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About the Author: Judith McHale serves as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.
I am deeply honored to join President Obama and Secretary Clinton in spearheading America's renewed engagement with the people of the world. As Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs I will work with a talented team of career diplomats all over the globe to build lasting relationships of mutual trust and respect between the American people and foreign publics.
As the daughter of a U.S.Foreign Service Officer, I was taught that there is no higher calling than public service. When my father was stationed in apartheid-era South Africa, our home was under police surveillance, friends were detained and mistreated, and I saw what it means to live in a society that is not free. That experience instilled in me the importance of fulfilling our responsibilities as citizens, of public service, and of standing up for what we know is right.
So even though I am new to the State Department, I am deeply aware of the importance of engaging people across the globe. At Discovery Communications, which I helped expand into 170 countries, we prided ourselves on building bridges of knowledge and information that connected people all over the world. We believed in engaging people internationally on their own terms, respecting their languages, customs, and interests.
I believe passionately that public diplomacy is both integral to our foreign policy and essential for our national security, and I plan to bring that same spirit of respectful engagement to my new role here at the State Department.
In today's rapidly changing world, the United States must continue to move beyond traditional government-to-government diplomacy and seek innovative ways to communicate and engage directly with foreign publics.
The challenges we face require a complex, multi-dimensional approach to public diplomacy. We have to listen more and lecture less. And we have to learn how people in other countries and cultures listen to us. We need to understand their interests and aspirations, and use our leadership to provide them with information and services they value. If we do this right, we can forge relationships that become part of their daily lives. They may come to see their relationship with us, the United States of America, our government, and our greatest asset of all – the American people – as essential to their ability to achieve progress and prosperity, and fulfill their dreams of a brighter future.
This vision is more possible than ever because new communications advances provide unprecedented opportunities to engage people directly, to connect them to one another, and to dramatically scale up many traditional public diplomacy efforts. They provide us the opportunity to move from an old paradigm in which our government speaks as one to many, to a new model of engaging interactively and collaboratively across lines that might otherwise divide us from people around the world. Public diplomacy is not something the government can or should do alone. New technological tools will help us tap into the spirit, optimism, and diversity of the American people, including our many Diaspora communities with their deep ties and networks spanning the globe.
I look forward to working with the dedicated professionals here at the State Department and new partners from across our country to provide the open hand of friendship the President promised the world in his inaugural address.
Alana in Spain writes:
Congratulations Judith! Public diplomacy is so important yet underestimated. There are so many Americans like me living abroad who will be happy to support your efforts in any way we can. The American community, including Democrats Abroad is very vibrant here in Spain (and throughout the world) and proud to be "every day ambassadors" for the U.S.
Zharkov in U.S.A. writes:
Every nation's leaders taught their people, the French, the Russians, the English, the Spanish, the Italians and others -- for thousands of years -- that their country or political system that they lived in was superior to all others.
So to impose "a better way of life", we have slaughtered each other (in the hundreds of millions of people) in insenseless wars.
Earlier the Persians, Greeks, Romans, and others carried out genocide for the same reason. Mass slaughter of human beings has always been justified as "protecting the country", but it is carried out for the exultation of the government.
Belief in government has been the single biggest weapon against humanity. More people have been murdered, tortured and destroyed in the name of government than any other cause in all history. The more powerful the government propaganda, the greater the slaughter.
In the 30 Years War alone over one third of Western Europe was slaughtered by governments over whether Jesus was Protestant or Catholic.
It still goes on today. Of course, the propaganda of the Victors becomes the history of the Vanquished, so we never hear of all the millions the governments of the world had murdered and tortured.
How many know that Charlemagne, the Holy Roman Emperor, called a treaty meeting of 5000 Wotanist Saxonleaders from central Europe in 787 AD? As was the custom among Wotanists, arms were not carried into treaty conferences. The treacherous Charlemagne then surrounded the Saxons with a Christian army and beheaded them in front of an audience of church dignitaries. By such methods a new belief was forced on Europe -- a belief that people need to be ruled by fear of their government.
It was rebellion against this fear that led to the foundation of America so that the people hold all of the power and government holds only that power granted to it by the states from the people -- but nothing more.
Today, we are back in the same old routine of killing each other supposedly "to protect our country" when reality tells us that our soldiers fight to extend government power and influence over other nations and other peoples, to impose "our way of life" whether they want any of it or not. More often than not, we say we kill each other for peace, and security, for homeland, or for patriotism, and then we do it again, and again, in every era.
We fought to free Iraqi people from their own government, so they can have one more like ours - because ours is "superior" to all others. We insist that they vote with ballots instead of bullets, no matter which they might prefer, yet some Iraqi people are not with the program.
We fought in Europe, and our military is still there. We fought in Asia and our military is still there. We fought in the Middle East, and our military is still there. We never fought in Africa, yet our military is now has an "African Command". Anyone with eyes can see we have become an empire that expands wherever it meets weak resistance.
It is a pathetic shame on us that we have failed to educate our own children about the nature of governments and why they were deemed so dangerous by our founders that only a small federal government should be tolerated by a free people.
It was not because governments are benevolent that the U.S. Constitution was written, but because they are so murderous to their own citizens and to others.
Donald in Virginia writes:
I'm speechless which doesn't happen to often. Interesting story and how fitting to have this talent with the State Department. "Bravo Zulu" Welcome Aboard!!! Look forward to seeing ya on the blog!
G.S. in Washington, DC writes:
Hey, don't forget your hard-working CIVIL service staff, too!
Ron in New York writes:
Want World Peace?
Ask Stevie Wonder to do a Global Tour for the Dept. of State! People will be too busy singing and dancing to fight.
Edite in Canada writes:
Writer Zharkov introduces one to a number of historical scenarios in order to underscore his belief that ideaology plays a large part in the slaughter of hundreds of millions of souls throughout the ages. That is true, and in times and places governments have acted in callous and brutal ways to enslave people and occupy countries.The more powerful have always been able to exert influence and expansion but the problems have arisen when those so exploited rise up and fight against their fate. One need not go back to almost prehistoric times to make this point. The twentieth century has ample examples of brutality by powerful and ideologically driven governments. Nazis and Communists quickly come to mind.
Zharkov's attempt to smear America with a vast black brush simply does not hold true. Statements about the people wanting less government is true except for those who cannot or will not adhere to the core values of a free society where individuals make the decisions about their welfare, health and type of government they want. Decentralized, smaller governments, which do not impose their will on the people are the most seriously sought after. America was founded and the New World engaged and flocks of immigrants scrambled to her shores. Why? To seek freedom, opportunity and peace.
That is still true roday. America has never needed barbed wire or Iron Curtains or guards at watchposts to keep its citizenry in check and in place. Americans have not shot individuals who have wanted to leave its boundaries as the Soviets did in the occupied countries of Eastern Europe in the last century when they did it as a matter of course. You want to leave? OK! You get shot. Apart from war resisters who were outright deserters, who did not honor their promise to serve their country, they were easily taken in by Canada's government. Usually, by Liberal governments whose core values are more laisse faire and promote change just for change 's sake. America, for the last two hundred years has been" the land of the free and the home of the brave".Those are not just words in its anthem but describe the character of its people. America has done more good for countries around the world, all in the name of freedom and democracy, than any other country on earth.It has spent more money in aid, sacrificed more lives in the name of freedom, a word not to be used lightly.Those who have endured loss of freedom and democracy have been hell-bent to come to America and other free nations .If an individual does not stand for something, he/she will fall for anything, even loss of freedom.. That includes governments as well.
What has become very discomfitting and worrisome since the November election is the over-use of the words, citizen, world, global, international, global economies, global governments, internationalism, smart power,etc. It reminds one of Communist terms like "comrade" etc. Is that what the West will be asked to use by the most powerful nation on earth? Total engagement implies total access to everyone and everything but does not imply freedom, democracy, smaller governments, market based economies.The economic downturn can probably be traced back to the tenets of the Bilderberg Group that has existed since the early fifties. The fact that once powerful and fluid companies have folded and packed up with the intrinsic chaos that has followed is not at all surprising. Over the last fifty years the middle class has been slowly eroded and the powerful, monied entities who have succumbed and engaged with the Bilderbergs are in a position to call all of the shots, around the "world". Americans et al should be quite concerned about this effect on their lives and the lives of their children and grandchildren. It is vital that all return to the core values that have made America and the free West great. Anything less than that is foreboding. Worrying only about a chicken in every pot and large screen TV's has to be abandoned and serious contemplation is required of all who cherish freedom and democracy. Materialism has to be abandoned as the sole guarantor of success.The fight for freedom has gone on since the birth of nations and it is a powerful aphrodisiac, intrinsic in every person's inner soul, regardless of where they live or how they live. Very watchful guarding of these freedoms must embrace every American and up 'til now, free people everywhere. We should not give up it without a concerted effort to keep it in place.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
I think every US administration tries to find their own words to define the policy process, whether that might be "transformational diplomacy" or "smart power" for instance, in order to create if you will, the character and tone of the approach the President wishes to set in foreign affairs, and thereby personalize his approach to the many issues confronting him.
Even if policy itself remains consistant through multiple administrations.
A good example is the BBC interview in which President Obama described his approach or America's approach under his watch, towards the development of democracy as a working system of government as one we cannot be "hoisting upon" nations as "western values" but that these vaues inherent in democracratic construct are "universal" and may be "embraced".
No different in meaning than when Condi Rice stated, "Democracy cannot be imposed", as it is chosen by the people.
Some words like "universal" remain intact between U.S. administrations because they not only reflect the consistancy of policy, but the best definition of the truth of the matter, which are in process of becoming self evident globally.
A bipartisan "given understanding" in a word.
In "leading by example" one may offer a set of blueprints to what's democraticly possible. Societies get to pick what designs they want to build it upon, with the materials they have on hand, within their culture and common understanding and desires to live better lives.
In this I think Muslims have to take stock of whether political Islam has delivered the better life they seek, or does it require the separation of mosque and state to attain a free society that celebrates diversity and the talents of women in the public fora.
So it becomes an essential choice born of debate within societies as to what works for the good of all or not, on a practical day to day level of living with each other.
That the U.S. has imposed change there is no doubt, not from any hegemonic intent, but because we were attacked, and the status quo that allowed for that to happen was flat unacceptable to the American public as well as its government.
Including the Muslims of America to be sure.
Islam is already global, so the only reason extremists of this religion wish to create a "Califate" is for hegemonic purpose and political control over populations.
Gitmo is a long standing politicized issue that has on many levels defined a small facet of the results that have come about as a result of responding to violence directed upon the U.S. and other nations.
My thought is that Gitmo should not be closed, but donated lock, stock and barrel to the international criminal court or the Hauge along with the detainees to be put on trial in front of the whole world.
Any nation that wishes to bring charges upon an individual detained on the battlefield may do so in such a judicial fora, and Gitmo thus becomes a neutral internationaly run detention center for the convicted to serve out sentence in.
We may not be party to the ICC, but we have supported its founding as a nation as policy, and perhaps it serves our interests as a just nation of laws to ask whether there's a long term solution to be found in such an idea.
Kind of kills several birds with one stone in the sense that it internationalizes the judicial process to procecute terrorists on the basis that they are a threat to all nations, whether on a case by case basis, the accused has commited terrorist acts in only one, an attack on one is an attack on all.
Gets the politics between nations out of the process too to a certain extent because bilateral relations among nations interjects this into the mix at present on a case by case basis of repatriation.
In this country, we try to find a fair and collective methodology that passes the constitutional "lemon test" in our supreme court.
I can see no other rational way to conclude the debate.
Zharkov in U.S.A. writes:
Edite in Canada has posted a reply so I must say that in modern times, the direct murder of American citizens by our own government has yet to occur on a mass scale, but also the U.S. has more people in prison than any other country on earth.
Any Iron Curtain around our borders would be redundant when our Iron Curtains are decentralized across the country and the number of incarceration centers are rapidly increasing as more laws are enacted to remove more liberty from more people. Edite might be amazed to discover what is illegal today in America, that was never illegal before.
America does not shoot Americans who wish to leave our borders because our government continues to tax them after they are gone as a reminder of who is the master and who is the slave. Our government has difficulty letting go - no matter where one lives. We have military bases in almost every country on earth. When the entire planet becomes a prison, no nation needs an Iron Curtain.
However, we do shoot foreigners who actively resist their own government or our military presence in their nation; but, we only kill for benevolent purposes, or for peace, or for liberty, or for country, or for whatever else pops into the heads of the propagandists.
The fact remains that many governments are serial killers no matter what the reason, good or bad, moral or immoral. Human history is awash with mass slaughters by governments.
The U.S. has no exemption either, as we massacred tens of thousands of Native Americans in founding our nation - please don't even try to deny it, today's indian reservations speak volumes of history for themselves.
We massacred hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians in our nuclear war with Japan, it may be justice for the Bataan Death March but unnecessarily it seems, now that it has been declassified that the Japanese were asking to surrender before we took out Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
We have been accused of massacre of millions of Iraqi children by starvation in our war with Iraq, a situation that Secretary Albright found unremarkabe during a news interview.
Our U.S. government secretly experimented on our own citizens with bacteria releases over the past 50 years, admitted recently by the Department of Defense. They have, in collaboration with universities, experimented with eugenics since the early 1900's, and they continue with eugenics experiments today with DNA data banks derived from every newborn American in the country, and with research on DNA-specific weapons, genetically-modified food, and with the strangest ingredients one can imagine in U.S. vaccines, such as HIV virus, Simian virus, and recently, Avian Flu, a virus confined to level 3 labs only, yet managed to be inserted into human vaccine.
Without warning American citizens downwind, our government released radioactive nuclear fallout from 40 years of atomic test. This undeniable fact cannot be changed by explanation or equivocation. The dangers of nuclear radiation have been known since Madame Curie experimented with Radium.
Indeed, the list evil behavior is so long that there is a 3 hour documentary film of it, estimating that over 100 million people have been killed by governments in just the 20th century alone.
So this is what a global government, a "self-governing international community", can accomplish.
When the track record of governments is the loss of over 100 million lives, a global government is certain to be a total disaster for humanity.
Masood in California writes:
You are right! "Public diplomacy is not something the government can or should do alone." And, certainly the diversity of the American people is -- American diplomatic strength -- the communities with deep ties and networks radiating all over the globe.
Edite in Canada writes:
What is most troubling in writer Zharkov's tome is that he has not ,even once, referred to the slaughter of one hundred millions souls in the 2oth century being carried out by Communists. Sounding like a sycophant or apologist for them is very unattractive and rather silly, considering that Putin's Russia continues to kill adversarial dissidents. Nothing much has changed since Stalin's time. Referring to the plural, governments, in response to the one hundred million lives taken, is not accurate. Soviets did that all by themselves. Taking undiluted pleasure in characterizing America as a nation of people who slaughter others, in making reference to Native American Indians (point well-taken) but in ressurrecting Hiroshima and Nagasaki, one should not forget who attacked whom? Did anyone see a proverbial white flag raised by the Japanese so that the world could see that they wanted to surrender? Any comment on the Arizona in Hawaii and the scores of Americans who died there?
Taxing individuals after leaving America is not a foreign idea to most people around the world. If anyone is receiving taxable pensions from America or any other country, is not a cause to refer to a master/ slave relationship. Apples and oranges are very different fruits and it is not hard to distinguish between them.
What is considered legal and illegal in Canada is probably worse than in the United States. Writing or speaking the truth invites journalists and other writers and their publishers to be sued for their "freedom of speech" values, which incidentally are guaranteed in the constitutions of the major democracies and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Instead of "free speech", writers of truth face the unsavoury attack of their words being referred to as " an incitement to hatred" and then are subjected to criminal charges. How terribly sad. For this, brave men and women have died, to protect these very rights. Echoing the words of former Senate Chaplain, Peter Marshall, he once wrote that "freedom does not mean the right to do as one pleases, but rather to please to do that which is right". Stifling free speech is not right but nor is libel and slander.
Stating that America has more incarcerated individuals than any other country is probably not quite true. However, one can always stand to be corrected, provided there is adequate proof and evidence of such.
As far as global governments go, this writer has never advocated those. One agrees it would be a travesty and a total disaster.


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Economic evaluation in patient safety: a literature review of methods
- 1Centre de coordination de l'évaluation clinique et de la qualité en Aquitaine (CCECQA), Hôpital Xavier Arnozan, Avenue du Haut-Lévêque, 33600, Pessac, France
- 2Institut de recherché et documentation en économie de la santé (IRDES), 10, rue Vauvenargues, 75018, Paris, France
- Correspondence to Dr Bruna Alves de Rezende, Centre de coordination de l'évaluation Clinique et de la qualité en Aquitaine (CCECQA), Hôpital Xavier Arnozan, Avenue du Haut Lévêque, 33600, Pessac, France; bruna.alves_msp{at}yahoo.com
Contributors Bruna Alves de rezende is the corresponding author. She did the literature search and article selection and initial analysis. She conceived, structured and filled out the template used for summarising the selected articles. She was responsible for the final redaction of all the versions of the paper. She was also in charge of the redaction of part of the responses to the referees and to the editor's comments. Zeynep Or played an important part in article selection and initial analysis. She revised all of the information in the analysis template used by the authors. She widely contributed to the revision of the first and subsequent versions of the paper and was in charge of writing part of the responses to the referees' and editor's comments. Laure Com-Ruelle contributed to structuring the analysis template and to the analysis of the selected articles. She also contributed to revising the first and subsequent versions of the paper. Philippe Michel contributed to the analysis of the selected articles and revised the first and the subsequent versions of the paper. He widely contributed to rewriting of some sections. He was also in charge of writing part of the responses to the referees' and the editor's comments.
- Accepted 7 December 2011
- Published Online First 6 March 2012
Patient safety practices, targeting organisational changes for improving patient safety, are implemented worldwide but their costs are rarely evaluated. This paper provides a review of the methods used in economic evaluation of such practices. International medical and economics databases were searched for peer-reviewed publications on economic evaluations of patient safety between 2000 and 2010 in English and French. This was complemented by a manual search of the reference lists of relevant papers. Grey literature was excluded. Studies were described using a standardised template and assessed independently by two researchers according to six quality criteria. 33 articles were reviewed that were representative of different patient safety domains, data types and evaluation methods. 18 estimated the economic burden of adverse events, 3 measured the costs of patient safety practices and 12 provided complete economic evaluations. Healthcare-associated infections were the most common subject of evaluation, followed by medication-related errors and all types of adverse events. Of these, 10 were selected that had adequately fulfilled one or several key quality criteria for illustration. This review shows that full cost–benefit/utility evaluations are rarely completed as they are resource intensive and often require unavailable data; some overcome these difficulties by performing stochastic modelling and by using secondary sources. Low methodological transparency can be a problem for building evidence from available economic evaluations. Investing in the economic design and reporting of studies with more emphasis on defining study perspectives, data collection and methodological choices could be helpful for strengthening our knowledge base on practices for improving patient safety.
- Adverse events
- health policy
- cost and cost analysis
- evaluation programs
- epidemiology and detection
- cost-effectiveness
- decision making
- evaluation methodology
- healthcare quality improvement
- quality measurement
- pay for performance
- health services research
- incident reporting
- medical error
- human factors
- human error
Linked articles 000585.
Funding This research project was partly funded by DREES (Direction de la recherche, des études, de l'évaluation et des statistiques), the Evaluation and Statistics Department of the French Ministry of Health.
Competing interests None.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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Joseph Raffael was born in 1933 in Brooklyn. His mostly solitary childhood, during which he came close to death from meningitis, saw him develop a strong interest in drawing. Raffael's mother died when he was quite young, and death and isolation are constant themes in his artistic practice. Raffael studied first at the Cooper Union in New York and received his BFA from the Yale School of Fine Arts in 1956. In 1958–59 he travelled and painted in Italy on a Fulbright scholarship.
Raffael created the series of lithographs Boy touching man touching upper lip at Gemini GEL in 1976. The prints demonstrate his precise drawing skills and address the theme of isolation.
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Police Identify Accident Victim As Isabella Stanford
Police have identified the 5-year-old victim of Friday's tragic sledding accident as Isabella M. Stanford.
Isabella died Friday evening at WCA Hospital after being struck by a car on Foote Avenue in Jamestown. According to police, she was sledding at a house on Hazzard Street that backs up to Foote Avenue and the sled on which she was riding slid into the road where it was struck by an SUV.
At the time, Isabella, a kindergartener at Fletcher Elementary School, was sledding with three other children, including a twin sibling. The oldest child in the group was a 7-year-old and another 5-year-old was also involved. All four children had a family connection. At this time, police are not saying who was supervising the children or how old that person is.
"Parents need to be aware of what their children are doing," said Captain Bob Samuelson of the Jamestown Police Department. "Even if they are with friends, parents need to know who is responsible for them, who is supervising them."
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This is a fluid yet oily moisturizer suitable only for dry to very dry skin. The source of omega-3 fatty acids is gold of pleasure oil (Camelina sativa), also known as false flax because its seed resembles flax. Gold of pleasure oil is indeed rich in omega-3 fatty acids (Sources: Plant Cell Reports, February 2008, pages 273–278; and Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental, October 2002, pages 1253–1260) and that's great for skin, but there is no published research demonstrating any unique benefit gold of pleasure has for skin.
There are many sources that can "naturally" deliver omega-3 and -6 fatty acids to the skin, and like many non-fragrant plant oils they play a role in restoring softness and pliability to skin while helping to restore a healthy barrier function. This serum does contain fragrance ingredients (linalool, limonene) that can be irritating, although their effect may be offset by the anti-irritants present—but why not just leave the irritating ingredients out altogether?
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It is rarely humid where I live, and I find this serum wonderful for keeping my skin from drying out/dehydrating at night. I use this under a moisturizer.
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This oil-based serum is lovely, my skin is plumper & more radiant. It doesn't make my skin overly oily & absorbs well. However, I am disappointed that this contains irritating ingredients. I have not noticed any irritation myself when using this product, but it doesn't sit well with me knowing there are unnecessary ingredients in my skincare products, hence not giving this full marks. This has been rebranded as Vita Mineral Omega 3 Optimum Skin Serum Oil.
Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Triticum Vulgare (Wheat) Germ Oil, Camelina Sativa Oil, Rosa Canina Fruit Oil, Phaeodactylum Tricornotum Extract, Bisabolol, Parfum (Fragrance), Linalool, Limonene, Tocopherol.
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Strengths: Good toner; some worthwhile moisturizers and masks (but not the anti-acne formula); a bounty of products for dry to very dry skin; some products contain especially high amounts of known antioxidants.
Weaknesses: Expensive; repetitive formulas that aren't nearly as natural as they're made out to be; several products contain irritants with no established benefit for skin; very irritating products for those with acne; no skin-lightening options; unappealing products for oily skin.
Hailing from the United Kingdom, the Ren line was developed by two businessmen who are, according to company information, "evangelical" about skin care. The story goes that Robert Calcraft and Anthony Buck were former consultants who began researching the skin-care market after Buck's wife began having adverse reactions to every skin-care product she used while pregnant. Apparently neither man believed that there was a line out there that offered consumers high-tech products that were "totally clean" and "completely effective," and so, voilá, a new skin-care line was born.
We wish we could write that these men were really onto something for all women, not just Buck's wife, but that's simply not the case. First of all, their assessment of the cosmetics industry is bizarre, because in truth there are indeed many cosmetic lines offering "clean" and "effective" products ("clean," by Ren's definition, are products that don't contain problematic ingredients). Second, which lines did Ren's founders check out to determine that there was a missing link? An even better question is: What criteria were they using, because almost all of their products are either poorly formulated or contain irritating ingredients?
Calcraft and Buck apparently worked with a cosmetic pharmacologist; although that sounds impressive, a cosmetic pharmacologist works with drugs designed to improve mental ability in healthy individuals, not with skin-care formulations. All of this back story is nothing more than proof that the people behind this line really didn't do their homework, and the consumer who buys these products will be the poorer (both skin health- and money-wise) because of it.
It still shocks us when we review a line that's laden with products claiming to improve wrinkles and other signs of aging skin, and yet there's limited options for sun protection. Few researchers question how critical daily sun protection is to preserving the health and appearance of skin. Many of Ren's products contain antioxidants, and several have high amounts of green tea oil. But all the green tea in Japan isn't capable of protecting skin from environmental damage, which of course includes sunlight.
More so than many other lines that eschew certain ingredients for their alleged (and, sometimes, proven) negative effects when present in skin-care products, Ren loves to point out everything they don't use. This is a line for those who love to see the word "No" followed by a long list of chemical-sounding names that can seem scary to the uninformed. A consumer may have no idea what a polyquaternium is, but because of lines like Ren, the message is clear that it's not desirable. Ren doesn't provide any documentation supporting their ban on certain ingredients, which is typical of lines whose marketing angle relies on perpetuating the myth that synthetic ingredients are evil and that natural is the only truly safe way to go.
It would be great if Ren's "do not use" list benefited consumers, but it doesn't. Frustratingly, many of the ingredients Ren opts to use instead of synthetics are proven irritants for skin. Bergamot, peppermint, tangerine, and arnica are indeed natural ingredients, but each has its share of problems for skin. We could go on, but you get our point: Ren is really nothing more than an overly fragranced, fear-mongering, natural "me too" line using the same tired plant-based ingredient angle as countless other brands. The difference is that many of those other brands have a product assortment that, either from a price or formulary perspective, is much better than this one.
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I have been going to the Palm Beach Zoo, an Association of Zoos and Aquariums member zoo, for as long as I can remember. It is the first zoo I ever visited, just a toddler peering through the enclosures at monkeys and panthers. It was here that I first saw the wild animals that held my fasciation in books and on television, the first place I experienced the difference between a domesticated and wild animal.
For many, their first visit to the zoo is not an experience but a seminal moment in their young lives. It's an event that leaves an impression and spurs the imagination, broadening their tiny worldview beyond Sesame Street and backyard forts.
For me, going to the Palm Beach Zoo is still a highlight of my rather busy life and one of the real perks of this job. Getting to go behind the fence on assignment, seeing exhibits' night houses and behind-the-scenes viewing of the animals is a unique experience. What makes each visit special is this zoo is constantly evolving, always working on its mission, continually improving. I am amazed at how such a small zoo, just 23 acres, can seem new each time I step foot through the gate. The mission of conservation and animal welfare not only takes precedent but also is carried through to each visitor who walks into the park.
Though small in stature, the Palm Beach Zoo is at the forefront of the fight for endangered specie survival. The birth of three Malayan tigers at the Palm Beach Zoo in 2011 was a pivotal moment in the zoo's involvement in the AZA's Species Survival Plan.
"Three of the five [Malayan tiger] cubs born [in 2011] in all the AZA zoos were born right here on this site," said Andrew Aiken (left), president and CEO of the Palm Beach Zoo, while pointing to three larger-than-life photographs of Jaya, Penari and Bunga. "That was sort of a feather in our cap, having proven that our animal care staff is top notch. Tigers don't just get together and that's it. It is a drawn-out process, and a very dangerous one if you have the wrong pairs getting together—you just have no idea. So the judgment calls and capacity of our animal care staff to understand the language of the animals and understand when they can be put together, when they should not, is incredibly important. Our folks have done that very, very well. The majority of the expanded population is right here—people are learning about them and looking at them everyday. So that is all pretty exciting stuff."
Aiken's tenure began with a humble footing, as a volunteer. "I joined the board as a volunteer in 2002 when [the zoo] got some substantial sponsorships and donations, principally from George Cornell's family, which was deployed into the Cornell Tropics of America exhibit," Aiken says. With a background in real estate development, Aiken was tapped as chairman of the Construction Oversight Committee to manage the development and construction of the Cornell Tropics of America, the Reptile House and Wings Over Water exhibits, followed by the 10,000 square-foot, LEED gold-certified Melvin J. and Claire Levine Animal Care Complex—"the first of its kind in North America," he says—and most recently the Koala House.
Named president/CEO on September 30, 2011 after Dr. Terry Maple retired, Aiken is now leading the zoo into a new phase of development, overseeing the capital campaign and construction of Tiger Valley, an expanded exhibit and night house that will give the zoo's tiger residents nearly three times the space they currently roam.
"Those investments in and of itself tell a lot about the direction of the institution," Aiken says, motioning to development offices, a trailer easily into its third decade of use. "Where we invest has to do with animals, their well-being, conservation and education. Those are the core elements of our mission."
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I am actually anticipating this conversation. As a comment on Professor Needleman's quotation regarding individuality v. individualism, I believe it's important to keep in mind that the opposite of the Greek "polis," the citizenry, was the "idiotays," from which we get our English word "idiot." The "idiotays" was the individual or private person, without the capacity (and perhaps desire) to be involved in public affairs. A government of such individuals, if there could be such thing, may well be referred to as an "idiocracy." With our continuing collective love affair with individual rights, often absent individual, much less collective, responsibility, are we, however unintentionally, creating such an "idiocracy"?
The Enlightenment thinkers weren't the first to think that God could be found by examining the natural world: St. Paul states it in Romans.
Great show. If we don't use freedom to promote and practice virtue, we will lose our freedom. As he said, freedom is not for doing whatever we want.
The only thing I would add is that organized religion is the main force in society that upholds virtue and encourages virtue, and virtue is needed, as he argues.
This program brings to mind the classical Greek distinction between the notions of the "polis," the citizenry those involved with public and political affairs, and the "idiotays," the private person or "the individual" who was regarded as unfit (or perhaps lacking the desire) to participate in the public work of democracy. It is from "idiotays" that we get the English word "idiot." Properly understood, this has less to do with native intelligence as it does with a person closed in upon him- or herself. In our current political landscape, which seems to be increasingly a nation of "private persons" clinging to their individuality and individual rights, absent from any sustained thinking on public responsibility, we are, perhaps, moving away from democracy and toward an idiotocracy.
Yes, the deeper spiritual thinkers among my most treasured friends & associates are all angry at what America has become: a superstore cathedral dedicated to money, power, consumption and the lust for more. The endless triumphs of the moneyed private good over the disenfranchised public good, the pandering to all manner of well-connected special interests, the Roman spectacle of misinfotainment passing as tv news journalism and slaying all possibilities for informed civil debate, and the dozens of profitable banal addictions that keep the masses sedated to the point of spiritual unconsciousness. We might as well replace "In God We Trust" with the more contemporary "Just Show Me the Money". A thoughtful examination of the Subprime Meltdown and the subsequent Great Recession reveals the widespread moral corruption, collusion and unfettered greed that has come to dominate Wall Street, our corporate boardrooms, the financial services sector, and our politicians and watchdog regulators. The Great American Experiment has come off the rails, and most of the civilized world can see that even if we cannot. As Globalism proceeds on its merry way, we shall find our economic power in the world waning evermore, so if our moral power declines as well, then fledgling democracies around the world will find it increasingly necessary to ignore our poor example and go their own way. Right now, they are watching how we handle our Federal Debt Limit: will we share the pain as One People or simply pander to the wealthy once again and throw the newly impoverished masses to the dogs? We shall see...
Your eloquent statements are
Your eloquent statements are so enlightening. I del the same way you do, what can we do about it. I am visiting Canada. We can learn a lot about humanity from our neighbors. Thank You SW
Always the broadcasts are helpful. I listen at 7 am on Sunday morning. I,too, am from Philadelphia. I passed along the link to those I listen to on MSNBC asking Rachel to bring them together to reflect on the meaning of our democracy as Mr. N. suggested our senators/congressmen need to do. I am concerned that we are stripping away the essence in honor of the superficial. Profound thinking is discouraged often. It is a quiet, rainy Sunday morning. I wish so many of us would not feel we are wasting our time if we are taking time to think and reflect. Thank you Krista. I do wish your broadcasts could reach more people. Maureen J. Quinn
An inspiring and enlightening conversation with Jacob Needleman. Thank you Krista.
The challenge for all peoples as well as Americans is an appreciation for history, knowledge, philosophy and religious thought. Needleman's comments in response to your request for a further elaboration of 'the pursuit of happiness' calls for a what he states as the development of conscience and its continuing process of self-examination.
Most people are not inclined to pursue that development. Most people are inclined toward what Needleman spoke of as 'ego gratification' and images of the 'good life' materialism.
Krista, thank you for your service and inclusiveness of many areas of thought, religions, philosophies, science and literature, music, etc. You are an infinitely precious soul.
Probably the biggest take-away is this reality that I've never acknowledged: the United States is a guardian of conscience. Wow. True, I've always been aware of the variety of churches, synogogues, etc., but I always considered that a personal issue or a family issue. But I now realize it's much broader than that. It's hard to imagine, e.g., if we lost WWII and we were all speaking German and had to adopt whatever religion the Nazis would allow. What would our nation's conscience look like under Nazi rule? Hard to imagine.
I truly enjoyed this timely discussion on the spiritual and moral aspects of our country's founding. This excellent broadcast is a reminder that the proper roll of government at its core is not to take care of us, but to allow us the freedom to take care of ourselves. I share Professor Needleman's view that it is not too late to change direction. I am happy to report that our high school sophomore son has studied Frederick Douglas. Thanks to NPR, Krista Tippett and Professor Needleman!
I am taken by the discussion about "free speech" and Mr. Needleman's point about the inward responsibility of not only hearing what someone else is saying but also listening and absorbing the concept of what they have said. In this day of tolerance, I think we have regressed to allowing someone to speak in their allotted time but we need to go beyond that, listen and process what they have said. Great topic that could be discussed much further.
First I applaud everything Mr
First I applaud everything Mr. Needleman says about "America" as an idea. I have long advocated the idea of "America" as a vibrant and continuously evolving philosophy – not to be confused with the "U.S.A." which is an increasingly deteriorating government.
Unfortunately Mr. Needleman seems to have missed a fatal contradiction in his assertion that "Government protects society. Society is the realm where people relate to each other in subtle, aesthetic, ethical, spiritual ways that can't be legislated."
Reverse the order of the two sentences in the above statement and the completely self defeating reasoning will become glaringly obvious.
Society is the realm where people relate to each other in subtle, aesthetic, ethical, spiritual ways that can't be legislated. If this is true and I agree that it is, then it is impossible for any government to be anything but hostile to the society it purports to "protect".
Governments have only one mechanism to do what they do. They make laws, they legislate. Then they add injury to insult by enforcing those laws through (the threat of) violence.
Another disappointment for me was how Mr. Needleman uses the collectivist conceit of so many self-proclaimed intellectuals when he says "We need to be able to think together about what these things mean. People don't think." [My emphasis]
"The People" is a fantasy. It is a political illusion without factual reality in nature. There is no such entity. One cannot have a direct conversation with "the People" any more than one can have a direct conversation with "the Government" (another legal illusion). One can only have conversations with individuals. The collectivist conceit I refer to above is manifested in the way those who speak of "the People" invariably exclude themselves when doing so.
I don't know with whom Mr. Needleman has these "conversations about freedom, liberty, representational government, etc., etc". — and when he stopped and asked them what they meant by these things, "they were tongue-tied or they just shouted." My experience is a very different one. Every day I engage people in all walks of life in such conversations. Almost without exception, they prove to be thoughtful and concerned in their responses, ready to express a viewpoint and defend it.
I loved this essay because in
I loved this essay because in my reading it was so far away from the others and the way I heard the program. Would love to hear more about your foundational elements for the role of government in Society. All I could infer is that your philosophy was in keeping with that of many of our founding fathers that Government is Evil, on the one hand, but I couldn't find the other half of the Founding Fathers Debate about how to define government so that it did support society, like Mr. Needleman tried to do, in my hearing. I'm afraid my Mind isn't up to seeing the glaringly obvious things you suggest. Perhaps a few more less subjectively ambiguous words would help. It would appear you are against law, and have some idea about how to enforce laws without "violence", which you seem to use synonymously with "force", as in enforcement. sounds cool. thanks!
I'm reflecting on "what is conscience" in the manner in which Jacob N. uses it/understands it. I'm also wanting to read his book the "American Soul". Finally my mind wandered to imagining a community of thinkers who would meet and engage under a friendly, informal charter to ponder and share thoughts about our understandings of American democracy. And I was gently and kindly inspired by Mr. Needleman's wisdoms and beliefs about the underpinnings of our society and government.
Thank you so much for your wonderful conversation with Jacob Needleman this morning. As one who is very frustrated with the political polarization in our country, I wish everyone could hear Prof. Needleman's take on the beauty of the American system, warts and all. I love that he includes Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglas, and Walt Whitman in the 'founding fathers,' because they did truly shape the heart of American democracy just as Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and others did. I must say that the discussion renewed my sense of patriotism and reminded me to focus on the deeper meaning of why so many people around the world aspire to become Americans. The notion of 'well being' that many here take for granted is a real luxury in many parts of the world. Thanks you again for the thought-provoking conversation. Keep up the good work. I love your show, it's my alternative to church!
This was a very thoughtful and moving interview. Needleman calls for something that may well be beyond our national means; THINKING together. Not in coarse political action, but real political thinking; reasoning. However, it seems most odd that throughout this entire discourse on our unique national political experiment, not once does either the author or the host breathe the word which embodies and mythologizes the experiment they so earnestly yearn to analyze, the word 'Republic'. Where, in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution will you find the word Democracy? Nowhere. Try saying the Pledge of Allegiance and pause when you get to the word. Why didn't it say Democracy? What so inspired the Continental Congress to deliberately and decidedly avoid constituting this national experiment as a Democracy? And how is it, that over countless decades without really thinking about it, our national collective mind blatantly and unwaveringly makes the most ignorant of political assumptions, that "We are a Democracy"? If we actually THINK about it and not robotic-ally pay lip-service to what has become the current collective illusion, the answer that has been standing there before us for the last 235 years may magically re-appear before our eyes. We are not a Democracy. We are a Republic. As it is said, don't compare apples to oranges.
Krista, I find each of your
Krista, I find each of your shows I listen to thought provoking and mind expanding. Thank you all for what you do.
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I'm so glad I found On Being with Krista Tippett - wonderful brilliant radio broadcast. Liz
Forever grateful for this
Forever grateful for this show, thank you Krista!
Has something changed? I can
Has something changed? I can't find your broadcast on the radio @ it's usual time of 11:00 a.m. 94.1 FM in Tacoma WA.
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I'd love to know which
I'd love to know which Frederick Douglass letter Ms. Tippett read from toward the end of the interview. It was intriguing and I'd love to read the rest of it.
I also want to say that I think that the role of race relations and how they have shaped our American "democracy" cannot be overstated. Mr. Needleman, somewhat cavalierly, states that "there is no more slavery in America" which is not altogether accurate, considering the way the laws of the land have been used to create a prison industrial complex that is surpassed by NONE in the world in size, formidability and lucrativeness for the people who build them.
Addendum to my earlier
Addendum to my earlier comment: I actually found the Douglass speech and find it interesting and disappointing that the editors of the show (perhaps of Needleman's book?) have edited out the very first sentence in the paragraph that was read. The sentence that begins: "Americans! your republican politics, not less than your republican religion, are flagrantly inconsistent." I think that he purposely brings up religion is actually pretty relevant in this context and wonder why it was left out?
The whole speech is here in case anyone is interested:
Thank you so much for the
Thank you so much for the dialogue with J. Needleman - I listened to it twice and have ordered the book. Brilliant - it has given me a whole new way to view this country.
Is there any way I can hear
Is there any way I can hear the whole interview of Diana Eck. I love the whole, unedited interviews you keep for us to listen. I love being about to hear the actual show, too. But so much is said in the voice of it all. I love it when the interviewed first gets there and yu make connection with the person. Even the glitches, when there are technical problems it expands it all into realness for me. Thank yu to all of you.. i can not even imagine the work On Being must take to produce. I am deeply grateful. And I love seeing and "feeling" the Jefferson Bible. You all led me to be able to "touch" it and read it. I weep for the joy of it all. Cassandra
In the eletion of 2012 there
In the eletion of 2012 there were 65 million Democratic votes and 60 million Republican votes this produced a House of Representatives of 208 Democrats and 234 Republicans, In what world was that considered a democracy.Ionly hope that my vote was not one of the 5 million thrown in the garbage. In a true democracy the recent congressional shenanigans would never have happened!!!!!
Your meaningful interview
Your meaningful interview reminded me of this excerpt from Simone Weil. She had also expounded on the relationship between rights and obligations. She asserts that the help of grace is necessary to become capable of it. Consider how her thoughts here relate to the interview:
"The combination of these two facts — the longing in the depth of the heart for absolute good, and the power, though only latent, of directing attention and love to a reality beyond the world and of receiving good from it — constitutes a link which attaches every man without exception to that other reality.
Whoever recognizes that reality recognizes also that link. Because of it, he holds every human being without any exception as something sacred to which he is bound to show respect.
This is the only possible motive for universal respect towards all human beings. Whatever formulation of belief or disbelief a man may choose to make, if his heart inclines him to feel this respect, then he in fact also recognizes a reality other than this world's reality. Whoever in fact does not feel this respect is alien to that other reality also.


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Davis and MKG are my dawgs in this draft and Tall and Lazy from Uconn is someone you have to roll a dice on. That is it. And I haven't watched much of Kansas kid, but from what I saw Weds night he ain't all that either.
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Many women experience the pain and irritation of heartburn for the first time during pregnancy. Heartburn is caused by acid reflux or indigestion, when the acid from the stomach creeps up the esophagus, and is characterized by a burning sensation that usually extends from the lower throat to the bottom of the breastbone.
Heartburn during pregnancy is caused by both hormonal and physical changes in your body. Your placenta produces the hormone progesterone, which relaxes the smooth muscles of the uterus and the valve that separates the esophagus from the stomach, allowing stomach acids to seep back up in to the esophagus, which causes the burning sensation. Progesterone also slows down the movement of the stomach muscles, making digestion sluggish. And as your pregnancy progresses and your baby crowds your abdominal cavity, digestion is obstructed and stomach acids are forced up into your throat.
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Could You Cook in a 48-Square-Foot Kitchen?
Susan Spungen initially set out to be an artist. "But I didn't have what it takes," she says, "because I don't like to starve." Indeed, her love of food combined with her aesthetic flair has led to a lifelong vocation as a cook, food stylist, and recipe developer. Martha Stewart discovered Spungen, then a young pastry chef, and hired her as the founding food editor of Martha Stewart Living; she stayed with the company for 12 years. She has since worked as a culinary consultant for such food-centric movies as Julie & Julia, It's Complicated, and Eat Pray Love. Her guide to entertaining, What's a Hostess to Do? (Artisan), can steer us through the do's and don'ts of summer parties. But remember, Spungen says, "there is no entertaining police. Don't be afraid to make your own rules."
• Be ad hoc in the summer. Invite people on Thursday for Saturday dinner. In warm weather I like to create menus I can prep in advance. I keep gazpacho in the fridge and make it a meal with the addition of fresh crabmeat or shrimp. Or I'll marinate a butterflied leg of lamb in the morning, then head to the beach. In the evening I'll just throw it on the grill. For dessert, I usually make fruit crisp; I keep a big batch of the topping in my freezer so it's ready to go.
• My favorite summer drink right now is a twist on the Aperol spritz: prosecco, Aperol orange liqueur, and club soda, on the rocks with a little citrus juice and garnished with an orange slice.
• I don't know why we've all become obsessed with rosé in summer—in a blind taste test, is it really that different from white?—but I'm right there. Or try a Lambrusco, a dry, fizzy red that is served cold. It's great with red meat.
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I've had Dragonwell before, and enjoyed it a great deal--but I've also heard that authentic Westlake Dragonwell (long jing/long ching?) really does live up to its reputation as a superior tea.
Which, of course, makes me want to compare. Can anyone recommend a good source for authentic Westlake Dragonwell? It seems like every tea retailer out there has 'dragonwell', but the quality (and the location it comes from) seems to be all over the map, so I'd love any recommendations people might have!


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Allegory of the Prisoner's Dilemma, 2012. Andy Diaz Hope and Laurel Roth. Jacquard tapestry. 106 x 76 in. Photo courtesy of the artists
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Tonight, celebrate the artists' work and their yearlong fellowship. Refrehsments served while they last.
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Our collaborations provide an important third entity to our individual practices. Diaz Hope's work focuses primarily on humanity's impact on its own internal landscape, while Roth's focuses on humanity's impact on the external world. Our collaborations allow us to meld these two foci to explore topics from mulitple points of view. We began collaborating in 2004. Since then we collaborate regularly and often include joint work in our individual exhibitions as well as creating entirely collaborative exhibitions such as our Future Darwinist show in 2008 and the 2011 show in 2011 at Schroeder Romero Gallery; and the Pharmacopeia installations at the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Gescheidle Gallery in Chicago, and Mixed Greens gallery in New York City.
Our most recent work together is a triptych of tapestries inspired by the Unicorn Tapestries and structured on the three fundamental conflicts in literature. The first, Allegory of the Monoceros, illustrates the end of Darwinian natural selection and the growth of human-centric evolution. The second, Allegory of the Infinite Mortal, portrays a garden for contemplation of the scientific and philosophical structures humans have used throughout history to explore the concepts of infinity and immortality and our place therein.The third tapestry was created during our fellowship at the de Young.


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