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Interesting crop of headlines on tomorrow's ferret litter tray liners. The Daily Star seems slightly surprised that some gypsies can sing and play musical instruments and that there's a possibility of a Britain's Got Talent-type programme starring travellers. Now, we understand that they probably don't play all that much jazz in the Star offices, but you'd have thought at least someone there would have heard of Django Reinhardt. Fair bit of jizz in there though, one might suspect, what with all those porno mags that owner Richard Desmond also owns.
Apparently, some gypsies are quite good musicians. Whodathunkit, eh?
Public Domain image from the William P. Gottlieb collection via Wikipedia
The Independent reveals a "highly classified" US plan to supply arms to the Libyan rebels, as they're "desperate to avoid US military involvement in Libya in the event of a prolonged struggle between the Gaddafi regime and its opponents." Mmmmm - and tooling up the enemy's enemies has always worked out so well for them in the past, hasn't it? One wonders also how a highly classified document made it into the clutches of a British paper, especially one with such a small circulation - and hence available funds for mole payments - as The Independent. Perhaps they're using the proceeds of the I, which is outselling its parent considerably (either because the Great British Public welcome a paper free of slebbage or because it's only 20p and thus cheaper than Asda Smart Price bog roll) - which is probably a good thing as ever since The Grauniad disappeared up its own smug, middle class arsehole and turned into a lifestyle magazine for rich bell ends The Independent has been far and away the best Britrag, despite - or perhaps as reflected by - it having the smallest circulation of any of the proper newspapers. If the I enables The Independent to keep going, even if at a loss, then all well and good.
The Guardian itself devoted the top of the front page to a section in the G2 in which fashion correspondent Hadley Freeman discusses whether or not it's still acceptable to wear Dior following John Galliano's embarrassing little antisemitic outburst last week. Good to see they're still covering the stories that matter to the poor and oppressed, who will no doubt be showing a bit of the old Cable Street solidarity and burning their Dior couture on the streets tonight in response.
The Daily Express - also owned by Richard "Asian Babes" Desmond, as it happens - predicts snow in the near future as it was a little bit cold last night. We didn't bother to read the story, preferring not even to prod with a stick anything quite so unpleasant as the Express in case its vile poison should travel like that of a cockatrice up the stick and into our mortal hearts, but have little doubt that the snow can be blamed on the EU in some contrived way. May Saint Diana have mercy upon us!


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Private special ed school might be forced out of building
Competition for students, space continues in southeast Michigan
An agreement between Birmingham Public Schools and a Jewish congregation might force a small, private special education school to relocate or close, according to a school founder. The case is an example of the competition in southeast Michigan between conventional public schools, public charter schools and nonpublic schools for students and space.
Learning Circle Academy, a private school for students with complex learning disabilities, has rented space for four years in the Laker Educational and Youth Complex in West Bloomfield. Started by two parents as a nonprofit tutoring program, it is now a registered nonpublic day school serving 30 students with learning disabilities or autism spectrum disorder.
Bonnie McDonald, one of the school's founders, told Michigan Education Report that she had hoped to work with the West Bloomfield Parks and Recreation Department this summer on a therapeutic camp for youth with disabilities at the site, as well as summer programs in cognitive training and a social skills group.
But the Laker building is owned by Congregation Shaarey Zedek, which purchased it in 1996 from Birmingham Public Schools. As part of the original sale, the school district and the congregation signed an agreement which limits the private educational uses of the former elementary school to programs that do not cause the school district to lose revenue.
The agreement allows such noncompetitive programs as nursery school or weekend religious schools, but prohibits any educational use resulting from parents choosing to send students who are assigned to the Birmingham school district to a program offered at the Laker building instead.
The congregation was not aware that leasing space to Learning Circle Academy could violate that agreement, according to Janet Pont, the congregation's executive director. The school's current lease expires on June 30, after which Learning Circle Academy may not use the building, she said.
"It has nothing to do with the congregation and everything to do with the school district," Pont said. "They feel that we may be taking students out of their district that they would potentially get funding for."
McDonald said only a few of the students who attend Learning Circle are residents of the Birmingham district. The school enrolls youth from Oakland, Washtenaw, Wayne and Macomb counties, she said.
"If we are put out of the building, we will be at risk of losing our status as a registered nonpublic school," McDonald said. She is working with a real estate agent to find a new location.
"Our plans are to speak with people to try to see if we can convince them to help us acquire property," she said. Another alternative is to continue to meet with students at a different location under an arrangement in which the students would be considered home-schoolers.
The building is likely to have new owners by the time the lease runs out. Temple Shir Shalom, another Jewish congregation, has signed a purchase agreement with Shaarey Zedek to buy the Laker Building. Although the sale is not expected to be final until later this spring, Temple Shir Shalom has said it will honor any agreements that were in place between the school district and Shaarey Zedek, according to Andre Douville, executive director at Temple Shir Shalom.
He said he could not comment further about Learning Circle Academy because Temple Shir Shalom does not yet own the building.
Richard Perry, the Birmingham Public Schools deputy superintendent for business services, said he learned last fall that a student who resides in the Birmingham district is enrolled at the academy. The student's parents had contacted the Birmingham district to request additional special education services. Under federal special education law, parents who place their children in private schools may request certain special education services from their assigned public schools.
This is the first time a parent has requested services beyond those the academy provides privately, McDonald said. In this case, the student requested several hours a week of speech and occupational therapy.
Perry contacted both Temple Shir Shalom and Congregation Shaarey Zedek about the request.
"I said, 'You need to look at the tenant to see if that seems to be a violation of the agreement,'" Perry told Michigan Education Report. He said the district could end up providing services to a student for whom it does not receive per-pupil state funding.
Learning Circle is one example of the competition between private, conventional public schools and public charter schools not just for students, but also for location, particularly in southeast Michigan. There are more than 100 nonpublic school sites in Oakland County, enrolling more than 25,000 students. When an empty school building comes on the market, it often attracts bids from either start-up schools or established schools looking to expand.
When the former Kensington Academy in Beverly Hills, Mich., announced a merger with the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Bloomfield Hills in 2006, "I was inundated with calls" about plans for the Kensington building, said Amanda Chaborek, a former Kensington staff member. "The phone was lighting up."
Most of the calls were from private secular or religious schools, she said. Chaborek is now the communications director at Detroit Country Day, a private school that currently enrolls 1,600 students at four campuses in Oakland County.
Brendan George, a broker with CB Richard Ellis in Southfield, handled the sale of the Kensington site and said his firm, too, received a number of calls from potential buyers. Some wanted to convert the site to housing or an assisted living center, but others represented schools.
The final buyer was Beverly Hills LLC, a company organized in Michigan in 2007, according to state records which list Imad Al-Azem of Franklin as the president. He did not return calls asking for information about the future use of the building.
Birmingham Public Schools has sold a number of buildings over the years, and several are now used as private school sites. The Laker Building, formerly Walnut Elementary, was one of the last to be sold, Perry said. School board members at the time asked for restrictions that would protect the school district from another potential competitor, he said.
Detroit Country Day purchased two former Birmingham schools in the 1970s and 1980s.
"If the same situation happened today, they wouldn't sell to us," said Gerald Hansen, former Country Day headmaster and now president of the Country Day Fund. "Once the money followed the student, everything changed."
Hansen is referring to Proposal A, which shifted public school operating funding away from local property taxes and to a per-pupil foundation allowance determined by the state Legislature. Under the former system, district funding was determined by the local property tax base and millage levies. Under the new system, student enrollment determines a large share of the school budget.
Facing competition from both public charter schools and private schools, some conventional public schools have avoided selling their closed buildings to either.
The Detroit Public Schools Board of Education, for example, has said it will not lease its empty schools to charter school operators, even though school leaders and law enforcement officials announced in late February that the district has incurred millions of dollars in damage through theft and vandalism at its shuttered sites.
In 1996, state legislators revised the Michigan School Code to say that public school districts may not impose a deed restriction on property for sale that prohibits "lawful public educational use" of that property by the future owner. The revision was intended to prevent conventional public schools from blocking the growth of public charter schools, according to Leonard Wolfe, a former Michigan Senate staffer who helped draft the legislation. He now is an attorney now with Dykema, a Lansing law firm.
The code does not require a conventional public school to accept a bid from a charter school, but it prevents advance restrictions. It does not specifically address private schools.
Elsewhere in southeast Michigan, the Ypsilanti Public School District is considering selling a vacant elementary school to the Hidaya Muslim Community Association and the Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor & Vicinity for use as a private school, but only because the program "would not adversely impact our school district," Superintendent James Hawkins said. "We would not want to sell to a charter school."
The Ann Arbor association operates the Michigan Islamic Academy on Plymouth Road for preschoolers through high school students, but has outgrown the site and is collaborating with the Hidaya association to move at least part of the school operation to the Ypsilanti site, according to Youcef El-Mohri, president of the academy school board. He said that academy leaders considered expanding at their current site, but later learned that the Ypsilanti building was for sale.
Hawkins told Michigan Education Report that he does not believe the sale would affect his district's enrollment. He has encouraged the school board to agree to the $3.9 million sale and use the proceeds to help balance the 2008-2009 budget.
The Ann Arbor Academy, a private, nonprofit school in downtown Ann Arbor which serves students with learning disabilities, attention disorders or other learning challenges, signed a lease on an empty factory and converted it to a school, later adding three outbuildings which serve as studios for fine arts programs, according to Peter West, head of school. In operation since 1998, the school's search committee now is looking for a new location that would put all programming under one roof. School leaders want to stay in the Ann Arbor area, but real estate is expensive, West said.
"As Ann Arbor Academy, we're getting name recognition and we wouldn't want to lose that," he said. "When we make the move, we want to make the right move."
Lorie Shane is the managing editor of the Michigan Education Report, the Mackinac Center's quarterly education policy journal. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is hereby granted, provided that Michigan Education Report is properly cited.

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text: Restaurants rally behind Gulf relief efforts By von Rabenau Media From June 10 to 12, restaurants nationwide will devote a portion of their profits to the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund to help people affected by the Gulf oil spill and support efforts to restore the coast, according to a June 2 story in The Times Picayune. The effort, called Dine Out for the Coast, was created by Jimmy Galle, owner of Gulfish, a seafood distributor in Sausalito, Calif. Restaurants interested in participating can contact Jimmy Galle at (209) 969-3893 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Click here to read the full story in The Times Picayune. 0 comments Labels: charities, news


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Dee White writes contemporary YA fiction and books for older readers. She has wanted to be an author since she was seven-years-old. Dee lives with her very supportive family and enough stray animals to 'almost fill an ark.'
Her published credits include Hope for Hanna, A Duel of Words, and Letters to Leonardo.
Dee White was a third place winner in the YA section in 2006. Letters to Leonardo is due for release in July 2009, published by Walker Books, Australia.


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The FBI has arrested 10 people for allegedly serving for years as secret agents of Russia's intelligence organ, the SVR, with the goal of penetrating U.S. government policymaking circles.
According to court papers unsealed Monday, the FBI intercepted a message from SVR headquarters, Moscow Center, to two of the defendants describing their main mission as "to search and develop ties in policymaking circles in US." Intercepted messages showed they were asked to learn about a broad swath of topics including nuclear weapons, U.S. arms control positions, Iran, White House rumors, CIA leadership turnover, the last presidential election, the Congress and political parties.
After a secret multiyear investigation, the Justice Department announced the arrests Monday in a blockbuster spy case that could rival the capture of Soviet Col. Rudolf Abel in 1957 in New York.
More coverage here.
UPDATE: This story only gets juicier.
A ring of 11 Russian moles right out of a Cold War spy novel was smashed Monday — and among those busted was a flame-haired, 007-worthy beauty who flitted from high-profile parties to top-secret meetings around Manhattan.
Russian national Anna Chapman — a 28-year-old divorcee with a masters in economics, an online real-estate business, a fancy Financial District apartment and a Victoria's Secret body — had been passing information to a Russian government official every Wednesday since January, authorities charged.
In one particularly slick spy exchange on St. Patrick's Day, Chapman pulled a laptop out of a tote bag in a bookstore at Warren and Greenwich streets in the West Village while her handler lurked outside, receiving her message on his own computer, the feds said. A similar exchange occurred at a Midtown coffee shop at 47th Street and 8th Ave.
The State Department and the Russians have given statements on the state of US/Russia relations in the aftermath of this development.
"to make a public statement in the spirit of the spy novel intrigues of the Cold War era" and noted that "these kinds of incidents have occurred in the past when our relations were on the rise."
"Such actions are ungrounded and pursue improper goals," the ministry said in a statement. "In any case, it is regrettable that all this is happening against the background of the 'reset' in Russian-American relations announced by the U.S. administration."


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Pit - Working in a short staffed office makes for an even busier day.
Peak - Working in a short staffed office. Yes I know what I said above - but here's the thing, while my workload increases quite a bit, it does make the days go by faster, keeps others from needing my help (those who are gone) and I somehow get more work done.
Pit - Not getting much put away around the house. I was hoping to have more done but it just didn't work out. (See below for one part of the reason why)
Peak - getting my hairs did! They be looking fab!
Peak - finally got the washer and dryer working so you know what the means - clean clothes all around!
Pit - the washer and dryer are working - that means I actually have to do laundry now!
Peak - It's Friday!! So go check out Stormy's blog!


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Friday, September 7, 2012
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
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I know! EPIC wouldn't really cover this amazing series. I just love the HBO series so much and I'm in the process of acquiring copies for the all ready released books in this series. I cannot wait to read it. Great review, Erin! :D So happy to see another fangirl!ReplyDeleteReplies
I know exactly what you mean. Everyone assumes this is just for boys . . . but boy were they wrong! Glad to hear there's another fangal. Love this series so much!Delete
Oh wowwww, what a raving review! :) These are always the BEST to read (at least, for me!) - I'm so glad you loved it, Erin! <3 I haven't read these books or seen the TV show but I seem to be surrounded by people that love at least one. Thanks for the fabulous review!ReplyDelete
I probably gushed too much here! hehe. But trust me here - this series is SO awesome! Be sure to check out the TV show! Thanks Sonia!Delete
Well done on reviewing this, hun! I don't think I would even know where to start with this series. I really enjoy these books and I'm glad they've become so popular.ReplyDelete
I'm still firmly in favour of reading the books before watching the show, but I know some people have found all the characters confusing and the show helped them figure it all outReplies
I'm usually the one who prefers reading the book before the show too, but in this book's case it made me LOVE this book even more because I watched the show and now understood who's who. Thanks!Delete
Man, I swear I'm the only person on the planet (alongside Sonia! MY SAVIOUR! YOU MAKE ME FEEL NOT ALONE!) who hasn't at least watched the show. Every. Single. Freaking. Person. RAVES about it!! I've been interested but just never entirely sure that it's the kind of show I'd get hooked on. I guess we'll see, because CURSE YOU I NEED TO WATCH IT ALREADY. Not like I need another show to get addicted to, but... :PReplyDelete
I'm so glad the book lived up to your love of the show, it really does sound like an amazing fantasy. I'll definitely give the book a read if I like the show! Brilliant review!Replies
You're missing out Brodie . . . you're totally missing out! *shakes head* Adore the show and this book. Obviously. hehe.Delete
Hahhaaaa Erin! I LOVE your enthusiam<3 I totally want to read this - like seriously, IT SOUNDS SO AMAZING BUT IT'S SOOOOO LONG!!! I'm so glad you loved this as much as the show! I'm a little scared to watch it...friends have been telling me that there's a lot of fighting...and blood...and gore...and *shudder* Still...I think I will read this ONE DAY. Fab review Erin! Glad you loved this so much :DDReplyDeleteReplies
My enthusiasm shows, doesn't it? *grins madly* I know it's really REALLY long but trust me, once you get started . . . you end up getting hooked on the story and you don't even notice the length of the book by then. Yup, there's 'some' blood and gore but that's part of the norm in this amazing world. Thanks Shirley!Delete
I must start these books sometimes, but they are badass thick, hehe! I've not heard anybody not like them. I have started watching the tv show and wow it was different to what I expected with the killing and bare boobies etc, lol!! I thought this was more a YA series, errrr got that a wee bit wrong:S Sean Bean has always been a pretty cool actor.ReplyDelete
Wonderful review!
You have great taste -- Love the books, currently reading #4. It is the BEST show on TV and I am hanging out for season 3 - it can't get here quick enough..... so any brilliant characters... would love to have a sit down with MR Martin!ReplyDelete


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I have been tweeting a bit about my recent journey into patient-hood. And I admit to being a bit stumped about this one…
About a month ago, I started noticing some discomfort on my left lateral thigh. I guess you could describe it as neuropathic pain, but it wasn't necessarily painful. It only occurred with light touch, and was exacerbated by raising my leg or externally rotating my hip. Weird. I remember something similar happening a couple years ago and it only lasted for a few days. So I shook it off and continued with my daily routines. I exercised and was pleased that it only bothered me with certain movements. Like lunges – and who doesn't hate lunges anyway? I was determined not to let this annoyance interfere with my life.
But alas…I'm dismayed to report that the discomfort has officially become pain. And it becomes worse each day. And the more I'm on my feet, the worse it gets. Which means it's excruciating by the end of the workday. It's interrupted my exercise schedule and caused me to wuss out and ride the elevator on more than one occasion.
So being a nurse/geek, I did a literature search on myself. I came up with bupkus at first, until I finally came across a condition known as meralgia paresthetica. It's a superficial pain on the lateral surface of the upper leg, caused by compression of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve. The symptoms fit perfectly.
In the meantime, my hubby told me enough was enough and ordered me to see a professional who was actually licensed to diagnose me. I went on Monday and the NP I saw was equally stumped. We ran through a differential diagnosis together. Shingles? No, a rash would have presented by now. Sciatica? The pain didn't seem to radiate far enough down my leg and it was unusual that the pain was exacerbated by contact. DVT? No heat, redness or swelling (and an unusual location for a DVT to boot). But when she palpated my left lumbar region, I wanted to curl up into a fetal position and cry from the excruciating pain. Which was new. She took the literature I brought about meralgia paresthetica (of course I brought it with me!) and sent me down to x-ray.
Results today: normal, save for a slight curvature of my spine to the left. Intervertebral spaces seem fine.
The plan at this point is a follow-up appointment on Friday with an osteopath and an MRI when my prior authorization gets approved. And a week of prednisone. Which has already turned me into a jittery, starving mess.
So I turn to you, dear readers. Have you ever seen this (or experienced it yourself)? Any clues? Diagnostic guesses? Treatment suggestions?
I would love to get my life back.


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Apparently the Occupy Wall Street folks are shocked and disillusioned that those icky homeless people would come in and take their stuff and start fights. Of course I don't think that folks took $5500 Macbooks to their sit-ins and protests back in the day--they didn't take anything of value with them because at the time, they were actually scrounging for money themselves or were having to beg their folks to support their activities.
As Mike over at Cold Fury quipped: "Welcome to the party, pal."
Guess what, we're looking at big government (and you as its tools) the same way--folks coming in and taking what is ours, without permission, and often with the threat of violence.
Gee Skippy, it must be a real eye opener to have people come in and demand things without giving anything in return. And of course, the more you're given, the more you want--all without any personal responsibility. Because of course when that knife-wielding bum threatened you, all you could do was stand in horror and let the police do the heavy lifting.
So all I have to add is:
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About halfway through the game, I realized that today is indeed November 1st and therefore the beginning of yet another NaBloPoMo. Earlier this year I had thought about participating again, but honestly I haven't thought about it in months. Suddenly, I was faced with making an immediate decision. After all, there are only a handful of hours left in the day! All of the usual doubts filled my mind: I don't have enough time, I don't have anything interesting to say, nobody reads it or cares about it anyway, why bother blogging one month of the year and then letting it sit dormant for the other eleven months... The list went on and on. Still, I couldn't shake a nagging feeling of failure if I let it go. This would be the eighth year of Snow Comes Up; I'm not great at this, but am I really ready to call it quits? Was this just my OCD talking, or was this really something that I wanted to do?
As my brain argued with itself and I continued to cheer Denver on to another victory (wahoo!), I finally put it all together: the blogging, the doubts, and the football game.
This year has been hard. Ridiculously hard. I have struggled in ways that I had never imagined and had to walk down a path that I never thought would be required of me. My life, in many ways, has been turned upside down. I have felt, for so much of this year, completely and utterly defeated. I don't mean that in a flippant and cliche kind of way; I have been completely broken and have had to fight each and every day to put all of the pieces back together. Defeated.
Except that I'm not. and the goofy NBC graphic reminded me of that. As I read "The Undefeated" over and over, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 came to mind. Actually, it hit me like a ton of bricks! It reads:
"We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed."
While walking through dark moments, it is easy for me to feel crushed, to despair, to feel abandoned and destroyed. To feel defeated. But that's a lie. That's the enemy talking. The reality is that I am, in fact, none of those things. I may be going through times of trial, but I am being held by a Father who created me (Psalm 139) and who has delivered me (Psalm 56:13).
I am...Undefeated.
How does this all relate to the blog, you ask? Well, it really doesn't. Except that it was a reminder to me that even in the muck of this life, there is hope. There can be healing. There can be restoration. And there can be normalcy. And for that reason, I will try my hand at writing again this month. I will continue to put one foot in front of the other, I will remember Who holds me, and I will once again try to find the joy in putting even my most ridiculous thoughts to paper (well, to the Internet) this year. And I promise you, some will be exceedingly ridiculous. Will I complete all thirty days? I have no idea.
But regardless, I am undefeated.


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Here is the beginning of my very first sculpture. I am having so much fun learning how to do it and its becoming very addicting fast. I will definitely be doing more. This one is being done with oil clay and if it turns out I will be able to cast it into something harder and unbreakable.
I only have been able to work on it 3 hours a week with a live model. It's quite challenging to capture what is in front of you and mold it. There are so many new things I am learning about the figure.
I even have a little sculptor in the family. Jury has begged me for quite awhile to teach him how so tonight we started on his project. I think he really likes it!
Jury has always been the one drawing and painting and finding things in the garage to make 3D sculptures out of. I'm happy that he has found something he enjoys so much. He says he needs to learn sculpting
because he wants to be a plastic surgeon. I think this is a great place to start.
and the girls were content eating Mcdonalds tonight. I never let them eat there and so they were so happy when I caved in!


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I restrict myself these days to Zygocactus and Pothos. Occasional gifted houseplants and the annual poinsettias are held prisoner and then offered as sacrificial lambs to the houseplant gods to curry their favor in the direction of my Christmas cacti. In place of the ceremonial altar and a flint knife, I have substituted benign neglect and the arid, desert-like humidity of the natural Kansas environment, watering only when I see signs of wilt.
That practice has not been kind to the mandarin orange and lemon tree that Mrs. ProfessorRoush insisted I add to our floral menagerie. Both trees spend their summers outdoors on the porch, where it is moderately humid and I frequently forget to water them. They spend their winters indoors where the humidity is very low and I frequently forget to water them.
Recently, I noticed that my fairly spindly orange tree was wilting at the top (above). "Wait a minute," I thought, "orange leaves don't wilt; they yellow and fall off." And indeed, on a closer look, I recognized there was a second stem in the pot; a spindly sun-starved basil that presumably was an offspring from one of our herbs, which also spend summers in pots on the back porch. You can see the second stem better here at the left.
I'm certainly not going to root up this volunteer. If a weed is just a plant in the wrong place, this "weed" is in the right place. Mrs. Basil has done me a favor by going to seed and placing an offspring here in this pot to be nurtured. The rest of the winter, I think I'll just watch the basil as an indicator for watering this pot and the lemon tree next to it. Maybe both trees will now have a better chance to live to see another spring. Besides, the basil smells so good.


text: Since we were kids we grew up with all kind of comic: Cartoons, manga, etc. We all passed throught stages and we never thought that bad things will happen to the main characters in the serie. Here is one example that I found and would love to share it with you. Please do not get upset with me 😛


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|Scattered around the well known monuments of Angkor Wat are hidden cities (wiki)
|The psychic enlightened Buddhist master Ajahn Jumnien told us, after the discovery of Siem Reap, that there were many more discoveries to be made. BBC Radio announced it Sunday night, June 12, 2016 (bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03xdkrs). It's like finding "Atlantis."
(MappointAsia Video) Angkor Wat LiDAR Presentation by Prof. Damian Evans at Siam Society, February 4, 2016, Part 1.
bbc.in/21heUQb, June 12, 2016), hits the Sunday news but is eclipsed by news from Orlando.
(WQ) LiDAR is a form of penetrating radar that can see through the jungle thicket to ancient structures underneath. Wooden artifacts have been under our feet for centuries, even as spiritual tourists have been flocking to the central Buddhist and Hindu temple of Angkor Wat, of the Khmer Empire. But Angkor was once a city of 1,000,000 -- the largest in the ancient world -- due to its mastery of water and an ingenious system through the jungle. The gateway to Angkor is Siem Reap, Cambodia.
bbc.in/21heUQb, June 12, 2016), hits the Sunday news but is eclipsed by news from Orlando.
|Towers of Bayon, Angkor Thom (AZ)
|Death of Angkor Wat's Megacity, Buddhist Khmer Cambodia (BBC TWO/bbc.co.uk)
Satellite/aerial view next to location of Angkor Temple (Wat) in relation to other Angkor City archeological sites such as Angkor Thom (NASA/Manfred Werner/PIA00505).


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Friday, 26 February 2010
Sunday, 21 February 2010
Now I realise!
'Tears of my sweetheart.' Gently the weavy and feeble fingers bent, clearing the tears that tends to drip. The heart can stop beating in a moment as my heart cried out in misery that's heap. To see the sadness and beauty wounded her, Why must I let it be... all the hurts showing over... and how little that she knew the cruel world awaits her virtue. Dry back your tears my sweet baby, coz mom always by your side and chase your worry. -adz. Business nowadays definitely tiring and exhausting. Sometimes, within our practically functions, we gained momentums which regretfully in another week, for certain will be decending vigorously to obtain our worries. Hence, we do need motivations to erase back all the droughts that clowded our minds and sooner climb up the ladder back. Get a grip for yourself and relax. We earned our own salary so we had the pleasure to spent as we like it. Go on...get yourself a really great holiday as a desired goal to look back again once in a while. I remembered the times when I slaved myself to the works and other things that turn out to be a catchy little routine in my life. It really broke one's back though. But I take it for granted that wife,mom and daughter should shoulder their family's mess and of course to be their beck-and-call. As I grew older and wiser, I make up my mind that this must be stop instantly. I ought to peer into my medical report often. Yeah...I'm getting weary and wretched, in my own misery. At last no more buckle down and so I raise up my head to look upon another turning as if turning over a new leaf I guess. One thing I know now is that, there's always a fair deal in giving and taking! I love my kids and hope to be there in their needs.
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And if we're going to look as the past, we ought to do it with a critical eye. The author of the ACN piece glossed over some important details in his vision of a thriving future based on the resource extraction industries of the past. For example, he brought up the Devil's Nose Dam project, which he supported back in the early 1990s and I fought to stop. That dam was never built, largely because it didn't pencil out. But even if it had been financially feasible, there were plenty of other problems with the proposal.
For one, it would have relied on the county securing new water rights from the state. Because of the water deal our county board of supervisors cut with East Bay MUD in 1958, any new water rights on the Mokelumne are "junior" to EBMUD's Pardee and Camanche rights. That means in a dry year, EBMUD would get water first. It's not an especially good idea to base future water supply on junior water rights. That's one reason that the Amador Water Agency never had any role in the Devil's Nose proposal (it was a county project, on which the county blew millions with nothing to show for it in the end).
In addition, the Devil's Nose Dam would have flooded 9.5 miles of wild North Fork Mokelumne River canyon above Tiger Creek Powerhouse, including valuable archaeological sites and critical wildlife habitat. Doing that sort of thing in this day and age is incredibly difficult. This is not the 1920s, when dam-builders could stick a dam wherever they could get the water rights without regard to the collateral damage (they also took the best dam sites). We have new laws to protect the environment and cultural resources, reflecting changes in society and values since the dam-building heyday of the early 20th century.
There were other reasons the Devil's Nose Project wasn't built, but like anything someone thinks is a good idea, it lives on in the fantasy world of "what if we had just done this" where some folks like to dwell.
As far as a return to the days of big timber goes, you only have to know that our local timber industry closely followed housing starts to see how unsustainable that can be. Instead of returning to the days of yore, forward-thinking folks are working to build a new, more-sustainable forest economy based on reducing fire danger in our communities and forests, thinning overgrown plantations, restoring streams and meadows, and repairing poorly built and maintained forest roads that threaten water quality.
I just helped a team of people write a sizeable funding request to get some of this off the ground. It's investment in our natural, social and economic infrastructure.
Even if the forest project isn't funded this year, it's a good start on what needs to "come next" to provide decent paying forest-based jobs, build new forest-based businesses, and create products local people need and use. It also takes into account the reality of natural resources: you have to use them at a sustainable rate or you will, in fact, use them up.
That brings to mind another problem with traditional resource extraction: It relies almost entirely on external markets. Housing starts drop, sawmills close. Price of gold drops, mines close. That makes a traditional extraction economy incredibly vulnerable to forces way beyond local control. Can you say "boom and bust?"
As we move toward a more-sustainable local economy, we would do well to develop our own internal, local markets as much as possible. We do need to sell products outside the county, too, but if we hitch our horse to one, big externally driven market again – whether in housing, minerals or whatever – we'll be in for more wild rides. Building a strong, diversified local economy is better for all of us in the long run.


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Here is a place to test features of blogspot for use as a communication tool. Text can be added along with pictures, links and even video.
The features of a "blog" are easy to learn and accessible for use as a communication platform without many of the challenges often associated with a "traditional" web site.
Postings are listed in chronological order; displaying the most recent material at the top of the page. A simple table of contents is visible on the page outlining a history of the titles listed within the blog.
One useful feature is the ability to place links to other internet material. Such material could be pages from the parish web site, simple event specific pages (easily created with Google Office), outside web sites or even other blogs. Click the link below to visit the blog of St Stephen's recent mission to Honduras.
"St Stephens News" would be an initial foray into the use of this medium. Applications will certainly evolve over time, but some immediate possibilities seem to include:
* Expanded space for articles, lesson notes, letters etc.
* Emergency posting of snow or power cancellations
* Reports of special events
* Links to parish web site features
* Expanded Promotion for upcoming events
* Display pictures and video of parish life
* Post surveys, evaluations and forums for feedback
It seems likely that hosting a number of blogs would become a useful method of presenting a variety of parish programs or groups. Both the parish web site and perhaps a blog serving as an electronic kiosk could serve to send people in the right direction.
This project will certainly be a learning experience for both ministers and parishioners. Please consider how your ministry might benefit from its use and what applications would offer the most value.
Friday, February 1, 2008
Blog with Possibilities
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PHNOM PENH, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) — The National Bank of Cambodia officially issued a new 1,000-riel banknote (in equivalent to 25 U. S. cents) in order to remember and dedicate to late King Father Norodom Sihanouk.
A sub-decree on the issuance of the new 1,000-riel currency was signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday.
The new note displays a portrait of late King Father Sihanouk on the obverse and a picture of a golden swan-shaped float that transported Sihanouk's body on the reverse.
It main colors are pink and blue.
During his life time, Sihanouk's photos were printed on the current banknotes of 5,000 riels, 10,000 riels, 50,000 riels, and 100,000 riels.
Sihanouk died of illness at the age of 90 in Beijing on October 15 last year. His body is now lying in state at the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh for the public to pay tribute.
The body will be moved from the Palace to a custom-built crematorium at the Veal Preah Meru Square next to the Palace on February 1 and kept it for another three days at the site before it is cremated on February 4.
About 1.5 million mourners are expected to attend the funeral, which will be safeguarded by some 11,000 security forces.
Born on Oct. 31, 1922, Sihanouk ruled Cambodia from 1941 to 1955 and again from 1993 until his voluntary abdication on Oct. 7, 2004 in favor of his son, the current King Norodom Sihamoni.


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The birth of the "ROH style"?
#98: Brian Pillman vs. Jushin "Thunder" Liger, WCW Light Heavyweight Championship - Superbrawl II, February 29, 1992
The previous two matches extolled the values found in a good, rowdy brawl. They also prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that keeping a match compelling doesn't take 450-splashes off of ladders through flaming tables propped up over tanks filled with bloodthirsty sharks, eels and Democrats.
This match proves that aiming high with style points doesn't necessarily hurt, as long as it adds to the story.
And this match's story might be my favorite kind: that of competition for 10 pounds of gold. That is "competition" (OK, we all know it's scripted, right? right, moving on....) just to be the best. It wasn't for custody of a child. No one's wife got slapped, nor anyone's significant-other stolen. It didn't even need animosity. It just needed one championship, and two guys who wanted it.
"Flyin'" Brian Pillman almost defies mere words at this point. Without the high-flying, high-risk offense that he introduced to mainstream American wrestling, A.J. Styles, Sonjay Dutt, Jeff Hardy and others would spend whole careers languishing in dark matches. Meanwhile, Jushin "Thunder" Liger was absolutely in his prime, which included classic matches with the likes of two young men named Chris Benoit and Eddie Guerrero.
Pillman had lost his WCW light heavyweight championship to Liger, and wanted it back. Again, I must stress this: there was no bitter animosity or even much antagonism. Pillman wanted his title back, plain and simple.
The two carried off this match at a very, very brisk pace. Both men scarcely sought a moment to rest, stringing together a superb match combining some flawless technical chain-wrestling and each man's trademark aerial artistry. And it cannot be understated: both these men were, in every sense of the word, ARTISTS in what they did.
Both men swapped the momentum enough times to keep every single fan on edge wondering who would come out on top. That might be the most consistently effective way to tell a story in the ring. The last third of the match, each man would reverse something the other did into a high-impact move that I guarantee every fan thought meant the end of the match . . . except when it didn't. I cannot stress this enough, this was not Hogan-Warrior formulaic, face-takes-a-beating-then-dominates-the-last-segment-of-the-match-to-pull-off-the-improbable-win booking. You couldn't read the pacing and have the slightest idea who goes over.
That's the kind of match that is a joy to watch, even when you know the outcome. It sucks you right back in again like the first time you watched it.
Pillman hit his springboard clothesline, but couldn't put Liger away. Liger hit a Liger-bomb, but that couldn't put Pillman away. Pillman nailed a top-rope splash, but couldn't get the three. Liger missed a diving headbutt . . . and then Pillman executed a sneaky sort of rolling clutch you just didn't see on American TV that often and picked up an out-of-the-blue three-count.
And THEREIN lies the perfection. After all the false finishes that threw the crowd off, it was a move absolutely outside of Pillman's signature offense - in fact, something that most would've guessed to be a transitional sort of near-fall move - that finally ended it.
It saddens me to hear "Internet fans" sometimes lament the rampant use of complicated, unorthodox offense in American wrestling, especially in independent federations. And to be perfectly honest, they're not always wrong. What gets me, is that these fans will even lay on the cynicism when high-spots and acrobatic, unorthodox move sets DO help tell the story. The aerial offense both these men employed brought the audience to its feet and added something special.
Remember, it was a MISSED diving headbutt that set up the finish. Pillman's springboard clothesline, often a finisher, couldn't get the three-count, and that put over just how tough Liger really had to be to withstand everything Pillman could throw at him. A dive by Pillman at one point ended with him eating guardrail and the audience probably believing that Liger then had the match in hand . . . which, of course, set up more near-falls, proving that Pillman could take whatever Liger could throw at him. The high-spots need to either mark a transition or assist in getting something else about the story over. As it stands now, they've been significantly cheapened.
Speaking of little things driving the story, give ample credit to Jim Ross for calling this match solo and putting over the immense athleticism that both these men possessed. Ross was the Al Michaels/Bob Costas of professional wrestling at this point, who had an incredible gift for getting across crucial intangible aspects of a match to make it make sense to any average first-time viewer. This night, Ross was in rare form.
Pillman brought colossal heart, talent and athletic gifts to the table, as Ross pointed out. Liger equaled him in nearly every way, except for being in his own right a former IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion. How I WISH I could hear Ross name-drop promotions like New Japan and great performers such as Antonio Inoki on TV again. This is an example of the night-and-day difference between how Vince McMahon likes things done, and what's best for the product. They are not always the same thing, trust me.
It's not the sort of thing anyone notices off the bat, but good logic inconspicuously made this match superb. Every time someone made a wrong move, the other capitalized; that way, it got across these two were so equal in terms of ability, one mistake by either could mean the match. The focus of the match never deviated from the title; that way, in the eyes of the fan, the title truly meant something significant. Finally, the match showed that both men were masters of the one word on the marquee that should ever be made to matter by the promoters:
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Maybe I`m a natural recluse, but Wednesday night at Zanies, while listening to two rather talented Los Angeles-based comics named Lotus Weinstock and Emily Levine, I began to get the same vaguely uncomfortable feeling that often comes over me at parties.
I`ll be talking to someone I`ve never met before (a man or a woman--it doesn`t matter), and at first things will be going just fine. But then, even though the other person is interesting and he or she seems to be interested in me, I suddenly find that I`m not taking part in a conversation at all.


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The Illuminati Zone by William Fevers (a pen name for yours truly) concerning the significance of numbers on that day which is proof that the official story is, to put it politely, incorrect:
"11 and 22 are particularly fortunate and excellent numbers," Richard Cavendish writes in The Black Arts, "representing a higher plane of experience than the numbers 1 to 9. Eleven is the number of revelation and martyrdom."
And multiples of 11 have a unique power:
"Just as adults always carry their inner child within them, the numbers 11, 22, 33, and 44 carry within them the number they can be reduced to. The number 11 is also 2 (1+1=2); 22 is also 4 (2+2=4); 33 is also 6 (3+3=6); and 44 is also 8 (4+4=8)."
There's no avoiding the fact that 11 was a most unfortunate number on that infamous day in 2001. Consider the following from the web site, The Forbidden Knowledge:
● The date of the attack: the eleventh day of the ninth month. Add the digits in 9/11 (9+1+1) and the result is 11.
● The World Trade Center's two towers each had 110 stories (11x10=110).
● The building known as 7 World Trade Center had 47 stories (4+7=11).
● The State of New York, the scene of the attack, was the eleventh state added to the Union.
● The year 2001 had 111 days remaining following the attacks of September 11.
● September 11 is the 254th day of the year (2+5+4=11).
● The Twin Towers themselves formed a symbolic number 11.
● The first plane to strike the towers on the morning of September 11 was Flight 11.
● Flight 11 had 11 crew members on board.
● Flight 11 had 92 persons on board overall (9+2=11).
● Flight 175 had 65 people aboard (6+5=11), and, of course, 1+7+5=13, the number notoriously associated with bad luck and, not surprisingly, the number of the chapter in the Book of Revelation in which the Antichrist appears on the scene. 5
The number 9 is also important in the occult.
According to Texe Marrs, occultists regard the number 9 as the "ultimate number of power and authority" for the usual blasphemous reasons. It was at the ninth hour on the cross that Jesus drew his final breath, and there are said to be nine orders of devils in Hell.
Submitted for your approval: world-shaping events in which the numbers 9 and/or 11, or multiples of one or the other, appear to have an occult implication:
● The Pentagon was also targeted on 9/11. Ground was broken for this structure, a think-tank for war, on September 11, 1941. Here we have 9/11 and, when adding the digits in the year (1+9+4+1), we get 15. Add one to five and the result is 6. When turned on its head, 6 becomes 9.
● World War I, the "war to end all wars" which the League of Nations hoped would usher in a world government, ended in the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
● President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. That's 11/22. Adding those figures gives us 33, multiple elevens.
● September 11 was also the date in 1973 when a coup d'etat took place in Chile. That event, triggered by policies conceived by the Rockefeller controlled Council on Foreign Relations, led to General Augusto Pinochet's establishment of a military dictatorship that would last through 1990.
● The Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989. That's 11/9, the reverse of 9/11, and when you add the digits in the year, you get 27 or 2+7=9 for a total of 11/99.
In none of the mainstream news accounts of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center was there any mention of whose idea those haughty towers were in the first place. Hang on to your hats, conspiracy buffs, because here comes a surprise: they were David Rockefeller's dream!
These giant towers of Babel-like structures were deemed impractical by many. No doubt those who worked in them and bellyached about the constant swaying motion they experienced were never convinced otherwise. But Rockefeller always gets what he wants, so the towers, derisively nicknamed Nelson and David, went up at his behest.
The architect, Minour Yamasaki, didn't live to see his arrogant masterwork destroyed. Of his baby, he said, "World trade means world peace, and consequently the World Trade Center buildings in New York . . . had a bigger purpose than to just provide room for tenants. The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace."
Architect Charles Jencks had a different take, however:
"Repetitive architecture can put you to sleep. Both Mussolini and Hitler used it as a form of thought control knowing that before people can be coerced they first have to be hypnotized and then bored."
Indeed, Hitler recognized that architecture played an important role in the psychology of a totalitarian state. In Hitler and the Power of Architecture, Frederic Spotts describes Hitler's obsessive participation in the design of new building projects in Nazi Germany:
"The overall effect - and, indeed, intent - was to aggrandize himself and to debase human beings into tiny objects, automations as insensate as the stone of the building."
"Is it possible to imagine the World Trade Center as a ruin?" Eric Darton asked in his "biography" of the Twin Towers in 1999.
Prior to September 11, 2001, few of us could. Psychologically, 9/11 reinforced the feeling that we are tiny objects, vulnerable and easily crushed.


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Join us to oppose the Immigrant Registry (HB452) being proposed by the Georgia Legislature.
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Catholic Charities-Atlanta and Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials are hosting a free citizenship workshop Archdiocese of Atlanta, 2401 Lake Park Dr, Smyrna, GA 30080, from 9am-3pm . At this free naturalization workshop, you will be helping green card holders apply for U.S. citizenship. Green card holders will be given one-on-one assistance in completing their application forms and fee waivers, provided with individual legal review by an attorney, and given a clear list of next steps.
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|Sue LeCren and Mike Watts
with Patternotion
Both the books and the lovers of art, culture and 'Duke Special' that are holding them here.
A big welcome to the fold for New Zealand's 'Sue the Librarian' and hope you enjoy Patternotion. Don't let your food get cold either, looks delicious.
Keep in touch with Sue on Twitter at
"I'm an escape artist for a living... I live to escape... well OK, I'm a librarian. Same thing"
Catch her if you can!
If any of you don't know the distinguished gentleman pictured here then let me introduce you to Mike Watts, who is both a Stem Cell aficionado at UCH and photographer on London's live music circuit. As well as bumping into one another in live music venues he recently accompanied us on all 10 miles of our Patternotion Blue Plaque walk across North London.
It seems he has got itchy feet once again and has travelled a little further than those 10 miles of Patternotion. Have a good time in New Zealand and keep spreading the Books For Free message!
Mike Watts is @DrFizzy if you want to keep abreast of his adventures in your Twitter walking boots.


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Voushon was a Rodian smuggler from the planet Rodia. He worked for small-time crime lord Big Bunji for several years. Voushon was said to have more morals than most smugglers, and he took up the job knowing that few people would get hurt.
- "There's Many a Slip Betwixt Cup and Lip"—Mos Eisley Adventure Set (First appearance)


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Experiencing life from the northernmost city of Japan to Japan's third largest city to the southeastern USA to Tokyo!
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Final Ferry Blog
Friday, July 18, 2014
The end of an era
A thousand farewell cards have been handed out. All my schools have been visited. A new job has been found. Many tears have been shed.
The beginning and the end.
In some ways, today was not as difficult as I had feared, and in other ways, it was worse. I've been crazily busy for
days weeks now, and I was running on adrenaline for most of the day. I forgot to eat breakfast, and then I forgot to eat lunch.
But I had a great day of classes and chatting with students afterwards. I almost lost it when I had to give a goodbye speech to all 57 teachers in the morning meeting. But I didn't really lose it in public until our goodbye party, when the teachers gave me a gift. I opened up the bag and pulled out a large board covered in messages from teachers and students.
Can you get dehydrated from tears?
Well, if there had to be a last day of school, this was a pretty good one.


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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Friday, August 10, 2007
Martin Margiela
Martin Margiela is not synonymous with deconstructed understatement, but he is not far from it either. Born in Belgium in 1957, Martin took his design classes at Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1980. He was one of the six original members of the legendary Antwerp's Six (Dries Van Noten, Dirk Bikkembergs, Dirk Van Saene, Ann Demeulemeester and Walter Van Beirendonck), but soon left them in favour of Jean Paul Gaultier.
In 1988, Margiela presented his first collection under his own label, and today, Maison Martin Margiela counts 8 different collections (women's, men's, accessories and shoes) . The collections are differentiated by numbers, and the labels on the garments are basically the same for all collections, except for a circle around the relevant collection number. Moreover, the labels are fastened with the typical four visible white stitches in the neck.
Martin Margiela's concept stores are called Maison Martin Margiela, and are situated around the globe, in cities as Paris, Brussels, Tokyo, New York, Taipei, Seoul and Hong Kong. The stores have a very inconsistent look, and the only consistency seems to be the color (!) white.
(Maison Martin Margiela - 25 bis - rue de Montpensier - Paris)
Secret Society currently stocks Martin Margiela collection 10, 14 and MM6. The first two being men's colletions, while the latter is vêtements pour ♀.
Hope to see you soon!
Have a nice weekend,
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Tuesday, August 7, 2007
We have now opened our doors again, after a short summer holiday. Drop by for exciting news from Pierre Hardy, Raf by Raf Simons, Tsumori Chisato, Martin Margiela 10 & 14, MM6, Number (N)ine and Visvim.
Moreover, we have 50% discount on all spring/summer goods.
See you!
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Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Tsumori Chisato
(picture from www.surface2air.com)
Tsumori Chisato is the sunshine of our lives and the apple of our eyes.
We've had great feedback on Tsumori Chisato for Spring/Summer 07, and we are waiting with great anticipation for the Fall/Winter 07 delivery.
Take a sneak peek at the FW07 collection, at Elle.com.
If you have a greater curiosity of here background, head over to this article from Metropolis, Japan.
Have a nice weekend,
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Visvim Hockney - Red, yellow and brown
Visvim Fbt Ancestor Nez Perce - Brown/Yellow and White/Red
We will be receiving a new shipment of Visvim in the coming days, and these models will be present for our re-opening on the 7th of August. The FBT is made of ELK skin this time around, and the feel of that shoe is amazing. If you have missed out on the story behind Visvim, please take your time to read through the interview from Beinghunted with Visvim founder Hiroki Nakamura. In addition, check out his Honeyee.com blog.
See you,
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|A Moment of Jen
posted by Jen at 4/06/2003 06:56:00 PM
This is officially getting ridiculous.
The other night I was trying to call the dog to let him out. "Wendell!" I yelled. No dog. I tried again. "Wendell!"
Adam looked over and started cracking up. "What's so funny?" I asked, a little grumpily (you, dear reader, would sound a little grumpy, too, if you'd been waking up each and every night with the Heartburn of Death).
"Jen," said Adam. "He's standing right underneath you."
I stepped back. I looked down. And there was Wendell, merrily wagging his tail.
You have to understand that at this point in the game (37 weeks tomorrow), my feet and their environs are basically a myth. I know they're there. I believe in them. I just haven't seen them in a while.
In spite of the vanishing dog, and my husband's bemusement at same, we had a really nice weekend. On Friday I snuck off and saw "Bend it Like Beckham," which was terrific -- funny and sweet and heartwarming and empowering and all. Yesterday Adam and I saw "Spirited Away," which was wonderful in a very different way -- strange and trippy and magical and disturbing (and disturbingly similar, in some ways, to the book I'm working on now, only my heroine is thirty-three instead of ten, and Jewish instead of Japanese, and there's a lot less vomiting).
And then today I went for a walk in the woods with my friend Lisa and her nine-month-old baby Jack, who I think is now my baby ideal. He's round and cheerful, and he laughs a lot, and checks out the world -- dogs and people and peach yogurt. Best of all, he seems perfectly amused by his own feet. At lunch he took his time divesting himself of his sock, and then he looked down at his feet and made this screech of sublime appreciation: You again! Then he put his sock in his mouth. It was excellent. I only hope I'm as blessed in the baby temperament department. | #


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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
The Normative Significance of Holocaust Denial
Fair enough, but the assertion of factually preposterous views (or even the questioning of extraordinarily well-documented facts) is not ordinarily denoted a moral failing. In the United States, millions of citizens disbelieve the extraordinarily well-documented scientific fact that human beings evolved from other species. Three of the out-and-out evolution deniers are candidates for the 2008 Republican nomination for President and President Bush himself has said that "the jury is out" on evolution. These are preposterous views, to be sure, but not the sort of thing that would get you imprisoned for espousing in Germany or Austria.
Holocaust denial is not a crime in the former Third Reich merely because the Holocaust is an extraordinarily well-documented fact. It is a crime because it so often is a view espoused by neo-Nazis. Likewise in western countries that do not criminally punish Holocaust denial, its offensiveness stems largely from the likelihood that someone who denies the reality of the Holocaust may very well wish to repeat it.
Exactly why a neo-Nazi would want to deny, rather than celebrate, the Holocaust, is not entirely clear, but probably has something to do with the fact that literally promoting genocide could lead to imprisonment in countries with less speech-protective notions of incitement than the United States. That can't be the whole of the story, however, because even in the United States, where "abstract" expressions of sympathy for the Nazi program would be protected by the First Amendment, anti-Semitic groups such as the Aryan Nations deny (or question) the Holocaust. Their evident goal is to demonize Jews for spreading the "myth" of the Holocaust. Thus, here, as in Europe, Holocaust denial is a marker for neo-Nazism (and associated ideologies).
Holocaust denial (or questioning) by strongly anti-Israel figures such as Ahmadinejad is most clearly meant to undermine the legitimacy of the State of Israel, which was created in part as a refuge for Jewish Holocaust survivors. To be sure, Ahmadinejad and others also say that the Holocaust does not legitimate Israel because victims of a European crime should not have been compensated by the displacement of Palestinians who, for the most part, did not participate in that crime. (Ahmadinejad would describe Palestinians as completely innocent but I say "for the most part" because some Palestinians, including Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini did try to assist Hitler.) In general, the argument that one set of innocents should not be made to suffer for the sins of others has considerable moral force, which leads one to wonder why Ahmadinejad et al feel the need to supplement this prima facie plausible argument with the completely implausible claim that the Holocaust is a hoax. And that in turn leads one back to the usual explanation for Holocaust denial, namely sympathy for the Nazi program.
(Just to be clear, and in the interest of avoiding extended discussion on this tangential point in the Comments, I am NOT saying in the preceding paragraph that the displacement of Palestinians in 1948 means that Israel is today or ever was an illegitimate State. I AM saying that this argument at least has some theoretical force to it, while the "argument" that the Holocaust is not established fact has no force to it whatsoever, and thus leads one to worry about the motives of anyone who makes it.)
Posted by Mike Dorf
19 comments:
- Yonatan said...
Just one small comment by way of nomenclature - I think there is a difference between something that people can attest to first hand (and have widely done so) and something that no person can attest to; thus, the Holocaust is a well documented FACT, whereas evolution is a well documented THEORY. BTW - what's preposterous about denial of evolution is, I think, not the denial itself, but rather the alternative theories offered up by those who deny evolution - theories that customarily have NO evidentiary support and that cannot account for the findings on which the theory of evolution is predicated. As one commentator in a NY newspaper wrote following the first GOP debate, if presidential candidates are asked about their attitude towards creationism, we might as well also asked them where they stand on the whole tooth fairy issue.
- Kenji said...
Thank you, yonatan. I believe in the theory of evolution, but it irks me when its proponents overstate what it is (although I accept that this is not central to Prof. Dorf's post).
- Michael C. Dorf said...
I've got to disagree with both of these comments. There are debates in biology that further research will resolve: e.g., how much of a role "switching genes" play in natural selection. Unless our understanding of the world is completely wrong--including the understanding which we have from first-hand sense data of the sort that Yonatan credits with respect to human history--no further research will discredit the fact that human beings evolved from other species. The evidence is simply too overwhelming. As for the distinction Yonatan draws, it doesn't hold up. We might discover that we're all really just being made to hallucinate the world by evil robots, as in The Matrix. If so, then first-hand reports of all events would be unreliable. It would take the same sort of astounding discovery to overturn evolution. E.g., a few thousand years ago, angels planted fossil dinosaur bones in various spots in the earth, as a means of testing our faith in the Biblical account of creation. Sure, we COULD discover this, but it's no more likely than discovering that we're hooked up to the Matrix.
- Howard Wasserman said...
Another reason Neo-Nazis or other anti-Semites might deny the Holocaust is to take away the "Never Again" argument. If the original Shoah is a myth, then so, too, are any stated concerns that it could happen again. And so, too, are calls for steps (such as silencing or condemning anti-Semitism, etc.) to prevent a repeat.
- Hillary Burgess said...
In response to your comment about why neo-Nazis don't revel in the holocaust:
I think the denial of the holocaust runs deeper than just the denial of the legitimacy of the state of Israel. It is a continuation of the victimization that defined the holocaust.
This denial is akin to the ways rapists often treat rape victims. On an individual level, when a criminal victimizes another person and then delights in it, the victim at least has a legitimate sense of victimization without discrepancy. However, when a criminal commits victimizes a person and then denies it, the victim is left justifying and defending their victimization before they can even move into the acceptance of being a victim so as to move beyond it. Before the victim can receive social support, she has fight for the "right" to be a victim. She has to fight for the "right" to be defenseless against a physical attack. This struggle usually instills in the victim more of a sense of "being" a defenseless victim rather than being a person who experienced a bad event. Denying the victimization is the ultimate continuation of the crime.
Similarly, for Jews, the holocaust was the ultimate demoralizing act. As a people, the Jews were unable to defend themselves against rape, torture, and genocide. To deny them the fact of the holocaust is to force them to fight for the "right" to be holocaust victims. To have to spend time proving that the holocaust existed forces Jews to live in the past of victimization, not in the present and future that they can and are creating.
While denying the holocaust is an easy way to justify the illegitimacy of the Israeli state, and a significant argument on the international political front today, the hatred for the jews pre-dated the creation of Israel, as is evident by the holocaust itself. And the denial of the holocaust continues that tradition by continuing the victimization.
- Ori H. said...
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- Ori H. said...
If I may, a few random comments on the whole issue as well as on holocaust denial,
1. The notion that the state of Israel is or was justified or legitimized by the holocaust is erroneous and dangerous. The holocaust may have served as a force to urge certain world powers and to shame other world powers, during the late 1940's, to support and allow the creation of a Jewish state, but the core justification for the state is the right of self-determination. If the right to politically control one's own destiny etc is contingent on suffering genocide then few countries today have it.
2. Bollinger's exhibition "introducing" Ahmadinejad proved that even he did not expect any exchange, debate or whatever. He broke the rules of academic discourse from the get go. One is left wondering what was the value of this whole affair, even in the eyes of those that let it happen. Was it just the "goings on" or was it the publicity?
3. I support the notion that the fact/theory distinction is problematic. Holocaust denial comes with the worse kind of anti-Semitism and that is why it so illegitimate - it is the motivations and actions that go with the view, not the view itself. In this agree with Professor Dorf.
4. Putting it all on the Dean of SIPA is problematic. With things of this magnitude the buck stops at the top. Pres Bo could and should have stopped this.
5. The facts are this:
a. A holocaust denier and agent of genocide spoke in Columbia.
b. Many in the audience (both inside the hall and on campus), even after he denied the holocaust, clapped in support of this man at various junctions of the event. Which to me means that, as feared, he (not all his views) was legitimized by the event.
c. We helped legitimized the speaker without endorsing his views, and by legitimizing we helped him opened the door for others to endorse. And they have in the past and they will in the future.
d. Bollinger came out of this affair a naïve and misguided man but also a mench. Being rude and breaking protocol (name calling, not shaking his hand doubting the guest's intellectual honesty before he even said a word etc) was the only thing a person of principle could have done under the circumstances. At the end he did the right thing, even at the cost of being ingression and unkind host. This is better I suppose than being a naïve misguided dushbag. The Neville Chamberlain analogy is off the table. (I hope such language is not overly frowned upon in this forum. If it is, apologies).
- Ori H. said...
It occurred to me after posting my badly edited post (twice!) that people may take section 5 of my comment as directed at one or some of the participants of this forum. I want to be clear that it is not.
- No Exit said...
From Juan Cole's analysis of Ahmadinejad's comments about "wiping Israel off the map."
Ahmadinejad said, "Iran is not a threat to any country, and is not in any way a people of intimidation and aggression." He described Iranians as people of peace and civilization. He said that Iran does not even pose a threat to Israel, and wants to deal with the problem there peacefully, through elections:
"Weapons research is in no way part of Iran's program. Even with regard to the Zionist regime, our path to a solution is elections."
Ahmadinejad seems to be explaining what his calls for the Zionist regime to be effaced actually mean. He says he doesn't want violence against Israel, despite its own acts of enmity against Middle Eastern neighbors. I interpret his statement on Saturday to be an endorsement of the one-state solution, in which a government would be elected that all Palestinians and all Israelis would jointly vote for. The result would be a government about half made up of Israeli ministers and half of Palestinian ones. Whatever one wanted to call such an arrangement, it wouldn't exactly be a "Zionist state," which would thus have been dissolved.
The schlock Western pundits, journalists and politicians who keep maintaining that Ahmadinejad threatened "to wipe Israel off the map" when he never said those words will never, ever manage to choke out the words Ahmadinejad spoke on Saturday, much less repeat them as a tag line forever after.
Supreme Jurisprudent Khamenei's pledge of no first strike against any country by Iran with any kind of weapon, and his condemnation of nuclear bombs as un-Islamic and impossible for Iran to possess or use, was completely ignored by the Western press and is never referred to. Indeed, after all that talk of peace and no first strike and no nukes, Khamenei at the very end said that if Iran were attacked, it would defend itself. Karl Vicks of the Washington Post at the time ignored all the rest of the speech and made the headline, 'Khamenei threatens reprisals against US." In other words, on Iran, the US public is being spoonfed agitprop, not news.
Although Iran's protestations of peaceful intentions are greeted cynically in the US and Israel, in fact Iran has not launched a war of aggression in over a century. The US and Israel have launched several during that period of time.
- Sobek said...
Off topic, but it appears that a former Italian president has returned his honorary doctorate from Columbia.
Unfortunately the only link I have is to a poor translation of a Polish news source, because American papers seem oddly uninterested:
- Kenji said...
"Unless our understanding of the world is completely wrong--including the understanding which we have from first-hand sense data of the sort that Yonatan credits with respect to human history--no further research will discredit the fact that human beings evolved from other species."
You are right, but this only points to the logical problem of scientific inquiry. If you operate within the realm of scientific logic, what other results would you expect?
- Kenji said...
Let me illustrate my point in a different way. Take a look at the following list of numbers:
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, __
What should be the next number? If you answer, "13," you would probably do very well in a standardized exam. The problem, of course, is that there is no logical reason why 13 is a better answer than, say, 20 or any other integer, for that matter, because you can always create a polynomial function to generate any combination of the above six numbers and another random integer.
So, the key logical problem for the theory of evolution is this---when you say that the evidence is overwhelming, is it because you are seeing an equivalent of Fibonacci numbers (in the above example) and not being creative enough to see a polynomial function to explain the available dataset?
This is why yonatan's point still holds. There is a difference when people can attest to something first-hand and when no person can.
- Ori H. said...
no exit,
1. The current regime in Iran has not existed for 100 years but only around 30. You should probably focus only on that time period.
2. Iran has been fighting a low intensity proxy war against Israel through Lebanon for over twenty years and lately through Hamas in the occupied territories.
3. Iran has initiated terror attacks against Jews. For example, the attack on the Jewish center in Argentina in the eighties that took the life of dozens of people.
4. I am not sure what you mean by "wars of aggression". This is an opaque term. The question is not whether a state has had the misfortune of being involved in wars but whether that involvement was justified. You must explain why Israel's involvement in such wars was unjustified.
5. Iranian officials, including its current president, have made more ominous threats against Israel and its people than just having a referendum, such as "Israel can be destroyed with one bomb" etc. If you choose to take the word of the great democrat Ahmadinejad about a referendum in Israel as the right way to understand his openly expresses intentions to destroy Israel etc. than you are either very very generous in your interpretation or disingenuous.
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