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Just Hold Me
Do real men like to cuddle?
The first signs came early.
Most infants can't do much, and I was no exception, according to grown-ups who were present at the time. But there was one area in which I dominated at a very young age: I was a crackerjack cuddler. Given a supple shoulder or a warm lap, I showed all of the necessary skills—the burbles, the sighs, the tiny hand-grabs, the determination to get cozy for hours on end. I snuggled all comers. I drooled in their faces.
And I had a strong will to cuddle. When I got my first big-boy bed, I devised a successful strategy of running around the house at bedtime until I was furnished with a parental snuggle partner. Later, I enlisted my little brother: If there was He-Man to be watched, it was easy enough to convince him to serve as a pillow. (I still find him useful in this respect.)
By the time I started cuddling regularly with girlfriends, in college and thereafter, it was clear I possessed an outsize appetite for sedentary touch. While some of my partners found my cuddliness endearing, it caused problems too: Showers started later and appointments were blown. For some of my associates, morning productivity declined—or so they said—and the narcotic properties of my skin were blamed.
This was nonsense on its face; it takes two to snuggle up. Besides, I viewed cuddling as a productive activity in and of itself, like going to the gym or scrubbing the toilet bowl. A snuggle a day might keep the doctor away.
Yet even as I defended myself, I also harbored insecurities about my tactile needs—doubts that have never gone away. I will confess that a great canoodling session is not the apex of human achievement. No doubt the architects of the Roman Aqueduct were not snuggle-maniacs. If the building of civilization had been left in the hands of unreconstructed cuddlers, the project might have suffered delays.
More vexing than the laziness question, however, is a fractured feeling I sense deep in my cuddly heart. For me, the urge to cuddle is Janus-faced: At times I can play the snuggler-protector—the father figure who enfolds, defends and marches into the future; yet my default setting, if I am being honest, is the cuddle-receiver—an infantile and insecure sensory insufficiency from the distant past. The crux of the problem is this: I want to be held, and it is an awful, wussy feeling.
Oh, Lord! Why must I cuddle so?
Someone must be blamed. I want to blame someone for my cuddlesome predicament. Who can I blame?
My parents seem like the obvious choice: They cuddled me too much. They spared the rod; they spoiled the child. Spartan treatment has been the prescription for making men manly since antiquity. Didn't Rome fall because its men got soft? And anti-snugglism has a strong tradition in this country: A century ago, physicians were telling moms to keep their cuddle-hungry hands to themselves. Did my folks ignore this important history?
The era of snuggle antagonism—the War on Cuddling—had its origins in the 1894 publication of The Care and Feeding of Children, a book by the eminent pediatrician Luther Emmett Holt that was among the first "scientific" guides to mothering. Holt's baby book, which would be issued in 15 editions over the next 40 years, provided a strict roadmap to parenting in a new century rife with tuberculosis, swarms of suspicious immigrants, and invisible killers called germs. Scientific regimentation seemed to chart the safest path forward—both in the efficient factory and the economical home—and babies were expected to get with the program.
Holt was obsessed with hygiene, and eschewed promiscuous tactile techniques. On whether rocking was necessary, he wrote, "By no means. It is a habit easily acquired … and a very useless and sometimes injurious one." On playing with babies, he declared, "The less of it at any time the better." Holt helped the Labor Department craft a 1914 pamphlet on mothering—3 million copies were distributed—that emphasized discipline and warned that germ-laden smooches could kill. Yet not all touch was taboo: To ensure timely bowel movements, Holt suggested "introducing just inside the rectum a small cone of oiled paper or a piece of soap" while dangling the kid over a chamber pot.
Early reports on the War on Cuddling showed stunning results. A 1910 story published in the Washington Post described a "scientific baby" named Leonard who had been brought up without "all the manifestations of motherly affection, such as cuddling, kissing, exhibition, and fine garments." Yet Leonard was a bull. Average babies observed by Holt did not hold their heads up or laugh until the third or fourth month. Leonard held his noggin erect by the third week, according to the Post story, and was laughing his little nards off nine weeks later.
Some baby! Just think: If my parents hadn't indulged my pathetic yearnings, I might have been like Leonard.
The war escalated. By the 1920s, a new school of psychology called behaviorism suggested that cuddling wailing infants would "condition" them to become lifelong crybabies. The behaviorist John B. Watson argued that mollycoddled toddlers grew into weak and whiny adults. In a chapter entitled "Too Much Mother Love" in his 1928 book Psychological Care of Infant and Child, he explained what was good for infants: "Treat them as though they were young adults. … Never hug and kiss them, never let them sit in your lap. If you must, kiss them once on the forehead when they say good night. Shake hands with them in the morning."
It's not clear how many Depression-era infants enjoyed morning handshakes, but the anti-cuddling paradigm was promoted in women's magazines well into the 1930s. Then it started to fade. The demise of snuggle antagonism grew out of the work of a few renegade doctors who noticed that isolated foundlings often wasted away—a condition called "hospitalism"—but could sometimes be brought back from the brink by a nurse's loving affection.
It was the first hint that the cuddle haters were wrong—very wrong—and the reason why I have to give my folks a pass for their snuggle-positive parenting. Startling experiments in the 1950s showed that baby monkeys will sometimes forego food for contact comfort. Later research on human preemies indicated that massages help babies gain weight. Now scientists may have found a pathway for these love transmissions: special cuddle receptors in the skin that are attuned to social touch. Today, snuggling is seen as so important for babies that many hospitals run infant touch programs staffed by volunteer cuddlers.
These insights prove that Leonard was exceptional indeed. Most cuddle-proofed kids surely suffered as a result. Some blamed their parents: After Life ran an article on the legacy of behaviorism in 1950, John B. Watson's son went to the trouble to write a terse letter to the editor thanking the magazine for dispelling the "illusion" of nonemotional child care. The children of another anti-cuddling zealot —a German physician who also advocated strapping kids into mechanical devices to ensure good posture—fared far worse: One shot himself in the head, and another started thinking that all of his body's physical processes, down to the blinking of his eyes, were being manipulated by cruel external forces.
So, in fact, my parents' snuggles might have saved my life. Maybe the cuddliness they fostered in me was even a wonderful thing—something I could be proud of. Was it was time to get out there and start flexing my cuddle muscles?
I knew I was an able snuggler, but how good was I? Was I primetime material—as I strongly suspected—or more of a junior-varsity type? To find out, I decided to take my talents to an event thrown by Cuddle Party—an organization dedicated to the delicate practice of nonsexual snuggling. My goal was simple: I wanted to dominate. I wanted to snuggle up and watch as my cuddles crushed the competition. Perhaps it sounds silly to approach a Cuddle Party like a sporting match, but what can I say? Winners win.
Cuddle Party was started in 2004 by sex educator REiD Mihalko (the small 'i' in his first name denotes an other-directed focus) who came up with idea while tending bar in New York City. Mihalko has floppy blond hair, the build of a tight end—his dad played the position for the Steelers—and a chill bearing that exudes cutaneous confidence. I first met him at a lecture where he was hawking a DVD that promised to help you earn your "black belt" in relationships. The cover depicted a shirtless Mihalko surrounded by topless ninjas.
Cuddle Party's conception came in a flash, says Mihalko. He was already throwing massage parties for his friends in the holistic health community, and some of his bar regulars were curious but too intimidated to attend. "One day I just kind of jokingly quipped back, 'If you're not going to come to a massage party, then grab your pillows and your blankets and your teddy bears and come to my house and I'll throw you a cuddle party.' "
It was like a meteor strike. "Oh. My. God. I'm like, we need to throw cuddle parties. And they're like, what? I'm like, cuddle parties, man. Like, that's what we need to do." The Yoda of Cuddling was born.
Mihalko raced home to draft the first set of snuggly by-laws, and he threw the first Cuddle Party a few weeks later with the help of his partner, Marcia Baczynski. Not long after, the gossip Web site Gawker took note, and a media storm ensued: GQ, People, the Washington Post, Current TV, and countless others ran stories on the trend. CSI: New York built an episode around a cuddle party. Today, Cuddle Party is an international organization with facilitators in the United States, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, and Hungary. Some 30,000 people have cuddled at their gatherings.
On a fall evening in New York City, I entered my first Cuddle Party feeling confident that I would be greeted like a baby polar bear. In addition taking a measure of my cuddling prowess, I was eager to see what it was like to canoodle dispassionately with strangers. I hoped that by getting trained in pure, nonsexual snuggling, I might learn to cuddle less like a baby and more like a samurai. The party commenced in a sparsely decorated West Village apartment with blanket-wrapped air mattresses on the floor. Thirteen cuddlers were assembled, most of them in their 20s and 30s. There was one older cuddler who bore a passing resemblance to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. He looked comfortable in his pajamas, and his appearance caused me to wonder for the first time what Scalia's feet look like. I made for the bathroom to don my PJs. Per Cuddle Party protocol, the festivities began with a "Welcome Circle" where the instructor laid out the ground rules. To wit: Ask first if you want to touch anyone. Also: If you ask to touch someone and they say no, you must abide. We practiced asking each other if we could have a cuddle, and then saying no.
I turned to the person next to me and said, "Can I give you a back rub?"
"No," the cuddler replied. This was meant to prepare us for the cuddly communication challenges that lay ahead.
Other rules: Keep your clothes on. And: Signs of "arousal" have been known to appear. If a sign pops up near you, do not be alarmed—just stay still and hope it goes away. Also: No dry humping! Plus: It's OK if you don't feel like cuddling and just want to sit in the corner. Finally: Cuddle Party is a private space; if you bump into one of your co-cuddlers on the street, don't mention your shared history. Now, break! Cuddle up!
At this, about half of the assembled cuddlers, myself included, made a beeline to the snack table. Chips, hummus, celery sticks, carrots, water, juice. The mood was indistinguishable from a seventh-grade dance. I quickly decided it was time to get aggressive, so I offered back rubs to several ladies in quick succession. One accepted: a friendly and funny full-figured female.
We retired to an adjoining back room, which held a proper mattress and some burning votive candles. She lay down on her side.
"Um, don't you want a back rub?" I said.
"Sure, or we could just start like this," she proposed, suggesting a frontal approach. I plunged in. We cuddled tummy-to-tummy, with our arms wrapped awkwardly around each other's flanks. I heaved a leg over her waist, John Lennon-style. Gently I began to massage and stroke and scratch and knead her back, working her flesh with mounting fervor, and she squealed when I hit a tender spot. Before long, she was reduced to jelly.
A couple of other people came into the room: A hyper, redheaded female and a sweet-faced dude in an orange T-shirt. Did we want to cuddle feet, asked the redhead? Totally! We did!
The four of us brought our feet together in a pile. We wriggled and flapped them like beached pinnipeds. It was not clear why we were doing this. The experience reminded me of a time in second grade when my best friend Peter and I decided to touch butts. We just dropped our pants and backed into each other. Butt smushed butt in transcendent symphony. Then we fell on the floor and peed our pants laughing. If you ever have to decide between cuddling feet and touching butts, definitely go with touching butts.
While we cuddled feet, the redhead explained that she was into the fetish scene. She liked to get whacked on the bottoms of her feet. One time she'd had staples put in her soles. Another time she and a dominatrix had partied with one of Hollywood's cuddliest men in a Greenwich Village hotel. A cigar was involved. She was psyched to be at a cuddle party!
Pretty soon more cuddlers joined us on the bed, and someone suggested we do a six-person spoon. So we did: Boy-girl-boy-girl-boy-girl. I was on the end, cuddling the redhead, who felt small and soft and sexy in my arms. She commented that we were like a bunch of squirming eels. She was right. We were like eels, or those black-headed translucent grubs that you sometimes find in shallow mud, writhing in their own goo. The mass of bodies created thermoregulatory challenges, and before long the spoon gang split up.
As I lay back and watched the redhead bound out of the room toward the snack table, I realized that I wanted very badly to cuddle with her one-on-one. These gathering feelings threatened to derail my training in pure, nonsexual cuddling. For a half-second, I actually cared.
Here's a question: Is it possible to snuggle in a nonsexual way? The Cuddle Party people claim their events are not about sex: "As adults, we have fully-formed prefrontal cortexes … we can control ourselves," Mihalko insisted when we spoke. But the temptations associated with mashing one's body against the flesh of another are undeniable. Was my training in "pure cuddling" doomed from the start?
In fact, this very conundrum weighed on the minds of certain early American purity experts—the Puritans—who practiced an odd form of nonsexual snuggling known as "bundling." Bundling occurred when a courting young man wound up at his love interest's home in the evening, and was invited to spend the night in bed with her. They were given separate blankets, and sometimes placed on either side of a "bundling board" that ran along the mattress from head to toe, so as to impede hanky-panky. If the bundling board did yield, and pregnancy occurred, the couple was expected to marry.
The British mocked bundling as a tawdry American tradition, but in fact there is evidence it came from Europe and was practiced from Britain to Holland to Switzerland, perhaps dating as far back as Roman times. In Colonial New England, bundling made practical sense due to a scarcity of beds, poor heating, and long rides between towns. It was only practiced in the winter.
Predictably, the practice stirred passions. Controversy over bundling erupted in the 1770s, when a New England preacher began to insist that it was unchristian. Young men returning from the French war seemed to have brought with them "loose camp vices" and a disregard for the church that made them ill-suited for bundling. Several towns tried to ban the practice, to the dismay of mothers and daughters, who thought bundling was totally cool. A glimpse into the debate can be viewed in an excerpt from an anti-bundling ballad published in a 1785 almanac:
A bundling couple went to bed,
With all their clothes from foot to head,
That the defence might seem complete,
Each one was wrapped in a sheet.
But O! this bundling's such a witch,
The man of her did catch the itch,
And so provoked was the wretch,
That she of him a bastard catch'd.
History's greatest bundling scholar, Henry Reed Stiles, the author of a definitive 1871 volume on the origins of the practice, credited this song with so stigmatizing bundling that it caused its downfall. (Improved living conditions and warmer houses following the American Revolution also played a role.) The tradition died out in the late 19th century, and it is rare indeed today; a 1969 campaign to revive bundling, mounted by a group of clever Pennsylvania teens, did not catch on.
This history confirms that the line between snuggling and sex is indeed slippery—a fact further demonstrated in the 1970s by Vanderbilt psychiatrist Marc Hollender. Having invented a questionnaire-based body contact score to reflect "the wish to be held," Hollender found that many women truly ached to be snuggled; one stated that she would rather canoodle than be given a Cadillac convertible. Yet some women avoided cuddling when they were not in the mood for sex, because snuggling too often converted to shagging. The blame often was placed on the man, and on his penis in particular. As one subject put it, "Being held is an end in itself for women, but for men it is only the beginning."
Back at the snack table. The redhead and I chatted over celery sticks, and she proposed that we go for a cuddle. We lay down and I burrowed in deep, determined to unleash my full snuggly voltage. We got all wrapped up, our legs pretzeled. For the first time since arriving at the party, I relaxed.
And then I felt a feeling. A stirring stirred. Something in my physiology—something about two stops down from the solar plexus—sought to express its special purpose.
A century ago, the pioneering German sexologist Albert Moll described two elementary sexual impulses: the contrectation-impulse—the urge to cuddle—and the detumescence-impulse—the urge to alleviate swelling in one's johnson. It was in this moment that I very clearly perceived how easily the one can tip into the other.
I was grateful for this embodied insight, but worried about the growing crisis in my pants. Luckily, my nervousness paid off: anxious-making juices flooded my system long before blood started flowing south in any quantity, and the incipient erection retreated, like a turtle to its shell. The redhead remained oblivious to the disaster narrowly averted.
Then she had an idea: She should give me a massage! I agreed and flipped onto my stomach, thrilled at the discretion afforded by the new posture. She proceeded to give me a flimsy back rub. A bonus arrived when my first cuddle partner asked if she could play with my hair. Yes, no problem! I was being cuddled by two women at once. I was commanding a double team. I was the LeBron James of cuddling!
But after nearly three hours of lying around, our allotted cuddle time was almost up, and the organizer let us know that it was time for a ceremonial "puppy pile." As I stood up, I saw that about half of the partygoers were not cuddling at all; they were sitting and talking about their dogs. I also noticed a talkative male cuddler who was about six-and-a-half feet tall and seemed to be getting a lot of female attention. If I was the King James of cuddling, he appeared to be the Shaq.
A puppy pile erupted. We stacked like Lincoln Logs, or like seven-layer dip but with only three layers. I was in the top layer. Then the party broke. I changed back into my jeans, and went to say my goodbyes. To my sorrow, I saw that the redhead—the target of my tumescence—was engaged in a long hug with Shaq. He was standing and she was swinging around his neck like a Do-Not-Disturb sign. I sensed that they were going to leave the party together. At the cuddle party, I had canoodled with panache, but had I dominated? I was not sure that I had.
My cuddle party adventure had forced awkward truths to the surface. I was not the peerless cuddler I thought I was. Rather than snuggling like a cold-blooded shinobi, I had performed like an overeager teenager. For me, it was apparent that the yen to cuddle welled from some deep, urgent, animal place that I could barely control.
Cuddling is a beastly habit, to be sure: Scientists often turn to our primate kin to learn more about the practice. Some have sought clues in social grooming, a sort of animal analogue to human snuggling. Grooming is a big part of primate life, with some species devoting 20 percent of their waking hours to cleaning fur and tweezing ticks. It's partially about hygiene—teaming up to clean one's back makes sense. But primates spend far more time doing it than is necessary for cleanliness. They're also grooming to make friends.
Humans don't have much hair, and we outsource many of our grooming needs to barbers and beauticians. Oxford evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar argues that in our primitive past, the emergence of language and gossip largely replaced social grooming as a means of adult bonding. Back scratching went from literal to figurative. But we still engage in some pro-social touch—picture a man brushing lint off his buddy's suit jacket, or a woman running her fingers through her lover's hair. Like our primate relatives, we don't normally groom or snuggle with strangers. That's why Cuddle Party is unusual: It invites people to cuddle with people they don't know and then decide if they want to be friends, rather than vice-versa.
Most people don't fast-track cuddling in this way; traditionally it is practiced after sex—long after decisions about likeability have been made. Yet post-coital cuddling can bring its own tricky politics: Evolutionary theories of sexuality often suggest that women should love to cuddle more than men, because they put more on the line when they have sex. Evolution shaped their minds, so the notion goes, to seek mates who will provide resources and help with the parenting. That means they'll want to snuggle in the sack so as to draw their partners into an emotional bond. Men, by contrast, have less skin in the mating game, so they may try to make a "hasty post-copulatory departure" and get on to the next hook-up. One recent and well- publicized study on snuggling after sex claims to confirm these stereotypes.
For me, this was bad news. God, apparently, had made me nutso for pair-bonding. I was behaving in an evolutionarily inappropriate—and unstudly—manner. I was cuddling like a girl.
How did this happen? I didn't choose this life. According to my parents, my infantile hunger for epidermal reassurance—whether from a parent, a brother, or a beloved redheaded doll named Dolly who never, ever failed to snuggle me back—was evident fresh from the oven.
Not all babies are like this; in fact, some find snuggling totally disgusting. "Non-Cuddlers," observed a pioneering 1964 typology, "unfailingly protested at, resisted, and avoided" all entreaties to cuddle "whatever the circumstances and whatever the condition of the child." "Wriggles and arches back, and only stops when put down again," said one mother of a snuggle-hating, freedom-loving infant. In contrast, "Cuddlers" were motivated only to cuddle. "Laps it up," explained a parent. "Holds quite still and puts on a soppy face," said another.
About 15 percent of developmentally normal babies might be classified as Non-Cuddlers according to psychologist Michael Lewis, who has studied child temperament for 50 years. Lewis described one Non-Cuddler who was born "stiff as a board"—his daughter—and how he learned that she could tolerate touches to her back, but not to her stomach. It's not clear why babies differ cuddle-wise; some scientists think it may be related to differences in the distribution of reward receptors in the brain—the same kinds of variations that make some people into ski jumpers and others into actuaries. Among adults, there is some evidence that anxious people tend to be the real cuddlers. (These are my people.)
In any case, touch temperament is at least partly genetic. One study found that a mother's cuddliness gets passed down to her newborn children, and another showed that twins tend to be similarly endowed in the snuggle department. No doubt I inherited the cuddle gene.
If snuggling can be in your DNA, what does that say about gender differences? Is there evidence that girls are innately cuddlier than boys? In 1999, an intrepid research team tried to find out by staging a kind of newborn-snuggle-battle-of-the-sexes in a Montreal hospital. Healthy, full-term newborns—awake and alert—were cradled and cuddled by two experimenters who were blind to the sex of the child. (Freshly circumcised boy babies were excluded on grounds that the procedure might give rise to uncuddly feelings.) Then the researchers rated the babies' desire for contact on a scale from rigid to cuddly.
In the end, the girls significantly outsnuggled the boys, although it must be said that neither team cuddled well; both averaged out closer to rigid than to cuddly. There was also a good deal of variability—there were cuddly boys and rigid girls—and the researchers conceded that it was impossible to know whether all of the babies had been in the mood. So it's hard to conclude that girls are any cuddlier than boys, overall; in fact, several temperament experts interviewed for this story argued that they absolutely aren't.
For a girly cuddle-bro like me, this was cause for hope. Could it be that my sorry, soppy, snuggly disposition was not so perverse, after all?
In 1976—my second cuddly year on this tender planet—Vanderbilt snuggle scientist Marc Hollender got around to considering men. He ran a study that examined the "wish to be held" and the "wish to hold" across genders, hypothesizing that the former would be greater in women, and the latter in men. "[A]ccording to our prevailing viewpoint, it is unmanly to want to be held or cuddled; only women are permitted or encouraged to express such 'feminine' wishes," he explained.
But the data weren't lining up. Men were just as stoked to be on either side of the spooning. And they were barely any less cuddle-hungry than the ladies. Hollender was especially stunned by some of the wussy statements coming from his male subjects: "To have this woman hold me is like the world is gone," said one. Here, finally, were some soppy-faced dudes who seemed to think like me. Unfortunately, they were also a bit nuts—the research had been conducted on psychiatric patients. (One man who said he preferred to be held also thought his penis was shrinking.)
Some evolutionary psychologists are now reaching the same conclusion as Hollender: that cuddle-wise, men and women just aren't that different. "I think that the explanations for males doing it are quite similar for the reasons that women do it," said Binghamton University's Justin Garcia, who is trained in both evolutionary biology and anthropology and studies hook-up culture on college campuses. Both just want intimacy and validation, he says—and to feel it in their skin.
In a recent unpublished survey of nearly 700 college students, Garcia found that an identical proportion of men and women—97 percent—said they liked to cuddle in romantic relationships. In a hook-up scenario, 52 percent of men and 61 percent of women wanted to snuggle. "This idea that men want to disseminate their seed and women want love and babies is utter bullshit," he said. "That is total bullshit."
Indeed, the idea that evolved biology ought to drive cuddling behavior does not really fit with the evidence. The imprint of culture has always been apparent in touch: Biology does not explain why buddies hold hands in public in the Middle East, but not in the United States. No gene explains why men shake hands more than women. (Although female handshaking must be on the rise.) Some touch traditions defy analysis: Why do women ballplayers go in for more hand slaps, whereas gentlemen prefer butt slaps?
None of this means the world is safe for cuddly men. It isn't. During the current "mancession," it has become trendy to wonder aloud about why more men don't seek out jobs in caretaking professions like nursing. One reason, certainly, is that men intuit that they are not cut out for touch-oriented work: Studies of male nurses show they are cautious caregivers because they fear accusations of inappropriate touch. Lawsuits have made nursing wards—and classrooms—into hostile environments for men.
But there are hints that attitudes may be changing. A 2004 U.K. poll, for instance, found that today's dads think they adopt a cuddlier approach to parenting than their fathers did. Films and novels today abound with sensitive, touchy-feely men. A pro-snuggle stance can even be seen in the highest reaches of government: our last president was so committed to tactile diplomacy that he could not resist giving German Chancellor Angela Merkel a hearty but poorly received back rub. Our current leader also seems to have the snuggle gene, if the long and sweet bear hug he gave to departing chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is any indication.
In fact, future generations may view the Obama-Rahm sandwich as a watershed moment in snuggling history. When CNBC's Larry Kudlow wrote a column in October calling the embrace "a hug too far" and claiming that it "lacked dignity" and revealed weakness to the world, few commentators took his side. Most argued that Kudlow was a jackass for his sensitivity to man-hugs, and that he needed to toughen up and put on his "man pants."
What happened here? Are we becoming a nation of shameless snuggle-bunnies? I believe that we are. In the new era, cuddly men will no longer be deemed wimps. Instead, society will have to designate a new generation of wusses to fill the void: people like Larry Kudlow, people who tremble at the sight of gay men cuddling, people who are terrified to have their junk touched. Today let us bring our epidermises together under a soft banner of cuddliness. The revolution will be staged, conveniently, from bed. Or at least that's where you'll find me—snuggling like the day I was born.
Correction, Dec. 8, 2010: This article originally misidentified John B. Watson as "James B. Watson" on the second mention of the name.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says he will be traveling to Israel in a few days, his first trip to the Mideast ally since he took over at the Pentagon.
Hagel mentioned the trip during congressional testimony on Tuesday as lawmakers pressed him on whether the United States would support Israel if it launches a strike against Iran. Hagel told a House panel that such a policy decision would be made by President Barack Obama.
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Shark Fights 17: Weigh-In Failure and Video Roundup
No, Ricco wasn't involved this time. Props: Shark Fights on Twitter
If we were to tell you that Ricco Rodriguez was involved in another weigh-in fail during last night's Shark Fights 17 at the Dr. Pepper Arena in Frisco, Texas, it's doubtful that too many readers would be surprised. The guy kind of has a history of missing weight. However, in a turn of events that prove even the MMA gods have a sense of humor, this time it was his opponent Karl Knothe coming in heavy for the 230 pound catchweight fight.
Those of you who remember our post from Thursday are probably a little confused for two reasons. Number one, we already told you that Karl Knothe has competed mostly as a light heavyweight, making it seem odd that he would show up overweight for a fight at 230. Also, we never mentioned that the fight was a catchweight bout. You're not alone: No one told Karl Knothe about this, either. According to MMAJunkie.com: Both Rodriguez's camp and Shark Fights officials said the bout was agreed to a catchweight of 230 pounds while Knothe allegedly believed it to be a heavyweight contest. When Knothe weighed in at 253.75 pounds to Rodriguez's 227.75 pounds, the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation disallowed Knothe from [Friday's] event due to the large gap and concerns over excessive weight-cutting from the heavier fighter. In the same article, Shark Fight's owner Bud Brutsman says that Karl Knothe's manager never told him about the catchweight limit. Somebody needs to give this guy Mike Dolce's number and a competent manager. Assuming "My manager didn't tell me" isn't a code for "Wow, I really botched that one, huh?", of course.Read More DIGG THIS


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This comprehensive fact sheet provides a brief description of all ongoing and completed capital improvement projects at Los Angeles International Airport.
Satellite Concourse – North/ Baggage Optimization Project
A new $1.6 billion concourse addition to the Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) will feature 12 aircraft gates as well as a Baggage Optimization Project that will expand capacity for TBIT and the new facility.
The In-Line Baggage Handling & Screening System program will improve and automate the security screening of checked baggage at all LAX terminals and will make travel through LAX safer, faster and more convenient. The total cost of the program covering all nine LAX terminals is estimated at $613 million, with TSA reimbursement expected to total $460 million.
The New Tom Bradley International Terminal
This project will provide greater capacity to the existing Tom Bradley International Terminal with new gates to comfortably accommodate passenger loads for the larger new generation aircraft and a great hall for premier dining and retail shopping. It is considered to be the largest public works project in the history of the City of Los Angeles and it will create 4,000 construction related jobs over the course of the four-year project schedule.
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This $229 million renovation/ modernization is improving passenger service and security with a completed new in-line baggage screening system, expansion and streamlining of the passenger screening check points and international passenger processing facilities. A new baggage claim facility, new elevators and escalators and new passenger amenities such as lounges and exciting dining options embody LAX's commitment to both international and domestic travelers.
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Completed March 2012
This $238 million renovation/modernization project increased lobby space, replaced traditional ticketing counters with new check-in kiosks, bag check stations, and a behind-the-scenes in-line baggage handling system. Additional security screening checkpoints were added to facilitate quicker screening.
The $7 million state-of-the-art system helps increase airfield safety by using a series of lights embedded in the pavement to warn pilots if it is unsafe to cross or enter a runway, or to take off. The installation of this system significantly reduces the possibility of airfield incursions, making LAX much safer for the traveling public. A prototype system was installed in June 2009 with a full system scheduled for completion by 2014.
Completed November 2011
The $165 million Taxilane S opened for use on November 17, 2011. This project constructed a 3,785-foot long taxilane to connect Taxiway B on the south airfield and Taxiway E on the north airfield and provides ramp access to aircraft .
Completed December 2010
The $13.9 million Airport Response Coordination Center (ARCC) acts as a high-tech nerve center that streamlines operational efficiency and crisis management capabilities via one dedicated facility staffed by both airport and federal agency personnel. An adjacent room houses the Incident Management Center (IMC), which is activated in the event of a critical incident or airport emergency. The IMC acts as a command center and integrates all resources of responding airport divisions and federal agencies.
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The $13.5 million ARFF improves airfield safety by doubling the size of the original facility with seven bays to house and maintain rescue vehicles and emergency response equipment as well as accommodate 14 firefighters. Station 80 is centrally located on the LAX airfield to respond to emergencies immediately.
Completed June 2010
The $12.3 million project renovated the exterior of the iconic Theme Building and included a unique Tuned Mass Damper to seismically retrofit the building.
Completed May 2010
The $737 million Tom Bradley International Terminal Modernization Project upgraded the facility with a new in-line baggage screening system and interior improvements to enhance customer service and convenience in LAX's international gateway terminal.
The $138 million Crossfield Taxiway Project connects the north and south airfield complexes at LAX with improved safety and efficiency.
Completed June 2008
This $333 million project relocated Runway 25L/7R 55 feet to the south of its previous location to provide room for a new center taxiway to improve runway safety.
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Catz complained to Trump during the dinner that the Pentagon's intent to award the contract to a single company made it difficult for anyone but Amazon to win the bidding process, according to Bloomberg .
Trump has unleashed a series of attacks against Amazon on Twitter over the past few days, accusing it of "costing the United States Post Office massive amounts of money for being their Delivery Boy," not paying its fair share of taxes, and putting other companies out of business, among other criticisms.
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The 40 year old makes sure her skin is in top shape by stocking up on products from French pharmacies, adding, "They have amazing burn creams and make-up removers. I love how French actresses age but don't really do anything about it - it's beautiful."
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BRIDGEPORT -- To fill in for two young players who've been sent down for more playing time, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers turned to a couple of familiar faces.
Forwards Sean Wiles and Chris Langkow signed pro tryouts to join the Sound Tigers. It's a second stint for both of them, and for Langkow, a return to the AHL for the first time since 2011-12.
"Whatever they need me to do," said Langkow, who had nine points in 11 games with South Carolina (ECHL).
"There are a couple of guys still here from the last time I played here, a couple of guys I've played against. I played with (Chris Bruton) in junior."
Bridgeport will also get forward Kirill Kabanov back up from Stockton (ECHL). He was en route from California while Bridgeport practiced Wednesday at the Wonderland of Ice.
The Sound Tigers sent Greg Miller and Jason Clark down to Stockton. The pair hadn't played much in recent games, so it's a chance for them to play and develop their games.
Wiles, 26, and Langkow, 24, bring some experience in the meantime. Langkow spent most of 2011-12 here, though he missed 41 games with a concussion and its aftermath; he had five points in seven games. Wiles played three solid games with Bridgeport last season and was among the last cuts this year in training camp.
"I'm very excited to be back here," said Wiles, who had four points with Reading (ECHL) this season in nine games.
"I'm just coming to help. I want to come here and play, not just be here. I want to be a player and help the team."
Familiarity helps on both the players' sides and the team's side.
"Wiles, we were very happy with him in training camp, and last season," Bridgeport coach Scott Pellerin said. "It's an opportunity to get some playing time here and join our team again. We're familiar with him, confident in him."
Pellerin was still an assistant in Manchester when Langkow was here last, but assistant coach Eric Boguniecki, among others, was here.
"He comes with some good reports," Pellerin said.
The team was short a couple of defensemen at Wednesday's practice. Pellerin said Andrey Pedan was expected to miss the upcoming weekend to rest a lingering upper-body injury. Marc Cantin remained out after blocking a shot late in Sunday's game.
Brett Gallant (upper body) practiced in a no-contact jersey, but fellow forward John Persson remained out.
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Marines from II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) prepared for their upcoming 2013 deployment with a day at the rifle range recently.
Marines from II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) prepared for their upcoming 2013 deployment with a day at the rifle range recently.
More than 6,000 Marines will deploy as a task-organized Marine Air-Ground Task Force to southern Afghanistan early next year, with elements from 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Marine Logistics Group and 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing. The II MEF (fwd) Marines will assume operational control of Helmand and Nimroz provinces early next year and they�ll be replacing the currently deployed I MEF (fwd) Marines based out of Camp Pendleton, Calif., according to a press release from II MEF (fwd).
One of the many pre-deployment training exercises the service members went through before heading to Afghanistan for a year was to brush up on their rifle skills since they�ll be expected to carry the weapon with them at all times while deployed.
Unlike the first phases of riflery training � Table I and Table II training � where Marines shoot from a distance of up to 500 yards, the Marines training Tuesday practiced their close-range combat marksmanship skills and shot multiple rounds into dummy targets from 15-30 yards away during their intermediate Table III training. The training is required for any Marine, regardless of their rank, before they can deploy to Afghanistan.
During the training, the Marines practiced shooting from multiple standing and kneeling positions, as well as while walking toward the target and pivoting side-to-side, all while timed to give them experience in quick combat and responding swiftly, usually within 10 seconds.
�I think I did alright,� said Lance Cpl. Tyler Kirrwin as he stepped off the rifle range after the complicated training. �It�s not the first time that I�ve done this ... But I do feel more comfortable with my weapon now.�
Gunnery Sgt. Albert Cruz, officer in charge of the group of Marines training, said the most important aspect of the training is to make sure the Marines are comfortable with their weapons, and confident in their abilities to use them quickly. He added that putting the Marines through the close target training is essential in preparing them for combat in Afghanistan and keeping the �perishable� skill fresh in their mind.
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It looks as if the island's Christmas Pageant Sunday will go on without the traditional donkey.
But the animal kingdom will be well represented by sheep from the Watson Farm and an ox at the recreation of the Nativity scene on Shoreby Hill at 5 p.m. Christmas Eve.
In the stable will be Greg DiGasper as Joseph and Mandy Thran as Mary. On scene and dressed in elegant garb will be Wisemen Bruce McIntyre, William "Bucky" Brennan, and Bill Murphy. Angels are Taylor Toth, Annabel O'Donnell, Emily Van Gelder, Hanna Geib, Meagan Randall, Aubrey Campbell, Emily Kalfelz, Kelsey Cabrera, Holly Bobola, and Cyanna Turillo.
Donning Sheperd robes will be Bill Kelly, Bob Dolan, John Mc- Grath, Win Reed, Larry Bartley, Cameron Toppa, Matt Rafanelli, Carson Toppa and Dave Volpe.
Lay Readers are Ray Dunlevy, Jim McLoughlin, and Charlotte Richardson.
On guitars will be Fred Brome and Kendra Davis. Marcia and Caitlyn Brome are the vocalists.
Pageant Director Susan W. Lutes urges everybody to dress warmly and bring flashlights to follow along with the Christmas carols. "This is a treasured Jamestown tradition started in 1975 by islander and artist Jeanne Bunkley. Don't miss this wonderful way to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas."
Special thanks should go to the committee members who each year prepare for this beautiful 20- minute ceremony. They are Susan and Jeanne, Bill Munger, Don Richardson, Jim McLoughlin, Mary Waddington, Mary Heath, and Betsy Gooding.
Pageant sponsors are the Lions Club.
Any last minute donkey sightings, call Susan at 423-7435.
If it's raining stay home. Snow is OK. Merry Christmas!
Jim Pemantell has the answer to the missing nativity donkey. "I think he is in Washington, D.C., if you get my drift."
More Christmas "wants" for Santa:
Mike DeVito wants more water for the island.
Alice Dunn, "To be done with school."
Melissa Wicks, "A house."
Sandy Paterson, "to buy everybody a margarita."
Mary Murphy wants a sixmonth long vacation.
Dale Rocha, "a second home somewhere exotic."
Bonnie Jamison, "I want to feel good every day of my life."
Dr. Joshua Hatch, "more snow."
Melissa Shuhy would like a vacation somewhere warm.
Heidi Lessard wants to have her whole family home for Christmas, all 39 people.
Helenna Livernois, "a 50-foot sailboat."
Cathryn Jamieson, "An unlimited credit card from Nordstroms."
Laura Brown wants to go back to work.
Amy Krainin wishes for a "long, healthy life for my 94-yearold father."
Marcus and Jana Cochran want a house all paid for in Jamestown.
Shawn Mayers writes, "Got very homesick just now checking out the Press online… the holidays in Jamestown are just the BEST!
"We're sure to have a white Christmas here in the Midwest, but we sure will miss all our island friends. So my wish this holiday is for everyone in Jamestown to close their eyes and remember, 'There's no place like home!'"
Wendy Harvey, "Someone who can buy my husband's 95' commercial boat so he can stay at home."
Megan Lessard wants a new digital camera.
Marleen Murphy, "a dog."
Her husband, Bill, is still hoping for a helicopter, but now with an added cat carrier.
Ada Reveron, 5, would like to receive a stethoscope.
Matthew Clarke, "A few more years without hurricanes, 'reasonable' homeowners insurance prices, a cure for Alzheimers and cancer, and more people who like to weed at the community farm. If I cannot have that, a couple of pounds of steamers and a boiled lobster with a beautiful sunset will do." The Walrus, "Matt's leftovers." HO! HO! HO!
Speaking of lobster, good friends of ours who fly in from California a couple of times a year and whose favorite Rhode Island food is lobster roll, say that Chopmist Charlie's has the best in the state.
The RI Festival Chorus, a group of five choruses from throughout the state, is conducting a rolling raffle.
The chorus, founded by B.J. Whitehouse and the Jamestown Community Chorus, is selling 250 tickets at $20 each and offering 18 chances to win. Winners entries will be put back in the barrel for multiple chances for a single ticket.
B.J. said there are 16 weekly prizes of $50, an initial drawing on Jan. 6 for $500 and a grand prize of $1,000 to be drawn at the RISings II concert on April 29 at the East Providence High School.
"The concert will rock. We have hired Dr. Robert A. Harris of Northwestern University as our guest director and the 200 singers from the combined choruses will join together at the end for some great choral music," B.J. enthused.
Raffle tickets are available from Jamestown Community Chorus members or by calling B.J. at 423- 1574.
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There is more than one way to help animal organizations this time of year, according to Dr. Joshua Hatch of the Jamestown Animal Clinic in his Pet Tip of the Week.
"Many animal groups depend on donations from pet lovers all year long, and the holidays are no different. Some groups like the ASPCA are nationwide and involved in everything from local rescues to lawmaking. Other groups like breed specific rescues (greyhound rescue, golden rescue, etc) are more focused on finding good homes for those specialty breeds.
"More locally we have many great shelters and rescues that value every donation and may have been where you found your precious pet in years past. Donations do not have to be in the form of money, either. Blankets and towels are always in short supply, old newspapers and extra kitty litter help keep the cages clean, extra food and water bowls or spare pet food can always find a hungry pet to help. So, include the less fortunate cats, dogs, horses, rabbits, ferrets, and all furry and non-furry pets in your holiday giving and help make everyone's holiday a bit more special this year."
It was 40 years ago that Violet Hayward Doty sold her store, Doty's Variety & TV, to Tom Howayeck, her next door neighbor on Ferry Wharf and the owner of Pitcher's.
Before it was Doty's, it was Hayward's, and Violet ran them both from 1930 to 1966.
Her son, John, said that she'll be 95 in March.
Deputy Town Clerk Kimberly Turcone reports that 281 items from the Town Hall Mitten Basket were delivered to the Newport County Women's Resource Center and a second trip is being planned.
"Over 180 items were handmade this year, leaving me to believe that there are many busy knitters as well as crocheters out there in our community. The receptionist at the center told me that every item is given away within days of receiving the Town Hall Mitten Basket, and that they never have anything left over. It's nice to know that such a small thing such as a pair of mittens or scarf can mean so much to someone else. We are truly blessed," Kim said. Great job, ladies!!
Members of Boy Scout Troop 1 spent Saturday afternoon with laser games at Lazer Gate in Massachusetts followed by a campfire roast at the Chase Farm.
Attending were Scoutmaster David Volpe, Brian Volpe, Kyle Wright, Drew Matley, John Chase, Zack Volpe, Nathanial Hopkins, Michael Brendlinger, Eric Archibald, Vaughn Nelson-Lee, Sam Baugh, Nick Fay, and Emilio Kurz.
In last week's column, we told you how Jamestown Postmaster Charlie Burns intercepts letters to Santa and puts them in a separate satchel that goes directly to the North Pole so the merry one will have plenty of time to reply.
A young lady asks for a field hockey stick, goggles for field hockey, arts and crafts, some clothes for her and her American Girl Doll Samantha Parkington so they'll match.
"Please may I also have a save and learn ATM machine, a new lunch box any color, and anything else you can think of. You may pick a few of these presents. Thank you for everything.
"I will leave the reindeer carrots and you cookies and milk.
"Santa, do you still have all of the same reindeer?"
"This is what I want for Christmas. I want a puppy, a nut cracker, a Hess truck, a few HO trains, a few Lego sets, an amphibious remote control truck, a roboticks kit, and a few supries.
"I have been a VERY good boy."
"I'm sending my list a bit early because I finished it. Hope all is well at the Pole, and Mrs. Clause is keeping warm!
"These are only suggestions, of course, and the final result is up to you. They are also in order of importance to me.
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"Thanks a lot Santa Claus! I will leave you some cookies and milk!"
"Dear Santa Claus, I want (for my American girl doll) an equesteran outfit and a horse.
"Or for Christmas I would like the sleigh and horse or carrige and horses or I would like a sled for me.
"Or I would like wandmaker's guide at Barnes and Noble. Or the horse stuffed animals that were there.
"Or I would like Butterscotch the robot horse.
"Or you could pick my present out, but just in case, I want something related to horses, dragons, or magic."
"How is your reindeers doing? Is one of them hurt or anything? This is what I want for Christmas please. I don't care if I don't get all of them.
"Pretend flowers, pretend phone, Barbie Glitter Swirl Fairy, Barbi Play All Day Set, Pollywood Limo- Scene, Littlest Pet Shop digital Pets with bracelet, Lucky the Wonder Pup, bavy pony, my own sticker book, easy bake oven, tiger, CDs Raise the Children and any CDs you think I will like, Art Stuff, my own mug with my art on it, and a bathrobe.
"How is Mrs. Claus? Ask her if I can get a present from her. How are the elves doing? Are they making good toys for everyone."
"How was your year? It has been very warm this December here in RI. Has it been very cold up at the Noth Pole? There is a couple things I would like this year for Christmas.
"They are: a watch, a magic kit, new arts and crafts, pens, pencils, a toy for my rabbit that you got me last year and a toy for my cat.
"Say hi to Mrs. Claus and your workers at your workship. Have a safe ride and Merry Christmas."
Merry Christmas to you Heidi and all the other letter writers and many kudos to Postmaster Charlie Burns for having all the answers on time.
The PTO still has Entertainment Books for sale at both school offices and at Baker's Pharmacy.
And if anyone is in the market for gift cards for the holidays the PTO has a wide variety available for immediate purchase.
Both the books and the cards can be delivered directly to you by calling Bev Rudman at 423-1528.
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A joyous, Merry Christmas to everyone.
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LONG BEACH, Calif., July 23 (UPI) -- The second of 10 C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft ordered by India has been delivered by Boeing and is to immediately enter service.
The delivery of the mission-ready aircraft to the Indian air force was the second in a month and was part of the air force's modernization program.
"C-17s have an important role in supporting unique Indian air force operations in remote locations such as the Himalayas and desert environments," said Nan Bouchard, Boeing vice president and C-17 program manager.
"The C-17 provides the versatility to complete any mission, anywhere. We look forward to working with the Indian air force and the U.S. Air Force as we deliver the remainder of India's fleet."
Boeing said three more Indian air force C-17s are to be delivered this year and the remaining five on order next year. All will be supported by Boeing through a Globemaster III Integrated Sustainment Program Performance-Based Logistics contract.


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Day by Day: The letters and journals of Dorothy Day
Thirty years after her death, Dorothy Day's letters and diaries reveal an ordinary but committed woman trying to put love where there was none.
There is probably no more famous image of Dorothy Day than the iconic photo by Bob Fitch that shows her seated with a look of utter tranquility between two armed and imposing police officers. That photo was taken in 1973 when she was 75. The occasion was her final arrest while picketing with striking farmworkers in California.
It was perhaps that image as much as anything that inspired me to drop out of college after my sophomore year and join the Catholic Worker community in New York City. As Dorothy often quoted, "Youth demands the heroic."
What did I know about heroism? What, for that matter, did I really know about Dorothy Day? In the five years I spent in the community I certainly learned a great deal more.
For one thing, I learned that you couldn't understand Dorothy's life among the poor or her witness for peace and justice apart from her faith and her rigorous discipline of prayer. At the same time I learned that there is more to heroism than walking a picket line or going to jail.
The practice of patience and forgiveness, the effort to love those closest at hand even when they are disagreeable--it was the exercise of Dorothy's faith in such small, seemingly unheroic forms that allowed her to stand up to the powers of the state. Therein lay the secret of her tranquility in that famous photograph.
I have had occasion to ponder those lessons anew over the past five years while editing Dorothy Day's personal papers. Both her diaries, The Duty of Delight (Marquette University Press), and now her selected letters, All the Way to Heaven (Marquette University Press), chronicle a life of extraordinary faith and courage, set against the tumultuous events of the 20th century.
From the Great Depression to the protests and upheavals of the 1960s and '70s, she was a witness or participant in many of the great social and ecclesial movements of her day. And yet her letters and diaries are a reminder that most of any life is occupied with ordinary activities and pursuits. She believed it was in this setting of daily life that we find the true arena for holiness.
Dorothy's diaries, in which almost every entry notes the hour of daily Mass, reflect the intense practice of her prayer and devotional life. "Without the sacraments of the church," she wrote, "I certainly do not think that I could go on." Rising each day at dawn, she prayed the monastic hours from a breviary and devoted much time during the day to meditating on scripture or saying the rosary. Truly her daily life was spent in continuous conversation with God.
But as her letters vividly indicate, that faith came at a cost. All the Way to Heaven includes a long sequence of never-before-published letters to Forster Batterham, the father of her daughter, Tamar. Readers of her famous memoir, The Long Loneliness (HarperOne), are familiar with the story of her love affair with Batterham and how the birth of her daughter turned her heart to God and prompted her conversion to Catholicism. Because Batterham would not marry her, she felt she must give him up.
Her letters to Batterham, which continue for five years after her conversion--right up to the eve of her launching The Catholic Worker newspaper--dramatically and poignantly depict the intensity of her love and thus underscore the sacrifice that lay at the heart of her vocation.
That spirit of sacrifice is evident in a letter to a former editor of The Catholic Worker, who planned to remarry without obtaining an annulment of his previous marriage. Dorothy bluntly challenged him to resign from his leadership in a Catholic peace organization. "When God asks great things of us, great sacrifices," she wrote, "he intends to do great things with us; though they will seem small, they will be most important. Who knows the power of the Spirit? God's grace is more powerful than all the nuclear weapons that could possibly be accumulated."
That emphasis on sacrifice is reflected also in her touching letters to an alcoholic monk who was wavering in his vocation: "Yours is a great suffering--I can see that, and of course we do not pick the particular kind of suffering we want to bear. But thank God you have some little burden of suffering to bear at this time when there is so much of it in the world. When it dawns on us that this is a little coin the dear God is enriching us with to purchase salvation--our own and other's--it ceases to be suffering."
She writes frankly about the ordeals of living among the poor and sick, of the dirt and disorder of Catholic Worker life, of the misunderstanding and even hatred she experienced at times from those closest at hand: "Yesterday I had to drive the station wagon down for bread, and it smelled of vomit and human excrement from the people sleeping in it at night. We spent the day scrubbing out the thing at the farm. Drunkenness and madness and filth and ugliness."
Often she refers to her temptation to simply walk away from the Catholic Worker: "The opposition to the work, the idea that I did not understand or interpret Peter Maurin correctly. There has been many an occasion when I never wanted to see a CW again." But then, she adds: "Some such thought as that of St. John of the Cross would come, 'Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love,' and makes all right. When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved."
Of course, like all holy people, she frequently fell short of her ideals. Her diaries offer constant reminders of her capacity for impatience, anger, judgment, and self-righteousness. We are reminded of these things because she herself points them out. "Thinking gloomily of the sins and shortcomings of others," she writes, "it suddenly came to me to remember my own offenses, just as heinous as those of others. If I concern myself with my own sins and lament them, if I remember my own failures and lapses, I will not be resentful of others. This was most cheering and lifted the load of gloom from my mind. It makes one unhappy to judge people and happy to love them."
She reacted strongly against the loose sexual mores of the 1960s counterculture and resisted their intrusion at the Worker. In one letter she writes of her efforts to purge the Worker of a group of "beats" who "reversed all standards, turning night into day," and proudly proclaimed their freedom from bourgeois morality. "This is not reverence for life. . . . It is a great denial and is more resembling nihilism than the revolution which they think they are furthering."
At the same time, the memory of her own youthful struggles made her particularly sensitive to the searching and sufferings of youth. To a young woman in distress she wrote, "Please forgive me for presuming to write you so personally--to intrude on you and your suffering, as I am doing, but I felt I had to--because I have gone through so much the same suffering as you in the confusion of my youth and my search for love. . . . It is a very real agony of our own, wanting human love, fulfillment, and one so easily sees all the imperfections of this love we seek, the inability of others ever to satisfy this need of ours, the constant failure of those nearest and dearest to understand, to respond."
Yes, her letters and diaries document a number of courageous stands, such as her repeated arrests for her part in protesting compulsory civil defense drills in New York, or facing down the government over her refusal to pay taxes for war, or her support for young men resisting the draft during the Vietnam War.
Then there was her willingness to challenge the princes of the church she loved. From a prison camp in California, following her arrest with the farmworkers, she addressed a letter to the bishops, challenging them to give up their property and embrace "holy poverty."
When New York's Cardinal Francis Spellman undertook to break a strike by Catholic gravediggers, she pleaded with him to instead go to the strikers, "as a father to his children. . . . Go to the union, ask for the leaders, tell them that as members of the Mystical Body, all members are needed and useful and that we should not quarrel together, that you will meet their demands, be their servant as Christ was the servant of his disciples, washing their feet."
And yet protest was not the final word. Ultimately, she believed, we change the world by changing ourselves. To a young man in prison she wrote: "I wrote the life of St. Thérèse because she exemplified the 'little way.' We know how powerless we are, all of us, against the power of wealth and government and industry and science. The powers of this world are overwhelming. Yet it is hoping against hope and believing, in spite of 'unbelief,' trying by prayer and by sacrifice, daily, small, constant sacrificing of one's own comfort and cravings--these are the things that count." Vigils, fasting, prayer, and marches were all indispensable, she wrote. But in the end, "All these means are useless unless animated by love."
It is 10 years since Cardinal John O'Connor of New York initiated Dorothy's cause for canonization, a process that may lead one day to her being called St. Dorothy. However Day might have regarded such an eventuality, she certainly would have objected to any effort to put her on a pedestal, to make her seem unapproachable, otherworldly, or mysterious. To the extent that these writings advance her "cause," I am glad they accentuate her reality as a woman of flesh and blood, and demonstrate, as Jesuit Father Jim Martin has observed, that "holiness finds its home in our humanity."
The fundamental significance of Dorothy's canonization is not simply her own example of holiness but the way she held up that vocation as the common calling for all Christians. She did not believe holiness was just for a few. As she once put it in a banner headline in The Catholic Worker, "We Are All Called to Be Saints."
This was simply a matter of taking seriously the logic of our baptismal vows to put off the old person and put on Christ, to grow constantly in our capacity for love through the exercise of mercy, compassion, and forgiveness.
She lived out her own vocation in the Catholic Worker movement. But she set an example for all Christians, especially laypeople, reminding us that the gospel is meant to be lived and challenging us to find our own unique--and yes, heroic--way of living out and bearing witness to it in our daily lives.
This article appeared in the November 2010 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 75, No. 11, pages 34-36).
Image: Photo illustration by Tina Herman


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John Mayer is moving into the world of fashion by designing his own accessories range.
The Your Body Is a Wonderland musician, who is currently banned from singing after undergoing vocal cord surgery, has teamed up with bosses of leatherware company Barrett Alley to produce a line of men's wallets.
Mayer's limited edition collection includes 50 designs made of deerskin leather. The star previously designed a range of fabric bracelets for the company.


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Study Links Child Hunger And Poor Health To Unstable Housing
(Boston) - A new study shows that children whose families move frequently or live in overcrowded conditions are more likely to suffer from hunger and poor health than those in stable housing. The study was carried out by the Childrens Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program (C-SNAP) which has the largest clinical data base on poor children under age three in America. C-SNAP has been reporting on the impact of economic conditions and public policies on childrens health since 1998.
A report on the findings was issued jointly with the Medical-Legal Partnership for Children (MLPC). C-SNAP and MLPC are based in Boston Medical Centers Department of Pediatrics.
The study found that over 38 percent of families with children under age three interviewed in Boston Medical Centers emergency room had moved more than two times in the previous 12 months, lived in overcrowded conditions, or were doubled up with another family. The study calls these families the hidden homeless.
Children whose families had moved two or more times were almost twice as likely to be in poor health as children in stable housing. According to C-SNAP founder, Deborah A. Frank, director of BMCs Grow Clinic, Like so many of the economic conditions hurting our young children hidden homelessness is an invisible problem until doctors see it written on the bodies of infants and toddlers.
The report estimates that there are at least 14,800 hidden homeless families in Boston and the number is likely to grow as the economy declines. Low-income families are contending with unprecedented challenges: increasing unemployment, continued high rates of foreclosures, rising food prices and heating costs that stretch family budgets to the breaking point. When youve lost your job and cant afford the grocery bill, electricity bill, and rent, trade-offs are made and family health suffers, said Samantha Morton, Deputy Director of MLPC.
The report offers targeted policy prescriptions. The hope is that this report can serve as a guide for beginning to solve this crisis, said Megan Sandel, MD, a pediatrician at BMC. The economic events this winter serve as the perfect storm for our patients. We call on legislators to make these policy prescriptions a reality for the better health of our children.
This study was funded by the Paul and Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation.
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Bill Becker, founder and CEO of BDI, talks about the special features of the BDI Valera audio/video furniture line. The open design keeps your components visible, and some models have a swiveling stand so you can easily turn your TV.
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Data Warehousing
The design and implementation of data warehouses (including data marts and operational data stores) are studied using current database technologies. Topics include data modeling for warehouses, data warehousing infrastructure and tool selection, data exploration, data synthesis and reduction, organizational metadata, data warehouse administration, and other contemporary issues. Preference is given to students having graduate status in the college with a CIT concentration. Permission of instructor required.
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The Essential Guide to Flex 2 with ActionScript 3.0
简介 Book Description
* Understand MXML containers
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Flex 2 represents something of a revolution in web applications. It is the next evolutionary step of Flash, which has grown from a web animation tool to a powerful enterprise web design and development tool. with nearly 98% of all web browsers and cellular phones running the Flash player needed to use Flash and Flex applications, knowledge of Flex is indispensable for any serious web designer and developer. This book will show you how to create powerful, rich Internet applications using Flex 2 and ActionScript 3.0. After learning how to install and becoming familiar with the basics of the Flex Builder 2 software, you will explore in depth how ActionScript 3.0 interacts with Flexs powerful XML-like design language: MXML. the text will take you through all the powerful features of Flex using a series of strictly practical exercises. You will:
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* Chapter 1: Introducing RIAs and Installing Flex Builder 2
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* Chapter 8: Case Study: Part 1
* Chapter 9: The Repeater Component
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* Chapter 11: Drag and Drop
* Chapter 12: Flex and ColdFusion
* Chapter 13: Charting
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* Chapter 15: Unfinished Symphony
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