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OPF's Iraq Appeal: a letter to President Bush
A Plea for Peace from the Orthodox Peace Fellowship in North America
[note: In March 2003, shortly before the US-led attack against Iraq was launched, the Orthodox Peace Fellowship drafted a letter to President George W. Bush urging him not to initiate war. The letter was signed by numerous Orthodox bishops, priests, monastics, theologians and lay people.]
Dear President Bush,
As Orthodox Christians, we seek the conversion of enemies to friends in Christ. Saddam Hussein is an enemy of the United States and of the people of Iraq, but we declare that there are better ways to respond to terrorism than to respond in kind.
We do not argue against attacking Iraq because of any admiration for Saddam Hussein. He came to office by intrigue and murder, and remains in power by the same means; he is his own country's worst enemy. The Iraqi people deserve to be rid of him.
The United States is ready to overthrow him by any means, including an attack which would kill thousands of civilians and maim many more, justifying such an attack on the possibility that Hussein's regime is producing weapons of mass destruction and preparing to use them against America and Israel and their allies.
Because we seek the reconciliation of enemies, a conversion which grows from striving to be faithful to the Gospel, the Orthodox Church has never regarded any war as just or good, and fighting an elusive enemy by means which cause the death of innocent people can be regarded only as murder. Individual murderers are treated by psychiatrists and priests and isolated from society. But who heals the national psyche, the wounded soul of a nation, when it is untroubled by the slaughter of non-combatant civilians?
As Orthodox Christians, we find healing in Christ, Who made us responsible for His sacred gift of life. God created us in His image and likeness, and we best reflect Christ -- Who neither killed anyone nor blessed anyone to kill -- by loving, helping, and forgiving.
Friends help each other do good things, not evil things. We find echoes of holy friendship in the world's unfolding reaction to events in Iraq.
Many nations traditionally allied with America -- along with many patriotic Americans -- oppose an invasion of Iraq. They see how difficult a position the US will assume by attacking Iraq, and seek instead a renewed program of weapons inspection.
Iraq's closest neighbors are far from supportive of the course the United States is pursuing, even though they are aware of Saddam's shameful, destructive regime. Not having rallied to America's side does not mean that they support Saddam.
An attack on Iraq will be seen by many as an attack on all Arabic and Islamic states. America, despite the rhetoric, is perceived as seeing itself under attack by Islam. America helped install and maintain the despotic Shah of Iran, but withdrew its support when Iran became an Islamic republic (itself undemocratic in many ways). Now America is seen as the largely uncritical supporter of Israel, against the interests of Palestinians, both Muslim and Christian. Bombing Iraq will confirm these perceptions among Muslims.
An attack by Saddam on any nation would be viewed as proper cause for a military response to Iraq by the attacked nation and its allies, as was the case with Kuwait. This may not be good, but it is true. Saddam now attacks only his own people, and they need help -- but not the "help" of being killed in an effort by other countries to bring about "regime change" in Iraq.
"Pre-emption" (the notion that one nation may attack another because of what it might do) is philosophically, ethically, and pragmatically perilous. After all, an enemy may return the favor. Once "pre-emption" is established as a valid principle for international relations, nations which invoke that principle will have no conceptual shelter.
If the world can be convinced that it's possible to work peacefully to make life more livable for all, we will all be better off. This is the reconciliation we hope for as Christians among individuals. Can it not happen among nations, between Iraq and its neighbors, and for all the good people of the world?
The Orthodox Peace Fellowship calls on the United States and the United Nations to follow diplomatic paths predicated on mercy, honesty, and justice, and to seek peacefully negotiated resolutions to the impasse in Iraq.
We implore Christ, Who is our peace, to bless every endeavor directed toward our complete reconciliation with each other, and with Him.
The Council for the Orthodox Peace Fellowship in North America:
John Brady, Jim Forest, David Holden, Daniel Lieuwen, John Oliver, Deacon John Oliver III, Alex Patico, Sheri San Chirico, Monk James Silver and Renee Zitzloff
A partial list of other signers as of 19 March 2003:
Archbishop Peter of New York and New Jersey, Orthodox Church in America, External Affairs
Bishop Dimitrios of Xanthos, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Bishop Job of Chicago and the Midwest, Orthodox Church in America
Bishop Seraphim of Ottawa and Canada, Orthodox Church in America
Bishop Mercurius of Zaraisk, Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, Administrator of Parishes of the Moscow Patriarchate in the USA
Bishop Basil of Sergievo, Diocese of Sourozh, Russian Orthodox Church in Great Britain
Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia, Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain
Rebecca Alexander , member, Christ the Savior Orthodox Church, Nashville, Indiana
Fr. Paisius Altschul, St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Church, Kansas City, Missouri
Hierodeacon Amvrosi, Communaute de St Serafin de Sarov, Rawdon, Quebec
Sadie Barchini, Vice President, Orthodox Christian Fellowship at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Timothy Beach, director, Agape School; Reader & lay missionary, Orthodox Church in Taiwan
Carol Bebawi, Centre for the Study of Islam & Christian-Muslim Relations, University of Birmingham, member of St Aidan & St Chad parish, Nottingham, England
Fr. John Behr, Associate Professor of Patristics, St. Vladimir Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, New York
Alexander Belopopsky, Programme Executive for Europe, World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland
Carmela Biggs, R.N., case manager, Raphael House, shelter for homeless families, San Francisco, California
Brother Pierre Blais , ThD, Monastic Society of S. Silouan the Athonite, OCA, Canada; Instructor, Dep't of Religion, University of Toronto; Orthodox Church in America representative, Justice & Peace Commission, Canadian Council of Churches.
Rev. Ted Bobosh, priest, St. Paul's Orthodox Church, Dayton, Ohio
Hildo Bos, Acting President, Syndesmos: the World Fellowship of Orthodox Youth; member, St. Nicholas of Myra Orthodox Church, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Dr. Peter Bouteneff, Assistant Professor of Dogmatic Theology, St. Vladimir's Seminary, Crestwood, New York
Marie Boyko LaGuardia, member, St. Catherine Greek Orthodox Church, Denver, Colorado
V. Rev. John Breck, Professor of Bioethics and Patristic Exegesis, St. Sergius Theological Institute, Paris, France; Director, St. Silouan Retreat, Charleston, South Carolina
Catherine Brockenborough, Esq., attorney, Nashville, Tennessee
Rev. Marcus C. Burch, St John of the Ladder Orthodox Church, Greenville, South Carolina
Prof. Sheila D. Campbell, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada
Fr. William Christ, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Brother Christopher, Hieromonk; Brother Elias, Monk; Brother Stavros, Monk, New Skete Monastery, Cambridge, New York
Fr. John Chryssavgis, Professor of Theology, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts
Fr. Emmanuel Clapsis , Dean and Professor of Dogmatics, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts
Gregory Cook, writer and teacher; member of Holy Resurrection Church, Tacoma, Washington
Fr. Michael Dahulich, Dean, St. Tikhon Orthodox Theological Seminary, So. Canaan, Pennsylvania
Protodeacon Peter Danilchick, Oakton, Virginia
Fr. Demetrios Demopulos, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Helen Breslich Erickson, Lecturer in Liturgical Music, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, New York
John H. Erickson, Dean, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, New York
Fr. Dragan and Mirjana Filipovic, St. George Serbian Orthodox Church, Canton, Ohio
Fr. Thomas FitzGerald , Th.D., Professor of Church History and Historical Theology, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts
Fr. Hilarion Frakes, St.John of Kronstadt Orthodox Mission, Reno, Nevada
V. Rev. Thomas Gallaway, St. Andrew Antiochian Orthodox Church Lexington, Kentucky
Fr. John Garvey, priest of the Orthodox Church in America; Commonweal columnist; New York City
Fr. Paul Gassios , St. Thomas the Apostle Orthodox Church, Indiana
Eleni Geanon , MA, Director of Alumni Relations Office, Hellenic College and Holy Cross School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts
Hieromonk Alexander Golitzin, Associate Professor of Theology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Rev. Anastasios Gounaris, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Indianapolis, Indiana
Archimandrite Michael Graves, Maison Orthodoxe, Petion-Ville, Haiti, West Indies
Deacon James Gresh, Diocese of the Midwest, Orthodox Church in America, Canton, Ohio
Fr. Alexander Golubov, Academic Dean, St Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary, South Canaan, Pennsylvania
Fr. Stanley Harakas, retired Professor of Orthodox Theology, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts
Fr. Gregory Havrilak, Associate General Secretary, Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas, New York City
Fr. Stephen C. Headley, priest, parish of St. Stephen and St. Herman, Vezeley, France
Dr. Jurretta Jordan Heckscher, cultural historian, writer, and member of St. Mark Orthodox Church, Bethesda, Maryland
Fr. Oliver and Matushka Lorie Herbel, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, New York.
Fr. Mark Hodges, St. Stephen the First Martyr Orthodox Church, Lima, Ohio
Seraphim Alton Honeywell, Warden, Russian Parish of the Annunciation, Oxford, England
Fr. Thomas Hopko, Dean Emeritus, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, New York
Chris Horattas , Board Member, St. Nicholas Orthodox School; member, Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Akron, Ohio
Fr. Stephen Hrycyniak, Associate Pastor, Saints Cyril & Methodius, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Fr. David Hudson, Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America & Canada, Alpharetta, Georgia
Hegoumen Irenee, Communaute Monastique de St Serafin de Sarov, Rawdon, Quebec
Father Frederick & Presbytera Carol Janecek, Saints Cyril & Methodius Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Demetra Velisarios Jaquet, M.Div., member of St. Catherine Greek Orthodox, Greenwood Village, Colorado
Fr. John Jillions, St. Ephraim Orthodox Church, Cambridge, England
Victoria Jones, OCA Focus Curriculum Team, Parishioner of Holy Trinity, Overland Park, Kansas
Joan Kakascik , Ed.D., Psychologist, Parishioner of Christ the Saviour, Paramus, New Jersey
Fr. George E. Kalpaxis, retired priest, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, Baltimore, Maryland
Barbara Karol, parishioner, Christ the Saviour, Paramus, New Jersey
Valerie A. Karras, Th.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Greek Patristics, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri; member, St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, St. Louis, Missouri
Fr. Robert Kennaugh, St Nicholas Church, Narol, Manitoba, Canada
Nikola D. Kostich , M.D. and Carol M. Kostich , members of Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, St. Paul, Minnesota
Charlie Kroll, Chief Financial Officer, Hellenic College/Holy Cross Seminary, Brookline, Massachusetts
Fr. Bratso Krsic, Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church, Butte, Montana
Fr. Alexander Kuchta, pastor, Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church, Palatine, Illinois
Paul Ladouceur, webmaster, 'Pages Orthodoxes La Transfiguration, Rawdon, Quebec, Canada
Archpriest George Larin, Rector, Parish of the Russian Orthodox Holy Virgin Protection Church, Nyack, New York
Kevin Lawrence, Chair, String Department, North Carolina School of the Arts, University of North Carolina; Choir Director, Dormition of the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Church, Greensboro, North Carolina
Dr. Violet E. Leathers, Associate Professor- Emeritus, College of Education, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
Fr. Brooks Ledford, Director of San Antonio Catholic Worker House, priest of the Orthodox Church in America, attached: St. Anthony Orthodox Church, San Antonio, Texas
Dr. Philip LeMasters, Professor of Religion, McMurry University, Abilene, Texas
Rev. Gregory Long, Saint Anthony Orthodox Church, Butler, Pennsylvania
Claude Lopez , Language Professor, Switzerland
Serge R. Lopoukhine, Parish Treasurer, Holy Virgin Protection Russian Orthodox Church, Nyack, New York
Dr. Andrew Louth, Professor of Patristic and Byzantine Studies, University of Durham, England
Fr. Timothy Lowe, priest, SS Peter & Paul Church, Meriden, Connecticut
Nun Macaria, St. Xenia Metochion, Indianapolis, Indiana
Anne Glynn Mackoul, Princeton, New Jersey
Fr. John Manuel, Richmond, Virginia
Fr. Lawrence Margitich, Santa Rosa, California
Mother Mary Ann, Presentation of the Virgin Mary Orthodox Monastery, Canton, Ohio
Frederica Mathewes-Green, author, Baltimore, Maryland
Daniel C. Mathewson , Holy Assumption Orthodox Church, Canton, Ohio; teacher, St. Nicholas Orthodox Christian School, Mogadore, Ohio
Joe May, director, Matthew 25 House of Hospitality, Akron, Ohio
Mother Brigid McCarthy, St. Moses House, Kansas City, Missouri
V. Rev. Rade Merick, Holy Resurrection Serbian Orthodox Church, Steubenville, Ohio
Dr. Paul Meyendorff, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, New York
Fr. Thomas Moore, priest, Holy Apostles Orthodox Church, West Columbia, South Carolina
Fr. Elijah Mueller, St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, Jamaica Estates, New York
Fr. Thomas Mueller, Dean, Chicago Deanery, Orthodox Church in America; pastor, Saints Cyril & Methodius Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Presbytera Gina Mueller, Saints Cyril & Methodius Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Very Rev. John Nehrebecki, Dean of New Jersey, Orthodox Church in America
Fr. Anthony Nelson, rector, St. Benedict Russian Orthodox Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; director, Oklahoma Orthodox Christians for Life/Oklahoma Pro-Life Action Network
Evangeline Newton , Director of the Center for Literacy, University of Akron; member, Annunciation, Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Akron, Ohio
Rick M. Newton , Chair of the Modern and Classical Languages Department, Kent State University; member Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Akron, Ohio
Archpriest Michael J. Oleksa, Dean, St. Innocent Cathedral, Anchorage, Alaska
Archpriest Sergei Ovsiannikov, rector, St. Nicholas of Myra Russian Orthodox Church, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Fr. George C. Papademetriou, Associate Professor of Theology, Hellenic College/Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts
Fr. Harry Pappas, St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Alexander Patico, Senior Program Manager, Institute of International Education
Archpriest Stefan Pavlenko, Orthodox Church of All Russian Saints, Burlingame, California
Rachel Catherine Peters, M.Div., Orthodox Church of St. John the Russian, Ipswich, Massachusetts; Department of Internet Ministries, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Fr Michael Plekon, professor, Sociology/Anthropology, Program in Religion & Culture, Baruch College of the City University of New York
Fr. Victor S. Potapov, Rector, Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Washington, D.C.
Fr. Theodore Pulcini, Associate Professor of Religion, Department of Religion, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
Dr. Albert Raboteau, Professor of Religion, Princeton University, New Jersey
Fr. Patrick Radley, rector, Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Church, Great Walsingham, England
Fr. Geoffrey Ready, Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Mother Raphaela, Abbess, Holy Myrrhbearers Monastery, Otego, New York
Archpriest Basil Rhodes, rector, St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, Saratoga, California
Dr. Gabriel Jay Rochelle, teacher, Saint Sophia Theological Seminary, South Bound Brook, New Jersey
Jessica Rose, choir director, Russian Orthodox parish, Oxford, England
Fr. Dmitri Ross, St.Dunstan Orthodox Parish, New Zealand
Fr. Yakov Ryklin, St. Mary Magdalen Orthodox Church, New York City
Archimandrite Michael Rymer, Stockton, California
Fr. Herman Schick, pastor, St George Orthodox Church, Buffalo, New York; president of the Council of Orthodox Christian Churches on the Niagara Frontier
Fr. Paul Schroeder, Chancellor, Greek Orthodox Diocese of San Francisco
Very Rev. Archimandrite Nektarios Serfes, parish priest in Boise, Idaho, and president of the Decani Monastery Relief Fund USA
Eleana Silk , Librarian, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, New York
Fr. Alvian Smirensky, Schenectady, New York
Susan E. Steinhaus, member, St Paul's Orthodox Church, Emmaus, Pennsylvania
Catherine Sullivan, member, St. Nickolas Orthodox Church, Charlotte, North Carolina
Philip Tamoush, Orthodox Christian Communications Network, Torrance, California
Juliann and Catherine Tarsney, Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, St. Paul, Minnesota
Professor Nikolai S. Tchertkoff , Chestnut Ridge, New York
Fr. Rastko and Vickie Trbuhovich , St. Stephen Serbian Orthodox Church, Lackawanna, New York
Very Rev. Andrew Tregubov; iconographer; rector of Holy Resurrection Church, St. Claremont, New Hampshire
Fr. Luke Veronis, adjunct professor at Holy Cross Theological Seminary and St. Vladimir's Theological Seminary
Fr. Alexis Vinogradov, parish priest, Wappingers, New York
Rev. Aleksandar Vlajkovic, St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church, Boston, Massachusetts
Fr. Theodoor van der Voort, Holy Apostles Peter and Paul Church, Deventer, the Netherlands
Michael and Theodora Ward; editor, Orthodox Outlook; members, Greek Orthodox Church of the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
Martin D. Watt, C.P.A., St. Paul the Apostle Orthodox Parish, Dayton, Ohio
Donald L. Westcott, member, Holy Assumption Orthodox Church, Canton, Ohio
Deacon Timothy Wilkinson, Diocese of the Midwest, Orthodox Church in America, Canton, Ohio
Fr. Gregory Williams, St. John of Kronstadt Press, Liberty, Tennesee; administrator, Haitian Orthodox Mission (ROCOR)
Mary Winterer-Papatassos , member, St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Xenia Woyevodsky , member, St. John the Baptist Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
Lena S. Zezulin, Attorney, Washington, DC
Dn. Moses Zorea, St. James the Just Russian Orthodox Church, Anchorage, Alaska; attorney-at-law
The Orthodox Peace Fellowship in North America is a branch of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship International.
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Posted January 17, 2010, 4:54 PM.The first of at least four systems was beginning to move onshore in Southern California's northern counties Sunday afternoon. This is the first in a series of storms coming this week that has led the National Weather Service and others to issue remarkable forecasts. The consistent prediction has been for four to eight inches in the coastal regions for the week, with up to twenty inches of rainfall on the wetter slopes and accumulations of several feet of snow at higher elevations. Inland valley totals tend to run higher than the coastal predictions, so figure between six and eight inches for the wetter inland communities, which tend to be in the west (Temecula, Murrieta, Wildomar, Lake Elsinore, De Luz and Fallbrook). Areas further to east (Menifee, Perris, Moreno Valley, Riverside, Hemet and San Jacinto) should be more to the lower end of the prediction if the storms track classically from the southwest. Several factors have led to the extremely wet predictions. The first is a lot of tropical moisture being fed north into the storms in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, enhancing their rain potential. The El Nino condition in the equatorial region could be helping to drive this. The second factor is the jet stream, which has dropped south over Southern California. It looks like that element will stay in place for at least a week, perhaps more. Some showers were possible Sunday night, although nothing heavy was expected. Heavy rain was likely by afternoon or evening on Monday, with scattered showers lingering through Tuesday. Snow levels from the first storm were expected to be near 8,000 feet initially, then drop to about 6,000 feet. Showers were predicted to increase Tuesday night as the second, weaker storm arrives. The final two storms of the week have been advertised as the strongest. Storm #3 was anticipated to bring heavy rain Wednesday night, and storm #4, the strongest, has heavy rain predicted for Thursday and perhaps into Friday. If the predictions come to pass, creek flooding will be a near certainty this week, especially later in the week. It's possible there will be a break Saturday, followed by storms currently timed for Sunday and yet another deeper into the following week. |
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Jenny Odell on the Importance of Doing Nothing
photo by Ryan Meyer
by Julie Peterson
Jenny Odell, a visual artist and writer based in Oakland, California, is known for her creative use of second-hand imagery from Google Maps, YouTube, Craigslist and other online sources. Her work has been exhibited locally and internationally, and was featured in Time LightBox, WIRED, The Economist and The Atlantic.
Odell, who has been teaching internet art and digital design at Stanford University since 2013, says she is compelled by the ways in which attention (or lack thereof) leads to consequential shifts in perception. Her new book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, proposes that we use our attention to rebel against the seductive pull of 24/7 availability and manipulation by algorithms.
She tells us that redirecting our attention toward nature allows us to gradually remake our lives and forego the mentality that tells us that we must have a constant return on investment. True productivity, in the end, may very well be connected to our role in the environment and our understanding of happiness, and to make those connections, we must put our attention to doing nothing.
What is the "attention economy" and why do you believe it's important to resist it?
What is the "attention economy" and why do you believe it's important to resist it?
The attention economy includes anything designed to capture and direct human attention. The entire history of advertising has been about exploiting attention. But the attention economy takes on new dimensions with something like social media, whose notifications, pop-ups and design are aimed at keeping someone on a platform…[contributing] to a general feeling that one needs to be always on… participating… available.
Someone who participates deeply in the attention economy is liable to be kept in a loop of anxiety, fear and shallow reaction. Ironically, this feeling drives them back toward the attention economy, creating an unhealthy spiral of attention that could be more meaningfully directed elsewhere.
What inspired you to rethink conventional wisdom about productivity, progress and the mentality that we must have a constant return on our investment—including how we spend our time and where we direct our attention?
Right after the election, in late 2016, a warehouse fire in Oakland claimed the lives of many artists. I became aware of how difficult it was becoming to step away and process anything, not to mention mourn. I found that it was only by stepping away that I was able to ask questions about what it was I really wanted and how I could act meaningfully.
Both social media and the cult of productivity are seductive, and when we're caught up in them, we don't question them. Understanding anything requires perspective and standing outside of it; productivity is no different. Temporarily ascending to a broader, removed view, you might find that you're struggling in all the wrong ways, or in the wrong direction.
How is "doing nothing" different from meditation?
How is "doing nothing" different from meditation?
It certainly shares some of the same goals. But whereas certain forms of meditation emphasize physical stillness, "doing nothing" for me includes things like wandering and observing.
What is the relationship between our well-being and being unproductive for a part of each day?
What is the relationship between our well-being and being unproductive for a part of each day?
When we're caught up in the idea of productivity, we're often not thinking about our own well-being. And yet, the "unproductive" part of one's day is likely the one in which you remember to take care of yourself or even listen to the needs of your mind and body at all.
How do we go about challenging the forces that are disconnecting us from nature and each other?
How do we go about challenging the forces that are disconnecting us from nature and each other?
I think the first step is simply a movement of attention. Addictive as social media may be, it is not difficult for me to move my attention from that to what is happening in physical space. Sometimes this leads to meeting other people; I've had great conversations with strangers when we were both peering up at the same tree, looking at the same bird.
What do you hope people will take away from the message of your book?
What do you hope people will take away from the message of your book?
I hope it creates a space in which someone might begin to look at the ways they currently direct their attention and how they might want to change that. I also hope it helps people find each other. Rediscovering one's bio-region or local history is a great way to meet others who might not exist within your social media bubble.
Julie Peterson writes from rural Wisconsin. Reach her at [email protected].
Julie Peterson writes from rural Wisconsin. Reach her at [email protected].


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World Heritage in danger: two natural sites added
The Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve in Honduras and the Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra in Indonesia have been added to the List of World Heritage in Danger, following the advice of IUCN.
The Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve, the biggest protected area in Honduras, has been inscribed today on the Danger List at the request of the government of Honduras. Its largely intact forests, mangroves, coastal lagoons and savannahs have been put at risk due to lack of law enforcement. Illegal settlement by squatters, illegal commercial fishing, illegal logging, poaching and a proposed dam construction on the Patuca river, have all led IUCN to recommend the site to be added to the Danger List.
"We fully support Honduras' positive move to request Rio Platano to be included in the List of World Heritage in Danger and signal the need for increased international support to protect the natural wealth of this site, where over 2,000 indigenous people continue their traditional way of living, directly dependant on natural resources," says Mariam Kenza Ali, IUCN World Heritage Conservation Officer.
The Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra in Indonesia has also been added to the Danger List. IUCN has consistently recommended the site to be included on the Danger list since 2004, the year of its inscription on the World Heritage List. Four UNESCO/IUCN monitoring missions in the last five years have led to the conclusion that the site needs an emergency restoration plan. Road construction and agricultural encroachment are among the major threats of this area.
"Including the exceptional Sumatran rainforests on the Danger list today signals a message of international concern to support this site," says Peter Shadie, IUCN's senior adviser on World Heritage. "The Committee has taken this important decision after several years of debate, and we now need to ensure that it leads to real action on the ground to tackle long standing threats."
The Virgin Komi Forests, Russia's first natural site added to the World Heritage List, was not added to the Danger List, despite IUCN's recommendation. The approval of a gold mine inside the site and national level boundary changes, which led to the loss of legal protection for these areas, are both clear criteria for a site to be declared 'in danger', according to IUCN.
"World Heritage Sites have been recognised as no-go areas for mining, both by IUCN, UNESCO and business leaders," says Tim Badman, Director of IUCN's World Heritage Programme. "We consider inclusion on the Danger List was fully warranted, and we consider urgent remedial action is needed for the Virgin Komi Forests to resolve the critical threat to its Outstanding Universal Value."
The Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu, the world's most renowned icon of the Inca civilization, was also not added to the Danger List, despite threats such as lack of adequate governance, future construction of a road, impacts of the growth of numbers of visitors and lack of preventive measures against natural disasters.
"This is a missed opportunity to send a message of international support for Machu Picchu," says Badman. "We should remember that the Danger List is not a black mark for countries, but a way of drawing attention and providing support to the sites that need it the most."
For more information or to set up interviews, please contact:
• Borjana Pervan, IUCN Media Relations, m +41 79 857 4072, e firstname.lastname@example.com
• Brian Thomson, IUCN Media Relations, m +41 79 721 8326, e email@example.com
About IUCN's work on World Heritage
Each year IUCN, the independent advisory body on nature to UNESCO, reports to the World Heritage Centre on the conservation status of certain natural and mixed World Heritage sites under threat. IUCN's assessments on what is happening in World Heritage sites are derived from a variety of sources: IUCN members, indigenous peoples groups, the scientific community, experts from IUCN commissions and concerned individuals and organizations.
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List of natural sites inscribed on the Danger List in 2011
Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra-Indonesia
Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve-Honduras
Natural sites already on the Danger List
1. Rainforests of the Atsinanana – Madagascar
2. Everglades National Park - USA
3. Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park - Central African Republic
4. Comoé National Park - Cote d'Ivoire
5. Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve - Cote d'Ivoire/ Guinée
6. Virunga National Park – DRC
7. Kahuzi-Biega National Park – DRC
8. Garamba National Park – DRC
9. Salonga National Park – DRC
10. Okapi Wildlife Reserve – DRC
11. Simien National Park – Ethiopia
12. Air and Ténéré Natural Reserves – Niger
13. Niokolo-Koba National Park – Senegal
14. Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System – Belize
15. Los Katíos National Park - Colombia


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Dear Members,
The Faculty Staff Union (FSU) Elections Committee is preparing for our Spring 2020 election.
The Nomination Forms are now available. We are attaching the forms (see below) The deadline for nominations is Friday, February 14th at 5PM EST.
The positions up for election or re-election in Spring 2020 include:
Librarian representative
Pre-tenure (1 position)
Tenured (2 positions)
Non-Tenure track (2 positions)
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Updated September 25, 2022 at 3:04 PM ET
Fast cooking isn't about skill. It's about strategy.
That's according to six-time James Beard Award-winning food writer Mark Bittman. So when he sat down to revise How to Cook Everything Fast, he had an eye toward teaching technique, not just showcasing recipes.
"There are patterns [in cooking] that after you do many times, you begin to recognize and you do automatically. But beginning cooks don't see those patterns, and they don't have them laid out for them," Bittman tells NPR.
And he's indeed cooked — and written about cooking — many times. He's the author of numerous cookbooks, and spent decades writing about food for the New York Times.
"The attempt in Fast is to say: Here's how you really need to learn how to cook, here's how to organize ingredients. Here's how to use the right technique."
Bittman breaks down three strategies for faster cooking. His responses have been edited and condensed for clarity.
1. Prepare as you cook
There's a lot of downtime in cooking. It takes time for the heat that you're using to be applied to the food that you're using it on. And you can use that time to do other things that make the whole procedure go more quickly.
2. Keep a well-stocked pantry
There are challenges around cooking besides the cooking itself. And one of them is shopping. To the extent that you can keep a good pantry, you can cook a lot of recipes without shopping. And that's a real advantage.
3. Always cook more than you need — think leftovers
If you're cooking beans for a dish, then cook a lot of them and either refrigerate or freeze what's left. Same with whole grains.
Whenever you can, it almost always pays to cook more, even if it's just cooking more of the given dish. That's the kind of thing that veteran cooks know and learn.
Below are three recipes from Bittman's revised edition of How to Cook Everything Fast that you can try at home when you're in a pinch. They have been excerpted by permission of Harvest, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Spinach Carbonara
With the richness of eggs and Parmesan and the fresh bite of lightly cooked spinach, this recipe offers a hearty meatless alternative to more traditional pasta carbonara. You can replace the spinach with escarole, kale, mustard greens, chard or broccoli rabe. Just cut the ones with large leaves and stems crosswise into ribbons and cook a little longer if necessary.
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 pound spinach
2 cloves garlic
1 pound any long pasta
3 eggs
4 ounces Parmesan cheese (1 cup grated)
1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil and salt it.
2. Put 3 tablespoons olive oil in a large skillet over low heat.
3. Trim off any thick stems from the spinach.
4. Raise the heat under the skillet to medium-high. Cook the spinach, adding a handful at a time and stirring between batches, until the leaves are just wilted, about 5 minutes.
5. Peel and chop 2 cloves garlic, adding them to the skillet as soon as you can (they'll cook with the spinach).
6. When the spinach is tender, turn off the heat.
7. When the water boils, add the pasta and cook, stirring occasionally. Start tasting after 5 minutes.
8. Crack the eggs into a bowl.
9. Grate 1 cup Parmesan cheese and add to the bowl; sprinkle with salt and lots of pepper. Whisk with a fork to combine.
10. When the pasta is tender but not mushy, drain it, reserving about 1 cup cooking water. Add the pasta to the spinach and pour in the egg mixture. Toss, adding a splash of cooking water if you want to make it saucier. Taste and adjust the seasoning, and serve.
Stir-Fried Chicken and Chard
It might not be the most common green used in stir-fries, but kale takes well to high heat and has a ton of flavor. The leaves soften quickly and acquire wonderful singed brown spots (especially in a cast-iron or carbon steel skillet), while the little bits of the stems form a crunchy counterpoint. Try serving this with soba noodles for something different.
4 tablespoons good-quality vegetable oil
6 to 8 boneless, skinless chicken thighs (about 1½ pounds)
Salt and pepper
1 inch fresh ginger
2 cloves garlic
4 scallions
1 bunch chard (about 1 pound)
2 tablespoons soy sauce, or more to taste
Sesame oil for serving
1. Put 2 tablespoons vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Also, slice the chicken into ½-inch strips or chop into bite-sized pieces.
2. Add the chicken to the skillet, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and cook, undisturbed, until it sizzles and releases easily from the pan, about 3 minutes. After that, stir occasionally, until it loses its pink color and browns in places, another 5 to 10 minutes. Also:
3. When the chicken is done, add the ginger, garlic, and white and light green parts of the scallions. Cook, stirring, until fragrant, about a minute. Transfer the chicken mixture to a bowl.
4. Add 2 tablespoons vegetable oil to the skillet and turn the heat to high. Add the chard, a handful at a time if necessary to fit it in, and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cook until the leaves soften and begin to brown slightly, 5 to 7 minutes.
5. Return the chicken mixture to the skillet; add 2 tablespoons soy sauce and ½ cup water and stir until most of the liquid evaporates before turning off the heat. Taste and adjust the seasoning. Garnish with the scallion greens and serve, passing sesame oil at the table.
Skillet Apple Crisp
When you deconstruct the fruit and topping components of a crisp, you get a beloved dessert in a fraction of the time. And you don't even have to turn on the oven. The variations provide two of many alternatives and a whole different topping that works on any fruit. Use whatever is in season: peaches, plums, pears, berries—even bananas, mangoes, or pineapple. Cooking time is variable, just a few extra minutes one way or the other; you check for tenderness frequently.
8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter
2 pounds apples
½ cup walnuts or pecans
½ cup rolled oats
¼ cup unsweetened shredded coconut
½ cup packed brown sugar
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
1. Put 1 tablespoon butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Also, core and chop the apples, leaving the skin on.
2. Add the apples to the butter and cook, stirring frequently and adding water 1 tablespoon at a time if the pan starts to look dry, until the apples are tender, 5 to 10 minutes.
3. Put 7 tablespoons butter in another large skillet over medium heat. Also, chop ½ cup nuts.
4. When the butter is melted, add the nuts, ½ cup rolled oats, ¼ cup shredded coconut, ½ cup brown sugar, ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon, and a pinch of salt; toss to coat. Cook, stirring frequently, until the topping is golden and crisp, 6 to 8 minutes.
5. When the fruit is soft, divide it among serving bowls. Scatter the topping over the fruit and serve.
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1969 was the year of the Woodstock and Altamont Music Festivals, of the first US men on the moon and a Soviet probe on Venus, of Richard Nixon as US president, Golda Meir as Israeli PM, Yasser Arafat leader of the PLO, Georges Pompidou as President of France, Gaddafi as president of Libya, Olaf Palme as PM of Sweden and Willy Brandt as Chancellor of West Germany, of escalating troubles in Northern Ireland, of the US forces expanding the Vietnam War into Cambodia, withdrawing the first troops, starting secret negotiations with the North Vietnamese in Paris and the My Lai massacre, of the last Beatles performance and John & Yoko's bed-in in Montreal, of the FLQ bombings and martial law in Montreal, of the first Concorde test flights, of the Football War between Honduras & El Salvador, of the Manson murders, of the first ATM machine, of the Beijing Metro, of the first Monty Python and Sesame Street series, of the first ARPANET (precursor of the Internet) link.
Stonewall was not the only trans event of interest in 1969. Corbett v Corbett was a legal disaster for trans and intersex persons. The biggest soap-opera of the year was Dawn Langley Hall's marriage.
Legislation, court rulings & protests
Canada (albeit with an age of consent for anal sex of 21) and West Germany (partially) decriminalize homosexuality,. Similar decriminalizations had been passed in Iceland (1940), Switzerland (1942) Sweden (1944), Surinam (1944), Portugal (1945), Poland (1948), Greece (1951), Thailand (1956), Czechoslovakia (1961), Hungary (1961), Israel (1963), Chad (1967), England & Wales (1967), East Germany (1968), Bulgaria (1968). In the US, only Illinois (1962) has decriminalized homosexuality. It will not achieve nation-wide decriminalization until Lawrence v. Texas which went to the Supreme Court in 2003.Arthur Corbett applies for an annulment of his marriage to April Ashley and is granted his prayer. The judge, Lord Justice Ormrod, also rules that a person born male is legally male in perpetuity. Corbett v Corbett becomes case law in the UK and in Australia. The correcting of birth certificates for intersex and transgender persons ceases, and such persons lose the legal right to be treated as their new gender – in particular to marry a person of the now opposite gender. This situation will continue in the UK until the Gender Recognition Act of 2004.
The Stonewall Riots.
Persons having already completed transition
British celebrity biographer Dawn Langley Hall, now resident in Charleston, South Carolina, follows up her transition with marriage to a black artist, John-Paul Simmons. Two years later they would have a baby girl. This did not go well with other residents of Charleston.Reed Erickson sells his family business for $5 million and goes on to amass over $40 million, mainly from investments in oil-rich real estate. Some of this was used to finance the Erickson Educational Foundation (EEF) which placed some its money in transsexual research.
Jeanette Schmid, has moved to Vienna, and is now a professional whistler.
Billy Tipton is living with his last wife and three adopted sons. As his arthritis worsened, he quit playing piano a few years later.
Amanda Lear is in London.
Marie-Pierre Pruvot, previously a star at La Carrousel, is studying at Sorbonne University.
Mario Martino, the author of the first FTM autobiography has organized the Labyrinth Foundation Counseling Service in New York.
Terry Rogers is well employed as a ventriloquist and designer of magical tricks.
Terry Noel, previously a performer with The Jewel Box Revue and at the 82 Club, working as a typist, moves to Virginia Beach, Virginia, where she would find her husband.
Christine Jorgensen had published her autobiography two years earlier. It is now being turned into a film.
Aleshia Brevard is in her first Hollywood film, The Love God.
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Perry Desmond is running a beauty salon and working as an astrologer in New Orleans.
Charlotte von Mahlsdorf is curator of her Gründerzeit Museum.
Persons starting transition or living full time
Angela Douglas, who would shortly found the Transsexual Action Organization, starts to transition.Della Aleksander is transitioning. She will go to Dr Burou the next year.
Previously a female impersonator, Liz Lyons was in transition. She would later put out x-rated LPs.
Erik Schinegger the champion female skier, having been told by the International Olympic Committee that he was chromosomally male, starts to transition.
Daniel van Oosterwijck, who will appeal to the European Court in 1980, starts transition.
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Virginia Prince, after a second divorce, has had electrolysis and is taking female hormones again. She starts to live full time as female.
Charlotte Bach is starting to live fulltime as female.
Persons who will transition later
The soon-to-be Paula Grossman is still a music teacher in New Jersey.The future Joanna Clark is still a Chief Petty Officer in the US Navy.
Susanna Valenti is writing for Transvestia, and hosting social events at Casa Susanna.
The future Renée Richards is a New York ophthalmologist and is playing men's tennis.
The future Leslie Elaine Perez is in prison in Texas, but no longer on death row. After being released she will transition.
The future Carol Riddell is at Lancaster University. She will be in Dr Burou's clinic at the same time as Jan Morris.
The future Michelle Duff, who had won the Belgian Grand Prix in 1964 at a record average speed, returns to motorcycle racing and wins the Eastern Canadian Championship.
The future Sandy Stone is a recording engineer. She will transition in the mid 1970s.
The soon-to-be Jan Morris has completed her Pax Britannica, the first part of three on the history of the British Empire.
The future Maria Starace is working as an agony aunt.
Persons who never do transition
Bunny Breckinridge opens his San Francisco home as a hippy drop-in.Vaughn Bodé starts his Deadbone comic strip in Galaxy Magazine, and wins a Hugo as best fanzine artist.
Herman Slater, drag queen and future publisher of the Necronomicon, is crippled with tuberculosis and in convalescence.
Ottis Toole, a sometimes transvestite, has left his child bride and is living by prostitution.Transvestite Jerry Brudos murders four young women. He will die in prison.
Gerard Schaefer avoids the draft because he was a transvestite. He will later become a cop and a murderer. He will be killed by a cellmate.
Female impersonators
Rae Bourbon, aged 75, is convicted in Texas of being an accomplice to murder and sentenced to 99 years. He dies in prison.The Cockettes are founded.
Minette is working with Avery Willard's Ava Graph films.
Chris Shaw had moved to Southern Rhodesia, but as the Zimbabwean independence struggle intensifies, he moves to South Africa, and then to Australia.
Michelle DuBarry, adopts that name, and does a first Canadian National Tour.
David Raven and James Court found the Trollettes.
José Sarria is working as a restaurateur at the World Fairs.
Frederick Ashton, the artistic director of the Royal Ballet, does his dame performance in the film Cinderella.
Tommy Dorsey, the future Zen priest, has stopped doing drag shows and is exploring Buddhism at the San Francisco Zen Center.
Danny La Rue appears in a film version of Charley's Aunt, and did a Royal Command Performance.
Pudgy Roberts, publishes his second novel, Seafood, and appears in Avery Willard's 6 minute film, Camp Burlesque. He is still editor of the monthly The great female mimics.
Jean Fredericks and Ron Storme organize the first drag balls at the Porchester Hall, which would become a major part of London's drag scene.
David Alba, at 21, first comes to US national attention for his impersonations, his hairdressing and his cosmetics.
Writers on transsexual issues
Mary Daly acquires tenure at Boston College after demonstrations by the then all-male students. She would later mentor Janice Raymond, and ban male students from her classes.H Taylor Buckner presents a paper to the American Sociological Association that concludes that heterosexual transvestism is a pathology.
Surgeons and sexologists
Harry Benjamin had published The Transsexual Phenomenon three years earlier, and is considered the world expert on the subject.John Randell, of the Charing Cross Hospital, is mentioned several times in press reports about the First International Symposium on Gender Identity, and he testifies at the Corbett vs Corbett trial that he 'considered that the respondent (ie April Ashley) is properly classified as a male homosexual transsexualist'.
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Gender Identity Clinic is active at this time. David Reimer had been surgically reassigned two years earlier, and Dawn Langly Hall had her surgery there in 1968. Surgery is done by Howard Jones, endocrinology by Milton Edgerton, and John Money is the director.
The Gender Identity Clinic at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in Toronto opens for the first time. ++Betty Steiner, psychiatrist, was appointed as its first head. ++The first patient to have surgery is Dianna Boileau.
Kurt Freund, the phallometricist, has fled Czechoslovakia after the failed uprising in 1968, and will find employment at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in Toronto.
Georges Burou had been doing genital surgery, using his own technique, for 10 years.
In Trinidad, Colorado, Dr Stanley Biber has performed his first male-to-female operation the previous year. He would do thousands of operations before he retires in 2003.
John Brown, the future 'Butcher Brown', after twenty years of general practice, is taking a program in plastic surgery. He fails the oral.
Milton Diamond is a new professor of anatomy and reproductive biology at the University of Hawai'i.
++ Richard Green, with encouragement from Robert Stoller, Green arranged the first transsexual operation at UCLA, only a year after Stoller had retracted his conclusions in the Agnes case.
++ At the First International Symposium on Gender Identity in London arguments arose between the team from Chelsea Women's who regarded transsexuals as a form of intersex, and the team from Charing Cross Hospital who regarded them as having a psychological disorder.
Theatre & Cinema
Rachel Harlow is still riding on her fame from being in The Queen the previous year. She would transition shortly after.Jack Doroshaw, who made The Queen, is a special advisor on John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy.
The 1969 film, Dinah East, tells of a female film star (Jeremy Stockwell in his first role) who is found to be male-bodied after she dies.
Candy Darling and Jackie Curtis, who had been in the Andy Warhol film, Flesh, the year before, and Holly Woodlawn who would be in Warhol's Trash in 1970, appear in Curtis'off-Broadway play, Heaven Grand in Amber Orbit.
Edward Wood writes and acts in The Photographer/The Love Feast, a tale of forced femininity.
Francis Francine played the transvestite sheriff in the Andy Warhol western, Lonesome Cowboys.
Divine is in The Diane Linkletter Story and Mondo Trasho.
Luchino Visconti's La caduta degli dei (The Damned) about Germany in the early 1930s features Helmut Berger doing a Marlene Dietrich impersonation on the night of the Reichstag fire and miscellaneous SA queens in drag on the Night of the Long Knives.
The Japanese drag star, Peter, is in Bara no soretsu (Funeral Parade of Roses), a gender-reversed Oedipus Rex set in a Tokyo drag bar.
Another Japanese drag star, Akihiro Miwa, is in Kuro bara no yakata(Black Rose).
The Magic Christian, written by Terry Southern, has Peter Sellers briefly in nun-drag, but is most memorable for the uncredited Yul Brynner drag scene.
Federico Fellini's Satyricon, based on the ancient novel by Petronius, has Tanya Lopert as the male Nero and an albino intersex,
The films Myra Breckenridge, The Christine Jorgensen Story are in pre-production.
Lou Reed records 'Candy Says', about Candy Darling.Books
- Richard Green & John Money (ed). Transsexualism and Sex-Reassignment. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press,. 1969.
- E. C Crowder, with a forward by Alfredo Rathermann. The Transsexuals. Libertyville, Ill.: Oligarch 192 pp 1969.
Penelope Ashe's Naked Came the Stranger becomes a runaway best seller. Shortly afterwards it is revealed that Penelope was not a woman, but a team of 19 men and 5 women.


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Sunday, December 14, 2008
Just Another Traverse
Saturday afternoon, I finished a project that I have been working on for number of days, Just Another Traverse on the Red Wall at Flagstaff. Ted Lanzano did this earlier in the year and rated it V9/10, a nice bit of understatement. After about 5 days and at least two dozen attempts, I would propose V11. The traverse starts with a couple of moves on thin crimps, followed by a very powerful and crimpy solid V10 section getting to the pod on the left. A strenuous shake leads to a final four-move crux which I fell from on Thursday. Basically V10 to V7 and much harder than any other V10 I have done this year, even harder than the Left Graham Arete at V11. It's a great problem that I would highly recommend.
As I write, there is 4 inches of snow on the ground so climbing outside may be done for a while. Cold weather and snow may stick around making most of the local areas unclimbable for at least a week.
Here's an interesting piece about sponsorship in the big leagues. It can't be long before climbing is seriously affected as well. The economic picture is so terrible, especially in employment and retail, I would imagine that the climbing industry is very worried at this point. A report at the Outdoor Industry Association shows growth except that, "In specialty stores, equipment, equipment accessories and footwear each lost ground compared to last October." Here's another quote from the same report: "According to trendspotter and OIA Rendezvous keynote speaker Marian Salzman, the only businesses in which she would consider investing right now are soup and camping." Mmmm...soup
4 comments:
- hello said...
Nice work on the traverse and good to see it getting some action. It's really a fun climb if you like crimp on horrible edges! I don't know about the grade but v10 felt about right at the time. I'm open to whatever people think.
- December 15, 2008 at 10:12 AM
- Peter Beal said...
Thanks Ted. My feeling is that compared to any of the other V10s on the mountain that I have done recently, this traverse is considerably more difficult. I doubt an upgrade will see much dispute in the end unless we should downgrade a number of other established testpieces such as the UCT to V8, Left Graham Arete to V9/10, and so on
- December 15, 2008 at 10:56 AM
- Unknown said...
First off, nice job! However, I think that you've taken the old guy with a kid and a job excuse too far. You are ruining it for the rest of us. Did you have a kid just to make an excuse or, rather, to populate the world with intelligent humans? I hope it's the later. But, I'd guess the former based on your recent rants. I think that your invitation to the slab olympics is in the mail. - December 16, 2008 at 9:01 PM
- Peter Beal said...
Hi Herm, thanks for the comment! If you can explain "slab olympics" in PG or G terminology, I'd appreciate it...
- December 18, 2008 at 9:03 AM


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*** About the Book ***
This book is part novel, part memoir, part short story collection in which the narrator (or is it the author?) shares about his experiences in Vietnam.
*** Why I Listened To It ***
This book is on so many "must read" lists yet I'd never even heard of it until recently. I'm reading it for the War Through the Generations: Vietnam challenge, the 1% Well Read challenge, and it will also count for the Audiobook challenge.
In addition, Sophisticated Dorkiness is hosting a read-a-long of the book this month and I'm participating in that as well.
*** My Thoughts ***
Hmm … well … what ARE my thoughts on this book? I can't seem to pin them down. In a way I hated it. In another way I really appreciated what the author was doing. At times I wanted to cover my ears and not hear the rest of the story. At other times I wanted to smack a character for his stupidity or carelessness or whatever. Parts of it seemed very true while other parts didn't fit my idea of reality.
The book begins with descriptions of the items the soldiers carried – weapons, food, supplies, etc. – and the actual weight of each item. Then the narrator added the intangibles – guilt, fear, memories – to the list. This was a powerful chapter and really brought me into the story.
And then … well, is it strange that the stories of dead comrades and enemy soldiers did very little to me (even though they were very sad) yet the story of out-and-out cruelty to an animal broke my heart? I guess I assume that there will be death in a war and I resign myself to that necessity but I can't resign myself to the need for cruelty, even though it helped the soldiers become calloused enough to take a human life.
One issue I had came after I finished the book. When I was perusing the read-a-long discussion questions I noticed this one: "The narrator of The Things They Carried goes by the same name as the author, but the title page notes that this is a "work of fiction." How did this launch your reading of the book?" Say WHAT?! The audio version of the book did NOT include this information. While I was listening I assumed it was a somewhat embellished version of the author's own experiences. To find out that I was wrong has really soured me on this book.
At the same time, there is one chapter that deals with the idea of truth in a story. The narrator makes the point that sometimes the real truth of a situation isn't in the factual details but rather in the story that you create about it. This chapter (it's the one where he repeatedly describes the body of the VietCong soldier he just killed) really resonated with me. I found the repetition very powerful. And yet, despite agreeing with his thoughts about truth, I find myself angry that I can't tell which parts of the book are "fact" and which are "stories of truth" …
Part of the issue for me with books like this is that I hope to find something of my dad's Vietnam experience in there but I always come away disappointed. My dad enlisted in the Army by choice – he wasn't drafted. He was proud to serve, just as his father had. He didn't come out of the war with PTSD (at least, not from anything he or my mom ever said) or having nightmares or harboring lots of regrets (although I'm sure he has some). He was a Green Beret* and he spent most of his time living in the villages with the local people and a few other soldiers. My husband once asked him about what he'd done in Vietnam. His response was along these lines: Yes, I killed some people. But I don't have any trouble sleeping at night. If I told them not to move and they moved, then I felt no guilt about it. So far I have yet to come across a book that reflects my dad's experience in any way, and that is disappointing to me.
*Reading the part of the book about the "Greenies" was almost creepy for me, knowing that my dad was one of them …
*** Your Thoughts ***
Have you read this book? What did you think of it? What are your thoughts on "facts" versus "truth"?
Also, can you recommend a Vietnam-era book that might reflect my dad's experiences?


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24 Jul 2018
A new uniform policy has been introduced for NSW public schools, which for the first time include the option for girls to wear shorts and pants.
The Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, and the Minister for Education, Rob Stokes, announced the new "clear and concise" policy today at Condell Park Public School in Sydney.
Ms Berejiklian said the "modern makeover" would ensure that uniforms were practical and comfortable for students and affordable for parents.
The new policy says all students should have the opportunity to access the full range of school activities while wearing a school uniform, including physical activities, and girls must have the option to wear shorts and pants.
For more information, read the media release by the Premier and Minister. The new policy and implementation guidelines (PDF 116.83KB) are available on the department's website.
The Department of Education supports the wearing of school uniform to promote a sense of belonging for students and create a positive identity for the school community.
Each public school decides on its school uniform in formal consultation with students, school staff, parents and the school community.


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Can Opera Singers Really Shatter Glass?
By Matt Soniak
Saturday morning cartoons would have us believe that anyone in a dress and Viking helmet can shatter wine glasses, monocles and even the opera house chandelier with one powerful high note. Is this one of those skills that only cartoon characters possess, or can we mortals do it too?
The physics seem pretty straightforward. Every object has a resonant frequency "" the frequency at which it naturally vibrates. Finding the resonant frequency of a wine glass, which is especially resonant because it's tubular and hollow, is easy. Running a wet finger around the rim and making it "sing" or simply tapping the glass will cause it to vibrate at its resonant frequency (which varies from glass to glass) and push out waves of air pressure. Our ears and brain interpret these waves as sound, with the pitch of the sound determined by the frequency of the waves.
If you've got a good ear or the appropriate computer program, you can find out what that note is and match the pitch of your voice to the to the glass's resonant frequency. Singing that tone will get the air around the glass, and then the glass itself, vibrating. And if you can sing loud enough and long enough, the glass will basically vibrate itself to death.
Loud and long are important for glassware destruction. The volume of a sound is related to the amplitude of the sound wave and the extent that it displaces air. The louder the tone, the harder you're pushing air at the glass. Sustaining the note allows the vibrations to build up enough to cause the glass to fracture. Plain old luck also factors in, since the size and location of microscopic defects in glasses vary and some glasses can withstand more tonal punishment than others.
In 2005, the guys on MythBusters brought us the first recorded and confirmed proof that an unamplified voice can break glass. Rock singer and vocal coach Jamie Vendera had the right frequency (556 Hz) and, after 20 attempts, worked up the volume (105 decibels) needed to needed to shatter a glass. (Here's a link to the MythBusters segment.)
And here's a Popular Science video that has a wonderful strobe-light lit shot of the glass shucking and jiving to the resonant frequency.
If you've got a burning question that you'd like to see answered here, shoot me an email at flossymatt (at) gmail.com. Twitter users can also make nice with me and ask me questions there. Be sure to give me your name and location (and a link, if you want) so I can give you a little shout out.


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Primates in peril: Conservationists reveal the world's 25 most endangered primates
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- October 15, 2012
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- International Union for Conservation of Nature
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- Humankind's closest living relatives -- the world's apes, monkeys, lemurs and other primates -- are on the brink of extinction and in need of urgent conservation measures, according to a report released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The report, announced by some of the world's leading primate experts every two years, reveals those species most in danger of becoming extinct from destruction of tropical forests, illegal wildlife trade and commercial bush meat hunting.
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The world's 25 most endangered primates have been revealed in a new report released Oct. 15, 2012 at the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity COP11. Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates, 2012-2014 has been compiled by the Primate Specialist Group of IUCN's Species Survival Commission (SSC) and the International Primatological Society (IPS), in collaboration with Conservation International (CI) and the Bristol Conservation and Science Foundation (BCSF).
Humankind's closest living relatives -- the world's apes, monkeys, lemurs and other primates -- are on the brink of extinction and in need of urgent conservation measures. The report, announced by some of the world's leading primate experts every two years, reveals those species most in danger of becoming extinct from destruction of tropical forests, illegal wildlife trade and commercial bush meat hunting.
The list features nine primate species from Asia, six from Madagascar, five from Africa and five from the Neotropics. In terms of individual countries, Madagascar tops the list with six of the 25 most endangered species. Vietnam has five, Indonesia three, Brazil two, and China, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Kenya, Peru, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Venezuela each have one.
Report that details 25 Most Endangered Primates http://www.conservation.org/Documents/CI_Primates-in-Peril_25-Most-Endangered-Primates_2012-2014.pdf
With this report, conservationists want to highlight the plight of species such as the Pygmy Tarsier (Tarsius pumilus) of southern and central Sulawesi, which was only known from three museum specimens until 2008, when three individuals were captured inside the Lore Lindu National Park and one more was observed in the wild. The few remaining fragmented and isolated populations of this species are threatened by human encroachment and armed conflict.
Madagascar's lemurs are severely threatened by habitat destruction and illegal hunting, which has accelerated dramatically since the change of power in the country in 2009. The rarest lemur, the Northern Sportive Lemur (Lepilemur septentrionalis), is now down to 19 known individuals in the wild. A red-listing workshop on lemurs, held by the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist group in July this year, revealed that 91% of the 103 species and subspecies were threatened with extinction. This is one of the highest levels of threat ever recorded for a group of vertebrates.
The list of the world's 25 most endangered primates has been drawn up by primatologists working in the field who have first-hand knowledge of the causes of threats to primates.
"Once again, this report shows that the world's primates are under increasing threat from human activities. Whilst we haven't lost any primate species yet during this century, some of them are in very dire straits," says Dr Christoph Schwitzer, Head of Research at the Bristol Conservation and Science Foundation (BCSF). "In particular the lemurs are now one of the world's most endangered groups of mammals, after more than three years of political crisis and a lack of effective enforcement in their home country, Madagascar. A similar crisis is happening in South-East Asia, where trade in wildlife is bringing many primates very close to extinction."
More than half (54%) of the world's 633 primate species and subspecies with known conservation status are classified as threatened with extinction on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. The main threats are habitat destruction, particularly from the burning and clearing of tropical forests the hunting of primates for food, and the illegal wildlife trade.
"Primates are our closest living relatives and probably the best flagship species for tropical rain forests, since more than 90 percent of all known primates occur in this endangered biome," says Dr. Russell Mittermeier, Chair of the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group and President of Conservation International. "Amazingly, we continue to discover new species every year since 2000. What is more, primates are increasingly becoming a major ecotourism attraction, and primate-watching is growing in interest and serving as a key source of livelihood in many local communities living around protected areas in which these species occur."
"It's also important to note that primates are a key element in their tropical forest homes," adds Dr Mittermeier. "They often serve as seed dispersers and help to maintain forest diversity. It is increasingly being recognized that forests make a major contribution in terms of ecosystem services for people, providing drinking water, food and medicines."
Despite the gloomy assessment, conservationists point to the success in helping targeted species recover. Due largely to the efforts of dedicated primate conservationists, and underpinned by considerable public and media interest in the plight of our closest relatives, the world has not lost a single primate species to extinction in the 20th century, and no primate had yet to be declared extinct in the 21st century either, although some are very close to total extirpation. This is a better record than for most other groups of larger vertebrates that have lost at least one, often more, species.
Several species have been removed from the list -- now in its seventh edition -- because of improved status, among them India's Lion-Tailed Macaque (Macaca silenus) and Madagascar's Greater Bamboo Lemur (Prolemur simus), which appeared on the first six lists, but has now been taken off thanks to the great increase of interest generated by its appearance as a top 25 species.
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Bouldering in Scotland Review
John Watson took the bull by the horns, left his job and jumped in his car for the best part of two years travelling repeatedly around the glens to make the first Scottish bouldering guide a reality. And here it is, in my lap! Wow!
Bouldering in Scotland details in full, inspiring colour 60 of the best bouldering venues with superb photos, topos and and a straightforward layout. The standard and payout of the guide is reminiscent of the recent Peak bouldering guide. Really, all there is to say about the standard of production of the book is that it competes with anything that is out there, and you'll find it a pleasure and an inspiration to use.
The interesting thing to talk about is the content. John has opted for the selected approach for describing problems, which in many people's opinion is the best way to go for many rock types in the sport of bouldering. In the 60 areas covered in the book, there are many problems not described. But here's the problem – if you are a local, you know all the eliminates anyway. If you are a visitor, you just want to find the best pure lines. The nature of bouldering means a lot of climbs get squeezed into a small area. Over describing the climbing at a venue takes away from the classic lines. Bouldering, still young, seems to be still moving in a direction where it's considered better to work on the best lines and overcome their barriers of difficulty, rather than potter on a thousand eliminates at the same level and never progress. So the book shows you the best bouldering lines that have been found in Scotland to date.
Some gorgeous photos lead off each area section, with more small shots, all in colour to help you quickly find your way around and spy the most appealing lines to try. It fulfils the important guidebook attribute of making you want to go out bouldering RIGHT NOW! As well as just passing on information. I particularly liked the 'circuit' approach John used to describe Scotland's big daddy bouldering venue, Dumbarton Rock. We used to do circuits based on British tech grades, but these are so variable it made for an unbalanced session. A session trying to complete John's 'yellow', 'blue' or 'red' circuits will be a blissful experience! Anyway, I'm wallowing a bit in memory lane there…
For sure this edition is the first in what will no doubt be a series. It's as essential a part of Scottish bouldering kit as the mat, midgy spray and beanie. In the next one I'd love to see photographic contributions from a wider range of photographers. For instance, many a stunning shot resides in Cubby's spare room that should be inspiring climbers in this book. But hopefully this edition will be a platform for John to keep celebrating Scottish bouldering in print. Us climbers owe you one John, thanks for this book!
If you want a copy, you can get it from my webshop. Posted straight to you and remember I'm giving away my 'How to Climb Hard Trad' E-book with purchases from my shop. So you are getting more for your cash than if you waste a potential bouldering session walking to the shops to get it!


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The seriousness surrounding the problem of elder abuse in our society is often ignored or underrated. People have a tendency to put discussions of elder abuse on the backburner, in favor of more shocking stories that tend to grab the media spotlight.
Despite the lack of attention paid to the phenomenon of elder abuse, the American Psychological Association estimates that "4 million older Americans are victims of physical, psychological or other forms of abuse and neglect" every year. For every reported instance of abuse, experts estimate that 23 more go unreported.
There are many different types of elder abuse, but they can be broken into three categories:
1. Physical Abuse
Some of the most common signs of physical abuse include unexplained marks or injuries, such as bruises, pressure marks, welts, cuts, burns or broken bones. If the caregiver refuses to let you be alone with your loved one, this could also be an indicator of physical abuse. Other possible signs include broken glasses, ripped clothing and signs of restraint (such as rope marks around the wrist).
Remember, neglect is also a form of physical abuse. Some of the most common signs that an older adult is being neglected by a caretaker include sudden weight loss, malnutrition and dehydration. Unsanitary living conditions (like dirty sheets or bed bugs) are also indicators of neglect, as are untreated physical problems, like bed sores.
2. Emotional Abuse
The signs of emotional abuse include characteristics of depression, like uncharacteristic silence, loss of appetite and unexplained withdrawal from normal activities. Likewise, if you witness a caregiver acting in a way that is threatening, belittling or condescending, there's a possibility that the person they're charged with taking care of is experiencing emotional abuse.
There are many people who don't recognize emotional abuse or don't think of it as a serious mistake. These individuals operate under the false assumption that emotional scars are somehow less violent or harmful than the physical ones. This is one of the characteristics of emotional abuse that makes it so dangerous—if you don't recognize a problem as a problem, you can't take steps to solve it.
3. Sexual Abuse
The most common signs of sexual abuse include an unexplained venereal disease or genital infection, unexplained vaginal or anal bleeding and bruises around the breast or genitals. Torn, stained or bloody underwear can also be an indicator of sexual abuse.
There are many reasons that sexual abuse can be difficult for many older adults to talk about. For some, it's an issue of pride—they would rather suffer in silence than face the humiliation of admitting helplessness. Others are afraid of retaliation, and worry that they'll be punished for speaking up. Whatever the specifics of the situation, it's important to remember that the subject of sexual abuse is complicated and needs to be handled with sensitivity.
The most important thing to remember when you suspect that someone you know is being abused is that speaking out is half the battle. The invisibility of elder abuse is what makes it difficult to prevent and punish. By calling attention to the situation, you've already laid a foundation for preventing future instances of elder abuse.
Linda Bright is a staff writer and a public relations coordinator for MyNursingDegree.com. Given her experience as a former hospital administrator, she writes primarily about healthcare reform, patient rights and other issues related to the healthcare industry. In her free time, she enjoys Sudoku, spending time with her family, and playing with her poodle, Max.


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Panna Cotta is one of my favorite desserts. Although it sounds and looks sophisticated, it is easy to make. It's also a perfect recipe for those following an autoimmune paleo protocol and for those of you that are allergic to eggs. This recipe is grain-free, egg-free and dairy-free!
Once you get the base down, you can change your flavors and toppings by season. In the fall, I like to make a Paleo Pumpkin Panna Cotta and in the winter, I make a Paleo Pomegranate Panna Cotta. Today, I am excited to share this creamy and luscious, Vanilla Chai Latte Panna Cotta with you. This is a great option for serving to guests, as you can make it ahead of time!
Panna Cotta uses the nourishing food, gelatin. Gelatin is great for skin, hair, nail and joint health.
To get the proper creamy consistency of panna cotta, I highly recommend using a thick coconut cream. This is the best one that I have found for making dairy-free cream based desserts. I also like that it is made of 100% coconut, with no additives or gums.
Paleo Vanilla Chai Latte Panna Cotta
Serves 6
- Large mesh tea ball (this is the one I use)
- 6 ramekins, small mason jars or wine glasses (these are what I use)
The Players
- 1 tablespoon gelatin (where to find grass-fed beef gelatin)
- 1 cup coconut milk (where to find BPA-free coconut milk)
- 3 tablespoons chai tea, caffeinated or decaf (substitute 4 to 6 chai tea bags)
- 3 cups coconut cream (where to buy coconut cream)
- 1/4 cup raw honey (where to buy raw honey)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla (where to buy real, organic vanilla)
- 6 dried figs, chopped for garnish, optional (where to buy organic dried figs)
The How-To
- Place the coconut milk in a small bowl and add the gelatin to it. Stir to combine and set is aside.
- If using loose tea, place the tea in a large mesh tea ball and set it aside.
- Heat a medium sized heavy saucepan over medium heat, add the coconut cream, honey and vanilla. Whisk until the honey is dissolved.
- Add the tea and simmer at a low heat for 10 minutes. Make sure the mixture does not come to a boil. Remove the tea ball or the tea bags and discard.
- Add the milk and gelatin mixture to the saucepan and vigorously whisk until well combined and the gelatin has dissolved. Again, taking care to not bring the mixture to a boil.
- Remove the mixture from the heat and pour it evenly into individual serving glasses. Allow it to sit on the counter top to cool slightly.
- Refrigerate until set, 6 to 8 hours.
- Top with dried figs and serve!
For delicious dessert recipes created by an award-winning pastry chef similar to this one (dairy-free and grain-free), I highly recommend the Paleo Sweets Cookbook.
It's got 73 mouthwatering recipes for healthy desserts, including:
- Grain-Free Oreos,
- Key Lime Pie,
- Grain-Free Snickerdoodles,
- Double Chocolate Hazelnut Cake, and more!
At the moment, the printed version of this cookbook is 100% free to Food Renegade readers. You just cover shipping & handling.


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The Northwest Brain Tumor Walk, an event to raise awareness and much-needed resources to fund critical brain tumor-specific programs to improve the lives of all those affected by brain tumors. Hosted by the National Brain Tumor Society, the Northwest Brain Tumor Walk offers individuals and teams a chance to honor and remember loved ones, connect with others interested in the brain tumor cause, and helps to educate the local community on the diverse needs of the brain tumor community.
All funds raised through our events allow the National Brain Tumor Society to advance research and public policy to improve the availability of new and better treatments, and fuel the discovery of a cure for brain tumors.


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Concentric hexagons of graphene grown in a furnace at Rice University represent the first time anyone has synthesized graphene nanoribbons on metal from the bottom up — atom by atom.
As seen under a microscope, the layers brought onions to mind, said Rice chemist James Tour, until a colleague suggested flat graphene could never be like an onion.
"So I said, 'OK, these are onion rings,'" Tour quipped.
The name stuck, and the remarkable rings that chemists marveled were even possible are described in a new paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
The challenge was to figure out how such a thing could grow, Tour said. Usually, graphene grown in a hot furnace by chemical vapor deposition starts on a seed — a speck of dust or a bump on a copper or other metallic surface. One carbon atom latches onto the seed in a process called nucleation and others follow to form the familiar chicken-wire grid.
Experiments in Tour's lab to see how graphene grows under high pressure and in a hydrogen-rich environment produced the first rings. Under those conditions, Tour, Rice theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson and their teams found that the entire edge of a fast-growing sheet of graphene becomes a nucleation site when hydrogenated. The edge lets carbon atoms get under the graphene skin, where they start a new sheet.
But because the top graphene grows so fast, it eventually halts the flow of carbon atoms to the new sheet underneath. The bottom stops growing, leaving a graphene ring. Then the process repeats.
"The mechanism relies on that top layer to stop carbon from reaching the bottom so easily," Tour said. "What we get are a multiple of single crystals growing one on top of the other."
The Tour lab pioneered the bulk manufacture of single-atom-thick graphene nanoribbons in 2009 with the discovery that carbon nanotubes could be chemically "unzipped" into long, thin sheets. Nanoribbons are being studied for use in batteries and advanced electronics and as heat sinks.
"Usually you make a ribbon by taking a large thing and cutting it down," Tour said. "But if you can grow a ribbon from the bottom up, you could have control of the edges." The atomic configuration at the edge helps determine graphene's electrical properties. The edges of hexagonal graphene onion rings are zigzags, which make the rings metallic.
"The big news here," he said, "is that we can change relative pressures of the growth environment of hydrogen versus carbon and get entirely new structures. This is dramatically different from regular graphene."
Graduate student Zheng Yan, a member of Tour's lab and lead author of the paper, discovered the new route to nanoribbons while experimenting with graphene growth under hydrogen pressurized to varying degrees. The sweet spot for rings was at 500 Torr, he said.
Further testing found the microscopic rings formed underneath and not on top of the sheet, and Yakobson's lab confirmed the growth mechanism through first-principle calculations. Yan also determined the top sheet of graphene could be stripped away with argon plasma, leaving stand-alone rings.
The width of the rings, which ranged from 10 to 450 nanometers, also affects their electronic properties, so finding a way to control it will be one focus of continued research, Tour said. "If we can consistently make 10-nanometer ribbons, we can begin to gate them and turn them into low-voltage transistors," he said. They may also be suitable for lithium storage for advanced lithium ion batteries, he said.
Source: Rice University


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