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Geico Cavemen in TV Advertising
Geico Insurance continues to roll out the Cavemen television commercials, with the first three spots in 2004 being supplemented by "Airport", "Topic" and "Geico Caveman Trailer". As usual, each ad finishes with the tagline, "Geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance."
2004 Caveman Trilogy
A Geico Infomercial presenter tells his television audience, "It's so easy to use Geico.com a caveman could do it". The guy holding the sound boom (John Lehr) just happens to be a caveman. "What? Not cool!", he yells as he throws down the boom and points. "I did not know you were there! We can change it…", protests the announcer. Click on the image below to play Geico First Offence in YouTube
In a sophisticated apartment two cavemen respond when they see the 'caveman claim' aired on their television. One of them (Ben Wilson) stands and yells, "What's that supposed to mean? Did you hear that? That is really condescending…"
In a restaurant a Geico representative meets with the two cavemen (Jeff Daniel Phillips and Ben Weber). "Seriously we apologize. We had no idea you guys were still around", says the spokesman. "Yeah next time maybe do a little research", says one of the complainants. When asked for their order, one asks for the roast duck with the mango salsa. The other says, "I don't have much of an appetite. Thankyou". Click on the image below to play Geico Apology at YouTube
Geico Topic
One of the cavemen is on television being interviewed by a cable news anchorman (James McCauley). ""How can it be offensive if it's true?", asks the presenter. "First of all, I'm not a hundred percent in love with your tone right now", replies the caveman.
"Tone aside, historically, you guys have struggled to adapt", retorts the commentator. "Right," the caveman replies, "walking upright, discovering fire, inventing the wheel, laying the foundation for all mankind. You're right. Good point. Sorry we couldn't get that to you sooner." Connie (Judith Fisher) comes onto the screen to suggest that someone woke up on the wrong side of the rock. Click on the image below to play the video.
Geico Caveman Therapy Session
The caveman (John Lehr) is asked by the therapist why the Geico 'so easy a caveman can do it' phrase bothers him. As he tries to reason with his therapist (Talia Shire) the phone rings – it's his mother on the line. A second session as the caveman struggling to make sense of naming a doll. Click on the image below to play the first and second therapy videos.
Geico Caveman Airport
To the tunes of Royksopp's track, "Remind Me", a caveman drifts along an airline corridor. When he passes a Geico poster he stops, backtracks and confirms his suspicion. The same old line, "So Easy A Caveman Can Do It" has found its way into print. In a second 10 second follow-up the caveman phones Geico to complain. Click on the image below to play the video.
Geico Caveman Trailer
Footage from previous and upcoming Geico caveman commercials is edited together to make the trailer for a fictitious movie, to the sounds of Eliot Lipp's electronica track, "Flashlight". Random pieces of dialogue and stock footage of South Beach are thrown into give the music video the trailer feel. "I need a vacation. I need a cruise". "Why did he sleep with my girlfriend? Charlie was my best friend!" "What do want me to say? I'm insulted!" "I am not you!" "Hey guys! Karen wants to take us for a ride in her SUV." "What a great day!" Click on the image below to play the video.
The balcony scenes are from a soon-to-be-released Geico spot filmed at the Hyatt on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. The trailer was was released on Youtube by Hefty Records promoting the Steele Street Scraps EP.
Geico Cavemen in ABC Series
ABC in May 2007 launched Cavemen on Tuesday nights, the sitcom based on the Geico ads. Joel (Bill English), his younger brother Andy (Sam Huntingdon), and his best friend Nick (Nick Kroll), are three cavemen living in modern-day Atlanta. These cavemen continually find themselves at odds with contemporary society as they struggle to overcome their physical appearance and the accompanying stereotypes. Dash Mihok played the younger brother Jamie in the first pilot.
Joel is content with his life while pursuing the American dream, and has recently become engaged to Kate (Kaitlin Doubleday), a lovely Southern Caucasian girl. However, he must constantly vie for the respect of her conservative parents. Joel's relationship with Kate and his personal contentment are constantly being put to the test by Nick and Jamie's emotional demands. Other chararacters in the show are Trip (John Heard) and Thorne (Stephanie Lemelin). Jeffrey Daniel Phillips, one of the original three actors in the commercials, plays the character of Maurice in four episodes in the first series.
The show is directed by Will Speck and Josh Gordon via Touchstone Television.
Geico Cavemen Advertising Credits
The Geico Cavemen campaign has been developed at The Martin Agency, by creative director Steve Bassett and copywriter/art director Joe Lawson, agency producer Brad Powell and assistant producer Valerie Battenfeld.
Filming was directed by Speck/Gordon (Will Speck and Josh Gordon), earlier with Omaha Pictures, now with Furlined, Los Angeles. Director of photography was Anthony Wolberg.
Post Production was done at R!OT. Editor was Haines Hall at Spot Welders, Los Angeles.
Audio engineer/mixer for Topic and Therapy was John Bolen at Play, Santa Monica. Audio engineer/mixer for Airport was Jeff McManus at Rainmaker Studios, Richmond VA.
Other Cavemen Sites
See my review of the Cavemen Crib interactive site. See the Geico-sponsored "Up With Cavemen" web site in which cavemen are described as intelligent, thoughtful, powerful, cognitive, ambitious and social. See the unofficial Cavemen Fansite at www.cavemenonline.com. And, of course, the Geico Cavemen Wikipedia site.
Geico Gecko Campaign Overview
Geico Gecko's New Voice: Jake Wood
Geico Cavemen's Crib
Geico Celebrities
Geico and Mrs Butterworth
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Ask Mr Indonesian Man: The Driving Test
Q: So what's the deal with Indonesian motorists?
A: What about them?
Q: Crazy.
A: Tsk. Tsk. Look, if you know us long enough, you'll know that we're more than just crazy.
Q: Can I not know, then?
A: Nope. You've brought down the question. So you shall reap the answers yourself. The most effective way to really know Indonesian motorists is from the driving test.
Q: You guys took driving tests to get your driving licenses, right?
A: Not really. What I mean is if we reverse-engineer a driving test from the way we behave on the road, this is what we'll get.
- When a car in front of you starts flashing his left-turn signal, what will you do?
- Honk
- Speed up and pass it from its left
- Pass it from its left WITHOUT speeding up
- Speed up to pass from its left, brake immediately midway and HONK! HONK! HOOOOOOONK! GOD THAT FEELS GOOD!
- When you want to change lanes from left to right, which rearview mirror do you use?
- Left one
- Center one
- What rearview mirror?
- Ah, you mean this thing I use to comb my hair after a ride?
- What is the most important thing to check before picking a helmet?
- Coolness factor. It sports an awesome pair of antennas
- Price. It's cheap. The paint gets off after exposed to a little rain? No problem
- Ergonomic factor. I can throw it easily at other annoying motorists. Especially when it's cheap
- Stealth. Nobody's looking at you at the parking ar--Oh! You mean my OWN helmet?
- What's the maximum allowable number of passengers on a motorcycle (including the rider)?
- Four
- Five
- As long as the motorbike still moves
- Does a goat count as one? Or two?
- What should you do when your headlight's out of order?
- Take the motorcycle for a spin
- With passengers
- At night
- After making sure the brake's not working either
- All of the above
- When you want to turn into an intersection and a car in your way stops to let you move first, what'll you do in return for courtesy?
- HOOOOONK! Loser!
- I'll blind the driver's eyes by flashing my headlights on the high beam
- Act like I'M the one doing him a favor
- All of the above
- How loud should you set your stereo?
- Until everybody in the radius of 20 meters can hear the lyrics to Sir Mixx-A-Lot's Baby's Got Back
- Until I couldn't hear the police officer knocking on my window
- Until I see a pedestrian's ear dripping blood
- Until SETI contacts me to stop because aliens from Alpha Centaury have been asking what did us humans mean by "Get Outta My Dreams and Get Into My Car"?
- On interprovincial highways, the emergency lane should only be used...
- ...at all times
- ...religiously
- ...to pass other cars
- ...while honking
- All of the above
- Things you could do while driving (you can pick more than one):
- Eat. Drink. Be merry
- Apply make-up
- Make a phone call
- Text a friend so at least someone will know when I...
- ...have an accident
- How many people should be in the car when you're driving into a 3-in-1 area?
- Wait! I need to see the jockey's fingers. Two fingers. Plus me, that'll be... three!
- Look, I can't drive, check my Blackberry and count at the same time!
- Okay, fine! If you won't give me a clue, I'll just circle around the small roads to get to my destination
- You do realize that in Indonesia, we're driving on the left lane?
- Not really. Why?
- My left, or your left?
- What's the difference?
- Ooh! Ooh! That's the opposite of the lane where there's a lot of vehicles going our way, right? We call it the boring lane, where everyone rarely screams. Or shouts.
- When is it an acceptable time to honk?
- When we stop in front of our houses and wait for someone to open the gate, even though it's 2 in the morning and we're not handicapped or sufferring from heavy allergic attacks from opening gates ourselves
- When the vehicle in front of us stops
- When the vehicle in front of us moves
- When there's even no vehicle in front of us
- All of the above
- What is the main source of traffic problems?
- Cars
- Cars
- Cars
- Cars
- Motorcycles
- Motorcycles
- Motorcycles
- Motorcycles

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The Accounting Historians Journal Vol. 15, No. 1 Spring 1988
MAUREEN H. BERRY, EDITOR University of Illinois
From Conflict to Consensus: The American Institute of Accoun-tants and the Professionalization of Public Accountancy, 1886-1940 (The John Hopkins University, 1985) by Paul Joseph Miranti, Jr.
"From Conflict to Consensus" is an ambitious work, exa-mining the shaping of the American public accounting profes-sion over the course of half a century through the prisms of four different schools of historical analysis. It addresses two broad research questions: what the experience of the American Institute of Accountants (AIA), and its predecessor organization the American Association of Public Accountants (AAPA), can disclose about the nature of the new American society which surfaced in the last quarter of the nineteenth century; and how an organizational structure and program for the public ac-counting profession was successfully developed by the AIA leadership.
The thesis is organized into four major parts in chronologi-cal progression, each with its own synthesizing summary. The first, "Seed Time for a Profession, 1886-1906", describes the fledgling profession's long gestation and infancy, covering the competition in New York for professional power, and the even-tual merger of the American Association of Professional Ac-countants (AAPA) and the Federation of State Societies of Public Accountants in the United States of America. Part II, "The Greening of the New Profession, 1906-1916", covers events in the decade of adolescence: how professional roles were defined, authority built up, and crisis over ruling influ-ence in the profession confronted yet again. The third part, "The False Blossom, 1916-1929", takes up the challenges and issues the accounting community had to deal with in inter-preting moral dimensions and setting competency demarca-tions. "The Mature Harvest, 1929-1940" brings us to the profes-sion's coming of age with the creation of the AIA, the catalytic impact of the Securities Acts of 1933 and 1934 on professional unification, and the budding of consensus which ensued.
In his first chapter, Miranti identified the four different


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Fiji's first website dedicated to documenting the country's endangered species was launched in Suva on 25 April and is expected to help boost awareness in the country on its flora and fauna.
The website is the brainchild of Dr Richard Watling, Director of NatureFiji-MareqetiViti (NFMV), Fiji's first and only national non-governmental organisation dedicated to nature conservation. Project Officer, Ms Nunia Thomas, managed the research and development for the website.
"The website will serve as a resource for students, teachers and for raising general awareness of the country's rich biodiversity," said Ms Thomas.
The preparation of the list of Fiji's endangered species was based on several criteria, including whether they are already on The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. The Red List is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global status of plant and animal species. The Red List is developed using stringent criteria and is proving to be an important tool for enabling policy makers worldwide to make decisions based on the conservation status of plant and animal species.
The NFMV website notes that not all the species noted as "endangered" on the website are the on the Red List. Inclusion in the Red List requires significant species assessment and evaluation by specialists; in the absence of available information on a species, no listing can be made. In countries such as Fiji, the necessary research and data on a species is often lacking. IUCN's Regional Office in Oceania is currently working to address this issue, by updating information for developing a regional Red List of threatened species in the Pacific.
The NFMV website currently features 50 of the country's most endangered plant and animal species. A CD-ROM version of the website was sent out to 800 of Fiji's schools during the country's Environment Week campaign: ("Learn, Live with and Save our Endangered Species").
NatureFiji-MareqetiViti received funding from the British High Commission for the initiative.
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Take Monday Off: A Weekend in Honolulu
Pack a week's worth of Mai Tais, shrine visits, snorkeling and surfing (or stand-up paddle boarding) into one long weekend in Honolulu. Julia Flynn Siler has the details.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... welcome to lunch break I'm Kelli Grant is a brisk thirty four degrees outside in New York but luckily are on TV reporter ... Julie and when Tyler is joining us from San Francisco where she is continuing her take Monday off series this week bring us for a fabulous weekend in Honolulu ... very jealous so I guess Aloha Juliet hell are you today ... Omnova Kelly and great thank you ... thank you so much for joining us for this one it's that a definitely a switch from the cold New York weather and I understand that twenty recommendations is that we start the day at least if we were in Honolulu at the beach ... oh yes Waikiki Beach was ... the place where the Kings and Queens so ... Whitey use to swim and it's still an absolute lovely beach in a beautiful place to watch the sun sun come up over the mountain ... Exelon once we are done with the air I understand the next stop we should go to is the new law named Alice if I'm pronouncing it correctly ... yes Gilani palaces the only the Royal Palace ... on American soil it was built in eighteen eighty two by the last King of Whitey ... the the color palette ... and it is a ... very powerful place and also the place where some of the most ... precious ... artifacts of the whole point in Kingdom ... can be seen it's it's a magical magical place ... you are the author of the book online history lost kingdom can you tell me from ... your experience what are some of the highlights there that we shouldn't miss what worked for the panels ... well I think probably the most ... poignant ... of the part of the palace is the second floor in prison and ... imprisonment room ... this was the room with the last Queen of why he ... was kept under house arrest for five months in eighteen ninety five ... and while she was there ... she stitched ... a beautiful quilt ... they told her life story ... and ... some visitors see this quilt and tears come there I it's the it's a ... very very ... powerful testament to the lost Kingdom of white ... and some very moving in at one of the other stops you have ... those listed here another interesting piece appoint history is the Aishah and shine relied tobacco heiress Doris Duke Tropical EST ... and I understand that that is something it's only recently been opened to the public ... yes chamber lot has been open for a number of years but something very extraordinary just opened up the summer ... it is a room called the Damascus room ... and Doris Duke listed tobacco in Paris ... I essentially bought an entire ... room from the Syrian capital ... of Damascus and reassembled it ... in on her a five acre estate near ... near ... Diamond head ... and there are not many I interiors ... from Syria ... to play with Syria in the news right now it's ... particularly interesting so I would urge people to take a look at ... sounds pretty interesting in and of course we have to eat when people think about a wiping thinking so typical luster capital is is low Alice but he said there is actually on another option that is ... both local fresh and uninteresting as well ... yes there's a ... wonderful way eve of ... the local on local food and the ... shafts very talented chefs who are working with this ... and one of them that's easy and can these town ... which is very low key that by this kind of Surfers she ... aam but the food is just exquisite and ... the ... presentation is relaxed and fresh that ... I can recommend this restaurant not it's wonderful ... to the big question what we ordered ... well you know you can't go wrong no ... bordering on Kiwi kiss tuna ... aam and they have a wonderful ahi Comau which are served in Greenland it's and it's that it's occur ... I think I'm overdressed but I'll definitely add that to my list next time I get to go to Honolulu thank you so much for joining us what more on that in the off duty section of the Wall Street Journal ...


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The Cameron University Department of Art presents "Theosophia," the Annual Senior Art Exhibition, from April 5 through May 4 at the Museum of the Great Plains, 601 NW Ferris Ave. in Lawton. "Theosophia" showcases mature bodies of works by 19 Cameron students. Included in the exhibition are paintings, drawings, prints, digital work, and graphic design. The opening reception is Saturday, April 5 from 6:30 to 9 p.m.
Cameron's senior art majors have created works based on their own style and content. Each is responsible for the professional presentation of his/her work, which includes mounting the exhibition and publicity.
The term "Theosophia" refers to a set of philosophies concerning the search for direct knowledge through the mysteries of the self and nature, particularly the nature of divinity. Since art is fundamentally about communicating thoughts, emotions, and ideas, this philosophy of turning inward for knowledge is not only appropriate, but also necessary.
Contributing artists listed by hometown are:
Aby, Sweden: Antonia Moberg
Apache: James Martinez
Chattanooga: Hailey Harris
Comanche: Travis Dyer
Duncan: Fatima Rivera
Elgin: Matthew D. Hughes
Lawton: James Cox, Manda Shae Dickinson, Jonathan Daoang, Bren Dollins, Roseanna Hamilton, Dalisha Hayes, Alejah Ilidan, Amanda Lenhardt, Elia Merel, Brenton Roth, Cindy Shifflett, Suny Stanfield, Elizabeth Tilghman
Each of the students will be graduating with one of the following degrees: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art – Concentration in Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art – Emphasis in Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, or Bachelor of Art – Major in Art.
For more information about "Theosophia," contact the Cameron University Department of Art at 581-2450.
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Jeff Hardin, director of communications at the North Carolina Credit Union League, might be a credit union rock star, but he's emphatic that all stakeholders get credit for the good things happening in the state.
In 2010, Hardin and other graduates of the Credit Union Development Education (DE) program met to talk about what cooperative principles and practices might mean coming out of the Great Recession. That conversation evolved into the Principles & Philosophy Conference, a two-day event designed to enhance the value of the credit union franchise statewide.
"Plenty of people were pulling that wagon," says Hardin, referring to the 30 volunteer DEs in North Carolina who designed the first conference.
Entering its fourth year, the conference has trained more than 100 credit union staff on credit unions' history, philosophy, and mission.
In August, the National Credit Union Foundation (NCUF) presented the Cooperative Spirit Award to the North Carolina DEs, collectively, for this model project.
"As a result of the North Carolina event, several other states are considering similar philosophy sessions," says Lois Kitsch, NCUF's national program director.
The impact of the conference extends beyond the information it provides.
"So many credit union employees have joined the movement from other industries in recent years, it's important for credit unions to share the values and principles that set us apart," notes Ashley Ruffin, vice president of marketing, Local Government Federal Credit Union, Raleigh, N.C., who chairs the volunteer committee that's planning this year's event.
Opportunities lie in serving the unbanked and underserved, says Hardin. "Many people have been left behind in the so-called 'new economy.' Credit unions can make a huge difference in the lives of people struggling to keep up. It won't be easy, but this is exactly why credit unions were created in the first place.
"I think the next step in the process is for credit unions to look for cooperative relationships on the local level," adds Hardin. "The more we engage with other co-ops and community organizations, the better off we'll all be in terms of market share."
Philosophy becomes part of credit union operations, human resource practices, and new-member outreach as conference graduates:
• Assign a DE to greet each new employee and begin the orientation process.
• Refine their leadership focus toward the operating principles, review policies to determine if they're in sync with these values, and deepen their work within communities.
• Add history and principles training to their employee onboarding and educational modules.
"Five years ago there were four or five DEs in North Carolina, now there are 50 to 60 due in part to these philosophy conferences," notes Kitsch.


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Next year we will be starting a new life of inland waterway cruising in the eastern waterway system.
I will probably be relying on my mobile 'Hot Spot' for internet service most of the time. I looked on e-bay and saw many different antennas and signal boosters. I have Verizon service and was wondering if any of you use any kind of antenna and signal booster and how well do they work?
So, do they have any merrit or are they just gimmicks?


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Many animals are habitable in the cold and blustery winter months. A lot of pet owners do not keep their animals in their homes and unfortunately just like humans, some outdoor pets can experience severe dehydration or injury if certain precautions are not taken to protect them. Outdoor animals could be susceptible to a certain amount of stress if they are exposed to severe weather conditions. Just as you prepare for your outdoor pets to have sufficient food and water during the hot summer months, you have to make preparations for them during the harsh winter months as well.
Quite often we witness rescues of some domestic and wild animals getting trapped in freezing cold water while they were walking on an ice laden pond or lake, as the ice gave way under them. Even if you have certain breeds of pets that are suited for enduring the cold weather (like sled dogs for example), they still need proper protection from the freezing cold elements.
Dehydration occurs when animals may have adequate outdoor shelter, but the low temperatures will cause their drinking water to freeze, leaving them with no water to drink. By frequently checking their drinking water or placing it in an insulated container, this could help to significantly reduce the possibility for dehydration, whether they are indoors or outside.
Hypothermia or frostbite occurs when a dangerous drop in body temperature can leave animals vulnerable to conditions such as pneumonia and infection. Ultimately, extended periods of exposure to the frigid elements could cause irreparable damage to the tissue in areas such as the ears, paws, tail and nose, or even worse, death. Just as you would protect yourself from exposure to extremely cold temperatures, be sure to do the same for your horse, dog, cat or even your iguana.


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Listeners Dependency Injection
Mike Aizatsky / Fabrique Project Manager / JetBrains
Listeners and events are widely used in modern application. This article finds a way to explicitly define listener-based component dependencies in generic IoC container. The method leads to simplifying listener code, separation of event delivery logic as well as defines listener dependencies in analyzable way. These benefits are used to solve common problems with listeners: the order of event notifications and the problem of exponential growth of events in system with many components.
TMate — new look at the good old CVS
Alexander Kitaev / Founder and CEO / TMate Software
Sometimes it is just a question of right tools that helps to use VCS smarter. This article introduces TMate — an IntelliJ IDEA plug–in that helps developers to get most of the CVS — the most popular version control system.
What's good and what's bad about profiling nowadays
Anton Katilin / Co-founder and CEO / YourKit
There are lots of developers who already understand the necessity of performance tuning of Java application. They know about profilers, and most likely use them in everyday developer's life. These people reasonably ask: why should we use this or that tool, why one is better than another, and finally which one is the best?
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Omea Tokaj
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My husband told his dad that I like to peek before Christmas. I think my FIL used a whole roll of tape on my gift that year! I stopped peeking after that.
I have NEVER shopped on Black Friday and NEVER will! OTOH, I have shopped the day after Christmas.


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- Amanda
A few days after publishing this post, I received a note from Conard Eyre, David Eyre's daughter. She has given me permission to share it with you:
Aloha Amanda,
My name is Conard Eyre, I am the daughter of David Eyre!! A friend sent me your blog with Daddy's pancake, and I am feeling very wistful, reading all the touching, meaningful and precious remarks. As you can imagine, the pancake had a very special place at our family table, and made my Daddy's creation a household name. I have amazing stories, of how he traded the recipe with Craig, for a week in NYC in Craig's Greenwich Village Apt., how, when early engaged and visiting my husband's stuffy NY friends for Easter weekend in Rumson NJ, the pancake recipe appeared full color and all. I was a long way from home, but that day, I was a Hawaiian princess!!
On a very personal note, in 2008, Daddy, at the ripe age of 96, (with all his marbles, but a desire to move on to the heavenly kitchen in the sky,) simply decided to stop eating. We supported him all the way, and prepared his "last supper", naturally, it was the pancake. It got a thumbs-up, and was perfection..
His joy spending time in the kitchen was addictive, and my inherited love of cooking became my profession. I have had my own catering company since 1974. Craig's recipe has taken on a life of it's own in my family, and I would love to connect with you.
Aloha, Conard Eyre
And here is my previous post:
Craig Claiborne described making the acquaintance of this oven-baked pancake, "in the handsome, Japanese-style home of the David Eyres in Honolulu," as if he had met Grace Kelly. "With Diamond Head in the distance, a brilliant, palm-ringed sea below and this delicately flavored pancake before us, we seemed to have achieved paradise."
Life was good if you were a food writer in the 1960s. Mistakes (Claiborne doubled the butter in his recipe) passed without a public shaming in the paper's corrections column or the blogosphere. A few weeks later, he simply mentioned airily, "The food editor was in such reverie on this return from Hawaii he did not notice the gremlins in his measuring spoons."
Forty years later, readers are still making the pancake with no less bliss. It appears on a dozen blogs, embellished with family stories and photos and new-and-improved versions of the recipe. (Eyre, by the way, said he got his from the "St. Francis Hotel Cookbook" published in 1919, but his calls for more flour and egg. Both belong to a family of oven-baked pancakes sometimes called either German pancakes or Dutch babies.)
What keeps cooks faithful to one recipe is often some confluence of ease and surprise. Eyre's pancake possesses both. A batter of flour, milk, eggs, and nutmeg is blended together, then poured into a hot skillet filled with butter and baked. Anyone confused? I didn't think so.
The surprise comes at the end, when you open the oven door to find a poufy, toasted, utterly delectable-looking pancake. It soon collapses as you shower it with confectioners' sugar and lemon juice, slice it up and devour it. It's sweet and tart, not quite a pancake and not quite a crepe. But lovable all the same.
"So many of us eat essentially the same foods, over and over, each day for breakfast. It was for me, a young man in my first apartment, a revelation when Craig Claiborne introduced a Breakfast Pancake on April 10, 1966. I still have the page out of the magazine I tore out and saved. I have prepared his recipe at least 500 times since, first in a cast iron skillet and in recent years in a paella pan. Being impatient, 20 minutes was too long to wait for it to bake, so I have inched up the temperature over the years and enjoy a pancake that creeps up over the edge of the pan and browns along the edges in less than 10 minutes of baking. His original recipe calls for sprinkling lemon juice and powdered sugar on the baked pancake but up here in the north woods, maple syrup is the finishing touch. Sometimes I sauté thin apple slices sprinkled with a bit of sugar before pouring the batter in the pan for a variation on the original recipe." - Roland Krause, Harbor Springs, MI, letter.
"Surely a golden thread through my life… My memory is of jumping up and making it then and there. Once I passed through Honolulu and phoned David Eyre, the address blazed from the directory: no. 1 Diamond Head Drive. When I thanked him for all the lovely Sunday mornings he remarked that I wasn't the first to call, either. Later, I moved to Indonesia where Sundays were so different from L.A.; without even noticing I forgot both pancake and recipe. Years later, a friend sent me a copy of a cooking magazine with recipes from readers. A woman from the Midwest sent an "oven pancake" which she said had a man's name but she never learned it. There it was and I felt that golden thread connecting my two lives, then (L.A.) and now (Jakarta)." - Loura White, letter.
Cooking Notes:
Don't overmix the batter, or the pancake will be tough – a few lumps are fine.
This is the moment to call your well-seasoned iron skillet into service.
1966: David Eyre's Pancake
Serves 2 to 4
1. Heat oven to 425 degrees. Combine the flour, milk, eggs, and nutmeg in a bowl. Beat lightly. Leave the batter a little lumpy.
2. Melt the butter in a 12-inch skillet with a heatproof handle. When it is very hot, pour in the batter. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until the pancake is golden brown.
3. Sprinkle with the sugar and return briefly to the oven. Sprinkle with lemon juice, and serve with jelly, jam, or marmalade.
Footnote: April 10, 1966: "Pancake Nonpareil" by Craig Claiborne. Recipe adapted from David Eyre.
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November won a prize
Reproducing Conrad's announcement on p6u in its entirety:
On behalf of AthenaLab, I'm extremely happy to announce thewinners of AthenaLab's $1,000 prize for a Perl 6 based wiki. The winners are Carl Mäsak, Johan Viklund, and Ilya Belikin. They are members of the November project, which is a wiki written in Rakudo Perl 6.
Carl Mäsak and Johan Viklund started the November project, and Ilya Belikin has been very helpful in working on later developments. I greatly appreciate what they've accomplished.
(Of course November crucially depends on a working version of Perl 6. So I also greatly appreciate the supporting achievements of the {Rakudo Perl 6, Parrot VM, and Pugs Perl 6 prototype} teams. Despite the relatively few people involved, and their very limited financial support, their tireless efforts have nevertheless given us the rapidly-maturing Perl 6 system. This system is now relentlessly evolving into an {exceptionally-adaptable, super-industrial-strength, super-pragmatic} platform. It's still got a ways to go, but the growing development momentum is extremely encouraging.)
So thanks much to everyone involved for all of their great work! Please consider supporting them by whatever means you have available.
A public prototype of November is now operational. While November is still in the early stages of development, considerable progress has been made. The November developers have also been very helpful in supporting Rakudo Perl 6 development. As Carl Mäsak puts it: "I'm crashing Rakudo today, so that it won't crash for you tomorrow. That's how I like to think of it. There's no way around it: someone has to go first and clear the way with a machete. Software grows robust by being tested and fixed a lot."
That was one of my main objectives in selecting a prize topic back in May, 2006. November has already exceeded my hopes along these lines, so I decided to make the award back in January of this year. We delayed the public announcement to allow time for completing the latest release of November, and for making the corresponding public server upgrade.
More information about {the November wiki project, Rakudo Perl 6, and related topics} can be found at the end of this note.
Carl has kindly provided the following overview of achievements, near term plans, and long term vision.
What has been done so far
Since it was unveiled to the world during YAPC::EU in August, the Perl 6 wiki engine called "November" has seen over 750 commits from mainly three core developers. During that time, the wiki has matured from a simple script to a family of modules, some of which have trickled into other Perl 6 projects. As soon as Rakudo could precompile modules, we added a build step, which led to a much-needed 17-fold speedup in page loads.
November's port of CPAN's HTML::Template was completely rewritten using Perl 6 grammars. A tags/tagcloud feature was added. A subset of the MediaWiki markup has been implemented. The beginnings of a set of Perl 6 web modules were seen with the arrival of modules for application-level URI dispatching. November was given a brand new default stylesheet, and rewritten to be compatible with mod_perl6, also currently in development. Using an improved version of Rakudo's Test.pm, we added tests for all of our existing modules.
Today, the Perl 6 version of November can do user authentication, editing, basic wiki formatting, recent changes, and pluggable layouts and formatting engines.
Plans for the next few months
November is usable today, but lacks many basic features usually associated with a wiki engine. Specifically, we hope see images, per-page revisions, line-by-line diffs, conflict merging, widget plugins, formatting plugins, and RSS/Atom feeds added within the next half-year or so.
During the past few weeks, a small ecosystem of Perl 6 projects has started to take shape, mainly on github. To prevent code duplication across projects, some modules will likely leave the November nest and make homes of their own. A simple installer (called "proto") has been created to install and manage dependencies smoothly -- installing and setting up Parrot, Rakudo, and November with all its dependencies can thus be done with a single command, making November (and other Perl 6 projects) more accessible for newcomers.
There are also plans to develop a one-stop Web module in Perl 6, making it easier to create and deploy all types of web applications, from almost-static pages to full-featured MVC-based web sites. When this module is mature enough, November will be refitted to run on top of it.
Long-term vision
A fair amount of commits remain until November can be called "full-featured", but when that happens, it is our hope that people will pick it up, deploy it, enjoy it, and extend it.
November still has many, many commits to go before it can actually trump other good wiki implementations out there in terms of desirable features. However, it is our hope that it will continue to serve the Perl 6 community in terms of catching bugs, exploring new language patterns, and providing inspiration for novice Perl 6 hackers. One day, it might well sport a set of features that other wiki implementations can only dream of having. The Perl 6 language makes such a vision seem quite probable.
End of overview
Further information
- The original version of this announcement:
- http://www.AthenaLab.com/Perl\_6\_Wiki\_Award.htm
- The November page:
- http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?november
- Carl Mäsak's blog:
- http://use.perl.org/~masak/journal/
- The newly-designated primary site for Rakudo Perl 6 information (in early set up stage):
- http://rakudo.org/
- The official Perl 6 wiki:
- http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?perl\_6
- The Long Perl 6 Super-Feature List:
- http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?the\_long\_perl\_6\_super\_feature\_lis
- Rakudo Perl 6 Feature Status:
- http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?rakudo\_feature\_status
- The origins of this $1,000 prize:
- http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?conrad\_schneiker#about\_that\_1\_000 prize
PS: Thanks to {Andy Lester of http://perlbuzz.com/ and associates} for setting up the official {Perl 5 and Perl 6} wikis in 2006, and to {Paul Fenwick and associates} at http://perl.net.au/wiki/Perl_6 for earlier versions.
Best regards,
Conrad Schneiker
Postscript by masak: Thanks to all the people who have been involved so far: Johan and Ilya for helping carry November, Jonathan and Patrick for doing an awesome job with Rakudo, all the helpful people at #perl6 and #parrot and the mailing lists, and especially Conrad for giving the idea life in the first place. Everybody: you rock.


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Creator of the Kwanzaa Holiday will keynote FAMU's Black History Convocation
By Pamela Tolson
TALLAHASSEE, FL – Maulana Karenga, creator of the pan-African cultural holiday Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles), will serve as the keynote speaker for Florida A&M University's (FAMU) Black History Month Convocation on Feb. 14, 2013 at 10:10 a.m. in the Gaither Gymnasium.
Karenga, a professor and chair of Africana Studies at California State University—Long Beach, holds two Ph.D.'s, one in political science (United States International University) and another in social ethics (University of Southern California) as well as an honorary doctorate from the University of Durban, South Africa.
Karenga is also the author of numerous scholarly articles and books – including Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African Ethics; Selections From The Husia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt; The Book of Coming Forth By Day: The Ethics of the Declarations of Innocence; Odu Ifa: The Ethical Teachings; and Introduction to Black Studies, 4th Edition. Karenga is the author of the authoritative text, Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture.
He is also the recipient of numerous awards for scholarship, leadership and service. He is the recipient of the National Council for Black Studies' Paul Robeson-Zora Neale Hurston Award for Scholarly Work Significantly Contributive to the Understanding, Development and Appreciation of African World Culture; the C.L.R. James Award for Outstanding Publication of Scholarly Works that Advance the Discipline of Africana and Black Studies; the National Leadership Award for Outstanding Scholarly Achievements in Black Studies; and the President's Award for Scholarship and Service in the Development of Black Studies, African Heritage Studies Association.
Karenga is the subject of the newly released book by Molefi Asante titled Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait. Karenga is currently writing a book on the social and ethical philosophy of Malcolm X titled The Liberation Ethics of Malcolm X: Critical Consciousness, Moral Grounding and Transformative Struggle.


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(Phoenix, Ariz. – Oct. 30, 2009) Attorney General Terry Goddard today announced that Gordon W Deibler, III, 53, and Renata Majda Deibler, 36, both of Litchfield Park, have pleaded guilty in Maricopa County Superior Court to participating in a criminal syndicate by running several companies that defrauded clients of more than $1.5 million.
The Deiblers owned and operated 1031 Exchange Consultants, LLC, Etna Land Trust, Executive Realty Group, and Tax Management Consultants, LLC. Through these companies Gordon Deibler, acting as a qualified intermediary, accepted the proceeds from property sales for clients. Deibler was supposed to use the proceeds to purchase new property, resulting in delayed tax consequences for his clients. Instead, he diverted his clients' money for personal use. The Deiblers used the scheme on seven different occasions between 1998 and 2008.
The Deiblers also worked with their handyman, Bronislaw Galica, to purchase a home in Galica's name in 2006. Gordon Deibler acted as the agent for Executive Realty group and facilitated the purchase. Renata Deibler acted as the broker for the transaction. The Deiblers gave Galica false credit and salary information to use on the loan application. Gordon Deibler also obtained an inflated appraisal for Galica to use in obtaining the loan. Galica bought the home and defaulted on the loan within a couple of months of the purchase.
Gordon Deibler pleaded guilty to one count of directing a criminal syndicate, a Class 2 Felony, and one count of fraudulent schemes and artifices, also a Class 2 Felony. Under the plea agreement, he must pay restitution to the victims in the amount of $1,559,644 and faces a prison term between 3 and 12.5 years.
Renata Deibler pleaded guilty to one Class 4 Felony count of assisting a criminal syndicate. She must also pay restitution to the victims. The court has the choice of placing her on probation for up to three years or sentencing her to up to 3.75 years in prison.
Sentencing for the couple is scheduled for January 14, 2010.
The convictions are the result of an investigation by the Attorney General's Special Investigation Unit. Assistant Attorney General Timothy Linnins prosecuted this case. For more information, contact Steve Wilson at (602) 542-8351.


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Spectacular woodlands and sheer sandstone walls create a challenge for rock climbing and rappelling, as well as hiking. Outdoor lovers will also find horseback riding, a lookout tower, cabins and a swimming pool. Dine at historic Giant City Lodge, known for its homemade fried chicken dinner. Two different locations in Giant City State Park near Carbondale give you climbing options. A trail behind the picnic shelter takes you to a set of steep bluffs known as Shelter #1 near the Makanda entrance; another climbing area of the park includes the steep sandstone cliffs in Devil's Standtable. Plan to bring all of your own equipment since no permanent anchors are allowed. Ropes are permitted in both areas. After rainstorms, the wet sandstone gets really slippery. Use caution when grabbing for ledges as copperhead snakes warm themselves on the rocks during sunny days.
Egyptian Hills Resort is your passport to the Ultimate outdoor family vacation. Whether you are into waterskiing, wakeboarding, tubing, sport fishing, or pleasure boating; the Lake of Egypt is a boater's paradise. All within a stone's throw of your cabin. Within minutes of your cabin, your family can enjoy guided expeditions such as; horseback riding, rock climbing, mountain biking, kayaking, geo-caching, wildlife photography and many other outdoor activities. Whether planning a single activity or multiple activities for your group, we at Egyptian Hills are your personal concierge in planning your ultimate outdoor family vacation. Whether onsite or through one of our partner guides, all activities are tailored for all ages and experience levels.
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The Shawnee Hills Wine Trail features 12 award-winning wineries located along a 25-mile scenic drive along highway 127 and highway 51 in the Shawnee National Forest. Along the way have a picnic, go on a hike, visit a shop, and stay in a cozy B&B or cabin. Many of the wineries host special events throughout the summer and fall.
On the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail, Rustle Hill winery features an amphitheater bandstand for live music, great wines and beers, restaurant and cabins for rent.
This natural geologic sandstone formation spans 90 feet across a ravine in a mature beech, oak and hickory forest. Nearby is an easy hiking trail dotted with picnic sites.
Anchoring the eastern end of the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail, our winery offers you "The Romance of Italy in the Hills of Southern Illinois". We are open year-round, 7 days a week, to provide great Illinois wine. Please join us for wine tasting, a variety of hearty sandwiches, soups, pizzas, and snacks, as well as wine-alternatives such as beer and non-alcoholic beverages. Come enjoy our large indoor seating area and two beautiful outdoor terraces that overlook our vineyard and the rolling countryside.
Located on Lake Kinkaid, the marina offers camping, boat slip rental, and boat rental. They have a restaurant, bar, bait shop, camping and boating accessories, and water toys. In addition, you can also purchase your fishing license.
A 3.6 mile loop trail constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s. Offers spectacular views of the Big Muddy River, Turkey Bayou, and the Missouri bluffs across the Mississippi River.
It's all about the water at Rend Lake, where you can swim, boat, water ski and fish. Relax at Rend Lake Resort, tee off at the 27-hole Rend Lake Golf Course or do some target practice at the Rend Lake Shooting Complex. Also located at Rend Lake is the Southern Illinois Art & Artisans Center, featuring more than 800 artists.
Alto Vineyards Winery & Tasting Room
Nestled in the Shawnee Hills of Southern Illinois, sits Alto Vineyards, the region's oldest, most award-winning winery. Founded in 1988 by Guy Renzaglia, Alto introduced a new industry to the area, starting a movement that has altered its landscape. Today, Alto Vineyards shares the region with 11 other wineries along the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail, in the state's first federally recognized grape-growing region, known as an American Viticultural Area (AVA). While continuing to produce some of Illinois' finest wine, Alto opened a new tasting room in Champaign, IL, and began distributing throughout the state and surrounding regions. Celebrating 25 years in business in 2013, Alto constructed a new, modern tasting room next to the vineyard in Alto Pass. Resting atop the new facility lies an outdoor deck for customers to take in the view on one of southern Illinois' oldest vineyards – a truly breathtaking sight that exemplifies the beauty of the Shawnee National Forest and Illinois wine country. We invite you to visit our winery and tasting rooms to experience the tradition of Alto Vineyards.
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Shawnee Bluffs Canopy Tour consists of eight zip lines, the longest stretching more than 1,100 feet, which will zig-zag across the property's bluffs and through the valley. The tour also includes 11 platforms high in the trees, three aerial suspension bridges, the longest stretching 180 feet, and two short ground hikes. A canopy tour is an exciting way to experience the flora, fauna, geology and history of the outdoors by safely traversing an established route of ziplines and aerial bridges between platforms built in the trees, and they are just plain fun!
Kite Hill Vineyards Bed and Breakfast
Kite Hill's B&B is located on a 30-acre estate with a five-acre vineyard, all surrounding Kite Hill Lake. Start your day with a full three-course breakfast followed by a stroll through the vineyards or around the lake. After a full day of Southern Illinois activities, enjoy a complimentary wine tasting at the winery.
This 18-hole golf center is the highest-rated public golf course in Southern Illinois, earning four stars from Golf Digest. The course offers discounted "twilight hours" rates for unlimited play after 4pm.
A national symbol of faith, this 111-foot-tall cross, when illuminated at night, can be seen over an area of 7,500 square miles atop the most prominent elevation in Southern Illinois. The cross is surrounded by the Shawnee National Forest.
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Pyramid Acres Campground & Marina
Offers gas, bait, tackle, ice, beer, groceries, contour maps and camping with water and electricity. Open all year. Located at the northeastern edge of the lake.
The arboretum houses more than 6,000 species of trees, plus shrubs, wildflowers and wildlife. A hiking trail takes you through the woods and past stones from a Shawnee Indian Council fire.
Lake of Egypt is a privately owned reservoir located six miles south of Marion, Illinois and covers 2,300 acres with 90 miles of shoreline. The lake has an average depth of 18 feet. The lake is owned by the Southern Illinois Power Cooperative (SIPC), who created the impoundment in 1962, by damming the South fork of the Saline River, to supply cooling water for a coal-burning electric power plant.
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge is located primarily in Williamson County, with small extensions into eastern Jackson and northeastern Union counties of southern Illinois. At almost 44,000 acres and with three lakes (Crab Orchard, Little Grassy, and Devils Kitchen,) endless opportunities abound for watching wildlife, hiking nature trails, photography, swimming, fishing from the bank or by boat, and hunting. Four seasonally operational campgrounds are open from April-October and offer full hook-up, water, electric, or non-electric sites. Refuge staff and volunteers at the visitor center welcome visitors and sightseers 7 days a week from 8am-4:30pm. Visitor activities such as guided hikes, bald eagle tours, and monthly F.U.N. programs help connect families with the diversity of flora and fauna that Southern Illinois has to offer. The Refuge provides many opportunities for wildlife-dependent outdoor recreation for the nature lover in us all.
Herrin Park District is a beautiful, well kept park with a seasonal outdoor swimming pool as well as a multipurpose recreation complex. The park offers two walking paths with a quarter-mile all weather track, and a one-mile lighted walking trail. Herrin Park is an excellent place for a leisurely jog. You can even enjoy feeding the beautiful ducks.
Vertical Heartland Climbing School at Draper's Bluff
Vertical Heartland Climbing School offers you an amazing opportunity to see Illinois from new heights. Perfect for rock climbing novices and experienced enthusiasts, Vertical Heartland offers hand-on instruction that's provided by experienced guides with climbs tailored to suit your needs. Climbing services are available year round, seven days a week. Personal and group outings are scheduled by reservation. Reservations are preferred at least two weeks in advance.
Beautiful sandy waterfront on Cedar Lake. State certified Lifeguards on duty during beach hours, lap lane, restrooms, picnic tables and a concession area.
Class A campground with separate tent and trailer camping for equestrians. Also, a youth group camp and primitive walk-in tent sites.
This semi-private, nine-hole course features a historic three-story clubhouse, surrounded by Lake Moses. Host of the annual Benton Gold Cup, the course also features a well-stocked pro shop, driving range, rental clubs and carts, and a golf pro on site.
Located on the northeast corner of Johnston City, this 35-acre lake includes a paved boat ramp for fishing, walking path, and campground. Only electric motors and canoes are permitted. You will find largemouth bass, bluegill, redear sunfish, black and white crappie, and channel catfish in this small reservoir. Pedal boat rentals are available from July-September.
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According to the Verge, Microsoft will have a sneak peak of its new music service — codename Woodstock — at this year's E3.
Early details suggest the browser-based service will let users share tracks and build group playlists. It will also apparently have a "scan and match" component similar to iTunes Match. That feature in iTunes Match finds songs that you've already got on your computer and offers up official, high bitrate versions, no questions asked. Spotify and Rdio also scan your library to add existing tracks to your cloud library, but it's unclear whether Microsoft's version would offer high quality downloads. It will reportedly be available on Windows 8, Android, iOS and Xbox (and presumably Mac users will be fine since it's browser-based?).
Giz AU Editor's Note: Presuming this pans out, I wouldn't be putting a lot of money down on this being available in Australia all that quickly, although given we've got Zune Music, it's always possible.
Microsoft shoving its way into entertainment isn't anything new — the Xbox is basically its Apple TV at this point — but the timing of the launch would be pretty symbolic: instead of running out new gaming hardware at E3, Microsoft's got a music streaming service. [The Verge]


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Remarks of the Honorable Steny H. Hoyer
U.S. House Majority Leader
Anti-Defamation League National Leadership Conference
Washington, DC April 15, 2008
As Prepared for Delivery
An old Jewish story I love starts with a man knocking on the door of his town's rabbi. "Rabbi," he says, "For the last year, I've been spreading terrible rumors about my next-door neighbor. But I've decided to repent! Tell me what I need to do to take my words back."
So the rabbi rummages around in the back of his house and finally comes out with…a pillow. He says, "I'll tell you just what to do. Take this pillow to the middle of the town square, slit it open, and wave it over your head until all the feathers fly out and blow away. Then come right back."
And the man, who's terribly confused by now, but who thinks the rabbi has just revealed a powerful magic spell, runs off to the town square and does just as he's told. A few minutes later, he's back at the front door with an empty pillow sack, and he says, "Rabbi, I did just what you told me. Now what?"
"Now," says the rabbi, "bring back the feathers."
I think it's telling that that's a Jewish story, a story of a people that knows better than any other what it's like to face hateful words. It's easy for anyone to say, "I take my words back." But as the rabbi in the story knows, the truth is that it's impossible to take back our words—any words. As soon as they leave our mouth, they're free to blow around the world like feathers, and they're just as impossible to gather back up.
Words spoken in hate against the Jewish people, even those spoken ages ago, are still blowing around the world to this day. The czarist hoax, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, finds itself transformed in the 21st century into a Middle-Eastern TV series. The ancient blood libel, just when we think it's been dug up at the roots, sprouts through the centuries again and again. And we can add to these the despicable modern myth that somehow equates Israelis and Nazis—a myth that, to be bluntly honest, may not go away anytime soon.
But as long as we stand against hate—hate of Jews, or of any other group—we'll always run into a paradox. Words can do immense damage—at worst, as history has painfully taught us, words can pave the way for great violence. But at the same time—they're "just words." They're light as feathers. We can't stop them from being spoken; we can't vacuum them back up. And in a free society, we shouldn't want to.
The solution is an imperfect one; but it's the best we've ever found. It's been repeated to the point of cliché, but it needs to be said again, and again: "The best cure for hate speech is more speech."
Or, as Thomas Jefferson put it in a letter to John Adams: "Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds….Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both."
If we can expose lies; if we can blow up contradictions; if we can mock and ridicule bigotry—we can keep striking an unending series of small blows against hate.
No organization typifies that path—the method of fighting speech with speech—better than the Anti-Defamation League. Every day, the members of your group must see material that would make the average person sick to his stomach. But you don't explode in rage of your own. Still less do you call on government to censor the speech you don't like. Instead, you compile, you probe, you investigate, you educate, you persuade, you organize, you decry, often forcefully, often passionately—but always trusting in the power of words to fight words.
I've seen your response to the disgusting cartoons depicting Israeli soldiers as Nazis committing genocide. I've seen your anger—your measured anger, your justified anger. But I've seen behind it the faith that the lies and libel of those cartoons can be confronted with truth and ultimately overcome. I don't have to say how favorably that compares to the response to another set of offensive cartoons we all know about.
I've always been a believer in the power of words. You may know that I used to chair the Helsinki Commission, a group charged with standing up for human rights in Europe. And I'm sure you know that one of the dominant issues we faced was the plight of Soviet Jewry, hundreds of thousands of citizens of Russia denied their freedom of movement and their right to immigrate to Israel. The Commission, like the Helsinki monitors behind the Iron Curtain, had few enforcement powers—but we had a pulpit, and we used it. And I think that the worldwide attention we brought to their cause helped ease their way out of oppression, and into a new home.
I've been proud not simply to work for the security of our ally, Israel, but to speak for it—because the first attacks on Israel have always been ideological attacks. And I've always been vigilant to see that disagreement with Israeli policy, which can be justified, never crosses the line into anti-Semitism—which can never be justified.
When Iran's President Ahmadinejad called the death of six million Jews in the Holocaust a "myth," I denounced his lies with the strongest words I could find. On the House floor, I've pointed out that Israel is denied the opportunity to serve on the U.N. Commission on Human Rights—an opportunity extended to well-known human rights abusers Syria, Libya, and Sudan. I've pointed out that that, each year, Israel is singled out for criticism nearly two dozen times in the General Assembly. Words from Congressional leaders may not end attacks like those; but imagine how much more damage they'd do if they went unanswered, unopposed.
That goes for attacks large and small. Maybe you've heard of the Sha'ar Hashamayim Synagogue in Cairo. It's home for Cairo's 30 or 40 Jews, all that are left of a once-flourishing community. On most Sabbaths, it can't even gather ten men for prayer. And on all the walls in that enormous city of 16 million, it was on a wall across from Sha'ar Hashamayim—the last functioning synagogue in Cairo—that a group hung a set of huge, anti-Semitic banners.
I sat down face-to-face with the Prime Minister of Egypt. And at the very least, I can say this: Those banners came down.
It can be easy and tempting to shrug off bigotry like that. But you know and I know: It can spin out of control very quickly, with hateful and tragic consequences. In this century, we shouldn't even need a reminder. But if we do, the murder of Matthew Shepard, or of James Byrd, teaches us how hateful words can spark brutal crimes. Hate crimes like those don't just sicken the conscience—they terrorize entire communities and threaten to enflame group against group. That's why I've pushed for years to strengthen and broaden hate crimes legislation. We're not there yet, and the Senate's failure to pass a free-standing bill is testimony to the challenges we face. But we're making real progress.
Finally, let me address the tragedy of Darfur. I recently read an editorial that put it devastatingly: "Never again?…Again and again is more like it." Faced with evil and murder and rape on that scale, words are far, far from enough. But if you or I can use the platforms we've been given to remind our country of what we're witnessing and doing so little to end, we will be doing what we should expect of ourselves and of others. My first foreign travel as Majority Leader was to Darfur, in April of 2007. Eleven Members of Congress went with me—seven Democrats and four Republicans. And together, we helped call attention the genocide and the international cooperation we'll need to stop it. I know it was just a small step. But it was a step.
In 1966, in Cape Town, South Africa, Robert F. Kennedy spoke to a gathering of students. He said: "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
That, of course, has been the mission of the ADL, through all its inclusive history. "Never again" does not mean, cannot mean, "Never again to the Jews." It means, it must mean, "Never again—to anyone."
There may be, at any one time, a thousand local fights against hate in all its forms. But what binds them up into one struggle is more than just our knowledge that intolerance has caused untold pain, and suffering, and strife. What binds them up is what we understand about words. We know their danger, we know their elusiveness—but we also know their power to convince and to heal.
Your charter reads, "The immediate object of the League is to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience...the defamation of the Jewish people."
"Come, let us reason together," said the prophet Isaiah. In your line of work, that's the only tool you've ever really had. I have faith—and, I trust, you have faith—that it will be enough.
Thank you very much.


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Mind Control: How to Focus and Pay Attention
Focusing your brain and putting an end those awful "Where was I?" moments is easier than you think. It's also way more important than you might imagine.
I try to concentrate on what I should be doing. Really, I do. But I'm paying bills one minute and the next, wondering what's in the fridge. Now I'm reaching for a notepad to make a grocery list. To take my thoughts off food, I look out the window, see it's raining and start imagining my son driving on slick roads. Now I'm on weather.com checking for alerts. Then, it's jump in and answer just a few e-mails, until the phone rings. Did I tell you that the radio is on? Uh...where was I?
Oh, yeah...
Staying focused—it feels about as easy as climbing Mount Everest. Yet common sense and the latest science say it's a gotta-have skill. Keeping our eye on the ball increases productivity, wards off mistakes, builds better relationships. It also prevents wasting time and energy. But these days it's harder than ever to stay riveted, thanks to the blizzard of electronic intrusions, so don't be too hard on yourself if you can't hold that thought. "The brain isn't wired to process everything simultaneously," says neuroscientist Robert Desimone, Ph.D., director of the McGovern Institute of Brain Research at MIT. "It has to choose which signal gets top priority." And the loudest, brightest, sharpest, or smelliest usually wins.
The distractions don't come just from outside, though. Lots of times even after I've toned down external stimuli, my own internal chatter snaps me out of concentration. Right now I'm worrying about my friend's gallbladder operation, yet a second ago I was considering changing my hair color. Shouldn't I be discouraged?
"Don't be," says Winifred Gallagher, author of Rapt (Penguin Press). "Thoughts can be tamed. I've done it." When diagnosed with cancer (she's now fine), Gallagher trained her mind to concentrate on the present moment, and making productive use of it, rather than on the disease. "Think of attention as mental money," she explains. "Just the way you're careful about where you put your dollars, you need to be careful about where you invest your attention. Wherever your mind wanders, your emotions follow." And then, your valuable energy.
I get what Gallagher is saying. Still, I wonder whether I have to give up multitasking too; it seems crucial, in light of what I need to get done in a mere 24 hours. Plus, I consider myself a maven at accomplishing a million things all at once. As it turns out, I'm kidding myself. According to a study conducted by Gloria Mark, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, every time we switch from one project to another and back again, we lose a hefty amount of mental efficiency, as well as create a certain level of stress. "If we are interrupted from a task, it takes us a full 23 minutes to circle back to our original degree of concentration for the job at hand," says Mark.
Learning to Focus
As a veteran scatterbrain, I doubted I could ever learn to fully focus. But I decided I had to give it a shot. My first step was to become aware of exactly what was distracting me. "Before we can deal with the mental muddle, we have to identify what's causing it in the first place," says David Meyer, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. So I dutifully sat at my desk and homed in on the television noises in the next room, a moving digital picture frame, and the ping of e-mail alerts. But when it came time to tune them out, it was a no-go. "Our research shows it's tough to ignore distractions," says Meyer, "even when you've decided up front that you want to."
What to do?
Remove as many distractions as possible, says Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted (Prometheus). "Take away pictures on your desk and hide your to-do list. Be aware that a window can pull your attention away, so sit facing a blank wall instead. Of course, turn off the sound on your radio, TV, and computer." I did all that and even put in earplugs, but I still wasn't focusing. "Be patient," Jackson advises. "You're changing neural pathways in your brain. It can take a few months."
Gallagher had another idea. Since we run on individual biological clocks, she suggested I figure out my most wide-eyed and productive time and tackle my challenging work then. If you're an early bird like me, instead of going to the gym first thing in the morning or sitting down to read the newspaper, get right to work. But you should take a break after 90 minutes. "Scientists say that's about the length of uninterrupted time our minds can fully fix on one chore. If you don't take a break, your mind may start to drift anyway," Gallagher explains.
Focus is about a lot more than getting stuff done, though. My friend Lucinda is great at sticking to the task. Her problem, she says, is that her attention drifts during conversations. "I'm either framing a clever response or thinking about an urgent chore," she says. "When I'm on the phone I'm doing three other things at the same time." Lucinda isn't alone—studies show that most of us are distracted or preoccupied during about 75% of our conversations.
That's because "real listening requires mindfulness," says Elizabeth Hanson Hoffman, Ph.D., coauthor of Staying Focused in the Age of Distraction (New Harbinger). "It means making a conscious effort to tune in to the speaker." And not only turning off diversions but also staying put on the chair or couch.
Also, if you're busy thinking about your response when someone is talking, it's guaranteed you're not listening. Train yourself to be more attentive by mentally clarifying the speaker's points, then asking her, "Is this what you mean?" "You might also try searching for the emotional content underneath the speaker's words," says Hoffman. "Take note of nonverbal cues, such as voice inflection, facial gestures, and body movements."
Which brings me back to my pinball attention. When I told Andrew Newberg, M.D., author of How God Changes Your Brain (Ballantine), about it, he suggested meditation. He did a study in which people meditated for just 12 minutes a day. After two months there was more activity in the part of the brain responsible for concentration, memory, and focus. Just what I needed.
So I set aside 15 minutes every morning to meditate in my bedroom (door closed), sitting upright on the edge of the bed, holding my back straight but relaxed, both feet on the floor, and paying attention to my breath while watching my thoughts move in then out. When I started, there was a storm of internal dialogue and images, but in a few weeks my thoughts were more like clouds calmly sailing by. Now, even when I'm not meditating, I can simply view my internal goings-on without getting caught up in them. That clears my head right away.
Meditation also helps us slow down, which is exactly what Christine Hohlbaum, author of The Power of Slow (St. Martin's Press), says we need to stay present and focused. "Simply stop, breathe deeply, and ask yourself, 'What am I trying to accomplish?'" says Hohlbaum. By posing this simple question, "Your brain pinpoints your intention."
Gallagher offers another solution. "Drink a cup of coffee," she says. "Studies show that caffeine is a bona fide attention booster." This last tip seems the easiest to swallow, but I've decided to add one more. Rather than berating myself when I get sidetracked, I notice the detour, then forgive myself. Just taking note and reserving judgment is another way to ease me gently back to where I need to be.
How to Zone In
The extreme opposite of being completely distracted is being in a state of total concentration, when everything's going so beautifully that you lose track of time and before you know it the kitchen is clean, the checking account is balanced, or your craft project is ready for display. It took three neurotransmitters working in harmony to get you there: dopamine (which helps you stay focused), serotonin (which gives you a sense of well-being), and norepinephrine (which offers a bolt of energy). "When your brain is engaged this way you're energized and motivated, yet at the same time relaxed and centered," says Lucy Jo Palladino, Ph.D., author of Find Your Focus Zone (Free Press).
But there's a catch: You can't find the zone by pushing for it. Palladino suggests these steps for being totally focused:
- Ask yourself three questions: Am I bored? Am I tense? Am I relaxed and alert?
- Based on the answer, make adjustments. If you're bored, remind yourself of your desired outcome with a simple statement such as, "When I finish cleaning the closet, I'll have lots more room." If you're tense, breathe deeply and say the words, "Here. Now." Of course if you're relaxed and alert, your mind is already at its best.
- Envision success. For example, if you're working on a complicated recipe and you're losing focus, imagine the dish cooked to perfection and tasting delicious. Being reminded that the goal is achievable brings you back to your task.
- Check in with yourself when the job is done. If you're worn out or cranky, it may be that you were overstimulated or didn't get enough rest before you started. Either way, take a brief break to unwind before starting something else.
Concentration Boosters
It's not always possible to tune out every distraction and new studies show that may not be such a bad thing. Certain stimuli can actually enhance our concentration.
- Chew gum when balancing your checkbook, doing your taxes, or figuring out a budget. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine concluded that gum chewing reduces stress and increases alertness and concentration when working with numbers.
- Listen to classical music when you're writing a to-do list or planning a trip. The music boosts spatial temporal reasoning, used to help us think ahead.
- Doodle when you're trying to memorize facts. In one study, students who drew during a lecture retained 29 more information than the control group.
- Change background colors when you're working on the computer. Research shows that detail work goes better when the desktop is red, while blue boosts creative tasks.
What If It's ADD?
There is a difference between just having difficulty staying on task and having Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). "People with ADD have problems interrupting people or staying seated, during meetings, for example, or at the movies, and they often act impulsively," says Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D., author of 10 Simple Solutions to Adult ADD (New Harbinger Publications). "They tend to be very disorganized, and there's a general restlessness that affects all areas of life, including work, home, and relationships. Their symptoms often trigger anxiety or depression." That's when it's time to see a professional, who may suggest comprehensive testing and medication. There are also ADD coaches. Check out addconsults.com. And, with an estimated 4.1 million American adults with the condition, there are lots of support groups, like Children and Adults with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity. Go to chadd.org to find a local chapter. For more info and leads on resources, go to additudemag.com. Sarkis also says many of the tips in this article may help those with ADD.
Originally published in the May 2010 issue of Family Circle magazine.
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Professor José Alvarez is Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law at New York University School of Law and Special Adviser on Public International Law, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court. He is the immediate past President of the American Society of International Law
Editor's Note: This piece is cross posted from http://opiniojuris.org/ where Professor Alvarez is guest blogging this week. We are delighted to have Professor Alvarez on EJIL:Talk! and would recommend that readers view his other posts on Opinio Juris
As a member of the U.S. State Department's Advisory Committee on International Law, I was asked to give my reactions to the International Law Commission's release, on first reading, of a set of proposed articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations. (For the ILC's report containing these draft articles and commentaries, see here). I was probably asked to undertake this task given my prior interest in these matters (see my 2006 speech to the Canadian Council of International Law, "International Organizations: Accountability or Responsibility?").
As my memorandum produced for the Advisory Committee meeting on June 21st indicates (see my memo on the "ILC's Draft Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations"), time has not ameliorated my concerns about the direction of the ILC's work. On the contrary the newly completed set of 66 articles heightens my worries that, on this occasion, the ILC's experts have opted to alter their normal ratio of codification vs. progressive development. In this case, the latter has vastly overtaken the former. In my view, the ILC's latest effort is likely to encounter considerable resistance where it matters the most, among states. (Of course, my memo reflects my own views and do not necessarily reflect those of the rest of the Advisory Committee or of the U.S. State Department.)
There is scarcely any doubt that the accountability and responsibility of international organizations (henceforth "IOs") is among the hottest topics in public international law. Scandals involving the UN's oil-for-food, the actions of UN peacekeepers, the sexual harassment of UN employees, and the (in) actions of the UN Security Council in too many sites of atrocity to mention have kept the issue on the front burner for some time. Accountability concerns also help to explain the proliferation of inspection panels in international financial institutions and have given rise to a number of high profile cases before European courts. Political scientists and legal scholars have repeatedly turned to the question, proposing a variety of solutions, extending from political "checks and balances" among institutional organs to more familiar approaches to control or supervise the discretion of agents drawn from principal-agent theory. (See, e.g., Ruth W. Grant and Robert O. Keohane, "Accountability and Abuses of Power in World Politics," 99 Am,. Pol. Sc. Rev. 29 (Feb. 2005); Karen Alter, "Agents or Trustees?") From a legal standpoint, the difficulties of turning to courts – national or international – to impose liability on an IO such as the UN are familiar. National courts, including those in the United States, usually recognize the immunity of IOs under binding treaties, such as the UN Convention (which grants the UN absolute immunity) or domestic laws. Comparable immunities make it difficult for claimants, even IO employees victimized by their superiors' sexual harassment, to secure a judicial remedy against IO officials – except within the internal mechanisms provided by the organizations themselves. (See, e.g., Mendaro v. World Bank, 717 F.2d 610 (D.C. Cir. 1983). But see August Reinisch, "The Immunity of International Organizations and the Jurisdiction of their Administrative Tribunals," 7 Chinese J. In'tl L. 285 (2008) (noting a trend among a small number of national courts to withdraw immunity where needed to avoid a denial of justice).) International courts rarely even have jurisdiction to consider such questions since only states can be parties to contentious cases before the ICJ, and IOs are not even capable of joining instruments such as the European Convention on Human Rights. The rare example where an IO can be regularly sued in court – suits against EU institutions within the European Court of Justice – suggest how rarely the question can come up as the European Union, in the views of most, is probably sui generis, belonging neither to the genus of international organization nor sovereign state.
The prospect of using a court to secure a remedy against members of an IO has come up somewhat more frequently. Some European courts have suggested that such liability might be possible, for example, based on the principle of abuse of right, estoppel or unclean hands. (See, e.g., Waite and Kennedy, Application No. 26083/94, European Court of Human Rights, 18 Feb. 1999, ECHR 13, 116 ILR 121, 134.) Essentially the idea is that states should not be able to undertake action through an organization that would be illegal or wrongful if committed by any of them individually – as under human rights treaties – and that on such occasions courts should pierce the IO veil and render states (or particular members) liable. But these suggestions have been mostly relegated to dicta. For the most part, rendering states liable for their actions as members of a global IO such as the UN have been resisted by scholars and understandably, by states themselves. (See, e.g., Institut de Droit International, The Legal Consequences for Member States of the Non-fulfillment by International Organizations of their Obligations toward Third Parties, Session of Lisbonne (1995).)
What this means is that but for instances involving European institutions, rare cases where IOs have assumed territorial responsibilities (as in Kosovo), and the special case of UN peacekeepers – for whom the UN has accepted responsibility historically – the responsibility of IOs has been a topic for academic speculation but relatively little practice. The combination of organizational immunities (qualified or absolute) and absence of judicial (or other) forum with jurisdiction to hear complaints has made the suggestion — drawn from the ICJ's affirmation of "legal personality" for the UN in the Reparation Case that like all other subjects of international law, IOs have rights and responsibilities — an intriguing question for scholars but not one that not engaged the attention of many practitioners or judges. This is, of course, very different from the position of the leading subject of international law, states, for whom the enjoyment of privileges and immunities has not been the end of the story. Given their reciprocal needs vis-à-vis each other, states have generally recognized that they are not immune from responsibility for their internationally wrongful acts and that their mutual responsibilities embrace, as was recognized by the ILC's Articles of State Responsibility, diverse means — from apologies to countermeasures to financial liability. Accordingly, when the ILC turned its attention to that topic, its nearly multi-decade-long effort involved far more codification of the abundant practices of states and courts than progressive development. The last only occurred on the margins of enumerating the black letter rules for which the ILC found real world support.
With respect to the IO responsibility project, the ILC was not hindered by the absence of practice. It bravely (rashly?) undertook to delineate rules with respect to not only IOs, but with respect to states in connection with acts that they commit within IOs. (At a minimum, truth in advertising would suggest that the ILC re-title its effort, "articles on the responsibility of IOs and with respect to states in connection with their acts within IOs." Such an awkward mouthful has not hindered other ILC efforts in the past.) Read the rest of this entry…


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AP 2335 The Creative Process (3
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This is the Camo Print Dice Bag. Size is 5" x7" with a double wrapped tie for secure closure.
This dice bag is constructed with a soft cotton print material and lined with a black satin lining to increase quality and durability. The bag is also designed with an interior wrap around black satin rattail drawstring to facilitate closure with one pull.