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is there any Free Software utility for putting those nice logos/images on LightScribe CDs or DVDs? I'm considering buying such a CD/DVD burner, but only if there's open-source software to control the device. I guess burning CDs/DVDs should be no problem using wodim/cdrecord, but adding images as labels on the CD/DVD is likely not possible without special software.
I know about the LightScribe Linux software (which is binary-only and not open-source, it seems) and LaCie LightScribe Labeler for Linux (which only creates labels but does not write them to the CD/DVD, and is not open-source either, I think).
Anyone aware of a Free Software utility for this? Or at least a public specification/datasheet which could be used for creating one? I might even be willing to join development if datasheets are available.
I recently stumbled over a neat new Open Hardware and Free Software friendly company — Qi Hardware — founded by former OpenMoko developers.
To quote from the website:
Qi Hardware, founded on the belief in open hardware, produces mass market quality hardware applying free software principles to consumer electronics. The three fundamental elements in our development are copyleft hardware, upstream kernels and community driven software.
They have put up a timeline for upcoming products, where the 本 NanoNote™ (Ben NanoNote™) — a fully open multifunction ultra small form factor computing device — is the first entry product that is supposed to ship in fall 2009.
The Ben NanoNote is based on an Ingenic SoC (336 MHz XBurst Jz4720 MIPS-compatible CPU) with 3.0" color TFT (320x240), 2GB NAND flash, 32 MB SDRAM, SDHC microSD, micro-USB 2.0. The whole device, including the 850mAh Li-ion battery, weighs only 126g. Detailed specs are available.
Their currently planned setup includes a Linux kernel, u-boot, and OpenWRT as software basis. Personally, I'd like to see a stock Debian running on the hardware sooner or later, of course. The 2GB of flash and 32MB of RAM should be fine for a small Debian system (for instance, my NSLU2 runs off a 1GB thumb drive and has 32MB RAM, and is still very useful).
The code is all GPL'd and available from various git repos, hardware will be CC-BY-SA 3.0 licensed, and they try to use Free Software design and development tools also, including KiCAD for schematics and PCB layout, and probably HeeksCAD as CAD tool for mechanical stuff.
I'm really tired of seeing more and more self-proclaimed "Open Hardware" projects that often don't even mention any license for their schematics and PCBs, or use crappy, self-invented "open" licenses that are not even remotely open in any way. Probably even worse, many hardware related projects use closed-source, proprietary electronic design tools such as EAGLE or OrCAD, thereby ruining the whole project from the beginning by forcing everyone who likes to contribute or adapt the hardware to use non-free software. That's why I was really happy to see the Qi people thrive to use open tools from the beginning! I hope to see more hardware projects use KiCAD or gEDA/PCB for their designs in future...
Mailman archives are often only available in the pretty useless "Gzip'd Text" format, which you cannot easily download and view locally (and threaded) in a MUA such as mutt. But that is exactly what I want to do from time to time (e.g. because I want to read the discussions of the past weeks on mailing lists where I'm newly subscribed).
After some searching I found one way to do it which I stripped down to my needs:
$ cat mailman2mbox #!/usr/bin/perl while (<STDIN>) { s/^(From:? .*) (at|en) /\1\@/; s/^Date: ([A-Z][a-z][a-z]) +([A-Z][a-z][a-z]) +([0-9]+) +([0-9:]+) +([0-9]+)/Date: \1, \3 \2 \5 \4 +0000/; print; }
Example run on some random mail archive:
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You can then view the mbox as usual in mutt:
$ mutt -f 2009-August.mbox
Suggestions for a simpler method to do this are highly welcome. Maybe some mbox related Debian package already ships with a script to do this?
Good news for kernel hackers, and especially coreboot developers like me: AMD has released the chipset documentation for the RS780 chipset, including the BIOS Developer's Guide. And these documents are being released freely and openly to the public, no NDAs required, which is great!
Quoting from the original announcement on the coreboot-announce mailing list:
The coreboot community, which includes government organizations, corporations, research labs and individuals from around the world, is very excited to expand on our existing and decade-long collaboration with AMD. This collaboration has, over the years, resulted in the inclusion of coreboot into everything from some of the largest AMD-based supercomputers in the world to some of the smallest embedded systems.
Together with the recent SB700/SB710/SB750 documentation release, the Developer Guide release for the RS780 family of Integrated Chipset/Graphics Processors enables the coreboot community to support any board with AMD chipsets out there, from embedded to enthusiast desktop and high-end server boards.
This new release once again demonstrates AMD's commitment to open standards and software that provides an improved user experience and Total Cost of Ownership for users in every walk of life. One cornerstone of this openness is the availability of documentation without NDA, enabling everyone to contribute.
Coreboot is open source, so every interested developer or user can modify, tweak and extend it to their heart's content.
An additional benefit of this documentation release is flashrom support for all AMD chipsets which enables users to reflash their BIOS/firmware/coreboot from within Linux and *BSD without rebooting.
Coreboot code for the SB700 and 780 chipset family is already being worked on by Zheng Bao at AMD in his spare time and the coreboot community is happy to work with him on finishing and integrating the code into the official coreboot codebase.
We'd like to thank Sharon Troia at AMD for making these documentation releases possible.
The exact download URLs are listed at http://www.coreboot.org/Datasheets.
OK, so here's what crazy computer geeks come up with when they're bored of just sitting in the subway and staring out of the window.
Web servers usually run on port 80. TCP/UDP ports range from 1 to 65535 (port 0 is reserved). You can run multiple web servers on different ports at the same time... Do you think what I think?
Well, first you need a web server (duh). I decided to use lighttpd, as it's said to be small and memory-efficient (which sounded pretty important given what I was trying to do). Apache would probably not be a good choice here. Mind you, I have not done any benchmarks at all, I'm just guessing...
$ apt-get install lighttpd
Then, I wrote a little shell script containing a loop, which invoked lighttpd on port 1, 2, 3, 4, ..., 65535. That's it ;)
#!/bin/bash TMPDIR=/tmp CONFFILE="server.document-root = \"/var/www/\" index-file.names = ( \"index.html\" )" for ((i = 1; i < 300; i = i + 1)) do echo "+++ Starting web server on port $i" echo $CONFFILE > $TMPDIR/lighttpd.conf echo "server.port = $i" >> $TMPDIR/lighttpd.conf /usr/sbin/lighttpd -f $TMPDIR/lighttpd.conf rm -f $TMPDIR/lighttpd.conf done
I'm sure this can be optimized a lot, but it's sufficient for now, and it works.
You can test any of the web servers by running "wget http://localhost:3556/
" (for example). You can kill them all with killall lighttpd
. If you already run some other daemons on some ports, you cannot start a lighttpd on the same port, so you'll end up with fewer than 65535 servers.
In case you try this on your hardware, make sure you have lots of RAM and lots of swap. Don't run this on production hardware. Feel free to post your experiences in the comments.

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The duo will stay until the end of 2014/15.
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I think the rules of etiquette need to be revised to be relevant today.
My son opened a door for me. He actually opened the door, stood aside and let me walk through. It took 20 years, but something I taught him finally clicked. Don't get me wrong, both my boys are usually very polite, to everyone else. Many people have complimented me on how nice and respectful they are, but I usually look around just to make sure someone else's kid didn't walk into to the room confusing the person speaking to me. Are we talking about the same kid I drop off at school every morning and say, "Have a good day! Love you!" to, which he responds by slamming the door? I have given serious consideration to jumping out of the car and yelling, "Make good choices!" to him in front of the entire high school student body.
Since most of the students I see in my academic coaching business have trouble with organization, procrastination, motivation, and so on, I spend quite a lot of time with teenage boys. My sons are very social creatures, so teenagers are often roaming around my house as well. In both circumstances, these boys are, for the most part, polite, respectful, and a pleasure to be around. That's not the issue. What I notice is not a lack of manners, but a lack of etiquette. At the end of summer vacation, my son brought a friend home from overnight camp. A lovely young man from Great Britain, who left the toilet seat up all week.
I sometimes wonder if these boys even know what proper etiquette is, or if they even need to. After all, many of these customs are quite antiquated. Does any female born after the Great Depression feel comfortable when a man stands as she enters a room? How about pulling out a chair? Only a certain kind of guy can pull this off. However, a guy offering a jacket when it's chilly outside or opening a car door? Yes, please! Using proper utensils, no, using utensils at all, yes. I think the rules of etiquette need to be revised to be relevant today. So, here are some new rules for kids:
- Do not text while in the company of another unless it is urgent information, such as being nominated for a People's Choice Award.
- Do not play video games when females are in the room, they do not enjoy watching you play Madden NFL '13.
- When you whack someone with your backpack, stop, say excuse me, and pick up whatever you knocked out of the other person's hand.
- If there is only one seat left, give it to anyone who has more trouble standing than you.
- Don't swear, it's rude and shows a lack of imagination.
- Always greet people and say "thank you" when you leave a friend's house.
Keep teaching manners and etiquette to your sons because they are actually listening, even if it doesn't look that way. One day your son will open the door for you, too, and you will know you have done your job well.
Craig Doherty
6:59 am on Saturday, October 13, 2012
True enough, but anybody with one or more daughters find something missing and one-sided in this piece?
Susan Schaefer
10:23 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012
Craig, since I do not have daughters, only sons, my opinion ( this is an opinion column) usually centers around boys because this is my reference point. However, it seems uou would like to see a column about etiquette and girls so I will see what I can do.
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8:15 am on Saturday, October 13, 2012
Don't play video games when females are in the room? Please.
8:54 am on Saturday, October 13, 2012
I have to agree. Why the sexism against boys as disorganized, rude and etiquette-lacking? Also, the sexism that girls or women don't ALSO play video games? ALSO, the decided bent against teens in general. Everyone could use an etiquette refresher, in my opinion - and new 'rules' relating to social media/media in general should be fostered but I find it difficult to take an article with such obvious discriminiations seriously.
Dan Arenov
8:54 am on Saturday, October 13, 2012
"...don't play Madden 13 when there are females in the room..."
How about this for the writer of the article? Don't confuse your own pet peeves with rules of etiquette.
11:17 am on Saturday, October 13, 2012
The video game thing is big though. Not at all times and certainly not just because there is a lady in the room, but video games have permeated our culture so much that when people sit down to eat, you see kids pull out their DS or Vita or whatever and start playing.
Video games are not more important then family and we need to remember that. My son is no where near old enough to play them yet, but even when he hits that age my ps3...or 4 or whatever is out will stay in my room until he learns the difference between playing real sports vs simulated.
9:40 am on Saturday, October 13, 2012
Nice article. Thought I would add one additional item. Many kids today, do not seem to be able to understand that someone in a wheelchair/walker/cane does not move as fast as they do. As a result, they often try to do the following: Run in front of the wheelchai bound person (while the chair is moving forward) or climb over the chair sideways(while the person is in it), thus creating a very dangerous situation for both people. NOT EVEN AN APOLOGY! In their haste to get around a person in a walker/cane, they sometimes cause the person to fall down or become physically unstable without as much as an apology or asking if the person is ok.. PARENTS, PARENTS, PARENTS, your job is to educate your kids or others to slow down and wait until there is an opening so that they can slowly walk around the individuals. So what if the other person goes first. How about holding open the door that both of you are going to go through. Most of the kids literally slam the door right as the person is trying to go through. Nice manners...wonderful children..
10:01 am on Saturday, October 13, 2012
I know that I seem cynical. However, in all due fairness, I have witnessed this first hand in different situations. Schools, shopping malls, movie theaters, bathrooms, resturants, just to name a few. Kids all ages...includng teenagers and adults. The kids also learn from how adults handle the situations. Please put yourselves in the other person's situation. Would you like to be ignored just because you have a modified mode of transportation? Your brain works fine just as theirs does. Think about how you would feel if you were with your peers and everyone around you ignored you.. How would you feel if you were possibly trampled/knocked down just because someone else is in a hurry.. Slow down and be responsible citizens. A little kindness goes a long way. You might even find out that these people are just like you. Normal..
Penny Novy
10:56 am on Saturday, October 13, 2012
My husband and I were recently at the PetSmart in Vernon Hills picking up cat food. While looking at the cats available for adoption, a 5-6 year old girl barged past me and pushed my husband out of her way to look at the cats. I gave the mother one of my famous 'really now' looks and said, "Your daughter must have forgotten the good manners I'm sure you taught her."
No response from the mother, of course, because either she didn't teach her child good manners or the child really did forget. But I hope this mother takes the time to teach her child better manners.
Joe Beets
11:28 am on Saturday, October 13, 2012
Girls do mature at an earlier age than boys. I see it played out every day in the classes I teach. Take a look, though, at how boys and men are portrayed on TV, in movies, etc. It's always the chauvinistic slob who is set straight by the wise, perfect mom or girlfriend. Because of this stereotyping, many women feel perfectly justified putting down men (even their own loved ones) as a matter of course whether or not it has any basis in fact. Young boys and girls are watching and listening all the time to this and it will undoubtedly affect their attitudes about themselves and each other. If you want your young men to be respectful and have good manners, show THEM respect and make them feel good about themselves.
Susan Schaefer
10:34 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012
I completely agree Bill, modeling the desired behavior is the way to go.
2:30 pm on Saturday, October 13, 2012
Excellant article. I think we are doing a terrible dis service to boys in our culture. We show too many smark aleck shows on the childrens network and regular T.V. Unforutnaly all around us we are showing children that manners don't count. Have you visited a library lately? The lack of consideration to others by some people is just vulgar. They run and scream through the library without a care for anyone else. And these are Adults. The lack of manners is a clear connection to the lack of caring for your fellow person. It shows a lack of character and a lack of class and education yet its all around us. We cannot possibly expect children to have manners when their own parents have none. Our parents generation regarless of education had manners and when you care about your neighbor you build a stronger community with all that goes with it.
Stuart Tindall
4:09 pm on Saturday, October 13, 2012
ITT: Back in my day we respected our elders, and walked to school uphill in the snow BOTH WAYS.
Vicky Kujawa
10:48 pm on Saturday, October 13, 2012
Good manners and etiquette are a simple matter of common sense. Unfortunately, common sense is not common.
Debbie Mitchell
7:12 am on Monday, October 15, 2012
Loved what you wrote. You were spot on with everything! I have a son and 2 daughters, however, the boy just seems to be a little slower at getting it, but he will. As for your comment about the video games while females are in the room, some readers just don't understand what you meant, probably because they have not witnessed it or do not have sons. My take on what you meant here was not just a video game but any electronic. Boys will invite the friends over (boys and girls) then the guys will gather around the video game, PS2, DS, phone etc and the girls are just left standing there. I have witnessed this with my own son. It is not a pet peeve of yours, it is the way a lot of young boys behave. We are just trying to teach them to pay attention to all your guests and make them feel included and welcomed. Not just an etiquette thing but plain manners.
7:12 am on Monday, October 15, 2012
Manners and etiquette are for those around us. My son went to a wedding once and texted me later to say thank you for teaching me manners because the person across the table from him chewed with their mouth open and scarfed down their food while leaning on the table and was rude. He knew the difference because I taught him. Manners and etiquette are taught at home, early in life. It's respect of others
Dan McCoy
1:18 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
I have to agree with everything you say. As for the video games; forget the "when a girl is in the room". It has nothing to do with boys or girls. When ANYBODY enters the room to ask a question or start a conversation, that game should be paused and their attention should placed on what is happening in REAL LIFE. I have to boys (13 and 18), when my 13 year old is playing a game and I walk into the room to talk to him, I will not say anything until the game is paused and his head returns to reality. It's not a matter of etiquette, manners or respecting a parent/elder; it's about respecting another human being. Like I tell my kids all the time: "The world you live in is shared by millions of other people and in that world "perception" is 100% reality! It doesn't matter what you meant to say or what YOU think your actions mean, the important thing is how others perceive it."
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New York's Electoral College members to gather Dec. 17 in Albany
ALBANY – When 29 insiders with the ultimate vote in electing the president meet here next month, the gathering will be testament to the overwhelming power of downstate Democrats.
State Board of Elections records show more than half of the Democratic presidential electors traveling here December 17 to cast their Electoral College votes for Barack Obama are from New York City. Overall, two-thirds of the 29 electors are from the city or its suburbs.
Outside of the New York City area, the Buffalo and Rochester regions each has two electors, and Ithaca and Syracuse each has one. There are two electors with Albany addresses, Mayor Gerald Jennings and Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Though Cuomo's address as an elector is listed as the Executive Mansion in Albany, he lives and votes in Mt. Kisco, Westchester County.
The only elector with a truly rural upstate address is Democratic state executive committee chair Sheila Comar, a retired title insurance industry executive from Connecticut who lives in the tiny hamlet of Middle Granville, Washington County on the Vermont border about 70 miles northeast of Albany.
Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R-Schenectady County) said it's no surprise this year's presidential electors are mostly from New York City. "It's kind of a form of geographic discrimination but the fact of the matter is the largest Democratic base is in New York City," he said . "So they will do what they always do, cater to where their base is."
If Mitt Romney had won, "we would have had more representation from upstate New York because that's where the Republican base is," he said. The last Republican presidential candidate to carry New York was President Reagan.
Democratic electors who will gather in the state Senate Chamber on December 17 include Cuomo, Lt. Gov Bob Duffy, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, state party co-chairs Assemblyman Keith Wright and Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, SEIU 1199 union leader George Gresham, AFL-CIO leader Mario Cilento, and Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown.
Of the total electors, 22 of the 29 are men and the majority is white. No state Senate Democrat made the cut, though Democrats did make room for a well-connected New York City lobbyist named Emily Giske to be included. The number of electors derives from the number of House districts in the state plus the two U.S. Senate seats.
The electors' vote is being planned by the Secretary of State's office. This week, a spokesman said questions about the event would only be accepted if they were submitted by email, though the public information office did not answer the email inquiry, either.
Tedisco is a critic of the Electoral College, saying that if we stick with it, votes should be counted proportionally by Congressional District rather than winner take all. As it now stands, New York is such a reliably Democratic blue state that presidential candidates don't bother to campaign here, he said. Continued...
Party leaders select the electors to formally cast votes for president, with the results opened in Washington on January 6 and read aloud on the Senate floor to formally end the process of electing the president. Apart from the selection of state electors, the entire procedure is set by federal law.
If Romney had carried New York, Republicans had their own lineup of electors ready to go, including former State Sen. Douglas Barclay, Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, and Assemblyman William Reilich.
But the GOP ticket did poorly in New York, winning just 36 percent of the vote compared to 63 percent for Obama. The final vote total was Obama with 3.8 million to Romney's 2.2 million. Nationally, Obama received 64 million votes, compared to 59.9 million for Romney, for an Electoral College victory of 332-206.
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YOU DON'T post things about Adele's personal life- family, love, friends and people related to her. That includes family photos, personal photos, facts AND fiction. Who are you to intrude her privacy and make up stories about her personal life. Old forum members don't do that so you shouldn't either.
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If there is such a thing as motor home envy among the cyclo-cross fraternity, then Ian Field is guilty as charged. Wandering the competitor's parking area at this year's Koppenbergcross near Oudenaarde in search of "Field de Brit", as race commentators now refer to the slightly-built man from Kent, the pecking order becomes apparent.
The stars riding for major teams are ensconced in almighty wagons, keeping warm before stepping out to prepare for the race on rollers beneath retractable awnings. Sponsor's names and truly awful, larger-than-life, gurning images of the riders adorn each mobile home. Local residents with the honour of hosting Sven Nys' or Niels Albert's vehicles in their driveway are privileged indeed.
Step outside the top 30 or so sponsored riders and the motor homes become slightly more compact: less storage space for bikes, little room to move around inside, but still perfectly serviceable. Step down again and you find guys like Ian Field, doing their damnedest to break into this world of luxury cruisers and the six-figure salaries that come with them.
Our photographer, Marthein, being Dutch and well versed in all things cyclo-cross, and having attended practically every big race on the calendar last season, asks if we'll be meeting at our subject's camper van. "Field de Brit", I point out, drives a Citroen Berlingo, so we'd be meeting there.
Welcome to the glamorous life of a pro 'cross rider in Belgium. As branches of cycle sport go, cyclo-cross is about as ludicrous a way to make a living as they come – on a par, perhaps, with Six Day racing in hardship terms, but with added cold, mud and misery. Yet the likes of Stybar, Wellens, Nys and Albert earn very good money indeed. Thousands pay to watch their heroes in action, drinking copious quantities of Belgian beer from plastic cups in muddy fields. Millions more tune in on the TV at home every weekend throughout the winter. It is, in many respects, a hugely unlikely major sport, but the Belgians love it to bits. An hour of flat-out racing where anything can happen – and often does – is perfect Sunday lunchtime entertainment for the average Leffe-fuelled Flandrian couch potato.
Bart Wellens has starred in his own reality TV show, Wellens en Wee, and the weekend before our arrival in Oudenaarde had appeared on The Last Show, "Belgium's equivalent to Friday Night with Jonathan Ross," according to Field. "It was a cyclo-cross special, with Nys, Alberts, Wellens and Stybar. And Wellens' wife. That shows how big it is. A primetime TV show, dedicated to 'cross racing. They had mud from different places and the riders had to smell it and identify where it was from…"
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3rd February 2011 12:29pm
Don't you love that, smell the mud and know where it's from. Actually not such a weird idea when you consider how strong scents can trigger memories, victorious or not
Ian Winfield
3rd February 2011 04:01pm
Asking for directions in Oudenaarde, I met plenty of average Leffe-fuelled Flandrian couch potatoes.
Great place to cycle. Only a muppet like me could get lost on the best signposted cycle route in the world.
Try the Ronde van Vlaanderen cycle routes and Leffe. You will not be disappointed.
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Some films we'll definitely be watching:
The Actresses, May 8
Six big-time, multi-generational South Korean actresses come together on Christmas Eve for a once-in-a-lifetime Vogue magazine cover shoot. But with big entourages — and even bigger egos — in tow, anything can happen in this pseudo-documentary. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the Korean entertainment industry, touted as hallyu (or the Korean Wave), that is sweeping the world.
Starring Kim Ok-vin (Thirst), the ingénue du jour, and Choi Ji-woo (Winter Sonata), playing up her "ice queen" persona, The Actresses holds nothing back, from plastic surgery to alcoholism.
Au Revoir Taipei, April 29
Arvin Chen's Au Revoir Taipei, starring Jack Yao and Amber Kuo, is an adventure-romance-caper film. Taking place on the streets and back alleys of Taipei, a lovesick dumpling vendor gets caught up in the eccentric and dangerous world of the Taipei mob.
Also playing is Ktown Cowboys and Quentin Lee's sexy film The People I've Slept With. Read our posts on each film here and here.
And it's not just films. There will be plenty of panels for those looking to break into filmmaking (or just to gawk at all the Asian American talent!).
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So let me see if I've got this right: The Catholic Church shelters pedophile priests, endangering thousands of children across the country, and then when the bill comes due for all this sexual abuse, the San Diego Diocese asks the friends and family and neighbors of those who were abused to help pay?
"The people who are actually culpable, a lot of them are dead, and among the rest of us, nobody has any more culpability than anyone else," said Sheridan, a homemaker. "But I do think the Vatican can sell a painting or two. That would pay for it."
Still, some said they would gladly support Brom.
"This is our church and we love it," said Marie English, 76, a member at St. Mary. "If the church needs help, how can we deny it? Sometimes you have to pay for problems you didn't cause—that's life. Let's pay and move on."
Oh, don't worry, Bishop Robert Brom has also asked parish priests to chip in for the $198 million bill. He's got a real global (catholic?) perspective. And I thought Cardinal Roger Mahony was out of touch.
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October 7, 2007 | 7:32 pm
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
Everybody fighting for the 2008 presidency has been talking about their religious convictions. (Cynical me, I think they've been a bit insincere.) Anyway, if we look back 208 years, we'd see that religion played a substantial role in possibly the most important election for the future of this country.
I had always heard Thomas Jefferson was a "deist"—someone who believed in a god but not The God. But, according to the papers of his day, laid out recently in The New Yorker, our soon-to-be third president was a "reputed atheist." (That takes a bit of steam out of U.S. Rep. Peter Stark's unveiling last spring as Congress' first atheist.)
As Jefferson and John Adams, a publicly devout Christian, slugged it out on the campaign trail, the Gazette of the United States ran this:
At the present solemn and momentous epoch, the only question to be asked by every American, laying his hand on his heart, is: âShall I continue in allegiance to
GODâAND A RELIGIOUS
Or impiously declare for
JEFFERSONâAND NO GOD!!!â
Jefferson was vehemently attacked for being a godless, slave-owning (-impregnating) sinner. But the underlying issue was what kind of liberties would this country afford its few voting members and everyone else who lived here. Jefferson favored greater freedoms while Adams sought to strengthen the office of the president. (A proto-Bush?)
Still, many people couldn't get over the fact that Jefferson didn't believe in God. And though he eventually won through a complicated process in the Electoral College, some members who didn't want to give their vote to an atheist said they would rather "go without a Constitution and take the risk of civil war."
October 7, 2007 | 2:13 pm
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
Voltaire famously quipped that if God didn't exist, he would have to be invented. American publishers would enthusiastically agree because God, it turns out, is a consistent moneymaker—especially, these days, for those who want to attack him.
This opinion piece is from today's LA Times, and it shows how The New Atheists are publishing their attacks in a much more comfortable environment than Voltaire et al, and argues that they're often blaming the wrong forces for American actions.
The anti-God books have appeared in the wake of two developments: the rise of Islamic fundamentalism overseas and the religious right's enormous influence on President Bush's policies here at home. But as responses, the secular jeremiads don't make a whole lot of sense.
Who, exactly, are they aimed at? Who is the ideal reader of these attacks on belief in God? Not Muslim or Christian fundamentalists, obviously, because one of the engines driving religious fundamentalism today is, precisely, a hostility toward modern science. If anyone thinks that Dawkins' book, "The God Delusion"—with its "scientific" attempts to refute the existence of God—is going to persuade today's religious fanatics, here or abroad, to loosen up and enjoy a little MTV, you have to ask yourself just who is "deluded." It's hard to imagine anyone abandoning his faith after reading Harris' condescending polemic, or the science of Dawkins and Dennett, or Hitchens' vitriol.
The attacks in the books often don't make much sense either. For instance, Bush and his gang preach Christian values while lying us into a slaughterhouse overseas, ransacking our public coffers and ignoring social inequities and iniquities at home—and so our heroic anti-religionists attack . . . Christian values. But shouldn't they be attacking Bush and Co.'s hypocrisy in betraying Christian values instead?
October 7, 2007 | 11:26 am
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
His subjects were mostly children and teenagers at the time, terrified witnesses to mass slaughter. Some were forced to work at the bottom rung of the Nazi killing machine â as diggers of mass graves, cooks who fed Nazi soldiers and seamstresses who mended clothes stripped from the Jews before execution.
They live today in rural poverty, many without running water or heat, nearing the end of their lives. So Patrick Desbois has been quietly seeking them out, roaming the back roads and forgotten fields of Ukraine, hearing their stories and searching for the unmarked common graves. He knows that they are an unparalleled source to document the murder of the 1.5 million Jews of Ukraine, shot dead and buried throughout the country.
He is neither a historian nor an archaeologist, but a French Roman Catholic priest. And his most powerful tools are his matter-of-fact style â and his clerical collar.
The Nazis killed nearly 1.5 million Jews in Ukraine after their invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. But with few exceptions, most notably the 1941 slaughter of nearly 34,000 Jews in the Babi Yar ravine in Kiev, much of that history has gone untold.
Knocking on doors, unannounced, Father Desbois, 52, seeks to unlock the memories of Ukrainian villagers the way he might take confessions one by one in church.
âAt first, sometimes, people donât believe Iâm a priest,â said Father Desbois in an interview this week. âI have to use simple words and listen to these horrors â without any judgment. I cannot react to the horrors that pour out. If I react, the stories will stop.â
That is the beginning of a powerful profile in yesterday's New York Times about how one man is helping write the history of the Holocaust in a country where Jews were murdered with machine guns and their bodies buried in fields.
The story was the Times' most e-mailed yesterday. Thanks to Bloggish for sending it to me.
Seraphic Secret has a link to photos of the "Holocaust by Bullets," and has this to say about the man on a mission:
Father Desbois is a great and righteous man. The Jewish peopleâdead and aliveâowe him a huge debt of gratitude.
October 7, 2007 | 11:20 am
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
So a weird and wonderful thing has happened during the past two weeks: Daily traffic at The God Blog doubled and then doubled again. Yesterday, a Saturday when I was away from the computer all day, was one of my highest traffic days since I started blogging seven months ago.
The big question is: Why?
I have little clue. So, if you're a new reader of The God Blog, let me know how you found it and what you think. And if you've long been a loyal reader, please let me know what you enjoy and what you don't.
October 5, 2007 | 3:53 pm
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
Daniel Finkelstein at The Times of London has a problem with what uber-atheist Richard Dawkins has to say about Jews:
It's no mystery that atheists want a louder voice in Western politics. They should, and I don't see any reason why they wouldn't want to follow the Jewish model for success. But, based on Dawkins' use of the word "monopolize," I'd guess the two books in his nightstand—the place you'd find a Gideon's Bible in American hotels—are "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" and "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." Sweet dreams.I have just come across the most extraordinary statement by Richard Dawkins. It is right there on the Guardian website without a sentence even questioning it. Here it is:
When you think about how fantastically successful the Jewish lobby has been, though, in fact, they are less numerous I am told - religious Jews anyway - than atheists and [yet they] more or less monopolise American foreign policy as far as many people can see. So if atheists could achieve a small fraction of that influence, the world would be a better place.
So Dawkins, a liberal hero, believes, er, that Jews control world power. And, judging from the Guardian, it is now a part of mainstream debate to say so. Perhaps you think I am over-reacting, but I am a little bit frightened.
Chris Dillow manages some elegant reflections on social proof.
All I can manage is Oh My God.
October 5, 2007 | 10:33 am
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
Cardinal Francis George, who will soon take over as head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, recently sat down for a candid interview with John L. Allen Jr of the National Catholic Reporter. It's a wide-ranging Q&A, but I found what George had to say about Judaism and the Latin Mass to be the most interesting:
A related issue with the old Missal is the Good Friday liturgy, and specifically the prayer for the conversion of the Jews. Where do you think we are with that?
First of all, we have to clarify something, because there are two opinions and we've asked the Holy See to clear this up. During the Triduum [the end of Holy Week] you may not have a private Mass. So the first reaction is, well, that means you can't use the old Missal for the Triduum, so that's the end of that. Others come back and say no, that if you have a parish that is only Tridentine, then they would also have the Holy Week ceremonies from that Missal. I'm not sure that's permitted, and that's what we're asking.
If it is, would your preference be to use the language of new Missal for this prayer on Good Friday, even when people are celebrating the Tridentine rite?
If you're celebrating the 1962 Missal, that would involve changing the text of the prayer.
That can be done, yes?
Of course it can be done, and I suspect it probably will be, because the intention is to be sure that our prayers are not offensive to the Jewish people who are our ancestors in the faith. We can't possibly insult them in our liturgy ⦠Not that any group has a veto on anybody's prayers, because you can go through Jewish texts and find material that is offensive to us. But if we're interested in keeping the dialogue strong, and we have to be, we should be very cautious about any prayer that they find insulting. 'They,' however, is a big tent. What my Jewish rabbi friend down the block finds insulting is different from what Abraham Foxman [national director of the Anti-Defamation League] finds insulting. Also, it does work both ways. Maybe this is an opening to say, 'Would you care to look at some of the Talmudic literature's description of Jesus as a bastard, and so on, and maybe make a few changes in some of that?'
Here's Jeffrey Weiss' reaction on the DMN religion blog:
My 2 cents: Exclusivist faiths inevitably make negative claims in their theologies about other religions. Jews want to say that Jesus was a fraud? Catholics (or Baptists) want to say that Jews got real problems in the hereafter of they don't accept Jesus as Savior? Well, it's what their religion teaches...I'm not sure I understand why members of the "other" religions bother to complain. Where we get problems, however, is when the theology leads to, say, pogroms or the Inquisition.
I agree that this shouldn't be much of a surprise. Remember what the pope said about there being "one true church?"
October 5, 2007 | 9:21 am
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
Remember this summer when I posted about Match.com for adulterers? The billboard for AshleyMadison.com said, "Life is short, have an affair." Well, yesterday Defamer got this e-mail from the company. The whole thing is worth a read, but this part's my favorite.
Despite his own "happy marriage", Morganstern believes that monogamy has become outdated and discovered that through the site, there could be a modern solution to this age old problem.
First off, having an affair is not a solution: It is the problem. Secondly, I love that the press release adds this ridiculous clause, "Despite his own 'happy marriage.'" Sounds like Morganstern is the kid whose "hypothetical friend" needs help with a problem he is actually dealing with. Maybe it's true, maybe it isn't. Whatever the case, I'm not interested in the marital success of a pimp.
October 4, 2007 | 5:23 pm
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
Libby Purves, a fan of The God Blog, has compiled a top-30 list of Iranian President Ahmadinejad's "jaw-dropping quotes" on Israel. Here's the top eight:
1. "Israel must be wiped off the map ⦠The establishment of a Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world . . . The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land."
October 26, 2005
(In an address to 4,000 students at a program titled, 'The World Without Zionism')NB The translation of this quote is debated and has also been read as "Israel must disappear from the page of history"
2. "The Zionist regime is an injustice and by its very nature a permanent threat. Whether you like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation. The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm."
April 14, 2006
(In a speech at the opening of the "Support for the Palestinian Intifada" conference on April 14-16 hosted in Tehran)3. "Today, they [Europeans] have created a myth in the name of Holocaust and consider it to be above God, religion and the prophets ⦠This is our proposal: give a part of your own land in Europe, the United States, Canada or Alaska to them [Jews] so that the Jews can establish their country."
December 14, 2005
(Speaking to thousands of people in the Iranian city of Zahedan)4. "The Zionist regime is the flag bearer of violation and occupation and this regime is the flag of Satan. â¦It is not unlikely that this regime be on the path to dissolution and deterioration when the philosophy behind its creation and survival is invalid."
August 18, 2007
(Address to an international religious conference in Tehran)5. "A new Middle East will prevail without the existence of Israel."
August 4, 2006
(as quoted by Malaysian news agency Bernama website)6. "In parallel to the official political war there is a hidden war going on and the Islamic states should benefit from their economic potential to cut off the hands of the enemies."
7. "Some European countries insist on saying that Hitler killed millions of innocent Jews in furnaces…. Although we don't accept this claim, if we suppose it is true, our question for the Europeans is: Is the killing of innocent Jewish people by Hitler the reason for their support to the occupiers of Jerusalem? If the Europeans are honest they should give some of their provinces in Europe—like in Germany, Austria or other countries—to the Zionists and the Zionists can establish their state in Europe."
December 8, 2005
(While speaking to journalists at an Islamic summit in Mecca)8. "The Zionists are the true manifestation of Satan . . . Many Western governments that claim to be pioneers of democracy and standard bearers of human rights close their eyes over crimes committed by the Zionists and by remaining silent support the Zionists due to their hedonistic and materialistic tendencies."
February 28, 2007
(to a meeting of Sudanese Islamic scholars in Khartoum)
October 4, 2007 | 4:00 pm
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
A Ha'aretz editorial yesterday used the "a-word," and the Bintel Blogger calls the liberal Israeli paper out on it:
Lamenting the situation in the occupied territories, the editorial says:
The de facto separation is today more similar to political apartheid than an occupation regime because of its constancy. One side â determined by national, not geographic association â includes people who have the right to choose and the freedom to move, and a growing economy. On the other side are people closed behind the walls surrounding their community, who have no right to vote, lack freedom of movement, and have no chance to plan their future.
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Sure, there are similarities between the lives of Palestinians under Israeli occupation and those of black South Africans under apartheid. Indeed, in certain respects, the conditions Palestinians face are arguably even worse. But while the Palestiniansâ circumstances may resemble those once faced by blacks in South Africa, the apartheid analogy ignores crucial context for why this is the case.
Unlike South African blacks, Palestinians bear no small share of the responsibility for their plight. If not for repeated Arab threats and efforts to destroy the Jewish state, there would have been no occupation in the first place. And if not for wave after wave of terrorism, there would quite possibly be an independent Palestinian state today instead of a West Bank security barrier. And, it goes without saying, constant rocket barrages from post-disengagement Gaza do little to encourage Israel to end its occupation of the West Bank.
But Israelâs foes do not deploy the âapartheidâ analogy simply because of its descriptive utility. It is also a term of moral opprobrium, a cudgel used to beat up and de-legitimize Israel in the court of world opinion. If Israel is like apartheid South Africa, then it is an evil regime that should be boycotted and ostracized, or so the analogy goes.
October 4, 2007 | 2:48 pm
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
Michael Lynton is running late. It almost should be expected that the chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment would not be waiting around his Culver City office for a reporter to show up with a notebook full of questions. Especially a studio head as closely guarded as he.
Half an hour after we were set to meet—not so bad, really—Lynton steps into his office foyer and extends a hand. Short and tan, wearing suit pants and a light-blue shirt with the top two buttons undone, he leads me to a table in his office.
"OK,â he says as he slips into a chair. âWhat are we talking about?"
Lynton seems surprised, as I note in a short profile of him in this week's Jewish Journal, because during his meteoric rise to the third floor of the Irving Thalberg Building, he's never liked to talk about himself.
He doesn't speak publicly about his wife and three children, he says, because they didn't sign up for the scrutiny. And he doesn't talk much about being Jewish because that's not something he did growing up in the Netherlands.
"I was one of two Jewish kids in my school. We were probably one of two Jewish families in our town. And it was a really tolerant country. So it is not that you are hiding your Judaism, it is just that you don't identify yourself as a Jew because there is no critical mass to identify with," Lynton recalled. "So you identify yourself by other criteria. You identify yourself by what your dad does for a living, what your mother does for a living, what sports teams you like—that sort of thing.
"What is unusual about the United States—and it's something that I have never gotten used to—is that Jews here, there are so many of them and they are so important to the culture," he said. "And they feel, rightly, so comfortable being visible and outspoken, that they identify themselves in a very prominent way in the communities they live in, whether it is the entertainment community or the banking community or whatever it is. That's not a phenomenon you would see in Holland at all; that's not a phenomenon I grew up with."
A multi-lingual media renaissance man, Lynton proclaimed his Jewishness—and set up a lot of Jews-in-Hollywood jokes/slanders (I think I'll pass on linking to the white supremist Vanguard News Network)—last spring when Newsweek published a list of America's top 50 rabbis that he wrote with Jewish Television Network CEO Jay Sanderson and News Corp. spokesman Gary Ginsburg.
October 4, 2007 | 10:03 am
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
I had lunch last month with the LA Weekly's Pulitzer-winning food critic, Jonathan Gold, and we got to talking about high school. He mentioned that one of his teenage tormentors at Beverly Hills High School was his Jewish co-religionist, the now notorious Jack Abramoff, and told me he had recorded a segment for "This American Life" detailing the drama.
That segment, which originally aired in June 2006, was rebroadcast last week and is now making the blog rounds.
"He was the sort of person who would walk across the street to be unpleasant to somebody," Gold says.
Gold, who only recently trimmed his fiery-red Hessian hair, describes his high school self as "nerdy soft kid who brings his cello to class." Abramoff, legend has it, was the bulked-up jock who could squat over 500 pounds.
"In my most notable instance, I was walking down the hall to history class, and he hip-checked me ... I went sailing down the stairs with my cello," Gold says. "He was laughing about it with his friends. I suspect he forgot about it five minutes later. I didn't."
When Abramoff was sent to prison, Gold was elated. "It's just beautiful. It's more than I could have wished for."
Abramoff's demise was a long-time coming, and was indicative of the corrupt influence of K Street on Congress. The most amazing comment Abramoff, an Orthodox Jew, gave during his downfall was to The Jewish Journal:
I had lost a sense of proportion and judgment. God sent me 1,000 hints that He didn't want me to keep doing what I was doing. But I didn't listen, so He set off a nuclear bomb.
For what it's worth, Abramoff claims he's never met Jonathan Gold. It sounds to me like Gold wasn't the kind of classmate he would remember.
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When the Cleveland Indians beat the Seattle Mariners 10-8 in ten innings yesterday (despite what Root Sports may tell you) on a three-run homer by Yan Gomes in the tenth, the reactions from the Mariners TV crew, Indians TV crew, and Indians radio crew were very, very different.
First, we'll lead with the Mariners TV call by Rick Rizzs, Dave Sims, and Mike Blowers. Note the sense of absolute depression in Rizzs' voice calling the homer and realizing that the Mariners have suffered a walkoff loss for the third time this series.
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Not sure if it is for a specific place on the bump or not..
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Kingston High School Tiger Marching Band's championship credited to inclusiveness (video)
KINGSTON, N.Y. — Kingston High School's Tiger Marching Band's first state championship win late last month validated the organization's inclusive philosophy, said the band's co-director, Stephen Garner.
"We're in the Large School 3 Division," Garner said Friday. "One of the things that separates us from the Large School 2 Division and the National Division is everybody who is signed up for band during the day is also in our marching band, which is not the case with other schools."
At many other schools, conflicts with other after-school activities, like sports, prevent students from participating in the marching band, which is treated like a varsity sport in a number of communities.
Garner and Phil Stephenson, his fellow co-director, on the other hand, not only do not want anyone to be excluded, but they also prefer their students be able to function in both concert and field settings.
The result is that the directors work with students who have to miss practices if they are involved in other activities like soccer, football, or dance, and the Tiger Band competes with others that are able to dedicate more time to rehearsing as a full group.
The philosophy also led to Kingston High School fielding a 210-student marching band, substantially larger than the school's competitors. Garner said the band's size can be viewed at as a built-in disadvantage in competitions.
"(The) next largest band in any class in New York State Field Band is 140, so we're competing against bands that have 70 less (students). Some have 100 less, 150 less," said Garner, recalling a Binghamton marching band that fielded only about 30 students.
It can be a challenge to keep so many people on the same page, not only musically, but also in the visual part of the presentation, which was led by teachers Nick Avossa, Carol Avossa, and Todd Reihbandt.
Garner said judges rate bands in six categories, including "field music and field visual." Continued...
"They are looking at whose feet are in step for the visual, whose hand positions for their instrument (are) good and bad ... and the spacing between the players," he said.
On the music side, "where some bands have maybe 15 clarinets, we have 40," he said.
Additionally, four judges in the booth rate the band on how the music and visual part of the act fit together, so having 100 more students than the competition means the band has 100 more chances to make a mistake.
But when the students come together and have discipline, Garner said, Kingston is able to turn what could have been a weakness into a strength. When 210 students act as one, he said, it can lead to an incredibly powerful performance.
Stephenson spoke of the work the students put into their craft. He calculated that among the entire band, students have spent about 47,000 hours perfecting their performances leading up to the competition, or about 229 hours per student.
Emerging as winners from 11 bands from around the state "really justified all of the hard work and hours, the countless rehearsals, and the practice all the time," said Sidney Tack, a junior who plays the flute.
For the students, winning the state championship capped a unique season that began with their performance at the halftime show for the Montreal Alouettes at Percival Molson Memorial Stadium in Canada, and included competitions on Long Island, at Arlington, Schenectady, Phoenix, N.Y., and its home turf at Dietz Memorial Stadium in Kingston.
For the seniors, ending their last season on such a high note was particularly special.
The band started competing in the championship six years ago. Four years ago, as freshmen, the senior class took eighth place, followed by two second-place finishes.
"We worked our way up," said flute player Amanda Prindle, a senior. Continued...
Even though the Tiger Band was so large, several seniors said their group was just as tightly knit as smaller groups with which they competed. Trombone player Nate Ring expressed pride at "our capacity to pull everyone together."
"There was no barrier between under- and upperclassmen," added French horn and mellophone player Colleen Smith. "We're all like a family."
As was the case throughout the season, the Tigers opened with selections from "Sonoran Desert Holiday," part 2 then part 1, and "Copland Finale" as part of the band's "Journey West" theme this season.
Students and teachers recalled tweaking their performances throughout the season to improve them, based on feedback from the judges at earlier competitions.
"I don't think during the marching season once we ever talked about winning any competition anywhere," said Stephenson. "It was always about improving what we did from the last performance, always trying to be better than before. If that happens, then we've accomplished the goal."
Garner agreed.
"For us, we were proud of the kids before the score," Garner said. "We were proud of the kids just the way they played because we knew they had played to the best of their abilities, and we ended the season playing and marching just spectacularly."
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