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Grandchild of newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst regained $100 million in past year thanks to stakes in cable networks ESPN, Lifetime, A&E. Newspaper, magazine holdings continue to falter amid weak ad market. News Corp's Dow Jones announced it will buy Hearst's 50% stake in SmartMoney, ending a nearly 20-year partnership. Seattle Post-Intelligencer now publishes exclusively online after print operation shuttered last year. Hearst plans to introduce e-reader this year; "Skiff" will provide advertising next to newspaper and magazine articles. George Hearst owned mining stakes and land; U.S. senator became owner of floundering San Francisco Examiner newspaper in 1880 as payment for gambling debt. Son William (d. 1951) took reins 1887 and created newspaper empire based on sensational "yellow" journalism; built readership with what reportedly were exaggerated accounts and pictures of Spanish-American War. In addition to cable assets, Hearst Corp. owns 15 daily newspapers (Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News), 15 U.S. magazines (Esquire, Harper's Bazaar), TV and radio stations.
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Each Hindu community on the Indian subcontinent has its own Gramadevata, literally "village Divinity," the Deity regarded as synonymous with the locality and everything within it. Just as the home is viewed as a composite of the spirits of all of its inhabitants and of the materials that went into its construction, so also is the community a blend of its physical, spiritual and emotional components. Every house, every street, all of the shops, the craft studios, the barns, the farms, the trees and bushes, the wells, the reservoirs and streams, the inhabitants (people, animals and insects), the spirits of those who have lived and died there, and even the activities, thoughts and emotions of everyone living there--all are part of one great spirit identified as a Deity, a Gramadevata. This Deity is the community, just as the community is the Deity. They are inseparable.
Towns and cities have many individual subsections, each of which usually has its own Gramadevata. For example, every small locality in the Rajasthan city of Jodhpur has a God or Goddess that has been worshiped in that spot for as long as the community has existed. While most cities are internally divided into numerous smaller entities, a municipality may also be viewed as one great Deity, interwoven with all the inclusive Gramadevatas.
In this way, the entire southern Indian city of Madurai is believed to be the Goddess Meenakshi, the Gramadevata of the initial community that lived there. Her power is believed to be so immense that several kingdoms during the past millennia have owed their greatness to Her beneficence. Many thousands of pilgrims from all over India visit Her temple for Her darshan every year.
Most Gramadevatas are feminine--associated with the Earth, fertility, healing and protection. Their names often reflect their association with the Mother Goddess: they are usually prefixed or suffixed with Ma, Mata, Matrika or Amman (each a regional translation of "mother"), Ben or Bai (sister) or Rani (queen). Sometimes their regional identities have been merged with that of a greater pan-Indian Deity, such as Durga or Mari.
For example, the Gramadevata of many southern Indian communities is Mariamman, while seven temples to the Goddess Durga Ma surround and guard the royal city of Udaipur. According to Hindu numerology, seven is particularly auspicious. Seven Mothers (Saptamatrika) are believed to guard many towns throughout the subcontinent, each Mother a specific aspect of the great Divine who may be beseeched in times of particular need. Together They are inseparable from the community that They incorporate. Their images may be delicately carved to delineate the various attributes of the individual Goddesses, but most often They are represented simply by a row of seven sacred stones placed beneath an ancient tree.
Although Gramadevatas are indivisible from Their communities, each must have a focal point, a specific place or object on which to direct attention. The devasthana, or shrine, of a Gramadevata is usually associated with an important natural feature: a hill, a boulder, a stream or pond, a tree or grove of trees. Trees are by far the most common: there are hundreds of thousands of sacred trees being worshiped constantly in India. Most are ancient, venerated as Gramadevatas for untold centuries in the same way that the pipal tree (Ficus religiosa, a kind of banyan) is worshiped by Lalubhai and his family in the story on page 56.
The appearance of these tree sanctuaries is as varied as the communities themselves: sometimes there are several trees together, or a single tree with a large platform built around it, or one marked with flags and banners, or one with its trunk dressed like the Goddess Herself. The devasthana may be in the center of the village or in the fields beyond the farthest house. When the tree dies, the spot remains sacred. It is believed to be vibrant with the energies of innumerable pujas and will usually continue to be a focus of community worship, most often with a platform or building constructed where the tree stood.
The shrines in brahmana villages or those with brahmana occupants are usually overseen by brahmana priests. Pujas that take place in devasthanas in those many communities without brahmana occupants are often facilitated by non-brahmana priests, often because the community simply may not be able to afford to hire a brahmana. Conversely, a single brahmana in a village might feel isolated and therefore not want to move there.
The position of priest may be hereditary, usually given to a person of a menial caste whose family has conducted the pujas at a devasthana for untold generations. In some villages, however, inhabitants share responsibility for the shrine and appoint respected citizens to conduct worship, like the pujari in Mataji's shrine. Many rituals that take place in a devasthana are conducted by individual devotees without an intermediary. The contact is direct between devotee and Deity.
Occasionally the spirit of community, the Gramadevata, may be transformed into that of another, greater Deity. For example, the essence of the tiny Orissan village of Padmapoda is viewed as the Goddess Gelubai, a local Thakurani, or benign form of the Divine Feminine honored within a sacred tree. Gelubai is believed to protect and nurture every aspect of existence within Padmapoda's boundaries. At times of great need, however, when an individual, a family, or the entire village requires the aid of Shakti (the dynamic power of the Great Goddess), then a special puja is enacted in which the identity of Gelubai is subsumed into that of the Goddess Chandi. Perhaps someone is particularly ill and is unable to be cured by doctors, or perhaps the village is suffering a drought that endangers its crops and livelihood. In these and other dire cases a special brahmana priest will be hired to perform the puja.
Gelubai is first bathed, dressed and adorned, as She is every day, and Her usual puja is conducted. Next, an area is cleaned on the platform in front of the tree; a sacred diagram is drawn with special powders, and a fire is laid with sticks of wood. Then the flames are made to flare by being anointed with ghee, during which time the priest sings the names and attributes of the Goddess Chandi. As he extols Her, he places a coconut in the flames and invites the Goddess to pour Her divine energy into the tree, thereby transforming its essence from that of the village into the universal power of the Absolute.
As the coconut heats, the milk within it boils, causing it to burst, which signals the moment when the transformation is complete. Chandi in all Her strength is then present within the village. Her devotees may have direct darshan with Her. They believe that whatever they pray for will happen, and that by this ritual miracles do occur. The sick person will be healed or the drought ended. Once the puja is complete and the invocations made, Chandi is reverentially thanked and invited to leave the site. The tree returns once more to Gelubai as the village returns to its peaceful farming existence.
Although the majority of Indian communities worship feminine Gramadevatas, many communities envision these Deities as masculine. In some regions it is common to worship a local form of Rama or Hanuman as Gramadevata. In these cases indigenous legends usually involve the Deity's interaction with local sites and historical characters that are unique variations of the more common mythology. Many villages refer simply to their God as Baba or Appan (two words for father) or an appellation that incorporates one of these names. Just as Mataji is considered the mother of Lalubhai's village, in other communities Deities are visualized as judicious and powerful fathers who protect their families from danger.
In the eastern part of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, many towns and villages have two Gramadevatas--one masculine, the other feminine--each housed in Its own tree shrine. The local names of these Gods and Goddesses are as varied as their communities, although the generic name for the God is either Baba or Di-Baba, while the Goddess is called Kali-Ma. Both are considered tutelary Deities: they protect their devotees from adversity. Villagers may pray to either or both, depending on inclination and need. An outsider would have difficulty ascertaining the difference between the two tree shrines that honor the God and Goddess, except when terracotta offerings have been made. When devotees request the aid of Di-Baba, it is customary to promise to give Him a terracotta horse when their prayers are answered. If a boon is received, the worshiper will commission this sculpture to be made by a local potter. On a day considered auspicious to the God, the horse will be placed in His devasthana, along with gifts of flowers and food.
Pujas to Kali-Ma are more popular than those to Di-Baba. Kali-Ma is viewed locally as the Mother Goddess and is petitioned for aid when any kind of problem strikes the family. Her followers may come from any Hindu sect. Her pujas are considered particularly effective in combating agricultural calamities, family crises, civic disputes, infertility and disease. Many believe Her to be both the cause and the cure of smallpox, cholera and measles. When struck with one of these diseases, a person is said to be inhabited by Kali-Ma. Part of the cure is to worship and honor the Goddess within.
Often the worshiper will promise that if the Goddess answers his or her prayers, then terracotta elephants will be given to Her. These elephants are believed to become real animals in the spirit world the instant they are placed in Her shrine, and many believe that Kali-Ma rides them in Her nightly battles against evil. Once the elephants have been given and transformed by the Goddess, they no longer have any value. They, like the horses given to Di-Baba, remain beneath the tree to disintegrate with the weather, their sole purpose fulfilled.
Terracotta gifts are placed in the shrines of Gramadevatas throughout India. Most often made on commission by local potters, they are easily affordable, even in a country where the overall per capita income is particularly low. Their form and the style of production vary according to local tradition. Many are simple stick figures made of dowels of clay, others are sculpted of elements thrown on the wheel, while still others are made by coil or slab techniques, or mass-produced in molds. They range in size from just inches high to over sixteen feet, the largest terracottas known in the history of mankind. Almost all are gifts to local Gramadevatas in grateful response to the Deities' beneficence. Each, even the most elaborate, is ephemeral: its value is in the giving. It represents a personal commitment between the devotee and his or her Deity, the essence of Hindu reciprocity.
Considering that each Hindu community honors its own individual Gramadevata, it is no wonder that India is said to contain a million and one Gods and Goddesses. The present census lists more than 630,000 villages, not counting the numerous towns and cities. In its entirety, the Hindu pantheon is overwhelming, inconceivable. Its relevance lies in its approachability, not its vastness. Each Hindu has a vital sense of belonging. Each has an Ishtadevata, the Deity of personal choice; a Kuladevata, the Deity of family and household; and a Gramadevata, the Deity of community. An individual's life is entwined in recognizing and honoring these relationships, in defining the self and one's interconnectedness to all other living beings. In a world where concepts and values are constantly challenged, the underlying purpose of all the numerous rituals and pujas of every day and season is to allow the Hindu to meet God, an experience that brings with it a sense of clarity, balance and belonging.
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On a perennial effort to tidy up my office space, I came across the Fall 2004 issue of Barnard. On the front cover I'd scrawled "see article on Barnard friends." Curious, I looked. Sure enough, there was an article by Amy Richards '92, "Here's to our other Half, The Joys of Having Women Friends," so I turned the pages. Why had it meant something special to me?
The answer was forthcoming on page 65 when I, Class of 1932, was quoted as saying, "For Barnard women, age is no barrier. Our common interests and mutual affection far outweigh any differences that may exist." I go on to describe how joining the Barnard Club in Los Angeles in 1960 had made a difference in my life that I could never have imagined. Seven of my sister alumnae, all graduates of different classes, celebrated my 90th birthday with a luncheon in March of 2004. Joemy Wilson '67, once a club president, made a donation to Barnard in my honor on that occasion. I was deeply touched.
The birthday luncheons have continued to this year when I turned 96. Even more important, the friendships remain very much alive. And Joemy continues her annual donation to Barnard. I know how fortunate I am to have this remarkable group of women in my life, but I feel sure that in many parts of this country there must be other Barnard women who have found that college friendships can begin long after leaving 116th Street, and can continue to enrich their days, as they have mine.
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On Monday 2nd June, the Prince of Wales will travel to Warwickshire to attend a number of engagements across the county.
Prince Charles will begin his day of engagements by visiting the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, where he shall meet a number of young people who are involved with the Learning and Performing Network. The Network is involves more than 40,000 students and teachers from across the country who have the chance to work with members from the Royal Shakespeare Company and their local theatres in order to create a greater experience of Shakespeare in classrooms. Students from across the country who are involved in the Network will have the opportunity to showcase an extract of their work on one of Shakespeare's plays, before discussing their experiences of studying the playwright with the Prince of Wales.
The Prince, who is President of The Royal Shakespeare Company, will then watch a short performance of Henry IV by secondary students from across Stratford.
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Here are the rest of my reflections on The Attributes of God by Shai Linne. Click here to check out Part 1.
Track 8 — All Consuming Fire
It's not often we sing hymns about God's wrath, but Scripture has much to say about this glorious attribute. We must grasp the Truth of God's righteous wrath against sin in order to appreciate the mercy and grace He shows toward sinners. Shai Linne teaches this concept so well in this album! This track opens with a clip of John Piper, taken from an excellent sermon delivered on September 2, 2001 (which you can read and/or listen to here) . In it, Piper defines sin as a rejection of each of God's attributes, listing them in order — one of the best descriptions of sin I've ever heard.
I also love what Linne has done here, musically and thematically. The contrast between the previous track ("Lord of Patience") is striking; this captures the incredibly shocking and seemingly contradictory statement that God makes of himself in Exodus 34:6-7: How can God be "gracious, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love… forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin" yet also be the God "who will by no means clear the guilty"? Only in the cross can we make sense of this. This track is the one that gets stuck in my head most easily… especially helpful and sobering given the prophetic nature of the song's ending, in which Linne repeatedly reminds us: "God's wrath is coming! God's wrath is coming! All the wicked will be punished at the final judgment!"
Favorite lyric: "No weeping or apologies, no sneakiness or bribery / will keep the Lord from honoring His Law and its demands"
Audio preview. Full lyrics here.
Track 9 — Perfect Love (featuring Monielle)
Here Shai Linne inserts a track that helps us reconcile God's mercy with His wrath by showing more fully how God is love, and contains perfect love within Himself. If we can't understand how mercy and wrath go together, it's because we can't comprehend God in His fullness. The lyrics ask "how could God's love be extended to men corrupted with sin?", and then direct us to consider that it is because of God's love for the world that He restrains His wrath, but it is because of His greater love for Himself that He will not delay judgment forever.
Favorite lyrics: "They say, 'If God is love, what's eternal torment for?' / Well, He loves the world for sure, but He loves His glory more!"
Audio preview. Full lyrics here.
Track 10 — Faithful God (featuring Chris Cobbins and Sovereign Grace Kids)
This track expounds on God's faithfulness, both to save and to judge. Like "Lord of Patience", it takes the form of a prayer. This is also the clearest proclamation of the gospel on the album… this song will preach! Around the start of the year, I'm going to teach this song to my 4th-6th grade children's choir, and Lord willing (i.e. – if some of my boys can overcome the Tennessee drawl and get the verses out fast enough!) we'll perform this for our congregation sometime in the Spring. Should be fun!
Favorite lyrics: "When we believed you were faithful to save us / And that means you'll be faithful to change us / And the Spirit of Jesus will keep us 'til / You make us holy and blameless"
Audio preview. Full lyrics here.
Track 11 — Judge of All the Earth (featuring Sovereign Grace Kids)
After two clarifying tracks, Linne resumes the conversation of God's justice. Because God is just, He MUST judge ALL sin. We can trust His judgment; He WILL do right. I absolutely love the lyrics to this one, and hope you'll follow along with them as you listen to this one, which you can hear on this page.
Favorite lyric: "God is never under obligation to be gracious / See, justice and mercy are two separate categories / And God is the one who chooses which way He'll have His glory"
Track 12 — The Jealous One (featuring J.R.)
Easily the most intense track on the album, "The Jealous One" depicts a husband walking in to discover his wife in the act of adultery. We have so little understanding of how God's jealousy is a good thing. It protects us by acting against the evil that seduces us; thanks be to God that His ways are not our ways, though! If He was like me, I wouldn't stand a chance. I'd be struck down for my idolatry and faithlessness, but instead, God "took out His jealous anger on His Son."
Several favorite lines in this one: "The God of the Bible who invites our trust / Must be understood to be nothing like us / Most of the time human jealousy will hurt you / But when it comes to God, His jealousy is a virtue"… "God's jealousy is frightful, yet it's delightful and good, too / I couldn't think of much worse if I tried / than a dude who smirks if you flirt with His bride / So tell me, what kind of God would He be / If He wasn't bothered to see idolatry?"
Awesome song. Audio preview. Full lyrics here.
Track 13 — The Omnis (featuring Andy Mineo, Giano, & Omri)
God ends the description of His character in Exodus 33 & 34 with the declaration that His very name is "Jealous" (El Qanna), and so the previous track was the final one in the sequence taken from that passage. However, no listing of the attributes of God would be complete without the "Omnis" (omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent), so this one got included. Lyrically it's okay, but it's my least favorite on the album.
Favorite lyric: "His power cannot be compared / Exhaustive knowledge none can share / At all times everywhere / God is amazing"
Audio Preview. Full lyrics here.
Track 14 — Self-Sufficiency (by Timothy Brindle)
Like the track before, this is a stand-alone that highlights another of God's glorious attributes. This is the only song on the album not written and performed by Shai Linne. Though his style and delivery is different, the heart is the same. I'm glad it was included!
Favorite lyric: "So trade Him your death for His immortality / The death of death in the death of Christ / Now we live with Him in resurrection life / Now we're righteous because Christ was crushed / The Holy Spirit is Christ's life in us"
Audio preview. Full lyrics here.
Track 15 — Triune Praise (Remix)
"Triune Praise" was my first introduction to Shai Linne about three years ago. It fits in perfectly with the theme of this compilation, so a re-mixed (and even better, in my opinion) version was included here.
Favorite lyric: "You're risen from the dead, I still can't get this in my head / How the Judge could leave the bench and go to prison instead"
Below is the original version from his album "The Atonement". Check out an audio preview of the new version.
If you've enjoyed these previews, go download the album from Amazon (best price) or iTunes, or purchase the CD directly from Lampmode.
For more Shai Linne, check out his previous albums: Storiez (also available on Bandcamp); The Atonement (and on Bandcamp); The Solus Christus Project (and on Bandcamp)


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Thanks to the Federal Reserve, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, and the Obama administration, the U.S. economy is "bleeding, " John McCain, the Republican Senator from Arizona and former presidential candidate, told CNBC.
McCain, who lost to President Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential race, told CNBC that Wall Street had taken precedence over Main Street during much of the financial crisis and he hit back at Dimon , head of JPMorgan Chase, who said on Wednesday that the acquisition of Bear Stearns during the 2008 collapse had done the Federal Reserve a "favor."
"I don't owe Mr. Dimon anything, " McCain said. "Mr. Dimon has done very well as have major financial institutions, and the American people are very unhappy and dissatisfied with it, as they should be."
McCain also said he was not sure he'd support Fed chief Ben Bernanke for another term and he criticized the central bank's decision to buy $40 billion in mortgage debt a month, as part of its next round of quantitative easing .
"I'd have to think about it. … But I'm very unhappy with his performance and what's happened to the economy when he's announced all these measures and all the easy money. Who gets the benefit of the easy money? The big businesses on Wall Street."
McCain also sounded a warning about rising U.S. debt, a day after the authors of the Simpson-Bowles reform plan to cut U.S. debt told CNBC the country was heading towards a fiscal disaster .
"We've gone from a $10 trillion debt to a $16 trillion debt — a $51, 000 debt for every man, woman, and child in America, " McCain said. "That's not acceptable."
Attempts to get a solution however have failed as Congress has split on partisan lines, but McCain sounded a conciliatory note.
"We need to sit down all of us with our president and say, this is our deficit, this is our goal, here is the period of time that we have in order to fix it and here are the measures that have to be on the table, " he said. "Whether we agree or disagree on the measures needed. We've got to stop the bleeding, and that means putting everything on the table."
The Senator said he would cut a number of subsidies, but he would not cut tax deductions on interest.
"Listen, we give tax breaks to people who buy taco boxes, we have subsidized ethanol [production] which is an insult to everybody's intelligence. We have so many tax breaks for special interests that the tax code is this high, " McCain said. "If you just simplify the tax code then you work on getting increased revenues."
A number of experts have warned of the growing risks from the U.S. "fiscal cliff" — a combination of higher taxes and spending cuts. On Friday, Zhu Min, a managing director at the International Monetary Fund , called it a major concern for the world economy .
There are fears that should the Republicans and Democrats in the Congress not be able to reach an agreement, a recession and 2 million jobs could be lost, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
McCain told CNBC that he is optimistic an agreement can be reached.
"We all know we're facing a fiscal cliff, " he said. "Everybody knows we have to fix it. The problem is nobody knows exactly how."
He added: "But I believe as we get close to Jan. 1, the markets will start to react as people are severely impacted by the 'cliff' and I have every hope that [then] we can sit down and reach an agreement."
—By CNBC's Holly Ellyatt


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Honda North America is reporting that its combined motorcycle, ATV, and personal water craft sales fell by 52% last quarter, compared to last year's numbers. For motorcycles alone, Honda's North American new unit sales totaled 45,000, or a reduction of about 47% from last year's marks, whereas the company's total motorcycle sales totaled 72,000 units, nearly half of the 150,000 units sold last year.
For its entire fiscal year, Honda's North American motorcycles segment sales totaled 320,000 units, or a drop of 29%. All eyes will on this quarter to see if the company can turn around this death-spiral in what is usually the best time of the season as far as motorcycle sales go.
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The Columbus Crew just can't catch a break on the injury front. The revolving door to the trainer's room kept on spinning Tuesday, with Aaron Schoenfeld making his return to practice, only for Cole Grossman pick up a knock in the same session.
Grossman, the second-year midfielder who made his first career start May 23 at Seattle, took a knock to his right ankle early in the session and headed to the sideline for ice treatment. He was able to walk with a slight limp after training and assistant coach Mike Lapper – filling in for Robert Warzycha while he is in Poland for Euro 2012 – said his status for Wednesday's training is unknown.
Schoenfeld, meanwhile, was full go in scrimmage for the first time since a plantar fascia rupture in his right foot during the match against Vancouver on April 28.
"I've been anticipating this for a while," he said.
The rookie forward from East Tennessee State was an early-season surprise after being waived in the preseason by the expansion Montreal Impact.
He earned starts in two of his six appearances on the season, totaling 194 minutes and adding an assist vs. Houston on April 21.
"He's a big target forward," Lapper. "He did well before his injury. In certain games and certain matchups he'd be very valuable for us, so it's great to see him back out here."
Schoenfeld's injury probably cost him even more playing time than originally expected, as forward Olman Vargas was injured in the same match as him. Vargas missed three games and Schoenfeld five in a run which saw the Crew go 3-0-2 in league play.
"It's difficult not being out there but when you see the team winning and getting results it doesn't bother me at all," Schoenfeld said. "I'd much rather have the team win than have individual glory. When the team's winning, everything is good."
Schoenfeld said staying sharp has been the biggest challenge for his return.
"You can run all day and never have the soccer fitness," he said. "It's always about getting back out there and playing the games."
Trio out for extended period
A pair of Columbus players have been kept on the sideline by sports hernia-related surgies. Midfielder Rich Balchan – who has yet to see the field this season – recently underwent his third sports hernia surgery, according to Lapper. The first ocurred last year – his rookie season – and the second came during preseason.
Rookie midfielder Kirk Urso is also expected to have a sports hernia-related surgery this week. He has been out of action for a month.
Also, midfielder Dilly Duka hurt his hamstring last week for the second time this season and is out indefinitely, according to Lapper.
Despite the trifecta of extended absences, though, the Crew could be welcoming up to four faces back to the training field in the next couple days. Perhaps the hardest-hitting injury absence, team captain Chad Marshall, has been free from concussion symptons for a week and could be returning to practice soon.
Chris Birchall, who got married in England Saturday, will return to training Wednesday, while Costa Rican duo Olman Vargas and Jairo Arrieta will return from their native country on Thursday. Vargas is with the Costa Rica national team during World Cup qualifying and new signing Arrieta is moving his family to Columbus.


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The Irvine farmers market, the largest in Orange County, offers a wide selection and moderate prices. There are quite a few craft stalls, but produce is clearly the focus.
Sue and Kerry Musgrove of Three G Farms, in Lake Matthews, bring large, juicy Star Ruby grapefruit, now in prime season from the Inland Empire. One of the few orange groves left in Orange County, Neff Ranch, sells excellent Valencias and their juice. And the Cal Poly Pomona stand has rich-flavored Kara mandarins, the connoisseur's choice among late-season varieties.
Several stands, including Annie Florendo of Sweet Tree Farms, have Galaxy flat peaches, with mild, sweet white flesh. Later in season and larger in size than the Saturn variety, the first modern flat peach variety (both are often marketed as "Doughnut"), they're a fragrant delicacy when properly ripe.
If you bring them home and they attract fruit flies, the ABC Rhubarb stand is selling rue, the type species of the Rutaceae, the botanical family that includes citrus, and suggesting that it can be used to deter those pests. I tried placing a bunch in a jar next to a plate of stone fruit, and so far it seems to be working.
Mark Boujikian has ripe breba (first-crop) Adriatic figs, with green skin and pulp like strawberry jelly; they also sell at many other markets, including Hollywood, Cerritos and Pasadena Victory Park.
Amy Cheng of Yao Cheng Farm, from Camarillo, has very sweet yellow-fleshed, round, seeded watermelons, of a Taiwanese variety whose Chinese name means "Little Jade." Happily for watermelon lovers, the market will be open next Saturday, July 4.
Irvine farmers market, Campus Drive at Bridge Road, Saturdays 8 a.m. to noon.
Tip of the week: For real apricot aficionados, coastal Blenheims are the standard of excellence, sweet, tender and juicy, with a honeyed aroma. The most celebrated Blenheim grower at local markets, Mike Cirone, who farms near San Luis Obispo and sells under the banner "See Canyon Apricots," made his first appearance at Santa Monica last Wednesday. The cool weather until recently delayed his harvest, he said, but it looks like a vintage season, with a large crop of superb quality. Remember that Blenheims ripen from the inside out, so slightly pale fruits can still be tasty; nevertheless, they bruise easily, so bring a padded carton to get them home intact.
Reopening: The Westwood Village Sunday market, closed since January, reopened recently as a Wednesday-afternoon market, 3 to 8 p.m., at the same location, Broxton Avenue between Weyburn and Kinross avenues.


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Take a break from the snow, with some happenings at the Museum this weekend...
At Saturday's celebration of Black History month, watch musical performances from the Young People's Chorus of New York City; see dance performances and participate in dance workshops; play the ever-popular game of mancala; and more.
Enter the Museum at 77th Street for Give Your Voice: Honor Black History. The event is free for Members or with Museum admission. Learn more.
It's not easy being green... But it's awesome being yellow. Or red. Or orange. In the natural world, many different animal species use bright colors and patterns to advertise the fact that they would make a horrible snack. Learn more, and see live frogs, caterpillars, and others in the The Power of Poison.
Learn more about the exhibition here, and in a video, which explains more about the use of "warning colors" in animals.
This visually rich exhibition includes fine reproductions from the Museum's Rare Book collections of some of the most important works of natural history over the past 500 years.
Learn more about Natural Histories, on the Museum's first floor near the LeFrak Theater, here.


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Living My Life Positively
Occasionally we here at TheBody.com are lucky enough to hear from readers who've volunteered to craft their own articles sharing their stories and thoughts. This is one of those articles.
I am a 51-year-old mother of three, and a grandmother of two. I have spent 10 years of my life on crack cocaine, which led to my vulnerabilities for contracting HIV. Although I never walked the streets prostituting myself, I spent many years having unprotected sex with many different men. I stopped and restarted using crack on several occasions during those 10 years. At one point in my life, I lost the respect of my children and family because of my choices.
In March 2002, I tested positive for HIV. My reason for being tested was that I became sick and started having strange things happen to my body. First I would have fluid draining from the pores of my skin, which resulted in me losing all of my hair. The next disorder was that my face from the neck up turned as black as tar. Following that I lost most of the feeling in my feet and hands. My vision was also severely affected and I could only see things in black and white. After numerous wasted trips to the emergency room, I was referred to a dermatology clinic. The dermatologist performed extensive tests, which all came back negative.
Finally after six months of various tests I was asked to consent to an HIV test which, regrettably, came back positive. That positive diagnosis resulted in my life changing forever. Although I was raised in church and had faith in God, I now had to find purpose for my life -- as well as a new way of living.
There is a saying that when it rains it pours; this was definitely true for my life. In January 2003, I lost my only daughter, who was killed in an automobile accident. Her death triggered my desire to return to using crack again. In August 2003, I decided to move to Baton Rouge, La., to seek professional help for my drug addiction. Every place I went for treatment turned me away, because they said that my problem wasn't serious enough for inpatient or outpatient assistance. It left me feeling hopeless with nowhere to go for help. I fought my desire for drugs for many months, but eventually found myself right back where I started from, smoking crack cocaine again.
It wasn't until I noticed my grandchildren were not only looking at me funny, but they too were beginning to lose respect for me. That's when I found the strength to begin my spiritual healing. I prayed and asked God to remove the urge, craving and need for crack. On Dec. 31, 2005, I packed up all my smoking paraphernalia and gave it to my sons to dispose of. That's when I decided that no one else could help me and that I would have to help myself.
Accepting that truth, I found a renewed outlook on life. I regained the respect of my children, grandchildren and family. They all continue to stand behind me 100 percent in everything that I do. In 2007, I enrolled in DeVry University online to pursue a bachelor's degree in business. My going back to school has led to others I know also going back. During some of my classes, HIV/AIDS was a topic that was discussed, and I shared my story with those classes. Some of my classmates thought I shouldn't do that because they felt it was too much personal information, but I felt like everyone should know.
Today I speak publicly about my life, and attend classes, lectures and conferences promoting safer sex. I've also gained so much more knowledge about this disease that has affected people all over the world. I take these tools of what I have experienced and what I have learned, and use them to educate others on the importance of being tested. Although I can't say exactly who I contracted the virus from, I take responsibility for being irresponsible. At this point it doesn't matter anyway, because I have accepted my diagnosis and am using it in a positive manner. I am willing to talk to any and everyone that will listen, and I stress on a regular basis how important it is to get tested.
I currently sit on the consumer advisory board as secretary for Family Service of Greater Baton Rouge. I sit on the board of the Baton Rouge AIDS Society, as well as volunteer with the agency every Wednesday for free HIV testing and counseling. I have also started a new women's group called P.W.W.V. (Phenomenal Women With Voices). We are a group of women that are positive as well as negative. We perform a skit based off of Ntozake Shange's stage play, and Tyler Perry's movie, For Colored Girls.
Since I was diagnosed as being HIV positive, I've been ridiculed and criticized because of my HIV status by others who lacked knowledge of the disease. But that has just made me more determined.
I try to keep myself available to speak to others about my life, and how being HIV positive has impacted my life in a good way. Mostly I am thankful to God for his love and mercy by giving me new life throughout this life-threatening illness.
Millicent Y. Foster
"I've been ridiculed and criticized because of my HIV status," writes Louisiana resident Millicent Foster; "But that has just made me more determined." That determination has led this grandmother of two to become a committed HIV community educator and volunteer. Here, Millicent writes her own story of facing addiction and tragic loss, turning her life onto a different path -- and drawing from family and faith for support.


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Governing Principles
The City of Portland and Multnomah County will promote, support and strengthen a healthy regional food system, based upon the following principles:
- Every City and County resident has the right to an adequate supply of nutritious, affordable and culturally appropriate food (food security).
- Food security contributes to the health and well being of residents while reducing the need for medical care and social services.
- Food and agriculture are central to the economy of the City and County, and a strong commitment should be made to the protection, growth and development of these sectors.
- A strong regional system of food production, distribution, access and reuse that protects our natural resources contributes significantly to the environmental well-being of this region
- A healthy regional food system further supports the sustainability goals of the City and County, creating economic, social and environmental benefits for this and future generations.
- Food brings people together in celebrations of community and diversity and is an important part of the City and County's culture.
City and County commitment
In order to play its role in creating a healthy regional food system, the City and County will:
- Support an economically viable and environmentally and socially sustainable local food system.
- Enhance the viability of regional farms by ensuring the stability of the agricultural land base and infrastructure and strengthening economic and social linkages between urban consumers and rural producers.
- Ensure ready access to quality grocery stores, food service operations and other food delivery systems.
- Promote the availability of a variety of foods at a reasonable cost.
- Promote and maintain legitimate confidence in the quality and safety of foods available.
- Promote easy access to understandable and accurate information about food and nutrition.
Contact information:
Steve Cohen
City of Portland
(503) 823-4225


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Downzoned: High-rise district meets JPA resistance
When Charlottesville unveiled its new proposed zoning ordinance, Ellen Contini-Morava realized that her Montebello Circle neighborhood could end up in the middle of a high-rise student "ghetto."
As the city revamps its zoning ordinance for the 21st century, one of its goals is to stem student sprawl into single-family neighborhoods. Hence the more urban, high-density, high-rise districts called "university precincts" off Jefferson Park Avenue and in the Venable neighborhood.
The portions of 14th and 15th streets, where the Venable university precinct is planned, is already composed pretty much of student-occupied multi-family units. The problem for single-family homeowners off JPA like Contini-Morava is that, "My house and street would be surrounded on three sides by high-density zoning," she says.
And in what JPA area residents are calling a victory, the planning commission has backed off putting all of JPA in the university precinct, instead limiting that honor to the already student-infested Brandon Avenue and Monroe Lane.
(On May 15, The Hook reported that on Monroe Lane, six houses on the future site of a 400-car extension of the UVA Medical Center's South Garage will be torn down, and in an April 17 article, residents of the Max Kade German House on Brandon Avenue wondered if the reason they were kicked out of their residence– ostensibly suffering from building code problems– was actually for university expansion.)
Contini-Morava calls the idea of a high-density university district in JPA "a zombie that keeps coming back to life." Currently, she says, her neighborhood is a "mix that works well" of students and long-term residents, the latter of which keep an eye on things while students come and go.
If she gets surrounded by large numbers of teenage transients in high-rises, she fears the quality of life challenges already plaguing JPA residents– parking, traffic, noise, drunken parties, garbage, vandalism, and theft– could intensify. Not to mention the serial rapist who's struck several times in that neighborhood.
"With big high rises, we expect to have more of that," she says. "We know that's true in other cities, and I don't know why Charlottesville would want to walk into that knowing it's a problem in other areas."
Besides, "It looks ugly, and it's an entrance corridor."
Kevin Kotlarski lives on Fontaine Avenue, which was about to be upzoned, too, from its current R2 one- and two-family residential zoning to a "medium density" that would allow multi-family, three- to five-story apartments.
What happened when JPA was made R3 multi-family zoning in 1976 serves as a cautionary tale for the Fontaine Avenue homeowner. "Today, it's 92 percent rental units," he says. "Let's learn from our past."
He describes his neighborhood as a diverse mix of owner-occupied homes, long-term renters, and students. "We enjoy that make-up," he says. And he doesn't want to see three- and five-story apartment complexes dramatically altering the 'hood.
Worse, those complexes would be required to have only two parking spaces for a four bedroom-apartment. "For families, that's sufficient," says Kotlarski, "but for students, they're still going to bring vehicles, and it puts a burden on the neighborhood."
"After a number of meetings with JPA residents, the planning commission decided to reduce the size of the university precinct," says commission chair Kevin O'Halloran.
"I was very happy they were responsive," says Contini-Morava. At the May 15 public hearing, "They said they'd gotten over 100 emails about this."
And to the relief of Fontaine residents, "We're now recommending that it stay the way it is right now with lower density," says O'Halloran.
After discussion of the zoning ordinance at the June 24 planning commission meeting, O'Halloran says, "We may be at a point to vote to recommend it to City Council."
Kotlarski applauds the decision to try out the high-density university precinct on a smaller scale "to see if it works for our city." After all, he points out, "Once it's done, you can't go back."
And as pleased as he is that Fontaine Avenue was spared the higher density edict, he's not relaxing his vigilance. "My concern is that it may come back at City Council level."


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P.S. @ Matt Dillahunty._ You are going to die sooner or later_That is a natural fact. What you assert is there is no God; the God of Bible because He cannot be proven_ Is a fact. You are "Gambling" that there is no God; the Christian God of the Bible_Is a fact. By your own admission the Christian God of the Bible does not exist, therefore you would reject that you possess a soul that is eternal, that will either go to heaven or hell._Is a fact.
FACT_you are going to die someday; are you willing to take that GAMBLE that you do-not have a soul that will live forever either in heaven or hell?
P.S. _ I really believe that Matt Dillahunty is Demon possessed, and anyone that would argue with a Demon will get no-where because it is a slippery slope because Demons are masters of deviation
We get e-mails like this all the time. Matt has answered more than his fair share of these, so I'll take one for the team. This person singled out Matt, but he (she?) might as well have written it to any AE host, or any atheist for that matter. I'll refrain from commenting about writing style as that's just too easy. The e-mail above is unedited.
First, atheism is the lack of a belief in a god. Check the front page of the ACA's web site. Mankind has invented tens of thousands of gods and there is no reason to believe that any of them are real. Christians are atheists, too, with respect to most gods, but they think their god is special. Is it? I can't think of a reason. Is it because there are a lot of Christians? There are a lot of Buddhists too, does that make their religion true? Is it because there's more evidence in support of Christianity? Nope. I don't know of any solid evidence for the claims of Christianity. Is it because they believe passionately? Would anyone say there's a Muslim afterlife with 72 virgins just because the 9/11 attackers believed so passionately enough to kill themselves for martyrdom? Of course not.
In nearly all forums where I interact with believers, I ask for good evidence for the claims the believers are making. I'm usually disappointed in what I get. Let me be clear on what I'm looking for. There are lots of bald assertions that believers give, usually claiming this or that about their god. If you don't have evidence to back up those claims, then please forgive me if I just ignore them. "That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." (Christopher Hitchens) Beyond bald assertions, I'll also disregard falsehoods, deception, logical fallacies, and emotional manipulation. These seem to be the primary tools of apologists. If you have to lie to me, trick me, or manipulate me to believe something, what does that say about that thing you'd like me to believe? It says that even the theist can't think of a good reason to believe in their god, so what's left are bad reasons.
I'm pleasantly surprised that you admit that your god can't be proven. Starting from there, the conversation should go like this:
- Atheist: Do you have any good reason to believe in your god?
- Theist: No.
- Atheist: Thank you for your honesty. Please understand if I don't believe.
End of story. But in their desire to market their religion, theists go on to give bad reasons.
Yes, we are all going to die. And we've heard "Pascal's Wager" a million times. It's a really bad argument with at least a dozen flaws. I'll answer it, though in my own words. I personally have no fear of your god, or any god for that matter. As near as I can tell, the god of the Bible is fictional and I can think of no reason to fear fictional characters. But let's pretend for a minute that gods are real. Is the goal to choose the one that offers the best afterlife, or perhaps save you from the worst hell? Isn't that exactly like being a hedonistic toady, or perhaps sucking up to a monster so that you will be spared eternal torments. Maybe it's both: you can even get to watch the torments of others while basking in eternal bliss. This seems rather sick to me, yet it seems to be what Christianity is promising.
Do you follow the most noble god? The god of the Bible blames Adam and Eve, indeed the entirety of humanity for his mistakes. Later, Yahweh orders Abraham to kill his own son. That story reads to me like a gang initiation ritual. In New Testament mythology, the same god kills his own son because there had to be a blood sacrifice due to a rule he either made up or given to him by some other more powerful god. Appeased, by his actions, he then allows the Jews to take the blame for his alleged sacrifice? Every story about the god of the Bible paints him as a monster. Even if he were real, I wouldn't follow him.
I've made the decision to live my life as if there are no gods. I've looked at god claims, and I find them all to be without merit and most likely derived from human imagination. So how will I respond if, after my death I find out there's some god that wants to torture me? I may not be happy, but I will have a lot of things (assuming "I" continue to exist) that will never be taken away. I'll have the satisfaction of having lived my life in a sensible and kind manner. I will have the solace of knowing I've taken responsibility for my actions and that I will forever be more moral than the monster who is torturing me. In short, I will have my integrity. My integrity is not something I'm going to bargain away for vague promises from an invisible monster.
What will be your legacy when you die? From my perspective, perhaps the biggest claim you could make is that you tried your hardest to be a vector for a disease that has stifled progress, caused untold human misery, and murdered millions. From my perspective, you have hitched your wagon to a delusion. You've already pissed away your integrity. How sad.
I wonder, too, if you really believe your afterlife claims. If you're going to go on to some perpetual orgasm, why hang around only to make the world a worse place? Please don't let me stop you. I suspect you too have your doubts. If you don't believe in Jesus why should I?
As for demons, atheists think demons are at least as silly (and unlikely) as gods. Be sure and check for monsters under your bed and sleep with your lights on. Boo! Maybe your invisible friend will protect you.
Now let me respond to the subtext of your letter. If you actually had good reason to believe in your god, you would have presented that. Since you didn't present a good reason, it seems clear you have none. We both know prayer is a failure or you could have prayed for one ahead of time before writing. Next, if Christianity had any positive value, you could have pitched that. Again, it seems there is no positive benefit. You did offer threats (emotional manipulation). While Islam's main tactic is murdering those who disagree with them, Christianity relies on lies and thuggery. Death threats are a common Christian tactic to get their way. Lies, like the "Christian Nation" propaganda only show how much a fraud the religion is. With threats of hell, there is usually caveat by the threat giving Christian that he has nothing to do with the threat; they're just passing it along from on high. Yet I have yet to meet two Christians who can agree on the nature of their god, and as you admit, there is no good evidence to believe in such a good. People like you choose to believe in a clearly evil god. I can only imagine you do so because you identify with that aspect of his storied nature. Ultimately the threats are coming from Christians who believe themselves to be good. This is part and parcel of an evil delusion.
Years ago, Christians actually tortured non-believers, with the idea that coercing them to "believe" was a kind of mercy. Converting them here through torture was thought preferable to the "loving" justice of eternal torment. Fortunately, secular morality has made torturing heretics an anachronism. Christian torture and holy wars have just made more atheists. Regardless, the subtext of your note tells me that Christianity has no merit (you seem to admit that) and you still want me to join you. You want me to shut off my brain, give up my integrity, and become a wannabe thug that excuses the atrocity of the Bible and the murderous fruits of Christian belief. Yet the only think you're offering is some idea you have in your head that I might get to look down from heaven in a blissful amoral stupor and enjoy watching the torments of my fellow human beings in hell. Wow. What a steaming pile of shit.
I want nothing to do with your religion.


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MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) made a big splash while playing in its first National Championship match in school history, topping No. 21 Bellevue (Neb.), 26-24, 25-18, 14-25, 25-19, as it scored the day's first upset. Outside hitter Linjun Ji paced the Pioneers with a season-high 16 kills and libero Laura Hamblin added a match-high 21 digs.
In the second and final upset of the Opening Round, Kansas Wesleyan surprised No. 20 Oklahoma Baptist, 25-20, 15-25, 25-11, 25-21. The Coyotes were led by middle hitter Leah Keller's 12 kills. Both teams qualified for the National Championship for the first time in their programs' histories.
No. 22 Grand View (Iowa) also prevailed in its first appearance in the NAIA Volleyball National Championship. The Vikings knocked off Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) on the road, 25-12, 25-15, 25-18, behind a 15-kill performance from NAIA kills leader Devon Jensen. Grand View's Nicole Boevers swatted an Opening Round-high four aces. Collectively, schools making their first National Championship appearances went 3-8 on the day.
In San Diego, Calif., a pair of ranked squads squared off as No. 18 Point Loma Nazarene topped No. 24 Cal State San Marcos, 23-25, 25-14, 25-16, 25-18. The Sea Lions improved to 45-23 in 14 appearances all-time at the national championships. Point Loma Nazarene has now won Opening Round matches in four-consecutive years. In the only other matchup between ranked teams, No. 12 College of Idaho breezed by No. 23 Carroll (Mont.), 25-22, 25-15, 25-21. Lady Yotes' outside hitter Ciciley Fox slammed down a Saturday-high 17 kills while Kelsey Soos' 49 assists also led all Opening Round participants. College of Idaho boosted its record to 3-0 in Opening Round matches.
No. 13 Indiana Wesleyan, No. 14 Vanguard (Calif.), No. 15 Missouri Baptist, No. 16 Spring Hill (Ala.), No. 17 Indiana Tech, No. 18 Taylor (Ind.) and No. 25 Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.) also notched Opening Round victories on Saturday. Of those seven teams, five won in straight sets with Indiana Tech and Freed-Hardeman needing four sets to dispatch their opponents.
Ranked squads finished the day with a 10-4 record. Home teams posted a mark of 9-3. Seven matches were decided in straight sets and five lasted four sets.
The following teams received an Opening Round bye: Azusa Pacific (Calif.), Biola (Calif.), Columbia (Mo.), Concordia (Calif.), Embry-Riddle (Fla.), Fresno Pacific (Calif.), Lee (Ten.), Lewis-Clark State (Idaho), Morningside (Iowa), Rocky Mountain (Mont.), Southern Oregon and Texas at Brownsville.
Final site pool assignments and schedule will be announced Nov. 21 by 5 p.m. CST.
The final 24 teams will be placed into six pools for three days of round-robin play. The top two teams from each pool will advance to the single-elimination bracket starting Dec. 2. The championship match will take place on Dec. 3 at 8 p.m. CST.
Opening Round
Box Score - Missouri Baptist vs. Robert Morris (Ill.)
Box Score - Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) vs. Grand View (Iowa)
Box Score - Bellevue (Neb.) vs. MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.)
Box Score - Indiana Tech vs. Point Park (Pa.)
Box Score - College of Idaho vs. Carroll (Mont.)
Box Score - Indiana East vs. Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.)
Box Score - Point Loma Nazarene (Calif.) vs. Cal State San Marcos
Box Score - Spring Hill (Ala.) vs. Xavier (La.)
Box Score - Kansas Wesleyan vs. Oklahoma Baptist
Box Score - Taylor (Ind.) vs. Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)
Box Score - Indiana Wesleyan vs. Montreat (N.C.)
Box Score - Vanguard (Calif.) vs. La Sierra (Calif.)


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"We work harder and aspire the most."
A rich person <Ipsos research interview>
"It's a fact of modern life that there is disparity and 'Is it fair or unfair?' is not a valid question.
It's just the way it is, and you have to get on with it. People say it's unfair when they don't do anything to change their circumstances."
A rich person <Ipsos interview>
"Quite a lot of people have done well who want to achieve, and quite a lot of people haven't done well because they don't want to achieve."
A rich person <Ipsos interview>
"She destroyed too many good things in society, and created too many bad ones, then left a social and moral vacuum in which the selfishly rich and unimaginatively fortunate could too easily destroy still more of what they don't need and can't see that everyone else does need."
Emma Darwin
I don't begrudge the wealth, the uber-rich, their wealth.
But having glanced off of their uberish-richy Hamptons, Palm Springs, Monte Carlo and south Florida world a couple of times in my life I would suggest they live in a fantasy land, an alternative universe, from the rest of us. In this land of theirs they have a view of the world, and the people who do not live in their world, which is … well … kind of warped.
I do feel semi-qualified to share my view on this because while I have certainly had enough wealth to own a nice house, go on nice vacations and not worry about paying bills I have also sat up at night worrying about how the rent would be paid the following month and using credit cards to get through stretches of time.
I thought about this for the first time in a really long time after I read a story about how the wife of the US Treasury Secretary <Steven Mnuchin multi millionaire businessman and Yale graduate> posted a picture on Instagram which she hashtagged all the designer labels she was wearing.
And then some woman, @jennimiller29, replied: "Glad we could pay for your little getaway #deplorable."
From there another multi-millionaire Trump deplorable slid down into the wretched hole of douchebaggery.
"Aw!!! Did you think this was a personal trip?! Adorable!" Do you think the US govt paid for our honeymoon or personal travel?! Lololol. Have you given more to the economy than me and my husband? Either as an individual earner in taxes OR in self sacrifice to your country?"
While that was just being a lower level asshat … she couldn't just stop there:
"I'm pretty sure we paid more taxes toward our day 'trip' than you did. Pretty sure the amount we sacrifice per year is a lot more than you'd be willing to sacrifice if the choice was yours. [Curled bicep and a face blowing a kiss emojis]."
Oh … and …
"You're adorably out of touch. Your kids look very cute. Your life looks cute. I know you're mad but deep down you're really nice and so am I. Sending me passive aggressive Instagram comments isn't going to make life feel better."
"Your life looks cute." Snark alert! <suggesting … how quaint and 'play the lottery every week' your life is>
I could point out what a fucking uber rich narcissistic self-adulating pompous grown up rich kid this woman was for lashing out at some 'less than' person who dares criticize her … I will not. I will not because we should be clear … we just got a small glimpse of a discussion that happens day in and day out in anyone of the uber rich social circles as they hob nob with each other <kibitzing about the adorable peasants>. She just got busted. And it only happened because these wealthy assholes <people> mostly stay in their cocoon echo chambers and this one's husband had the audacity to take a public servant position outside the cocoon.
But … on a separate note … is everyone connected to Trump obligated to be a douchebag?
I will absolutely suggest that the majority of us have no clue what the other 'haves' <even if they are really have–nots>experience. We live in our own worlds and, in general, have little clue what the lves of people are like in income levels we do not share.
But the privileged wealthy are really out of touch.
This privileged wealthy class looks at accountability in a warped way.
Accountability always seems to be measured by accumulation of wealth and the trappings of wealth.
That is their measuring stick. And in their petty little gilded world it is the only measuring stick. Unfortunately that measurement doesn't work outside their little world. And all it does is show they didn't go to the same math class as the rest of the world … well … almost none of the same classes the rest of us went to.
To get some of my wording right today, while I was fairly sure what 'wealthy' <nice word for rich> meant, I wandered into my go-to book on words Hayakawa's Use the Right Word.
Affluent, flush, loaded, opulent, prosperous, rich & successful.
These are all possible synonyms.
In fact … rich is not considered a flexible term <unlike wealthy> because it is an either/or word – you are either rich or you are not … seldom is one spoken of as being 'moderately rich.' In addition … rich, unlike wealthy, is widely used in extended senses to mean full, pregnant or abundant.
'… a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.'
Oscar Wilde
And, in fact, rich people are also inflexible. They are more focused on their own goals and desires. Research even shows that they also ignore people a little more <focused more on the trappings, materialistic aspects of their Life>.
"If you have more power and status, you may not have to care as much about what people are thinking and feeling; and also, if you're in a resource-scarce environment, where things are a little more unpredictable and maybe a little more dangerous, it would be very adaptive to pay attention to others, how they're feeling and what they're going to do."
I found a fantastic one-on-one interview research study conducted by Ipsos where they spoke with … well … rich people <earning $1 million a year to $10 million a year>.
What they discovered was a startling demonstration of ignorance. While they earned a lot of money and may of them made their money managing their people's money they knew next to nothing about other people's incomes. When asked to relate themselves to the rest of the population, these high-earners completely misjudged the magnitude of their privilege.
How much, we asked our group, would it take to put someone in the top 10% of earners? They put the figure at £162,000. In fact, in 2007 it was around £39,825, the point at which the top tax band began. Our group found it hard to believe that nine-tenths of the UK's 32m taxpayers earned less than that. As for the poverty threshold, our lawyers and bankers fixed it at £22,000. But that sum was just under median earnings, which meant they regarded ordinary wages as poverty pay.
While people may haggle over some of the research thoughts the real takeaway should be the rich's obliviousness to reality outside of their opulent cocoon.
The arrogance of the entitled rich is usually contained within their snake pit cocoon. In their cocoon anyone outside it is 'poor little people who are quaint and aggravatingly jealous and don't understand' and within it is a mosh pit of excessive upmanship. Simplistically anyone outside their cocoon must be a 'lesser than' who can never understand what it is like within the cocoon.
They tend to be 'opulent' more than prosperous. They imply personal success … regardless of whether they put in the hard work to attain their riches or not … is found in the trappings, the imagery, more than the intangible aspects of character, attitude with regard to work & fair play and kindness beyond 'donations & charity'.
And they use all their 'trappings' as a portrayal of 'success' to the rest of the world outside their cocoon. What I mean by that is it is incredibly hard to conceive of a rich person not considered successful by most people even if they have no redeeming value outside of opulence <and, yet, we can conceive of someone being highly successful but not rich>.
Simplistically … most of the hard work rich people do is to work hard at looking rich.
Which leads me to the 'sacrifice equivalency."
This one is always a little hard to swallow.
Because the rich measure everything by money they measure sacrifice in the same terms. Sacrifice has little to do with self, in and of itself, but rather what was sacrificed from what the materialistic self could have gained.
It is a warped view of sacrifice stripping it of its most redeeming qualities to some naked monetary transactional measurement.
In their snake pit world it is a measuring stick.
In the real world it is a hollow definition of sacrifice.
"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."
Charles Dudley Warner
I say that because if you reread Mrs. Mnuchin's post I would imagine, if you use the measuring stick I just offered, you would say she was offering a valid well intended response based on her world view. and in doing so she clearly outlined the fact her cocooned world has very little to do with the real world.
I could say I feel sorry for her … but I do not.
I hate that belonging to different social classes means we struggle to relate on a daily basis.
I hate that America's top one percent of earners is earning 81 times the average of the bottom 50 percent.
I hate that research shows how the wealthy and the working classes really do live in different cultures and, therefore, see the world in different ways.
I hate that research shows, ironically, rich people rated themselves as more empathetic — a "better-than-average effect" — when in reality the opposite was true.
The results "show that people who are higher in socioeconomic status have diminished neural responses to others' pain. These findings suggest that empathy, at least some early component of it, is reduced among those who are higher in status."
<Michael Varnum, neuroscientist at Arizona State University, a 2015 study on empathy>
I hate that success & wealth is significantly Life pre-programmed and that general mobility is a myth.
"We now live in a separate economy, we live on a separate level to the vast majority of people in the country. We don't send our kids to the same schools, we have more choice over schools, we have more choice over health, we have more choice over where we live, we have more choice over where we go on holiday and what we do for our jobs. And we live in a completely different world to the people we live next door to."
a more thoughtful rich person at the end of the Ipsos interview
Every one of us lives looking at Life thru the lens of what we know. Someone who has only lived in poverty can only see poverty or 'slightly more' and someone who has money been uber rich can only see wealth <and what comes with it>. And even those in-between are kind of trapped in what they know.
Even I who has wandered between comfortable wealth and 'holy shit I have no money' views lowest income differently than someone who has only lived in lower income — I always believe I will not be there forever. I even think the manager who earns $145k a year is more often than not oblivious to the Life choices of their $45k a year employee.
If something is all you have had, and is all you know, then that is what you are going to be in your head.
That said.
All of us know that success in Life can be found by persistent working, never forget to pursue some dreams and being kind & caring while doing it. Unfortunately some of us forget that … but the rich people almost always elevate the second and forget the third.
I tend to believe that we are all born equal but we are not treated equal and not everyone is on an equal playing field. I don't say that so some people should feel persecuted just as I do say that so some people recognize that they had better, easier opportunities than others.
There is always a way forward incorporating kindness … always … you just have to find it and relentlessly decide to find it. Unfortunately it takes as much work as work itself.
I have to conclude, using the Mrs. Mnuchin public comment, that most rich people just don't want to put in the necessary work.
I have to conclude most rich people are just douchebags out of touch with what we everyday schmucks deal with.
"Pride and excess bring disaster for man."
Xun Kuang