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3 heads baby bok choy, stalks and leaves3 tbsp. olive oil2 tbsp. sesame oil1 tsp. peeled, minced fresh ginger¼ - ½ tsp. red chili flakes2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced1 scallion, thinly sliced3 tbsp. gluten free soy sauce
Trim ends from bok choy and discard, then chop and rinse stalks and leaves in a bowl of water.Heat oils in a skillet over medium heat. Add ginger, chili flakes, garlic, and scallion and cook for about 4 minutes, stirring to avoid sticking.Turn off heat. Add bok choy and soy sauce and steam until tender but still al dente, about 2-4 minutes.Serves about 6
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I would make the basket part a little wider than the chains so they fall from the top and more chain hitters would go in.
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I would do absolutely nothing as baskets are just fine the way they are. If you want more putts to go in you need to learn how to putt better.
Arroyo Disc Sports already did it with their Vortex.
How about flat edged chains. That might stop the disc better
No need for such a comment. Ya think?
Nice looking Baskets!
I simply believe that there is absolutely no reason to change baskets. They work just fine. Every time this comes up (and it has before) the debate starts up whether baskets are good enough or not. I say they are fine and that the only improvement necessary is in a person's game and not the hardware. I simply see no reason to change it.
This thread assumes that there is something wrong with baskets and I disagree with the premise. Our baskets at the course are Mach IVs. Good with the double ring setup.
In other words, if you were to somehow "improve" a basket so that it "catches easier' you would reward people for less than stellar shots and I don't believe that is the way the game should go. We should reward putts that are good putts and not just putts that "tickle the chains".
Still waiting to see one in person, but they look like a nice improvement.
I don't think people are worried about the shots that, "tickle the chains." The type that get to people are the 10-15' dead center chains that hit and bounce right back at you or the hyzer putt that hits strong side, gets flipped up by a chain and cuts through. Both of those putts are good putts that got robbed by a device that is inconsistent. In a game where one stroke can mean cashing and you get a cut through it would be nice to have a basket that catches every time you hit the heart of the chains.
I'm guessing the response will have something to do with how hard the putter is throwing, but anyone who has played long enough knows some just don't stick. As much as we may love them, it is the fault of our current baskets.
I have had to really learn to putt with a Flat, Spin putt type stroke to keep from cutting through all the time. I used to be a push putter with a constant hyzer angle, but I realized this wasn't going to work and had to adapt to the baskets, if I didn't want cut throughs all the time....
There are People out there that think the Baskets we use now are TOO BIG OF A TARGET for this game, so I am enjoying the "Steady Ed" Basket while we have it..... :)
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What are the limitations that keep new educational designs from being implemented tomorrow in schools and especially in higher education?
School is my awful job and learning is my amazing hobby; This has been my take on life ever since and contrary to what I thought would happen, it hasn't changed in the last few months of college, when I have actually found that undergraduate studies aren't much different from its earlier analogous structures in what concerns quality of learning.
I figured something would change in college, it had to. No institution of higher education would, like it had always been done before, only try to standardize me through disengaging processes of memorization and mechanization in class, and then test me for it, but they did so, and so I keep dragging my feet through the halls like I always did, uninspired by it all.
Well, here I am watching 10 TED talks and having more fun than I had in any of my classes so far, where I am basically taught simple things as if they were complicated instead of the opposite.
I think the education systems we have are all about making us easily browsable encyclopedias of knowledge and funny looking calculators without ever compelling us to make our own connections between concepts and subjects, understanding them at their core or questioning the underlying mechanisms that drive the phenomena we study, but why? Why does this happen when we have computers that are infinitely better at storing data then our brain and when we know that in order to come up with creative solutions to real life problems we have to do so much more than just recall previous knowledge; also, there is an important link between the education of today and the leader of tomorrow, and if we continue using the educational techniques of yesterday then we will keep having the same uninspired (to say the least) leaders of today. Now my question is: Do you think this is a problem? Exactly what is causing this? Is it a economic or a sociological issue? Does the academic world want to solve this? Does the corporate world? Do the governments? Do you think it can be solved? How?
Toni Wright
Nov 17 2012: I'm an Associate Professor with 10 years classroom experience, a terminal degree in my field and about 10 years professional non-academic experience in the same field. I am pursuing another advanced degree in Education for the purpose of 1) better educating today's youth and helping to close the achievement gap, and 2) to contribute to the Education Revolution that needs to and hopefully will happen. "What are the limitations..." I believe that money, training, and apathy are central. Money because it is needed to modify every aspect of public schooling from buildings to curriculum to personnel. Training because it is needed to "re-educate" the vast majority of currently practicing teachers of every level from pK-16 equipping them with 21st C methodologies to effectively educate the individual while also teaching the group. Apathy because while the "silent majority" may agree that change needs to happen, they aren't willing to demand change, much less make enough noise that it happen.
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That said, my thoughts for your personal plight are these: you seem to be judging your entire undergrad experience based on 4 or 5 Instructors out of the 35-40 that you are likely to encounter, and judging it on 4-5 courses out of 35-40 that you'll likely take. Not all of us teach the same way so don't give up hope in your first term.
I could have my students focus on memorizing names and dates and terminology, but that won't make them successful in their careers. What will add to their success is a comprehensive understanding of the why and how of their craft. I want my students to be able to converse, debate, evaluate and ultimately make a personal choice - it's those tools that will aid in their success as professionals and as human beings. I agree with your suggestion that there are two basic approaches to disseminating information - just the facts, go memorize them, or WHY, now let's look at it and talk. Old minds use the former, revolutionaries use the later.
Gail .
Nov 10 2012: I too LOVE learning, but I only discovered that long after I left school and the indoctrination began to wear off.
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When the great industrialists designed educational paradigms, they were insistent that schools not provide a complete education, but only be taught those skills that would make them better workers. So your education is not education. It's training - and teachers make the simple sound complex because they have to fill in semesters to earn their money, and you can't sell a week's worth of knowledge for hundreds of dollars per credit hour.
To fix education, you have to fix the economic system that destroys it.
I love Ken Robinson's talks. But I think that you have to include Dan Pink's talk about motivation
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html Education serves business, and business is ignoring the evidence of what motivates people - which is the core of a healthy business model. Business sticks to the "you are slave, I am not" hierarchy, and that is fed into your educational system.
Here is another important talk by RSAnimate - that talks about the problems with capitalism.
It may seem odd to include an economics video in a question about education, but if you understand that education is nothing more than a subsidy for business, established to train the race of laborers, you should see the connection.
Economics is the reason why students today learn more and more about less and less - the age of specialization. Specialized education is not education. It leaves its victims functionally uneducated.
Nov 14 2012: Specialized education is not education. It leaves its victims functionally uneducated
Quite a good way to put it! Thanks.Nov 16 2012: Thank you for giving such an insightful comment fellow TED lover.
What you said really made me think about the very important role economics play on education, but even more on the power of education to influence economics and how that could be an opportunity. Let me explain..
Has you said schools are training grounds for future workers. But isn't the face of business a completely different one from when the currently employed educational system was designed? If so, why doesn't a business that adapts to markets and government policies in a flip of a switch grow in conformity with that and start making an effort to change it, even if for its own well-being. Why don't big companies invest in education the same way they invest in advertising for example? Don't you think that from their point of view it would be worth it?
Anyway, I've taken your suggestion of putting Dan Pink's talk up there alongside all the others and I will leave you with a RSAnimate video of another of Ken Robbinson's talks in case you haven't seen it yet and are interested in that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
Gail .
Nov 16 2012: Yes, the face of business is quite different from that which existed when public education was developed and our educational systems have not responded. This I think is a two-fold problem.
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One is the problems is talked about by Dan Pink. Business just doesn't get it. But the other pertains to the last paragraph of my post, "Economics is the reason why students today learn more and more about less and less - the age of specialization. Specialized education is not education. It leaves its victims functionally uneducated."
Functionally uneducated educators have assumed authority over teaching methods. Ask a typical teacher about American history and you will hear the lies that they learned. Ask them to review the actual historical documents to see the discrepancies, and they will refuse (I've often tried). They are perfect representations of Robinson's example of people turned into sheeple by "education".
If we were to ask educators to produce children with open and creative minds, teachers would not know how to do that because, by and large, they don't LOVE learning. They were turned into sheeple by THEIR educations. They work for a paycheck (and vacation time). So asking business to contribute more $$ won't help – whether $ goes to schools or students. The problem is much deeper and more systemic.
When we fix education, we will begin to bring down the entire socio/economic/political model that forms our society. But we can't even fix it when our entire culture was raised in institutions that leave them so ignorant as to be incapable of understanding not only what is wrong and how to fix it, but it also teaches them to fear the solution that actually exists.
Nov 16 2012: It is quite unfair and inaccurate to say that teachers work for a paycheck and vacation time and do not love learning. Perhaps you know some who do, but that is not true in general in that profession.Nov 10 2012: Most of us misunderstand the concept of education. That is why we get so little from schools. So, we blame the teachers, blame the system, the administration, the syllabus...everyone and everything but ourselves.
Now we've got the internet and computers and fancy gadgets, and we think they are a perfect solution to our inadequacies; but like those men of old looking for some El-Dorado, whatever new system that we clamour for and get would also present its own inadequacies.
The school system is not perfect. Far from it. And whatever modification would also never be.
Education is a personal responsibility. The school is only a starting block for education, not the destination. Men like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg know this and now they shine.
João Farias
Nov 10 2012: First of all. thank you so much for contributing to this discussion. Let me tell you though that I couldn't disagree more with what you are saying and I'll explain why in a sec, but first, I want to explicitly say that I find education as we know it to be a blessing for everyone who gets to have access to it and that many people who don't, would give everything they have to be able to go to school. I KNOW THAT.
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Now I also know that the technological, human and financial resources are all out there in much greater quantity then what would be required to change the educational system, and when you say that "whatever new system that we clamour for and get would also present its own inadequacies" I say of course it would, but is that valid reason for not trying to improve it and couldn't that argument be used in every problem we want to overcome as a call for non-action?
Secondly you claim as if written in stone that school is only a starting block for education, but why? why should that be when we spend 9 hours a day, 5 days a week in school (another strange concept) under the pretext of learning but we are expected to 'really' learn out on our own as if this was a path of penitence we must walk before getting somewhere we wanna be? Why don't we integrate the positive side of self-learning and self-development with the amazing resources we should be getting in schools and instead of having ONE Bill Gates coming up with genius ideas and models built from his garage, we could have MILLIONS of Bill's sprouting from our school and universities.
To close, let me had that I think the hindrance is (as it has been said in previous comments for which I thank as well) all in the heads of the people who don't believe in a revolution or won't profit from it, don't care for it or simply don't see the need for it, and worst won't even consider discussing it.
Thank you once more for discussing it here.
Nov 10 2012: I have not implied by my statement that it is written in stone that schools are the starting block for education. I just want it to be noted that the education system is not responsible for whatever inadequacies a student/learner/pupil has.
School systems should change, no doubt about that. But becoming the next innovator like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs is an individual decision.
It is not as if people can be taught to be innovators. It is the use of the power of imagination and creativity that makes this happen. Now, people have been creative in harsh environments and in rosy environments; so its not about giving excuses for not been creative, or blaming schools, society or systems.
Dream Big; then do it!
edward long
Nov 10 2012: 1) Lethargy.
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2) Status Quo.
3) Inertia.
Nov 10 2012: I would like to know how do you relate these concepts together Richard.
Can you elaborate a bit?
edward long
Nov 11 2012: I am not Richard, I am Edward, but I will answer your question. Lethargy is an absence of significant energy. It produces nothing and contributes to the "natural" resistance to change for the simple reason that change requires work. Status quo is the argument that the way we do it now is just fine and is the effect of several causes, one of which is lethargy. Inertia is the natural tendancy of matter to resist any change in velocity. Metaphorically inertia refers to the natural, automatic desire to leave something as it is. All of these work together to put obstacles in the way of change.
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Nov 14 2012: Thank you so much for replying and my apologies for thinking that Richard is a cooler name then Edward. (Just kidding, it was a foolish mistake and won't happen again :)
I agree with your description of the situation Edward, and sad as it can be this three words just about sum up some of the people I have seen installed in power back where I am from, people to whom development is an empty word and self-interest is a way of life.
brid hehir
Nov 14 2012: What an inspiring talk from Ken Robinson. I am a teacher, and I have just completed a research study on teacher goal orientations. I think therein may lie some of the solution. You see, teachers and their students, especially in post primary schooling, focus on performance, rather than mastery. It's much more important to prove that you know something, rather than that you actually know (about) it. Mastery focuses on knowing, and developing your interests for the real reason, that you really want to know more about something. And of course, we also focus in post primary both students and teachers) on making sure no one finds out what we might not be so good at.
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I think that thinking about education, in terms of mastery, rather than in terms of 'learning outcomes' that are SMART (specific, measurable etc) can actually bring about a change in our orientation (both teachers and their students) and enable a better more creative system than anything we can even dream of in current thinking. And remember teachers are being measured through such 'outcome' or performance criteria too.
I also wonder shouldn't we teach (and learn) cogniscent of personality, in all its manifestations- and how much better that would be for our students.
I could go on!!
This debate is a very important one.
Nov 16 2012: Thank you for sharing your personal experience Brid.
I have to tell you how exited I am about having someone who is studying part of this problem discuss it with me and all of us here in the TED platform. I also feel good knowing that someone is studying this issue I have been struggling with for so long.
Now, I agree with what you said about how there should be a more personalized way of teaching where mastery of subject (and expansion of mind I dare say) are the real goal as opposing to having learning outcomes as the be all end all of education. But the problem people pose to this view of things is that it looks Utopian and impossible to implement. So the question I pose is how would you start implementing this right away, if you had the means to do it?
Ps.:If there is a link to any research you might have published feel free to share it here, if not I would encourage you to lay out some of your conclusions or results, the full study who knows, as I think you will be blown away by the constructive feedback you might get and it would also be interesting for us to get an inside peak on some actual data from this area of research and so expand horizons on the subject.Nov 14 2012: Old world powers always avoid to be defeated by new powers. People with creative skills hardly become easy to control.
Perhaps the answer is as simple as that?Nov 13 2012: Yeah, mitchell, although you sort of caught me, since I am a little down on formal education. See a conversation I started about the Maasai rejection of formal ed. We do say experience is the best teacher.
Your idea of making your papers more personal is cool. I'm friends with a professor of ecological literature, Scott Slovic at Idaho University. He considers himself a literature critic, but he asserts that when a critic writes, it's good to insert some of him/herself into the criticism. I just finished his book, Going Away to Think. You'd probably like it.Nov 12 2012: First and foremost, I would like to say that I'm a big fan of Ken Robinson as well, and I have discussed his ideas at length with professors at my own university as well as alumni, family and friends. The opportunities we have to access information and knowledge are endless, so we are fortunate to that extent, but I would like to tell a short story to show how I relate to what your topic is about.
By the time I was in junior high school I was already becoming disinterested in subjects like the sciences and math because my teachers were never giving me a reason to study them. In grade 10, when my teacher was reviewing the Pythagorean Theorem with us in class, I stopped her in the middle of her explanation and asked her, "Why are we learning this? What are we ever going to use it for? How is this practical?" The only answer she gave me was, "You have to learn it because it's in the curriculum." Dissatisfying to say the least; however, there is something fundamental that you are missing out on, and you can draw from Foucault to see it. The issue is discourse, both in the philosophical sense and also by its sociological definition as well.
Power relations are not nearly as linear as Foucault wrote; rather, they're circular as well as hierarchical, and it takes a great deal of effort to change the discourses of any part of society. I have managed to do this in my own classes by subverting the concrete expectations of my professors and exposing them to my own newer ways of thinking, writing, learning, etc. As the practices of education will not change overnight, perhaps you are thinking in too broad of a spectrum for now.
Try actively learning differently. If nobody in your classes usually puts up their hand to ask a question, put yours up. If you're professors asks you to write about one thing, think of your own topic instead and ask your professor if you can write on that. There's more than one way to approach university to get the most of it.
Nov 17 2012: Oh, Mitchell, our conversation ran out below, so i'll use your comment here to continue from below. I thought you might enjoy a book by a friend of mine, scott slovic, called Going Away to think. He is a literary critic, specifically of environmental literature, and he also believes that a critic should inject something of him/herself into his/her criticism. My mother was a second-grade teacher, and she said her kids always perked up, listened hard, when she would tell them something about her home life, her husband or her children.
You must be a brave person to question your teachers and try different things. Where do you get your bravery? What do you study, where?
Nov 19 2012: Wow, thank you Greg. It's not often than any person receives such a compliment.
I'm a student at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I'm in the Honours Program in the Faculty of Arts, and decided my major in my first year as English. I suppose my bravery comes from a few lessons I learned as I grew up. One was from my father, and goes something like, "Your happiness is your own, and nobody is going to look after it except for you. Do what's best for you and those around you." Another was from my grade 9 Language Arts teacher. He taught me to always think about all the things I hear, read, or see. Turn them over in my mind, and come up with my own opinion. That's how you grow into wisdom.
There are other things I learned growing up, but one thing I've realized on my own is that more often than not it's better to keep yourself uncomfortable. It's by keeping yourself vulnerable that you can really affect your own life and the lives of those around you, despite what their stature is within society. People need to have their buttons push, because if nobody is willing to do that, to push against the current, then society is going to stagnate and change will never happen. Bravery is only a small part of the equation, the more important things are false bravado and an irrationally deep belief in yourself.
Nov 22 2012: thanks, mitch. Say, I'm wondering what questions interest you in life as I have seen statements in your comments but not questions. by the way, if you ever want any TEDster to have the option to send you email, you should actually fill out your profile, as you have to give permission to the website to let people send you email.Nov 11 2012: I suppose in the very worst case you could drop out of school altogether and go to work, learn by experience in the working world.
Nov 12 2012: I think he's more questioning the rigidity of traditional education. My longer submitted comment might explain more.
Nov 12 2012: Yeah, I got that he was questioning the rigidity of traditional education, mitchell. You did see that I submitted two comments, right? In the first comment, I proposed some strategies for improving things. But I was thinking that if none of them worked, and he was really unhappy, he could drop out. I really like your strategies as well.
Nov 12 2012: Hmmm. Yeah. I guess I did kind of wrongly discount what you were saying. Sorry.
I don't know... there seems to be a sort of dichotomy going on within the general student body, and it really does depend on several different factors that decides how the conversation goes. I have this one friend I'm always discussing this issue with. He prescribes to the whole "Ivory Tower' concept of knowledge and education. He would rather that it's only people who are interested in capital-H Higher Learning that should be allowed to have access to knowledge and information at a deeper level than just the superficial, whereas I'm of the opinion that knowledge should be made available to all in such a way as to make it entertaining and easy to understand. TED does an excellent job of this, but that doesn't mean that the systems involved actually do that.
The idea of interesting learning is interesting to me though. This semester I've been experimenting in my papers by writing in a very personal format, doing away with the traditional style of research papers in favour of something with more flavour, and the results have been quite telling. I'm somehow managing to pull in a rather high grade average despite most of my professors being of the old-school breed. Maybe changing the rigid mentality of our institutions isn't absolutely impossible to do? It might just take the courage to go against the stream and try something new when approaching the "time tested traditions" or our education system.
.....as I'm sitting here typing this I'm still shaking my head. My thoughts are chasing themselves around in my head.Nov 14 2012: Schools are also a working environment, remember.
At least if they are not pure confessional institutions, they are also a place for workers to work, and they have also their own market constraints, depending on each country system and visions on education, public responsabilities on that and other points.
Nov 15 2012: Yeah, you're right. Do you think that schools want their students to be happy, or do you think they don't care whether they're happy?Nov 11 2012: Sorry you're unhappy with your school. You could always see a counselor at your school and tell them of your complaints. Or go see your professors after hours and talk to them about your complaints. Do you actually have to take history, or math, to pursue your degree? Maybe you could drop out of these courses, and try to find courses that interest you more. Maybe you could get special permission to skip basic courses and take advanced courses where you would more deeply explore the meaning of things. This strategy might work in history better than in math, in math I don't see how one could jump ahead.
You're a little general in your complaints. For example, tell me one specific question you would like to ask your history professor that you don't feel you can ask now.
In the worst case, you could just not give much energy to the classes you don't like and accept a lower grade. Give more energy to the classes you really believe in.
Barry Palmer
Nov 11 2012: There is hope.
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Nov 10 2012: Is there any more widely discussed topic than this one? The quality of education and availability of it are so important, that I don't think one can reasonably suggest that those within the field as professionals and those outside are not continually engaged in discussing it.
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Your college experience is not everyones. Could you share what field you study?
In my experience at university in the seventies, I barely had to memorize anything.
My daughter who recently graduated from college was deciding at the beginning what to major in and by midyear sophomore year knew that she was attracting to the fields and courses that were about ideas and analysis and repelled by those in which memorization was a large feature. So she chose a field of study that suited her interests.
I think one could inquire field by field what actually needs to be memorized and what doesn't. Terminology often needs to be remembered, or one is continually looking stuff up, even to understand people speaking.
But I cannot visualize any field where that should be an emphasis. Scholars are thinking and experimenting, as well as being thoroughly familiar with and thus remembering the important work done by others as part of the learning that is the core of their work. Representing the fields with integrity should offer students the chance to do the same. I don't suppose when you say 'memorizing" you mean being thoroughly familiar with the important work in the field of study.
João Farias
Nov 10 2012: Thanks for the reply Fritzie.
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I am in my first semester of a liberal arts and science education. My focus is on biology but I still haven't had any courses related to it yet so I'm currently taking English, Calculus, Psychology and Logic.
Well, in my experience it is possible to take any field of study and teach it as something comprehensive and exciting or the complete opposite. And it all depends on the approach taken by the experts on how much content should be taught, what kind of content should be taught and the way it should be taught.
For ex.: When teaching mathematics, if someone shows a formula on the board, they have two ways of having students remember and apply it correctly. Either they say "memorize this formula and apply it when you see x, y and z problem in the way I am going to show you" or they convey the meaning of the formula by decoding it and then explain why it is of good use in x, y and z problem and encourage their students to pose questions, doubts or even disagree with the presented statements.
In the same way if someone is teaching history then they can prompt their students to memorize a flurry of dates, names and events or they can expose the events to the students by giving possible causes for the first event, it's date and intervening parts, then relate it to the second event and so on and so forth. This causes a difference in the quality of learning independently of the field of study being taught.
Even thought the first approach is much faster, requires less effort on the part of the lecturer and it is equally as valuable if you want to ace an exam the second one is better if you really want to understand fully what you have learned or even just remember it 15 days after the exam has taken place.
This is what I mean when I say that memorization is present throughout our educational systems that leave no room for real understanding and mastering of knowledge,
I don't claim this to be universal, but it is in my experience!
Nov 10 2012: I expect biology and organic chemistry will entail a lot of memorization and math, physics, and logic almost none.Nov 10 2012: Originality has to be rewarded for it to flourish. Most of what I've learned was self-taught, not from my education. How do you teach a thirst for knowledge? You do it by finding teachers that promote thinking over rote memorization. If you want to produce engineers, then rote memorization may be desirable. If you want to "create" Nobel Laureates, then rote memorization will stiffle originaltity.
Yes we have a leadership problem. Politicians can't be innovators because they require consensus, thus any revolutionary ideas will not pass through the palace guard. There will be very little "out of the box" thinking despite what might be professed.
Look at what happened when Paul Ryan tried to take on Medicare; the Republicans were vilified for raising the spectre of vouchers, yet Medicare is unsustainable. So what happens? We keep going down a path that is clearly wrong i.e. we are burying our heads in the sand over Medicare---we'll deal with that in the future. The future is here yet we are still ignoring the obvious---we will either cut benefits, increase taxes, or increase the debt. There are no other options long-term. Our leaders lack the vision to take on the big issues. Just look at America's approach to energy. Let's drill for oil, frack for gas and mine coal. How can we have vision when most Americans just look at their pocketbooks?
Visionaries are viewed as crackpots and crackpots don't drive policy---politiicians do.
Nov 10 2012: Thank you the reply and for being the first person to answer to my thread Richard.
Well I am not American so I don't have enough insight to critically speak about Medicare but I definitely agree with what you said about the solution for change in education depending on finding good thinkers who are willing to think together with their students, but then again, isn't it easier for them not to?
In the same way that students benefit more by not thinking to much since they already have a ton of ridiculous work to do, teachers also have this problem. And even though there are the ones who are simply obtuse (and they do exist), don't have anything to give and deny any benefit form this way of teaching, there are many more who might like to do this exercise but cannot because they still have tests to correct, meaningless meetings to attend, a certain number of pages they have teach for each lecture and many more systemic issues that once again keep the creative answers from emerging.
Nov 19 2012: João,
I don't know what field you are studying in but there are quite a few situations where memorization is a key element to understanding the facts. For example, I'm a third year health science student and in my first two years I had to take a myriad of courses that taught medical terms, how cells work, basic chemical principles that all had to be simply memorized so that this year and further down the road, I can understand the body, how it works and be able to communicate effectively with others in my field about it.
While I do agree that the school system needs to be changed, maybe don't be so quick to abolish teaching students how to memorize, it does come in handy. Perhaps the solution to the education problem is in learning to more evenly split the curriculum from a younger age between teaching children to memorize and teaching them to be innovative.Nov 22 2012: I am a first year college student as well. To answer your questions in order...
Yes, I believe the current education models are woefully inadequate.
I believe it's caused by a wide variety of factors. Economics and sociology are but two, albeit two large encompassing areas.
The "academic world" is like many other societies. That is to say, it is not of a single mind. There are many professors who wish to change the way things are structured, but when students are paying $500 for tuition and textbooks the students expect a finished product. Teachers can be fired for using an off the wall approach that fails.
The corporate world is all for higher education so long as it means you can do your job better. in fact, they'll even help fund some of the research on better education practices if it's in their interest (particularly tech companies).
Governmental systems each have their own unique take on the situation. Some actively promote changes in education. Others very aggressively resist it.
The education systems of today aren't something I would say can be "solved". Rather, I believe they will evolve. As can be seen in your Related Talks list, a number of technologies and practices have been proposed for building a better system. Many schools are taking note, and making conservative moves towards a transition. For example, the concept of a fully online class was inconceivable two decades ago. Now, almost every college (and even some high schools) are utilizing them. As technologies and methods are tried and tested, they will become more accepted.
All of this, however, doesn't solve your immediate problem of dull classes. My personal advice is to learn the material they teach, and then learn past it on your own. Independent study is much more enjoyable than rote. Additionally, it's fueled by your motivation rather than your teacher's. Google Coursera and pick a class that interests you, or one you aren't satisfied with.
Best of luck Joao.Nov 19 2012: There is zero value to memorizing facts today as explained in this great talk by Seth Godin. Sir Ken Robinson also has two fantastic talks on TED (already mentioned in comments below).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXpbONjV1Jc&feature=plcpNov 18 2012: One reason is in the selection of textbooks. There are better educational methodologies for sure but not from the "established" publishing companies that are in control and know how to send their representatives to university and school districts to keep winning their selection making them feel obligated because they offered them a blow your mind presentation of their "robust" curriculum (of the same thing) and left samples and gifts, and made them an irresistible package. The adoption of curriculum and methodology should be studied and consulted by the people that know and care considering options outside the box.Nov 18 2012: Current Education System is not a good education system. It is text book based learning system , which is an abstract way of learning and more over it focuses on too much information and also too fast . Which ultimately leads to cramming and learning by rote.
But,The actual learning process is spontaneous and slow..
When I was in class 3 I cam across a word called "Panic" and its meaning was given at the end of the chapter. After reading the meaning I still did not understood the word, Because it has no direct association with the visual image of how a person looks like when he panics, what emotions are visible on the face of the person. All these were missing.
The text book based learning has the drawback , you never know what actually the word means and how it is associated with real things. In text book based learning when you find any word , you often try to find the meaning in the dictionary which ultimately leads to another abstract word. Its like a loop one abstract word point to another abstract word.
Nov 18 2012: textbook should not be THE learning objective but they could be one of many mediums to experience learning. for example, learning happens when you engage and contribute from your own brain as you read from a textbook, internet, magazine, ebook, poem, etc.Nov 16 2012: The world has grown. Today, there are many different occupations. Yesterday, your only option was farmer / entrepreneur.
Since the world needs such a wide range of specialist, the best way to get them is to teach everyone everything & let them decide which path they like best. It works, but we all wind up hating school at some point. No one likes to waste their time. A large portion of our educations felt like a huge waste of time & we complain about it alot... However, that time did infact serve a purpose. Maybe not to the individual, but to society as a whole.


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More than 35 attended the 14th annual Women In Timber Luncheon held Monday at the Colonial Inn restaurant on Fraley Street in Kane.
The event is sponsored by the Kane-based Allegheny Hardwood Utilization Group(AHUG) for women involved in the timber industry.
Featured speakers for the luncheon included Jill Thompson of Kane, the local legislative representative for State Rep. Kathy Rapp (R-Warren, and Fritz Buehler Lecker of St. Marys, a legislative representative for State Rep. Matt Gabler (R-DuBois).
In her remarks, Thompson said the Kane area state and federal government representatives are "extremely committed to their constituents" and are "very accessible."
"They want to know your feelings," Thompson said. She called on the women to "be active and make your voices heard."
Thompson is the manger of Rapp's office on Field Street in Kane. A native of Erie, Thompson has resided in Kane for 20 years. She has been the local connection with the Kane area state representative for 16 years.
Thompson, the mother of three children, also is employed as a part-time school bus driver for Jim Airgood Busing of Kane.
Active in Kane community events, Thompson is a past president of the Kane Area Chamber of Commerce.
In her remarks, Lecker said local legislators "want to hear from the everyday 'Joe" about what issues are important to them" and "what works for them and what doesn't."
"You need to speak up when you have a problem or suggestion," Lecker told the women. "Where the discussion leads may be very interesting. Just start a dialogue with that person who's in charge or command of the thing you are concerned about."
Lecker said "anyone can make a difference" by stepping forward with an idea or comment on a specific issue.
Lecker, one of 11 children, has had a long career in the timber industry and proudly states that she is "from a fourth generation logging family."
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Pratt powers ETSU Baseball to sweep of Ospreys, 9-7
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Dylan Pratt's
(Johnson City, Tenn.) heroics in the ninth inning lifted the ETSU baseball team to a 9-7 win over North Florida Sunday afternoon at Harmon Stadium in Jacksonville, Fla. as the Bucs completed the sweep of UNF.
Kerry Doane
(Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) picked up the win to improve to 1-0 on the season as the Bucs (10-2, 4-0 A-Sun) have won six straight contests, while Robbie Collier was tabbed with the loss for North Florida (7-8, 1-5 A-Sun).
The Buccaneers out-hit UNF 13-11 in the game as the Bucs had four players with multi-hit games including a 3-for-5 effort by right fielder
Andrew Green
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The Ospreys broke into the scoring column in the bottom of the fifth as UNF scored five runs on four hits highlighted by a three-run home run by Michael Wesner to take a 5-0 lead.
In the top of the sixth, the Bucs answered with four runs of their own to cut the lead to 5-4. Catcher
Derek Trent
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Bo Reeder
(Cookeville, Tenn.) to start the scoring. A few batters later, Pratt came in to score on a ball hit to short by Green. Doane and
Derek Niesman
(Wellington, Fla.) rounded out the scoring with back-to-back RBI singles to right.
ETSU grabbed the lead in the top of the seventh as centerfielder
Matthew Scruggs
(Knoxville, Tenn.) and Reeder came around to score on three UNF errors to give the Buccaneers a 6-5 advantage.
North Florida
answered through in the bottom of the seventh with a two-run home run by first baseman Evan Stermer to go back in front 7-6.
In the top of the ninth, Reeder and
Paul Hoilman
(Johnson City, Tenn.) led off the inning with an infield single and walk. In the next at bat, with no outs and runners on first and second Pratt delivered his fourth home run of the season as he crushed a three-run homer to center to give the Bucs their second lead of the day.
Reeder then came in to close out game for the third straight day as he earned his seventh save on the year and third on the weekend.
ETSU returns to action on Tuesday at 4 p.m. as the Bucs head to Radford, Va. to face the Highlanders in a non-conference game. For more information on ETSU baseball and all other Buccaneer athletic news please visit www.ETSUBucs.com.
ETSU 9, North Florida 7 (March 13, 2011 at Jacksonville, Fla.)
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It's getting toward the end of the 31 Days of New Uses for Old things series!! If you missed any of my posts, just click on the links I have in my sidebar!
Today's items: ribbons!
As you can tell from this post, I keep every kind of wrapping I receive. If someone gives me a gift in wrapping paper, I take off the tape carefully, so I can save it. Does anyone else do this? Of course, I also keep any gift bags, tissue paper, bows and ribbon I receive.
When I got married last year, my colors were purple and I registered at Bed, Bath, and Beyond so I got a LOT of purple ribbons on my packages!!
I found a great tutorial on another 31 day blogger (More Numerous Than Sand) for making this easy, cute headband!!
Step 1
Tie the ends of a ribbon to a hair band. Adjust to the size you need, then use a hot glue gun to secure the knots.
Step 2
Make a bow by folding another piece of ribbon and hot gluing together.
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Finally, glue the bow on the ribbon headband by using a third piece to cover the bow and wrap around. To-da! Really easy!
(Later today I'll post picture of me wearing the headband – I didn't want to take a picture late last night when I was making this project.)
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Oscar de la Renta luxury label on Tuesday held its first Fashion Week show since the designer's death in October, with his successor, Peter Copping, sending a bevy of luxurious, ultra-feminine looks down the runway on what he called "an emotional day for the house."
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. | In private, even the stylish former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis admitted to tiring of the all-black attire long considered chic in New York City.
"I just love this suit & will wear it everywhere as I am SO sick of everyone constantly in black — like Mediterranean villages where everyone is in mourning for 20 years," she once wrote to Bill Hamilton, then the design director at Carolina Herrera.
LAS VEGAS | Smartwatches don't have to look ugly to be functional. Clothing and accessories designers are collaborating with engineers to produce computerized wristwatches that people will want to wear all day and night.
Friends of Advantage, the Foundation of Advantage Behavioral Health Systems, will host its fourth annual Designer's Challenge and Top Model Competition Feb. 5 and is currently seeking seamstresses and/or designers to be paired with models to create teams that will redesign outdated dresses to be displayed on the fashion runway.
Anyone interested in participating in the designer challenge is invited to attend a meet-and-greet event 6 p.m. Thursday at Morton Theatre located at 195 W. Washington St.
Designer Cornelia Guest shares her passion for animal-free products through several fashion and food-related endeavors.
Athens Academy's 10th Annual Service Day Fashion Show recently was held in Trumps Ballroom on Milledge Ave.
Student Leaders, Hannah Lacey, Anna Buchanan and Emily Blume hosted the fashion show as part of Athens Academy's day of service.
The money raised will be donated to the Athens Area Homeless Shelter, Children First, ESP(Extra Special People) and the Athens Regional Loran Smith Center for Cancer Support.
Sienna & Bellini, a new fashion label based in Atlanta, opened its doors in Athens on Friday at Georgia Square Mall.
This is the third store for the fashion label, which provides high-end European styles at affordable prices.
"We believe that fashion should be attainable," said Valentina Pou, co-owner and lead designer for Sienna & Bellini. "We want to provide an affordable style option and help support and grow the fashion culture in any market where we open stores."
NEW YORK (AP) — A leather jacket tagged by Jean-Michel Basquiat and other personalities of New York City's 1980s underground art scene is hitting the auction block.
The size 42 coat has a pre-sale estimate of $7,000 to $10,000 at Swann Auction Galleries' contemporary art sale on Wednesday.
The auction house said the supple white leather jacket is being sold by the original owner, Rico Espinet, the stage manager and lighting director of the legendary after-hours nightclub Danceteria from 1981 to 1986 who now owns an art and design store in Brooklyn.
EPERNAY, France (AP) — Deep in the labyrinthine cellars of the Pol Roger champagne house, rows of century-old bottles caked in mold bear testimony to perhaps the greatest, and surely the most heroic of vintages.As champagne goes, 1914 was a superlative year when the warmest of summers left the richest of grapes. As war goes, gunfire could be heard just beyond the hills and most men were off fighting in the horrors of World War I.
NEW YORK (AP) — At his Fashion Week runway show in September, Oscar de la Renta sat in his usual spot: in a chair right inside the wings, where he could carefully inspect each model just as she was about to emerge in one of his sumptuous, impeccably constructed designs.
LONDON (AP) — Brad Pitt was bringing the London Film Festival to a storming conclusion Sunday.
The star was due on the red carpet for the closing-night screening of "Fury," David Ayer's brutal tale of a tank crew in the closing months of World War II.
On Saturday the 58th London festival handed out its prizes, recognizing films that tackled corruption, gang violence, honor killing and war.
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Formafantasma Unveils Craftica Collection Made From Recycled Fendi Leather and Natural Materials
Known for their seductive aesthetics and unexpected investigations into materials, design duo Formafantasma was approached by Italian fashion house Fendi to explore leatherwork and other materials as part of their "Design Performance Program". Fendi has a long tradition of leather craftmanship starting out in 1918 as a leather and fur shop in central Rome, Italy. Through live demonstrations the program aims to celebrate the creative process and its impact on shaping the final result by offering the audience a unique view into the art of craft-based design work. Following their previous success in Milan and Miami the program spread its wings to the 'Design Miami/ Basel' fair that took place recently in Basel, Switzerland.
Leather is a material with a long history connected to mankind. It is known for its flexibility and durability, but also for the ethical and environmental concerns connected to the production process. In Craftica the design duo utilized discarded leather from Fendi's manufacturing process but also searched above and beneath the sea from the vegetal to the animal world to expand the horizons on leather as a material and how it can be used. Through careful selection the design duo collected fish skins discarded by the food industry, organically processed leather, and cork 'leather' extracted from cork trees without harming them.
'Craftica' consists of a large variety of objects ranging from tools to furniture: a collection of glass lights hung via belts and hooks; a table and room divider produced from vegetal tanned rawhide stretched over brass structures with marble weights; a series of four stools characterized by organic forms and fin-like legs upholstered in fish leather (salmon, perch, trout, wolffish); spoons and protective masks made with scallop-shells; and jar-like containers made from glass and cow bladders. During the fair the designers added new pieces to the installation by collaborating with in-house craftsmen from Fendi.
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1 1/2 cups
white sugar
1/4 cup
all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon
ground nutmeg
eggs, beaten
4 cups
chopped rhubarb
3 cups
halved fresh strawberries
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pastry for a 9 inch double crust pie
egg white
I'm not much of a fruit pie person, but DH loves them. Part of what puts me off on them is the jell-like consistency of the filling. But, I had a pint of strawberries in the 'fridge and some pie plant in the freezer, so when I found this recipe (sans jell) I made it. Here are the mistakes I made so you can avoid them: #1 - don't let your frozen rhubarb thaw, it throws off the amount. I probably ended up using more like 8 cups instead of 4. Fresh rhubarb would be the best, but frozen will work as long as you measure it frozen when it's more the size of fresh. #2 - Don't use the strawberries you buy in March or early April. They are more sour and don't have a very good flavor. Or else adjust the amount of sugar you use to compensate for their sourness. I am definitely going to make this pie again in another month with good, locally grown strawberries and my own fresh cut pie plant. Thanks for the recipe Wilma!
This was strawberry rhubarb soup! Can someone please tell me what I should have done differently, because I followed the directions exactly and ended up with a watery mess. This was even worse than the other strawberry-rhubarb pie I made from this site.
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As another reviewer said, it makes a LOT of filling, so I had two shells ready. This should be called a custard pie since there's no cream or milk involved. The eggs make a thick filling which sets up nicely. Also, be sure to keep the strawberry pieces relatively large; halve the smaller strawberries, cut the big ones into thirds. Cook at 400 for about 30 minutes and then reduce to 350 and cook another 15-20 minutes. Turn off oven and let the pie sit for 10-15 minutes. Let cool thoroughly before slicing. It'll cut cleanly. As another cook mentioned, don't put too much egg white or it'll brown too much. Comes out pretty! I reduced the nutmeg by half and added a dash of cinnamon. My husband scarfed it down.
This is absolutely delicious!! It only took me 20 minutes to make it too. My Grandmother makes the best Strawberry-Rhubarb Custard Pie....and this one comes a very close second!! FANTASTIC!!!
Excellent taste! Mine turned out really soupy, I served it about 10 minutes out of the oven, not sure if that is why. I have never tried this kind of pie before so I am not sure what I did wrong. Any suggestions?
Exellent recipe. I've searched for a pie recipe like this for a very long time. The texture is wonderful with the rhubarb and stawberries giving a sweet and sour taste with every bite. I used a store bought crust and then covered it half way through with aluminum foil to protect the crust from burning. I also used 1/2 sugar and 1/2 Splenda. Next time I will try with 100% Splenda. The pie came out perfect. Very easy and quick recipe to make. Perfect with French Vanilla ice cream!
This was quite the hit and it was easy! I had never cooked with rhubard, so I wasn't sure what to expect. FYI watch the egg white you spread on the top of the pie.... if you spread too much it will brown to quickly.
this was VERY good. the only thing i would say is that the recipe makes way too much filling, and i had to throw some of it out. i also didnt even need to cook it 40 minutes at that temp instead of an hour. anyway it turned out excellent!
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Paper Man is a comedic drama about an unlikely friendship between Richard, a failed middle-aged novelist who has never quite grown up and Abby, a 17-year-old girl whose role in a family tragedy years earlier has stolen away her youth. Richard has moved to a Long Island beach community for the winter season in order to overcome his writer's block. There, he meets Abby and hires her as a weekly babysitter, even though he has no children. As the season progresses and the warm, quirky friendship between Richard and Abby grows, the two begin to share with each other their dreams and life hardships. With the coming of spring, Richard and Abby discover there comes a time to let go of the imaginary friends of the past and to embrace the future.
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In this video Conversation, Denis Alexander asserts that contemporary Christians are not taking the early chapters of Genesis seriously enough.
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In this video Conversation, Denis Alexander asserts that contemporary Christians are not taking the early chapters of Genesis seriously enough.
Yesterday, biology professors Randy Moore and Sehoya Cotner raised the concern that workshops focused on evolution-related training do not reach creationism-based biology teachers. Today, we'd like to focus on BioLogos' efforts to address that divide through our Biology by the Sea workshops.
As he endeavored to learn more, David was intrigued by Francis Collins book The Language of God because Francis did not present evolution as a rival theory to Christian faith, but as something that described God's method of creation.
"If I have one criticism of my fellow theologians from time to time, it's that they're often stuck in the physics of the 19th century rather than the 20th and 21st centuries."
I commit myself to my Christian belief for reasons that are sufficient enough for me to bet my life upon it. But we don't have absolute certainty in the 2+2=4 sense. And that is true of everybody.
In this video, physicist Ard Louis describes that our value and purpose do not come from whether or not we were created by an evolutionary mechanism. Evolution may tell us something about how we were created, but it is not the source of our worth.
In this video, Aaron Daly offers his thoughts on theistic evolution, creation, and how Christians should handle disagreements over these issues. Most of all, Aaron highlights the need for love in our discussions with one another, especially when we disagree.
It is our sincere hope that, above all else, the film can become a focal point for some of the big questions that inevitably arise at the intersection of science and faith.
How can a scientist really believe in miracles? How, or why, does a scientist pray? And how could a physicist possibly believe in the Resurrection of Jesus?
Philosopher Robert Bishop explores the Biblical doctrine of creation, which he describes as "perhaps one of the most helpful pieces of theology for thinking about science", and describes why the doctrine needs to be recovered from narrower, contemporary interpretations of creation.
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In this video Conversation, Rev. N.T. Wright responds to the controversy in evangelicalism about evolution. Is this a "culture war" issue?
In this video Conversation, Rev. N.T. Wright responds to the question, "If you take Genesis in a non-literal fashion, especially the creation stories, why take anything in the Bible literally—such as the Gospels? Do you take the Gospels literally?"
Can science provide substantive insight into the question of God's existence? Isaac's paper examines three schools of thought regarding the possibility of detecting God's existence through science: Evolutionism, Creationism, and Intelligent Design.
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A message from SNAPDFWs facilitator, Lisa Kendzior
Acknowledge your courage
It takes courage to acknowledge that weve been abused and it is not easy to even admit it to ourselves. Just browsing this website is a big step.
Know that you are not alone!
If youve been victimized by clergy, please know that you are not alone. You can get better. You can reach out to others whove been hurt just like you have.
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Atlantic columnist calls Ratzinger letter protecting pedophile priest instead of victims "The Third Strike"
"But it's clear that the age of the priest is of far more importance to Ratzinger than the age of the minors he raped. All the sympathy and concern is with the rapist, not the raped. This is a document about protecting the powerful even when they rape the powerless." -- The Atlantic, 10 April 2010
Read the full story in The Atlantic ...
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Former priest, and author James Carroll calls for church rescue from Vatican "fundamentalist-in-chief" Joseph Ratzinger
"Vatican II was a step toward the democratizing of the Catholic Church, which is why Catholic fundamentalists have been seeking to undo it ever since. Fundamentalist-in-chief has been Joseph Ratzinger. ...
An example of what must happen now came from the American nuns who recently defied the Rome-obsessed bishops to support President Obamas health reform bill. The nuns acted as if the reforms of Vatican II are real. Now priests and lay people must do the same, rescuing the Catholic Church from its fundamentalists, including the present pope." -- Former priest, and columnist for the Boston Globe, James Carroll.
Read Carroll's "Rescue Catholicism from Vatican" in the Boston Globe ...
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Read the entire story in today's Boston Globe ...
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SNAP President says "long secretive, convoluted policy" for defocking priests will change nothing by merely posting the already public document
"History and commonsense tell us that ancient, rigid, secretive cultures change very slowly, especially when the basic structure causing and sanctioning hurtful behaviors doesnt change at all. A dictator abuses power because he can. He can promise reform, but if he remains a dictator, its naïve to expect real change." SNAP President Barbara Blaine
Read the entire SNAP statement on the SNAP National Website ...
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Italian bishop says Jews are Roman church's "natural enemies" and are behind public outcry against popeAccording to a reporter for the Italian Roman Catholic website Pontifex who interviewed Italian Bishop Giacomo Babini, the bishop said during the interview that Jews do not want the Church, they are its natural enemies. He added: Deep down, historically speaking, the Jews are deicides [God killers].
Babini denied he had made any anti-Semitic remarks, and was backed by the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI), saying: Statements I have never made about our Jewish brothers have been attributed to me.
However, Bruno Volpe, who interviewed Babini for Pontifex, confirmed that the bishop had made the statement, which was reported widely in the Italian press today. Pontifex threatened to release the audio tape of the interview as proof.
Read the entire article in the British publication TimesOnline ...
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Vatican's "belligerent, resentful, paranoid response" to sex abuse by priests calls for radical change, say three Catholic authorsThree Catholic authors speak out on the urgent necessity of radically changing a Catholic Church government that has taken its moral codes and orthodoxy to hideous extremes, and with impunity.
"The Vatican must realize that the churchs belligerent, resentful and paranoid response to the global scandal is not working because it now says it will cooperate with secular justice systems and that the pope will have more meetings with victims. It is too little, too late." -- NY Times, April 11, 2010
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Vatican letter shows Ratzinger protecting the church, the pedophile and the hierarchy, while ignoring victimsVatican spokesperson Ciro Benedettini, said a letter published in the NYTimes, signed by Ratzinger, and which clearly shows that Ratzinger delayed the defrocking of a pedophile priest for 2-6 years, showed no attempt at a cover-up, but merely showed "the need to study the case with more attention, taking into account the good of all involved."
Here is the paragraph from the letter, translated from Latin by the Times, in which Ratzinger listed "all involved" who would benefit from his judgment. They are:
- "The Universal Church;"
- "The petitioner" (in other words, the pedophile asking for laicization); and
- The church hierarchy, fearing "that granting the dispensation can provoke the community of Christ's faithful."
"This court, although it regards the arguments presented in favor of removal in this case to be of grave significance, nevertheless deems it necessary to consider the good of the Universal Church together with that of the petitioner, and it is also unable to make light of the detriment that granting the dispensation can provoke with the community of Christ's faithful, particularly regarding the young age of the petitioner." -- Joseph Ratzinger
Nowhere in the Ratzinger list, or in any other place in the letter, are the victims mentioned.
Read the letter, and follow the entire document trail in today's NYTimes.
Read the AP article reporting Vatican responses.
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Vatican spins Ratzinger's protection of pedophile priest as not understanding "the context in which it was written"; Times publishes "the context"Vatican spin specialist, Federico Lombardi, commenting on the report yesterday that documents confirm Ratzinger was directly involved in protecting a convicted pedophile priest, said it was wrong to draw conclusions based on one letter, without carefully understanding the context in which it was written.
Its evident that its not an in-depth and serious use of documents, Lombardi said.
Judge for yourself, then, says the NYTimes:
Follow the document trail for this Vatican cover-up letter signed by Ratzinger in today's NY Times.
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Ratzinger delays defrocking of convicted pedophile priest for 2 years in signed letter; for" the good of the Universal Church"In a signed 1985 letter received by the NY Times, Joseph Ratzinger, later Benedict XVI, ordered delaying the defrocking of an Oakland, California priest convicted of pedophilia in 1978. The priest was finally defrocked in 1987.
"Bishop Cummins had first petitioned the doctrinal office to defrock Mr. Kiesle in 1981. He also wrote directly to Pope John Paul II. Cardinal Ratzinger requested more information, which officials in the Oakland Diocese supplied in February 1982. They did not hear back from Cardinal Ratzinger until 1985, when he sent the letter in Latin suggesting that his office needed more time to evaluate the case." -- NYTimes, 09 April 2010.
According to records published today by the NYTimes, Kiesle was convicted of sexually abusing young boys between the ages of 11 and 13 in 1978. His bishop wrote the Vatican to have him defrocked -- which Kiesle himself demanded -- in 1981. Ratzinger responded in 1985, and Kiesle was defrocked in 1987.
Here are longer excerpts, followed by a link to the entire article and to SNAP's response.
"In August of 1978 he was arrested by the police and charged with having taken sexual liberties with at least six young men ranging from eleven to thirteen years of age during the period of November 1977 through May 1978. When he appeared in court, Father Kiesle pleaded "nolo contendere" (no contest) to the charges."
... "Given all the circumstances surrounding this case and Father Kiesle's irrevocable decision to leave the active ministry, it would seem to me most prudent that his petition be granted.
"Therefore, since all of these things are attested to in the Acts of the case, it is our opinion that this case should be submitted to you with the petition that Father Stephen Kiesle be relieved of all of the obligations of the priesthood."
-- John S. Cummins, Bishop of Oakland, 19 June 1981.
"This court, although it regards the arguments presented in favor of removal in this case to be of grave significance, nevertheless deems it necessary to consider the good of the Universal Church together with that of the petitioner, and it is also unable to make light of the detriment that granting the dispensation can provoke with the community of Christ's faithful, particularly regarding the young age of the petitioner. "
-- (signed) Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, November, 1985.
Kiesle was defrocked in 1987, 2 years after Ratzinger's reaction to the case, and 9 years after Kiesle's conviction as a pedophile.
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Guardian commentator claims pope has no diplomatic immunity from prosecution for "crime against humanity"A British news commentator, writing in the Guardian this week, claims that the Vatican, and the pope can no longer ignore international law, which now counts the widespread or systematic sexual abuse of children as a crime against humanity. Therefore, the claim of the Vatican to be a state and of the pope to be a head of state and hence immune from legal action cannot stand up to scrutiny.
But the commentary goes even further, suggesting that the diplomatic immunity of the Vatican "state" itself is in question.
Former Bush administration lawyer John B Bellinger III, in 2005, had certified that Pope Benedict the XVI was immune from suit "as the head of a foreign state" when the pope and his entourage came to America. Bellinger is now notorious for his defence of Bush administration torture policies. His opinion on papal immunity is even more questionable. It hinges on the assumption that the Vatican is a state.
"But the papal states were extinguished by invasion in 1870 and the Vatican was created by fascist Italy in 1929 when Mussolini endowed this tiny enclave 0.17 of a square mile containing 900 Catholic bureaucrats with "sovereignty in the international field ... in conformity with its traditions and the exigencies of its mission in the world."
Read the full story in the Guardian.
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"The popes reluctance to take a firm stance on sexual abuse by priests is expanding into a crisis for the Catholic Church and fueling outrage over his papacy. Some Catholics are now even calling on Benedict, who has committed a series of gaffes since becoming pope in 2005, to resign." -- German Newspaper Der Speigel 06 April 2010
Read this explosive and detailed 7 segment critique of the current papacy on the Der Speigel Germany website.
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Read the whole story in the San Antonio Express-News.
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Pope Benedict and the Vatican have come under growing criticism as allegations of clergy sex abuse have spread across Europe. Some of the cases have raised questions about whether Pope Benedict did enough to root out pedophile priests under his watch before he became pope.
The renewed scrutiny has Bernie McDaid and another abuse victim who attended the 2008 meeting with the pope re-examining its meaning and lasting impact.
Read the full AP story from March 28 in the Ogden Standard.
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Senior British lawyers question pope's immunity to prosecution; protests grow over $22 million cost to British taxpayers of pope's upcoming tripSenior British lawyers are now examining whether the pope should have immunity as a head of state and whether he could be prosecuted under the principle of universal jurisdiction for an alleged systematic cover-up of sexual abuses by priests.
Read the full story in today's Washington Post.
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The Huffington Post reports today that in an Easter Sunday interview with Ian Masters on KPFK Los Angeles earlier today, Catholic author and former Paulist priest James Carroll (Practicing Catholic; Constantine's Sword; Toward A New Catholic Church) calls for all Catholics begin acting as if the reforms of Vatican II are reality.
Carroll calls on Catholics to break ranks with what he calls a "corrupt, pope-centered clerical system" at the root of the clergy sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church.
Hear the entire 3 part, half-hour interview at the Website of The Huffington Post.
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Holy Thursday, April 1, 2010
The reports that Pope Benedict had mishandled a clergy sex abuse case when he was archbishop of Munich have sharpened the focus of international attention on the Pope, the Vatican and the seemingly perpetual problem of clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Church. This revelation coincided with what some believed might be the culmination of the furor in Ireland by the popes Pastoral Letter to the Irish People. Questions about the Munich case and the mixed reception of the papal letter have guaranteed that critical interest will intensify rather than recede.
First, a brief summary of what I suspect happened in Munich back in 1980. The priest in question was credibly accused of sexually molesting two minors. His bishop arranged for him to go from his home diocese, Essen, to Munich, to receive treatment. Read More...
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Im excited to report that we have a great turnout for our Day of Rest and Relaxation this Saturday. I assure you that you will be glad you signed up.
This professionally-facilitated day has been developed to honor YOU and meet you where you are in your healing. It is not structured like an ordinary support group meeting. You can share as little or as much as you are comfortable. There are many of you who havent come to a support meeting. You just might find this Saturdays event an easier introduction to SNAP DFW as there will be several brand new attendees. Moreover, I would really like to meet you.
I will be very happy to welcome you all, both survivors and those with loved ones who were abused. Let's all have a great day honoring each other and our fellow survivors everywhere.
Lisa Kendzior
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Adding insult to injury, defensive pope trivializes outcry over pedophile priests as "petty" in Palm Sunday sermon; SNAP responds
"Contrary to what a few in Rome are saying, we are not "ignoble," "despicable" or engaging in "petty gossip." We are men, women and children who are in deep pain, having been raped, sodomized and assaulted by Catholic clergy and often betrayed by Catholic officials. Our trauma - past and present - should never be trivialized by anyone, much less by those who profess to be caring shepherds." -- Barbara Blaine, SNAP President
Preaching to those gathered in St Peter's square during a Palm Sunday service, the pope, trivialized the global cries of the sexually abused victims of Roman Catholic priests and of the hierarchy that protects them, saying he would not allow himself "to be intimidated by the petty gossip of dominant opinion".
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Former San Francisco archbishop William Levada, who now heads Ratzinger's former Vatican office once know as the Inquisition, is accused of sitting on clergy sex abuse reports by 67 deaf men and women for months until pressured by news media. The Italian case has eerie echoes of the investigation of a Wisconsin priest accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys.
Read the full CBS/AP story and Clohessy's response issued earlier today.
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The BBC has raised the question of whether Pope Benedict XVI/Joseph Ratzinger should resign over the snowballing paedophile priest scandal in the Catholic Church.
In theory, there is nothing to stop Benedict from simply drafting a letter of resignation to hand to the College of Cardinals, the electoral body of bishops who elected him.
Under Roman Canon Law, the only conditions for the validity of such a resignation are that it be made freely and be properly published.
Ratzinger's predecessors Gregory the XII and Benedict XIII resigned the papacy. And there is speculation that during WWII, Pius XII drafted a letter of resignation should he be imprisoned by the Nazis. But the records of the wartime popes remain locked down in the Vatican to this day.
Read the article by the BBC Vatican correspondent.
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In a March 18 article in NCROnline, one which has been somewhat lost in the shuffle of media events of the last few days concerning the global Catholic sex abuse crisis, theologian Hans Küng adds his significant perspective.
"Is it not time for Pope Benedict XVI himself to acknowledge his share of responsibility, instead of whining about a campaign against his person? No other person in the Church has had to deal with so many cases of abuse crossing his desk." -- Hans Küng, March 18, 2010
Read Küng's entire statement in NCROnline.
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It's been a while
I've spent a lot of time over the last few months recovering from a knee surgery and getting back into work so I haven't had much time on my computer recently. Now that the year is coming to and end and things are beginning to get back on track, I'm going to try to begin posting more. More updates should be on the way soon, I just wanted to check in and let everyone know I'm still here. Thank you for reading!