Discovering Terroir in the Wines of Alsace

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 87-90
Author(s):  
bill nesto
Keyword(s):  
Farming Practices ◽  
Grape Variety ◽  
Wine Flavor ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Ideal

Alsace vineyards are complex in subsoil type. The author proposes that the characteristics of the subsoil are the most indelible aspect of terroir. Many Alsace wine producers use sustainable, biologic, and biodynamic farming practices in order to best transfer flavors that could be attributed to subsoil type. Both the traditional and modern vinification and maturation methods of Alsace producers interfere minimally with the transfer of subsoil flavor to wine flavor. Hence, Alsace wine is the ideal locus to sense and understand ““terroir”” in wine. The author examines whether and how subsoil flavor can be sensed in wine flavor. In particular, he assesses what could account for ““mineral”” smells and tastes in wine. Most Alsace wines are composed of one grape variety. Until recently all Grand Cru wines had to be composed of only one of the four varietals: Riesling, Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris, and Muscat d'Alsace. Recent changes in wine legislation allow other vine varieties or blends of varieties in Grand Cru wines. The author examines the relationship of these legal changes to the terroir issue and to the marketability of Alsace wine. The author substantiates his theses by comparing and contrasting the opinions of various Alsace winemakers whom he interviewed in November of 2007.

Professionalism and Ethics in Chemistry

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Kovac
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Common Morality ◽  
Moral Ideal ◽  
Legal Ethics ◽  
Standards Of Conduct ◽  
Special Rules ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Ideal

Common morality and ethical theory are universal. Not only do they provide the standards of conduct that we expect all rational persons to follow, but also they provide the basis for professional ethics, the special rules of conduct adhered to by those engaged in pursuits ordinarily called professions, such as law, medicine, engineering, and science. Although common morality and ethical theory are general, professional ethics is specific. Legal ethics applies only to lawyers (and no one else); scientific ethics applies only to scientists. Professional ethics is consistent with common morality, but goes beyond it. Professional ethics governs the interactions among professionals, and between professionals and society (Callahan 1988). In many cases, it requires a higher standard of conduct than is expected of those outside the profession, but the norms of professional ethics must be consistent with common morality. To understand professional ethics, it is necessary to understand the concept of a profession (Davis 1998). A profession is more than a group of people engaged in a common occupation for which they are paid. While there are a variety of ways to define a profession, I use a social contract approach, which I have found to be most useful in my thinking about professional ethics. In this view, a profession derives from two bargains or contracts: one internal and one external. The internal bargain governs the interactions among members of the profession while the external bargain defines the relationship of the profession to society. Both, however, are based on a moral ideal of service around which the profession is organized (Davis 1987). For lawyers, the ideal is justice under law. For physicians, the ideal is curing the sick, protecting patients from disease, and easing the pain of the dying. As Michael Davis has argued, these moral ideals go beyond the demands of ordinary morality, the requirements of law, and the pressures of the market. Using a moral ideal as the fundamental basis of the profession comes from the old- fashioned idea of a profession as a calling.

Architectural Competitions and Bureaucracy, 1934–1945

1999 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Shanken
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Institute ◽  
The Government ◽  
Business Acumen ◽  
Architectural Competitions ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
American Institute Of Architects ◽  
The Ideal

The 1930s in the United States marked a turning point in the relationship of the architectural profession to both the government and corporations. The federal government and large corporations, began to hold design competitions to stimulate the building industry during the Depression. This caught the American Institute of Architects unprepared and led to the transformation of the profession from one grounded in the ideal of the architect-artist to one whose survival depends, in part, upon business acumen, technical competence, and public relations skill.

scholarly journals Antinous: From the Pederastic to the Divine

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desmond Wong
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
Roman Culture ◽  
Public Setting ◽  
Different Response ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Ideal

No face is more recognized as the ideal of ancient male beauty than Antinous and yet little is known about his life. Scholars have used his relationship with the Emperor Hadrian as evidence for their own means. This relationship has gone from a sordid and scandalous affair to purely platonic and educational, depending on the personal orientations of the scholars and the cultural trends of their age. The controversy about Antinous began immediately: the establishment of his cult after his death was mocked by contemporaries as an exaggeration and inappropriate mourning. Soon after it was fuel for Christian critics about the arbitrary nature of pagan deities. However, in Hadrian’s lifetime the cult became an established sect of the Imperial Religion, spreading throughout the Eastern provinces. Why did this cult function successfully in the East, while being scorned in the West? This thesis explores the reasons for the different response. I will argue that the pederastic relationship had been a long established tradition within the East but mocked as inappropriate in the West, at least in a public setting. In Greek culture there were numerous cases of such relationships in myth. The contemporaries who criticized the relationship of Hadrian and Antinous, and especially his cult, were reacting against a trend of Hellenization of Roman culture. This had been a debated issue since the Roman conquest of the East, and many times before, the champions of Roman tradition had depicted the spread of Greek ways as the triumph of moral corruption.

scholarly journals The state and personality in the works of N.A. Berdyaev

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 02006
Author(s):  
Stepan Yaichny
Keyword(s):  
Social Preferences ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
European Philosophy ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Ideal

This article discusses the basic concepts of Berdyaev’s philosophy, traces the relationship of his philosophical view and political convictions. This relationship is revealed through the concept of personality, which is the central concept of Berdyaev’s philosophy. Through the attitude to the personality, we can reveal the attitude of N. A. Berdyaev to the institution of the state, understand the social preferences of the Russian philosopher, who has come a long way from the representative of Russian Marxism to Russian religious philosophy. Having understood his ideas about the ideal structure of society, we can understand the attitude of N. A. Berdyaev to the Soviet state. The article distinguishes between two different types of relationships: the individual and society - collectivism and communitarianism. Berdyaev’s view is shown in the origins of Russian communism, which, in the opinion of the philosopher, are found not only in Western European philosophy, but also in the historical mentality of Russian people.

The Regenerative Cycle: An Efficiency Basis having Special Reference to the Number of Feed Water Heating Stages

1941 ◽  
Vol 146 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. S. Horsman
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Feed Water ◽  
Final States ◽  
Boiler Plant ◽  
Worked Example ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Regenerative Cycle ◽  
The Ideal

The efficiency of the regenerative cycle may be defined as the ratio of the heat converted into work (in British Thermal Units per pound of steam) to the heat supplied to 1 lb. of steam in the boiler plant. Where feed heating is employed, however, the heat converted into work is less than the adiabatic heat drop as calculated from the initial and final states of expansion. The difference between these quantities is termed “unavailable heat” in the paper, and the efficiency is therefore given as the ratio of the adiabatic heat drop less the unavailable heat, to the heat supplied to 1 lb. of steam in the boiler plant. The object of the paper is to illustrate the advantage derived from working in terms of unavailable heat. Values of this quantity are given, and the author provides a worked example showing their use. Appendixes I and II deal with investigations of the case in which the number of feed heating stages is infinitely great, i.e. the conditions for the ideal efficiency. The relationship of the ideal efficiency to other efficiencies corresponding to various finite numbers of feed heating stages is indicated.

Retreat from the Male: Catullus 62 and Sappho's Erotic Flowers

Ramus ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Stehle Stigers
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Intimacy ◽  
Short Life ◽  
Narcissistic Personality ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The One ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Ideal

Catullus described a full emotional circle in his short life from delight in unconstrained aesthetic sensuality free of socially-defined patterns (cc. 5, 6, 13 for example) to longing for a stable bond in the relationship of man to woman. He pictured such a bond as placed within the traditional Roman frame of marriage and home, but cast in a personal mold; he wanted to preserve his aesthetic and sensual response to a woman while combining it somehow with the stability and intimacy appropriate to friendship (amare and bene velle). Poems 72 and 87, for instance, directly express the ideal in acknowledging its absence from Catullus' relations with Lesbia.Catullus liked to feel that the possibility of complete union was what he offered Lesbia. Perhaps it was his inability to fashion a compelling synthesis of sexual intimacy and friendship with her that led him to write a series of poems exploring attempts, mainly failures, at full reciprocal love. The successful attempts are idyllic or mythic (Septimius and Acme, Peleus and Thetis, neither unambiguously positive). The failures come, in Catullus' portrayal, when union founders on the obstacle of the narcissistic personality, the man or woman unable to forfeit autonomy, desirous of holding others in thrall without being himself held. Catullus' highly developed sensitivity to narcissism must be a reaction to its prominence in the character of a certain kind of sexually attractive individual, the one who is alluring but uncapturable, the kind of woman, like Lesbia, with whom Catullus sought union. Catullus conveys the quality of narcissism in such a character in part through the image of the flower (appropriately, considering the source of the modern name for it).

A Review on Homoeopathic Remedies and their Relationship

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (04) ◽  
pp. 209-215
Author(s):  
Renu Bala ◽  
Amit Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Therapeutic Action ◽  
Pocket Book ◽  
Action Knowledge ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe word relationship indicates the way in which two or more things are connected, or the state of being connected. There is nothing in nature really unrelated to anything else. Medicines are interrelated to each other in various ways of therapeutic action. Knowledge of these relations is very important for accurate prescribing. Hahnemann was always careful to observe and record the antidotes to the remedies he proved.The relationship of remedies is the most useful section in therapeutic pocket book. Even Kent advocated the use of this particular section which can be studied at various levels of mind, parts, sensations, modalities, etc. But it is the least understood and least used because of neglect on the part of physicians. The practitioners are mastering the art of individualisation which is one of the pillars of homoeopathic treatment but more stress needs to be laid upon the grouping of remedies based on their relationship which has great importance in practice for the ideal cure. The homoeopathic literature was found to be very rich in describing the relationship which every remedy owes to each other. This review aims to bring forward the underlying facts and experiences of different authors regarding remedy relationship.

Elektra: Sophokles, Von Hofmannsthal, Strauss

Ramus ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Ewans
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Tragic Vision ◽  
Richard Strauss ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Ideal

The Romantics usually placed originality at a high premium, downplaying or disguising wherever possible their debts of theme and form to previous literature. But in other periods the ideal of imitation, of re-creating for the new poet's own generation the essence of a great drama from the past, has been more highly regarded; and where the Greek tragedians are the source on which the more modern playwright draws, the results are always of interest, whether they be a deliberate narrowing from the scope of the original to a precise contemporary purpose such as Anouilh's Antigone, or a complex reshaping like Racine's Phèdre, which places the values of Louis XIV's France in a stimulating dialogue with the tragic vision of the Greeks.In this essay on the relationship between the Elektra of Richard Strauss and that of Sophokles, the idea of dialogue is central. The relationship of Hofmannsthal's Elektra to Sophokles' has been treated by only a handful of writers; only one of these (Hans-Joachim Newiger) exhibits a knowledge of Greek and a familiarity with the range of twentieth century Sophoklean scholarship; and the relationship with Sophokles discussed in these works is always that of Hofmannsthal's play, never that of Strauss's opera.

scholarly journals Rosalind and Celia

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gyöngyi Matus-Kassai
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Framework ◽  
As You Like It ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
True Friendship ◽  
The Ideal

This paper focuses on the relationship between Rosalind and Celia from Shakespeare’s As You Like It. The study investigates a hitherto undiscovered link between their friendship and that of David and Jonathan from the Bible. Both friendships are analysed in the context of the classical and Renaissance discourse on amicitia perfecta, highlighting the most important features of idealised friendship from Cicero’s De Amicitia and Montaigne’s essay On Friendship. Furthermore, amicitia perfecta is proposed as a new, alternative framework to understand the relationship of Rosalind and Celia, which is often discussed in the context of homoerotic desire. Finally, the essay emphasises the significance of the fact that the ideal friends presented in Shakespeare’s comedy are female in a culture when women were thought to be excluded from, and incapable of, true friendship.

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