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A new survey from market research firm Harris Interactive finds that nearly one in four U.S. adults (39 percent) have home networks, and 37 percent of those users would like to use their computers to control their home entertainment systems. In addition, 35 percent would like to control household functions like heating, lighting, security, and ventilation from their PCs, and 31 percent of home network owners would like to use teir PCs to send pictures, video, and music to their televisions.
Of course, another way of looking at these figures is that nearly two thirds of U.S. adults with home networks have no interest in using their PCs as media centers, and even fewer are interested in home automation or sending media to their televisions.
According to Harris, about one in five (21 percent) of its survey respondents plan to buy a new computer in the next 12 months; of those, 44 percent said they were planning to buy a PC wth a dual core processor, and 14 percent were aiming at quad core systems. Some 14 percent weren't sure how many cores would be sufficient, while only 9 percent explicitly planned to buy single-core systems.
Harris speculates that the tendency towards purchasing multi-core systems is driven by consumer's digital media aspirations, rather than by other factors such as manufacturer's offerings and requirements for, say, Windows Vista. "At the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, we saw firsthand the computer power that dual and quad core solutions are offering to consumers," said Milt Ellis, Vice President of the Technology Practice at Harris Interactive, in a statement. "The number of processing cores can only increase when we consider the current market dynamics. Processor manufacturers are extending Moore's law, while consumers believe that more is always better and want to use the computer as an entertainment device that provides cinematic realism." Harris said it found that some 35 percent of U.S. adults have a positive attitude toward technology and 33 percent indicated they felt it improved their lives. (Again, consider the flipside: 65 percent don't have a positive attitude toward technology, and fully two thirds didn't think it improved their lives.)
Among computer users, Harris found that vast majority use computers for email (94 percent), Web surfing (84 percent) and shopping (77 percent), other applications were rapidly gaining acceptance, including online banking (64 percent), travel arrangements (70 percent), and listening to music (57 percent).
Harris Interactive conducted its survey online between November 30 and December 11, 2006, polling 1,028 U.S. adults; Harris weighted the data using unspecified methodology to reflect the total U.S. adult online population on factors of region, age within gender, education, income, ethnicity, and other factors.
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Watch the changes accelerate for the incumbents, they're just as we have pointed to over the last 2 years. Aivars Lode avantce
Shift to Mobile Devices, Cloud Services Slows Pioneers' Growth
By Don Clark
October 6, 2014
For several years, early pillars of Silicon Valley have felt the rumblings of change. ButHewlett-Packard Co.'s stunning decision to break itself up underscores how strong the shaking has become.
Iconic tech giants such as H-P, Intel Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and Oracle Corp. built huge franchises as computers spread to virtually every home and company. But growth has slowed for those technology pioneers, largely because they haven't been able to reap similar rewards from the shift to mobile devices and cloud computing, where computing power, storage and software are delivered via the Internet.
These offerings make it easier for mobile employees to get work done remotely and reduce demand for traditional corporate computing gear from the likes of H-P,International Business Machines Corp. and Dell Inc.
The disrupters include Marc Benioff, chief executive of Salesforce.com Inc., which offers business software via the Web. Salesforce is growing rapidly at the expense of rivals that sell software that customers install and run themselves.
"The old-line tech companies "were not architected for that world," Mr. Benioff said. "They were architected for the last world."When Mr. Benioff travels these days, he takes only his new Apple Inc. iPhone, no longer needing a laptop computer.
At the same time, many of the companies that became household names in the 1980s and 1990s have experienced major shifts in leadership, or are soon likely to.
Larry Ellison stepped down last month after 37 years as CEO of Oracle, though he will remain chairman and chief technology officer. Microsoft Corp. this year appointedSatya Nadella, the first CEO who didn't participate in the software company's early years. Intel has been operating since May 2013 under Brian Krzanich, following the abrupt resignation of Paul Otellini as chief executive.
In August, Cisco announced plans to lay off 6,000 workers —the same month CEOJohn Chambers turned 65; the company hasn't named a successor or specified when Mr. Chambers might give up the post.
"We are moving from the past generation of leadership to a new generation of leadership," said Joseph M. Pastore Jr., professor emeritus at Pace University's Lubin School of Business in New York. "Until that new generation of leadership really takes hold, it's going to be a very ill-defined, undefined moment in the industry."
H-P's restructuring is being led by Meg Whitman, the former eBay Inc. CEO who became CEO in 2011 following the short tenure of Leo Apotheker. She had previously rejected his proposal to spin off the PC business.
But much has changed since then, she argued Monday, supporting the notion of splitting off one company that makes PCs and printers from another selling enterprise technology. For one thing, she said, the prior plan only involved PCs and required creating a new brand; under the new plan, the entity known as HP Inc. will use the company's current logo to sell those devices and printers, too.
Stiff competition in the tech sector, she added, has also made it more important for companies to focus on a few areas where they can excel while streamlining their management structures for rapid decision-making.
"A lot of the big-cap tech companies are facing a marketplace that is changing at a very rapid speed," Ms. Whitman said.
H-P isn't the only company taking radical action. EBay last week said it would spin off PayPal to shareholders by the end of next year, a step initially proposed by activist investor Carl Icahn that it had repeatedly rejected. Michael Dell took his eponymous computer maker private last year after growing frustrated with Wall Street's attitude toward the company.
Geoff Yang, a partner at venture-capital firm Redpoint Ventures, said investor pressures are likely to become a bigger factor in Silicon Valley—particularly among tech firms whose stock has languished. "My guess is that type of thinking is beginning to become much more front and center in boardrooms of tech companies," he said.
The old-school tech giants, with varying degrees of success, are striving to keep up with the move to mobile devices and the cloud. Microsoft, for example, recently absorbed Nokia's mobile-phone business and is making more of its software available for Apple devices as part of Mr. Nadella's "mobile first, cloud first" strategy. Intel is offering special subsidies to get its chips into 40 million tablet computers this year, while continuing to benefit from sales of chips for servers used by cloud services.
The chip maker, and networking giant Cisco, have also been particularly vocal about an even newer opportunity dubbed the Internet of Things—a phrase to describe the introduction of computing and communications capability to everyday devices like appliances and cars.
But such companies still face the perception that their influence has waned in shaping the future of technology, at least compared with Web natives such as Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. Google, for example, currently carries a market value of about $390 billion, compared to about $69 billion for H-P.
So longtime Silicon Valley watchers expect more spinoffs and acquisitions to try to help prop up stock prices and kick growth into a higher gear. They also expect more management changes.
"I think you're going to see all the last-generation CEOs get swept out, even the ones that are hanging on with their fingernails," Mr. Benioff said.

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Hidden Inflation: Why Prices Are Rising Faster Than You Think
Posted by Québec de Droite in Banque centrale, États-Unis, Inflation on jeudi 17 mars 2011
Extrait de: Hidden Inflation: Why Prices Are Rising Faster Than You Think, Money Morning, March 17, 2011
With every stop at the gas pump - and every trip to the supermarket - we each feel the sting of prices that are zooming higher and faster than the government would have us believe.
That's why, in the weeks to come, we here at Money Morning will be creating our own "realflation" index - to give you the true inflation picture. In the meantime, in our latest installment of our "hidden inflation" series, expert Keith Fitz-Gerald offers three inflation-fighting profit plays.]
Rising prices are hitting U.S. consumers a lot harder than the U.S. Federal Reserve - or the U.S. government - would have us believe. The government-issued consumer price index (CPI) for January showed that "core inflation" - which includes prices for all items except food and energy - was up only 1% from the same month the year before.
By excluding food and energy prices, as volatile as they may be, the CPI fails to convey the pain that rising prices are inflicting on American households. Indeed, some economists have claimed that the true rate of inflation is closer to 8% or 9%.
William Patalon (Q): Keith, we talk a lot about "hidden inflation." Is inflation a problem right now? If so, how bad is it? The CPI for January said 1%. Given what we see in the marketplace, it sure looks like a case of hidden inflation. What's the real rate of inflation right now, and is it at its peak, or are prices going to continue to escalate?
Keith Fitz-Gerald: Short version? The CPI is a joke. Every American knows that in reality it's far higher than that based on what they feel in their wallets every day. Even my 8-year-old son, Kazuhiko, was asking me yesterday why the Lego set he's been saving for is now $33 instead of the $22 he initially spotted a few months ago.
My research suggests inflation is really running between 9% and 12%, which is more commensurate with what we all feel in our wallets every day. As for whether or not inflation has actually peaked, that's a tough call best left to those who deal in "official" numbers - and believe me when I tell you that I'm saying that with all the sarcasm I can muster.
My view is that inflation is very real and it's already here - despite what those in Washington continue to believe ... either because their data is so heavily manipulated or because of their own deliberate ignorance. Using history as my guide, I also believe it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
Q: What are the big inflationary catalysts right now? And what's driving them?
Fitz-Gerald: I think there are a few, but the single-most-important contributory factor is the trillions of dollars central bankers around the world have pumped into the financial system since the crisis began in late 2007. Never mind that the crisis was caused by too much money to begin with; the central bankers have embarked on a course that ultimately risks destroying the very wealth they are trying to preserve.
Granted, 99% of Americans won't see or believe that because the markets have rebounded significantly as part of the reflation process. But they will definitely feel it.
The only reason we've been able to stave off complete inflationary disaster so far is that we've exported it to places like China, India and Brazil as part of our monetary policy, in exchange for the cheap goods we've come to depend on. However, that's coming to an end as those economies grow and begin to struggle with inflationary pressures of their own.
Eventually, inflation will come full circle and when there is no place else for us to export it, there's going to be hell to pay.
Q: How about the Middle East violence and uncertainty? How is that contributing to this?
Fitz-Gerald: Inflation was already well under way before the powder keg there exploded, so this is not as much a primary inflation driver as most people think. That's not to dismiss it, because there is a direct relationship between scarcity and higher prices especially at the consumer level.
The key is time - and by that I mean time as in how fast prices climb and how long they stay at elevated levels.
Most companies are prepared to absorb short-term volatility. But longer-term, there is no doubt they'll pass along to consumers (you and me) the higher fuel and petroleum costs that are part of their manufacturing processes. Many, like airline and transportation companies, are already doing so. So are food suppliers and materials makers, for example.
I've noticed, for example, a dramatic price rise in what it takes for me to get home to Japan, or anywhere in the Pacific Rim this spring. My breakfast costs 60% more now than it did three years ago and my wife makes no bones about mentioning by just how much the cost of salmon has risen at our local Costco Many readers have probably noticed similar things in their own lives.
But, getting back to the Middle East ... the risk there is that the unrest that's right now confined to a couple of countries spreads to the greater region ... where we're talking about 60% of the world's oil supply being potentially at risk..
Q: What's the end-game here? By that I mean, what's the potential fallout? Could it stall the recovery? With unemployment still up in the 9% neighborhood, are we in danger of experiencing a 1970s-style period of "stagflation?" If that occurs, what's the outcome you see there?
Fitz-Gerald: I don't think the end game is as clear-cut as many people would like to believe.
On one hand, the laws of money are immutable, so we will have to pay the piper, but let's not forget we have virtually the entire G-20's banking apparatus playing against that possibility. They're obviously well-intentioned. But it's all theory. They are complete economic morons when it comes to real money.
That's a strong statement, so let me give you an example. New York Fed President William Dudley recently told business leaders that inflation was not a big deal, especially food inflation. He noted that people forget that even as food prices are rising, other prices are falling and mentioned the new Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPad 2 as an example ... which elicited guffaws from much of his audience - and downright angered the rest who challenged him by asking how long it's been since he actually went shopping.
Dudley then went on to say that "while rising prices are giving some of you [audience members] headaches, they are not likely to lead to a sustained rise in inflation to levels inconsistent with our dual mandate."
I'm not sure these guys are on the same planet as the rest of us.
By removing the freedom to fail and, instead, insisting on bailout after bailout, our leaders are propping up zombie financial institutions that will ultimately come back to haunt us. History shows unequivocally that we cannot live on "free" money forever. And it's worth noting at the risk of sounding like a broken record that no nation in recorded history has ever bailed itself out by debasing its currency on anything other than a short period of time. That's never happened - and it's not likely to.
Q: It seems to me that the U.S. Federal Reserve, which contributed to this escalation in prices with its "QE" policies, is now stuck between a rock and a hard place. The longer it maintains current policies and keeps rates at historic lows, the worse price escalation will get. But if it turns off the spigot, it risks shutting off the recovery, too. Is that how you see it?
Fitz-Gerald: I see it that way, too. By keeping rates so low for so long, the Fed is not only risking inflation, but the catastrophic collision of entitlements - like Medicare and Medicaid - to the tens of trillions related to everything from mortgage debt to personal credit cards.
I think it's a financial deathtrap, for lack of a better term. What "Team Bernanke" is doing is locking down the short end of the yield curve while leaving longer-term risks to the markets in an effort to revive consumption, inventory build-out, and other short-term "stimulus" that will - at least according to theory, anyway - translate into sustainable growth.
The problem with this is twofold. First, as long as the U.S. is in the driver's seat, Bernanke can get away with it. But we now have nations like China calling their own shots [that are] increasingly unwilling to submit to Washington's policy missives. Second, "stimulus" spending - as Washington has defined it - doesn't work.
If it did, our economy would be screaming along at 8%, or more. Instead we're like a 1970s Pinto limping along on three cylinders and risking an explosion if we get rear-ended.
In financial terms, the rest of the world is losing faith as reflected in the premiums they're now attaching to the debt they purchase. And that makes sense for the following four reasons:
1. The Fed missed this crisis-in-formation, and even in late 2007 insisted that everything was hunky-dory. My favorite was Bernanke who fabulously stated that the risks were "contained." And we can see how accurate a call that proved to be. So if you're tempted to put your faith in Team Bernanke, ask yourself this: Given this earlier miscue, why would we believe the Fed will be able to spot the turning point when everything is "fine" and back off the quantitative easing accordingly, which is one of the central bank's key arguments for taking the actions that it has taken?
2. Our financial markets have gotten hooked on super-low interest rates in much the same way someone gets hooked on drugs. Just think about what happens when you take away the narcotics ... history suggests we'll see the same "withdrawal" in the financial markets when cheap money gets taken away. From a political standpoint, this is a real time bomb: There will be untold pressures to make sure things are really recovering before the Fed raises interest rates. Of course, what this means in practical terms is that the Fed will keep rates too low for too long - and make too much money available - until it is "sure" we're on our way. Many market-watchers, analysts and traders - myself included - believe this will inflate another financial "bubble." Truth be told, I think the central bankers have already done that.
3. An increase in interest rates will be the financial equivalent of a self-inflicted wound. It will dramatically increase our refinancing costs as borrowing costs go up. In very real terms, this will mean that banks have to potentially pay more on their deposits than they make from their investments as rates rise. Bear in mind that the Fed actually needs low rates to pay for all the debt it has pumped into the financial system. In that sense, rising rates will be like the adjustable mortgage from hell as the federal government struggles - and has to make tough choices - in an effort to service this debt.
4. And finally, don't forget that the Fed has been buying trash as part of the bailout process - mortgage-backed securities, swaps, worthless bonds and other unconventional debt conjured up by investment banks - from Wall Street and from other parts of our economy. And while our central bankers may believe that they will be able to easily sell these assets "when the time comes," that clearly won't be the case. Think about it. Those assets will be worth less because a.) their value moves opposite interest rates, meaning any increase in rates will drive down their value, and b.) these assets were junk to start with. The banks that offloaded it to Uncle Sam are all too glad to be rid of it and I can't think of any reason why they'd take it back.
Folks often refer to Hollywood as "La La Land." I submit t hose folks have never been to Washington.
Q: I've asked you this type of question before, and you always seem to have a great response. So I'm going to pose it again. If President Barack Obama and U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke hired you to help the U.S. government arrest this rise in costs, what advice would you provide? What strategy would you employ?
Fitz-Gerald: I think the path here is very simple. But it won't be popular. And it won't be painless. I would tell the administration to:
1) End the bailouts and stop printing money. You cannot suspend free-market forces and still have the economy function. If a company is going to fail, let it fail.
2) Outlaw "non-deliverable" credit-default swaps to remove the speculative component from the debt market. By doing this, we will shift the focus of the economic recovery from Wall Street back to Main Street - where it belongs.
3) Start to raise interest rates immediately - before the market does it for you. If you wait for that to happen, you'll not only lose control of your domestic destiny, you'll lose what little global respect this economy still commands.
4) Partially tie our currency to oil and commodities - a move that's important because it will remove the uncertainty about what the U.S. dollar is actually "worth."
5) Freeze the budget and allow private sector growth to compensate. Quit trying to "help" us and get out of the way.
6) Simplify the tax code and flatten it out so that everyone contributes equally. The U.S. tax code is 8 million lines long ... need I say more?
7) Make it easier to start a business. Give people a reason to put their money to work and an environment that makes hiring people cost effective and not punitive.
8) Address Social Security - privatize it if you have to - and Medicare while you're at it.
9) And, finally, restructure the system in a way that encourages ownership and equity, instead of the current one that encourages people ... and companies ... to borrow money at seemingly ever-increasing levels. It's time to acknowledge reality.
This entry was posted on jeudi 17 mars 2011 at 13 h 07 and is filed under Banque centrale, États-Unis, Inflation. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response.


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Color Guide of the limited edition 1/72 YF-25 Prophecy was translated to English. From my understanding of the YF-25 that was in the Macross Frontier movie, it was supposed to be the prototype for the VF-25 Messiah's used by SMS.
You won't see this selling on any store shelf as only those who have bought a Macross Frontier movie ticket are entitled to purchase the kit. But that hasn't stopped online sellers from selling it online though. This was by basically acting as a middle man for you. They purchase it online for you then you pay them all expenses as well as a service fee.
Click on the image below to see the color guide.
Erratum: The "Dark Ash" listed is supposed to be "Dark Earth" with C22 product code.
Scans of the color guide were taken from Dalong. Some of the kanji were too small to discern, hence was not able to translate it. These are the ones that were replaced with "???" in the English translation.


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By Jamie Carr
Last week a rail link between China and Tibet was opened. Linking the terminus of Golmud with the Tibetan capital of Lhasa required 1 110 km of track through terrain that offered the engineers a wee bit of a challenge. The highest point of the line is at 5 072 m above sea level, so the carriages on the train will have to be pressurised to prevent the passengers keeling over from lack of oxygen. The 30 000 workers on the project found themselves tunnelling through ice, using bottled oxygen, in temperatures as low as minus 35�C, yet it was completed within five years, at a cost of US$4bn.
The similarities between this engineering marvel and our beloved Gautrain are almost uncanny. The Gautrain route may be a touch shorter, at 80 km, but the latest estimate is that it is scheduled to take 4� years and cost a bargain $2,5bn. The Chinese had 550 km of permafrost to deal with, and as everybody knows it can get distinctly chilly on a Highveld winter's night. The Chinese were probably a little less concerned about the environmental impact than our lads, and would have had an altogether more robust attitude to the protests of the Muckleneuk/Lukasrand Property Owners' & Residents' Association, many of whom would now be enjoying a second career in a salt mine if they'd been doing their quibbling in China.
Yet the key policy consideration is the impact of an economically aggressive and modernising neighbour on an ancient and culturally marginalised society. Since the Chinese seized complete power in Tibet in 1959, the Tibetan people have struggled to maintain their unique Buddhist way of life in the face of repression from China. Many believe that the purpose of the railway is not the stated aim of trade and tourism, but rather to facilitate troop deployment, speed up colonisation, extract raw materials and generally tighten China's grip on the disputed territory.
Swap your saffron robes and your prayer wheels for your safari suits and your improbably tight shorts, and you get a glimpse of the future of Pretoria - whoops, I mean Tshwane. Protected for years by the insufferable congestion of the N1, the route to the capital will be clear once the Gautrain is thundering down the line, and there will be nothing to stop cash-crazed Jo'burgers from pillage and plunder.
Before you know what's going on the Vodacom Voortrekker Monument will be offering bungee jumps and foam parties, the Union Buildings will be given a tasteful Tuscan makeover and the State Theatre will become a combination of lap dancing club and opium den.
Some may say resistance is futile, and choose to shuffle off this mortal coil with a lethal cocktail of Klipdrift and koeksisters. But those bittereinders who choose to fight will need a leader, and surely many will have spotted the spooky physical resemblance between His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso and Natani�l.
Sceptics may say that the former is a universally admired Nobel prize winner and manifestation of the Bodhisattva of Compassion, while the latter is a high-camp entertainer with peculiar taste in make-up, but desperate times call for desperate measures. If Tshwane is not to become a northerly outpost of the all-conquering Johannesburg, the time to act is now.
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By Rena Dorph, Ph.D.
Co-Founder: Edah (Berkeley, California) & Nitzan Network (North America)
Director: The Research Group, University of California, Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science
first posted to JESNA InnovationXchange
Parent's e-mail message: "This is all surprisingly more emotional for all of us than I could have imagined. For myself and each other parent that I've talked to, the topic of Jewish education really tugs at our heart strings and it's hard to feel like we can do right by our kids and our pocket books and our commitments to school and other activities. ooph. I haven't heard about any families where the kids are driving the want to be at something Jewish after-school. The kids seem to want to veg out at home or with their friends or be at a specific sport practice; and the parents are working so hard to set up a good Jewish learning and community experience; but it's all so much effort in terms of encouraging kids and schlepping and paying for it that it exhausts us parents."
We must recognize the complexity of developing high quality afterschool learning experiences. Camp has a very different set of affordances than afterschool spaces. And, one of the most important of these features is that camps can be totally immersive experiences for extended periods of time (days, weeks, months). In fact, it is noticeable that this feature is also present in each of the types of experiences that Cohen et. al. (2006) mention (Israel trip, camp, youth group).
Afterschool experiences face several particular challenges. First and foremost, they areafter school. Think about it from the child's perspective. I'm 6, 8, 10 years old. I've sat (yes, mostly sat) quietly (yes, mostly quietly) in school for 5, 6+ hours already today. I've read, behaved, written, behaved, computed, behaved, discussed, behaved, self-regulated, behaved, focused, behaved already today for 5, 6+ hours. And did I mention that I'm not even allowed to lie down or touch anyone else during rug time at school. And I hardly get any recess and when I do I spend half the time trying to figure out who to play with today or waiting in line to play wall ball. Now its 2:30 or 3:30, bell rings, schools over. I'm HUNGRY. No, not hungry—I'm STARVING! It's been at least 3 hours since I've eaten lunch—that cold floppy cheese sandwich someone packed me that I didn't really like (gosh I'd trade my favorite toy if I was allowed to have peanut butter at school). And, I can't believe there were carrots and apple slices in my lunch box, uh-gain! Even though I've made it very clear to my parents that I DON'T WANT ANYMORE CARROTS IN MY LUNCH! What do they think I am, a rabbit?
Does this sound like the frame of mind of a camper?
It is for this reason that many afterschool programs don't even try to attempt any "serious" or "academic" learning. Supervised play, fun activities, homework help, clubs, enrichment, and sports are the usual suspects in afterschool offerings that are popular choices for parents. Further, I've seen several religious/Hebrew schools follow this path using the idea of "camp" or "experiential" learning to provide cover for substituting substantive Jewish learning experiences with decontextualized activities like gaga, planting a garden, and Shabbat-o-Grams.
So, how can we renew Jewish learning after school…yes, in particular, during the hours that happen after school? What role can the lessons learned from camp education as well as education in other contexts play in supporting this renewal? What can we learn from other afterschool programs that successfully meet "serious" learning goals (e.g. science, mathematics, arts, etc.)?
At Edah (www.edahcommunity.org) in Berkeley, California we are tackling this complex challenge head on with the generous support and wisdom of the Covenant Foundation, UpStart Bay Area, and both local and national advisors and donors. Edah's mission is to inspire and engage children and their families through experiential, Hebrew-infused learning in order to nourish collective commitment to Jewish life and learning. We are guided by a central principle: authentic, immersive experiences provide powerful learning opportunities through which people create meaning, develop Jewish identity, build strong relationships, and nurture community. We marry features of camp that are known to be effective with powerful elements of other relevant learning spaces. It is in the intersection of these multiple spaces that we designed Edah.
The Edah model builds upon the best of several existing program structures as depicted to the right. Drawing on elements of several existing educational and enrichment structures, Edah is designed as a community of Jewish doing and learning. Edah builds on the existing structures and youth development goals of afterschool programs, the experiential, immersive, free-choice learning environments fostered at high quality Jewish summer camps, the commitment to daily Jewish learning and Jewish chevreh that characterize Jewish day schools, and the value of families learning and practicing together embodied in high quality family education programs. Edah meets daily, offering participants the option of as many contact hours for Jewish learning as available in day schools. Edah also meets for full days or weeks when school is out AND we also has an annual retreat—yes, a little bit of that camp magic!
Working within this framework, we developed Edah as a program for children in Kindergarten through 5th grade that would both offer amazing Jewish learning for children and their families AND provide a national model for extensive and intensive Jewish education. The following diagram summarizes the theory of action that underlies this program:
The program is designed to include Jewish learning experiences that are: experiential, Hebrew-infused, immersive, learner-centered, and project based. These experiences will operationalize the concept of na'aseh v' nishma—we will do and we will understand(1)—by providing participants and their families with opportunities for doing Jewish practice, learning Jewish content and values, and being Jewish.
These opportunities support participants to become curious about, interested in, motivated towards, engaged in, and skillful in Jewish learning and practice. As a result, these participants develop both the will and skill to engage in Jewish living and learning and realize our program's learneroutcomes in age appropriate ways. These outcomes include: (1) positive Jewish identity; (2) knowledge of Hebrew, Jewish tradition, and values; and (3) capable of engaging in Jewish ritual and communal life.
We at Edah are not alone in the effort to reinvent Jewish learning experiences for children after school. The Edah pilot was conceived of and developed by a group of parent volunteers (of which I am one) who were seeking to create a new model of afterschool Jewish learning experiences. From its inception, the creators of Edah received requests to share their insights with other communities in North America. As a result, the leadership of Edah catalyzed and lead theNitzan Network with the generous support of the Covenant Foundation. The purpose of the Nitzan Network (www.nitzan.org) is to support the renewal of Jewish learning after school.
Through this budding network, Edah leaders and Nitzan affiliates are actively engaging in changing the conversation about what it takes to renew Jewish learning after school.
Being "just like camp" is not enough.
1 Na'aseh is translated as "we will do" and nishma is translated literally at "hear" but interpreted as understand. This biblical concept is very much in line with Edah's constructivist pedagogy.
A Response to: Mission Possible: Strengthening Congregational Schools through a "Camp-Like" Approach
Posted on APRIL 5, 2013 in E Jewish Philanthropy
by Ana Fuchs and Becca Holohan
In his compelling video, Dr. Lasker describes the different "puzzle pieces" that make camp experiences so meaningful and yet present challenges to traditional supplemental education.
At Jewish Kids Groups (JKG) Afterschool Community, we're tackling these puzzle pieces and are excited to share the best practices we've found for a few of them:
Immersion: Lasker points out that the immersive nature of camp and Israel trips is in sharp contrast to 2-6 hour a week supplemental education programs. At JKG, we provide a 5-day a week Jewish afterschool program, providing up to 18 hours a week for Jewish friends to play to together, learn Hebrew and Judaics, create art, receive homework help, bond with their peers, counselor/teachers, and more. For many of our children JKG Afterschool Community is their primary social community. Students are immersed in a Jewish network of peers – just like at Jewish summer camp, summer trips, Israel experiences, preschools, and day schools.
The Team: One of the joys of summer camp is bonding with amazing counselors and having inspiring Jewish role models campers can relate to and look up to. Jewish educators in supplemental education settings traditionally spend limited hours with the students, inhibiting meaningful bonds from developing. At JKG, our teaching staff are enthusiastic 20-somethings, joined by an incredible team of high school aged counselors. Our teachers play dodgeball, lead songs, read stories, and teach Hebrew – they build strong relationships with our students and their families. Our 1:6 ratio means small classes centered on individual childrens' learning styles and interests. Hiring teen counselors as our assistant teachers helps re-engage teens in Jewish education and gives our students positive role models.
Teen counselor Jesse Samuel helps a student learn the Four Questions by providing a back beat
Experiential Curriculum: Though we don't use the language of "cabins," our small cohorts of students are quite similar. Led by a teacher, these groups explore Hebrew and Judaics through a child-centered, experiential curriculum called Hebrew Wizards. At Hannukah time, students took photographs of the "light" they found in their lives – family, friends, beautiful places, streaming sunlight – and explored the concepts of faith and miracles. For Passover, a pair of students designed and created a unique board game called Path to Freedom and took their peers on a creative journey out of Egypt to Israel. Our curriculum is driven by the interests of our students and teachers with a strong commitment to a creative approach with meaningful content.
How should Jewish education adapt and change?
Lasker frames the question, in terms of current social realities: "advances in technology, incredible stimulation, carefully budgeted time, mixing and changing forms of identity…[etc.] how should Jewish education adapt and change?"
Our new Jewish after school model is rooted in several realities we identified over the course of a series of focus groups in 2012:
Jewish after schools coordinate transportation from public schools, provide snack, social and homework times, and daily Teffilah, Hebrew and Jewish content. At a Jewish after schools, you will see children laughing, playing, learning, creating, studying and praying together amongst a community of Jewish peers.
The surge of Jewish after schools indicates that families are enthusiastic about this new model and reframing Jewish education through an experiential and immersive approach.
Please count us in as part of JTS Reframe!
AnaFuchs is Executive Director, and Becca Holohan, Afterschool Community Director at Jewish Kids Groups in Atlanta, GA
Written by: Jennie Starr (Founder and Director of the Tarbuton Israeli Cultural Center)
My daughter was born, and we didn't know what Synagogue we'd belong to, or if she'd go to Jewish Day School, but we knew we wanted her to be "Happily Jewish" and strongly connected to Israel from our home far away in San Diego, CA. We'd do Shabbat at home, celebrate the Holidays with friends and send her to Jewish Summer camp. But, she needed her own Jewish friends for it to be meaningful. Not just our friends, but hers. I was raised by an Israeli father who did not want to go to Synagogue. He'd had enough in the Israeli Orthodox orphanage camp he was raised in as an immigrant during the war and wanted no part of it; though he filled our home with Jewish tradition at holiday time, i.e. Shabbat every Friday, he read us the Megillat Esther at Purim, built a Sukkah each year among other things, and, lucky me, made Israeli food and music staples in our home.
I was recently asked why I built the Tarbuton, and it's not an easy answer. Why did I spend the last 7 years of my life, volunteering 40-60 hrs/week building an Israeli Cultural Center for Americans and Israelis with Israeli culture, Modern Hebrew and Jewish Education at its heart? I didn't feel I had a choice. I could not hope someone else would do it for me. I knew no one would. My youngest was turning 3, and I had a son on the way. They needed these programs and it couldn't wait.
I had terrible Synagogue Sunday School and Jewish Day School experiences, though I'm sure there were hard working, underpaid, Jewish professionals behind these programs. The experiences were bad enough that even my American mother, an educator, agreed to pull me out when she observed the lack of substance, failures of discipline and unhappy kids. We never found a suitable program for any extended period of time, though my mother was motivated. I didn't want my kids to be dragged by an unsatisfied parent, which I seemed also destined to be, in and out of different Jewish programs, with different kids, never quite finding a Jewish community of their own.
In addition to all those things, I wanted their Jewish life to be filled with educators and a community passionate about Israel. I could not stomach putting my children into a Jewish environment that would "undo" our work to inspire our children's connection to Israel. Several real life experiences provide illustrations. In the first, a Synagogue Sunday school teacher asked me for introductions to an Israeli who served in the IDF and believed in conscientious objection so she could teach her elementary aged Sunday school students that people can opt not to serve in the military. I couldn't understand why this subject was relevant in a Sunday School, let alone as part of her Israel education unit. In the second, I had heard that a local Rabbi gave a beautiful gift of a trip to Israel to a bar mitzvah boy but warned from the pulpit, that the family should use the ticket when it was "safe to go;" a public, chilling and conflicted message indeed.
I wanted my kids instilled with a love and passion for Modern Israel, a deep and lifelong connection filled with positive images and visits. I wanted my kids to understand Israel and Israelis. Much of our family lives in Israel. I couldn't accept anything less. And Hebrew was very important too. I couldn't speak Hebrew, but I knew I wanted my kids to. I wanted them to feel at home, because they could understand and engage in everything around them when in Israel, something I hadn't been able to do as a child when we visited and I was left out unable to participate in family conversations in Hebrew.
Silly, I know. We weren't planning to make Aliyah. I still don't know if we will. But, I wanted them to be so connected to Israel that they would tell you, "I'm an American, but I am also passionate about Israel, and let me tell you how amazing Israel is." I looked at our Synagogue and JCC options and while they were filled with dedicated Jewish professionals and multitudes of programs, the programs were filled with songs I didn't recognize, few if any in Hebrew, there was little if any Israel or Israelis in their programs, knowledge of Modern Hebrew in their staffing, and none gave me hope they would ever want or be able to provide these things.
For the last 7 years, my children have attended the Tarbuton Israeli Cultural Center program where they have made American and Israeli friends who are passionate about Israel, they have studied Modern Hebrew in a high quality program taught by Israelis, studied Judaism with admired and respected teachers, and celebrated Jewish Holidays with a core group of many of the same friends experientially, usually outdoors, and with Israeli music. They've done so conveniently in classes at our Center, but also in Tarbuton classes offered after their bell at their elementary public school in what we believe may be one of if not the first District's Enrichment program.
They sing and dance in Tarbuton performing groups at the Yom Haatzmaout Festival and at our House of Israel sharing their passion for Israel with the public. My kids are, I'm very grateful to say, so far, "Happily Jewish". We visit Israel every summer and the kids love Israeli music, are hummus and schwarma connoisseurs, and discerning Israeli visitors to their favorite historical and modern sites, beaches, and restaurants. The kids understand Hebrew well enough to feel comfortable in "their Keitana", the summer camp they call their own, in Israel, and to respond in Hebrew when they need to with a passably authentic Hebrew "resh." It hasn't been easy, and it's not always perfect, but it has been and continues to be our privilege to enrich our children and the community's lives on this Jewish journey through an Israeli Lens.
Jennie Starr is the Founder and Director of the Tarbuton Israeli Cultural Center in San Diego. She advocates for Hebrew Language Charter Schools, introduced Hebrew classes in elementary public schools and serves on her District DELAC Board, for English language support (ESL), and encouraging maintenance of Heritage language skills too. The Tarbuton was recognized this year by Slingshot as a top 50 innovative Jewish organization in North America. The Tarbuton is also proud to be part of the new Nitzan network. The Tarbuton is a recipient of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County Innovation Grants 2011, 2012 and of the Leichtag Foundation 2011, 2012. If you are interested learning more about our Center and programs, contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com
A Response to The Redemption of Hebrew School
Originally published in EAugust 6, 2012 by eJP
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by Ana Fuchs
As the Executive Director of Jewish Kids Groups – a new independent Hebrew school movement piloting in Atlanta – I read with interest Paul Steinberg's article "The Redemption of Hebrew School." His insights about the value of Jewish education are brutally honest:
"In the hierarchy of devalued occupations, Hebrew school is a top contender.
It is a lot of hard work with little evidence of success and even less thanks."
Steinberg says 70-75% of kids receiving a Jewish education do so through traditional synagogue-based Hebrew school. "Hebrew school needs more than a bit of luck to face its challenges," he writes.
His assessment and critique of the Hebrew school landscape puts forth two alternatives to the traditional route: more technology or more camp-like fun.
I am writing to share that there is a new, small but growing model with the potential to transform supplemental education – the five-day-a-week Jewish afterschool program.
In July, The Covenant Foundation, assembled a think-tank of the leaders of pioneering five-day a week Jewish afterschool programs. The Foundation's interest in the model reflects the fact that a handful of new "five-day" programs are being established across the country.
But, why now? What is the convergence of factors causing several distinct communities to launch independent Jewish afterschool programs in the same year? The communities aren't new, the programs are new.
For example, as Jewish Kids Groups enters its third year, we are launching JKG Afterschool Community – a marriage of our stellar Hebrew school and a robust afterschool care program.
The need for this new model is a result of the fact that many of today's Jewish families include two wage earners, and they desperately need afterschool care. They also want their Sundays back. With two working parents, every second of weekend time is precious. They yearn for more family time, for true rest, for Shabbat, even if that's not the word they always use. Parents also want their kids to have Jewish friends.
Perhaps more significantly, so many families are not interested in the desiccated and deadening model of Jewish supplemental education that is merely a pathway to bar/bat mitzvah. They want relevant, dynamic, high quality Jewish education that teaches why it's a privilege to be Jewish with a curriculum that is fun, serious, and joyful.
In Atlanta, the new model grew out of a strategic plan initiative where we engaged the community through focus groups and surveys. Two trends emerged: one expected and one not.
Building on the experiences of two newly established programs, Edah Community in Berkeley (founded in 2010) and the Jewish Enrichment Center in Chicago (founded in 2011), the JKG board approved our expansion from our Sunday program to a full five-day-a-week program. We learned that we were not alone. There were other new initiatives forming like Makom in Toronto, MoEd in Washington D.C., Sulam in Brookline, MA and Tamid and the Hebrew Immersion Afterschool Program in New York.
As Steinberg points out, "what make camps such a success is that it is a whole-life experience." Like camp, JKG Afterschool Community is designed to be an immersive experience in which children attend up to five days a week to grow, learn, and play in a supportive atmosphere with their Jewish friends.
As a result of this level of immersion, JKG Afterschool Community is able to strike a balance between teaching content and building community. We have many families who participate Monday through Friday, which means their children learn and play with us for 15 hours a week (and hence, in finding the balance, we have a huge advantage over the 3 hours a week most children spend in traditional Sunday schools).
On any given day children in JKG Afterschool Community can be seen playing outside, creating crafts in the art shack, eating snack with friends, praying, learning about holidays, Israel, Teffilah or Torah using Hebrew Wizards curriculum, speaking Hebrew, reading in the library and playing games with friends. Mostly, you will see them happy.
Additionally, because of this nearly-full-time set up, we are able to attract, train, retain and fairly compensate high quality educators, or in Steinberg's language textpeople.
From our Jewish Educational Gardner, Farmer Amy, to our Lead Experiential Educator, to our Jewish Drama Director, our team members comment that our "company culture" – which places value on collaboration, initiative and experimentation – is what they love most about JKG. Furthermore, our team members enjoy internal and external professional development opportunities (this year we are all going to LimmudAtl + SEtogether), access to healthcare, sick days and so much more!
We carefully select these "Textpeople" who don't only provide substance, but guide children through a journey of Jewish education and identity by going on that journey with them, in a way that a static textbook can't. That personal connection and dynamic experience enriches the learning process by inviting kids to "forget" that they are being taught by losing the traditional classroom experience and gaining friends and mentors who will stay with them in lifelong Jewish learning. Textbooks stay in the classroom. Relationships endure and stretch beyond the walls.
JKG also speaks to Steinberg's point about how Jewish summer camp is positioned to be effective because "camp is self-selecting. Parents and kids choose camp and they are willing to freely spend thousands of dollars for this experience." In this sense, JKG Afterschool Community is also self-selecting. Today's parents have choices and they are choosing to attend the JKG Afterschool Care Program.
The convergence of social and economic factors makes this the perfect time to revisit the five-day-a-week Jewish afterschool model. First, as Steinberg makes clear, there is wide recognition that the traditional Jewish supplemental education system and even variations of the traditional supplemental education are ineffective. Second, with increasing numbers of families where both parents work, more and better afterschool care is necessary.
So, thank you again Paul Steinberg for your all too accurate assessment of the state of Hebrew schools. But colleagues, take note. In Atlanta and select cities across the nation, there is a new model in town!
Ana Fuchs is the Executive Director of Jewish Kids Groups, Atlanta's Independent Hebrew School.
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Carol has tagged me with a great challenge!! The challenge is to find the 6th picture in the 6th folder and post it on your blog. Isn't that fun??!! So here's mine:
This is a picture from last April. For at least 6 months, this was the face Aaron gave me when I told him to say "Cheese!". Isn't he a stinker??!!
So now I am challenging 6 others: Becky, Veronica, Heather, Okie, Angel, and Liz. Have fun ladies!!
I probably won't be around much this week. I've decided to start my spring cleaning early. I will only be watching the kids 3 days this week, so I thought it would be a good time to start. Between playing with the boys, blog hopping, the Cricut MB, scrapping, and organizing my scrap room, I've been letting the housework slide more than I would like. But no more! So this week I will be cleaning from floor to ceiling. Today I'll be working on the kitchen. I'm also hoping to get rid of some of the clutter by listing some things on Craigslist and freecycle. Maybe I can make some much needed money at the same time!!
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For around the last 15 years, the farm has been part of an environmental scheme, run by the government and Natural England, called the Entry Level Scheme. This was a pretty basic program – anyone who entered would be accepted – which meant we placed some grass strips around the place and did a few other bits and pieces. In addition, we were also accepted into the Higher Level Scheme, which was a competitive process. We were successful here because, by luck more than judgement, our farm is environmentally quite interesting. We have three SSSIs, and provide good habitats for a few rare birds as well. Last October, 2016, these schemes ran out, and we moved into an entirely new program called Countryside Stewardship. Once again, we were able to get into the competitive Higher Tier, so we must have been doing at least something right over the last decade.
The amount of land we have set aside for Countryside Stewardship is around double what we used for the old schemes, taking up something like 10% of the entire farm. Ever since harvest we have been busy putting in all the new plots that were needed; margins for wildflowers, rare arable plants, and grass buffers as well as plots for ground nesting birds, winter bird feed and pollen & nectar areas to feed insects. This should make the countryside around us a nicer place to be, but also I'd like to think it will benefit the farm directly as well. I'm hoping they will provide great areas for all our beneficial insects to live, which can go and eat all the nasties in our crops – meaning we can use fewer pesticides.
One of the really big changes from moving into this new system is that the government has changed its mind on allowing access onto these wildlife strips. Whereas they used to encourage it, it has now been decided that people must keep off. This means that some areas of the farm which have been permissive access paths for many years, are now no longer accessible. The single biggest alteration is in the area between Thriplow and the B1368. There used to be a path that looped around this whole block, but it is now entirely gone. However, all of our farm tracks are still open, as they have been since the '70s, and in a couple of places we have kept the Permissive Access routes by removing areas from the environmental scheme. It is a bit confusing, and I will put up some signs to make it clear where the changes are, but the best thing to do is to check here. There are still over 7 miles of accessible paths on the farm, so please do respect the changes and keep off the nature reserves. Thank you!


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Remember the days when we were told terrorist attacks were "man-caused disaster" and when the massacre of Ft. Hood was an example of "workplace violence"? When we were told core al-Qaeda was "decimated"? And how President Obama would usher in a "new beginning" based on "mutual respect" with the Arab and Islamic world?
Do you still recall when the president promised he would punish Syria if it crossed the "red line" of using chemical weapons? When we were assured that the "tide of war is receding"? And how ISIS was the "jayvee team" of terrorist groups?
That was then. Let me (via Foreign Policy magazine) tell you about now. Buried in a Dell computer captured in Syria, we're told, are lessons for making bubonic plague bombs and missives on using weapons of mass destruction. According to the story:
The information on the laptop makes clear that its owner is a Tunisian national named Muhammed S. who joined ISIS in Syria and who studied chemistry and physics at two universities in Tunisia's northeast. Even more disturbing is how he planned to use that education: The ISIS laptop contains a 19-page document in Arabic on how to develop biological weapons and how to weaponize the bubonic plague from infected animals.
"The advantage of biological weapons is that they do not cost a lot of money, while the human casualties can be huge," the document states
… the longer the caliphate exists, the more likely it is that members with a science background will come up with something horrible. The documents found on the laptop of the Tunisian jihadist, meanwhile, leave no room for doubt about the group's deadly ambitions.
"Use small grenades with the virus, and throw them in closed areas like metros, soccer stadiums, or entertainment centers," the 19-page document on biological weapons advises. "Best to do it next to the air-conditioning. It also can be used during suicide operations."
That's some jayvee team. Some new beginning. Some receding tide.
You'd think that the commander-in-chief might develop a strategy to combat what he himself calls a "cancer." But you would be wrong. Mr. Obama just yesterday admitted, "We don't have a strategy yet" to deal with ISIS. He might consider getting one. Because ISIS clearly has one. It's to kill as many Americans as possible.


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I love fruit. Luckily, living in California, I have access to a lot of seasonal, fresh fruit throughout the year. Strawberries are my favorite, but blueberries are a close second. Blueberry season in southern CA just ended so I made a batch of my favorite muffins with a big container of blueberries I bought recently. However, this recipe for blueberry cream muffins works just as well with frozen blueberries if you don't have any fresh ones on hand.
There are people who like dense muffins, but I am not one of them. I don't really like the consistency of bran or whole wheat muffins. I definitely don't consider these to be "healthy." (But they have fruit in them! Doesn't that count?) I prefer muffins that are more cake-like, fluffier, and softer. After reading through a bunch of recipes, it seems the dense, hard muffins come about mostly due to over-mixing the batter, so you want to be careful as you fold the dry ingredients into the wet. These are not as fluffy as say, cupcakes, but definitely not heavy and dense.
I also love streusel topping on muffins, coffee cake, doughnuts, etc. Sometimes I think I could eat a bowl of just streusel crumbles, but then I realize that basically means eating a mixture of just sugar, flour, and butter, which sounds awful (but also DELICIOUS!).
So this recipe is has LOTS of blueberries, is cake-y, and is covered in streusel. Enjoy!
- 4 eggs, room temperature
- 1¼ cups white sugar
- 1¼ cups brown sugar
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 vanilla bean (or substitute with additional 1 tbsp vanilla extract)
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1½ tsp cinnamon
- pinch of nutmeg
- 2 cups sour cream
- 3 cups blueberries
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1½ tsp cinnamon
- 6 tbsp cold butter cut into pieces
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Line two muffin tins (with 12 muffin capacity) with paper cupcake/muffin liners.
- Mix together brown and white sugars.
- In large bowl beat eggs and then continue beating eggs while stirring in sugar mixture.
- If using vanilla bean, scrape the "caviar" out of the bean. Reserve vanilla husk for other use (see notes after recipe).
- Stir vanilla extract and vanilla bean (if using) into the egg/sugar mixture.
- Pour in the vegetable oil slowly while still stirring the egg/sugar/vanilla mixture.
- In a separate medium bowl, stir together flour, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and baking soda.
- Stir the sour cream into the wet mixture until just incorporated. (It's okay if you still see swirls of sour cream.)
- Gently stir in the flour mixture, a cup at a time. Do not overmix the batter. It should be thick and lumpy.
- Gently fold in blueberries. If using frozen blueberries, no need to thaw them, just put them in frozen.
- Use a large spoon to scoop batter into muffin cups.
- Top each muffin with a 1 tbsp of streusel topping.
- Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes. Check for doneness by sticking a toothpick or knife into a muffin. If it comes out clean (it may have some streusel sticking to it, which is fine) then they are done.
- Leave in the muffin tin to cool down for about 5 minutes.
- Take the muffins out of the tin and place on cooling rack to cool down.
- Combine brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon.
- Slice cold butter into small cube-shaped pieces. Using a pastry blender or fork, incorporate butter into the dry mixture until it has a coarse crumbly look. You can also use your fingers to mash the butter and dry mixture together, but work fast so your hands don't melt the butter.
- This recipe is adapted from Blueberry Cream Muffins from AllRecipes.com.
- You can put the scraped vanilla bean husk into a jar of sugar to make vanilla sugar, which smells wonderful and can be used in any baking application to give an additional punch of vanilla flavor. Or use it make your own vanilla extract!
1 comment on "blueberry cream muffins"
Looks awesome, can't wait to try them!


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I've never seen Dora the Explorer sound so scary!
And for the record, remember when Glenn Beck got all upset that anyone might suggest his anti-government, anti-Obama paranoid delusions might make hate-based murders like those of James Van Brunn more likely? Well, when Glenn Beck says that Obama is a black Marxist who hates white people he's saying exactly the sort of thing that you routinely hear from white supremacists like James Van Brunn.
Glenn Beck isn't a white supremacist, but it certainly is disturbing that the hatred of "liberals" that Beck has leads him to a confluence of conspiracy theory with white supremacists motivated by a hatred of blacks, Jews, and others they consider non-"white." And more disturbing than that is the fact that Fox News is willing to profit from Beck's daily and on-going promotion of lunatic hatred of Obama.


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