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When I got engaged—to another rabbi, and another woman—my grandmother's approval didn't come easy
A few years ago, my-sister-the-doctor set an impossible standard when she married another doctor. So much pride! So much naches! I thought everyone in my family would be equally thrilled when I announced I was getting married. What Jewish parents wouldn't be happy that their daughter was marrying a rabbi? Especially since I'm a rabbi, too.
The proposal happened at Camp JRF, the same Reconstructionist summer camp in the Poconos where our relationship began three years before, when we both joined the staff. As Isabel and I shared the news with the staff and campers who had watched our relationship grow over the years, we were greeted with cheers and hugs. We were even danced around the beit tefillah in the woods, receiving an aliyah that Shabbat to celebrate our engagement.
I was thrilled to share the news with the rest of my friends and family, most of whom wished us mazel tov, eager to hear every detail and be involved with the wedding planning. My sister dug out her veil for me to borrow, and my parents immediately began discussing venues and the guest list.
But the excitement did not extend to one very important person in my life: my grandmother. The fact that I was marrying another rabbi wasn't as relevant as the fact that I was marrying another woman. Even though my grandmother had told me since I was a little girl that she "loves me up to the sky" and that I could be anything I wanted to be, a lesbian rabbi apparently wasn't what she had in mind. She refused to accept the news of our engagement, and, more devastatingly for me, she said that she would not be attending our wedding. I imagined the possibility of walking down the aisle without the blessing and presence of my beloved grandmother, and I cried.
As rabbis, Isabel and I had spent years counseling other people about their weddings. We knew both that weddings are an opportunity to celebrate the love, shared values, and personality that each couple cultivates, and that weddings also have a way of bringing important challenges and stresses to the surface. This is true for gay and straight, Jewish and interfaith couples alike. Planning for our own wedding, we were no longer guiding another couple through this process; we were now counseling each other and seeking help from our rabbi. No matter how much experience we had in working with other couples, each step of our own wedding journey taught us volumes about ourselves and the power that engaging deeply with the wedding process has to build a strong foundation for a marriage. By the time we arrived at the chuppah, we had come a long way.
And so had my grandmother.
Isabel and I first met in 2005 while studying at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Our paths crossed frequently, whether we were discussing life as rabbinical students, our mutual alma mater—Brandeis University—or celebrating Shabbat and exploring Philadelphia. But we didn't really know each other until we began working on the senior staff at Camp JRF in 2006. It seemed that the more time we spent together working, talking, or just relaxing in the staff lounge, the more we found ourselves wanting to be around each other and longingly searching out one another from across the room. Our close friends began to notice the sparks between us at the same time we were feeling them ourselves; the energy was palpable. Even though new relationships can be risky and sometimes scary, there is also tremendous safety in those that begin at camp.
Over the next few years, we supported each other through our studies and student jobs. We learned together in and out of the beit midrash. We cooked together, traveled together, and even lived in Israel together. We spent time with each other's families during holidays or family meals. We were there for each other when life seemed overwhelming and celebrated together through birthdays, ordination, and the little moments that make you smile every day.
We had talked about celebrating a religious marriage—the Reconstructionist movement has officially recognized same-sex couples for two decades—even if civil recognition would have to wait in our home state of Pennsylvania, where same-sex marriage is not yet legal. We were excited to celebrate our relationship in the presence of our family and friends. But even more than that, our wedding was also an occasion to give our loved ones a glimpse into our Jewish lives.
Our experience as rabbis had taught us that weddings, in addition to being wonderful celebrations, are also inevitably fraught with unexpected conundrums: Collectively, we had helped navigate other couples through meddling mothers, competing values, and poor communication. But we had never encountered a couple that had our problem: a family member who wasn't in the merry-making mood. We knew we could not handle this ourselves; we needed our own rabbi to help us make it through.
As we knew from experience, every couple must find the rabbi who is right for them: one with whom they can be completely open and honest about what they are thinking and feeling, and one they can trust to hold their hands, to listen to them, and to help them to navigate their way through this major life transition. While it is fair to say that we had no shortage of rabbis in our life to choose from, it was still important for us to find one who understood us individually and as a couple, and who could help us to navigate this journey.
It did not take us too long to settle on our close friend Rabbi Rachel Weiss. With Rachel, we talked about our relationship, the issues that were coming up in our families, and the life that we pictured creating together—many of the same questions that I draw upon when working with other couples to help plan their weddings. During our meetings, Isabel and I made decisions about each piece of the ceremony. We rewrote our ketubah to match our values, for instance. We incorporated innovations I had encountered through my work as editor of Ritualwell, as in the language we chose to recite when exchanging rings.
With Rachel's help, we even created our own kabbalat panim ritual in place of a traditional bedecken. The legacy of the bedecken ceremony is in the biblical story in which Leah was switched out for Rachel on the day she was to wed Jacob; Isabel and I were not interested in performing this ritual "checking" both because it felt too heteronormative and also because we were pretty sure we were both going to show up. Instead, we repurposed this ritual while also connecting to part of the essence of a wedding tisch, which generally serves to relax the couple before the ceremony. In our ritual, we each privately received blessings from our mothers before being danced into the room for a semi-private ceremony with just our mothers, bridal parties, and rabbi (and of course the photographer and videographer). We wanted to honor the moment when we first saw each other on our wedding day while also ritually preparing ourselves for the enormity of the day ahead. For us, carefully thinking through each piece of the wedding and not being afraid to adapt the tradition to better suit our particular situation meant that our ceremony was uniquely ours.
We tried to make decisions that would last way beyond the wedding day. Inspired by our ketubah artwork, Bird Song by Karla Gudeon, and sharing a personal passion for singing, we composed original music for our procession based on Song of Songs 2:10-12: "The time for singing has come. … Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away." When the details or the emotions became too much during our engagement, or we just longed for a peaceful moment together, we would sing our new creation.
Many couples focus on how their wedding reflects their interests or values: They serve vegan food, have an egalitarian ceremony, or pick a venue or favors to match their hobbies. Being "green" and trying to minimize our ecological footprint is a value we share, and we wanted to uphold it throughout our wedding festivities, so we commissioned our chuppah from Isabel's cousin, an art student who created a canopy made from organic fabric and dyes. It was also important to us that our chuppah not just serve us for that day, so it was designed to be cut in half after the wedding, to create two tallitot with our verse from Song of Songs embroidered on the atarot.
But the issue with my grandmother proved more difficult to resolve and would emerge in somewhat unexpected moments. I remembered shopping with my grandmother and my mother for my sister's wedding dress nine years before; as I planned my own wedding, I realized that I wasn't going to have the same experience. My grandmother wasn't going to be there. I needed to adjust my expectations. This was a realization that came to me time and again and is one that we also talked through with our rabbi. While I needed to adjust my expectations for the planning and day of my wedding, at the same time my grandmother needed to adjust hers for the life that she had pictured for me.
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Mohon, who is part of ULM's Mock Trial Team, portrayed the character in her team's first mock trial tournament in Indianapolis, Indiana, Jan. 26-27.
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ULM—one of the newest schools to field a team—faced Notre Dame's A team in round one, Michigan State in round two, and Notre Dame's B team in round three. Going into round four, ULM's mock trial team showed steady improvement in each round, before defeating the University of Denver in the final round.
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Miami of Ohio won the overall competition and teams from the University of Chicago, Bowling Green, Michigan State, Indiana, and Wisconsin were among the 32 competitors.
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Team members who participated in the recent competition:
Gary Blaylock, a junior political science major from Monroe; Dylan Crowell, a junior history major from Metairie; Ryan Lloyd, a sophomore English major from Winnsboro; Brooke Mohon, a senior political science major from New Orleans; Myisha Myers, a senior criminal justice major from Monroe; Lizette Narvaez, a junior political science major from Mission, Texas; Gabriel Silva, a sophomore finance and political science double major from Barretos, Brazil; and Sharmaine Tramble, a sophomore political science major from Monroe.
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AMTA hosts 24 regional tournaments, eight championship tournaments, and a national championship tournament each year featuring 600 teams from over 350 universities and colleges across the nation.
The season officially begins on August 15 when AMTA releases the season's case problem containing witness statements, relevant laws, and evidence created by the AMTA Case Committee.
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Reno thrives on tourism. With the attraction of legal gambling, a vibrant night life, and a rich year-long festival circuit, people come from all over the world to experience the Biggest Little City. Nevada is also unique because of counties that offer legal prostitution in regulated brothels.
We live in a tourist-and-service-based town. And when people come to visit they want to be entertained. As one looks around at adult entertainment billboards and scantly clad casino entertainers and service providers, it is obvious that selling of sex and sensuality are a part of the Northern Nevada experience. It has resulted in an array of legal strip clubs, brothels, phone/internet sex sites, and pornography. Unfortunately, as a tourist destination, it has also become a site for human sex trafficking. The legal, illegal, and exploitative aspects to the trade are thriving in our community.
While the political climate surrounding the Adult Entertainment and Sex Industry is full of debate - including morality, legality, economic impact and value - the lives of the women WORKING the industry has been tragically neglected. The very debate that aims to better the lives working the industry has resulted in isolation, marginalization and an inability to live authentically.
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Here at People Builders we believe that sex industry workers are competent and capable people that are insightful, courageous, and hopeful. We believe that all people have the right to live authentically, aspire to human greatness, and the responsibility to take socially just action - adult entertainers and sex industry works have the same rights and responsibilities.
AE and SI workers do not live in the margins here. Here, they are at the front and center of all that we do. Here, there is no need to live in isolation or secrecy.
We understand that the varied categories of the adult entertainment and sex industry are not all the same. We differentiate between them. We also know that involvement in the legal, illegal, or exploitative nature of the business uniquely affects women's experiences.
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What if medical schools cultivated the art of healing along with knowledge acquisition.
By the time a person actually becomes a doctor they've been stunted by spending years on the backbreaking labor of knowledge acquisition. Not only does this activity break the connection to one's "small little voice in the head" that might save the patients life, but it makes a person a slave to knowledge that is quickly outdated. Doctors can be myopic and closed to new information precisely because medical education is overwhelming biased toward studying; it leaves new doctors wildly unprepared to listen and heal.
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Feb 1 2012: I have also known physicians - including surgeons - to take weekend long courses in new procedures and technologies and start practicing on patients right away. Isn't medical school predicated on see one, do one. teach one? But that's not to say I disagree with you. I would think certification requirements are a key to widespread adaptation of all integrative and preventive therapies, including acupuncture, yoga instruction, massage therapy, etc. I will point out that this is happening in some places. New York State, for example, requires 200 hours of instruction to receive medical acupuncture certification. which includes 100 hours of instruction and clinical demonstration and 100 hours of sequential specialized instruction in specific uses and techniques. I also want to say I am very thankful for physicians like you who hold the line on quality of care. You are the reason that much of the current healthcare in this country represents the gold standard on the planet. Bests Regards!
Jeff CableFeb 1 2012: Thank you for your response, Kathy (and the unlooked for elevation in status) :)))
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The Twins have avoided arbitration with righthander Matt Guerrier by signing him to a one-year deal worth $1.475 million.
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The Twins actually included Guerrier's salary in their press release, which we in the media are truly grateful for. That's' one less phone call….
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Eight Common Myths About Homeschooling in High School
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There is little mystery about why the trend is changing. First, homeschooled students tend to score significantly higher on college entrance exams such as the ACT or SAT. In fact, the number of homeschooled students receiving National Merit Scholarships increased 500% from 1995–2003.5
Secondly, homeschooled students tend to outperform their counterparts while in college. Studies at both Boston University and Kennesaw State University show that homeschooled students tend to have higher GPAs while in college.6
Thirdly, the independent-thinking skills possessed by homeschooled teens better prepares them for the college experience. It is odd that so many people perceive homeschooled teens as "unsocialized." Years ago, I presented a paper at a C. S. Lewis Conference at Belmont University. There I spoke with many teens, and it was almost immediately apparent when I had encountered homeschooled students: They loved to debate about intellectual topics and it was clear that they were well read. This is not an isolated case. Michael Haverluck, in his article titled "Socialization: Homeschooling vs. Schools," wrote: "Research presented at the National Christian Home Educator's Leadership Conference divulged that homeschool graduates far exceeded their public and private school counterparts in college by ranking the highest in 42 of 63 indicators of collegiate success. They were also ranked as being superior in four out of five achievement categories, including socialization, as they were assessed as being the most charismatic and influential."7
One of the main benefits of homeschooling is that it tends to produce adults who retain an intellectual curiosity about the world around them—a trait that is often destroyed in mass-produced education models. After studying 180 homeschooled students who were attending college for the first time, Dr. Rhonda Galloway reached this conclusion: "I think the edge home schooled children have over conventionally educated students—whether Christian or public—is that they're not afraid to ask questions; they speak their minds and they have to be readers because they're so involved in the self-teaching aspect."8 Perhaps that is one reason that 74% of homeschooled students go on to attend college, while only 44% of traditionally schooled students do.9
Myth #4: If I homeschool during high school, my teen will miss out on important social skills such as dating.
It is important to increase social activities for teens in an effort to prepare them for college, the workplace, or marriage. Teens need to know how other people think—especially those of the opposite sex. However, it is possible to increase these opportunities while still homeschooling. Church youth groups and Christian summer camps are great options. Also, look into extracurricular activities that involve groups—local choirs or drama clubs. Just check these groups out carefully and make sure that they are properly supervised and do not expose your teen to influences they are not yet equipped to handle. You may consider allowing social media such as Facebook in these years as well. Just make sure that you are also "friended" on the account so that you can monitor activity.
Homeschooled teens can—and do—date. However, some homeschool families follow courtship principles or at least limit dating to the later high school years. There really is nothing positive that can be gained by allowing dating before the age of 16 or even later. The trend toward early dating is usually fueled by social pressures that most homeschooled teens (blissfully) are not exposed to on a daily basis, and dating at a young age often leads to the destruction of moral values and future goals. If you set the ground rules early in life, there is usually not a problem.
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Threaded: Your Guide to Ugly Christmas Sweaters
I'm not gonna lie, I'd rock the heck out of some of these.
Threaded: Your Guide to Ugly Christmas Sweaters
I'm not gonna lie, I'd rock the heck out of some of these.
Above: A page out of a 1960s dress code book for high school students. Found via Threaded, who has an article on the subject.
I just got an email from Emily Spivack at The Smithsonian about a new blog she's writing, Threaded. It's about the the cultural history of clothing, including the late 19th Century Korean clothing seen above.
Costume includes wide-brimmed, black horsehair hat (kat); informal outer robe (turumagi); informal shoes (pal-maksin); and long tobacco pipe (changjuk or tambaettae).
With their billowing shapes and voluminous silhouettes, in contemporary culture, these outfits are most reminiscent of today's fashion designers like Rei Kawakuba and Yohji Yamamoto. Yet, this collection is an example of hanbok, or traditional Korean clothing, a style of dress that went through various trends over the centuries, particularly throughout the Josean Dynasty (1392-1897), for when it's best known.


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Casual Fridays: Playfish's Word Challenge
It's a steamy August Friday, so while we at Crispy Gamer may technically be "at work," we're not working. (It's true. I wrote this article last night.) Instead, we're playing games.* Specifically, casual games**, on our computer, which allow us to look like we're working. Kind of like what you're doing right now by reading the Crispy Gamer site on your company's dime. (And we salute you for it!)
This is how it goes every Friday. So in order to capitalize on our habitual sloth, we're inaugurating a weekly feature called Casual Fridays.*** We pick a casual game, you and a bunch of Crispy writers play it, and we all chat about it in the comments. This week, we've picked Word Challenge. It's a Playfish game on Facebook and a recent hit around the Crispy Gamer offices, having earned its own quiz in the delightful new Crispy Gamer App (hint hint).
The game is essentially a streamlined Boggle. You get a rack of six letters, and you have to pick out as many anagrams as you can from those letters. If you spell a word using all six letters (there's always at least one six-letter word), you unlock a special bonus round.
The fun thing about Word Challenge is that, because it's a Facebook game, you get to compete with your friends. A little leaderboard at the bottom of the game's window shows all of your Facebook buddies' high scores, so you know the exact moment when you have humiliated them and their families.
A few tips† to help you boost that score:
1. Use the keyboard, and not just to type in words. Word Challenge displays a small set of keyboard shortcuts before each game (in tiny text, for some reason). Memorize them, especially the one that lets you switch to a new board. Which brings me to...
2. Switch boards liberally. After you find a few words on a given board, you'll be able to swap in a fresh set of letters. Don't waste your time on a rack like OOONKQ. Switch it out!
3. Take a couple of seconds to try for the six-letter word. The bonus-round points stack up over time.
4. If you are really stumped, use the space bar to reshuffle the letters on the rack. Unless you're this guy, you might need a fresh look at your letters to get going. No shame in that.
So try the game and post your impressions and/or high scores. Editor Ryan Kuo told me not to put my high score in this article†† because it would shame you all, and I will respect his wishes. Have fun, and see you in the comments.
* I know what you're thinking. "Yeah, sure, you're playing games at work because you work at a videogame Web site, where playing games is your job, and it's a nonstop wonderland of magical rainbow fun, and probably Julianna Margulies drops by sometimes to play Rad Racer." Well, you couldn't be more wrong. Julianna Margulies always picks Bubble Bobble. It's kind of tiresome, really, but what am I doing to do, tell Julianna Margulies that her game choice is wrong? I THINK NOT.
** Bleh. I hate the term "casual game" as much as the next guy, and I deserve your scorn for using it. It's stupid and ham-fisted and not a very good descriptor of what it's trying to describe. But here's the thing. At the editorial meeting this week, somebody came up with the name "Casual Fridays" for this feature -- probably me because it is so freaking brilliant. [Editor's note: It was James Fudge.] We were so pleased with ourselves that we were willing to use the "casual games" buzzword so that our title would make sense.
*** See? It was totally worth it.
† Psst. Here are the top-secret tips for real pros.
1. The bonus round has you spell the name of a friend from a jumble of letters. So get plenty of Facebook friends with short, easy-to-spell names. They will save you precious tenths of a second. I have friends named Dan, Ben and Sam. These people are like gold. I also had a friend named Cheroq. Past tense.
2. Don't waste your time with three-letter words. They don't put any time back on the clock, making them the exclusive domain of saps and rubes. A better way to rack up quick points is to rattle off a bunch of four-letter words, as they add two seconds each to your allotted time.
3. Speaking of four-letter words, the Word Challenge dictionary includes swears! Tee-hee! So go nuts. They even have the word "s--t." (By the way, the censored letters are "Hi." As in "Hi, I'm the word 'shit.'")
†† It's 162,965. Can't catch me down here in the footnotes, Kuo! Hahaha! I'm always one step ahead! Anyhow, if you can beat 162,965, I will offer you my grudging respect -- that is, assuming you didn't cheat, which you obviously did, you cheating cheater. Best of luck!


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By Gettin' older but feelin' younger
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I live in an apartment so this work stand is perfect for my needs. I set it up and work on my bike while watching TV. When done it folds up and gets put under the bed, out of the way. I looked at stands from other on line stores, but nothing looked as good as this for the money spent.Very happy with this purchase.
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Design could get better
By Stnoel
from Franklim Park, NJ
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Everything looks durable except the material used to connect the head clamp to the main tube/base is plastic. Just imagiine the weight of the bike to be just placed on that weak part. Metal or some alloy should have been used.
Once head clamp is in, it's fine.
By Tom B.
from Middlebury, VT
About Me Casual/ Recreational
I had a hard time installing the head clamp and thought it was broken. But once I figured out how it was supposed to fit, it worked fine.
Great stand, great price
By mtip
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There are no regrets at all. I'm so happy with this stand. It is heavy enough to hold your bike steady and allow you to do all kind of maintenance work. When it's folded doesn't take too much space in my garage.
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By New biker
from Illinois
I bought this but I couldn't put it together. The parts did not fit. It is a good price, but I returned it and bought the more expensive Park unit.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Great Stand
By Leisure Rider
from Birmingham, AL
I've been eyeing a stand for quite awhile but never took the plunge. I figured I could continue making the floor work in my garage since I don't work a lot on my bike. I was wrong. I used it this weekend to mount a computer on my daughter's bike and it was so easy to have it locked in place and when I need a different angle I simply adjusted it while clamped onto the stand and couldn't have asked for anything easier. I should have done this a long time ago!!
Does the job!
By Trauma901
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About Me Commuter
Needed a bike stand to do basic maintenance tasks, but didn't want to spend a lot of money if I didn't have to. I've bought Nashbar items before and was always satisfied, so I took a chance. I'm quite pleased with it. Holds the bike fairly securely, much easier to clean the chain, adjust the derailers, wash the bike, etc. when it's off the ground and at a good working height. That's well worth the money! No regrets here!
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Not bad
By k2mykel
from GA
The bottom bracket is very hard to get tight enough that the work stand doesn't fold up while you are working on your bike. The height range is great, I can work on my bike and my 8 year old can work on his.
Buy this stand!
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If you want a great stand get this stand!! I checked all the other ones, Park etc... nothing comes close to this one. It is heavy duty and built to last! It holds both my road bikes with no problem at all, it turns, twists, up and down, and does everything you could want out of a stand,, if you want a good stand get this stand, no kidding it is a steal and you will love it.
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Germany is the world's fourth largest economy with an estimated trade surplus of approx. 210 billion US$ in 2012.
German-Chinese Economic Relationship flourishes
Despite the ongoing slow-down of the world economy, Germany was able to not only to maintain but even increase the bilateral trade volume with China in 2011 by remarkable 13.8%.
According to information from the German embassy in Beijing, more than 5000 German companies are presently operating in China.
An increasing number of Chinese companies are investing overseas and within the European Union Germany receives the major share of it.
There are several ways investments are being initiated. It often starts with a joint venture which allows German companies to tap into the lower manufacturing costs in China by shifting part of their production to their Chinese joint venture partners.
Chinese companies however are seeking to invest in German companies to benefit from their know-how. It is no secret that the economic crisis has opened the doors for new opportunities for investors and fresh capital inflow is often very welcome.
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It seems that there is an ongoing change of strategy for overseas investments in China. In the past Chinese companies would invest mainly in countries with substantial natural resources as for instance in African countries in order to secure the supply for their industries.
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| Buy American
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by David Glenn | Issue #19
Dana Frank, a professor of American Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz, has been investigating consumer politics for more than a decade. Her book Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (Beacon, 1999) critiques the narrow-nationalist strategies designed to protect U.S. jobs. Stay Free! talked to Frank in January 2002 about the resurgence of "corporate patriotism" and buy-American rhetoric in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
Stay Free!: How long have buy-American campaigns been around?
Dana Frank: They have a very long history, dating back to the American Revolution. The Boston Tea Party, for example, was partly about rejecting British products in order to support a domestic economy. And we saw a major wave of economic nationalism in the 1930s as a response to the Depression. During that period the Hearst chains 26 newspapers sponsored a large-scale buy-American campaign.
The Hearst campaign was premised upon an alleged virtuous circle, or "economic train." The notion was that you, the American consumer, would buy an American product from an American merchant and that that merchant would buy from an American producer, resulting in good jobs here at home. The rhetoric was explicitly racist, especially against Asians. Hearsts newspapers denounced the so-called Yellow Perilthe idea was that low-cost Asian labor would destroy the U.S. economy. Even immigrant laborers products were attacked. The Hearst campaigns were finally eclipsed in 1933 and 1934 by the New Deal, but they set certain patterns that weve seen again and again.
In the 1970s, as a response to economic restructuring, some U.S. labor unions started launching buy-American campaigns. The International Ladies Garment Workers Union ran advertisements asking consumers to look for "Made in USA" labels. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, members of the United Auto Workers flirted with Japan-bashingand this period coincided with a wave of harassment and violence. The worst incident came in 1982, when a Chinese-American man named Vincent Chin was beaten to death in a Detroit bar by two laid-off auto workers who thought he was Japanese.
Did that nationalist rhetoric fade when the Japanese economy began to decline?
Well, its more complicated than that. The populist buy-American movement peaked during the early 1990s, when the notion that we could fix the economy by buying U.S. products was very attractive to unemployed and anxious workers. These ideas were somewhat deflated by the anti-NAFTA campaign in 1993. The activists behind that campaign were able to push a more sophisticated analysis of international economics to the foreground. They helped people realize that theres no such thing as a pure "American" product because corporations finance, design, manufacture, and assemble their products in so many different locations. The NAFTA fight showed people that they have to a lot in common with, for instance, workers in Mexico.
So whats wrong with buy-American campaigns?
Well, whats the goal? Ideally, buy-American campaigns want to protect good domestic jobs. But some of these campaigns have also been financed by anti-union moguls like the textile magnate Roger Milliken or William Randolph Hearst, so its not that simple. The assumption is that theres some sort of national "we" that can solve these problems, that U.S. citizens and U.S. corporations are all on the same side. What happens is that U.S. auto workers get drawn into alliances with U.S. car corporations instead of forming alliances with Mexican or Brazilian auto workers.
Meanwhile, U.S. corporations are moving overseas as fast as they can. Consumers are out shopping for products, and corporations are out shopping overseas for cheap labor. These corporations are part of the problem they are claiming to solve.
The other problem with these movements is, again, that they have a long history of racism. After a Citrus Bowl game in the early 1990s, the UC Berkeley chancellor, who happened to be Asian-American, went up the podium to receive the trophyand the fans started to chant, "Buy American! Buy American!"
Here in rural California, I noticed an upsurge in buy-American talk last winter, during the standoff over the U.S. spy plane brought down by China. Youd hear people on talk radio saying that we could "bring China to its knees" if we just stopped buying Chinese products for six months.
Yes, there was a lot of ugliness during that period. The Asian Studies Center at the University of Oregon got phone calls from citizens saying that all the Chinese nationals at the school should be rounded up and put in internment camps. A lot of historic U.S. paranoia over Japan has now been transferred to China.
SoSeptember 11th. In the wake of the World Trade Center massacre, U.S. corporations have suddenly been advertising their patriotism.
After the attacks, people are scared, naturally, and theyre pouring a lot of that anxiety into comforting patriotic modes of thinking. And corporations are trying to tap into those emotions with some ridiculous adsclaiming that consumers money will help "get America moving again." But in fact our money might actually just be helping grease the wheels of business-as-usual. If corporations are really serious about changing their stance in the face of the new economic crisis, they should call for us to pull out of the WTO, and they should call for the repeal of NAFTA. But the alternative to the corporate model shouldnt be economic nationalismit should be an internationalist model that respects workers rights and the environment all over the world.
In the absence of an organized movement for social justice, the possibilities seem very limited. So we wind up sort of individually trying to change the world through shopping. But in the long run, we need to look very carefully at the limitations of consumer-based strategies alone.


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3. '87 Buick Grand National GNX: "I fuck with the National cause its rare, classic and fast as shit. I'ma buy my manager one one day."
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5. '96 Chevrolet Impala SS: "Classic Hoodstar ride."
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& Even Though She Doesn't Believe in Love, He's Determined to Call Her Bluff.Newww storyyy! Despite the titles, this is NOT an Alex Gaskarth story! Sorry!
I sat cross legged on my bed and slowly strummed my guitar. I've been playing ever since I was 12. I'm 16 now. I'm not exactly sure what I was playing, just noise I guess. Music is my passion. Whether I'm having an amazing day, or a horrible one, I always find time to play.
Anyways, my name's Alexandria Marie Love. Yes, that's actually my last name. I go by Alex. The only people who call me Alexandria are my parents but, that's when they're extremely pissed at me. My bestfriend's name is Jaquelyn O'reily. Jackie for short. We've been bestfriends since grade school, and I love her to death. Coincidently, my phone started ringing. It was Jackie.
I set my guitar down to answer her phone call.
"Aye bitch," I joked.
"Hey whore." She replied.
"What's up?" I asked.
"Zackary just asked me out!" She squealed.
"Who?" I asked completely oblivious.
She sighed, "You knoowww! Zackary Hernandez. He's in our P.E class!"
"Hmm, I'm not good with names, you know that. But when I see his face, I'll know who you're talking about." I layed back on my bed.
"Yeah haha. Our dates on friday! Today's Tuesday soo," She paused. Probably counting on her fingers, "That's three days from now!" She exclaimed.
"Aww you're so smart." I laughed.
"Shut up! Anyways, I heard-- WHAT MOM!?... I'M ON THE PHONE!!...ALEX! DUH!... UGH! FINE I'M COMING!.. Alex darling, I gotta go. See you at school tomorrow! Love you!"
"Love you too, slut." I hung up the phone.
Zackary Hernandez? Let's see.. Who's in our gym class?....
[After 5 minutes of thinking];
OH! that's him. He's always with that Shane fellow. They we're cute I guess.
I carefully put my guitar away, and got under my covers. I played my iPod quietly and fell asleep to If the Moon Fell down Tonight by Dear Juliet.
I was rudely awaken by my alarm clack beeping at me. I groaned and slapped the button to get it to shut up. Eventually, I sat up and rubbed my eyes trying to get used to the brightness. I got ready for school in under an hour and walked to Jefferson High. The best highschool in Colorado! Not.
As soon as I was in the gates of the school, I was tackeled by a small little frame who I later discovered was Jackie.
"Alexxxxx!" she sang.
"Jackieeee!" I mocked her cheerful tone.
"Oh c'mon! Be happy!" She grinned ear to ear.
"You're only happy cause you're one day closer to your date with what's his face." I said matter of factly.
"True," She agreed, "Oh!" She jumped up as if she had an idea, "Let me introduce you to him!"
I inwardly groaned but, followed her to make her happy. We walked to the back of the school and I spotted 2 guys sitting on a bench. Zackary Hernandez and Shane Tilley.
Zack was the first to see us, "Hey Jackie! Hey Alex." He greeted. Jackie sat next to him and I just smiled awkwardly. Jackie and Zack were chatting amongst themselves and I was just standing there. Jackie noticed this soon afterwards,
"Umm Alex darling.." She began.
I turned towards her with my arms folded across my chest, "Yes Jackie dearest?"
"Umm," She nudged Shane, "This is Shane!" She said.
"I'm aware." I said sarcastically.
"Make conversation!" She grabbed my arm and made me sit next to him.
"Hi." I said sweetly.
"Hi." He replied bitterly.
"Okay?" I said turning away from him and taking out my iPod. I turned the song to For Stevie Wonder's Eyes Only by Bring Me The Horizon. I felt one of my headphones being pulled out of my ear. It was Shane.
"The bell rang." He said annoyed.
"Okay?" I said stuffing the earphone back in my ear, he pulled it out again. I noticed JAckie and Zack were gone already.
"What the hell?" I said irritated.
"The bell rang." He repeated.
"I never go to first period." I got up, and walked away. I heard footsteps behind me.
"Trying to be a little rebel now, are we?" Shane teased.
"Get lost." I said still walking.
Shane scoffed, "Whatever, bitch." I flipped him off.
I just met this kid and I already hate him. Greaaaatt.
Tell me what you think? Give me ideas, make me banners etc. C:
Alexandria Love [Alex]^ ; Jackie's bestfriend.
Jaquelyn O'Reily [Jackie]^ ; Alex's bestfriend! ; Soon to be Zack's Girfriend <3
Shane Tilley^ ; Zack's bestfriend!
Zackary Hernandez [Zack]^; Shane's bestfriend! ; Soon to be Jackie's boyfriend <3
*(Minus the piercing and tattoos!)
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Lesson: Storing Android Accelerometer Data: App DesignContributed by: IMPART RET Program, College of Information Science & Technology, University of Nebraska-Omaha
Educational Standards :
Pre-Req Knowledge (Return to Contents)
To conduct this lesson, the teacher must have a working knowledge of MIT's App Inventor software. This software enables users to create, simulate and build Android applications that can be used on Android devices. This lesson is ideal for a computer programming environment or a setting in which students want to push the envelope of the typical curriculum. Students are required to think logically and sequentially.
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After this lesson, students should be able to:
Introduction/Motivation (Return to Contents)
(Be ready to show students a 12-minute online tutorial.)
In this lesson and its associated activity, you will get to do "real" engineering. Engineers use a cyclical design process to arrive at the best possible solution to a problem. You will plan what an Android application for a mobile device will do, decide what it looks like, decide how to structure the software, as well as test and edit to ensure the app works correctly.
The writing of applications for Android devices is commonplace in today's society. A growing number of "smart phones" have the capability to be much more than communication devices. In fact, these devices are really mini-computers. A user interface such as MIT's App Inventor can enable you to create your own applications for Android devices. This lesson is a specific use of the App Inventor software that lets you use one of the sensors in a smart phone, the accelerometer, to store collected data for later use. This lesson is far more than a computer science experiment or science lab. While the skills that you will learn through exploring and using App Inventor will be fun and educational, they also will provide you with the ability to use your own smart phone in unique ways.
We begin by exploring a user interface developed by MIT to create applications for Android devices. To learn about this application, named App Inventor, we will watch a tutorial on how the App Inventor software works and then explore the possibilities of the App Inventor software. In the activity that follows, you will write an app that stores persistent data in a database on the local device. Possible uses of the App Inventor tools will be the focus of a class discussion after watching the tutorial. (Show the App Inventor tutorial to the class by following the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq9KkAbhxQg.)
Now that we have viewed the tutorial, let's cover a few main points. (Ask students the following questions to stimulate a class discussion.)
Lesson Background & Concepts for Teachers (Return to Contents)
The focus of this lesson is not really about writing the app, although that is the measurable end product. The lesson is meant to allow students to gain experience with the engineering design process. Students are exposed to this process and implement it to solve the problem of writing a mobile Android application that measures a device's acceleration and stores that data for future use.
Introduce students to the engineering design process and the software development life cycle (or review these topics if students are already familiar with them). Figure 1 shows the software development life cycle; Figure 2 shows the steps of the engineering design process. Notice the similarities.
The software development life cycle begins with the requirement analysis phase, which can be compared to the identify the problem and identify criteria and constraints steps in the engineering design process. In both cases, this is the time when the project goal is identified. Questions such as "What am I trying to solve or create?", "What is the purpose?", "How should the end product function?", "What are my limitations?", "What materials can be used or are needed?" are answered at this stage.
Once the goal is clearly defined, as well as additional constraints or requirements, the next phase in the software development life cycle is design. This corresponds to the brainstorm possible solutions, generate ideas, explore possibilities, and select an approach steps in the engineering design process. At this point, research is often conducted to gather relevant information. Different ideas for designs are explored, and eventually the most promising design or solution is selected and refined. Specifically for software design, this phase may be focused on the development of a code or series of codes. In the associated activity, this includes first creating a pseudo code.
The next two phases in the software development life cycle are implementation and testing, which correspond to the build a model or prototype step in the engineering design process. At this point, the prototype or code, for example, is completed and tested.
The last phase in the software development life cycle is the evolution phase, which is comparable to the refine the design stage of the engineering design process. At this point, the results of the testing phase are analyzed and incorporated into the project. Based on the testing results, the cycle is repeated (an iteration) as many times as necessary to satisfy the overall project goal.
This lesson is designed for use in a programming or other technology class in which the focus is on students programming. It can be used as an experience with the App Inventor software to create a database that stores persistent data. In a follow-up lesson, Android Acceleration, students can utilize the applications that they create to explore the relationship between acceleration and velocity.
Refer students to the MIT App Inventor website (http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/) for tutorials and curricula to work though to gain knowledge of how to use the App Inventor.
Tutorials for getting started, installing app inventor and practice projects: http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/learn.html
Teacher curricula: http://appinventor.mit.edu/teach/
Vocabulary/Definitions (Return to Contents)
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Attachments (Return to Contents)
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Pre-Lesson Assessment
Use the following prompts to have students write or discuss the topic.
Post-Lesson Assessment
Have students complete the writing prompt found on Storing Android Accelerometer Data: App Design Assessment. This worksheet presents students with a screenshot of sample App Inventor code that that controls two buttons. The prompt asks students to explain what happens when each button is clicked and how it works. Assign this post-lesson assessment after students have completed the associated Android App Development activity, as students work with the code displayed in the screenshot during the process of developing their apps.
ContributorsScott Burns, Brian Sandall
Copyright© 2013 by Regents of the University of Colorado; original © 2012 Board of Regents, University of Nebraska
Supporting Program (Return to Contents)IMPART RET Program, College of Information Science & Technology, University of Nebraska-Omaha
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The contents of this digital library curriculum were developed as a part of the RET in Engineering and Computer Science Site on Infusing Mobile Platform Applied Research into Teaching (IMPART) Program at the University of Nebraska-Omaha under National Science Foundation RET grant number CNS 1201136. However, these contents do not necessarily represent the policies of the National Science Foundation, and you should not assume endorsement by the federal government.


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Downtown work starts after labour day
Starting next week, people heading downtown will notice a big change as the much anticipated Bernard Avenue revitalization project gets underway.
Motorists will be the most affected as Bernard is closed to traffic between Ellis and Richter Streets to accommodate both the utility replacement and street-scaping work scheduled as part of the project.
The work will also require closing the Ellis Street intersection and re-routing truck traffic to Gordon Drive until mid-October.
The detour routes will be clearly marked and traffic safety personnel will be on site directing traffic.
All transit routes into and out of the Queensway transit station will continue as usual, with minor downtown routing adjustments.
Visit the BC Transit website for all the details.
For pedestrians, disruptions should be kept at a minimum. Plans call for maintaining of access to businesses and pedestrian walkways whenever possible.
There will be small delays for pedestrians crossing Bernard at both St. Paul and Bertram Streets.
The project calls for work to be conducted 18 hours a day, from 6:00 a.m. to midnight, although some work may be done outside of those hours in an attempt to minimize the impact on businesses in the area.
The first phase of the $11-million project is scheduled to be completed in November.
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Israel's founding father and America's modernist share a birthday
At first thought, David Ben-Gurion and Paul Strand seem an unlikely pair. They were both born on this date, four years apart, Ben-Gurion as David Grün in Plońsk and Strand as Paul Stansky in New York City. One was the founding father of Israel, the other was a photographer and filmmaker. One was the subject of a fantastic book written by Shimon Peres, the other was not (although, you never know).
What both had was a very particular ability to use images convincingly. Ben-Gurion employed biblical language to connect the past to the present and inspire Israelis to build their state. Strand often used a concealed lens and photographed the blind to draw attention to what he called "the human condition" in the hopes of promoting social change (often controversially). Strand was also one of the founders of the Photo League, which helped to popularize photography as an art form, changing the world in unimaginable ways. Ben-Gurion left his mark too, I suppose.
I stumbled across this awesome old footage of Ben-Gurion in Sde Boker, reading from Isaiah and walking around the Negev.
Yom Hudelet Sameach!
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In his role as Chief Data Officer of Seattle Children's, Eugene Kolker and members of his research group have been developing advanced data analytics to sift through massive volumes of complex data to identify methods for more efficient and effective management of patients with complex diseases, such as diabetes. In addition, by creating and leading an international non-profit (Data-Enabled Life Sciences Alliance), the Kolker lab is building collaborations to advance the frontiers of science and address complex challenges in improving human health. Research Focus: A substantial part of our research focuses on data-enabled science, biomedical and proteomics analyses for disease states (diabetes and cardiac), bioinformatics, statistical models, and software applications. In addition, our team's work in predictive analytics includes exploring factors that influence the health and care of our patients, strategic development and resource management of the hospital, the national levels of support for the sciences as well as economic modeling of Seattle.
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ARM joins Symbian Foundation, releases tools
Summary: The processor firm has signed up alongside other new entrants including Huawei and Visa. Meanwhile, both Symbian and ARM have released new developer tools
ARM has joined the Symbian Foundation and has collaborated on one of two developer tool releases for the soon-to-be-open-source platform.
The processor firm announced its involvement in the Symbian Foundation on Tuesday, alongside other new entrants such as Huawei, Visa, Red Bend and Scalado. Also announced on Tuesday were the ARM Profiler for the Symbian operating system, and the Symbian Analysis Workbench (SAW), which is a set of Eclipse-based tools designed to help optimise Symbian C++ software.
The Symbian Foundation was announced in June, and is the result of Nokia's decision to buy out the mobile operating-system firm, fold in the Series 60, UIQ and Moap platforms, and open-source the resulting platform. However, this work cannot begin until Nokia's acquisition of Symbian is cleared by various regulatory authorities — an event that is expected to occur before the end of the year.
Founding members include Samsung, Vodafone, Texas Instruments and others, while more recent additions include 3, Marvell and Opera.
The ARM Profiler is part of the firm's RealView Development Suite 4.0 Professional, and lets developers target optimisations through visual representations of their applications' runtime performance.
"The new ARM Profiler provides an analysis environment that enables developers to maximise the performance and power efficiency of their applications, on ARM technology-based mobile phones," said Symbian's ecosystem development chief, Mike Whittingham, in a statement on Tuesday.
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"Loki, don't cry, it was just a bad dream. You can take my blanket, it will protect you when you're afraid and I can't be here with you. Nothing will hurt you little brother, I promise…"
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Michael Jackson's only daughter is going to war with one of her famous uncles ... claiming Randy Jackson is spreading dangerous lies about the family ... and she's calling him out in public.
It's all over a letter that supposedly "leaked" to the Internet this week ... in which Randy, along with Jermaine, Janet, Tito and Rebbie demand John Branca and John McClain resign from their positions as the executors of the Michael Jackson Estate, effective immediately.
In the sharply-pointed letter, the family claims Branca and McClain have "failed" in their duties ... taken advantage of the family ... and have stressed out Katherine Jackson so much, that she recently suffered a "mini-stroke."
Randy went to Twitter and verified the authenticity of the letter Tuesday night ... but the very next day, Paris called BS on her uncle.
In fact, the 14-year-old went to her own Twitter page ... and wrote, "i am going to clarify right now that what has been said about my grandmother is a rumor and nothing has happened , she is completely fine."
She added, "i'd like to know who made up the rumor… i will defend my beloved family member with all i have , even if it means from other family members."
Minutes later, Paris sent a new message directed to Randy -- which said, "@randyjackson8 hello dear FAMILY member i don't appreciate you telling everyone things that aren't true thank you very much."
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Experience this delicious White Mountains tradition in its second decade! Premier inns and B&Bs all along the Mt. Washington Valley open their doors for two days each December for a chance to enjoy holiday decorations and taste delicious Christmas cookies. Tourgoers will be treated to 13 premier inns all decked out for the holidays, plus mouth-watering cookies and candies and your own collection of recipes to take home. Riverbend Inn guests will receive a keepsake brass ornament along with lots of holiday cheer!
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The Construction site for non-affirmative practice is a group of young Italian designers that came together in autumn 2011 during our collectivized artist's residency at Careof , a non profit art space in Milan. Since, the group has developed its own dynamics and together we study and experiment with alternative criteria with which to act in the world and, in particular, the world of design.
The Construction site is asking questions like: What sort of society do we want to contribute to? What position are we taking within the capitalist economy and how can we question that position? How do we want to work and relate to others? How do we want to live? What support structures can we construct in order to allow for the development of diverse and sustainable design practices?
For more details on the project we invite you to visit the section dedicated to the Construction site on the website Designing Economic Cultures .
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