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At first they came for the smokers but I did not speak out as I did not smoke. Then they came for the binge drinkers but I said nothing as I did not binge. Now they have an obesity strategy.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
League v Union - only one winner
An interview with Professor Abdulah Rohen gives an insight into the totalitarian hostility to aesthetics,
He says the advent of communism in
Then the Taleban attempted to crush Sufism and outlawed all music, but Prof Rohen says it has since regained huge popularity.
Rumi himself put it more succinctly,
Only sweet-voiced birds are imprisoned. Owls are not kept in cages.
Friday, September 28, 2007
No boycott
Sally Hunt is quoted as saying, 'we may also, where possible, play a positive role in supporting Palestinian and Israeli educators and in promoting a just peace in the Middle East,' a sentiment we can all echo.
Shalom Lappin disagrees with my reservation and sounds a note of caution in his welcoming of the decision.
The great escape
Amongst the many failed ploys that Steve McQueen would have sacked the scriptwriters for suggesting were the time he disguised himself as a Danish ballet dancer and the occasion when 'he and a South African Air Force officer cut their way out of their cells using hacksaw blades wrapped in rubber piping concealed up their back passages, only to be discovered by an under-officer on a visit to the latrines'. Priceless - and admirable.
Bournemouth fashion week
Gordon Brown left Bournemouth last night having completed a daring incursion into Tory heartlands, stealing item after item of Conservative clothing until it was unclear if anything was going to be left at all in David Cameron's wardrobe next week.
From security to patriotism to the deportation of criminal immigrants, concerns over TV violence and the promise of more matrons to tackle dirty hospitals, Mr Brown's team at times was in danger of morphing into William Hague, or more precisely Michael Howard circa 2005.
Whilst I have no doubt that this is a devastatingly effective electoral tactic, the old leftie in me can't help wondering if this is quite what Keir Hardie had in mind.
Hard - dead hard
Ideology and terror
Thursday, September 27, 2007
The future
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
The end of the line?
The causes of the decline in student numbers are pretty much agreed: the severe reduction of the amount of public money allowed for courses outside the three priority areas, coupled with the government's expectation that colleges charge higher fees for courses.
It is exactly what every single adult education provider predicted. Now there is to be a new review of adult learning and the government has responded positively.
The inquiry was welcomed by John Denham, the secretary of state for innovation, universities and skills. "I think there's a very good debate to be had about how we continue to ensure that we get as many people as possible with the ability to enjoy that sort of learning - learning very often for its own sake but which brings a lot of personal and social benefits," he says.
This is the same John Denham who wrote to the Higher Education Funding Council for England on September 7th this year instructing them to make a change to funding that will effectively end much adult education in Universities. Designed to redirect £100 million of funding per year, the measure is a technical one that removes institutional funding for students taking courses at the same or lower levels than qualifications they already hold. It has been misrepresented in the press as ending support for taking second degrees but that is based on a narrow, stereotypical view of University adult education. What it means for us is that a huge programme of short courses, which we built up over the last seven or eight years into something special, will be decimated overnight. As I read Denham's letter I knew I was looking at the end of my career.
Adult learning is complex. People join in at all ages, from different backgrounds and study for different purposes. Some keep attending classes over several years. For many it is about more than learning, it is their lifeline. Our programme is all at level 4 (1st year undergraduate level), so those who have a previous qualification at this level or above will now be barred. This is a lot of people, but losing them isn't the only effect this new rule will have. Because the classes are so mixed, stripping out students with prior qualifications will make the numbers too low to be viable and everyone will miss out, including those trying higher education for the first time.
Although it is becoming a cliché, it is true that progression in lifelong learning is a climbing frame rather than a ladder, allowing people to move in many directions instead of just progressively upwards. Now the government seems to have adopted an increasingly narrow definition of purpose in education, one that relates solely to paid employment, and to a strictly limited notion of progression.
This is illustrated by Denham's address to Universities UK a week later. Calling, perversely, for more flexible opportunities for mature students, he is reported as saying, "We need relationships that are appropriate, whether with large multinational businesses or small local firms." Note - not with trade unions, not with community groups, not with the voluntary sector, but only with employers. We work with all these and all want to promote learning for different purposes, not just employment. Many are just as vital to our society and economy, such as well-being, health, community development, association and, god forbid, pleasure.
The government's position seems to be that you can have one crack at learning at a particular level in your life and for anything else you will have to pay full cost or, if your learning is work related, your employers should fund you. The problem is, learners cannot and employers will not pay.
I went back and looked at David Blunkett's Green Paper, The Learning Age, issued in the first flush of the new Labour government. It recognises that, "People learn for a variety of reasons; it could be to change career, to increase earning power, to update skills, or simply for the joy of learning itself" (1.3). It calls for "universities, higher and further education to be beacons of learning in their local communities" (4.28). I couldn't agree more. However, looking at recent developments, it is hard not to conclude that the government have now narrowed their approach and no longer seek to enable a 'learning age'.
Adult education likes to describe itself as a movement rather than a service. It implicitly recognises that it serves a broader social purpose. If you look at its history, you can trace its emergence through the working-class autodidact tradition, the trade unions and voluntary groups. The Universities played a key role early on, with the extension movement challenging narrow models of higher education and championing inclusion and learning for all. It was also one of the forces that helped give rise to the Labour Party. How ironic then that New Labour's custodianship of adult education should have been such a disaster, an act of cultural vandalism even, discarding a century of investment in a few short years.
So what is left? Well, we are not going down without a fight and campaigning is starting. Even if we fail to overturn the decision not all programmes will go, though they will be much diminished. The opportunity for a first degree later in life is still there. Perhaps one of the most hopeful signs is that informal learning and self-help groups are springing up again. The autodidact tradition is being reinvented. As for me, my future is uncertain. There is one thing I do know. I won't be able to fill my time with adult education classes.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
"... a petty and cruel dictator" - "... brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated" - "... yearning to express the revulsion for what you stand for"
Thanks to sandbasher in comments at the Drink-soaked Trots.
Will links to a good article by Anne Applebaum in the Washington Post here.
After a while it will be back to normal.
Ahmadinejad is notorious for having denied the Holocaust, threatened Israel, and demonized America. He is also the elected president of a nation that stands, together with the United States, on the edge of an abyss.
This style relies heavily on words like 'but', 'however' and 'also' in order to qualify the earlier requisite, if half-hearted, disapproval. Having established the legitimacy of the theocracy, he then goes on to blame its existence on - America.
The extremist Ahmadinejad rode to power on Iranian reactions to the steady insult from America.
And so the Iranian president should have been allowed to visit Ground Zero so that all could exclaim, "Let solidarity be the meaning of this place". Solidarity? With a regime like this?
(And follow the links here - be careful with one, there is a link to a site with a shocking photo, though the post is well designed so that you have to scroll down to see it - I didn't - or explore some of the stories here. And so on ...)
Monday, September 24, 2007
Judgement night
There is hot competition and getting the nomination alone is fantastic, but I would love him to win it! I will update with news later.
He didn't win. It went to a documentary called Sex Slaves. A great achievement none the less.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
In praise of email
Firstly, there is the liberation. Jenkins writes menacingly of 'the dreaded send button, itching to be pressed'. Instead I see the adored delete button, begging you to commit the message to oblivion. It isn't just the pleasure of eradication that elates, it is the contemplation of the alternative.
The worst blitz of spam is nothing to the phone call that wakes you up as you recover from a night of dedicated binge drinking, when, to your horror, you discover it is from some telesales team somewhere offering you something you neither want nor need, or, even worse, a customer relations advisor in India asking you about the service you received last week, when you can't even remember what it was you bought. Just as you go to give them a mouthful, you realise that the person is an underpaid wage slave doing a crap job and your conscience kicks in, you relent and tell them where to go nicely. With spam you can recover fully, pour another glass and hit delete with a flourish, accompanied by the foulest invective in the world with no worries. It is deeply satisfying.
And what about the people who send you interminable emails about complete bollocks. Delete them instantly and smile with relief because if they weren't able to send them to you they would have done something far worse; they would have talked to you. Hemmed in a corner by a determined bore you can search all you like for a delete button - it doesn't exist. You are doomed to hear their latest theory and nothing can save you other than extreme physical violence. And this is the point. These people don't do letters. You have a simple choice - an easy to delete email or at least forty-five minutes of hell.
But there is so much more. I keep in touch with old friends through email and have made new ones who I would not have met any other way. I have debated and developed ideas, supported others and received help myself. I have had instant conversations with friends even though we are hundreds of miles apart. You can save and file the messages you value without clogging drawers with crumbling paper. It is quick, cheap, easy and always legible. On top of which, I value writing and reading and now the world has started writing again; the art of correspondence has been revived. Even the much reviled text speak shows an amazing inventiveness with language, not that I have got a clue what anyone is saying. When the phone rings, I groan, but when I have mail in my inbox, I feel a tingle of anticipation. Email gives me reminders, connects me with people and alerts me to new things to read, gems I would have missed otherwise. And all this is delivered to me personally, wherever I may be in the world. It is wonderful. And, finally, without the daily advice that floods in, I hate to think just how much smaller my penis would be.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Moderation in all things
The liberal left also need to nail their colours more firmly to the mast. We always seems to be at our weakest when thinking about foreign policy issues and all too often allow ourselves to be seduced by easy cliches (sic) and simplistic notions. This is part of the reason why we are so often impatient with diplomacy and multilateral institutions during crises such as Darfur. But defending these also now represents the best chance there is for ensuring a peaceful end to impasse. This needs to be stated more loudly in the days ahead.
Apart from the easy cliché about nailing colours to masts, this seems to be a defence of prevarication rather than 'courage in our convictions'. Rather than being 'seduced by ... simplistic notions', left impatience over Darfur is based on something more important. Every delay, every wasted day or month when nothing is done, costs the lives and homes of hundreds and thousands of people. Mass murder continues uninhibited whilst diplomacy grinds on. The victims cry out for action. Sometimes patience is not a virtue but a vice.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Prime suspect
Andrei Lugovoy, subject of an extradition request over the murder of Alexander Litvinenko has launched his political career as a candidate for Vladimir Zhirinovsky's singularly inappropriately named Liberal Democrat party (they are neither). The Scotsman, amongst others, reports on Zhirinovsky's bizarre behaviour at a press conference. When asked about the murder case he hit the monster rant button:
"Britain, you keep the whole world soaked in blood" … "You are all accomplices, all of you are bandits and criminals, your whole government together with your Queen"
A suitable case for the men in white coats or the takeover of a Premiership football club one would have thought, but not if you turn to the Scotsman's comment boxes.
'He is correct. The
'Gob (sic) Bless Us - Everyone - the man's absolutely right'.
'We act like the Americans in that we limit who can be extradited. So, in that regard we, and the Americans, are cheats and bandits'.
'It's near impossible to conceive a worse legal and justice system than
'From this it appears to be the
'Do we really think the Russian system is less credible than any here, especially after last weeks fiascos'?
Is there any hope at all?
The Mail (sorry, I really don't read it) adds some more of his ravings:"Britain will disappear under the water one day" ... "And it will serve you right ... Even your sheep die every day and every hour due to your sickening British policies."
Sheep? What is that all about?
Avast ye
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
A tale of three PhDs
There is only one thing I would add, and it is best illustrated by three stories, all of mature students. First, there is my friend June, who I used to work with in a Further Education college. She set out on a part-time PhD in her 60's and got there this year; a tribute to her determination in the face of adversity. Then there is Pam, who took a huge pay cut to take a secondment to work on a project with a half-time PhD and has nearly completed in time. Finally, there is mine. Despite numerous attempts I was never able to get funding and so I embarked on the long (very), arduous, and expensive, part-time route, fitting my studies around increasingly demanding jobs. I got it last year, thanks to a period of study leave for which I will always be grateful. The sacrifices of time and money that all three of us made show a barely sane devotion to learning, which is not something particularly evident from Tomlin's piece. Us three have made it, others have not.
If there is one thing this country is good at it is moaning. However, this national characteristic is utterly revolting in the mouths of the privileged. Opportunities for people to undertake post-graduate study are unjustly limited. I know highly able people who would kill for the opportunity Tomlin has, but they cannot afford to do it. Not only that, if his article is anything to go by, I suspect that they are far more able than him. If he wants to work properly and finish his thesis then I have only one piece of advice. Don't rely on threatening cups of tea, get up every morning and realise how utterly, totally privileged you are. Just consider that your position as a research student at Oxford is not down to your wonderful talent but to time and chance, the same factors that have denied your opportunities to others of great ability. Tomlin, you have it easy. Your good fortune confers a duty to use it responsibly, and a little humility would not go amiss.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
A book - and an essay
I have never had much time for John Gray ever since I made the terrible mistake of reading Straw Dogs. He has gone through many manifestations - originally a libertarian advocate of the New Right, then a social democratic critic of the New Right, at present he is at his least convincing as a misanthropic scourge of Enlightenment values. If there is one common theme running through his writing it is relish at the prospect of impending disaster. Unsurprisingly, he therefore turned out to be the reviewer of Naomi Klein's dreams. I was also underwhelmed by Klein's No Logo (you should hear it pronounced in a Hull accent - it sounds like Ner Lerger), and, though I haven't read her new book, it appears to have enough apocalyptic guff in it to give Gray a severe 'touch of the dooms'.
The neo-liberal order is already facing intractable problems. The Iraq war may have allowed another experiment in shock therapy, but a failed state has been created as a result of which Gulf oil - which a former chair of the US joint chiefs of staff accurately described as "the jugular vein of global capitalism" - is less secure than before. Faced with defeat in Iraq, the Bush administration seems to be gearing up for an assault on Iran - a desperate move that would magnify the existing catastrophe many times over. At the same time financial crisis has reached into the American heartland as an implosion in speculation-driven credit markets has started to spread throughout the system. It is impossible to know how these crises will develop, but it is hard to resist the suspicion that disaster capitalism is now creating disasters larger than it can handle.
However critical I may be of the 'Neo-liberal' elite consensus, I would not choose Gray, nor Klein for that matter, as my advocates of choice.
Now for the good. David Grossman has a long essay on literature and the Holocaust. It is worth reading in full. His central aim in his own writing was, 'To write not about the death and the destruction, but about life, about what the Nazis destroyed in such a habitual, industrial, mass-minded way'. Thus, his essay is a humanist meditation on the uniqueness and value of indivdual life and the importance of literature in our understanding of it. The essay is all the more poignant given the loss of his son in the war in Lebanon.
It concludes beautifully,
The secret allure and the greatness of literature, the secret that sends us to it over and over again, with enthusiasm and a longing to find refuge and meaning, is that literature can repeatedly redeem for us the tragedy of the one from the statistics of the millions. The one about whom the story is written, and the one who reads the story.
Read it all.
George Szirtes discusses the same reviews and makes a pertinent criticism of one other, which I did not mention, of a book arguing for a one state solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict, a notion I was critical of here.
The season's over
Friday, September 14, 2007
Miscarriages of justice
A CASE on behalf of Jesus Christ has come knocking on Kenya's High Court door, lodged by a fervent Christian group that wants his conviction declared null and void and his crucifixion illegal.
Though cases to right historical wrongs are far from unusual around the world, Kenya's Friends of Jesus (FOJ) has reached back two millennia in what may redefine the quest for closure.
The petition was filed on Monday with the court registrar, raising a novel set of legal quandaries - not the least of which involves the statute of limitations and whether the high court has jurisdiction over the Son of God.
The report continues,
They want "the court to declare Jesus's trial null and void ... because the (ancient) court that convicted him was not properly constituted, the prosecutors violated the law of the time and the trial was a sham", Mr Indindis said.
The FOJ's lawyer Humprey Odanga said Jesus's crucifixion was a wrongful punishment for a trial based on charges of "blaspheming the Holy Spirit'' and should be corrected by modern law.
My laughter at the complete absurdity of it all stopped suddenly when I read this justification for the court action:
"Jesus was lynched by Jewish mobs. That was illegal. It was abuse of office, malicious prosecution, fabrication of evidence, judicial misconduct and goes against the principle of natural justice.''
So, once again, literalist religious fundamentalism leads us back on the murderous path of anti-Semitism. Now, what was Christopher Hitchens saying?
Hat tip Gill not Will
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Taking Dawkins to task
... Though he accuses Fascism of being an extremism; he flatly refuses to acknowledge the extremist bias of his own non-Fascist position. He is also blind to the obvious truth that his beloved non-Fascists have killed just as many people as have Fascists—more, indeed. Why doesn't Dawkins focus his polemic on them? The reason is that a peculiar hysterical hostility to the very idea of Fascism blinds him. (He claims for instance that 'non-Fascists don't do evil in the name of non-Fascism', which would be news to all the senior Fascists hanged by the Nuremberg anti-Fascist trials). All ideals – political, transcendent, human, or invented – are capable of being abused. And knowing this, we need to work out what to do about it, rather than lashing out uncritically at Fascism. But Dawkins cannot understand this.
Read it all here (and don't forget to scan some of the comments - dumb or what?)
Hat tip Will - again - bless
Read in conjunction with Tristram Hunt on 'the new atheist orthodoxy'.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Hitchens, Roth and decency
I can't comment on the novel itself because I haven't read Roth, and after that, I don't want to. I have too much respect for Hitchens' literary tastes. From the review, the book appears to be a misanthropic picture of life as sordid, squalid and miserable. An obligatory part of this world view is a depiction of revolting sex. Stripped from the context of erotica, it is almost impossible to write a description of sex that isn't either unconsciously comic or generally disgusting. This is why the Bad Sex in Literature Award continues to flourish and amuse. However, this style of writing uses it to signify the debased nature of the human condition, though Hitchens suggests that 'Roth has degraded the Eros-Thanatos dialectic of some of his earlier work and is now using his fiction, first to kill off certain characters and to shoot the wounded, and second to give himself something to masturbate about'.
As an antidote to this form of literary self-indulgence, it is nice to read something that celebrates life, not as something easy, but in ways that convey respect, dignity and affection. The reading that reminded me of this tonight was not a new novel or biography; it was drawn from the blogosphere. Freens in Springburn has taken the opportunity to enlarge upon the memories of his grandfather. I found it a touching reminder of the beauty of a life lived well.
Almost forty years after his death, he is still a presence: with me are the memories of his quotations, the aroma of his pipe tobacco (like aromatic liquorice), his hand-tied fishing flies, his broad, flat bunnets, his pawky humour, and, still, as I listen to digitally-remastered CDs of Björling singing Nessun Dorma or Questa o quella or La donna e mobile, I raise a dram to the memory of a great and abiding influence and a good and decent man.
That one paragraph is worth a thousand pages of loathsome middle class angst.
Monday, September 10, 2007
And this is Nessun Dorma
Make up your own mind, but I am with Freens.
Pavarotti's classic 1972 recording is also on YouTube. I am wavering. Listen to it here
Only one reader is remotely interested ...
Saturday, September 08, 2007
Fat man pays tribute to a fat man
Sentimental, a little corny, and exquisite
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Always look on the bright side of life
Nevertheless, after some meanderings round the ideas of myth and belief, it doesn't take long for her to descend into a characteristic celebration of miserabilism.
Just because secular societies have junked religious mythology, doesn't mean they don't have myths - the ones they have developed to replace the religious can be deeply destructive - celebrity, consumerist aspirations that material wealth brings happiness, the winner takes all. These are myths which cause untold unhappiness in lives - and the impulse to deaden such emotions through alcohol or drugs.
Wow, it must be hell (sorry) to be an atheist. Except I am one. And I am not 'blighted by dissatisfaction, disappointment and frustration'. Well I am a bit - and this glass of brandy is helping - but it isn't the myth of celebrity and consumerism that gets to me, nor even reading a Madeleine Bunting article, it is the cold hard reality of the proliferation of bureaucracy in education. In other words, happiness and disappointment are rooted far more in reality than myth.
Some may find consolation in religion, myth or faith, fine for them. I cannot. Instead, I have friends, books, music, Swinton Rugby League Club (perhaps not), Greece and this blog. All of them have a material existence, they are real. 'Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' are enough for me. None are achievable without living in a successful society, and that too, for me, means dealing in reality rather than faith.
Root causes
Now remind me, if Madrid was caused by Spanish involvement in Iraq, if 7/7 was caused by British involvement in Iraq, what was the attitude of the German government to the war?
A suitable case for a boycott?
That's another place off the Respect holiday itinerary.
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Now that's what I call a book review
Marvellous stuff - and one of the most thoughtful defences of blogging I have read.
Via Norm
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Democratiya 10
Terry Glavin shares the pain of a terrible review of the book of a friend with whom he disagrees and I have dipped my toe in the water by reading Dave Rich's excellent review of Ed Husain's, The Islamist (together with Inside the Global Jihad by Omar Nasiri & Gordon Corera).
I like Husain's book and have posted on it here, and this review is an excellent rebuff to Sunny Hundal's side-swipe* in his CIF piece yesterday, compounded by his link to a sneering article by Ali Eteraz.
Rich is respectful and perceptive. The key section for me is how he deals with those who argue that the 'root cause' of terrorism lies in the foreign policies of Western powers.
Husain and Nasiri both write about a time when the recent invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the War on Terror and the second Palestinian Intifada were not available for people to cite as 'root causes' of terrorism, but the 1990s were not short of alternatives. The first Iraq war, Bosnia, Chechnya and Kashmir were all conflicts that caused genuine grievances amongst Muslims. But it requires an ideology and an organisation to take these transitory political triggers and convert them into the rationale for radicalism and violence.
Quite so. Read it all.
* Will takes a characteristically more robust exception to Hundal's article at the Drink-soaked Trots
Monday, September 03, 2007
Let them smoke dope
A true Salt Lake strategy would go much further.
It would make the age limit 21, rigorously enforced. It would take drink off the shelf at Tesco and Sainsbury's, reserving booze for many fewer state-registered off-licences, open 10am to 6pm weekdays (as in Sweden) and sanctioned by a national register, rigorously inspected. It would raise the prospect of tying the right to drive to a family-imposed necessity for sobriety. (Why allow 15-year-olds found drunk in the street even to learn to drive a few years later unless they've cleaned up their act?) It would be pressure, pressure, pressure to reach the tough core of a tough drinking problem.Yikes. Authoritarian or what? Us over-age drinkers wouldn't be having much fun, only able to buy drink when we are at work. There is one flaw in this. There are other mind-altering substances to take the place of booze that are easily available any time.
As for me - I need a drink.
Oh, lonesome me
The main division on the left over foreign policy 25 years ago was between multilateralists, who favoured peace through a system of collective security and a strengthening of multilateral institutions, and unilateralists, who argued that Britain should act as a vanguard example. However, since the invasion of Iraq was a clear violation of international law, its supporters now argue that the existing legal system should be scrapped, or dramatically altered, and that multilateral institutions, such as the UN, should be sidelined from the debate about when resort to armed force is justified.
He starts with debates within the left over nuclear deterrence and then morphs seamlessly into a topic that has nothing to do with it, Iraq. Leaving aside the continuing debate over the legality of the war, this non-sequitor is a total misrepresentation. If the war was illegal, then those supporting it would argue that the law is inadequate to handle humanitarian intervention. The clear implication is that international law should be reformed and strengthened, not scrapped.
In the comments thread on another CIF piece by Sunny Hundal he elaborates,
The Euston Manifesto also calls for an overhaul of the entire international legal system to make it easier for states to attack one another.
This is what the Euston Manifesto actually says,
We stand for an internationalist politics and the reform of international law—in the interests of global democratization and global development. Humanitarian intervention, when necessary, is not a matter of disregarding sovereignty, but of lodging this properly within the "common life" of all peoples. If in some minimal sense a state protects the common life of its people (if it does not torture, murder and slaughter its own civilians, and meets their most basic needs of life), then its sovereignty is to be respected. But if the state itself violates this common life in appalling ways, its claim to sovereignty is forfeited and there is a duty upon the international community of intervention and rescue. Once a threshold of inhumanity has been crossed, there is a "responsibility to protect".
In other words the Manifesto is calling for a limit to state sovereignty based on a clear definition of human rights. Calling for collective action to protect individuals from torture and murder is hardly scrapping the existing legal system and sidelining multilateral institutions, let alone making it easier for states to attack each other. It is the creation of international law that puts the rights of the citizen ahead of the rights of the State. How can anyone on the left object to that?
Thanks to Will for pointing out the post and the comment in his own unique style
Sunday, September 02, 2007
There was more to it this time than local rivalry. First, as a resident of Hull, I am delighted to see both Hull clubs in Super League. The East Hull club, Rovers, have had a bit of a raw deal as financial crisis took them down to the old Third Division. Meanwhile Hull FC were rescued from their troubles by a 'merger' with the Gateshead Thunder club, whose backers were not able to make it pay after one year. Then they had a new stadium built by the council to house themselves and Hull City, whilst Rovers still struggled. Now the two teams are back with the same ferocious rivalry that dominated Rugby League in the early 1980's .
However, most important of all, this is one in the eye of the opponents of promotion and relegation as, once again, the promoted side has stayed up (see my April post). Not that it will make much difference, Rugby League seems determined to press ahead with a franchise system for the top division. Many of the Rugby League's dafter schemes end up short-lived, I hope this goes the same way.
Choosing sides
'We were very aware of the generosity and compassion of Britain. We owed a debt to this country for saving our lives. I wasn't opposed to Germany, but I certainly was interested in fighting the Nazis.'
Whoever coined the phrase, 'my country right or wrong', didn't reckon on the intellectual clarity and morality of these remarkable individuals.
Blogging and the English Language
From the Orwellian point of view, it is the violence the internet does to the English language as much as its challenge to the journalistic infrastructure that is the biggest anxiety.
Leaving aside the fine writers, poets, academics, journalists and unpublished aspirants who blog, has he ever read any post-modernist theory? Even the worst blogger is an amateur compared to that systematic attempt at Englishicide.


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President Bush Pleased with Russian Meeting
Remarks by President Bush and President Putin in Photo Opportunity
Hermitage Museum
St. Petersburg, Russia
Q Mr. President, allow me to ask you -- (inaudible) -- summarize results of your -- (inaudible). And the second part of that question, the expectation of the Moscow summit -- how do you think --
PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, first, the hospitality has been magnificent. The time we spent last night with the Putins in their beautiful home was very relaxing for Laura and me. It gave us a great chance to see how the Putins live, a very good sense of their values. I think the thing that struck me the most was how they have raised their daughters. They've got two beautiful daughters, who are incredibly talented young ladies. It is clear their mom and dad love them a lot, and that was impressive to Laura and me.
I was very touched that the President took time yesterday, after going to the Kremlin -- after going to Red Square, to take us to his office. And I thought it was a great personal touch, that was important to see the private side of this man's life. It meant a lot.
Secondly, I think the summit was -- met expectations, it met my expectations. I hope it met the President's expectations. We not only signed a very important treaty, we signed a -- you know, a very important protocol of how our relations ought to go forward and I'm really glad that -- I'm glad that all the hard work on both sides has paid off. And this will be good for the Russian people; this agreement will be good for the people of Russia and it'll be good for the people of America.
You know, at the St. Petersburg Cemetery today, the lady who gave us a tour spoke about peace and how it was important for everybody who walked those hallowed grounds to remember the ravages of war and to remember the importance of peace. And I explained to her that this visit was a visit of peace, where we cast aside the old ways of suspicion and now embrace peace.
Sorry about the interpreter. (Laughter.)
Q -- interpretation.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Okay. Well, good luck. (Laughter.)
Q (Asked in Russian.)
PRESIDENT PUTIN: As far as the staying of Mr. President and his wife in our home yesterday, I would like you to know two things. For one thing, our personal relations to have been greatly strengthened. They're very happy to know that I'm dealing with very honest and upward and straight people. That is one.
And then there is something else, which is by no means a political thing. Yesterday, when we had our dinner and I was treating my guests of course to the Russian caviar, and I told him how some of the caviar is produced. The experts would take the fish and open up the fish and then take the caviar and then throw out the fish again and throw it back into the water. (Laughter.) Everybody was laughing -- thinking that I was really inventing things on the spot, something really improbable. (Laughter.) But I was trying to convince them -- I was really trying to tell them that I was telling the truth, that's how we treated the environment. (Laughter.)
The Secretary of State, the Russian Foreign Minister, Dr. Rice, Mr. Ivanov and also both wives -- my wife and Mr. President's wife -- all laughed at me. And there was only one person who wouldn't laugh and said, "I do believe you, Mr. President," and that was the President of the United States. (Laughter.) And I want to confirm it here and now, that's the truth, ladies and gentlemen. (Laughter.)
And one more thing. The dinner, the supper was over somewhere around midnight, because we were supposed to go to St. Petersburg early in the morning. Of course, we got up very early, we didn't have enough sleep this morning. And when last night, before going to bed, Mr. President told me that he would be jogging in the morning, I wouldn't believe him. (Laughter.) But he was doing that, just that.
Well, on a serious note, as far as the results of this visit are concerned, I would like to say that myself and my experts, all my experts, we have been discussing the results of the visit this morning and we have officially agreed that we are satisfied and all the goals of this visit have been achieved.
I thank you.
PRESIDENT BUSH: One question, Ron, go ahead.
Q If I could ask you real quickly, sir. Is there anything personal you can do to ease tensions between Pakistan and India? And do you think President Musharraf is doing enough to crack down on terrorism in Kashmir?
PRESIDENT BUSH: We are spending a lot of time on this subject -- "we" being the administration. And we're making it very clear to both parties that there is -- there's no benefit of a war, there's no benefit of a clash that could eventually lead to a broader war.
We're deeply concerned about the rhetoric. It is very important for President Musharraf to stop -- do what he said he's going to do to in his speech on terror, and that is stop the incursions across the line -- the line of control. It's important that the Indians know that he is going to fulfill that promise.
Vladimir and I have talked about this and he's got -- he, as well as the United States and Great Britain and other countries have got influence in the region, and he is going to meet soon at a conference where we believe Prime Minister Vajpayee and President Musharraf will both be attending.
My point is, is that there's a lot of diplomatic efforts going into bringing some calm and reason to the region.
PRESIDENT PUTIN: An international event is planned for the early June, this year, in Kazikstan, where both President Musharraf and Prime Minister Vajpayee have been invited. I do hope they will come and there would be an opportunity for us to discuss things. And we have covered that ground with the President of the United States.
Of course, the testing while there is escalating tension really aggravates the situation, and Russia is concerned and sorry about that. I'm sorry about that. And we shall be working together to take steps in order to prevent the escalation of the conflict.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Thank you, all.
Q (Asked in Russian.)
PRESIDENT PUTIN: -- some people believe, particularly in Europe, that in the United States people give less attention to the matters artistic and they give attention -- less, at least -- than in Europe. My dealings with your President and his wife have demonstrated to me that this is a very deep mistake.


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Berkeley artist Vita Wells's newly installed work, Flights of Mind, spans three levels of the atrium of Berkeley's main Public Library, and it literally makes books fly.
The installation features some two hundred altered, sculpted books suspended and airborne, as if flying in a spectacular natural formation, throughout a large portion of library building. The work was created for — and much admired at — Saturday's Berkeley Public Library Foundation Authors Dinner (which we reported on earlier today). And now it is open to the general public to view, for free, for the next two weeks, through Feb. 24.
Wells will discuss the art installation and her work during a free artist talk on Sunday Feb. 24 at 2:00pm in the Central Library's 3rd floor Community Meeting Room.
In a release, Wells said the installation is about "possibility and community across space and time, and it celebrates how public libraries enrich who we are as individuals and as a community."
In response to the frequent question, "Why books?" Wells said: "As physical objects, books are unlike any of the other material objects with which we surround ourselves in our day-to-day lives. They are singular in the power their mere physical presence possesses, the promise and possibility they embody."
The Central Branch of the Berkeley Public Library is at 2090 Kittredge at Shattuck Ave. in downtown Berkeley. Access to the exhibit is available during the library's open hours: Monday 12-8; Tuesday 10-8; Wednesday – Saturday, 10-6; Sunday 1-5. Wheelchair accessible. For more information about the artist and her work, visit Vita Wells's website.
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Social Security recipients shouldn't expect a big increase in monthly benefits come January.
Preliminary figures show the annual benefit boost will be between 1 percent and 2 percent, which would be among the lowest since automatic adjustments were adopted in 1975. Monthly benefits for retired workers now average $1,237, meaning the typical retiree can expect a raise of between $12 and $24 a month.
The size of the increase will be made official Tuesday, when the government releases inflation figures for September. The announcement is unlikely to please a big group of voters — 56 million people get benefits — just three weeks before elections for president and Congress.
The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, is tied to a government measure of inflation adopted by Congress in the 1970s. It shows that consumer prices have gone up by less than 2 percent in the past year.
"Basically, for the past 12 months, prices did not go up as rapidly as they did the year before," said Polina Vlasenko, an economist at the American Institute for Economic Research, based in Great Barrington, Mass.
This year, Social Security recipients received a 3.6 percent increase in benefits after getting no increase the previous two years.
Some of next year's raise could be wiped out by higher Medicare premiums, which are deducted from Social Security payments. The Medicare Part B premium, which covers doctor visits, is expected to rise by about $7 per month for 2013, according to government projections.
The premium is currently $99.90 a month for most seniors. Medicare is expected to announce the premium for 2013 in the coming weeks.
"The COLA continues to be very critical to people in keeping them from falling behind," said David Certner, AARP's legislative policy director. "We certainly heard in those couple of years when there was no COLA at all how important it was."
How important is the COLA? From 2001 to 2011, household incomes in the U.S. dropped for every age group except one: those 65 and older.
The median income for all U.S. households fell by 6.6 percent, when inflation was taken into account, according to census data. But the median income for households headed by someone 65 or older rose by 13 percent.
"That's all because of Social Security," Certner said. "Social Security has the COLA and that's what's keeping seniors above water, as opposed to everybody else who's struggling in this economy."
Seniors still, on average, have lower incomes than younger adults. Most older Americans rely on Social Security for a majority of their income, according to the Social Security Administration.
"It's useful to bear in mind that no other group in the economy gets an automatic cost-of-living increase in their income," said David Blau, an economist at The Ohio State University. "Seniors are the only group."
Still, many feel like the COLA doesn't cover their rising costs.
"You have utilities go up, your food costs go up. Think about how much groceries have gone up," said Janice Durflinger, a 76-year-old widow in Lincoln, Neb. "I would love to know how they figure that."
The COLA is based on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, or CPI-W, a broad measure of consumer prices generated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It measures price changes for food, housing, clothing, transportation, energy, medical care, recreation and education.
In the past year, food prices have risen 2 percent while home energy prices have dropped 3.8 percent, according to the CPI-W. Housing costs have climbed by 1.4 percent and gasoline prices have increased by 1.8 percent.


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Samsung G800 – Fortus Mobile Phone Review
Raising the Standards in Mobile Imaging
The latest addition to the small, but growing, group of 5 megapixel camera phones is the stylish Samsung G800. While this amazing slide phone wasn't the first with a 5 megapixel camera, the G800 is the first mobile phone to include an optical zoom with such a high quality camera. This Samsung masterpiece is also one of the best looking high quality camera phones currently available.
The latest imaging technology can not yet be packaged into an ultra-slim, super lightweight casing, but the Samsung G800 is comfortable to hold and is an ideal size for taking pictures. The shiny, silver casing is subtle, but sleek, and the G800 sports a trendy slider design. The full colour display screen takes up most of the phone's face, measuring 2.4 inches, and is perfect for viewing the incredible pictures captured with the phone's camera.
A simple navigation pad is located at the bottom of the screen, along with two soft keys and the call buttons. The Samsung marvel slides open to display a typical flat, slider-style keypad. The top row of buttons may be more difficult to access, but the other keys may be more easily distinguished than the buttons of many smaller handsets. Turn the G800 over and the handset transforms into a digital camera, quite similar and comparable to a dedicated camera.
The 5 megapixel camera is the most appealing feature of this stylish slider and there is no doubt why. The Samsung G800 is currently the premier camera phone and could seriously rival some of this year's hottest handsets, including the iPhone. Not only does the G800 take digital camera style photographs that can be printed on your Pictbridge compatible printer directly from the handset, it also features a number of features previously only found on standalone cameras, like Wide Dynamic Range and face detection. This camera phone also boasts a user-friendly camera-like interface that is a first for mobile phones.
The Samsung G800 takes both pictures and videos and features integrated editing software for both. The optical zoom feature pushes the G800 ahead of the competition and the power of a real Xenon flash ensures perfect shots day and night. The music player and integrated, stereo FM radio are just as impressive, supporting all common formats and providing high quality sound.
The G800 is an all-around good mobile phone. The internal memory is more than many handsets, at 160 MB, and a memory card slot allows unlimited storage for your favourite songs, pictures, and games. The Samsung G800 supports most types of messaging, including email attachments, and features 3G connectivity as well as Bluetooth. Unfortunately, wi-fi connectivity was forgotten.
Besides the lack of wi-fi and the somewhat bulky size, the G800 is a stylish phone that is paving the road for camera phone technology. The Samsung G800 may just earn the recognition of this year's most magnificent mobile phone. It's difficult to follow up on the successful U600 and G600, but Samsung has done it successfully and can consider the G800 to be another feather in its cap.


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VMware and its corporate parent EMC next year will form a new business entity, called Pivotal, that brings together the two companies' respective cloud platforms and products that enable the processing of big data. It's not clear whether the companies are spinning these assets off outright or how they will structure the new organization. VMware said it will formally announce the business structure next quarter. So far, we do know that the unit will be led by Paul Maritz, the former VMware CEO and current EMC chief strategy officer.
Pivotal will aim to provide a common entity for developers to build applications that run on VMware's various platform as a service (PaaS) offerings as well as software that analyzes huge volumes of data. Pivotal is scheduled to begin operations in the second quarter of next year.
Approximately 600 VMware employees and 800 from EMC will be assigned to Pivotal, which will include the Pivotal Labs, the provider of agile software development tools it acquired in March that lets developers build apps that can scale to cloud infrastructures using big data. Pivotal will also include EMC's Greenplum data warehouse appliance business.
VMware's contribution will include its vFabric (including Spring and Gemfire), Cloud Foundry and Cetas. It appears the vCloud Suite will remain part of VMware, as indicated in a blog post published Tuesday by senior VP of communications Terry Anderson.
"The resulting Pivotal Initiative solutions will be optimized for the VMware vCloud Suite, helping to ensure that customers benefit from the best cloud architecture available, top to bottom," Anderson said. "Simultaneously, VMware will continue to drive application-aware innovations into its core platform, ensuring best-in-class performance of any application when deployed onto the VMware vCloud Suite."
The announcement and rational of the move were vague, though numerous reports have speculated that the company has considered some form of spinoff such as its open source cloud PaaS venture Cloud Foundry. VMware is not commenting beyond Anderson's blog post.
"There is a significant opportunity for both VMware and EMC to provide thought and technology leadership, not only at the infrastructure level, but across the rapidly growing and fast-moving application development and big data markets," she noted. "Aligning these resources is the best way for the combined companies to leverage this transformational period, and drive more quickly towards the rising opportunities."
Forrester Research analyst Dave Bartoletti said in a blog post IT pros should welcome the move, which will refocus VMware on the datacenter and on furthering its push into software defined network virtualization.
"This move helps to end the cloud-washing that's confused customers for years: there's a lot of work left to do to virtualize the entire datacenter stack, from compute to storage and network and apps, and the easy apps, by now, have mostly been virtualized," Bartoletti wrote. "The remaining workloads enterprises seek to virtualize are much harder: they don't naturally benefit from consolidation savings, they are highly performance sensitive and they are much more complex."
Analyst James Staten, Bartoletti's colleague at Forrester, noted in his blog by moving their cloud platform offerings to a separate business, EMC and VMware will be in a better position to appeal to developers. It's "way too soon to speculate on the end results but this could help EMC play a significant role in cloud development services," Staten said. "Hopefully this new group will focus on cloud-based delivery and not build its business model around on-premise software license sales."
The news came just one day after VMware released new tools to ease the procurement and reach of cloud apps using its vCloud Suite. The company's vFabric Application Director 5, announced earlier this year, gains support beyond traditional VMware environments, notably Amazon Web Services EC2 public cloud and Microsoft's Hyper-V virtual machine platform.
The latest version of vFabric Application Director is aimed at easing the deployment of hybrid cloud applications via certified VMware-approved templates and various tools including middleware, data management and security software.
"It allows us to take the exact same [infrastructure] blueprint, deploy it onto vSphere, vCloud or Amazon EC2 without having to change anything," explained Shahar Erez, VMware's director of applications management products. "This gives organizations the flexibility to leverage their blueprint across clouds without being locked in."
To provide these various blueprints, reference architectures and OS-loaded templates for vFabric Application Director, VMware launched its Cloud Applications Marketplace. Erez said the marketplace already hosts 100 downloadable solutions from 30 ISVs and systems integrators. Among them are solutions from Bluelock, Cognizant, Couchbase, Jaserpsoft, Puppet Labs, Radware, Riverbed and SugarCRM.
"You would find load balancers, firewalls, WAN accelerators SSL accelerators, applicaiton servers, databases, message queues and memcaches," he said, as well as "applications for blogging, content management, bug tracking and cloud provisioning blueprints available with a single click."
VMware this week also released its vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.6, which adds application performance and configuration management capabilities and is designed for rapid configuration of virtual machines, Erez said. VMware is offering the performance management capabilities of the Operations Management Suite as a separate download with all versions of VMware vSphere.
Posted by Jeffrey Schwartz on 12/05/2012 at 1:14 PM
Microsoft this week announced that the new Outlook for Windows 11 is now at the "general availability" release stage for personal account users, but it's also arriving for organizations as a so-called "enterprise ready" release.
Microsoft on Thursday unveiled four new Surface devices for businesses.
Cisco is acquiring security and IT solutions provider Splunk for about "$28 billion in equity value," per a Thursday announcement.
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Rear stabilizer bar
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Rear independant suspension
Spare Tire
Compact spare tire
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17'' alloy wheels
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Air Conditionning
Dual-zone auto climate control
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Cargo Net (Option)
Cargo Organizer (Option)
Cargo tray
Driver Vanity Mirror
Illuminated driver-side vanity mirror
Front Wipers
Variable intermittent front wipers
Fuel Door Operation
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Intelligent Key System
Interior Air Filter
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7 speakers including subwoofer
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Illuminated front passenger-side vanity mirror
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Metal racing pedals
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12-volt power outlet
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Power windows with front one-touch up/down feature
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Sure, The Clash's "London Calling" might seem like a good choice until you actually, you know, listen to it.
Although the 2012 Summer Olympics in London are still an entire year away, there has already been substantial media coverage on the far side of the Atlantic. And according to Alan Connor's essay for the BBC, one of the songs used "as part of the countdown coverage" has been a version of The Clash's "London Calling."
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Don't get us wrong; NewsFeed loves The Clash. We even like this particular song. In spite of all this however, we just don't feel that a song about food shortages, "nuclear error" and "zombies of death" really riles up the Olympic spirit.
It's true the phrase "London calling" is a quintessentially British, as the BBC would start broadcast messages to occupied countries in World War II with it. And, sure, the Olympics have always had a war-like mentality to them. However, The Clash song, a punk-rock anthem about their own society's ills, hardly suggests a go-for-gold sportsman anthem, does it? As Connor told NPR, the song is "celebrating London, but it's also repudiating the previous decade's idea of London. When he says, 'We ain't got no swing,' I think Joe Strummer is trying to put in the bin the red-bus, black-taxi, groovy-baby kind of London."
But NewsFeed realizes that choosing a perfect song — one that includes references to London, competition and 2012 — would be all but impossible, unless it was specially written for the games. But there has to be something out there that would be better suited to the 2012 Olympics, right? Queen's "We Are The Champions"? Fergie's "London Bridge"?
On second thought, anthems are tough. If you have something better, please put your suggestion in the comments below.
Megan Gibson is a reporter at TIME. Find her on Twitter at @MeganJGibson. You can also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.
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ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP) — The art of debate in American public discourse has, it seems, gone the way of the dodo bird. Insults and accusations have replaced the reasoned presentation of ideas buttressed by points of fact.
Take, for instance, the subject of homosexual marriage. Those who oppose same-sex marriage are accused frequently of being bigoted homophobes, end of discussion. As a result, real public debate on the issue has been squelched. The average American, who must sort through media portrayals of the debate to arrive at a conclusion, is thus vulnerable to manipulation.
A case in point is the disparity between the percentage of Americans who identify as homosexual or bi-sexual and the public perception of that percentage.
The Centers for Disease Control released a study this month which found that slightly more than 2 percent of Americans identify as homosexual or bisexual.
However, a 2011 Gallup poll found that "U.S. adults, on average, estimate that 25 percent of Americans are gay or lesbian." Among young adults ages 18-26, the estimate jumps to 29.9 percent.
When you juxtapose the CDC study with the Gallup poll, you see just how far removed perception can be from reality. When reasoned debate disappears, manipulation of the masses is likely to follow.
Pick almost any controversial subject and the scenario is the same. Whether the issue is abortion, illegal immigration, evolution or any other hot topic, the absence of reasoned debate leads to manipulation.
This is why dictatorships, whatever governmental form they may take, go to great lengths to control the information to which their citizens have access. So long as they control the information, they can manipulate their citizens into believing what they want.
While any political and philosophical persuasion can substitute insults and accusation for reasoned debate, it seems liberals in America have used that tactic frequently.
On abortion liberals accuse their opponents of being anti-choice and anti-women. Those against illegal immigration are labeled uncaring and lacking compassion. If you question the validity of evolution, you are accused of not only being anti-intellectual but also woefully ignorant.
America is currently as divided as it has ever been. There are myriad controversial issues that must be addressed. Americans of every political stripe must insist that reasoned debate take place in order for citizens to be fully informed.
To see the importance of reasoned debate, we need only look back to another time when our country was divided over a very controversial issue.
In 1858, America was sharply divided over the issue of slavery. During the late summer and early fall of that year, two men vying for an Illinois senate seat debated each other seven times over the thorny issue.
From mid-August to mid-October Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas met throughout the Prairie State and meticulously dissected the issue of slavery in the United States.
There was no love lost between Douglas and Lincoln. However, a sense of decorum caused the pair to duel via argument. They were passionate about their positions, but treated each other with dignity and respect.
When the debate dust settled, Douglas won the senate seat. However, the public had been exposed to Lincoln's arguments against slavery in America. As a result, he became the Republican nominee for president during the election of 1860 and the rest, as they say, is history.
It was ideas, points of fact and information that persuaded the public to Lincoln's point of view, not his personality. He had no need to hurl insults and accusations at his opponent. He had the truth.
Like never before America needs reasoned debate surrounding the controversial issues of the day. Christians can, and should, lead the way as examples in how to debate with decorum.
The Bible is replete with admonitions on how we should treat one another, the most famous of which was uttered by Jesus: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
If you wouldn't want someone hurling accusations or snide insinuations at you, then refrain from doing the same.
The biblical principle is that people are to be treated with dignity and respect, even those who might perceive themselves as our enemies. "Love your enemies," Jesus taught, "and pray for those who persecute you."
Positions on any controversial subject can be presented without compromise while at the same time "opponents" can be treated with respect.
One of my favorite books is titled "The Velvet Covered Brick." Published in 1973, it was written by Howard E. Butt who at the time was vice chairman of the board of H.E.B. grocery stores, based in Texas.
Butt's book addressed servant leadership before the topic was in vogue. The title sums up the book's theme: Christians, leaders in particular, should be like velvet covered bricks — steadfast and immovable on issues of truth yet tender and kind toward individuals.
Christians need to lead the way in reviving reasoned debate. In so doing followers of Christ should be velvet covered bricks, unyielding in reference to the truth, but careful to not unnecessarily bruise people in the process of making a case.
Kelly Boggs is a weekly columnist for Baptist Press, director of the Louisiana Baptist Convention's office of public affairs, and editor of the Baptist Message (www.baptistmessage.com), newsjournal of the Louisiana Baptist Convention. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress) and in your email (baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp).


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LOT 43 Crossing Meadows, Viroqua, WI 54665 - VIROQUA'S MOST COMPLETE SUBDIVISION CROSSING MEADOWS WITH MUNICIPAL SEWER AND WATER, PAVED STREETS, CURB AND GUTTER. EACH LOT HAS GOLF CART ACCESS TO VIROQUA HILLS GOLF COURSE. COUNTRY FEEL AND VIEWS BUT CLOSE TO DOWNTOWN. PROTECTIVE COVENANTS TO PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT LOT/NEW CONSTRUCTION HOME PACKAGES AVAILABLE. CALL OUR OFFICE FOR MORE DETAILS. (There is a one-time $150 mailbox fee charged to a buyer at closing to pay for their future mailbox located in the cluster box.)
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The US Navy flies the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet fighters, and has begun operating the EA-18G Growler electronic warfare & strike aircraft. Many of these buys have been managed out of common multi-year procurement (MYP) contracts, which aim to reduce overall costs by offering longer-term production commitments, so contractors can negotiate better deals with their suppliers.
The MYP-II contract ran from 2005-2009, and was not renewed because the Pentagon intended to focus on the F-35 fighter program. When it became clear that the F-35 program was going to be late, and had serious program and budgetary issues, pressure built to abandon year-by-year contracting, and negotiate another multi-year deal for the current Super Hornet family. That deal is now final. This entry covers the program as a whole, with a focus on 2010-2015 Super Hornet family purchases. It has been updated to include all announced contracts and events connected with MYP-III, including engines and other separate "government-furnished equipment" that figures prominently in the final price.


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ADDED: Some analysis by a lawprof, Stuart P. Green:
The problem is that most people simply don't buy the claim that illegally downloading a song or video from the Internet really is like stealing a car. According to a range of empirical studies, including one conducted by me and my social psychologist collaborator, Matthew Kugler, lay observers draw a sharp moral distinction between file sharing and genuine theft, even when the value of the property is the same....That is, let's be realistic and honest about what we really think is morally wrong in this area and adapt the law to that. Obviously, our ideas about morality and intellectual property have shifted with the changing technology and — let's face it — our desire to justify what we've done and what we want to do. We're talking about statutory law, and this is a democracy, so we can have what we want. We just need to think rationally and long-term about what will give us what we want.
[W]e should recognize that the criminal law is least effective — and least legitimate — when it is at odds with widely held moral intuitions.
... People who work hard to produce creative works are entitled to enjoy legal protection to reap the benefits of their labors. And if others want to enjoy those creative works, it's reasonable to make them pay for the privilege. But framing illegal downloading as a form of stealing doesn't, and probably never will, work. We would do better to consider a range of legal concepts that fit the problem more appropriately: concepts like unauthorized use, trespass, conversion and misappropriation.
Here's Stuart P. Green's book, upon which the linked op-ed is based — "Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle: Theft Law in the Information Age."


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Cremation Services - New Options for Funerals
A common myth about cremation services is you can't have a traditional burial. This would not be further from the truth. In reality, you really have more funeral options when you opt for cremation instead of a traditional burial. Here are just some of the different ways you or a loved one could be honored with cremation instead of a traditional memorial service. Read on to find out.
Unlike a traditional burial, cremation services don't require a memorial service. You can have as much of a private viewing as you like and the family can opt to have a reading or memorial service at a church or other faith-based facility. You can also choose to cremate without a funeral memorial service. In these cases, there will be a small memorial service held at a later date, such as at a home or garden event. Your family and friends can still hold a celebration remembering you.
Many people are afraid to cremate their loved ones because they fear they won't be able to have a final cremation or that the remains will be stored properly in the cemetery. This could not be farther from the truth. There are many options for ashes storage available today, including caskets, burial boxes, and even marble urns that can store your loved ones remains for up to 5 years. If you do decide to have a memorial service or cremation, you can always contact the cemetery to see if you can have the remains put in a burial box. They can direct you to a supplier that will make the casket and burial casket for you.
Cremation providers come in all shapes and sizes. Some offer their services to local funeral homes and parishes while others work throughout the country. It is important to make sure you find the right cemeterieside cremation provider for your needs. Some of the larger crematories will also have small satellite cremation services that can be used on a very limited basis. There are some very small funeral service providers that only accept very small amounts of cremains.
Smaller, family-owned cemeteries often have very limited access to funeral homes. The funeral homes are more likely to contract with larger crematory service providers. For this reason, it is important to do a little research into the background of any small crematory you are considering. Although it may be more expensive, it may also be more convenient for your family.
The container for your cremation process will depend on the type of service you will be having. It will also be different if you are cremating a loved one that has already been cremated. The container will be made to look like a burial container. This container can be purchased at any funeral home or even at any mortuary. You can also customize the container to fit your needs. If you decide to personalize the container, it may be more cost effective to buy a pre-made memorial container from a specialty store.
In addition to the actual cremation costs, there are additional costs associated with using a container. The price includes the cost of renting the container, the cost of embalming the body if you chose embalming after death, and the cost of the casket itself. Sometimes, a crematory will charge extra for caskets and other funeral items. You should check with your provider to determine what the typical cremation costs are in your area.
A final note about cremations: most people who choose to use a funeral directing company will receive a final service notification. This notification will outline all the cremation costs that are associated with your particular funeral. You will also receive an inventory of everything that is left behind in the chamber. Make sure you have this inventory completed and available prior to your service.
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