapters. It will enable, explicitly or implicitly, much to come clear.
Excerpted from What is Anglicanism? by Urban T. Holmes III. Copyright © 1982 Jane Neighbors Holmes. Excerpted by permission of Church Publishing Incorporated.
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Until March 24th, M.I.A Gallery hosted an exhibition of photographs by Malian photographer and Hasselblad Award winner Malick Sidibé. The exhibition in Seattle consisted of over 30 photographs by Sidibé. As you can see, Sidibé’s work focusses mostly on black-and-white studies of popular culture in 1960s Bamako. It includes portraits both of people and of life so to speak, but the human element is always present in each picture.
There is something about the use of black and white and square format which instantly makes these photos timeless and iconic don’t you find? Each photo has a strong sense of form to it; this mixing with an atmosphere which is at once foreign, yet appealing.
Some of the photos are staged whilst other are simply snapshots of dancing, revelry, and good time. I think this strikes an excellent balance for the exhibition. But if you’re in Seattle, go see it for yourself and tell us what you think. It’s open at M.I.A Gallery until March 24th.
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Preparation: 20 minutes + 1 hour chilling + cooling time
Cooking: 50 to 60 minutes
Total: 70 to 80 minutes + 1 hour chilling + cooling time
250g softened butter
125g caster sugar
125g light brown soft sugar
2 egg yolks
300g plain flour
3 tbsp cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
400g plums, halved and stoned
60g dark chocolate, coarsely grated
Cream to serve
Place the butter and sugars in a bowl and whisk with a handheld electric whisk for two to three minutes until creamy, then beat in the egg yolks, one at a time.
Add the flour, cocoa and baking powder and stir in until the mixture starts to form a dough. Tip onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth. Divide into two thirds for the bottom of the tarte and one third for the top. Wrap the dough in clingfilm, chill the larger piece for 30 minutes and place the other piece in the freezer.
Preheat the oven to 160C, gas mark 3. Grease a 25cm loose-bottomed tart tin then place on a baking tray Roll out the chilled pastry into a 30cm round on a lightly floured surface and use to line the prepared tin. Place the plums cut side up on the pastry and sprinkle over the grated chocolate.
Coarsely grate the frozen pastry over the plums. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes until the topping is crisp and the plums are tender. Cool for 30 minutes before removing from the tin. Slice and serve warm with cream.

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Education: Diploma (M.S.) in chemistry, Eötvös L. University, Budapest, Hungary; Ph.D., theoretical inorganic chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Pulay on the biggest research challenge he has had to overcome: “Our field was initially little appreciated by the chemical community. It was challenging to convince most chemists of the possibilities of quantum chemistry. My first focus was the simulation of vibrational spectra. As a chemist, I have at first struggled with many-body quantum theory. Fortunately, physicist friends helped me to overcome this. The fruitful cooperation with Wilfried Meyer (Germany) was especially important, and resulted in the first version of the general-purpose quantum chemistry program MOLPRO.”
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Madison - In a significant cost savings measure, Department of Workforce Development Secretary Roberta Gassman announced today that the filing of weekly claims for unemployment benefits has now become much easier for unemployed workers. Providing an additional option for unemployed individuals to file for benefits, we estimate the state will also save at least $240,000 per year in telephone and processing costs.
"I am pleased to announce this new filing option at this time of year, when we traditionally see more people filing for benefits as many plants temporarily shut down because of the holidays and the weather. This technology will allow people to file more quickly and with fewer errors." said Secretary Gassman. "The Internet service provides an alternative for those who prefer to use the Internet instead of the phone, and increases accessibility for those with hearing or speech impairments."
Wisconsin, among the first states to replace long lines at the unemployment office with a telephone claims taking system, is again on the forefront with Internet weekly claims filing.
Effective today, in addition to Wisconsin’s often-copied UI phone claims system, unemployed Wisconsin workers can file their weekly unemployment claims via the Internet. The on-line system parallels the current telephone system, but is much easier to use, is less costly and more efficient. Use of the internet system will reduce the number of calls to the phone system, so that individuals who do not have access to the internet will experience fewer busy signals.
The new system is easier to use because the filer can see the questions and view his or her answers before submitting the responses with no rush sometimes felt using a telephone. The filing method is less costly because the state pays no long distance charges to transmit a claim via the Internet and is more efficient because the new system allows for extensive on-line editing and help so users can be sure their claim is complete and accurate.
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ROHNERT PARK, CA -- Investigators believe an arsonist is responsible for four vehicle fires at two homes on Camino Coronado in Rohnert Park early Tuesday morning.
In addition to the cars that burned, five other vehicles were found with their doors and trunks open, Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety Sgt. Wulff Reinhold said.
The first car fire was reported at about 3 a.m. in the driveway of a home in the 1000 block of Camino Coronado. The fire spread to an adjacent vehicle and up a palm tree, Reinhold said.
When officers found a second pair of vehicles burning in the 900 block of Camino Coronado four minutes later, firefighters from the Rancho Adobe and Rincon Valley fire protection districts were summoned, Reinhold said.
Suspecting arson, all Rohnert Park public safety officers not fighting the fires searched the area, Reinhold said.
Officers found five cars with their doors and trunks open outside nearby homes, Reinhold said. Nothing appeared to be missing from the cars, he said.
The fires were extinguished by 3:25 a.m. All four vehicles were a total loss and damage is estimated at $50,000, Reinhold said.
The homes where the fires occurred sustained scorching damage, Reinhold said.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Department of Public Safety at (707) 584-2600.
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Related, a paper by Dragisa Mijacie and Jasna Zarkovic discusses a methodological approach to examining crossborder networks for understanding the impact of cross-border cooperation programmes, especially on socio-economic development and social cohesion. [...]an Austrian case study highlights a number of issues: that transnational interaction might stimulate new views and innovative approaches; that the link between inter-regional relations and innovative adaptation in regions can be enhanced, and that cooperation activities should extend to social aspects, cultural learning and procedural knowledge because learning effects might be greatest for those dimensions. The paper concludes that non-EU Member States are more active and 'visible' partners in ETC in the 2014-2020 period; that while much of the focus in terms of the location of Programme institutions is on the EU Member States, a range of activities is delegated; and that looking to the post-2020 period, non-EU Member States remain committed to involvement in INTERREG.
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NARSINGDI, June 10, 2018 (BSS) – About 1, 50000 tonnes of summer vegetables is
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Jody Meche and his family have harvested crawfish from Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin for generations. When he set his first trap in the 1980s, he hauled in an abundant catch. These days, his traps come back full of dead crawfish.
Meche holds the oil and gas industry responsible for the steady destruction of a way of life that depends on the bounty of our nation's largest river swamp. The industry dodged regulations and built hundreds of pipelines throughout the basin. The construction left behind mounds of dirt—known as spoil banks—that have systematically destroyed the water quality and created so much sediment that crawfish and other living organisms suffocate.
The Atchafalaya Basin is located in southern Louisiana. The proposed Bayou Bridge pipeline would connect the Dakota Access pipeline to the Gulf of Mexico.
Energy Transfer Partners, a company with a dismal record of protecting the environment, aims to build a new 162-mile pipeline across the basin to connect its controversial Dakota Access pipeline to the Gulf of Mexico. Earthjustice attorneys are representing the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their legal challenges against that pipeline.
Meche and others are speaking out against the proposed Bayou Bridge pipeline, which would cross 700 bodies of water and impact 600 acres of wetlands. The Army Corps of Engineers issued a permit on Dec. 14 for the project. Earthjustice plans to challenge that decision. Meche shared his thoughts as the fight to protect the Atchafalaya Basin from the Bayou Bridge pipeline headed toward a new stage.
What is special about the Atchafalaya Basin?
"The Atchafalaya Basin is unique to the whole world. There's nowhere else like it. It's home to hundreds of species of migratory birds—there's bald eagles, so many bald eagles—and alligators, fish and so much more. It provides subsistence for the Cajun people.
"We've made our living from the basin for over a century, it gives us food for our families. For me, it's my way of life. It's where I grew up. It's what I know, it's what I've learned."
Crawfish, like this one held up by Jody Meche, are having trouble surviving due to pipeline infrastructure.Emily Kasik
How has oil and gas development affected the basin?
"They created these pipeline right-of-ways, and instead of flattening out the dirt they excavated, they left it. They interrupted the water flow. And every year, the ecosystem has been on the decline. The crawfish are to the point where they won't live in our crawfish traps unless we let the traps stick out above the top of the water so they can come up for air. The water quality is so poor they can't get enough oxygen out of the water.
"When I first started fishing, you hardly had any problems with crawfish dying. You could set your traps on the bottom, five or six feet in the water, and the crawfish would all be alive.
"Now you go back, and all the crawfish are dead underwater."
How could additional oil and gas development in the basin affect the region's ability to fight flooding and other types of damage during hurricane season?
"It's unbelievable how much these pipelines have caused the bottom to fill up with sand. The bottom used to be below sea level in a lot of areas, and now it's 20 to 30 feet above sea level. In the springtime when you see all these rivers and all these houses flooding all up and down the Mississippi Valley, the Ohio River Valley, the basin is supposed to be able to receive a lot of that water and flow it through to the Gulf of Mexico. They know it can't—so they flirt with disaster every year."
Oil and gas infrastructure in the basin, where hundreds of pipelines have been built.Emily Kasik
Why don't you trust Energy Transfer Partners to do the right thing?
"It would be a hell of a feat to gain my trust. These companies don't hold up to their end of the bargain. They don't abide by the permits. They don't abide by the regulations. And nobody has held them accountable."
"I'm not opposed to oil and gas. We have a need—we have a tremendous dependence. But with the amount of money these companies make, there's no excuse for them to destroy our Earth the way they have. They have to go back and fix the problems they've caused for the environment."
"I've worked in the oil and gas industry. I know they can do a better job than the way it's been done."
Why did you reach out to Earthjustice for help on this issue?
"It seemed like our only hope. We've tried everything. We've met with governors, we've met with legislators, we've met with colonels with the Army Corps of Engineers, with state agencies, federal agencies—we've met with everybody. We can't hold these people accountable. The state of Louisiana is so controlled by the oil and gas industry, you can't get anything done. It seemed like we had to go outside the state, to someone who cares about our natural world."
What keeps you going in this fight?
"My love for the world I live in. I believe it's my God that's guiding me. He's working through human beings—I'm one of the human beings that he's working through so I can't give up the fight.
"Our natural resources out there, our natural environment and our ecosystems, I've got to give a voice to them and try to scream foul for what has taken place over so many decades. They can't speak for themselves. They can't defend themselves. The trees and the fish and the water and the animals and the birds, somebody has to speak for them."
Around the world, a powerful shift away from fossil fuels toward clean energy is underway—but change won't come fast enough without a concerted fight.
Alongside communities in states across the country, Earthjustice attorneys are fighting pipelines like Bayou Bridge, export terminals and other major fossil fuel infrastructure projects that would seek to lock us into a fossil fuel-fired future.
The challenges we face are not insurmountable. The path to a clean energy transformation is rapidly emerging—and we can all play a role in clearing that path in time to limit temperature rise and guarantee our future. Stay updated on this fight.
Many residents attending a community meeting in Napoleonville, Louisiana, on the Bayou Bridge pipeline on Feb. 8, 2017, voiced their opposition to the project.Emily Kasik
The Army Corps of Engineers disappointed environmental groups and tribal leaders Wednesday by not amending a complex permitting system that expedites oil and gas pipeline approval.
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The permit structure, which allowed for the approval of the Dakota Access Pipeline, gives streamlined permission to pipeline projects intersecting with federally protected waters, rather than subjecting them to individual review for larger spill risk, climate impacts or tribal conflicts.
"I think the nationwide permit system serves a totally legitimate purpose for projects that have truly minor or beneficial actions, but it's become a loophole for big projects with serious impacts, not just to water but to treaty rights and other tribal concerns," Earthjustice attorney Jan Hasselman, who represents the Standing Rock Sioux, told Politico.
The NoDAPL struggle continues in Cannon Ball, as the remaining protesters dig in for the winter, clean up abandoned camps and warily look toward the upcoming Trump administration.
"This program rubber-stamps major projects like oil pipelines that leak and spill, degrading clean water and cultural sites," said Jared Margolis, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. "Under the program, those projects proceed without regard for the people, places or wildlife in their paths."
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The bright patterns and recognizable designs of Waterlust's activewear aren't just for show. In fact, they're meant to promote the conversation around sustainability and give back to the ocean science and conservation community.
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The idea for the company came to Rynne when he was a Ph.D. student in marine science.
"I was surrounded by incredible people that were discovering fascinating things but noticed that often their work wasn't reaching the general public in creative and engaging ways," he said. "That seemed like a missed opportunity with big implications."
Waterlust initially focused on conventional media, like film and photography, to promote ocean science, but the team quickly realized engagement on social media didn't translate to action or even knowledge sharing offscreen.
Rynne also saw the "in one ear, out the other" issue in the classroom — if students didn't repeatedly engage with the topics they learned, they'd quickly forget them.
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Melissa Smith is an avid writer, scuba diver, backpacker, and all-around outdoor enthusiast. She graduated from the University of Florida with degrees in journalism and sustainable studies. Before joining EcoWatch, Melissa worked as the managing editor of Scuba Diving magazine and the communications manager of The Ocean Agency, a non-profit that's featured in the Emmy award-winning documentary Chasing Coral.
The Army Corps announced $16.86 million for Delaware River deepening project using a “slush” fund created to circumvent the ban on earmarks passed last year. Environmental and community advocates cried foul—pointing out that the Army Corps chose this path to fund the deepening because it cannot honestly demonstrate the project meets minimum guidelines generally used to make taxpayer funding decisions.
“This is the ugliest example of political manipulation we have ever seen regarding this project—facts, law and good policy have been thrown out the window to serve the political whims of Sens. Casey and Toomey,” said Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper. “This project is an economic loser, is unnecessary for the ports, and inflicts major environmental and community harm. The project is still hundreds of millions of dollars shy of what is needed to complete it. In short, the project is an embarrassment and waste of money, and we will continue to work to stop it now,” van Rossum said.
"If this were a project worth $16.9 million, the private sector would find the $16.9 million to make it happen. In an era when the country is in major deficit, we should not be spending any taxpayer funds on projects that are known to be a loser, not a project that will choke the Delaware Estuary," said Brady Russell, Eastern Pa. director, Clean Water Action.
“This is blood money. They are taking money from the tax payers to try to destroy our river and estuary. The Delaware deepening will cause irreparable harm to the Delaware River, the aquifer, and the people of South Jersey. Instead of using this money to protect our drinking water and the environment it is being used to destroy it,” said Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club. “This is an outrageous abuse of governmental process.”
“The Delaware River deepening is a major threat to the Delaware River, including the fish, shellfish and wildlife that today are needed to provide healthy food and hundreds of millions of dollars a year supporting income and jobs. The Army Corps’ own documents, when investigated by experts, demonstrate that the Delaware River deepening is not needed to support the ports of the region, will not result in increased goods coming to the region, does not meet basic criteria used to guide taxpayer funding decisions, and will likely lose money for every dollar invested in the project. It is stunning that in today’s economic climate an unsubstantiated claim for port jobs is allowed to justify a $300 million dollar expenditure in a project that will harm family supporting river jobs in existence today,” said Delaware Riverkeeper van Rossum. “It is disturbing that false and undocumented claims of jobs are allowed to rob families who depend upon a healthy river and bay for their livelihood, like fishermen and oystermen, simply because they don’t have the same political sway as the industry groups, the army corps and the ports pushing this wasteful and environmentally harmful project forward.”
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Responding to renewed economic claims for deepening the Delaware River, a coalition of taxpayer, community and environmental organizations issued a new independent analysis they say proves once again that the deepening project is an economic loser. The groups issued the analysis and an accompanying report titled Army Corps Cooks the Books Again, in response to a May 2011 analysis issued by the Army Corps of Engineers. (A copy of the reports can be obtained at www.delawareriverkeeper.org.)
“The Army Corps once again tried to mislead Congress and the public about the deepening project—a renewed analysis by Dr. Bob Stearns clearly demonstrates how the Army Corps manipulated their calculations so as to present a false picture for the project,” said Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper. “The inappropriate calculation was not hard to find. The corps’ own report provides the analysis and numbers. Without deepening, shippers will use the feeder port approach which is far cheaper than trucking, and when all matters are considered, is also cheaper than deepening. The corps’ assessment pretends that without deepening, shippers would use the far more expensive trucking option to get goods to the Philadelphia area markets. But the corps’ own practices and procedures make clear that the shipping alternative is the best alternative and the one that would be selected, thereby supporting and encouraging port jobs without the need for a nearly $300 million, environmentally devastating deepening project.”
According to the new Cooked the Books report, correction of the shipping vs. trucking error alone reduces the benefit-cost ratio for the project to, at best 1.1 (or to below 1 to 1, depending on a shipping diversion assumption)—far below the 1.64 claimed by the Army Corps’ May 2011 report. Supplemental information in the report provided by the coalition of organizations identifies a number of additional errors they say, when included in the calculation, revive the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finding that deepening would provide less than a dollar of benefit for every $1 of cost paid for by the taxpayers.
“The corps’ economic analysis deserves to be on a Chinese menu under twice-cooked pork. The errors were too obvious and too basic to be a mistake,” says Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense. “But more importantly, the new report is being used to justify renewed funding for a project that doesn’t meet the federal government’s basic criteria for ensuring tax dollars are invested only in those projects that will generate clear economic value for the country.”
“This new economic analysis makes it clear that the Delaware River Deepening project is an economic looser, which poses substantial environmental risks. The Army Corps needs to take a hard look at its project review practices if projects like this, that don’t meet the corps’ own basic economic standards, are getting the green light,” asserts George Sorvalis, coordinator with the Water Protection Network.
In a report issued in April 2010, the GAO issued its third challenge to the reliability and accuracy of the Army Corps economic claims for deepening (the first GAO report being issued in 2002, the second challenge in the form of Congressional testimony given in 2006). The Army Corps 2011 report was issued in apparent response to the less than glowing GAO 2010 report. The May 2011 Army Corps analysis was its 8th economic analysis of the deepening. “But no one ever learned of this report or got an opportunity to review it until we secured the report through a Freedom of Information Act request,” says van Rossum. “As soon as we received a copy we pursued an independent review of its claims. We think our findings clearly demonstrate why the Army Corps felt the need to keep this newest analysis an apparent secret—because it’s clear that once again they cooked the books, a practice far too common with the Army Corps and one that demeans the entire federal government.”
“With the nation staring into a $15 trillion chasm of debt and Congress looking for deficit reduction, there is no place in the budget for this boondoggle,” says Ellis. “For years, the Delaware River Deepening survived on a steady diet of parochial earmarks. The current earmark moratorium provides Congress the perfect opportunity to stop wasting tax dollars on this economic loser.”
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The Delaware Riverkeeper Network (DRN) champions the rights of our communities to a Delaware River and tributary streams that are free-flowing, clean and healthy. Founded in 1988, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network is a grassroots advocacy organization that works throughout the four states of the Delaware River watershed. Through independent advocacy, and the use of accurate facts, science and law, DRN works to ensure the rich and healthy future that can only exist with a clean, healthy and free flowing river system. The Delaware Riverkeeper Network is unique in that it is founded upon the expectation of personal and community responsibility for river protection, as personified by the Delaware Riverkeeper.
Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) is a non-partisan budget watchdog that has fought for fiscal responsibility in Washington for more than 15 years—working with Democrats and Republicans, and groups on the right and the left. TCS is best known for its campaign against spending “earmarks” and as the original whistle-blower on the “Bridge to Nowhere”—a proposed $380 million Alaskan bridge that became an infamous example of federal waste.
Water Protection Network (formerly Corps Reform Network), a coalition of hundreds of organizations from around the country, works to ensure water projects and policies are economically and environmentally sound.
This week, the fight to conserve streams and wetlands and to protect drinking water for tens of millions of Americans shifts decidedly to the U.S. Senate. During debate on the budget bill for the Army Corps of Engineers, Senators could vote on an amendment that would block the Corps from taking any action to restore even limited Clean Water Act protections for streams and wetlands.
The Izaak Walton League has been fighting all year to restore these lost protections. We took an important step forward this summer when the Corps and U.S. Enviornmental Protection Agency proposed some common sense, science-based guidelines that move us closer to our goal.
That progress is at risk right now in the U.S. Senate. Senators John Barrasso of Wyoming and Dean Heller of Nevada plan to offer an amendment this week that would block the Corps from taking any action to restore even limited protections to streams and wetlands nationwide. And this isn't a temporary ban—it's a permanent prohibition.
Senators need to hear from constituents who hunt, fish, boat and enjoy the outdoors in opposition to this amendment.
Call your U.S. Senators today and urge them to vote against the Barrasso-Heller amendment to the Energy and Water Appropriations bill. Click here to find your Senator's phone numbers.
Here are talking points:
I am calling from [insert your town or city] to urge Senator [insert last name] to vote against the Barrasso-Heller amendment to the Energy and Water Appropriations bill.
The amendment directly and permanently blocks efforts by the Army Corps of Engineers to protect water quality and critical habitat for fish and wildlife. It would also undermine the hunting and angling economy in our state and across the country. Hunters and anglers spend more than $86 billion annually. This spending supports local jobs and manufacturing nationally, and depends on clean water, healthy wetlands, and abundant fish and wildlife.
Please vote against the Barrasso-Heller amendment when the Senate considers the Energy and Water Appropriations bill. Thank you.
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As we prepare to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, we are faced with yet another attempt to slash the regulations that keep our drinking water safe.
This week, our senators will vote on an amendment that would effectively prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from clarifying which waters it can protect under the Clean Water Act.
Act now—tell your senators to oppose this amendment that would threaten the critical protections for our clean water.
Supreme Court decisions on the Clean Water Act have created confusion about the types of waterways that can be protected. Because of that confusion, more than 10,000 wetlands, streams, rivers and lakes (including more than 5,000 sources of public drinking water supplies) were declared unprotected by the Army Corps of Engineers since 2001.
Stopping the Army Corps of Engineers from addressing and clarifying the scope of the Clean Water Act will only put more of our critical drinking water resources at risk. Click here to send a message to the Senate today insisting that they reject this dirty amendment.
It’s up to us all to stand up for clean water and stop the assault on our environmental laws.
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On the 20th anniversary of his second Green Jacket, Bernhard Langer rolled back the years at Augusta National to lead the over 50s challenge in the Masters Tournament along with reigning Senior Open Champion Fred Couples.
Langer began his final round with a hat-trick of birdies to get on to the leaderboard on Sunday, but dropped shots on the sixth, seventh, and tenth holes, followed by back-to-back double bogeys on the 12th and 13th holes which ultimately ended his challenge.
After opening his 30th Masters Tournament with rounds of 71, 71 and 72, the German, who was champion in 1985 and 1993, signed for a closing 76 to finish in a share of 25th position on two over par 290.
That represented the 55 year old’s best performance at Augusta National since he finished tied 20th in 2005.
“My start energised me greatly because that's what I needed,” said Langer. “I knew I had to go something like seven under to have to have a realistic chance to win the tournament. That's what I was trying to do. And to go with three birdies right off the deck, that gave me hope that I could do it. And then it just all went south.”
He added: “It was still a good week. If you had said I'll finish 25th at beginning of the week, I would have said, oh, that's not bad, that's pretty good. But the way things went, especially with my start, I was hoping for better.”
Meanwhile Couples, who had been firmly in contention at the halfway mark after opening rounds of 68 and 71, lost ground on Saturday with a 77 but closed with a round of 71 to finish in a share of 13th position on one under par.
The 52 year old American, who claimed the Green Jacket in 1992, continued his remarkable recent record at the season’s first Major, having now finished in the top 15 in each of the past four years, including sixth place in 2010.
Couples won The Senior Open Championship Presented by Rolex at Turnberry last July and will defend his title at Royal Birkdale from July 25-28.
Sandy Lyle, celebrating the 25th anniversary of his Green Jacket, closed with a 71 to finish in a share of 54th position.
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Bleeding stroke survivors at higher risk of depression, dementia
People who survive brain bleeds - the most lethal form of stroke - are at significantly higher risk of later developing depression and dementia, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2017.
Intracerebral hemorrhage is a stroke caused when a weakened blood vessel ruptures and bleeds into the brain. Previous studies of depression and stroke have focused on ischemic stroke (caused by blockages in blood vessels), but little is known about depression among survivors of hemorrhagic stroke.
"Our study changes the way we look at depression after a hemorrhagic stroke," said lead author Alessandro Biffi, M.D., Assistant in Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Director of the Aging and Brain Health Research group. "Depression is not just an isolated phenomenon following a hemorrhagic stroke. It may identify those who are likely to develop dementia, and this is important when these patients are evaluated, particularly in outpatient care settings."
Researchers followed 695 survivors of intracerebral hemorrhage with no pre-stroke history of depression for five years. Participants were 50 percent women, approximately 75 percent white, and most had one or more of the known cardiovascular and cerebrovascular risk factors (hypertension, diabetes, or hyperlipidemia).
Researchers surveyed the study participants over the phone every six months asking about mood, anxiety, and cognitive performance to monitor the onset of depression and dementia. They found that 40 percent of the study participants developed depression during the first 50 months of follow-up after intracerebral hemorrhage, a rate of approximately 7 percent per year, which is higher than that found in the general population of the same age and gender.
The researchers also found that risk factors normally associated with the risk of having another hemorrhagic stroke—lower educational levels, evidence of disease of the white matter of the brain, and carrying a variant of the apolipoprotein E gene—also predicted the risk of developing depression.
Finally, patients who developed depression were also highly likely to develop dementia later in the course of the study. The overlap of depression and dementia was present in 63 percent of study participants; and among them, depression was diagnosed before the onset of dementia in 80 percent of cases, on average 18 months in advance.
"When caring for hemorrhagic stroke patients, healthcare providers tend to focus on preventing another stroke," Biffi said. "We have found that even among patients who do not have a second stroke, the incidence of depression and subsequently dementia are very high, and healthcare providers need to be on the lookout for it in order to counsel patients and families."


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It's not easy finding stocks that are on the cutting edge of their industry, publicly traded, and poised for more growth. Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR ) is a quiet tech company that's leading the machine-to-machine communication market, also called the Internet of Things, and it's upside can't be overlooked.
Although Sierra has been on Wall Street since 2000, its business has shifted since then, with some of its technology now powering innovations in Tesla's (NASDAQ: TSLA ) Model S. And as the company's focus has shifted over the years, so has its potential.
So, Sierra does what exactly?
Let's keep this simple. If the Internet of Things, or IoT, is the connection of everyday objects to the Internet, then Sierra Wireless is the company that makes that connection possible. IoT will allow cars to communicate with each other, vending machines to tell companies when they need to be refilled, and energy systems to manage power usage on their own. Sierra's wireless modules and cloud management services both allow formerly non-connected devices to connect to the Internet and be easily controlled.
Tesla's Model S is a perfect example of a connected car, in which Sierra provides the 3G-connection module that allows the car's infotainment system to tap into AT&T's wireless network. Tesla can then access data about the car's systems and make upgrades and adjustments based on feedback from the vehicle. Tesla is clearly a leader in automobile connectivity, but it's not the only company moving in this direction. Other car companies such as Ford, Toyota, BMW and others use Sierra's technology as well.
But cars aren't the only thing Sierra puts its modules into. Nespresso's coffee makers also have Sierra's connected devices, as do energy systems, wireless payment devices, and much more.
The company's goal is to take away all the technical aspects of the connecting devices to the Internet of Things, so that companies can focus on making their products. And Sierra Wireless is in a great position to do it.
Right now, Sierra Wireless holds about 34% of the embedded cellular M2M module business worldwide.
Although it has worldwide IoT reach, the company is still nimble with a market cap under $700 million, $180 million in cash, and virtually no debt. In its fiscal fourth quarter 2013, ending in February, Sierra posted revenue of $118.6 million, up 8.4% year over year. Revenue for the full fiscal 2013 year hit a record high of $441.9 million, up 11.2%.
The upside for Sierra is that it recently sold its AirCard business, which was dragging down its focus on the Internet of Things. Sierra's CEO, Jason Cohenour, said in an earnings statement that:
We achieved record revenue in the fourth quarter, closing out a year in which we delivered solid operational results, sold our AirCard business, and began putting the proceeds to work on acquisitions that extend our leadership position in M2M.


Understanding Valve Stems
So what is a valve stem, and why is it so important? Valve stems are a basic feature of wheels and play a critical role in tire and wheel safety. They are necessary to keep your tires inflated and allow you to add or remove air as needed.
How Does a Valve Stem Work?
Valve stems are made up of a body, core, and a cap. The valve core is the inner sealing portion of the valve stem that prevents air loss. The valve core should be tightened into the valve body for a proper seal.
While the valve cap helps prevent air loss with a rubber seal inside the cap, it’s main function is to keep dirt and debris from getting into the stem and contaminating or corroding the valve core. If moisture gets inside the valve stem and freezes, it can cause air loss and/or a flat tire.
The rubber components of valve stems can dry out and crack over time, causing air leaks or total air loss. To avoid this, we recommend replacing your valve stems at least every time you replace your tires.
Types of Valve Stems
Standard Rubber Valve Stem
These valve stems can be operated at air pressures of 65psi or below and are typically used on most passenger vehicles.
Chrome-Sleeve Rubber Valve Stem
These valve stems can also be operated at air pressures of 65psi or below and are very similar to a standard rubber valve stem, but they have a chrome sleeve over the valve portion for enhanced appearance, as well as a chrome valve cap.
High-Pressure Valve Stem
These valve stems are used on light trucks and trailers when the air pressure requirements exceed 65psi.
High-Performance Metal Valve Stem
These valve stems are recommended for high-performance purposes. Because a rubber grommet is used to seal the metal performance valve to the wheel, they will still require replacement over time.
They are attached to the wheel with a nut and rubber grommet. The nut can loosen over time and must be tightened periodically to prevent air loss.
Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS)
Most vehicles after the year 2007 come equipped with Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS), which monitor your tire air pressure. While most TPMS sensors also use valve stems to add/remove air, the valve stem portion of the TPMS sensor is different from a standard valve stem.
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A week after failing to report for voluntary workouts at the team facility, Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown was there yesterday with his teammates, participating in the offseason process as everybody else was. Thus ending the minor controversy. I just hope that too many people didn’t decide to burn their jerseys immediately after the word ‘holdout’ was uttered.
Recently, of course, it was reported by Mike Garafolo of FoxSports 1 that Brown informed the team he would be skipping the Phase One workouts, and that the sixth-year receiver was considering potentially holding out beyond mandatory minicamp, possibly into training camp, in his quest for a new deal.
This is information presumably leaked to the media via his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, who has a reputation for ruthlessness in his quest to gain the top dollar for his clients, and thus for himself. Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette also intimated that Brown told the team about his no-show to the workouts.
As of this point, I have no reason to believe that the reports of Brown’s and Rosenhaus’ intentions were genuine, and that he has had a change of heart over the course of time passed since his initial absence.
That would imply that there was a catalyst for his change of heart, and I’m not so sure that the public backlash—while certainly not insignificant—was the item that made the difference. More likely, he realized, or was made aware, that his absence would not in any way help to further achieve his goal of a new contract.
The Steelers have many unofficial policies, such as not negotiating contracts during the season, even if it means getting a deal done on the plane on the way to the first regular season game. Another policy is not negotiating with players while they are holding out, which is what Mike Wallace discovered a couple of offseasons back.
But there is another policy that most directly applies to Brown’s situation. Barring possibly the quarterback position, the Steelers do not negotiate new contracts with players until they are in the final year of a contract. And Brown has three years left on a six-year deal.
Realistically, the All-Pro wide receiver has already accomplished as much as he could have accomplished, if indeed he has accomplished anything by his week-long absence. He made it known publicly that he wanted a new contract, and that is about as far as this will likely realistically go for now.
Of course, Brown is not just your average wide receiver. He has the capacity to become the most accomplished wide receiver in team history. Just last season alone, he set new single-season franchise receiving records for receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns en route to his second-straight All-Pro nomination.
If there’s any player barring a franchise quarterback that the team might even consider opening a dialog with prior to the final year of his contract, it would be somebody like Brown. And the best way to go about that would be to exemplify the spirit of being a team-first, franchise-type of player.
But given that even Ben Roethlisberger just waited until the final year of his contract, I think it’s a safe bet that that won’t be happening.


- The First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco ruled Tuesday in favor of the Golden State Warriors' plans to build a $1 billion NBA arena in the city's Mission Bay neighborhood.
- The court denied the Mission Bay Alliance's legal challenge against the project, as it said the team had conducted a proper environmental study of the arena's impact.
- Construction on the venue is now set to move forward. The Mission Bay Alliance still has the option to appeal the case to the state Supreme Court.
This decision follows another ruling in the team's favor earlier this year, when a San Francisco Superior Court judge decided there was no need for additional environmental reviews for the project.
The Mission Bay Alliance claims that the proposed 18,064-seat arena — which will be located across the street from University of California, San Francisco women’s, children’s and cancer hospitals — does not adequately address traffic, air quality or noise concerns.
The Warriors announced earlier this year that the lawsuits forced the team to delay the opening of the planned arena by one year. Construction, which is expected to last two years, is now estimated to be complete in time for the 2019 NBA season.
Plans for the development include two office towers and a large plaza lined with shops and restaurants. In October, the Warriors selected the joint venture of Clark Construction and Mortenson to build the arena. Both companies have extensive experience tackling major league sports venues.