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September 27, 2011
A REAL popolio selection of Today’s New Releases.
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27 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment
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September 27, 2011
A REAL popolio selection of Today’s New Releases.
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Predict the Next Name: Bess Myerson, Sun-Yi Previn, Winona Ryder, Rex Reed...
The answer, of course, is disgraced Bush adviser Claude Allen, who has now joined the ranks of celebrity shoplifters by trying to boost $5,000 in stylish-yet-budget-priced goods from a Maryland Target store.
Recall when Soon Yi Previn Allen was so unknown she was only called one of "Mia Farrow's daughters" here.
Relive how Winona Ryder stole America's innocence, along with fancy clothes, here.
And thrill to Rex Reed's greatest performance outside of the titular-less role star turn in Myra Breckenridge, here.
Evil Twin Update: As reader digamma notes below, some folks are claiming that the dastardly deed was done not by Claude but by his lawbreaking twin brother Floyd. For details,.
Some people are saying the perpetrator was Allen's twin brother. Really.
Life imitates Arrested Development.
Wow. This raises the interesting question: Why is "Lloyd" spelled with two "L"s but "Floyd" only spelled with one? It also brings to mind Drew Barrymore's finest role.
Allen missed out on a diplomatic opportunity. He could have won over the Dems by ripping off Walmart instead of Target.
Baylen-
If Lloyd is spelled with two L's then Floyd should be spelled with two F's.
"Ffloyd." I like that. It's seriously ffucked-up.
It's delightful. The evil twin controversy will keep this all over TV for months and months...the WH will find it impossible to bury it. They can intimidate the Times and buy off the "serious" journalists, but once tabloid TV gets hold of a story no power on Earth can stop the juggernaut of coverage.
From what I can divine so far, I think the evil twin may have started the scam and pulled his brother into it.
Even more ffreaky, "Floyd" is already a misspelling of Welsh "Lloyd". But there's nothing too strange about "Ffloyd" - many Welsh words begin with "ff".
and now for something completely different,
Psychologists have formally recognized John Henryism as a style of strong coping behaviors used by many African Americans to deal with psychosocial and environmental stressors such as career issues, health problems and even racism.
The researchers quantify John Henryism using a questionnaire that reveals a 'single-minded' drive to succeed, even beyond a person's overall self-interest, which is the hallmark of JH,
One brother posing as another when in trouble happens. I knew two guys who did it (and neither was a twin).
Winona Ryder is, or at least has been, too much like the government, but she's also quite hot.
It will be terrible for him.
Prosecutors will not allow him to plead out with misdemeanors and will press 4 felony charges against him. They will campaign against Claude for months to print in the minds of the public he should be jailed for a few years and pay detectives and defamers and give a few phone calls to destroy his image and reputation even more. They will stage an exhibition of the stolen goods (with holes in them?) and demand the trial be televised. And if contrary to their plans the jury acquits him on one or two charges, they'll stage a press conference to explain that jailtime never was at stake, which will enrage the public even more.
I feel awfully sorry for him, it seems clear that his methods show there was no intent, no evil mind, and he was terribly depressed and vulnerable and had a substance problem. Meds can alter your judgement to the point you're not even thinking.
er er hold on, am I getting mixed up with another story?
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At Least Her Avatar Doesn't Smoke
Anti-smoking activist Stanton Glantz thought Avatar was "a great movie," except for the one detail that moved him to launch a publicity campaign against it: Grace Augustine, the environmental scientist played by Sigourney Weaver, has a cigarette habit. "This is like someone just put a bunch of plutonium in the water supply," Glantz tells The New York Times, with his usual sense of proportion. In addition to rousing the ire of Glantz's Smoke Free Movies project, Avatar, which is rated PG-13, earned a "black lung" from Scenesmoking.org. In response, director James Cameron says he considers smoking "a filthy habit" and does not view Weaver's character as "an aspirational role model" for teenagers:.
Cameron is a bit too defensive, I think, but he is right to reject the notion that art should not only be didactic but that it should impart the lessons endorsed by the reigning ideology—in this case, "public health," which elevates the minimization of morbidity and mortality above all other values. The expectation that everyone who is not in the pocket of Big Tobacco will toe the official line is one of the creepiest aspects of the contemporary anti-smoking movement, as exemplified by Glantz.
I criticized the campaign for smoke-free movies in a 2003 column and discussed Glantz's wild claims about the impact of cinematic smoking in a 2005 column. Last month Peter Suderman raised some non-tobacco-related objections to.
Anti-smoking activist Stanton Glantz thought Avatar was "a great movie," except for the one detail that moved him to launch a publicity campaign against it: Grace Augustine, the environmental scientist played by Sigourney Weaver, has a cigarette habit.
Ok, so the movie contained all the leftist cliches possible except vegetarianism AND antismoking.
Well, two out of 1,000 ain't bad.
LOL: James Cameron’s Avatar is Disney’s Pochontas:
Pocahontas is way better as it does not end happily ever after.
It's only a movie. It's only a movie. It's only a movie. It's only a movie. It's only a movie. It's only a movie. It's only a movie. It's only a movie. It's only a movie.
Exactly, as long as you enjoy it that's all that matters. For me it was fun.
Yep. Piss-poor story and characters, little more than "Indians in Space." But one helluva spectacular ride.
Has anyone suggested yet to Stanton Glantz to go stick his head up his ass?
Like telling the Pope to turn Catholic, JW.
everyone who is not in the pocket of Big Tobacco will toe the official line
This phrase seems familiar to me, but not quite right somehow...
Actually, meine Dame, "toe the line" is the correct spelling of that idiom. It's not "tow the line," if that's what you were thinking.
It's actually "tow the lion".
No dude, it's "tow the lion".
Jinx!
Roar, someone called?
+1.
I like that toe the line becomes Tow the Lion as in pull a large hairy beast which now becomes a large hairy beast named Tow.
Whoa, thanks for explaining that difficult concept!
Buy me a coke?
"Tao the lime"...you mean I've been saying it wrong all these years?
Yeah, I was referring to the 2008(?) H&R meme.
Soon it will be objectionable for anyone in the movies or TV to eat fatty foods. "Man vs. Food" beware!
God, I wish that was far-fetched.
We live in a time in which satire has become impossible.
Why stop there?
The use of fat actors should be banned.
After all, they didn't get fat from exercising.
I look forward to the re-re-re-release of Avatar, where the cigarettes will be replaced by walkie-talkies. And the entire cast will be replaced by Wookies.
No ewoks? Bummer.
Chris Dodd (D-Wall Street Banksters) is not running for re-election this year, he has announced. Unfortunately, that might make it more difficult for Peter Schiff to win the general election, should he take the Republican primary.
Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut attorney general, says he will run on the Democratic ticket, and being that Connecticut votes heavily Democratic, it will be tough for Peter. Furthermore, the only Republicans that have come from Connecticut in the past few decades have been hardcore statists, which means that there is almost no constituency for liberty in that state. I wish Peter the best, but the hill has become a bit more steep for him.
There's already a thread about that.
In addition to rousing the ire of Glantz's Smoke Free Movies project, Avatar, which is rated PG-13, earned a "black lung" from smokesense.org.
If the coal miners from the 1940s were alive to read that, they'd be rolling in their graves.
They'd clawing at the lids to their coffins.
There was mining in the movie, too. Well, potential mining at least.
To respond with anything more hedged than "See this ass, bitches? Eat it," is to "endorse the reigning ideology" that a world of official concerns and issues, minutely and endlessly addressed, at all times, in all things, by all, always, is what constitutes society.
My comment upon seeing the movie was that it was like StarCraft invaded a fantasy role-playing MMPORG.
The human evil-space-militarists were obviously just as much their own kind of fantasy universe as the Pandorans.
They just came from a different combat commando FPS universe than a MMPORG.
The whole gainan enviro-freak thing is not serious at all. It's the story line to a video game. The real meaning of the film is about losing yourself in alternate realities created by fantasy gaming.
They're fucking flying dragons for fuck sake, people. That's a dead giveaway.
Also, aren't the Na'vi a little too much like night elves?
yeah, they are very night-elfish. But there aren't any Orcs or Mideaval humans involved, so I couldn't say it was WarCraft III.
I should add... Weaver smokes because that's just what the characters in combat-commando-scifi computer games DO. They aren't futuristic Americans, they're the Terrans from StarCraft. Or rather, they are futuristic Americans as envisioned by combat FPS video games of the past decade.
But apparently the "Americans" in the film are complete psychotic morons. And the film pretty much revels in their grizzly deaths. The whole thing looks like a liberal revenge fantasy against the evil military industrial complex.
Snuffatar
Dude, that's because the Terrans in StarCraft, and pretty much every other futuristic combat commando game are complete psychotic morons.
You're entirely missing my point. They are portrayed that way because they are video game characters lifted out of the whole sci-fi combat FPS genre. That's the style.
That is a crazy premise to make a movie. The chances of any individual unit in starcraft surviving the scenario is just above zero kelvin. They are just mindless cannon fodder. Fun to send out to kill shit with, but not too interesting to watch on screen.
And yet the film has made over a billion dollars already. Granted, these are 2009/2010 dollars, so that's really like forty bucks. But that's still not bad.
Is that world wide? It has made 367 in the US. It is not surprising it is doing well overseas. Simple dialog, big graphics, and is basically a US soldier snuff film.
I'm really surprised Blizzard hasn't sued Cameron for ripping them off.
It's obvious that Avatar is space marines vs. night elves.
Blizzard has to be careful, otherwise Games Workshop will sue them for stealing the Space Marines in the 1st place.
And the heinlein estate will sue them for stealing the powered body armor idea from Starship Troopers.
I don't know that it's fair to paint Starcraft with the same message brush as Elves in Space.
Yeah, the Terrans are rednecks, and yeah the Space Marines are often technologically "rehabilitated" lunatics and criminals. But it was the Protoss who started the game off by eradicating whole Terran colonies -- not for crimes against the environment or imperialism or whatever; just because there were Zerg on their planets. If there's a message about the evil of "collateral damage" thinking, then it's the wise benevolent aliens that are the villains, not the Space Hicks. (Not to mention the wise benevolent aliens live in a caste-based society and are governed by a rigid, dogmatic quasi-theocratic ideology).
The Terran campaign starts out as a revolution against a despotic government, but ends with the leader of the revolution betraying his close friends, allying with opportunistic members of the despotic government, seizing absolute power and implementing something even worse than what came before. The Terran campaign's message is about the dark side of hope and change.
The "good guys" in the Protoss campaign, meanwhile, are really the Dark Templars and the Protoss that end up trying to reconcile with them. The Dark Templars were expelled from Protoss society because they rejected the new teachings for fear they would lose their individuality.
The antagonistic humans in the expansion are basically a libertarian's dystopian view of the future UN -- from starcraft.wikia.com:
"The United Powers League... succeeded the defunct United Nations and took on the mantle as the defender of humanity... The UPL sought to enforce conformity in the name of "enlightened socialism". Fascist tactics destroyed ethnic separation and racism. English was imposed as the primary language while other languages were banned. Unitariate Commissions began banning religions in 2231[2] and religion fell under an official ban... While not a religious organization, the UPL embraced the philosophy of "the divinity of mankind", scholars arguing that genetic alteration, cyber technology and the use of psychoactive drugs led to the degeneration of the human species... which led to launch of Project Purification... a campaign of mass genocide in which over 400 million people were eradicated."
Does the evil of the UPL (later UED) sound more like jingoistic hicks, or Progressive Intellectuals with Big Ideas about the Greater Good?
Fact is, the Space Marines are the least of three evils -- Raynor is essentially the everyman hero whose changing alliances (from colonist to revolution to Tassadar's Protoss to Zeratul's dark templars) are supposed to indicate the current "good guys". And the good guys are usually good because they're honorable and individualist in their ethics. Hell, even Kerrigan is a magnificent bastard(ess) because of her vaguely Byronic personality. The bad guys, the hive-mind Zerg, the dogmatic Enclave, the eugenic UED, the despotic Confederacy and Terran Dominion, are all hierarchical, strongly governed, and/or collectivist entities (the irony of the player essentially being an ur-dictator in all campaigns notwithstanding).
Starcraft is about as close to a libertarian message game as we can get (no, Bioshock doesn't count).
Hey, all I was trying to say is that the behavior of the humans in Avatar are representative of sci-fi space militarists in all sorts of other video games of the past decade. StarCraft being the most obvious. Powered body armor included.
Considering that most Americans (and probably an even greater percentage of international moviegoers) have never heard of StarCraft, I don't think that's the intended message, or the one that will be received.
Korea on the other hand....
Okay, well pick scifi combat commando game of choice. Halo 3 maybe?
An unfortunate collision of high fantasy tropes and Space Marines sounds more like Warhammer 40k (although technically Starcraft ripped off Warhammer, so...)
Can we get a Spoiler Alert here? Now I'm totally not going to be surprised when I see Weaver light one up.
Its a sled.
Cameron is no hack like Welles. I saw that coming a mile away.
Its a sled.
Neatly executed. It took me several seconds to get that.
Cute.
Seriously, there shouldn't be spoiler alerts for Avatar.
Nothing in there will surprise you. Nothing. But it will delight the hell out of the kid in you.
Let me out! Let me out!
/muffled screams.
I hate the kid in me. He was gristly.
He was unpleasant to eat? I'm willing to believe that.
That was your pancreas, Sug. :::shakes head:::
When I was a kid I would have rooted for the stupid little blue bastards to be killed. I doubt Avatar will make the kid in my smile.
Your last name is McCain, isn't it?
Reminds me of my childhood reaction to Smurfs. Maybe I wasn't typical though -- I did bite off my sister's stuffed bunny's ears after watching Watership Down.
Oh John, they blow lots and lots of things up. Things go boom!
Filthy Critic gave the review that's keeping me out of the theater: "I heart Ferngully"
I never saw Ferngully as a kid, and I'm not interested now.
I had to watch fern gully in elemetary school... it was part of me Massachusetts progressive education along with the late 80s -early 90's experiement with "whole language."
Looking back on elementary school i now realize how much of it was green propeganda from Earth Day being mad ea big event to science class being dominated by the water cycle and polution to "diversity" being taught as a virtue (keep in mind diversity only applied to the color of your skin not diversity of though or the individual)
In retrospect, my late 80s-early 90s elementary education was definitely all about environmental responsibility. Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle was our pledge of allegiance.
Is that like Stop, Drop, and Roll?
What I got out of FernGully: a new word "bodacious" and weirdly thinking Tim Curry as black goo was somehow sexy.
Snape kills Dumbledore
Yay!
"which again is a negative comment about people in our real world living too much in their avatars, meaning online and in video games...."
But the main character, the good guy, becomes an avatar forever. How is that a "negative comment" on living too much as an avatar? Cameron is obviously backtracking here, all for the sake of seeming PC about smoking. Fuck Glantz, fuck Cameron, fuck PC Hollywood.
Yes, that's interesting.
I think cameron is being a bit toungue-in-cheek about it.
But you know the main character is a guy in a hweelchair paralyzed, who is able to walk again through his avatar.
I don't think it's possible to be tongue-in-cheek about a movie that is an amalgamation of just about every crowd-pleasing blockbuster ever made.
Another reason why this movie is retarded: They have technology advanced enough to send people light years through space to live through avatars but they can even treat paralysis with anything more than a wheelchair?
They had a treatment but it was too expensive. Apparently, Obamacare never got through.
Because of capitalism and corporations of course.
No heller it is BECAUSE Obamacare got through... you know the rationing and death panels were in effect.
Ummm no, in the Avatar universe there would be no Obamacare because humanity is taken over by evil capitalism. Only unobtainium stolen from the peaceful natives can pay for his expensive medical operation back home on Earth(tm).
"Fuck Glantz"
That's glans.
Thanks for the coerrection.
And none of the bad guys had avatars, either. Cameron is definitely backtracking, but it's probably due more to the criticism of Avatar as a thinly-veiled leftist screed than to the smoking concerns.
But the main character, the good guy, becomes an avatar forever.
Wow, there's no way I would have guessed that twist ending from the random portions of the trailer that I've seen. The movie is ruined for me now.
Good. I just saved you $18-$10, a few hours, and a headache from watching 3D stuff fly at you. Also, I saved you from watching a movie you've already see before, except in little bits and pieces of other, orginal movies.
Yeah, he's not technically an avatar at the end -- he's fully Na'vi, with no machine intermediaries between his human body and his Na'vi body.
Though I'm wondering about several things related to that [SPOILERS AHEAD!]...how did the Na'vi know how to transfer the spirit from a human body into a Na'vi avatar body, when avatars were unknown to them until the humans came (and given their relations with humans, it's doubtful they would have wanted to do this before).
Also, how are the humans who were permitted to stay on Pandora going to keep supplied with human-edible food and oxygen, which the Na'vi do not have the technology to produce?
::cracks knuckles::
Well, Tulpa, the Tree of Life, as with every other living thing on the planet of Pandora, is connected through electric impulses. From my primitive understanding of casting human brains into avatar bodies, I believe the electric signals of the brain constitute that brain (and therefore the personhood of the human-avatar in question). That packet of electric signals must be constantly sent to the avatar in order to keep the connection going. When hotTerminatorGuy is at the Tree of Life (the nerve center of all electric signals, I presume), it's tendrils (also full of electric impulses) fully captured the electric brain fully and imprinted it into the Na'vi body.
/BS
I don’t believe in the dogmatic idea that no one in a movie should smoke. Movies should reflect reality.
Spoken without even a hint of irony.
REFLECT reality. Like the image of the sky in an oil streaked puddle.
Movies should reflect the reality of blue-skinned aliens on beautiful, Gaia-esque planets.
I find it somewhat amusing that a movie that contains some of the most obvious racist colonial trope as this movie is liked at all by the left. I guess the enviornmental message dwarfs the fact that the blue kitties are completely lost without the help of one good white male. Oh and the smoking is bad too I guess.
Personally I think its a movie with neat effects and a juvenile story line. Which is good enough for entertainment I enjoyed my time in the theater. However, the left love to look "deeper" into these things, so its kind of fun to not see them look deeper to the obvious problem with this film.
"the blue kitties are completely lost without the help of one good white male."
That is pretty much how lefties see the world and minorities in particular.
Yeah, I noticed that too. The one white male hero arrives to save the day, flying the biggest fucking dragon of all, thereby fulfilling tribal prophecy. Whereupon he is worshipped practically as a God.
People, this is *exactly* the narrative of a fantasy role playing game. It's so entirely superficial I can't see how anyone takes it seriously, in either a positive or negative way.
That is a good point. And pretty pathetic statement about the movie. Video games can get away with lame or ridiculous plots because you are playing them as opposed to watching them. A movie with a video game plot is pretty low.
The movie is called 'Avatar' for a reason.
Because it's about video games.
The main character displaces his personality into an alternate body in a fantasy universe.
They fly dragons and ride dinosaurs.
The humans have giant steel powered body armor suits and fly space ships.
Like I said, it's as if StarCraft invaded the Night Elves home town. Or some equivalent fantasy RPG universe.
It is even lame for the video game. No one would play a video game like that and chose to play the blue things. You would play the humans and slaughter the blue things.
What? The blue things get to fly dragons and mind-meld with a tree.
That sounds like WAY more fun.
To each his own, but I would rather hunt varmints.
That's not a fair characterization. [SPOILERS AHEAD!] The "blue kitties" saved the white male's life the first night in the forest, and only after they had taught him their peace-loving, harmonious-with-nature ways was he able to find the inner strength to fight against the eeeeevil humans. A blue one also saved him at the end.
yeah, but it's still about the white mans mental journey.
The blue kitties are never expected to expand their minds and learn to understand the ways and culture of the white people. they are assumed to be too primitive to grasp the concept that the other side might have something of value to teach them too.
Another reason why Pocahontas is the better movie, even though the two are similar. The actual member of the native tribe saves the day.
I think there's a valid concern here. Children watching Avatar in 3D are going to see Ripley seemingly puffing on a cig right next to them in the theater. And we all know that virtual secondhand smoke is exactly as dangerous as the real thing.
Win
And we all know that virtual secondhand smoke is exactly as dangerous as the real thing.
Actually this is true.
"I find it somewhat amusing that a movie that contains some of the most obvious racist colonial trope as this movie is liked at all by the left."
The soft speakers on NPR this morning called it the most derivative unoriginal movie they had ever seen, and warned that it didn't really say or mean anything.
When you make a liberal revenge fantasy and have lost NPR.
When you make a liberal revenge fantasy and have lost NPR.
Posted twice, but still a sentence fragment.
That's just because they havn't played enough video games to recognize it as one of them.
I think we've all got your point about video games by now Hazel. Really.
What I don't get is how Cameron could have spent 15 years of his life trying to get such an obviously unoriginal and stupid movie made. This movie looks like something the studios threw together with six different screen writers in a few months and then foisted on the public not a fifteen year labor of love by an allegedly serious director.
C'mon. I know its not Shakespheare but cut us some slack.
I don't think it was the script that took 15 years -- it was piecing together the visuals and the equipment necessary to put them on screen.
True enough. But you would think at some point during those 15 years Cameron would have tried to fix a few of the holes in the plot.
Mothers are always the last to see the flaws in their children.
He only added the plot because the executives kept bitching. The first draft of the movie was called "Three Hours of Fucking Awesome CGI Special Effects in Space (in 3D!!!)". It just so happened that Pocahontas was the last thing he had watched, so...
It was Dances with Smurfs, in 3-D.
Pocahantas Dances with Smurfs, in 3D
Glantz's textbook is pretty good. He seems to be pretty much a wanker though. Très bay area.
It should be noted that there was MUCH more to the movie, but it was cut to fit the time alloted.
It should be noted that there was MUCH more to the movie, but it was cut so that future DVD releases can be used to milk the "director's cut" market. Fixed it for you.
Oh is that it? I guess all the morally complex, interesting and unique angels to the story took too long to develop so there was only enough time for the simple, trite, and predictable stuff.
I think you give Cameron too much credit. If there were interesting and unique angles to the story, why not put them in in the first place?
sarcasm
John's head
In his defense, I meant my sarcastic response to be to Kroneborge's post, not John's reply to Kroneborge's post, but somehow I got hit the wrong one which made it kind of confusing. Damn threaded comments!
How would you know this?
Read about it in a Cameron interview. He said when he first wrote the script it was basically a novel, and he had to cut it down to get it to an acceptable movie length.
One wonders why he didn't go the trilogy route then. Of course, it's quite possible that the stuff that got cut was just as trite and worthless as the stuff that made it into the film.
"If it’s O.K. for people to lie, cheat, steal and kill in PG-13 movies, why impose an inconsistent morality when it comes to smoking?"
Ugh. I understand what he's saying, but I hate the implication that smoking is immoral. Just because something's unhealthy doesn't mean it's "wrong," per se.
It happened when the definition of immoral became "things I don't like."
Hey, I like that definition. It makes the left and most government actions immoral.
Of course, I can usually give a more reasoned explanation than "I don't like it".
"This is like someone just put a bunch of plutonium in the water supply," Glantz tells The New York Times
cowabunga, dude!
Cameron's fifteen years was taken up mostly by a) playing, and b) inventing and developing new technology & techniques to allow him to even get his (lame) story to the screen at all. I definitely agree that the film's story is wonky, but it is the most astoundingly beautiful film I've ever seen - and the absolute best motion stereography I've seen.
Hiro Protagonist is not amused.
Another story full of leftist tripe. But less enjoyable.
People always have wondered what kind of movie Ed Wood would have made if he had been given infinite resources. Well, now we know.
Except Ed Wood's version would have given Jake Sully a female avatar.
Wearing a pink angora sweater.
For me there is a disconnect between population control nuts also being smoking nazis. The anti-tobacco hype offered by liars like Henry Waxman has just about driven me to the point of believing cigarettes must actually be good for you.
Yes. And the anti-smoking ads before movies make me wish I was cool enough to smoke.
Fe'ces.
LOL: James Cameron’s Avatar is Disney’s Pochontas:
Too funny!
Sigourney smoking was one of the few plot elements I give Cameron props for. Takes balls these days to make protagonists smokers in movies.
As far as everything else, I wish egotistical directors like Cameron and Lucas would focus on their groundbreaking technology and let actual writers do the writing.
But I agree with A.G. Pym above. The plot was kind of beside the point.
Which is why the movie will be forgotten in a matter of months. The technology will progress and become more widely used and Avatar won't look so spectacular to future movie goers. It will just be a cheap looking movie with a dumb plot. Seriously, who watches Who Framed Roger Rabbit or The Abyss anymore?
I disagree. I think Avatar is more groundbreaking like the Matrix (though not quite as good). I think it will change the way movies are made for a long time.
Plus, I just enjoyed it. Predicatable story, sure. But that means my head won't hurt from knew thoughts, lol
Certainly the Matrix proves you don't have to have a coherent plot to be influential.
Hey, the Matrix was coherent. Very Nietzscheian.
Plus it gave me hope that the real world wasn't actually run by liberals, but by human-harvesting machines.
The difference being? Actually, I would call the Republicans human-harvesting machines. There was a meeting of them here a month ago and all the couples wanted separate beds (NO JOKE).
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit or The Abyss anymore?"
Tony.
Sigourney smoking was one of the few plot elements I give Cameron props for.
Character element not plot element. If her smoking was a plot element she would have used a zipo to kill an enemy or stuck a lit cigarette in a someone eye or she would have gotten cancer...anyway you get the idea.
Bitter babes who smoke, gotta love em
Seriously, where did I come from? Kinda snuck up on everybody, yeah? And vomited.
Yeah, Cameron could've just put me at the end. Nobody would've noticed.
I would've been awesome for the final battle scene!
Once again...Avatar is not a left wing movie with left wing themes.
Wrong. It is anti-capitalism, anti-corporations, anti-war, and environmentalist. Any left wing themes missing?
Just vegetarianism - oh, and (getting back to the article) anti-smoking zealotry.
Queers.
Wrong it is pro property rights pro free labor markets and pro liberty and pro religion informed morality and pro gun rights and pro local government.
plus we got the smoking example.
You need to stop reading the nut jobs at "Big Hollywood" without a critical eye.
oh yeah the story of the ex-marine is very pro-individual.
Also the sexual liberty of the his love interest was as well.
Oh yeah i forgot anti-authoritarian, and pro-meritocracy.
Since I didn't see any actual governments in this movie, just a corporation, I hesitate to call it anti-authority. Meritocracy? Where are you pulling these out of? Oh I know, your ass.
Dude, just because there is a hero in the story does not mean the movie is individualist. Sexual liberty (bi-racial/bi-cultural in the movie) is a left wing theme. Good job proving my point.
Sexual liberty (bi-racial/bi-cultural in the movie) is a left wing theme.
WTF? You sound like an idiot, so please prove your point. Sexual liberty, like any liberty, is an individualist and freedom-loving theme. You might as well say sexual illiberty is a right-wing theme. I would say both sides consider only some sexual events to be correct.
"pro property rights pro free labor markets and pro liberty and pro religion informed morality and pro gun rights and pro local government"
Could you site any real examples of these views actually being fed to the audience? The destruction of the home tree was not about property rights, it was about the destruction of nature for money. Just because you one side using force on other side doesn't mean that there is any pro-liberty message here either. It was definitely pro-spiritualism, but not pro-morality-based-on-religion. And definitely not pro-local government. The pandorans didn't have govs, just a chief and priestess. The smoking doesn't represent any kind of pro-smoking message. Good job, buddy. You sure convinced me there are no left wing themes in this movie.
hmm, didn't seem to be anti war, at least not with that much violence in it.
The violence was initiated by the eeeeevil capitalist planetkilling humans. The smurfs were just defending themselves.
So it supports a strong planetary defense.
Also movies I see at movie theaters should have no smoking in them for the simple reason that seeing someone smoke makes me want to smoke.
Which, being unable to smoke in a theater, hurts the overall viewing experience.
This. I don't see how anyone can stand it. I think the same effect is the purpose of anti-smoking commercials.
And no beer either unless you're at one of those fancy theaters.
Home theater, people.
You know what I really don't get about Avatar?
You spend $400 million on amazing special effects, yet the subtitles are in cheap MS Word Papyrus font.
James Cameron stole my script!
Speaking of movies, I watched almost the whole trailer for the Book of Eli thinking "Wow, that was quick. I wasn't expecting to see a Fallout 3 movie for at least another year or two."
MIND MELD!
Regarding that NPR comment posted above, I wonder if the Left Intelligentsia did not find the caricatures of all those lefty beliefs sort of insulting. I mean, it almost seemed like James Cameron was mocking the left through an obvious exaggeration of all lefty ideas about capitalists and the environment.
Mind you, no capitalists in this Universe would have ever EVER freighted haul trucks, mining equipment, habitats, materials, food and people to a distant and harsh planet just to obtain a few rocks. Supposedly the rocks contained a very "valuable" mineral - what, Cameron never heard of substitutions? Doesn't Cameron know that the REAL money comes from selling cheap stuff in great quantities? Why does he think people use OIL today instead of WHALE oil, even when whale oil is more "valuable"?
Idiot.
Yeah, I do sort of get a whiff of that from the whole fantasy RPG angle I have been reading it on. If the whole thing is an analogy for MMPORGs and video games in general, then hat he's really saying is that the whole romantic noble savage stuff is just a big fantasy.
I mean, it almost seemed like James Cameron was mocking the left through an obvious exaggeration of all lefty ideas about capitalists and the environment.
You are confusing established sci-fi elements of a living planet with environmentalism, and what does Kelo in space have to do with capitalism?
Gee, maybe it was the oft-repeated line that humans had "killed their mother" by our abuses of our own planet. That, coupled with the capitalist caricatures who are supposedly obsessed with profits, yet repeatedly overlook myriad opportunities to make profits AND avoid spending money on military action.
And if you think Cameron intended this film to be about eminent domain, I've got a railroad yard in Brooklyn to sell you.
corning, do you actually believe what comes out of your brain or are you just retarded?
The movie was clearly environmentalist and anti-capitalist: "We must be one with nature, the humans are raping our planet for money, bla bla bla."
In response, director James Cameron says he considers smoking "a filthy habit" and does not view Weaver's character as "an aspirational role model" for teenagers:
She’s rude, she swears, she drinks, she smokes.
Weaver's character in Avatar is one of the good guys.
And, I won't Godwin the thread by naming a certain vegetarian, non-drinking, non-smoking sociopath of the early to mid-1900s.
Gandhi?
Good guess, but I think it could be any of a veritable plethora of progressives. Now, they were racists.
I don't recall Robert La Follette ever calling WEB DuBois a "negro communist".
I think the bad thing about this movie is there actually IS a good reason for the humans not to be digging up this planet. It has a unique and unusual ecosystem very unlike Earth's. While I do believe Cameron is recycling the same old tropes of criticizing European colonialism, what the humans are doing here is a lot worse. Does it remind anyone of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" wherein the protagonist is too perfect to be criticized?
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New York Times to Financial Regulator: How Do You Do it?
The New York Times business section today interviews the "gung ho regulator" in charge of overseeing financial derivatives. So what are the tough questions we have for former Goldman Sachs partner (obviously)-turned Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler? I'll list every one of them:
You've been in the job since 2009. What's the most challenging aspect?
The C.F.T.C. has taken up much of the implementation of Dodd-Frank. How challenging has it been?
What's the most absurd complaint you’ve received about the new regulations?
How would you describe the response you've received from industry lobbyists?
Can your staff handle the load?
Republicans have said that the C.F.T.C. is moving too fast in developing regulations. Are they right?
Does it ever get overwhelming?
Which is tougher, life on Wall Street or life in Washington?
Would you ever go back to Goldman?
Why leave a profitable career to come to Washington?
Will you run for public office?
How are you coping as a single father?
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Weathered Cedar Bed
March 31, 2013
Walnut Storage Bed
March 23, 2013
This custom piece started with a client that had her eye on a bed with drawers from a big-box retailer that looked right, but didn’t quite work right for her. I was able to offer solid walnut selected for its character and uniqueness, a handrubbed oil and wax finish, a split and angled headboard, and a metal bumper rail above the drawers. Tailored to work.
Redwood Bin Bed
February 23, 2013
Who doesn’t need more storage? The low profile structural deck of this bed allows huge rolling bins to park neatly below. Shown here in a king size, there is practically an entire closet underneath.
The redwood is reclaimed from NYC water tanks. A simple oil and wax finish shows off its beautiful natural red tones and the erratic black streaking gained from years of exposure to the elements. The bin pulls are custom made from salvaged leather strap and solid brass fasteners.
Wide Plank Bed
October 20, 2012
This bed celebrates the simple beauty of a great batch of antique yellow pine. orignal.
Claire Bed
July 25, 2012
Budget conscious and beautiful, this simple queen bed is done completely out of reclaimed spruce. Like all REASON beds, it eliminates the need for a box spring, freeing up valuable space underneath for storage. We are going to add four large rolling drawers under this one to take advantage of every square inch.
Five Degree Platform Bed
October 29, 2011
Madison Bed
September 21, 2011
This bed was commissioned through the wedding registry of two close friends. We joked from the beginning about what I would title the piece once it was time to publish it on reasonmodern.com. Their submissions swung from absurd to lewd as they made fun of my tendency to get a bit florid in my descriptions. Now, as I sit to write this, Madison Bed seems the obvious choice… and this one is for them:
The newlyweds are returning to their newly configured bedroom tonight from their wedding week in Madison, WI, where they met during our college years together so long ago. Serendipitously, I’m just now remembering that my supplier of deconstructed water tower wood informed me that this batch of redwood came from the demolition of a tower on Madison Ave. It was meant to be.
Like the couple, the bed combines the best of the Midwest and East Coast. It is as stout and strong as Bucky Badger himself, but it is styled to cast a slim profile in its urban environs. A subtle bend in the headboard offers chic detail, while unseen rear supports allow for comfortable, stable leaning. The platform is composed of antique spruce slats, custom milled for the job, and the tall skirt conceals about half of their extra thick pillow-top mattress. Double skid legs run the length of the structure, serving also as beams to form its strong spine. And when the happy couple is ready to pack up and head back to the dairy state, the whole thing breaks down easily to be reassembled with just four bolts.
All the best you two!
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Author: Sparks, Richard E; Illinois. Natural History Survey Division. Aquatic Biology Section; Commonwealth Edison Company; National Great Rivers Research and Education Center - NGRREC
Subject: Aquatic habitats
Publisher: [Champaign], Ill. : Illinois Natural History Survey Aquatic Biology Section
Possible copyright status: In copyright for research and educational use only. Digitized with permission of Lewis & Clark Community College, the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center, and the Illinois Natural History Survey . Contact [email protected] for information
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A plethora of video game world records. Why not turn on your XBox, Nintendo, Wii or even your Atari and set some records yourself?
678 Records
Most Consecutive Two-Block Gap Jumps In "Minecraft" (Xbox 360)
Matt Guggenbiller completed 283 two-block gap jumps on Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition.
Longest World Record Attempt Cut Short By An Act Of Nature
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Highest Score On "Temple Run"
Дамдинхүү earned 136,358,478 points on Temple Run.
Fastest Time To Complete Super Mario Bros.
Andrew Gardikis completed the Super Mario Bros. game in four minutes, 58.56 seconds.
Highest Turn Streak On "Draw Something"
Bernard and his friend, Lola McLola, had a streak of 999 turns on Draw Something. The international game was played with Lola in Kuala Lumpur and Bernard in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Highest Single Move "Words With Friends" Score
Tony Hall and Douglas Gohn scored 1,674 points by spelling the word ‘oxyphenbutazone’ while playing Words With Friends on his iPhone.
Fastest Perfect Game Of Pac-Man
David Race completed a perfect game of Pac-Man in three hours, 33 minutes and 1.40 seconds. Race achieved the maximum possible score of 3,333,360 points using an original Pac-Man machine.
Highest Score In "Temple Run 2"
Sunny I. earned 1,458,685,422 points in Temple Run 2.
Highest Score On "Bubble Shooter"
Chris Weather scored 19,995,620 points playing Bubble Shooter.
Longest Atari Cartridge Domino Chain
Theodore Harris created a domino chain using 98 Atari video game cartridges and successfully made the entire chain topple.
Highest Score In "Tiny Wings" (iOS)
Bailey Landrum scored 1,484,284 points in Tiny Wings on his iPhone.
Fastest Time To Complete Green Hill Zone Act 1 In "Sonic The Hedgehog"
Matt Lascola completed Green Hill Zone Act 1 of Sonic the Hedgehog in 28.00 seconds
Highest Score On Tetris Game
Adrian H. earned 33,913,351 points in Tetris.
Lowest Score On Tiny Wings
Brett Kanter earned 1,062 points in Tiny Wings on his iPhone.
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Current 24 people Most Strangers Marker Mustached, face, LNWJF, Jimmy Fallon, comedy, mustache, marker, stranger Post Comment Post to Facebook Follow replies All Comments for this Record Category response to this attempt Jess Yin Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:53:46 GMT I think Jimmy Fallon needs to re-claim his record LIKE (1).67 min/sec Largest Felt-Tip Pen Collection 72 pens Longest Expo Marker Train 62 markers Longest Nonstop Coloring Of An Airplane Illustration 4 hours Longest Time To Balance 11 Highlighter Markers On Chin 00:50.44 min/sec Longest To Time Spin A Sharpie Marker 00:02.26 min/sec Most Strangers Photographed In One Minute 30 photos Most Cracker People Created In One Minute 8 cracker people Most Strangers' Drinks Sipped Out Of In 15 Seconds 15 strangers Most Strangers Given Lipstick Impressions In 30 Seconds 13 strangers Most Strangers High Fived In 30 Seconds 25 strangers
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Jess Yin
I think Jimmy Fallon needs to re-claim his record
Where's Brian Brushwood?
does jimmy fallon know this was beat?
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Edi Weitz <edi at agharta.de> writes: > I /think/ it will also work with CLISP and ABCL, but I haven't > tested. I tested it with CLISP (CVS version, slightly post-2.40). I used the examples on the web page; it worked fine until the binary example. In line 121 of request.lisp, READ-SEQUENCE for some reason extracts characters from STREAM, which it then fails to put into the byte array RESULT: SYSTEM::STORE: #\G does not fit into #(0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...), bad type [Condition of type SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR] The TEXTP parameter to READ-BODY is NIL, and (flexi-streams:flexi-stream-element-type stream) returns CHARACTER. Magnus
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So what about that small minority known as the Catholic business owner? I ask every Catholic reading this blog post to take in hand their Sunday bulletin picked up at yesterday's mass and look at the back cover. There you will see, for the most part, advertising from Catholic-owned and operated businesses. [...]As Charlotte then points out, it is insane to think that one's Catholic identity must legally be confined to one's place of worship on Sunday mornings. Faith is meant to be lived, and if the living of that faith means that some Jewish deli owners don't sell ham or bacon and that some Muslim taxi drivers refuse to drive inebriated passengers and some Catholic business owners refuse to host fake gay "weddings," then our historic national appreciation of religious freedom should allow all of those things to be possible for people of faith.
Next, let's say that word gets out on the local level that Catholic Business X did a gay wedding. What would your reaction be? I know mine, and it's automatically imbued with sin. I'm going to mention it to fellow Catholic friends: "Did you hear that Catholic Business X catered a big gay wedding and reception?" And then they tell a friend, who tells someone they see at some business meeting, and they tell another, and then someone tells the priest, and on down the line it goes.
And then for next year's parish festival, Catholic Business X doesn't get a bid opportunity to rent out beer tents from the festival planning committee. Or maybe the owner of Catholic Business X notices that some parishioners at mass just aren't as friendly to him as they used to be.
See where I'm going with this?
I believe that a business is entitled to not have their reputation tarnished by laws demanding that services be provided which violate their religious beliefs. I believe that Catholics, whether corporately or privately, have a reasonable right to maintain reputation as a Catholic in good standing, which ultimately means that they should be able to exercise judgments and actions that are in line with the teachings of the Catholic faith.
With reference to the Catholic inn keepers in Vermont, it is being said that they have a free-standing Catholic chapel on their property, as well as a history of renting out their facilities to various Catholic groups. Knowing this, if they voluntarily agreed to host every gay wedding that walked through the door, what effect might that have on the stream of Catholic-based business that they already have? Likely, it would have a very negative effect simply because word gets around.
Worse, what if they were forced - by law - to accept every gay wedding that was requested? Some might answer, "Well, it wouldn't matter because we'd all understand that they had to do it. I wouldn't discriminate against that business/owner because they're just complying with the law."
Oh really? What if you booked a Catholic seminar at that inn one weekend, and once you and all the other Catholic attendees arrived, discovered that out on the grounds of the inn there was a gay wedding taking place? And what if the gay couple from the wedding were having professional photographs taken inside the little Catholic chapel on the premises? What if there were drag queens as guests at that wedding and some older folks attending the Catholic seminar were very uncomfortable with what they were seeing? For that matter, what if you had a teenager with you at that Catholic seminar, and during a break, your son or daughter caught sight of gay couples kissing each other?
You'd never book another event at that inn, ever. Period. [...]
So I ask this: WHY should these inn owners - or any Catholic-owned business - have to risk ruining their good business and/or Catholic reputation because the gay community insists that whatever they ask for must be provided?
Why do I say "some" religious believers will refuse to do certain things? Because, let's face it: there will always be plenty of unobservant or functionally irreligious people of various faiths who will take a childlike delight in turning against the actual practitioners. There may well be some Jewish people who argue in favor of selling ham, some Muslim people who argue in favor of giving rides to drunks, some Catholic people who think gay "weddings" are terrific, even some Buddhist people who would have no moral qualms about owning and running a slaughterhouse. But such people rarely speak for their faiths; in fact, they seem to enjoy speaking against them.
The truth is, such people are not usually the ones advertising in church bulletins (or the like, for other faiths) and trying to attract business among their fellow worshipers. So Charlotte's question still stands: why should Catholic business owners lose all of their Catholic business just because homosexuals insist that Catholics must accept and celebrate homosexual behavior to the point of participating in a "wedding" that the Catholics know fully well is a complete lie according to the Church?
I would like to see some answers to Charlotte's question. Do religious business owners have any right at all to act according to the dictates of their faith and consciences in the business sphere--or must everyone be forced to live as though secularism were our only faith, and religion a mere hobby to take part in on weekends, which is how militant atheistic secularism sees it?
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Although I agree philosophically with a lot of what you and Charlotte hove said on this issue, I think that ultimately in this country businesses should not have the right to discriminate based on race, sex, sexual orientation, or religion. This is a good law that protects the fundamental notion of separation of church and state. And that separation is just as important in protecting mybright to worshipnhow I want, as it is in protecting the rights of consumers to NOT be punished for what they believe. It's a sacred right in my book and a big part of what makes this country great. Sadly, this does mean that as a catholic, I must at times "render unto ceasar". I must pay taxes even if I fundamentally disagree with how some are used. I must often conduct business at places who's philosophies, ideologies, and even business practices I might find wrong. I mean I can try not to, that's within my rights, but I bet Target isn't a business run perfectly by catholic standards. I haven't ever researched every single product that I buy, seeing who they give their money to and how they run their business. Places like walmart, and even the grocery store where I shop, treat their employees really shabbily. I don't shop at walmart, but I live in a tiny town that has one decent grocery store. I have to shop there.
So, I think that yes, as a catholic business owner, whether a pharmacist, doctor, cake decorated, florist, or wedding planner, it's time to start thinking about your faith and your moral qualms with what th laws of this country require. I'm sorry, but that is the price we pay for other fundamental freedoms. We certainly have the right to either continue conducting business according to the law, or get into a line of business that does not compromise our faith. And again, Christ himself said "render unto Ceasar". I understand that to mean that at a point, we are held responsible to just law.
Certainly, anti- discrimination laws are just. And we are free to make money other ways. Mel
I don't know of any court who would buy Charlottes's plea, which is legally indistinguishable from an innkeeper claiming that they would almost certainly suffer loss of business damages from their cracker clients if they served black ones. Remember, you will never be pleading in a Catholic or even a religious court.
The problem you're up against is how to document that you're acting out of religious conviction instead of arbitrary personal discrimination, and to do that I don't see how you can pick and choose which religious convictions of your faith you get to hold and which you get to ignore in order to book more business.
Seems to me the only way any court would take you seriously would be if you were consistent and claimed the right to refuse to serve any who violated any tenet of your faith, then provided a list of everything your faith prohibited, then took active steps to insure no potential customer was in violation of them. But saddling yourself with that sort of due diligence can be a pickle. Did you take reasonable steps to find out if that woman was divorced before you served her? If you refuse service to a homosexual after you've served a divorcee or an abortion doctor you've just arbitrarily discriminated against the homosexual based only on your personal whim, at least in the eyes of any court I'm familiar with.
How do you solve that problem, and how do you protect yourself and your loved ones from others who have to solve that very same problem with respect to having to deal with you?
For the record, Erin, I believe that small business owners should be able to follow their consciences, and that they shouldn't be required to allow what they see as sinful behaviour to take place on their facilities. I think those Vermont B & B owners should be able to deny use of their premises for a gay wedding. I'll go further and suggest that I think they should be allowed to forbid unmarried heterosexual couples, or previously divorced people, from sharing a room, if they so choose. (Many hotels used to do so, I believe). If I wanted to stay at their facility with a woman I wasn't married to, and they said no, I would just say 'okay' and go elsewhere, I certainly wouldn't start whining about it. I hope the B & B owners win their case, and that the court tells the narcissistic whiners to shut up and sit down.
That being said, I'm curious whether you think that business owners should be able to discriminate against RC lifestyle choices as well. I know more than a few people who think that having more than one or two children is immoral, for environmental reasons. If they owned, say, a photography business, should they be allowed to refuse to take family pictures of a Catholic household with six children?
Anonymous,
How come people didn't have to "pay the price" before, in this country, for those fundamental freedoms? Why now?
You also don't articulate an accurate or historical understanding of separation of church/state. The U.S. wasn't founded on the notion as you (and 99% of everyone else who doesn't understand it) describe. This country was founded with that separation so that religion and government would not be combined and wield power as one, united entity. Last time I checked, we haven't had yet a president who also claimed to be the supreme leader of a religious organization, so separation of church/state seems to be working just fine, as intended.
It was never intended to be as you're thinking or wishing.
The founding of the United State of America was based upon freedom to practice religion. Do people understand they they are now arguing for just the opposite? They are now arguing for the polar opposite of Americanism. That is VERY scary.
Glen,
No one has a right to refuse service to a homosexual.
Read closely all arguments concerning this topic.
Rather, it is the ACTION of the homosexual being performed and sanctioned live and in person, on the spot of the Catholic's property that is the issue. The homosexual wants to have a gay wedding, which is considered immoral and invalid by Church-believing Catholics.
People should read my blog post, since it's about Catholic REPUTATION, not this whole Vermont inn argument all over again.
But anyway, since we now have to rehash and review this whole thing, let it be known AGAIN, that the Vermont inn owners have vocally explained that they have rented rooms to homosexuals for a long time now and have not had a problem doing so. The problem was with a gay wedding. Homosexual and homosexual wedding are two different subjects. One is a person, one is an action. YES, you can separate the two.
I can ask a stripper over for dinner. But I might not want the stipper to actually strip in my home. I can object to the action performed, but not to the humanity and dignity of the person.
I think I'm gonna try and sue the next store that says "no shoes, no shirt, no service." I mean, that's discrimination against humans. How dare they tell me how to compose and comport myself in their place of business?
Fundamentally, I'm with Charlotte on this one. That is not a new thought for me. If she and I were both on the Supreme Court, we might write slightly different concurring opinions, keeping an eye on all the many different sets of facts that an appellate ruling will be applied to in the future.
For example, I believe that a nurse who is a devout Roman Catholic should be able to refuse participation in an abortion, without losing her job. If it is a hospital, there will be plenty of other nurses who could be called in (since the patient does have the legal right to schedule the procedure). I would expect such a nurse NOT to apply for work at a clinic where abortion is a large part of the workload, just as a vegetarian should not apply for work at a steak house, then object to being directed to serve a platter of beef.
When it comes to a pharmacist who has conscientious objections to filling a prescription for contraceptives, sorry, the customer has a right to get their prescription filled. Find another line of work. Or, find a pharmacy that does not, and advertises up front that it does not, keep contraceptives in stock. Maybe if there are two pharmacists on duty at all times, and at least one is prepared to fill the prescription, accommodations could be made.
Getting back to the RC couple running the B&B: The fact that there is an RC chapel on the grounds is significant. If it is in fact dedicated and consecrated as such, then the First Amendment and over 150 years jurisprudence protects that consecrated ground from being used for any purpose that would desecrate it, in the eyes of the RC church. The courts have NO jurisdiction over what that might be. They follow the law of the highest judicatory of the church, period, in matters of faith and doctrine.
In this regard, Charlotte is correct that the First Amendment protects citizens from any given faith being established as a power in or over the state, AND, protects individual free exercise. "Separation of church and state" does not, and never has, meant that what the state deems acceptable is mandatory for the church, or for the individual private conscience.
Everyone who has offered an opinion here knows that it is lawful for a business to limit its offerings to kosher food, or halal food, or products that conform to any similar religious prescription or proscription, and to advertise it as such. IF the owner of a kosher business refused to sell to a willing buyer because "I don't sell to Arabs," or the owner of a halal business because "I don't sell to infidels," THAT would be a violation of well established equal access to public accommodations law. But, a Roman Catholic could not barge in and insist that a kosher or halal butcher should slaughter their freshly bought pig, and sue for discrimination.
If the couple running the B&B says "We only host weddings that are recognized as such by the RC church" they would be more akin to limiting their fare to halal, kosher, or, in this case, RC canon. Maybe they could in good conscience host a reception for a wedding conducted under the rubric of "the scandal of Protestantism," or maybe they could not. They should be willing, if a gay man and a lesbian woman sought to enter into marriage with each other, to host that wedding reception. It is the product that they are being specific about, not the characteristics of the individuals.
Many states these days do require landlords to rent apartments without inquiring as the marital status or carnal intentions of the prospective tenants. Generally, I think that is OK, because everyone needs a place to live, and the landlord is renting housing, not a place for sex, which is incidental to occupancy. There are, in most such laws, exceptions when the owner resides on the premises, with four units or less. That's appropriate also. That's where personal preference has a place, not matter what the burden on the tenant.
Hector,
People refuse business all the time, for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes they say why, other times they don't and come up with excuses.
In the case of the photographer, I say yes, they can decide they don't want to photograph the large family for whatever reason they want. Should they be tacky enough to say their real reasons why? Probably not. But hey, if offending people is their thing, then go for it.
I said before I think the Vermont inn owners should have been smarter and just said they made a mistake and were already booked that day. Might not have made a difference, though, since I believe 100% (despite what the official "story" is) that these inn owners were targeted from the beginning.
Erin, I'm not sure if I'm amused or saddened to see that, again, no one can appreciate or respect religious freedom as guaranteed in this country since the constituion was first conceived. They cannot see past the facts of this Vermont case to the bigger issues that you have written about or that I have written about. They actually appear to prefer and desire a society free of religious freedom and free of freedom of religious expression. I seriously don't get it. Do they think abolition of these freedoms won't affect them? They must - they think gay marriage won't affect us, either. It's astonishing to watch even Catholics here say thay we need to shut up or get out of business.
This stuff should be solved by everyone relaxing a little. There are plenty of businesses willing to host a same-sex wedding reception. That is where such business should be going. I see Hector and I are using the same phrase for those who want to make everyone accommodate their every whim. Narcissistic whiners is exactly what they are.
But this won't be solved by relaxed common sense. It will be sorted out in the courts. The couple should take some care how they present their case, but it is winnable. An instructive case is
HURLEY ET AL. v. IRISH-AMERICAN GAY, LESBIAN AND BISEXUAL GROUP OF BOSTON, INC., ET AL
In an opinion by that well-know right wing reactionary, David Souter, the Supreme Court said there is no right to impose your speech on the organizers of a parade, so no, the Massachusetts public accommodations law does NOT give the Irish Gay and Lesbian contingent the right to march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade. (They should have just called themselves the Sir Roger Casement Battalion).
A B&B is a public accommodation. That is a difference, in terms of judicial reasoning. But as Charlotte says, they are limiting the kind of services they provide, not discriminating as to who may purchase those services.
Siaryls,
I agree with your pharmacist analogy with one exception. If the pharmacist works for Walgreens or CVS, etc., then yes - filling a prescription for contraceptives should not be denied.
But if it is a privately owned pharmacy (a rarity these days, but they still do exist), then no. If the pharmacy is privately owned by a Catholic, then they can refuse to fill that contraception prescription.
You can call me Mel. The separation of church and state applies equally to all three of the ruling government branches, of which the judicial branch is one. Meaning that our laws do indeed have to protect that right. It does not just mean that our governing body cannot also be a religious one. It has a broader application than that. And, no, finally, businesses is this country just don't get to "make up" their own rules. They are very closely restricted
as to how they conduct business to protect the rights of consumers. This is not new information. Lawyers make their living every day because of these restrictions. I know it really bothers you, but bottom line it's not a new idea. It will be up to Catholics to decide how to morally conduct business as best they can. We aren't being persecuted here.
"I wanted to stay at their facility with a woman I wasn't married to"
In your dreams, Hector :+)
I just went to that inn's website. (Inn? It's a huge complex! And very family friendly - accomodations and activities for kids and even scheduled programs for kids.)
Anyway, on their "weddings" tab they have a statement that they are no longer accomodating weddings or other special events.
See? Loss of business, as I predicted. Because some whiners don't have the grace and dignity to take "no" for an answer and find one of a myriad of other places that would roll out the red carpet for them.
People are becoming barbarians.
Well anyway, good for them. They are protecting their reputations as Catholics, and as Catholic business owners.
Oh PS. I'm not saying I like Charlotte, I am just saying this is what living in a " free" country means for better or worse.
I would not trade it for a catholic monarchy, which I sometimes fear the arguments ultimately lead. Do I hate that abortion is okay? Absolutely. But, again, result of a free country. Do I deeply dislike marriage being redefined? Absolutely. Again, free country. My religion cannot dictate our laws. Separation of church and state. That leaves it up to me- as with the Inn owners ultimately- to decide how to conduct myself as a catholic business owner. And I am talking business only here. I am not talking about a churches right to refuse, just a money making businesses right to. Mel
Re: Do I hate that abortion is okay?
Abortion is hardly a comparable issue. The idea that "killing innocent human beings, except maybe in self defence, is, you know, wrong" isn't limited to Catholics, it's one that all reasonable and decent people hold, or ought to.
Siarlys Jenkins,
I'm indebted to you for the "Narcissistic Whiner" phrase. :)
I've been away from the blog for a bit; want to respond to some of these comments.
Glen seems to equate the deeply held and consistently-taught religious beliefs of a major world religion as to the nature and purpose of marriage with unjust racial prejudice. That, I fear, is what will lead to the rights of Catholics being stripped away in the wake of gay "marriage" decisions.
Mel, I think you're confused about just and unjust discrimination in a business context. A vegetarian restaurant does not have the right to ban meat-eaters from eating in their restaurant. The restaurant does, however, have the right to refuse to cook meat for the meat-eaters or to allow the meat eaters to use hibachi grills in the parking lot to cook their own meat to consume in the restaurant. Public accommodation does not mean, "I must consent to your behavior in all circumstances."
And gay "weddings" are about behavior, not merely accommodation; the Catholic innkeepers should not, as Charlotte says, be forced to celebrate the sin of gay "marriage" and face the resulting loss of business from the Catholic families who would refuse to stay at an inn hosting a gay "wedding."
As far as the separation of church and state: some of us would say that as marriage pre-dates the state, the state does not have jurisdiction to redefine or abolish marriage. I firmly believe we're heading toward the abolition of civil marriage in this nation, and anybody who shrugs and says "Oh, well, that's up to the state," doesn't really understand Catholic social teaching or the likelihood that vulnerable women and their children will suffer the most under such an arrangement.
I think what I am trying to say is that businesses in this country are already restricted in many many ways as to how they operate. I don't see, necessarily, this issue as being uniquely a catholic one or even uniquely a religious one. And what I was trying to say is that those restrictions are important and are generally put in place to protect both the business and the consumer and respect a kind of over all fairness in business practice. So, even though I agree that it is completely disengenuious of the Lesbian couple to push themselves on the Catholic B&B, I am in favor of consumers rights and protections in general. And I am
pretty sure the reaction of the owners of the B&B on their
website is a reflection of where their lawyers advised them
that the law would come down on in this case. I am open
to the fact that none of my points are being articulated very
well given the state of my 8 1/2 months pregnancy induced
stupidity. :-). Mel
Finally, I am not saying I like it. I am just saying that legally I am not sure how work to out a legal happy medium whereby a business owners personal beliefs could somehow be upheld while practicing fair business practices. I think that is just an impossible road to go down realistically. Some problems have already been raised. But more significant to me as a Catholic, is someone deciding they could refuse me service based on that. Or, based on say, the fact that I am pregnant with my 5th child. I just feel business practices should be required to err on the side of consumer and employees rights and protections. Mel
I take Erin's question: "do religious business owners have any right..." as a legal question and have been trying to research the answer, as opposed to offering a personal opinion (which again, I think is not what Erin is asking for).
Yet I'm finding it difficult to come to the correct legal conclusion under Vermont law.
To the extent it is helpful, the topic seems to be "Religious Conscience Protection Laws," also called "Religious Refusal Laws." I see they exist at various state and federal levels. Many seem to arise in response to health care and gay marriage issues. For example, I've come across a CT bill (can't tell if it was enacted)that covers a "religious organization, association or society, or any nonprofit institution," but not an individual or private business owner. The legislature appears to have debated extending the protection that far, but pulled back:
and such solemnization or celebration is in violation of their religious beliefs and faith."
Iowa also recently tried to enact a similar law but it cratered b/c it was too broadly drafted and would allow a private business to deny services not only to gay married couples but also to cross-religious married couples (e.g. Catholic-Lutheran), if the business owner's personal religious beliefs were violated by a cross-religious marriage.
I don't know why a private business owner in Iowa should be prevented from denying his service to a cross-religious marriage, but that seems to be the straw that broke the camel's back on that law.
So, it seems that laws exist at the State level (varying from state to state) and at the federal level.
I'm not finding a RCPA in VT, but it might be out there or buried in another law or called something else.
I hope this was informative.
Thanks, Peter, that was informative.
The cross-religion marriage thing is weird. The Catholic objection to gay marriage is, of course, that a marriage between two members of the same sex is impossible and invalid. A Catholic would never object to a valid marriage between two people of the opposite sex and/or different religions.
Seriously, while many Christian religions (including Catholicism) highly recommend and warn against marrying someone not of the same religion, no one that I know of disallows it. I can't even think of one! (Can anyone else come up with an example? Now I'm just intrigued to know.)
For that to have been any kind of consideration in the law-making process in Iowa must have meant either there was a really loud/vocal minority contingent off their rocker OR there was a liberal contingent (pro-gay marriage) that introduced this concept as a canard to confuse the process.
At any rate, I believe that there are law books filled with religious objection/conscience cases that don't apply to marital siuations, but involve other matters and issues. I belive that THOSE would be used as prescedent-setting cases, since as you're trying to determine, there's nothing else to go on.
When I searched for my biological mother, I discovered that she was a Jehovah's Witness. I have spent alot of time talking with her about her faith, and have discovered that the life of a committed, practicing JW is filled with religious objections that must be explained and fought for. (Actually, I am of the opinion - and I'm not the only one out there who believes this - that the JW's have done more for protection of religious belief in modern times than anyone.) There are hundreds of cases out there from the JW's, and to the best of knowledge, they win almost every time.
For what it's worth, that's another religion where I'm very positive that if the inn owner had been a JW, they wouldn't have allowed the gay wedding either. In their case, I believe the lesbians would have just have left them alone because JW's are kooks and weirdos, right? But Catholics? They're always good for a fit and a lawsuit. At least that's the impression I get lately.
Maybe I'm being redundant--but isn't the whole center of the problem the fact that Vermont officially recognizes same-sex relationships as eligible for marriage? Once that kind of law is passed, it seems like the way is paved now for this kind of persecution. Just as, when abortion/contraception are officially recognized as "medical procedures", it has the potential of pushing all Christians, Jews, and anyone who recognizes moral law, out of the medical field. Maybe there is a certain amount of protection we can claim still, but the official state recognition is going to be key. Going back to the racial analogy, which is obnoxious I know, but I could see someone saying that for religious reasons, they cannot recognize a wedding between a black man and a white woman, as a real marriage. But I could see them being (justly) sued for discrimination, even though their beef is not with the black man but with his action. So I guess what I'm saying is that religious rights, personal rights and those things that our country has always held sacred--those things aren't going to exist in a vacuum, and they are going to be turned upside down and inside out, in a state which officially endorses perversity and self-destruction. I don't mind re-thinking this, if anyone wants to correct my reasoning...
Also I would like to re-iterate, for those who don't seem to get it, that the owner of a B & B does not have an obligation (or even a right) to closely examine everyone staying at their B & B, about their marital status or sex life. Any more than a priest has an obligation to question every communicant about whether he has been attending Sunday Mass, etc. It is when someone is in a professed, public state of sin, that the priest is obligated to withhold communion. For obvious reasons. Likewise the owner of the B & B may assume all is well, unless there is a public profession that the couple intends to use the facilities for an immoral purpose, or if it is otherwise obvious--for instance, if a seventeen-year-old boy comes in with a twelve-year-old girl...it would be right to ask questions in that case. This should all be obvious to anyone with a moderate measure of common sense.
I'm sorry that came out as "anonymous", it was me, Rebecca.
In connection with a family wedding, I was told by a RC priest last year that a RC priest may not perform a marriage ceremony to a person who is not baptized. Is that an accurate statement of RC marriage laws? If so, isn't that an examplle of a particular religion disallowing cross-faith marriage?
Peter, someone else would have to answer on that. My recall (which may be very bad/wrong) is that it can be done if the bishop says it's OK. That's called a dispensation.
You know, Red (and you know this already), the reason many of these people think we're completely nuts and bigots, etc., is because 3/4ths of all American Catholics don't practice their faith anyway. Plus they don't know what the Church teaches. So WE get branded as the extremists, when in fact, the others aren't even, really (in some sense) Catholic at all. We get judged based upon them. Which always begs the question of: Why do they bother to be Cathlolic or self-identify as Catholic at all?
Especially about the Eucharist. If you don't believe it's really the body and blood of Christ, why not leave? Isn't it that 60-some percent of Catholics don't believe? I mean, really, then find some place that works for you. It's these catholic-in-name-only who don't know/practice the faith that cloud this issue of gay marriage. If Catholics were unified in their understanding of Catholic teaching and everyone on the outside knew it, I don't think people would be all that astonished by situations like the one in Vermont.
I am far from an expert on Islamic law, but a quick internet search leads to some persuasive authority tha Muslim men are discouraged from interfaith marriage and Muslim women are prohibited from interfaith marriage.
Laws that are fundamentally bad can be recognized by their tendency to warp basic foundational principles like life and liberty.
Lincoln pointed out how the slavery question infested issues like the admission of new states and the formation of new territories, and was at the root of schisms of the large protestant sects of his day, as well having an impact on supreme court appointments, and virtually every election.
Today, abortion is at the heart of every supreme court appointment, and of most elections. Here in Texas, murdering a child under 5 is a capital crime -- unless that child has not been born yet. In many places, acts that inadvertantly take the life of the unborn are criminal, but intentionally taking the life of the unborn is not.
This sort of warping of common sense and legal consistency is the hallmark of morally repugnant law.
Same-sex "marriage" is no different. "Husband" and "wife", "father" and "mother" are becoming politically incorrect terms (in California, birth certificates now have spaces for "parent A" and "parent B"). School books, already re-written to teach the new regime, are being adopted in every state that has civil unions. Businesses run by Christians -- not Moslems, mind you -- are targeted for litigation. Traditional morality is equated with bigotry, and religious faith is now seen as a barrier to entry in a variety of professions and occupations.
It's insanity. And sane people will not embrace or enable it.
Re: I can't even think of one! (Can anyone else come up with an example? Now I'm just intrigued to know.)
Charlotte,
As I understand it, the Eastern Orthodox Church does not permit its members to marry non-Christians (it permits, but discourages them from marrying Christians from non-Orthodox confessions). The marriage of former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, for example, wasn't recognized by his church because his wife was Jewish.
Peter,
Muslim men are permitted to marry Christian or Jewish women, but not women of any other religion. (I know a Muslim man whose Hindu fiance converted to Christianity to marry him, believe it or not.) Muslim women are prohibited from marrying outside their faith. Obviously, Muslims vary in how seriously they take the prohibition, and unlike Christianity, Islam lacks centralized clerical authorities.
Re: Likewise the owner of the B & B may assume all is well,
Rebecca in ID,
If a straight couple without wedding rings walks into a B & B and asks for a room, don't you think the default presumption is that they're maybe going to be breaking Catholic sexual teachings?
Seriously, while I think Catholics (and members of other religions) have the right not to allow their premises to be used for activities they disapprove of (whether gay sex, drinking alcohol, eating beef, or what have you), if these rules were enforced on straight people as well as gays then I don't think there would be this many frivolous lawsuits.
Hector, if I can answer your question to Rebecca: not at all! In the first place, the absence of wedding rings does not denote the absence of a valid marriage--I recall a hilarious story of a young bride in Alaska in about 1960 flying into a major city and trying to deposit money in her new joint bank account--only to have to explain that she didn't wear a ring because of an allergy to gold, she didn't have a driver's license because she flew a plane in the part of Alaska where she lived and where cars were essentially useless (and back then, pilots' licenses weren't photo i.d.s though they probably are now), and she didn't have her marriage license because the wedding had only happened three days before and the certificate hadn't been mailed to the couple yet. She eventually convinced the bank that she was the wife of the account holder (these days, though...!).
So, a married couple might not wear rings for one reason or other--but beside that, are you going to grill or interrogate every male/female couple that walks in as to their relationship and intention to engage in what ought to be marital activity? The couple might be brother and sister (and if the sister is married, her last name might be different). The couple might be friends (and the man might be same-sex attracted, so that there's no moral danger whatsoever for him to share a room with his attractive female heterosexual friend). There might be a dozen other perfectly reasonable explanations as to why a male/female couple without wedding rings wishes to share a room, without the assumption that they want the room for illicit activity (unless, of course, the hotel is the sort of place which rents rooms by the hour, which is not the sort of place a Catholic ought to own, anyway).
So: denying people of any gender a room for the night is vastly different than saying, "We do not host same-sex "weddings" because of our deeply held, centuries-old religious beliefs according to which these "weddings" are fake, the pairs not truly married in the eyes of God or man, and the whole charade an affront to decent people who value virtue and morality." And as far as I'm concerned, Catholic innkeepers ought to have the legal right to say that.
Charlotte, this was a good deal of water under the bridge and many comments ago, but I agree that an individual pharmacy might well choose, and advertise, not to stock contraceptives at all. For that matter, they could choose not to stock antibiotics. They are subject to the vagaries of the market - how many customers they will attract, retain, or discourage from coming back - but not to lawsuits.
The only other issue that seems outstanding (we all know where each of us stands on abortion, so no need to throw that into the mix again), is the question of what level and kind of state regulation a business is subject to. There seems to be an assumption being floated that, because the state must be neutral in matters of religion, and because businesses are licensed and regulated by the state, therefore a business must be neutral in matters of religion. That is without any constitutional or legal foundation.
COMMERCE is subject to regulation by the state. Religion is, by definition, not commerce, although if a religious body runs a commercial subsidiary, whether that be a thrift store or a winery, the business is subject to regulation, and tax, as a business.
This comes up over and over in the fatuous "Christmas Wars," which exist more in the eye of media anxious to drum up another story than in the minds and hearts of people trying to celebrate their favorite holiday(s). Can a business post an explicitly religious theme in its windows? Absolutely. Do people who are offended have to shop there? No, they can go elsewhere. Do large chains trying to cater to the maximum clientele tend to water things down? Yes, its good business to do so. Is that wrong? No, its their option.
The owners of a B&B are under no state-imposed obligation to be religiously neutral. They can put crucifixes in every room if they want. They can paint a mural of the Temptation of St. Anthony all around their dining room. That may or may not be a sound business decision, but it is no business of the state.
The only plausibly valid argument is that the state may impose nondiscrimination laws. We've beaten to death that "nondiscrimination" is about equal access to the services the business offers, NOT demanding that it offer whatever a given customer wants.
So, they cannot turn away customers because "you are not of the right faith," or we only serve 'mericans, or we don't like your color, or your turban, and in many states, they can't turn a customer away because "you're gay, and we don't want your kind here."
So the question -- which we have all covered pretty thoroughly, is whether refusing to host a same-sex wedding is per se discrimination against people who are gay. I would say no, and I've already said why, as have many others.
Finally, I agree with Erin that declining to host a celebration of a same-sex marriage is not similar to discrimination on the basis of race. Everyone since 1965 who feels they are "discriminated against" wants to cast themselves as "the new black," but they are not. They each have their own case to make.
Red, though, I'm interested in what you think about the way the changing of the law pretty much might challenge that right. So for example, the B and B would not be required to celebrate a shacking up ceremony on their premises, because they do weddings, not shacking up ceremonies. But once the state formally recognizes a "wedding" of a same sex couple...isn't there a fundamental change there, and don't you see it as difficult to maintain the position of religious freedom amid that? It seems like a losing battle as long as those kinds of laws are being changed.
I'm with you on your reply to Hector. Huge difference between a public declaration/celebration and what people may choose to do privately. Which is why it is not necessarily inconsistent to oppose a law against sodomy while also opposing a state redefinition of marriage to include same-sex relationships. St. Thomas Aquinas talks about how it is imprudent to try to make laws which cannot reasonably be enforced--it lessens the force of law to do so--and likewise it is imprudent to try to make lists of rules which would require prying in order to enforce. That is worlds different than openly, publicly celebrating wrong actions.
Rebecca, I'll go further than you: the whole reason gay rights agitators have forced the change of the law in various states is because they wish to silence, punish, and marginalize anyone who holds to the religious (Catholic, Christian, Orthodox Jewish, Muslim, and other) belief that gay sex acts are immoral, that putting the stamp of a fake "marriage" license on them does not make them moral, and that there is no comparison whatsoever between a heterosexual marriage and homosexual pairings.
And this is what is wrong.
Consider that a relatively short (100 years or so) time ago, sex before marriage--fornication--was seen by society at large as a character weakness, a clear deviation from virtue, and a problem to be resolved by the marriage of the guilty parties (the phrase, "You should make an honest woman of her" didn't come from nowhere). Now, the idea that fornication is immoral is widely laughed at, and society thinks it is more insulting to a young man or woman--especially a woman--to think he or she is *not* behaving like a promiscuous slut than to hint that he or she might actually be chaste and virtuous. "Virgin" has become an intolerable insult, to be flung only at those young men or women the mob dislikes; and the poor young person called a virgin is expected to yell "Am not! You take that back!" as if to be assumed to be pure is the most insulting thing anyone can assume about you.
The fiction of gay "marriage" can only be maintained in a world in which chastity and virtue are completely denigrated. Same-sex couples do not "save themselves for marriage" and would find it horrifically insulting to be told that they ought to do so. They do not marry to "make honest men/women of each other," as sodomy is still immoral whether one is "married" or not (and, indeed, whether one is heterosexual or not). So to destroy the last, tiny vestiges of the ideal of chastity and virtue, gay rights advocates must first change the laws to demand "marriage," and then silence, marginalize, exclude, and punish anyone who values traditional morality, chastity, purity, or the idea that sex is about more than producing temporary physical pleasure through friction.
If we don't stand up for the very different Catholic take on marriage, sex, morality, virtue, chastity, and gender complementarity which has transcendent meaning as applied to the relationship between Christ and His Church, we'd better get used to the idea that any focus on these things will be labeled as "hate speech," and the Church herself as a "hate group" for insisting that all sex outside of *real* marriage is still gravely sinful and puts its practitioners in the serious danger of the eternal death of Hell. I'm not quite ready to shut up and give in to the sodomites on this one, probably because I see where we're headed, and how absolutely destructive it will be for our children, and our children's children, to grow up in a society which has moved from merely laughing at virtue to openly and persistently attacking it in its defiled and irredeemably corrupt institutions.
Good discussion, all. As a pharmacist, though, I take umbrage to the idea that even privately owned independent pharmacies have the 'right' to deny sale of contraceptives. I will bring up two points. 1.) Herein a business is a business, and not entitled to act as an individual as what the Constitution was originally designed. It's getting scarier and scarier that corporations and groups of people seem to have access or rights 'above' or 'equal' to individuals. For the record, pharmacies receive much funding from federal and state programs i.e. their Medicaid-, and Medicare-eligible patients pay for their drugs in tax-payer funded programs. The pharmacist is licensed to perform a public function in the public arena in society. Physicians, teachers, hair dressers do not provide the drugs and information unless they are also licensed pharmacists. There are not private pharmacists providing select prescriptions for patients.
2.) Now, say, if one could overlook the fact that pharmacists are duly obligated by society to perform their duty in providing drugs, and were working, say, in a different capacity, such as solely providing advice, or checking drug interactions, NOT performing their duty, the argument could be let up a bit. Nevertheless, unless a patient has adequate opportunity or access to getting their prescription filled within a reasonable time by alternative pharmacies that provide the prescription product, then the patient DESERVES or has the right to get their prescription filled whether the owner has a decided position on the matter or not.
Those were my main two points, but on the other hand, if I as a pharmacist know that my patient has been given a prescription for a drug or dose that will kill them or seriously hurt them or is likely to do damage, then I can use my pharmacist's judgment and refuse to fill.
Will I knowingly fill a script for a drug that cause fetal death or birth defects in a woman who is obviously or reportedly pregnant? I don't think so. I will call the physician and tell that I'm not filling it and why.
Zircon
Red, do you mind if I ask you a few questions?
When you say "If we don't stand up", do you mean you standing up yourself, or someone else standing up in place of you for what you want to see done? And how are you going to be doing this standing up, on a blog or in stories, or out there confronting people doing things you don't like in a legally governed world? Are you going to stand up by lobbying your representatives? I see on the side there you have already sworn against voting for Republicans, so threatening not to vote for them if they don't do what you want wouldn't seem to carry much weight, at least with Republicans.
The reason I ask these things is, if you're going to stand up yourself and try to take on gay marriage or fornication or whatever yourself, how do you plan to defend yourself against counter attack? It's all well and good to say you're doing it out of religious principles rather than just out of some arbitrary personal spite, but if someone counter attacks you legally claiming you are simply arbitrarily harassing them, you're going to have to be able to prove some consistent pattern of standing up against all behavior your religion specifically prohibits as immoral. Otherwise you won't have a legal leg to stand on, and you could lose everything that can't be shielded in bankruptcy.
So what's your plan for standing up? Of course if it's just blogging about it so that you and others can gripe, no worries. You're just talking, and we all know speech is protected. Beyond that, though, how does someone, maybe someone else if you don't do it yourself, stand up the way you're calling for while protecting themselves from crossing onto the wrong side of the law in doing so? That's assuming they care what side of the law they're on, which we'd assume they would. Hope that wasn't too many questions, but it just seems a lot easier to talk about what you're talking about than to really do anything, unless of course you've already decided to accept whatever the real world costs and consequences of doing something might be, like being legally convicted of malicious harassment and having to declare bankruptcy to shed a judgement.
So how does someone do what you're calling for?
Glen, I've addressed this sort of thing before, and it's beyond the scope of a comment box, but the kind of "standing up" I see myself willing to engage in has to do with being willing to help create a sort of parallel society in which I am not required by law to acknowledge or directly participate in evil.
Rod Dreher used to refer to this as the "Benedict Option," by which he meant forming intentional communities to stand apart from (and in many cases, in opposition to) the many evils of modern American secularism--not merely to oppose evil, but to teach and strengthen others in the practice of virtue and goodness as Christianity is mandated to do. I've spoken of the idea here both to praise its strengths and criticize some weaknesses; but in general I think this is where Catholics may end up, fifty or a hundred years from now., and will probably not get well underway until the religious persecution I see as the inevitable result of forcing gay "marriage" on the nation has made a lot more of my fellow Catholics aware of the lengths we'll have to go to in order to preserve an authentically Catholic identity in the midst of a militantly atheistic and secularist nation bent on spreading its errors around the world. Will I even live long enough to see that point? Who knows? But like I said to someone elsewhere, I will at least know that if the secular nation in the future tries to create the fiction that no Catholics really cared much about gay "marriage" and the loss of religious freedom when all of that was happening, the words of those of us writing against this slide into national degeneracy will serve as a contradiction to the predominant narrative.
Now, for myself, personally, as I've also said before, I would also consider leaving America for a saner, more pro-Catholic country--the problem is that this militant atheistic secularism is America's chief import, and there may not be a sane corner of the globe left to migrate to even if that became a realistic option for my family.
I'd like to make the point, too, that blogging, writing, speaking is not doing nothing--it falls under instructing the ignorant, if it is done well, and can be powerful. And in fact I would go so far as to say that if there were not a number of intelligent people writing and speaking on these topics, the battle would quickly be lost. Those of us who do not have the time or talent for that, or for more directly political activity--we're educating our children and teaching them to live principled lives. And more and more, ordinary people will find themselves in situations where they can choose to compromise with the Culture of Death, or not. My husband sends SMS messages for various companies for a living.. My husband wrote a letter explaining that their company could not include these messages in their service, and the reply was three lawyers on the other end, threatening to sue and destroy the company. When they found out how small and insolvent the company was, they let it go because it was not worth their time--but if it had been worth their time, they may well have won. I know more and more people in various fields who have had to face various situations like this. It's becoming less and less theoretical.
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I don't see how what you wrote above would be a long slow process, seems like you and anyone else who wanted to could do it tomorrow. Of course it would limit your options, but that's what you say you want to do anyway. You might have to give up some things you're enjoying now, but how important could they really be compared to what you really want?
I don't see the problem. Why don't you and whoever else feels like doing what you say you want to do there just do it? Problem solved.
The "slow process" part, Glen, involves letting those Catholic businesses know we're going to support them and helping them get started (an idea which also ties in to distributism, which I'm still learning about).
For instance, you say, "So: go to a Catholic doctor! Go to a Catholic pharmacy!" etc. I do go to a Catholic doctor (though if I want to go to a pro-life, NFP only doctor there aren't many available where I live; alas, the one I used to go to had to quit practicing due to serious health issues of her own, from what I understand). I would love to support a Catholic pharmacy, but there isn't one. Heck, I'd love to shop at a Catholic version of WalTarMartGet etc. so I could buy toothpaste and soap without having to walk by the stupid condom aisle, or stand in the check-out line next to magazines decorated by scantily clad women posed beside headlines full of salacious details about how I can please my man (feminism in action, those magazines, don't you know). The Catholic store would be closed on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation, and have a really nice religious goods department, too! Ah, dreams. :)
But, like I said, such a company would have to know that enough of us would shop there--and they'd also have to be aware that they'd probably be sued on a near daily basis for the imaginary hurt feelings of openly gay customers and/or would-be employees, in addition to being sued for *not* selling condoms or Cosmo. So, again, a slow process to get to the point where a Catholic alternative community could exist in peace is indicated.
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I think that your husband's company should have the right not to send those messages, if they don't feel they can do so in good conscience. By the same token, they should make their opinions known in advance, and Columbia University should feel free to contract with a different company.
Re: That is worlds different than openly, publicly celebrating wrong actions.
By the same token, though, if the state treated gay sex as something 'wrong, but tolerated', isn't that infringing on the religious freedom of those people who don't believe that homosexuality is immoral?
I don't personally believe that a gay relationship is quite the same thing as a marriage, and I don't want my church performing gay marriages, but I also don't want the state to send the message that it thinks gay relationships, or gay sex, is immoral and wrong. Because I don't believe they are.
I don't really see there's a painless solution here: whatever the consensus our society comes to about the morality (or lack thereof) of homosexuality, someone's religious or moral views are going to be offended. There's simply no way around that.
Hector,
I agree with your last paragraph--which is why I think it just doesn't work for people to try to work out how we can tiptoe in just the right way so as not to offend anyone. It won't happen, it is not possible, and true freedom, which is defined a little differently than "not stepping on anyone's toes" cannot happen in a society which refuses to recognize or outright contradicts the moral law.
Glen,
So why don't all the homosexuals go off and start their own intentional communities, run the way they want?
You seemed so eager for us to do it. They could just as easily do the same. Or would that sound too much like the whole AIDS/island idea from the 80's?
"By the same token, though, if the state treated gay sex as something 'wrong, but tolerated', isn't that infringing on the religious freedom of those people who don't believe that homosexuality is immoral?"
Yeah, if you think "religious freedom" means being able to do *anything* you want. Would you say the same thing about people who want to have open consensual sexual relations with animals? Or people who want to have four or five wives, consensually, of course? And demand that they be given access to the B and B's facilities for these things? I'm not sure where you personally, Hector, draw the line, but I'm pretty sure you draw the line *somewhere*. I'm pretty sure that you think people should be able to pursue happiness in their fashion--but that there are certain lines which just ought not be crossed, ought not at least be recognized as honorable or sanctioned by the state, regardless of how deeply held those convictions might be for those who want such actions sanctioned. Right? And my guess is, you think that somehow, that basic information, that basic instinct and those first principles, concerning those lines which ought not be crossed--you think that is knowledge is somehow accessible to everyone, don't you? If it's not, if it's just your private opinion, then what grounds are there for any kind of limiting of the definition of marriage, or limiting of any kind of behavior whatsoever?
Re: It won't happen, it is not possible, and true freedom, which is defined a little differently than "not stepping on anyone's toes" cannot happen in a society which refuses to recognize or outright contradicts the moral law.
All that is quite true. FTR, I'm not a philosophical liberal, and I think that plenty of behaviours (sexual, economic, and others) ought to be suppressed or at least discouraged. I just don't agree with you that contraception and homosexuality are among them.
And I don't see a good reason that the government should support the teaching of your church that homosexuality is a sin, over the teaching of my church that it isn't.
All that being said, I think you have the right, if you wish, to believe that contraception and homosexuality are wrong, and you also have the right not to have your business participate in supporting those activities. As long as the college women can go elsewhere to get the pill, and the lesbian couples can go elsewhere to get married, then I don't see why Catholic business owners need to violate their own moral sensibilities.
okay, so good, there is a point of agreement: you seem to be saying that there is an objective moral law, which ought to be able to be recognized by all reasonable people, and the state should have something to say about that as well. I agree with that. Your church's "belief" vs. my Church's "belief" don't really have to do with that, if we're talking about something knowable by reason, so whether homosexuality and contraception are wrong, should be able to be hashed out, and we ought to be able to some agreement on that. Maybe that would take a few years, but anyway.
The thing I would challenge apart from that point, though, is that there can be such a thing as a state *sanctioning* certain behavior *while* guaranteeing religious freedom to oppose or refuse to participate in such behavior. As I've been saying, I think once the law recognizes something as legitimate, equal to other things, good and honorable, etc., it *is* going to result in a tension which has to give. Religious freedom is freedom to do what you want according to your religion *within the confines* of decent behavior, and once the state *sanctions and blesses* sexual perversity, it *will* become impossible to maintain a position of "religious freedom", because anything opposing the state's official view, will be considered *not decent*, not within the confines of decent behavior. You already see the racial analogies being made. It isn't decent to refuse service to a person because of the color of his skin, right? And people *cannot* make the distinction between that, and the refusal to participate in or celebrate immoral actions. It is seen as indecent not to let them have their reception there, and if you can't be decent, why, get out of the B & B business.
Re: The thing I would challenge apart from that point, though, is that there can be such a thing as a state *sanctioning* certain behavior *while* guaranteeing religious freedom to oppose or refuse to participate in such behavior
If that's true, then I'm afraid you're out of luck. Since I don't believe that homosexuality is wrong, I am naturally not going the want the state to say that it's wrong. And if that means that your sentiments get offended, then I can't help that.
Of course, I don't really believe that is true, and I think there is room enough in this world for both gay people and for conservative Catholics to live by their own lights. I don't agree with Quaker pacifists about the morality of war, but I think we should have a place in this world for Quaker pacifists. I don't agree with Buddhist vegetarians, but there needs to be a place in this world for Buddhist vegetarians. Same goes for you and Erin.
Seriously, Quakers aren't required to participate in wars, and they wouldn't be even if we still had a draft; similarly, why don't you think there can be same protections for you?
The state not saying it's wrong is different from the state sanctioning and blessing it as marriage. Like I said, you can oppose laws against sodomy (for practical reasons)and still be against state's re-definition of marriage.
I believe the Quakers get away with what they get away with, because they are so minor and so invisible. Nobody feels threatened by them. I don't know how long that will last--already there are ridiculous things happening like Amish families being lined up against a wall by gunpoint in the middle of the night for the suspected crime of shipping raw milk over state lines--without much public outcry. It's a relatively minor matter, but folks are conditioned to think that it really is okay for the state to tell people they can't sell or even share raw milk, or maybe even give it to their own children. We're shrugging off these minor freedoms being taken away, but don't tell me the founding fathers aren't turning in their graves over such things. Already, in my lovely state of CA, K-12 is now *required* to include "gay" history in its textbooks, and to present it in a positive light--if you think that isn't going to result in a tension that's got to give, well, enjoy those good feelings while you can.
Re: It's a relatively minor matter, but folks are conditioned to think that it really is okay for the state to tell people they can't sell or even share raw milk, or maybe even give it to their own children
People get sick and die from raw milk routinely, which is why it's an excellent idea to prohibit it. I don't drink milk or eat much milk products, but if I did, I certainly wouldn't drink raw milk, nor would I allow my future children to drink it.
I can't shed too many tears over those medically irresponsible Amish farmers (and I'm not a big follower of the cult of the founding fathers, so that line of argument is a nonstarter).
Well, the bare facts are that pasteurized milk has proved to be far more dangerous than raw milk, despite what the CDC in bed with big dairy farmers *want* us to believe, but I'll let you do the research if you are interested. What about raw veggies, Hector? Shouldn't we be required by law to cook all our veggies; people die from raw veggie contamination all the time. The government should take care of us and ban lettuce, because we can't make that judgment for ourselves. I can't believe I'm in an argument about this on this thread--but I guess you're illustrating what I'm talking about; you have no problem with the government babysitting us through the smallest details, and as long as we're used to that, the government can tell us what we must teach our children, and so on, because someone has to keep us safe from ourselves. Our gradual acceptance of Big Government is a factor here but I want to re-state that my basic point is that when something is blessed and sanctioned by the state, there is no question that religious liberty in that arena will be compromised or even destroyed completely.
The "cult" of the founding fathers--what do you mean??? I happen to think that when we are considering how to run our country, we should have some care about the Constitution. In what way is that a "cult"? If citizens, who are supposed in some measure to be self-ruling, are ignorant about their own country's constitution, and their own rights, how is this not all going to end up being the rule of the few strong and powerful?
My whole point is that the Amish/Quakers etc. aren't necessarily free to do as they wish, even if it is important to them and something they have been doing for hundreds of years, especially if it threatens anyone powerful, and we may see their freedom disappearing.
I thought I was illustrating something which would be obvious and had no intention of dwelling on it...I'll just shut up now...
Rebecca, if you want to conduct business with the public, you have to treat all the public the same, regardless how you feel about them. You can't pick and choose, at least not in the U.S.
If you say "no shirt, no shoes, no service", you can't hold some people to that standard and not others.
If you offer weddings or wedding receptions, you can't serve gays and Lutherans but not Catholics, no matter what your reasons for wanting to do so. Before gay weddings were legally recognized to be the same as any other wedding, responding "in your dreams" to someone wanting you to host a gay wedding reception was perfectly legal. After gay weddings became legal, refusing to host gay wedding receptions while hosting other wedding receptions became as illegal as refusing to host Catholic wedding receptions while hosting other wedding receptions. How either party might feel about either is completely irrelevant under the law. Now, no one can FORCE you to hold wedding receptions if that might mean you might encounter having to hold a gay wedding reception, and that's what the Vermont innkeepers decided to do. Moral for them and legal for everybody.
Maybe you're just not that familiar with anti-Catholic discrimination and persecution, not the kind Red wants to claim, but real persecution. Rebecca being lynched and burned alongside a black by the KKK just because she's Catholic. The only thing stopping that is the same legal arguments you're griping about.
If you want to take things as far as Red wants to take them, then you have to be willing to go the distance she is willing to go and to pay the price she is willing to pay, namely live in self-created all Catholic ghettos. If you want to go farther and make all people obey your moral teachings, you really do need to go farther, out of the U.S., where you can reshape some other country so that Catholic teachings and the laws of the land are one and the same. For those that committed, this isn't as impossible as it may seem.
What you can't do, though, no matter how much you fume about it, is live under the protection of U.S. laws preventing others from discriminating against you because you are Catholic while discriminating against others yourself. Split all the blog hairs you want, it isn't going to happen.
Red's Catholic ghetto idea may be the best solution for you, if you can figure out how to do it without discriminating against others, because it lets you keep U.S. constitutional and other legal protections in place among yourselves. Once you move to the Nation of Catholica, it will be all Catholica, all the time. All the time. Of course, the bishops can, I understand, grant dispensations to some and not to others as they think best, depending, but hopefully you'll be okay with that.
So Glen, I'm with you on thinking that once marriage is redefined by law, it becomes very difficult to maintain the "religious freedom" exemption. What I was saying was, before gay "marriage" was recognized, the B & B folks were fine as long as they said they hosted *wedding* receptions rather than *shacking up* receptions. So I have two questions for you, Glen, and I really want to know what you think; they are not rhetorical questions.
First: Are there *any* behaviors you think it would be okay to protest against. Like for instance, would it be okay for the B and B to refuse to host a reception of a man marrying two or three women? And what role would the law have to do with that--in other words, would it be okay if it were illegal but not okay if it became legal to marry more than one wife. I'm interested in your thoughts on that.
Second question, having to do with your analogy to the KKK burning folks. So I am against people using dangerous drugs, and I support warning people about those drugs, educating youth, and encouraging and helping people on drugs to get off of them. Do you think, because of that, that I secretly would like to burn drug users in religious ceremonies, and that when society disapproves of using dangerous drugs, we are on the verge of violent persecution of drug users? If not, can you explain to me why you think the fact that I think people destroy themselves and society through homosexual behavior, makes me like unto the KKK. I need to have that explained to me. Thanks!
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Sure. Second question first. You said "If not, can you explain to me why you think the fact that I think people destroy themselves and society through homosexual behavior, makes me like unto the KKK." I didn't say anything of the sort and frankly I don't care what you think about homosexual behavior one way or another. I didn't give an analogy, I gave a historical reference about REAL Catholic discrimination and persecution, about what really could have happened to you personally if you'd been at the wrong place at the wrong time historically and what legally prevents it from happening today. Why, for example, you can't be refused service for being Catholic or be thrown out of a restaurant for acting "Catholicky" ie for saying grace and making the sign of the Cross before eating. You can process that information however you like, take it as I gave it to you, or rearrange it in your mind to suit whatever you want.
First question: it's "okay" to protest against ANY behavior. There are, however, legal consequences to violating laws of the land, at least if you're caught. If you aren't prepared to suffer the consequences, you might not want to violate the laws. Some do. The Vermont innkeepers decided they didn't want to. Or change the laws. Does that help?
Yes, Glen, it helps. Thanks for clarifying what you meant by the KKK stuff and my apologies for not catching your drift (I had some children crawling on me and should have probably just waited and re-read.) Yeah, I'm glad there isn't open violent persecution of Christians or of people who are trying to live according to natural law, yet, in this country. I'm very thankful for that. I'm so glad to live in a free country, and I hope it stays that way. I hope, with all my heart, that California's law about teaching "gay" history will not eventually translate to private schools being required to do the same, or children being taken from their parents, as is now happening in Germany.
On the first question, sure, I think I'm in agreement with you, and I'm for changing the laws. My position is this: once there is a really bad law made which normalizes bad behavior, it is pretty much impossible to maintain or establish conscience clauses and the like. I would think a case like this could in theory set a precedent for a conscience clause, since you can see that serving someone who lives a lifestyle you may disapprove of is vastly different from actively helping that person to celebrate that lifestyle per se. Because of this I do not think the Vermont couple was in outright violation of the law, but again, once something is officially declared decent and good, it *will* become considered indecent to disapprove or protest in any way.
I'm wondering something now...those of you who think the B & B was really violating law: If there was a center which hosted conferences of various sorts, would that center have the right to refuse to host conferences which didn't accord with the views of the people who own it? Like, if they were Democrats, and the conferences tended to be about saving the rainforests and AIDS in Africa, would they be required by law to host a conference with Rush Limbaugh as the main speaker?
Re: I'm wondering something now...those of you who think the B & B was really violating law
I don't think the B & B was violating the law, as I think I made clear. They should have the right to opt out of behaviour they disapprove of. I don't agree that their views that homosexuality is a sin, though, and I don't see why I should be obligated to, or why homosexual couples should be subject to official state disapproval.
Re: My position is this: once there is a really bad law made which normalizes bad behavior, it is pretty much impossible to maintain or establish conscience clauses and the like.
You haven't established, though, that gay sex is 'bad behavior'. It's no more intrinsically immoral that straight sex. I respect that your church thinks otherwise, but that's not a reason for me, or anyone else who isn't RC, to agree with you.
Hector, I wasn't trying to establish that gay sex is bad behavior...and my question about the conference center was addressed to Glen and others who think the Vermont couple broke the law.
The state has no position to say that an act is moral or immoral. A state does have position, in matters not constitutionally reserved to private individual decision, to say that an act is not acceptable in civil society. Voters and legislators may well be motivated by their respective moral codes in deciding when "there oughta be a law against it."
So, the fact that the state refrains, or is restrained, from criminalizing a given act, even the fact that the state formally recognizes and licenses a given human relationship, has no impact at all on whether some churches teach that it is sinful. It is legal to drink alcohol. Muslims and some Protestant sects remain free to teach that to do so is a sin. Nobody accuses them of anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish, anti-other-Protestant, or anti-atheist bigotry.
I'm sure I said this before, but just because an act is legal does not mean it is mandatory. Just because the state approves, does not mean every person has to approve, or facilitate. Animal sacrifices to the orishas by the Santeria is constitutionally protected. It does not mean that I have to sell them animals to be used in the sacrifice, nor that I have to permit them to conduct services involving human sacrifice on my premises.
Government imprimatur of approval does not automatically mean that all businesses, or even all public accommodations, must offer or host what is approved.
I thnk you meant "conduct animal sacrifices." I'm pretty sure human sacrifice is banned, even for religious reasons, at least for sacrifice of post-partum humans.
c matt, please point out where I referred to human sacrifice. All I can find is "Animal sacrifices to the orishas by the Santeria is constitutionally protected."
I have often pointed out that, just because some pagan revival wants to indulge in human sacrifice, the First Amendment does NOT protect their right to do so as the free exercise of religion. There is a viewpoint-neutral, generally applicable, law against homicide. (The law does not recognize the pre-partum condition as a person.)
IF Hialeah Florida banned ALL killing of animals for ANY reason, then that generally applicable law would apply to the Santeria. It was the fact that the ordinance exempted every conceivable reason for killing animals EXCEPT religious ritual that betrayed the real purpose, denying free exercise to a given sect.
(The arguments in the city council were laughable... especially the statement that "the Bible does not allow" animal sacrifice in worship.)
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My Bacteria are to Blame (A "Welcome to my Bedroom Closet" Podcast by Laurel Anne Hill)
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Ever wonder why some people gain weight easily and others don't? According to some scientific studies, the bacteria living in our guts could play a role. My essay, "My Bacteria are to Blame," takes a light-hearted look at "bugs" and body weight.
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A Very Merry Christmas In NY Indeed- Mark Teixeira to the Yankees
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I would much rather have Varitex then Lowe because what about Clay?
Bigpapi72,
Elizabeth – you and I are true believers in Mikey! And please tell Dr. Neel that Mike is only 34 years old. Have a wonderful Christmas! And remember, next season when Mike has a fantastic year you and I can say – I told you so!
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Merry Christmas! Looks like Lowell is going to stay now. Glad your wish came true.
Great Q&A, Elizabeth! It was fun following your conversation. And I’m glad things worked out the way you wanted them to. I can certainly understand why Lowell’s a favorite of yours. Now if the Red Sox sign Varitek, you’ll be really happy, right? Merry Christmas to you and your family.
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I’m glad to hear you got your wish, too. I think the nice bushy beard makes Lowell look older.
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Well, with the Mark Teixeira signing by the Yankees, it will make the “Yankees – Red Sox” rivalry much more fun to watch in 2009 and future years … But, it is a long season, and we all can look forward to a great battle in the AL East between the Yankees, Red Sox, and Rays … Elizabeth, enjoy your Christmas Day; and, Best Wishes, to you and your family, for a Very Christmas and Very Happy Holiday Season !!! … Jimmy [27NYY]
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Merry Christmas! It has been so much fun reading your blog over the last few months! I hope you had a great one!
I hope that you had a Merry X’mas. You know what, it’s all good that Mark Texieria signed with the Yankees, I think that Lars Anderson will be ready to unleash hell in a couple of years, can’t wait for that. Also, the Red Sox organization needs to focus on signing ‘Tek, and work on long-term deals with Youk, Jason Bay, and Jonathon Paplebon.
The Yankees’ offseason FA payroll is ridiculous. I’m hoping it’s a sign that the economy may not be as bad as everyone thinks, instead of an idiotic move by the Yanks.
I also hope we don’t receive word of the Yankees letting go of some front office help because they can’t afford to pay them. That’s just couldn’t tell if the streaker was a man or a woman because it had a bag on it’s head.
- Air Jordan
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LIFT is looking for volunteers to help distribute workshop guides around town. The catalogues will be promoting the upcoming season of workshops. Volunteers required to target the following locations:
- Roncesvalles
- Bathurst / Bloor
- Parkdale
- Liberty Village
- Queen Street West
- West Queen West
- Kensington Market / Chinatown
- St. Clair Avenue East
- Yonge / Eglington
- Harbourfront Centre / Queens Quay
- Downtown East (Yonge / Church / Dundas to King)
- Dundas Street East / Queen Street East
- St. Lawrence Market / King Street East
- Beaches
PICK UP DATES: Monday to Friday between 10am – 6pm. Please email [email protected] with Subject Heading “LIFT Fall 2012 Workshop Catalogue Distribution” if you’re able to help out. Must be confirmed by staff before coming by the office. Ideally you have a TTC metropass or a bicycle. LIFT is unable to reimburse for tokens/gas/parking.
Hourly volunteer credit will be given as outlined on the website:
IMPORTANT: Please bring in 3-4 cloth shopping bags for the brochures. Or a few bags / back pack/ cart. It will be approximately 80-100 guides. The brochures are kind of heavy so it’s good to have a sturdy way of transporting them.
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imtrtut VOL. NO. 8. PIERZ, flORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JANUARY, 25, 1917. No. 32 ABOUT THE STATE News of Especial Interest to Minnesota Headers. GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS Happenings of the Week Briefly Told for the Convenience of the Busy Reader. The St. Paul postoffice handled $12,- 726,824.35 in 1916. Charles H. Miller, pioneer hotel man of St. Paul, is dead. Mrs. Lonora Halloran, a resident of. Minneapolis since 1S54, is dead. The Banner hotel at Lamberton has been destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of ?40,000. Sam Gir'ard, seventy-eight years old, well known farmer of Crow Wing county, is dead. Mrs. Christina Hanft, aged eighty- five, who came to Minnesota in 1852, is dead at Tacoma, Wash. Oscar M. Bergstrom, inventor of many automobile appliances and a gas engine expert, is dead at Minneapolis. Malcolm W. Clark, a mining engineer,' formerly of Northfield, was killea in an automobile accident at Tulsa, Okla. With 763,832 cars in or out of Minneapolis in the year 1916 the Mill City broke all former records in freight traffic. I. M. Owene, aged ninety, was killed at a street crossing at Sleepy Eye when struck by a passenger train on the Chicago and Northwestern road. Mrs. John F. Stevens, wife of the chief engineer of the Panama canal, who formerly lived in St. Paul, is dead at her home in New York city. A large owl became wedged between two higli tension wires east of Madison Lake, formed a short circuit and cut off the lighting service of the village. J. C. Mahoney, an employe of the Minneapolis General Electric company, was electrocuted when he came into contact with a cable carrying 2,- 300 volts. Joseph Swindelhurst, a Wadena county pioneer, is dead, aged eighty- seven. Mr. Swindelhurst's first child was the second white baby born in Wadena county. Rev. William H. Barkuloo, who served in the active work of the Methodist ministry in Minnesota since 1869 until his retirement in 1910, is dead at St. PauJ. Mrs. M. H. Dunnell, widow of Mark H. Dunnell, for fourteen years congressman from the First Minnesota district, is dead at Washington. The family home is in Owatonna. Edward S. Quigley, head of the training department of the state normal school at Mankato, has accepted an election as assistant superintendent of schools at Los (Angeles, Ca}. Jospeh Kinney, nineteen years old, of Swanville, pleaded guilty in district. court at Little Falls to having shot and wounded his father and was sentenced to forty days in the county jail. Bruce R. Stone of Monticello was elected president of the Third Class Assistant Postmasters' Association of Minnesota at the first annual convention of the association at Minneapolis. John R. Anker, treasurer of the Ken- ney & Anker Mercantile company of Duluth and well known throughout the Northwest because of his lumber and mining interests, is dead in the Zenith City. Mrs. Paul Mass, twenty-three years old, committed suicide by hanging in the woodshed at the rear of her home at St. Paul. She was found by her four-year-old son, suspended from a rafter. Frederick Goodsell, pioneer resident of Northfield, for many years president of the First National bank of that city and son of Charles M. Good- sell, founder of Carleton college, is dead at Moorhead. Public ditch work in Blue Earth county in 1916 amounted to $1,006,320. In addition approximately 50,000 rods of private drain tile was laid on farms of the county to connect with the public ditches. "Wet" petitions, containing over four times the number of signatures required to put the saloon question before the voters of Duluth in April, have been turned into headquarters of the wets at Duluth. A Swedish midsummer festival will be held at Center City, ou the shores of Lake Chisago, on June 24. The festival will be attended by people of Swedish de.cent from Minnesota and North and South Dakota. Captain Alexander Smith, former St. Paul man, who became a hero by holding the fort at Altoona pass until the coming of General Sherman and his troops, was burned to death in his home at Jacksonville, 111. Dr. E. F. Spaulding, superintendent of the Minneapolis public schools, has accepted the superintendency of the Cleveland (O.) public schools at an annual salary of $12,000 for four years. His services will begin May 1. Disbarment proceedings against Thomas Mohn, an attorney of Red Wing, wore filed in the supremo court by Eli Southwick of the state beard of law examiners. Chief Justice Calvin Brown issued an order citing Mohn to appear Feb. 2 to answer the allegation that he violated his oath as an attorney. Interesting Correspondences Hillman News. Joe Leigh of Vawter, was here on business last week. Mrs. W. C. Penniman and children left last Thursday for Dora Lake, where they will visit the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Leigh, before leaving for their new home in Anaconda, Mont. Has any one been missing any grain lately. Bert Sanborn was seen delivering some at the station at day-break two days last week. Ben Drews hauled posts from Andrew Markusons' Saturday. R. C. Bethel left Saturday for a trip to the twin cities. Rev. Upton, of Onamia, and Rev. Scotten, of Willmar, were with us Monday and Tuesday. Rev. Upton preached a fine sermon in the school house each evening. They went to Rucker on Wednesday for services there. Bert Sanborn, of Holstein Park, and William Drews went to Pierz on the passenger Tuesday. Mr. Aug. Drews returned Tuesday from Little Palls, where she had been for some time with her daughter, Miss Marie, who is a patient in St. Gabriel's hospital there. What has happened to the Holstein Park correspondent, or has the Park been vacated? Brainerd Suffers Heavy Fire Loss. Brainerd,— Willaim Gearney and T. S. Land are missing today and it is thought that they lost their lives in the fire which destroyed the Antler hotel in this city last night. The cause of the blaze is unknown and the fire was not discoverd until well under way. The total loss is estimated at about $50,000. The hotel is a total loss. Others who suffered damage were the Dulutk Brewing Company, W. Shange, Joseph Sebert, Louis Dromen and J. Shaffer. Rucker News. Kick From Cow Breakes a Leg. Herman Ostendorf, living 4 miles east of Freeport, is suffering with a broken leg. Mr. Ostendorf was driving the cattle out of the barn Saturday when one of the animals kicked him on the right leg breaking the member below the knee. Mr. Ostendorf is 65 years of age, but is reported as getting along nicely, although it will lay him up for some time. Mrs. Ernest Goble visitedMrs. Matt Pint last Friday afternoon. Leigh Teachout went to Pierz Friday and to Hillman Saturday afternoon. Mrs. S. D. Wood and daughter, Mrs. Roy Probasco, called at the Goble and Bruber homes Friday afternoon. We certainly experienced an old fashioned Minnesota blizzard Sunday. It snowed hard all day and a strong northeast wind piled the snow up in fine j style. There were about thirty-five in attendance at the dance given Saturday evening by Mr. and Mrs. John Ferguson and a very pleasant time is reported. Mrs. Gates and niece, Miss Ethel Tuey and Mr. and Mrs. John Dorman and boys were callers at Hillman Saturdeiy. One married young lady in our neighborhood ought to have a prize for early rising as well as kind deeds to her neighbors. One morning last week she got breakfast for her "gude man" and herself and did up morning work, then went to her nearest neighbor and finding them still asleep, built a fire in the kitchen stove to make it warm and nice for them. We call that real goodness of heart these cold mornings. Miss Pleasant Loop spent a few clays at home the latter part of last week, returning Saturday, just in time to take in the dance. We understand that there is considerable opposition all along the line to the new star route proposed from Hillman— the majority preferring the present route from Pierz to having their mail changed. Matt Pint went to Sullivan again Monday to resume his work of making posts. Miss Pleasant Loop returned to the Pint hom^ on Monday. Tracy Waller went to Lastrup Monday. Was Found Not Guilty. Eugene Tuft, the young man, in a fight with whom Leo Webber lost his life last fall, was found not guilty. The fact remains that Webber and Tuft fought and that Webber died from the effects of a wound received during the fight. The wound was made with an instrument which might have been a screw-driver. A screw-driver was found where the tight occurred. Pretty good circumstantial evidence. Yet the jury found him not guilty. According to that, you cannot convict a man for shooting another, by eye witness' testimony, because they didn't see tbe bullet. The St. Cloud Times says: "There is a growing belief that Leo Webber was not killed. The jury is responsible for this rumor. There are few greater uncertainties in life than a jury." Leo Schoeuberg and wife of Elrosa, and Henry Virnig of St. Cloud, feft by Soo line Tuesday morning after a short visit at the Mrs. Peter Virnig home- That snowstorm last Sunday covered almost the whole state with a good thick blanket of snow. Minneapolis reports a fall of 17 inches, which, is said to be the hea- vest fall on record. Grain And Produce Market Report Wheat, No. 1, $1.75 Wheat, No. 2__ 1.71 Wheat, No. 3___ 1,63 Flax, 2.60 Barley. 95-1.00 Rye 1.27 Oats 5_. Ear Corn 90 Hay 7.00 Butter, Creamery ,.. 40 Dairy 27 Eggs [30 Flour, Royal — 5.00 " WhiteRose 4.90 Low grade flour 2.25 Bran 1.60 Shorts 1.70 Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.75 Ground Feed 1.75 Beans _____ 5.00 Onions 2.50 Rural Carrier Examination. The United States Civil Service Commission has announced an examination for the county of Morrison, Minnesota, to be held at Little Falls, on February 24th, 1917, to fill the position of rural carrier at Hillman and Bowlus, and vacancies that may later occur on rural routes from other post offices in the above mentioned county. The examination will be open only to male citizens who are actually domiciled in the territory of a post office in the county and who meet the other requirements set forth in Form No. 1977. This form and application blanks may be obtained from the offices mentioned above or from the United States Civil Service Commission at Washington, D. C. Applications should be forwarded to the Commission at Washington at the earliest practicable date. Warning to R. F. 0. Patrons. The R. F. D. carriers complain that in certain sections patrons are not doing their duty in keeping the roads open to facilitate the delivery of mail. Such sections will be cut out, they say, if conditions are not remedied. At their request, the Journal publishes the following articles bearing on this phase of the service from Postal Laws and Regulations: Roads on which rural-delivery service is established shall be in good condition and so main- t ained. unobstructed by gates, and there shall be no unbridged streams not ford able at all seasons of the year. Each box should be erected on the road regularly traveled by a rural mail carrier and such position as to be easily and safely accessible tor the delivery and collection of mail by the carrier without leiiying his conveyance. Patrons should keep clear the approaches to their boxes by prompt reinovel of snowdrifts or other obstructions by which the delivery of mail into them would be rendered impossible or difficult without the carrier leaving his conveyance. Holstein Park News. Clarence King called at the Jim King home Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. chas. Sanborn called at F. Somers Saturday. ' Nellie Martin and Ruby Thompson cleaned school house Friday. Bert Sanborn was a Hillman visitor Friday. Alice Perkins of Rucker is visiting at the E. M. Thompson home. Willian Burnham was a Pierz visitor Friday. Mrs. E. M. Thompson is visiting friends and relatives in Es- therville, Iowa. Several from this way attended the dance at John Ferguson's Saturday evening. E, M. Thompson and William Burnham called at T. S. Look's Saturday. J. L. Judge and crew will leave for Benson Friday.- Worst Blizzard Of The Season Not for years has this section been visited by a worse storm than that of Saturday night and Sunday. It is estimated that 17 inches of snow fell and as the storm was accompanied by a high wind, the snow was piled in high drifts, making traveling in the rural sections almost impossible. Following tbe storm the thermometer took a sudden plunge downward and Monday morning at 8 o'clock 20 below zeso was registered. The church attendance was very light Sunday morning. Peter Meyer Had A Close Call While talking about guns, hounds, wolves and about hunting in general, Peter Meyer, the blacksmith, dropped into a reminiscent mood and told this story: "A number of years ago while working in a lumber camp, 12 miles east, I was sent to town one evening on an errand. I did not start on the return trip until about 10 o'clock- The night was dark and a fairly stiff northwest wind urged me into a brisk walk, which was sometimes quickened into a run, to keep me warm. After crossing Hillman creek, near the present site of the bridge, a wolf's long howl from across Tomala's hill broke the silence of the night. This gave me no little uneasiness as the dismal and blood-curling howl was almost straight ahead. After examining my rifle to see that the repeater was in working order, I decided not to turn back. Presently another wolf gave signal by a shrill howl close behind me. I kept up a dog-trot for the next mile or two. By that time no less than about 25 wolves were in signal communication with one another all around me. They seemed to work in a circle and coming closer. When about a mile from the, camp, where the road lead through a ravine and where overhanging boughs made it doubly dark and ominous, I could hear the wolves cracking the underbrush as they crouched around preparing for an attack. The odds were heavily against me, but being so close to the camp, I hazarded a shot in the direction of the closest one. The report of the gun had a magical effect, for their feast song came to an end before the reverberation of the shot had died away among the pines. That ended their howls for that night. What would have happened if the camp had been a mile further away, I do not know. It is more than likely however that I should not now be here to hammer an anvil chorus, or relate this tale." The creamery well is still uncertain of its fate. Dynamite has been used in large quantities to dislodge the obstructions in the casings, but without results. The prevailing opinion is that digging a new well is the only remedy for the existing trouble. Local Happenings Ofjhe Week. Poor roads. That Sunday storm put the quietus on the au tos for this season. Chattel mortgage blanks for sale at Journal office. H. C. Smith of Sullivan spent Tuesday night in Pierz. Leo Bently is canvassing this end of the county in the interest of The Transcript. The Columbia auto bus was conrpelled last Monday to resign in favor of the horses. The contract to haul the ice for the Farmers' Creamery was let to John Banach lor $115.00. Monday morning was the coldest one of the season. While not the coldest one in! fact—28 below—it was the coldest in feeling. John Mamer and wife of New Trier, and N. J. Terhaar of Avon, spent Sunday here at the B. G. Terhaar home. i Chas. W. Bouck of Royal-1 ton, member of the legisla-j ture from this district is re-j ported to be very sick with pneumonia. i Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Cross returned home from Stearns Co. last we,ek after visiting ! friends and relatives there for several days. Felix Kobilka, son of John Kobilka of lower town has bought the interest of his father-in-law, Joseph Med- ved, in the Little Falls house FORETOLD BY DREAMS, And now it is certain that the indi ans and muskratsi have lost their reputations! as weather prophets. The bark is no "longer loose on the trees—it is frozen on solid as a stone. Steve Preimesberger, Tony V. Hartmann and John Gau went out huntiug jack rabbits the other day and got: one. And yet they say the country is full of 'em. The man who was falsely accused will soon come to Pierz. Watch next week's Journal for particulars, Pete Bares ventured a trip to Little Falls Sunday morning.. He made the inward trip in 40 minutes, but had to give in on the way home when he reached Christ Fausts' place. The good uncle hauled him home through the drifts. The jurors who came home Saturday night for an over Sunday visit were in a dilemma Monday morning. When they left the county seat Saturday under promise that they would return for service Monday, the storm was 'not taken into account. However, when the auto bus failed to show up Monday morning, they scurried a- round and found someone to drive them in. It is hoped that a lenient judge did not fine them for contempt of court. Two Singular Cases In Which Slea$ Warnings Came True. "I dreamed that the ship was in' a heavy sea, that a big wave came over her bows, pressed down upon her, and then she rolled over on her starboard side and disappeared." This is not an extract fr-dta a story. It is evidence, given on oath, during the inquiry at London into the mysterious disappearance of the Waratah, the vessel which, on her second voyage mysteriously disappeared in, July, 1909, and has never been heard of since. And so impressed was the passenger with the vision that he left the vessel at Durban, from which point she continued on her ill fated voyage. Thus one more was added to the extraordinary coincidences in which dreams have figured. The third Lord Waterford was able to verify a story of an extraor- fiinary dream coming true. Talking one day with the landlord of the inn in the village close to Curragh- more, a man rushed up and said there had been a murder on the hills. "Then it must he the little one," said the landlord, at which Lord Waterford, not unnaturally, became very suspicious. The laud- lord proceeded to explain that in the night he dreamed that two men had come to the inn and that the taller of the two had murdered the shorter with a very curious knife. He told his dream to his .wife, who laughed at him. But, to his horror, the men he had seen while asleep came to the inn, and one used the curious knife to cut up his food. They left, and soon afterward news of the murder arrived. Search was made for a tall man answering to the landlord's description, and one was quickly arrested. In prison he confessed he had murdered his short companion.—Pearson's Weekly. Humbug. The word "humbug" had its origin as follows: Among the many issues of base coin made from time to time in Ireland there was none so worthless as that made by James II. at the Dublin mint. It was made of whatever metal was the easiest to get, lead, copper, pewter or brass, and so low was its intrinsic value that 20 shillings of it v.as worth only twopence sterling. The soft mixed metal of which that worthless coin was composed was known to the Irish as "uimbog," pronounced oombog, meaning soft copper or worthless money. Thus the phrase 'Tiumbug" originated by a person saying: "That is a piece of uim-bog." "Don't try to pass off your uim-bog on me."—Exchange. A Big Difference. From the parlor there came a crash that brought the careful housekeeper downstairs at unusual speed. "Sarah," she said, "did you break something?" "Yes, ma'am." "What was it?" "One of those green vases, ma'am. But it only broke in two pieces." "You stupid girl," said the careful housekeeper. "It is gone, so what difference does it make whether it is in two pieces or two hundred ?" "All the difference in the world, ma'am, as you would soon find out if you had to pick up the pieces," said Sarah.—Exchange. When Love Got a Chill. "Chrissie and me have had a row," said the young man, murdering grammar in the intensity of his grief. "Why, what's up ?" "Well, you know Chrissie's a schoolteacher, and—I mean I can stand a bit, but there's a limit." | "I don't understand. What's the! trouble exactly ?" "Why,- I promised to meet her! last night at 7 under the clock, andj I couldn't get there till 7:30. Andj when I arrived—would you believe! it?—she asked me if I'd brought a| written ' excuse from my mother, j Isn't that enough to put anybody! off ?"—Exchange. Lake In a Volcanic Ring. On the island of Ninafow, half-j way between Fiji and Samoa, is a| volcanic ring inclosing a crater con- j raining a lake two miles in diame-j ter. Toward the sea the ring is j bordered with walls of black cliffs j 200 to 300 feet in height. An erup- j tion in 1SS6 formed a peninsula on- the eastern side of the lake. While j the ocean outside is trembling and j thundering under a heavy wind the' lake remains smooth or is simply wrinkled with ripples or wavelets. » Did Him Honor, "Did you read that interview with Dubwaite in the morning paper ?" "'Yes. If s positively brilliant. I had no idea Dubwaite was such a smart man." "Ifeither did he.' I hear he wants to present the reporter who wrote it with a suit of clothes."—Birmingham A_re-Herald. Don't Forget to attend the social DANCE at Faust's flail, held Monday, January 29th, 1917,
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Brown hereby register as an alien enemy at Stillwater Washington Co Minnesota and make the following statements and answers under oath: 1. Name Henry Brown All other names at any time used none 2. Present residence 822 W Laurel St Stillwater Minn 3. Length of residence at the foregoing place 10 years 4. All other places of residence since January 1, 1914 none 5. Born in Germany on 22 Feb 1880 6. Since January 1, 1914, employed by: Name of place. Date. Occupation. Name of employer. St Paul Minn Jan 1 1914 Com Labor W Beermaster Stillwater Minn Jan 1 1918 For Self 7. I arrived in the United States Dec 1888 at the port of New York on ship not known and applied for entry under the name of Henry Brown 8. (a) Name of father Frank Brown Living yes Residence of father, if living Nekoosa Wis Wood County (b) Name of mother Fredreaka Living no Residence of mother, if living
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The 2006 release of Mishkan T'filah--A Reform Siddur marks a historic turning: from exclusive rabbinic authorship to broad involvement of Reform Jews throughout North America; from linear to open services; and much more. To better understand this innovative prayer book, Reform Judaism editor Aron Hirt-Manheimer interviewed Rabbi Lawrence Hoffman, the Barbara and Stephen Friedman Professor of Liturgy, Worship, and Ritual at HUC-JIR, who served on the planning committees for both the new prayer book and its predecessor, Gates of Prayer.
You have been involved in developing Reform prayer books for some time. Has the process changed?
Yes. Creating the Reform Movement's newest prayer book, Mishkan T'filah (2006), was a far more thorough, lengthy, and democratic process than ever before. We began with an extensive survey of our congregations, funded by an Eli Lilly grant and organized by Rabbi Peter Knobel and Dan Schechter. A preliminary committee then responded with recommendations to the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), after which several potential editors submitted proposals as to how best to crystallize these recommendations in practice. Then an editorial committee consisting of lay leaders, rabbis, cantors, and liturgists discussed every issue in detail, while field-testing each siddur draft at Union for Reform Judaism biennials and CCAR conventions and in nearly 300 congregations throughout North America. We also received hundreds of additional comments from lay people, rabbis, and cantors--and we listened to every suggestion. At the end, a publishing committee composed of Rabbis Peter Knobel, Bernard Mehlman, Elliot Stevens, Elaine Zecher, prayer book editor Elyse Frishman, Debbie Smilow, and me oversaw the final document, discussing global issues not yet settled, attending to prayer book design, guaranteeing true translations rather than paraphrases, and reviewing English alternatives--sometimes replacing them, sometimes supplementing them in consultation with specialists in Jewish literature, poetry, linguistics, and liturgy. Talk about inclusivity! Each stage of the process factored in issues of gender, age, theology, generation, academic expertise, and style--the intangible issue of how people like to pray. This is truly a prayer book by and for the people.
With all this input, Rabbi Elyse Frishman conceived of a brilliant layout device whereby every facing two-page spread would contain a traditional prayer (with translation and transliteration) on the right, and alternative English readings on that prayer's theme on the left. Any given facing page might include (besides the traditional offering) a feminist voice, a classical Reform perspective, advocacy for social justice, personal reflections, and so forth.
The result is a set of double-page spreads with contents that vary enormously in register and in rhetoric. Some worshipers appreciate evocative poetry; others are drawn to prayers with evident cognitive or philosophical messages. Every double page has enough variety to allow each individual worshiper to find a "home" there. People may recite or sing along with the larger community in whatever options the prayer leader chooses, or elect instead to meditate on an alternative passage. But the left- and the right-side pages always conclude with the same traditional Hebrew line, which is called the chatimah. So when you get to that line, no matter what you're reading, you know to turn the page and keep up with the service.
What does the making of Mishkan T'filah tell us about the times we live in?
I like to link prayer books to economic history. Throughout the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, our economy was primarily industrial, with standardized goods (like the Model T Ford) made in factories. The mirror liturgical image was the 1895 Union Prayer Book, which standardized prayer with little regard for the individual worshiper. In that classical mode of prayer, Reform worship rarely varied. Wherever you went--New York, Chicago or Muncie, Indiana--Reform rabbis stood at the front and read at everyone else. Long paragraphs were given to the rabbi; the congregation got one-line responsive readings. But how much individuality can you express if all you get is a one-liner?
After World War II, we entered a service economy, where people expected to be served in a customized manner. Many Jews eventually stopped attending synagogue regularly, but came reliably for life-cycle events, which they treated as customized services. When they no longer felt the need for synagogue services, they quit.
Today we inhabit what's called an experience economy. Consumers shop at malls not just to buy what they want, but to have a buying "experience"--greeters at the door, music in the background, and other kinds of entertainment.
Gates of Prayer expressed a service economy. It offered ten different service selections to satisfy individualized theological tastes, but only one could be used at any given Shabbat prayer experience. Mishkan T'filah, too, provides options, but it does so on each page, not in separate services. On any double-page spread, individual voices on the left-hand page personalize the experience, while the traditional text on the right-hand page creates a community of worshipers. So Mishkan T'filah provides for a communal experience while allowing for individuality in prayer.
As part of the experience economy, Mishkan T'filah is less text than pretext for a worship experience where the act of prayer matters more than the fixed words it uses. No siddur of the past understood that prayer books are not so much books as they are scripts for the experience of worship.
The full title of the new prayer book is Mishkan T'filah--A Reform Siddur. Why was "Reform" added to the title of a CCAR prayer book for the first time?
We debated the English title at some length. Some people preferred Siddur for Prayer, but we elected to affirm this prayer book as Reform, even though we believe any Jew could use it. By using "Siddur" in the title instead of just "Reform Prayer Book," we are making the statement that our Movement is comfortable with the age-old vocabulary of our people. The word "Reform" modifies that language with a recognition that Reform Judaism has a point of view and, having been practiced for almost 200 years, is itself a valid tradition.
When you say that the new siddur reflects the Reform "point of view," what viewpoints come to mind?
The siddur reflects our Movement's historical commitment to the vernacular (not just the original Hebrew or Aramaic), to originating new prayers that address new times, to a theology that we can take seriously, to elevated aesthetics (especially music)--and, in more recent times, to egalitarianism.
But I want to emphasize two other aspects of Mishkan T'filah. The first is its integrity regarding content. We didn't include some traditionalist prayers that, in all good conscience, Reform Jews cannot say. For example, in traditionalist siddurim, the Shema includes not just the Shema Yisrael and V'ahavta, but two more paragraphs which American Reform prayer books have omitted ever since the 1890s. With the trend toward recapturing abandoned traditions, we were urged to reinstate the last two paragraphs. But the third paragraph links Divine reward and punishment to human merit and sin--an implicit suggestion that sickness or suffering may be God's retaliation, something Reform Jews reject. So Mishkan T'filah continues the Reform tradition of omitting this paragraph, even as we have readopted the second paragraph.
Second, Mishkan T'filah values inclusivity. Reform Jews like to ask "Who's in?," not "Who's out?" We know, for example, that some people have doubts about God. So, hoping to welcome them "in," we offer prayer and poetry that speak to the human condition without referencing God. We also include voices from classical Reform thought--like those of Leo Baeck and Lily Montague.
How does Mishkan T'filah's design and layout differ from previous Reform prayer books?
The aesthetic has changed. In addition to adding a second color (blue), each page has been uniquely designed. The best example is the Shema. To express visually our belief in the Shema as the central doctrine of our faith, the Hebrew text of that single line, Shema Yisra'el..., is enlarged and stretched across both pages. You look at it and say, "This is really central."
Also, Mishkan T'filah addresses questions Reform worshipers may have about the prayers they're reading. So at the bottom of the page, we provide historical and spiritual interpretations of the liturgy, as well as explanations of traditional body movements associated with particular prayers--not behavioral dictates but alternatives that derive from tradition.
Another unique design feature lets worshipers know where they are in the order of the service. The margins of each page list the sequence of prayers with the name of the prayer at hand highlighted typographically. Ritual depends on familiarity with structure--bringing in a birthday cake "works," for example, because everyone knows the candles will be blown out afterward. In prayer, too, knowing the flow of the service enhances every moment of it.
How do these innovations change the rabbi and cantor's role in the service?
People no longer want to be "talked to" or "sung at." So service leaders will have to work at engaging worshipers, especially in the music. Also, it will take some time for rabbis and cantors to get used to selecting from options on each double page. Prayer leaders will now need to prepare for the service in advance as a worship team, rather than walking independently onto the pulpit to read lines or sing music. Mishkan T'filah does include one linear Shabbat service for those more comfortable with the Gates of Prayer approach, but we expect that linear services will be used less and less as people are increasingly drawn to the spiritual possibilities of services framed around choices on facing pages.
How does the new prayer book reflect our Movement's commitment to social justice?
Gates of Prayer, published in 1975, appeared at a time of heightened fear for Israel's survival and concern for the plight of Soviet Jews. So it tilted toward particularism. Mishkan T'filah remains fiercely proud of peoplehood, but it reasserts what classical Reform Jews called "the mission of Israel," which is the whole point of peoplehood: to be engaged with God in transforming society. It thereby marks a return to a universalistic call to social justice. And while Gates of Prayer had a single service that focused on social justice--you could go to synagogue your whole life without ever encountering it--Mishkan T'filah has prayers for social justice everywhere. The Jewish prayer experience should not only evoke a Jewish response to God, but also a Jewish response to bettering God's world. If cries from without are not heard within, prayers from within are not heard on high.
Does this siddur address the issue of masculine and feminine God language in a way that is likely to resonate with 21st century Reform Jews?
Yes, I think so. Our goal was not to describe God as male or female, but to use evocative language that lends the possibility of seeing God as either, or as both. We address God, for example, as "Teacher of Torah"; we plead with God to "help us be sensitive." Implicitly, then, God appears as both male and female, but explicitly the language is universal.
How does this translation differ from those of our previous prayer books?
Some Reform prayer books were exact translations of the Hebrew. In the 1850s, for example, our Movement's founder, Isaac Mayer Wise, wrote Minhag America. If he wanted to say something in English, he changed the Hebrew to accord with it. In Gates of Prayer, some passages were exact translations but others were not. Mishkan T'filah returned to Wise's standard of exact translations on every right-hand page, relegating creative expressions of the prayer's theme to the opposite page.
Transliteration of all the Hebrew is also provided on every page--another innovation?
Yes. The Union Prayer Book contained no transliteration at all. In Gates of Prayer, transliteration could only be found at the back of the book. Nowadays, while we as a Movement have increasingly advocated Hebrew literacy in recognition of Hebrew as our people's historic language, we have also urged that prayer be open also to people who cannot read the original. If Mishkan T'filah is a prayer book for all the people, then we shouldn't lock out those who can't read Hebrew.
A minority of rabbis opposed our decision to transliterate all the Hebrew in Mishkan T'filah, believing it will be a disincentive for Jews to learn Hebrew. In respectful response to them (though disagreeing with them), our committee decided to publish an alternative siddur version without transliteration.
The Union Prayer Book opened only from left to right. Gates of Prayer came in two versions, one opening from right to left and one from left to right. Why does the new prayer book open only from right to left?
While proudly universalistic, Mishkan T'filah reflects the growing importance of Hebrew and commitment to Am Yisrael (Jewish peoplehood) in our Movement; therefore, it opens in the traditional manner of a Hebrew book, from right to left.
How important is it to our Movement that a single prayer book becomes widely adopted by Reform congregations?
It's very important. Some people think that we live in a post-denominational age--that denominations just don't matter anymore. I disagree. More than ever, in this age of choice, Jews have to decide what kind of Jews they are. People who say they are "just Jewish" have not yet processed their Judaism beyond its bare essentials. Mature and full Jewish identity requires choices, and choices imply denominations. And the prayer book is the gateway to Jewish identity; more than anything else, how we pray defines what kind of Jew we are. I grew up in an Orthodox shul, and while I can still appreciate traditionalist services, I find the Orthodox prayer book unreflective of the Jew I have chosen to be. I chose Reform Judaism because of what it stands for, and we as a Movement have to make that message clear to ourselves and to others. If we have a plethora of prayer books, we will end up with a plethora of definitions of what Reform Judaism stands for; and although it is true that Reform encompasses a great variety of things, it is also true that if we are all things, we are nothing. Mishkan T'filah encourages individualism, but defines the community in which that individualism is possible. If you regularly attend the service and someone asks you, "What makes you a Reform Jew?," you'll be able to answer the question.
Had Isaac Mayer Wise been one of the readers during the market research phase of Mishkan T'filah, what do you think he would have told the committee?
Isaac Mayer Wise was a remarkable leader because he respected change. When his Minhag America was rejected as the basis for the Union Prayer Book, he accepted the fact that his prayer book had been intended for Jews of the 1850s and '60s, but not the 1890s. Wise would have applauded Mishkan T'filah as the proper expression of Jewish identity not for the 1890s and not even for the 1990s, but for the 2000s and beyond.
"Entering the Tent"
To assist congregations in making the transition to Mishkan T'filah (MT), the Joint Commission on Worship, Music and Religious Living (a partnership of the American Conference of Cantors, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Union for Reform Judaism) has created a website,, which covers the following topics:
I. Understanding Mishkan T'filah
II. Leading Worship with Mishkan T'filah
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The conversation with my daughter went like this; "Mom, does God yell at me?" I replied quizzically, "No, why?" She lamented, "Well, sometimes I hear yelling in my head to do something. I was wondering if that is how God talks to me." I strongly added, "Sweetheart, God absolutely does not yell. He will make things uncomfortable for us to draw us back to Him when we stray but He does not force or yell."
It would be good to remember this through our study of Isaiah. I often want to read this as God yelling, but He does not. In fact God's character is best seen through Christ. Hebrews 1:3a states this about God's character, " He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature." God the Father is the exact imprint of Christ's nature. When we look at Christ in the Scriptures it is the best picture we get of the Father. What love, grace, and truth we should see. The Father, Son, and Spirit are One. And in our day we are blessed to have the Spirit live in us if we are believing by Faith what Christ did for us. What a great view we have in studying Isaiah.
Isaiah is so timely for addressing the days we currently live in. The children of Israel were being disciplined for straying from God. He was supposed to be supreme in their lives. He loves them so much that He will discipline them as far as He must for them to return to Him.
During the time period of this book we observe that God not only sent Isaiah but He continued to speak through many other prophets, sending them to warn of impending judgement. As much as a loving Father desires for His children to listen and turn away from sin, He loves them more so to follow through with discipline if they chose to forsake Him and His teachings. His love is too great to let them continue waywardly.
We will learn much about God's character. He loves so deeply and richly that He cannot just turn His head from our sin. God is complete holiness and sinless, He cannot have sin in His presence. So in the days of the cross He sent Jesus to take our sin upon Himself making us clean in God's eyes once we accept Christ's sacrifice. Signs of Christ are all over the book of Isaiah. It is beautiful to discover. Though we deserve judgement and wrath God was pleased to send Jesus to restore our relationship by taking the wrath upon Himself.
We see the prophet Isaiah pointing us to Christ and though God seems harsh in judgement we must know He is only being a loving Father, and/or a Faithful Husband to His people.
In Isaiah 1-5 we see it as God bringing forth His judgement on His people. It is like a trial but the jury is the Heavens and the earth (v.2). God is declaring His people as sick with sin. They are worshiping God with the motions but do not mean it in their hearts. God can see directly in our hearts.
I wonder if we are ever guilty of this kind of worship?
God calls them to repentance. to go back to doing what is right. He then tells us about the coming Messiah. In Chapter 1, v. 18 we see this pointing, "though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool." They did not know this then but we know it now this is talking about Christ who takes the stain of our sins away when we trust in Him as our Savior.
God then tells His people that this judgement comes with a cleansing purpose. What grace it is when God loves us this much to not let us get away with sin. He draws us back through trials. He doesn't force our hand in choosing Him but woos us back through trial. That is what He was doing with His people.
In chapter two the word talks about in the last days how God will reign. There will be peace and no more war. Those who are prideful will be brought low. There is only room for ONE to be exalted.
Chapter three discusses how since God's people would not listen God is taking away all of their security and support. His men and women will lose protection. There will be no good leaders. These people are sinning and are proud of it (v.9). Yet v. 8 tells us they brought this sin on themselves "because their speech and deeds are against the Lord, defying His glorious presence."
Chapter four gives us some hope again, it talks about the day "the branch of the Lord" which refers to Jesus, will be beautiful and glorious. How God does leave a remnant of His people because He is faithful to His promises not to wipe them all out. It ends with God protecting them.
Chapter five is a sad chapter that starts with a parable to explain what they have done to God. Then ends with many woes lamenting their many sins. It ends with God summoning the nations that will take them captive because of their refusal to turn from their sins.
Yet the next section we study we will see that though His wrath is great, His grace is greater still.
Things to think about:
Can you see the amazing heart of God through this?
What do you learn about God's character?
Would you say that God is a patiently enduring God?
Has this opened your eyes to seeing God in a new way?
How have you been like a stubborn child? Know that you can always turn in repentance. He is waiting.
What can you learn from these passages that you can apply to your life today?
What similarities can we see that exist in our society today?
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MT. VERNON — —
Five Jefferson County students made their Four-Way Test Speech presentations at the noon Mt. Vernon Rotary Club meeting on Tuesday, hoping to advance to District competition.
Students are divided into two levels — novices and competition —the former for those who have had no speech contest experience and the latter for those who have experience or working with a speech team coach.
Four of the five speeches given Tuesday were in the novice division and presented by Makayla Smith of Mt. Vernon Township High School, Shanae Jones of Waltonville HIgh School, Matthew Renaud of Woodlawn High School and Felicia Wagner of Mt. Vernon Township High School. William Box of Mt. Vernon Township High School participated in the competition division. Another MVTHS student in the competition division, Quentin Lloyd, was absent.
Smith based her experiences as a child care worker at Central Christian Church as the basis for her service to community.
"Children can be sweet or they fight among themselves. What do they fight over? Toys, not about the differences between them. We lose the quality of sharing as adults. What happened to sharing? What happened to kindness? Service can be as easy as helping someone who is hurting," she said.
Jones, who works with several groups including the cheerleading squad, Relay for Life and FFA said her cheerleading coach teaches honesty and dedication, which can be carried over to all types of service. She concluded, "Only a life living for someone else can be true service."
Renaud chose to show the differences of The Grinch, someone "nasty and selfish" to Jesus Christ, who passes the four-way test with flying colors. He defined peace as "the intent and sincerity of the heart," adding, "You can't just suggest peace, you have to show it."
Wagner gave examples of those who have shown service to others, specifically naming Mother Teresa and Oprah Winfrey.
"One act of kindness can lead to that person serving someone else," Wagner said. "Everyone has something to give. One act of courage can help someone else. Through service, we can achieve peace."
Finally, Box — without the use of note cards unlike the remaining contestants — described how individuals can find peace through volunteering.
The theme of this year's contest was "Peace Through Service."
Renaud was named the winner in the novice division and Box was named the winner in the competition division, according to club member Kevin Settle. The two will advance to the District competition on April 27 at John A. Logan College in Carterville.
President Carl Miller provided the contestants with parting gifts, and their classroom teachers were recognized.
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Students present speeches to Rotary
MT. VERNON — —
Five Jefferson County students made their Four-Way Test Speech presentations at the noon Mt. Vernon Rotary Club meeting on Tuesday, hoping to advance to District competition.
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Alternatively, assuming the event horizon in each slice to be a Strahlkörper in the manner of
Section 2.2, we can define a suitable level-set function
by Equation (7
). Substituting this definition
into Equation (10
) then gives an explicit evolution equation for the horizon shape function,
Surfaces near the event horizon share the same “attraction” property discussed in Section 5.2 for
geodesics near the event horizon. Thus by integrating either surface representation (10
) or (11
)
backwards in time, we can refine an initial guess into a very accurate approximation to the event
horizon.
In contrast to the null geodesic equation (8
), neither Equation (10
) nor Equation (11
) contain any derivatives of the
4-metric (or equivalently the 3 + 1 geometry variables). This makes it much easier to integrate these latter equations
accurately11.
This formulation of the event-horizon finding problem also completely eliminates the tangential-drifting
problem discussed in Section 5.2, since the level-set function only parameterizes motion normal to the
surface.
For a practical algorithm, it is useful to integrate a pair of trial null surfaces backwards: an “inner-bound” one which starts (and thus always remains) inside the event horizon and an “outer-bound” one which starts (and thus always remains) outside the event horizon. If the final slice contains an apparent horizon then any 2-surface inside this can serve as our inner-bound surface. However, choosing an outer-bound surface is more difficult.
It is this desire for a reliable outer bound on the event horizon position that motivates our requirement (Section 4) for the final slice (or at least its strong-field region) to be approximately stationary: In the absence of time-dependent equations of state or external perturbations entering the system, this requirement ensures that, for example, any surface substantially outside the apparent horizon can serve as an outer-bound surface.
Assuming we have an inner- and an outer-bound surface on the final slice, the spacing between these two
surfaces after some period of backwards integration then gives an error bound for the computed event
horizon position. Equivalently, a necessary (and, if there are no other numerical problems, sufficient)
condition for the event-horizon finding algorithm to be accurate is that the backwards integration must have
proceeded far enough for the spacing between the two trial surfaces to be “small”. For a reasonable
definition of “small”, this typically takes at least
of backwards integration, with
or
more providing much higher accuracy.
In some cases it is difficult to obtain a long enough span of numerical data for this backwards integration. For example, in some simulations of binary black hole collisions, the evolution becomes unstable and crashes soon after a common apparent horizon forms. This means that we cannot compute an accurate event horizon for the most interesting region of the spacetime, that which is close to the black-hole merger. There is no good solution to this problem except for the obvious one of developing a stable (or less-unstable) simulation that can be continued for a longer time.
The initial implementations of the “integrate null surface backwards” algorithm by Anninos et al. [7
], Libson et al. [103
],
and Walker [162
] were based on the explicit Strahlkörper surface integration formula (11
), further restricted to
axisymmetry12.
For a single black hole the coordinate choice is straightforward. For the two-black-hole case, the authors
used topologically cylindrical coordinates
, where the two black holes collide along the
axisymmetry (
) axis. Based on the symmetry of the problem, they then assumed that the event horizon
shape could be written in the form
This spacetime’s event horizon has the now-classic “pair of pants” shape, with a non-differentiable cusp
along the “inseam” (the
axis
) where new generators join the surface. The authors tried two
ways of treating this cusp numerically:
Caveny et al. [44
, 46
] implemented the “integrate null surfaces backwards” algorithm for fully generic
numerically-computed spacetimes using the explicit Strahlkörper surface integration formula (11
). To
handle moving black holes, they recentered each black hole’s Strahlkörper parameterization (4
) on the
black hole’s coordinate centroid at each time step.
For single-black-hole test cases (Kerr spacetime in various coordinates), they report typical accuracies of
a few percent in determining the event horizon position and area. For binary-black-hole test cases
(Kastor–Traschen extremal-charge black hole coalescence with a cosmological constant), they detect black
hole coalescence (which appears as a bifurcation in the backwards time integration) by the “necking off” of
the surface. Figure 6
shows an example of their results.
Caveny et al. [44
, 45
] and Diener [60
] (independently) implemented the “integrate null surfaces
backwards” algorithm for fully generic numerically-computed spacetimes, using the level-set
function integration formula (10
). Here the level-set function
is initialized on the final slice
of the evolution and evolved backwards in time using Equation (10
) on (conceptually) the
entire numerical grid. (In practice, only a smaller box containing the event horizon need be
evolved.)
This surface parameterization has the advantage that the event-horizon topology and (non-)smoothness
are completely unconstrained, allowing the numerical study of configurations such as toroidal event
horizons (discussed in Section 4). It is also convenient that the level-set function
is defined on
the same numerical grid as the spacetime geometry, so that no interpolation is needed for the
evolution.
The major problem with this algorithm is that during the backwards evolution,
spatial gradients in
tend to steepen into a jump discontinuity at the event
horizon14,
eventually causing numerical difficulty.
Caveny et al. [44, 45] deal with this problem by adding an artificial viscosity (i.e. diffusion) term to
the level-set function evolution equation, smoothing out the jump discontinuity in
. That is, instead of
Equation (10
), they actually evolve
via
Alternatively, Diener [60
] developed a technique of periodically reinitializing the level-set function to
approximately the signed distance from the event horizon. To do this, he periodically evolves
In various tests on analytical data, Diener [60
] found this event-horizon finder, EHFinder, to be robust
and highly accurate, typically locating the event horizon to much less than 1% of the 3-dimensional grid
spacing. As an example of results obtained with EHFinder, Figure 7
shows two views of the
numerically-computed event horizon for a spiraling binary black hole collision. As another example,
Figure 8
shows the numerically-computed event and apparent horizons in the collapse of a rapidly rotating
neutron star to a Kerr black hole. (The apparent horizons were computed using the AHFinderDirect
code described in Section 8.5.7.)
EHFinder is implemented as a freely available module (“thorn”) in the
Cactus computational toolkit
(see Table 2). It originally worked only with the PUGH unigrid driver, but work is ongoing [61] to enhance
it to work with the
Carpet mesh-refinement driver [134, 131].
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CNN’s Belief Blog: The faith angles behind the biggest stories
The school is also dropping its health insurance plan for students because the new health care law requires employers to provide more robust coverage, making it more expensive, said Tom Sofio, a spokesman for the Franciscan University of Steubenville.
“It was our own moral reasons and then the rising cost of health care because of the act,” Sofio said, explaining the university’s decision.
Sofio said school officials are not aware of another college that has dropped its health insurance plan out of disagreements with the federal health care law.
A spokeswoman for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which is representing three religious schools that are challenging the health care law, said that she was also unaware of another college that had taken such action.
A spokeswoman with the Health and Human Services Department, charged with implementing the new health care law, said Wednesday that the department had no comment on the school’s decision and that it does not keep track of changes to college health insurance plans.
The Obama administration faced a firestorm of controversy from many religious groups this year over a proposed rule that would require employers to provide no-cost contraception coverage to their employees.
In what it called a compromise, the White House revised the rule to require health insurance companies – not employers – to provide contraception coverage, mollifying some Catholic critics. Other Catholic groups, including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, are not satisfied by the revised rule.
The Roman Catholic Church opposes the use of contraception.
“We’re paying the health insurance company, and if they provide abortion-causing drugs, that’s against our religious beliefs,” Sofio said Wednesday.
About 200 of the Franciscan University of Steubenville's 2,500 students rely on the university health care plan, which costs about $50 a month, Sofio said. He said the school is retaining its health care plan for employees because it is hopeful that legal challenges to the health care law will prevent much of it from taking effect.
Sofio said that the school sent letters about its decision to students and parents in April and that it has received overwhelming support from both constituencies. Ninety-five percent of students at the university are Catholic, he said.
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James, Brother of Jesus
James brother of Jesus
The following article is excerpted from the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, which is in the public domain.
This James is mentioned by name only twice in the Gospels, i.e. when, on the visit of Jesus to Nazareth, the countrymen of our Lord referred in contemptuous terms to His earthly kindred, in order to disparage His preaching (Matthew 13:55; Mark 6:3). As James was one of "his brethren," he was probably among the group of Christ's relatives who sought to interview Him during His tour through Galilee with the Twelve (Matthew 12:46). By the same reasoning, he accompanied Jesus on His journey to Capernaum (John 2:12), and joined in attempting to persuade Him to depart from Galilee for Judea on the eve of the Feast of Tabernacles (John 7:3). At this feast James was present (John 7:10), but was at this time a non-believer in Jesus (compare John 7:5, "Even his brethren did not believe on him")." (Acts 1:14). While there, he probably took part in the election of Matthias to the vacant apostleship (Acts 1:15-25). James was one of the earliest witnesses to the resurrection, for, after the risen Lord had manifested Himself to the five hundred, "he was seen of James" (1 Corinthians 15:7 the King James Version). By this his growing belief and prayerful expectancy received confirmation. About 37 or 38 AD, James, "the Lord's brother" (Galatians 1:19), was still in Jerusalem, and had an interview there for the first time with Paul, when the latter returned from his 3 years' sojourn in Damascus to visit Cephas, or Peter (Galatians 1:18,19; compare Acts (Acts 12:17).
By the time of the Jerusalem convention, i.e. about 51 AD (compare Galatians 2:1), James had reached the position of first overseer in the church (compare Acts 15:13,19). Previous to this date, during Paul's ministry at Antioch, he had dispatched certain men thither to further the mission, and the teaching of these had caused dissension among the newly converted Christians and their leaders (Acts 15:1,2; Galatians 2:12). The conduct of Peter, over whom James seems to have had considerable influence, was the principal matter of contention (compare Galatians 2:11 if). However, at the Jerusalem convention the dispute was amicably settled, and the pillars of the church, James, John and Cephas, gave to Paul and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship (Galatians 2:9).
The speech of James on this occasion (Acts 15:13-29), his sympathy with the religious needs of the Gentileworld (Acts 15:17), his desire that formalism should raise no barrier to their moral and spiritual advancement (Acts 15:19,20,28,29), and his large-hearted tributes to the "beloved Barnabas and Paul" (Acts (Acts 21:17).
At this meeting Paul was admonished for exceeding the orders he had received at the first council, in that he had endeavored to persuade the converted Jews also to neglect circumcision (Acts 21:21), and was commanded to join in the vow of purification (Acts 21:23-26). There is no Scriptural account of the death of James From 1 Corinthians Ac
C. M. Kerr
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With an increasing number of reports speculating about the Bahrain Grand Prix, the circuit has just made the following statement:
,” said Shaikh Salman bin Isa Al Khalifa, the circuit’s chief executive. “We are monitoring the situation very closely indeed in association with the relevant authorities, and will respond appropriately to any further developments.”
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Just two weeks before the Formula One teams arrive to use the Bahrain International Circuit for their last winter testing session, and three and a half weeks before the first race of the season, the Bahrain Grand Prix is in doubt.
Following Tunisia and Egypt, Bahrain is now undergoing mass protests and political upheaval, and one opposition group has even announced that it will target the race in order to gain publicity for its cause. Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One promoter, has told the Daily Telegraph newspaper in England that he is worried.
“The danger is obvious, isn’t it?” Ecclestone said. “If these people wanted to make a fuss and get worldwide recognition, it would be bloody easy, wouldn’t it? You start making a problem on the start grid in Bahrain and it would get worldwide coverage.”
He said he will soon speak to Crown Prince Salman ibn Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa to find out what the situation is like and talk about the race.
But the news wire reports of the situation are becoming more critical by the day.
Autosport.com reported that Nabeel Rajab, vice president of the campaign group Bahrain Center for Human Rights, said that the race was seen as an opportunity for protesters to publicize their cause.
“For sure, F1 is not going to be peaceful this time,” Rajab told Arabian Business, according to Autosport. “There’ll be lots of journalists, a lot of people looking and [the government] will react in a stupid manner as they did today and yesterday. And that will be bloody, but will be more publicized.”
With 20 races in the season this year, eliminating the Bahrain Grand Prix would not make a huge difference to the championship. But it would be a business nightmare – with hotel and travel bookings and all the various sponsorship deals and agreements that surround a race.
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- Pennsylvania has made good progress in protecting produc tive farmland to safeguard our food supply but more than 2,000 families remain on a waiting list to protect their farms;
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It is essential that Pennsylvania continues to build on past investments in the environmental quality of our state by making conservation and restoration of our environment a top priority for the future. A lot has been accomplished over recent years but there remains much to do to ensure the long term viability of our environment, our communities, and our economy.
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The Hugo Award® is the leading award for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy. The Hugos are awarded each year by members of the World Science Fiction Society, and presented at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon).
The 2011 Hugo Award nominees have been announced below and Attending, Supporting, and Young Adult members of Renovation were eligible to vote on the final ballot until Sunday, July 31, 2011, 23:59 PDT. Voting is now closed.
The winners will be announced Saturday, August 20th, 2011, during the Hugo Awards Ceremony at Renovation in Reno, Nevada..
Please note you must have an Attending (or Saturday) convention membership to attend the ceremony in person.
Voting is now closed, but the final ballot and preliminary nomination statistics are available for reference below. Additional information will be released after the Hugo Awards ceremony.
Voting has ended and the 2011 Hugo Voter Packet is now closed (it is no longer possible to get the packet). More information about the project is available here.
1006 valid nominating ballots were counted, 992 electronic and 14 paper.
Note: category has 4 nominees due to a 5% requirement under 3.8.5 of the WSFS constitution.
Award for the best new professional science fiction or fantasy writer of 2009 or 2010, sponsored by Dell Magazines (not a Hugo Award).
The Hugo Award® is the leading award for excellence in the field of
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by long agreement the award is selected alongside the Hugos and presented
with them at the Worldcon Hugo Award Ceremony.
* The Best Graphic Story Hugo is currently undergoing a trial period. This award was ratified
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VI.A. Baseline life span data
We have had many requests for baseline life span statistics for various mouse strains. Following are life span data for standard inbred laboratory strains and for other strains we have studied in the Harrison Lab.
Commonly used JAX® Mice and crosses (Study 1 and Study 2)
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Data from the following studies is currently not available on this website. For information, please contact Dr. Harrison at [email protected].
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Path-based Inductive Synthesis for Program Inversion
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In this paper, we investigate the problem of semi-automated inversion of imperative programs, which has the potential to make it much easier and less error prone to write programs that naturally pair as inverses, such as insert/delete operations, compressors/decompressors, and so on. Viewing inversion as a subproblem of program synthesis, we propose a novel synthesis technique called Path-based Inductive Synthesis (PINS) and apply it to inversion. PINS starts from a program P and a template T for its inverse. PINS then iteratively refines the space of template instantiations by exploring paths in the composition of P and T with symbolic execution. PINS uses an SMT solver to intelligently guide the refinement process, based on the paths explored so far. The key idea motivating this approach is the small path-bound hypothesis: that the behavior of a program can be summarized with a small, carefully chosen set of its program paths. We evaluated PINS by using it to invert 14 programs such as compressors (e.g., Lempel-Ziv-Welch), encoders (e.g., UUEncode), and arithmetic operations (e.g., vector rotation). Most of these examples are difficult or impossible to invert using prior techniques, but PINS was able to invert all of them. We also found that a semi-automated technique we developed to mine a template from the program to be inverted worked well. In our experiments, PINS takes between one second to thirty minutes to synthesize inverses. We believe this proof-of-concept implementation demonstrates the viability of the PINS approach to program synthesis.
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- Title
- Prototypicality, conformity and depersonalized attraction: a self-categorization analysis of group cohesiveness
- Author(s)
- Hogg, Michael A.; Hardie, Elizabeth A.
- Abstract
- The affective component of group cohesiveness is reconceptualized in terms of a distinct group-based form of attraction: social attraction. It is hypothesized, from self-categorization theory, that under conditions of self-conception based on social as opposed to personal identity the basis and structure of attraction within a group becomes depersonalized in terms of the group prototype. Four-person single-sex groups made autokinetic judgements under conditions designed to accentuate individuality (low salience) or group membership (high salience). Females behaved as predicted. They manifested depersonalized attraction associated with self-categorization in group terms, indicated by greater convergence on the group norm in the high salience condition. For males depersonalized attraction occurred in the low salience condition and was linked to convergence on some, not all, measures. The results are discussed in terms of subjective uncertainty, which was abnormally and inexplicably high among low salience male groups, and differences between this and an earlier naturalistic study by Hogg & Hardie (1991). In the light of this discussion it is concluded that the data for both sexes conform to a self-categorization analysis of social attraction.
- Publication Type
- Journal article
- Source
- British Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 31, part 1 (Mar 1992), p. 41-56
- Publication Year
- 1992
- Keyword(s)
- Belonging; Gender; Group cohesiveness; Group polarisation; Interpersonal attraction; Meta analysis; Psychological group formation; Self-categorisation; Sex differences; Social attraction; Social influence
- Publisher
- British Psychological Society
- ISSN
- 0144-6665
- Peer Reviewed
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Lymph nodes samples can be obtained by:
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There are two types of needle biopsies:
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The doctor may use an ultrasound or CT scan to help locate the biopsy site.
An open biopsy means removing the lymph nodes through an incision. The doctor will cut into the skin and remove either all or part of a lymph node. medicine.
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When you return home after the procedure, do the following to help ensure a smooth recovery:
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Results will be ready in about a week. Your doctor will tell you if further treatment is needed.
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Following #Midyear (Wrapping Up): 05/20/2012
Following #Midyear (Wrapping Up)
By Emily Williams, RET Content Coordinator
5 out of 5 by (3) User/s
Published: 05/20/2012
Posted by: RET Staff
On Twitter
I woke up early on Thursday and watched with my cup of coffee as the Tweets flew past me. The big news under the #Midyear hashtag that day was the REALTOR® Rally. Here are some of those Tweets and others about the conference.
- REALTOR® Magazine @realtormag: NAR's Lawrence Yun: First quarter of this year was the best for real estate in five years. #Midyear
- NAR Midyear @narmidyear: Almost 8000 #REALTORS attending the virtual #realtorrally! Tune in now at #Midyear
- Chris Nichols @utahREpro: #realtorrally starting to fill up! #midyear
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How Well Do You Know Your POTUS?
Woodrow Wilson was the first president to show a motion picture in the White House. The motion picture he chose was the controversial “The Birth of a Nation.”
Video: knowyourpotus.com
Ed note: Everyone knows the presidents but how well do you know your vice presidents? Take our quiz.
h/t Fast Company
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War and the Global Economic Crisis: Collapse of the American Standard of Living
by Bob Chapman
Global Research
May 7, 2011
As the economy stumbles the American standard of living recedes. 44 million people are using food stamps and in one year that figure will be 60 million. Washington and Wall Street say, what me worry? Of course not they are the masters of the universe. We are 24 months into an inflationary depression and it still goes undiscovered. Who cares that the issuance of food stamps is up 80%, as long as the bonuses on Wall Street and in banking continue to flow and bureaucrats get higher and higher salaries and benefits? The high cost of health insurance, no longer affordable to most have increased and Medicaid users are up 17%, as the program costs increased 36%. Those on welfare rose 18%, as costs rose 24%. It is now evident to many that the choice of early retirement in the late 1990s at 52 and 59 years old was a big mistake. Many must now work into their 70s, or starve. Many retirees are forced to reenter the workforce. Recently there were 2,000 job openings and 75,000 people applied. How is that for recovery? The birth/death ratio is bogus and real unemployment is 22%. The economy needs 2 million new jobs a year and that is impossible. Good paying jobs are still being offshored and outsourced. How about the millions without jobs now for years? While all this transpires the Fed bails out Wall Street, banking and government and leaves crumbs for the dispossessed.
It always gets us when these acceptable writers use soft or euphuistic phrases to describe creeping national state socialism. The big picture is dreadful, but government, Wall Street and the media won’t tell you that. Truth has nothing to do with business. They all spin one lie after another, just as you have recently seen with a certificate of live birth and the death of Mr. bin Laden. It reminds one of the old song, “Anything Goes.”
Those running Washington from behind the scenes know America can never pay off and liquidate its debt. That is why there is little effort to do so. The real idea is to destroy the system. It reminds one of Argentina in 1999, before they defaulted on 2/3’s of their debt only in a much bigger way. The dollar, because it is the world reserve currency, and that nations hold about 60% of foreign reserves in US dollars affects the entire world. America’s Wall Street, banking and government has had a 66-year party and everyone gets to pay for it. The next step, rather than austerity, will be confiscation of all, or part, of pensions, that $12 trillion pool of government and individual retirement funds. Needless to say, such irresponsible actions only delay the inevitable monetary collapse.
Tagging not far beyond is England and Europe, both of which have used the same template for so many years. In the US and all of these nations we see more than 50% of the population functionally illiterate and this same group country to country essentially pays little or not taxes, and receive benefits from government. That does not include the illegal alien population in each country that pays virtually no taxes. Spending far beyond tax receipts can only mean eventually that the deficits will destroy the system. That means a lower standard of living, which has already manifested itself in all three regions. Such profligacy has in the US, UK and Europe caused the Fed, the Bank of England the European Central Banks to create money and credit out of thin air monetizing buying and holding sovereign debt as well as debt clogging the balance sheets of the financial sector. In Washington the administration is considering an oil tax increase as the public pays more than $4.00 a gallon and in Germany it’s $9.00 a gallon. Expect more of this non-income tax taxation. Each tax increase and each loss in services brings less purchasing power, as inflation rages.
All these entities each day find it harder and harder to sell bonds to support their debt load, thus, revenues have to be increased. In the US the top 10% of taxpayers will end up paying 75% of total income taxes. This has already started an exodus of high-income earners to leave the country over the past 15 years, and the numbers are increasing exponentially. That in turn throws an added burden on middle class taxpayers.
At the root of the problems of all these nations is Keynesian economics, which has become the basis for corporatist fascism. The growth of money and credit worldwide has been exponential and continues apace as nations refuse to cut spending and central banks continue to be fonts of money and credit for their financial sectors and for governments. The financial system worldwide is awash in liquidity, which is accompanied by low or near zero interest rates. If those conditions were to be higher interest rates and less monetization the world system would collapse, although governments are manipulating markets downward such as gold, silver and commodities. What they are accomplishing is very little versus the intermediate to long run. That is why in the long run gold, silver and commodities have to move higher, as investors flee the general stock and bond markets, that don’t reflect the results of inflation. That is why inflation will worsen as central banks continue to spew out more money and credit, which is now euphemistically called quantitative easing. First we saw inflation rise in the developing world for a number of reasons, which has since moderated to a great extent. Inflation is growing at a realistic 4% to 6% overall. The problem lies in the developed world where real inflation runs from 8% to 20%. Nations such as the US, UK, China, India, Brazil, etc. are not only suffering high inflation, but they are exporting it as well. Not enough to keep inflation at bay in their own countries, but enough to make financial conditions in victimized countries difficult. As an example, take America’s neighbors Canada and Mexico; instead of having a natural 3.5% inflation for 2011, their inflation at year-end will be 4% to 4.5%.
As we predicted a year ago, QE3 will become reality, although it will be called something else. Not only in the US, but also in the UK, Europe and other countries, as well. If the issuance of money and credit were to stop and interest rates were to rise the world would head into deflationary depression. That is why the music has to continue. Sooner or later it will stop and when it does the bottom will fall out of the world economy and financial system.
The Fed continues to create money and credit and prices continue to rise and will do so for at least 1-1/2 more years. If we get the equivalent of QE3 that will be extended 1 to 1-1/2 more years. Dependent on how big a QE3 could be two to three years ahead, inflation could range from 25% to 55%. As this affects the US economy the banking system will remain weak and near insolvency. As inflation rises in a moderate fashion in the developing world the first world will see inflation rise higher quickly.
We currently see yields on Treasuries falling again from 3.60% on the 10-year note to 3.22%, as the Fed manipulates lower yields into position. That would be in anticipation of higher real interest rates caused in reaction to QE3. This is all rear guard action to try to create employment from a sector that remains under intense pressure. Any job creation is being offset by the high layoff rates of municipal and state workers. These measures by the Fed will also continue downward pressure on the dollar and upward pressure on gold and silver and commodities. Any tightening by the government or austerity measures to reduce the fiscal deficit would be disastrous. That is if you want to keep the game going at today’s level. It is a different story if you really want to solve the problem.
As we switch to the Middle East we see serious trouble coming. In fact it probably is the groundwork for World War III, the event needed from an historical prospective to begin a new world war to cover up the economic and financial collapse now taking place. Why else would the US and UK stir up rebellion in Syria, the home of a Russian naval base and in Libya where the Chinese just recently had to remove 29,000 workers due to a US and UK created rebellion. Libya supplies relatively inexpensive quality oil to China in large quantities. As these adventures unfold it becomes more obvious that a new war is being set in motion. As a reaction we see China saying they want to reduce their dollar forex position by 2/3’s or by $2 trillion. The US won’t let that stop them, so China is going to be a large dollar seller and part of those funds will go in gold and silver. That means the dollar will definitely fall lower both in terms of other currencies, but more importantly versus gold and silver. Dollar bulls are very hard to find. Those negative regarding the dollar we doubt have a clue that WWIII is underway. What has come to the attention of those negative on the dollar is that the US is developing into a Nazi police state. The US government wants to know exactly where all the assets of every American are and at the same time set compliance rules on foreign banks and institutions, which have US persons as clients legally. For Americans, foreign countries have to report any real estate owned by Americans in their country and on January 1, 2013, annually these nations banks have to send 1/3rd of all bank assets to the US IRS ostensibly to pay taxes, which in most instances have already been paid. It is a grab of the assets of Americans who dare to live in another country. As a result the US government gets little or no respect outside the US. The US is a pariah and the laughing stock of the rest of the civilized world. What people other than Americans could believe the fantasies of the obviously phony “live birth certificate” and the death of a man that had already been dead for almost 10 years. The foreign opinion is that the sheeple deserve it.
As an adjunct to this the US government is going to keep US troops in Iraq beyond the end of the year. The Iraqis have to approve this action, so we’ll have to see what happens. It is obvious the US has no intention of permanently withdrawing their troops. The excuse is based on the Shiite uprising in Bahrain and the massive Saudi intervention, along with events in Yemen where the dictator has agreed to leave. Iraqis believe that accommodation with Iran is the only way to coexist. They see iran as the only real power in the region. They also recognize Iran as an emerging regional power. Thus, we see Iran balking at the US leaving 20,000 troops in Iraq.
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Luke Koehler ’09 is the new Cadet Battalion Commander of the Army ROTC program. Rhodes, in cooperation with The University of Memphis and the Departments of the Army and Air Force, participates in cross-town agreements that provide the opportunity for Rhodes students to enroll in ROTC.
“This is quite an honor and is the first time a student from Rhodes College has held this position in the program’s 26 year history,” says LTC Gregory Marinich.
Koehler is a graduate of the United States Army Air Assault School and the United States Army Parachutist School. This summer, he attended the Leadership Development and Assessment Course in Fort Lewis, WA where he earned the overall rating of “Excellent,” awarded to only 20 percent of the 5,100 cadets in attendance.
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Johnny B. Moore Jr. ’88 has been tapped to become president and CEO of SunTrust Bank Memphis, beginning June 1.
A business administration major at Rhodes, Moore has held numerous management positions in the commercial and mortgage banking areas. He has been with SunTrust 17 years, most recently heading the Memphis region’s commercial line of business.
A native Memphian and a 1984 graduate of Melrose High School, Moore currently serves as a board member of the Memphis & Shelby County Port Commission, Center City Revenue Finance Board, and the boards of directors for the Orpheum Theatre, Leadership Academy, National Civil Rights Museum, and Hutchison School. He also is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. and the Southwind Neighborhood Association.
In 2006, he was recognized by the Memphis Business Journal as one of Memphis’s “Top 40 Under 40.”
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When Vicki Sawicki leaves her Atchison Village home, there’s often a foul tang that permeates the air.
“The pollution is so strong that sometimes you can taste it.” Sawicki said, her face scrunching into a grimace. “It’s kind of a metallic kind of taste.”
Sawicki and several dozen other Bay Area residents met in North Richmond on Saturday at the invitation of the Toxic Triangle Coalition, founded by the Reverend Dr. Daniel Buford of the Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland.
The group is an effort to pull together three Bay Area neighborhoods that residents and air quality officials say have been disproportionately affected by toxic contaminants and environmental hazards. Richmond is located at the northern apex of the “Toxic Triangle,” with Oakland to the south and Bayview Hunter’s Point to the west.
Jack Broadbent is CEO and the Air Pollution Control Officer for the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD).
Marie Harrison came from Bayview Hunter's Point neighborhood in San Francisco for Saturday's Toxic Triangle meeting.
At Saturday’s meeting, Broadbent attributed many of the health problems experienced by members of these neighborhoods to “diesel particulate matter,” a kind of air pollutant that comes from combustion engines.
Among the majors sources of these tiny particles are moving vehicles like cars, trucks, tankers, trains, and buses. Stationary sources of particulate pollution include power plants, factories, and refineries.
Bayview resident Marie Harrison described some of the health problems she has seen in her neighborhood: asthma, cancer, heart disease, headaches, severe rashes, and nosebleeds.
Richmond has the same problems: The Bay Area Environmental Health Collaborative has collated data showing Richmond has both high levels of diesel particulate pollution and the highest levels of child asthma hospitalizations in all of Contra Costa County.
Environmental activist and Richmond resident Gwendolyn Powell sees a wide range of health problems among her neighbors and her own family.
Gwendolyn Powell of Richmond often has breathing problems because of the air around her Las Deltas home.
Powell’s stepfather died in 2001, after suffering from asthma, a condition her brother also struggles with. Her cousin died from an asthma attack.
A 50-year resident of North Richmond, Powell said she’s become concerned about the health risks of living so close to the Chevron refinery.
Yet the refinery is one part of a larger problem. In each of the communities that comprise the Toxic Triangle, multiple sources of pollution are infecting the neighborhoods in compounding ways.
Bayview Hunter’s Point residents, for example, breathe emissions wafting off the 101 and 280 freeways. There are also two federal Superfund sites and hundreds of acres of contaminated brownfields from a former naval shipyard.
In addition to the Chevron smokestacks in Richmond, residents must contend with busy freeways running through the community; with a port, where diesel trucks come and go hour upon hour; and with the rail yards, where trains have been known to idle their engines for days at a time.
This infrastructure of pollution that is literally built into neighborhoods—neighborhoods where residents are largely low-income ethnic minorities—is what’s called environmental racism.
Tiana Drisker, 30, of Richmond talks with Phillip Watkins Jr, 22, at Saturday's meeting. Watkins came from Oakland for the event.
“This is not just about trash on the ground,” said Tiana Drisker. “We have been conditioned to think this is normal,” she said of the foul smells, hazy air, and history of contaminated land.
Drisker, 30, lives in Richmond. Several years ago, she became involved with Communities for a Better Environment, a California based non-profit focused on environmental health and justice.
She became so passionate about environmental health that she’s leaving behind a completed dental hygienist degree to enter an environmental program. Drisker plans to help educate her community about the risks pollutants pose to their wellbeing.
It’s time for Richmond residents to “demand accountability, demand responsibility,” Drisker said, encouraging other young people in the audience to continue to get involved and give a voice to their communities.
Mayor Gayle McLaughlin briefly attended the meeting, pledging to fight environmental injustice and noting her efforts to build bike paths and community gardens.
What Vicki Sawicki wants is a little harder than new gardens and bike trails. “I don’t want to inhale any toxic chemicals,” she said following Saturday’s meeting.
Richmond mayor Gayle McLaughlin listens to Jack Broadbent's presentation in North Richmond on Saturday.
In the ten years that Sawicki has lived in Atchison Village, several times she’s gotten the alert to “shelter-in-place,” which means to close all windows, doors, and sources of ventilation to the outside environment.
As part of Contra Costa County’s emergency response directions, residents are instructed to shelter-in-place whenever harmful levels of toxins are released in the air. “It’s scary,” Sawicki said about the alerts.
“I’m not a chemist, but I know the air is not healthy to breathe,” she continued. “We all have a right to breath clean air.”
It’s interesting how the Mayor of Richmond was only there for a photo opportunity and not to really listen to the issues. If she had been there for the entire meeting, she would have realized that the residents need stricter laws against the refineries and businesses for polluting the air not more “bike paths and community gardens”. Who wants to go out and do heavy breathing of toxins while riding a bike or planting fresh vegetables and fruits in tainted soil? Think about it people! It must be election time or maybe the author just picked the wrong quote/sound-bite to include in this piece.*wink,wink*
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Register News Writer
RICHMOND —
As of Tuesday, the local headquarters of the Salvation Army was down $10,000 to $12,000 in donations compared to this time last year, said Salvation Army Capt. Sally Love.
Some may be unaware of this, but “all of the money donated in Richmond stays in Richmond,” Love said. And 60 percent of the donations used to help people all year are collected at Christmas-time. These donations help fund a soup kitchen, thrift store and shelter right here in Madison County.
The Richmond branch has a work area expanding over Estill, Lee and Rockcastle counties as well, she said. Funds collected from those areas also go back into those communities.
One factor has contributed to the shortfall in donations: the lack of people who carry cash. Newspapers from all over the nation have reported the same problem, leaving the signature red kettles shortchanged everywhere.
Last year, however, Salvation Army USA reported a 3.4 percent increase in overall donations from 2010. This accomplishment was, in part, due to increased online donations, according to a release from the organization.
“We have been working to expand the Red Kettle Campaign to reach new and young donors,” said Commissioner William Roberts, National Commander of The Salvation Army. “Technology is changing the way charities raise money. Whether through a credit card at a kettle or online, we’re making an effort to reach the next generation of donors and make it convenient for people to support the campaign.”
As with donations collected at local storefronts, all money collected online from those who indicate they live in Richmond, will go back into the community, Love said.
One option is the Online Red Kettle (onlineredkettle.org). Donors can create online kettle teams and share the link through email and social media (Search your smartphone app store — there’s an app for that).
“Online bell-ringers” have collected funds for the seventh year in a row and raised more than $1.7 million last year, up from $1.6 million in 2010.
Other online donations in November and December, not through the Online Red Kettle systems, totaled $17.6 million, a 28-percent increase over the $13.7 million raised in 2010, according to the release.
There also have been nationwide efforts to make donations easier for those who only carry debit/credit cards. Last year, smartphones and mobile credit card readers were donated to the Salvation Army to begin test markets in San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas and New York.
Love said the decision to have mobile card readers in Madison County locations will be reassessed each year, but they also must consider how that might impact partners that allow bell-ringers in their storefronts.
Donors may also visit the Richmond Salvation Army office at 1675 E. Main Street to donate using a credit card, Love said. Check donations may be sent to the same location.
Angel Giving Tree
This Saturday, the Richmond Salvation Army location will be distributing Christmas food bags, gifts and stockings to more than 450 children, seniors and low-income families as part of the Angel Giving Tree program, Love said.
Although registration to benefit from this program ended in October, people will have the opportunity to sign up for any goods that are leftover on Monday and Tuesday (Dec. 17-18) from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Richmond location.
The Christmas food bags include around $25 worth of “all the fixings of a holiday dinner,” Love said. Children will receive gifts, as well as age-appropriate stuffed stockings for both boys and girls.
For the first time, age-appropriate stockings have been prepared for senior citizens who receive food bags from the Angel Giving Tree, Love said.
Those who would like to apply for any of the leftover goods would need to provide proof of income or government assistance, a picture ID for the head of household and social security cards or birth certificates for each member of the family.
“If you qualify for food stamps, you would most likely qualify for our program,” said Love, who uses similar income criteria regarding family size.
Those who qualify for the Angel Giving Tree also must not have already benefited from any other children’s gift assistance in town, she said.
Crystal Wylie can be reached at [email protected] or 623-1669, Ext. 6696.
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How Do You Talk to a Child About Death?
With apologies for the downer of a topic, but . . .
A married couple of our acquaintance will soon attend a memorial service for a woman who recently passed away, and of whom their young daughter was quite fond. They have not yet told their daughter of the woman’s death as they are at a loss as to how to proceed with such a discussion. I told them I would put the matter out for consideration among the Ricochetti, where much wisdom can reliably be found.
Their daughter is three years old, and this will be her first experience with the death of anyone she knows. What have you told your own children under these circumstances, and what questions were you met with? Your thoughts on this very important question will be much appreciated by all concerned.
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Aug '12
Re: How Do You Talk to a Child About Death?
We talk to our daughters (just turned 6 and about to turn 5) about this fallen world regularly. So they already understand that death is a consequence of sin. We lost a dog a couple of years ago and my parents nextdoor had to bury one of their dogs. So the girls have experienced loss and they know why it happens. More importantly, they take comfort in their Baptism and the Resurrection to come.
Dealing with the loss of a human friend would be harder, especially if the friend wasn't a Christian. But they have the knowledge (framework) in place to make sense of it and they know where to find Comfort.
Mar '11
Re: How Do You Talk to a Child About Death?
My family has been through a lot of death. Our baby daughter, my mother, and my best friend. We have two other children (8 and 6 at the time) and we simply told them about death as honestly as we could. It's a lot to grasp, and it is clear they didn't grasp all of it, but they got the important stuff. Might be too much for a three year old to get.
Re: How Do You Talk to a Child About Death?
As a pastor's kid, I grew up around a fair amount of death. Our backyard backed up to a cemetery. We were brought to the homes of people near death and we were brought to their funerals. I've tried the same approach with my children -- just explaining what cemeteries are, taking them to funerals of church members who have died.
As for what to say to a 3-year-old, there's some chance the child won't exactly understand much of what's happened. Start with the basics -- "Our friend died. We won't be able to see her any more." Then just answer whatever questions come up. That will vary by child. Simple, short answers are better. If you're in anguish over what to say, you're probably over thinking it.
Jan '11
Re: How Do You Talk to a Child About Death?
It helps to remember that everyone has to deal with death sooner or later. We've all gone through it.
It helps to remember, then, how we ourselves got through those first experiences. I was lucky. My first experiences of death were elderly family members, and I was part of a very Catholic family. We had wakes and funeral masses and other rituals. I learned how to behave (and really, how to respond emotionally) by watching my family during those rituals. Death was treated with solemnity and respect.
I'll say the obvious ... at that age, it isn't about passing along information to a young person. The young person will be having feelings that she never had before, and she won't know what to do with them. So, the older generation has a sacred responsibility to teach the younger generation how to respond. They'll learn; not by words, but by reactions.
That's why rituals are so useful. They teach emotion; they teach how to respond. They give emotions an outlet, so that people know what to do with them.
Nov '12
Re: How Do You Talk to a Child About Death?
When my grandmother passed away, I told my 4-year-old (at the time) that "when we die, we go back to God". I was expecting questions, but none arose. My simple explanation seemed to be sufficient.
Nov '10
Re: How Do You Talk to a Child About Death?
If the child was very fond of this lady I think she should not be shut out of this. She needn't be confronted harshly with it, but an adult on whose shoulder she will be comfortable crying should tell her gently and help her with the details. I lay pretty good odds that the child will want to go to the funeral, and if she clearly understands what it all means, I'm for letting her go. Small children can and do grieve, and death is a natural thing to them; it's not easy for anyone. But they are robbed when we treat them as incapable of dealing with the truth. Imagine the child, a month from now, "Mommy, when can we visit Mrs X? She said next time we come I can have a ginger cookie, and I drew her another picture." "Uh, I'm sorry honey, Mrs. X is ... um ... gone away ... ask me again sometime, but not today". When the child finally learns, she'll be furious that she was not permitted the chance to "properly" say goodbye. I'm 100% in agreement with KCM above.
Re: How Do You Talk to a Child About Death?
Many thanks for the thoughtful responses so far. I knew the Ricochetti would not disappoint.
Feb '11
Re: How Do You Talk to a Child About Death?
My mother always said "He/she went to live with God."
I am a big fan of taking children to cemeteries for unveilings and plain visits. Funerals too, after a certain age. (I was angry with my parents for many years because they would not let me attend my grandfather's funeral when I was nine. Their excuse was that I am the eldest of my generation and the elders still thought of me as a kid.
One of my sisters was killed in an accident and most of the nieces and nephews participated in the funeral and the unveiling, including shoveling dirt into the grave. These were 7-8 year olds. (The eldest of her own kids was not yet twelve.)
But of course I am a genealogist, so I go to cemeteries for fun.
Sep '10
Re: How Do You Talk to a Child About Death?
I don't know if the little girl was raised Catholic, Jack. But, if she was, please insist that prayers for the departed are a good thing for a child to learn. They are sadly neglected in our day.
Re: How Do You Talk to a Child About Death?
I should have mentioned this. Yes, the family is Catholic, and prayers are part of their daily and nightly routine.
Oct '12
Re: How Do You Talk to a Child About Death?
It is important to remember that for preschoolers coping well typically means sticking to routine as much as possible. If this woman played a role that was part of a daily or weekly routine, her death will need to be addressed both in the context of the funeral and in the context of the activity (Ms. Sue won't be at church this Sunday to hug you). For younger kids, describing death as an inability to do activities they understand can be helpful.
As adults we tend to over-think and over-answer kid questions about death. Remember that a 3 year old still thinks the moon follows her car ; ) Simple, direct answers; routine and ritual cover a multitude of stammering adult statements.
Also, it's not uncommon (even if she attends the funeral) for a smaller child to ask to visit the deceased person, or what happened to their friend later, perhaps multiple times. Not a problem, just typical development.
May '10
Re: How Do You Talk to a Child About Death?
When our second child was in neo-natal intensive care we told her 3 year old brother "Your sister is very sick and we don't know yet whether she's going to come home with us or go home with Jesus." That seemed to work.
(BTW She pulled through and is with us today, 28 years later)
Nov '10
Re: How Do You Talk to a Child About Death?
Don't say anything you don't believe yourself and keep the explanation age specific.
We had to deal with this a few years ago when our 17-year old son died and we still had 5 kids at home, ages ranging from 5 to 15. Based on his profession of faith we felt confident in telling the younger kids he was in heaven. But while his salvation is a wonderful thing, we still did a lot of crying because we missed him so much. It rocks a kid's world to see the parents in that much pain, but I can't agree with people who feel the need to shield the kids from it. I didn't want my kids to grow up thinking - J. died and Mom and Dad never even cried for him.
I also don't think it's a good idea to make the death a taboo subject. We answered all kinds of questions, such as, can I call J. on his cell phone? With kids, be prepared for some touching and even funny moments. Our 5-year old, a few days after the funeral, demanded to know where his brother was.
Nov '10
Re: How Do You Talk to a Child About Death?
We patiently told him - in heaven. And he said, "no not that one, the one that's in the dirt." Try explaining that to a 5-year old. Also, our son died in another state and the first few days were filled with phone calls and preparations for getting his body back. When the call finally came that he was coming the next day I turned to one of the kids, age 7, and said, "J.'s body is coming back tomorrow." Her response - "what about his head"?
I've come to believe that if you can't explain it to so a 5-year old can understand, you don't understand it yourself. Keep the answers truthful, but age specific. Having a robust theology of dying, death, and the afterlife helps tremendously.
Re: How Do You Talk to a Child About Death?
Kim K.,
I'm so terribly saddened to read about the death of your oldest son. I pray for continued comfort for you. And I thank you for the advice you offer. I couldn't agree more with your last line.
Mar '11
Re: How Do You Talk to a Child About Death?
Life is opportunity.
Death is the end of those opportunities.
Jews and Christians agree on this much: death is when the soul returns to G-d.
Mar '12
Re: How Do You Talk to a Child About Death?
My mother died of heart failure when I was nine and a half, my brother eight and my sister six and a half. My father came home from the hospital and gathered us around him and told us. I think we did not know what it meant except that mom wasn't coming home.
Only over time did the immensity of death become recognizable in a family. A place to come to but no one to come home to. An echo or shadow of who once was but is now not to be found; and an empty place in the heart that remains open but unfilled.
It is terrible and no matter what else happens, it must be faced.
At some point down the line, someone must sit with that child and help her get it out of her system. The child's mere expression met with some compassion will allow her to put it down and not have to pick it up again, relegating it to a fond memory of a missing friend.Edited on December 31, 2012 at 5:05pm
Aug '10
Re: How Do You Talk to a Child About Death?
Just got home from a funeral of an 80 year old man, it was as natural as the snow falling outside the church. What you need to say is in there somewhere, it's a natural .
My daughter went to a visitation last night for a high school classmate killed in a car wreck over the weekend , I don't think that is natural as it wrenches the cycle out of rhythm . Words are very hard to find for that.
Nov '10
Re: How Do You Talk to a Child About Death?
The topic of death is much easier to confront with children when the topic of God has been an essential part of their childhood.
Apr '11
Re: How Do You Talk to a Child About Death?
How do we adults address the imponderable? How may a child understand?
I observed, weak-kneed, the following:
A Norman Rockwell setting. A great grandfather - a minister, has died. Gathered in a late-summer country cemetery, his descendants . . children, grandchildren, great grandchildren gather around the catafalque.
My farmer brother-in-law presides over the assembled mourners. Birds sweep above cornfields, the air is sweet . . . . his daughter brings her 10 year-old son forward to be comforted by the rugged handsome grandfather. I'm waiting expectantly for this midwestern iconic moment of generational nurturing.
The paterfamilias drops to one knee beside the catafalque and pulls the child toward him. Even the breeze pauses. We watch a timeless tableau. The grandfather points toward the casket. He speaks. "That will be you someday. Live your life accordingly."
I've wondered ever since, what doors closed in that child's heart. I cannot help but to believe that some part of his emotional life, forever, veered in a direction it might not otherwise have gone.
One could argue that it was a wise appraisal of what one might take from a death. For me, it was callous and brutal and no one visibly flinched.
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New PvP Content in RIFT 1.9? Can You Decipher These Codes?
It seems that RIFT Team wants to challenge our intelligence by offering these codes in the forum.
Well, if you cannot see picture, I've posted all the contents below:, Nemo surdior est quam is qui non audiet, is written in Latin. It is like, "you will hear what he(the Dev) said here".
Dev: 3 3228466 787 posted this thread in forum. Obviously, it's a new ID for this, which joined in May 2012 with only 11 posts. Actually, I followed his posts time line and found other threads he posted in forum. I will analysis little by little and the answer will be unveiled soon!
Thread in the PvP & Warfronts Forum titled "There can be no peace":
Source:
As we can see from the sub forum where this guy posted his thread, it's possibly something about PvP coz it's the first post after the cypher.
Thread in the public test shard Forum titled "Be careful what you ask for":
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Thread in the Dungeons & Raids Forum titled "Keep your friends close ":
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Both are for promoting his cypher post, nothing special. I guess it will be appeared first at PTS(you don't say that?) and maybe in Dungeons and Raids as well?
Then he posted something in numbers! So I paid more attention to his ID: 3 3228466 787. What does it mean? Is it the code as well? Well, actually it's a easy code if you check out your mobile phone! Let's decipher them!
3=3
3=F
2=A
2=C
8=T
4=I
6=O
6=N
7=P
8=V
7=P
3 FACTION PVP!
Really?!!!
Well, he kept posting after that, so let's see more about them!
Reply to "Nemo surdior est quam is qui non audiet"
Source:
These three pics are:
Fun pics. Apparently, three factions, Ram, Raven and Lion, which he mentioned in the cypher.
Let's go back to see the cypher again, now it would be more clearly that some words suggest battle among 3 factions like "Three points the blade, but two edges bleed".
Then he posted some replies in forum by numbers, which is easy to understand but without any valuable information in it, like "we so excited" and "we so excited too". You can find them here, here and here.
I couldn't see more valuable leaks about it so far. However, at least we got this - "3 faction pvp", which is possible new feature added in RIFT 1.9! Maybe we will see it in 1.8 next week.
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We chat with one of Sci-Fi’s greatest doctors about DS9 and his new indie hit Cairo Time.
On Being Bashir:
Jordan Hoffman: Before we talk about your new indie Cairo Time, let’s talk about the greatest television series in the history of time, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It’ll always be the greatest and, for better or worse, no matter where you go we will always love Dr. Bashir and his adventures. The show has been off the air for -
Alexander Siddig: A decade.
Jordan Hoffman: Over a decade.
Alexander Siddig: Yeah, a decade and then some.
Jordan Hoffman: I’m just curious to know, now that you’ve got a lot of time behind it, what it’s like if you’re flipping channels or somebody calls you Dr. Bashir on the street?
Alexander.
Jordan Hoffman: This is Primeval, yes?
Alexander Siddig: Yes, and kids –.
Changing the DNA:
Jordan Hoffman: I’m curious, was there ever one episode where you got the script and were just like, “I’m sorry, I don’t know what
the hell they’re talking about.”
Alexander Siddig: Yeah, there was an episode where they gave me a genetic modification. (Dr. Bashir, I Presume Season 5, Episode 16)
Jordan Hoffman: Oh, well that wasn’t an episode that was a major change in your character!.
Jordan Hoffman: Okay, so maybe they scaled that story arc back a little bit?
Alexander Siddig: They did.
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Wed March 20, 2013
The revenge of Don Carcieri.
This foolish investment by Carcieri and his enablers at the state EDC and in the General Assembly is slated to cost RI taxpayers $12.5 million a year for seven years, money that would obviously be much better spent on roads, schools and creating a better business climate.
This is a sad case for taxpayers and Rhode Island’s economic future. Carcieri did this as he was waving goodbye at the end of his second term, which was an unmitigated disaster in terms of economic stewardship of the state. It is interesting to see Gary Sasse, onetime top aide to Carcieri (although not when the Schilling deal was done; he was gone by then), lecture the Assenbly now on how to proceed. Sasse is right; lawmakers ought to ``undertake a rigorous analysis’’ of the cost and benefits of various options for cleaning up the mess. It is only too bad that pillars of the R.I. business establishment as Sasse and former Hasbro honcho Al Verecchia (who actually went along with this one as an EDC board member) weren’t yelling from the top of the State House back in August of 2010 about absolutely dumb was this investment.
Lawmakers should think long and hard about their role in this miasma. Remember just one legislator, former House Republican Leader Robert Watson of East Greenwich, voted against the enabling legislation that allowed the $75 million in taxpayer loan guarantees to go to 38 Studios. The media, with a few exceptions (such as RIPR), didn’t cover itself in glory on this one by vetting the deal and questioning why the rush?
This deal obviously should have waited for a new gubernatorial administration. It should have not been coaxed through three months before the election. There was no urgency; no other state was vying to hand out this sum of money to a retired pitcher with a tin cup out.
Democrat Deval Patrick may be a liberal Democrat to Carcieri’s conservative Republican regime. But Patrick wasn’t foolish enough to give this scheme a blank check from the taxpayers.
Chafee is now suing some of the major players who put this mess together. Let’s hope his legal thrust harvests some significant money to mitigate the crushing blow on RI taxpayers.
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I came here first as a child during World War II and returned five years ago for the first of five reunions of the children, grands, partners, spouses (and now a possible great-grandchild) of Eric C. Kast, my late husband.
This year I planned a first, writing week for myself with Carter Frank and Erica Kast, and we stayed in Hidden Village on West Tisbury's Lambert Cove Road. Nearby we came upon Dr. Fisher, a dirt road whose buckles rival ocean waves. Our house was deep in woods and gave me a room with desk where I worked on my novel manuscript for several hours each day, while Carter and Erica swam long distances at Lambert Cove Beach. Nearby we discovered Ice House Pond, a fresh water kettle pond preserved by the Martha's Vineyard Land Bank, one of many organizations that strives to save land from over development.
An afternoon trip to Aquinnah (formerly Gay Head) gave us gorgeous views of the bright, clay cliffs and a glimpse of Wampanoag jewelry made form wampum, quohog shells. A winding path down to an ocean beach offers surf and a walk below the cliffs. There traditional nude bathing persists. I remember this from childhood visits to the island and was delighted to see that natural simplicity still lives, just slightly tucked away from T-shirt shops and chain store fudge.
The Mass Audobon Society offers great kayak tours of Sengekontacket Pond, an excellent way to see the birds, crabs, plants and animals of the Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary as well as to support one more necessary effort to save the island from clogged roads and urban sprawl.
We reveled in the West Tisbury Farmer's Market, cooked and ate communally (10-13 peeps each night), and played games from Bananagrams to Settlers of Cataan to Ticket to Ride. We sunned and swam and played paddle ball on the East Chop Beach and indulged in Mad Martha's ice cream, Moon Magick fudge and Back-Door Donuts.
Five years is a long time, and people grow up, as the quantity of beer bottles we recycled attests. Some of the young people grew restless without bikes or car and a limited bus system, so Erica and I resolved to develop a survey to assess each person's priorities for location and activities. Her arts management studies come in handy!
The results will affect the reunion's future, but I'll always return to the Vineyard. There is so much to learn for an off-island, seasonal visitor, so many paths to wander, so much history to explore. As I contemplate the island's future, my sense of satiation returns to hunger, and I fear that the island I love cannot endure.
The Martha's Vineyard Donors Collaborative is a consortium of island non-profits that aims to use their collective strength to sustain the Vineyard. Understanding the problem is a first step, and their excellent (downloadable) pamphlet addresses the problem with a clear, severe, but humorous and well-written warning: do something now or forget a future for the island. If you've ever lived there, visited the island or wanted to, download the pamphlet, watch a video, and choose your mode of action. There's something for everyone to do.
I recommend the pamphlet from mvdonors.org. Preservation is a complex and political subject, but the authors were thoughtful and the results could be momentous. I love the national parks. I love the California coast. I love our reunions on this island.
Thank you Anton!
MV is indeed a special place as you write so well. The first week was sublime and your second week sounds equally so. Thanks for the memories.
You're welcome, and I hope we'll turn them into real-life experience again.
Beautifully captured, Maggie. What a rich, varied environment! I wanted more description, more photos, more...I wanted to be there! Door County, Wisconsin, where as you well know I have spent vacation time my entire life and where we now spend all summer, is sometimes called the "Cape Cod of the Midwest." Now, I dearly love this place--the vast lake, the magnificent bluffs, the wildlife, the art galleries, the Scandinavian culture. But it is not Cape Cod. It is not the ocean. It quite simply lacks the incredible variety that the environment you describe contains. But: home is where the heart is.
I don't think I'd previously looked at your Sicilian blog, either. Having just prepared an Italian dinner for friends and spouse, I was more than intrigued. I must say I didn't manage to serve so many courses! And I hope to go to Sicily some day--one part of Italy that I've not yet seen.
R
That's how I first felt when I went to Door County and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan: the East Coast all over again. Especially on the ferry to Neebish Island, where my mother spent summers as a child.
Looking at the picture of the MV farmer's market, and comparing it to the farmer's market in northern Door, made me smile--in fact giggle. Our farmer's market most recently had: potatoes, rutabaga, beets, green onions, lettuce, green beans--and that's about it. No corn yet; no tomatoes. Never anything mildly exotic. It's like our local super market, the PIggily Wiggily, which always reminds me of Garrison Keilor's "Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery," in Lake Woebegon: "If you can't find it at Ralph's, you can probably get along without it." Mozzarella? Forget it. Lamb chops? Nope.
On July 4th, we went to the boat regatta in Fish Creek. Or tried to. In the small print in the local newspaper, it said the 4th of July celebration would be held on the 7th. We returned on the 7th. There were hundreds of people on the pier and shore, with a rock band playing. Finally it got to be dusk, and the "Venetian Nights" type regatta began: the boats decorated with lights. All five of them. They went around twice.
On the other hand: the thermometer has exceeded 90° F. only once so far this summer, at East Haven, our place on the lake. And I caught a 12# chinook salmon, when I went out on a charter fishing boat with my brother-in-law, to which I can only say: thank God for Dramamine! I had to keep my eyes fixed to the horizon the entire four hours as the boat rose and fell. Living in the wetlands, as we do, we also have lots of wildlife and nature to enjoy: pileated woodpeckers, occasional pelicans, swans, egret, blue heron, and myriad ducks. Porcupines, deer, wild turkeys, and rarely, a fox or coyote. Actually, a coyote seems to have entered our garage one time this summer, where it ate its prey (fur and blood on the concrete floor)--and then took a dump!! Can't get closer to nature than that.
How lucky that Lake Woebegone has been preserved in Door County, when so much other natural beauty is being overrun or destroyed! Witness Montauk, NY with its "no fedora hat" signs contra hipsters.(See NY Times August 3).
Hi Maggie,
What a joy to experience your weeks at MV. The dancing bubbles has to be my favorite. And the water, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Brings back memories of trips to the Maine coast as a child. We played in the tide pools, and leaned over Thunder Hole. Next stop was Northern Maine and freeeeeeeeeeeezing cold Long Lake close to the Canadian Border. So glad you can do this with your family.
Maine sounds great. I'd love to go there sometime. I have a friend who used to go to Vinalhaven, in island in Maine,but I've not been myself.
Hi Maggie,
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Sunday Week 2 of Lent A
Body, bridge and blessing—that’s what we reckoned earlier was how to read these scriptures in the context of this weekend. Body. Bridge. Blessing.
What Jesus did for us he did in the body. His joy, his labour, his love, his passion—all in his body. His transfiguration—in his body.
And what we do for him—we always do in the body. Our joy, our labour, our love, our passions—all in our bodies. Our transfiguration too—in the body, of the body, for the body—the body we each are, the body of humanity we all form, the body of the earth we share.
But between the body of God in Jesus and our own bodies there is a breach, a space, a separation—something to be bridged. How do we bridge the gap of time and space and desire? … We build the bridge with our bodies. We let him do in our bodies what he wills. And we do through our bodies what he desires. We do as he did.
But, doing as he did, we often miss the obvious. Here’s the obvious. ‘Jesus came up and touched them. “Stand up”, he said, “do not be afraid”.’ …
See?! Let us be literal … Stand up … Stand up and do not be afraid. Can you feel that in your body—what it is like to stand tall and free from fear? Can you feel him touch you with power, with life, with blessing? Can you feel him bless you?
Here is the bridge. Can we be blessed? Can we then bless? Can we use our bodies to receive and to give?
Let me read again the first reading so we can hear once more the call of our ancestors. (music starts)
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I invite you now to receive the blessing you have just witnessed and to give it, in the same way, to your neighbour. Let it be our sign of peace …
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The European Council regulation on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing: an international fisheries law perspective
Document Type
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RIS ID
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Abstract
On 29 September 2008, the Council of the European Union (EU) adopted Council Regulation (EC) No. 1005/2008 establishing a Community system to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fi shing. Essentially, the EU IUU Regulation establishes a framework in which access to EU markets for fi sheries products is partly conditioned by the extent to which a country, area or region of origin is demonstrably or increasingly free of IUU fi shing. Aside from the amendments to US legislation in 2007, the EU IUU Regulation is the only other domestic legislative measure adopted solely to combat IUU fi shing, with four main components: port State measures against third-country vessels, a catch documentation scheme, IUU vessel listing, and listing of non-cooperating States. Th is article analyses the EU IUU Regulation in the context of international fi sheries law, and particularly international eff orts to combat IUU fi shing. It is concluded that the measures outlined in the EU IUU Regulation, despite several ambiguities, are generally consistent with those called for under international fi sheries instruments and measures being implemented by regional fi sheries management organisations.
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10.1163/092735210X12589554057604
Publication Details
Tsamenyi, M., Palma, M., Milligan, B. & Mfodwo, K. (2010). The European Council regulation on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing: an international fisheries law perspective. International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, 25 (1), 5-31.
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Sustrans tells cyclists using Strava and other apps to keep off shared use paths
Charity that runs National Cycle Network reissues code of conduct and underlines that pedestrians have priority:
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Some.
New Forester.
If the bicycle was invented tomorrow, it would be seen as the solution, not the problem.
antonio.
The actual time you'd spend passing others on a ride like Bath-Bristol must be - what - 0.01% of the total ride? If someone wants to scorch it, 99.99% of the time they are doing no harm.!
I bet Sebastian Langeveld is wishing he had not rode on the cyclepath
(Tour of Flanders '12) Bloody pedestrians!
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I bet Sebastian Langeveld is wishing he had not rode on the cyclepath
(Tour of Flanders '12) Bloody pedestrians!(Tour of Flanders '12) Bloody pedestrians!.
onward ever onward?
BillyV.
~rbx
Can pedestrians also be advised to stop wearing their headphones on shared paths, as I ring my bell; but their music stops them hearing it.
Horse riders and cyclists share the road uneasily here; my high-viz jacket, which affords me some protection from drivers, means I have to be very careful approaching horse riders, especially from behind. Asking the rider if it's OK to pass produces a grateful response 9 times out of 10. A group of 4 of us came across avery agitated horse on a country lane recently and had to dismount and wait for the rider to get it calmed down. The cause? a pair of cyclists going the opposite way who just zipped past out of the blue. Of course, in the New Forest the horse riders can go anywhere while cyclists are grudgingly given some very disjointed and easy cycle tracks and attacked regularly in the local paper.
New Forester
Perhaps it is a stupid idea to have a public app that encourages people to ride ever faster on public paths or public roads. Statistically it is going to encourage rider's worse side, and lead to more accidents.
Logically, if the apps cause this statistical change, then the apps should be legally liable.
Before it comes to that, at least public ways and steep downhills could be removed from the apps. Not so difficult to do with a little bit of computer work.
hicks
I agree with Sustrans, when we use shared lanes then we have to do the best we can to share the facilities and look after each other. Yes pedestrians sometimes behave erratically, but they're not used to looking behind them before they change direction the way a cyclist used to travelling on the road does.
I think in general the majority of cyclists do seek to take care of the pedestrians (putting up with the occassional annoyances and delays) in the same way that we ask car drivers to accept the occasional short delay when we are on the roads. I've never used Strada but, as others have already suggested, to me it sounds totally inappropriate for use on shared ped/cycle paths which surely could be easily removed from their database.
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hicks.
I must say I feel very ambiguous about some of these routes, for example I not infrequently use the route across N Wales from Bangor to Rhyl. The time it takes me to do this varies (in similar weather conditions, it is E-W along the coast so wind is a big factor) from a little over two hours, at night in winter, to well over three and a half hours, Wkend daytime summer. This route is the only practicable safe way across N Wales for anything other than motorists. So is an international trunk route for cyclists etc.
Despite the recognition of this and tremendous work and endeavour to provide it, it is far from satisfactory as a through route.
The numerous bridges on it seem designed to slow cyclists as much as possible with cost saving sharp and blind corners. In addition many of the seafront sections weave between lamp posts and some of it occupies sections where fisherman put down there rods and leave car doors open (which is at least safer than opening them as you pass). Some of it passes through throngs of crowds on the sea front - especially in summer.
I think the only realistic solution here is to use a lane of the A55 exclusively for cyclists and other long distance walkers etc.
Also as far as I'am aware these routes are public highways; so the highway code applies. Much though I dislike over signage I think this fact should be reinforced - especially KEEP LEFT, as it is often other cyclists wobbling about all over the place who are a problem.
In addition, as a trunk route it should have priority over any other roads crossing it.
I also agree with what others saying, concerning the fact that if you use the road next to one of these routes, it not only tends to make motorists irate that you are not on the cycleway, but more dangerous because there are less cyclists on it.
While I do recognise that, like any other road user, I can't expect to have everything my way. On the other hand they often seem designed pretty much exclusively for dog walkers (with attendant trip wires) and children learning to ride.
Rather than using a cycle as transport.
Again, this is dumping the problem on the poor cyclist (all else being equal).
There is a sign on the path showing that it is 'shared use with cyclists.' Why is it implied that this sign is not for the benefit of pedestrians to know that they, not the cyclist, need to look out for cyclists coming, and not walk or side-step randomly? Or at least simply look before doing so? It really isn't rocket science.
The cyclist is implied to be looking carefully.
Pedestrians, having likely grown-up in a non-cycle-respecting culture, are implied to not care about their part of that 'sharing' responsibility.
Why is this refusal to take responsibility tolerated?
Will our cyclist-hostile culture ever change?
Until we can challenge such irresponsible pedestrians' behaviour, can we at least build proper cycle paths?
They're lovely to use, and when they exist, I for one, give myself no right to use pedestrian facilities, regardless of the law.
When they don't exist, I have less sympathy - but always cycle considerately and look-out for and predict others behaviour, with large safety margins.
Thus I, like I assume many cyclists, take MORE than my fair share of responsibility whilst getting from A to B. So I have no sympathy for those whose slack I'm taking up when they complain...
Forget whatever sexy gear you have: it's the man not the machine (unless you're a certain top-flight pro cyclist in which case it's the drugs). I cycle on performance-REDUCING drugs, if anything!
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It Takes Two
The operating partnership between trucker and spouse
By Timothy D. Brady
Trucking is often a husband and wife enterprise, requiring the full dedication of both to make it a success — whether they drive team or one’s on the road and the other home. As any trucker will attest, the truck decides everything: when you’ll be home, when you have to leave again, whether you have money for the long-awaited vacation or the vacation becomes a new transmission. Trucking takes marriage to a whole new level.
One driving, one at home
Gail and Paul Morrison have done it all: their own authority, lease operators, OTR and local delivery. Currently Paul is doing a 614-mile-per-day dedicated run from southern Georgia to the Atlanta area and back, five days a week.
The run didn’t just happen. Paul had been doing expedited truckload, going wherever the freight needed to go. He was asked to cover a run that began 20 miles from his home in southern Georgia and went to Atlanta. The problem was, it was dedicated only one way, and the trucking company to which he’s leased was required to locate return freight. Paul noticed the company he was delivering to in Atlanta had empty parts racks that needed to be taken back to the plant in southern Georgia. He also discovered there were other factories along his route needing parts from southern Georgia, sending parts they assembled to others along his route or wanting their empty parts racks hauled.
Paul and Gail figured out a pick-up and delivery plan that would handle all the different manufacturing facilities in which parts or empty racks were picked up and delivered — all in a single day. Previously it had taken 2-3 days. They presented the plan to their carrier and customer, and the rest is history. Paul and Gail’s revenue increased, giving them a dedicated run with a constant payday each week, and providing the customer considerable savings.
Paul and Gail have had their ups and downs in the trucking business, but their dedication to each other and to the customers they serve shows why they are successful. Gail is the stay-at-home partner and has transferred her auditor skills to being the general manager of their trucking company. Even though Paul is leased to an expedited company, they operate as if they were still a motor carrier. They know what it costs them to operate: their break-even point, a realistic financial goal, and ways to cut costs.
Gail handles all the paper work: She puts each day’s load manifest together, bills out the previous day’s deliveries and makes sure all the truck’s paper work is correct and sent to the trucking company. And because Paul is on a dedicated run and can’t afford to be down for repairs during the week, he gives Gail the list of services to be completed on the following Saturday.
Paul leaves the house each morning around 6:30 and bobtails 20 miles to the plant in southern Georgia. He hooks up to his pre-loaded trailer and heads towards Atlanta, making three stops and dropping off racks of parts and picking up empty racks. The entire trip encompasses 12-14 hours, depending on traffic and delays. Paul’s last action before heading to the house is to back the trailer to a dock door and unhook.
Even though Gail is not teaming with Paul, he’s in constant contact with her throughout the day. She makes sure he has all the necessary paper work, and he leaves each morning with a breakfast sandwich, a packed lunch and that all-important Thermos of coffee.
Both in the truck
Charles and Diana Stilzner have been an owner-operator team for more than 30 years. Driving together as business partners and husband and wife was their intention from the very beginning. Charles had been in the military, driving heavy equipment. “When I finished active duty, my senior officer suggested I go apply for work at Barrett Moving & Storage,” he says. Initially Charles got on as a yard jockey moving trailers, then advanced to doing household moves. “In those days you put whatever fit in the truck. Barrett is a multifaceted trucking company where household moving is one part,” he says. “Three weeks ago we were in Boston and delivered a household, then hooked up to our flatbed and hauled oversized for Lockheed Martin, and now we’re hauling crates back to Ohio on the same flatbed. But our main trailer is a high-cube, climate-control where we haul art work, museum pieces; even the Moon Lander for the Johnson Space Center.”
Soon after Diana and Charles were married in 1978 (and they’ll tell you they were the first Charles and Diana, the real fairy tale marriage), Charles was in Florida loading when he fell and broke three ribs. Diana flew there and drove the truck while Charles healed. That’s when she decided that for their marriage to work, she needed to be working shoulder-to-shoulder with her husband. They both love to cruise the highway, so when the opportunity arose to get paid for cruising together, it was a no-brainer. When asked who does what, Diana says, “Charles picks the loads and how they’ll be routed, and I pay the bills and manage the bookkeeping. We share all the other duties — loading, tarping, inventorying, dealing with the unexpected breakdown, etc. We split driving down the middle. If I come across bad weather, accidents, or whatever during my shift, it’s my responsibility to deal with it, as it is his when he’s driving. It’s our responsibility to be sure the other gets the rest they need; our lives depend on it. He respects my ability to do anything required to operate this truck, and he trusts my decisions, as I do his.”
The Stilzners have taken the past 30 years’ experience and molded it into a lifestyle. They respect and trust each other, in both their personal relationship and business relationship. When I ask Charles how they divided up their duties, he responds, “I do what she tells me to do.”
I jokingly ask, “Does she do this with a rod or a whip?”
Charles’ response speaks volumes about their success: “She does it with kindness and determination.”
Like a marriage, a partnership trucking business is a commitment that requires dedication to make it work. Both the Stilzners and the Morrisons understand this, thriving for over 50 years combined as trucking couples. They both said the hardest part of trucking is that ‘mistress in the driveway.’ The biggest challenge is to schedule time to get away from the truck, not talk about the truck or its business.
In trucking, as in marriage and life, if you know where you are, where you need to go and have a plan, you’ll arrive at your destination, whether you’re delivering a load or traveling towards your goals.
Timothy D. Brady is an instructor for trucking business workshops through a partnership with a major university and local community college.
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1939 R303-A/B Goudey Premiums Collection (82)
Starting Bid - $1,000, Sold For - $4,406
Collection of eighty-two 1939 Goudey Premiums representing all three different R303 Goudey Premium sets (two are complete, one is a partial set): 1) 1939 Goudey Premiums (R303-A) Partial Set (34 of 48): The R303-A set of 48 has by far always been the rarest of the three R303 sets. Missing just fourteen cards for completion (Appling, Case, Chapman, Dickey, Gomez, Keltner, Kreevich, Lombardi, Owen, Rich, Simmons, Vosmik, Warneke, and York). Keys: Averill (Vg-Ex), Cronin (Vg-Ex), Crosetti (Gd), DiMaggio (Ex), Feller (Vg-Ex), Foxx (Ex-Mt), Gehringer (Ex-Mt), Greenberg (Ex/Ex-Mt), Herman (Ex/Ex-Mt), Ott (N/Mt), Vaughan (Ex), and Ted Williams (two upper corners missing, otherwise Ex). The balance of cards grade as follows: seven cards range from Ex to Nr/Mt (averaging Ex-Mt), eight cards range from Vg to Vg-Ex, and seven lesser (downgraded for corners missing and/or scrapbook removal on the reverse). 2) 1939 Goudey Premiums (R303-B) Complete Set of 24 (black-and-white): 75% range from Ex to Nr/Mt (averaging Ex-Mt), and 25% slightly lesser. Keys: Appling (Ex-Mt), Cronin (Vg-Ex), Dickey (Ex-Mt), DiMaggio (Vg-Ex/Ex), Feller (Ex/Ex-Mt), Foxx (Vg-Ex), Gomez (Nr/Mt), Greenberg (Ex), Herman (Ex-Mt), Lombardi (Ex-Mt), Ott (stain in the upper left, otherwise Ex), Simmons (Ex-Mt), Vaughan (Ex/Ex-Mt). 3) 1939 Goudey Premiums (R303-B) Complete Set of 24 (sepia-toned): 85% range from Ex to Nr/Mt (averaging Ex-Mt), and 15% slightly lesser. Keys: Appling (Ex-Mt), Cronin (Ex-Mt), Dickey (Ex/Ex-Mt), DiMaggio (Vg-Ex/Ex), Feller (scrapbook removal on the middle of the top and bottom borders, and glue residue on the reverse, otherwise Ex), Foxx (Nr/Mt), Gomez (Ex-Mt), Greenberg (Ex/Ex-Mt), Herman (Fr), Lombardi (Ex-Mt), Ott (Ex), Simmons (Ex-Mt), Vaughan (Ex-Mt). This is a tremendous collection of R303-A and R303-B Goudey premiums, clean and crisp across the board, and it should be stressed that almost all have an Excellent or better appearance (many appear at a glance to be Near Mint to Mint, and those graded less than Ex have only an extremely minor flaw that is not immediately apparent, perhaps a tiny crease). Goudey premiums have received relatively little attention from collectors compared to traditional gum cards of the era, and a strong case can easily be made that they represent one of the best values of all 1930s baseball issues. This is an extremely impressive collection of 1939 Goudey gum-card premiums, the most complete collection we can ever recall offering, with many highlights, both in terms of condition and the remarkably high percentage of Hall of Famers and stars included. Total: 82 premiums. Reserve $1,000. Estimate $2,000/$3,000. SOLD FOR $4,406
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About Robert
Robert has represented East Anglia since 1994
Robert was educated at Ashville College, Harrogate and trained in accountancy.
He built up a substantial family farming business, mainly in arable crops and he finds this practical experience invaluable in policy discussion in Parliament.
As being an MEP involves so much travelling from home to Brussels when he has time off he enjoys nothing more than helping out around the farm.
His passion for agriculture started young when he became County Chairman of the Young Farmers.
Active in the NFU, Robert held a number of appointments and chairmanships including Chairman of the Regional Livestock Committee and Sugarbeet, Potatoes and Cereals Committee and was involved in the WTO Uruguay round negotiations. It was this that led to his growing interest in international trade and the important role that agriculture plays within it.
Robert takes a keen interest in animal welfare and the environment and is a member of the RSPB and Vice-President of the Cambridgeshire Beekeepers Association. Robert is treasurer of the Land Use and Food Policy Intergroup and Chairman of the Sustainable Hunting Intergroup.
Robert got his first taste of politics at school, winning the public speaking trophy. Since then he has been a councillor and was a constituency chairman from1990-93.
Robert has represented East Anglia since June 1994 and is currently the Conservative member responsible for Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire. In 1999 he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Conservatives in the European Parliament and held this position until 2001 when he decided that commitments of the European Foot and Mouth inquiry committee would take up most of his time.
He used his position as Conservative, and EPP-ED spokesman on Agriculture (1994-2001) and Rural Affairs (2001-2004) to lead the campaign to set up the first public inquiry into the epidemic.
Since becoming the ECR (European and Conservatives) Coordinator for International Trade, Robert has focussed his energies on holding the Commission to account. As this is an area where Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht negotiates on behalf of all EU member states he believes it is important that the British public’s interest is taken into account.
From the “Bra Wars” debacle, where thousands of Chinese textiles and bras were blocked in Europe’s ports, to Economic Partnership Agreements, which aim to put trade at the service of development, through the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement, Robert works on trade issues that affect all of our lives. He is also a member of the EU-ACP (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific) Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
In addition to his role in International Trade, Robert is also a substitute member of the Parliament’s Agriculture Committee. He follows both committees closely when they overlap with areas of his experience and expertise.
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CourtJustice: Kristen Stewart just arrived at the #METGala wearing head-to-toe @BALENCIAGA! #ZebraPrint
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Kristen talks about her character, her accent "I was intimidated at first, you cannot mess that one up... luckily I had two months." She also talked about the film tackling inner beauty, costumes "wearing Colleen Atwood's clothes is like not wearing a costume," and her thoughts on the possible sequel.
Kristen's Full Interview with TeeMix - SWATH Promo
Labels: SWATH Paris Promo, SWATH Promo
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Woman Injured While Attempting to Put out House Fire
By: WROC-TV
Updated: November 25, 2012
Firefighters were called to 132 Midvale Terrace for a fire at a single family home. The call came in around 11:30 a.m.
Firefighters say the family was home at the time. A woman was treated for minor injuries after trying to put the fire out. A firefighter was also taken to Strong for minor injuries.
There was smoke damage to the second floor and water damage to the first floor of the home.
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By Alina Selyukh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A law regulating authorities' access to email drew a good deal of attention in Congress on Tuesday as a House panel quizzed Department of Justice and Google experts About it, and the Senate began taking on a bill to update the rules.
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), passed in pre-Web 1986, does not require government investigators to have a search warrant when requesting access to old emails and messages stored online, providing less protection for them than, say, letters stored in a desk drawer or even messages saved on a computer's hard drive.
Investigators can access technical information about emails with a subpoena, which has a lower legal threshold than a warrant because it does not involve a judge and therefore easier to obtain. A subpoena also can give access to emails that are more than 180 days old and sometimes newer emails if they are opened.
But tech companies including Google Inc recently started to object, refusing to disclose old messages without a warrant, as privacy advocates say digital messages should not be treated differently than physical private communication.
Senator Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who chairs the Judiciary Committee and authored the original ECPA 27 years ago, on Tuesday introduced legislation to update the law by requiring a search warrant if the government wants to read emails stored with third-party providers.
A subpoena would still be enough for access to some technical data about the messages.
The bill also spells out a previously lacking requirement that government authorities notify the user whose emails are being disclosed and does away with distinction in legal standards based on the age of an email.
The elimination of distinctions based on how old communications are received backing from Elana Tyrangiel, acting assistant attorney general at the Justice Department, which interpreted the law for such differentiation.
"There is no principled basis to treat email less than 180 days old differently than email more than 180 days old," she told the a House judiciary panel on Tuesday.
"These 180-days, opened-unopened distinctions haven't kept pace with the way the technology is used today," she said.
Richard Littlehale of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations told the panel that more than anything, law enforcement authorities hope for a directive to third parties on how fast they should comply with proper legal requests for data - a divisive topic not addressed by Leahy's bill.
"Whatever the level of standard of proof, the thing that matters to us most ... is prompt response," Littlehale said.
At the same time, both government officials underscored that subpoenas are the norm for obtaining business records during corporate investigations.
Richard Salgado, law enforcement and information security director at Google, reiterated his company's refusal to honor subpoenas in either civil or criminal investigation..
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THE ROCK AND ROLL ANTI REPUBLIKKKAN LEAGUE!!! Outside View of the Inside. The Rock and Roll Anti RepubliKKKan League seeks to expose the lies, deceit and bigotry of The Republican Party and their far right wing Theocratic Christian Fascist allies. And shame on the Democrats for not fighting back hard enough!!!
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Google Flights heralds Google’s formal entry into the travel meta-search arena. Much has been made of the absense of intermediaries such as online travel agencies and meta-search competitors in lieu of direct booking with the airlines. Unquestionably, the game has changed.
Since the announcement of Google’s acquisition of ITA Software, everyone knew it was going to be a game changer
The Fairsearch.org immediately reacted with a blog post asking if partners will be coerced into working with Google, if the new search technology will secure premium placement in search results, or if the content will be intermixed with search results. Valid questions. To which Google will undoubtedly reply with something along the line of “whatever provides the greatest utility to our users and yields the greatest benefits to our partners.”
As with all things Google, democratization of information and disruption of established business practices typically involves a balancing act between users and partners where the scale normally (and appropriately) tips toward the user’s end of the spectrum. Many partners understandably don’t like this and Google Flights will certainly be the poster child of the coming US Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights hearing.
For now, let’s forget about all that – there will be plenty of coverage in the coming weeks on the strategies, symbolism and voodoo surrounding Google’s deeper dive into travel. Much will be conjecture, lots will not be true, and some will be flat-out crazy.
One thing however, is for certain – Google Flight Search changes everything, but in more ways than you might think. It actually enables a very old school approach to searching air fares.
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Is Google Flights perfect? No, non-US/international itineraries are not supported. It also doesn’t present all those cool Hacker Fares Kayak finds.
For those predicting the demise of the OTAs, don’t be so quick. Earlier today, when booking a flight, Expedia found the cheapest itinerary, a UA-DL combination that was not identified by any other sites, including Kayak Travelocity, Priceline or Google Flights. Plus the price was $25 lower than any other comparable fares (although the last point may have been due to the location of Expedia’s servers on the West Coast.)
The concept of using a map to explore options based on budget and flight duration was worked out by Sabre Labs in the late ’90s and resulted in as Travelocity Dream Maps a few years later. It is questionable whether the Google Flights map should be presented as the default, especially because it occupies a lot of valuable screen real estate.
The map is nice for playing a joint round of “What-if” with both “where should we go?” and/or “when should we go?” as variables. It is a great experience to watch the fares change instantaneously as departure.return dates are changed. The only annoyance was having to close and reopen the map to get rid of the large “Popular Destination” tool tip that covers a large portion of the map as a default. The question is if most users are making where/when decisions when approaching Google Flights for the first time.
If one already knows their destination, is that much screen real-estate necessary, and does that little arc between the origin and destination really need to remind everyone the world isn’t flat? Sorry, but I doubt many people care if they can fly to Detroit for $151 when they have already entered their destination as Washington, DC. Inspiration is a noble goal, but integrating it in this way doesn’t simplify the process much.
Another minor mapping peeve is that when a flight includes stops, only the simplistic origin/destination arc is rendered, not smaller arcs between all connecting cities on the itinerary. Overall, when it comes to the mapping functionality in this version of Google Flights, the synopsis is: nice technology; low utility.
It was a good idea not to use the potentially disorienting Limits Scatter-graph as the default. The concept of using sliders in a graphical matrix to filter shorter and cheaper flights is nice, but the tight clustering and sporadic distribution of outlined and solid circles may create some confusion on first viewing. Once familiar with the content, most will simply use the sliders to highlight flights in the lower left corner of the graph.
Incorporating a hoverbox on mouseover into the Limits display would have been extremely helpful. A user could then immediately identify the targeted flight itinerary without needing to scan the list below. The current implementation requires the use to scan the results list even when the 2D scatter graph is visible. Simple sliders could have accomplished the same task, again, using less screen real estate.
There is plenty of other cool stuff – the calendar option lets one see a visual representation of the strategies employed by airlines for managing city-pair pricing. The outbound/return time sliders including departure & arrival times are nicely rendered, but far and beyond all other features is Google Flights blazing fast speed.
That said, there is incredibly powerful code underlying these tools – the key will be harnessing that power and unleashing it through an innovative user interface to make flight search more engaging and seamless.
From a content perspective, Southwest Airlines and Virgin America flight schedules are included, but pricing is not provided and no booking link is active. AirTran provides pricing, but again, the booking link is not available – the same goes for Frontier.
It is unclear if Google intends to enable integrated alternate day search capability, as the current iteration allows clicking forward & back by date. It may have been that in its initial version, the date paging was provided to simplify the UI and ensure page rendering speed was a key point of differentiation.
Google will need to do some retooling to compete with Kayak’s Hacker Fares. Kayak finds lower pricing or new itinerary combinations by linking two one-way itineraries to create a round-trip between airlines lacking ticketing agreements. As a result, two separate bookings are required. Google’s current limitation of one ad unit covering a complete roundtrip will probably need to be reworked to be competitive.
Hipmunk also has Google beat on pure graphic appeal. C’mon, all Google could muster was a generic airplane silhouette icon alongside the word “Flights” in a standard red font? Beyond the very cute mascot, Hipmunk has a clean & simple interface augmented by some clever agony filtering that eliminates irrelevant flight options. User experience is a critical factor that makes travel search much more of a challenge than basic web search. The current feel of Google Flights is a lot like Google Analytics – and that may not suit the typical leisure traveler.
It also seemed that Google Flights handled certain carriers somewhat sporadically. For some reason, Delta itineraries seemed to be most problematic.
Most OTA and meta-search user experiences are also superior to Google Flights – particularly because there are more itineraries listed on the page above the fold – especially with the map is displayed. On my display, only four outbound Google Flights are presented above the fold; the figure increases to 11 with the map collapsed. In comparison, Kayak displays five, Expedia offers 12 cells within its matrix, Travelocity offers a 15 cell matrix, and Orbitz, 24 cells. In my survey, Hipmunk, with its Time-bars, reigns as champion with a list numbering 28. Priceline is the laggard, displaying only three and lacking a matrix. This puts Google at the low end of the spectrum.
Now for Something Completely Different
So you already test drove Google Flights and passed judgement for better or worse, right?
Hold on – you might want to take a look at this little trick that foreshadows the inevitable Google Flights API.
Guess What? The Google Flights text-based query string works really well for quick & dirty air searches.
Click on this link as see what I mean:;f=ORD,MDW,MKE;t=WAS;d=2011-11-14;r=2011-11-17;a=AA,CO,WN,UA;c=DFW,IAH;s=1;olt=0,900;itt=840,1440
Is it fast? Hell yes. And there is no map pushing the search results below the fold.
That’s Cool.
But that’s not all, go into your browser bar and start manipulating the text string. Using Google Chrome, with Google Instant, the search results simply appear – even without clicking or hitting the enter key… Even when changing origin or destination airports.
That’s Magic.
The search query is easily broken down – here are the key elements (based on the query above): | The website URL
f=ORD,MDW,MKE | Origin Airport(s) (from)
t=WAS | Destination Airport(s) (to)
d=2011-11-14 | Departure Date (depart)
r=2011-11-17 | Return Date (return)
a=AA,CO,WN,UA | Air Carrier(s)(airline)
c=DFW,IAH | Connection Cities (connect)
s=1 | Maximum Stops (stops)
olt=0,900 | Outbound Landing Time Range – Min-Max in minutes from 0:00 (outbound landing – arrival time range)
itt=840,1440 | Inbound Takeoff Time Range – Min-Max in minutes from 0:00 (inbound takeoff – departure time range)
Each element is isolated by a semi-colon. If particular search attributes are not needed (at a minimum, keep the dates and origin/destination,) leave them out.
For experienced travelers who are familiar with airport codes, this may represent the industry’s fastest possible way to search for flights. The only tricky part will be the flight time calculations, but the sliders may be used if deemed easier. The outbound and inbound time attributes can both be altered for departure or landing times and are based on minutes, so be prepared to practice dividing by 60.
Try it – using Chrome. Awesome, isn’t it? It beats the page back / new search / or filtering options normally required on traditional airline, OTA or meta-search sites for raw speed & flexibility. You may experience the same code-driven rush as a travel agent typing into a green screen in the 1970′s. The speed is addictive.
Finally, before anyone starts getting too bent out of shape, Google has not (yet) embedded Google Flights into the organic search results page. A search of “Flights” today returned ten standard links to Expedia, Travelocity, Kayak, CheapTickets, Priceline, Hotwire, Orbitz, JetBlue, American and TripAdvisor in that order. Not that Google is completely ignoring the new functionality – Flights appears as a menu item in the left sidebar whenever the keywords Flight or Flights are entered, but not when the terms air, airfare, airline, plane tickets, etc. are entered.
At least for the present, Bing gives its air meta-search a much higher profile within its organic search results – including origin/destination and date inputs.
I am guessing Google’s approach may change in the future based on advertising click-through rates or when profile information is integrate profile information and retaining values from recent searches, for example the origin airport and dates. It would be logical for Google to follow Bing’s lead.
When Google fits together the pieces of the puzzle, this will be a platform to be reckoned with… just as everyone expected. I don’t recall anyone predicting the lightening-fast search results – and this is just the first release. Just wait until those smart Googlers and ITAers start tuning the application for speed in future revisions…
So in the interim, before Google launches international itinerary search, tweaks its algorithm and UI to present Hacker Fares, suppresses the map, introduces an API, or at least spruces up the branding on the flight search page, have fun relishing the speed and elegance of the old-school travel search technique proven by thousands of traditional travel agents on green-screens for decades – the simple paste & edit text entry.
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Reeling from seven confined-space deaths in one year, California has issued an alert and launched a special employer initiative to stem that toll. The Confined Space Special Emphasis Initiative is aimed at both those who work in confined spaces, and …
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Post by Chris Mellor (thank you) over at El Reg. Finally the HAMR hits
Seagate has demonstrated heat-assisted magnetic recording technology with 1 trillion bits per square inch, a 30 per cent improvement in Toshiba’s production record of 744Gbit/in2with its MQ01ABD drive – a 2.5-inch, 5400rpm, SATA II drive.
Seagate’s highest production areal density is thought to be the 3TB Barracuda, a 3-platter drive with a 620Gbit/in2 areal density. The company says: “The bits within a square inch of disk space, at the new milestone, far outnumber stars in the Milky Way, which astronomers put between 200 billion and 400 billion.”
All current drives use perpendicular magnetic recording technology (PMR), which was introduced in 2006. As HDD manufacturers try to squeeze more data onto the disk platters’ recording surfaces, the bit size in successive generations of this technology shrinks. It is predicted the bits will become increasingly unstable and not hold data properly at the 1Tbit/in2 level and beyond with PMR technology.
In the quest to have smaller bit sizes with stable magnetic charge two main technologies are being investigated. Bit-patterned media (BPM) puts an insulating ring around each bit to stop neighbouring bits influencing its magnetic charge. Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) uses magnetic material that is more resistant to having its magnetic polarity changed unless it is heated. A heating laser is added to the disk’s read-write head to accomplish the short burst of heating needed to write data to a HAMR bit.
The chart below shows the currently known hard disk drive (HDD) supplier maximum areal densities, together with Seagate’s trillion bit areal density.
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So came a yorker so fiercely like a tracer bullet that made a deep impact on the stumps. And the scoreboard read “India – Out Bowled Pakistan”.
So out of the blue, BCCI has allowed a bi-lateral series against Pakistan. Bravo! This was just needed where we as a country stand for Brotherhood in spite of being shown Bandooks times immemorial. For God’s sake it is we who are angry and need to be pacified, not them. A complete straight walk has been given to PCB by BCCI in spite of Pakistan’s rejected accountability for the heinous acts, claims of innocence and where their own court rejects its own 26/11 panel report. I doubt if there is any back door deal striking place; you nab the culprits, punish them and in return we will play cricket with you. BCCI is playing cricket at the expense of country’s sentiments.
Cricket is a gentleman’s game and thus we also need gentleman’s in its administration. But sadly all we have is politicians, businessman but rarely a gentleman. This is the 21st century cricket where Politics and Cricket are joined by hips and cannot be separated especially when it comes to India and Pakistan. The question that needs an immediate answer is: Since there was no cricket being played in the aftermath of Mumbai attack then what was the need to start playing again since neither the perpetrators of the attack have been punished nor found guilty by Pakistan. One may say that sport should be kept away from politics but on the other hand we use it to ease the tension and act as everything is normal.
Why is it that we are all charged up watching the Indo-Pak cricket match? It is that anguish, distress, state of abhorring that it brings along. Be it on the cricket field and on both the sides of LOC. It boils down to” izzat ka sawal”. But this emotions cannot bring the perpetrators to book. Neither can they stop the act of terror affecting other neighbours. It is sad to see that instead of going all out to wipe out terrorism both the nations either start or stop playing cricket and use cricket as a bait to pacify one another. Strange but true. I must say our government shows high level of optimism with regard to cricket being used as balm to ease tension.
Now since we are hosting Paksitan all I hope is that cricket goes on between the nations irrespective of the tension as it is simply a sport and not a political event garnering eyeballs.
i totally agrre with u
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Emily was knocked to the ground by the person with a gun and he laid on top of her. "Shh... Stay down." He told her and, for once in her life, she actually listened. That was, until, the man started shooting blindly. Emily shoved the man off her and crawled forward to the maniac. At the last second, without realising what the hell she was doing, she tackled him to the ground and began wrestling him. 'You stupid, arrogant little twerp!' She put all her weight down on him; which wasn't much and held him down by his wrists. 'What the hell do you think you're doing!? Huh!?'
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Deep in the rural woods of Maine, the visage of a once celebrated mental institution stands. The memory of this building has faded, having seemingly been closed down in the 1960s to those old enough to know its name but not exactly remember what it stands for. The brick of the walls is dusty, and the gardens surrounding the massive estate are gloomy. An air of despair fills the lungs of any who dare to breathe it and chokes them on the hatred permeating from the building. Surrounded by miles and miles of forest and shrubbery, most know naught of its existence. Those that do are housed within its unforgiving walls : stagnant nurses, eccentric and almost as insane as their patients doctors, not completely there inmates. Only the most crazed of the mentally unstable are granted entrance here and once past the foreboding gates are never granted exit - except through death. Those admitted are soon forgotten by the outside world, their legal documents seemingly vanishing. This place's name is Lockwood's Institution of Mental Health, and for the last forty to fifty years it has been a hell for those that inhabit it.
Legally Lockwood's has been shut down for decades, but underneath the guise of well-being and health, it has been running under the radar since the 1960s.Only by word of mouth is it spread and the most dastardly of evil and unstable sent there and as quickly as those learn about it, they forget. Some don't even seem to remember having a son or daughter, sister or brother - the idea vanishes from their minds. Something sinister is happening, has been happening at Lockwood's for years, and the patients, too insane to understand, the nurses, too brainwashed to care, the doctors, the ones experimenting, doing. Ghastly torture, waterboarding, swift execution to those deemed unable to further the doctors' research any farther, it is a modern day Holocaust with no preference on the race of its victims. An inmate has been there for a year, however, and somehow knows something is not right. The ability to do something is beyond them, however ; they cannot work alone to take down a sinister organizaion of mentally deranged doctors whom have been performing their own experiments on live patients illegally. Not only that, but they are not all there themselves - the reason they were sent to Lockwood in the first place. A new inmate is coming in, however, and this person might be the former's partner-in-crime - to bring down Lockwood.
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In short, it's a roleplay about a mental institution housing the batshit crazy doctors 'treating' the batshit crazy patients. The two inmates (us) attempt to work together to find a way out of Lockwood's, but their own mental instabilities will most likely hinder them in the process. I plan for it to get pretty dark (torture, right? gotta be dark) so the roleplay will be mature, but I don't plan on having anything sexual in it, although that may be debatable if it progresses in that way. This roleplay can either be FxF, MxF, or possibly - possibly - MxM. I'm not very good at the last, but I'd like to branch out and try new things. If I'm absolute shit at it, we can at least say we had a good run, right? I'm wanting the roleplay to be at least high casual, possibly advanced. I love detail and vivid imagery, but that doesn't mean you have to be Ernest Hemingway. I know I'm not Flannery O'Connor. Mistakes here and there are fine, we all make them. In fact, my s on my keyboard is pretty broken at the moment, so I may make a few oopsies that way.
I'd like a two paragraph minimum, because I rarely write under that. I don't care what gender you are behind the computer screen, or what gender you roleplay. I just want you to be literate and polite, and I'll be the same. Of course, my plot needs ironing out, but I'm pretty firm on the insane asylum thing. As for your character, the weirder, more bizarre, brutal mental problem the better. I know mine will be pretty out there, hopefully, and I want yours to be too. All said and done, I'm not a slave driver. Take your time writing - I take quality over the amount of replies you're able to shoot out in a day. If you're interested, please shoot me a PM, and answer the following, if you will. (:
*would you like to add anything to the plot? take away?
*do you do cs's? if so, how detailed? real pictures or no, if you use them at all?
These questions are for you. I don't mind whichever way you answer because the roleplay is supposed to be about us, not one of us, and compromising is a part of that. ^^
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It's been a terribly long time since I've been here and I'm truly sorry for any roleplays I inadvertently dropped. Health issues had put a rather abrupt stop to my internet browsing. I'm hoping it won't be that way again.
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It has been like that for awhile too.
When you go to search a specific user, your typing comes in as white text.
In the white search bar.
Took me awhile to realize that what I was typing was actually going in, and that I just couldn't see it.
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It has been like that for awhile too.
Credit to Harby the Australian Harbringer.Credit to Harby the Australian Harbringer.
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“Until we are sure that we can clear the capital requirement, it’s difficult to make a decision to use large amounts of capital. (Japanese businesses) are now actively investing overseas on the back of a stronger yen, but financial institutions are unlikely to rush to join the trend,” he said.Under the Basel III framework to be phased in from 2013, banks are required to have a common equity capital ratio of at least 7 percent and those deemed posing systemic risks will be imposed an additional 1 to 2.5 percent surcharge.Nagayasu’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group invested $9 billion in Morgan Stanley in 2008 when Wall Street firms were battered by market turmoil following the collapse of Lehman Brothers.Earlier this month, MUFG issued a statement expressing support of Morgan Stanley, in which the Japanese bank is the largest shareholder with a 22.4 percent stake.The statement came as Morgan Stanley shares took a dive amid persistent rumours that it has an oversized exposure to troubled Eurozone banks.Nagayasu said the statement was not something requested by Morgan Stanley.”The market was very volatile and the focus of selling was shifting from Bank of America to Morgan Stanley. We thought it was better to send a message,” he said.”(U.S.) bank earnings will start soon and the speculative market storm will die down then. Suspicions tend to rise before that,” he said.
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6:23 am on Friday, January 25, 2013
Please submit your activities scheduled for K-9 Veterans' Day March 13, 2013. to Kenneth Reynolds at [email protected].
Who, What, When, Where and if your community or state had a signed proclamation.
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We’ve already discussed the idea of selecting a tight end early in your fantasy draft (click here to view), but if you decide not to target Rob Gronkowski or Jimmy Graham or are hit by injuries to your starter you could easily find yourself searching for a sleeper. Who could emerge as a viable option that others in your league may not be looking at?
One option is the Minnesota Vikings’ Kyle Rudolph, a player who I think is a prime sleeper candidate.
He posted decent numbers in his rookie season, with 26 receptions for 249 yards and 3 TD. You look at those numbers and his three years at Notre Dame (never more than 33 receptions, 364 yards or 3 TD) and you may wonder why there is any reason to be excited.
First of all, it’s rare for college tight ends to post big numbers in the passing game. It’s just not a position that is generally utilized the same way as in the pros. Just for comparison Coby Fleener, who was the first tight end drafted in 2012, never exceeded 34 receptions in college (he did post 667 yards in 2011 and 17 total TD over his final two seasons). However, it just shows that the receptions cannot be taken fully into account.
Secondly, he clearly became a bigger red zone target as the season progressed, with all of his touchdowns coming in the final seven weeks of the season.
If those aren’t good enough reasons to at least have him on your radar, his role in the offense has clearly changed. No longer will he be behind Visanthe Shiancoe on the depth chart (as he is no longer on the Vikings roster). Shiancoe was fourth on the Vikings in receptions (36) and yards (409) a year ago and also had 3 TD. While all of those looks won’t go to Rudolph, at least some of them will.
You also have the injury to Adrian Peterson, which will open up opportunities for others (most notably Toby Gerhart, but you have to wonder if they will throw a little bit more in the red zone) and Christian Ponder should be opening the season as the team’s quarterback. Both of those just further help things point in Rudolph’s direction as he could easily factor as a safety valve for the young quarterback.
Rudolph is listed at 6’6”, 258 lbs., which makes him an ideal candidate in the red zone. At 22-years old he has likely just skimmed the surface of his potential. The Vikings are going to open the season with him as their TE1 and, with all of the other factors, it makes him a very intriguing TE2 with the potential to be a low-end TE1 by year’s end. It wouldn’t surprise me to see him score 8+ TD, so make sure he has your attention in all formats.
What are your thoughts of Rudolph? Is he a player that you think has sleeper potential? Why or why not?
Make sure to check out our 2012 fantasy football rankings:
In mock drafts, I have been eyeing Kyle Rudolph as a sleeper TE2 selection. I have been careful not to draft him often so as not to let the cat out of the bag, but to make a long story short, I agree with your assessment!
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Madison Papers Indexes | Papers of James Madison, Index to Secretary of State Series volume 1 | S | Simms, Charles
From Alexander Kerr, 13 March 1801 [Secretary of State Series 1:18, and n. 1]+
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Jefferson Papers Indexes | Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Index to volume 30 | G | Gibson, Thomas (alias Moses Jackson)
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Jefferson Papers Indexes | Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Index to volume 32 | S | Scourge of Aristocracy, and Repository of Important Political Truths
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A helpful reader just alerted me that the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe is no longer free on Friday evenings. Now it’s only on the first Friday of the month, to NM residents with ID. Also, the Sandia Peak Tramway in Albuquerque closes for maintenance periodically–so it’s inaccurate to say it runs “frequently all [...]
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Manayunk Diner Named One of Philly's Best
The Manayunk mainstay has been named one of the best in the city.
Uwishunu has put out a list of what it considers the top "old-school" diners in the city, and the Manayunk Diner has made the cut. According to Uwishunu: We decided to put together a quick roundup of some of the most well known and well-frequented classic diners in Philadelphia, making an effort to cover as many neighborhoods as we could. To see the complete list of Philly's top diners please click on the link: here.
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1:36 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
I have not been in the Manayunk Diner for over a year, but I agree. Average food, high prices, snotty wait staff, and a diner that does not really look like an average diner. It is a diner in name only. more ›
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David Preston’s Literature & Composition Class Talk
On November 2nd, I was invited to talk to Dr. David Preston’s Literature and Composition class via Blackboard Collaborate and Howard Rheingold‘s Rheingold University. Here’s a screen capture of that talk [Warning: It's long. Runtime: 1:02:21]. Topics include a few of my projects, the web, advent horizons, collaborative learning, technology in the classroom and in the lives of the youth.
Many thanks to Ted Newcomb and Howard Rheingold for hooking this up, to David Preston and his students for their time, attention, and participation, and to Linda Burns for saving the video. This was a great opportunity and a humbling and inspiring experience.
[...] alumni in continuing our co-learning with Howard’s help. It was through this group that I got the opportunity to speak to David Preston’s Literature and Composition class — one of the best experiences I’ve had in [...]
[...] now trying to make a difference in a place that desperately needs it. I got the chance to participate in a discussion with his classes, thanks to David, Ted Newcomb, and Howard Rheingold, all of whom are hacking education in various [...]
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Abstract of Annual Report.
Ten meetings were held, and forty-three papers were read. More interest had been taken in the proceedings, especially by ladies. Fourteen new members had joined.
The Society had nominated Major-General Schaw to represent them on the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute for the current year, and he had been duly elected.
The balance-sheet showed that the receipts for the year, including the balance brought forward, amounted to £169 15s. 6d., and the expenditure to £112 11s. 3d., leaving a balance in hand of £57 4s. 3d. There was also a sum of £23 0s. 10d. lodged in the bank at interest, which increase brought the credit balance to £80 5s. 1d. A sum of over £26 had been spent on literature; and the cost of insuring the library was £7 10s.
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MotoGP: An Interview with Daniel Pedrosa. One Year To Win
In 2004, Dani Pedrosa became the youngest ever 250cc World Champion, and after a second title in his second year, he prestiged to the elite class of MotoGP. 116 starts later, he has accumulated 71 podiums and 22 wins in the premier class, but at the risk of facing the unwanted title of the best rider to never win a World Championship. However, in 2012 he took the fight to Jorge Lorenzo but was just short of the crown after an early crash in Australia. Lorenzo took the title but Pedrosa will hope to not be disheartened and continue his strong run of form into next season, but with increased competitiveness, it will be a much greater feat, but if anyone can do it, Pedrosa must fancy himself. A unique characteristic about Dani Pedrosa is that he stands at a measly 1.58m, or 5 feet 2 inches, and is not only the shortest, but the lightest at 51kg. Regardless of all this, he is still one of the brightest talents and at 27, he will believe this could be his year and I was lucky enough to be able to ask him some questions.
Dani Pedrosa of Spain rides along during the Sepang Test of the 2013 MotoGP Season with his Repsol Honda HRC RC213V
DT: How do you feel 2012 went for you?
DP: Pretty good, successful and I also enjoyed it a lot and had fun with the bike. The whole season – with my team and all my fans, it was a good year!
DT: Do you feel it was a vast improvement from 2011?
DP: Obviously, just from the point I wasn’t injured!
DT: What were the main differences for you between 2011-12?
DP: The fact I wasn’t injured was a huge factor and I think this is clear for all to see.
DT: Do you think that 2013 will be your Championship year?
DP: I’m really not sure. For sure this is the goal we are working towards, I have the will to make it happen and of course the confidence
DT: How much more competitive will 2013 be, with Rossi returning to Yamaha?
DP: It’s hard to say at the moment, so far we’ve seen him riding fast but we don’t know how this will be during the year if he will progress more or not, but I’m sure he will be fighting near the top
DT: What have you learnt as yourself as a rider and a person throughout last season?
DP: Last season was a little different for me as I relaxed more at the races, I had a more open relationship with my mechanics and my team and all the people around me. I experienced the season in a more relaxed manner and it felt good, I was able to enjoy it more. From the riding point of view, I learnt not to be in such a hurry. In previous years I have always been injured and so I found myself behind the points in the Championship and also physically behind, as I wasn’t fit, so to have some time to ride like I want to and not always ‘chasing’ was a good feeling
DT: Do you think that Marc can challenge for the title as well?
DP: I think so, he has shown he is very competitive so we will see
Dani Pedrosa of Spain rides along during the Sepang Test of the 2013 MotoGP Season with his Repsol Honda HRC RC213V
DT: Who would you consider as your main rival for this season?
DP: Obviously Jorge, he’s clearly strong enough and very consistent
DT: Which rider would you say is the most complete rider on the grid?
DP: Again, at the moment, Jorge
DT: Which parts of your riding do you feel you need to improve on?
DP: Last year I made some steps, but there is always something to improve in mid-corner and braking
DT: Lastly, who do you think will be the surprise package of 2013?
DP: I’m really not sure, it’s too early to say. It depends how you look at it because it’s not a ‘surprise’ that Marc is fast or Valentino is competitive again for the people ‘inside’ racing because we know their talent. I would say the surprise may come from one of the satellite riders, but at the moment, I don’t know who!
By Daniel Takyi - MotoGP correspondant for RTR Sports Marketing In the pictures: Dani Pedrosa Pictures courtesy of Repsol Honda Team HRC
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