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Muslim outrage at a billboard
RE: Muslim outrage at a billboard
(10-06-2017 01:48 AM)Robvalue Wrote:(07-06-2017 06:17 PM)ResidentEvilFan Wrote: The context argument is bullshit anyway.
But how many christians revere Bible? It's one thing to spout nonsense about how cool and timeless Bible is but quite another to live according to ancient goat herders taboos. I think that possessing the Bible is just a part of the packet of being good christian - one just have to say how great it is, actual knowledge of content and living by it isn't required.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
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RE: Muslim outrage at a billboard
You're right, I didn't use the best word there. I meant that they have to profess that it is some sort of magically superior book, through and through.
I wish that this whole "Word of God" myth would be dropped and replaced with "Ancient man trying to understand God". It's the former which is so dangerous, and which turns people who say it (and then ignore it) into hypocrites.
I have a website here which discusses the issues and terminology surrounding religion and atheism. It's hopefully user friendly to all.
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RE: Muslim outrage at a billboard
(09-06-2017 02:26 PM)Stevil Wrote: ... Muslims are no different to Christians, in my view. They are not dangerous people, not people to be scared of.
Individual, non-radicalised Muslims may well be no more dangerous than other people such as Christians, but here in the first world, Christians aren't murdering schoolkids, driving vehicles through crowds of pedestrians, blowing up railway stations and buses, or shooting innocent hostages during religious sieges.
No recent act of religious terrorism yet carried out in Australia—which has resulted in multiple deaths—has been attributed to Catholics, Anglicans, Baptists, Mormons, or Hindus. Only Muslims.
—I rest my case.
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RE: Muslim outrage at a billboard
(10-06-2017 03:47 AM)SYZ Wrote:(09-06-2017 02:26 PM)Stevil Wrote: ... Muslims are no different to Christians, in my view. They are not dangerous people, not people to be scared of.
If the United States was economically subjugated to powerful, industrialized Muslim nations who were using military force to occupy us and ensure that our leaders handed over our resources to them at favorable rates (and deals that benefited only those leaders, but not the common people of the USA), for over a century... do you think that the heavily-armed fundamentalist Christians (about whom we spend so much time whining, here, for their literalism-based bigotries) would be less radicalized, less likely to turn to terrorism in order to try to drive away those foreign, "heathen religion nation" Powers?
And would it be fair, every time some redneck with a rifle started shooting up a crowd of collaborators or occupiers, or blew up some dynamite in the middle of a crowd of such people (as they would see them), to say that "Christianity" is the problem?
Yes, right now, the circumstances are such that Christian nations are exploiting/dominating the Muslim nations, and their fundamentalists are the ones getting ever more radical in their religiousity and violence... but I have zero doubt that if the roles were reversed, it would be Arab atheists and liberal Muslims wondering aloud why practicioners of Christianity can be so obnoxious as to claim they aren't represented by the terrorist Christian fundies, or that they follow the "Prince of Peace".
Edit to Add: Before anyone says I am defending Islam as an idea/religion, I'd like to point out that it I am saying nothing of the sort. It should be clear to anyone who follows my posts that I consider Islam and Christianity to be equally dangerous, equally stupid, and equally capable of lending themselves to violent radicalization of the bigoted fundamentalists among that faith. It's simply that the economic and sociopolitical forces at work in the Muslim world since the rise of the West have done to the Muslim nations what would certainly have happened here if the roles had been reversed. It speaks to the danger of religion in all cases, but also to the danger of speaking of the religious people in a certain religion in blanket terms.
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RE: Muslim outrage at a billboard
(10-06-2017 03:47 AM)SYZ Wrote:(09-06-2017 02:26 PM)Stevil Wrote: ... Muslims are no different to Christians, in my view. They are not dangerous people, not people to be scared of.
You rest your case on an anecdotal and localized example? You don't define what you mean by "recent" and you narrowly define "acts of religious terrorism" to conform to your predetermined point of view.
For example, I consider trying to "beat the gay demons" out of a homosexual man to be religious terrorism. I consider bombing an abortion clinic to be an act of religious terrorism. These and other examples happen recently in first world countries by members of those religions you named.
Are they any less radicalized than Muslim terrorists?
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Members of the 2020 Vision Team say they want to craft a vision statement for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) that is short, hopeful and not focused on structure.
How short?
Something that you can read as you run by it, suggested Becca Snedeker-Meier, a student from Wooster College in Ohio.
Something that could fit on a bumper sticker or a T-shirt, said Lisa Juica Perkins, a pastor from Texas and co-moderator with Bernadette Coffee of the 2020 Vision Team. "When you see it, you automatically know what organization they're a part of."
Something that's "short, quick and that would really tell the world who we are, and become our catch phrase," said Joshua Andrzejewski, a hospital chaplain from Virginia.
He also said: "This should be hopeful and get people really energized about what the church is doing and how individuals can be part of that."
Examples team members offered as guideposts:
From the United Methodists: "Open hearts. Open minds. Open doors."
"God is still speaking," from the United Church of Christ. (That image includes a comma – sometimes drawing from the catchphrase "Don't put a period where God has put a comma.")
During a conference call Oct. 10, members of the Vision Team started laying out ideas – partly as preparation for the team's in-person meeting in Dallas Nov. 12-14. These are still preliminary – initial thoughts and impressions, including what the team has learned from surveys and from conversations its members have been holding for months now with Presbyterians, people who work in proximity with the denomination (such as college chaplains or ecumenical groups) and some who have no connection with the PC(USA) at all.
The 2016 General Assembly created the 2020 Vision Team and instructed it to devise "a guiding statement for the denomination and make a plan for its implementation with all deliberate speed."
In addition to creating some sort of a short vision statement, members suggested including in their report to the 2016 General Assembly what Chris McCain, an elder from Atlanta, described as a longer piece "explaining the underpinnings that give rise to that vision" – making it clear the vision statement draws on Scripture, the Reformed theological tradition and the PC(USA) constitutional documents.
McCain also said he wants language that "is very accessible and hopeful" and that "utilizes language that is resonant and relevant to the times we live in."
Team members also said, however, that they want the report to reflect some of what they're hearing in the discussions they've convened in recent months – and that includes what Perkins and Coffee described for the All Agency Review Committee in a conference call Oct. 9 as a pervasive sense of lament. "People are lamenting like crazy across the church," Perkins told All Agency Review – much more so than expressing joy.
All Agency may be sensing more joy, in part because of positive reports it has received regarding initiatives of the six PC(USA) agencies, Perkins said. That may also reflect some "disconnect between the agencies and the local church, where we've been listening," she said on the conference call.
Michael Fagans, an elder from Mississippi, said he spoke recently to students at a UKirk service, and sensed "there is a giant disconnect at least here in Mississippi with students and the church. No wanted to talk to me. No one was interested in what we were asking" – questions from the vision team's three surveys (for those inside the PC(USA), adjacent to it and outside).
The Vision Team's report needs to point out to the PC(USA) in some way "that we are increasingly becoming disconnected from the world," Fagans said. He also had a conversation with a pastor worried that "we're not having any relevance for folks Monday through Saturday."
The Vision Team needs to talk to people outside the PC(USA), because "those are the folks whose needs are not being met. Those are the folks who are not being fed at the table" or who don't feel invited, Fagans said. "There are people who are really hungry for what we can offer them, but they are not feeling welcomed in the church. … We also need to increase what our call to the table is or what we imagine the table looks like. How do we invite folks?"
Joshua Narcisse, a student at Yale Divinity School, said he has also sensed in his conversations energy for supporting the work of the church, including ecumenical and interfaith initiatives. "Folks want to feel connected, want to feel valued to the national church, and also want to do some work across denominational and faith lines," Narcisse said.
Team members said, however, that they don't want the vision statement to get entangled with structural questions – those matters might come later, in the implementation piece, or be seen more as the work of All Agency Review and the Way Forward Commission, both of which will also report to the 2018 General Assembly in St. Louis.
Team members have also said – following up on an idea suggested last summer by Karen Sapio, a pastor from California – that Presbyterians ought to be able to sing the vision statement or set it to music. Perkins also wants it represented by art or images. "When you see it and you hear it and you sing it, you know."
Coffee has compiled a collection of more than 30 vision statements from churches and nonprofits. Those from churches tend to be longer (200 words or more) and those from nonprofits shorter, Perkins said.
And McCain said the church statements tend to express more "Here is what we are called to do" and those from nonprofits more "What is the world we want to see?" An example, a vision statement from Oxfam International: "A just world without poverty."
In preparation for the Vision Team's next meeting, Perkins asked the team's 15 members to share by Nov. 6 their responses to this question: "What is God's unfolding vision for the PC(USA)?"
And between Nov. 6 and 12, they'll review those responses and then answer these four questions:
- What images, words or phrases stick out to you from these responses?
- What themes emerge for you across the responses?
- What questions are coming up for you in light of these responses?
- What is God saying to you now and to the church?
On Oct. 15, Perkins will, along with Mark Hostetter, moderator of the Way Forward Commission and Jim Wilson, a member of All Agency Review, address a plenary session of the Mid Council Leaders Gathering in St. Louis – discussing the implications of the work those three groups are doing for synods and presbyteries in the PC(USA).


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Bucking a regional and possibly a national trend, violent crime in Connecticut rose slightly in 1996, according preliminary data. The violent crime rate -- that is, the number of murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults per 100,000 residents -- increased by 1.5 percent last year although the total since 1990 is down 26 percent. Connecticut remains much safer than the nation as a whole. A look at how the towns and cities compare. Page. 12.Continue reading the main story
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And we also tried to imagine her being so far from her family who were living even further away in a little iron-mining village called Glenbuck. Glenbuck no longer exists because it's been devoured by the mine.
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2. The object of the GHSA shall be the advocacy of the educational and social concerns of its membership.
3. The GHSA shall abide by the standards of student conduct as set out in York University Presidential Regulations.
4. The membership of the GHSA shall consist of all part-time and full-time students duly registered in programmes leading to graduate degrees in History at York University.
5. The executive of the GHSA shall ordinarily consist of two (2) co-presidents; a vice-president; a treasurer; a secretary; an equity officer and, if applicable, the New Frontiers conference chair. A full list of positions and their responsibilities follows. Executive members must undergo anti-oppression training before the end of September.
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a. Ideally this position is elected by the general membership at the end of the winter semester and before the beginning of the new fiscal year.
b. Manages the organization's monies and keeps detailed records of the group's financial activities
c. Acts as a liaison between the GHSA and the York Graduate Students' Association (alongside the Graduate Students' Association representatives – see below) so as to ensure a smooth transfer of funds to the GHSA.
d. Responsible for any fundraising activities that the membership approves.
e. Responsible for updating the membership on all GHSA financial matters by means of a detailed written report tabled at the general membership meeting in September, outlining all revenues and expenditures from the previous year. Also presents up-to-date financial statements in January and April, as well as oral reports at any general membership meetings, as required.
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c. Coordinates anti-oppression activities for the beginning of the school year.
d. Coordinates and is a resource person for equity information (not a grievance officer) and will direct concerned or interested people to the relevant people and services
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(6) The Unit 1 and Unit 3 3903 stewards are responsible for organizing information meetings at least once every semester
a. During bargaining, Unit 1 and Unit 3 stewards are responsible for ensuring that at least one representative from each Unit is in attendance at every CUPE 3903 at membership meeting (General Membership Meeting, Annual General Membership Meeting, or Special General Membership Meeting) and report back with an update regarding bargaining, which shall be posted on the Graduate Listserve
b. If no Unit 1 or Unit 3 steward is available to attend a membership meeting during bargaining, they shall take reasonable measures to ensure that a GHSA member who also holds membership in CUPE 3903 is in attendance and able to report back.
c. CUPE 3903 stewards shall also make their best effort to ensure that at least one Unit 1 or Unit 3 steward elected by the GHSA membership is available to attend stewards council meetings during both bargaining and non-bargaining years.
d. The Unit 1 and Unit 3 3903 stewards are responsible for communicating and liaising with their Unit 2 counterpart.
(7) The Document Editors
a. Up to 4 positions available
b. Maximum 4 full-time MA and PhD students, who may not be members of the executive. At least one editor must be an MA student.
c. Publish the GHSA newsletter The Document monthly,
d. Free to determine the editorial policy of The Document.
(8) New Frontiers Co-chairs
a. Up to 5 positions available (up to 3 PhD [at least 2 of which must be Year 2+]elected in April; up to 2 MA elected in September)
b. Form and lead an organizational committee for the New Frontiers in Graduate History Conference. Coordinate promotions of the conference
c. Determine all details pertaining to the conference, including dates, locations, themes, registration fees, etc.
d. Provide financial and organizational reports concerning the New Frontiers in Graduate History Conference at the general membership meetings in January, April, and as required.
(9) Admissions Committee Members
a. 4 positions available.
i. Two will work on MA student admissions
ii. Two will work on PhD student admissions
b. Must be post-comps PhD students
c. Must have served the GHSA in at least one other position in previous academic years.
d. Duties include:
i. Review admission files and score candidates; identify appropriate supervisors.
ii. Attend review meetings.
(10) TA Liaison Committee
a. 2 positions available
b. must be post-comps PhD students holding a ta-ship
c. meet monthly with faculty members on the committee to discuss issues that affect teaching as well as TA/faculty relations within the Department; report back to GHSA.
d. maintain "A Quick and Dirty Guide to Being a TA in the Department of History at York" and update as necessary with faculty members of this committee.
(11) Graduate Students' Association (GSA) Representatives
a. 2 positions available, plus 2 alternates
b. Open to anyone
c. Attend GSA meetings every month in order to meet the requirements for the GHSA to receive their funding from the Graduate Students' Association.
d. Report any news from the GSA council meetings back to the GHSA at monthly GHSA meetings and/or via grad-hist list serve.
(12) Communication Officer/Website Administrator
a. 1 position available
b. Open to anyone
c. Facilitate communication of important information between the GHSA executive and the membership.
d. Responsible for maintenance and update of website and social media
(13) Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) Representative
a. 1 position available
b. Open to anyone
c. Attend regular (monthly) FGS meetings.
d. Report back to the membership at GHSA meetings and through the listserv
(14) Canadian Historical Association (CHA) Graduate Student Committee Representative (GSC)
a. 1 position available
b. Open to anyone
c. Act as a link between the GSC executive and graduate students, forwarding emailing, surveying fellow students, and raising any issues of importance.
d. Attend the Annual General Meeting of the GSC (held at the CHA during the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences (Congress) in May or June – location changes yearly) and report back to the department.
e. Attend the meeting at the CHA and report back to the department. For the rest of the year, act as link between the GSC executive and students in the department, forwarding e-mails, surveying fellow students and raising any issues of importance.
(15) Social Officers
a. Three positions available.
b. One MA student and two PhD students.
c. Organize social activities in the Orientation Day and regularly throughout the year, which will be open to all graduate students.
d. Organize the holiday and end-of-year parties.
* An equity-seeking group is here defined to include women; visibly racialized peoples; lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans* people; aboriginal peoples; peoples with disabilities; international students; francophones and other non-Anglophones.
** Where possible, no member shall hold the same executive position more than once. Priority will be given to newcomers.
6. All monies accruing to the GHSA shall be held in bank accounts in the name of the Graduate History Students' Association.
7. All bank accounts and outgoing cheques shall require the co-signature of two (2) members of the GHSA executive.
8. The GHSA shall have no more than three (3) signing officers; preferably two of the co-presidents and the treasurer.
9. The organization's fiscal year shall run from 1 May until 30 April.
10. The executive shall ensure that sufficient funds are on hand to fulfil the financial obligations of the GHSA between the semi-annual receipt of funds from the Graduate Students' Association.
11. Any extraordinary expenditure of funds-those which fall outside customary expenses shall be approved by the general membership.
12. Any alteration of budget lines, including the addition or removal of lines, shall be opened to discussion by the general membership and approved by said membership at a meeting of the GHSA.
13. By and with the advice of the general membership, the executive shall plan and organize the functions of the GHSA.
14. These activities may include, but need not be restricted to the following:
a. Orientation Day activities
b. The Historian's Craft lecture series
c. The GHSA book sale; and
d. End of term parties.
15. Members shall be notified in a timely fashion of all forthcoming events.
16. The executive shall be responsible for the provision, care, and maintenance of the refrigerator; microwave; coffee urn; office and activity supplies; and any other GHSA property.
17. The GHSA shall sponsor a journal, entitled Document, which shall be published periodically during the school year.
18. The executive shall ensure that information concerning all forthcoming GHSA events is posted on the GHSA website.
19. The co-presidents, the equity officer (PhD only), the treasurer, the editor(s) of Document, CUPE unit 1 Stewards, the social officer (PhD only) and the New Frontiers Conference Chairs shall be nominated from the membership during the general membership meeting at the end of March or April.
20. The other members of the executive shall be nominated from the membership at the annual general meeting in September.
21. In the case that one member of the executive cannot act for an extended period of time, that member shall notify the remaining executive members, who shall then designate one or more members of the GHSA to act in the place of the absent member of the executive. Executive members who do not give notice of their absence and are absent for more than two meetings, shall be removed from their post at the following GHSA meeting by the executive present at that meeting. The position will then immediately be open to volunteers as per our constitutional elections process.
22. In the event of a request to replace any elected member of the GHSA, the executive members of the GHSA must call an executive meeting (not a general membership meeting). Every effort must be made for all parties involved to be present at the meeting, which is a first-step to address the issue(s) in hopes of a resolution. If the issue(s) is/are not resolved, the elected member may be replaced by a simple majority vote of the executive members present.
23. The co-presidents and a volunteer Chief Returning Officer (CRO) shall be responsible for running elections.
24. The CRO will not seek a position on the incoming executive. They must be approved by the current GHSA executive. In the event the CRO cannot fulfill their duties the co-presidents shall appoint a replacement.
25. The CRO shall not cast a ballot.
26. In the event that one of the co-presidents is facing recall, the vice-president or a disinterested executive member shall run the election.
27. Elections shall be determined by online balloting using electionbuddy software.
28. Voting shall begin within 2 business days of the nomination meeting and continue for 1 week inclusive. The timeframe for voting will be determined by the co-presidents and posted in the department and on the list-serve.
29. The CRO will send email instructions for voting to all students.
30. The CRO shall be available to assist any students who have difficulty voting and ensure that they are able to vote within the timeframe of the election.
31. The CRO shall tabulate the votes using electionbuddy software in the presence of the president or co-presidents once the poll has closed on the Thursday. The results shall be announced the next business day.
32. The exact number of votes that each candidate receives shall not be announced, and no one shall have access to this information. If there is a tie then another 7 day election will be held, starting within 2 business days.
33. Candidates are free to campaign as a slate if they so choose, but their names will appear individually and alphabetically on the ballots, and they shall be elected as individuals.
34. Prior to the nomination meeting, candidates may campaign however and by whatever means they choose, provided that the image, reputation, status, and financial circumstances of the GHSA are in no way compromised.
35. If nominations take place during a GHSA meeting, at the nomination meeting, each candidate will be permitted to give an election speech that shall be no more than five minutes in length. Descriptions of candidates and their interest in the position shall be accessible at the polling station.
36. Candidates' speeches will be followed by a question-and-answer session of approximately 5-10 minutes.
37. If nominations take place over the listserv and an election is required, candidates may send one statement over the listserv in place of an election speech.
38. The decision of the Chief Returning Officer shall be final.
39. In the event that a student wants to volunteer for a vacant position, they can do so in one of the following ways: a) in a GHSA meeting. b) through an email sent over the gradlist. If done through the gradlist, the position will remain open to other volunteers, over the gradlist or in a GHSA meeting, for 48 hours. After 48 hours the position will either be declared, or elections will be announced by the co-presidents.
40. This constitution will be posted on the GHSA website, and will be printed in the school year's first issue of Document. Hard copies will be made available in the Grad Room.
41. This constitution may be amended by a simple majority vote of a meeting comprised of a quorum of ten per cent (10%) of the general membership, provided that the intention to amend and the proposed amendments are announced in writing to the membership at least two (2) weeks prior to the meeting.
- Amended April, 2004
- Amended April 25, 2005
- Amended Feb 14/Mar 26, 2008
- Amended October 1, 2009
- Amended November, 2012
- Amended March 6, 2014
- Amended September 5, 2014
- Amended December 2, 2014
- Amended October 15, 2015
- Amended April 21, 2016
Appendix A: Handout on GHSA Positions and Responsibilities [.DOC] [.PDF]


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Travel to Germany's largest city and experience the ultimate romantic holiday with an Escort Berlin. Channel your inner Casanova and put your stamina to the test by booking the services of an exotic and elegant woman who is simply a cut above the rest. As an esteemed and jet-setting professional, you know how important it is to choose the right companion and to be with the right crowd—appearances are everything. When you're in Berlin, which showcases many of Germany's top-notch universities and research institutions as well as beautiful historic architecture, it's nice to enjoy the city's rich traditions, multicultural environment, urban setting and nightlife with an escort who can give you the real girlfriend experience. But instead of hitting the party scene loud and proud, opt for quieter and more refined dates by going the intimate, romantic route.
To make the most of your time with a polished, poised and pretty Escort Berlin, visit the following spots for a truly sweet and seductive holiday:
Historic opera houses. The opera is not for everyone, and it usually caters to individuals with a more refined taste in entertainment. Indulge your lady in a night or two of breathtaking opera performances. Picture the two of you walking into the opera house together, both dressed to the nines and looking upmarket, cultured and refined. The Staatsoper Unter den Linden, a historic neo-classical structure that has featured some of the most remarkable performances in the world (e.g., Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, which was conducted by Johannes Schüler in 1944), is considered the most high-status of the opera houses in Berlin. The two other famous operas are the Komische Oper Berlin in what used to be East Berlin, and the Deutsche Oper Berlin in the Charlottenburg building, which is located in the posh neighborhood in previous West Berlin.
Pfaueninsel Park or Peacock Island. Experience a piece of heaven on earth with your Escort Berlin by visiting Pfaueninsel Park. Located between Berlin and Potsdam, this small, charming island is the perfect place for a stroll amidst spectacular peacocks, gorgeous flora and fauna, and marvelous structures like the Kavaliershaus, remains of the Meierei abbey, and the Luise temple. This romantic spot, which can only be accessed via ferry, is a great place to get to know each other—a prelude to your sensual escapades later on. In fact, the island's landscape was fashioned in 1794-1797 to serve as a romantic hideaway for loversFriedrich Wilhelm II and Gräfin Lichtenau.
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Low-income Kent County residents will have increased access to emergency housing and home repairs, health care and more with the support of $220,000 in grants from the Potter Charity Trust Fund at the CenDel Foundation, a fund of the Delaware Community Foundation.
Caring Hearts Helping Hands Inc. received $11,000 to provide support to low-income working families for the holidays with toys, clothing and food gift cards.
Catholic Charities Inc. received $35,000 to provide financial assistance, coaching and other resources to prevent homelessness.
Code Purple Kent County Delaware received $10,000 to provide emergency shelter, food and other items necessary for people in need.
Communities in Schools of Delaware Inc. received $30,000 to coordinate a continuum of care for students in need and their families, in partnership with the Food Bank of Delaware, Goodwill, NCALL, Westside Family Healthcare and other local nonprofits.
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Comedian at the Comedy Strip Club in New York City
People often ask me, "How is the crisis? What's new with the crisis?"
I am not quite sure what to tell them. I am afraid that I simply not knowledgeable enough. And I am also very skeptical that we will be talking about the same thing, as people understand crisis differently. I looked up the term crisis in the storage of all human wisdom, Wikipedia!
So, there is a "crisis" definition from the Wikipedia.org: It may be a traumatic or stressful change in a person's life, or an unstable and dangerous social situation, in political, social, economic, military affairs, or a large-scale environmental event, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
Now, let's try to make some sense out of it. The crisis is a change. We got that. But how much of a change does it have to be to become a crisis? Let's take a look at the problem on the personal level.
I used to love to go to Vietnamese take-out kitchen for lemongrass soup. It was wonderful! Spicy but not too much, with flavors of the right herbs… Ah… Anyway, for one reason or another business failed and they closed. And there was no one around who made this soup well enough! So I have to go from wonderful soup to no soup at all. From one (yes) to 0 (no). That is that drastic traumatic change they were talking about! That is the crisis. That being said, you can guess that I survived that one. Thus we come to understanding that there are also degrees of crises.
Right now everyone is talking and worrying about global financial crisis. A lot of people got affected by it very quickly, others did not. What happened? What has changed so drastically and so quickly? I am not an expert; I just play one in my column. But let me speculate. The world lives on credit. I will borrow from John; John will borrow from Mike… We all know each other; trust that that the other has money to pay off when time comes. That belief is fundamental. That belief makes the financial world work. And as usually, the belief in prophet is stronger, the prophet himself. It appears to me that somebody came and said that famous line, "Show me the money!" And it turned out that the king is naked. Where is the money? There was no money. Our expectation was wrong. People never lost their money. They never had it. What they had is a wrong expectation. So, what has really changed is a ratio of expectation to reality.
So, here is my résumé. While we are all affected by macro-events, to avoid personal crises, keep your expectations down.


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Cake or Cake 2013
Now dry and ready for the New Year, here are some of Andrew's cake paintings which will be showing over the coming months.
Returning again to the cupcakes, the scones' work and the chocolate slice; Dignity (originally named *Cake or Death), exhibiting with the Unix Gallery in Miami, and discussed in our earlier Art Basel post, these paintings are part of a continuation with the development of Andrew's larger scale pieces.
Some areas of the work are beginning to show how Andrew is now focusing on the relationship between detail, space and edges. He intends to use abstraction to explore how the eye sees or interprets the holistic image.
With so many subjects and ideas to develop this should be a very interesting and busy year.
Dignity at the Unix Gallery:
* The title, 'Cake or Death' was inspired from a sketch by the comedian and actor Eddie Izzard, please see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZVjKlBCvhg
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Gavin Quinney, owner of Chateau Bauduc in Bordeaux, kicks off our en primeur blogs
The American wine critics - the best known ones, at least - have been and gone, the rain over the weekend has cleared and the sun is now shining on Primeurs week in Bordeaux. Cool mornings, bright blue skies and heaving tasting rooms await.
More than 5,000 trade and press professionals will attend the Union des Grands Crus tastings of barrel samples in the next few days, with talk of 2010 being another great vintage. Although some critics would have us 'believe the hype' before any of the Riedel glasses have come out of the crates, it's clear that those in the trade are as sceptical as ever and keen to form their own opinions. Quite right too.
It's a far cry from just two years ago. Way back then, even the First Growths were worried about the market for their wines en primeur. This year, however, the fiche techniques in French and English are also available in Chinese: Château Margaux are expecting to receive over 2,000 visitors in one week, a new record.
So tasting the First Growths, however fabulous they may be, might seem almost academic. They'll sell at whatever price, along with a few other leading brands (for that is what they are). Then there's the happy group of top Growths from the Left Bank which will fly out the door if Parker confirms what most of us will find (some stunning Cabernet Sauvignon) plus some expensive gems from Pomerol. Don't rule out some delicious St-Emilions amongst some very powerful wines.
It is, though, a super vintage from which to unearth some real values. The problem facing tasters this week is that with such massive colour, high tannins, racy acidity and a fair dollop of alcohol, will anyone have the stamina to work their way through to them?


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Scott Michael Greene provided little insight into what drove him to kill two Iowa police officers in early morning ambush shootings last year even as he admitted to the crimes on Friday, the Des Moines Register reports. Greene, 46, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder, telling a judge he fired the bullets Nov. 2, 2016, that killed Urbandale officer Justin Martin and Des Moines Sgt. Anthony "Tony" Beminio. The confession capped six months of heartache for three families and two police departments, but left unanswered questions that still swirl around the murders.
Des Moines Police Chief Dana Wingert said, "I don't feel a sense of relief," he said. "I know my co-workers don't. I don't feel a sense of closure. I'm not at the point of forgiveness." Judge Karen Romano sentenced Greene to two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole, describing the shootings as "nothing short of an execution." Greene was also ordered to pay a total of $300,000 in restitution to the officers' families.


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Life On The Road Archive
Henry RollinsPosted on February 14, 2014 | No CommentsPunk rock, acting, TV and radio hosting, publishing and social activism: Henry Rollins has taken them all on. The former Black Flag frontman talks to Rock 'n' roll travel about his best travel experiences and the bands and music he can't live without
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I was cheering as I read about how House Budget Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) claims his Catholic faith positively and concretely affects the way he does his job. He says that the Republican budget plan was partially shaped by his Catholic worldview. In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Ryan said:
"A person's faith is central to how they conduct themselves, in public and in private, so to me, using my Catholic faith, we call it the social magisterium, which is: How do you apply the doctrine of your teaching into your everyday life as a lay person?"
He spoke about subsidiarity...
"To me, the principle of subsidiarity, which is really federalism, meaning government closest to the people governs best, having a civil society... where we, through our civic organizations, through our churches, through our charities, through all of our different groups where we interact with people as a community, that's how we advance the common good."
He spoke about how to help the poor...
"The preferential option for the poor, which is one of the primary tenets of Catholic social teaching, means don't keep people poor, don't make people dependent on government so that they stay stuck at their station in life, help people get out of poverty out onto life of independence."
Ryan feels strongly that the nation's budget reflects its moral values. I don't know much else about the man, but this is good stuff. Read more here.
A congressman who quotes Pope Benedict? Cool. Read Ryan's own words about the role of faith and social doctrine in politics at OSV...
"Catholic social thought's paramount interest is the moral character of society, which takes primacy over dollars and cents. What kind of people do Americans want to be? We must not become a people of diminished hopes. We much not be defeated people who worship the state as our greatest benefactor. We are called to be exceptional -- comforting our neighbors in need while striving for a brighter future in this fallen world and for the perfect society that awaits us only in the City of God."
Congressman Paul Ryan: Social teaching and the federal budget: a Catholic politician's views
Congressman Ryan defends the Republican budget plan on Fox News.


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Thank you to the over 70 submissions we received for our first Call for Scores!
Congratulations to Julia Seeholzer & "Constant"
Honorable Mentions:
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Andersen Viana, "In D"
Call for Scores 2018
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Way back in my childhood, when the world was still mostly photographed in black and white, I played tag with the other kids on Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights. The tree in front of my house was home base. There wasn't much traffic in those days, and we ran in the gutter, on the sidewalk, and around the parked cars, chasing and being chased like yipping and nipping young wolves. If the one who was "it" was gaining on me, I tried to get to home base. After an exhilarating and sometimes narrow escape, I'd cling to the tree to rest. As long as I was touching home, I was safe.
Where I lived on Joralemon Street. "Home base" was the tree on the left.
Home base is a feeling. There was nothing that distinguished the tree physically, structurally, from the other home-base-eligible landmarks on Joralemon or any other street. If the game of tag started in front of someone else's house, we used whatever tree or post was available there, and had the same pure experience of home base. In comparison, the physical shelter that we call home—in my case, then, a low-rent apartment (that now would sell for half a million dollars)—is an environment in which many complex feelings arise, not all of them necessarily comforting, ranging from assuredly nurturing to lonely, sometimes mixing both, and with an infinite palette of emotional colors both in between and more extreme. Often, too, the physical environment changes wholesale, as we move from one home to another. How much we associate our floor-and-ceiling home with the felt experience of home base varies. We can discern each physical home's degree of homeyness precisely because the feeling of being home, that feeling of safe harbor, is recognizably the same (i.e. self-consistent) regardless of where we are. We know the feeling of home base; different places evoke more or less of that feeling.
Mythologically—that is, in the roots of our human experiencing—home was the Center of the World, the World Tree, around which all creation revolved.1 This is the essence of the home base experience. Home feels like life's Foundation Stone, immovable, stabilizing, the most trusted, secure place we can be. At home we are removed and protected from the whirlwind, perilous, dog-chase-dog street life outside.
For some people their childhood home feels like a refuge from the cares and turbulence of their daily lives. Worldly time seems to slow and recede into the periphery with each sip of hot chocolate. The first silverware they ever used is back in their hands; each bite of an old recipe reminds their bodies that this experience is reassuringly the same as it ever was. Remembering becomes an act in and of itself.
When a parent or grandparent serves me my favorite food, the special part is usually not the food itself; after all, excepting the odd secret family recipe, I probably can and probably do manage to eat my favorite food on my own from time to time. The special part is that my favorite food is known, and made specially for me without having to be ordered or made by me; it is freely given to me. A loved one knows what I like, cares, and goes to the trouble to make me feel good. I feel important to them.
Would that visiting one's home of origin always conjured pictures like these. Going "home for the holidays" is for some people like locking themselves in a fun-house with a hall of mirrors (Egad! A fright around every corner! Multiple distorted images of myself no matter where I turn! ) Let us take a moment here to acknowledge, quietly, compassionately, those among us (even if this includes ourselves) for whom the old homestead is less a place of refuge than it is reminiscent of a refugee camp, in which enemy memories must vigilantly be held at bay.
Our original logistical home, therefore, can be a place of painful confusion. It is entirely possible to return to one's childhood home and feel anything but welcome and safe. What makes this especially difficult is that the experience of home-as-safe-haven touches the child in us—whether we want it to or not. As the default location of shelter and nurture in our earliest development, we are conditioned to experience home as the most like a mother that any place can be. Our first home was the font of our existence, our umbilical origin point, primally innocent. Our mammalian instincts seek embrace and nourishment in the flesh of a warm, greater being (typically the mother): put a newborn on its mother's belly, and, eyes still unopened, it will crawl toward her breast. That unconscious experience at the beginning of our life establishes the gestalt of home in our most primitive core. That gestalt is: the place where everything takes care of us; where we are sustained unconditionally and shielded in our barest vulnerability, even in deep sleep. This is our nervous system's expectation. We desire an ideal home, where we can once again experience profound, rejuvenating rest, where there is nothing to guard against, nothing that doesn't belong. Whether we think our desire or the possibility of fulfilling it is reasonable is entirely beside the point. Everything at home is supposed to be for us. The sense of home is thus a childlike feeling that doesn't go away even when contradicted by hard experience in the cold light of day. When we're children, we need everything to be for us. The great child philosopher Linus van Pelt had it right when he observed: "Every day is children's day!"2 If our need is insufficiently met, it doesn't wither. More likely it intensifies, even if it must retreat to our darkest recesses to do so.
As we approach a place or situation that our instincts respond to as home—that smells like home, if you will—we tend to become unguarded and ingenuous, often despite our better judgment. Even if we resolve to avoid certain subjects or behavior patterns, something in our inner being finds itself exposed. We are betrayed! This is supposed to feel like home, but it doesn't. We set ourselves up to feel safe, but our security has been breached. Again.
And then we wonder: What's wrong with me?
It's not our fault; which is to say, finding ourselves emotionally prone regardless of careful self-fortification happens not because we do something wrong, but because it is inevitable. As we'll see in a later chapter of this post, the home base aspect of home is most closely identified with the core self's origins. Psychologically, the image of a house is most often associated with a person's identity; it is also associated with the archetype of mother-as-container. When our youngest, most vulnerable inner being comes to the fore and reaches out for the feeling of home—like a child reaching for mother—it does so neither out of stubbornness nor weakness, but according to natural law.
For our own wellbeing it is crucial, then, to develop the faculty of distinguishing the inner experience of home base from any places or situations or persons that may proclaim themselves home but fail to inspire that inner experience. To do that we must draw the feeling of home up from its unconscious roots into conscious experiencing. The good news is that deep down we do know—can't help knowing—what home feels like. And deep down we can't be fooled; our very disappointments prove that. The feeling of home base is a truth that, once consciously apprehended, can ignite a warming hearth in the center of our being.
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The Best Revision Tool Ever
I've come across and taught many revision procedures in my time, but this one towers above all the rest. It was first articulated by Peter Elbow, and I received it from Jamie Hutchinson. I give the lineage of this technique because it possesses that timeless quality of a teaching that operates on multiple levels simultaneously and regardless of specific context—similar to the practice of using "I" statements—and because, when employed properly, it opens up writing like only truth can. I have used this process successfully in several areas outside academic writing: creative writing, understanding and evaluating art, directing plays, and coaching clients.
This tool originated as a "Peer Response" procedure (generally in groups of 3–4 students) which I will summarize forthwith. If you practice it regularly and get it into your blood, you can become able to use it all on your own, as I often do.
Peer Response Process
Rules: "The writer is always right. The reader is always right." Nevertheless, the writer is in charge of the proceedings. Thus, the following is all addressed to you, the author.
Read your piece aloud. Always aloud. Never distribute your writing for silent reading.
There is almost always a powerful impulse for everyone in the group to plunge themselves into uncommunicative isolation by reading the piece individually in silence. For those responding to your writing, taking in your language (words) through the sense of sight is a significantly different cognitive experience from taking in language through the sense of hearing. The sense of sight tends to objectify, divide and classify what it perceives, whereas the sense of hearing tends to be experienced inside our heads. For your purposes, you want sympathetic, understanding responses. Let divide-and-classify come after your writing is published. Without the hearing, the quality of your authorial voice will be easily overlooked and misread. Similarly, hearing yourself speak your own words is a substantially different experience from reading them silently.
Read your piece aloud at least twice. Never once. Always two times—or more.
Another temptation is to read the piece aloud once through, and then let the critiquing begin. This doesn't work, because the sentences and paragraphs your listeners hear after they're already familiar with what's coming are completely different from the sentences and paragraphs they hear for the very first time. Similarly, for you, reading a piece aloud for the first time is almost always about performance and nerves, and little if anything in your own writing is actually heard by you; but the second time around is often quite fruitful; you begin to hear nuances you hadn't noticed before. So, read your piece aloud at least twice. At any point in the stages that follow, anyone in your group may request additional readings of the whole or any part of the piece, and you may at any time spontaneously decide to read aloud again; the more readings, the merrier.
The first reading is just for the listeners to get an overall sense of what the piece is about. The second and subsequent readings are for them to pay attention to details of language, images, ideas, feelings, intentions. (Also, after the first reading, your listeners may take notes.) After the second reading, lead your group through the following steps.
- Steps 1–3 are to be performed by all the listeners of the writer's group.
- Repeated responses are valuable and not to be withheld—i.e. "I was going to say what she said" is not a valid response. If a listener heard what she heard, that listener should repeat it! It's crucially important for you, the writer, to hear it more than once if the same response arose in more than one person.
- Precision is required: your listeners must use the language given below. Why? Because it's magical and it works. Think of it as a magic spell: say "Abraca-DOH!-bra" and nothing happens.)
Step 1. Positive Pointing: "I noticed/liked…"
Each member of your group, in turn, quotes—verbatim—words and/or phrases from your piece to you: specific language from the writing that particularly struck or impressed or simply stayed with them. The reasons for their quoting back what they do are irrelevant and distracting; stay focused here: you need to hear what parts of your language resonated in them, regardless of why.
Most important: verbatim quotes. Listeners often want to paraphrase: "I liked the part about…" Paraphrases use their language, not yours, and this is about your language, not theirs. You need to know that your words were heard, and which words and phrases in your writing have sticking power—for good or ill. Again, the listeners' reasons are irrelevant and will mostly introduce impurities into the process. (Reasons for listeners' responses will become important once you begin asking your own questions—see step four, below.)
2. Center of Gravity: "I hear this saying…"
This is when your listeners "say back" to you what they hear as "the source of energy, the focal point, the seedbed, the generative center of the piece" (Elbow and Belanoff, Sharing and Responding). Surprise, surprise, often this is not your intended main idea, but a segment, image, or anecdote where your writing feels more impassioned, more personally charged—i.e. what's really on your mind and in your heart concerning the subject—whether or not you were aware of it while writing.
The utility of emphasizing center of gravity over thesis is powerful: It is easy (especially when under pressure to write something for a good grade) to jump to a hasty, underdeveloped thesis with no center of gravity, whereas a substantial center of gravity—precisely because it is heavy with meaning for the author—has zero tolerance for a weak thesis.
The easiest clue for where your listeners (and you) should look for the center of gravity is the language they quoted in step one: those passages drew them in because those passages have the force of gravity.
3. Active Listening: "I'd like to hear more about…" and "Have you considered… ?"
(Author, please insist that all suggestions in this step begin with either the words "I'd like to hear more about…" or "Have you considered… ?" Those phrases keep the authority of the writing firmly with you without diluting it.)
This is your listeners' opportunity to share two powerful things with you:
- "I'd like to hear more about…": Having articulated what rumblings and nascent ideas and images they hear emerging in step two, your listeners now suggest, based on their genuine interest (genuine not feigned interest is critical!), what you could develop further—what they felt they wanted or needed that is already rumbling in the piece and might be given full voice.
- "Have you considered…": Alternative choices—suggestions of changes—that could strengthen what the piece is trying to say.
If your listeners become too insistent, gently remind them that this piece is your creation, your baby, and you're responsible for its growth and wellbeing.
4. Author's Questions
Finally it's your turn! Ask your group any questions you want about your piece and how to revise it. If you think of a yes-or-no question, first turn it around so the answer will be fuller than a simple "yes" or "no": for example, instead of "Was my paper clear?" ("No." Awkward silence.), ask "What parts were clearest?" and possibly add "Where could I be clearer?"
Here is a list of suggested author's questions from Jamie Hutchinson:
- What do you hear lurking in this piece (what's just beneath the surface)?
- What does it make you feel? Where [in your body] and why?
- What do you want to hear more about?
- What kinds of connections do you hear in it? What connections do I still need to make?
- What don't you understand? What seems unclear?
- What holds this piece together?
- Who does my audience appear to be? Friends? Teachers? Strangers?
- What's your favorite part? Least favorite part? Why?
- What seems unnecessary to the piece?
- Where do you lose interest as you listen to it?
- What would you remember about it tomorrow?
- Where could I use more detail, more examples?
- What theme(s) do you hear in the piece?
- Which sections need more development?
- What tone of voice do you hear in it?
Further Questions to Consider
Again, from Jamie, questions for you, the writer to ponder:
- What kind of response do you want from your reader?
- What feels "risky" to you about writing this piece?
- What do you most care about in what you've written?
- What would you like someone to get out of reading this piece?
- Where does your voice feel strongest to you in this piece?
- How will you know when this piece is finished?
- What was the color of the sky when you…?
As with all deep processes, this one deepens with practice. Enjoy!Posted in Writing: Revising & Proofreading | Tagged center of gravity, conversation, essays, interest, magic, pedagogy, positive pointing, process, questions, response, revising, teaching, technique, theme, thesis, truth, writing | Leave a comment
"The Adamant"
"The Adamant"
Thought does not crush to stone.
The great sledge drops in vain.
Truth never is undone;
Its shafts remain.
The teeth of knitted gears
Turn slowly through the night,
But the true substance bears
The hammer's weight.
Compression cannot break
A center so congealed;
The tool can chip no flake:
The core lies sealed.
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We are delighted to announce that Dana Poklepovic and Evan Frendo, after standing unopposed, will be taking over as joint coordinators at the open forum at our annual conference in November 2017 in Malta. Both have extensive knowledge of teaching business English and have been deeply involved in the SIG for several years.
The following statement was submitted to IATEFL by Dana and Evan prior to the nomination period deadline of 15 September 2017:
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The Big Fight 2013/14.
Middleweight Division (75 - 80Kg) Over 12 rounds.
Venue Royal Devon and Exeter Rheumatology Department, Caperon Ward.
Featuring in the Red corner, Rheumatoid Arthritis (Inflammatory Jack) v in the Blue corner, on the Tocilizumab Drip, Harry The Cytokine Kid (Toc H for short.)
Your referee for this contest is Gayle Githens - Mazer. (Rheumatology research nurse top grade)
Round 1 15th Aug. to 12th Sept.
The Cytokine Kid weighs in at 77kg but looks in bad shape as the drip is disconnected and they get ready for the bell. His knuckles, wrists and fingers are already swollen and stiff, he's having trouble making a fist or straightening his fingers so won't even be able to give a decent slap either. His Das 28 score is way up and the ref is not too happy the fight should be allowed to proceed. No way is he going to get them gloves on without an anaesthetic. He complains to the referee his legs and knees feel weak and ache and his feet are playing up rotten. He looks for the towel as the bell for round one rings but someone has removed it before he can throw it in.
Inflammatory Jack comes off the stool with a big smirk on his face that says this will soon be over. If Toc H survives the anaphylactic shock of the drip, Inflammatory Jack has boasted he'll sock it to him with a real big flare up before he can settle into any sort of routine.
The first twelve days are slow going as they feel each other out with jabs and counter IL-6 blockers but The Cytokine Kid is starting to move easier and lands several IL-6 blockers as Inflammatory Jack misses with a big flare haymaker. Toc H seems to be making a better fist of things now and bunches his fingers up tighter. The pain, swelling and tenderness in his fingers, knuckles and wrists seem to have improved. Could he be getting stronger?
28th Aug. The Cytokine Kid connects with a beautiful right hook below the belt after the seconds relay his blood test results ESR 2 CRP 1. Inflammatory Jack is temporarily rocked back on his heels at this unexpected low blow.
2nd/ 3rd Sept. IJ hits back causing some serious aches and pains in The Cytokine Kid's feet, ankles, knees and leg muscles. The seconds throw paracetamol tablets into the ring. Toc H grabs a few gratefully.
5th Sept. Lots of leg work by the Cytokine Kid. Too much. Inflammatory Jack takes full advantage. Toc H complaining of sore feet, aching leg muscles, weak knees and aches and pains in shoulders. Taking frequent breathers after bouts of fatigue. Couple more paracetamol but no NSAIDS yet.
10th Sept. This looks evenly matched. Could be a prolonged war of attrition decided on points. It all depends on how well The Cytokine Kid can pace himself against IJ's relentless onslaught
.Round 1 drawing to a close. Cytokine Kid looking more confident by the day. Doing more work in the garden, legs getting stronger, walking further, swellings stiffness and inflammation all but disappeared. Still some aches and pains but nothing a couple of paracetamol won't fix. Was that a packet of NSAIDS the Kid just threw into the bin? He's even started to play the piano again. Now there's a liberty. Inflammatory Jack won't like this at all. Round 2 coming up on 12th September. The Kid looks in good shape. ESR and CRP now both less than 1. Nearly as good as a deceased person. Can this be a more one sided affair than we thought?
Round 2 To be continued after 12th Sept...


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If you were tired of hearing about all the auto recalls in 2014, you probably were not alone. It seemed like every other week there was another recall announced. From General Motors' ignition switch debacle that appeared to grow with every announcement, to the Takata airbag issue that harmed people it was supposed to save, a record number of cars were announced to be recalled last year.
Unfortunately, recall notices applied to a number of vehicles that were on the second hand market. This means that a considerable number of used cars were subject to recalls, but since their original owners no longer had the cars, chances are that the vehicles were not returned to a dealer for repair.
Because of this, federal regulators are concerned that 2015 could see even more recalls. After all, with the record number of fines paid by automakers (GM and Honda paid nearly $100 million in fines combined), it is reasonable to believe that they will be more aggressive about recalls this time around.
After all, automakers have a duty to use reasonable care in protecting consumers from defects that could put them in danger. Part of this duty involves promptly announcing recalls and encouraging owners to bring their vehicles to dealers for repairs once defects are discovered. Should an automaker fail in adhering to this duty, and a consumer is injured as a result, the automaker could be held liable.
Moreover, the constant barrage of recall notices may be disconcerting to consumers, but that remains to be seen.