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A Christian worshipper at the St. Alphonsus Church in Hyderabad during a Maundy Thursday service. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images)
The Thursday of Holy Week (the week before Easter) has special meaning for Christians. Often referred to as Holy Thursday or Maundy Thursday (from the Latin mandatum which means "command or instruction"), it is not a "holy day of obligation" for Roman Catholics but often includes a church service commemorating the Last Supper, the Passover meal Jesus shared with his disciples the night before he was crucified.
The Last Supper (1574-1575) depicted by Italian painter Jacopo Robusti, known as Tintoretto. (Photo by Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images)
The events recorded in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 22, verses 19-20 — in which Jesus shares bread and wine with his disciplines — are said to be the liturgical basis for practicing communion. Many churches offer the Eucharist at a special mass on this day.
Pope Benedict XVI holds the Eucharist in celebration of the Chrismal Mass of Maundy Thursday in St.Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. (Photo by Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images)
Some Roman Catholic priests will perform a rite of foot-washing to commemorate and reflect on Jesus' act of washing the feet of his twelve disciples. The Gospel of John (13: 1-7) describes this act as a service to others despite your social position, a willingness to be closer to your neighbor. Though normally the task of a servant, Jesus performs this task as the host, despite the protest of his disciples. In doing so he invites them into an intimate fellowship with him, and modeling the behavior he wishes to teach to all humanity:
"Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them."
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Reverend Thumma Bala (right), an Indian Catholic bishop of the Archdioecese of Hyderabad, washes the feet of a parishioner during Maundy Thursday service. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images)
Deacon Buruk Kidane (right) has his feet and hands washed by Reverend Gebrekiros at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Matt McClain/Getty Images)
Cardinal Roger Mahony washes the feet of 12 people, following the example of Jesus washing the feet of his 12 apostles, during the celebration of the Mass of the Lord's Supper in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
In England, a Royal Maundy Service is held on Holy Thursday. During the service, the king or queen gives Maundy money to his or her subjects — one coin for each man and woman equal of the royal's years of birth.
Queen Elizabeth II (right) distributes the Maundy money to 86 men and 86 women during the Royal Maundy Service at York Minster in York, northern England on April 5, 2012. (Photo by Arthur Edwards/AFP/Getty Images)
In Jerusalem, processions of all sorts take place in the Old City on Holy Thursday.
Kawases in traditional Ottoman outfits lead a procession of Roman Catholic clergymen along Jerusalem's Old City streets during Holy Thursday on April 5, 2012. (Photo by Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images)
Roman Catholic clergymen walk along Jerusalem' Old City streets during a Holy Thursday procession on April 5, 2012. (Photo by Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images)
Roman Catholic clergymen hold candles as they circle the Anointing Stone during the Holy Thursday mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on April 5, 2012 ahead of Easter celebrations. Christians traditionally believe the church is built on the site where Jesus was crucified and buried. (Photo by Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images)
Raed Nuseibeh, the Muslim doorkeeper of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, closes the door after the Catholic Holy Thursday Easter procession. (Photo by Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images)
by Chris Miller, guest contributor
As a social media nerd and a nonprofit worker with a heart for Africa, the past month has been fascinating. In that time we have witnessed the rise of the "KONY 2012" campaign and the fall of the mastermind behind it, Jason Russell.
On March 5th, an organization named Invisible Children launched an online movement to make Joseph Kony, a Ugandan war criminal and rebel leader known for his use of child soldiers, famous. The goal was to bring so much attention to him that governments would work together to bring about his arrest. Invisible Children produced a sleek thirty-minute video presenting this idea. The video went viral, racking up more than 86 million views.criticized the movement and the organization behind it.
The video featured Jason Russell, a co-founder of Invisible Children. Because of this, he came under personal attack. Sadly, the burden of this criticism was too much to bear. Suffering from "exhaustion, dehydration, and malnutrition," he had a nervous breakdown. Ten days later, he was detained outside of his home, where he was found nude, pounding his fists into the pavement and yelling profanities at the devil.
The Internet was quick to respond. He was mocked in every possible way. In fact, many of the top tweets were so offensive I do not feel comfortable sharing them here. To make it even worse, TMZ.com obtained a thirty-second video of his breakdown and posted it on their website. It went viral.
by Altaf Husain, guest contributor
Ms. Dia performs at a Community Café: Just Food event organized by the Inner-City Muslim Action NetworkIMAN Community Cafe events.
As Americans pause today, the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, it is worthwhile to reflect on the culture of service and social justice that were part of his teachings.
While the values King espoused could be internalised by anyone who is passionate about improving the human condition, his teachings resonate especially with faith-inspired people. Muslim Americans, for example, have a profound appreciation for King because he dedicated his life to addressing societal injustices — a central tenet of the Islamic tradition.
Of particular relevance from King's teachings is the concept of a "world house," comprised of peoples of different faith traditions. He wrote, "We have inherited a large house, a great world house in which we have to live together — black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Hindu — a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart, must learn somehow to live with each other in peace."
The concept of a world house is especially relevant when applied to interfaith collaboration on social justice initiatives today. Such interfaith collaboration is an American tradition, and Muslim Americans are integral to it. In fact, social activism among Muslim Americans is at an all-time high.
Inspired by their own faith tradition and responding to invitations from other traditions, Muslim Americans have been noticeably advancing the concept of a world house, especially by focusing people's attention on hunger in America.
Consider the Interfaith Hunger Initiative (IHI) in Indianapolis, of which the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is a partner. The IHI reports that 16,000 children die from hunger each day throughout the world. In Indianapolis alone, a total of 18,000 children are frequently hungry. With the active involvement of Muslim Americans, IHI aims to end child and family hunger both at the domestic level in Indianapolis, and internationally in Kenya.
Participants of Muslim Run in Action discuss food choices at a local market.
While hunger is an issue nationwide, in inner-city neighbourhoods, a related issue is the disproportionately large number of unhealthy food options being sold in stores. This issue, conceptualised as food justice, is being addressed head on by a Chicago-based organisation, Inner-city Muslim Action Network (IMAN). IMAN is located in Chicago's south side and was founded by young Muslim Americans. IMAN is unabashedly targeting "food and liquor" stores (including ones owned by Muslims) in inner-city black neighbourhoods, challenging them to take responsibility for the food options they offer. IMAN recently sponsored a forum entitled "Food For Life, A Human Right: Food Justice, Corner Stores & Race Relations in the 'Hood."
Muslim Americans are also represented both by ISNA and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) in the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT), an American membership organisation of 300 religious communities. NRCAT asserts that "torture is a moral issue" and aims to end torture in our own backyard. A declaration regarding prisoner treatment, torture, and cruelty states that NRCAT members "agree that the use of torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment against prisoners is immoral, unwise, and un-American." As active and vocal partners in NRCAT, Muslim Americans are exerting tremendous energy in organising campaigns to educate community members about the adverse psychological and physical impact of current practices on prisoners, such as 23-hour solitary confinement; they advocate prohibiting torture outright for mentally ill prisoners, as well as certain interrogation techniques.
As these examples indicate, there are sufficient members of the world house, among them Muslim Americans, who are not only putting into practice the teachings of their own faith and cultural traditions but also exemplifying the continuing relevance of King's teachings to contemporary social issues. King's life was cut short nearly 45 years ago; however, his teachings remain relevant today, inspiring Muslim Americans and others to uphold social justice through interfaith collaborations.
Altaf Husain is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Islamic Society of North America. He is a Fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding and Assistant Professor of Social Work at Howard University in Washington, DC.
A version of this article was published by the Common Ground News Service on April 3, 2012. Copyright permission is granted for publication.
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Fans give the three-fingered salute of District 12. The gesture is one of admiration, meaning thanks or goodbye to one's beloved. (photo: Doug Kline / © 2012 PopCultureGeek.com)
I was certain I was going to hate it. All of my four kids have been fans of the series of books by Suzanne Collins since before they were cool; therefore when the movie was announced, we all knew the midnight screening on the night of release was a must-do.
But in the run-up to last night's trip to the IMAX theater, the reviews I read and heard helped confirm my feeling that this would be a disgusting movie: violent, gratuitous in every way, repulsive to my social conscience.
I was wrong. Very, very wrong.
I tend to approach these cultural phenomena with a concern that my comfort level will be jolted. What I should be concerned about is what these phenomena say about our culture, and in the case of The Hunger Games, what it says about the generation that elevated the story to its current status. With an eye to the latter, I drove home early this morning with a deep satisfaction that my kids were smarter than I was at their age, and that their generation understands something mine did not.
First: yes, the movie is violent, and disturbingly so. The story is one about a future world in which a wealthy ruling class dominates a world that it is linked to, but separate from, itself through overwhelming police and military power, and entertainment that both enthralls and intimidates the underclasses. The focus of the story is an annual gladiatorial ritual in which representatives from the "districts" under domination give up children to a tournament of slaughter and death. Yes, this movie is based around images of children killing each other.
It is a valid question to ask: why must we tell stories that constantly elevate the level of violence necessary to grab our attention? Why is it now necessary to portray children killing other children, and children dying by each others' hands? This is indeed an important question for our society to wrestle with. But more importantly, we should direct our moralizing to the question the film itself seeks to ask: why are we satisfied to be part of a society that finds it necessary to feed upon its young?
Viral successes like The Hunger Games reach mass audiences because they strike a nerve. The audience for the books and the film, the "millennial generation," is not lost on the message. Our society is held together by a craving for violence. What is, say, middle-school football, after all?
We should ask: is it tolerable for us to send our young boys into a game that breaks legs, destroys knees, causes concussions, and otherwise changes the course of life forever? Of course it is! Not only does the game bring our community together, provide economic opportunities, but for the lucky few, college scholarships and professional opportunities. For the players, they are willing to risk limb and even life for a lottery-styled shot at fame and fortune. For the audience, we are willing to cheer when the fallen player limps off the field, or worse, is carried off to the emergency room, sighing a concern or uttering a prayer for the well-being of the child who may suffer permanently in the name of our entertainment.
The Hunger Games causes us to consider other forms of this structural violence. Not to only pick on the venerable institution of football, the film's prevailing metaphor can be applied to all kinds of American institutions of empire: soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan, Treyvon Martin, state-sponsored gambling (the lottery), Wall Street, and so on. Face it: our society is one that eats its young. Through its horrific portrayals of a society that dominates via a tournament in which children kill children, The Hunger Games might well shock us into seeing the way we ourselves do it.
After the movie, my kids wanted to know my reaction. Did I just see it as yet another violent kid-pic? "No," I said, "I didn't expect to come here and see a movie about the young Israeli soldiers sent to occupy the West Bank."
In return I asked if, when they read the books, they saw them as overtly political. "Yes," my fourteen- and seventeen-year-old kids replied. And while they discussed on the way home the ways the movie changed story details of the books, I went to bed at 3:15am knowing that the major theme was not lost on them.
It gives me hope.
Steven D. Martin is a documentary filmmaker, photographer, and activist. He currently serves as a founder and executive director of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good. You can read more of his thoughts at the Uncommon Voices.
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by Felice Lifshitz, guest contributor
A woman tends to a child during a Sacrament Meeting of the Washington DC 3rd Ward at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Chevy Chase, Maryland. (photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
In the March 8 Washington Post article "Feminism's Final Frontier? Religion," Lisa Miller predicted that American women would soon abandon the Republican party in droves, just as they are reportedly quitting conservative Christian churches in historically large numbers. In both cases, women's disaffection appears to be fueled by the disrespect shown to them by male leaders, a disrespect revealed in the ecclesiastical sphere by evangelical minister Jim Henderson's new book, The Resignation of Eve, and visible in the political sphere to anyone who has followed the recent debates over access to birth control.
As "the men of the right" (as Miller calls them) insult women of faith, many of the latter are rejecting the communities that demean them, and creating leadership roles for themselves elsewhere. She suggests that a similar dynamic will soon govern American party politics. However, the implications of the current situation may not be that clear-cut, religiously or politically.
Miller believes women's disaffection to be a new phenomenon, spurred by the incongruities between a newfound economic independence and an old-fashioned gender hierarchy:
"In churches (and synagogues and mosques) across the land, women are still treated as second-class citizens. And because women of faith are increasingly breadwinners, single moms and heads of households, that diminished status is beginning to rankle" (emphasis mine).
The assumption that previous generations of women of faith uniformly accepted an inferior position, that is, that religion constitutes "feminism's final frontier," leads the author to predict a major break with the patriarchal past due to a novel combination of propitious circumstances and female aspirations. But the "resignation" described by Henderson is not a new departure potentially signaling a major break with tradition; rather, it is the latest permutation of the gender conflict that has been part and parcel of the Christian tradition from earliest times.
Indeed, the struggle over gender and spiritual authority set in early enough to affect the canon of the New Testament. Many women supported Paul, the greatest early Christian missionary, including Prisca (Priscilla), who was instrumental in the apostle's successes at Corinth and Ephesus, and whom he ordained as a congregational leader along with her husband Aquila (Acts 18). Yet, misogynistic editors of biblical manuscripts successfully obscured Paul's respect for female religious leaders by falsely attributing to him — either through misplaced punctuation or outright interpolation — the sentiment that women should be silent in churches (1 Cor. 14:33-36).
Nevertheless, women persisted by, among other things, writing or supporting the composition of egalitarian texts, founding and governing monastic communities, pressing the liberationist claims of virginal feminism, exercising a number of liturgical (at times sacerdotal) functions, articulating a whole range of new theologies (including feminine theologies of the godhead), and establishing innumerable beguine communities that were absolutely independent of male ecclesiastical authority. In sum, women consistently found ways to control their own religious destinies and to assume leadership roles within Christian contexts, including during the European Middle Ages, a period popularly (albeit erroneously) conceived as particularly repressive of women. Yet, none of these activities ever fully erased the persistent commitment to gender hierarchy cherished by the "men of the right" whose values have determined the character of most mainstream hegemonic institutions.
Christianity has consistently been open to pro-feminist movements, but this has resulted neither in a fundamental egalitarian transformation of Christian institutions, nor in a mass exodus of disaffected women. The current wave of "resignations" fits squarely into a 2000-year-old tradition of tension over gender and spiritual authority; if proponents of patriarchal forms of religious organization do not feel particularly threatened by the alarm bells Henderson has rung for them, it is because historical precedent encourages complacency on their part. After all, their predecessors always managed to hold on to power.
"The men of the right" have found, in every generation, a substantial number of Christian women who considered the limited roles and secondary status allotted to them to be quite comfortable. It is certainly easier to execute simple, circumscribed tasks such as meal preparation than to shoulder the responsibility for major policy decisions. But every generation has also witnessed rebellion and discontent.
Today's feminists of faith can draw on a rich heritage to stake out positions that might ultimately justify both Henderson's warnings and Miller's optimism. Success may well depend precisely on an awareness of that inspirational heritage. A radical egalitarian transformation will require an unprecedented struggle; it will not be the inevitable result of the rise of the female breadwinner.
Felice Lifshitz earned a PhD in History from Columbia University and currently teaches in the Program in Women's Studies at the University of Alberta. She has published numerous books, articles, and essay collections concerning medieval Christianity.
This essay is reprinted with permission of Sightings from the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School. We welcome your reflections, essays, videos, or news items for possible publication on the Being Blog. Submit your entry and contribute a deeper understanding of the world around us.
by Susan Leem, associate producer
Modernity meets history. A Kurdish girl in Sulaimaniyah, Iraq wears traditional clothes while peeking out from a sunroof. (photo: Ahmed Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)
On this first day of spring, Persian families around the world are greeting each other with "Sal-e No Mobarak!" and "Happy New Year!" in celebration of the holiday of Nowruz, a day of beginnings. Translated as "new day," the solar-based holiday marks the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar and the falls on the vernal equinox.
The holiday has wider cultural and national significance for modern Iranians who often celebrate with family and friends by sharing meals together, cleaning their homes, buying new clothes, and performing contemporary expressions of ancient customs. Rooted in Zoroastrianism (the prophet Zoroaster himself is credited with creating this festival) in pre-Islamic Persia, Nowruz is also celebrated in surrounding geographic regions influenced by the Persian empire in the countries of Iraq, Turkey, and Afghanistan.
A man jumps over a bonfire as Kurds gather to celebrate the start Nowruz in Ankara, Turkey. (photo: Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images)
Chahar Zanbe Suri is a prelude to Nowruz with a fire-jumping tradition. It occurs on the last Wednesday of the year before Nowruz. Iranian-American Semira Mirzaie describes it:
"Everyone lines up, and, one by one, each person jumps over the piles and sings, 'zardi-ye-man az to, sorkhi-ye to az man,' the special song means 'my yellowness is yours, your redness is mine.' Iranians believe, people give pain and negativities to the fire, and receive the warmth, the health and strength from the fire."
Iranians shop for Nowruz at a market in Tehran. (photo: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images)
The traditional haft-seen table is an important part of Nowruz celebrations. Iranians prepare these settings in their homes by gathering seven items that start with the letter "s," which have positive meanings: the spice sumac for sunrise, seeb (apples) for beauty, and sir (garlic) for health, among others.
Haft-seen: a traditional table setting of Nowruz, present in many homes. (photo: Jean-Philippe Daigle/Flickr, cc by-nc-sa 2.0)
Goldfish also make an appearance on the haft-seen table. They are symbols of new life and the end of the astral year associated with the zodiac sign Pisces. They are sold in markets along with other Nowruz accoutrements.
Goldfish for sale in preparation for Nowruz. (photo: Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images)
An artist sings during Nowruz in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (photo: Denis Sinyakov/AFP/Getty Images)
A man on a swing in Kabul, Afghanistan where the festival of Nowruz is celebrated annually. (photo: Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images)
Sabzeh is sprouted wheat grass, symbolizing rebirth and renewal of nature. On the thirteenth day of the celebration, it is customary to throw these sprouts away into running water, as the sabzeh is thought to collect negativity and illness in the household while it grew there. This purging represents purification and new beginnings.
Photo by: Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images
by Susan Leem, associate producer
Kevin Kling is "part funny guy, part poet and playwright, part wise man." And, we here at On Being were delighted to have the playwright and storyteller in our studios to share his life lessons and experiences with us.
On February 9, we live-tweeted highlights of his interview with Krista Tippett and have aggregated them below for those who weren't able to follow along. Follow us next time at @BeingTweets.
For those not familiar with Kevin Kling, he is a prolific writer, performer, and a nationally recognized artist. He may be best known for his storytelling and commentaries at National Public Radio. With humanity and wit, Kling describes life growing up in the Midwest with his congenital birth defect, and how he's been changed after surviving a near-fatal motorcycle accident.
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
Yesterday Ira Glass sent an email revealing that This American Life's report on Apple's manufacturing supplier in China "contained significant fabrications." Mike Daisey's story and TAL's decisions to go to air and later retract the show have sparked a lot of discussion in journalism and public radio circles.
There's a lot of praising, challenging, and questioning going on. Frankly, much of it feels like punditry and harmless posturing. But, this Saturday afternoon a stream of tweets by Marketplace's John Moe put a human face on this story and some of the underlying ethical issues at stake.
(I've kept the format in order to preserve, hopefully, the rhythm of Moe's thoughts.)
I knew Daisey for many years, although its been several years since I've talked to him. But I saw his first audition when he came to Seattle
5:22 PM - 17 Mar 12
It was the best audition I'd ever seen. A monologue about Wrath of Khan. Astounding. Completely improvised, I later learned.
5:23 PM - 17 Mar 12
I worked at a temp agency and gave him temp jobs. Mike later worked at Amazon when I did. Then he quit and made a 1-man show about Amazon.
5:25 PM - 17 Mar 12
It bugged me that Amazon paid him salary and benefits and then he turned around and ripped them. I was also jealous of his talent & success.
5:26 PM - 17 Mar 12
Then he got a book deal! So I was jealous of his talent and success in writing and theater.
5:29 PM - 17 Mar 12
In his book, he said things about my department at Amazon that weren't true or were exaggerated and/or twisted. Which angered me. So…
5:30 PM - 17 Mar 12
Over the years I haven't known how to view his success. Astoundingly talented guy, I questioned his ethics, but I was jealous/petty too.
5:32 PM - 17 Mar 12
But this China thing hits me hard. As a tech reporter, I know the Foxconn issue is huge and complex. As a journalist, ethics are critical.
5:33 PM - 17 Mar 12
The Foxconn suicides first taught me the word Foxconn. It's a big issue for me (my brother died of suicide) and I wanted more attn on it.
5:36 PM - 17 Mar 12
Then when Daisey became a leading spokesperson for Foxconn issues, I was all jumbled up. How did he get these scoops? I was jealous again.
5:37 PM - 17 Mar 12
Now all this. I don't hate Mike, I wish him well, and I just hope more truth and light and transparency somehow emerge from this mess.
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My friend introduce me to this initiative a couple days ago so I whipped this up in a night. Hope I'm not too late and that people like. Its Deadpool as Psylocke from X-Men: Psylocke #1 by David Finch. :3
So I know I'm late to the game, but I just discovered the Hawkeye Initiative a few weeks ago and naturally wanted to participate.
Of courseI was working on this during finals week when I should have been focusing on other things, but considering I never stopped grinning the entire time I was drawing this, I have no regrets.
I chose a frame from one of my favorite Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 comics and replaced them with Hawkeye and Loki
because I really wanted to draw him in a dress.
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A comparison of the Emma Frost Higher Learning Pose (I know its an HI favorite) and my own costume. It was painful.
"Why does my back always hurt?" :(
Taken at the Spiderman Premiere by a cosplayer familiar with this project!
"Look, but don't touch. *SNIKT*"
Neverland Hook #3
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rush job. a friend suggested i submit something and so, here it is.
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They get their movie armor because that's where I know them best xD
I -i don't how explain, sorry
I will always, ALWAYS love Michael Turner, but this shot of Sara (Witchblade) will forever make me shake my head… then the Hawkeye Initiative came to be and I knew what had to be done. XD This could be my greatest masterpiece, shitty photoshop job and all.

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Bikers from across the state revved up to join the fight against domestic violence Sunday.
Motorcyclists gathered at Big Lots on I-55 for the third annual Ride2End Domestic Violence.
The event is hosted by the motorcycle club Sisters With a Throttle or SWAT M-C.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
The female bike club started off the national observance with a ride through the Capital City to get the community talking about an issue that is often kept silent.
"Domestic Violence isn't just a family issue. It isn't a private issue. It's a community issue, and it affects everyone. So I'm hoping that everybody walks away with the spirit to help end domestic violence in our state," said Sisters With A Throttle President Keisha Varnell.
"A lot of people think about motorcycle clubs as somewhat of gangs or thugs, but we're normal people. We have normal lives and normal families and we just want to be a positive light to give back," said Calvin "Superman" Russell with the Rough Riders of Hattiesburg.
The ride ended with a rally at Smith Park in downtown Jackson.
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The best moments in Oscars history!
Streaker interrupts David Niven
In 1974, David Niven was about to present one of the awards when ... a streaker took to the stage, wearing nothing but a moustache! Recovering quickly, Niven quipped, 'Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?'.


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Commissioner McCarty says: Vote for Barlow and Ognio
This past election gave us another vote on the commission in favor of the citizens of Fayette County!
The runoff on the 21st is the most critical for ensuring the continued work to balance the budget without raising taxes, as was proposed in the last workshop.
David Barlow has consistently done his best to ensure that the citizens had the ability to see what is happening in their government. He has been to, and videoed, every commission and workshop meeting since I have been in office, and is totally devoted to our citizens to help give our county government back to the people with complete openness! His videos not only are available to the citizens of our county, but to theworld as well.
David has a great deal of business experience in governmental court reporting and related transcription and filmography.
Randy Ognio is a very concerned citizen who has successfully managed his own business for over 30 years. He too, has attended all meetings, and tried his best to get his message of budget and bidding processes and problems to the attention of the commission. He has made many astute observations involving wise stewardship of the budget.
Over the past two years, both David and Randy have frequently made well reasoned public comments to the Board of Commissioners regarding specific Fayette County issues. I believe that they both of these men have decidedto set their personal lives and businesses aside on the behalf of the citizens of Fayette County.
I have come to know both of these men well, share their belief in God, and am fully confident that both would make the most outstanding new commissioners we could have.
Get your friends and neighbors out to vote for these men and the citizens of Fayette County!!!!
Commissioner Allen McCarty
I do think that Brown wants his new buddy ($150) Barlow on county commission to gain control of the chair, but I doubt we need Hearn back just so he will be a Brown nemesis. Ognio is harmless to the county and I seriously doubt he will be a brownie like Barlow and McCarty. So if you vote Huddleston and Ognio you get 2 new people on county commission, actually 3 with Oddo and a good chance Oddo will be the new chair.
Barlow refuses to denounce Brown, nor will he write a "back-off, dude" letter to Brown like he did to Haddix. So, I'm thinking he is spoiled goods. And a religious zealot.
Huddeston and Ognio - all the way.
To have five solid people who actually promote the best interest of the citizen taxpayers would be a great scenario.
I'm also looking forward to working with Chuck Oddo, David Barlow and Randy Ognio.
Not even Robert Morgan and Nuk can create a enough divisiveness to derail this train!
My council in Peachtree City voted unanimously 98% of the time.
McCarty and I have stayed very true to our promise of not supporting district voting. We have done exactly what we said we would do. It would be even better to have a voting majority and get things accomplished ... balanced budget for starters.
I know you will let us know the moment we stray.
49 out of 50 votes? No dissenters?
When did you flip flop back against district voting?
Spyglass, we could have 40 or more items for votes in a single meeting. There were loads of votes throughout the year.
Councilman Steve Rapson actually did the math one year and there were just a handful of votes where someone went the other way.
When Judi Rutherford and Stuart Kourajian came on board to replace Annie McMenamin and Dan Tennant we got a lot done.
I liked Annie and we voted in line on the overwhelming majority of things.
Stuart was a huge improvement and I was very impressed with his ability to travel so often for work and still keep on top of things with the city.
Now that the alliance between Lee Hearn and Sheila Huddleston is official, a lot of people see that is not the path they want to travel. We do not want four more years like the past four years.
Lee Hearn's record is very clear:
1. As the county's Public Works Director, he was written up for poor performance on numerous occasions. He was severely reprimanded for misuse of a county credit card in order to thwart county procedure. He resigned in light of what many believed would be his inevitable termination.
2. Hearn has consistently supported deficit spending. To make matters worse, he has actually voted to increase expenditures when revenues were drifting down.
3. Hearn is one of the most ardent supporters on building the West Fayetteville Bypass. The road to nowhere has wasted tens of millions of our tax dollars. (It was Hearn, as Public Works Director, who said the East Fayetteville Bypass was our number one priority, but he kept pushing the West Fayetteville Bypass as an elected official.) It was later found out that Hearn's relatives own a large number of acres of undeveloped land near the West Fayetteville Bypass.
4. The Board was presented with a resolution to ask that Fayette County be removed from all regional and state mass transit plans. Lee Hearn along with Commissioners Frady and Horgan voted it down.
Or do you just choose not to answer the question?
Oh yeah, all it would take is a handful of votes out of every 100 to easily lower the percentage below 98%. You don't seem to dispute that your 98% claim is just pie in the sky rubbish.
I have never seen a local politician think that the only way to get ahead is to TRASH other candidates. Let me rephrase, I have never seen it work for long.
What about some of your own ideas?
What about traffic issues? Access to and fro to Coweta County is not good.
Crime, any ideas on crime? Do we have enough Police?
Taxes, what can be cut and how much? Or do we need more taxes to maintain our standard of living?
I would be all ears on these issues, but all you seem to be able to do is trash other candidates, and you're not even running for office.
"My council in Peachtree City voted unanimously 98% of the time." Pretty tall statement considering 2003-2005 minutes are still on the PTC site.
You could retract as an inadvertent exaggeration, or you could admit to having been afflicted with the Haddix Syndrome.
Just ask Dan's first wife what a backstabber he is! Birdman we'll take Jack Smtih who came in third over slime ball Tennant.
You guys are just a bunch of spoiled little bed wetters who don't do a darn thing other than barf your opinions all over this web site. Nothing but divisive idiots!
"barfing" of comments all over these pages. I get it.
I asked him above for some of "his" ideas on issues. We'll see how far that goes.
claimed the 98% vote and I think he is right to some point. The biggest problem, and this is what will haunt all of Fayette County, is he saw the Peachtree City Council, OUR Council, as HIS Council. When Annie McMenamin voted against his desire for a 1% sales tax for the Avenue (that's right, Mr. Anti-Tax proposed a 1% special sales tax JUST for the Avenue), he stated at a Rotary Luncheon that she was not one of "HIS team." This is the same thing he is trying (with McCarty's help) to set up with the Commission. He wants to load up the Commission with his lackeys, get elected Chairman, then institute HIS agenda. He will call it "his" Commission, totally disregarding that it is actually "OUR," the TAXPAYERS Commission. It is supposed to represent ALL of us (yes, even the Jack Smith's of the world), and not be "King Steve's Court of Jesters."
But woe to the poor sap that ever goes against Steve. Remember his "good buddy" Dan Tenant? They were great supporters until Dan had the audacity to vote against Steve. Then Steve, both at meetings and in this newspaper, conducted an attack of Dan that Joe Stalin would have been proud of.
Yep.... it's beginning. Hang on to your wallet folks. Under Steve Brown and "His" Council, Peachtree City taxes went UP 22%! And what did we get??? Two Ethics Violations by Steve, One Ethics Violation by his minion and fellow Councilman Steve Rapson, a number of law suits, a Special Prosecutor that charged us $50,000 to find NOTHING wrong with our Development Authority, a default on a loan, Insults by Steve to surrounding communities, the degrading of a World Class Tennis Center to a No Class Tennis Center....... and I can go on.
But..... what the heck..... the die is cast. Brownie will get HIS Commission and be crowned King.... and then Fayette County can find out what we in PTC found out, and then we'll resoundingly through the bum out.... AGAIN!
When I think about "his" city council and Rapson and Tenant and Weed and even poor Annie, I wonder why DirectPAC got such a bad rap. At least they did something instead of just watching the freak show. 1 year of "his" county commission there will be DirectPAC 2 meetings.
The real danger in all this is that "his" commission will have to take the lead on the NAACP lawsuit about District voting. That should have him twisted up like a pretzel given his multiple positions on district voting and the certainty he would not survive his next election from a PTC-dominated district.
Well bird, it will be entertaining. I hope it won't be expensive.
I guess voting for the sign buddies - Huddleston and Hearn would be an option.
Perfect going away present from Frady, Hearn and Horgan. Settle the suit or lose it deliberately, create total and pure district voting, Brown for sure goes down the tubes next election and as a bonus maybe even some of the newly elected will find themselves out of their district. Funny stuff.
Of course that weakens county commission by creating geographical self-interest and of course it enables even more marginal candidates to get elected by fewer people and worst of all it kowtows to a racist organization - Good old Herb and Robert wouldn't do that to the county would they? Have to check in with Bost Hogg and see what he thinks about all that.
wait until Steve loads HIS Commission and the lackey's anoint him the "Second Coming" and crown him King! Then, as in all kingdoms, the "turncoat" surfaces (as Dan Tenant did). WOW.... can't wait for King Steve's rant and harassment in the Citizen. Poor.....who will it be....McCarty? Barlow? Ognio? It's funny how Steve can be a "Uniter" as well as a "divider." He united DirectPac..... he trashed Dan Tennant so badly that even I felt sorry for him and came to bat. It'll be a ride for sure. Only hope it won't be too expensive. I sorta think I won't feel the pain as I did in PTC. Have to wonder what he could possibly screw up. Wondered that in PTC, then we found out....EVERYTHING!!
Gonna be a long few years. But certainly fun, in a "gee a toothache is fun" kinda way.
Bost and his trained politicians on the bench - Smith, Maxwell, Horgan, maybe Hearn if he loses, Steele, Dunn, Pfeifer, etc. That group can cause some trouble if they put their minds to it.
I think among the first to be alienated will be the mayors - remember how Dunn when he was chair cut off or reduced PTC's share of something or another- sales tax maybe - just to throw it back at Brown who was PTC mayor at the time? I doubt Brown forgot that one. I guess he would target the new mayor of Fayetteville first and anybody that supported T-SPLOST.
Internally, Oddo is most likely to stand up to Brown from the get go. Sure wish there was a way to have him as Chairman. And of course Brown has already dissed Hearn and Huddleston big time, so if one or both get elected, the fireworks will start immediately. As I said before, an elected official should just keep out of other people's races. Barlow denying Haddix's help is just funny because Haddix won't have much interaction with Barlow. But Huddleston and Hearn have at least a 50/50 chance of being on the same commission as Brown. And Brown being Brown has set up an unfriendly environment - on purpose, I believe.
An elected official should stay completely out of it, IMHO. At the very most, just endorse someone without further comment and certainly without trashing their opponent. Come to think of it, you don't hear any trash talk from anyone in PTC or Fayetteville. Oddo is being classy. Even McCarty just endorsed somebody with minimal comment. So at the least the majority of our pols are acting like adults.
...once you're sworn in as commission chair and seated with you are two, three, or perhaps four supporters initially no bloggers will be capable of derailing your train. That will be done by you in short order as each of your supporters are back stabbed by you for some petty difference until the same childish behavior comes to commission meetings that occurred in Peachtree City while you were mayor.
One tidbit of advice, however, as chair you might want to delay that district voting thing else your term will again be one and done.
You do remember being a staunch advocate for district voting, don't you?
I've known Mr. Ognio and Mr. Barlow for several years. If anybody ever stood up for financial stewardship, it's those guys. I've seen people argue with them over what they think the county is doing wrong, and from what I've seen, they always got the best of the argument. At first, I thought they might be stubborn, but over time, I saw wisdom in their continuing concern over how county tax dollars were being spent.
I salute Mr. McCarty for publishing, not orating his remarks. Not all commissioners are up to his standards. For instance, at the August 9 Commissioners meeting, Mr. McCarty called foul when Commissioner Lee Hearn took Commission meeting time to defend his campaign against Commissioner Steve Brown. Some time ago, I spoke with Mr. McCarty regarding disagreements among commissioners. According to Mr. McCarty, the Commissioners are restricted against criticizing each other during commission meetings. Mr. Brown had expressed his views in local newspapers relating to the positions he felt Mr. Hearn had taken on matters of interest to the public. In this case, Mr. Hearn chose to admonish Mr. Brown publicly in lieu of responding in print. It reminded me of past campaign speeches I've heard... but somewhat less than would be expected from a conduct standpoint at an official meeting.
Once Mr. Hearn had finished, Mr. Brown attempted to answer the charges. But during his rebuttal, Committee Chairman Herb Frady called time on him. It should be noted at this point that Mr. Frady, who is supposed to enforce the committee rules, allowed Mr. Hearn to present his grievance against Mr. Brown until he had finished.
Thank you, Mr. McCarty, for calling this rule violation to the attention of the public. Perhaps we'll see more in the local newspaper.
Let's not have any more of that one-sided manipulation from Herb Frady or anyone else with an agenda. Support Charles Oddo for Chairman of Fayette County Commission in January 2013. What say you Mr. McCarty?
I'm still leaning towards Huddleston, but if you support Oddo, I'll vote the way you recommend. Let me know this week, I usually go to early voting.
Or even Ognio for chair. I'm flexible. Barlow said he nominate Ognio. You would be a good strong 3rd vote there.
i really cannot understand why you do not run for office. You posts here seem to show you spend a lot of time figuring out all these situations and have definite solutions for all the problems. Why don't you run for office where you can put your ideas into action?
I can't travel the way I want to being tethered to those meetings plus many more things you have to be in town for on an almost daly basis. Of course I'm not electable because I don't see any reason to compromise with anyone or pander to unrealistic scenarios like swim team or tennis center welfare, balanced budgets without spending cuts or tax increases or stopping the West Fayette Bypass. By comparison, I would make Imker and Haddix look like calm, serene and moderately intelligent individuals.
Having managed or co-managed 3 campaigns and strategized on several more, I prefer to stay behind the scenes. No, I am not involved in any current campaigns - 2004 was it.
And before cheap-shot Brown does it, I will say it about myself - it is much easier to criticize someone than it is to go out there and actually accomplish something. That also applies to some other people as well. Some are currently in office. When you hear someone putting someone else down with strong critique, you have to ask why they are doing that and when they are going to bring some positive ideas to the table.
While I understand what your primary desired outcome is, I find it unusual that you would let your vote be swayed by someone's agreement to go along with your preference for chairman. What I read is: My vote's for sale! Somehow I think Commissioner McCarty is more of his own person than you might believe.
but we need to decide today - I'm voting tomorrow. I'll vote for the Thumper and the Dumper like you want, but you have to support Oddo for Chair when the time comes.
If I don't hear your pledge today I'm going with Huddleston and Hearn.
Why not Ognio? Plus, I'd be disappointed if McCarty responded at all and set himself up to be accused of pandering.
Almost everybody votes out of self-interest, so when someone rings a voter's bell by promising them something they want - they vote for it. Exhibit A - President Obama.
Now the odds of Mr. McCarty actually responding and breaking his pledge to Steve Brown and buying my vote for Barlow are pretty much a million to one. Ognio becoming chairman is equally impossible. And in the grand scheme of things, if Brown is going to be chair anyway, it does not matter one bit whether Barlow or Huddleston sits in one of the other chairs.
And Mike King is right. Brown is one of the few people that have the ability to start a term as the leader of a 5-0 or 4-1 coalition and turn it into a 1-4 against him in a very short time.
Of course if Huddleston and Hearn prevail, then you will see a 2-2-1 with Oddo as the tiebreaker, maybe even chairman. It will be very interesting to observe the first 10 minutes of the first county commission meeting in January. After that, not so much.
Experience has taught me that leadership will manifest itself in perhaps unexpected ways should it be present to begin with. Let's all hope that we see some of that in the new iteration of the Commission.
or Brown and McCarty. I feel good about Oddo, however. I do think he can be a leader - even without being chair.


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Friday, September 17, 2010
A Boy and His Dog
Posted by Kate @ Daffodils at 3:44 AM
3 comments:
- fittingbackin said...
Um seriously - these are just way too cute! It reminds me of that Mary Engelbreit boy & dog - love!
- September 17, 2010 at 7:18 AM
- Elle Cay said...
the 2nd picture is ridiculously cute. does cullen ever feel like you're the paparazzi?
- September 17, 2010 at 8:34 AM
- Lisa@Pickles and Cheese said...
That picture in the Pet Porter where they are looking directly at each other is way too cute! Boys and their dogs...our dog adores our son. I come last on the dog love list. :)
- September 21, 2010 at 12:02 PM
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Resistance 3 review
After the mixed reception of Resistance 2, a lot rests on the shoulders of Resistance 3. As the conclusion to Insomniac's sci-fi trilogy, its success will dictate if we remember the sci-fi shooter trilogy as a classic. Developer Insomniac Games, aware of the gravity of its situation, invested a longer development cycle on the game. The effort shows, addressing prior criticisms and reflecting the skill a great team has when given the time to perfect their craft.
Unlike its predecessors, Resistance 3 tells a much more human story. Resistance 1 and 2 focused on the larger struggle against the Chimeran invaders, but it was hard to overlook its B-movie feel. Resistance 3 introduces a new main character, Joseph Capelli, and changes the core nature of the story being told. The war is over. Humanity has all but been defeated, with only pockets of survivors eking out their final days on earth. Through that despair, Capelli goes on a journey to take one last fight against the enemy, and hopefully, save the world.
The "road trip" from Oklahoma to New York City allows the designers to play with a number of unique stops along the way. To be fair, many follow a fairly predictable quid pro quo formula of needing to perform some sort of helpful task in each area before being able to move on. And for those who've played similar games--notably, the Half-Life series--a sense of déjà vu may creep in at times as well.
But in spite of (or perhaps by virtue of) that familiarity, the encounter design in Resistance 3 stands out as some of the best in any shooter I've played. The original Resistance was defined its arsenal, providing progressively more challenging firefights that tested my ability to put them all to use in order to survive. Resistance 3 repeats that formula, and then builds on it with a design that rewards tactical thinking. While it follows an obvious pattern of doling out new weapons one at a time, no situation felt like an unnatural setup just to get me to use a particular weapon in a certain way.
Quite to the contrary, the firefights are satisfying precisely because success comes by juggling all the tools at your disposal. There's no "right" way of winning a battle. I could just as easily have approach a scenario from a whole other approach and win. I was thinking about everything in the heat of the moment: ammo levels, primary and secondary fire for each of my weapons and where I might put them to best use, and the same for my grenades.
Excellent level design is what enables such satisfyingly flexible gameplay. Quite often I'd start with one tactic. For example, picking off a few enemies at range, only to then lay a little ambush, lure some into it, thin out their ranks, and then find a way to flank the remaining enemies to mop up. It worked so well that, for the first time in a long while, I got to the end of the single-player campaign and wanted more, a lot more.
That the entire campaign can be played co-op only adds to the appeal of making another run through Resistance 3. The design makes no compromises for playing with a second person nor does it include any staged events that feel tacked on. I did hit a couple spots where playing with a partner wasn't quite as smooth of an experience as tackling the same section solo, but it felt like a good tradeoff.
I'll come back for multiplayer too, but more as a change of pace than my mainstay. It's fun enough to run around and shoot it up with the various guns, but the tactical element they introduce that makes the campaign so fun doesn't translate to multiplayer. When used outside the carefully designed single-player experience, weapon imbalances are noticeable. Kill streak bonuses and special perks earned by players as they gain levels online only exacerbate the problems. These issues conspire to make early goings online an especially frustrating experience.
These rough patches won't completely dissuade me, though, because when it comes down to it I want to play more Resistance 3. Whether it's another run through the game at a harder difficulty, or co-op, or multiplayer, I'll definitely be playing more. That's the surest sign of its success and the reason I have no hesitation saying that Resistance 3 now holds the crown as the best PS3 exclusive shooter.
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Without this selective emphasis, the world would show up as a structureless chaos. Attention is a sorting machine that slots the oncoming line of objects into foreground or background, center or periphery, light or shadow. We can only foreground one thing at a time and the criterion used for sorting things is "interest." We foreground those objects that provoke our interest.
Here is James' own explicit definition of attention:
The taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought.
It is worth noting that, on this definition, attention implies the necessity of its own withdrawal. We attend to something only by not attending something else. Or, to put it more bluntly: paying attention is the business of selectively ignoring.
It would seem that, of necessity, those who are good at paying attention to stuff will also be those who are good at ignoring at stuff. The cultivation of attention must split this difference: we must learn how to focus by ignoring without also succumbing ignorance.
As a general rule, we can only pay attention to one thing at a time. This "one" thing may well be an aggregate of multiple objects (what isn't an aggregate after all?), but to attend to them all simultaneously we must address them as a "single" thing.
This leads to a secondary definition of attention in terms of "gathering": attention is what gathers out and then gathers together an aggregate.
Or, more comprehensively: attention is what gathers objects, gathers me, and then gathers me in relation to the gathered object. Attention not only gathers objects in relation to me, it gathers me in relation to the anchor point of an object.
Here, attention depends on our ability to generate (unifying) networks of associations. We're able to pay attention to things only to the degree that we have some "place" to put them, some other stuff with which we can associate them, some compatriots with which we can number them.
The opposite of attention is distraction. If attention is a gathering, distraction is a scattering. Distraction is both a dispersion of objects and a dispersion of "me." Distraction is a focusless fog.
Distraction, though, is different from a lack of sustained attention because attention will and must move on. Attention is unavoidably serial in character. We must pay attention to this . . . and then this . . . and then this . . . and then this . . . and then this . . .
Attention is geared to flit. As soon as there is nothing new to notice, it will be on to the next thing. The conveyor belt of attention never stops moving. As James puts it:
No one can possibly attend continuously to an object that does not change.
This serial character may predispose me to hazy distraction, but it is not itself distraction. James claims that the only way to keep our attention from moving to a new object is to constantly work to keep seeing new things in the object we're already attending to. But only novelty can sustain attention: if I don't find novelty in the object at hand, my attention will move on.
In this sense, anicca is the key to samadhi:
If we wish to keep [attention] on the same object, we must seek continually to find out something new about the latter.
It follows, then, that my observation of the object, in order to be sustained, must be intensively interrogative. Every object needs to taste like a koan. Every object needs to be "rolled" over and over as we continually consider different aspects of it.
James also usefully distinguishes a number of different kinds of attention along multiple axises.
We might, for instance, distinguish kinds of attention in terms of (1) whether they are immediate or derived, or (2) in terms of whether the are passive or voluntary.
Objects of immediate attention are those that are interesting to us in their own right. Objects of derived attention are of interest only because we associate them with objects that are of immediate interest.
Objects of passive attention do not require active effort. Objects of voluntary attention do.
The point of connection between these opposed pairs is especially interesting. James claims that voluntary attention is always derived because attention only requires effort when an object is not of immediate interest.
The result, James says, is that when we talk about "sustained voluntary attention" we really mean either one of two things: (1) we're naming a repeated (and ongoing) series of successive (but failed) efforts to pay attention, or (2) we're naming a kind of attention that starts off as derivative and voluntary but then becomes passive and potentially immediate. (In either words, there is no such thing as sustained "voluntary" attention :)
James additionally points out that the better someone is at forming novel associations with an object, the better they will be at paying attention to that object. And, similarly, those whose minds are already equipped with rich sets of associative networks will have an easier time of gathering novel objects into those networks.
Two final notes.
First, there is a connection between attention and memory. Objects that are paid attention to will be remembered (cf. "sati").
And second, the nature of the attentive process (1) involves a physiological disposition of sensory/muscular readiness (one must not discount the role of the body, of posture, etc. in attention), and (2) involves a mental disposition of anticipation, preparation, excitation.
Because this dimension of anticipation is so important, James proposes that we describe all attention as a kind of pre-perception.
The only things that we commonly see are those that we pre-perceive or anticipate as being of interest to us. Attention itself amounts to a kind of "looking for" or proto-desire that screens and selectively emphasizes on the basis of interest.
Though we may initially notice many objects as being of derived importance because they function as "signs" indicating something about some other objects that are of immediate importance to us, the habitual pathways worn by these signs to their referents will soon lead us to skip over the sign altogether and pass directly to the object of primary interest. As a result, pre-perception makes attention possible because it primes us to ignore the habitual.
One thing can come to the fore only if many others recede into the background.
Pre-perception both enables focused attention AND impedes my ability to attend to what is habitual or unexpected.
Here, as elsewhere, the business of cultivating attention will have to grapple (and, almost certainly, continue grappling) with the inconvenient double-bind of attention itself.


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Anyone know the best way to do this? I am just getting a "loading" screen staying indefinitely, no erros, nothing :s.
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Oh yea, using SS 2.4.0.
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Any ideas on this? I am using and extension of CsvBulkLoader, as explained in the SS Book, but the upload just isn't working?
Anyone else here actually use this functionality?
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Ok, I did a bit more research on this, looks like it may have been an issue with 2.4.0, I have now upgraded to 2.4.1 and things seem to be a bit nicer.
Fingers crossed...
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Ok, 2.4.1 is kind of working, but it seems to be importing dates rather oddly. Nearly 50% of the events have a date of First of January 1970 (unix epoch).
I cannot for the life of me work out why, as all the dates in the CSV are in the same format.
Anyone got any ideas? I really wouldn't mind knowing how to debug processes like this. There isn't a lot of info in the silverstripe book.
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Whew, thanks for your post that the non-working import is a 2.4.0-issue. I spent some hours seeing nothing. Did you solve your date issue, maybe I can help you with that... what format does the dates have? I once had an issue that day and month were swapped by the importer (not silverstripe, not even php) and the illegal dates (01/17/2010) were set to 01/01/1970.
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Not really sure what was happening to be honest. In the end, I just told the client to export their dates in the CSV to the default database format (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS).
Working fine now, Not really sure what was causing it, but I think it is similar to what you are saying adiwidjaja, id didn't seem to be a SIlverstripe or PHP error. Very odd.
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Could you please kindly check the attachment file, I thought the custom menus i just installed not working properly, honestly i don't why. While i want to update and change menus it also changes the pages also.
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What's your management style? How well do you really know your employees/coworkers?
Have you ever really stopped to think about the psychology of your employees? Their motivations and personalities? Understanding them better will not only make you a better manager, but also help the company be stronger as a whole. We have written before about what makes our company culture unique and what type of work environment we foster to make our employees as productive as possible. Now I want to dive into our management style, what you should consider and mistakes you can't afford to make when choosing yours.
Why it's important:
Have you ever considered the psychology behind your management style? Whether you're managing an in-house team or a remote team, your management style has an effect on productivity and morale. Choosing the right management style can lead to better commitment, focus, unity, creative thinking, and quick progress, and can help develop other strong managers and team leaders.
What to consider:
There are three main management styles:
- Transactional – Based on contingent reinforcement; everyone just does what they do to get paid. This is not a good style because there is little to no room to foster growth.
- Laissez Faire – This style of management is fully hands off in all aspects. While it may be good to give your employees some freedom, this style is ineffective as well due to its passivity and no directions toward a vision or purpose.
- Transformational – This is all about going from "I" to "We." It's about taking an active approach to effectively growing your team/business.
Within transformation management are the 4 "I"s to consider:
- Intellectual stimulation: Do you encourage innovative thinking? The key here is valuing the intellect of employees, encouraging imagination, and challenging old ways of thinking. If you're not encouraging constant brainstorming and thinking outside the box, you're not fostering an environment that encourages others to find the answer, creates a readiness for change in thinking, and encourages a broad range of opinions. You hired your employees because they had the intellect; now it's your turn as a manager to keep that intellect stimulated, and your employees thirsty for more.
- Inspirational motivation: Do you focus on the future? A good transformational manager treats threats as opportunities, has higher expectations of employees, and is focused on a grand vision. The more you can pass your vision and big picture idea of the company direction, the more you will motivate your employees to excel to reach goals.
- Individualized consideration: Do you provide personalized attention? Each employee is different; I'm sure this was considered while hiring them. Therefore, you must be aware that certain employees respond differently than others, and and take that into consideration when making any big management decisions. Fostering this supportive environment is also key for communication, keeping communication two-way. This is also your chance as a manager to play on your employees' strengths and weaknesses to provide the feedback they need to build confidence and grow in their roles.
- Idealized influence: Do you have charisma? As a leader, even though you're all about the "We," you must also still serve as a role model to your employees. You're the one who best understands the vision of the company, and you have to project your confidence in that vision to provide your employees with a genuine sense of purpose and trust. The more you can "walk the talk" and be willing to share the limelight with all, the more you will influence your employees to join in the shared vision and goals of the company.
How to put it into action:
At Blueglass, we are constantly encouraged to think outside the box, and look for the next big thing. We understand the only constant is change, and are always looking to the future and how we can use change to our advantage. Our managers are involved with every team, understand everyone's strengths and weaknesses in their roles, and are constantly working towards making things better. I can honestly say I understand the vision our managers have for the company and it's future. I also know I can always approach a manager and expect open communication and support. I believe this is the main reason I was able to grow within the company so quickly and continue to grow and improve in my role every day.
Why it's important:
Going along with individualized consideration and inspirational motivation, do you really take the time to understand what is going through an employee's mind when they act in a certain way? How do you make sure your employees aren't just there passing the time, working for the paycheck? The more you understand what drives them, the more you can ensure they are not only enjoying what they do, but inspiring everyone around them to love what they do as well.
What to consider:
There are five motivations to consider as a manager:
- Intrinsic motivation: What are your employees' likes/dislikes? How can you make sure they are enjoying what they do and having fun?
- Instrumental motivation: As humans, we are all motivated, on some level, by "what's in it for me?" So it is important to consider this when managing your employees.
- External self concept motivation: Although all employees are different, I can almost guarantee they all enjoy feedback, praise, and credit. Although it may not always be good, people like to know where they stand, when they do well, and how they can do better.
- Internal self concept motivation: This motivation considers your employees' needs for skill development and their ability to perform for the company. This definitely comes from the need to grow within the company and industry.
- Internal goal motivation: How often do you think your employees ask themselves, "Why are we doing this?" It is the manager's role to instill that strategic focus and collective cause mentality in their employees so they know the answer to this and aren't wondering why they show up for work day after day.
How to put it into action:
At Blueglass, we like music, we like comfort, we like an open and collaborative environment. So what did our managers do? Installed speakers throughout the office, built a lounge to drink coffee and work in and let us move our desks and workspaces to best collaborate with the rest of the team. When I wonder "What's in it for me?" I can think about the weekly Lunch 'n' Learns with amazing food and the chance to learn even more about the company and my coworkers. In addition, one of my favorite moments was when a manager approached me and asked, "What are your goals? What steps can I take to help you get there?" Did we specifically ask for these things? No. Do they make me love being here a little more? Yes.
Why it's important:
When your goal is to create a work environment where your employees are constantly innovating, you must consider what personality types can work best together. Keep in mind– the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Therefore, you want to create teams that have the optimal mix to make this happen.
What to consider:
Have you ever taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality test? No type is necessarily better than another, but it is one of the most accurate ways to understand and appreciate differences between you and others. Even if you don't have the time to administer one for all your employees, if you are a transformational manager, you should have a pretty good idea of where your employees fall in the Myers-Briggs spectrum. The types include the following dimensions:
- Introversion/Extraversion: interaction vs. reflection
- Sensing/Intuition: how you gather information; interpretation only or add meaning to information
- Thinking/Feeling: how you come to conclusions
- Judging/Perceiving: how you deal with the world; making quick decisions or open to interpretation
For example, a person who enjoys interaction, doesn't add too much meaning when interpreting information, uses their feelings to come to conclusions, and is open to interpretation (ESFP) is known as a "The Performer" and learn best by trying a new skill with other people. You can read more about the 16 types here.
Once you understand these types a little more, you can use the type table to ensure you are not including too many of a single type on your teams, and are playing on the strengths of each type.
How to put it into action:
Now that you have a better understanding of your employees, you can build the ultimate team. At BlueGlass, we create a brainstorming dream team by including everyone, and not just "The Mechanics" or "The Scientists." While this may seem like there may be too many cooks in the kitchen, we find that having a diverse group brings different perspectives to the table, and is the difference between a good idea and a great idea.
Why it's important:
As a manager, you have to trust your choice and project that confidence onto the rest of your team. Instead of wondering whether someone is right for the role after all, remember their strengths and play on them. Whether you believe leaders are born or made, I think any good manager can trust their ability to lead their employees in a way that strengthens them.
What to consider:
A great manager has the ability to empower their employees to rise to the occasion, and affirm your decision to bring them on the team. You cannot harp on the weaknesses of anyone or question your decision. You must help and give them the motivation to believe in themselves. Five ways to encourage and develop your employees:
- Empower people to rise to the challenge
- Keep them focused on a shared mission.
- Engage and challenge your employees
- Reinforce their strengths
- Let your employees make mistakes
The last one may seem counter-intuitive and inefficient, but this is proven to help your employees grow into leaders themselves. Just trust your instincts and trust your employees; treat everyone equally and learn from everyone. This mutual respect is the basis for empowerment. That empowerment will go a long way for you and the company.
How to put it into action:
At BlueGlass, our managers let us make mistakes. Not in a sense where they don't care and let us do as we please, but in a sense where they trust their decision to bring us to the team and are willing to step back and let us run with things, even if it means we may fail at first. This allows us to step up in situations, and in ways we might not have thought of before, and really showcase our strengths and leadership skills. The more I see my coworkers stepping up and learning from their mistakes, the more I see their strengths and abilities to really excel in their positions. As a manager, creating an environment where your employees are not afraid to step up is crucial to the growth of the company.
Management is not about personal success, but the success created by empowering others to step up and lead. Being a transformational manager is the best way to foster a collaborative culture and motivate others to reach full potential instead of just being followers. Don't just listen; be an active listener, and have authentic interactions with your employees. Inspire, develop, and create change through others, and watch your employees and company grow and prosper.
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I just pulled fresh Blue Lake Bush green beans from my garden, snapped the ends and wanted to boil them, while keeping then crisp. How should I boil them so they are cooked through, but not limp?
You shouldn't cook more than a few minutes, and should cool them as quickly as possible afterwards. Ideally, you'll be blanching them, and here's how:
This ensures beans are precisely cooked, but do not have a chance to over-cook, and using the ice water helps them retain color and flavor.
It's how we get deliciously crisp haricot vert (French green beans) at the restaurant I work for. Note that cooking times and crispness will also vary based on the variety and age at which the beans were picked.
I don't know if Blue Lake Bush green beans are different, but UK green beans reliably take just 8 mins steaming.
Every green bean is different. Sometimes even from the same vine picked at different times the bean will be more tender and sweet than at other times requiring less cooking time.
The beans will release certain chemicals into the water which will turn them a dark green so use a very high water to bean ratio and salted water also helps keep the beans bright green.
Because each batch of beans are different it's hard to say how long it will take, but if cooked too long they become mushy and a little too waxy. The general rule is when the bean is no longer squeaky on the teeth when bit into it's done. Chew on a partially cooked green bean and you will understand.
The Blue Lake require far more cooking than a snap pea or snow pea and shouldn't be expected to have the same crunch when cooked properly. The squeak needs to go away.
The cooking time of green beans can vary quite a bit. It will be at least 10-15 min, sometimes it can go up to 30 minutes.
I advise you to cook them for about 10 minutes and taste one. Do so every two-three minutes until you have them a tiny bit too hard for your taste. After that, you will fry the beans (for example with oil/butter and onion) which will make them a bit softer, as you like them.