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Mindy Corporon ponders evil: 5-1-15
May 01, 2015
When a neo-Nazi white supremacist (allegedly) murdered three people a year ago at two Jewish sites in suburban Kansas City, Mindy Corporon (pictured here) suffered a double disaster. Both her teen-age son, Reat Underwood, and her father, Dr. William Corporon, were shot to death. Also killed that day was Terri LaManno, who, like the other two victims, was a Christian.
That night, at a prayer vigil at which I spoke, Mindy showed up to thank people for caring. It was quite amazing to see her there at all, much less speaking coherently and cogently after such a trauma.
Over this past year I have wondered about how she has come to think about evil and suffering, given what she and her family went through. But I wanted to wait until at least a year had gone by to let her process this catastrophe before asking her about that. One of the ways she did that processing work was to help put together the recent "Seven Days: Make a Ripple, Change the World" events.
With that behind her, I sat down with Mindy earlier this week and we talked about evil.
I discovered a woman who, from her perspective as a member of a United Methodist congregation, has given lots of good and deep thought to this matter. She isn't one to drift into easy answers or cliches. She recognizes that the world is complicated and that the old question of why there's evil in the world if God is good and powerful does not lend itself to simple, quick or exhaustive answers that satisfy everyone.
Prior to the shootings last year, she said that the event she understood to be evil and that touched her most deeply was 9/11, when terrorists murdered nearly 3,000 people (including my own nephew).
"The Oklahoma City bombing (1995) affected me because I had lived in Oklahoma City," she said, ". . .but after I had Reat, it's just different after you have children. Of those two, 9/11 was more impactful. I had been in those Twin Towers before and had never been to the Oklahoma Federal Building."
And yet, she said, "it's not as though evil touched me personally during my life (in a way) that gave me any building blocks or any thought processes about how to work through evil" after her son and father were murdered.
The ancient question of theodicy -- why there is evil and suffering in the world if God is good and powerful -- is one I asked Mindy to address in light of the evil she experienced last year.
"I'm still working on it," she said. But she said she feels different about approaching such subjects a year after the shootings. How so? I asked.
"Well, I don't feel crippled. I mean (at the time) you just feel crippled and you can hardly function. But you know I'm not sure if it (evil) goes back to Adam and Eve and Eve took the apple from the tree and that was it. And we've got free will and there you go."
The idea of so-called "Original Sin" has informed much of Christian theology for centuries, though in recent years some theologians have begun to challenge the idea inherent in Original Sin that humans are born sinners. They are focusing instead on the biblical witness that God declared the creation "good" and humanity "very good." These are the tensions that Christians today trying to wrestle with the theodicy question are obliged to consider.
So far, she has decided this: "I don't think that God killed him (her son or her father). But I think that God knew. I feel like if God knew and it happened because of free will, and this man did what he did. . .I don't think it was predestined."
But, she said, if God knew it might happen and it did, in fact, happen, "then my job is to say I can now help other people. And that is my responsibility. . .I feel like I have such a responsibility to God, to my Dad, to Reat, to other people to show them that there is evil in the world and that we who are still here have to overcome it."
Mindy was clear that she did not believe her son and father died just so she could take on that responsibility. Rather, she said, she believes that her accepting that responsibility is her response to the evil that befell her family.
Mindy explained why she showed up at the prayer vigil the night of the three murders: "People are going to think that God killed them. And I'm the person to tell them that God didn't kill them."
I asked her whether she's discussed the question of evil with the Rev. Adam Hamilton, senior pastor of her congregation, the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, or other members of the COR staff.
She said that the COR staff has felt Mindy grasps what she needs to know about evil to get through this crisis "so we really haven't sat down and had deep discussions about it." But, she said, "I've asked Adam a few times things that were really bothering me. I asked him, 'When am I going to see Jesus, because I really don't want to be here any more. I would rather be in heaven. So when is that happening?' I did. I thought, 'Maybe this means the world is ending because my world was ending so maybe it means the world is ending for everyone.'"
But, she said, she didn't like Adam's answer: "His answer was that he thinks we'll see Jesus at our death. And I wasn't happy with that answer."
I asked her what she wanted him to say.
"Oh, yes, we know Jesus is coming. Like maybe May 30 or something," she replied, laughing a bit. "And we'll all be able to get back together with our loved ones and it'll all be OK." But Adam Hamilton, a wonderfully creative and thoughtful Mainline Protestant pastor whom I've known a long time, is not given to such date-setting prophecies and would never promise an early Second Coming even if it was an answer someone wanted to hear.
In the end, Mindy concluded something she recently told a friend: "Life can take the breath out of you, but it's God and your friends who can put the life back into you."
Mindy's experience also has her thinking and rethinking about what she believes about the sources of evil and whether there is a personified devil, often called Satan.
"I grew up with my parents believing in God and believing in Jesus," she said, "but we never talked about the devil, we never talked about evil. . .But I looked evil in the eye when I saw my Dad dead and when I saw Reat. There is evil out there."
After the shootings, interviewers and others talked with Mindy about "this crazy person," the shooter, but her immediate and clear response has been, "He is not crazy. He is evil. And there is a difference. . .This man does not have a mental incapacity. He is evil and he just wanted to kill Jews for his own reasons and that is evil."
She's also clear that "there is evil without having to blame it on a personified Satan. And I think where that evil comes from is that they (people who commit evil deeds) can't have peace . . .So they choose evil as an action instead of love as an action."
I asked Mindy if she could imagine any circumstances in which she might be able to offer forgiveness to the man who killed her father and son.
"I don't think it's my responsibility to forgive him," she said. "I think that that is God's. I think if you break a commandment, you answer to God. I feel sorry for him. People have asked me how I feel about him, and I feel sorry for him that he has no peace, that he has been taken over by evil, for whatever reason. . .What I don't want to do is give him any publicity. I don't want to give him a platform. I have no idea (about changing him), nor do I think that I could change him. . .I owe it to my Dad and Reat to hold their memories up and talk about what they did and how good they were rather than dwell on the man who took their life."
She's also thought about why she has reacted the way she has to this evil:
"I didn't choose anger," she said. "What I've learned is that when you experience trauma your natural tendencies come out -- whoever you are innately. And I'm not innately an angry person. But who I've chosen to get mad at when I get mad is I get mad at God. And then he helps me heal. So that's really helped. I can get mad at him and then immediately he helps me heal."
Mindy Corporon and her family -- as well as the LaManno family -- are still healing, of course. And no doubt will be for the rest of their lives. But Mindy is walking through this darkness with help from friends, family and a loving faith community. And she's willing to ask the hard questions of faith, even if sometimes she doesn't like some of the answers she finds.
But, as she says, "My faith is strong."
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To my surprise, it looks as if Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who usually votes with the Democrats, is going to run for president on the Democratic ticket. He's got an intriguing faith background, which Religion News Service unpacks here.


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How can students get their textbooks without breaking the bank or breaking the law?
From March 2 to March 6, librarians at the Claremont Colleges Library celebrated Open Education Week in order to promote one way to avoid resorting to expensive textbooks or internet piracy: Open Educational Resources.
OERs, ranging from full courses to textbooks and other teaching materials, exist in the public domain under a Creative Commons or similar license. They can be downloaded, shared, adapted and personalized by anyone with internet access.
They're also adaptive, meaning faculty can change them to fit their needs.
"Let's say your students are studying at the Botanical Gardens," Jennifer Beamer, the library's scholarly communication librarian, said via email. "[The professor] can adapt the textbook, or even have students adapt the textbook, to suit the situation. It's really inclusive."
Megan Donnelly, the library's teaching and outreach librarian, said the intent of the week was to bring a conversation happening in some spaces into the mainstream.
"It seems like librarians are definitely talking about [OERs] a lot," Donnelly said. "Faculty are talking about it. Some administrators are talking about it, but students are missing from the conversation a lot. So we're just trying to raise awareness by having these programs each day."
Each day of the week, librarians visited 5C dining halls to raise students' awareness of OERs and how they can advocate for the inclusion of open resources in their classes.
As students walked by, the librarians would ask them how much they had spent on textbooks for the spring semester, marking their response on a whiteboard graph. Then they would briefly explain OERs and how they can reduce the costs of course materials while improving education access.
The goal, Donnelly explained, was to inspire students to tell their professors about OERs and to let them know that they can ask librarians to help them find online resources in their field of study.
In the future, the librarians hope to compile data on the amount students spend on textbooks and how they address the costs of course materials while also working alongside students interested in advocating for OERs.
"As librarians we can help faculty identify and adopt materials that they can bring into the classroom, and help students advocate with faculty to find alternatives to the high cost of textbooks," Beamer said.
But OERs face some limitations that prevent them from fulfilling specific educational needs. While they cover a majority of introductory subjects, from chemistry to literary analysis, they lack higher level course subjects and materials because professors must release the information and lesson materials to the public.
"For some of the junior [and] senior courses, there's not a lot of material," Beamer said.
Without the necessary materials online, professors turn to textbooks for their specific subject, which remain under copyright laws and students must buy.
As librarians talked with students, they learned that many had developed or found various ways of circumventing the high costs of textbooks and other course materials.
Some students, like Andie Sheridan PO '21, mentioned that they get their materials through their professors that post readings on Sakai or check out or download the materials from the library.
Other students buy textbooks they need for their classes.
"I spend maybe $400 a year for three textbooks," said Chris Ferrarin HM '20. "I only buy ones I think I'll need to use later."
Yet, Ferrarin considers himself a rare case for buying his textbooks in comparison to the general student body.
"I think most people pirate most textbooks, like they will try to find electronic copies. Those are more convenient and obviously cheaper," Ferrarin said.


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[-r host:path] [-v] [-q] [-d
seconds-since-epoch] [--bench]
[--max-pack-size=bytes] [-#] [--bwlimit=bytes]
[--max-pack-objects=n] [--fanout=count]
[--keep-boundaries] [--git-ids | filenames...]
bup split concatenates the contents of the given files (or if no filenames are given, reads from stdin), splits the content into chunks of around 8k using a rolling checksum algorithm, and saves the chunks into a bup repository. Chunks which have previously been stored are not stored again (ie. they are 'deduplicated').
Because of the way the rolling checksum works, chunks tend to be very stable across changes to a given file, including adding, deleting, and changing bytes.
For example, if you use bup split to back up an XML dump of a database, and the XML file changes slightly from one run to the next, nearly all the data will still be deduplicated and the size of each backup after the first will typically be quite small.
Another technique is to pipe the output of the tar(1) or cpio(1) programs to bup split. When individual files in the tarball change slightly or are added or removed, bup still processes the remainder of the tarball efficiently. (Note that bup save is usually a more efficient way to accomplish this, however.)
To get the data back, use bup-join(1).
These options select the primary behavior of the command, with -n being the most likely choice.
- -n, --name=name
after creating the dataset, create a git branch named name so
that it can be accessed using that name.
If name already exists, the new dataset will be considered a
descendant of the old name.
(Thus, you can continually create new datasets with the same name, and
later view the history of that dataset to see how it has changed over
time.) The original data will also be available as a top-level file
named "data" in the VFS, accessible via bup fuse,
bup ftp, etc.
- -t, --tree
output the git tree id of the resulting dataset.
- -c, --commit
output the git commit id of the resulting dataset.
- -b, --blobs
output a series of git blob ids that correspond to the chunks in the
Incompatible with -n, -t, and -c.
- --noop
read the data and split it into blocks based on the "bupsplit" rolling
checksum algorithm, but don't do anything with the blocks.
This is mostly useful for benchmarking.
Incompatible with -n, -t, -c, and -b.
- --copy
like --noop, but also write the data to stdout.
This can be useful for benchmarking the speed of read+bupsplit+write for
large amounts of data.
Incompatible with -n, -t, -c, and -b.
- -r, --remote=host:path
save the backup set to the given remote server.
If path is omitted, uses the default path on the remote server
(you still need to include the ':').
The connection to the remote server is made with SSH.
If you'd like to specify which port, user or private key to use for
the SSH connection, we recommend you use the ~/.ssh/config
Even though the destination is remote, a local bup repository is still
- -d, --date=seconds-since-epoch
specify the date inscribed in the commit (seconds since 1970-01-01).
- -q, --quiet
disable progress messages.
- -v, --verbose
increase verbosity (can be used more than once).
- --git-ids
stdin is a list of git object ids instead of raw data.
bup split will read the contents of each named git object (if
it exists in the bup repository) and split it.
This might be useful for converting a git repository with large binary
files to use bup-style hashsplitting instead.
This option is probably most useful when combined with
- --keep-boundaries
if multiple filenames are given on the command line, they are normally
concatenated together as if the content all came from a single file.
That is, the set of blobs/trees produced is identical to what it would
have been if there had been a single input file.
However, if you use --keep-boundaries, each file is split
You still only get a single tree or commit or series of blobs, but each
blob comes from only one of the files; the end of one of the input files
always ends a blob.
- --bench
print benchmark timings to stderr.
- --max-pack-size=bytes
never create git packfiles larger than the given number of bytes.
Default is 1 billion bytes.
Usually there is no reason to change this.
- --max-pack-objects=numobjs
never create git packfiles with more than the given number of objects.
Default is 200 thousand objects.
Usually there is no reason to change this.
- --fanout=numobjs
when splitting very large files, try and keep the number of elements in
trees to an average of numobjs.
- --bwlimit=bytes/sec
don't transmit more than bytes/sec bytes per second to the
This is good for making your backups not suck up all your network
Use a suffix like k, M, or G to specify multiples of 1024,
10241024, 10241024*1024 respectively.
- -#, --compress=#
set the compression level to # (a value from 0-9, where 9 is the
highest and 0 is no compression).
The default is 1 (fast, loose compression)
$ tar -cf - /etc | bup split -r myserver: -n mybackup-tar tar: Removing leading /' from member names Indexing objects: 100% (196/196), done. $ bup join -r myserver: mybackup-tar | tar -tf - | wc -l 1961
Part of the bup(1) suite.
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Women continue to enter the workforce in record numbers. In fact, almost 47% of the workforce is comprised of women in business. Yet, despite this fact, very few women hold the top slots.
Take one stroll past the executive suite in your organization and there will probably be a noticeable lack of women to be found, particularly if you exclude the support staff. Perhaps you never took the time to consider this or to even ask the question, but given the number of women in the workforce, does it seem rather odd that there aren't more women ensconced in the executive suites in business? I think so.
I've talked with many women leaders to try to identify the barriers that preclude more women from reaching the corner office. Here's what I've learned.
First, life-balance and family trade offs continue to plague women who want to build successful careers. As has long been the case, the bulk of family and household responsibilities still fall on women's shoulders. How each woman, her family, and her place of employment choose to manage and negotiate around this issue will clearly have an impact on a woman's ability to take advantage of those business opportunities that lead to long-term personal and professional success.
Another surprising deterrent is the perception that women lack key business credentials. As a woman with an MBA and MA under her belt, this one makes me chafe a little. However, having the right business credentials means more than having the right degree. Rather, it means being able to demonstrate in measurable ways a clear understanding of those business practices and the financial aspects that are important for an organizations success. This is what is commonly referred to as business acumen. Women don't lack key business credentials, they just need to do a better job of getting the credit and recognition for using them.
Finally, women continue to lack representation at senior levels simply because they just don't have visible positions. Many women typically follow career paths that lead them into the more traditional female roles such as marketing or operations. The lack of coveted profit and loss responsibility will often preclude them from consideration when the top jobs do become available.
Corporations need to make the case for developing women leaders within their organizations. They must stop overlooking the fact that women have good instincts about business and that they are good managers, delegators, collaborators, and team players. Since most businesses are built on relationships, these are crucial assets to an organizations long-term success.
While there are other reasons why organizations should focus on developing more women leaders, the primary reason, simply put, is that it just makes good business sense. Those organizations that want to reap the kind of financial returns so critical to their long-term success, should begin seeking out and supporting executive women leaders. Over the long haul, that's something that we can all bank on. Don't you agree?


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What is The TRAIN Learning Network
Public Health Foundation. (n.d.). What is The TRAIN Learning Network? (Accessed 1/8/2020.)
This webpage provides an overview of the TRAIN Learning Network, which is comprised of three primary components: TRAIN Affiliates (agencies that work together on the TRAIN LMS platform); TRAIN Course Providers (e.g., government agencies, academic institutions, professional associations) who post content on TRAIN that is then reviewed for inclusion in a catalog); and TRAIN Learners (which includes public health, healthcare, and preparedness professionals from the U.S. and 177 other countries).
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Christopher Spottiswoode (1VLA)
ChristopherSpottiswoode Metaset Close Corporation South Africa email: cms-at-metaset.co.za (1VLB)
After a high school passion for physics, Christopher first spent a decade in South Africa and on a scholarship in Cambridge, UK, studying mathematics then philosophy, the final year lecturing in mathematics back in South Africa. The foundations of the Ontology Chemistry project, deriving from those studies, are laid during this decade, though their far-reaching significance was not immediately apparent to him. (2Y1B)
He then had a two-decade career as Information System analyst, designer and programmer, living and working in or near Cape Town. (2YBX)
He started in a large industrial conglomerate, where he rose within 3 years to become System Manager and next in line as CIO. Another 3 years and several pioneering and successful projects later, he went out on his own. During this time he distilled-out the still highly-relevant lessons of those projects into the earliest predecessor of Metaset, which is the still very much work-in-progress prototype of the Ontology Chemistry Application Operating System (AOS) concept he is currently promoting within the Ontolog Community.* (2YBY)
He soon co-founded a small software company which grew to have branches in South Africa's other major centres too. Its main line of business became the selling, with full training and support, of application development tools. That included much involvement with both new application design and legacy application migration. 12 years and several further Metaset steps later, he sold his share of the company to its other co-founder and invested fully in his present career phase. (2Y1C)
As you know, South Africa has long been a cosmopolitan political hotbed. So, also building on his earlier Civil Society involvements, he has spent the following two decades working on the psychologically- and socially-relevant integration, based on ontologies, of all the above-mentioned fields, the better for technology to help catalyse and support system interoperation and thereby human collaboration. (2Y1D)
There is much more on the above on http://jeffsutherland.org/oopsla98/SpottBioComp.html and its various linked pages. (2Y1E)
For the present state of the project emerging from all that, you could quickly scan the rather dated home page of http://TheMainstream.info, but try to adapt it in your mind's eye to having not him but the Ontolog Community, or at least some of its members (still to volunteer...), taking over and driving the project until the project-enhanced open market has made that evolution fully democratic. (Much more is still to come on such hoped-for passings of the baton.) (2Y1F)
A working page for the proposed "Ontology Chemistry" grand challenge project can be found at: /OntologyChemistry_WorkingDraft (2YBP)
- a conversation that started with the post at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2011-10/msg00135.html (2YCM)


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Human body is full of mysteries; a baby takes birth with very delicate skin & subtle body parts. As a person grows, there are lot of stages acquired by body. In tender age, skin looks soft, fine and attractive, but as time progress, there comes a stage when maximum of people experience wrinkles, loose skin and fine lines. This is not only case when people need a treatment or some genuine remedy to treat this condition, there are two other major reasons also like extreme weight loss or giving birth to a child. These two conditions also call for attention to get rid of sagging skin. There are thousands of beauty products available in market claiming skin tighten properties, but how effective they are or not? Instead of using artificial products available, hereby we recommend using nature given oils as herbal treatment without any side effect. Hereby we are providing a very selective list of skin tightening oils which are useful to treat loose skin:
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All of above mentioned oils are gift to us by nature, if used by care and regularly, these oils can do wonder to one's skin. Not only getting rid from stretch marks, loose or saggy skin, these oils make skin totally new & fresh like a baby's skin.
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Cupcakes and the President's Health Care Bill
Posted on February 14, 2010
It struck me as I was buying cupcakes for my wife's birthday.
If you understand the sudden rise of the cup cake, you will understand why the President Health Care bill has lost so much steam.
The cupcake is indicative of the on-demand world we live in.
If you bring a variety of cupcakes to a party, you will be greeted as the conquering hero for one simple reason. You are giving the partygoers the power to choose.
The American consumer these days demands that power to choose.
They demand it with their favorite television shows. Cable television provides hundreds of different channels, and the smart cable network provides consumer the ability to get the programming they want when they want it.
They provide consumers the power to choose because if they didn't, the customers would just go to the Internet and find their favorite shows on Hulu or in other places.
But the on-demand world doesn't just apply to television. It applies to mobile devices, whether it is the Iphone, the newest blackberry or the dozens of other choices that are out there.
This on-demand world is spreading quickly. People are demanding the power to select how they are entertained, how they work, how they eat, how they play.
Most of the private sector gets this new dynamic, and they rushing in to find ways to make the consumer happy.
One place that doesn't understand this and can't seemingly adapt is the government. While the average American consumer is demanding more power to control their own fates, our political system, especially as run by the Democrats, is pushing for more government control.
The President's health care plan puts government in more control of health care spending for the average American consumer. Democrats in the Congress are actually targeting programs like Medicare advantage, which were created to give consumers more control.
Instead of ending health care monopolies in the states, the Democratic plan actually requires the uninsured to enroll in them. Instead of giving more power to consumers to shop for the health care insurance, and thereby give the consumers more power to hold down costs, the President's plan puts faith in the government's power to bring down costs.
The problem with that strategy is that nobody believes that the government can do the job. The federal bureaucracy is lost in an on-demand world. The idea of customer service is so foreign to most bureaucrats that member of Congress have to spent a significant portion of their office budgets on caseworkers whose sole job is to bird-dog the bureaucrats on behalf of the constituents.
My theory is that our political system doesn't lend itself particularly well to this on-demand world, either. An on-demand world makes obsolete binary choices. The political system demands a binary choice. People want the kind of representation that they want and they are not satisfied with the compromises that are a necessary part of the legislative process.
Voters believe that the politicians aren't listening to them. But that is not exactly true. The politicians are listening to everybody and having a hard time discerning what they should be doing. They retreat to old ideologies and rely on silly sound-bites as way to cope with the cacophony of disparate voices.
That the political system in under intense stress is obvious. Approval ratings for Congress remain abysmal, and voters are mad as hell and don't want to take it anymore.
But the demands of the voters reflect their personal desires and not some great call for unified action. The President thought he had a mandate to radically change the country, so he set out to put government in control of the health care industry, the energy industry, the banking industry and the auto industry.
The people rebelled, and sent a strong message to the President that they wanted the power to decide their own futures. They don't want him to make those choices for them.
The people want change for their better. By that they mean, they want a government that reflects the realities of the on-demand world. Instead, what the President has promised them is more government and less personal control over their fates.
Politicians, by their very natures, would rather take power than give it back to the voters. But that doesn't work very well in this on-demand world.


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Warning: This article contains mild spoilers for Fleabag season two.
In season two of Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's eponymous main character falls in love with a man who's charming and funny, who listens to and really sees her, and who's just the exact right amount of hot. The only problem? He's a priest.
When the season premiered over in the U.K. earlier this year, audiences immediately went wild for The Priest, played by Irish actor Andrew Scott. "I had no idea that the dog collar would make such an impact on people," he admitted.
Scott, who was raised Catholic but no longer practices, talked to The Cut about his various priestly garments, whether he heard any complaints from the Church, and why Fleabag and The Priest are a "perfect match."
I understand that the role was specifically written for you by Phoebe. What about it appealed to you?
It wasn't the role, initially. It was Phoebe, really. We had worked together ten years ago in a play and so we got together last summer and had this great conversation about this character. We had a wonderful day and we were talking about love and loss. And how love is presented on television. And religion and how it informs the lives of people of our generation. At the end of the conversation, I just really wanted to be involved. I actually hadn't really seen the script at that stage so I signed on without having seen it. So it was really a leap of faith and one that I was thrilled that I took.
Was it a little strange to be playing a priest with your religious background?
No, I don't think that's the reason it was strange. I think what happens to a lot of religious people in drama is I think they're often presented in extremis. So we were both very interested in presenting this man at the hub of sort of a dilemma where both choices are equal in a sense. I think he's really happy in his job, I think he's good at his job. And the problem that arises — which I think does arise when you desexualize people — is that he falls in love with somebody. So we wanted to put sort of a human side to him.
I understand that when the show premiered in the UK he became a bit of a sensation. Were you expecting that?
Oh, God no. I knew that the series was really special. I definitely knew that it sort of tapped into something that I think would appeal to a large section of the audience. It's so humane — it's funny and sad and I think that's what people really want in a drama. I had no idea that the dog collar would make such an impact on people. It's not me, I think it's something about the forbidden fruits of the priest that does something for people.
The Priest very much likes his wardrobe, buying new garments — did you have a favorite outfit out of all of them?
They are pretty comfortable, the priest dresses. You can just let everything loose in there. I think there is a sort of theatricality to the priesthood — certainly in the Vatican, it's pretty theatrical over there. It doesn't really float my boat but as a costume for 13-hour days, wearing a priest costume, as they go, is pretty okay.
Have you heard any feedback from the Church at all? Any complaints?
I don't think there's been very many complaints at all. In fact, I think it's opened up a discussion about sexuality and trying to have an incentive for younger people of this generation — there's a crisis of people joining the church, people under the age of 40. I think the discussion about being allowed to marry or have a partner is a very valid one. There's definitely a space in it for people of my generation who feel that organized religion is something that they're going to choose and the sort of prudishness with which they talk about sexuality is something that people reject so there's a gap where people are going "What am I doing with my spirituality and that side of myself?"
I thought the character was quite nuanced but I've seen several takes about the character. Obviously, there's the pure objectification, but I've also seen articles about how he's manipulative, other opinions that she's exploiting him, etc. What are your thoughts on that feedback, and how do you personally see him?
What Phoebe and I talked about from the beginning of the show was that Fleabag is a deeply flawed character and we wanted to have a match for her that would seem right for her in a way. He's definitely a flawed character. He's deeply conflicted. She is not a believer, so he doesn't have a position to abuse her. They're just two human beings.
Where Phoebe is very gifted is that we're all flawed people. He's by no means a perfect character, but if he was a perfect character, I don't think he would be a perfect match for Fleabag. We're all imperfect and I think that's why the show has such an impact, because it's without judgement. And I think speaking in absolutes about TV characters and sort of policing the way people should react to it is kind of dangerous, because it's the death of good drama, because it lacks nuance. Certainly we didn't set out to create any perfect characters in the show. He's deeply conflicted and deeply flawed and deeply in love.


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As you may have already guessed, as well as the return of Gow to help round out the podcast, this week also saw a return Alec-Ross Bower. He joins us for the later part of the episode and has some very interesting things to say.
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GT5 will get in-race saves – endurance races a doddle now
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The New York Rangers and Washington Capitals begin the second round of the 2012 NHL Playoffs on Saturday afternoon.
Neither team is operating with much rest after both squads needed seven games to prevail in round one.
The Rangers survived a real scared from the 8th-seeded Ottawa Senators to win 2-1 in Game 7. Henrik Lundqvist made 27 saves and Dan Girardi's tally 9:41 into the second period turned into the series-winner.
The Capitals ousted the defending Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins in round one when Joel Ward scored an overtime goal on the road in Game 7.
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When you take risks, you can win as well as lose. True to his word,Spencer Fearon of Hard Knocks Boxing Promotions did not match hisfighters softly on yesterday Shamrock Showdown card at York Hall and came up with an even score: one loss and one victory.
For all his untidiness and controversy, the bout between champion Adil Anwar (11-1, 5 ko's) and Fearon promoted challenger Nathan Graham (11-2, 5 ko's) for the Welterweight International Masters title was nothing less than spectacular. Nathan opened and landed first, with jabs to body and head of Anwar, but it was the defending champion to establish himself as the ring general for the first two rounds, beating Nathan to the punch either countering while boxing on the back foot or on the attack. Nathan was trying to drag him into a war, while switching stance to confuse him, but Adil always had the last word in every exchange and he still had the edge in the third round, where he engaged in a war of attrition knocking Graham down with a straight right. From this point onwards, chaos erupted. Surprisingly and a bit disappointignly, Nathan made the most amateurish of boxing mistakes and, instead of regaining composure, tried to get back immediately at his opponent, charging head down and falling straight through the ropes outside of the ring. At that point, a member of his corner jumped on the canvas for no apparent reason, while the referee was giving the eight count, the round not being over yet. Action resumed in the next round and again Anwar knocked Nathan down. For the rest of the fight, the challenger looked furiously for the knock out he needed, actually winning the 5th round and remaining aggressive and dangerous till the 9th, while Adil seemed to tire, slow down, and aim just to survive, until he put Graham down again right on the bell. They went toe to toe in the 10th, with the challenger knocked out of the ring again, right on the table of the judges, and eventually stopped,at 2:20 after touching the canvas for the fifth time. In spite of all the flaws, Nathan Graham displayed unbelievable determination and stamina, never taking a backward step. Considering that the title at stake is possibly the least coveted in boxing, he showed a passion that World champions these days often lack.
On the other hand, Hard Knocks Darren Hamilton (8-1, 1 ko) performance against defending Southern Area Light Welterweight champion Peter McDonagh (16-20, 2 ko's) was absolutely flawless. Entering the ring as the underdog, Darren gradually grew in confidence finding his range and working comfortably from the outside behind the jab. Relaxed and in control, he started adding the right hand and building combinations, toying with the opponent in the centre of the ring or pinning him on the ropes. That was pretty much the pattern of the fight, which repeated itself every round till the ending. In spite of his experience, McDonagh looked out of his depth, simply lacking the answers. His legs buckled really good at the end of the 6 th and his right eye was completely shut after the 7th, with a huge swelling above the eyebrow. The conclusion was foregone and the referee stopped the fight after Peter's corner threw the towel at 2:59 of the 8th.
Between the two fights, current British champion Ashley Theophane was invited on the ring and manifested the intention of fighting thewinner of Hamilton-McDonagh in the first defense of his title, a dealFearon is determined to close, but Ashley presents a whole differentset of problems Darren might not yet be ready to handle. Peraphs, hewould be better off gaining some more experience. For the time being,congratulations to him and trainer Harry Andrews for a deserved victory.
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What are organ supplements?
When I transitioned over to a carnivore/animal-based diet and started learning about this way of eating, I heard all the buzz about organ meats. They're full of nutrients and packed with health benefits.
But when I thought about preparing them, cooking them, and eating them, I was a bit intimidated.
Enter: organ supplements.
Individual organs – usually beef organs – are desiccated (all of the moisture is removed and they're dried out) and placed into capsules for nearly effortless consumption.
The idea behind supplementing with organs is like supports like, meaning if one of the organs in your body is weak or has a deficiency, that same organ from a happy, pasture-raised, grass-fed cow should, in theory, help strengthen that weak organ.
For example, if you come down with a lot of respiratory infections, Beef Lung may be a good choice for you. Or if you have urinary troubles, Beef Kidney may work well.
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Ancestral Supplements vs. Heart & Soil Supplements: How Do You Choose?
At first glance, I couldn't really tell the difference between Ancestral Supplements and Heart & Soil Supplements offerings. But over the past few months, I communicated with both brands, looked deeper into their offerings, and tried out multiple products.
I will be discussing both brands using the following five categories to help you decide which brand best fits your needs.
- Intention behind use
- Sourcing and product quality
- Customer service
- Where you're located
- Cost
Intention behind use
When I dove into the offerings of both brands, it appears that Ancestral Supplements focuses on targeted support and Heart & Soil Supplements focuses on organ blends.
For instance, take a closer look at their offerings. For the blends, I listed out which individual organs the product consists of.
Here is a list of Ancestral Supplements full product line:
- Grass-fed Beef Organs: Liver, Heart, Kidney, Spleen, Pancreas
- Grass-fed Beef Liver
- Grass-fed Beef Heart
- Grass-fed Beef Thyroid
- Grass-fed Beef Pancreas
- Grass-fed Beef Spleen
- Grass-fed Bone and Marrow: Whole Bone Extract (Bone Matrix, Bone Marrow, Cartilage)
- Grass-fed Thymus
- Grass-fed Beef Brain
- Grass-fed Beef Kidney
- Grass-fed Beef Trachea
- Grass-fed Beef Adrenal Cortex with Liver: Adrenal Cortex, Liver
- Grass-fed Intestines (with Tripe): Intestines, Tripe/Stomach
- Grass-Fed Gallbladder with Ox Bile & Liver: Gallbladder, Ox Bile, Liver
- Grass-fed Lung with Liver: Lung, Liver
- Grass-fed Beef Tallow
- Grass-fed "Living" Collagen
- Grass-fed Colostrum
- Male Optimization Formula with Organs (MOFO): Testicle, Prostate, Heart, Liver, Bone Marrow
- Female Enhancement Mixture with Mammary (FEMM): Ovary, Uterus, Mammary, Liver, Bone Marrow
- Grass-fed Beef Prostate
- Grass-fed Beef Eye
- Wild Caught Fish Eggs
- Grass-fed Pure Marrow
- Grass-fed Living Bone
- Blood Vitality: Blood, Liver, Spleen
- Grass-fed Placenta
Here is a list of Heart and Soil Supplements full product line:
- Beef Organs: Liver, Heart, Kidney, Pancreas, Spleen
- Firestarter: Suet
- Bone Marrow & Liver: Liver, Bone Marrow
- Lifeblood: Blood Spleen, Liver
- Gut & Digestion: Tripe/Stomach, Intestines, Pancreas, Liver, Spleen
- Heart of the Warrior: Heart, Liver
- Histamine & Immune: Thymus, Lung, Kidney, Spleen, Liver
- Skin, Hair & Nails: Cartilage, Bone Marrow, Liver
- Bone Matrix: Whole Bone Matrix
- Immunomilk: Colostrum
- Whole Package: Testicle, Liver, Blood
- Her Package: Uterus, Ovaries, Fallopian Tubes, Liver, Kidney
If you pay close attention to the products and the ingredients, you'll notice that, for example, Heart & Soil Supplements Histamine & Immune product includes thymus, lung, kidney, spleen, and liver, whereas Ancestral Supplements sells all of those organs individually in separate products.
Targeted support
If you're looking for targeted support (i.e. there is a specific organ in your body that you know is weak or has a deficiency), Ancestral Supplements may be a good option for you. I personally like the control that comes with a targeted approach.
I have a bunch of Ancestral Supplements products (Liver, Bone and Marrow, Living Bone, Wild Caught Fish Eggs, Beef Tallow) and I don't take the same exact spread every single day. My body speaks and tells me what it wants on a given day.
For example, on days I eat raw dairy, I don't take the Living Bone. It's nice to have separate products and be able to do this as it feels intuitive to me.
These are the Ancestral Supplements products I always have on hand:
Grass-Fed Beef Liver
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If you're more of a "blend" person, are looking to target a symptom or overall issue (digestive discomfort, immune system weakness, swelling, etc.), or if you like variety, Heart & Soil Supplements may be more up your alley.
Ancestral Supplements could also be used in this case (they offer some blends as well, such as MOFO, Beef Organs, and Blood Vitality). But if you're looking to consume a wide variety of certain organs, Heart & Soil Supplements may be more cost-effective.
For example, Heart & Soil Supplements Gut & Digestion blend has Tripe/Stomach, Intestines, Pancreas, Liver, and Bone Marrow. You would have to take four Ancestral Supplements products – Grass-Fed Intestines with Tripe, Pancreas, Liver, and Bone and Marrow – to consume those same organs.
However, it's important to note that although you get more organ variety with the blends, you won't get as concentrated of an amount of each organ as you would with the individual products.
I use Heart & Soil Supplements Histamine & Immune blend as I have had lifelong problems with edema and bloating. Whenever I'm feeling puffy, I take some H&I, and then I back off when my body tells me I no longer need it.
Histamine & Immune
(Thymus, Lung, Kidney, Spleen, Liver – I use for bloating & edema)
In a nutshell, I would recommend Ancestral Supplements for targeted support and Heart & Soil Supplements if you're looking for a unique blend or for a cost-effective way to get variety.
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Sourcing and product quality
Both Ancestral Supplements and Heart & Soil Supplements source from New Zealand farms and support regenerative farming practices.
The organs from both brands are also 100% grass-fed and grass-finished.
Heart & Soil Supplements has a page on their website that explains more about their sourcing, and Ancestral Supplements touches upon it on their Amazon page for their Beef Liver product under 'About this item'.
Another cool thing about both of these brands is that their capsule is only one ingredient: gelatin.
There is one exception to this: Ancestral Supplement's Bone and Marrow product. The 'Other Ingredients' listed on the Bone and Marrow product are Gelatin, Organic Rice Concentrate, and Silica. I'm not sure if this is a labeling error or perhaps necessary for the formulation, but given how intentional Brian is with his products, I'm sure there is a reason for it.
In regards to sourcing, I don't think you can go wrong with either brand.
Customer service
When it comes to taking care of their customers, both brands – based on my experience directly working with them – go above and beyond.
I reached out to Brian Johnson, owner of Ancestral Supplements, with some questions about fertility. He responded quickly with an impressively thorough email that included product recommendations, research, and even some other suggestions around lifestyle choices that he thought would help. He was present with me throughout our entire email exchange. I could tell he read through my questions in detail, understood what I was asking, and really tried to help.
I had a similar experience with Paul Saladino, owner of Heart & Soil Supplements. I sent over some questions about carbohydrates, and he reached out personally with a thorough response. He also took the time and energy to try to understand where I was coming from and help me.
I have also communicated with the support teams for both brands regarding product questions, affiliate program questions, and other things. I worked with Vincent from Ancestral Supplements and Melanie from Heart & Soil Supplements, and both of them were wonderful!
Both tribes went above and beyond with quick, thorough emails that addressed everything I was asking for (and then some).
When it comes to customer service, both tribes produce some stellar vibes.
Where you're located
I reached out to both brands to confirm which countries they ship their products to.
Heart & Soil Supplements ships to the United States and Canada.
Ancestral Supplements also ships to the United States and Canada, along with most international countries if you purchase directly from their online store.
According to Brian, they are "working hard to expand international Amazon presence to more conveniently and affordably deliver these nourishing foods across the globe."
I wouldn't be surprised if Heart & Soil Supplements isn't far behind, as the company just reached its first year in business, and their growth in just a year's time has been massive and impressive.
For now, if you're in the United States and Canada, you can have your pick of either brand. If you're located outside of the United States or Canada, Ancestral Supplements is the way to go.
It's hard to do an apples-to-apples cost comparison as Ancestral Supplements and Heart & Soil Supplements product offerings are quite different. But I was able to do a side-by-side of a few of their products that are similar. Here is a cost comparison of those products:
Ancestral Supplements Beef Organs ($48) vs. Heart & Soil's Beef Organs ($50)
Ancestral Supplements MOFO ($62) vs. Heart & Soil's Whole Package ($68)
Ancestral Supplements Beef Tallow ($28) vs. Heart & Soil's Firestarter ($28)
Ancestral Supplements Living Bone ($30) vs. Heart & Soil's Bone Matrix ($32)
Note: I used the prices listed on Amazon for Ancestral Supplements, and for Heart & Soil, I used the prices listed on their website.
Overall, dollar for dollar, Ancestral Supplements is a bit cheaper. By how much depends on the products you're comparing. For example, based on the above prices, MOFO is $6 cheaper than Whole Package, but Beef Tallow and Firestarter are the same price.
Both Ancestral Supplements and Heart & Soil Supplements have a Subscribe & Save option on their website that knocks 10% off the price.
Final thoughts
At the end of the day, you really can't go wrong with either brand.
Both are top-notch when it comes to customer service, sourcing, and product quality.
Ancestral Supplements is slightly cheaper generally speaking, but it depends on what products you're comparing.
I would recommend Ancestral Supplements if you're looking for targeted support. If you're looking for a unique blend or for a cost-effective way to get a variety of certain organs, you may want to go with Heart & Soil Supplements.
Both Ancestral Supplements and Heart & Soil Supplements ship to the United States and Canada. Ancestral Supplements also ships to most international countries if you purchase directly from their online store.
I hope this guide was helpful to you. If you choose either brand, you'll be making a solid choice. It all comes down to what exactly you're looking for.
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13 Mar Shareholder survival driving corporate decision-making
- Shareholders are putting increasing pressure on company bosses to generate profit in markets with no growth
- Doing business anywhere beyond Austria to the east, or below Spain to the south, UK bosses encounter corruption as standard practise
- Through Brexit, the west is dismantling the German model of 'Mittlestand' – family-owned companies that place a premium on long-term stability
UK business leaders are being increasingly pressured into making damaging decisions as global markets stagnate and shareholders panic due to their inability to realise desired returns on investment, says Andrew Kakabadse, Professor of Governance and Leadership at Henley Business School.
Discussing his ongoing research into the challenges faced by corporations across Europe, Professor Kakabadse added that the UK could learn much from Germany's economy, which thrives on the development of small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and family businesses.
He explains: "Most company bosses are reasonable people with immense responsibility in a mature and unresponsive market.
"Shareholders, particularly those representing pension trusts, demand high returns, which create an interlocking 'circle of need' to get as much out of the market and then exit as quickly as possible. Why? Because pension funds have to pay their own members."
"It's not that shareholders are greedy, but they are exerting more pressure on company bosses to generate massive profit, which is very difficult in a market with no growth."
This phenomena, adds Professor Kakabadse, is endemic of businesses focused on outdated western models which, if not addressed soon, will likely result in another 2008-style market crash.
"In the UK and US we have become particularly overexposed to public companies, and are still reliant on what is essentially 1960s thinking," he continues.
"In addition, if you do business anywhere beyond Austria to the east, or below Spain to the south, you immediately encounter corruption as a standard practise. So if you have to trade there, what can you do?
"In trying to balance wealth creation and employment growth, corporations participate in ethically questionable practices, using external agencies to keep a distance from what is happening.
"This makes the problem even worse. Doctors, teachers and other public servants in Russia, Romania and most African countries hate the fact that their homes are becoming synonymous with bribery.
In fact Professor Kakabadse's research concludes that up to 85% of western businesses bribe as a matter of course. "Their choices are limited," he continues. "It is either accept local conditions or exit that market.
"Ultimately, shareholder demand for short-term growth is creating ever greater instability in most societies around the world."
So what alternative do western businesses operating globally have? Professor Kakabadse believes that much can be learnt from countries where there is a less immediate pressure for instant market growth.
"Why do we gamble stocks and shares like putting bets on horses?" he adds. "The German Dax is one of the smallest stock exchanges in the world in a country where the market is firmly based on family businesses which ultimately benefit the community.
"In Germany 'Mittelstand' has more to do with corporate philosophy and practices than with business size or product. In general terms Mittlestand are family-owned companies that operate conservatively and place a premium on long-term stability and investment in products and services rather than mergers and acquisitions, rather than rapidly increasing profit margins.
"Mittelstands also make considerable investments in employee benefits and well-being, as well as in the local community in which they operate, generating a great deal of loyalty from management and employees, as well as from local residents.
"Most importantly, they are extremely successful. This can be clearly witnessed through their apprenticeship programs. Recent developments show that Germany's under-25 unemployment rate was the lowest at a European and Member State level at 6.5%.
"By their very nature family businesses and SMEs have to remain dedicated to day-to-day operations and, in the case of continuous change, smart companies are achieving competitive advantage by better harnessing the skills of their people.
"Unfortunately through Brexit the west is currently dismantling the German model, at the same time as the Chinese are attempting to mimic it. They are investing heavily in moving people out of the countryside to create wealth and employment in their cities. In 20 years' time, the Chinese could well have finessed the German model as it is today."


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US Press: Lies and Damned Lies
The American news media is in an uproar over storytelling by NBC Television's news anchor Brian Williams, who considerably aggrandized his adventures in Iraq by telling viewers a Chinook helicopter he was aboard in 2003 had been hit by RPG fire and that he had been forced to spend a few terrified hours on the ground.
It was one of several expanded stories of Williams' derring-do that got him suspended from his job for six months without pay. But as far as can be told, except for misreporting the 12-year-old story on the 2003 incident, Williams' on-camera reporting, has been relatively truthful. It was that remark, plus embellishing his bravado on talk shows and on the lecture circuit that got him into trouble. And there seems to be a considerable amount of hypocrisy out of synch with reality or the magnitude of Williams' transgressions.
Remember the Maine, Boys!
Journalists who have risked their lives to cover wars – including 63 who died in Vietnam, four of them from NBC News, and the 166 killed in Iraq, for instance – have a right to be outraged. But there are plenty of other questions that US news consumers should be asking. The fact is that supposedly impartial major newspapers and television networks have been lying to their readers and viewers for decades. None of these news outlets suffer for sins that many – soldiers and civilians – have paid for with their lives.
It is a tradition of sorts that dates back at least to the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898, an apparent accident that was amplified in the popular media. That drove the US into war with Spain, eventually leading the hawks of the day in Washington to acquire Puerto Rico and the Philippines in addition to occupying Cuba.
Plenty of other countries, if not most of them, slant their news. But the US media in particular likes to brag that America is the home of impartial news reporting, with a firewall between the editorial page and the news pages. But these are not just matters of a gullible press swallowing government propaganda, which is bad enough. This is often a matter of going out and creating lies. Fox News has been cited as the most egregious, beating the drums for the 2003 invasion of Iraq based on demonstrably false charges that Saddam Hussein's government was storing weapons of mass destruction.
Fox is not alone
But Fox is far from alone. Too often, these are stories built by publishers to push a government into war. Going back to Vietnam, Charles F. Mohr and Merton D. Perry resigned from Time Magazine when their reports on military reverses in the Mekong Delta were disregarded by the editors in New York, who instead reported in the magazine that journalists were getting the bulk of their news from rumors in the Jerome et Juliet bar in the Caravelle Hotel in Saigon. The New York Times sidelined its reporter, Ray Bonner, for distinguished reporting on murderous regimes in Central America to the point where he eventually quit.
More recently, Fox, while the most blatant, has had plenty of company. The Times, ostensibly the US's most respectable newspaper, allowed Judith Miller to report absolute falsehoods on weapons of mass destruction. Eventually the paper published a note saying many of its pre-war stories about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq – a number of which were reported by Miller – misrepresented the situation. Miller ultimately left the paper and went to work for Fox News.
In blurring the line between fact and fiction, "credible" news has come at times to resemble unsourced blogs and twitter posts. On other occasions, the citizens of the 'net have provided superior reporting to what is delivered by supposed professionals.
Fox's Bill O'Reilly, in the lead-up to the war, described how Saddam's enemies were being fed to wood-chippers in Abu Ghraib Prison. That should have been recognized as nonsense, conjured up out of a scene in the dark Coen brothers' movie Fargo. But it fed the enthusiasm for a war that should never have happened, and which according to a Harvard research study is going to cost US$4 trillion to US$6 trillion when all the wounded are paid for, decades from now. That does not include the 5,000 plus servicemen who have died and the tens of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan dead, and the hundreds of thousands more displaced because a jingoistic American press helped the Bush administration beat the drums for war.
Last July, ABC News' Diane Sawyer misidentified scenes of the aftermath of Israeli missile strikes in Gaza as destruction caused by Palestinian rocket fire in Israel. The cameras focused on a Palestinian family gathering belongings in the debris of a missile-hit home in Gaza as "an Israeli family trying to salvage what they can." Sawyer apologized. But she has blithely gone on without missing a step.
Bad diet
The fact is that on a daily basis in the United States, especially in connection with news on Israel, viewers receive a steady diet of biased news and nobody is ever forced to answer for it. Brian Williams is paying a price mostly for bloviating on the banquet circuit. It is a question whether it is a disproportionate one, given pronouncements by the likes of O'Reilly or others masquerading as news people that have done real damage – including, for instance, an utter refusal to acknowledge the causes of climate change, which the denizens of low-lying lands in the Philippines, Indonesia and other Pacific regions will pay for.
When the press lord William Randolph Hearst sent the western artist Fredric Remington to Cuba in 1897, Remington is said to have cabled that "there will be no war." According to the story, Hearst cabled back: "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war." Sounds sadly familiar.
John Berthelsen is the editor of Asia Sentinel


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Where's The Japanese RPG Textbook?
Most people use textbooks, whether you like them or not. There is good and bad in all of them. While some may be more enjoyable than others, there is never really what I would call "excitement" found within. The pictures and situations are all fairly similar and uninspired, and even my favorite Genki books don't paint the picture of action. It always looks like the following:
It's tame. It's family friendly. Reading it too much may sterilize you.
There are some textbooks out there that do a bit more with the visuals and story. Then there are even the "manga themed" textbooks like Japanese in Mangaland, and Japanese the Manga way.
But what I want to know is why can't we get something that has the pull, attractiveness and resulting addiction of an RPG.
2 years ago, Bandai made an awkward attempt to do this in Japan. Kids love RPGs. Kids hate textbooks. Turn a textbook into an RPG, and you have solved the world's problems.
It looked like the following and made some minor swimming pool shallow end splashes in the news.
For the most part it seems to have faded away. No big publicity on it. I'm assuming it was a failure.
I think the issue is that it has that "edutainment" feel that doesn't quite work. The RPG looks boring.
Is the situation hopeless?
But my faith was restored when I found one simple picture on the Japanese facebook page 笑ったらシェア (Share A Laugh)
It is just a Japanese student doodling in his boring English textbook, trying to spice up the dialogue setting. And here is the result:
I love this. I laughed. And I thought wow, if the whole textbook was filled with humorous RPG stuff, couldn't it work?
Could it?
I think so. Would you buy a textbook like this?
Founder of Jalup. iOS Software Engineer. Former attorney, translator, and interpreter. Still watching 月曜から夜ふかし weekly since 2013.


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A second man has died following an underwater training accident at a public pool on Staten Island. The New York Daily News reports that 21-year-old off-duty lifeguard Jonathan Proce died Sunday at New York Presbyterian Hospital following an exercise at Lyons Pool last Wednesday in which he and his friend, Bohdan Vitenko, also 21, were practicing underwater breath-holding.
The two were found unconscious and in cardiac arrest in three feet of water at the bottom of the pool; Vitenko died later that day. Two lifeguards have been pulled from their duties after failing to notice Proce and Vitenko, according to The New York Post. Approximately 20 other swimmers were in the pool at the at the time, the paper reports.
Proce was bound for the U.S. Air Force, while Vitenko had dreams of becoming a Navy SEAL. They were regulars at the pool, reportedly participating in a grueling workout routine that included swimming and underwater sit-ups. It is not clear if the men were following an official training program or had developed their own workouts. Either way, the military advises against certain breath-holding exercises or swimming underwater at length to avoid "shallow water blackout," which can lead to drowning.
According to ShallowWaterBlackoutPrevention.org - an awareness and education site - the condition occurs because of low carbon dioxide and low oxygen (which triggers unconsciousness). Hyperventilation done before breath-holding lowers carbon dioxide abnormally, allowing individuals to hold their breath longer. But the lower carbon dioxide levels rob the body of its built-in mechanism to tell the breath-holder to breathe before going unconscious and taking water into the lungs.
Additionally, "because of the hypoxia, one feels euphoric and empowered to continue breath-holding," the site states. Unlike regular drowning, where six to eight minutes can elapse before brain damage and death, brain damage and death caused by shallow water blackout can occur within two and a half minutes. More information about shallow water blackout can be found on the Aquatic Safety Research Group's website.
In 2008, the National Swimming Pool Foundation warned that "anyone who practices competitive, repetitive underwater breath-holding is at risk for shallow water blackout. Once submerged underwater, the swimmer may be hidden from the view of lifeguards by surface glare and ripples/waves on the surface. A series of events is then triggered, including the inhalation of water, possible convulsions and ultimately cardiac arrest and death."


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Bunion Surgery Performed by Orange County Podiatrists & Foot Specialists
Bunionectomy is the surgical procedure for removing a bunion, or the enlargement of bone and soft tissue that develops on the joint connecting the base of the big toe to the foot. Bunions (hallux valgus) are common malalignments that can be caused by hereditary factors or, most often, wearing shoes that constrict the toes, including high heels. People with bunions commonly experience inflammation, tenderness, and pain, especially when wearing shoes, which can inhibit their ability to bear weight, walk without pain, and engage in an active lifestyle.
Treatment for bunions typically begins with non-surgical management, including shoe modifications, custom insoles, or orthotics that relieve pressure from soreness and irritation, and splints that can be worn at night to provide relief from painful symptoms. However, when bunions become progressively worse, cause chronic pain with or without shoes, result in deformity of toes, and significantly limit a person's ability to walk and remain active, surgery may be recommended.
Surgical Approaches to Treat Bunions
Because conservative and non-surgical management of bunions treat symptoms rather than the underlying malalignment, surgery may be necessary to correct the issue, restore proper positioning of the toe and other deformities of the foot, relieve pain, and restore function and activity.
Surgical treatment of bunions, referred to as a bunionectomy, can involve various procedures, but generally focus on realigning bones and modifying soft tissues to restore proper alignment. This may include removing part of the metatarsal head or the end of the first metatarsal bone that connects to the base of the big toe (metatarsophalangeal joint). While performing the procedure, surgeons may also reshape or reposition the metatarsal bones and big toe to realign the metatarsophalangeal joint, realign ligaments around the joint, or perform fusion (arthrodesis) of the joint or metatarsal bones. Small screws, plates, or wires may be used to stabilize the bones as they heal.
Hoag Orthopedic Institute is now offering a breakthrough minimally invasive bunionectomy procedure called PROstep™. This new procedure gets you back on your feet quicker than traditional open surgical procedures due to smaller incisions and less time in the operating room. Dr. Jonathan Kaplan is the only orthopedic surgeon in Southern California trained to perform this new minimally invasive bunion correction.
Through advancements in surgical techniques and technology, bunion surgery has become a common procedure. However, approaches must be tailored specifically to address the variance in shapes and sizes of bunions, as well as the presence of malalignment and other conditions affecting the foot or toes. The typical recovery period for bunion surgery is between 6 weeks to 6 months, depending the severity of the deformity or surgical treatment performed. Activity restriction and casts, braces, splints, or orthotics may be used to protect the foot and toe as it heals. Physical therapy to gradually stretch, strengthen, and restore function may also be used as part of a comprehensive recovery.
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|Joanna Kotze in Kimberly Bartosik's I hunger for you
(photo: Jim Coleman)
Lighting designer Roderick Murray's fluorescent tubes hang from the ceiling inside BAM Fisher's Fishman Space, colder and more severe than stalactites. Two dancers--Christian Allen and Lindsey Jones--step into the bare space of Kimberly Bartosik's I hunger for you. You can almost hear raptor wings, so forceful is the way they will lunge and beat and spin against the air. Arms lifting and rotated. Heavy breath audible. Heads and chins tilted upward. Torsos arching as they drop to a knee.
Burr Johnson, Dylan Crossman and Joanna Kotze--raptors, too, or perhaps angels, if angels have feet to strike mountainous earth--come in and churn and lash against the empty space as well. Back and forth, they cross it, overlapping in time and close pathways, until their labors clearly take a toll. Watching them, too, provides an initial sensation of exhilaration followed by exertion. When they stop--just stop and stand and shift inside and gasp--you feel the same internal wooziness, everything inside one's own body saying, "Hold up. Can we just settle back into order?"
I hunger for you plays with the risk of release--the kind of dropping of form and letting go that we experience in extremes of sensual and spiritual ecstasy--without guarantee of connection. Or guarantee that connection achieved will stay or will satisfy. A partner backs off or quietly quits the space entirely. The one remaining might freeze in a pose of hopelessness--arms wrenched forward from a torso bent as if in abject submission.
Much of the inspiration for the piece comes from the choreographer's religious upbringing, and it's interesting that she has cast her own child, Dahlia Bartosik-Murray, as a silent witness to some moments of Kotze's dancing as well as, later, a figure of release, coursing around the space like a wild filly.
Choreography: Kimberly Bartosik in collaboration with the dancers
Music: Sivan Jacobovitz, with arrangement by Kimberly Bartosik
Costume design: Harriet Jung
Sound Engineering: James Bigbee Garver
Dramaturgy: Melanie George
I hunger for you continues a sold-out run through Saturday with performances at 7:30pm. For information, click here.
Also, Friday's audience is welcome to an informal post-show discussion, facilitated by Melanie George with Bartosik and company in BAM Fisher's Lower Lobby.
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place, Brooklyn
DISCLAIMER: In addition to my work on InfiniteBody, I serve as Senior Curatorial Director of Gibney. The postings on this site are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views, strategies or opinions of Gibney.
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Walk Through History at Liberty Station
San Diego's Liberty Station is well-known for its boutique shopping, art spectating, and tasty restaurants—but it's also deeply rooted in naval history that goes beyond leisurely weekends. Originally a Naval Training Center (NTC) that opened in 1923, Liberty Station has transitioned into a cultural hub of art, leisure and history—creating a timeless destination. To this day, the history of the neighborhood remains—in its buildings, plazas, corridors and more.
Here's how to walk through the history at Liberty Station, at just a few of the neighborhood's historical hot spots:
Sellers Plaza and Gate One
Start your adventure at the grand entrance of Liberty Station off Barnett Avenue. The anchor of flowers and main gate were seen as the Naval Training Center (NTC)'s front door and are the oldest landmark on the property. The memorable landmark seen by all visitors and recruits was named for the base's first commander, Sellers Plaza. When you enter Liberty Station today, you'll also see the twin guard buildings on either side of the gate with the steel arch added in 1932. Fun fact, Gate One was the only entrance left open past a certain hour so if sailors stayed out past curfew, they were busted on their way back to base.
Sail Ho Golf Course
As you make your way down Truxton Road, there is a grassy area on the right between Perry Road and Sims Road. This used to be the Sail Ho Golf Course. The base couldn't be all fun and no play, so NTC's first lieutenant, G.T. Campbell, drummed up the idea to include recreational fun into the lives of the enlisted personnel and officers. In the early years, the golf course was a 4-hole link course and eventually grew to include an 18-hole putting course.
Commissary and Mess Hall, Building 1
The commissary was a giant market where sailors on shore duty and officers' wives would pick up goods. As part of the military perks, on-base goods were tax-free and prices were 20 percent less than civilian stores.
Command Center
Next to Central Promenade is the old center of the base, the Dick Laub NTC Command Center. It was built next to Preble Field in 1941,which the sailors used as one of the marching plazas. The Command Center was a place for the highest-ranking officers to hold meetings with visiting dignitaries in the elite conference rooms.
Luce Auditorium
Check out THE LOT luxury movie theatre, which was once the Luce Auditorium, a theater that held the stage for iconic performers and made for the ultimate place for sailors to take their dates. Crowds would gather at the Luce Auditorium to listen to famous bands, performers and comedians for only 25 cents a ticket—and that included popcorn! Fun fact, the 2,200-seat theater was one of the first military theaters equipped with CinemaScope.
North Chapel
Kitty corner from THE LOT is North Chapel, the only white building at the Naval Training Center, so you can't miss it! A gorgeous venue for officer weddings and modern-day matrimonies, this place remains a destination for making lasting memories. Back in the day there were clergy members of all religions to conduct services. Look closely and in the stained-glass windows when you visit and you will see designs that depict the various training schools at the NTC.
USS Recruit
Make your way to the southern tip of the neighborhood to the USS Recruit, the only commissioned ship that never set sail. More than 50,000 recruits used this stationary ship to learn basic naval procedure. better known as the "USS Neversail!"
Ready to check out these and more historical gems in the neighborhood? Let the online audio walking tour be your guide. More information about Liberty Station can be found at www.libertystation.com.