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Publications (2000-)

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Panti, Cecilia. ‘The Scientific Basis of Robert Grosseteste’s Teaching at the Oxford Franciscan School’, in The English Province of the Franciscans (1224-C.1350), 247-272, ed. Michael J. P. Robson. The Medieval Franciscans. Leiden: Brill, 2017.

Grosseteste, Robert. On Free Decision. Ed. Neil Lewis. Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. From the publisher: De libero arbitrio, Grosseteste’s influential treatise on free will, was written between about 1225 and the early 1230s. This new edition contains Latin texts and en-face English translations of the two versions of the treatise. An extensive introduction provides a thorough account of Grosseteste’s treatise, the sources of the text and also its uses in later writers such as Richard Rufus of Cornwall and Richard Fishacre.

Cunningham, Jack P. and Mark Hocknull, eds. Robert Grosseteste and the Pursuit of Religious and Scientific Learning in the Middle-Ages. Berlin: Springer, 2016. Notes: This work includes Giles Gasper on Nature, Creation and Man in the Hexaemeron and Tom McLeish on medieval lessons for the modern religion and science debate. These two authors are joined by Brian Tanner and Richard Bower in a chapter on unity and symmetry in the De luce. Hannah Smithson offers a fascinating account of three dimensional colour space with reference to De iride. Cecilia Panti discusses the theological use of science in Grosseteste and Adam Marsh, according to Roger Bacon, and Nader El-Bizri contributes a chapter on Grosseteste’s study of meterological optics. Nine other excellent chapters bring together an international field of historians, theologians, medievalists and scientists in order to explore and discuss Grosseteste’s contribution to the history of science, theology and intellectual development in general [text from the editors].

Cunningham, Jack P. ‘Robert Grosseteste (c. 1170-1253): England’s Forgotten Philosopher.’ The Historian, no. 131 (2016): 36-40.

Durgun, Fatih. ‘Ortaçağ Avrupa Düşünce Tarİhİnde Gelenekçİlİk: Robert Grosetteste’nİn Hexaëmeron Adli Eserİnde Teolojİ, İlahİ Aydinlanma Ve Âlemİn Ezelİlİğİ.’ Kafkas University Journal of the Institute of Social Sciences, no. 17 (2016): 167-83. Notes: English title – ‘Traditionalism in the History Of Medieval European Thought: Theology, Divine Illumination and Eternity in Robert Grosseteste’s Hexaëmeron’.

Jorland, Gérard. ‘Le De Luce de Robert Grosseteste: Présentation et Traduction.’ Revue de métaphysique et de morale 89 (2016): 119-130.

Panti, Cecilia. ‘Annotazioni su forma, mensura e infinito in Niccolò Cusano e Roberto Grossatesta’, in Niccolò Cusano. L’uomo, i libri, l’opera, 95-124. Spoleto: Fondazione Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo, 2016.

Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina. ‘Georeferencing Roberti Grosseteste Epistolae.’ Philica., 2016. Accessed 17 November 2016.

Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina. ‘The Light Linking Dante Alighieri to Robert Grosseteste.’, 2016. Accessed 17 November 2016.

Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina. ‘Suono E Silenzio Nella Divina Commedia: Alcuni Esempi Dall’inferno Dantesco.’ Philica., 2016. Accessed 17 November 2016.

Hendrix, John Shannon. Unconscious Thought in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. Includes a chapter entitled ‘Robert Grosseteste: Imagination and Unconscious Thought’ (pp. 126-47).

Hoskin, Phillipa, ed. Robert Grosseteste as Bishop of Lincoln: the Episcopal Rolls 1235-1253. Kathleen Major Series of Medieval Records. Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2015. Notes: (from abstract) This completely new edition of Grosseteste’s episcopal rolls makes it possible to take a fresh look at how he tackled the vexed issues of clerical ignorance, pluralism and non-residence in the aftermath of the reforms of the Lateran Council of 1216. They are presented here with an introductory study and elucidatory notes.

Grosseteste, Robert and Pseudo-Dionysius. Versio Caelestis Hierarchiae Pseudo-Dionysii Areopagitae Cum Scholiis Ex Graeco Sumptis Necnon Commentariis Notulisque Eiusdem Lincolniensis. Ed. Declan Lawell. Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. Notes: (from publisher) This volume contains Robert Grosseteste’s translation of the Pseudo-Dionysius’s Celestial Hierarchy. The Latin text is accompanied by Grosseteste’s translation of the Greek scholia as well as his commentary and notes made on the Celestial Hierarchy and scholia. Grosseteste’s work presents another insight into the renaissance of Dionysian studies which took place in the thirteenth century, as witnessed by commentators on the Areopagite such as Aquinas, Albert and Thomas Gallus. Grosseteste’s commentary is greatly informed by his command of the Greek language which resulted in not only a detailed philological understanding of the Greek but also in a rich interpretation of the mind of Dionysius.

Rossi, Michela and Giorgio Buratti. ‘The Architecture of Color: Number and Shapes as Measurement and Representation Tools.’ Nexus Network Journal (2015): 1-23. Notes: The paper deals with the geometrical architecture of color models. Many of these models had practical application in industry and the arts. Historically, geometry has been the principal means to explain, measure and represent the phenomenon of color. A 2-year research project on color in industrial design and architecture has led to the development of a new digital model for design applications using generative software (Grasshopper). It aims to show the historical significance of mathematical relationships between color and shape, and the actual applicability of them to digital representation in a dynamic model. The research goal is the parametric modeling of a color solid whose surfaces can be adapted to several geodesic tessellations. A regular polyhedron projected onto the sphere allows the integration of different regular and semi-regular shapes, therefore the comparison of different sets of color with analogous symmetry. The developing process of the model stresses the symmetry of the three primary colors, referring to the RGB screen in the numbers that feature the changing of the hues on the solid’s surface, however the number symmetry differs from the first shape.

Sierra, Cristancho and Sebastián Ricardo. ‘Plotino Y Grosseteste: El Neoplatonismo En la Cosmología Medieval’,, 2015.

Bower, Richard G., et al. ‘A Medieval Multiverse?: Mathematical Modelling of the Thirteenth Century Universe of Robert Grosseteste.’ Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Science 470, no. 2167 (2014). Abstract: In his treatise on light, written about 1225, Robert Grosseteste describes a cosmological model in which the universe is created in a big-bang-like explosion and subsequent condensation. He postulates that the fundamental coupling of light and matter gives rises to the material body of the entire cosmos. Expansion is arrested when matter reaches a minimum density and subsequent emission of light from the outer region leads to compression and rarefaction of the inner bodily mass so as to create nine celestial spheres, with an imperfect residual core. In this paper, we reformulate the Latin description in terms of a modern mathematical model, teasing out consequences implicit in the text, but which the author would not have had the tools to explore. The equations which describe the coupling of light and matter are solved numerically, subjected to initial conditions and critical criteria consistent with the text. Formation of a universe with a non-infinite number of perfected spheres is extremely sensitive to the initial conditions, the intensity of the light and the transparency of these spheres. In this ‘medieval multiverse’, only a small range of opacity and initial density profiles leads to a stable universe with nine perfected spheres. As in current cosmological thinking, the existence of Grosseteste’s universe relies on a very special combination of fundamental parameters.

Bringhurst, Robert. ‘For Robert Grosseteste.’ Ontario Review 1 (2014). Notes: Poem available at

Dorandi, Tiziano and Michele Trizio. ‘Editio Princeps Del “Liber Qui Uocatur Suda” Di Roberto Grossatesta.’ Studia graeco-arabica 4 (2014): 145-90. Abstract: The Liber qui uocatur Suda in the Latin translation by Grosseteste is transmitted in an incomplete form in two manuscripts housed in London (R) and Oxford (D) respectively. The Liber results from Grosseteste’s selection and Latin translation of a few entries from the Byzantine Suda. The present text is the editio princeps of this translation. The introduction to the present edition, based on mss. R and D, lists fifteen witnesses preserving chapter 2 (the entry Ἰησοῦς in the Suda). The relationship between these witnesses and the double redaction of this chapter is also discussed. The authors investigate the composition and features of the Liber and provide the first edition of the text, accompanied by the account of the ecdotic criteria adopted.

Hoskin, Philippa. ‘Robert Grosseteste and the Simple Benefice: A Novel Solution to the Complexities of Lay Presentation.’ Journal of Medieval History (2014): 1-20. Abstract: That pastoral care was the main focus of Grosseteste’s theological work and correspondence is well established: Grosseteste is often characterised as the vehement, uncompromising promoter of the pastoral ideal in the face of strong opposition, ecclesiastical and lay. Less close attention has been paid to whether the records of his diocesan administration demonstrate the practical outworking of his pastoral theories. Although narrow in compass, his administrative rolls for the English diocese of Lincoln are not entirely sterile. They show Grosseteste experimenting with a novel form of parish organisation, using grants of simple benefices (simplex beneficium) to ensure appropriate provision for a parochial priestly function whilst offering a constructive compromise to the laity who had the right to nominate clergy for churches (the patrons) when their candidates were deemed inadmissible. The practical working out of these proposals reveals that they had both educational benefits, particularly for potential clergy, and allowed Grosseteste to focus his educational and pastoral efforts directly within the parishes.

Panti, Cecilia and Pietro B. Rossi. ‘In Memoriam Servus Gieben, OFM Cap.’ Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale, no. 56 (2014): 554-8.

Pelle, Stephen. ‘Newly Recovered English Homilies from Cotton Otho A. Xiii.’ The Review of English Studies 65, no. 269 (2014): 193-218. Notes: ‘Before the Cotton Fire, fols. 200–201 of Otho A. xiii contained, according to Smith, ‘Constitutiones cujusdam concilii Anglicani circa tempora Henrici III’. Because James transcribed two excerpts from these, we can now identify this text as the statutes that Robert Grosseteste instituted for Lincoln, his diocese, around the year 1239’.

Sáez-Hidalgo, Ana and R. F. Yeager. ‘Philip Perry’s Schools Manuscript and the Invention of the Recusant Middle Ages.’ Viator 45, no. 2 (2014): 373-397. Notes: Perry was a biographer of Grosseteste.

Temple, Nicholas, John Shannon Hendrix and Christian Frost, eds. Bishop Robert Grosseteste and Lincoln Cathedral: Tracing Relationships between Medieval Concepts of Order and Built Form. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014. Contents: Introduction. ‘The face of one making for Jerusalem’: the chapter of Lincoln during the episcopate of Robert Grosseteste, Nicholas Bennett; Light and procession: Bishop Grosseteste and the ceremony of the visitation, Nicholas Temple. Robert Grosseteste’s cosmology of light and light-metaphors: a symbolic model for a sacred space?, Cecilia Panti; Lumen de Lumine: light, God and creation in the thought of Robert Grosseteste, Jack Cunningham. The architecture of Lincoln cathedral and the cosmologies of Bishop Grosseteste, John Shannon Hendrix; Robert Grosseteste and the phenomenological nature of geometry and light, Noé Badillo; Robert Grosseteste and the foundations of a new cosmology, Dalibor Vesely. Architecture, liturgy and processions: Bishop Grosseteste’s Lincoln and Bishop Poore’s Salisbury, Christian Frost; Charlemagne’s palace chapel at Aachen: apocalyptic and apotheosis, Allan Doig.

Smithson, Hannah E., Giles E. M. Gasper and Tom C. B. McLeish. ‘All the Colours of the Rainbow.’ Nature Physics 10, no. 8 (2014): 540-542.

Smithson, Hannah E., et al. ‘Color-Coordinate System from a 13th-Century Account of Rainbows.’ Journal of the Optical Society of America A 31, no. 4 (2014): A341-A349.

Sparavigna, A.C. ‘Robert Grosseteste and the Colours.’ The International Journal of the Sciences 3, no. 1 (2014): 1-6.

Ambler, Sophie. ‘On Kingship and Tyranny: Grosseteste’s Memorandum and Its Place in the Baronial Reform Movement’, in Thirteenth Century England XIV: Proceedings of the Aberystwyth and Lampeter Conference, 2011, 115-28, eds. Janet Burton, Phillipp Schofield and Björn Weiler. Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2013. Abstract: Considers the various works of Grosseteste concerning kingship, the responsibilities of rulers and the nature of power, in order to assess what influence the bishop’s arguments might have exercised on his disciple, Simon de Montfort, who led a revolution against King Henry III of England in the late 1250s. This discussion explores the memorandum created for Grosseteste outlining the case he made at the papal court in 1250 against the archbishop of Canterbury, which the bishop later sent to Montfort, as well as Grosseteste’s commentary on book eight of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics that inspired his case, and several of Grosseteste’s letters.’ Download from:

Dinkova-Bruun, Greti, Giles E.M. Gasper, Michael Huxtable, Tom C.B. McLeish, Cecilia Panti and Hannah Smithson. The Dimensions of Colour: Robert Grosseteste’s De colore: Edition, Translation and Interdisciplinary Analysis. Durham Medieval and Renaissance Texts 4. Toronto: PIMS, 2013.

Flood, John, James R. Ginther, and Joseph W. Goering eds. Robert Grosseteste and His Intellectual Milieu: New Editions and Studies. Papers in Mediaeval Studies 24. Toronto: PIMS, 2013. Essays: James R. Ginther, ‘Introduction.’  Neil Lewis, ‘Libertas arbitrii in Robert Grosseteste’s De libero arbitrio.’  Mette Lebech and James McEvoy, ‘Robert Grosseteste’s Understanding of Human Dignity.’  Joseph W. Goering, ‘Robert Grosseteste’s Dicta: The State of the Question.’  James McEvoy, ‘Robert Grosseteste as Spiritual Guide.’  Michael Robson OFM Conv., ‘Robert Grosseteste’s Two Sermons to the Friars Minor in Commendation of Evangelical Poverty.’  Edgar Laird, ‘Robert Grosseteste, Ptolemy, and Christian Knowledge.’  R. James Long, ‘Adam’s Rib: A Test Case for Natural Philosophy in Grosseteste, Fishacre, Rufus, and Kilwardby.’  Cecilia Panti, ‘Robert Grosseteste and Adam of Exeter’s Physics of Light: The Transmission, Authenticity and Chronology of Grosseteste’s Scientific Opuscula.’  John Flood and James McEvoy, ‘Romanorum malleus et contemptor: Confessional Identity and the Early Modern Reputation of Robert Grosseteste.’ Texts: Cecilia Panti, ‘Robert Grosseteste’s De luce: A Critical Edition.’  Neil Lewis, ‘Robert Grosseteste On Light: An English Translation.’  Meridel Holland, ‘Robert Grosseteste’s Translation of John of Damascus’s The Dialogue of the Christian and the Saracen: An Edition and English Translation.’  Michael W. Dunne, ‘“The Ten Commandments of the Lord”: An Edition and English Translation of Robert Grosseteste’s Sermon 86.’

Loewen, Peter V. Music in Early Franciscan Thought. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Chapter 5 deals with Grosseteste on music and science and draws on De artibus liberalibus and Templum Dei.

Mantello, F. A. C. and Joseph Goering. ‘”In Libro Numerorum Scriptum Est de Leuitis”: Robert Grosseteste on Clerical Orders.’ Medieval Studies 75 (2013): 1-34.

Newhauser, Richard. ‘The Optics of Ps-Grosseteste: Editing Peter of Limoges’s Tractatus moralis de oculo‘ in Vincent Gillespie and Anne Hudson eds. Probable Truth: Editing Medieval Texts from Britain in the Twenty-First Century. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013.

Steinmann, Martin, ed. Handschriften Im Mittelalter. Eine Quellensammlung. Basel: Schwabe, 2013. Includes a manuscript on Grosseteste’s sandals!

Thomson, S. Harrison. The Writings of Robert Grosseteste Bishop of Lincoln, 1235–1253. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. First published 1940.

Brooks, M. ‘The Grosseteste Code.’ New Scientist 213, no. 2855 (2012): 52-53.

Carpenter, David A. ‘Magna Carta 1253: The Ambitions of the Church and the Divisions within the Realm.’ Historical Research (2013): 1-12. Abstract: The first purpose of this article is to publish for the first time a writ of King Henry III, which supplies a missing link in the negotiations leading to the 1253 confirmation of Magna Carta. The letter shows just how determined the church was to press its grievances and secure concessions beyond those found in the charter. Since the church failed to realize this ambition, it achieved far less in 1253 than it hoped. The article also sheds new light on the grievances of Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln, and shows how these were echoed in the schedules of complaint drawn up by the church.

Cooper, Travis James. ‘One Truth or Many Truths? Two Medieval Accounts of Truth: Anselm of Canterbury and Robert Grosseteste.’ Catholic University of America, PhD, 2012.

Cunningham, Jack P., ed. Robert Grosseteste, His Thought and Its Impact. Toronto: PIMS, 2012. Contents: James McEvoy, ‘Thomas Gallus Vercellensis and Robertus Grossatesta Lincolniensis: How to make the Ps- Dionysius intelligible to the Latins,’ Catherine Kavanagh, ‘The translation methods of Robert Grosseteste and Johannes Scottus Eriugena: some points of comparison,’ Jean-Michel Counet, ‘Grosseteste’s commentary on the divine names: a cosmological relevance?’ Robert M. Ball, ‘Robert Grosseteste on the Psalms,’ Cecilia Panti, ‘The evolution of the idea of corporeity in Robert Grosseteste’s writings,’ Pietro B. Rossi, ‘Grosseteste’s influence on fourteenth and fifteenth century British commentators on Posterior Analytics: a preliminary survey,’ R. James Long, ‘Between idolatry and Science: The magical arts in the Grosseteste School,’ Anne Hudson, ‘Wyclif and the Grosseteste legacy at Oxford Greyfriars,’ Edgar Laird, ‘Grosseteste, Wyclif, and Chaucer on Universals,’ Neil Lewis, ‘Robert Grosseteste and Richard Rufus of Cornwall on unequal infinites,’ Matthias Hessenauer, ‘For a larger audience: Grosseteste’s Perambulavit Iudas in Anglo-Norman,’ Mark W. Elliott, ‘Robert Grosseteste, the Jews and De Cessatione Legalium,’ James McEvoy, ‘The Mystical Theology commentary of Robert Grosseteste as a source for the Die siben strassen zu got of Rudulph of Biberach, OFM’.

Gazziero, Leone. ‘The Latin “Third Man”. A Survey and Edition of Texts from the XIIIth Century.’ Cahiers de L’Institut du Moyen Age Grec Et Latin 81 (2012): 11-93.

Robert Grosseteste. The Dimensions of Colour: Robert Grosseteste’s De Colore. Durham Medieval and Renaissance Texts. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2013.

Robert Grosseteste. Robert Grosseteste at Munich: The Abbreviatio by Frater Andreas, O.F.M., of the Commentaries by Robert Grosseteste on the Pseudo-Dionysius. Eds. James J. McEvoy and Philipp W. Rosemann. Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations 14. Leuven: Peeters, 2012. Notes: An edition, translation, and careful study of a short and hitherto completely neglected text from a manuscript in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS. clm 8827. This codex—a collection of extracts from a broad range of texts conducive to spiritual contemplation—includes an abbreviatio of Robert Grosseteste’s commentaries on the Corpus Dionysiacum. Professor McEvoy’s detailed introduction identifies the author of the abridgment as one Friar Andreas, a Franciscan of the southern German province who worked in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. McEvoy is able to identify a series of early owners of the codex, which turns out to be intimately connected with the history of the Franciscan community at Munich—indeed, with the history of Munich itself. For, as McEvoy shows, MS. clm 8827 did not remain unaffected by historical turning-points such as the secularization of 1802 and even World War II. Friar Andreas’s text is accompanied by the glosses of ‘Finehand’, a mystically inclined mind who may well have been a Franciscan nun. Finehand represents another layer in the tradition of the reception of the Pseudo-Dionysius, and of Robert Grosseteste’s commentary upon the Pseudo-Dionysius, which this volume minutely chronicles.’

Robert Grosseteste. On the Cessation of the Laws. Trans. Stephen M. Hilderbrand. The Fathers of the Church, Medieval Continuation. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2012.

Robert Grosseteste. Roberti Grosseteste, Episcopi Quondam Lincolniensis Epistolae. Ed. Henry Richards Luard. Cambridge Library Collection. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. First published 1861.

Mantello, F. A. C. and Joseph Goering. ‘Robert Grosseteste’s Quoniam Cogitatio, a Treatise on Confession.’ Traditio 67 (2012): 341-84.

Molina Moreno, Francisco. ‘De Hyperboreis Renascentibus.’ Vox Latina 48 (2012): 310-16. Abstract: En este artículo, presentamos y examinamos algunos testimonios de la literatura latina medieval y, sobre todo, renacentista, acerca del mito de los hiperbóreos. En las épocas mencionadas, se había perdido el fundamento religioso que dicho mito había tenido en la Antigüedad (el mito de Apolo) y, por otra parte, se imaginaba que el paraíso terrenal estaba en Oriente. Sin embargo, la erudición de algunos autores, como San Isidoro de Sevilla, Godofredo de Monmouth o Eneas Silvio Piccolomini, les permitió recordar algunos bellos detalles del mito; otros, como Roger Bacon o Robert de Grosseteste, intentaron incluso justificar lo que habían dicho los antiguos sobre el clima en el país de los hiperbóreos, y Guillaume Postel intentó incluso sugerir que en dicho país pudo estar también el paraíso terrenal bíblico. Article in Latin. See

Orme, Nicholas, ed. Fleas, Flies, and Friars: Children’s Poetry from the Middle Ages. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. Notes: Includes Grosseteste’s ‘Stans puer ad mensam’ and its adaptations (p. 41f).

Panti, Cecilia. ‘Il Trattato De Luce di Roberto Grossatesta. Una Rilettura Sulla Base della Nuova Edizione del Testo’, in Universalità Della Ragione. Pluralità Delle Filosofie Nel Medioevo, 289-99, ed. A. Musco. Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali, 2012. Abstract: Il contributo inquadra la storiografia relativa alla cosiddetta metafisica della luce, di cui il trattato De luce di Roberto Grossatesta costituisce un testo fondamentale. La tesi del presente contributo è che questo originale trattato cosmologico costituì un momento centrale nella riflessione sul problema della causalità naturale, nel complesso percorso di approfondimento della fisica aristotelica condotto dal filosofo inglese e risolto con soluzioni diverse nei suoi scritti. Lo studio anticipa i risultati di ricerca alla quale l’autrice è pervenuta realizzando una edizione critica del testo, in pubblicazione alla data di consegna della presente relazione.

Panti, Cecilia. ‘Meccanica, acustica e armonia delle sfere celesti nel Medioevo’, in Sphaera. Forma Immagine e Metafora tra Medioevo ed Età Moderna, 81-115, eds. L. Valente and P. Totaro. Lessico Intellettuale Europeo. Florence & Rome: Leo Olsckhi, 2012. Abstract: Lo studio mette in relazione la meccanica dei cieli e la dottrina acustica nel Medioevo. Partendo dalla concezione cosmologica del Timeo, esposta da Marziano Capella, Macrobio, Calcidio e Boezio, lo studio esamina come Giovanni Scoto Eriugena rielaborò la teoria absidale di Plinio in funzione armonico-musicale. L’ultima parte del contributo è centrata sulla conoscenza del De caelo aristotelico, dell’ottica e cosmologia araba e del sistema tolemaico nel tardo medioevo, focalizzandosi sullo pseudo-Adalbodo, su Roberto Grossatesta, e su testi scolastici universitari.

Panti, Cecilia. ‘Scienza e teologia agli esordi della scuola dei Minori di Oxford: Roberto Grossatesta, Adamo Marsh e Adamo di Exeter’, in I francescani e le scienze. Atti del 39 Convegno internazionale Assisi, 6-8 ottobre 2011, 311-51. Spoleto: Fondazione Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo, 2012. Abstract: ‘Partendo dalla storiografia sulla presenza di insegnamenti di filosofia naturale matematica nella scuola francescana di Oxford, lo studio evidenzia come tali discipline vennero coltivate a Oxford, ma non costituirono l’obiettivo peculiare della scuola francescana, il cui primo maestro, Roberto Grossatesta, e i suoi immediati successori furono anzitutto intenzionati ad offrire ai frati un magistero teologico finalizzato alla predicazione e al servizio di supporto nel ministero pastorale. I più noti francescani allievi di Grossatesta, cioè Adamo Marsh e Adamo di Exeter, offrono esempio di tale ideale didattico, confermandoci che lo sviluppo dei loro interessi scientifici, relativi soprattutto alla fisica della luce, appartengono agli anni che precedettero il loro ingresso nell’Ordine dei Minori’.

Grosseteste, Robert. Roberto Grosseteste, Tratado da luz e outros opúsculos sobre a cor e a luz. Eds. Mário Santiago de Carvalho and Maria da Conceição Camps. Porto: Gabinete de Filosofia Medieval /Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto e Editções Afrontamento, Lda, 2012. Notes: Bilingual Portuguese-Latin edition. The Latin edition is based on the text by Cecilia Panti.

Silvestri, Angelo Mario. ‘The Power of the Bishop in the Dioceses of Lincoln and Cremona (1067-1340): A Study in Comparative History.’ University of Cardiff, PhD, 2012.

Smithson, H. E., Cecilia Panti et al. ‘A Three-Dimensional Color Space from the 13th Century.’ Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, image science, and vision 29, no. 2 (2012): 346-52. Abstract: A new commentary on Grosseteste’s De colore in which Grosseteste constructs a linguistic combinatorial account of color. In contrast to other commentaries, we argue that the color space described by Grosseteste is explicitly three-dimensional. We seek the appropriate translation of Grosseteste’s key terms, making reference both to Grosseteste’s other works and the broader intellectual context of the 13th century, and to modern color spaces.

Hendrix, John. Architecture as Cosmology: Lincoln Cathedral and English Gothic Architecture. New York: Peter Lang, 2011.

Horan, D. P. ‘How Original Was Scotus on the Incarnation? Reconsidering the History of the Absolute Predestination of Christ in Light of Robert Grosseteste.’ Heythrop Journal 52, no. 3 (2011): 374-91.

Robert Grosseteste. La Luce: Introduzione, Testo Latino, Traduzione E Commento. Ed. Cecilia Panti. Pisa: Edizioni Plus, 2011.

Briggs, Charles F. ‘Moral Philosophy in England after Grosseteste: An ‘Underground’ History’, in The Study of Medieval Manuscripts of England: Festschrift in Honor of Richard W. Pfaff, 357-86, eds. George Hardin Brown and Linda Ehrsam Voigts. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies. Tempe, Arizona: ACMRS in collaboration with BREPOLS, 2010.

Ginther, James R. ‘Robert Grosseteste’s Theology of Pastoral Care’, in A Companion to Pastoral Care in the Late Middle Ages (1200-1500), ed. Ronald J. Stansbury. Brill Companions to the Christian Tradition. Leiden: Brill, 2010.

Hendrix, John. Robert Grosseteste: Philosophy of Intellect and Vision. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2010. From publisher: Robert Grosseteste: Philosophy of Intellect and Visionfocuses on two important areas in the philosophy of Robert Grosseteste at the beginning of the thirteenth century: Philosophy of Intellect and Philosophy of Vision. These two areas of Grosseteste’s philosophy have not been thoroughly explored, nor their importance established…The book is based on readings of important manuscripts by Grosseteste: On Light; On Lines, Angles and Figures; Commentary on the Posterior Analytics; and Hexaemeron. An important part of this project is an examination of the principal sources for Grosseteste’s philosophy: the classical philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, Euclid); the Greek commentators on Aristotle (Alexander of Aphrodisias and Themistius); the Arabic commentators on Aristotle (Alfarabi, Avicenna, Averroes); and the Neoplatonic tradition, which includes the Theology of Aristotle (based on the Enneadsof Plotinus), the Liber de Causis (based on the Elements of Theology of Proclus), and the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius.

Jüssen, G. ‘Robert Grosseteste’, in Contemporary Philosophy: A New Survey, 215-30, eds. Guttorm Fløisted and Raymond Kilbanski. Vol. 6: Philosophy and Science in the Middle Ages, part II.  Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2010.

Marsh, Adam. The Letters of Adam Marsh. Ed. C. H. Lawrence. Vol. 2. Oxford Medieval Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Noone, Timothy. ‘Truth, Creation, and Intelligibility in Anselm, Grosseteste, and Bonaventure’, in Truth: Studies of a Robust Presence, ed. Kurt Pritzl. Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy 51. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2010.

Robert Grosseteste. The Letters of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln. Eds. F. A. C. Mantello and Joseph Goering. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.

Southern, Richard W. ‘Grosseteste, Robert.’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2010. Accessed 3/11/2010. Earlier versions published in 2004 and 2007.

Van Dyke, Christina. ‘The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth: Robert Grosseteste on Universals (and the Posterior Analytics).’ Journal of the History of Philosophy 48, no. 2 (2010): 153-170.

Bloch, David. ‘Robert Grosseteste’s Conclusiones and the Commentary on the Posterior Analytics.’ Vivarium 47, no. 1 (2009): 1-23.

Lahey, Stephen E. John Wyclif. Great Medieval Thinkers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Addresses Grosseteste’s influences on Wyclif.

Pérez-Ilzarbe, Paloma. ‘Definition and Demonstration: Aristotle, Averroes, Grosseteste’, in In Aristotelis Analytica Posteriora: Estudos acerca da recepção medieval dos Segundos Analíticos, ed. A. C. Storck. Linus Editores, 2009. Abstract: ‘The aim of this article is to help to clarify the role which Aristotle gives to definition in his theory of demonstration. I shall begin by examining his handling of the relations between definition and demonstration in chapters 8-10 of the second book of the Posterior Analytics, in order to provide an outline for an interpretation of Aristotle’s thought. Secondly, I shall examine chapter 10 in more detail, bringing out the contrast between the commentary by Averroes and that of Grosseteste. I have chosen these two commentators because, both being generally magnificent interpreters of Aristotle, as far as the nature and types of definition are concerned their understanding of Aristotle is strikingly different’.

Van Dyke, Christina. ‘An Aristotelian Theory of Divine Illumination: Robert Grosseteste’s Commentary on the Posterior Analytics.’ British Journal for the History of Philosophy 17, no. 4 (2009): 685-704.

Lizun, Józef. ‘Elementy kosmologii światła u Bartłomieja z Bolonii.’ Roczniki Filozoficzne 56, no. 2 (2008): 165-184. Abstract: ‘The paper shows the elements of the cosmology of light in Bartholomew of Bologna, the Franciscan master of theology of the thirteenth century (d. after 1294). The paradigm of light is the key concept to understand the thought of this Bologna scholar. His views were principally inspired by Robert Grosseteste’s cosmology. According to Bartholomew of Bologna, the universe is not only the Platonic-Aristotelian machina mundi with its heavenly spheres and the spheres of the four elements of the sublunary world. It is also a vision of the cosmos in accordance with traditional theology with its Empyrean or crystalline heaven. In the construction of his picture of the universe he drew on the rich tradition of the Franciscan school. The paper discusses some particular issues contained in the Tractatus de luce by Bartholomew of Bologna, the issues that were widely considered in the Middle Ages. This concerns especially the conception of the multiplication of forms (multiplicatio specierum), the affection of light on the Earth and its effects, the composition of complex and animate bodies, the structure of heavenly bodies, and the conception of the natural place. The doctrine of Bartholomew of Bologna is a meaningful example how to adjust the problems concerning the metaphysics of light derived from Neo-Platonism to the theological Christian problems’.

Lewis, Neil. ‘Grosseteste on Being.’ The Modern Schoolman 86, no. 1-2 (2008): 25-46.

Mendoza, Celina A. Lértora. ‘La Espiritualidad Patrística En La Obra de Roberto Grosseteste.’ Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 64 (2008): 319-42. From abstract: ‘Comparing the use of the Fathers in this work and his metaphysic opuscules, the article states that Grosseteste has taken them into account, rewriting, in his own style, the following metaphysic-theological statements: 1. The non-eternity of the world. 2. Man as God’s image. 3. The idea of Christ’s “Mystical body” and “Christus totus”. It is also shown that these ideas are at the same time in solidarity with the spirituality cultivated by him.’

Rosemann, Philipp W. ‘Robert Grosseteste’, in The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English: Volume 1, to 1550, 126-36, ed. Roger Ellis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Shuffelton, George, ed. Codex Ashmole 61: A Compilation of Popular Middle English Verse. Teams Middle English Texts Series. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2008. Includes ‘Stans puer ad mensam’ and The King and His Four Daughters, an english version of Le château d’amour. Online here.

Agnoli, Francesco. Roberto Grossatesta: La Filosofia Della Luce. Segmenti. Bologna: ESD, 2007. Contents page at

Blažek, Pavel. Die Mittelalterliche Rezeption Der Aristotelischen Philosophie Der Ehe: Von Robert Grosseteste Bis Bartholomäus Von Brügge (1246/1247-1309). Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Revision of part of the author’s thesis (Jena, 2003). ‘This study considers the medieval reception of Aristotle’s philosophy of marriage, which became known in the Medieval West through the thirteenth century rediscovery of the Nicomachean Ethics, the Politics and the pseudo-Aristotelian Economics, then considered a genuine work of the Stagirite. The author shows in seven case studies how medieval readers interpreted the ideas on marriage contained in these Aristotelian texts, and how they used them to construct their own, mostly theological or philosophical, discourses on marriage. At the core stands a hitherto largely neglected, unedited commentary on the pseudo-Aristotelian Economics of Bartholomew of Bruges (1309). This study is an important contribution to research on the medieval reception of Aristotle, as well as on the history of marriage.’ [Brill’s site].

Dunne, Michael and James McEvoy. ‘A Pseudo-Grosseteste Text on Luxuria at Pavia.’ Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 38 (2007): 75-84.

Evans, G. R. ‘Robert Grosseteste’, in Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers, 111-4 Routledge Key Guides. London: Routledge, 2007.

Longeway, John. Demonstration and Scientific Knowledge in William of Ockham : A Translation of Summa Logicae Iii-Ii : De Syllogismo Demonstrativo, and Selections from the Prologue to the Ordinatio. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 2007. Chapter 2 deals with Grosseteste.

Panti, Cecilia. ‘Necessaria sunt ei latera quae sapiant iura regni et iura Dei: Il ruolo dei francescani nell’episcopato di Roberto Grossatesta’, in I francescani e la politica (secc. XIII-XVII). Atti del convegno internazionale Palermo 3-7 dicembre 2002. Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali, 2007.

Ball, R. M. Thomas Gascoigne, Libraries and Scholarship. Cambridge Bibliographical Society Monograph. Cambridge: Cambridge University Library, 2006.

Marsh, Adam. The Letters of Adam Marsh. Ed. C. H. Lawrence. Vol. 1. Oxford Medieval Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Several letters to Grosseteste.

Robert Grosseteste. Robert Grosseteste: The Complete Dicta in English. Trans. Gordon Jackson. 13 vols. Lincoln: Asgill Press, 1972-2006. V. 1. nos. 1-10 — v. 2. nos. 11-19 — v. 3. nos. 20-36 — v. 4. nos. 37-50 — v. 5. nos. 51-59 — v. 6. nos. 60-78 — v. 7. nos. 79-89 — v. 8. nos. 90-99 — v. 9. nos. 100-102 — v. 10. nos. 103-113 –v. 11. nos. 114-126 — v. 12. nos. 127-137 — v. 13. nos. 138-147. Gordon Jackson’s contact details can be found in the membership list.

William, of Ockham. Demonstration and Scientific Knowledge in William of Ockham: a Translation of Summa Logicae III-II: De Syllogismo Demonstrativo, and Selections from the Prologue to the Ordinatio. Ed. John Longeway. Trans. John Lee Longeway. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 2006.

Kenny, Anthony. Medieval Philosophy. A New History of Western Philosophy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. Passing references to Grosseteste. ‘Grosseteste on omnipotence’ is the subject of pp. 298-9.

Lewis, Neil. ‘Robert Grosseteste and the Continuum’, in Albertus Magnus Und Die Anfange Der Aristoteles-Rezeption Im Lateinischen Mittelalter: Von Richardus Rufus Bis Zu Franciscus de Mayronis, 159-87, eds. Ludger Honnefelder, Rega Wood, Mechtild Dreyer and Marc-Aeilko Aris. Münster: Aschendorff, 2005.

Lopez Cuetara, Jose Miguel. ‘El Aristotelismo en el Pensamiento de Robert Grosseteste.’ Verdad y Vida 63, no. 242 (2005): 49-92.

Vinogradov, K. P. ‘Pripisyvaemyj Robertu Grossetestu Traktat O Prilivakh [The treatise on the tides ascribed to Robert Grosseteste].’ Istoriko-Astronomicheskie Issledovaniya 30 (2005): 227-57. Russian translation of Questio de fluxu et refluxu maris with commentary. In the introductory article the problem of authorship is briefly analysed, the time and place of the work’s composition is considered. The necessary information concerning the life and works of Robert Grosseteste, Adam Marsh, and Adam Rufus is given in the closing part of the article – each of these masters is considered as a possible author of the work.

Gaughan, Carey J. ‘Viva Scriptura : Bishop Robert Grosseteste and the Iconography of the Angel Choir at Lincoln Cathedral.’ Courtauld Institute of Art, MA, 2004.

Ginther, James R. Master of the Sacred Page: A Study of the Theology of Robert Grosseteste, Ca. 1229/30-1235. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.

McEvoy, James. ‘Dignitas Humana: The Equal Dignity of Man and Woman through Their Creation in the Image of God: Basil the Great’s Outlook and Robert Grosseteste’s Reception of It.’ Maynooth Philosophical Papers (2004): 84-8.

Oliver, Simon. ‘Robert Grosseteste on Light, Truth and Experimentum.’ Vivarium 42, no. 2 (2004): 151-180

Panti, Cecilia. ‘Suono Interiore e Musica Umana Fra Tradizione Boeziana e Aristotelismo: Le Glosse Pseudo-Grossatestiane Al De Institutione Musica’, in Parva Naturalia: Saperi Medievali, Natura e Vita. Atti Dell’xi Convegno Della Società Italiana Per Lo Studio Del Pensiero Medievale, Macerata, 7-9 Dicembre 2001, 219-45, eds. C. Crisciani, R. Lambertini and R. Martorelli Vico.  Pisa and Rome: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2004.

Robson, Michael. ‘Robert Grosseteste: His Memory among the Greyfriars, His Cult in Lincoln Cathedral and the Petition for His Canonisation.’ Miscellanea Francescana 104 (2004): 306-23.

Sayers, Jane. Robert Grosseteste, England, and the Thirteenth-Century Papacy. Honywood Papers No 4. Lincoln: Lincoln Cathedral Library, 2004.

Ginther, James R. ‘Laudat Sensum Et Significationem: Robert Grosseteste on the Four Senses of Scripture’, in With Reverence for the Word. Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, 237-55, eds. Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Barry D. Walfish and Joseph W. Goering.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Goering, Joseph Ward and Evelyn A. Mackie, eds. Editing Robert Grosseteste: Papers Given at the Thirty-Sixth Annual Conference on Editorial Problems, University of Toronto, 3-4 November 2000. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.

Lewis, Neil. ‘Robert Grosseteste’, in A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, 597-606, eds. Jorge Gracia and Timothy B. Noone. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.

McEvoy, James J., ed. Mystical Theology: The Glosses by Thomas Gallus and the Commentary of Robert Grosseteste on ‘De Mystica Theologia’. Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations 3. Louvain: Peeters, 2003.

McEvoy, James J. Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, 1235-1253. Lincoln: Lincoln Cathedral Publications, 2003. 60p.

O’Carroll, Maura, ed. Robert Grosseteste and the Beginnings of a British Theological Tradition: Papers Delivered at the Grosseteste Colloquium Held at the Greyfriars, Oxford on 3rd July 2002. Rome: Instituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2003.

Synan, Edward. ‘Laudat Sensum Et Significationem: Robert Grosseteste on the Four Senses of Scripture’, in With Reverence for the Word: Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, eds. Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Barry Walfish and Joseph Ward Goering. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Wilkinson, Louise. ‘The Rules of Robert Grosseteste Reconsidered: The Lady as Estate and Household Manager in Thirteenth-Century England’, in The Medieval Household in Christian Europe, C. 850-C. 1550: Managing Power, Wealth, and the Body, 294-306, eds. Cordelia Beattie, Anna Maslakovic and Rees Jones. International Medieval Research. Turnhout: Brepols, 2003.

Mackie, Evelyn Anne. ‘Robert Grosseteste’s Chasteu D’amur: A Text in Context.’ University of Toronto, Ph.D., 2002.

Paul, Suzanne. ‘An Edition and Study of Selected Sermons of Robert Grosseteste.’ University of Leeds, PhD, 2002.

Marrone, Steven P. The Light of Thy Countenance: Science and Knowledge of God in the Thirteenth Century. 2 vols. Studies in the History of Christian Thought. Leiden: Brill, 2001. Extensive reference to Grosseteste. Chapter on Grosseteste and William of Auvergne.

McEvoy, James. ‘The Edition of a Sermon on the Decalogue Attributed to Robert Grosseteste.’ Recherches de théologie et philosophie médiévales 68 (2001): 228-44.

Panti, Cecilia, ed. Moti, Virtù e Motori Celesti Nella Cosmologia Di Roberto Grossatesta: Studio Ed Edizione Dei Trattati ‘De Sphera’, ‘De Cometis’, ‘De Motu Supercelestium’. Testi e Studi Per Il Corpus Philosophorum Medii Aevi 16. Florence: Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2001.

Rhodes, James Francis. Poetry Does Theology: Chaucer, Grosseteste, and the Pearl-Poet. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001. Part 2 looks at Grosseteste and the Four Daughters of God in Langland.

Fauvel, John, et al. Oxford Figures: 800 Years of the Mathematical Sciences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

McEvoy, James. Robert Grosseteste. Great Medieval Thinkers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Robert Grosseteste and Thomas Aquinas. Summa Linconiensis Super Octo Libris Physicorum Aristotelis. Hildesheim: Olms, 2000. ‘Dem Nachdruck liegt das Exemplar der Alten Bibliothek der Abtei Ottobeuren, Signatur Inc 140 III 115, zugrunde’ [Title page]. Facsimile of Venetian edition of 1500.

Whitehead, Christiania. ‘A Fortress and a Shield: The Representation of the Virgin in the Château D’amour of Robert Grosseteste’, in Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England, 109-32, eds. Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.

Publications of Interest

This is a list of recent and forthcoming publications by members of the society and publications in areas related to the study of Grosseteste.

Robson, Michael J. P., ed. The English Province of the Franciscans (1224-C.1350). The Medieval Franciscans. Leiden: Brill, 2017.

Blund, John. Treatise on the Soul. Eds. Michael Dunne and R. W. Hunt. Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2012.

McEvoy, James, Michael Dunne and Julia Hynes, eds. Thomas Aquinas:Teacher and Scholar. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012. The Annual Maynooth Aquinas Lecture Series began in 1995 and was founded by the late Professor James McEvoy. This second volume arising from the conference series contains papers on a variety of Thomistic topics. It includes essays by Eleanor Stump, John Boyle, Philipp Rosemann and Declan Lawell.

Boncompagno da Signa. Amicitia and De Malo Senectutis et Senii. Ed. Michael Dunne. Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations 15. Leuven: Peeters, 2012.

Richard Fishacre. In secundum librum Sententiarum pt. 2, Dist. 21 – 44, Appendices. Ed. R. James Long. Munich: Verl. der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2011.

Thomas Gallus. Explanatio in Libros Dionysii. Ed. Declan Anthony Lawell. CCCM 223. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. Gallus’s Glosses on the Celestial Hierarchy and his major commentary on the whole Dionysian corpus, the Explanatio, are edited in their entirety for the first time.

Thomas Gallus. Thomae Galli Glose Super Angelica Ierarchia. Accedunt Indices ad Thomae Galli Opera. Ed. Declan Anthony Lawell. CCCM 223a. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011.

Evans, G. R. The University of Oxford: A New History. London: I.B. Tauris, 2010.

Flood, John, Representations of Eve in Antiquity and the English Middle Ages. New York: Routledge, 2010.

Ní Chuilleanán, Eiléan and John Flood eds, Heresy and Orthodoxy in Early English Literature. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010.

Ginther, James R. ed., The Westminster Handbook of Medieval Theology. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2009.

Lebech, Mette, On the Problem of Human Dignity: a Hermeneutical and Phenomenological Investigation. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2009.

McEvoy, James and Michael Dunne eds, The Irish Contribution to European Scholastic Thought. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009.

Robson, Michael, The Franciscans in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2009. Paperback edition.

Beardsley, Martyn and Nicholas Bennet eds.,`Gratefull to Providence’: The Diary and Accounts of Matthew Flinders, Surgeon, Apothecary and Man-Midwife, 1775-1802. Vol. 1 Lincoln: Publications of the Lincoln Record Society, 2008.

Long, R. James, ed., Richard Fishacre, In Secundum Librum Sententiarum, Part 1: Prol., Dist. 1-20. Munich: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2008.

Panti, Cecilia, Filosofia della musica. Tarda Antichità e Medioevo. Rome: Carocci, 2008.

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FORT MYERS, Fla. AP – Florida Urban Organics occupies less than an acre on the industrial outskirts of downtown Fort Myers.

The farm’s neighbors include a scrap-metal recycling center and an auto body shop. A granite store sits in front of its aquaponics greenhouse. Leafy tiers of hydroponically grown lettuces – green butter, Cherokee, green oakleaf – stretch along Metro Parkway, south of the railroad tracks.

“They must have just changed out the McDonald’s sign,” Tom Winrow, director of business development, said, pointing to a billboard jutting from a rectangle of soil soon to be planted with root vegetables.

“Talk about ironic.”Last month, less than two years after taking root here, Florida Urban Organics and its parent company Selovita earned a one-of-a-kind distinction. The farm, already certified organic by the U.S. Department or Agriculture, became the first aquaponics/hydroponics facility ever to be GlobalG.A.P. Certified, an honor awarded to growers that maintain stringent standards of food safety, sustainability and environmental stewardship.

While this urban facility is part farm – its first lettuce harvest of the season took place Monday morning for delivery to area restaurants and grocers – its mission is research and development. This for-profit company hopes to create new methods of agriculture. Methods that could revolutionize the way food is grown.

“It started with the need to provide food security,” founder Gary Winrow said. “That led to us taking an abandoned warehouse and turning it into this.”

Gary Winrow isn’t a farmer, never has been. During his first working life he developed local real estate and drilled wells to recover groundwater. In his semi-retirement he started pondering the issues of food security.

He had ideas. His ideas needed testing.

“It became clear to us that developing a proof of concept was needed,” Winrow said. So he secured a group of local investors and, in January 2013, took over a warehouse that had once housed a builder, and a beer distributor before that.

Flats of microgreens and pea tendrils grow where kegs of Miller Lite once awaited delivery. Tanks of tilapia bubble in what used to be a parking lot.Winrow, with the help of his son, former professional baseball player and Bishop Verot High grad Tom Winrow, assembled a team of engineers, farmers and microbiologists.

Their goal: Find a better way.

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FG releases N3.5 billion for nationwide vaccination

• Paediatrics regret immunisation crisis
• Bayelsa urges vigilance, Nasarawa gets suspected case
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The Federal Government has released N3.5 billion to facilitate the vaccination of Nigerians against sundry communicable diseases nationwide.

The decision, it was learnt, may not be unconnected with the recent concerns over the outbreak of the Monkeypox virus in Bayelsa State. The disease is said to have spread to 11 other states.

The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the Vice President, Laolu Akande, in company of the governors of Abia and Kebbi states, made the announcement yesterday at the end of the NEC meeting presided over by Prof. Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Briefing State House Correspondents Governor Okezie Ikpeazu Of Abia said the gathering was also briefed by the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III who has been acting as the face of polio to boost the campaign in the North.

Meanwhile, the Paediatric Association of Nigeria (PAN) says the raging vaccine crisis was capable of reversing the gains of child survival strategies recorded over the decades. It expressed sadness at the false reports making the rounds that children were being injected with the virus, saying such amounts to a disservice to the Nigerian child, as provided in the National Programme on Immunisation (NPI).

The association’s National President, Dr. Ngozi Ibeziako, while urging parents to allow their children undergo immunisation, stressed that vaccines were safe, cost-effective and life-saving.

Ibeziako stated that the association agreed with the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole and the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) that immunisation was good for children.

However, the Bayelsa State government has urged the citizens to be vigilant as its health teams continue with their surveillance to check the spread of the disease.

The Commissioner for Health, Prof. Ebitimitula Etebu, gave the advice while giving an update on the virus in Yenagoa. According to him, the outbreak had been contained in the state.

Besides, a civil society group, New Initiative for Credible Leadership (NICreL), yesterday, blamed those it described as enemies of the people for the vaccination crisis.

In a statement in Abuja by its Executive Secretary,  Rev. Steven Onwu, NICreL said the speculation had brought untold distress to children and their parents.

The group, therefore, called on the military to probe the incident and bring the perpetrators to justice.

He said the action was a “pure act of terror against the populace, which should be condemned in its entirety.”

Also yesterday, the Nasarawa State government said a suspected case of the disease was being investigated.

The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Daniel Iya, told a press conference in Lafia that there was no confirmed incidence in the state.

Represented by the Director of Public Health, Dr. Ibrahim Adamu, the commissioner said the blood sample of the suspect had been taken for analysis.

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A ban on Qatari flights imposed by Saudi Arabia and its allies took effect Tuesday as first efforts were made to resolve the biggest feud to hit the Arab world in years.

Saudi Arabia and allies including Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain cut diplomatic ties and transport links with Qatar on Monday, accusing the Gulf state of supporting extremism.

Gas-rich Qatar has long had strained ties with its neighbours but the move by Riyadh and its supporters shocked observers, raising fears the crisis could destabilise an already volatile region.

The Gulf states and Egypt banned all flights to and from Qatar and ordered Qatari citizens to leave within 14 days.

Countries including Saudi Arabia also banned Qatari flights from their airspace and Riyadh closed its land border with Qatar, sparking panic buying in Doha amid fears of food shortages.

The first concrete effects were being seen on Tuesday morning, with the flight ban causing delays and cancellations.

UAE carriers Emirates, Etihad, flydubai and Air Arabia, as well as Saudi Airlines had all announced the suspension of flights to and from Qatar as of Tuesday morning.

A total of 27 flights from Dubai to Doha had been scheduled for Tuesday and the Dubai Airports website showed all flights to Doha cancelled.

Qatar Airways, for its part, said it had suspended all flights to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt "until further notice".

Saudi Arabia also announced it was revoking Qatar Airways' operating license.

- Eerily quiet airport -
Doha's Hamad International Airport was virtually deserted early on Tuesday. More than 30 flights were shown cancelled on airport television screens and the departures hall was eerily quiet.

On Monday, shoppers had flooded Doha's supermarkets worried that food imports would dry up.

In one store queues were up to 25-people deep as shoppers piled trollies high with supplies from rice to nappies.

"It's a cycle of panic and I needed to get pasta," said Ernest, a Lebanese national pushing two trollies.

Foreign powers including the United States, a key ally of Qatar, made urgent calls for talks to end the crisis.

In a first signal it was open to negotiations, Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani called late on Monday for "a dialogue of openness and honesty" to resolve the crisis.

"We believe any issue could be solved through discussion and mutual respect," Sheikh Mohammed told Doha-based news channel Al-Jazeera.

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He suggested Kuwait could play a role in mediating the crisis, saying that Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah had called his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani on Monday.

Kuwait and Oman did not join fellow members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which also includes Qatar, in cutting ties with Doha.

Kuwait's state-run news agency KUNA confirmed the phone call and said the Kuwaiti emir had also received a top Saudi envoy in an apparent mediation effort.

"Efforts aimed at containing tensions in the relations between brothers" were discussed in the phone call, KUNA said.

Turkey, which has good relations with Qatar and other Gulf states, also offered to help and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan late on Monday spoke to the emirs of Qatar and Kuwait and to Saudi King Salman.

The crisis will have wide-ranging consequences, not just for Qatar and its citizens but across the Middle East and for Western interests.

Qatar hosts the largest US airbase in the region, which is crucial in the fight against Islamic State group jihadists, and is set to host the 2022 football World Cup.

The country has long been accused by its Gulf neighbours and Egypt of supporting extremist groups.

In announcing it was cutting ties, Riyadh accused Doha of harbouring "terrorist and sectarian groups that aim to destabilise the region including the Muslim Brotherhood, Daesh (IS) and Al-Qaeda".

Riyadh also accused Doha of supporting Iran-backed "terrorist activities" in eastern Saudi Arabia and in Shiite-majority Bahrain.

Any suggestion Qatar is backing the agenda of Shiite-dominated Iran -- Sunni Saudi Arabia's regional arch-rival -- is especially sensitive.

"The measures are unjustified and are based on false and baseless claims," Qatar said in response to Monday's announcement.

The dispute comes less than a month after US President Donald Trump visited Saudi Arabia and called for Muslim nations to unite against extremism.

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Gulf countries previously recalled their ambassadors from Qatar in 2014, ostensibly over its support for the Brotherhood, but Monday's moves go much further.

Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies may have felt emboldened by Trump's visit, which saw the new president clearly align US interests with Riyadh and lash out at Iran.

Qatar has an independent streak that has often angered its neighbours.

The emirate has directly and indirectly supported Islamist groups across the Arab world, including the Muslim Brotherhood.

Qatar has also been criticised for supporting Islamist rebels in Syria, and in 2013, the Afghan Taliban opened a Doha office.

Fellow Gulf states are also reported to have been angered by a huge ransom paid by Doha earlier this year to secure the release of a hunting party, which included members of the Qatari royal family, kidnapped in southern Iraq.

The ransom, which Iraqi officials said was in the "hundreds of millions of dollars", was believed to have been paid to militias with close ties to Tehran.

Signs of an impending Gulf crisis emerged last month.

Doha said hackers were behind the release of false remarks attributed to the emir published on the website of its national news agency.

The stories quoted him questioning US hostility towards Iran, speaking of "tensions" between Doha and Washington and speculating that Trump might not remain in power for long.

Doha denied the comments and denounced a "shameful cybercrime".

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Cautious optmism by stakeholders as Ajaokuta steel company ‘returns’

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The environment was serene. Tall grasses were everywhere. A few security men were inside the bushy compound, staving off incursion of children and hunters alike, who had turned the place to a ground for hunting rabbits and snakes. Though, inside the complex, a technology that aimed to make Nigeria a net exporter of steel was rusting away, an image that could be gleaned from the outside was a ghost town. Metaphorically, The Guardian saw the remains of what was once the most thriving industrial firm in Jos: The Jos Steel Rolling Mill.

Located in the industrial area of the Tin city near Plateau Water Board and Jos International Breweries, in the late 80s, and partially, 90s, the rolling mill (now Zuma Steel Company) was a beehive of activities.

With over 1,000 staff, the mill provided both social and economic succor to Jos metropolis and its surrounding. There were even staff quarters in Rayfield and Bukuru areas of the city for both senior and junior workers that coloured the landscape.

At the staff quarters this afternoon, nobody was eager to speak about the steel firm, as it was considered a Federal Government issue. However, one of the residents, who confided in The Guardian, said, “the place had crumbled.”

“The estate has been sold to a private agency and non staff are now occupying part of the quarters. They pay, accordingly, to the private person who took over the management of the quarters,” our source said.

He said there was an initial agreement between Zuma and a consortium of Ukrainian companies that bought the facility that all staff in the quarters would be paid all their entitlements to make money available for their rent. However, those still accommodated are not paying rent.

According to Jimmy Okafor, a former staff of the steel company, during its boom period, a lot of revenue were generated for government. The state equally benefitted from having such an establishment in its vicinity. However, when Federal Government began its privatisation of public assets, it was one of the companies sold.

Before the coming of Zuma Steel, Okafor said, “the company had become a shadow of itself and was completely shut down for want of what to produce. At the time Zuma took over, majority of the staff were already retrenched, leaving a few capable hands untouched, because of their vast experiences in steel production. Those who were due for pension, were placed on pension, however, their entitlements were paid in controversial circumstance after a long battle led by the Steel Workers’ Union of Nigeria, which lasted over five years. The steel rolling mill, which was taken over by Mr. Innocent Zuma-led Zuma Steel Company, however, has not fared any better.

Death Of A Steel Sector
THE deplorable situation and the pathetic neglect of the Zuma Steel Company (ZSC) is just one example of the decay in the country’s steel industry. The Guardian’s investigations have shown that if the Jos mill is in a pathetic state, then Delta Steel Company (DSC) is a metaphor for failure.

It was in 2011 that the last good story came out of the multi-billion Naira complex. Then, It was reported that the company, still produced at about 60 per cent installed capacity.

The unavailability of iron billets meant the firm had to look for alternative raw material – scrap metal – which it heavily depended on to keep producing steel. But today, DSC is no more, as the management is alleged to owe banks the sum of N31 billion, and also, several millions to its suppliers, workers and other service providers.

During the privatisation gale, the Federal Government sold 80 per cent of its equity in Delta steel, to an Indian firm, Global Infrastructure Nigeria Ltd., which initially pledged to bring in foreign investments.

The firm, instead, took a loan of over N30 billion from some Nigerian banks, which it was unable to repay. The banks had since sold the loans to Assets Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON) and that enabled AMCON to take over Delta Steel Company.

It was reported that as soon as AMCON filed its litigation on the company for non-payment of multi billion Naira debts, the company stopped meeting all its financial obligations, paying salaries; payments for goods supplied and also increased cannibalisation of the facility.

The Guardian gathered that these companies failed not because there was no market for their product, but inconsistency in government policy on steel; after all, new plants are being built across the country.

Experts, who spoke to this paper, noted that the demand for steel products in a growing economy like Nigeria’s is enormous. They said with an estimated population of over 165 million, the country has a large room and huge potential domestic market that could sustain rapid growth in the metals and related product sector.

Currently, Nigeria’s iron and steel sub-sector involves privately owned steel plants that use 100 per cent scrap metals as raw materials. There are several private foundry companies operating at low capacity, cold rolled steel mills that depend on the use of imported hot rolled coils as feed stock, showing the huge gap that exist in the nation’s steel industry.

Experts, however, believe that steel mills in Nigeria could still survive if the government invests in it and is determined to turn the sector around. They said government’s intervention via the provision of electricity, availability of raw materials, good roads, policy on ban of imported steel products and reduced interest rates on bank loans would facilitate plans to turn around the steel industry.

It was gathered that Nigeria’s need for power is almost 20,000 megawatt, as against the present 4,000 megawatts; representing just 20 per cent of what is needed to stabilise the sector.

According to industry expert, unless the steel industry is revived, unemployment problem will persist. They pointed out that the Ajaokuta Steel Company alone, if revived, could employ no fewer than 140,000 Nigerians. Logically, the other steel firms, if equally given a clean bill of health, would employ much more.

The steel sector will also grow more if the government can either stop the importation of iron rods or increase the duty on their importation. It is troubling that the nation continues to moan under the enormous burden of unemployment, but spends N500 billion yearly on steel importations.

The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, said a situation where yearly steel importation into the country is put at about $3.3billion is unacceptable in a country with a proven rich iron ore deposit.

The sector is yet to reach its potential, particularly, in the development and consumption of key metallic products such as, iron, steel, copper, aluminum, tin, lead, zinc and in exploitation of key noble metals like gold and silver.

A long history of failures
CONCEIVED in 1979, the Ajaokuta Steel Company, the nation’s biggest steel plant, was established to produce billets for the steel rolling mills, which, in turn, would produce steel materials such as, barbwires and rods.

It was planned as an integrated steel complex that would provide raw materials input and output to other industries; Katsina steel rolling mill, the Osogbo and Aladja. The dearth of raw materials from Ajaokuta, has, however, hampered the productivity of these rolling mills.

By the time of it’s commissioning, in 1983, the project had achieved about 95 per cent completion rate. At some point, the four mills in Ajaokuta (between 1985 and 1987) actually started optimal production, but unfortunately, local and international politics played a devastating blow to the dream that would have championed steel development in the country.

According to the Chairman, Kogi Coalition of Business and Professional Associations (KOCOBPA), Dr. John Alabi, what has been the problem of the complex is the lack of political will to get the project completed.Alabi explained that the concept of ASCL had the potential for job creation, with its own power supply and also upping the ante in foreign exchange earning.

He said now that Nigeria is trying to diversify the economy the company would have been the right catalyst to stabilize the economy by looking inwards in the line of small and medium scale enterprise.

When he assumed office in 1999, President Olusegun Obasanjo made efforts to revamp the steel plant, after what was described as an eye-opening working visit to the facility.

The Obasanjo administration, in 2001, invited TyazhPromoExport (TPE), the original builder of Ajaokuta Steel, to do a technical audit of the project and present a report on what was needed to finish and bring it back on track. Surprisingly, in 2003, Obasanjo handed over the industrial edifice to SOLGAS, a business concern that reportedly has nothing of any kind to do with engineering and mineral processing.

The Olusegun Obasanjo administration concessioned ASCO and NIOMCO (iron mining company) in 2004 and 2005, after an earlier concession pact with SOLGAS of the United States of America failed to turn around the steel facility.

To Obasanjo, the best option then was to concession the investment to Global System Steel Holdings Limited (GSHL). Though, the decision was lauded in some quarters, it was heavily criticised by steel workers and labour leaders, including, the host community, who wondered why government should give away such gigantic project to foreigners, especially, the Indians, when the people who built the place could have been given a fresher mandate and template to turn it around.

Few months after takeover, the Indian firm was accused of going against the concessional agreement, which led to a face-off between the firm and the company’s workers.

The late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who set up an Interim management Committee (IMC) to oversee the steel company, eventually terminated the agreement in 2008, thereby, setting the stage for a prolonged litigation.

President Goodluck Jonathan reportedly intervened and the Federal Government regained total control of the steel company. Having given ruling in favour of Nigeria, Global Steel agreed to forfeit $1billion initially being demanded as damages allegedly suffered by the company while running the plant.

Dissatisfied with the revocation of the concession agreement by the late Yar’Adua, GSHL took the Nigerian government to the International Court of Arbitration. The case dragged until FG opted for out of court settlement in 2013, which eventually led to the latest modified concession agreement that has now paved way for the return of ASCO to the Nigerian government.

In the new arrangement, GSHL retains NIOMCO, while FG takes full control of the Ajaokuta Steel outfit. A major highpoint achieved by the government in the renewed concession agreement was a higher concession fee payable to it from 3 per cent of turnover to 4 per cent. Also, GSHL will ensure a guaranteed and continued supply of iron ore to Ajaokuta Steel Company as a priority customer. The renegotiated concession is expected to last for seven years as against the revoked one that was for a 10-year tenure.

Observers believe that the negotiated settlement is largely in the interest of the Federal Government and Nigerians, especially, considering the fact that the arbitration, which came as a result of cancellation of the original concession arrangement by the President Musa Yar’Adua administration, was proving interminable, while the plants at both Ajaokuta and Itakpe could not be utilised as was originally intended.

Also, the dispute made it impossible for government to make any long‐term plans for the concession or privatisation of NIOMCO and Ajaokuta Steel Company, just as it remained.

By accepting to release Ajaokuta to the Federal Government, a major readjustment of GSHL’s interests in Nigeria’s steel space has taken place, making the company less dominant in the sector.

Another significant feature of the negotiated agreement is that GSHL has agreed to waive all its rights to damages for any breach by the Federal Government of the earlier NIOMCO and the Ajaokuta concession agreements.In the old agreement, GSHL had a right to automatic renewal of the concession agreement, thus, giving it a concession potentially lasting 20 years. But in the renegotiated agreement, government was able to secure the agreement of a renewal of the concession upon ‘satisfactory performance’, as opposed to the old provision of ‘automatic renewal’.

Furthermore, in renewing the concession agreement, the Federal Government would be able to renegotiate its commercial terms. This is very much unlike the position that obtained under the old agreement.

By some measures, the recent decision by government to renegotiate the concession agreement has freed the Ajaokuta Steel Complex from all the legal and contractual encumbrances, giving way for its revitalization. But a clean legal state, however, does not mean that all is well with the steel company.

Salient issues of technical competence are still glossed over. Even now, it is still not entirely clear what the new templates are in terms of restructuring and putting in place a sound technology.

Some stakeholders appear to be uncomfortable with the arrangement. While some believe that government should hand over the Ajaokuta plant to the Russian company that built it, others want it to stick to its plan to subject the company to a competitive bid and ensure that only the most credible organisation with proven technical ability and financial plan gets the nod.

The BPE, through its acting Director-General, Mr. Vincent Akpotaire, said it had not been fully involved in the privatisation of NIOMCO and Ajaokuta since 2004. “The way forward is perhaps to unbundle the various plant lines in Ajaokuta, which can all stand independently on their own as against going for a single core investor again,” he stated.

Akpotaire also said records indicated that NIOMCO and Delta Steel did not find their feet after the first privatisation in 2004 because the GIHL “clearly lacked the capacity” to deliver.

The deal, no doubt, raises fresh challenge of funding. It has added heavier fiscal weight on public expenditure; therefore, the 2017 budget must capture the steel company.

Workers of the steel firms and members of the host communities are opposed to the latest agreement on account of unresolved issues; one of which was the non-payment of outstanding benefits.

Others were calls for the payment of compensation for lives lost in the host communities during the various protests staged by their youths to oppose the privatisation policy.

The Minister of State for Solid Minerals Development, Mr. Abubakar Bawa-Bwari, said recently that the Federal Government had spent over $10bn on the Ajaokuta Steel Company in the last 35 years.

If there are ground to jubilate the recent agreement, there are doubts about what GSHL has done in the country’s steel industry since it started its octopi hold. Many still believe that there was no real willingness to shoulder responsibility in the failed Nigerian steel project.

What are the reasons for the failure to turnaround the place? Part of the criticism against Ajaokuta is that its machines are ‘obsolete’ in addition to having an ‘outdated Blast Furnace’ model of steel production plant.

The ministry, however, insisted that it opted for the best option in its deal with GSHL. Citing the accrued advantages to the Federal Government, who in turn retook Ajaokuta and the fact that the mediation process was at no cost to government.

Bwari also pointed out the fact that without the mediation process, the two national assets would remain in ruins, while government continued to pay salaries of workers without anything to show for it.

Apparently unable to undo the process, the House committee, however, urged the ministry to ensure that the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) is carried along in subsequent arrangement.

But many stakeholders, including the President of Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society (NMGS), Prof Gbenga Okunlola, believe the government is on the right track in its decision to retake Ajaokuta and cede NIOMCO to GSHL.

Okunlola said with guaranteed supply of iron ore from NIOMCO, Ajaokuta would become functional and Nigeria can utilise it to kick-start its industrialisation plans.

The GSHL Chairman, Pramod Mittal, said the company waited for eight years to achieve this amicable settlement.He said his firm was committed to the objectives of the agreement and guaranteed supply to Ajaokuta plant and Delta Steel Company, after which it would sell what is left to other interested parties.

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Monday, January 12, 2009

I am a little slow gettin' goin' this morning. I like to be at the banjo by 830am but I am still sipping coffee and reading the NY times online. I can clearly remember this similar feeling on Monday mornings before I had kids. I would be a bit slow getting to work on my music on Monday but it was probably because of too much partying on the weekend.

Today I feel a little slower than usual because of all the fun winter activity in the last couple days. I played hockey, I coached hockey, I was up late for three nights watering our new backyard rink and more. I guess the combination of the partying and the kids is what gets me as I get a older. I still think the same way so I try to squeeze in all the fun I can in a day; before during and after.

A perfect example is a bluegrass pickin session here yesterday. Sure, we needed a beer to keep our throats in good shape for singing but did we have to pull out the bottle of whisky? Unfortunately the combination of a few tastes and pickin some good tunes is amazing. Although I think the afternoon bevys was what kept me from getting out to water the rink one further time late last night.

My Mom always said to me that "you can't do everything" and I always told her I was going to try.

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Nevada: Woman, intruder shot during home invasion attempt

August 13, 2009

Las Vegas, Nevada

From the Las Vegas Sun of July 29, 2009

Woman, intruder shot during home invasion attempt

An attempted home invasion late Tuesday in North Las Vegas resulted in an exchange of gunfire and a woman and an intruder being shot.

Police said someone tried to enter a home shortly before midnight in the 4100 block of Karma Drive, between West Craig and Alexander roads, when the homeowner opened fire. The intruder fired back and injured the woman, authorities said.

Officers were dispatched to the home at 11:52 p.m. and upon arrival found a 31-year-old North Las Vegas resident with gunshot wounds to her leg. The injured woman said she had exchanged gunfire with unidentified men who had entered her home and threatened to shoot her 14-year-old son.

The boy wasn’t injured.

Police found a blood trail that left the residence and ended in the street in front of the house.

Sgt. Tim Bedwell of the North Las Vegas Police Department said he isn’t sure who fired first.

He said the woman suffered a minor non-life threatening gunshot wound and was transported to University Medical Center. At the hospital, officers were notified a male gunshot victim had recently arrived to be treated who matched the description of one of the suspects.

His injuries are described as serious but non-life threatening.

Authorities said they do not know if the woman knew the intruder. Bedwell said an arrest hasn’t been made in the case.

Nevada: Liquor Store Clerk Wounded Would-be Robber

August 12, 2009

Las Vegas, Nevada

From KOLO of August 11, 2009

Liquor Store Clerk Wounded Would-be Robber

Las Vegas police say a liquor store clerk gunned down during a botched robbery Friday night shot one of his assailants. The Clark County coroner’s office identifies the dead clerk as 62-year-old Arthur Miller of Las Vegas. Police arrested his two alleged assailants – 24-year-olds Antonio Duenas and Michael Cruz – at a hospital where Duenas was treated for a gunshot wound to the abdomen. They’re due in court tomorrow

Nevada: Resident Opens Fire During Home Invasion

June 19, 2009

Las Vegas, Nevada

From KXNT of June 18, 2009

Resident Opens Fire During Home Invasion

An attempted home-invasion in the southwest valley today ended with shots fired. It happened around 10:30 a.m. at a house on Ocotillo Falls Avenue, near Grand Canyon and Patrick. Police say a homeowner fired five shots in self-defense after a man kicked in his door. No one was hit, but two suspects left the scene in a car. One was caught and arrested, the other fled on foot and is still being sought.

Las Vegas Homeowner Shoots, Kills Burglar

February 20, 2009

Las Vegas, Nevada

From the February 16, 2009 San Jose Mercury-News:

LAS VEGAS—Las Vegas police say a homeowner shot and killed a suspected burglar after coming home and finding the person in his home.

Homicide Lt. Lew Roberts says the homeowner likely would not be charged for the Sunday incident west of Nellis Air Force Base, but said the investigation was still in its early stages.

Nevada: Three Men Killed in Winnemucca Shooting on Sunday

May 28, 2008

Humboldt County, Nevada

From KTVN of May 25, 2008

Three Men Killed in Winnemucca Shooting on Sunday

Deputies with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office are investigating a shooting in Winnemucca early Sunday morning that left three people dead and others injured.

The shooting happened at the Player’s Bar & Grill on South Grass Valley Road.

Investigators say a feud between two local families is behind the early-morning shooting inside the bar. Three men from Winnemucca died from gunshot wounds, and two others are in critical condition at the hospital.

Deputies say about 2:25 a.m., 30-year-old Ernesto Villa Gomez walked into the bar and starting shooting. 20-year-old Jose Torres and his 19-year-old brother Margarito Torres were killed. When Villa Gomez was reloading his semi-automatic gun, a man from Reno took out a gun and shot Villa Gomez. That man has a concealed weapons permit.

The unidentified man who shot Villa Gomez is not expected to be charged in this incident; law enforcement call it a justifiable homicide.

Local police, the Sheriff’s Office and the Nevada Highway Patrol are preparing for retaliation from one or both of the families, and rumors are already circulating in the small town of Winnemucca. There is a sense of sadness for losing three local men in this violent incident.

The Player’s Bar & Grill was full of about 300 people, because a local biker event “Runnemucca” is going on this holiday weekend.

Nevada: New Details in Deadly Home Burglary

May 10, 2008

Las Vegas, Nevada

From Las Vegas Now of May 9, 2008

New Details in Deadly Home Burglary

Police are investigating a shooting at a Las Vegas home that left two people dead Thursday night. Police say a man told them that he and his wife came home and were met by a burglar in their house. According to officers, the burglar shot and killed the woman and the husband then shot and killed the burglar.

Some neighbors were crying as they learned of their neighbor’s tragic death. As of Friday morning, the streets were still littered with bits of crime scene tape.

Neighbors were blocked out of their homes, and the neighborhood was on lock down for hours.

“We waited for about an hour before we could bring the car here,” said Mort Arditti, a neighbor.

Police say the couple returned to their home on Friday night around 9 p.m. and surprised a burglar. Police say the burglar was someone the couple knew and had hired in the past to do work at the home.

The female victim, Sharon Randolph, had lived in the neighborhood for 12 years.

“I just saw her three days ago. Real nice lady. Said how nice the yard looked,” said neighbor Robert Donat.

Donat says she asked why he does all his yard work himself. He said he didn’t want strangers at his house, but he says Sharon was different.

“They bring a lot of strangers over there to do odd jobs for them. You are just asking for trouble. You don’t know the people you are bringing into your house,” he said.

According to police, a handyman the couple had hired broke into the house and was burglarizing it when they came home. Police say the suspect shot and killed the Randolph.

“Now she’s gone overnight, just like that. And we were all home last night and we heard the helicopter and they were kicking people out of their houses around them. Just amazing,” said Donat.

But neighbors say there might be more too it. Sharon’s husband had died a few years back and she met a new man on the Internet who wasn’t too popular with neighbors.

“A lot of fighting going on, her and her new husband. I guess she found him on the Internet and a lot of U-Haul trucks. She is always taking him back, so not a good thing,” said Donat.

Police say that new husband struggled with the burglar and ended up shooting the man to death in the garage.

Nevada: Victims Fight Back in Home Invasion

February 5, 2008

Las Vegas, Nevada

From the Las Vegas Eyewitness News of February 1, 2008

Victims Fight Back in Home Invasion

One robbery suspect is on the loose and another is in the hospital after four victims fought back.

Police say the four victims were barbecuing when two men with guns entered the home. One of the victims said he made a near-fatal mistake by leaving the garage door partially open. The victims, who do not want to be identified for safety reasons, say they ended up fighting for their lives and thought they might die.

“The look in their eyes, especially when they started beating us in the back of the heads with the guns. It was kind of like someone would torture a little animal and then joking about how they were going to love killing us,” said one victim.

The men were pinned to the floor with shotguns. “It got ugly when they went back downstairs and decided to tell the women to undress their clothes,” the victim added, “The girls were really crying and you could just tell that they were incredibly upset.”

The victim told Eyewitness News that one of the suspects who was preparing to sexually assault the women turned his attention away from the guns and let down his guard.

The two male victims saw their opportunity.

“I grabbed him, threw him down on the ground, grabbed a weight from the weight set and smashed him in the head.”

The women also joined in the fight, hitting the suspects with a frying pan.

“One of the girls completely nude managed to grab a gun and shoot the guy in the chest area and in the leg.”

“She did what she had to do and I have to be thankful that she was able to do what she did and if she didn’t I might not be able to give you this story right now.”

The suspect who was shot has serious injuries and is in the hospital. The second suspect is on the run and as for the victims, they have minor injuries.

The police are very cautious not to make this seem like a heroic act. They say fighting back can sometimes end with the victims being more seriously hurt.

Nevada: Report: intruder shot in NW Reno

February 4, 2008

Reno, Nevada

From the Reno Gazette-Journal of February 4, 2008

Report: intruder shot in NW Reno

Reno police responded this morning to a shooting on Chesterfield Lane in Northwest Reno.

Scanner traffic indicates that a resident shot at an intruder at around 7 a.m. The intruder apparently ran away after the shots were fired and has not been located.

The resident has stated that he does not know if he hit the intruder when he fired at him.

More details were not available.

November 14, 2007

Las Vegas, Nevada

From Las Vegas’ KVBC.com of November 13, 2007

Man shot, killed attempting to carjack security guard

A suspect is dead after messing with the wrong person Tuesday morning. North Las Vegas Police say a man tried to carjack a security guard at about 6 in the morning near Gowan and I-15.

The intended victim and the suspect got into a shootout. The security guard was taken to the hospital with a minor wound. The suspect was taken to UMC where he later died.

Police say the security guard may not face any charges, because it appears he was acting in self defense.

November 7, 2007

Smith Valley, Nevada

From the Reno Gazette Journal of November 7, 2007

Dog attack in SV results in death of horse

A horse was put down in Smith Valley as a result of injuries suffered from an attack by neighbors’ pitbulls and the horse owner would like to inform residents of this situation and perhaps save an animal’s life.

Lisa Adams of Smith Valley said three or four pit bulls attacked her quarter horse gelding “Zack” Sunday morning and inflicted wounds so severe the equine had to be euthanized.

Adams, who helplessly watched her horse, a barrel racer, being attacked by the dogs of neighbors who had just moved into a rental next door, said it will take a while to overcome this attack. She was struck in the head by her horse as they tried to tend to it after the attack and was briefly hospitalized, while a neighbor, kicked by the horse trying to chase off the dogs, also received medical treatment.

The incident began about 7:30 a.m. Sunday in the neighborhood between Day Lane and Artist View in Smith Valley as Mrs. Adams got up and saw a neighbor who had apparently moved in the day before let four dogs out of a small fenced kennel. She said she couldn’t tell what kind of dogs they were but admitted she was a little concerned seeing a neighbor with dogs. Her husband Steve, a LCSO deputy, had already left for work.

Lisa Adams then walked to the other side of the house and noticed her 26-year-old mare, who can barely move, walking in circles, dust kicked up.

She ran outside and heard noise in the other horse’s stall (a third horse the Adams own is on the other side of their five-acre property). She saw an apparent owner crouched down with one dog to the side and three pit bulls in the stall.

So she ran inside to call 911, Mrs. Adams related, and apparently was screaming for help so the three neighbors arrived. Two tried to get the dogs away from the horse, but one was kicked and injured in the leg, so the other and Mrs. Adams dragged her out of the stall.

“Thank God the dogs didn’t turn on her,” she said.

Eventually, Adams went into her home to get a pistol and shot one of the dogs, although it survived, as Bolzle said it was a superficial wound. However, Adams said the other dogs then left her horse alone.


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Hiking Hawaii: What you need to know to not screw up

To stay safe, even fit, experienced trekkers need a crash course on trail hiking in the mountains and jungles of Hawaii. First of all, even popular trails are going to have rough patches. Bring retractable hiking poles and expect slippery rocks, undulating surfaces, and steep portions where hands will be required.
Greenery alongside trails can disguise steep drop-offs. Don’t step off into the snarls, and watch the kids.
If you lose the trail, or the going gets gnarly, turn back to a known point. Even hunting dogs with big bazooka noses get lost in Hawaii. Don’t use GPS or a map to try to reach a destination cross country. Stay on the trail and follow your feet. If it’s possible to walk someplace in Hawaii, someone has done it before you. Plant life will swallow you whole. Cracks in the earth, created by volcanic activity and hidden by flora, are lethal booby traps.
Speaking of hunting dogs: Always yield the trail to a wild pig.

Stream crossings can be mellow one minute, and rise up the next. Cloud bursts may happen inland when it’s sunny where you are. If you find yourself on the wrong side of a swift stream, wait it out. The water will subside. Don’t cross.
BTW: Though this spillway makes it easy to go shoeless, you might as well keep them on , since crossings can be numerous (and the water will clean the mud off!). No sense in bringing waterproof boots, since you are likely to dunk them higher than ankle deep.
Travel in pairs, or at least let someone know you are headed out. Make sure to allow enough daylight for your return.
Don’t even think about rock climbing. Almost all cliffs and mountainsides are very unstable. Many trails have drop-off hazards.
Keep in mind that hiking times for a given distance will be about double in Hawaii, due to poor footing—and stopping to gawk at the scenery.
Trail conditions can change overnight due to landslides, tree-falls, and erosion. If you feel the trail ahead is unsafe, then it is. Turn around. Many people ‘go for the gusto’ on Hawaiian trails thinking they are in some sort of adventure Disneyland. Common sense is your friend.
No poisonous snakes or spiders to fret about, but muddy surfaces are common. Wear dark shorts and don’t forget those hiking poles.
Equip your daypack with all the essentials and bring it with you even if you’re going on a very short hike. You might start out on a little exploration jaunt and be drawn in farther than you intended.
Trailblazer guides are full of parking and trail directions, safety tips, and the specific hazards that may be present for each hike. Virtually every danger is avoidable.