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Nature Notes, June 12, 2015
June 12, 2015: Fireflies out and about. I thought this would be the earliest date ever, but I see May 30, 2011 wins the early bird award. Of course, I wasn't here in nature on May 30 this year so.... The fireflies are not yet as profuse as they were in 2014, but will certainly increase as we approach July 4, when they put on their great firework show.
In the meantime mountain laurel are bursting blossoms (looks like a wedding bower). Everything green is profuse: ferns, raspberry bushes, violets, (even the irises flowered this year), alium look great, lady's mantel, blood root, verbena, chives, oregano and who knows what else.
The Fordham Tick Index is at 8 (out of 10). I have been attacked by only one so far. It had not yet bitten, so I spared it (Will Francis have anything to say about unloved creatures like ticks, mosquitos, and chiggers. We'll see next week.).
I speculate that a very cold and long winter followed by a wet June has produced the abundant green world, though it seems that may have delayed planting on the farm at the bottom of the hill. Late corn!
2014 Report, June 27. 2012 Report, June 22. 2011 Report May 30.
Kalief Browder's Stolen Life
As a twenty-year-old only recently freed from New York's Rikers Island after three years without a trial or being convicted of a crime, Kalief Browder seemed to exhibit a stark awareness of what had already been lost. "You just took three years of my life," he said in a 2013 interview, addressing a dysfunctional criminal justice system he'd had the misfortune of being swept up in. "I didn't get to go to prom or graduation. Nothing. Those are the main years. … And I am never going to get those years back. Never. Never." What, tragically, he also appears to have been robbed of was the hope that something could yet be found. After several hospitalizations and multiple suicide attempts following his release, Browder hanged himself on Saturday. He was twenty-two.
Browder's story became widely known thanks mainly to the reporting of The New Yorker's Jennifer Gonnerman, who in October 2014 detailed an ordeal that began with his arrest on suspicion of stealing a backpack from someone on a Bronx street. But "ordeal" seems like an inadequate word for what followed (see Gonnerman's piece for the full account), which was basically the disappearing of an apparently innocent teenager, unable to make bail much less pay for competent representation, for more than a thousand days.Read more
New issue, new stories
Featured right now on the website, the latest from E.J. Dionne Jr., as well as our June 12 issue, just posted today.
In writing on the presidential candidacy of Bernie Sanders, E.J. discusses "The Two Santa Claus Theory" put forth by supply-siders in the 1970s and says that Sanders may be tapping into something:
The senator from Vermont has little chance of defeating Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination. But he is reminding his party of something it often forgets: Government was once popular because it provided tangible benefits to large numbers of Americans...
Read all of "The New St. Nick" here.
And, among the highlights from our new issue is Robert Gascoigne writing on the affinities between Christians and the "secularists" who "share with Christians many of the key ethical values that can motivate and energize democratic political life."
[The] significant commonality of ethical and political ideals between secular humanism and the contemporary Catholic Church has a complex and turbulent historical background. The litany of suffering of members of the church at the hands of revolutionary political movements is a long and terrible one. Yet the relationship between the Catholic Church and movements for democratic change and social justice has happily, and surprisingly to many, developed into a shared commitment to defending human rights.
Read all of "Shared Commitments" here.
And, Rand Richards Cooper pens a Last Word on the troubling ubiquity of smartphones and the baffling "universal desire to be connected everywhere and all the time":
[T]hat's America these days: people everywhere with their heads bent, fingertips flicking at their screens. Couples in restaurants, silently flicking. A schoolbus full of teenagers, heads bent as if in prayer.... But what happens when what we're farming out is consciousness itself—the ability to be ourselves, with ourselves, amid the glories of creation?
Read all of "Flick, Flick" here, and see the full table of contents for the June 12 issue here.
Same-Sex Marriage 'Reality Check'
Many who are responding to the 62.4% majority vote to nationally legalize same-sex marriage in Ireland are making much of Dublin archbishop Diarmuid Martin's frank but vague remarks in the New York Times:
The church needs to take a reality check.... It's very clear there's a growing gap between Irish young people and the church, and there's a growing gap between the culture of Ireland that's developing and the church.... [I]nside the church becomes almost alien territory to them in today's society…
That there is a growing gap between young people and the church on this issue is not new news, nor is it exclusive to Ireland. Martin is right to point out that anyone who doesn't recognize this is in "severe denial." That's why I think this referendum is such good news. It's a reality check, yes, but it's also an opportunity to let go of the fight against same-sex marriage. If bemoaning the referendum becomes the church's basis for strengthening "its commitment to evangelization," as the Vatican's secretary of state suggests, the gap between young people and the church will only widen.
I don't have the polling data to prove this, but I can't imagine that many young Catholics enjoy being recruited to fight a culture war, especially if the opposition includes family, friends, and peers. They find it alienating when a priest homilizes about the essential differences between men and women; they would rather hear that "all are welcome" at Mass and rather the homily stick to the gospel. When Catholic identity becomes less about spirituality and more about political battles, something essential is lost…along with thousands of believers.
Is there a way for Catholics to simply disagree with same-sex marriage supporters instead of having to "defend traditional marriage"? Is there a widespread movement to force the church to change its teaching on marriage? Why can't traditional marriage exist inside the church, with same-sex marriage outside the church? Agreeing to disagree relieves the opposing parties of the burden of needing to win. Ireland has decided, by majority vote, to legalize same-sex marriage. At least one front in this protracted culture war has gone quiet. What a relief.
Over at NCR Michael Sean Winters wonders if it's possible that "those Irish young people did not vote for same sex marriage despite their Catholic education, but, in part, because of it?" That's a very good question. I suspect they did. Catholics have imagination. Tradition isn't a force that eternally battles advancing armies. It's the way the substance (not the accidents) of church teaching is passed down through generations of believers who contribute to this process by reexamining and reexamining again what their faith means.
Now on the homepage
We've just posted three new stories to the homepage.
1. In his latest Letter from Rome, Robert Mickens suggests the possible reasons behind the Vatican Secretary of State's "apocolyptic assesment of the the Irish referendum" is culture, "particularly Italian culture," because Italy is "the most conservative country in all of Europe when it comes to social conventions and customs," especially concerning the family.
Mickens also reveals who exactly has been holding "secretive meetings and initiatives" in the run-up to October's Synod on the Family that deal with "some of the more thorny issues" the bishops will be debating, including the Kasper proposal.
Read the full Letter from Rome here, and if you need to catch up, here's all of them.
2. The Editors present reasons, if the Amtrak derailment isn't enough of one, for why the U.S. government's failure to invest in infrastructure must change:
The United States now spends less than 2 percent of its GDP on infrastructure, less than half of what Europe spends—and less than half of what we were spending in the 1960s....The American Society of Civil Engineers gave [the nation's infrastructure] a grade of D+... [and] noted that the average age of the country's 84,000 dams is fifty-two, and that one in nine of its bridges is considered structurally deficient. Every few years one of these bridges collapses, occasioning a brief outburst of bipartisan concern on Capitol Hill. Then nothing changes.
Read all of 'Signal Failure.'
3. George Dennis O'Brien, pondering the future direction of Catholic education, looks backward:
The dominant style of higher education in the ancient world was not academic but humanistic, directed at educating future political leaders who needed to learn the art of persuasion.... [T]he humanistic "classical curriculum" dominated American colleges from colonial times until the end of the nineteenth century.
Are Catholic institutions replacing the humanistic style with the "academic style of close argument and verifiable truths"?
Read all of 'Incarnation U,' and if you want more of the higher education debate, read Jackson Lears's excellent review of William Deresiewicz's Excellent Sheep.
Student debt comes home
The latest numbers from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York show student loan debt has reached $1.2 trillion, four times the amount it was in 2004. For the Millennial generation who stepped into the job market mid-recession, these sobering numbers probably aren't surprising.
Last year, a branch of Occupy Wall Street called Strike Debt, bought and forgave almost four million in student loans held by students from Corinthian Colleges, one of the biggest for-profit college chains, which recently closed its doors without warning and filed for bankruptcy. The company was under scrutiny for over-charging students for poor-quality classes and misrepresenting its job placement rate, and by shutting down, it left many students without degrees but deeper in dept. Now that Corinthian's unethical practices have been laid bare, Tuesday's petition asking the Department of Education to cancel debt owed to colleges violating state law is one good step, but the legal case is complicated.
Proposals for addressing the crisis of student debt range from the relatively modest (easing the requirements for debt forgiveness in cases of fraud found in Obama's proposed Student Aid Bill of Rights), to the sweeping, as Bernie Sanders's proposal to address the root cause of student debt by making college tuition-free. Regardless, some kind of action is needed.
The more burdensome a college graduate's debt obligation, the more difficult it is to establish a path toward economic security – building savings, for example, or buying a house – and to enter stabilizing relationships or start a family. Student debt also affects the well-being of the previous generation, as parents rally to help their children, sometimes by tapping into their home's equity or retirement savings. And, when the time comes, who are they supposed to sell their homes to when an entire generation of graduates is too constrained by debt to buy? There are also new numbers on how rising tuition and student debt disproportionately hurts minorities. Hollis Phelps in Commonweal last year addressed this very topic: "In a cruel twist, the very means undertaken by my students to get themselves out of poverty threaten to continue that poverty through the debt that they now owe." What might have once seemed like a young-person's problem (and perhaps a privileged young-person's problem) is now more widely felt.
We should understand the student debt crisis alongside the seriously weakened prospects for job growth that early Millennials faced upon graduation. As the first Millennial wave graduated, job definitions were changing as industries shifted and automation spread, and thanks to the recession, even the jobs that were supposed to be there as entrees to the middle-class were gone, or greatly diminished. Companies relied increasingly on contract labor to defray costs, including adjunct positions at universities (which didn't help the students who went to graduate school hoping to ride out the economic downturn). All this meant that the "foot in the door" college was expected to provide meant something very different than it used to. If you could get an entry-level position, advancement in the same workplace over a long period of time was no longer a solid prospect. And as many discovered, an unpaid internship began to increasingly qualify you for… a different internship—a point that has even made its way into Hillary Clinton's speeches (though apparently her foundation's policies don't necessarily reflect that concern).
Despite the occasional accusation of generational flightiness, which ignores these economic factors, Millennials say they want to make the same things happen as their parents did: a home, a stable partnership, and enough stability to raise kids. Policy changes will have to span the sprawling and slow-moving institutions of federal government, banks, and universities. But changes are slowly coming. In some states, companies that relied on unpaid internships to fill staff roles face greater restrictions. The complaints from Occupy Wall Street's corridors about debt once sounded less urgent and pressing to the mainstream. Millennials faced a lack of institutional support to build a solid foundation, and now the problem is coming home.
Abusing immigrants, something for everyone
We had a go around last week about nail salons (and I have been chided for treating it as another NYTimes hand-wringer). Okay. Sorry to scandalize the sensitive!
I pointed out in a comment on that post that our Immigration Law Imbroglio has a lot to do with the nail scandal as well as many other ongoing industrial/commercial abuses, such as restaurants, gas stations, street repairs, etc. Thanks to Republicans our laws have not been updated; thanks to Obama the laws, such as we have, are not being enforced; thanks to the economy of low-wage jobs, ever more immigrants will come by hook or crook and be abused, many of them by their own countrymen/women and by our failure to enforce the laws that should protect them as well as our very own low-wage workers.
Jim Dwyer (no hand-wringer) has a short piece not only about workers beings abused everywhere in NYC, but about the general failure of city and state to enforce the laws that should be protecting these workers, legal or not.
New issue is live
We've just posted our June 1 issue to the website. Among the highlights:
Amanda Erickson describes the struggle of a Catholic parish community in Freddie Gray's Baltimore neighborhood to respond adequately, in the wake of the riots, to the root causes of hopelessness there:
The life expectancy of those born in Sandtown-Winchester is thirteen years shorter than the national average. Those are problems that can't be fixed by one man, or in one morning. So instead, Rev. Bomberger grabbed a broom and headed across the street.
Andrew Bacevich reviews Andrew Cockburn's "imperfect but exceedingly useful book," Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins, about the motives behind and justifications for targeted assassinations and drone warfare—now common practices in U.S. foreign policy.
Cockburn quotes one U.S. Air Force general bragging, "We can now hit any target anywhere in the world, any time, any weather, day or night." Yet why bother with bombing bridges, power plants, or communications facilities, when taking out Mr. Big himself provides the definitive shortcut to victory? Here was the ultimate critical node: Decapitate the regime. As an approach to waging war, what could be more humane, not to mention efficient?
Plus: New poetry from Marie Ponsot, Celia Wren explains why the once-promising plotlines of Mad Men hit a dead end, Paul Johnston reviews the latest from Reading Lolita in Tehran author Azar Nafisi, Molly Farneth reviews the latest, uncomprehensive but newly non-Eurocentric Norton Anthology of World Religions, and Charles Morris reveals the dirty little secret of major-league banking bankers don't want to believe.
See the full table of contents here.
New stories on the website
We've posted two new stories to the website.
First is Robert Mickens's latest Letter from Rome, in which he tracks the angry reactions of traditionalist-leaning Catholics to certain words from an archbishop (one of Francis's most trusted theologians) interviewed by an Italian newspaper. He also examines the continuing threats of schism from these Catholics "should Pope Francis and the Synod of Bishops allow for changes in church teaching on marriage" and gives an interesting look into how Opus Dei has taken advantage of the saint-making process, which was streamlined by St. John Paul II in 1983.
Read the whole thing here.
Next, the editors weigh in on the European Union's welcome, if belated, announcement to take an active role saving refugees and expediting asylum requests for the hundreds of thousands fleeing war, poverty, and religious and ethnic persecution in Africa:
…certainly the nations that are blessed with relative economic strength—and whose military and political missteps have helped bring about the crisis in [Africa]—owe it to the afflicted to stop the loss of lives at sea.
Could the Obama administration's response to the migration crisis in Central America be a useful model for European nations dealing with their own migration crisis?
Read the whole editorial here.
Catch E.J. Dionne and Barack Obama
Online at the Georgetown Catholic-Evangelical Conference on Poverty....
There's a tab at the upper left of the screen to watch the whole discussion, which begins at about five minutes. Catch it.
Ed Chambers, RIP
Since word emerged from the west of Ireland about Ed Chambers' death on April 26, the small, generally taciturn, online world of professional community organizers has been buzzing with reminiscences, tributes, and most of all, stories about the bluff, hard-edged and (though he often kept it well-hidden) big-hearted man who was one of the unsung heroes of public life in the United States over the past 50 years.
As Samuel Freedman, who came to know Chambers and the work of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) intimately when working on his terrific 1994 book, Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church, wrote earlier this week, "If Alinsky was the Jesus of community organizing, the galvanizing standard-bearer, Chambers was its St. Paul, transforming radical theology into organized religion. He did not invent community organizing as we know it in America—that was Alinsky's achievement—but he made it professional and permanent, a purposeful career rather than a sacrificial calling."
Saul Alinsky's role in community organizing can get overstated and it's easy to see why. Alinsky was a colorful character with a keen intellect and a great way with words. Perhaps most importantly he wrote books---Reveille for Radicals (1946) and Rules for Radicals (1971)---in which he defined his work as "community organizing". But as scholars like Theda Skopcol have documented, "community organizing" has been part of the American cultural and political DNA since before the birth of the republic. Alinsky's genius was to take what he'd learned from CIO organizers around Chicago in the 1930s, apply it to the daily lives and experience of working-class city dwellers in mid-20th century urban America, and create a common vocabulary for the work.
But Alinsky had no interest in or talent for building long-lasting community organizations. He also had little interest in nurturing and developing the next generation of professional organizers.Read more
Bagels, doughnuts, and scones
If Mike Huckabee violated campaign finance laws, would anyone take note? And who would do anything about it?
The answer to the first question is yes: As reported in The Washington Post, the Campaign Legal Center has called out Huckabee on the first day of his presidential candidacy for a remark he made during his announcement speech: "I will be funded and fueled not by the billionaires, but by working people who will find out that $15- and $25-a-month contributions can take us from Hope to higher ground… . Now, rest assured [he said to laughter], if you want to give a million dollars, please do it." According to the center, that's a violation, joke or not, since candidates for federal office can solicit amounts no larger than $5,000. And if he was suggesting that people direct their donations to a Super PAC, that would also have been a violation: Super PACs are independent of candidates, and fundraising for them must stop once a potential candidate becomes an announced one. Republican Jeb Bush and Democrat Martin O'Malley are two presumed presidential candidates whose Super PACs continue to raise money while they linger on the sidelines, which is precisely (some say) why they continue to linger on the sidelines.
A million here, a million there—once it might have soon begun to add up. Yet with the Koch brothers pledging to funnel close to $900 million into the 2016 election (having already amassed $250 million at an event earlier this year), notions of what constitutes "real money" might need to be reconsidered. Huckabee's modest request could cause him some trouble, assuming there was a bipartisan body set up to monitor and enforce such things. If you said that's what the Federal Election Commission was for, you wouldn't be incorrect, but you'd be overstating its ability to do so, and maybe even its interest in doing so. As reported this past weekend, the FEC is effectively neutered, its three Republican and three Democratic members in a "perpetual deadlock." The FEC chairwoman bluntly states that the likelihood of enforcing campaign finance regulations in the 2016 presidential election is "slim" – this when about $10 billion in total spending is expected, an amount loosed in large part via the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. Democrats on the commission want more oversight on just where the money is coming from; Republicans say there's nothing to see here. Where members did manage to compromise was on what would be served to eat at a recent event commemorating the FEC's fortieth anniversary: one side wanted bagels, the other doughnuts, so they settled on both.
It's campaign season in the United Kingdom as well, where rules are somewhat more stringent: No party can spend more than about $30 million in the year ahead of the election. In the last cycle, the Conservatives spent $25 million and Labour less than half that. The Center for Responsive Politics says American presidential candidates spent about as much money on raising money in 2012 as the two main British parties spent on their entire campaigns in 2010. There is no TV or radio advertising in British elections (though spending on digital ads is rising). Even then, parties and candidates tend to have money left over. Maybe enough for scones?
New issue, new stories
On the website now, our May 15 issue. Here are some of the highlights:
Jo McGowan examines the effects violence against children has on society at large—effects so drastic it is being treated as an "any other epidemic," "says forensic psychologist Karen McCluckey:
Isolate the contagion. Prevent transmission. Treat outbreaks instantly and aggressively.
Jerry Ryan reflects on his struggle to discover "what the person of Jesus means" to him, spiritually and theologically:
Classical theology has the angels deciding their destiny in a single, unalterable choice. I sometimes dream of being able to imitate such an act, one that would free me from all my ambiguities and contradictions, my half-hearted aspirations and ineffectual resolutions. This is not the way things work, however...
Read all of "Knowing Jesus" here.
Eve Tushnet reviews an exhibit produced by over 40 artists at the National Museum of African Art that recreates Dante's Divine Comedy on three floors:
I'm sitting in hell with a couple of little boys, who are trying to prove they're not scared. We're watching a cloth-wrapped figure prostrate itself and bang its fists against the floor, as sobs and wordless singing give way to a howled "I, I, I surrender!"
Read about the beautiful, horrific, beatific and redemptive show here.
Also in the May 15 issue: James Sheehan on how Greece and Ukraine are "testing Europe"; reviews of books about abortion, the short history of the black vote, a young Lawrence of Arabia, and secular humanism—plus poetry from Michael Cadnum, Thomas Lynch, and Peter Cooley; and Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill reflects on bodily decrepitude and wisdom.
Also featured on the site now, the latest from E.J. Dionne Jr., who writes about a senator's sensible stance on faith and secularism. Read the whole thing here.
Thank you, Freddie Gray
Thank you, Freddie Gray.
You did not choose to be sacrificed but, God willing, your death, and the reactions to it in Baltimore and around the nation, will reawaken your fellow citizens to ugly realities that so many of us have tried so mightily to avoid.
Your fatal injuries while in police custody—under circumstances that make it impossible for anyone to credibly blame you—have done what the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and even twelve-year-old Tamir Rice could not do: remove any ambiguity about agency.
Your sad history of childhood exposure to lead paint shines a light on a hazard that has afflicted untold numbers of poor children, especially black children, raised in housing that literally cripples them mentally, shortens their lives substantially, and diminishes the quality of the time they do have.
And whether you would have willed it or not, the riot—or was it a rebellion?—touched off by your death has focused minds on America's urban tinderboxes in a way that no presidential speech (assuming there had been one) or civil-rights leader's sermon has been able to since…well, within recent memory.Read more
More new stories on the website
E.J. Dionne Jr. provides a deeper look into social problems in Baltimore--how globalization of the economy, technological change, and deindustrialization have taken manufacturing jobs out of the city without ever replacing them. Dionne interviews Thomas J. Vicino, author of Transforming Race and Class in Suburbia: Decline in Metropolitan Baltimore, who explains:
"This is a double-whammy for poor black people left in the city....They are not in a position to share in the development downtown and, with the loss of manufacturing jobs, they are left, at best, with access to relatively low-paying service jobs. This, in turn, creates a spiral for those left behind, damaging families and devastating neighborhoods."
This cycle hurt working-class whites as well, Vicino added, "but whites were in a better position to move elsewhere, whereas black mobility was limited by housing discrimination."
Reading all of "The Roots of Baltimore's Anguish" is worth your time.
Also, in "Does the Earth Have Rights?," Robin Darling Young writes on the anticipation (and political polarization) surrounding Pope Francis's upcoming encyclical on the environment. Both Climate skeptic Catholics and non-Catholics with assumptions about the church's views on science will be surprised to learn just how traditionally Catholic progressive scholarship is. In Young's view this raises serious questions:
How [are we] to balance individual moral responsibility, described in the moral teachings of the church, against a general Catholic or human responsibility as developed in more than a century of modern Catholic social teaching?
More broadly and just as important:
What could it mean for nature itself to have rights—rights that are being flagrantly violated by human beings? And what could it mean for Catholic theology if a pope says this?
Read the whole thing (and get thinking) here.
Hebdo & PEN, the Archbishop & the Quran
The Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Luz said this week he will stop inking images of the prophet Muhammad, explaining that it no longer interests him: "I got tired of it, just like I got tired of drawing Sarkozy." His announcement comes as France also follows the case of Sarah K., the fifteen-year-old student sent home for wearing a long skirt her principal deemed an "ostentatious sign" of the girl's Muslim faith – an action the Collective Against Islamophobia in France called "really an excessive interpretation" of the 2004 law prohibiting students to wear visible signs of their religious affiliation to school.
Meanwhile, the public spat among authors continues ahead of next week's PEN gala in New York, where Charlie Hebdo will receive the PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Freedom of Expression Courage Award "for its dauntlessness in the face of one of the most noxious assaults on expression in recent memory." Six writers scheduled as table hosts announced over the weekend they would not attend the event, including Francine Prose, a former president of PEN American Center. About two dozen more writers (including Joyce Carol Oates and Junot Diaz) have since added their names as signatories to a public letter of protest over the award: "PEN is not simply conveying support for freedom of expression," reads the letter, "but also valorizing selectively offensive material: material that intensifies the anti-Islamic, anti-Maghreb, anti-Arab sentiments already prevalent in the western world." Prose and the five others who first withdrew have come under fire from, among others, Salman Rushdie -- who has called them "fellow travelers" of "fanatical Islam, which is highly organized, well funded, and which seeks to terrify us all, Muslims as well as non-Muslims, into a cowed silence." (He used some other choice words too.) To which Prose has responded:
Why is it so difficult for people to make fine distinctions? … [We] stand fully behind Charlie Hebdo's right to publish whatever they want without being censored, and of course without the use of violence to enforce their silence. … But the giving of an award suggests that one admires and respects the value of the work being honored, responses quite difficult to summon for the work of Charlie Hebdo. Provocation is simply not the same as heroism.
There's a more irenic exchange going on at John Carroll University, as can be heard in a segment from today's NPR Morning Edition on retired archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, an expert on Islam currently teaching a class on the Quran.Read more
New stories on the website
We've posted two new stories to the homepage.
First, Robert Mickens reports in his weekly letter from Rome that Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila will replace Honduran Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga as president of Caritas Internationalis,"the church's leading advocate of Catholic social teaching and human development in the international arena."
And, provoking "volcanic enthusiasm" from leading women in Rome, Pope Francis has been confronting historical gender bias and economic discrimination against women during his Wednesday audiences.
...what is sure to surprise some, [the pope] refused to blame the crisis of marriage on the women's liberation movement, though he didn't use those exact words. "Many people hold that the changes these past decades were put into motion by the emancipation of women. But this argument is not valid, either. It's an insult!" he said, again to loud applause. "It's a form of machismo, which always tries to dominate women."
Read the entire "Letter from Rome" here.
Second, the editors comment on the pope's ousting of Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph, who was convicted of failing to report child abuse in 2012 and how it might mean that the era of "tolerating bishops who fail to protect the most vulnerable under their care has come to an end. This pope will hold them to account." Some have criticized Francis for taking too long to remove Finn, but:
Francis is running a church with five thousand bishops. In order to educate himself about the controversy in Kansas City, a diocese of about 133,000 in a country he's never visited, Francis initiated an investigation last September. He allowed that process to run its course, despite increasingly strenuous calls to sack Finn. The pope's favored methods of listening and deliberation—most evident in the Synod on the Family—are themselves instruments of justice.
Read the entire editorial, "Held to Account," here.
Transcending polarization
What can be done about polarization in the American Catholic Church? A conference next week at the University of Notre Dame aims to address the causes of polarization and advance ideas for healing some its wounds.
Monday night's opening panel will be live-streamed here, with contributions from Most Rev. Daniel Flores (Bishop of Brownsville), Rev. John Jenkins, CSC (President, Notre Dame), Prof. Julie Hanlon Rubio (theology, St. Louis Univ.), Prof. Christian Smith (sociology, Notre Dame), and Michael Sean Winters (journalist for The Tablet and the National Catholic Reporter).
This will be followed by Tuesday sessions and working groups. I'll be part of a group proposing constructive actions that can be taken to heal divisions in the church. In preparing for that, I've been working through some of the causes of political polarization in the United States, to see which of these might have explanatory power for polarization in the church.
Political scientists agree that the United States has become increasingly polarized over the past forty years. Analyzing the possible causes has become a hot topic for peer-reviewed scholarship, op-ed pages, and blogs. (Some recent round-ups of scholarship can be found here and here.) Was polarization catalyzed by Roe v. Wade? Or Bush v. Gore? Or the partisan onslaught of 24-hour cable news? In any case, it's hard to remember the map before it showed red and blue states.Read more
Deciding not to have children
How to read a collection of essays on the "childless by choice" called Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed? You could take the title as an accurate indicator of what's inside, your assumption reinforced by the book's subtitle: "Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids." It's bad enough getting unsolicited, aggrieved explanations for a life-defining decision without getting them from a bunch of people who provide their unsolicited thoughts for a living.
Of course, that's the anticipatory response editor Meghan Daum meant to provoke in selecting those words for the cover in the first place. I can't speak for every mother and father, but there comes a point in the slog of child-rearing when a parent looks enviously (murderously?) on those who've opted out of procreation and issues – silently, or not so – just that verdict. Most of the contributors here report having been condemned in similar fashion, the opprobrium overt and subtle, coming from family, friends, and strangers, from quarters low, high, and in between. Pope Francis himself, in declaring early this year that "life rejuvenates and acquires energy when it multiplies," said explicitly that choosing not to have children is "selfish," which in spite of the slightly more nuanced context of his larger remarks won't endear him to those who feel they have good reasons for not participating in the "valiant attempt to ensure the survival of our endangered species and fill up this vast and underpopulated planet."
That line comes courtesy of Geoff Dyer, one of three men represented in Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed. I dispense with him early because he, along with contributor Tim Kreider, has the relative luxury, I think, of deploying humor in his effort to explain (Kreider: "Whenever someone asks me whether I'd like to hold the baby, I always say 'No thanks.' I have been advised this is an impolitic response"). This has the effect of distancing its user from the matter at hand: As men, even men who've thought about it carefully, they can afford to joke about it, and they seem to know it. The more sober assessments come from those representing the other half of humanity, whom the question concerns in a significantly more encompassing way.Read more
Estate tax unpopular not just with rich
The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote this week on repealing the federal estate tax, and while more Republicans favor this repeal than Democrats, I can't be equally sure the rich favor it more than the poor. The reason is a conversation I had as a reporter in the mid-1990s with the late George McGovern, who lost the presidency so soundly in 1972.
I was interviewing McGovern about his book chronicling his daughter's tragic death, not about taxes. But when I mentioned that I had cast my first presidential vote for him, we talked a while about national debates that never go away.
Although "income inequality" wasn't a term then in use, the issue has always been with us. One way to lessen income inequality is the estate tax, designed to ensure that vast fortunes don't stay wholly within certain families, thereby building up the wealth gap for generations to come.
McGovern specifically brought the estate tax up, not me. During his presidential campaign he had advocated raising the tax, he said, and one of his biggest surprises was the vigorous resistance he encountered among the poor and middle class, people who would likely never have to pay it.
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'Provocative' act
The cartoon was drawn by Zapiro in response to a Facebook user who started a page called "Everybody Draw Muhammed Day!"
Courts in Pakistan recently blocked Facebook and Youtube for hosting "un-Islamic content".
Muslims consider any depiction of the prophet as blasphemous. "It seems to be provocative in many ways on the very eve of the World Cup in South Africa," Ihsaan Hendricks, the president of South Africa's Muslim Judicial Council, said.
"We need peaceful co-existence and co-operation amongst religious communities in South Africa."
The Mail & Guardian said it received a flood of angry calls on Friday, following the publication of the cartoon.
The publication said the Council of Muslim Theologians had raised the spectre of a violent backlash during the World Cup, which kicks off on June 11, in arguments before the court requesting an injunction against the cartoon."My view is no cartoon is as insulting to Islam as the assumption Muslims will react with violence," Nic Dawes, editor of the Mail & Guardian, said.
South Park row
The row is the latest in a string of incidents involving images of the prophet. The creators of the American TV cartoon South Park have faced death threats after an episode showed the prophet wearing a bear costume.
Zapiro, whose real name is Jonathan Shapiro, said he was not trying to offend Muslims.
"I believe that all religions should be subjected to satire and that some religious groups should not be able to think they are above society," he said.
"Some of the people who have been criticising me are the same ones who applaud cartoons about Israel on infringing Palestine's rights."
Source: Agencies
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Philip Robertson, right, an adjudicator with Guinness World Records, examines a device used to measure the sound level of cheering fans at CenturyLink Field in Seattle prior to an NFL football game between the Seattle Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013, in Seattle. Fans are at the notoriously loud stadium are attempting to set a new Guinness World Record for crowd noise at an athletic event during the game. At left is Matt Roe, an acoustical consultant with Seattle-based SSA Acoustics who will be measuring the sound levels. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Kevin Hart, Josh Gad to Star in Comedy for Screen Gems, Miramax
Jeremy Garelick will direct the currently untitled film.
Kevin Hart will play a best-man-for-hire who helps out a socially awkward Josh Gad in a currently untitled comedy for Screen Gems and Miramax.
The project was written by Jeremy Garelick (The Break-Up, Police Academy) and Jay Lavender (The Break-Up), with the former also set to direct.
The film follows a man named Jimmy (Hart) who provides best man services for men who don't have best friends. Groom Doug (Gad) is a socially awkward guy who finds himself without a best man. He makes up not only a best man, but nine groomsmen, and eventually seeks out Jimmy's help to create his fictional friends.
VIDEO: Behind the Scenes of THR's Kevin Hart Photo Shoot
Miramax's Adam Fields and Will Packer are producing the film. Clint Culpepper, president of Screen Gems, will oversee the project for the company.
Hart's previous film work includes ensemble film Think Like a Man. He next will be seen in the concert film Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain and is repped by UTA and 3 Arts.
Gad, who starred as Elder Arnold Cunningham in the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, can be seen in current film The Internship, will play Steve Wozniak in Jobs and has a role in Zach Braff's upcoming film, Wish I Was Here. He's repped by ICM Partners and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
Garelick and Lavender previously wrote the script for the comedy The Break-Up, which starred Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn. Garelick is repped by UTA and Lavender is repped by Verve Talent and Literary Agency.
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Stopping in to say hi!!! No excuse for me not posting on here so I won't make up one. Gosh Summer is almost over isn't it? Has flown by...Schools are back in session and soon it will be Fall...I am looking forward to it and the cooler temperatures. NOT Winter!!!! Fall.....Love the season and I think everyone feels better and is more energetic. A pic here of a couple of my old bears. No ears and a few have missing limbs but I adore them. The more raggedy they are the better I like them!
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Happiness Is A Little Rain
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Washday Perhaps?
Popping in to say hi to everyone. So busy lately just trying to keep up with everything. I am washing bedding today and hanging it on the clothesline. LOVE to smell fresh laundry! Have a nice day everyone!
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Thursday, April 9, 2015
That Time Again!
Birds are singing, Grass is getting so green, and I see little shoots popping up everywhere. Can't wait to see all the flowers soon. I/we have been busy getting ready for our open house next week. Lots to do still but we will get it done! I hope everyone is doing well and thinking about digging in the dirt like me. SO love it..... Spring is in the air! Have a wonderful day girls!
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Thursday, March 26, 2015
A few Photos Of The Kitchen
My goodness how the time has gotten away! I have been working in the kitchen, yard, and we have been gathering things for our upcoming open house next month. Here are a few photos of the kitchen. I wanted the doors off under the apron sink to give the kitchen a more farmhouse look. I so love the feedsacks instead. We really like it and will see if we do a "redo" on the other end of it on a a smaller scale. Hope everyone is enjoying the weather changing and getting excited about Spring. I sure am!!! WHOOPPEEEE! Have a nice day everyone.
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Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Weather and Renovations
GOLLY on the weather lately!!!! Snow, snow and more snow......I was excited yesterday when we had a patch of the ground showing but guess what? Snowing again and everything is covered again. Well....Spring is on the way I just know it. Hubby and I have been doing some renovations the past month. We just finished what I call phase 2 in the kitchen. New countertops, faucets, and backsplash. Lots of work but we sure love it. I will post more photos later.Still moving stuff around. We said we need to beat the counters up or something because they look too new. ha! I hope everyone is staying safe and warm.Before
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Bath Or Nap Anyone?
Sherman loves to play in the bathtub. Miss Kyra is taking her morning nap. Lots of snow here and cold! Stay warm everyone and be safe.
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ATF2, or activating transcription factor 2, belongs to a large family of transcription factors that recognize the ATF2/CRE elements identified in the adenovirus early gene promoters.8-10,13 ATF2 forms homodimers as well as heterodimers with other members of the ATF, Jun and Fos transcription factors. The regulation of ATF2 is not fully characterized. However, phosphorylation of Thr-69 and Thr-81 in ATF2 by JNK is known to activate the ATF2 transcription factor.13 In order to construct pFA-ATF2 (1-96), the DNA fragment encoding amino acid residues 1-96 of human ATF214,15 was inserted into the BamH I and EcoR I sites of the pFA-CMV vector. Consistent with previous reports, the GAL4-ATF2 fusion protein expressed from the pFA-ATF2 plasmid was strongly activated by the MEKK protein in transient transfection assays (figure 3A).
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Neurobiologist Ben Barres writes about the differences in how male and females scientists are regarded. He has a unique perspective because he used to be a woman scientist.
Nominees for the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2009. The list has a link to text excerpts, which are NSFW but hilarious. (via Metafilter)
The game Mr. Bounce seems like "Pong for one" except you have tasks to accomplish instead of an adversary. Lucky for me, it gives a trajectory line to help out. (via Look at This)... READ ON
Sure, TV is a tough business -- but having the show you've slaved over for the better part of a year canceled by executives after just one episode? Heartbreaking! Until, that is, you start to look at just what shows have been subjected to this kind of premature death. You'll wonder how they ever got approved in the first place!
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Co-puzzle Master Josh Halbur and I are thrilled to announce that How Did You Know? now has its very own Geritol. Yes, the extraordinary video sharing site motionbox.com, which I've written about on this site before, is now sponsoring our monthly 5-day trivia hunt.
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Thanksgiving is over, and the other holidays aren't quite here yet, so that can only mean one thing: it's shopping season. At least, it is for me. Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and all of the sales and "deals" that will take us through December 26th or so "" it's awfully tempting for someone who likes to shop a little too much.
A couple of my friends and I are kicking off our holiday shopping with a trip to Minneapolis next week "" which will, of course, include... READ ON
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." -Carl Sagan. Here's the third movement of the growing Symphony of Science, a series of songs that use scientists' spoken voices auto-tuned to make them sing. In this latest installment, the focus is again on the vastness of the cosmos and our place in it. The video also includes a few clips from my favorite film of all time, Koyaanisqatsi (more on that later this week).
If you're a fan of the original song ("A Glorious Dawn" featuring Carl... READ ON
Last week, we mentioned the Grand Opening of our new Ohio retail store and invited any Cleveland-area _flossers to stop on by.
Stop on by you did—over 200 people paid Toby, Melanie, Nanette, Dana & Leo a visit this weekend, far exceeding (my) expectations. There were even readers waiting in the parking lot when Toby & Melanie arrived on Saturday morning. People came to Chesterland from as far away as Boston and Winston-Salem, NC (though, to be fair, they had originally come to see their families... READ ON
Neatorama picked up this wonderful story about Concrete Canvas, and I'm just thoroughly fascinated. Scientists have created a cloth that's lined with concrete. But here's the genius of it: the cloth doesn't function like concrete until you add water to it.
That means you essentially have a building in a bag. You can fold up a concrete cloth tent, carry it to wherever you'd like to set it up, and then water it to make a solid structure! It seems like Concrete Canvasses could be a perfect solution for... READ ON
While I'd long assumed that carrier pigeons had been shelved with other antiquated mail systems (like the pony express and the pneumatic tube), I was stunned to learn that the birds are still being used today! Of course, the process has gotten an upgrade. Instead of sending letters and wartime messages, the birds are being used to carry thumb drives!
According to a Daily Mail article, Rocky Mountain Adventures -- a company that runs white water rafting tours in Fort Collins, CO-- puts their carrier... READ ON
While I'd read that raising chickens had become more and more popular with folks in hip places like Portland, OR and Victor, ID, I was surprised to see this piece from GOOD, where photographer Todd Parsons found evidence of chickens making their way into the big city. From his essay:
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Battles for parking lot spaces, spending big bucks on expensive textbooks, and difficult professors were some of the horror stories Livingston resident Adilene Valuenzuela heard for weeks leading up to her first day at California State University, Stanislaus. But as soon as she stepped foot onto the campus, she felt right at home.
The Denair Unified School District is making gains in core academics, according to the 2013 Standardized Testing and Reporting results released by the California Department of Education.
The Turlock Unified School District is going to be getting a budget boost for the upcoming school year thanks to a new state law, but just exactly how much will be coming to the school district and the restrictions attached remain an unknown.
The Turlock Unified School District is saying so long to processed foods and mystery meat this year and instead offering healthier and more organic food.
Four-year-old McKenna Bumgardner spent all summer long going over the alphabet and counting numbers to prepare for her first day of kindergarten at Brown Elementary School.
Sevan Aydenian spent all day Friday making sure everything would be ready for her first day of first grade at Cunningham Elementary. She organized her crayons, construction paper, pencils and erasers. She mentally prepared to meet 22 new friends and begin an academic year full of new experiences.
The Turlock Unified School District had a slight drop in core academics, according to the 2013 Standardized Testing and Reporting released by the California Department of Education last Thursday.
"Are they paying you?"
The financial situation for Denair Unified School District is going from bad to worse, as the updated budget was revealed on Thursday.
When students at Turlock High School return to class in a few weeks, they'll see a familiar face as the lead administrator.
Barney Gordon was appointed on Tuesday to replace former Turlock Unified School District Trustee Grady Welch, who resigned his post in July with more than two years left in his term. Gordon was one of four candidates who were publicly interviewed at Tuesday's board meeting.
America's democratic government relies on citizens to volunteer their time to serve in leadership positions for the well-being of their communities. The position of school district trustee is one of the most important elected offices in every city, as education is the key to creating prosperous communities.
As a Merced College instructor, one of my greatest privileges is working with our student veterans, many of whom are using their GI Bill benefits to prepare themselves for an increasingly competitive job market.
In partnership with Volunteers of America's annual Operation Backpack campaign, the Stanislaus County Office of Education is collecting new backpacks and school supplies on behalf of homeless students throughout Stanislaus County.
Manuel Scott, an original freedom writer whose story is told in a 2007 Hollywood film, is coming to Modesto to share his story of struggle and success to inspire the youth.
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| 2015- We're going to be sick - Palomitz on 11/12/14 at 6:54 pm
Sorry if Germans, but this team will be totally awesome next year. Still can't believe how far this team has come since that Auburn loss, and how improved the 'D' is. I say we finish 9-3. Many predicted a 5-loss season, don't see that happening. Next year will be a very special year with young talen...View Topic - Replies (27)
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| Post job interview etiquette - Palomitz on 10/14/13 at 3:40 pm
I know it's probably been covered here a dozen times but the search engine did not help much. Anyways, I had a job interview Saturday morning to a firm that I really like. The interview went very well but as expected, the VP manager told me that he will consider me but first had to decide between se...View Topic - Replies (21)
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| 14 face swaps that don't make sense (funny) - Palomitz on 10/9/13 at 4:22 pm
At work and it was hard to keep a straight face, funny as sh1t: http://mashable.com/2013/10/09/disturbing-face-swaps/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link...View Topic - Replies (14)
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Mine is from my septic tank professional. "You dump it, we pump it". :lol: What's yours?...View Topic - Replies (13)
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| X-mas day at home - Palomitz on 12/26/12 at 10:26 am
Do you prefer X-mas day when you wake up in the morning and the day is almost freezing cold, cloudy, and gray outside? Or you prefer those X-mas days that are clear and sunny in the 60's or 70's? Yeah, I'm bored here at the office. Everyone is on vacation. ...View Topic - Replies (3)
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| Do you throw away old B-day cards? - Palomitz on 12/18/12 at 9:30 am
Or you keep them? I personally find it very hard to throw them away. Just found a stack in a box at my garage but tough to toss out 10+ year old cards of people wishing you good things, specially from parents and siblings....View Topic - Replies (3)
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| Despite the coaching decisions, still supporting Miles - Palomitz on 11/5/12 at 9:00 am
First of all I have to give Coach Miles and the coaching staff credit for master minding a great gameplan last Sat. I was also very impressed with the aggressiveness and playing style, specially at the offensive side of the ball. To say the least, I am very proud of our LSU Tigers and I am sure this...View Topic - Replies (8)
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| Fearless Predictions: "LSU will dominate" - Palomitz on 10/3/12 at 6:08 pm
Sorry if Germans but listen what Papadakis has to say about Sat.'s showdown at the Swamp. His point of view will be music to your ears: http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/fearless-predictions-lsu-florida/12cjf614?from=gallery_en-us...View Topic - Replies (16)
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| Myths while you were a kid - Palomitz on 9/20/12 at 4:47 pm
What myths did your mother or father used to tell you as a kid from doing something that you were not supposed to do? -My mom used to tell me while she was driving: "Don't put your hands out of the car's window or it'll fly off". -Also, "don't pick your nose or your nostrils will get huge". D...View Topic - Replies (24)
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I like his old stuff better. Well, all of his songs now are "old stuff" since he hasn't released a new studio pop album in almost 18 years. Anyways, such a brilliant songwriter and talented pianist- I like his old old stuff and more obscure songs, such as: -Scenes from a Italian Restaurant -Vienna...View Topic - Replies (29)
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Might be irrelevant by now, but we still beat them. Now that I have your attention, I really find it mind boggling for a coach to stick with the same original offensive gameplan thinking that it would work again. C'mon you think that Nick was not going to make adjustments with the option? I thin...View Topic - Replies (5)
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| Etiquette on following up submitted resumé - Palomitz on 12/29/11 at 12:08 pm
I have a question for you guys. Do you think that it is ok after submitting a resumé online to a firm that currently has 3 available positions, to go ahead and call them over the phone to follow up? I am in a pretty urgent need of landing this job but I am not sure if calling them is the correct ...View Topic - Replies (8)
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| Active Winning Streaks - Palomitz on 11/20/11 at 10:51 am
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| Caution: BCS Mess ahead - Palomitz on 11/19/11 at 10:32 pm
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| Robert Smith finally said it... - Palomitz on 11/19/11 at 2:45 pm
He thinks that LSU and Bama are the 2 best teams in the country right now. This moron also just said that Bama should have won that game, since they were the "better team"- but too many mistakes cost them the game. He then concluded that he would like to see a rematch....View Topic - Replies (9)
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I was actually biting my nails that the officiating was going to pull another "2009 game" when Reid intercepted Maze's wildcat formation pass. I thought to myself, watch these bastid zebras overturn the INT and put the ball on LSU's 1 yd line for Bama's 1st down. I am satisfied that the zebras w...View Topic - Replies (2)
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I have noticed that when Lee is on the pocket stepping back ready for a 10-20 yard throw, he very much reminds me of Marino's quick release with the ball. I guess it's Lee's stepback move along with his quick effectiveness with the ball, specially when the LSU receiver runs a slant. Clearly an ad...View Topic - Replies (4)
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I love comics. I have assembled this collection for the past 15 years. They are all original hand drawn sketches and signed by mostly their originals creators. Feel free to let me know your favorite(s). [IMG]http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/6449/fdc20001.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img408.ima...View Topic - Replies (3)
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On the Streets of Riga
16 Aug 12
For three days every August the city of Riga transforms into a kaleidoscope of music, art, theatre and dance, with various events taking over the city's streets, squares, museums, concert halls and cultural centers. The Riga City Festival, which kicks off today, will again offer a taste of slow this year, as local farmers and some of the city's best restaurants serve up regional, healthy and tasty food in the 'Street of Taste Masters' space. The area was organized by Slow Food Riga along with Riga City Council City Development Department, as part of the 4Cities4Dev project.
The 4Cities4Dev project, co-funded by the European Union, involves four European cities - Turin, Tours, Bilbao and Riga - that have adopted seven Terra Madre food communities in Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Kenya and Madagascar. The project aims to increase awareness among European citizens about responsible consumption and the consequences of their food habits by allowing them to discover these communities through a series of communicative tools.
During the festival, short films will be screened on the Slow Food Pokot Ash Yoghurt Presidium - producers in Kenya that make a traditional yoghurt with the ashes of a local tree, and the Harenna Forest Wild Coffee Presidium - where coffee still grows wild in the forests.
Along with presentations to inform visitors about the project, there will be opportunities to taste dishes made with vanilla from Madagascar, coffee from Ethiopia and couscous from Senegal, all Slow Food Presidia.
Meanwhile at the Riga Congress Hall from today until September 6, the project's Travelling Exhibition, a collection of photographs, maps and interactive activities for both children and adults will portray case studies from the project.
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Click here for general information about the event (in English).
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- Anti-Semitism in Central Eastern Europe. Ideas, Politics and Praxis of Jew-Hatred from a Comparative Perspective, ca. 1880-1939 Warsaw, 14-16 February 2013
Central Eastern Europe bears particular significance for the history of anti-Semitism. This region was home to a large number of Jews, who were not only among themselves culturally divided, but also separated from their linguistically and denominationally heterogeneous environs. Those professions which in the process of the rise of market economy took over central functions in the economic life were oftentimes dominated by Jews. As a consequence, social, particularly ecclesiastic actors thus began to link economic, civilizational and national discourses to the Jewish question, which thus became a central part of the communicative construction of modern national (and also Jewish) communities. These discourses took place in a legal and political framework set by imperial multi-ethnic states. The diverse nationalities and societies of Central Eastern Europe were thus in particularly close contact. Christian-Jewish relations and contacts were for most people
a part of everyday life. Anti-Semitic discourse and praxis were thus closely intertwined.
With the collapse of the empires and the creation of national states after World War I, anti-Semites attempted to turn the discrimination of Jews in the context of minority politics or nation building into state policy.
The Jewish Historical Institute (ŻIH) and the German Historical Institute (DHI) in Warsaw are organizing a joint conference, which aims to explore the dynamics of Jew-hatred, the continuities and turning-points in the context of incisive historical events and developments. The object is to delineate the interrelation between the political and ideological field on the one hand and social practices on the other.
The conference thus also aims to contribute to a theoretical and methodological discussion within the field of research on anti-Semitism, which gives considerations to the specific regional and historical situation in Central Eastern Europe. We ask for contributions in the following fields.
A. Political Anti-Semitism
Within the investigation period, as a result of parliamentary practice and the development of a sophisticated newspaper market, a political landscape came into being which galvanized and changed the discussion of the Jewish question by integrating new voters and readers. Modern mass communication substantially gained importance, thus making anti-Semitic scandals with a significant degree of notoriety possible and creating media events (esp. so-called ritual murder cases), that could be interpreted in terms of the anti-Semitic agenda of political newspapers.
The anti-Semitic discourse was used to mobilize voters, to formulate modern communities and to guide parliamentary praxis. Moreover, it was exploited and modified by linking it to economic and social phenomena in the context of the implementation of the capitalist economic system, for instance in the form of agitation for consumer and agricultural co-operatives and so-called "Christian shops". How far did the economic nationalism of the interwar period, which was supposed to turn the former imperial periphery into national economic centers, include – among protectionist measures directed "outwards" – anti-Semitic issues directed "inwards"? What were their relations to nationalistic discourses of the pre-World War I period?
What were the relations of anti-Semitic actors such as parties, newspapers and individual intellectuals to political, economic and cultural questions such as the disappearance of traditional culture, the rise and fall of liberalism, the development of new forms of mass communication and the modern, national community without, or respectively within the national state? What was the connection between the propagation of anti-Semitic ideas and programs and the dynamism of the political landscape, particularly the political commitment of the Catholic Church and of Jewish representatives? Which groups advocated positions which included Jew-hatred? How prominent was anti-Semitism in their programs in general? How did these groups position themselves vis-à-vis the state? What social echo did the propagation of anti-Semitic conceptions elicit? Did attempts to pass anti-Semitic laws yield results? What turning points are evident in the different empires,
countries and later national states in the course of the investigation period?
The affirmative reference to anti-Semitism as a conscious attitude toward Jews inherently meant referring to systems of belief that were based on putatively scientific arguments. What place did racism and miscellaneous scientific discourses such as biological anthropology, medicine, empirical criminology or psychiatry have regarding the formulation of the "Jewish question" and the propagation of so-called "rational anti-Semitism"? What reception and transfers of racist ideas are evident in the discussion of the "Jewish question"?
B. Violence and Social Practices of Jew-hatred
Discourse and social practice influenced each other vice versa. The study of political anti-Semitism thus requires re-constructing the interrelations between everyday encounters and conflicts between Christians and Jews. How did political agitation and decisions influence social praxis and what events and conflicts were taken up in political discourse? Therefore, the conference will pay special attention to discriminatory practices against Jews. Both organized and spontaneous acts of collective violence, demonstrations, boycott and exclusion of Jews will be discussed and put in a comparative perspective. What were the material, symbolic and ideological aims of the participants? What place did physical action against Jews have among anti-Semitic, nationalistic, paramilitary or student organizations? When and how did they manage to win over certain circles or institutions for anti-Semitic actions? How did they justify the implementation of violence? How
did the state react towards these forms of political violence on the executive, legal and legislative level?
C. Resistance against Anti-Semitism
In order to understand the social meaning of anti-Semitism, it is vital to examine reactions and open resistance. Historical witnesses of anti-Semitism and the attitude of social and state institutions such as parties, churches, governments and local and international organizations deserve special attention. How did Jews act on the institutional, intellectual and political level? What were the possibilities and limits of co-operation with non-Jewish organizations? What were the consequences of physical and media-related resistance or of self-defense?
We kindly ask for paper proposals of approximately 1 page length including a curriculum vitae with reference to language skills in English, German or Polish until April 30th 2012 to konferencja@.... With reservations regarding the respective financing commitment, the organizers will bear costs for travelling and accommodation.
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For the record I think this guy's worth every bit of his salary,...when he's healthy. If only we could get him to agree to a pay for play deal! Solid D, good size & strength to handle the other side's soldiers in front of the net, simple but effective 1st pass out of the defensive zone, and one of the best shots from the point in the league when he uses it. However, this situation has the makings of a Sami Salo Swan Song. His rehab will be a long one I think, and that will be just fine with the Canuck's organization. With the additions of Ballard and Hamhuis to a defensive roster already sporting the likes of Erhoff, Edler and Bieksa, (good thing they didn't trade him too quickly) the Nucks will have enuff quality & quantity on the back end so as not to miss Salo very much. They'll also have the luxury (knock on wood) of not needing to plan for any of Sami's future injuries during the 1st half of the season. Mike Gillis' job will be a little more interesting when/if he comes back, but he shouldn't find it too difficult to find a trading partner for a Bieksa & Schneider package, or whomever they decide to send away for a couple of quality bottom six forwards that the team desparately needs to fill out a playoff competitive roster.
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Sami's Swan Song?
I agree with you, nearly 100%. Salo is worth while to keep around but with the recent Additiona (Hamhuis/Ballard) he is not 'needed' as he was in the past, the have one of the more Solid defence corps (offencivly and defencivly) in the league and have aleast 4 D whold could be a top 2 defencemen. With Salo enetering the finaly year of his contract and the D that will still be here for years to come, i do indeed think it is a Swan Song aswell. How unfortunate he is wiht his injuries but this one is Very serious but will take months to rehab but it all depends how he recovers and the health of D at the time he returns.
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Because the young man epitomizes ancient standards of true beauty, he does not need cosmetics or a wig made from "the golden tresses of the dead." In these sonnets, the poet exhibits a general tendency to censure poetic extravagance and to identify such lavishness with the youth's false friends, as well as with the cosmetic vogue, which the poet castigates as "bastard signs of fair." So the poet invokes the natural beauty — "Without all ornament, itself and true" — of classical times.
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