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Slice of Life Comedy presents a comedy showcase featuring Greenville comedian Nick Shaheen tomorrow night at the PULP.
Tickets are $5, which includes a year membership to the Pulp.
About Shaheen:
Nick Shaheen is the founder of Greenville's Stand Up State Comedy. Graduating from UCLA where he performed and wrote on UCLAtv's Mike and Ben Show (with future SNL-er Nasim Pedrad) he immediately went into film production as a Story Editor for David Kirschner Productions.
His life changed course after working in Wilmington, NC on HBO's Eastbound and Down with Danny McBride and Adam McKay. Since moving to Greenville Nick has created several weekly comedy shows at the Radio Room and Coffee Underground.
Here is a video of Shaheen performing:
Greenville comedian Justin Blackburn will be hosting the evening's festivities and other area comics will also be taking the stage.
For more Asheville stand up comedy check out our Asheville Comedy Calendar!


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Re: Descendants of Patrick Fairbairn (1840-1910)
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Descendants of Patrick Fairbairn (1840-1910)
Don Montague 2/03/09
Although I've no conclusive evidence that the following belong to Patrick Playfair FAIRBAIRN, son of the Rev Patrick FAIRBAIRN and Mary PLAYFAIR, they may well might
1881 census at Lochryan Manse, Inch, Wigtonshire in hsehold of John & Helen K McGUFFIE, John being the Minister of Lochryan Parish
Niece and nephew Mary (13) and Patrick (12) FAIRBAIRN, both b British Guiana
1906 census in Manitoba, Canada, a married Patrick FAIRBAIRN, occupation "general" (I think), aged 37, head (no others in hsehold), married, emigrated 1904 born British Guiana
1907 arriving in UK on "La Plata" at Southampton, boarded at Barbados:
Patrick C (born Scotland) & Olivia (born Demerara) FAIRBAIRN with Masters Alec, Harold and Norman.
(no ages given)
1954 arriving UK on the "City of Durban", having boarded at Cape Town:
Norman FAIRBAIRN sugar technologist aged 54; Mrs Marion FAIRBAIRN aged 53 housewife; UK address was given as Bank View, Leonards Rd, Forres, last and future permanent residence fields were "Scotland"
In 1948 a 48 yr old Norman G FAIRBAIRN sugar technologist arrived back in the UK giving the same UK address, but last permanent residence was India, future residence Scotland
Likewise there's a "Med. Pract." Harold FAIRBAIRN born 12 Nov 1898 and wife Grace J arriving on British Passports for a 4 month vacation from Sth Africa.
Other records indicate they were in Tanganyika for some time.
Don't seem to have squirrelled away anything on "Master Alec".
I'm not related, just interested in possible candidates for the FAIRBAIRN Surname DNA project, and would definitely like a representative of the family of John FAIRBAIRN and Jessie JOHNSTONE, parents of the Rev. Patrick F. (1805-1874)
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Welcome to Fall! I'm not a summer person. At. All. Give me ten below over 90 above any day! So I'm ecstatic that fall is finally here.
Fall is my favorite season, hands down. Here are a five reasons why:
- Sweatshirt and shorts weather begins. And bare feet, of course. That's my wardrobe throughout winter and into spring. In the house anyway. I will dress warmer to go outside the house once the temps drop below 65. Usually.
- I love the fall colors. Who doesn't? This year I'm hoping to drive up along Lake Superior's north shore to view the leaves. The colors can be spectacular up there!
- Windows in the house are open. Since I dislike hot weather, AC is on pretty much all summer. I love being able to open up the house and let cool breezes refresh it. Don't you love the scent of fall?
- Pumpkin pie season. My favorite pie of all. Just add a dollop or two of whipped cream, and I'm set.
- Fun bird watching. I love watching the flight of birds heading south, and it amazes me to think of the God-built-in instinct given to His creatures. Hopefully on our trek along the North Shore we'll make a stop at Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory. I've heard that's the best place to take in the migration.


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An introduction to Partnership
Are you concerned about what's going on in your life and our world?
Do you worry about what kind of future we face? Are you looking for a way forward?
Be part of the partnership movement.
"The struggle for our future is not between East and West or North and South, but everywhere between those who believe our only alternatives are dominating or being dominated and those working for partnership relations of mutual respect, accountability, and caring."
-Riane Eisler's Cultural Transformation Course
• Changing lives
• What partnership means for you
• Personal & cultural transformation
• Our history, our future
• Partnership politics – from intimate to international
• Sex and the politics of the body
• Toward a new economics
• Women, men, and economic development
• From poverty to partnership
• Changing measures of economic health
• Four cornerstones for a world of partnership and peace
• Partnership education
• Center for Partnership Studies
Changing Lives
"I want to thank you for being my teacher and mentor. Your exposition of the dominator and partnership organizational models within the deep context of the human experience has had a foundational influence on my own work, particularly in writing The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. Thank you also for providing a model for us all at this time when our society needs elders serving in the roles of teacher, mentor, and wisdom keeper as never before."
David Korten, Co-founder, Positive Futures Network
"From your breakthrough statements in The Chalice and The Blade to your more recent The Power of Partnership and The Real Wealth of Nations, your writings have inspired my thinking and impacted The Hunger Project's work on gender. You are a clear and compelling voice for the empowerment of women and the wisdom of true partnership in our world."
Joan Holmes, President, The Hunger Project
"You are an inspiration to women from all racial backgrounds, to poor and wealthy women alike, to life loving men. As a Mexican ARTivist I am very proud to have read and distributed your literature."
Silvia Parra
What partnership means for you
Many of us are hungry for transformative change – personal, social, economic. But as Einstein said, we can't solve problems with the same thinking that created them. Let's start by thinking outside the old boxes of capitalism, socialism, right, left, religious, secular, Eastern, Western because societies in all these categories have been oppressive, violent, and unjust. None of them help us answer the most urgent question for our future: what social conditions support the expression of our great human capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity – or for insensitivity, cruelty, and destructiveness?
The new categories of partnership system and domination system answers this question. They reveal patterns that are invisible through the lenses of older social categories.
Personal and cultural transformation
Can we build a world where our great potentials for consciousness, caring, and creativity are realized? What would this more equitable, less violent world look like? How can we build it?
These questions animated my research over the past four decades. They arose very early in my life, when my parents and I narrowly escaped from Nazi Europe. Had we not been able to flee my native Vienna and later find refuge in Cuba, we would almost certainly have been killed in the Holocaust, as happened to most of my extended family.
As I grew up in the industrial slums of Havana, I didn't realize that studying social systems would become my life's work. By the time I did, it was clear that our present course is not sustainable. In our time of nuclear and biological weapons, violence to settle international disputes can be disastrous. So can our "conquest of nature" when advanced technologies are causing environmental damage of unprecedented magnitude.
I saw that a grim future awaits my children – and all of us – unless there is transformative cultural change. But the issue addressed by my multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural, historical study of human societies is: transformation from what to what?
From old to new thinking
Not so long ago, many people thought that shifting from capitalism to communism would bring a more just, less violent society. But the communist revolutions in Russia and China brought further violence and injustice. Today many people believe that capitalism and democratic elections are the solution. But capitalism has not brought peace or equity: Hitler was democratically elected, and elections following the Arab Spring led to repressive Islamist regimes. Others argue that returning to pre-scientific Western times or replacing Western secularism, science, and technology with Eastern religions will cure our world's ills. They ignore that the religious Middle Ages were brutally violent and repressive, that Eastern religions have helped perpetuate inequality and oppression, and that today's fundamentalist religious cultures, both Eastern and Western, are behind some of our planet's most serious problems.
All these approaches are based on old thinking. As long as we look at societies from the perspective of conventional categories such as capitalist vs. socialist, Eastern vs. Western, religious vs. secular, or technologically developed vs. undeveloped, we cannot effect real cultural transformation. Indeed, history amply shows that societies in every one of these categories can be, and have been, repressive, unjust, and violent.
This is why my re-examination of social systems transcends old categories. It uses a new method of analysis (the study of relational dynamics) that draws from a larger data base than conventional studies. It looks at a much larger, holistic picture that includes the whole of humanity, both its female and male halves; the whole of our lives, not only politics and economics but where we all live, in our family and other intimate relations; and the whole of our history, including the thousands of years we call prehistory.
Looking at this more complete picture makes it possible to see interactive relationships or configurations that are not visible otherwise. There were no names for these social configurations, so I called one the domination system and the other the partnership system.
Once we understand these configurations, it becomes clear that the real struggle for our future is not religious vs. secular, East vs. West, South vs. North, right vs. left, etc. If you think about it, societies in all these categories were, and are, repressive, violent, and unjust.
The real struggle is within societies in every one of these categories, between people who want to move to a more caring and equitable world and those you still believe insensitivity, cruelty, and destructiveness – and all the misery they lead to – are "just human nature" – the inevitable result of original sin or selfish genes.
From domination to partnership
Before Newton identified gravity, apples fell off trees all the time but people had no name or explanation for what was happening. The partnership and domination systems not only give us names for different ways of relating but also explain what lies behind these differences.
We're all familiar with relations of domination and submission from our own lives. We know the pain, fear, and tension of relations based on coercion and accommodation, of jockeying for control, of trying to manipulate and cajole when we are unable to express our real feelings and needs, of the tug of war for that illusory moment of power rather than powerlessness, of our unfulfilled yearning for caring and mutuality, of all the misery, suffering, and lost lives and potentials that come from these kinds of relations.
Most of us have also, at least intermittently, experienced another way of being, one where we feel safe and seen for who we truly are, where our essential humanity and that of others shines through, perhaps only for a little while, lifting our hearts and spirits, enfolding us in a sense that the world can after all be right, that we are valued and valuable.
Our human yearning for caring connections, for peace rather than war, for equality rather than inequality, for freedom rather than oppression, can be seen as part of our genetic equipment. The degree to which this yearning can be realized is not a matter of changing our genes, but of building partnership social structures and beliefs.
Two different kinds of relationships
In the domination system, somebody has to be on top and somebody has to be on the bottom. People learn, starting in early childhood, to obey orders without question. They learn to carry a harsh voice in their heads telling them they're no good, they don't deserve love, they need to be punished. Families and societies are based on control that is explicitly or implicitly backed up by guilt, fear, and force. The world is divided into in-groups and out-groups, with those who are different seen as enemies to be conquered or destroyed.
In contrast, the partnership system supports mutually respectful and caring relations. Because there is no need to maintain rigid rankings of control, there is also no built-in need for abuse and violence. Partnership relations free our innate capacity to feel joy, to play. They enable us to grow mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. This is true for individuals, families, and whole societies. Conflict is an opportunity to learn and to be creative, and power is exercised in ways that empower rather than disempower others.
Here's an example. Do you remember how the father treated his children in the movie The Sound of Music? When Baron von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) blows his whistle and his children line up in front of him, stiff as boards, you see the domination system in action. When the new nanny (Julie Andrews) comes into the picture and the children relax, enjoy themselves, and learn to trust themselves and each other, you see the partnership system in action. When von Trapp becomes much happier and closer to his children, you see what happens as we begin to shift from domination to partnership.
Our history, our future
The last three hundred years have seen a strong movement toward partnership. One tradition of domination after another has been challenged – from the rule of despotic kings and male dominance to economic oppression and child abuse.
But this forward movement has been fiercely resisted, and punctuated by periodic regressions. That is the bad news.
The good news is that we do not have to start from square one. Though we still have a long way to go, in bits and pieces the shift from domination to partnership is underway.
There is also strong evidence from archeology and the study of myth that the original direction in the mainstream of our cultural evolution was in a partnership direction. So much that today may seem new and even radical, such as gender equality and a more peaceful way of life, has ancient roots going back thousands of years, before the cultural shift toward domination about 5000 years ago.
During much of recorded history, rankings of domination – man over man, man over woman, race over race, nation over nation, and humans over nature – have been the norm. But in our time of nuclear and biological weapons and high technology in service of the once hallowed "conquest of nature, "high technology guided by an ethos of domination could take us to an evolutionary dead end.
In sum, the struggle for our future is not between East and West, North and South, religion or secularism, capitalism or socialism, but within all these. It is the struggle between those who cling to patterns of domination and those working for a more equitable partnership world.
Each one of us can contribute to the partnership movement. We can change by example, education, and advocacy. We can shift our relations from domination to partnership – starting with our day-to-day relations all the way to how we relate to our mother earth.
Two contrasting configurations
Societies adhering closely to the Domination system have the following core configuration:
- top-down authoritarian control in both the family and state or tribe
- the subordination of the female half of humanity to the male half, and with this, the
devaluation of caring, nonviolence and other stereotypically "soft" values in women and
men a high degree of institutionalized or built-in fear, coercion, and violence
Societies adhering closely to the Partnership system have a different core configuration:
- A more democratic organization in both the family and state or tribe
- the male and female halves of humanity are equally valued and "soft" or stereotypically feminine traits and activities such as caring and nonviolence are highly regarded in both women and men
- a low degree of institutionalized or built-in fear, coercion, and violence
The evolution of societies from prehistory to the present reflects the underlying tension between the configurations of the partnership and domination systems as two basic alternatives. These two systems structure our relations with one another and our natural environment and represent opposite ends of a spectrum of cultural possibilities.
We humans have the capacity for both consciousness, caring, and creativity as well as for insensitivity, cruelty, and destructiveness. The question is what social conditions support the expression one or the other set of these human capacities. To answer that question we have to transcend old categories, and look at a less fragmented picture.
This picture is provided by the two contrasting configurations of the partnership system and the domination system, which include the social construction of two key social components ignored, or at best glossed over in conventional discourse:
• The social construction of the relations between the female and male halves of humanity
• The construction of the relations between parents and children
The reason we must look at these relations is something we have long known from psychology and now also know from neuroscience. This is that it is by experiencing and observing these relations that children learn, before their brains are fully formed, what is considered moral or immoral, desirable of undesirable, and even possible or impossible.
The importance of parent-child and gender relations in these two social configurations cannot be overemphasized – especially they are ignored in conventional theories about society.
To give just one example of the interactive dynamics of domination systems, people raised in families with the domination perspective—families where they learn that the adults on whom they depend for their survival may not be contradicted—tend to have a hard time contradicting what their "superiors" tell them, even when they are adults. They therefore tend to:
• Find it difficult to question, much less challenge, powerful economic interests on whom they feel dependent
• Have difficulty looking at the long-range future
• Place emphasis on the short-term bottom line because they're stuck in a defensive mode of protecting themselves and what they have
• Have trouble dealing with change (Eisler, The Power of Partnership, 2002, p. 161)
Shifting from Domination to Partnership
Partnership politics – from intimate to international
A Progressive Family Policy Agenda
It is time for progressives to reframe the political conversation about family values and have an integrated progressive family policy agenda.
Progressives have ceded the meaning of family life to regressives, who recognize the foundational importance of family and other intimate relations in the establishment of social values and political and economic structures. Family relations affect how people think and act. They affect how people vote and govern, and whether the policies they support are just and genuinely democratic, or punitive, violent, and oppressive.
Regressives have successfully pushed our culture back by insisting that a male-dominated, top-down structure of family is the only desirable one. U.S. fundamentalists stress the "headship" of the father in the family, with women and children subordinate. So successful were their efforts to establish this model that in 1992, when Americans were asked if the "father of the family is master of the house," just 42% said yes. By 2004 the percentage had risen to 52% — compared to only one third of Canadians and 20% of Europeans agreeing with this "traditional value."
Slogans like "traditional values" have often marketed a family where fathers make the rules and harshly punish disobedience – the kind of family that prepares people to defer to "strong" leaders who brook no dissent and use force to impose their will. This is the fundamentalist theocratic model of society for our future — and we see the horrors it brings by looking at Eastern fundamentalist regimes.
What is urgently needed is an integrated progressive family policy agenda that redefines "family," "values," and "morality" in ways based on partnership, mutual respect, and caring rather than domination, top-down control, and coercion.
Progressive candidates can start by changing the terms of the debate:
1. Replace the regressive "family values" agenda with an agenda that "values families."
2. Introduce the term "real wealth of our nation" – people and nature.
3. Link family-friendly business and government policies with a strong competitive workforce.
4. Link children's health, education, and welfare and the future of our economy and society.
For more information, see www.caringeconomy.org.
Sex and the Politics of the Body
Excerpts from Sacred Pleasure
Selected excerpts from Riane Eisler's book Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body (1995).
"Could it be that the yearning of so many women and men for sex as something beautiful and magical is our long repressed impulse toward a more spiritual, and at the same time more intensely passionate, way of expressing sex and love?
Candles, music, flowers, and wine – these we all know are the stuff of romance, of sex and of love. But candles, flowers, music, and wine are also the stuff of religious ritual, of our most sacred rites. Why is there this striking, though seldom noted, commonality? Is it just accidental that passion is the word we use for both sexual and mystical experiences? Or is there here some long forgotten but still powerful connection? Could it be that the yearning of so many women and men for sex as something beautiful and magical is our long repressed impulse toward a more spiritual, and at the same time more intensely passionate, way of expressing sex and love?
Because we have been taught to think of sex as sinful, dirty, titillating, or prurient, the possibility that sex could be spiritual, much less sacred, may seem shocking. . .Yet the evidence is compelling that for many thousands of years – much longer than the thirty to fifty centuries we call recorded history – this was the case.
You can obtain Sacred Pleasure on the CPS store.
Toward a new economics
The real wealth of a nation is not financial. This became painfully obvious with the melting into thin air of credit swaps and derivatives during the "Great Recession." Indeed, you can see the ephemeral nature of financial riches every day, as stock prices, home prices, and other financial valuations seesaw up and down.
A nation's real wealth consists of the contributions of people and of nature. Therefore, we
need what we have not had—economic measurements, policies, and practices that give visibility and adequate value to the most important human work: the work of caring for people, starting in early childhood, and caring for our natural environment.
Without caring and caregiving, none of us would be here. There would be no households, no workforce, no economy, nothing. Especially now, when flexible, creative people who can work in teams and think in long-term ways are essential for economic success, it can be argued that the caring activities still generally categorized as "reproductive work" are actually the most productive activities of all. Similarly, caring for our natural environment is today a prerequisite not only for sustainability, but also for humanity's future survival.
Yet despite all this, most current economic discussions do not mention caring and caregiving. Nor is the value of the work of caring in households included in current economic measurements.
It does not have to be this way. Indeed, the social and economic dislocations inherent in the current shift from the industrial to the post-industrial era offer us an unprecedented opportunity to reexamine and restructure economic theory and practice.
Availing ourselves of this opportunity is essential if we are to move to a more equitable, sustainable, and caring future. We know today, from both psychology and neuroscience, that whether or not people are cared for directly impacts human development, health, and life quality.
Caring economics and real wealth
Some people in the U.S. think that the next generation will be the first to NOT surpass the current generation's wealth–and by that they mean the accumulation of money, possessions, and property. However, we have to ask, were we really wealthy? Financial wealth can disappear, like the credit swaps and derivatives did, in a matter of seconds.
What many are discovering is that the current financial wealth system often comes at the expense of our children, our families, communities, and the planet. They are waking up to a new definition of wealth. We need an economic system that make it possible to have healthy food, good housing, enriching schools, natural and recreational space, and a sense of community.
Study after study shows that what people truly find most valuable are relationships, meaning, service, and a sense of purpose. But the current economic system does not support or give value to caring for people, starting in early childhood, and caring for our Mother Earth. We can, and must, change this! We can have an economic system that meets everyone's material needs and makes it possible for us to have time and energy for our children, our communities, and ourselves.
Women, Men, and Economic Development
Studies demonstrate the connection between the status of women on the one hand and a nation's quality of life and economic success on the other. A pioneering study was Women, Men, and the Global Quality of Life conducted by the Center for Partnership Studies (CPS) in 1995. Using data from 89 nations, it compared the status of women with measures of quality of life (such as infant mortality, human rights ratings, and environmental ratings) and showed that in significant respects, the status of women can be a better predictor of quality of life than GDP (Eisler, Loye, & Norgaard, 1995).
Since then, other studies have verified the relationship between the status of women, a society's values, and its overall quality of life and economic success. Based on data from 65 societies representing 80% of the world's population, the World Values Survey (Inglehart, Norris, & Welzel, 2002) is the largest international survey of how attitudes correlate with economic development and political structure. When for the first time this survey focused attention on attitudes about gender, it found a strong relationship between the level of support for gender equality and a society's level of political rights, civil liberties, and
quality of life.
More recently, in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Reports, researchers Hausmann, Tyson, and Zahedi, (2011) showed that the nations with the lowest gender gaps (such as Norway, Sweden, and Finland) are also regularly in the highest ranks of the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Reports.
The simple fact that women are half of humanity is a reason for the correlation between the status of women and national economic success and quality of life. But the reasons go much deeper, to the still largely unrecognized interconnected cultural, social, and economic dynamics inherent in domination systems or partnership systems.
In addition to the connection between a higher status of women and values and policies that support caring for people, there are a myriad other factors, including yet another matter ignored in conventional economic analyses: how resources are distributed not only within nations, but within households.
Eisler and other scholars call this intra-household economics (Eisler, 2007; Jain & Banerjee, 1985), and it is once again directly related to the status of women in a society. Empirical evidence across diverse cultures and income groups shows that in cultures where women are rigidly subordinated, the distribution of household resources tends to be skewed in ways that fail to invest in children's well-being, health, and development. Studies also show that in these domination-oriented cultures, women have a higher propensity than men to spend on goods that benefit children and enhance their capacities. For example, in "Intra-Household Resource Allocation," Duncan Thomas (1990) found that $1 in the hands of a Brazilian woman had the same effect on child survival as $18 in the hands of a man. Similarly, Bruce and Lloyd (1997) found that in Guatemala an additional $11.40 per month in a mother's hands would result in the same weight gain in a young child as an additional $166 earned by the father.
Of course, even in rigidly male-dominated cultures there are men who give primary importance to meeting their families' needs. However, the socialization of men in such cultures teaches them to believe it is their prerogative to use their wages for non-family purposes, including drinking, smoking, and gambling (and that when women complain, they are nagging and controlling).
The negative effects of the subordination of females to males on intrahousehold resources distribution go even further. In some world regions, parents (both mothers and fathers) often deny girls access to education, give them less health care, and even feed girls less than boys. Obviously, these practices have terrible health consequences for girls and women. Indeed, these practices are horrendous human rights violations that not only stunt girls' development, but all too often cause their death. But giving less food to girls and women also adversely impacts the development of boys, as children of malnourished women are often born with poor health and below-par brain development (Eisler, 1987b). In short, this gender-based nutritional and health care discrimination robs all children, male and female, of their potential for optimal development.
This in turn affects children's and later adults' abilities to adapt to new conditions, tolerate frustration, and avoid using violence—all of which impede solutions to chronic hunger, poverty, and armed conflict, as well as the chances for a more humane, prosperous, and peaceful world for all.
From Poverty to Partnership
There is no realistic way to end poverty without taking into account the fact that women represent a disproportionate percentage of the poor worldwide.
• According to some estimates, 70% of those who live in absolute poverty—starvation or near starvation—are female (UN Women, n.d.).
• Even in the rich United States, woman-headed families are the lowest tier of the economic hierarchy (UN Women, n.d.).
• According to the United States Census Bureau, the poverty rate of women over 65 is double that of men the same age.
This high female poverty rate is not only due to wage discrimination in the market economy; it is largely due to the fact that these women are (or were for much of their lives) either full- or part-time caregivers of children or other family members. Yet because they did this essential work without pay or later Social Security or pensions, they are condemned to an old age living in poverty.
This, however, is not inevitable. It is a matter of social policies.
Demonstrating the importance of changing policies are the low poverty rates of the nations that orient more to the partnership side of the continuum, such as Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Here women and stereotypically feminine values have higher status. Not only that, Sweden has a high woman-headed household rate, yet these families are not poor. Women, who are 40 percent of the legislatures, tend to support more caring policies as a group. As the status of women rises, men no longer find is such a threat to their status to embrace more stereotypically feminine values and behaviors.
But while the Global Women's Movement is beginning to gain momentum it is still much too slow and it is still fiercely opposed in some cultures and subcultures – all too often violently. And, as in the push by so-called religious fundamentalists worldwide to return women to their subordinate, "traditional" place in male controlled families, the resistance to raising women's status is fiercest among those who also want to impose repressive national regimes and gain global control through "holy wars." In other words, it is key to the domination system they seek to impose.
Changing Measures of Economic Health
Current economic measures such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fail to give economic value to the most essential human work: caring for people and nature.
A 2004 Swiss government report showed that if the unpaid "caring" household work still primarily performed by women were included, it would comprise 40% of the reported Swiss GDP (Schiess and Schön-Bühlmann, 2004). Unfortunately satellite accounts do not get the publicity of economic measures such as GDP. But they are a start in the right direction.
Reports by nongovernmental organizations also show the enormous value of the work of care. A recent example is Counting on Care Work in Australia (Hoenig & Page, 2012), a comprehensive quantification of the Australian care sector, paid and unpaid. The study used both replacement value (which reflects the low pay of care work in the market) and opportunity cost (which yields a higher value on average, measuring opportunity cost for individuals who perform unpaid care instead of entering the paid work force). The study found that the care sector in Australia was worth an estimated $762.5 billion in 2009-10. Of this total, $112.4 billion was for paid care and $650.1 billion was for unpaid care work.
The latter was the equivalent of no less than 50.6% of GDP. Another key finding was that women contributed the majority of this unpaid care, similar to other world regions (Hoenig, & Page, 2012).
The Australian report pointed out that care work is a "public good" and that, given its profound implications for a nation's overall well being, government intervention in the form of public policy and funding is required to ensure that appropriate levels of care are available (Hoenig and Page, 2012).
While data showing the huge economic value of care work continue to accumulate, they are still given scant attention by academics, media, policy makers, and the public. A major reason for this neglect is that the information does not fit into the old economic paradigms or the old ways of measuring economic health such as GDP. This is why the development of new measures of economic health such as the Social Wealth Economic Indicators being developed by the Center for Partnership Studies (CPS) are so important.
We must show our nation's policymakers the necessity for enacting more caring policies. There is a connection between the status of women and whether caring and caregiving are valued. Therefore, we must also show policymakers the necessity of raising the status of women worldwide.
The unsustainable nature of current ways of economic thinking and planning is further demonstrated by the fact that a growing number of jobs—not only in manufacturing but also in service industries, from receptionists to middle management—are being taken over by automation and robotics (Associated Press, 2013). This irreversible trend, which will further accelerate with the development and use of artificial intelligence and nanotechnology, makes it even more urgent that we find alternatives to economic systems primarily driven by consumer spending.
Four cornerstones for a world of partnership and peace
In this article for the Kosmos Journal, Eisler lays out four interventions that provide the foundations for shifting from domination to partnership.
Partnership education
As detailed in Tomorrow's Children: A Blueprint for Partnership Education in the 21st Century, educators need to keep in mind — and teach our students — to broaden our understanding of events by going beyond conventional political debates about right versus left, religious versus secular, Eastern or Western, or conservative versus liberal. Once students understand the dynamics of the tension between the partnership and domination systems as two basic human possibilities, they can go beyond surfaces. They can see the patterns that underlie seemingly unrelated currents and crosscurrents in our world — and be better equipped to live good lives and intervene in shaping their future.
Study and action groups
You can form your own study and action group, using the following resources:
Real Wealth of Nations study group
To create a caring economics, start a Study and Action Group on The Real Wealth of Nations.
Power of Partnership study group
To build partnership human and environmental relations, The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships That Will Change Your Life is a key how-to book.
To ensure long-term environmental sustainability, use the action steps in The Power of Partnership and The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics.
The Chalice and the Blade study group
To start a study group on The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future and/or Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth and the Politics of the Body, use The Partnership Way: New Tools for Living and Learning, a workbook for facilitators by Riane Eisler and David Loye
Tomorrow's Children study group
To build partnership education, use Tomorrow's Children: A Blueprint for Partnership Education for the 21st Century
Join the email campaign.
Academic Study groups
Partnership Studies Group Learn more about building partnership communities from this successful Partnership Studies Group at the University of Udine, Italy.
ALL-Associazione Laureati in Lingue is an active group of scholars at the University of Udine who are researching and advocating for partnership.
Partnership Education in Action: A Companion to Tomorrow's Children
Here is concrete help for teachers who feel that there must be a better, more humane way to teach. Loaded with fascinating, practical ideas.
~ Nel Noddings, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University.
Center for Partnership Studies
The Center for Partnership Studies is a public service organization dedicated to cultural transformation from domination to partnership systems. Founded in 1987, CPS has worked with thousands of individuals and organizations to change consciousness, promote positive personal action, encourage social advocacy, and influence policy.
CPS uses research, education, and advocacy to reframe thinking and social policy to achieve gender and racial equity, human rights, social justice, and building a successful economy. The Center for Partnership Studies is an internationally-recognized thought leader in strategies to create a "partnership culture" of human rights and equity.
For more details about CPS's work and latest accomplishments, please visit us online at Center For Partnership
CPS Programs
NEW ECONOMICS: Caring Economy Campaign or www.caringeconomy.org.
CPS's Caring Economy Campaign (CEC), inspired by Riane Eisler's The Real Wealth of Nations, furthers systemic change through research, education, and grassroots engagement. The CEC:
• Provides policy-makers and the public with scientifically-tested model Social Wealth metrics that, unlike GDP, show the enormous economic value of care work and its importance for developing the "high quality human capital" needed for our knowledge-service age;
• Trains diverse leaders, to date in 33 states and 18 countries, for grassroots organizing and community leadership for paid family leave, paid sick days, caregiver tax and Social Security credits, parenting education, child care, and other caring policies;
• Convenes and coordinates the efforts of over 130 partner organizations ranging from the National Urban League and Women's Funding Network to the Center for Economic Policy Research and Moms Rising so far representing 16 million people, to build a movement for a more caring global economy through public policy briefings, action alerts, newsletters, dedicated websites, blogs, Facebook and YouTube pages, and other social media.
The Caring Economy Campaign's innovative economic equity and human rights concepts, such as caring economy, partnership system, domination system, and Social Wealth Economic Indicators are widely used to end cycles of poverty, empower women and marginalized communities, care for and educate children, and promote economic security for all.
See our webinars here.
Social Wealth Economic Indicators
Read about Social Wealth Economic Indicators on the Caring Economy website here.
Breaking Cycles of Violence: The Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence (SAIV)
SAIV was co-founded by Dr. Riane Eisler and Nobel Peace Laureate Betty Williams in 2004, as a project of the Center for Partnership Studies (www.CenterForPartnership.org). The SAIV Global Council provides a moral voice to engage spiritual leaders, policy makers, and activists to advocate for increased resources to end the global pandemic of violence against women and children.
SAIV invites contributions from the public and faith communities for engagement to "break cycles of violence in families – and the families of nations." Resources at www.saiv.org include the new Domestic Violence and Religion special collection of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, Dr. Eisler's videos for teaching, discussion about moving from domination to partnership systems, the "Caring and Connected Parenting Guide" by Licia Rando endorsed by Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Desmond Tutu and Betty Williams, pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton, and much more.
SAIV Global Council
Ela Gandhi
Jane Goodall
Molly Melching
Emilia Muchawa
Netsai Mushonga
Millicent Obaso
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Durre Ahmed
A.T. Ariyaratne
Tenzin Choegyal Ngari Rinpoche
Prof. Chung Hyun-kyung
Kalon Rinchen Khando
Satish Kumar
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Betty Williams
Harvey Cox
Richard Deats
Riane Eisler
Joan Holmes
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Jim Kenney
Irfan Ahmad Khan
Frances Kissling
John Robbins
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Bill Schulz
Sunita Viswanath
Middle East
Dr. Saleha Abedin
Prince El Hassan bin Talal
Her Majesty Queen Noor
The Americas
Lauren Artress
Liliane Kshensky Baxter
John A. Buehrens
Raffi Cavoukian
Janet Chisholm
Deepak Chopra
Joan Chittister, OSB
Research Findings
"Human Evolution is now at a crossroads. Stripped to its essentials, the central human task is how to organize society to promote the survival of our species and the development of our unique potentials. A partnership society offers us a viable alternative." — Riane Eisler, The Chalice and The Blade
What is Partnership?
"Human Evolution is now at a crossroads. Stripped to its essentials, the central human task is how to organize society to promote the survival of our species and the development of our unique potentials. A partnership society offers us a viable alternative." — Riane Eisler, The Chalice and The Blade
Four Cornerstones
Throughout our history, human beings have experimented with almost every kind of society imaginable, from pacifist communities to totalitarian states, with a thousand variations in between. For all their unique peculiarities, most of our attempts at civilization have had one of two basic configurations the domination system or the partnership system. If we find ourselves in a dominator-style society, how do we transform it into a culture of partnership? We can begin to build a new structure by putting in place four cornerstones.
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Hello, Lauren;
I am a historical researcher investigating the life of General Felipe Angeles.Through this process I have learned a few things about his wife Clara Kraus which might be helpful for you.
1.) They had four children: Alberto, Isabella, and the twins, Julio and Felipe.
2.) Besides living in El Paso, she also lived for a time in Boston - this was in 1915 when her husband was involved in the heaviest fighting phase of the Mexican Revolution.While there, she sent the boys off to summer camp at Camp Katahdin Maine.During that summer, her husband was sent to the U.S. by his superior, Pancho Villa, to try to convince President Wilson to continue to support their faction.He came first to Boston, and spent some time with her there before going on to Washington.Although the General had a perfunctory grasp of English, Clara acted as his interpreter at a notable press conference held at Boston's Brunswick Hotel.
3.) At the time of her husband's execution (Nov. 26, 1919), Clara was living in New York City with her children.Her health had deteriorated by this time, most likely due to the extreme anxiety she continually suffered from due to fears for her husband's safety.Alberto and Isabella kept the news of their father's capture and trial from her because she was to fragile to accept the truth.She died just two weeks after the execution, apparently still in ignorance of the fact.
4.) She had a sister named Carmen Kraus Alvarez de de la Rosa, who was apparently with her and the children in New York City in 1919.
5.) There is a nice feature on her that was printed in the society pages of The El Paso Morning Times, Sunday, Sept. 19, 1915 which came from an interview done by Miss Gertrude Stevenson and originally published in "The Boston Journal."-Now I have the El Paso Newspaper piece but have never been able to find the Boston Journal article.My assumption is that it is exactly the same as the one in the El Paso paper.
-Now I have gathered a veritable mountain of information in the course of my research on General Angeles and these are the things which stand out the most off the top of my head regarding his wife, Clara Kraus.I am sure that I could unearth some more details on her, especially on her life in El Paso in 1915, but possibly other facts as well if given some time to do so.I don't have much on her background or on her courtship and marriage to the General and I am wondering if you would be able to help me out here.I am hoping eventually to turn all this into a biography of Felipe Angeles and get it published.If you could share anything, I'd be deeply grateful.
Sincerely, John M. Koelsch
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What's Next for the Chicago Bears After Initial Wave of Free-Agent SigningsMarch 23, 2014
Phil Emery and the Chicago Bears have been busy since the new league year started on March 11.
The team bolstered its defense by signing defensive ends Lamarr Houston, Willie Young and Israel Idonije; linebacker D.J. Williams; cornerback Charles Tillman; safeties M.D. Jennings, Ryan Mundy, Danny McCray and Craig Steltz; wide receiver/kick returner Domenik Hixon and special teamer/linebacker Jordan Senn. The team also released defensive end Julius Peppers and wide receiver Earl Bennett, via ChicagoBears.com.
Despite making so many moves, Emery is likely not done trying to improve his team. At the team's press conference announcing the signing of Houston and Mundy, per ESPNChicago.com, Emery elaborated on what their process will be like throughout the rest of free agency, saying:
Whether you find out about it or not, there will be a number of workouts run through this building between now and before the start of the season. We're going to keep looking at this roster, and if we find a skill or trait in a player at a position that is better than what we currently have, we're going to sign him and we'll release another player. We're going to keep working the roster to improve the level of competition so we get better as a team.
While he has helped bolster a defense that struggled in 2013, there are still plenty of holes that need to be filled, particularly with the team's depth. Now that the initial wave of free agency has passed, the Bears can still find players who can impact the roster through free agency, the draft and they can free up more money to spend by restructuring some of their current contracts.
Quality Free Agents Still Available
Much of the focus this offseason has been spent on improving the Bears defense. Despite having one of the league's best offenses in 2013, there are still some areas on that side of the football that the team can address via free agency.
After a career year in Chicago in 2013, veteran backup quarterback Josh McCown tested the free-agent market. He ultimately landed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers—signing a two-year, $10 million contract, via ESPN.com—leaving an opening at the No. 2 quarterback spot for the Bears.
The Bears signed veteran Jordan Palmer to a one-year deal earlier this offseason, via CSNChicago.com, and currently have second-year man Jerrod Johnson on their roster but they could still be in the market for a free-agent backup.
According to ESPN.com, the New York Jets released Mark Sanchez late last week after the team came to terms with veteran quarterback Michael Vick. A former fifth overall pick of the Jets in 2009, Sanchez struggled with turnovers during his tenure in New York, throwing 69 interceptions in 62 games. He missed the entire 2013 season with a shoulder injury, but he has familiarity with Bears quarterbacks coach Matt Cavanaugh, who held the same title with the Jets from 2009 until 2012.
It is tough to assume that Marc Trestman could "fix" Sanchez much like he did with McCown, but at the right price, he could help solidify the backup quarterback position. If the asking price is too high, Kevin Kolb and Colt McCoy could be viable options considering their previous experience in a West Coast offense.
Despite signing four safeties already this offseason, Emery has stated that he is not done looking at improving the position, as reported by Patrick Finley of the Chicago Sun-Times:"We're definitely going to look at the safety position. Continue to look at it extensively in the [free-agent] market and the draft and post-draft."
Rumors circulated over the weekend that the Bears have interest in former Ravens safety James Ihedigbo, according to Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press:
Ihedigbo had a career-high 101 tackles and three interceptions last season while starting every game for the Ravens.
Another option could be veteran Chris Clemons. He has the versatility to play both free and strong safety, is strong in the box against the run and has been steady throughout his tenure in the league. Despite being one of the best remaining options at the position, Bleacher Report's Dan Pompei thinks the Bears will likely rely on the draft to bolster the position, tweeting:
Considering Pompei's stance, the Bears' best option to bolstering not just their secondary, but their team will be through the draft.
Find Depth and Youth Through the Draft
While there are still holes that need to be filled on this Bears roster, the signings they have already made will give them flexibility when they are selecting 14th overall in NFL draft this May.
In his latest scouting notebook, Bleacher Report's Matt Miller has Pittsburgh's Aaron Donald going to the Bears in his latest mock draft. Along with having Donald going to the Bears at No. 14, he lists him as one of his "five up" players for the week, writing:
"The love affair with Donald's game isn't so much about these new discoveries on his film, but rather about the instant impact he can bring to an NFL defensive line. If you're a team in need of a 3-technique pass-rusher, he's your guy. No questions asked."
After losing Henry Melton to the Dallas Cowboys last week, via ESPN.com, the Bears have a need at the 3-technique and Donald could help fill that void. The team could also look at Florida State's Timmy Jernigan and Minnesota's Ra'Shede Hageman to fill the position through the draft.
If the team believes competition breeds success, then drafting a safety in one of the first two rounds could provide a push for guys like Chris Conte.
Alabama's Ha Ha Clinton-Dix has been described as a prototypical ball-hawking safety, as he consistently has a great break on the ball and has good enough hands to haul in interceptions. Bleacher Report's Matt Miller says of Clinton-Dix, "Like Eric Reid and Kenny Vaccaro from the 2013 class, the Alabama safety can step in and make an impact from his first day on the job."
Clinton-Dix, along with Louisville's Calvin Pryor, could be two possibilities when the team selects at No. 14. If the Bears decide one of the defensive tackles are too good to pass up, Washington State's Deone Bucannon could be an option in the second round.
Bucannon was a tackling machine at Washington State and is an intimidating in-the-box safety who plays well against the run and has good, but not great, coverage abilities.
The first two rounds of the draft are big for Emery, as he will need to find two players who can have an impact in their rookie seasons.
Team Can Create More Cap Space with Contract Extensions and Restructures
One of the biggest moves for the Bears this offseason was re-signing quarterback Jay Cutler. Just days after the 2013 season officially concluded, the team announced it had signed him to a seven-year, $126.7 million deal.
While his cap hit in 2014 is a league-high $22.5 million via Sportrac.com, according to Joel Corry of National Football Post, the Bears can lower Cutler's cap number since they can create cap room at any time during the deal with their discretionary right to convert a portion of his base salary into a signing bonus.
If there is still a talented player in free agency the team thinks could help in 2014 and he is a bit out of its current price range, the flexibility with Cutler's deal will allow the Bears to free up cap space. Another alternative would be to extend a player like Brandon Marshall, giving him more guaranteed money and lowering his 2014 cap hit.


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The Life and Times of Joe Hill
Program #GARS001. Recorded in Boulder, CO on June 05, 1984.
Join veteran journalist Sender Garlin in an exploration of Joe Hill's life, the legendary Swedish born union activist and organizer and talented songwriter. Hill was executed in 1915 in Utah where he was framed on murder charges. His Last Will is famous: "My will is easy to decide For I have nothing to divide My kin don't need to weep and moan Moss does not cling to a rolling stone My body? oh, if I could choose I would to ashes it reduce And let the merry breezes blow My dust to where some flowers grow Perhaps some fading flower then Would soon rise up and grow green again This is my last and final will Good luck to all of you," The program features some classic labor movement music such as Pete Singer performing "Joe Hill." Other songs you'll hear are "Casey Jones," "Talking Union," "Which Side Are You On?" "There's Power in a Union," "The Preacher & the Slave," and "Solidarity Forever." Interviewed by David Barsamian.
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A nurse administers medicine to her patient.
- Administer is defined as to manage, direct or enforce something.
An example of the word administer is when a principal enforces school system rules.
- The definition of administer means to give or dispense something.
- An example of the word administer is when a nurse gives a patient medicine.
- An example of the word administer is when a parent administers punishment or consequence.
- to manage or direct (the affairs of a government, institution, etc.)
- to give out or dispense, as punishment or justice
- to give or apply (medicine, etc.)
- to direct the taking of (an oath, pledge, test, etc.)
- Law to act as executor or administrator of (an estate)
Origin of administerMiddle English aministren from Old French aministrer from Classical Latin administrare from ad-, to + ministrare, to serve
- to act as manager or administrator
- to furnish help or be of service: administer to an invalid's needs
verbad·min·is·tered, ad·min·is·ter·ing, ad·min·is·ters
- To have charge of; manage.
- a. To give or apply in a formal way: administer the last rites.b. To apply as a remedy: administer a sedative.c. To direct the taking of (an oath).
- To mete out; dispense: administer justice.
- To manage (a trust or estate) under a will or official appointment.
- To impose, offer, or tender (an oath, for example).
- To manage as an administrator.
- To minister: administering to their every whim.
Origin of administerMiddle English administren from Old French administrer from Latin administrāre ad ad- ministrāre to manage ( from minister ministr- servant ; see minister . )
Related Forms:
- ad·min′is·tra·ble
- ad·min′is·trant
(third-person singular simple present administers, present participle administering, simple past and past participle administered)
- To cause to take, either by openly offering or through deceit.
- We administered the medicine to our dog by mixing it in his food.
- To apportion out.
- To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.
- (intransitive) To minister (to).
- administering to the sick
- (law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
- To tender, as an oath.


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A few years ago, a friend of mine from Israel came to church with me. He was curious about Mormonism, and he happened to come on – you guessed it – a Fast Sunday. I prepared him ahead of time for the likelihood of congregants offering unusual personal stories from the pulpit, thinking that by doing so I was covering most of my bases. It ended up being a pleasant enough meeting, mostly filled with streams of little kids getting up and being cute in front of the microphone. I felt a certain amount of relief heading into Sunday School for the second hour.
This was a large, well-attended ward in Utah County. The Sunday School was packed, and it was clear from the lack of a set time for visitor introductions that few visitors came. No one knew there was a non-Mormon in their midst. And then the Sunday School teacher, an older gentleman, began to talk about the Holy Land and the Last Days. As he built up steam I found myself shrinking down in my seat and doing a literal facepalm. The teacher was nice enough, and obviously sincere. But his lengthy diatribe made it quite clear that he was not as informed on these matters as he apparently thought. My friend kept silent, and then turned and stared at me, his eyes bulging, as the teacher exclaimed:
"Those people just don't understand who they are! There is so much ignorance! That's why they're so wicked, and why we need to help them understand just how important and special they are!"
It was one of the first times I'd really listened to, really taken in, that common, utterly Mormon phrase. In the context of a Sunday School lesson with an Israeli present it was ironic to say the least: my friend, like all Jewish Israelis, had grown up in a school system with a rigorous curriculum of instruction in Jewish history from antiquity to the present, including subjects ranging from the Hebrew Bible to modern Israeli history. He was unquestionably far more knowledgeable than our Sunday School teacher. And as the grandchild of a man who fled to Israel from Belorussia – the only member of an entire village to escape the gas chambers – my friend was more than shocked to hear himself sweepingly characterized as wicked and ignorant (but also special and important).
Since then I've come to pay attention whenever I hear someone say "if you only understood who you are" in Mormon contexts. It seems to come up most often in discussions of gender roles and women. "If you only understood your role as a woman, you would be content/pacified/happy." I can't help but wonder – what, exactly, is not understood here? What does the speaker know that the hearer does not?


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Albert Fang: The UCLA Graduate Who Chose Blogging About Cryptocurrency Over Finding a Job
However, what you didn't know about him is that he is a UCLA graduate who chose to blog about cryptocurrency and personal finance over the norm of finding a job quick out of college. Instead, Albert decided to follow his passion of sharing financial advice on his blog ranging from topics about free travel credit card points to travel the world, to the cryptocurrency craze, to cashback opportunities on regular day spending on dining even. But above all else, Albert hopes to simplify finances in layman terms that anyone could understand.
Albert Fang attended the University of California, Los Angles (UCLA), majoring in Geography. One could say that Albert likes to go against the grain. Although he has a knack for the digital space in websites, mobile applications, and digital marketing, he likes to think outside of the box. He chose to major in Geography to learn about people, cultures, and the demographics of different regions all around the world as an academic interest so one day he could travel to all seven continents.Yes, even Antarctica. But above all else, he aspires to be a successful entrepreneur. Albert doesn't take the word, "entrepreneur," lightly too. He believes nowadays that the term is overused.However, he still hopes one day he could proudly call himself one.
Albert's first experience with digital marketing and online business ventures was an accident. When asked on why he was passionate about digital marketing and online businesses, he said because "At the time his family was financially struggling to make ends meet, and he dreaded going to the flea market at the young age of ten." Eventually, Albert would go on to start a blog called Moola Days, which enabled him to progressively hone his skills in digital marketing and web development through the generosity of the Internet. Moola Days would go on to make over $70,000 over its lifetime.
While every college graduate is frantically looking for a corporate job in a very competitive job market, Albert hopes to rekindle his passion for the digital space with his newfound freedom. Albert is currently relaunching his blog on personal finance under the name, fangalbert.com.
Visit the website at https://fangalbert.com/ to get the knowledge about Albert Fang.
If I were to wager a bet, I think he will choose to go against the grain again. Who knows what he has planned.
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Kids not only make priceless contributions to church
capital campaigns-they also take away invaluable lessons about love
and stewardship.
What comes to mind when you hear the phrase "capital campaign"?
Most people envision lofty financial goals, urgent appeals, and
teams of adults working on long-term projects. But for a growing
number of churches, capital campaigns are no longer adult-only
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Kids are joining church capital campaigns in creative, meaningful,
and fun ways. And while kids pitch in, they're learning about
stewardship along with their families-and seeing tangible benefits
for their children's programs.
Children's Ministry Magazine spoke with a variety of
churches around the country to discover innovative ways they're
getting kids involved in capital campaigns. The campaigns vary in
purpose, scope, and strategy, but everyone agrees that no matter
the size of the project, kids are eager-and important-contributors
when it comes to growing the body of Christ.
Where the Money Goes
"Many capital campaigns regularly include a children's ministry
component, even if the fund-raising isn't solely related to
children's ministry," says Kelly Kannwischer, communications
director with the fund-raising company Viscern. While many churches
undertake capital campaigns to add new children's education
buildings, she says, a growing trend is to raise money for mission
projects that help other children. Capital campaigns fall into one
of two basic types of projects-on-campus and outreach.
• On-Campus Projects-Church capital campaigns that focus on
children's ministry can raise money for everything from new
buildings and equipment to special, high-cost projects.
At Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas, last spring's campaign
raised money for a kids camp and for a satellite campus. A recent
capital campaign at Zoe Christian Fellowship in Whittier,
California, earmarked money for a brand-new playground for kids and
a new parking lot.
• Outreach Projects-When Bayside Covenant Church in Granite Bay,
California, conducted a capital campaign, half of the money went
toward missions. The church built an AIDS clinic in Nigeria and a
homeless shelter in their county for women with children.
At Christ's Church of the Valley in Peoria, Arizona, finance
director Bob Wild says the church wanted "to cast a bigger vision"
than just constructing new children's and youth ministry buildings.
So the church tithed from the money raised, allocating funds toward
church planting and missions.
No matter how the money is earmarked, children's ministers agree
that the goal of capital campaigns is to ultimately build up a
"Campaigns should always take your ministry to the next level,"
says Sharlene Crutchfield, former children's ministry director at
Zoe Christian Fellowship.
All Kids On Board
Capital campaigns are a perfect opportunity for everyone in your
congregation to learn about stewardship, study God's Word, and
become prayer partners for your church and its ministries. Don't
leave the kids out.
"Any time we do a capital campaign, we always involve the
children," says Annette Spangler, Bayside's interim children's
pastor. "It's a great chance to educate children that not everyone
has what they have and to have compassion for the less
Steve Hutchins, children's pastor at Central Christian Church in
Mesa, Arizona, says the challenge during each campaign is to "make
this something the kids can understand and connect with."
Foundations for a successful, meaningful campaign with children
include classroom and family learning, as well as a solid grounding
in prayer. Use the following concepts to build kids' interest and
commitment to the project.
• Teaching Time-Many churches design campaign-themed Sunday school
curriculum that coincides with an adult sermon series. That way,
kids and their parents can learn stewardship principles at the same
Mitch Corn, elementary pastor at Fellowship Church, did a
four-week children's sermon series called Above and Beyond to teach
kids about sacrificial giving. He focused on our many God-given
blessings and discussed tithing in kid-friendly terms.
Some companies that churches hire to help with their capital
campaigns produce specialized children's curriculum. RSI, a
division of Viscern (www.viscern.com), produces a three-week series
of Bible lessons called Cruise on the Steward Ship. It's filled
with age-appropriate activities, stories, Scriptures, and prayers
that help kids learn about caring for God's resources. Most
churches modify these lessons to meet the particular needs of their
children's ministries, Kannwischer says.
• At-Home Discussions-It's crucial to partner with parents when
teaching kids about sacrificial giving, says Corn. Parents, after
all, are the ones who give children allowance and help set the tone
for their financial education and habits.
Families can discuss what they'll give as a whole for the
campaign, suggests Hutchins. "When campaigns are family-centered,"
he says, "it magnifies the potential for learning, giving, and
Shadow Mountain Community Church in El Cajon, California,
sponsored family nights during its campaign so children and parents
could learn about stewardship together.
During a campaign at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California,
families received special placemats that served as stewardship
discussion starters during meals.
At one church that RSI assisted, 30 families each wrote a devotion
with a Scripture, a message, a prayer, and an explanation of the
campaign. Then a volunteer compiled the devotions into a booklet
families could use at mealtimes, Kannwischer says.
• Prayer Emphasis-When Shadow Mountain raised money for new
children's buildings, the entire campaign was bathed in prayer.
Katie Williams, designer of children's outreach, says classes put
"prayer stakes" in the ground during groundbreaking. They also went
on prayer walks around the buildings during construction.


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Looks like we're getting into Mondale territory.
Looks like we're getting into Mondale territory.
The NRCD announced its list of legislators who "Voted Dirty" today in a new effort to highlight which members of congress are heroes or villains when it comes to air quality protection. North Carolina Senator Richard Burr and Representatives Renee Ellmers, Virginia Foxx and Patrick McHenry make the list.
The report details votes along with contributions from polluting industries as well.
Here's the look-up page.
One of the things that's struck me about the difference between this presidential campaign and the last 40 or so has been the lack of war talk. If ever there was an indication that the realities of war-without-end has ground out nearly all the enthusiasm in the country for foreign military ventures, it's that candidates are not crisscrossing the land rattling sabers and promising death to somebody, a staple of national politics in almost every country.
In peacetime this usually meant questioning a candidate's readiness to be commander-in-chief and, in the case of men of a certain age, whether or not they actually served. This was taken to great heights in the 1992 campaign during which Bill Clinton's opposition to the Vietnam war was a major part of the GOP's strategy to paint him as irresponsible, unpatriotic and unready – a cleaned up hippie in a suit.
Here in North Carolina, a state that's home to huge numbers of active and retired military folks, issues of war and peace are important and personal. People here want to hear specifics, not just lofty rhetoric about staying strong. Staying strong as defined over the past decade has put a hell of a burden on communities throughout this state, especially in the base towns of eastern NC. In these places, it's been endless war with all the sacrifice and hardship that entails. They have a right to a little more attention. It's a shame that the pending sequester of roughly $500 million in military spending over 10 years, a crude tool employed during last year's even cruder political joust over the debt ceiling, is getting more attention in this election cycle than those wounded or killed on the battlefield and their loved ones back home.
Somehow the other night, in the most important speech of his life, the man who wants to be commander-in-chief failed to mention the sacrifices of the past decade or even give a nod to the tens of thousands serving today in a hostile places around the globe. He did not say "Afghanistan," a nation this country invaded and currently occupies along with our NATO allies. And, with the erasure of George W. Bush from the history of the Republican Party almost complete, he dared not mention Iraq.
Mr. Romney is going to have to change that if he wants to reap the votes that are waiting for him in the 910 area code and elsewhere in the state. And he's going to have to offer something tangible alongside the talk about preserving freedom around the world. There's a price to that in human terms and when he travels to the base towns of North Carolina, he'll have to meet some of the people who have paid dearly. He'll have to look them in they eye and talk about where and when and why. He'll have to talk VA and benefits and PTSD. He won't just be able to talk tough about Syria and Iran, he'll have to talk about the realities of Afghanistan and the consequences of Iraq. He'll have to provide some proof that he won't just restaff the DOD and his cabinet with the same people who sent millions overseas to fight without a clear objective and a way out.
And if there is a just God, he'll have to talk about Vietnam. He'll explain how it was that he stayed out of service in Vietnam at the same time he protested in favor of the war and others being drafted to fight it. When he visits Fayetteville or Havelock, he won't be able to sell the idea that his time in France during the war was tough because of anti-Vietnam sentiment. He'll have to talk about it because of his own history and also because it taught this country a harsh lesson about war and commitment. Many North Carolinians who fought in that war have sons and daughters and grandkids in uniform today. They deserve to know something of what the future holds and they deserve to know from any candidate for president, especially one who was able to serve at the time, what lessons he learned from 'Nam.
Further reading:
Digby – QOTD: Gloria Borger
Mediaite – CNN Airs The Most Ridiculous Statement I've Ever Seen On Television
Buzzfeed – Mitt Romney, Student Protester
UK Telegraph – Mitt Romney's life as a poor Mormon missionary in France questioned
Registration numbers have been a focus of late, especially in the battleground states.
I can't speak for how the numbers work in other states, but I do know that if you think that lower numbers of Democrats in North Carolina mean less Democratic votes, you'd be wrong.
The quirky trend of the Old North State for the past two decades or so is that the people migrating here tend to be more reliable Democratic voters than the natives. There was a very good Public Policy Polling study of this in 2008 and what they found holds today. It's also likely accelerating. The most recent PPP look at the presidential race has the president leading his challenger by a huge margin among the people who have been here ten years or less.
From this month's Exile on Jones Street Column in the Indy, which came out this week:
Following the rout of 2010, GOP strategists maintained that Obama's win in North Carolina was an anomaly driven by unusually high turnout. They pointed to a drop in Democratic registrations.
But as the PPP study points out, the people moving here, even independents, are proving to be more reliable Democratic voters than the natives. Born and bred Tar Heels came of age in what was historically a one-party state; if you wanted a say in legislative or county commissioner races, you registered as a Democrat so you could vote in the primary.
That same dynamic identified in 2008 is at play this year. The recent PPP poll on the presidential race notes that Obama and Romney are tied 47-47 for the native vote. The president's lead can be attributed to an edge among non-native voters, including a 66-to-27-percent lead among those who've been here less than 10 years.
There's a lot of things to note in the registration outlook and the demographic changes, but one that gets little mention is that all the recruiting the state is doing and the new jobs coming to the state – our rapid growth over the past 30 years – is starting to have a real impact on out politics.
Today is the 51st birthday of Barack Obama. Funny how this tax thing has made it much more difficult for anyone to bring up the birther thing. That's a nice change this birthday, but it's not the best gift. The best gift is that Mitt Romney's tax returns are now becoming a cultural cliché.
What's really in Mitt Romney's tax returns is turning into a set piece for any would be political humorist. Here's an example via alternet. 10 Theories About What Mitt Romney's Really Hiding in Those Tax Returns
That's the kind of stuff that pushes out into the layers of voters who don't pay attention to the chattering classes.
My guess is there's nothing out of the ordinary in the returns if you list your occupation as vulture capitalist and tend to shift a lot of your holdings overseas to reduce your tax burden. I'm sure that if we all could discuss this in a 'quiet room' there would be no disagreement that as Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom recently said, the candidate "has never zeroed out his tax liability" and has always paid "100 percent of what was owed." So leave the man alone. What is it with you people?
Except Romney knows that an election is not a board meeting and what's in the returns will be discussed in very loud places like say, what we now call Carolina Panthers Stadium. You might want to recall that Romney's 2011 tax return has yet to drop.
The calculation seems to be that he can ride to victory without more transparency. If he were a charismatic type who could deliver a barn burner he could probably get away with it. But he's said it's his business experience that makes him more qualified than the current occupant of the White House. If we can't see the for the record the complete picture of the fruits of his labor in the business world, then his major claim to the presidency falls apart.
Yes. Why would we ever want to return to where we were just four short years ago?
Good morning. Today is the day the new Obamacare rules for contraception coverage takes effect. That means no co-pays, evah. Somehow this is some radical idea opposed by many religious leaders. Well, tough, it's the law of the land now. Here's a graphics heavy and plainly-worded presentation by the Guttmacher Institute that make it seem like a thing any reasonable society would want.
Reproductive Health Reality Check on the politics of it. The Key to Unlocking the Youth Vote: Why Birth Control is a Force Multiplier in the 2012 Election
Also, here's a nice, concise write-up on the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature results that converted another climate-change skeptic by confirming again that the planet is getting warmer and mankind is the causing of it all. Wunderground: Oil industry-funded "BEST" study finds global warming is real, manmade
Shocking news from the campaign trail . . .
Independent study of Romney tax plan says even if it yield all its touted benefits to the economy (just like those Bush cuts did) it still makes the rich richer at the expense of everyone else.
From the WaPo: Study: Romney tax plan would result in cuts for rich, higher burden for others
Even if tax breaks "are eliminated in a way designed to make the resulting tax system as progressive as possible, there would still be a shift in the tax burden of roughly $86 billion [a year] from those making over $200,000 to those making less" than that.
What would that mean for the average tax bill? Millionaires would get an $87,000 tax cut, the study says. But for 95 percent of the population, taxes would go up by about 1.2 percent, an average of $500 a year.
More shocking news from NC:
– People are wondering if Romney's lead in recent polls means North Carolina is really in play or not or what or whatnot. If your memory goes back all the way back to 2008, you might recall that Obama didn't lead McCain in a poll until September 23. Real Clear Politics N.C.: Trending Red Again or Truly Up for Grabs?
– Perhaps the FLOTUS will have an opinion on the subject when she visits Greensboro and Raleigh today.
– NC Policy Watch has a look at a new report from the Budget and Tax Center showing the link between loss of rights and wage decline in North Carolina. New report: The decline in worker bargaining power is behind falling wages
– It appears that Richard Burr thinks Marco Rubio needs a little more time before seeking national office. The Hill: GOP senator suggests Sen. Rubio could use 'a little more experience'
– And, we're still waiting on those vetoes. No word as of 9 a.m. Morning Post Day 98 Vetoes Anyone?


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Valentine's Day got you down? Listen to anti-romance songs as you fantasize about killing Cupid.
4. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – "Don't Come Around Here No More"
In Tom Petty's classic, which ranges from hypnotic to chaotic, the singer-songwriter is as bold and straightforward as you wish you could be when breaking things off. Valentine's At Wendy's & Other Quirky Customs
5. Katy Perry – "Hot N' Cold"
If only playing relationship games was as bouncy and fun as pop songs about it are.
6. The Doors – "People are Strange"
A droning sing-along for those times in your life when you're completely confident everyone else is messed up.
7. Tegan and Sara – "Call it Off"
Canada's twin dykons prove to be enchantingly gloomy on this perfect-for-rainy-day-pondering song.
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – "Cheated Hearts"
Karen O is at her crass, abstract best in this intense lyrical collage of a relationship falling apart.
9. The Dead Weather – "Hang You From The Heavens"
Jack White handles the drums while anti-chanteuse Alison Mosshart howls this sadistic tale as a threat to a lover (insert Southern accent) who done her wrong.
10. Lady Gaga – "Telephone"
You're not the only one who would rather be out dancing with the girls than being pawed by some dirtbag. Gaga and Beyonce are on your side.
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Institute of Archaeology
75th Anniversary Debate: Archaeology and Contemporary Society
Start: Mar 12, 2012 06:15 PM
Location: Archaeology Lecture Theatre, G6
The penultimate 75th Anniversary Debate on 'Archaeology and Contemporary Society' will take place at the Institute on 12 March.
The 'Question Time' style debate, with key public and professional figures, will examine the ways in which the human past plays a key role in the current socio-political environment.
The Institute is very grateful to CgMs Consulting for their sponsorship of the series of Anniversary Debates.
- Sara Selwood (Chair) is an independent cultural analyst, research and writer. She is currently an Honorary Professor at both City University and University College London. She has written extensively on the relationship between the expectations of policy and the publics' experience of cultural provision - in relation to museums, in particular. She wrote the Renaissance in the Regions review, and was a co-author of a recent external evaluation of UNESCO's delivery of its strategic programme objectives related to intangible heritage. Much of her current work is focused on the cultural impact of museums. Sara is currently a member of the Mayor of London's Cultural Strategy Group and Chair of its Cultural Policy Reference Group.
- Nathan Schlanger's research interests include the history and politics of archaeology. Since 2005 he has been in charge of international research and development at the French national institute for preventive archaeological research (INRAP), dealing with the relations between development, research and outreach in contemporary archaeology.
- Tiffany Jenkins is a cultural sociologist; author of Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: The Crisis of Cultural Authority, and the arts and society programme director of the Institute of Ideas.
- Neil Faulkner FSA is a Research Fellow at Bristol University, Founder-director of the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project, a leading activist in Counterfire and the Coalition of Resistance, and the author of A Marxist History of the World (www.counterfire.org).
- Ben Cowell is Assistant Director, External Affairs for the National Trust, where he has recently led the Trust's campaign against the Government's proposed reforms to the planning system.
The debate, which will commence at 6.15pm in the Archaeology Lecture Theatre G6, will be followed by a drinks reception in the A.G. Leventis Gallery.
Further details of other debates in the series are available here»
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Scott Schuman's much-loved blog, thesartorialist.com, remains one of the most-read in the fashion world and continues to grow in popularity as Shuman travels further and more widely. In The Sartorialist: Closer, Schuman looks deeper and with great breadth at human style, and the way it is expressed across the world. Always reacting to an inspirational moment, the images in his new book continue to reflect Schuman's unique sensibility and vision. The Sartorialist: Closer depicts the diverse style and visual attitude of people as far afield as Japan, Korea, London, Milan, New York, Paris, and beyond, and includes nearly 40 exclusive images.
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