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With the news that Michal Rozsival will miss some time with a KNEE injury, the Hawks have been called upon to test their depth on D. "Rozy" however might not be out for as long as originally anticipated as he's been spotted back on the ice in recent practices. Still, this KNEE injury will allow Sheldon Brookbank to spread his wings and fly like the peacock he is.
With the loss of Rozsival to the backend, the Hawks have Brookbank skating with Nick Leddy on the 3rd pairing. Maybe it's because we're not quite sure who's better yet, but an injury like this doesn't appear to be a huge blow. Also, it was well documented (highlighted in RED actually) that Rozsival has a laundry list of injury issues throughout his 12 year career.
The Hawks hit their first in-season blip on the injury radar screen with Dan Carcillo's KNEE injury as well. Wait, I thought these used to be called "lower-body" injuries; maybe coaches can't be bothered due to the tightened schedule. This injury to the one they call "Car-bomb", who was playing on the top line, would normally set the Hawks back a little but Brandon Saad has stepped in and done no harm. He's not "lighting it up" as the kids would say, but he's allowed Q to keep his lines balanced, thus creating an early set chemistry. A certain chemistry that has appeared to be missing for most of the past couple of seasons.
What? Are you confused why I haven't mentioned the crushing shootout loss to Minnesota the other night that has ruined the Hawks perfect season? Well you and I both knew it wasn't going to last forever and I'm sure you're over it already. If not, I'm not sure what to tell you.
Back to the depth; maybe you're not flinching at any of these injuries because of this 6-0-1 start. Or maybe it's because you're actually comfortable with the depth Mr. Stan Bowman has provided and accumulated in prospects? I'm not sure I'm "comfortable" per se, but I do feel better than forcing in a dear-in-headlights Dylan Olsen with these injuries. Also, remember Montador was supposed to be on this roster as well… you haven't forgot about Steve Montador yet, have you?
Yes, I'm sure you would love to be able to pick up the phone and have Stan Bowman on the other line so you can fill him in on your roster ideas in your master plan to win the mini Stanley Cup this year. If this was to come to fruition though, what would you actually say? You need to trade for a PK, faceoff winning centre or a grinder to help come playoff time? Good luck with that. The fact remains that until the Hawks start their downward spiral and even if they soak into mediocrity it still probably won't trigger Bowman to do anything.
"Maybe Bowman doesn't have to" says the fan who's team is only down a poser of a first-liner and a 34 year old 5th-6th defenseman. You might be singing a different tune if a core player goes down and you're left with Martin St. Pierre or Klas Dalbeck on your lineup card. Aside from the fact I like both of these gents, I wouldn't be thrilled to see them in an important role this year. Yes, I know there are players that would be called up a head of them, just trying to make a point.
Interested to hear your early season thoughts on how comfortable you are with this roster's depth and please don't tell me you want Stan to get that coveted #2 C or starting goalie you've been asking for – not gonna happen pal. Besides, I think the starting goaltender position won't be an issue if that guy wearing Crawford's jersey keeps it up!
In closing, if I can channel my inner Ron McLean, "if I've Saad it once, I'll say it again; everything's all fun and Rozy until someone sets off a Car-Bomb, leaving you licking your wounds down by the Brookbank for weeks on end."
*Don Cherry somewhere shoots me a disapproved look*
Ty's Tidbits
- Hawks take on Vancouver on Friday and it looks like Luongo is getting the nod. The goaltending situation is going to be a distraction (in the media's eyes at least) until Loungo is dealt. The thing is, as long as the Canucks are winning games, nobody will be complaining.
- Saad is still getting his time on the top line and is without a point. I don't feel like he's hurting the Hawks' top line in anyway but if the team as a whole continues to struggle to score, I for one wouldn't mind seeing a change. How about giving Jeremy Morin or the revived Jimmy Hayes a look in the lineup (not necessarily on the top line).
- Crawford's save *courtesy of NHLVideo* in Minnesota really made me do a double take. This is not a Crawford-esque style save when looking at past clips. He almost looked like he was relying on… wait for it… instincts rather than technique.
Ty Cam out!
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Great post!
Keep em coming! :)
A little bird told me you got a hate on for Crawford…dont agree with you there…you need to change your tune on the Crow…hes a rock just hate the little point shot deflections that the dirty teams do…ill take him all year if Emery doesn't see the pipes again
I don't think anyone hates Crawford. The Hawks just don't stand much of a chance if the Crawford from 2011-2012 shows up. We all hope for the Crawford from 2010-2011 and it appears thus far that is who showed up this year.
The latest two FA signing, Michal Rozsival and Sheldon Brookbank are already starting to look like all the other Free Agents in the Bowman era, Broken down has been's and never were's found under the blue light at the local K-Mart.
Rozsival looked pretty good to me when he played. He and Leddy seemed to work very well together. Can he stay healthy in April and beyond would be the question I have.


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Wading Into the Pond
The previous post discussed an ethical dilemma presented by Peter Singer concerning the choice between saving some fancy shoes or a drowning child in a shallow pond. The conclusion was that charity is the best we can do within the given social structures, but that justice requires counter-cultural living. The way of following Jesus is not charity, but justice. It requires a radical reorientation of our lives away from token charity to a new kind of Jubilee economics.
So, the question is how to incorporate these ideas into our daily lives. This is really the question with which I wrestle. Singer's shallow pond dilemma is really more like the dilemma of two oceans and our ever more insular lifestyle. How do we make ourselves aware of how we spend our resources and the choices we make about what to buy? How do we recognize in our daily lives the impact of the choices we make? Finally, how do we attempt to live out something more than charity, embodying something "counter to the ethics of the culture" we're in?
The Definition of Insanity
The oft quoted saying that, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results" has been attributed to Mark Twain, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Confucius, but more likely came from Narcotics Anonymous literature. If anyone, the addicts would know the truth of this saying. Likewise continuing to try and live counter-culturally as isolated individuals will not work.
The first thing we need to realize is that we cannot do it alone. To try and do it alone as an individual consumer is to continue within the same framework. Our awareness of the reality of the situation is muted by our own isolation from all the other individual consumers with whom we share the world. So, we must find particular people who are willing to walk this road with us. It is the particulars of our shared lives that shed light on our own inconsistencies and inadequacies. These are vulnerable relationships based on trust and shared values. These are the relationships many of us are lacking in North American culture.
We need to break out of our isolation, but we need more than just a book club. Waco just started a time exchange where people can exchange time and skills with each other rather than currency. Tool sharing is another way to build up community as the solution rather than individual consumption. Anything that you can do with other people that promotes community and shares resources moves us beyond the parameters of consumerism.
The Second Rule of Consumerism is… Do NOT Talk About Consumerism
The second thing we need to do is learn how to talk about our finances openly and honestly with others. We have all sorts of justifications built into our lives for the way we live. We have to make ourselves vulnerable to critiques of the choices we make. The prophetic strain of the biblical narrative calls into question anything, any structure, choice or lifestyle, that is complicit or participates in the oppression, exclusion and marginalization of those who bear the image of God as well as the exploitation and domination of God's creation. Shedding light on those realities in our lives requires the aforementioned relationships of trust, honesty and vulnerability.
One attempt to shed light on our own participation in these systems of domination that I read recently involved agreeing to a corporate tax based on the grades of the corporations from whom we purchase goods and services (A practical, creative tax for a better world).
This "holy excise tax" is designed to 1) disincentivize our demand for unneeded cheap consumer goods and services (mostly bought from companies that grow profit for investors by hiding real costs); and 2) raise revenue to give to organizations that care for our most vulnerable neighbors.
We are using the Better World Shopping Guide, which gives companies from a large variety of categories a grade from A to F, depending on the social consciousness of their business practices, considering human rights, the environment, animal protection, community involvement and social justice. Companies rated B have a 10-cent tax on each receipt, while companies rated C, D and F get a 25-cent tax. In addition, the guide has a list of the top 20 corporate villains, including Exxon Mobil, Walmart, Verizon, Kraft, Nestle and Bank of America. We pay 50 cents each time we support these socio-economic goliaths.
This is just one example of a creative attempt to help reveal the realities hidden in our credit card statements. There are others as well. No matter how you try to learn to talk about our hidden financial realities this last point is essential to making it successful and healthy.
Misery Loves Company
The last thing that I think the church has uniquely to offer in this area is a theology of grace and love alongside the prophetic. Some Christians that have tried to radically live out biblical economics through a common purse or other methods have found themselves right back in the waters of domination and oppression as they create new forms of legalism and oppression. So, recognizing that none of us is completely able to live somehow outside the system is essential.
The goal is not in fact to live outside the system. In order to live counter-culturally you have to continue struggling from within the dominant culture. I have lived and worked closely with Christians that have a long history of attempting to live outside the system in isolated colonies. The unspoken reality is that they are much more a part of the world than they would ever admit, because they interact daily with people outside the colony and are the primary economic drivers in the region.
The question then is not "How do extricate myself from the systems of domination?" but instead "How do I begin to organize my life with others such that our existence challenges the status quo both within ourselves and the broader culture?" It is only as members of the culture and web of domination that we pose a threat or challenge to the system. (Why are the relatively small numbers of people involved in Occupy protests across the country such a threat to the Powers that they are willing to spend inordinate amounts of money to have the police and authorities attempt to forcibly remove them?)
This means that there is no one righteous, no not one. No one is able to say that they are embodying the reality we hope for. What we need is a confessing movement. Then we can take steps together to live out this new way of living that we have glimpsed in Jesus, not out of self-righteousness or guilt, but in the grace and love of the Prince of Shalom.
Coveting, Control and Captivity (Leviticus 25)
You can search this site for "jubilee", "leviticus 25″ and "sabbath" to read more about the connections I make between Sabbath practices, ecology, economics, Jesus and Isaiah. To find something fresh to say about this central passage in the biblical narrative I turn to one of my favorite scholars.
The text of Leviticus 25 asserts both Yahweh's radical intention and the radical social practice of entitlement that necessarily accompanies Yahweh's intention. (103)
So, Walter Brueggeman sums up the well-known Jubilee chapter of Leviticus. Many people, particularly conservatives, hear the word entitlement primarily with negative connotations. However, the concept of predistribution which I mentioned before in relationship to Peter Barnes' book Capitalism 3.0 is a more positive description of what Brueggeman means. Brueggeman also supports what I've often claimed for the importance of this chapter for understanding Israel, the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament in his book Finally Comes the Poet,
Israel's theological conviction about the land is asserted positively in the great social vision of Leviticus 25, the text on the Jubilee year. A number of scholars now argue that this text provides the cornerstone for Israel's ethical practice. (102)
Brueggeman makes this claim in the context of his exegesis of the command not to covet (Ex 20:17) in which he says,
Marvin Cheney has argued, and I agree, that covet in the Decalogue refers in principle to land tenure systems and land management policies. To covet means to arrange loan credit, tax, and inheritance so that some may have land that others should rightfully possess. That is, it is the systemic economic practice of greed. (99)
It is helpful to put the redistribution scheme of Leviticus 25 in the context of prohibitions against covetousness and greed. In other words, the Jubilee is the positive vision of what the world could or should be in light of the negative reality highlighted by the prohibitions in the Decalogue. Greed, or covetousness, is both based on and results in inequalities of the distribution of wealth and power. For the biblical world this comes primarily in the form of access and ownership of land. Brueggeman goes on to explore this further,
There is an important line of scholarship that argues that early Israel (which gives us the seed of all biblical faith) is essentially a social revolution concerning land tenure systems. This charter for "egalitarianism" culminated in the commandment against coveting that prohibits the rapacious policies of the state that characteristically monopolize law, power, and wealth… The Bible has understood, long before Karl Marx, that the basic human issues concern land, power, and the means of production. (99-100)
I have argued before in these virtual pages that a biblical economy is based on the land, and I'm happy to find confirmation from such a highly respected biblical, particularly Old Testament, scholar. Some will dismiss everything at the mention of that dreaded name, "Marx", but will have missed the point Brueggeman makes that, far from being "Marxist", the Bible is fundamentally human. Where Marx gets things right he happens to agree with the biblical emphasis on justice, egalitarianism and land reform. Most Christians read the Ten Commandments (and the whole biblical narrative) primarily in individualistic terms. What they miss is the socio-political context of these commands which were understood in much more radical terms by the original hearers.
So, Jubilee is the antithesis to coveting, but Brueggeman unpacks this further in terms of control and captivity,
The theological issue related to the land is sharing— respecting the entitlement of others. The preacher's theme for those who gather is greed. Greed touches every aspect of our lives: economic, political, sexual, psychological, and theological. Greed bespeaks a fundamental disorder in our lives, a disorder that reflects distortion in our relation with God.
Central to this issue is the addiction to control that permeates human history. In verse 6 the text poses the question most people probably have when reading about letting the land lie fallow for a year, "What then shall we eat?" I hope to explore this aspect of Jubilee further, but the response of the text is that God provides abundantly, such that the people will still be eating from the produce of the Sabbath year three years later. Loss of control is scary, but God clearly promises that letting go of control is actually better than when we hold tightly to the reins.
This addiction to control is a kind of captivity or slavery. When we hold our possessions and wealth tightly, we are possessed by them. We become slaves to the things we pretend to have control over. Their is a subtle reversal in the relationship to material goods that most people don't recognize in their daily lives. The logic of greed and coveting and the systems that perpetuate these values traps us in a spiral from which we cannot extricate ourselves. This kind of captivity is picked up by the prophet Isaiah (61:1-2) when he proclaims "good news to the poor", "liberty to the captives" and the "year of the Lord's favor". Many scholars argue that this is a reference to the Jubilee, which is then appropriated by Jesus when he quotes Isaiah in the synagogue in Nazareth and says, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing" (Lk 4:21). This proclamation of liberation from captivity which is good news to the poor is a thread connecting the Torah, Prophets, Gospels and on through Paul and James. This Jubilee thread weaves a tapestry that paints a picture of the "kingdom of heaven" at the core of Jesus' life, death and resurrection.
But Brueggeman also admonishes that the prohibition against coveting and the positive command of the Jubilee are not based on a revelatory "because God said so", but instead on real world experience.
This claim about God and the distribution of land is not accepted simply on the basis of revelation, but can be established in terms of social experience. Excessive land grabbing leads to death, whether in the family, in the church, in the faculty, or in Latin America. (101)
Living among people that are desperate for access to land, I can attest to the timelessness of this assertion. North American and western cultures have isolated themselves from the death that the injustice and inequality of economic systems creates, causes and exacerbates, but it is very real. Those at the very bottom understand that their inability to access land is the basis of their poverty and exploitation. For middle class westerners so detached and abstracted from their land base, it seems strange that people are still fighting over access to land. We have been sold the lie that we can solve poverty and basic inequalities in the system without dealing with the most fundamental issue of access to land and exploitation of natural resources. It is so important to recognize that this is not an arbitrary commandment, but one based on the social and economic realities of human existence which continue to apply today.
I'd like to share a story that Brueggeman relates which, I think, helps connect this ancient text and practice to our current context,
A concrete embodiment of the Jubilee command- ment was evidenced in a rural church in Iowa during the "farm crisis." The banker in the town held mortgages on many farms. The banker and the farmers belonged to the same church. The banker could have foreclosed. He did not because, he said, "These are my neighbors and I want to live here a long time." He extended the loans and did not collect the interest that was rightly his. The pastor concluded, "He was practicing the law of the Jubilee year, and he did not even know it." The pastor might also have noted that the reason the banker could take such action is that his bank was a rare exception. It was locally and independently owned, not controlled by a larger Chicago banking system. (104)
Finally, let me end with this challenge from Brueggeman,
What if the central claim of the Tenth Commandment is true: that coveting kills, that taking what belongs to another destroys, and that life-giving social practice requires giving things back to people! (106)
The Peace of Wild Things
This is a well known poem of Wendell Berry's. I have wanted to avoid some of his more well known works, but they are still so full of meaning and poignance for me that I cannot ignore them. This one is short. So, I will quote the whole thing.
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
This poem in particular gives me a lot of comfort. As an activist, environmentalist, follower of Jesus, father, husband and someone who cares about the world we live in, it can be easy find myself where the poem begins, in despair. It seems that those who want to make the world a better place often begin by trying to overwhelm us with fear and guilt about the state of the world. I have certainly felt that in order to make change I needed to shock people out of complacency with pictures, statistics, stories and a narrative about how the world is so completely messed up. So, we begin our task of repairing the world by creating as much discomfort, anxiety, guilt and fear possible.
This strategy has the benefit of working, at least for a while. People become fearful and guilty about what the world has become and their role in it. Then they reach despair, the beginning of this poem, but people can only stay there so long before turning suicidal or mentally ill. Many people choose then to opt-out of any resistance and try to get the most they can out of the status quo. They recycle and do little things that reflect their deeper values, but they have despaired of greater change and left behind any radical dreams of a better world. That grieves me. Have we not learned that people motivated by fear or guilt tend not to do the things that make the world better?
Perhaps Berry feels the weight of despair from this disaster narrative that haunts our global society. Regardless of where his despair comes from initially, he places his fears in their proper place, future generations. This is what should motivate us, not guilt and fear, but a rootedness in this place called earth, and our own particular places that causes us to contemplate the future of this place and these people. This is the place to which the rest of the poem brings us.
Berry has often been contrasted with another poet, Mary Oliver; he, the poet of farm and field and she, the poet of wilderness. Yet Berry often lingers on the edges of fields, more than he rides the tractor. He also often contrasts forest and field, wilderness and cultivated land. They are deeply intertwined in his work. This is because, as he demonstrates in this poem, there is an an underlying "grace of the world" his sense of what farming is and what it means. In another poem, "The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer", Berry says
I have planted by the stars in defiance of the experts and tilled somewhat by incantation and by singing and reaped as I knew by luck and heaven's favor in spite of the best advice.
Berry's way of living with the land, rather than off it or from it, is centered in the world of living things "who do not tax their lives with forethought". The natural world is not planning out how to survive, or how to win the battle against encroaching civilization. There is no conspiracy of beavers and bears plotting how to protect their homes. I believe it was David Quinn who said that the point at which human beings departed from other creatures was our ability to tell the future from the past, to look at a set of tracks and say that someone or something came from this direction and went that way. Perhaps the point at which we began to "tell time" in the modern sense is when we domesticated ourselves, no longer living among wild things without forethought.
The "presence of still water" obviously calls to mind the 23rd Psalm, but it is almost as if the poet wants us to look again at this well known phrase in a new context. In the context of the Psalm it evokes the comfort of God in difficult times, but we don't think much about the actual still water. It is incredible to me that even our faith tradition can get in the way of our seeing and reading the Bible. In this poem the still water evokes the fact that it has not been disturbed. Think about how long you have to sit and watch a pond or lake reach that glassy equilibrium. In the poem the peace of that water just sits there waiting, just like the stars, obscured by the sun's light.
Finally, there is a freedom in this kind of wild peace that is exponentially more than the negative freedoms we have come to associate with that word. Plants grow and bear fruit, animals mate and die, rivers flow, the rains come and it all happens beyond all our machinations and our control. We have used science to understand a lot about the world, but it continues to be beyond our control. I still believe that our attempts to control it are the definition of hubris and a lack of true understanding. It is as if we have equated freedom with control, where we are the ones in charge. Yet real freedom lies in the world beyond our control, that continues without us and continues to support us in spite of our best efforts to manipulate, exploit and destroy. It is not freedom for the heron or wood drake to try and become like us and live in air conditioned houses. Their freedom is their ability to be what they were meant to be, to exist as they were created to exist, apart from our care or exploitation, but beside us in the grand dance of ecology.
To return to the despair in the beginning, this kind of freedom and peace puts the activist, the radical, the follower of Jesus, those who want to make the world better in a completely different frame of mind for their work. Using fear and guilt to make change is another way of manipulation, exploitation and control. How would we work toward change if our thoughts and actions grew out of the peace of wild things and the freedom of the world beyond our control?
Sex and the Land (Leviticus 18 and 20)
Leviticus 18:24-28 Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled. Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sins, and the land vomited out its inhabitants… And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations before you.
These are the chapters of Leviticus (18 and 20) that caught my attention as a teenager, because, of course, they were all about sex. Both chapters contain approximately the same laws with some variances, but chapter 20 prescribes punishments for violations, either being put to death or cut off from the people. The first thing I will point out is that the vast majority of these injunctions were for men. In chapter 20 they are explicitly addressed to men, except for 20:16 which is the same as the previous verse except that it is addressed to women. In chapter 18 the ambiguous "you" is used, but it is clear that these injunctions are meant primarily for the men. My theory and assumption is that these prohibitions are primarily about asymmetrical power relationships in a highly patriarchal social structure.
The reason given for these laws is "You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes" (Lev 18:3) So, the people are between the land of Egypt where they experienced the foundational event of their existence in the Exodus and the Promised Land of Canaan. Coming out of Egypt defined them as a people and during the time in the wilderness they had to overcome their desire to return to where they "sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full" (Ex 16:3). They were formed through that experience of liberation and wandering in the wilderness as a peculiar, pilgrim people. They were promised a land where they would be able to make a home as a people. "But I have said to you, 'You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from the peoples" (Lev 20:24). The people will have to once again define themselves in terms of their relationship to their God and the people whose land they are going to be inhabiting.
Once again prohibitions are not given as hypotheticals lest God spark the sinful imagination of human beings. Rather these things were practiced and therefore needed a prohibition against them. The prohibitions have primarily the other nations in their sights, "for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean" (Lev 18:27), but it's certainly feasible that the Israelites had already adopted some of these practices. Some would argue simply that Leviticus was probably written by the priestly class after the Babylonian Exile and has in view the practices that they adopted during that period. Regardless of when Leviticus was written, it seems that the purpose is clear: to distinguish the Israelites from non-Israelites by abstaining from sexual practices and child sacrifice in which the nations around them engaged. While a secondary reading of the prohibitions as unacceptable because of the biological and social problems associated with the sexual practices is certainly accurate, my reading of the text is that what is inappropriate about these relationships is primarily the abuse of power inherent in them particularly as they are almost exclusively addressed to men.
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What is then most fascinating for our purposes here is that an explicit connection is made between these sexual practices and their relationship to the land. These practices not only defiled the people and their relationships, but also the land itself. The land is not a neutral entity forced to accept whatever human beings happen to do to it. The land is depicted as a character with its own autonomy and the ability to vomit out the inhabitants. The Israelites are not immune to this connection to the land and the consequences of the practices that have been forbidden
Wendell Berry has pointed out this connection between sex and the land in numerous places. Somewhere he said that when you're willing to exploit your fellow human beings' sexuality you are more likely to be willing to exploit the earth and vice versa. They involve the same mentality that objectifies other people and nature. This way of thinking and acting disconnects from each other and nature by dehumanizing other people and pretending that we are separate from nature. In an article he wrote entitled "Feminism, the body, and the machine" Berry expounds further on this theme.
It is odd that simply because of its "sexual freedom" our time should be considered extraordinarily physical. In fact, our "sexual revolution" is mostly an industrial phenomenon, in which the body is used as an idea of pleasure or a pleasure machine with the aim of "freeing" natural pleasure from natural consequence. Like any other industrial enterprise, industrial sexuality seeks to conquer nature by exploiting it and ignoring the consequences, by denying any connection between nature and spirit or body and soul, and by evading social responsibility. The spiritual, physical, and economic costs of this "freedom" are immense, and are characteristically belittled or ignored. The diseases of sexual irresponsibility are regarded as a technological problem and an affront to liberty. Industrial sex, characteristically, establishes its freeness and goodness by an industrial accounting, dutifully toting up numbers of "sexual partners," orgasms, and so on, with the inevitable industrial implication that the body is somehow a limit on the idea of sex, which will be a great deal more abundant as soon as it can be done by robots. (accessed at http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2096/is_1_53/ai_102979436?tag=untagged)
So, according to Berry the basic problem is not the particular behaviors or acts prohibited here, but the way of relating to the earth and other human beings that they embody. As I said before, there is a basic problem of asymmetrical power relationships here in which the ability to dominate other human beings and the earth is taken as permission to do as we please. Privileges embedded in cultural norms and mores are sometimes hard to unmask. They are often subtle and assumed, and therefore go unnoticed for the most part, particularly by the dominant class that benefits from the privileges bestowed on them through the social order. Perhaps by pointing the finger at Egypt, Canaan and the other nations, this was a more subtle way of pointing the finger at Israel itself. By proclaiming loudly that Israel should not be like "those people", the text clearly judges any resemblance that Israel had to those nations past, present or future.
This way of relating, dehumanizing, dominating and objectifying people and nature violates the basic principles embedded in ecology and I would argue in the biblical narrative and biblical assumptions about our relationship to the land and each other. This is what lies at the root of these chapters, not some sort of puritanical notions about sexuality or arbitrary rules solely intended to make Israel different, but a radical reminder about who we are as creatures and how we are to reflect the image of God embedded in us in our relationships.
P.S. I want to blog more about these connections just so the traffic on my blog will increase by using the word "sex" a lot. If I can somehow combine it with words like "hot" without sounding lewd, then the traffic might increase even more. Though I'm not sure those readers will stick around to read what I write.


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I can't wait to get rid of this car by CL6809, Atlanta on 07/26/2012. Trim: 2011 Acura TSX Sport Wagon 5-Spd AT w/ Tech Pkg, Owned 1 year.
Pros: Decent # of features for the money. Stereo and nav system are great, as is the remote power liftgate. Cargo capacity is good for the trips to Costco, hauling around the dogs and stuff for the yard.
Cons: Voice-control for bluetooth and nav can be cumbersome. Interior materials (door panels, dash) seem a bit lower-grade; they're easily scuffed/marred - and I mean by my elbow, not a shoe. Not the most logical layout of some things, i.e., the seat heater buttons are on a horizontal surface where they can be easily bumped and turned on - not a fun surprise in 100+ degree Georgia heat! Power is less than stellar (not anemic, but not confidence-inspiring either). A 5-spd transmission is ridiculous in a $35k car. Constant need for steering micro-corrections on the highway - something a few auto mags mentioned and I wish I would have remembered before signing the dotted line.
Overall review: First, allow me to point out I think my distaste for this vehicle may be due to the fact that I've had a few German-built cars (VW, Audi and BMW), and frankly, there's just a vastly different approach to how they tackle design and engineering. And I also freely admit that it was MY mistake for buying this car instead of sticking with something German. That having been said, there are some features that should be standard at this price point, yet they aren't even options on this car - rain-sensing wipers, a 6-speed (or higher) transmission, a lane-change feature on the turn signal, etc. Yes, these may seem minor or even silly if you've never had them, but when you've had a few cars with them, then you start to see what a difference they make and why they leave me longing for my former cars. Bottom line: if you've ever had a German car (Audi, BMW) and enjoyed the driving experience, you're probably not going to like this.
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Love my Sportwagon by Mclerob on 11/06/2011. Trim: 2011 Acura TSX Sport Wagon 5-Spd AT, Owned less than 1 year.
Pros: Love the handling of this car. Drives just like the sedan. All the cargo room I need for the dogs without the SUV. Ride and handling are great. Love the sound system. Getting 29 MPG on a regular basis on a heavy foot
Cons: Bluetooth needs much improvement. Premium gas. Slightly short on power sometimes. Road noise could be less.
Overall review: Love this car. It rides and handles so well and has great cargo room. How about 225 Horsepower and 200 Torque without a turbo - that would be nice. Front wheel drive is fine even here in the northeast. This is my first Acura after 8 Honda's and 1 Mercury. The Mercury won on the bluetooth category, but nothing beats the handling of a Honda/Acura.
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Great Wagon by oldhudsons on 07/30/2011. Trim: 2011 Acura TSX Sport Wagon 5-Spd AT, Owned less than 1 year.
Pros: very comfortable, easy to drive, handles very well. Very attractive. Lots of space. I would like to say that I asked the dealer & premium gas is RECOMMENDED but not necessary so I put premium in once in a while.
Cons: not enough power for high speed passing
Overall review: Have over 4000 miles in just a few months & I'm very satisfied. The Blue Tooth phone connection has failed but not sure if that's the phone's problem or the car, same with garage door opener.
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A swoopy sports wagon by johnnyd on 06/30/2011. Trim: 2011 Acura TSX Sport Wagon 5-Spd AT, Owned less than 1 year.
Pros: Engine performance and economy. Braking and handling. Seating comfort. Sound System. Well placed intuitive controls. Great value for the money.
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One day after scoring 14 points off the bench and serving as the X-factor in Game 1, forward Stephen Jackson was an even bigger hit at practice Monday.
Jackson drew continual laughter from the media during his interview session, discussing everything from his close relationship with Duncan — highlighted by Duncan's appreciation of Jackson's rap skills — to a unique tactic Utah could use to get Tony Parker off the court.
"Maybe kidnap him," Jackson joked.
He added: "I don't think there's any legal way you can stop him. ... Tony's one of those guys who's in the zone right now. He's been in a zone all year. Anytime people been screaming your name, 'MVP,' you must've been doing something right all season."
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Guard Manu Ginobili said San Antonio's primary Game 2 adjustment will be stopping the Jazz's transition offense.
Utah scored 23 fast-break points and stayed in the contest during the first half by consistently going to the free-throw line.
The Jazz were 23 of 30 from the stripe overall, with Gordon Hayward and Alec Burks — a combined 16 of 17 — punishing the Spurs in transition.
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The NBA announced the start time and television scenarios for Game 4 between the Spurs and Jazz.
If Game 5 is necessary between Dallas and Oklahoma City, the Jazz will play Game 4 at 7 p.m. Monday in Salt Lake City and the contest will be televised on NBA TV.
If Game 5 isn't necessary between the Mavericks and Thunder, Utah's Game 4 will be moved up to 6 p.m. Monday and will be shown on TNT.
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The season is over! Forgive my absence last week; to be honest, I was just plain old worn out. It seems every year we forget that just after the season closes, we could all use a few days to catch our collective breath. I often say we claw our way to closing night, because by the end of the season we're all very tired. With the seemingly constant Falstaff hijinks, 'tired' was kind of an understatement this year. Sorry to see the season go (no opera until the fall?!), but also happy to have a normal schedule for awhile.
And hey, three-day weekends! Those are great. Watching movies! Being home for dinner! Sometimes it truly is the little things.
As the season closed, we said farewell to a few beloved, long-time opera folks. Our principal accompanist, Tom Webb, leaves us to move about as far away as possible -- Australia! -- to be with his partner. Rae Minten, who has been a much beloved face in our costume shop -- and also, incidentally, our awesome yoga teacher! -- leaves to pursue a new career in the healing arts. Long-time violinist Dolly Clarizio retires this season, having been a member of the orchestra since 1966. 1966!!!! Finally, one of our choristers, Martin Tobias, has just retired after 40 years singing with us.
Marty has written us a synopsis of his time here, which I find profoundly fascinating, having only been with the company for 8 seasons. It seems kind of trivial to say, but things have changed a lot in 40 years! I'm particularly struck by the number of remarkably cool/weird productions we've done over the past four decades. Menotti directed here! Who knew?! And I am so sad I wasn't here for Love for Three Oranges, which is so totally up my alley.
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Southampton Town police are investigating the 4:37 a.m. crash west of County Road 39A and David Whites Lane between a 2004 Mack truck owned by National Waste Service and the bus.
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On October 27, 2011, FAS has joined the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) and other arms control groups to send a letter to the Obama administration asking for stronger action to support its budget goals for nuclear nonproliferation programs. Please find the letter below.
2011 November 1: Foreign Policy, "Arms Control Groups Appeal to Obama for Help With Congress"
October 27, 2011
The President of the United States
The White House
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Dear Mr. President:
We strongly urge you to make every effort to ensure that threat reduction and nonproliferation programs are funded at the Senate Appropriations Committee-approved level in the Fiscal Year 2012 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill.
Based on reports from Hill staff, we are concerned that while the final funding level remains unresolved, the Administration is not forcefully making the case for the Senate version of the bill, which in key respects is identical to your request. Put together with bipartisan agreement by Chair Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and ranking member Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and supported by Senators from both parties who want to help the Administration attain its anti-terrorism objectives, the levels in this bill need your active support to be enacted.
In a challenging fiscal environment when so many issues are bitterly partisan, the Senate Committee made difficult choices on a bi-partisan basis while protecting the key non-proliferation programs.
The disparity between the Senate and House levels for two particular programs stands out. The Senate approved the Administration's request of $508.3 million for the Global Threat Reduction Initiative while the House cut the program by $85 million.
The Senate also approved the Administration's request of $571.6 million for the International Nuclear Materials Protection and Cooperation program while the House cut that amount by $75.2 million.
In both cases, the House appropriation is less than the Fiscal Year 2011 levels, damaging the programs.
We highly commend your personal commitment to preventing nuclear terrorism, which has led the global community to take unprecedented action to secure and eliminate weapon-usable nuclear materials around the world.
Thanks to your leadership, the April 2010 Nuclear Security Summit in Washington D.C. was an unprecedented event during which the leaders of 47 nations pledged their support to secure vulnerable nuclear materials on their soil and to work in tandem to decrease threat levels.
As you noted in your State of the Union address, "Because we rallied the world, nuclear materials are being locked down on every continent so they never fall into the hands of terrorists."
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Nuclear terrorism is the ultimate preventable catastrophe. If highly enriched uranium and plutonium are adequately secured or eliminated, they cannot be stolen for use in a nuclear device.
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It's no secret that Packers and Bears fans often take jabs at each other in the NFL's longest-standing rivalry. But many are saying a recent jab, crosses the line into bullying.
This one is causing viral outrage.
"It's hard to just brush it off your shoulders," Kaitlyn Collins said.
Collins was a cheerleader for the Packers in 2009.
On Monday, a Chicago Bears fan page uploaded a photo of Green Bay Packers fan Kaitlyn Collins with the caption "'Like' if you agree the Packers have the worst cheerleaders in the NFL."
The photo attracted close to 2,000 comments before it was pulled -- many of them scathing, some too derogatory to be reprinted.
"No matter how confident a person can seem and appear, words hurt," Collins said.
Words like, "Doesn't get any uglier. Truly an eyesore."
And, "Packers fans don't eat; they graze."
Collins wondered, "What can I do, and what can we all do to make sure this doesn't happen again?"
Two days after the photo was posted, she made a YouTube video silently holding up signs telling the world how it made her feel and calling out her critics for cyber-bullying.
Josh Groban's "You Raise Me Up" plays in the background as she tells her haters that bullying won't bring her down.
"More of a thank you for the people who did stand up for me," she told us. "And went to bed, woke up in the morning and it was everywhere."
Collins asked the page administrators to take down the photo, and thousands of fans came to her defense on the Facebook page.
"I'm extremely relieved and so happy," she reacted.
A message was posted on the Facebook page Thursday, "We did not see all the posts to take down the Cheerleader pic until today. We get hundreds of messages per day and are not always on here. The issue has been resolved. Please respect one another and do not bully on this page."
Collins, who is now a cheerleading coach to middle-school girls, says she hopes her story can be a lesson to stop cyber-bullying.
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Collins says cyber-bullying won't break her spirit and shouldn't break it for anyone else.
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From the U.S. Department of Justice, Northern District of Texas:
Njeazeh Roderigue Ambeabet, 24, of Lubbock, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 210 months in federal prison, to be followed by 20 years of supervised release, following his guilty plea in April 2013 to one count of production of child pornography.
Ambeabet has been in custody since his arrest in February 2013. Today's announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
According to documents filed in the case, last year, Ambeabet met an 11-year-old girl online and engaged in a texting relationship with her, frequently asking her to engage in sexual relations with him. He admitted that he was well aware of her age, and that he received sexually explicit images of her that were taken with her cell phone at his request.
The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative, which was launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice, to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
Led by U.S. Attorney's Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals, who sexually exploit children, and identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit http://www.justice.gov/psc/. For more information about Internet safety education, please visit http://www.justice.gov/psc/ and click on the tab "resources."
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Don't be stranded with a dead cell phone while you're out and about! The Universal Mini USB Car Charger conveniently plugs into your car's auxillary port for a rapid battery charge, keeping your cell phone battery in top operating condition. The Universal Mini USB Car Charger is compatible with any device featuring a mini USB. We assure you, the Universal Mini USB Car Charger is a handy charger you do not want to miss.Learn More
Samsung Galaxy Tab Car Charger
Regular Price: $9.99
Hoping to stay entertained through a long road trip? The Samsung Galaxy Tab Car Charger provides effectively endless battery life for your Galaxy Tab, so you can kick back and enjoy all your favorite media, wherever you are. The Samsung Galaxy Tab Car Charger is well-built and sleek in design, and is compatible with Samsung 30-pin dock connectors.Learn More