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Richard Rohr Quotes About SpiritualityQuotes about: Spirituality
All great spirituality teaches about letting go of what you don't need and who you are not. Then, when you can get little enough and naked enough and poor enough, you'll find that the little place where you really are is ironically more than enough and is all that you need. At that place, you will have nothing to prove to anybody and nothing to protect. That place is called freedom. It's the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don't feel the need to eliminate anybody . . .
Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are there so you can break through to the eternal. Spirituality is about awakening the eyes, the ears, the heart so you can see what's always happening right in front of you.
I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.

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OK, I need advice. I am seriously considering changing the name of my blog to actually reflect me instead of where I live. Originally, this blog was going to be about politics here on the Northshore of Lake Pontchatrain in Louisiana. Obviously, that has changed. For one, there just isn't as much going on here politically as there was before I started to blog (I started to blog because I was frustrated with an issue that soon got resolved). I have also started blogging about St. Tammany Parish for NOLA.com, which publishes the Times-Picayune online, so that has become my local politics blog.
So, this is the advice I need. Should I change the URL address as well as the title or leave the URL alone and only change the title? If I can change the name only, I think that that would be the easiest. What do you think? Thanks.
Thursday, June 30, 2005
I'm thinking some changes are in order
OK, I need advice. I am seriously considering changing the name of my blog to actually reflect me instead of where I live. Originally, this blog was going to be about politics here on the Northshore of Lake Pontchatrain in Louisiana. Obviously, that has changed. For one, there just isn't as much going on here politically as there was before I started to blog (I started to blog because I was frustrated with an issue that soon got resolved). I have also started blogging about St. Tammany Parish for NOLA.com, which publishes the Times-Picayune online, so that has become my local politics blog.
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Our next vacation destination: The Lost Liberty Hotel
Please, oh please, I hope this comes to fruition. We're willing to make reservation now.
Justice Souter's vote in the "Kelo vs. City of New London" decision allows city governments to take land from one private owner and give it to another if the government will generate greater tax revenue or other economic benefits when the land is developed by the new owner.
On Monday June 27, Logan Darrow Clements, faxed a request to Chip Meany the code enforcement officer of the Towne of Weare, New Hampshire seeking to start the application process to build a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road. This is the present location of Mr. Souter's home.
Clements, CEO of Freestar Media, LLC, points out that the City of Weare will certainly gain greater tax revenue and economic benefits with a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road than allowing Mr. Souter to own the land.
The proposed development, called "The Lost Liberty Hotel" will feature the "Just Desserts Café" and include a museum, open to the public, featuring a permanent exhibit on the loss of freedom in America. Instead of a Gideon's Bible each guest will receive a free copy of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged."
Obviously, I'm not the only one who likes this idea.
His statement comes as the town of Weare, N.H., has reportedly been inundated with calls in support of the proposal since WND first publicized the story.
"There are so many people who have come out of the woodwork to support me," Clements said.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Can you say IRONY!
All I can do is sit and shake my head as I read this. Is it impolite to laugh? Ok, I'll just smirk a little.
Five people were shot, one fatally, after the conclusion of "Super Safe Sunday" -- an event at the Louisiana State Fairgrounds in Shreveport billed as a place for people to gather and promote nonviolence. (emphasis added)
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It doesn't snow in Alaska!
Before I explain the above statement, I have to preface the story with this: With my hand on the Good Book (no, Chris, not the Karma Sutra, the other Good Book) and with God as my witness, this is an absolutely true story. There have been no exaggerations or embellishments. And for those of us that know my cousin M, there is no doubt of the validity of this story.
It was dinner time at my aunt and uncle's house. My cousin A and her boyfriend Hunter (I tell you his real name only because it was funny that my grandmother could never remember it and kept calling him Fisher) were discussing where A should go to graduate school. They were batting around many different locations and were discussing the pros and cons of each.
Finally, A tells her family about a school that is in Alaska. Hunter says, "Well, if we move to Alaska, I definitely want to run the Iditarod." A's 15-year-old sister M cocks her head to the side perplexed and asks, "What's the iditarod?"
Hunter explains that it is a race run through the snow of Alaska using only a sled pulled by dogs. M gets this skeptical look on her face, as if to say you can't fool me, and states emphatically, "It doesn't snow in Alaska."
All conversation stops as everyone turns to look at M for the obviously needed explanation. In all earnestness, M says, as if everyone at the table is an idiot, "Well, duh, look at a map. Alaska is right next to Hawaii!"
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Saturday, June 25, 2005
Money, money, money, monnnnney
Now we know what drives the liberals on the Supreme Court: more tax revenue. Screw you if you don't generate enough tax dollars. You mean nothing. Less than nothing. You are no better than the piece of debris standing in the way of their pristine, tax-generating paradise. Well, at least we have been shown their true colors. I laugh now when being told that liberals are for the "little guys." Hah!
Writing for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens said, "The city has carefully formulated an economic development that it believes will provide appreciable benefits to the community, including – but by no means limited to – new jobs and increased tax revenue." (emphasis added)
Consider this exchange between Antonin Scalia, Sandra Day O'Connor and Wesley W. Horton, Scalia and O'Connor are trying to understand New London's position regarding the justification of taking the land from the homeowners.
Scalia asked the lead attorney for New London, Wesley W. Horton, whether it would be "OK to take property from people who are paying less taxes and give it to people who are paying more taxes."
"That would be a public use, wouldn't it?" he said.
Before Horton could answer, O'Conner broke in.
O'CONNOR: For example, Motel 6 and the city thinks, well, if we had a Ritz-Carlton, we would have higher taxes. Now, is that okay?
HORTON: Yes, Your Honor. That would be okay. ...
SCALIA: Let me qualify it. You can take from A to give to B if B pays more taxes?
HORTON: If it's a significant amount. Obviously, there is a cost –
SCALIA: I'll accept that. You can take from A and give to B if B pays significantly more taxes.
HORTON: With that –
JUSTICE SCALIA: You accept that as a proposition?
HORTON: I do, Your Honor.
Remember that, by ruling in favor of New London, they (Souter, Gingsberg, Breyer, Kennedy and Stevens) are agreeing with Horton's reverse Robin Hood position: steal from the poor to give to the rich, that is if it means more money for the government.
Very interesting and telling. The most frustrating thing about this is that we, as a public, have no way of "punishing" these justices. Before you start screaming that I am advocating any type of violence, what I mean is that unlike our Representatives, Senators, Governors, President, etc., we cannot vote them out. They are there for life. Now do you understand why there has been such an outcry for Justices who want to preserve our Constitution? I guess all we can do now is hope and pray that our property is never enticing to some slick mini-mall developer.
The above exerpts are from this article posted at WorldNetDaily
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Friday, June 24, 2005
Sorry for the light blogging
I've been under the weather lately. Not easy to blog when you can hardly keep your eyes open. Gotta hate summer colds. Also in the process of answering an email from my brother which is requiring me to do so research regarding the decline of military recruitment and the WaPo poll showing lack of support for the war in Iraq. It's taking me much longer than normal due to my cold. Anyway, enough rambling for now. Will be back to "normal" (stop laughing Amy) soon.
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Thursday, June 23, 2005
Do you hear that?!?!?
That knocking, scratching, bumping sound. And it seems to be getting louder and louder! It is such an ominous sound. How can you not hear it?!? So, what is it?
Oh, yes. After reading about the Supreme Court decision today that basically says the government has the right to seize private property, I can now recognize the sound. It is our brave, wise forefathers SPINNING IN THEIR GRAVES!
Want to know more about this abomination, head over to Captain's Quarters or Wizbang
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A must-read for all liberals
Thanks to John Hawkins over at Right Wing News for trying to comfort our liberal loved-ones.
Here goes, here's the truth about conservatives:
-- We don't want to put you in camps.
-- We're also overwhelmingly opposed to the idea of a police state.
-- We detest Fascism & Nazism, just as we detest Communism.
-- We also don't believe there's any danger of America becoming a Fascist country.
-- We don't believe Bush is "another Hitler" or that there is any chance America will become "another Nazi Germany".
-- We're overwhelmingly against a draft.
-- We don't believe it's unpatriotic to disagree with the President.
-- As a matter of fact, many of us disagree with the President, particularly when it comes to illegal immigration and deficit spending.
-- Not only do we believe in following the Constitution, we believe we're much more serious about doing so than our political opponents.
-- We believe conservative economic policies are more beneficial to poor and middle-class Americans than liberal policies.
-- We're overwhelmingly opposed to the idea of creating an American empire.
-- We don't believe the Bush administration let 9/11 happen on purpose or made it happen on purpose.
-- We don't believe Iraq was a war for oil.
-- We don't think the war in Afghanistan was about oil or a pipeline.
-- We don't believe Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction.
-- We don't dislike people because of their skin color.
-- We don't believe the vote was rigged in 2000 or 2004.
-- We would rather lose an election than cheat to win.
-- We're totally opposed to theocracy and dominionism.
I sure hope that this clears things up. There are too many legitimate things that we disagree about. We shouldn't be quibbling about things that just aren't true.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005
What a great lesson
I was directed to this article by Josh over at Freedom Of.... It's titled "I Still Love Homosexuals."
Unsure how I, a former homosexual, received an invitation to speak two consecutive weeks to a gay/lesbian organization at a major university, I readily accepted. I arrived well ahead of time to mingle with the students, shake hands, and get to know them.
Though I felt like a ham at a bar mitzvah, I shared with the twenty-five to thirty homosexuals how, from an early age, I felt "different"; how, upon reaching puberty, I was attracted to other men; and how, after eleven years of homosexual activity, I told God, "It's over! Homosexuality is an illusion, a dead end! Homosexuality promises a lot, but delivers little!" I told them homosexuality was a sin, immoral, and that God punishes sin.
It is a definite must read.
It proves the wisdom of my step-father's advice:
Don't distance yourself from those that don't know Christ. Don't judge them either. Both will never lead them to know Christ. Be an example of Christ's love to everyone.
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Monday, June 20, 2005
My thoughts about polls
I loathe polls. Even those that seem to support my thoughts and opinions. Why? Because anyone can construct poll questions to get just about any result they want.
But what really burns me up is seeing internet poll results as support for an argument. C'mon. AN INTERNET POLL!!!!! It has made me realize how little so many people know about polling and statistics. Do you realize that I could probably concoct a polling questionnaire so as to get a large majority to agree that the sky is green. BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE THE SKY GREEN.
Polls mean nothing. Actually, less than nothing. Even under the best of circumstances, they can only provide a quick, somewhat blurry, picture of the current opinions of people. Ask the same questions tomorrow (heck, why wait - ask again as soon as you're are done the first time) and the answers will most likely be different. And polls never, never prove fact.
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Sunday, June 19, 2005
If you need further proof
Tonight, I was surfing Blog Explosion again and ran across this post about on Matching Tracksuits regarding a recent trip to Auschewitz-Birkenau.
Kinga and I went to Auschwitz-Birkenau yesterday. It's only now that I can appreciate the scale of the Holocaust. Reading Hitler's Willing Executioners, seeing Schindler's List, thumbing through albums — it's not the same. Walking under the sign, "Arbeit Macht Frei," standing in a gas chamber, walking along the barbed wire, standing by the railroad tracks where selection was made — only then did the number of Holocaust victims (up to ten million) begin to take on any personal, tangible significance for me.
While reading it, a single thought kept coming to my mind: "Dick Durbin thinks our soldiers are equivalent to these monsters?" He should be beyond ashamed of himself. There are NO excuse for his comments.
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Saturday, June 18, 2005
Gotta love Blogexplosion
Blogexplosion has given me the ability to see such lunacy. At what other time would I ever have reason or desire to read something so incredibly stupid and ignorant as this:
In a live, unscientific Internet poll, MSNBC readers are overwhelmingly saying yes.With more than 6,000 votes recorded, the survey shows a lopsided 94 percent believe Bush misled the American people, with only 6 percent saying no.Pathetic! Give it up, George. Bring the troops home. Vietnam? NEVER AGAIN!!This whole war was a fraud from the beginning and I personally believe that the government destroyed the World Trade Center and blamed the act on Islamic terrorist. There hasn't been one terror alert since the election. Hitler burned the Reichstag to create an enemy the people could hate—the communist—to justify seizing power in Germany and the United States government has done the same thing—The Patriot Act. We learned a great deal from the Nazis. It's come in handy, hasn't it George?
In the words of the great Bugs Bunny, what a maroon! I would have left a comment, but I didn't want to lend any credibility to his position. I just thought that I would post it here so that you could all have a good Saturday laugh.
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I am constantly amazed by the absolute evil that exists in this world. And this is only more evidence of it.
Marcus Wesson, the domineering patriarch of a large clan he bred through incest, was convicted Friday of murdering nine of his children, whose bodies were found in a bloody pile last year at the end of a police standoff.
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Friday, June 17, 2005
Why? Why? Why?
Ever since hearing about Traitor Dick's comments comparing Gitmo to the Gulag, Nazi concentration camps and Pol Pot's labor camps, I have been racking my brain trying to figure out his ultimate goal. Is his hatred of George Bush such that he would make such outrageously false statments? Statements that only serve to incite further ammunition to our enemies? Does he not realize that our enemies need no further provocation to try to bring us to our knees and destroy, not just our brave soldiers, but everything that Mr. Durbin claims to hold dear?
Durbin wants to embarrass the President. To what end? To de-legitimize his presidency. Ok, then what? Is this the way to regain power? And if this strategy is successful, what would they be gaining power of? A weak-willed, undermined, shell of a super-power country that the rest of the world would never take seriously again. We will be the whipping boy of every terrorist cell group. Our defeat will be a source of tremendous pride for them. What a feather in the cap of Mr. Durbin that will be.
Mr. Durbin is not alone in his hatred for our President. But this hate is very much misplaced. If only they would display one-tenth of that hatred towards the true villians in this world, imagine how much safer our world would be.
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Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Curl up and dye
When I was in college, my roomates and I didn't live in the best part of town (of course, this is relative. The town we lived in was actually very safe). One night while two of my roomates (there were 4 of us) were studying at home, they had a terrifying "visitor." Both were studying in their shared bedroom and heard a noise coming from the kitchen. Cinderella (don't want to embarrass anyone) goes to investigate and instantly comes running back into the bedroom to tell Blondie that there is a man in the kitchen. After hearing the back door slam closed, they decide to "arm" themselves and see if he had indeed left. As they are heading out of the bedroom, a group of us (other roomate and friends) were coming in the front door. They scream. We scream. And then they start to tell us what has happened. It is then that we notice their weapons of choice: a hair dryer and a curling iron. At which point, roommate Mia says, "What were you going to do, style him to death?"
Anyway, I am telling this tale because I was reminded of it by this story out of Shreveport, La.: Armed robber gets extreme makeover
Mitchell tripped the robber as he tried to leave and cried aloud "get that sucker" as the group of about 20, nearly all women, some wielding curling irons, bludgeoned him until police arrived. (obviously emphasis added)
Read the article, it is very funny. Watch out for Louisiana girls with curling irons.
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More money for teachers
Frustrated about Governor Blanco's insitence that she needed to raise taxes to fund teacher pay raises, I decided to look into how the 65% plan as put forth by First Class Education requiring that 65% of a state's educational monies be spent in the classroom. I wanted to know how this would benefit Louisiana. I posted about the plan here on April 10.
I also decided to contact my local State Representative, A.G. Crowe, with this information. I wrote:
I am a constituent living in the Slidell area. Like you, I am concerned about Gov. Blanco's proposal to fund teacher pay raises by increasing the "sin tax" on cigarettes, alcohol and gambling. I feel that not enough has been done to streamline our budget before raising taxes.
I wanted to pass along an article by George Will explaining the "65 Percent Solution." It "is to require that 65 percent of every school district's education operational budget be spent on classroom instruction. On, that is, teachers and pupils, not bureaucracy." I believe that in New Orleans, there are 12,000 "bureaucrats" in a system of 65,000 students.
According to firstclasseducation.org, Louisiana currently spends 61.9% of its education budget on the classroom. By increasing that only 3.9%, we would have an additional 187 million dollars for teachers. I realize that this would be difficult and would not fund the pay raises entirely, but it is a good start.
It seems kind of foolhardy to fund a teacher's pay raise by increasing taxes on cigarettes while at the same time, the state funds programs to help people stop smoking.
He responded:
Dear Dana,
Thank you for sharing your concerns about taxes and education. I agree with you 100%. We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. If we had a slight increase of funding in to the classroom, we could fund the raises. I will pass your thoughts along to my collegues.
That was the last I heard about it. And as Blanco's cigarette tax plan continued to be bandied about, I thought for sure that I had been treated with a pat on the head and promptly forgotten.
Imagine my surprise this morning, while reading about Blanco's decision to not pursue her ill-thought out tax, to find out about HCR 77. What is HCR 77?
Summary: BESE (Board of Elementary and Secondary Education): Requests BESE to adopt a MFP formula for the 2006-2007 school year requiring that at least 70% of local school system general fund monies be spent at the school building level for instructional services and at least 65% of the general fund monies to be spent at the classroom level for the instruction of students by teachers and instructional staff members and requires certain reports.
It was passed in the Senate by a vote of 36-0 on June 7. And according to an article posted on the First Class Education website,
The Louisiana House also recently passed the provision without objection, and the measure does not require action by the Governor for final enactment
HCR 77 was first read by title only on May 3, so I have no delusions that my email had anything to do with the legislation, but it is satisfying none the less.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005
On a personal note
Congratulations, Amanda!
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Vomiting in now a misdemeanor?
Teen Charged With Vomiting On Teacher
Boy, I had no idea that being vomited on was considered assault. I have been assaulted many times then, both by my kids and by strangers. And the strangers were at work, too (no, I'm not a nurse). Once was as a tour guide at Oak Alley Plantation and once was as VIP hostess for Walt Disney World.
I guess that I am also lucky that I am not in jail now for all the times that I got sick on someone. (Within my family, my brother and I were known as the throw-up kids - a moniker that has now been gratefully been passed on my two nephews).
I always felt sorry for those that were sick. I know for a fact that no one wants to vomit in public, let alone ON someone.
But this is just further proof that we, as a society, are getting way too sensitive in regards to ourselves and too insensitive to the needs of others. This child needed sympathy, not scorn. How dare this teacher, whose care we place our children, not understand that. Anyone who has spent any amount of time knows that vomit and children go hand and hand. If he can't understand that, then he needs to find another profession.
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NOPD hires Nation of Islam emissary to teach sensitivity course
5:05pm Update: NOPD Chief Eddie Compass has decided that hiring Dennis Muhammed is too controversial. He is going to look elsewhere for the very much needed police officer sensitivity training .
The New Orleans Police Department has discovered that it has a problem - its public image. And Chief Eddie Compass has the solution (so he thinks). He has hired Dennis Muhammed, the security chief to the Nation of Islam, to teach sensitivity to his officers.
Compass says, "The people in the community who are anti-police, who really need to hear our message, who really need to build the bridges with, members of the Nation of Islam have some type of relationship with these people."
I wonder if Compass has done any investigation into the Nation of Islam. I assume that he has not given the very contraversial goals and beliefs of this group. Here is a sampling from their official website:
1. We want freedom for all Believers of Islam now held in federal prisons. We want freedom for all black men and women now under death sentence in innumerable prisons in the North as well as the South
2. We want the government of the United States to exempt our people from ALL taxation as long as we are deprived of equal justice under the laws of the land.
3. We want our people in America whose parents or grandparents were descendants from slaves, to be allowed to establish a separate state or territory of their own--either on this continent or elsewhere. We believe that our former slave masters are obligated to provide such land and that the area must be fertile and minerally rich. We believe that our former slave masters are obligated to maintain and supply our needs in this separate territory for the next 20 to 25 years--until we are able to produce and supply our own needs.
4. We want equal education--but separate schools up to 16 for boys and 18 for girls on the condition that the girls be sent to women's colleges and universities. We want all black children educated, taught and trained by their own teachers
5. WE BELIEVE this is the time in history for the separation of the so-called Negroes and the so-called white Americans. We believe the black man should be freed in name as well as in fact. By this we mean that he should be freed from the names imposed upon him by his former slave masters. Names which identified him as being the slave master's slave. We believe that if we are free indeed, we should go in our own people's names--the black people of the Earth
6. WE BELIEVE that the offer of integration is hypocritical and is made by those who are trying to deceive the black peoples into believing that their 400-year-old open enemies of freedom, justice and equality are, all of a sudden, their "friends." Furthermore, we believe that such deception is intended to prevent black people from realizing that the time in history has arrived for the separation from the whites of this nation.
Evidence of the fact that the Nation of Islam is a black supremacy group is not hard to find.
(1) Just by reading the principles of NOI, you can see that they blame every negative event in black history on the white race.
(2) According to Nation of Islam founder, W.D. Fard, the white race was created by "Yakub," an evil scientist.
(3) Also, one need look no further than the statements of Louis Farrakhan, its leader. When responding to being called a "Black Hitler," Farrakhan stated, "Hitler was a very great man." In a speech to gang leaders, he said, " ...America will be the Promised Land for the Black, the Brown and the Red. And the Whites that survive will survive under new terms created by the strength of the peacemakers."
Is this the type of values that we want to instill in our police officers? Promote sensitivity to one race. This is no more correct than it would be for a town with a 68% white population to hire someone from the Ku Klux Klan to teach the course. Just like the Nation of Islam, some of the Ku Klux Klan's self-purported goals seem noble and agreeable on the surface. However, there is no doubt that the underlying objective is one of hate. Hate for other races. Hate for other beliefs. Hate for other religions.
Therefore, hiring someone from the Nation of Islam to teach a sensitivity class is the height of irony. In this case, though, it is one of dangerous irony. Anyone living in New Orleans can testify to the increasing racial tension between black and white. The last thing that the NOPD needs is anything that will fan those flames. Hiring the Nation of Islam will do just that.
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Some more attention for the La. ACLU
It seems that the outrageous quote from the local ACLU is finally getting some national attention. The CWA (Concerned Women for America) website has an article written by Mario Diaz about it.
Related post: ACLU wants to remove people who pray from society
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Monday, June 13, 2005
But what about the hair?
Oh, all of those sleepless nights when only I could feed our babies. And to think, I could have rolled over and said, "Your turn tonight, hon."
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Sunday, June 12, 2005
Calling all liberal Democrats
Bulldogpundit over at Ankle Biting Pundits has issued a challenge to all of our liberal friends (or foes, depending on how you see yourself). So what is the challenge?
We'd like any liberal to explain to us what is exactly is the Democrats "message" right now. Here's the only caveat - you can't say anything about President Bush or the Congressional Republicans, because saying "No" is not a "message". For example, in 1994 the GOP had the "Contract With America" which stated actual things they were going to do when they got into office, and offered alternative policies and ideas to what the Democrats were doing. So go ahead guys, have at it. What is the Democrats "message"?
I, for one, would honestly like to know what the Democrats' message is. I respect the two party system. If each side offers valid arguments, it can only make our country stronger. So, I encourage anyone who aligns themselves with the Democrats or considers themselves a liberal to please take this challenge.
But remember the rule, no bad-mouthing the President or the Congressional Republicans. If you have to use personal attacks, you need to re-evaluate your arguments. Those that use insults, come across as not having any valid arguments and rebuttals.
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Friday, June 10, 2005
Late night thoughts
Have you seen the new GM commercials? You know the ones saying that they are giving everyone the employee discount? Well, it got me thinking. Do you think that when they told the 25,000 employees that they were being laid off they said,
"Don't worry, you'll still get your employee discount?"
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Thursday, June 09, 2005
What will happen to Dean?
As more and more top Democrats begin to distance themselves from and publicly disagree with Howard Dean, I began to wonder what will happen to him? As I see it, there are two possible scenarios:
(1) We will start to see less and less of Dean. He will give in to the pressure to curtail his rhetoric by limiting his public appearances .
(2) He will continue down his current path, actually becoming more and more wild in his statements about the Republican Party. He will become fueled by his opposition within the Democratic Party. Soon, the party will remove him from his chairman's seat and use that action as a jumping off point for the campaign to embrace the centrists and independents. They (Democrats ) will demonize Dean as a left extremist who tried to "hijack" the party. Democrats will hold their centrists up as heroes who saved the party, as well as America, from extremists everywhere. Thus, Howard Dean's next role will be as Democratic scapegoat.
Wizbang is posting about Dean, too.
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Wednesday, June 08, 2005
I wonder how you would fix 'em?
I was watching the new show "Beauty and the Geek" (an interesting show, by the way) during which the contestants were asked a question about lug nuts (the bolts that hold on the wheel of a car). That reminded me of a funny story about my cousin "M."
During college, I lived with my aunt and uncle and 3 cousins. One weekend, my uncle hooked up his boat to the car and we all took off for a camping trip.
So, there we were, riding down the interstate, laughing, cutting up and just having a good time, when we start to notice that our fellow drivers are looking at us as they pass. My aunt is convinced that everyone is looking at this car full of kids acting crazy, but we soon realized that that is far from the truth. Finally, a concerned driver is able to get across the message that a tire on the boat trailer is about to fall off!
After immediately pulling over to check, my uncle finds out that he forgot to tighten the lug nuts after changing the tire on the boat trailer. He fixes the problem and we continue on our way.
Once we arrive at the campgrounds, our tire adventure is just about forgotten. That is until, we run into some friends of my aunt and uncle's and 8-year-old "M" shouts:
We would have been here sooner, but my dad needed to fix his love nuts!
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Americans with nail clippers - no way!
But Canadians with bloody chainsaw - Welcome to America.
On April 25, Gregory Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood. U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons and fingerprinted Despres. Then they let him into the United States.
I don't know who is more stupid - the guy still carrying the bloody murder weapon across the country border or the customs agents who let him into the country.
Custom officials claim that they did everything they could to check for warrants and didnt' find any reason to detain Despres. However, Despres was due in court on April 25, the very day he was allowed to enter Maine.
On the same day Despres crossed the border, he was due in a Canadian court to be sentenced on charges he assaulted and threatened to kill Fulton's son-in-law, Frederick Mowat, last August.
Maybe I'm showing my ignorance of the Canadian judicial system, but wouldn't Despres have to have been arrested on charges of threatening to kill someone before he could be scheduled to appear in court to be sentenced on those charges?
Luckily for us, he was captured in Massachusetts before he could repeat his crimes here.
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Amazon Smoke Forest?
Oh, the irony.
Far from cleaning up the atmosphere, the Amazon is now a major source for pollution. Rampant burning and deforestation, mostly at the hands of illegal loggers and of ranchers, release hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the skies each year.
Brazil now ranks as one of the world's leading producers of greenhouse gases, thanks in large part to the Amazon, the source for up to two-thirds of the country's emissions.
Well, you may ask, what is being done to stop this destruction and burning? What is being done to stop these illegal loggers and ranchers?
Not much.
Such encroachment on virgin land is theoretically illegal or subject to tough regulation, but the government here lacks the resources — some say the will — to enforce environmental protection laws.
Thank goodness for the Kyoto Agreement and the forward thinking countries that signed it. That will surely save us, right? Uh, uh, uh. Not so fast.
However, under the international environmental treaty known as the Kyoto Protocol, Brazil and other poor countries are not required to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases. Nor does the accord contain financial incentives to encourage nations such as Brazil and Indonesia to rein in the destruction of their tropical forests.
Ok, so if we stop this destruction, then everything will be perfect. Well, not quite.
Even without the massive burning, the popular conception of the Amazon as a giant oxygen factory for the rest of the planet is misguided, scientists say. Left unmolested, the forest does generate enormous amounts of oxygen through photosynthesis, but it consumes most of it itself in the decomposition of organic matter.
Ironic, ain't it.
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Louisiana Legislature steps into fight
A House committee decided Tuesday that the Legislature should inject itself into the fight between the ACLU and the Tangipahoa Parish School Board over prayer at school board meetings. The House Education Committee unanimously backed House Concurrent Resolution 39 by Rep. A.G. Crowe, R-Slidell, to "express the support of the Legislature of Louisiana for the practice of prayer at the beginning of school board meetings." The resolution says prayer is protected and follows the principles on which the United States was founded. It says the Legislature disapproves of a federal judge's decision that prayers are unconstitutional at school board meetings. The measure moves next to the full House for debate.
I'm glad.
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Changing the image of Louisiana politics
We are always hearing from local politicians that they want to change the image of Louisiana politics from one where corruption abounds to one of ethical government. Psst, here's a secret for you - this is not the way to do it.
With some members making early exits, a House committee Tuesday killed a proposal that would have prohibited lawmakers from accepting free tickets to Saints games, golf outings, and other sporting and cultural events. And they did it without members having to go on record as voting against a bill supported by good-government factions.
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005
I have the url for my new blog
My new blog through NOLA.com is up and running. As promised, here is the new url for North Shore Voice.
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Monday, June 06, 2005
I feel so out of it
Our vacation was very relaxing, especially since I didn't bring my computer with me. However, I feel so out of the loop. I have a feeling that it is going to take me a few days to get back into the blogging groove.
I do have some news, though. I have been asked to write a blog at NOLA. com. It is called North Shore Voice and will be exclusively about St. Tammany Parish. It should be up and running some time today. I'll provide the link when I have it.
Warning: What follows is a brief telling about my vacation.
North Carolina was wonderful. Most of our days were spent hiking. My kids impressed me with their abilities and eagerness to hike long distances and to go bouldering. They loved every minute of it and so did I. My 2 year old would announce that she is a "mountain girl" as she jumped from rock to rock. We had to constantly remind my 5 year old to not run ahead. He was very eager to see what we over the rise or around the bend.
We were lucky to be able to bring my dad and stepmom with us. Even though, my husband and I have spent a lot of time in N.C. (Jim went to Western Carolina University), no one from my family had been. My parents had a great time, too. Although I have to say, I think that we all ate waaaaaay too much. It always seems that way on vacation. At least we did things (like hike 5 miles on mountain paths) to build up appetites.
We also got to see a lot of the wildlife. Most of it was up close, too. We saw a deer drinking from a stream not 50 feet from us, a black bear about 150 feet from us, an elk, a goundhog, a snake and a salamander eating a grub. It was really see the kids reaction to these animals.
My husband and I are now looking to buy some vacation property there. Of course, we would love to actually move there, but considering we don't know what Jim would do there, I guess that we will have to be happy just vacationing there for now.
Once I come down from my vacation high (which won't be long considering all of the unpacking and laundry that I have to do), I will get back to normal blogging.
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Sunday, June 05, 2005
I'm baaaaack!
I just finished checking my emails and now I have to go unpack. Literally just walked in the door. Will write more later. Just wanted to you to know that I have reluctently returned from the cool, breezy mountains to hot, humid Louisiana.
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United Way speaker finds strength in being vulnerable
Susan Abbott lived in shame and silence for 40 years.
"I was born into and raised with mental illness. Back then it was never talked about. There was stigma, shame, and secrecy."
Susan seeks to counter shame and secrecy around mental illness by speaking about the help she got from the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), which is core-funded by United Way. It's one of 21 United Way partner agencies that offer mental health-related counselling and supports.
"Real strength comes from reaching out, un-silencing and finding your voice," the 53-year-old says.
"Otherwise you're just stuck in the dark."
Time in the dark began early in Susan's life. Her mother had untreated mental illness, and Susan began experiencing her own problems as a teen.
"I fell into a cycle of addiction, abuse, and homelessness. And I never shared."
Fifteen years ago she was diagnosed as bipolar and began walking a path to recovery. Her children "cracked me open," she says.
"They made me vulnerable. They helped me to reach out, and that's how I got involved with CMHA and sharing my story."
Susan found true healing through sharing her story with youth.
"It's important to reach youth. Being a teenager is hard enough, and when we try to fit in we're not embracing our true selves and not realizing we all struggle."
Susan says teens need perspective about life and the world — to know it's not always about an instant in time. She believes if someone had talked to her about mental health when she was a teen it could have made a difference in her life.
"If I had learned even to breathe back then and to just relax — to know that life is grey, it's not black and white."
Susan went back to school in 2009 to take fine arts. Her paintings (find them at www.susanaydanabbott.com) help keep her open and sharing, she says, and she shows them when she speaks on behalf of United Way about her journey to wellness.
Audience members sometimes approach her to talk.
"They tear up. A lot of people have struggled. They're interested in what's available for mental health, and they're surprised at how much help is out there," she says.
"It's there for everybody. You don't have to suffer alone."
If you need help call CMHA at 204-982-6100 or visit its website at winnipeg.cmha.ca
Help CMHA with a donation to United Way at unitedwaywinnipeg.ca/give or by calling 204-477-UWAY (8929).
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Why Advertise on Facebook?
Before you decide whether or not to advertise on Facebook, you need to determine what your goal is. Are you trying to sell something, or simply to raise brand awareness? Social media traffic behaves very differently from search engine traffic, and not being aware of the differences can result in wasting a lot of money.
We all know how Facebook makes money - they sell ads, and lots of them, billions per day. This lets you run ads fairly inexpensively, so you can get a lot of views at a low cost. Additionally, their tools let you do some pretty precise targeting. If you're on Facebook and you're seeing political ads for a candidate running in another state, then somebody isn't doing their job right, as location is just one of the ways that you can target your ads.
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When Facebook Advertising Works Well
In fact, political advertising is a great example of something that works well on Facebook, because while you'd like people to click on your advertisements, the main point is that they see them. Any time you're just trying to put your message in front of as many people as possible (in other words, building your brand), Facebook advertising can be a great choice because you can get a large number of impressions that are well targeted.
Just to take one example, if you were trying to build awareness about the promotions an airline was offering, you could display your advertisements only to people who have listed travel as an interest; to get precise targeting like that elsewhere, you'd likely have to take out an ad in a travel magazine, which would be an order of magnitude more expensive.
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When Facebook Advertising is a Waste of Money
Many people put a lot of time and effort into getting social media traffic to their websites, only to discover a disappointing fact: that type of traffic doesn't click ads or make purchases! In general, people using social media websites are there to kill time or be entertained; they're not looking to buy.
That's not to say that you can't sell anything using Facebook ads; if your product is expensive enough and your ads are targeted enough, the difference between your cost per click and your profit per item could be enough to make up for the low response rate. However, in this case you're better off buying search engine traffic through Google Adwords, which has a much better conversion rate.
On the other hand, there are some times when you can target so effectively that you easily overcome these disadvantages. Facebook uses the example of a photographer who placed ads targeting engaged women between 24 and 30; by offering a good discount ($500 off) to people who were likely to be specifically looking for that service, they were able to book nearly $40,000 in revenue from a $600 investment in advertising.
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How to Advertise on Facebook
Once you've decided that it's worthwhile, setting up an advertising campaign on Facebook is pretty easy. Just go to http://www.facebook.com/advertising/ and set up an advertising account; you'll need to be logged into your Facebook account first. There are often coupons for first time advertisers, so it's worth doing a Google search for one.
Once you're in, just click Create an Ad and you'll be taken to a page where you can design and target your ad as desired. You're required to have a graphic, and you can choose to pay for impressions (best when you're trying to get a message out) or clicks (best when you're trying to sell something).
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Definition of Equator
1. Noun. An imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north and south poles. "The equator is the boundary between the northern and southern hemispheres"
Derivative terms: Equatorial
2. Noun. A circle dividing a sphere or other surface into two usually equal and symmetrical parts.
Derivative terms: Equate, Equatorial
Definition of Equator
1. n. The imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface into two hemispheres.
Definition of Equator
1. Proper noun. The Earth's equator. ¹
2. Noun. (context: often "the Equator") An imaginary great circle around the Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemisphere. ¹
3. Noun. A similar great circle on any sphere, especially on a celestial body, or on other reasonably symmetrical three-dimensional body. ¹
4. Noun. A short form of the celestial equator. ¹
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1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
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2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"In Mercator's chart the equator in represented by a straight line, which u croas«! ... In the the equator, or indeed within 30° of latitud latitude of the ..."
3. Mathematical and Physical Papers: Collected from Different Scientific by Baron William Thomson Kelvin, Sir Joseph Larmor, James Prescott Joule (1882)
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4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1793)
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5. The Sun by Amédée Guillemin (1875)
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7. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text Book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1832)
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ÉCU is thrilled to share, once again, some of its best independent films with its partner festival, Naperville Independent Film Festival. The 10th annual edition of NIFF will take place on September 23rd-30th 2017 in Naperville, Illinois, USA.
This year, 15 award winning films from the 12th edition of ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival, including the Best European Independent Film 2017, CUBS, will be screened in the special programme, Winners of ÉCU. The special screenings of, Winners of ÉCU, will be shown every evening in two different seatings.
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Wednesday on CNN's "At This Hour," while discussing the State Department inspector general's report finding that during her tenure as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton did not comply with the department's policy, CNN's chief political correspondent Dana Bash said that this will "help her opponents in a big way."
Bash said, "As a sports enthusiast, I'll use a term you appreciate, unforced error. This is something that Hillary Clinton — many people who I talked to who support her just wring their hands and say, what were you thinking? This feeds directly into the narrative that her opponent, Bernie Sanders on the Democratic side, and ultimately Republicans led by Donald Trump in a general election, will be hammering her on. And in politics, it is the existing narrative and the ability by opponents to feed into that that is the most damaging. You see it time and time again. The narrative of course is, you hear Donald Trump doing it in only a way that he does, calling her 'Crooked Hillary.'"
"The fact that she didn't comply with the rules, that she appears to be doing things that maybe she thought she was above the rules or she's different from the way everybody else should be," Bash continued. "Now, she has lots of explanations, lots of ways she's trying to say that she did what she thought was right, but at the end of the day when you have an independent investigation going on within the department that she ran saying that she shouldn't have done several things, including taking her documents and then not giving them back for almost two years after she left, that's going to help her opponents in a big way."
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Matthew Modine – "You don't need all that stuff" – Part 3 of 3
Here is a portion of my interview with Matthew Modine on 12-9-2011 where he discusses shooting his new short film Jesus Was A Commie on the streets of New York City with just a Canon 5D DSLR and a few friends. As well as the influence that the legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick had on him about how you don't need a lot of gear to make a movie, just a good idea.
I spoke about Full Metal Jacket Diary.
Matthew Modine's book of photographs he took on the set of Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, as well as the journal he kept during the nearly two years that it took to make the film.
I met Matthew when I got to KCRA at 8:20AM, in advance of his 8:40AM interview with KCRA anchor Deirdre Fitzpatrick (seen in the earlier blog). I just popped my head into the green room to say hi to Matthew and his local publicist Renee and Shawn with Health Corps, who was associated with the screening of Matthew's film Jesus Was A Commie at The Crest Theatre the following evening. Matthew Modine was very relaxed, hanging out, easily approachable, and comes across as an American everyman — something like a contemporary reincarnation on James Stewart or the Gary Cooper from the Frank Capra film, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town.
"I just wanted to say hi. I don't want to bother you before you go on to do your interview. I'll just go and grab my gear now."*
[*In order to shoot a taped interview with Matthew after his live interview.]
To which Matthew Modine said, "Oh, no, no, that's fine. Come on in."
He'd already consented in an e-mail to me that he would be happy to sign my copy of his book Full Metal Jacket Diary, which I had with me in my back pack. There were a hundred and one questions about making the film and working with Stanley Kubrick, whom I am certain will go down in cinema history as the greatest and most influential filmmaker of the 20th century. Yet, I also knew that thousands of other people had already asked him everything I wanted to ask him a hundred times over, so I didn't say anything. I figured that I had Matthew's book and that everything that I was curious about was answered in that.
Then he said, without any prompting from me, "You know, I've probably been asked 10,000 times over the years, what was it like to work with Stanley Kubrick? And I've got to tell you, it was like no other experience in my life. I almost was a basket case for two years after. It really left me exhausted."
"I get the impression," I then said, "that for the people who got the chance to work with him, it was like their lives before Stanley Kubrick and their lives lives after Stanley Kubrick, because they were never the same after that."
"Oh yeah. Entirely."
Then Matthew went into relating a story of how Kubrick was searching for a more compelling way to end the film, which is thoroughly related in his wonderful book, Full Metal Jacket Diary. I listened to Matthew, already knowing much of the story from his book. Yet he was now, without censors, able to tell the full unvarnished language that both he and Stanley Kubrick used with each other–language which was not in his book and that he said, "You can't use in this country."
It was one of those great moments in your life when someone's telling a story and as they're telling it, you're thinking to yourself, "If only I could be recording this right now!"
In addition to Matthew's film Jesus Was A Commie that is circulating around the country, he is also working with Adam Rackoff, who was producer on that film, on a revolutionary new project — adapting and converting Matthew's Full Metal Jacket Diary into an iPad app.
The original book, published in 2005 in a limited edition of only 20,000 copies, was created with the intention that there would be no further editions printed after that–no softcover editions, no smaller size printings, nothing more. It was truly a collector's art book. But that was before the advent of the iPad.
Adam and Matthew are currently collaborating on an total reinvention of the Full Metal Jacket Diary into something that has never before been seen in publishing–and totally new experience. Matthew is reading his journal as an audio book and Adam is working with ultra high-resolution scans of Matthew's original 2 1/4 x 2 1/4″ negatives to create something closer to a cinematic experience of the making of the cinema classic Full Metal Jacket.
After Matthew had graciously signed my copy of the Diary, he flipped through a few pages to a photograph of Stanley Kubrick at his Arriflex camera. "When we did the book I was blown away at how good it looked,"Matthew told me. "But for the iPad app, Adam is having my original negatives re-scanned–and it's costing $50 per negative–but the clarity is so amazing. You will now be able to blow up each of this picture and be able to read what Stanley Kubrick had written on the side of his camera."
"When I made the book," he said, speaking of the printed version of Full Metal Jacket Diary, "I wanted to make something that Stanley would be proud of."
Based on the extraordinary wealth of Kubrick information in Matthew's first book, and all the care and attention — not to mention, additional material that no one has ever seen before — I think it's fair to say that as much as Stanley Kubrick protected his privacy, he was uncontrollably drawn to the next new thing in technology, and that he can feel very proud and very well-served by the new, breakthrough ull Metal Jacket Diary iPad app that Adam and Mattew are creating.
Creating the Full Metal Jacket Diary iPad app–from scratch, no less–is no small effort. To help fund the production process, Matthew is selling high-resolution museum-quality prints of some of his photographs from the set of the film. You can purchase one of these rare collector's prints at the Full Metal Jacket Diary iPad app site, which are limited-edition prints numbered and signed by Matthew Modine and be a contributing part of this project by following the link.
Finally–Shameless Self Promotion:
After posting my first blog on Friday morning, I received this e-mail from Matthew Modine:
"this is awesome. we have tweeted the heck out of it.
hopefully your site will get some traffic from the tweets!"
So I went to http://twitter.com/matthewmodine and found this.
Thank you, Matthew, for promoting this site!


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How do you . . . take advantage of urban industrial infrastructure sites and turn them into parkland?
Summary: After decades of civic hand-wringing over the fate of downtrodden and dysfunctional American cities, perhaps the most progressive sign of their resurgence is the increasing redevelopment of disused industrial infrastructure into urban parkland. Such projects honor and preserve the nation's industrial history and create sustainable, vital green spaces that allow cities to develop in denser, more energy efficient ways.
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Field Operations' High Line park in Manhattan, which puts a landscaped pedestrian trail along an elevated rail line that weaves through skyscrapers and luxe condos, is merely the most headline-gobbling example of cities' reinvestment in green. All across the nation, urban areas are taking abandoned rail lines, brownfield shipping corridors, and rotting piers and turning them into rehabilitated landscapes that illustrate the renewed, cross-generational desire of Americans for urban life.
During cities' post-industrial mid-to-late 20th century walk through the wilderness, these abandoned places fueled the fears of nervous suburbanites who had decamped via sprawling freeways to wide open subdivisions with their private lawns. Robbed of their industrial activity, these areas became perceived as places where bad things happened in the city—in docks, rail yards, and alleyways. High crime rates, poor education systems, and cheap suburban land created a Taxi Driver urbanism of blight and despair. Many of these problems still persist, but now the true costs of sprawling land consumption are too well known.
And thus: "Cities time has come again," says Ed McMahon, a senior resident fellow at the Urban Land Institute and the author of Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes and Communities. "If we are going to grow our cities and add density, we need to simultaneously green our cities. There are two things Americans have said they don't like: They don't like sprawl and they don't like density. The way we overcome objections to density is with two things: high-quality design, and second, we've got to green our communities as we grow them."
Layers of history
McMahon says he's seen an increase in cities using their industrial infrastructure as park space, but exact numbers are hard to quantify. But as an example, he says, 15,000 miles of train tracks have been converted into recreation trails.
Like the High Line, Kiku Obata and Company's elevated bike paths in St. Louis will eventually be counted among these rehabilitated rails. Called The Trestle, this 1.7 mile bike path travels along abandoned elevated train tracks that carried commuter trains full of people from Illinois across the Mississippi River into downtown St. Louis. The St. Louis-based firm's project begins near a new small public park just north of downtown St. Louis, also designed by Obata. It then rises up the former commuter rail (which ceased running in 1958, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch) which Obata is updating with a myriad of sustainability and interpretive features. Its brown, hulking steel structure will have green-screened trellises grafted onto it to shade riders from the sun, which will also make the trail's green rehabilitation visible to motorists passing by on adjacent roadways. Photovoltaic panels will power water pumps, and native plantings will grow where the trail is set back down at ground level. The Trestle will preserve the steel gate catenaries (used to hold the electric wires that powered its trains) on the trail, a warm reminder of St. Louis's rich history as a shipping and transportation industrial hub.
Kiku Obata and Company's Trestle. Image courtesy of the architect.
The trail will snake through active light and heavy industrial neighborhoods, as well as depressed and impoverished residential districts. Obata and her nonprofit developers (the Great Rivers Greenway District) want to build on the success of the city's downtown redevelopment and the influx of 20- and 30-something homebuyers moving into the areas immediately north of downtown. Both designers and developers say The Trestle is an opportunity to rebrand this part of the city—to create a destination and admired amenity, so that north St. Louis can be re-integrated into the cities' polite society of neighborhoods.
From The Trestle, visitors will have a unique view of the city's urban fabric that reveals its history. Beginning at the riverfront where the city began, through industrial districts, to a commercial corridor, to what was once the suburban fringe, the sweep of industrial America's fortunes and faults are expressed and explained via interpretive exhibits along the way. "It's an interesting experience to ride this 1.7 miles and see the changes in landscapes and context and different ecologies," says Kiku Obata, Assoc. AIA. "We're going to tell that story on The Trestle."
The Great Rivers Greenway District is funding the project through a sales tax levied on St. Louis and the surrounding counties, which generates $10-11 million per year. This income must be divided among all of the dozen or so Great Rivers Greenway's recreation trail projects. The baseline budget for The Trestle is estimated at $12-15 million, but with all the amenities called for (such as public art installations and active sustainability features), this price could double, and they may be forced to move construction into phases, especially given today's stricken design and construction industry. It is hoped that construction can begin in 2011, but it may take as long as five years to completion.
Unfortunately, fundraising for The Trestle doesn't have the media attention and dollar-grabbing celebrity sheen of its East Coast cousin, the High Line. "Unlike the High Line, we don't have folks like Kevin Bacon living right next to it," says Todd Antoine, deputy director for planning at Great Rivers Greenway.
W Architecture and Landscape Architecture's West Harlem park. Image courtesy of Alison Cartright.
Successful projects that can overcome the credit-starved design and construction industry will likely be hailed as exemplars of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's attention to the built environment. The AIA estimates that the economic stimulus package that became law in February contains $130 billion worth of funding for design and construction initiatives. Projects like The Trestle, with their emphasis on public and civic life, urbanism, and resourceful rehabilitation of forgotten assets, are tailor made for such a wholesale investment in the nation's infrastructure. They also move the concept of infrastructure into new programmatic arenas. McMahon says he's witnessed a shift in the perception of what constitutes "infrastructure." No longer are green spaces to be considered pleasant "amenities." They are just as essential as traditional infrastructure, like bridges, freeways, and sewer ducts. Just as the nation must repair and renovate its "gray infrastructure" so too must it invest in its "green infrastructure." McMahon's words are echoed by the AIA Rebuild and Renew government advocacy plan, which calls for architects to address the nation's economic troubles with design solutions that make cities and towns more livable and sustainable.
Coming full circle
The most ambitious schemes to turn industrial sites into parkland show that it doesn't just enrich the neighborhood a park is in. Designing such places can be a remediation strategy for knitting whole cities back together.
The firm of Barbara Wilks, FAIA, W Architecture and Landscape Architecture, has reconnected several cities' waterfront industrial zones though park spaces. Her West Harlem waterfront park, completed in the fall of 2008, placed a landscaped pedestrian walkway and small boat launch in the Hudson River, just below an elevated freeway. The New York-based firm is also one of the shortlisted finalists in a design competition in Philadelphia to turn a one-acre finger pier on the Delaware River into a pocket park. (The High Line's landscape architects Field Operations are also on the shortlist.) The Pier 11 park is budgeted at a modest $3.5 million and scheduled to open in 2010, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The first order of business for these projects, Wilks says, is to reestablish industrial zones as a place for people. "The harbor used to be a part of life," she says.
Even the tiny Pier 11 used to be a destination. It had market stalls where people could shop among the wares that came to the city on ships. As shipping industries grew and became more complex, security and other concerns meant that industrial waterfronts became scaleless and intimidating landscapes not for people, but for machines. Pedestrian scale and access all but disappeared. Massive cranes, flatbed-sized cargo boxes, and trucks—not people—ruled the waterfronts. The spread of the automobile encouraged the building of freeways, often on waterfronts at the edges of cities, further separating pedestrian public life from the water.
"If you build your city around cars, you get more cars," says McMahon. "If you build your city around people, you'll get more people and better places."
When heavy industry began to leave inner cities in the latter half of the 20th century, these areas became completely desolate. Meanwhile, cities often failed to remember the potential real estate boost that park-side property encourages. (Think Central Park.)
"People want to get back in contact with the water," Wilks says. "In some ways it's come full circle."
Marta Fry Landscape Associates' Mission Creek Park. Image courtesy of Marcia Liberman.
Looking along the edges
One of the largest, most notable industrial reclamation projects in the nation is the Mission Bay neighborhood in San Francisco. There, 304 acres of former industrial brownfield are being converted into a full spectrum mixed-use neighborhood, complete with residential units, commercial and institutional properties, bio technology and life science company offices, a 43-acre University of California-San Francisco campus, and 40 acres of public park space.
Mission Bay was once where ships would dock and unload cargo to be transported into the city and along the Bay via rail lines. Eventually, the Port of Oakland began to rival San Francisco as a shipping destination, and trucks became the primary way cargo got from ship to city. For a time until 1998, when this redevelopment began, the Mission Bay landscape was a checkerboard of abandoned lots and dilapidated warehouses.
In a unique public-private partnership, the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and master developer Catellus divided the land into separate parcels and have hired several landscape architecture firms to design parks that are in various stages of completion. The entire area's build-out is expected to continue for another 15 years. Kelley Kahn, of the Redevelopment Agency, says these parklands are especially needed to make new mixed-use developments attractive and livable places. "You build a few housing projects and you get a few offices built, but it's not till the parks go in that it really starts to feel like a neighborhood." These parks, she says, create a destination for people from more established adjacent neighborhoods to visit, thus connecting new urban fabric with old.
Mission Bay is on a peninsula located less than half a mile southeast of downtown San Francisco, separated from the rest of the city by Mission Creek. Marta Fry Landscape Associates designed some of the neighborhood's first parks. Fry's section of Mission Creek Park consists of a long waterfront esplanade along the northern bank of Mission Creek, a public plaza in the middle of it, and a sports park nestled under a freeway overpass.
Fry says Mission Bay and Mission Creek Park are examples of the resourcefulness designers are going to have to demonstrate to build green spaces for cities. "We're clearly looking at the edges," she says. "We're all scrambling for useable space, whether it's for development or recreation." She speaks of the urban "immediacy" afforded by these projects and the growing recognition that places to live, work, and play don't have to be separated by long, car-bound commutes.
The people coming to this realization are fueling a nationwide re-urbanization that reinforces the notion of cities as centers of cultural capital. A USA Today report recently revealed that growth rates in central cities are starting to outpace their suburban counterparts. As described by Richard Florida, author of Rise of the Creative Class, cities gain their economic strength from the creative professionals that live there—scientists, writers, educators, artists, entertainers, and, of course, architects. These professionals feed off interactions with other creative class members that can only come with dynamic and dense urban environments. If cities are the economic engine of the country, these people are the engineers. And they won't compromise on having ample parks and green space.
Opposites no longer
Each of these industrial infrastructure conversion projects reveals the city in layers, from contemporary intervention to industrial past remnants—a gradual journey that can be explicit (as with The Trestle) or implicit. Within these layers comes a reconciliation between nature and urbanism that creates hybrid environments. Here, natural elements are used to identify projects as urban. Even though it's made of plants, a green-screened trellis has a lot more to say about contemporary urbanism than it does about present conceptions of natural landscapes.
"It's the idea that nature and the city aren't really separate," says Wilks. "You have to think of nature as being part of the city. We're not separate from nature. The city and nature are not opposites anymore."
And from a sustainability perspective, the city and nature cannot be opposites anymore. As these reclaimed industrial lands show, sustainable development is virtually defined by embracing the efficiencies of urban life along with the balance and equilibrium of nature.
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What is Violence Against Women (VAW)?
Violence against women is a chosen action against a woman or girl child simply because of her gender, simpy because she is female. VAW is a form of regulating women's sexuality - her body, behavior, movement and expression
VAW cuts across lines of race, religion, income, class, and culture. VAW is compounded by discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity, sexual identity, social status, class and age.
Some of the horrific examples of VAW in the world today:
- Domestic Violence
- Rape
- Sexual harassment
- Murders
- Pornography
- Marital rape
- Date rape
- Battery during pregnancy
- Forced suicide of widows
- Female genital mutilation (FGM)
- Sex selective abortion
- Child marriages
- Incest
- Child prostitution
- Female infanticide
Domestic Violence
Domestic violence (DV) is an abuse of power in an intimate relationship when one partner (usually male) attempts to control and dominate the other. It is not only physical but sexual, economic and almost always psychological leaving the woman disempowered and living in fear.
Some examples of domestic violence:
- Physical or psychological (insults and put downs) abuse
- Keeping her totally financially dependent
- Making her constantly account for where she has been and with whom she has been
- Restricting her use of the telephone or car
- Humiliating her in front of her friends
- Cutting her off from contacting her family and friends
- Being abusive to family or friends so that they don't visit anymore
- Isolating her from the support she needs to leave
Signs to indicate your relative, friends, neighbour or colleague may be a vicim of domestic violence
- She has multiple bruises at various stages of healing
- Her injuries are on unusual parts of the body, usually hidden
- She claims her injuries are due to clumsiness
- She has to account for all her movements to her abuser
- She is often insulted and humiated by her perpetrator in public
- She expresses fear of her abuser
Rape and Sexual Assault
Sex without consent is rape. In law, rape is limited to insertion of the penis into your vagina against your will. If you are under 16 years of age, sex with out without your consent is rape.
Sexual assault includes forced anal sex, insertion of objects into your vagina, mouth or arms.
Facts about rape:
- Rape is not an "over spill" of sexual energy. It is not an impulsive crime
- A high percentage of rapist are acquaintences, "friends" or relatives
- For every rape case that is reported, 9 go unreported
- Rape is not prompted by provocative dressing. Many students, including women wearing the "tudung", and of all ages have been raped
- Section 376 of the Malaysian Penal Code states that whoever commits rape shall be punished with imprisonment for a term that may extend to 20 years and shall be liable for whipping
- Marital rape is not legally recognized but the new Section 375 A states any husband causing fear of death or hurt to his wife in order to have sex shall be punished for a term which may extend to 5 years
What to do if you are raped:
- Do not wash. Although your first instinct may be to clean yourself, do not wash. Go to the hospital bed immediately for a medical examination. There may be seminal and/ or body fluid, mud, debris, fibres, as well as hairs that provide important evidence
- Go to the Emergency Room at a goverment hospital. The doctor will examine you and your genital area, as well as your clothes. You will also be asked to first fill out a form to give approval of the examination, and that the information will be used for a police investigation. You may request for a female gynaecologist if you are uncomfortable with a male doctor. Hospital staff will also notify the police. A female officer will take down your report at the hospital.
- If you suspect you were given a drug, you should be tested ideally within the first 24 hours of ingestion
- If you go to the police first, a female officer will accompany you to take your report and accompany you to the hospital
- Contact a women's NGO. You may want or need counseling and support. The WAO Sexual Assault Line is 603-7936 3030
Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment in the workplace refers to sexual conduct that is unwanted, unwelcome, or unsolicited. This includes request for sexual favors which are inappropriate and offensive.
Examples of sexual harassment:
- Physical Harassment: Inappropriate touching, patting, pinching, stroking, brushing up against the body, hugging, kissing, fondling, sexual assault
- Psychological: Repeated unwanted social invitations, relentless proposal for dates/ physical intimacy
- Verbal Harassment: Comments, jokes, jesting, kidding, sounds (e.g; whistling), questioning, offensive or suggestive remarks
- Non-verbal/ Gestural Harassment: Leering or ogling with suggestive overtones, licking lips/ holding or eating food provocatively, hand signal/ sign language denoting sexual activity, persistent flirting
- Visual Harassment: Showing pornographic material, drawing sex based sketches/ writing sex-based letters, sexual exposure