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In a recent blog post on the Jewish parenting site Kveller, Joyce Anderson wrote about the process of teaching her oldest son to pray. For Anderson, teaching her child to speak to God, preceded (or facilitated, perhaps) her attempts to talk with him about God. Interestingly, Anderson is not Jewish; she is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her article is one of several non-Jewish perspectives in Kveller's God Month, an ongoing series on the challenges of talking to children about God.
While Anderson shows no ambivalence about encouraging her child to develop a personal relationship with the divine, the other responses in the series present more complicated experiences of parenting and faith. Among all the essays, Jewish or not, hers is the only one that takes for granted that children should believe in God. Taken together, the articles point towards a basic truth: we aren't that good at talking about God.
At first, I found this troubling. The ambivalence about God in the Jewish responses certainly reflects editorial choices or selection bias, but it still squares with my own experience of non-Orthodox Jewish life in America. Reading through the pieces, I found myself wondering, "Do any of us simply believe?"
Anderson's prayer-based solution makes a lot of sense, especially given the deeply personal relationship between individuals and God in Christ-centered theologies. Prayer takes a central role in a few of the Jewish responses, as well, but in a different way. For the Jewish parents that write about prayer, showing a child how to pray also helps him or her relate to God personally, but the contributors' own sense of God remains less defined. For them, the advantage of prayer is that it acknowledges and celebrates a creative force in the universe without limiting how we conceive of that force.Tellingly, of the two Jewish parents who write about sharing their personal religious practices with their children, both include prayers from Eastern traditions, like Buddhism.

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A series of papers in the Journal of Theoretical Biology has found evidence that beautiful parents have more daughters, violent men have more sons, and other sex-ratio patterns (Kanazawa, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008). These papers have been shown to have statistical errors, but the question remains how to interpret findings that are intriguing, potentially important, but not statistically significant. From a classical statistical perspective, these studies have insufficient power to detect the magnitudes of effects (on the order of 1 percentage point) that could be expected based on earlier studies of sex ratios. The anticipated small effects can also be handled using a Bayesian prior distribution. These concerns are relevant to other studies of small effects and also to the reporting of such studies.
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Ryan Dosier - Christmas has come and gone, 2012 is almost here... and we're showing off the Christmas gifts that Muppet fans like you (yes, you) received this year! We had an avalanche of emails with lists and lists of Muppet things fans got. Here's a brief rundown of just some of the things Muppet fans got... there were far too many individual things to list every single thing, but these were the most received by the most people.
- The Muppets Original Soundtrack was the most widely received gift across the board. Over half of the people who emailed me got this as a gift--and they surely loved it!
- Disney Store Muppet Plush were given to almost as many people. Kermit was the one who got given the most, followed by Walter, Animal, and Piggy. But the Fozzie, Gonzo, Rizzo, and Beaker plush were given a lot as well. Not many got Pepe, though... I guess he sold out faster than we thought.
- The Green Album
- Various Muppet DVDs including The Muppet Show Seasons 1-3, The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper, Muppet Treasure Island, The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, and more were given quite a lot--probably because Disney filled the stores with them this holiday season. Some folks also received Muppets From Space and The Muppets Take Manhattan on Blu-ray.
- Muppet Vinylmation Figures were gotten by a few people, mostly the 9 inch figures of Tourist Kermit, Animal, Gonzo, and Sam Eagle--probably because they're the easiest to find on the Disney Store website.
- The Muppets Books were bought quite a lot. The Junior Novel, the Theater Set, the Sticker Book, and all the others were distributed to many Muppet fans.
- The Muppets: A Green and Red Christmas Album (2011 re-issue)
- Muppet T-shirts from Threadless, Target, K-Mart, Wal-Mart and a ton of other places. There are a lot of Muppet shirts out there right now.
- Muppet Socks
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Bret Hansen was a very good boy this year, as Santa brought him the very rare 1983 Kermit the Frog telephone! I would never use any other phone again if I had this. Lucky duck!
Friend of the blog, Joel Swanson, received this awesome Muppet Snuggie featuring Kermit, Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, and Animal! I love the design used here. And Joel's expression is priceless in this picture. It's a win-win!
Santa was possibly the best to Robert Hearn, who received this absolutely amazing record signed by JIM HENSON and Kermit the Frog! I have know idea where he found this, but I'm amazed and I want one. Just spectacular.
Lauren Grant got a really cool homemade blanket with some fabric that I've never seen before. It looks like the usual gang is on there, plus Beaker and Rizzo, which is awesome! I'd cover up with that!
A personalized Whatnot from FAO Schwarz went to Sean Jones. Now he has a new doppelganger to send to parties--they've even go the same jacket!
Lucy Parat and her whole family got three different Kermit hats! They match perfectly--as you can see in the picture--and it's awesome that there are so many different Kermit hat selections out there.
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"I invited everyone," she said. "The whole idea of Diwali is to bring everyone into your kitchen."
Rustagi, understandably exhausted by the event, hasn't cooked for Diwali recently, but the Mountain View resident still invites the public into her kitchen to learn to create traditional Indian fare using her blog, www.rashmisrecipes.com.
She said she started the blog to share with her grown children the traditional recipes they had loved growing up. "Some of these foods aren't available at Indian restaurants," she said. "They're the homey dishes that are lost if your mother doesn't cook it for you."
But Rustagi said her kids don't have the patience to cook dishes like jagrey-coated sev, sugar-covered noodles made from chickpea flour, or sweet gujhia dumplings, which she painstakingly closes and decorates by pressing the dough with her fingernail.
She said she adapted the recipes on her blog to respond to the issues of complexity and kitchen time. They aren't that different from the dishes she learned growing up in her mother's kitchen in Lucknow, India. She tries to find ways to cut corners and shorten time in the kitchen by using slightly different ingredients or newer technology, like pressure cookers and hand blenders, that weren't available in Lucknow.
Rustagi said adaptation has been a key ingredient to her success as a cook. After she married and moved to the United States, she had to get creative with ingredients, many of which were difficult to find in Birmingham, Ala. She grew hard-to-find herbs in her garden or substituted ingredients, such as using ricotta cheese instead of khoa.
The ingredient drought eased when she moved to Palo Alto 15 years ago, but she still uses mostly local produce and has found other reasons to update her recipes. Both she and her son are lactose-intolerant, so Rustagi found a way to make paneer cheese using Lactaid lactose-reduced milk.
Even with Rustagi's simplified recipes, Indian dishes aren't the easiest to make. Rustagi's recipe for butter chicken, murg makhani, calls for 28 ingredients. To help show the technique for making some of the more difficult dishes, Rustagi began to include video tutorials on her blog.
Including video was a natural transition for Rustagi, who likes being in front of the camera. She said she's been on stage or on radio programs since she was 9 years old. Most recently, she appeared in a minor role in the superhero blockbuster "The Avengers," and has also appeared in numerous Bollywood pictures and television roles, she said. In 2005, she was in TheatreWorks' premiere of the Tanya Shaffer culture-clash drama "Baby Taj."
Rustagi says the ultimate goal would be to have her own cooking show, an idea both she and her producer are excited about.
Rustagi tries to include mostly vegetarian dishes in her blog, but she's found that dishes with meat in them like chicken biryani get more web traffic than vegetarian dishes like palak paneer. Her favorite — and she thinks most underrated — is dahl, a thick stew made from beans or lentils.
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And then also it's summer. The hottest summer ever, it feels like. And so. What to make what to make? And then there's the difficulty of having a mix of vegetarian and non-vegetarian people.
You see.
But so anyway, I've decided that when people arrive I'm going to have nice olives and hummus and pita and Lebanese stuffed grape leaves (because who doesn't like Lebanese food when it's hot?) Then we'll start with a cabbage and beet salad, and then the main course will be couscous and herb roasted chicken and green beans (or maybe asparagus instead... I really love asparagus..._) and squash gratin. I think that will be lovely. And I'm not responsible for dessert, which I have to say is totally awesome, because a girl can't do everything, and really the only dessert I make is pie, and who wants to bake a pie when it's this hot? The only thing that is a challenge will be the stuffed grape leaves, but I can make those a day ahead, so that's good.
But so now I'm feeling like I really need to buy furniture for my porch. And for my deck, but at least for my porch. And I really need to buy a mirror to hang over the mantle and other wall-hanging type things.
It's such a pain in the ass being house-proud and yet not entirely settled in one's house.
I wish somebody would cook this meal I've planned for me right now. I've been living on hummus, pita chips, and twizzlers because it's just too hot to organize actual food for myself. Maybe tonight I'll make myself actual dinner? We'll see....
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- Horace said...
The meal sounds excellent, though I have to say, like the Top Cheftestants you've copped out on dessert. It's ok, though, 'cause after that meal, who's going to have room for dessert?
- Dr. Crazy said...
One of my guests is bringing dessert, which I was more than happy to delegate :)
- Notorious Ph.D. said...
Yay! Oh, it sounds delicious. I never have dinner parties, because I have anxieties that no one will come. But that's my neurosis.
If you get stuck for a hot weather desert, fruit (with sorbet?) is always a good bet. - 4:04 PM
- Jackie said...
Sounds delicious! I love having summer dinner parties, and your menu sounds perfect.
- rented life said...
Yum! Though I'd go with the asparagus too. We've been eating a lot of hummus, cheese and fruit here because I refuse to cook when it's this hot.
- Susan said...
Sounds delicious. My favorite summer dinner meal is (a) pasta with cold tomato sauce (tomatoes garlic basil & olive oil sit for a few hours, then put on top of pasta with some fontina). Big tossed salad, good bread.... I admire you for turning on the oven in the summer, but then it's only in the last two years that I had central air.
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I never have dinner parties, because I have anxieties that no one will come.
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A recent study conducted by scientists from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has found a possible way to better predict which diabetes patients are most at risk of going on to develop heart disease. Researchers tested the use of coronary artery calcium (CAC) tests by creating the Diabetes Heart Study.
The trials looked to see if using CAC offered doctors more thorough information regarding type 2 diabetes patients' risk of coronary disease, instead of solely relying on the Framingham Risk Score. The latter is the most commonly used assessment tool to date. Approximately 1,123 people with type 2 diabetes between the ages of 34 and 86 participated in the study and were followed for 7.4 years.
From the data, scientists found using the CAC test, which uses a CT scan in order to detect calcium build-up in the heart's arteries, did offer new insight that the Framingham test didn't pick up. Dr. Donald Bowden, lead author of the study, and a professor of biochemistry at Wake Forest Baptist, believes the discovery also shows that diabetes treatment is not one-size-fits-all. Instead, patients may benefit from more individualized care in order to thrive.
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Most people who have "hangups" about open water report that it gets tougher swimming around other people, not easier. I'm not saying it's impossible to lose your fear of deep open water by jumping in with 500 other people, but it would be the first time I've ever heard of it happening.
An adrenaline shot that results in enhanced OW speed and a lack of fear is only one possible physical/mental outcome of waiting until race day. The other outcomes are much less desirable, and much more likely.
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Araw Ng Tatlong Hari or "Feast of the Three Kings", is marked here on the first Sunday of the new year. Liturgically, this is known as the "Epiphany". That translates into revelation of God the Son as a baby laid on a manger .
A day after Epiphany, many take down their belens and switch off Christmas lights. Others keep them until February 2. But Epiphany stirs old questions.
"Behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem saying 'Where is He who has been born King of the Jews?'" Matthew wrote. "'For we have seen His star at its rising and have come to worship Him.'"
Was the Star of Bethlehem a comet? An alignment of planets? "It led the Magi", as historian Horacio De La Costa put it, "to go on a fool's errand, to a Prince they have not seen, in a country they do not know." recalls the weekly newspaper Mabuhay.
'Science is unraveling the mystery behind one of the most famous stories in astronomical history," says a British Broadcasting Corporation report. "New technology allows (scientists) ) to map ancient night skies with extraordinary accuracy. They're looking at a number of unusual events the Magi could have seen."
"Experts now challenge a traditional claim: that the star was a comet. Halley's Comet appeared about 12 BC. Chinese and Korean star-gazers, around 5 BC, reported a blazing object. For over 70 days, it didn't budge.
Could the Star have been a rare "triple conjunction" of planets in 7 BC, asks Dr. David Hughes of the University of Sheffield. Jupiter and Saturn came together thrice, over several months, that year. An ancient clay tablet, now displayed in the British Museum, describes this merging," BBC's Rebecca Ellis adds.
They were probably astrologers from Persia."There is evidence that Persian astronomers predicted this conjunction," Professor Hughes adds.They combined science with faith to predict the birth of a new Messiah.
"A particularly striking conjunction occurred in June 17, 2B.C," Ed Krupp of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles told National Geographic. "For skywatchers, at that time, it looked like a massive,single star…"
Matthew writes that when the Magi found "the Child with Mary his mother, they opened their bags and offered him gifts of gold, incense and mrryh"– ancient symbols of divinity, kingship – and pain. Inheriting Spanish tradition, Filipinos call the Magi Gaspar, Melchor and Baltazar.
The Magi upset the elite of their day. Herod "was greatly disturbed and" – note this – "with him all the people in Jerusalem." He hurriedly summoned leaders to what Filipino politicians today would dub a caucus or pulong-pulong.
Where would this Messiah be born, he demanded of experts who had the answer down pat: "In the town of Bethlehem" And they cited verse and line from scriptures to back their stand. But they didn't move out of their comfort zones. They did nothing. It was business-as-usual then.
Will it be business as usual in 2013? Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life just published ""The Global Religious Landscape." This study is anchored on analysis of 2,500 national censuses in 230 countries and territories .
Among other conclusions, it finds that today that there are 2.2 billion Christians. Those who say they heed the Child of Bethlehem make up make up 32% of the world's population. Breakdown of other major faiths: 1.6 billion Muslims ( 23%), 1 billion Hindus ( 15% ), nearly 500 million Buddhists ( 7% ) and 14 million Jews ( 0.2%)
Fully 97% of all Hindus live in India, Mauritius and Nepal. Nearly nine-in-ten Christians ( 87%) are found in the world's 157 Christian-majority countries. They're also the most evenly dispersed. Europe ( 26%), Latin America and the Caribbean (24%) and sub-Saharan Africa (24%)."
Three out of every four, who cluster in Asia and the Pacific, are "religiously unaffiliated (76%). In China, the number of creed-less people crests at about 700 million. That's more than twice the total US population.
`In his Christmas message Urbi et Orbi, Pope Benedict XVI addressed a direct appeal to the leaders in Beijing "in a particularly difficult time." Uneasy relations between the Holy See and China became more tense after Beijing last year forced the sacking of Shanghai auxiliary bishop Ma Daqin.
"May the king of peace turn his gaze to the new leaders of the People's Republic of China for the lofty task that awaits them," the pontiff said. " I hope it will enhance the contribution of religions, in respect to each, so that they can contribute to the construction of a society of solidarity for the benefit of that noble people and of the whole world."
Chinese leaders issued, just before Christmas, 8,330 copies of a 16-page secret order, from the Communist Party's Central Committee. This directed universities to root out foreigners seeking to converting students to Christianity, Reuters reported.
The document singles out Christianity as particularly dangerous and the US leads the effort. "No other country or religion is mentioned by name", Reuters notes. Buddhism and Taoism are now supported by the government to some degree. "Christians remain a source of contention, along with Tibetan Buddhists, Uighur Muslims and Falun Gong practitioners."
In his 1927 poem "The Journey of the Magi", TS Eliot has one of the Magi reflecting years after they were warned against returning to Herod. They made their way to their country "by another way."`"We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,/ But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,/ With an alien people clutching their gods."
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Six centuries after her death, the image of Joan of Arc is inescapable, discovers Jim Eagles.
Just down the steep, narrow, cobbled street leading from the magnificent island abbey of Mont St Michel we came upon a lovely little church with a statue of Joan of Arc guarding the entrance.
While we were admiring the church's 15th-century elegance, an elderly woman with a shopping trolley climbed up the steps to the door, put her hand out and touched the statue's arm.
Then she stood there for several minutes, almost hand-in-hand, smiling at the statue's face and talking quietly.
It was like seeing two old friends chatting together. And it also provided a good illustration of how many French feel about the teenage warrior-saint centuries after she saved France from the invading English.
In fact, Joan of Arc seemed to follow us on our Treasures of France bus tour, popping up just about everywhere we went, her image in almost every church and many a market square.
Indeed, the first place we visited, the gleaming white basilica of Sacre Coeur, looming above Paris on the hill of Montmartre, there she was riding on horseback above the entrance, alongside King St Louis.
Pointing to the figures, our local guide observed cynically, "It took them 600 years to make Joan a saint. The king they made a saint only 20 years after he died."
Intrigued by his comment I looked up the two saints. Sure enough, King Louis IX died in 1270 and was declared a saint in 1297. Joan died in 1431 and became a saint in 1940. Interesting.
Although she remained a legendary figure in the centuries after her death, it was apparently during World War I that Joan really came to symbolise France at war, presumably adding weight to the campaign for her canonisation.
Now she is not only among the five patron saints of France but one of the Catholic Church's most popular saints.
We didn't go to the tiny village of Domremy-la-Pucelle in Lorraine where Joan was born in about 1412, or to Orleans where she first came to fame by inspiring the dispirited French army to raise an English siege.
But we did visit the ancient town of Blois where, on the wall of the great chateau, I found a plaque commemorating the arrival of Joan on April 25, 1429, when she attended church at St Sauveur and left with the army on April 27 "pour deliverer Orleans".
I searched for St Sauveur, only to discover that it was destroyed in 1793, but I did find a small link in the form of the altar, before which Joan presumably took communion, which is now in the spectacular church attached to the Abbey of St Laumer on the banks of the River Loire.
More importantly, we also spent some time at Rouen where, after being captured by the English and their allies, Joan was tried for heresy and burned at the stake, and found her image everywhere.
In the market square, with its beautiful half-timbered Normandy houses, a wooden cutout of Joan in armour promotes a souvenir shop. Cafes, shops and hotels all bear her magic name.
The massive stone keep, all that remains of the 13th century Rouen Castle, is now called the Joan of Arc Tower, though she may never have been imprisoned there.
The spot where she was actually burned is now marked by a lofty steel and concrete cross surrounded by a small park and watched over by a statue of Joan with her hands clasped and her eyes turned to heaven.
In a piece of symbolism which completely eluded me, the statue is built into the wall of the modern St Joan of Arc Church, which is designed in the shape of a dragon. What does that mean?
Still, the park was nice and it had plenty of seats, so we bought a baguette filled with delicious camembert and two petite four cakes - I gave the staff great amusement with my ill-remembered schoolboy French by asking for "deux petit pois" or "two peas" - and joined the locals sitting in the sun for lunch.
Afterwards we wandered around the city centre, which is full of architectural delights, including lots more wonderful old half-timbered houses and hotels, the spectacular Big Clock Tower built in 1390, the ornate Palace of Justice and the Notre Dame Cathedral with its unique 151m cast-iron spire, which for a while was the tallest building in the world.
The cathedral, dating from the 4th century, has numerous historical links, including a tomb said to hold the heart of the King Richard the Lionheart, who saw himself as Norman rather than English ... and of course, Joan.
John Plantagenet, Duke of Bedford, who is generally regarded as her chief murderer, is buried there. And Bishop Pierre Cauchon, who presided over her trial, later sought to become Archbishop of Rouen with his seat at the cathedral.
But Joan triumphed over both. The duke's tomb was destroyed by Calvinists in the 16th century and is now marked only by a plaque. And the bishop's candidacy failed.
These days, a shrine to Joan takes pride of place at the head of the cathedral with several St Jeanne d'Arc candles shining before a statue showing her being burned at the stake, and much of the nave taken up by a display telling her story.
Getting there: Cathay Pacific flies every day from Auckland to Paris via Hong Kong. For travel from Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown, connections are available via Auckland or Sydney.
Getting around: Trafalgar's eight-day Treasures of France guided holiday starts and finishes in Paris and is priced from $2550 a person, twin share, with departure dates available between April and October.
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Is this colt growing properly? I am interested in 'rescueing' a colt (he doesn't have horrible treatment, but he has a headstrong ignoramus as an owner, who has already done some damage to his training). I just have a few questions about his general health. He is currently (exactly) 8 months old. His father is about 15-16hh, and his mother is 14.1hh. He was separated from his mother at 2 months old, and has only been eating hay since (mid-quality grass/alfalfa). He is kept in his large pen, which is about 60x30ft with a 30x10 run in shelter. Most of his exercise is in those confines. His owner occasionally lunges him hard for about an hour at a time, but there could be two weeks in between when that happens. For his age, exercise, and nutrition, does he appear to be developing correctly? I know the pictures aren't the best, and I am not able to remove his blanket. Underneath his blanket, he appears to be ideal weight though. His hindquarters seem thicker than his shoulders (compared to every other horse I've dealt with, where the two areas are about even). Also, what do you think about his front knees? His father has beautiful conformation, but his mother's knees are dramatically knock-kneed. Every foal I know has awkward legs, so it's hard for me to tell if he inherited his mother's knees or not. The first picture is of his mother when she was pregnant: https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...45251375_n.jpg These pictures are of the colt at two days old: https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...16033911_n.jpg https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...90239634_n.jpg https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...10307845_n.jpg This picture and video are both of him in the past week, at 8 months old: https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...62936656_n.jpg |
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Its really hard to tell from the video and the pictures...However hes reallly over the knee. Do you have more pics of him now? |
Bump please. I'm going down to the stables in a few minutes, and want to know what pictures I should get. Sorry if I sound impatient. |
932 Attachment(s) Try to get him to stand square on level ground. Honestly, the foal pictures do not look like any foal id ever want to own. Hopefully hes developed better, but foals are very hard to critique. His dam looks like shes got some clubbed feet going on. Posted via Mobile Device |
From what I can tell he looks much younger than 8 months, But hard to tell with the fuzz and blanket. Also lunging a young horse for an hour is VERY bad for them. His legs look kind of wonky at two days old, but a recent photo of him standing on level ground from the side, front, and back would help for a better evaluation of his development. |
Didn't you just start a thread about a week ago about wanting to adopt this foal? If I remember, there was a lot of neglect going on and you asked us if you should adopt him - I, as well as many others responded, gave advice, and the thread just strung along..... Now a new one? How serious are you in really adopting him, and when? Not trying to sound critical, but kind've surprised to see another thread when so many had responded previously, and the descriptions you gave of someone hitting him in the face, etc... now just a simple, "Is he growing properly"? My replies were from the heart as were the others', and I felt so bad for him when reading your abuse/neglect descriptions, and still do! What's going on? *I think it was, "Adopting a foal" and the 3rd paragraph brought tears to my eyes |
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The much-awaited Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision concerning casinos came down Tuesday morning. The court ruled unanimously to allow a question on the November ballot, asking voters if they want to repeal the state's casino law.
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Unless a local tavern owner in a political pickle is promising free beer, it's pretty hard to fill a committee room for anything at City Hall, or so said Ald. Terry Witkowski, marveling at the crowd that turned out for a hearing on public art Tuesday.
"There is an arts community in Milwaukee and it's alive and well," he said.
And it made a difference.
Later that morning, the Milwaukee Common Council voted 12-2 to approve Janet Zweig's design for E. Wisconsin Ave. She will create artworks that will be stationed on lamp posts and will house animations created from old-fashioned flap signs, once common in train stations.
Perhaps most swayed, though, was the art community itself. There have been many discussions of late, large and small, organized and not, about the need to support the creative community. That itself is not new, but Tuesday it seemed as if the "cultural coalition" everyone's been imagining came into existence. A diverse group of people aligned to do something.
Dave Fantle of Visit Milwaukee, the main proponent of the Bronze Fonz, and Mike Brenner, who closed his art gallery in protest over Bronzie, were on the same team this time. Artists, professors, filmmakers, civic leaders, bloggers, urban planners, art collectors and people who just heard about it on Twitter or the radio were all there.
I don't know about you, but I couldn't stop smiling all day.
Still, a word of caution. Valiant and episodic efforts have been made for public art here before, and until Milwaukee has a cohesive, long-term plan for public art and a qualified, paid, public art administrator, we will continue to stumble into these kinds of controversies.
The Zweig project nearly fell apart because it was no one's job to ensure that it didn't. Many cities our size and even smaller have both a plan and a person, someone who speaks the language of art, politics, engineering and finance.
The moment when a project's design goes to City Hall is a critical one. This is precisely the make-it-or-break-it point when the "Blue Shirt" came apart at the seams.
In the case of the Zweig project, the artist's ideas were presented at the 11th hour by a well-intentioned city engineer with predictable results.
Say what you will about Ald. Bob Donovan and his storming out of the committee meeting. He had every right to be angry. He was effectively being asked to rubber-stamp art no one had told him a thing about at a time when city funds are tight.
One blindsided politician is all it takes for things to unravel, as they did on April 1 before the Public Works Committee. The danger, then, is that people get polarized fast. They get dug in before the damage can be undone.
Which is why Tuesday's victory is such a rare and wonderful one.
The Zweig project had been managed so beautifully to that point, largely because a Minnesota-based public art professional, Regina Flanagan, had been hired to shepherd it. Her contract had expired and the city hadn't gotten around to rehiring her, so Flanagan wasn't around when she was most needed.
But her charge was limited.
A project-by-project approach won't work. It is telling that, briefly, unbeknown to anyone, a busy corner downtown was being eyed for both the Bronze Fonz and Zweig projects.
What is needed is someone who can keep an eye on the overall, including city, county and private projects. We need a leader and champion, someone who is part advocate and part bureaucrat. We need someone familiar with the dialogue around public art internationally, who is exploring new kinds of ideas, including both temporary and permanent projects. We need someone who can forge collaborations between architects and artists, and who can ensure that the community is engaged in meaningful ways.
What we have, instead, is a community that's known nationally for ineffectual public art and that comparatively spends little on public art.
A thick master plan for public art was published about a decade ago and has gathered dust at City Hall since. Flanagan published another study in 2004, as part of the Wisconsin Ave. project. It, too, sits.
So, many in this newly congealed community of arts advocates have asked: What's next?
My advice, first, is to thank the elected officials who approved the Zweig project.
You'll need that political goodwill for my second suggestion: Put public art at or near the top of the list of priorities.
It makes a case for itself (much like the Milwaukee Art Museum does for architecture), and it is more for the community as a whole than almost any other art form.
It's an excellent place to start.
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It's been a very social week, with an activity-filled weekend to round off my first week of UTMB training. Trail runs all week with great company, starting with a loop with Paulina the Ultrababe on Wednesday. Thursday was a night trail run with Keith aka "Buzz Lightyear", visiting from Oz. Another ultra-nut with the biggest, smiliest personality on the trail. We got out the headlamps halfway through our run, and I now realise I need to get a brighter headlamp if I'm going to do anymore night runs! Hit the trail on Friday morning again with Marnie, fresh back from the Tokyo marathon and in training for the Great Wall Marathon (GWM) coming up. We ran (mostly) up to the top of the Jelutong Tower for good measure, seeing as we're both in need of some stair training for the GWM (Marnie) and The North Face 100 Oz (me). Nice view from the top!
Ended up doing a solo run on Saturday due to a very late night out on Friday .. apologies I didn't make the morning run, Patrick! Nonetheless, cranked out 15 miles on the trail with a full pack ... I think the boys are feeling marginally lighter ... although my new pack will need some modifications to stop some chafing at the back of my neck. Nothing new there, had to do the same with my old pack. Longest run to date in a skirt, no complaints so far! I'm thinking the running skirt could be made of a lighter material and maybe a little shorter for racing, but I'll experiment with a couple of things I have in mind and report back later. Pic below were taken at the tail end of my 15 miler .. the rest of me was drenched in sweat from the heat and humidity, but the skirt still looks pretty perky, no signs of sticking to the legs either.
Tried to collect the race pack for the 2XU Compression Run that afternoon, but the queue was crazy and stretched all the way round the basketball court outside Velocity .. come back later!
So then it's off to the Edge Adventure Clinic for a navigation crash course ... Paulina rocked up as well and we had a bash at being Topo Queens ... with varying levels of success. We learnt to read a compass and work out our bearings on a map, starting with a few practice checkpoints to make sure we got the general principles right. We all did the first one together, and then checked the map to locate CP2.
Wilson (the instructor) then told Paulina and I to lead everyone to the next practice checkpoint .. and I managed to lead everyone through a lovely muddy overgrown trail only very slightly off course. We then had a quick lesson on how to rectify having overshot the CP, and finally found it after a little searching and several dozen mosquito bites. I'm off to a good start for Sabah, then!
We then decided to go off on our own to try the first 4 CPs and had a whale of a time second-guessing ourselves when it came to choosing routes on the map. We found all 4 CPs without too much deviation and thought we'd call it a day before it got dark. However, I might have to go back again on my own for some extra practice .. I don't think Sabah will be as simple as this!
Managed to collect the 2XU race pack just before the booth closed .. no thanks to a very dim taxi driver who had no idea how to get there.
Smiles at the top! |
Tower stairs |
Running wild! |
So then it's off to the Edge Adventure Clinic for a navigation crash course ... Paulina rocked up as well and we had a bash at being Topo Queens ... with varying levels of success. We learnt to read a compass and work out our bearings on a map, starting with a few practice checkpoints to make sure we got the general principles right. We all did the first one together, and then checked the map to locate CP2.
Er .. which arrow am I supposed to follow??? |
"No, we don't have pink flags for the girls and blue for the guys .." |
Starting out at Lorong Asrama |
After I led everyone though the mud .. |
I read maps best when they're upside down ... |
Lost? Not me! |
Nearly done! |
Topo Queen leads the way with her massive pack |
Last CP! |
Sunset at Mandai |
Then off to the ECP to give the Twilight runners a little support .. after we'd scoffed a stack of Ah Hwee's chicken wings, of course! The runners had been going for 6 hours when we got there, and over half had called it a day. The remaining runners were plodding on steadily .. well done to everyone for hanging in there! 16 hours on a flat 10k loop is no mean feat.
So all in all a good week, and looking forward to another one!


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Houstonians mark your calendars. On June 3 I'll be speaking at the Lone Star APG meeting. The topic is my experience at the 2011 RootsTech conference. I will be talking about the value of the conference from a professional genealogist perspective.
My guess is that there are some people are trying to determine if it's worth it to go to the 2012 RootsTech conference. If you're a regular reader of this blog, you already know what I'm going to say.
This Lone Star APG event is free and open to the public. The exact location in Houston hasn't been confirmed, so check back with me in a few. The event coordinator is working on getting a room reserved now.
If you are interested in attending but don't want walk in alone in a room full of strangers, let me know and I'll say you're part of my entourage.
Ta-da! Instant network.
Hope to see you there.
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Vigilante Justice
February 1956 | Volume 7, Issue 2
The next morning, just before dawn, the Vigilantes were in an unusual bustle in their headquarters, preparing for the execution of the two sentenced men. Perhaps they were too busy to be on their guard; perhaps they underestimated the opposition; or perhaps, in those small hours, their leaders were absent. At any rate, for once they were taken by surprise. Sheriff John C. Hayes appeared with a deputy and a small group of police. He entered the committee headquarters without opposition and produced a warrant of habeas corpus, procured on the personal affidavit of the governor himself in behalf of Whittaker and McKenzie. The sheriff marched off with the two prisoners and put them in the city jail.
Almost immediately the bell began its slow strokes. Vigilantes in great numbers hurried to their headquarters, and the usual crowd followed and waited. But they waited in vain, for nothing happened, and after a while they dispersed, wondering. Two days passed, and the citizens wondered still more.
On Sunday morning the Reverend Mr. Williams was "engaged in devotional exercises with the prisoners, among whom were Whittaker and McKenzie." Suddenly an armed and disciplined platoon of thirtysix Vigilantes, silent as usual, appeared at the jail. They pushed past the sheriff's men, who offered slight, if any, resistance. The Vigilantes escorted the two prisoners into a coach that drew up before the jail and in it galloped off down Battery Street. As they did so the firehouse bell began to toll again.
People appeared like lightning as soon as they heard the bell, and those who first arrived at the jail ran after the departing carriage. It drove to the committee rooms on the Battery, and by the time the first of the crowd arrived they saw that blocks and tackle had been rigged to two beams projecting above the windows of the second floor. Within seventeen minutes from the time the prisoners had been put into the coach they were swinging from those beams, while a crowd already grown to six thousand watched in silence beneath.
That event was the last major action of the Vigilance Committee of 1851. It had hanged four men, excluded a number from admission to the port, banished a few, and warned many others. Crime had declined so rapidly that for a few months, at least, San Francisco was a city of normal order and safety. The "Sydney coves" were not in evidence. On September 16 the committee announced that it would suspend further action indefinitely. Its rooms on Battery Street were vacated, and smaller new rooms, "open at all times, day and night, to its members," were taken on Sacramento Street. Like most reform movements, it subsided almost as rapidly as it had begun, and left the opposition—the criminals and corruptors, who never slumber—covertly to regain their strength.
Like the Vigilantes, the people of San Francisco returned with enthusiasm to their normal activities of private pleasure and private gain, of municipal growth and municipal indifference. Within the next four years the overgrown and unruly frontier town became a city with outward stability and some pretensions to crude luxury.
The town was still a Mecca for the easy-money men. The still raw metropolis offered politicians and grafters a fine field for developing the more sophisticated devices of corruption they had learned elsewhere. A new kind of crime was developing, less noticeable because more subtle than that of the earlier Gold Rush ruffians. The new way was not to flout the law openly but to evade or bribe it. Corruption became deeply ingrained in the life of the city. The grafters rivaled the thieves; the corrupt politicians replaced the incendiaries; the prosperous gamblers outlived the drunken brawlers.
In late 1852 immigration slackened and prices fell a little, though not enough to trouble most San Franciscans. Business optimism was not damped, and men went on with their speculations. But by 1854 the overexpansion of earlier years and the long chances the merchants and bankers had taken began to come home to roost in the forms of unsold goods, bad debts, and bankruptcies. Thirty per cent of the space in the warehouses of the city suddenly stood empty.
Three hundred out of some thousand substantial businesses in the city failed, and the next year another 197 firms became insolvent. Several local banking houses went under. Down with one of them went an honest and popular young man, who had been an active Vigilante, named James King of William. Municipal finances, which had been increasingly shaky for several years, also reached the critical stage. In his public message on March 12, 1855, the mayor revealed that the city deficit for the past year alone had been $840,000. Before 1855 had ended, the city had repudiated some $737,000 of its obligations. The public was restive, nervous, and resentful.
A criminal class cannot thrive in a community where public officers are honest and efficient, where police and courts enforce the laws, and where the people do not tolerate corruption. But the criminals were making out better than the honest men in the political atmosphere of San Francisco. A machine modeled on Tammany Hall controlled the city government and was also at war with another machine, dominated by a few men of southern origin, for control of state offices and federal patronage.
James King of William was a curious kind of man to find in the San Francisco of the 1850's. He had come there seeking not gold, but health. He brought with him the values of a cultivated Eastern background and refused to discard them. He cared more for justice than for power, for public virtue than for his own welfare.


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Small but great
Successful working environments come in all sizes
Small and midsize companies demonstrate that business can be successful without compromising quality or responding to demands of a grow-or-die mentality.
Editor's Note: This column was prepared by the staff of Winning Workplaces, a not-for-profit organization that helps small and midsized businesses create better work environments.
While fraud, multinational mergers, and sizable layoffs make headlines, small and midsized businesses are quietly driving the U.S. economy, making positive social and economic impacts. Many small and midsized businesses are becoming increasingly creative in how they treat their employees and go above and beyond to provide great customer service and focus on a bottom line in which numbers are only part of the equation.
In his book Small Giants, Inc. magazine Editor-at-Large Bo Burlingham profiles 14 companies that choose to be great instead of big. While relatively small and privately held, the organizations Burlingham chronicles could not be more different in their industries, organization, operating principles, and people practices. The one true constant among them is what he calls mojo: "Something indefinable and immeasurable, something that goes beyond the standard definitions of success in business, something that can easily be lost unless it's protected against the homogenizing influences brought to bear on every company."
Empowering Employees Through Ownership
ECCO, an Idaho-based manufacturer of backup alarms and amber warning lights for commercial vehicles, is a company with mojo, according to Burlingham. The company refers to its 150 employees as "team member owners." That's because ECCO provides an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), which controls 58 percent of the company's stock. The author profiles a single mother with three children who works in customer service and whose stake in ESOP was worth $12,000 at the time of Burlingham's writing. That, along with other practices like a monthly, companywide meeting to review financials, creates an atmosphere where employees are highly invested in the company because they know exactly what can be gained and lost. As a result, employees feel like an owner and believe they are treated like one.
All of the profiled companies work hard to define their internal community and strengthen ties to the external community on a local scale with a strong emphasis on personal relationships. The author argues that a sense of community hinges on maintaining three pillars: integrity, professionalism, and human connection. "Indeed, the relationship between the employees and the company is the entire basis for the mojo they exude. You can't have the second without the first," Burlingham writes. "Everything ... that makes a company extraordinary ... depends on those who do the work of the business, day in and day out."
Reaching out to New Employees
In the book Alpha Dogs: How Your Small Business Can Become Leader of the Pack, Donna Fenn, who also writes for Inc. magazine, outlines strategies for success that eight small businesses have used to come from behind to outperform the competition. In explaining one of the steps, "convert your employees into true believers," Fenn profiles Dayton, Ohio-based upscale grocer Dorothy Lane Market. She notes the unusual practice the company's CEO, Norman Mayne, has undertaken for the past 20 years: Talk to each new hire about Dorothy Lane's company culture, customer retention, and competition. Fenn notes that although this training program costs the organization $25,000 annually, it results in a part-time employee turnover rate of 20 percent to 30 percent—far below the industry average of 100 percent.
Other initiatives Dorothy Lane practices to inform and unite its 250 full-time employees are open-book management and flying kitchen staff to the countries that inspire the grocer's prepared entrees so they can study firsthand the cooking techniques involved.
These great but small companies offer compelling evidence that small and midsized organizations can make a difference by creating unique and personalized workplaces. They demonstrate that a business can be successful without compromising quality or responding to demands of a "grow-or-die" mentality. Finally, they show that building strong ties with customers and inviting employees to contribute to solving core business problems are good business.
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Bruno Mars turns in terrific Staples Center set
Bruno Mars paused late into the first of two sold-out shows at Staples Center Saturday night to look out at all the people screaming for him. He smiled, maybe a little amazed, but definitely delighted by the success he's enjoying right now.
"I've been living here for 10 years," the 27-year-old said of his hometown since leaving his native Hawaii. "We've played so many pubs and clubs, strip clubs and dive bars. The fact that we get to play for you in this building means so much to us – so thank you."
The crowd cheered even louder, and why wouldn't they? Over the course of 15 songs in 90 minutes, Mars and his band the Hooligans delivered a Show with a capital S, not just playing the finely-crafted tunes of Doo-Wops & Hooligans and blockbuster follow-up Unorthodox Jukebox, but performing them terrifically, too.
After opening with "Moonshine," the song that gives this Moonshine Jungle Tour its name, Mars quickly dropped current single "Treasure" into the set, the first of many numbers to have the crowd singing along loudly on catchy choruses while Mars and his ace band smoothly worked through choreographed moves. Picking up an electric guitar, he led the ensemble into a cover of "Money (That's What I Want)" that flowed into "Billionaire," his collaboration with Travie McCoy – which in turn saw his backing vocalist and hype man Phillip Lawrence drop a few verses of Aloe Blacc's "I Need a Dollar."
"Show Me" slipped into a reggae groove, giving Mars one of several chances to make the ladies scream with hip swivels, pelvic thrusts and lover-man lyrics. He's got a knack for taking vintage styles, particularly old-school soul, and making them sound fresh and new, as evidenced by the slower jam of "If I Knew," which really hit that '60s vibe nicely.
A bit about giving the guys in the audience an amusing lesson in R&B 101 (Step 1: Master the drawn-out pronunciation of '"Damnnnnn" while gazing appreciatively at your lady) blended into the classic gimmick of picking out a woman in the crowd for seductive banter. That segued into "Runaway Baby," so memorably performed on the Grammys two years ago, which here saw him stutter-stepping like James Brown; later, during an a capella break in the arrangement, the entire band stomped out a hard rhythm on the stage floor.
The last third of the show was almost all hits, producing some of the loudest audience singing I've heard in quite some time as Mars and the band tore through "Nothin' on You" (the smash collaboration with B.o.B that introduced both new talents), the heartbreaker "When I Was Your Man," the rocker "Grenade" and the love song that really catapulted Mars' career, "Just the Way You Are."
The encore opened with the star rising from the back of the stage behind a drum kit into the opening of the irresistible "Locked Out of Heaven," its riff and peppy feel reminiscent of the Police, then ended with flash pots, flames and explosions during "Gorilla."
In less than three years Mars has sent five singles and an album to the top of the charts. He's been nominated for 14 Grammys and taken one home. Now he has sold out Staples – twice. So, yeah, that's something to smile about, Bruno.
Opening the show was English singer Ellie Goulding, whose brand of electronic pop had a good number of early arrivals on their feet, too. The big arena might have affected her – she admitted to being a little shyer than usual – but her singing on best-known songs such as "Lights" and "Anything Could Happen" connected well with the crowd.
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Green Day's Greatest Hits Squeezed Into 'One Minute Mashup'
Legendary songwriter Harlan Howard once famously noted that all any musician really needs is three chords and the truth — and for proof, look no further than the work of YouTube user Chad Neidt, whose 'One Minute Mashup' series proves just how easy it is to connect many famous bands' biggest hits.
Neidt, whose previous mashups include one-minute distillations of the Blink-182 catalog, Disney soundtracks and TV theme songs, runs through a dizzying array of Green Day songs in this clip — 21 in all, from '2000 Light Years Away' to 'Know Your Enemy,' with snippets of some of the band's best-known songs (including 'Time of Your Life,' 'Welcome to Paradise,' and 'When I Come Around') in between.
All in all, it's a pretty impressive display, and while it may be somewhat discomfiting for Green Day fans to realize how seamlessly so many of the band's songs fit together, it's also a testament to the group's longevity — even with all these songs crammed into the mashup, Neidt barely scratched the surface of the Green Day catalog (and with three more albums due over the next several months, he already has some catching up to do). Check out the video, embedded below.
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