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Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) bestowed 129 degrees at Graduation and Ordination Ceremonies in Cincinnati, Los Angeles, and New York on the Class of 2014's cadre of new Jewish professional leaders for the Reform Movement. Distinguished communal and civic leaders and alumni were awarded with honorary degrees and prizes in recognition of their service to Reform congregations and North American Jewry, and in honor of their humanitarian work.
Rabbi Aaron D. Panken, HUC-JIR President, stated, "We congratulate the new rabbis, cantors, leaders in Jewish education, nonprofit management professionals, scholars, and pastoral ministry graduates of our Class of 2014. They are ready to apply their deep knowledge and honed leadership skills to serve congregations, communities, organizations, academic institutions, and agencies throughout North America, Israel, and around the globe. We take pride in their commitment and achievements and wish them much fulfillment and success as they bring inspiration and hope to the Jewish people and all humankind."
HUC-JIR is North America's first institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism.
The College-Institute awarded 129 earned degrees:
All degrees granted upon completion of all requirements.
HUC-JIR alumni were awarded honorary Doctorates of Divinity, Music, Jewish Religious Education, and Jewish Communal Service, as well as the Graduate Medallion, in recognition of their 25 years of distinguished professional service:
Rabbinical Alumni – Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa
Leonardo Alanati*
Morris W. Barzilai
Marcelo R. Bronstein
Rachel Cowan
Art Donsky
L. David Feder*
Michael L. Feshbach
David Fine*
Stuart Gershon
Sim Glaser
Edwin Goldberg*
Ammiel Hirsch
Glenn M. Jacob*
Michael Joseph
Jeffrey Barnet Kamins
Jonathan E. Kraus
Scott Looper*
Shoshana M. Perry
Gayle Pomerantz
Richard S. Rheins*
Peter B. Schaktman
Beth J. Singer*
Jonathan L. Singer*
Sharon L. Sobel
David E. Stern
Eric J. Weiss
Michael Andrew White
Gregory A. Wolfe
*Awarded at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati Founders' Day on March 26, 2014
Cantorial Alumni – Doctor of Music, honoris causa
Miranda Kark Beckenstein
Susan Berkson
Joyce Gerber
Donna Goldstein
Patricia Ernest Hickman
Lisa Lipco Levine
Paul M. Offenkrantz
Betsey Peters-Epstein
Carla J. Boscoe Reynolds
Pamela Siskin
Jewish Nonprofit Management Alumni – Doctor of Jewish Nonprofit Management, honoris causa
Susan K. Alexman
Daniel S. Blain
Sheri Diamond Ginis
Deborah Schloss
Andrea Zoll Stein, z''l
School of Graduate Studies Medallion
Bernard A. Taylor, Ph.D.
Saturday, May 3, 2014 | 3 Iyar 5774 | 9 am
Plum Street Temple | 720 Plum Street, Cincinnati
Rabbi David Wolpe, Sinai Temple, Los Angeles, Ordination Speaker
The following 8 students were ordained as Rabbis:
Rachel Kay Bearman
Carolan Clark Glatstein
Joshua David Herman
Marc Frederick Kasten
Monica Simone Meyer
Eric Daniel Lieber Mollo
Jordan Michael Ottenstein
Matthew J. Zerwekh
Sunday, May 4, 2014 | 4 Iyar 5774 | 2 pm
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion | S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Chapel | 3101 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati
The Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, was presented to:
John Kander, Composer, Musical Theater and Film
Dr. Michael A. Meyer, Adolph S. Ochs Professor Emeritus of Jewish History, HUC-JIR
Reverend Otis Moss, Jr., Olivet Institutional Baptist Church, Cleveland; Civil Rights Activist, Graduation Speaker
The Doctor of Philosophy in Judaic, Hebraic, and Cognate Studies was presented to the following 2 students:
John Michael Thigpen
Peter Herbert Dongell
The Master of Philosophy in Judaic, Hebraic, and Cognate Studies was presented to the following 6 students:
John C. Johnson
Eva Mwanika Nthoki
Kathy A. Noftsinger
Phillip Marcus Bollinger
Cody Michael Eklov
Adam Moshe Rosenthal
The Master of Arts in Judaic, Hebraic, and Cognate Studies was presented to the following 2 students:
Bailey Jean Romano
Pratima Gopalakrishnan
The Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters was presented to the following 7 students:
Dana Andreana Benson
Leah Alexandra Citrin
Nathan George Farb
Michael E. Harvey
Rachael E. Jackson
Frederick Alan Kamil
Elle Alexzandra Muhlbaum
Thursday, May 8, 2014 | 8 Iyar 5774 | 4 pm
Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York | 10 East 66th Street, New York
The Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, was presented to:
Ruth J. Abram, Founder, Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Dr. Eugene B. Borowitz, Sigmund L. Falk Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Education and Jewish Religious Thought, HUC-JIR
Dr. Michael L. Chernick, Professor Emeritus, Deutsch Family Chair in Jewish Jurisprudence and Social Justice, HUC-JIR
Dr. Norman J. Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Midrash, HUC-JIR
Dr. Uri Herscher, President and Founder, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Moshe Safdie, Internationally Renowned Architect
The Dr. Bernard Heller Prize was presented to:
Dr. David M. Posner, Senior Rabbi Emeritus, Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York
The Sherut La'Am Award was presented to:
Elizabeth B. and Arthur Roswell, Philanthropists
The American Jewish Distinguished Service Award was presented to:
Rabbi Joy D. Levitt, Executive Director, Jewish Community Center of Manhattan, Graduation Speaker
The Doctor of Ministry was presented to the following 5 students:
Nadine Sarah Blum
Rafael Goldstein
Richard L. Koral
Katrina Tornette Marsh
Livinus Chuks Obianisi
The Master of Arts in Religious Education was presented to the following 10 students:
Arielle Rachel Branitsky
Yael K. Dadoun
Andi Lynn Feldman
Sarah Rose Marion
Steven Yehudah Morris
Brian T. Nelson
Jay A. Rapoport
Barry Harold Shainker
Christina M. Sobo
Toba Leah Strauss
The Master of Arts in Religious Education from the Executive M.A. Program in Jewish Education was presented to the following 12 students:
Randee Erin Bishoff
Lisa Beth Campbell-Frankel
Jeanna E. Gailar-Francis
Jennifer Rose Dufault James
Deborah Kardon-Schwartz
Alice Elizabeth Levin
Linda Silverman Levine
Miri Levine
Valeria C. Michanie
Susan Deborah Friedburg Morrel
Leslie R. Scheck
Michelle Ruby Schwartz
The Master of Arts in Jewish Nonprofit Management was presented to the following student:
Arielle Rachel Branitsky
The Master of Sacred Music was presented to the following 6 students:
Benjamin Samuel Ellerin
Susan Lewis Friedman
Rayna Dushman Green
Sara Alexis Hass
Amanda Gail Kleinman
David Richard Malecki
The Master of Arts in Hebrew Literature was presented to the following 14 students:
Ryan Eric Daniels
Andrew Ross Dubin
Daniel B. Fliegel
Alexandra Rachel Klein
Susan Amy Landau
Samantha M. Natov
April Andrea Peters
Alexis Ann Pinsky
Elizabeth M. Piper-Goldberg
Yael Rooks Rapport
Elana Tamar Rosen-Brown
Carlie Nicole Weisbrod
Jeremy Ross Weisblatt
Greg D. Weitzman
Our gratitude to Morris L. Kramer for generously sponsoring the reception immediately following the Graduation Ceremony
Sunday, May 11, 2014 | 11 Iyar 5774 | 9 am
Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York | Fifth Avenue at 65th Street, New York
Rabbi Elka Abrahamson, President, The Wexner Foundation, Ordination Speaker. Read Rabbi Abrahamson's address >
The Roger E. Joseph Prize was presented to:
COPE-Camp Erin® NYC, Accepted by Lilly Julien, COPE President and Founder. Read Lilly Julien's address >
The following 4 students were ordained as Cantors:
Joshua Gavin Finkel
Rachel Harrison Rhodes
Alison Marya Lopatin
David Katz Mintz
The following 14 students were ordained as Rabbis:
Joshua I. Beraha
Brandon Ian Bernstein
Adena Erin Blum
Andrew Ross Dubin
Daniel Natan Kessler Geffen
Jodie Melissa Gordon
Daniel Aaron Crane Kirzane
Kelly Lynn Levy
Elizabeth Dorothy Miller
Ethan Robert Bloch Prosnit
Elana Tamar Rosen-Brown
Allison Helen Tick
Jeremy Ross Weisblatt
Jonah Benjamin Zinn
Sunday, May 18, 2014 | 18 Iyar 5774 | 10 am
Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills | 8844 Burton Way, Beverly Hills
The Certificate of Recognition was presented to:
Rabbi Richard Levy, Rabbi of the HUC-JIR Synagogue and Director of Spiritual Growth, Ordination Speaker. Read and watch Rabbi Levy's address >
The following 13 students were ordained as Rabbis:
Lisa Ilene Berney
Keara Rachelle Stein
Micah Samuel Ellenson
Jaclyn Fromer Cohen
Joshua David Knobel
Yonatan Benjamin Regev
Jason David Rodich
Jonathan Bradley Rothstein-Fisch
Jeremy Joseph Ryszard Simons
Deana Rae Sussman
Andrew Harvey Terkel
Adam Michael Wright
Ahuva Leigh Zaches
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Dorothy Corwin Ordination Endowment Fund
Monday, May 19, 2014 | 19 Iyar 5774 | 4 pm
University Synagogue | 11960 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles
The Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, was presented to:
Dr. Steven Windmueller, Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk Professor Emeritus of Jewish Communal Service, HUC-JIR
The American Jewish Distinguished Service Award was presented to:
Laura Lauder, Philanthropist; Founder, DeLeT – Day School Leadership through Teaching; Graduation Speaker
The Sherut La'Am Award was presented to:
Janice Kamenir-Reznik, Co-Founder, Jewish World Watch
The Master of Arts in Jewish Nonprofit Management was presented to the following 5 students:
Rachel Ilysa Barton
Sharon Graetz
Rebecca Danielle Ross
Daniel Aron Tarle
Michelle Ellen Cohen Westmiller
The Master of Arts in Jewish Education was presented to the following 10 students:
Daniel Kelman Alter
Rachel E. Antonoff
Ashley Diane Berns
Sharon Graetz
Dusty Rose Klass
Jay Asher LeVine
Rebecca Danielle Ross
Daniel Lee Utley
Miriam Shira Farber Wajnberg
Zachary Ira Zysman
The Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters was presented to the following 10 students:
Courtney Leigh Miller Berman
Megan Samantha Brudney
Jeremy Gimbel
Abram Ezra Goodstein
Lenette J. Herzog
Stacy Lynn Petersohn
Aaron Kyle Sataloff
Michael Adam Shefrin
Raina Lauren Siroty
Todd William Zinn


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FORT BRAGG, N.C. - An expert in Afghan culture testified Wednesday that pornography found on the computer of a U.S. Army general then deployed to the Muslim country would be highly offensive to local residents.
Former Defense Intelligence Agency adviser Morwari Zafar made the comments at a pre-trial hearing for Brig. Gen. Jeffery Sinclair. A court-martial for the former deputy commander of the 82nd Airborne is set to begin June 25 on charges that include forcible sodomy, indecent acts, violating orders and adultery.
Among the orders Sinclair is accused of violating is a prohibition against U.S. troops in Afghanistan possessing pornography.
Called as a witness by prosecutors, Zafar's eyes widened when a prosecutor showed her printed photos investigators pulled from Sinclair's hard drive.
"They would be absolutely offensive to Afghans in general," said Zafar, who was born in the country and is now earning a doctorate in anthropology. "Pornography is illegal in Afghanistan."
The military pornography ban, and a similar order barring possessing alcohol, are in place in an attempt to keep soldiers and Marines from offending the socially conservative country where U.S. troops have been stationed since 2001.
Lawyers for Sinclair asked a military judge this week to drop the charge against the general, arguing this week the military porn ban violates his First Amendment rights to free speech.
On cross-examination, Zafar agreed with defense lawyer Richard Scheff that pornography is available for sale in some Afghan markets and on the Internet, despite its illegal status in the country.
The defense has not provided an explanation for how pornography got on Sinclair's personal computer. He has not yet entered a plea on any of the charges he faces.
Earlier in the case, military lawyers for Sinclair suggested in court that someone else could have downloaded the images, possibly even the female aide he is charged with assaulting.
This week, new civilian lawyers added to the defense team made the constitutional argument without directly saying the pornography had been stored on the computer by their client. Additionally, there was no evidence any Afghan ever saw the images or had the opportunity to be offended, Scheff said.
Sinclair's former commander in Afghanistan, Maj. Gen. James Huggins, testified Tuesday that he issued the order to "maintain good order and discipline."
"It is against the stated policy because of the cultural sensitivity of the Afghan people," Huggins said, adding that if anyone had found the images it would have hurt Sinclair's effectiveness.
Sinclair was deputy commander in charge of logistics and support for the 82nd Airborne in Afghanistan last spring before being relieved during the criminal investigation. He has been on special assignment at Fort Bragg since May 2012.
A 27-year Army veteran and married father of two, Sinclair faces life in prison if convicted on the sexual assault charge.
A female captain who worked for Sinclair on deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq says she carried on a three-year sexual relationship with Sinclair. Adultery is a crime under military law, and the admission could end her career.
She testified at the evidentiary hearing last year that she repeatedly tried to break off the affair but that on two occasions after they had argued he exposed himself and physically forced her to perform oral sex. The woman says the general also threatened to kill her and her family if she told anyone about their relationship.
The Associated Press does not publicly identify victims of alleged sexual assaults.
Two other female officers who served with Sinclair also testified that they had given the general nude photos at his request.
Military judge Col. James Pohl agreed Tuesday to a request to drop a charge that Sinclair violated an order by possessing alcohol while in Afghanistan. An unopened bottle of scotch was found in his quarters - a gift defense lawyers said came from a top Pentagon official on a goodwill visit.
Pohl also granted a defense motion to compel testimony from former Fort Brag commander Gen. Dan Allyn and current base commander Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Colt.
Sinclair's legal team alleges that high-ranking Pentagon officials may have placed improper pressure on Allyn to refer charges against Sinclair as the military struggles to deal with a string of embarrassing sex scandals.
It was not immediately clear when Allyn and Colt will be available to testify. Officials said both aren't on the base this week.


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Wednesday, August 1, 2007
vanilla pound cake
Yesterday, I made a good dinner from leftovers. I topped it off with a vanilla pound cake, the recipe I got from, surprisingly, the Land O'Lakes website. Did you know they have a gluten-free recipe section? It was really good. I altered it a little bit, I've been using a vanilla syrup I found at the Asian grocery store since I've been going through almost a bottle of vanilla a week, and if you know anything about vanilla, its expensive. Especially if you work at the grocery store. Also, I'm out of white sugar, so I used brown sugar, which gave the cake a darker color and a kind of honey-er taste. My mom used to make a lemon pound cake and cover it with a lemon syrup that my sister and I loved, I attempted to replicate that to go with this cake and it went perfectly. The cake is dense, delicious, sweet and heavy, the lemon syrup picks it upand makes you want to lick the plate, no matter how much dinner you ate and how big a piece you cut yourself.
After a huge dinner and a big slice of this cake, I turned to Alex and said "Seriously, who needs gluten? Look at that cake!" Or something along those lines. He wholeheartedly agreed with me. I don't remember the exact words of the conversation, but he told me that when we first started dating, he worried about eating with me. Gluten-free seemed hard. But since he's been with me, it hasn't been a problem, ever. We've had almost a year of easy, happy, delicious, gluten-free meals together. I cook dinner most nights lately, and every night I seem to surprise him with whatever we're having. He defends me to people at work who think I can't eat gluten-free and well, at the same time. I bring in samples of cakes and cookies when I can, and haven't heard anything but praise. My supervisor calls me her little Betty Crocker. I'm happy, and I'm glad that Alex is happy, and not struggling, with my being gluten-free. When we go on vacation in a week and a half, we're going to my mom's first for a few days, and I can't wait to bake with/for my mom. She used to bake a lot when we were kids (at least that's how I remember it, and how I think I learned about baking) and I don't think she bakes much now. She's gluten-free too, and has been much longer than I have. I want to teach myself to make the baked goods she made us when we were little, but gluten-free. Someday I want to make cardamom bread for Christmas, like she used to, but gluten-free.
In other news, I finished Harry Potter, and my god. I was not disappointed. I came home from work to finish it, I read the last 100 pages in one sitting, and then had to sit in bed for about 10 minutes because I honestly didn't know what to do with myself. It was so good. It ended so perfectly.
Vanilla Pound Cake, ala Land O'Lakes, with changes
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1 cup butter, melted
4 eggs
1/3 c vanilla syrup
3 cups gluten free flour mix
1 t xantham gum
2 t baking powder
1 c milk
Preheat oven to 350. Combine sugar and butter, beat at medium speed for about a minute.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each. Add vanilla syrup and beat again. (If you don't have vanilla syrup, you can just follow the directions and use 2 cups of sugar adn 4 t vanilla) Sift together flour, baking powder, and xantham gum, add in 3 parts, beating well after each addition, alternating with the milk. Beat until combined. Pour into a 10 inch angel food cake pan or a Bundt cake pan (I don't have one) Bake an hour until a toothpick or knife comes out clean, cool 10 mins, remove from pan and cool completely.
Lemon syrup
2 lemons
1/4 c sugar
2 T water
Juice lemons into a small saucepan, add sugar and water, heat until dissolved and then a little bit further. Taste for sweetness, add more sugar as necessary. Pour warm syrup over cake, enjoy!
4 comments:
That looks yummy! I looked at the land O lakes website, they have some really good looking food on it!ReplyDelete
I love pound cake. I like to just to take slices and slather it with peanut butter. I will have to try that recipe. If it ever cools down so that I can turn by oven on. Thanks.ReplyDelete
Your pound cake looks lovely. I particularly like the syrup that you poured over it. I really like moist things to go with pound cake, i.e. strawberries, whipped cream, etc.ReplyDelete
Sheltie Girl @ Gluten A Go Go
This was by far the best part of our Easter Dinner for me!!! This cake was absolutely fantastic! Heavenly, dense, slightly sweet (we didn't use the lemon syrup), and just wonderful!! Reminds me of my great-grandma's pound cakes. Absolutely delicious!!!ReplyDelete
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15 Unusual Clocks and Cool Clock Designs - Part 5.
Animal Clock: This cool wooden animal clock is designed by Japanese designer Igenoki.
Now Clock: It's a handmade clock with numbers stamped onto white earthenware clay, comes with a stitched border design.
Math Quiz Clock: This interesting clock comes with a math problem marked for each hour, solve it to know the time.
Passe Partout Clock: It's made up of 12 individual photo frames that can be customized with your favorite photos, wallpaper, images or more.
Digimech Clock: Numbers are printed on vertical sliders and are displayed readably when perfectly aligned into the 'display box'.
Tube Clock: Creation of Jason Nieda, he built it around a retro Russian IV-18 Nixie tube.
Three-Face Wall Clock: The three face wall clock consists of independent units that indicate hours, minutes and seconds and can be placed on a wall in different ways.
The Eye Clock: Mike created this designer wall clock called the Eye Clock; the left eye shows the hour, while the minutes are shown by right eye.
Empty Time: It's a square shaped clock made from used papers and is solar powered.
Shelf Clock: An oversized clock that doubles as an ingenious storage system.
Albero Clock: This cool cuckoo clock comes with light oak wood finish with white tree and green branches.
Uhrzahl Clock: Cool wall clock from industrial designer Christos Vittoratos.
Around Clock: It's a cylindrical clock with numbers and markings; these rotate to show the time and are identified by the red wire.
Verbarius Clock: This cool clock tells time differently every minute; "It's either forty-five minutes past four, or fifteen minutes to five, or four forty-five, or a quarter to five".
Clock by Stanley Ruiz: A cool clock that has a handmade aspect in modern design.
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The Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender, and Society, formerly Wisconsin Women's Law Journal, is one of the oldest journals in the country devoted exclusively to gender and law. The journal is published bi-annually and is managed and produced exclusively by students at UW Law School. Members may write a piece for publication, review submissions from professional authors, and edit student and professional articles.


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Canada, Brazil, Britain and Australia have all been recent targets of the UFC's ambitious expansion plans. However, after years of the world's most prominent MMA promotion teasing the possibility, Mexico could finally be next.
To date the UFC has never ventured south of the border despite Mexico's quickly growing circuit of regional fight promotions. But the pieces are falling into place, including a new TV deal and a planned Spanish-language version of "The Ultimate Fighter" reality series.
UFC executive Marshall Zelaznik, who serves as a managing director of international development, had hoped an event could take place in Mexico this year, but said that's probably a bit too ambitious.
"I think it'll probably slide to next year, in Mexico City," he told USA TODAY Sports and MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). "If we can get 'The Ultimate Fighter: Latin America' and get the live event in Mexico City, that will really token charge our business there."
In addition to 17 American seasons of its competition/reality series, the UFC has hosted three international installments of "TUF." The second wrapped Saturday in Brazil, and an Australia vs. Britain version took place in 2012. Zelaznik said "TUF: Latin America" could feature fighters from a host of Spanish-speaking countries.
"It's all one language, so it's very workable," he said.
The UFC also would have a suitable TV presence. This past month the organization announced a joint-venture deal with Televisa Networks. As in Brazil, where the organization has a partnership with media company Globo, the Televisa deal will include free UFC programming on existing channels, including the popular Canal 5 in Mexico, and the launch of a new pay-TV channel. It could launch as soon as September.
"It's significant because Televisa is as big in Mexico and Latin America as Globo is in Brazil," Zelaznik said. "To have the complete ownership and management of Televisa behind it, I think is going to speak well for how quickly this channel can grow."
Of course, as with other markets, the UFC's success in Mexico could hinge on its ability to build and promote local talent. Mexican-American Cain Velasquez, the UFC's reigning heavyweight champion, is already a star in the country, and bantamweight Erik Perez is a rising bantamweight contender.
In January UFC officials went to Mexico for a scouting trip. More than a hundred UFC hopefuls attended, and UFC President Dana White said it could lead the UFC to adopt its ninth weight class, a 115-pound strawweight division, built primarily around Mexican fighters.
"The culture in Mexico, they're fighters," White said at the time. "The greatest fighters in history come from Mexico, and there's that whole famous Mexican style of fighting."
If the UFC's expansion into Mexico proves successful, it could set the blueprint for the rest of the world. That's especially true of the pay-TV channel.
"For us internationally, there's a lot of opportunity," Zelaznik said. "Pay TV is growing, and our ability to launch a channel like this becomes very scalable very quickly."
For more on the UFC's upcoming schedule, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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First a few pictures and then I will get to the topic of making dinner.
Ryder eating lunch yesterday
Zak eating his lunchThis morning the boys decided to wake up extra early (6am) so they got in bed with me and watched Mickey Mouse Clubhouse for a while. Because of the early wake up call we had a slow start to actually getting moving. I got Ryder dressed for school and on the bus then Zak & I got dresses and headed out to run errands. We went to look for a few more pairs of pajamas for the boys at Target & WalMart.
Having lunch after Ryder got home from schoolOnce the boys were done with lunch I surprised them with a fun activity. They got to put up our Halloween window clings which they were extremely excited about.
Ben called me this afternoon to let me know he would be getting home late tonight which means he would miss dinner. So I decided to have hamburger bun pizzas because the boys would have fun helping me make them. So I got everything out, we washed our hands, and made dinner together...


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AT&T Mobility, FAA preemption and class arbitration
The following contribution to our arbitration symposium is written by Jill Gross, Director of Legal Skills and Professor of Law at Pace Law School. Professor Gross has published numerous law review articles about arbitration law and is a regular contributor to Indisputably, the ADR Law Prof Blog.
In a federalism seesaw dating back to the mid-1900s, the Supreme Court has rebuffed state law-based defenses to the enforcement of arbitration agreements, such as the unconscionability doctrine, lack of mutual assent, fraudulent inducement, public policy principles, state arbitration statutes, and even arguments that the transaction did not "involve commerce." The Court"™s decision last Term in AT&T Mobility, LLC v. Concepcion, while noteworthy for its condemnation of class arbitration, confirms the Court"™s intent to severely circumscribe the ability of state law to regulate the fairness of arbitration, and is thus consistent with its previous Federal Arbitration Act jurisprudence.
It is well known that the Supreme Court construes the FAA as reflecting a strong federal policy favoring arbitration, and, as a result, courts must enforce arbitration agreements according to their terms. In the past twenty-five years, the Court"™s FAA jurisprudence has imbued the FAA with super-status: it governs virtually every arbitration clause arising out of a commercial transaction, its substantive provisions apply in both state and federal court, and section 2 "" which declares that agreements to arbitrate are "valid, irrevocable, and enforceable, save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract" "" preempts state laws that place an arbitration agreement on unequal footing from other contracts. Thus, the Court has held that the FAA preempts state statutes that prohibit the arbitration of a particular type of claim (Preston v. Ferrer (2008); Perry v. Thomas (1987); Southland v. Keating (1984)), state statutes that invalidate arbitration agreements on grounds different than those that invalidate other contracts (Doctor"™s Associates v. Cassarotto (1996); Allied-Bruce Terminix v. Dobson (1995)), and state judicial rules that display vestiges of the ancient judicial hostility to arbitration. (Mastrobuono v. Shearson Lehman Hutton (1995)). In contrast, the FAA does not preempt a state arbitration statute that merely dictates the order of proceedings with respect to an arbitration and related third-party litigation, but does not regulate the viability or scope of the arbitration agreement itself. (Volt Information Sciences v. Stanford University (1989)).
This past Term, the Court held "" for the seventh time — that the FAA preempted a state law "" this time a state law that on its face was not anti-arbitration but was being applied by lower courts in a manner that de facto disfavored arbitration. In AT&T Mobility, covered in detail here on SCOTUSblog, cellular phone service users sued their provider, AT&T Mobility, LLC, alleging that its practice of charging sales tax on a phone advertised as "free" was fraudulent. After numerous consumers"™ claims were consolidated with a putative class action alleging identical claims of false advertising and fraud, AT&T moved to compel arbitration under a pre-dispute arbitration clause in its service agreement which, inter alia, prohibited plaintiffs from bringing class action arbitrations, requiring customers instead to arbitrate claims individually.
The district court and the Ninth Circuit both refused to enforce the arbitration agreement on the ground that the class arbitration waiver was unconscionable under California"™s Discover Bank rule. In Discover Bank, the California Supreme Court had interpreted California"™s unconscionability statute to invalidate most class arbitration waivers in consumer contracts because they effectively exempted the party with superior bargaining power from responsibility for "cheat[ing] large numbers of consumers out of individually small sums of money."
On April 27, 2011, the Supreme Court reversed and held, by a vote of five to four, that the FAA preempts California"™s Discover Bank rule. Justice Scalia"™s plurality opinion (joined by the Chief Justice and Justices Kennedy and Alito) concluded that the Discover Bank rule created a different law of unconscionability for class arbitration waivers in adhesive contracts. Thus, the FAA preempts the rule because it singles out arbitration agreements for suspect treatment. Justice Scalia pointed to research which demonstrated that state courts had become more likely to find an arbitration agreement unconscionable as opposed to other contracts. The plurality also noted that, although California"™s "rule does not require class-wide arbitration, it allows any party to a consumer contract to demand it ex post," thus defeating the purposes of the FAA.
In some ways, AT&T Mobility is just a logical extension of the Court"™s FAA preemption cases. As in each of the Court"™s previous preemption cases (except Mastrobuono), the Court"™s decision resulted in the imposition of arbitration on an unwilling disputant. The decision, like the previous ones, preempted a non-arbitration state law. And, like its previous preemption opinions, the Court elevated principles of contractual autonomy over state law consumer protection regulations.
In other ways, the case paved new ground, as it reflects the Court"™s first preemption of a state law "" statutory or judicial "" that did not specifically regulate arbitration agreements. Rather, the Court found latent anti-arbitration animus in the Discover Bank doctrine as the California courts applied that doctrine to arbitration agreements. Also, the Court effectively stripped arbitrators of a power "" the power to conduct class arbitration proceedings (unless all parties expressly agreed to them), in contrast to its previous preemption cases that endorsed arbitrators"™ broad powers to fashion procedures and remedies to suit the parties"™ needs and the dispute.
AT&T Mobility is notable for several other reasons. First, Justice Scalia"™s opinion reflected only a plurality. Justice Thomas authored a concurring opinion in which he reasoned that the savings clause of the FAA permits exceptions to the enforceability of arbitration agreements only for defenses that "relate[] to the making of the [arbitration] agreement." Because the Discover Bank rule did not relate to the making of the arbitration agreement within the meaning of FAA sections 2 and 4, Justice Thomas concluded that it is preempted by the FAA. While Justice Thomas"™s interpretation of FAA section 2 differed from prior Supreme Court jurisprudence, and was not briefed or advocated by the parties, his vote was necessary for the reversal. Thus, his opinion, which arguably rests on narrower grounds than the plurality"™s, may be considered controlling for future cases.
Second, the Court"™s singular distrust of class arbitration is palpable throughout the opinion, a distrust that also appeared in the Court"™s 2010 decision in Stolt-Nielsen S.A. v. AnimalFeeds Int"™l Corp. The Court identified three characteristics of class arbitration that it concluded defeat the purposes of the FAA and hinder the flexible party-driven process of arbitration: (1) sacrifice of informality and speed; (2) a requisite increase in procedural formality; and (3) an increase in risks to defendants in the lack of judicial review. Responding to the dissent"™s concern that class proceedings are necessary to protect against small-value claims falling through the cracks of the legal system, Justice Scalia declared that "States cannot require a procedure that is inconsistent with the FAA, even if it is desirable for unrelated reasons." Thus, the Court went so far as to characterize class arbitration as not arbitration at all within the meaning of the FAA, but a process that alters the fundamental attributes of arbitration.
While class arbitration certainly is different from bilateral arbitration, I do not think it is so different procedurally as to remove it from the FAA arbitration definition altogether. (Professor Strong of Missouri makes a strong case for this in her recent article on SSRN.) Ironically enough, the Court"™s very first FAA preemption case, Southland v Keating, arose out of a purported class arbitration of convenience store franchisee claims. The end result in Southland was forcing unwilling franchisees into arbitration, possibly using class action-type procedures. The end result in AT&T Mobility is somewhat the inverse "" forcing consumers who wanted class arbitration into small claims arbitration. Why didn"™t the Southland Court balk at sending franchisees into class arbitration? Was class arbitration in 1984 closer to FAA arbitration than it is in 2011?
Despite the Court's consistent message to the states that there is no room to circumvent the FAA"™s ironclad support of arbitration agreements, I remain hopeful that, even post-AT&T Mobility, lower courts will find ways to counter the seemingly super-status of the FAA. In fact, in subsequent decisions, both state and federal courts have distinguished AT&T Mobility to invalidate class arbitration waivers. Several courts have pointed out that the FAA preempts only state laws, not federal laws. Thus, federal unconscionability law may still invalidate a class arbitration waiver. In addition, other federal statutes may trump the FAA, such as the Securities Exchange Act of 1934's anti-waiver provision which may prevent the enforcement of a class arbitration waiver in the securities context. (Professor Black of Cincinnati points this out.) Finally, courts can give more teeth to the "vindicating statutory rights" ground as the ultimate policer of the fairness of arbitration. Under this doctrine, derived from the Court"™s pronouncement in Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc. (1985) that "so long as the prospective litigant effectively may vindicate its statutory cause of action in the arbitral forum, the [federal] statute [providing that cause of action] will continue to serve both its remedial and deterrent function," a disputant can argue that an arbitration agreement is unenforceable because an unfair aspect of the arbitration process would preclude that party from vindicating its statutory rights.
There seems to be little doubt that AT&T Mobility will have an adverse impact on consumer arbitration, as it effectively eliminates the states"™ ability to preserve class arbitration as a procedural method of aggregating low-value claims. However, if courts construe the decision more narrowly as preempting only California"™s "Discover Bank rule," rather than unconscionability rules nationally, the decision won"™t have quite the broad-reaching impact predicted by some commentators. More importantly, if courts step up their use of the "vindicating rights" doctrine as a means to police the fairness of arbitration, AT&T Mobility and the Court"™s other recent FAA decisions won"™t have quite the chilling effect on arbitration challenges that many arbitration law scholars have predicted.
Recommended Citation: Jill Gross, AT&T Mobility, FAA preemption and class arbitration, SCOTUSblog (Sep. 15, 2011, 9:29 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2011/09/att-mobility-faa-preemption-and-class-arbitration/


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With director Joe Carnahan's (Narc, Smokin' Aces, and The A-Team) awesome survival-action flick The Grey opening this weekend, I recently got the chance to talk with the cast. Starring Liam Neeson, Dallas Roberts, James Badge Dale, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo, Nonso Anozie, and Joe Anderson, The Grey is about a group of oilmen who have crash landed in the hunting zone of a rogue pack of wolves in the Alaskan tundra. If you're a fan of the cast, Carnahan, or just well made movies, The Grey will not disappoint.
During my interview with Neeson we talked about the challenges of making the film, how he got involved in the project, how many takes he likes to do, and which movie more people want to talk about when the meet him: Love Actually, Batman Begins or Star Wars. In addition Neeson we talked about how filming on Taken 2 has been going, and if they feel any pressure after the first film was both a commercial and critical hit. Hit the jump to watch.
Finally, for fans of Christopher Nolan's Batman movies, I wore the Bane viral Dark Knight Rises t-shirt to see if I could get a reaction out of Neeson. After all, you never know if he could be in a flashback.
Liam Neeson
- We talk about my Bane Fire Rises Dark Knight Rises t-shirt…
- Do more people want to talk about Love Actually, Batman Begins or Star Wars when they meet him
- How did he get involved in The Grey and the challenges of making it
- How many takes does he like to do
- Taken 2 talk. How has the shoot been going and do they feel any pressure on the sequel as the first film was both a commercial and critical hit


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Howdy, 30 Rockists! It's me, Leonard Pierce, better known as Cog #3 in the A.V. Club Conspiracy to Falsely Claim That This Show Is In Decline. I'm filling in for the illustrious Mr. Rabin tonight, as he's on a getaway day. I found myself missing the ol' TGS crew after the holiday break, and thought last week's double-dose was a welcome return; like my collegue Mr. VanDerWerff, I felt "Klaus and Greta" was dynamite, while "Black Light Attack" was a bit more uneven. But any good episode is enough to make me hope that the show is about to hit its lost stride again, because despite the weekly check for five hundred dollars and bucket of peanuts I receive from the Girls Aren't Funny Society For The Advancement Of Male Comedy Writers, I really do wish this show well and hope weekly that it once again reaches the dizzying peaks of season 2 and scattered episodes of season 3.
This week, it's "Winter Madness"! I live in south Texas, and it's 77 degrees in the middle of January, so I enjoy hearing about this magical time the rest of the country calls 'winter'. Everyone in the office is feeling down because of the winter weather, so Liz and Pete have the bright idea of taking the show on the road to Miami (an idea they're able to sell by taking advantage of Jack's vulnerability to corporate gibberish). Unfortunately, the plan is monkeywrenched when Jack decides to take TGS to Boston instead so he can mack on his married friend Nancy. This could have been a prime opportunity for the kind of dismaying haw-haw-middle-America jokes that 30 Rock engages in when it's on the road, but it turns out to be the strongest component of tonight's episode. The episode starts out wicked strong, with everyone in the cast getting great lines as they react to the news that they're heading out of the frying pan and into the fire weatherwise; unexpected combos play off each other. The scene where Lutz attempts to maintain a mein of quiet dignity as the whole office hurls garbage at him because he picked Subway for lunch is one of the funniest bits the show has delivered in a long time.
Less strong is Jack's relationship with Julianne Moore as Nancy; once the gang arrives in Boston, we more or less continue with these two plot threads — Liz trying to deflect the staff's anger at the situation off of her and onto a fictitious NBC executive named Dale Snitterman, and Jack pursuing the newly divorced Nancy. The former plot is stuffed with great comedic moments, while the latter just sits there and flops around like a dying fish. Nancy has nothing to contribute other than a ridiculously broad accent we've heard a million times before, and the whole interplay between the two is almost entirely absent of laughs aside from one bit where Jack wonders how he can have computer problems when he has an Indian assistant. (And what, no Yankees jokes?) The Jack/Nancy scenes wouldn't be so painful if there wasn't so much of them, but since they take up almost half of the show, they threaten to drag the whole thing down.
Luckily, however, the TGS staff portions are much stronger. They're forced to share an office with the crew of an ultra-violent sports talk show; Tracy nearly starts a race riot during an educational walking tour; and Liz manages to get the staff to scapegoat Snitterman even after she learns to her chagrin that he's a real person. (Her second choice for company whipping boy is the ever-hapless Lutz.) If more time had been dedicated to these threads at the expense of Jack's romance — which offers even less laughs per minute than the one he had with Elisa, and with less eye candy to boot — this might have gotten bumped up a letter grade. Even so, the parts that worked worked pretty well, and while the amount of time they spent on this non-starter of a plot is emblematic of the show's problems as a whole, there were tons of great lines scattered throughout, enough to remind viewers why they keep tuning in.
Rating: B
Stray Observations:
- The bit with Liz and Pete discussing the R-rated hypnotist was perfectly played. Never before have the mere words "nutmeg" and "rodeo" been combined to create a spectrum of emotion ranging from lust to humiliation to shame.
- "You can do some serious subway flirting before you realize the guy is homeless."
- "You have been told to shut up!"
- "There's no Spectravision in the hotel, so plan ahead, gentlemen, porn-wise."
- "Smash-cut to…"
- "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock! Plymouth Rock landed on Mars!"
- I loved Frank's complaint about "sharing offices with the one black guy in New York who sucks".
- "This is my first wife, Moronica. We have disparate levels of physical attractiveness because I am an inventor."
- "Run, Crispus! He's onto us!"
- Liz strikes me as more the female Danny Ainge, really…


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Jeff Deck & Benjamin Herson: The Great Typo Hunt
Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson discuss their new book, The Great Typo Hunt, on Wednesday, September 8, at 6:30 p.m. at the Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St.
The two men form a group called TEAL (Typo Eradication Advancement League) and set out with markers and chalk to right the errors displayed across America.
After fixing the bad grammar on a sign in a fake Native American watchtower, however, they were charged with defacing federal property and the typo-ridden complaint accused them of, among other things, violating criminal "statues."
Along the way, Deck and Herson also discovered deeper dilemmas involving education, race, history, and how we communicate.
The event is co-sponsored by Rainy Day Books. Copies of The Great Typo Hunt will be available for sale, and the authors will sign copies purchased during the event.
Admission is free. A 6 p.m. reception precedes the event. Click here or call 816.701.3407 to RSVP.


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The Tragedy of Roger Casement
Roger Casement: The Black Diaries
Sir Roger Casement's Heart of Darkness: The 1911 Documents
The Eyes of Another Race: Roger Casement's Congo Report and 1903 Diary
Roger Casement in Death, or Haunting the Free State
In The Rings of Saturn W.G. Sebald finds himself in an English seaside town falling asleep during a BBC documentary about the life of the Irishman Roger Casement, who was executed by the British in August 1916 for high treason. Afterward, when Sebald, intrigued by his own vague and twilit memories of the program, sets about finding out what he can about Casement, his imagination is fired by the relationship between Casement and Joseph Conrad, who first met each other in the Congo in either 1889 or 1890, when Casement, then in his mid-twenties, was working for the Congo Railway Company. For a number of weeks the two men shared a room. Conrad found inspiration at that time for Heart of Darkness; Casement was beginning on the road toward becoming a hero, a martyr, and a traitor.
On Casement, Conrad wrote that "the work he was busy about then was recruiting labour. He knew the coast languages well. I went with him several times on short expeditions to hold 'palavers' with neighbouring village-chiefs." Later, in 1904, when Casement had become impassioned about atrocities being committed in the Congo and had written a report for the British government on the matter, he went to see Conrad. Jessie Conrad, the novelist's wife, remembered his visit:
Sir Roger Casement, a fanatical Irish protestant, came to see us, remaining some two days our guest. He was a very handsome man with a thick dark beard and piercing, restless eyes. His personality impressed me greatly. It was about the time when he was interested in bringing to light certain atrocities which were taking place in the Belgian Congo. Who could foresee his own terrible fate during the war as he stood in our drawing-room passionately denouncing the cruelties he had seen?
Conrad had already written to Casement when Heart of Darkness was published: "I am glad you read the Heart of D., tho' of course it's an awful fudge." At the time of Casement's report on the Congo, Conrad also wrote to his friend R.B. Cunninghame Graham:
He's a protestant Irishman, pious too. But so was Pizzaro. For the rest I can assure you that he is a limpid personality. There is a touch of the Conquistador in him too; for I have seen him start off into an unspeakable wilderness swinging a crookhandled stick for all weapons, with two bulldogs, Paddy (white) and Biddy (brindle) at his heels and a Loanda boy carrying a bundle for all company. A few months afterwards it so happened that I saw him come out again, a little leaner a little browner, with his stick, dogs, and Loanda boy, and quietly serene as though he had been for a stroll in a park…. I would help him but it is not in me…. I am only a wretched novelist inventing wretched stories, and not even up to that miserable game…. He could tell you things! Things I have tried to forget, things I never…
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Cops, protesters clash in Pakistan: 'Now, it is death or freedom'
ISLAMABAD – Anti-government protesters with slingshots and hammers clashed with police Sunday in the Pakistani capital, and the powerful military cautioned the prime minister against further use of force in the crisis that has triggered the biggest challenge yet to his authority.
At least three people were killed and nearly 400 admitted to hospitals in clashes that started Saturday night and continued to boil over Sunday, officials said.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met with top advisers seeking a way to ease the violence, which has raised the stakes in the two-week sit-in led by opposition politician Imran Khan and fiery cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri. They want the prime minister to step down over their allegations of massive voting fraud in the election that brought him into office last year in the country's first democratic transfer of power.
Sharif's party was elected in a landslide in which observers found no evidence of widespread fraud. The prime minister has refused to step down, and negotiators have tried to convince Qadri and Khan to end their protests.
The military weighed in after a late Sunday meeting, saying that it had "serious concern" about the crisis and the "violent turn it has taken."
"Further use of force will only aggravate the problem," military leaders said in a statement that called on political figures to resolve their differences swiftly.
The demonstrations were mostly peaceful until late Saturday, when protesters headed toward the prime minister's residence. When the crowd started removing shipping containers used as barricades, police fired salvos of tear gas that forced protesters back.
Authorities have said they had no choice but to use force on the demonstrators, some of whom wore gas masks.
Hundreds of people were arrested, said Islamabad Police Chief Khalid Khattak. There were scattered clashes Sunday morning, and protesters appeared to regroup later in the afternoon.
By evening, large groups of protesters were located in pockets around the parliament and some had spread into other parts of the city, said police official Amir Paracha. He said they had taken shields from police and were wielding iron rods, batons, stones and bricks.
The injured included women, children, journalists and police officers who had been hurt by tear gas shells, batons and rubber bullets, said Dr. Javed Akram, who heads the capital's main hospital.
Railways Minister Saad Rafiq said the government would investigate the conduct of officers who beat up some journalists.
The prime minister met Sunday with top advisers at his residence. In a news release, Sharif said he would convene a joint session of parliament on Tuesday to address the crisis.
His government "condemned the attack on symbols of the state by two political parties," saying the violence was "undemocratic and unconstitutional."
"The steps taken by police and security forces to defend and defeat such acts were appreciated," the statement said.
The government blamed the protesters, saying officials had tried to negotiate. The statement called on Khan and Qadri to come back to the negotiating table, but they showed no inclination to do so.
Both Khan and Qadri, who spent most of the day inside the shipping containers that they have been living in for days, addressed their supporters in impassioned speeches.
"Now, it is death or freedom," Khan said. "We will not leave from here without Nawaz Sharif's resignation."
Both Khan and Qadri called on more people to come into the streets to support them.
But there were some apparent cracks in Khan's party. Javed Hashmi, president of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, said at a news conference that the party had earlier decided not to push toward the premier's house and warned that the country was close to martial law.
The protests began with a march from the eastern city of Lahore on Pakistan's Independence Day, Aug. 14.
The demonstrations signify the starkest threat to Sharif's third term as prime minister. His previous term ended in 1999 with a military coup and his eventual exile. This turn in office has seen equally contentious relations with the country's powerful army. He's clashed with the military over the prosecution of the former army chief for treason, accusations the country's powerful spy agency was behind the attempted killing of a top TV anchor and a military operation in the tribal areas.
Sharif vowed Saturday that he would not step down, but if the violence continues, it could severely undermine his authority.
"The biggest question: Can Nawaz Sharif survive? The answer, in these frantic hours, must surely be a miserable, despondent no," read an editorial in Dawn, one of the country's leading English-language newspapers.
Also Sunday evening, a cargo plane was hit by gunfire at the Peshawar airport, where it had landed for refueling after taking off from Kabul in neighboring Afghanistan. It was not clear whether the plane was deliberately attacked or struck by a random bullet, possibly fired as part of a wedding celebration, officials said.
Associated Press writers Anjum Naveed in Islamabad and Riaz Khan in Peshawar contributed to this report.


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Hats are encouraged.
If you don't have a hat, hatmaker Rita Newberry will sell her millinery creation.*
And a hat is most fitting for this event, "The Second Annual Stanwood Area Historical Society Afternoon Spring Tea."
During this tea, guests will get a chance to tour the exhibit "Waistlines and Hemlines," the story of the women of Stanwood who lived here during the first 70 years of the 20th century as seen through their clothing.
There will be two seatings for the tea: one at 1 p.m. and a second at 3:30 p.m. April 20 at the Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center, 27130 102 Ave. NW, Stanwood.
The tea menu will include a variety of fancy tea sandwiches, fresh fruit and sweets. Music will be played by the Walt and Kenny Duo.
Admission is free, but there is a suggested donation of $10. Drawings for gift baskets will take place at each tea. Make reservations before April 16 by calling Rose King at 360-387-1278.
Hatmaker Rita Newberry, who will be on site displaying her millinery creations, will provide a hat for you to wear at the tea if you don't have one. Her hats will also be for sale.
The "Waistlines and Hemlines" exhibit is a display of vintage fashions that tells the story of women of each decade from 1900 through 1970. Outfits range from wool swimsuits to satin and lace wedding dresses.
The clothing exhibit has been enhanced by historical society volunteers who have provided photos of the day, newspaper stories, period objects and other artifacts.
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* Correction, April 10, 2013: This article originally incorrectly stated that hats would be provided.
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I tweeted about this earlier today, but think this is a really important article, deserving of a blog post. In the wake of the brutally horrifying video exposé of Planned Parenthood's butchery of babies to sell their body parts, Justin Taylor at the Gospel Coalition has posted a great call to prayer & fasting, reminding us of the role of spiritual warfare in the face of such evil. There are battles in our culture that we cannot win by logical argument or legislative effort. The battle against the evil of abortion may well be one of them.
His article largely draws upon writings from John Piper's great (must read!) book A Hunger for God.
"Fasting," Piper writes, "comes in alongside prayer with all its hunger for God and says,
We are not able in ourselves to win this battle.
We are not able to change hearts or minds.
We are not able to change worldviews and transform culture and save 1.6 million children.
We are not able to reform the judiciary or embolden the legislature or mobilize the slumbering population.
We are not able to heal the endless wounds of godless ideologies and their bloody deeds.
But, O God, you are able!
And we turn from reliance on ourselves to you.
And we cry out to you and plead that for the sake of your name, and for the sake of your glory, and for the advancement of your saving purpose in the world, and for the demonstration of your wisdom and your power and your authority over all things, and for the sway of your Truth and the relief of the poor and the helpless, act, O God. […]
I appeal to you to seek the Lord with me concerning the place of fasting and prayer in breaking through the darkened mind that engulfs the modern world, in regard to abortion and a hundred other ills.
This is not a call for a collective tantrum that screams at the bad people, "Give me back my country."
It is a call to aliens and exiles in the earth, whose citizenship is in heaven and who await the appearance of their King, to "do business" until he comes (Luke 19:13).
And the great business of the Christian is to "do all to the glory of God" (1 Corinthians 10:31), and to pray that God's name be hallowed and his kingdom come and his will be done in the earth (Matthew 6:9-10). And to yearn and work and pray and fast not only for the final revelation of the Son of Man, but in the meantime, for the demonstration of his Spirit and power in the reaching of every people, and the rescuing of the perishing, and the purifying of the church, and the putting right of as many wrongs as God will grant.
I join Piper in commending this practice to you. What looks foolish to the world (forgoing food to pray for the protection of the unborn) may look utterly foolish to the world, but it will be pleasing to the God who sees and rewards in secret.
Please read it all, and please pray in the face of the present darkness in our culture and world.


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On Nov. 26, 2005, four members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams in Iraq—Tom Fox, James Loney, Norman Kember, and Harmeet Singh Sooden—were taken captive at gunpoint near the Umm al-Qura mosque in Baghdad by men who later identified themselves as the Swords of Righteousness Brigade. Through videos and statements sent to the Arabic-language television network al-Jazeera, the captors threatened to kill the four men unless the Iraqi government freed its prisoners and U.S. and British forces left Iraq.
On March 9, 2006, Tom Fox was killed and his body dumped in a residential neighborhood in western Baghdad. He died from gunshot wounds to his head and chest. After 118 days in captivity, Loney, Kember, and Sooden were released March 23, 2006, when intelligence gathered by British forces led to a raid on the house where the men were held. The captors had left before the soldiers arrived. No one was harmed in the extraction.
During the four months that the CPT members were held, a worldwide coalition of supporters emerged—including Palestinian children, Iraqi peace activists, and Islamic political leaders. After their release, Christian Peacemaker Teams, in consultation with Iraqi partners, decided to transfer their operation to northern Iraq. CPT—which is a program of the historic peace churches in the U.S. and Canada, including Brethren, Quaker, and Mennonite churches—currently has 190 members working on projects in Iraq, Colombia, Palestine, Canada, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and along the U.S.-Mexico border, training people of faith in the principles and practice of nonviolence to enter conflict zones and promote peace.—The Editors
We were taken one by one...an abductor at each arm, into a living room and pushed onto a couch.


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Have you ever wanted to give someone the finger in mediation? Or have you wondered why someone was so aggressive in negotiations. Maybe his finger length will affect both of those questions.
I was researching issues regarding negotiations and found some interesting connections between the finger length and aggressive behavior. Specifically, the ratio between the index finger (digit 2 or 2D) and the ring finger (digit 4 or 4D) plays an important part in negotiations. The reason – testorone levels during the mother's pregnancy.
Don't believe me? Have a look yourself at some of the interesting studies relating to finger length.
Dr Jim Golby and Jennifer Meggs from Teesside discovered a connection the 2D:4D ratio and the ability to achieve mental toughness. According to Golby and Meggs, prior research has shown that the 2D:4D ratio (index finger/ring finger) has the potential to explain sporting success. An index finger that is much shorter than the ring finger is caused by exposure to testosterone in the womb.
The results of Golby's study showed that participants with a higher 2D:4D ratio were more likely to demonstrate mental toughness and have higher levels of sporting achievements. Dr Golby explained: "It appears that high prenatal levels of testosterone may result in increased mental toughness, optimism and hence aptitude towards sport. This provides tentative support for the conclusion that mental toughness may be partially biologically predetermined."
Another recent study from Utrecht and Cambridge Universities has only now discovered that a dosage of testosterone under the tongue in volunteers negatively affects a person's ability to empathize. The findings are published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The researchers not only found that administration of testosterone leads to a significant reduction in empathy, but that this the amount of empathy can be calculated by the usage of the 2D:4D digit ratio, a marker of prenatal testosterone. Those men who had the highest ratios had the lowest scores on empathy.
Another study found a connection between testosterone and risky behavior. "Previous studies have linked high testosterone levels with risky behaviour and financial success," says senior researcher Gad Saad, Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption as well as a marketing professor at the John Molson School of Business. "We investigated the relationship between prenatal testosterone and various risk proclivities. Our findings show an association between high testosterone and risk-taking among males in three domains: recreational, social and financial."
Finally, and most recently, a new study found that there was a direct link between the size of fingers and negotiating strategies. According to a new study called "Lex talionis: Testosterone and the law of retaliation," to be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, there is a significant role in pre-natal leveles of testosterone and business negotiations. If someone's ring finger and his index finger are the same length, there is an increase in pre-natal exposure to testosterone. According to the research, a person who has little difference between the index finger and ring finger is more concerned with preserving his status and saving face. Unless you handle his ego with kid gloves, he will be quick to take offense.
And second, if you cross him, he will retaliate. Specifically, when those people were put in situations where they felt that they had either been cheated or lost in the negotiation, they made every effort to retaliate against the negotiating partner.
"Testosterone is a hormone associated with status-seeking and a need to save face," notes Adam Galinsky, the Kellogg professor who co-wrote the study. "It makes a powerful difference in how people respond to situations.
"People with low testosterone — that is, with a noticeable difference in the length of their second and fourth digits — may perceive that they're being treated unfairly, but they're likely to go sulk in a corner."
However, Galinsky says, "If you're looking across a bargaining table at someone who has a slight difference, or no difference, between the second and fourth digits, be careful." Make an extra effort to mollify that person and stroke his ego, because doing otherwise is "like slapping a sleeping tiger."
So who would have thought that there was a such a connection between testosterone and negotiations. But there is.
Research Source:
British Psychological Society (BPS) (2010, December 3). Finger length predicts mental toughness in sport. ScienceDaily. Retrieved March 10, 2011, from http://www.sciencedaily.com
University of Cambridge (2011, February 10). Extra testosterone reduces your empathy, researchers find. ScienceDaily. Retrieved March 10, 2011, from http://www.sciencedaily.com
Fortune Magazine and CNN money, http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/10/negotiating-a-deal-clues-on-your-opponents-psyche/
Concordia University (2010, November 9). Alpha males take greater risks: Study links finger length to behavior. ScienceDaily. Retrieved March 10, 2011, from http://www.sciencedaily.com


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Housegroups: The leader's survival guide
Edited by Ian Coffey and Stephen Gaukroger, IVP, 2011, 194pp
When I received my review copy of this book I was a little bemused as to why it was thought that I might be the man to offer an assessment of this title. The churches I serve have monthly fellowship evenings that meet in people's homes, but they aren't quite housegroups in the usual sense of the word. It was hard therefore to motivate myself to read and review a book that has little direct relevance to my ministry. My inertia wasn't exactly overcome when, flicking through descriptions of the contributors I found that one of them likes playing and listening to country music. But probably out of a misguided sense of obligation I thought that I had better read the book anyway and offer the dear readers of Evangelical Times the benefit of my opinion.
Now, it is often at this point that reviewers try and outflank their readers by saying that although they initially thought that the book they were sent was barely worth their notice, on getting started, it was in fact the best thing that they had ever read on the subject. What the reader thinks is going to be a hatchet job turns out to be a warm commendation of a most excellent title, with the glowing review concluding, "Sell your shirt to buy it." But you can hold onto your shirt. I'm not going to play that old trick on you. As I read through the book I found little to pique my interest and a few things that made me feel rather dismayed.
Don't get me wrong. It's not all bad. There are helpful points on the biblical basis of housegroups and some down to earth advice on how to lead such meetings well. The book includes suggestions on the art of asking a good Bible study question, handling awkward people and encouraging the less vocal members of a group to take part. But the guide is not well suited for use in the distinctly Evangelical and Reformed Churches that make up the vast majority of ET's readership. It seems aimed more at Churches belonging to the Evangelical Alliance. Video resources produced by Steve Chalke are highlighted. The Alpha Course rather than Christianity Explored is recommended as an evangelistic tool. The chapter on Creative worship suggests that with a meditative instrumental CD playing in the background, housegroup members write about their own inner "secret garden". The piece on Praying together, talks about using gift-wrapped boxes, each labelled inside with a different gift of the Spirit found in 1 Corinthians 12. Once the boxes are opened the group is encouraged to pray for that particular gift to be released in the church. I could go on, but I won't. Enough's enough. If the good people at ET know of a title Housegroups: The reader's survival guide, I'd be glad to see a copy.