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"Wait a minute, I saw your female with 'em, too. What's up with her? I've been hearin' that she been givin' that stuff out to ALL them graffiti guys."
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"Professor, what's another word for 'pirate treasure'?"
"Well, I think it's 'booty'. Booty, booty, that's what it is."
Yes, I got more bounce than the fucking bump
And then you want to know why
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So don't touch me, cause I'm electric
And if you touch me, you'll get shocked
[Mike D]
You got, you got, you got, you got, you got
You've got the boomin' system, but it's sloshing out doo-doo
You think it's chocolate milk, but it's watered down Yoo-hoo
I've been through many times in which I thought I might lose it
The only thing that saved me, has always been music
We've got our own studio, the Son of the G
It's no question, life's been good to me
Cause life ain't nothing but a good groove
A good mixtape to put ya in the right mood
This one goes out to my man, the Groove Merchant
Coming through with beats for which I've been searching
Like two sealed copies, of expansions
I'm like Tom Vu with yachts and mansions
The logo I sport is the face of the monkey
Union made, Ben Davis-quality, it's no junk, see?
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I ride around town in my low-rider bicycle
So many wack emcees, you get the TV bozak
Ain't even gonna call out your names, cause you're so wack
And one big oaf, who's faker than plastic
A dictionary definition of the word spastic
You should have never started something that you couldn't finish
Cause writin' rhymes to me is like Popeye to spinach
I'm bad ass, move ya fat ass, cause you're wack, son
Dancing around like you think you're Janet Jackson
Thought you could walk on me to get some ground to walk on
I'll put the rug out under your ass as I talk on
I'll take you out like a sniper on a roof
Like an emcee at the fever in the DJ booth
With your headphones strapped, you're rockin' rewind/pause
Tryin' to figure out what you can do to go for yours
But like a pencil to a paper, I got more to come
One after another, you can all get some
So you better take your time and meditate on your rhyme
Cause your shit'll be stinkin' when I go for mine
And that's right, y'all, don't get uptight, y'all
You can't say shit because you're biting what I write, y'all
And that's wrong, y'all, over the long haul
You can't cut the mustard when you're fronting it all
(it all, it all, it all…)
"Professor Booty" is Track 18 on Beastie Boys' third (full-length) LP, Check Your Head. It was recorded and mixed at G-Son Studios, Atwater Village, CA, Co-produced by Beastie Boys & Mario C with Mario C acting as engineer. After sequencing at PCP Labs, the album was released on 4.21.1992. "Professor Booty" dropped on 12.15.1992 as the fifth single in support of CYH.
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"Professor Booty" was performed in 2 known concerts…
1st Known Performance: 23-May-1992 : Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY, US
Last Known Performance: 9.24.2007 — The Fillmore, Detroit, MI, US


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The greatest challenge in trying to develop a perspective on HIV/AIDS, especially for those of us who worked to investigate the "new" disease in the early days of the epidemic in the United States, is to get far enough away from it to allow objectivity. For all practical purposes, AIDS is still a "new disease" among humankind.
Keeping the perspective of newness is important, especially for those working to develop prevention interventions for a disease that cannot yet be controlled using traditional technological methods: vaccines are not yet available, treatments are limited, and a cure is still a vision for the future.
Our successes have been real but counted in small increments, with measurement difficult and skepticism abundant. The numbers present a formidable obstacle to our confidence in the effectiveness of prevention efforts. The first 100,000 AIDS cases in the United States were reported over a period of eight years, the second 100,000 cases in a period of only 26 months. By 1996, more than half a million AIDS cases were reported, and more than 300,000 people had died.
Although the number of cases reported each year are expected to level off in the United States, the toll of 60,000 to 80,000 annual new cases and more than 50,000 deaths each year represent by far the highest number and rate of cases in any industrialized country. Because millions of additional adolescents and young adults become potentially at risk each year, the challenge of reducing the number of youths infected with HIV (who will develop AIDS years hence) depends upon continued efforts to educate and provide skills and upon continued availability of resources for prevention.
It may provide perspective on the short history of AIDS since it was first reported in 1981 to examine these years more closely. The first five years of the epidemic can be called the era of discovery. Scientific advances were remarkably rapid -- the first cases were identified and described, modes of transmission were documented, the etiologic agent was discovered, tests were developed for screening the blood supply, and AZT, the first antiviral agent for HIV, was licensed.
Only 22 months after the first cases were reported, this devastating syndrome was named and the likely cause and modes of transmission were recognized; as a result, recommendations for preventing AIDS from being transmitted through sexual contact, blood transfusions, and injecting drug use were published. The recommendations, based on carefully studied epidemiological patterns, were published in March 1983 when there were only 1,000 reported cases of AIDS in the entire United States and before the virus causing AIDS was isolated.
Discovery of the virus that caused AIDS led to the development of diagnostic tests. The isolation of the virus and licensing of the HIV antibody test in March 1985 were true prevention successes, with procedures to protect the blood supply in place in all U.S. blood banks just two months later. In addition, uses of the antibody tests in population surveys showed that the virus was much more common than the numbers of reported AIDS cases indicated. The visible AIDS epidemic had often been referred to as only "the tip of the iceberg," and the new data proved it to be a much more substantial public health threat.
Around 1986, we entered a new era -- this was the beginning of what I call the era of growth. At a Public Health Service-wide planning meeting, it was projected that from 1986 through the end of 1991 about 270,000 AIDS cases would be reported. This prediction made people confront the future: AIDS was not going away. Thousands of people would become sick and die, and increasing services would be required to care for them.
These projections were accompanied by expressions of fear and uncertainty from the public as well as from professionals. AIDS was looked upon as "different" from other public health problems, and we were forced to confront the need for a comprehensive and imaginative response to disease prevention. The rapid growth in numbers of HIV-infected persons who were seriously ill was accompanied by fear, uncertainty, and a recognition of the need to do more to prevent infection and treat HIV disease.
During the mid-1980s, the international epidemic of HIV/AIDS was recognized. At the First International Conference on AIDS in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1985, prominent scientists who attended described the extent of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Throughout the decade, HIV/AIDS spread explosively across the continent.
Fed by the rapid scientific discoveries of the early 1980s, optimism about "conquering AIDS" grew as well. There were promises from the scientific community that a vaccine would be developed shortly. The discovery of AZT made us believe that AIDS soon would become a manageable illness, like diabetes. Government AIDS research, prevention, and care budgets expanded, and the number of people working on the problem grew rapidly.
So much was happening between 1986 and 1991. Government agencies began working with nongovernmental organizations as they realized that community involvement would be a necessary component of successful prevention efforts. Governments and community-based organizations collaborated to provide services in the area of prevention and in providing medical care and social services for the increasing numbers of people with HIV-related disease. Sadly, many of the hundreds of thousands of people hidden below the iceberg's tip became ill and died-those who were infected during the first five years of the epidemic but didn't know it.
These years were also characterized by growing news media interest. This interest was accelerated by Rock Hudson's announcement that he had AIDS and his subsequent death, followed by the saga of Ryan White, a teenager with hemophilia who acquired HIV from infected blood products and was banned from his school out of fear and ignorance. His pioneering and well-documented battle with school discrimination and with the illness itself focused the United States on the need to know more about AIDS-and on the need to be more compassionate.
By the 1990s, increases in the number of reported AIDS cases had slowed in the United States, even though AIDS cases worldwide continued to increase rapidly, particularly in Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America. In the United States, however, the horizons were becoming clearer, and many Americans began to accept and expect AIDS as part of life. For many, this led to complacency or relapse into high-risk behavior, while for others, concerns about AIDS were more strongly inculcated.
In 1992, what I called the era of the "long haul" began. HIV became the leading cause of death among men between the ages of 25 and 44 in the United States, and the fourth leading cause of death among U.S. women in this same age group. Even though AIDS was "leveling off," 50,000-60,000 young Americans were dying each year of an illness that was, and still is, preventable.
As a result of this "leveling off," budgets grew smaller, and HIV/AIDS now competes for prevention and research dollars with many other important health issues. At the same time, it has become clear that HIV is a complicated public health problem, one that is intertwined with many other serious medical and societal problems -- multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, poverty, drug use, domestic violence and abuse, and the crumbling infrastructure of public health services.
The HIV epidemic is not one, but many epidemics that are changing and evolving. While the earliest cases were nearly all among white homosexual and bisexual men and male injecting drug users, there has been a marked growth in the proportion of cases among women, infants, and minorities. Public health HIV prevention strategies will have to take into account these complexities, just as the basic science strategies must consider the complex pathogenesis of HIV.
Ongoing efforts continue to focus attention on several key points to maximize prevention effectiveness.
First, AIDS is a devastating disease that prematurely robs people of their health and lives.
Second, HIV infection is preventable. Our detailed knowledge about modes of HIV transmission and about biological and behavioral risk factors guides us in prioritizing prevention efforts. Scientific studies of condom effectiveness, preventing transmission from nonsterile injection equipment, and, especially, the discovery that AZT therapy can reduce the rate of perinatal transmission, provide us with powerful prevention tools.
The coming years should see a dramatic decline in pediatric HIV infection in the United States due to effective prevention efforts. Successes in decreasing sexual transmission of HIV among adult gay men in the United States and among heterosexual men and women in Thailand are dramatic examples of how prevention works. Several studies extend and explain the reasons for these and similar successes. School programs that emphasize knowledge and training in communication and other skills are being shown to delay the onset of sexual activity and alter high-risk behaviors among adolescents, the next generation at risk for AIDS.
Over the course of the epidemic, the successes have been gratifying and have given us strength, but they have been and continue to be pitted against the foes of HIV prevention: denial, discrimination, and scarcity. HIV prevention efforts must be strong enough and remain visible enough to warn and protect current and future generations of young men and women. These prevention efforts will be successful only if they are coupled with sustained, visible efforts to prevent discrimination against those who are infected and at risk.
The third and final lesson is that, particularly on a worldwide basis, we have not done enough. The onslaught of HIV infection continues to overwhelm prevention efforts in most developing countries.
HIV prevention cannot be viewed as a one-time intervention; it must be accepted as a continuous, multigenerational effort that extends well into the lifetimes of our children and their children. Thinking long-term and remaining committed are the key characteristics needed in both science and prevention in order to maximize the chances of conquering HIV.
James W. Curran, M.D., M.P.H., is Dean of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He was formerly director of the Division of HIV/AIDS for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Assistant Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service. This foreword was written in collaboration with Linda Elsner of the CDC.
The Encyclopedia of AIDS: A Social, Political, Cultural, and Scientific Record of the HIV Epidemic, Raymond A. Smith, Editor. Copyright © 1998, Raymond A. Smith. Carried by permission of Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.
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Suppose, if a project is already using log4j, and you included a library say Apache Active MQ, which has dependency on logback, another logging library, then you need to include them as well, but if Apache Active MQ uses SL4J, you can continue with your logging library, without pain of adding and maintaining new logging framework.
In short SLF4J make your code independent of any particular logging API, which is good think for public API developers. Though idea of abstracting logging library is not new and Apache commons logging is already using it, but now SLF4J is quickly becoming an standard for logging in Java world.
Let's see couple of more reason to use SLF4J over log4j, logback or java.util.logging.
Prefer SLF4J over Log4J, logback and java.util.Logging
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So what exactly is meant by a "Special Collection"? Well a special collection is a library or archive devoted to one specific type of information, in this instance, Texas history. The Texas Collection is a closed stack library, which means that someone will retrieve the books/materials that you wish to look through. And just like in other closed stack libraries and archives, you can submit a request for materials to be pulled before your arrival so they're waiting for you!
Some of the information in The Texas Collection that you can peruse includes:
-135,000+ volumes of printed materials on Texas, both rare and current and approximately 150 books are added each month!
-Microfilm (a genealogist's
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-Various area histories (an often neglected resource)
-Biographical Gazetteer of Texas – This is unique to the Texas Collection. Almost 200 books with biographical sketches were taken, gone through and a database was created so that you can search for a person's name and find which books they are mentioned in. The database can even be searched via their website!
-Telephone books and City directories – they have been digitized through 1923 and as copyright limitations expire, more will be added!
-Periodicals – There are over 100 genealogical titles
-Vertical Files – These are cataloged, not digitized. The files are on specific people, places, or events and many have family history data in them.
-Church histories of all faiths – sure the South is known for Baptist churches but The Texas Collection has church histories for all faiths. These histories may include membership information, baptisms, cemetery records, births and information on the clergy.
-Family histories – these can be found in books, vertical files, and oral memoirs. Family histories can be difficult to come by because when someone publishes theirs, they tend to only make enough copies for immediate family. Is your family from Texas and do you have a family history that's been published (bound or digitally)? Send the Texas Collection a copy. Trust me…the want it!
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-Newspapers – OK, maybe you anticipated this one, but they've got more than just Texas newspapers!
-University Archive – Includes university records, policies, organization, planning, decisions operation, procedures, etc.
-Photographs – An estimated 250,000 images!
-Maps, Maps, Maps! – 14,000+ including historic Texas maps, highway maps, urban renewal and topographical.
Now that you know why going to Baylor University's Texas Collection is well worth your while, here are some good things to know before arriving:
-Photo ID is required
-All bags must be placed in a locker (you can keep out your paper, pencil, and laptop)
-No food or drink in the reading room
-Please take all cell phone calls outside (don't you just hate it when someone doesn't!)
-You can bring a thumb drive and scan items instead of making photocopies.
-Copy orders can be filled for you for a cost. You do not make your own copies.
-Bring a sweater, because it's cold inside!
-There is no trained genealogist on staff.
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Sunday, August 2, 2009
9 Patch Quiltalong
I'm also experimenting a little with the 9 patch block and changing it around a little.
I love the pattern that is forming when using 3 colours in each block instead of the usual two. More of an L shape rather than an X.
I'm thinking I will gather each 9 patch into a group of four, surround them in a raspberry sashing, then a green sashing then an aqua sashing....could turn out to be a hideous riot of colour and useful only for the dog's bed, but I know I'm going to have fun anyway!!!
So here are my first 12 blocks done. Thanks Crazy Mom Quilts for hosting another fabulous quilt along. xo
29 comments:
- Rebecca said...
Looking bright and cheerful,like the spin on your nine patch block.
- August 2, 2009 at 12:11 PM
- Andi said...
A great new twist on an old classic.
Can't wait to see how this turns out!!
I'm sure the dog will NOT be getting its paws on this one.
Andi :-)
- August 2, 2009 at 12:12 PM
- Red Pepper Quilts - Rita Hodge said...
Cathy, I love that you are doing something different with the nine-patches, and they look fabulous. Your choice of fabrics is always so wonderful that I have no doubt this will be another great quilt.
- August 2, 2009 at 12:17 PM
- Zonnah said...
I love how you are doing your 9 patches :)
- August 2, 2009 at 12:19 PM
- Unknown said...
Love thie Twist...Looks Great...I'm with Andi...this one is Not for the Dog....way too nice already..
have fun
- August 2, 2009 at 1:06 PM
- paulette said...
Very nice!! It makes you stop, look and count! Neat!
- August 2, 2009 at 2:15 PM
- One Flew Over said...
The fabrics here are lovely Cathy - looking forward to seeing the completed top x
- August 2, 2009 at 2:21 PM
- Cardygirl said...
Looks great...love the colour & your variation on the norm...look forward to seeing the end result.
- August 2, 2009 at 2:30 PM
- imquilternity said...
Oooo...I love what you're doing! All that yummy color! Wow! It's going to be really spectacular.
I worked on my sashing today for the first quilt-along and should be ready to reveal it sometime next week on my blog. Come and see me!!
- August 2, 2009 at 2:38 PM
Your colourful nine patches are looking exquisite! I love how you have shaped them!!!
Thank you so much for the link to quilthome, I have been looking for some cherry full moon dots and now have a little packet of them winging their merry way to me soon!!!
Lastly I am in awe and gobsmacked at how quickly you have put together your delightful Goose in the pond quilt top!!! It works magnicently!!!
- August 2, 2009 at 4:39 PM
- Rafael's Mum said...
Love the way it looks! and love all the colours!
- August 2, 2009 at 7:35 PM
- Jodi Nelson said...
Scrumptious fabrics! Really. They are fabulous! I can't wait to see it all finished. It's going to be Simply Awesome!
- August 2, 2009 at 9:20 PM
- Abby and Stephanie said...
Vibrant and fantastic. Can't wait to see the finale`.
- August 2, 2009 at 9:47 PM
- Unknown said...
You and me both just love color! This quilt is no exception! I just love it! Can't wait to see more of it.
- August 2, 2009 at 9:50 PM
- alobsiger said...
Hurrah for color! Your choices are spectacular, of course and I love the layout idea! It reminds me a little of the Big Blankie over at Attic 24 -- maybe only in the grouping and sashing and in my head... and because I know I will love it. :-) Your yellows are giving me the swoons, Cathy! I don't (yet) own any of that yellow Splash. May have to rectify that. Very exciting stuff!!
- August 2, 2009 at 10:54 PM
- Isa said...
Gorgeous colors. And very creative layout, fun and inspiring. can't wait too see it finish
- August 3, 2009 at 1:29 AM
- Unknown said...
Colour , colour , colour ! I love it and thinks it's going to look great .
- August 3, 2009 at 1:17 PM
- Deezebra said...
Go girl! Love what you're doing and the sound of the raspberry. You are so brave and becoming more adventurous by the day. I'm looking forward to seeing how it all comes together.
- August 3, 2009 at 10:15 PM
- Nanette Merrill said...
I really do like the L shaped 9 patch blocks. Your take on them speaks to me and I love your colors/patterns/fabric.
- August 4, 2009 at 4:53 AM
- Hi! My name is erica. Would you be my friend? said...
I love them...especially that L shape! Can't wait to see how it all looks together!
- August 4, 2009 at 7:45 AM
- Bronwyn said...
You really come up with some great ideas - I haven't seen anyone do that before - you should market your patterns! In the first photo is (I think) the red/blue fabric I have too (6th down on right)which I got once to inspire me to do an aqua/raspberry quilt - all the other fabrics are doing the trick too!
- August 4, 2009 at 7:50 AM
- Carol R. said...
Yowzers! I love all of the colors in this! No dog bed for this one, if you don't like the finished project, send it my way. :) I think it will be gorgeous.
- August 5, 2009 at 8:36 PM
- Jean C. said...
Wonderful Colors! Isn't it great that they are making so many terrific prints! You've done a neat job on this one... really used a wonderful variety of prints. Sure does POP!
- August 6, 2009 at 4:16 AM
- Karen said...
I love, love, love your 9patch variation! I am participating in this QAL too. I did the 1st 9patch QAL and made over 100 blocks. But when Amandajean from CrazyMomQuilts announced another QAL to destash even more, I joined it also. This one will be throw sized for our sofa and I'm doing it in Christmas fabrics. Sashing will be with black.
I'll subscribe to your blog so I can keep watching how your quilt is going.
- August 6, 2009 at 6:21 AM
- Jackie's Stitches said...
Your riot of color and your block variation is going to be just gorgeous!
- August 6, 2009 at 10:47 AM
- beth said...
This is going to be beautiful...what a great idea! i love your fabric choices.
- August 7, 2009 at 12:54 PM
- Eileen said...
oh my goodness.. I was just here earlier today looking at this post.. I forget how I got here. But thanks so much for the visit and lovely comment. :-)
This is truly a unique 9-patch. I never saw one done this way before. So inspirational. I'm bookmarking your blog.. I'll be back.
- August 10, 2009 at 9:49 AM
- CJ said...
I just love when someone sees the same ol' same ol' in a whole new way! I never would have thought to do a 9 patch this way and yet I love it! I wanna do one like this! Maybe someday. :D
- August 15, 2009 at 3:29 AM
- Unknown said...
wow,amazing colors...
you are so creative...thanks for sharing...
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- August 25, 2009 at 3:09 PM


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How many of you knew that Rockford is home to a small but vibrant community of Turkish immigrants?I didn't, either, until about a year ago, when members of the Turkish American Society of Rockford reached out to the Register Star to tell their story. That first meeting led to some meals together and discussions that culminated in an invitation to visit Turkey, which is why later this week, I'll be joining a handful of others from the Rockford region on a study tour to the Turkish cities of Istanbul and Izmir.The trip is sponsored by the Niagara Foundation, based in Chicago, which promotes civic dialogue across national and religious boundaries. I'll be blogging from Turkey at rrstar.com beginning June 30.Other members of the Rockford travel party are the Rev. Jane Eesley, pastor of Christ United Methodist Church on Alpine Road; Kris Kieper, who heads the YWCA; and Kristina Rueber, executive director of the Golden Apple Foundation. We'll be joined by Kenneth Hunter, principal of Prosser Career Academy in Chicago, and Celal Evliyaoglu, the cheerful and very energetic man who runs the Turkish American Society of Rockford.Most of the 35 or so Turkish families in Rockford are refugees from former Soviet republics, where they were persecuted and from which they eventually were expelled. Other families came here to pursue professional opportunities.So why Turkey and why now?The trip came about because the Turkish residents of northern Illinois, and their partners at the Niagara Foundation, are eager to share knowledge of their culture, history and Islamic faith. Once in the country, we'll have the opportunity to talk to and learn from Turkish scholars and journalists, among others.Mehmet Dik, chairman of the math, computer science and physics programs at Rockford University and a native of southern Turkey, said misconceptions about his homeland are widespread."Turkey is not an Arabic country, first of all," said Dik, who, along with his wife, is heavily involved in the TASR. "It's a Muslim country but not an Arab country."Indeed, Turkey is a natural bridge between Europe and Asia and Christianity and Islam, with a rich history of religious diversity and tolerance.That makes it a near-perfect place to learn about Islam as the faith actually is practiced by the vast majority of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims — as opposed to the cartoonish image spread by some in the American political class and as counterpoint to the fearsome image projected by fundamentalist terrorists.It's essential for 21st-century Americans generally, and Christians and Jews in particular, to gain an understanding of Muslim beliefs, practices and culture, for reasons both poetic and prosaic.
At its highest level, an understanding of other faiths is essential to bridging gaps of all kinds.To borrow from my late friend Jim Veninga, a scholar of religion and former administrator in the University of Wisconsin system, there's no better way to humanize someone else than to realize that you both share an experience of the sacred.The practical reason for developing a better understanding of Islam is simple: In much of the United States, including Illinois and large sections of the Midwest, Muslims constitute the second-largest religious body after Christians. We need to know our neighbors.So what should American visitors to Turkey expect?"Hospitality," Dik said. "That's something you have to experience. The common tradition in Turkey is once you're in someone's house, you're part of the family."Mark Baldwin is executive editor of the Rockford Register Star. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @MarkFBaldwin.
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If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
— Shylock in William's Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
We would argue the adverse reaction to a logo redesign for the University of New Hampshire has less to do with the questionable graphics and more to do with an aggrieved audience and a less than cogent video presentation.
Last week, university officials invited alumni and others to log on to a video presentation which tried to explain the whys and wherefores of the UNH logo project. Since then it would be kind to say public reaction has been less than favorable. Rabid might better describe the anger of some.
In short, UNH hired the New York design firm Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv to do the work at a cost of approximately $100,000.
On paper the idea has merit, as was awkwardly explained in the video but better explained later by a UNH spokesperson:
"UNH needed a logo that represents its presence outside of Durham as well as establishes it in a national and international market for both students and private dollars. Chermayeff has created identities for many institutions of higher education, including New York University, Middlebury College and Cornell University."
Also explained off camera was that the project had gone out to bid, but Chermayeff was "the only firm that committed to the full project."
We doubt even if the logo project had been better explained it would have been greeted in an "All hail, Caesar" fashion.
First off, the cost of the project is close to the cost of an in-state, four-year college education. In response to questioning, UNH implied no one should be aggrieved because the money was privately raised — an excuse that wouldn't last seconds in a critical thinking class at UNH.
Then there is the morale factor.
UNH has suffered in recent years due to a number of factors. The most notable was a reduction in state funding of $47 million annually. But financial trouble was brewing before, as was frequently noted by UNH President Mark Huddleston during contract negotiations with the professors' union. All this has meant plenty of belt tightening among faculty and staff who now resent what they see as a waste of some $100,000 on a set of logo designs that don't knock the socks off anyone.
We would suggest the issue of low morale extends to the alumni community which also sees the expense of the logo project as an affront given the debt many of them are now paying off.
None of what we write here is to suggest that UNH forego reworking its logo. In the modern era of corporate sponsorship, image is everything as is branding. And lord only knows, given the lack of state support for this state university, UNH needs every leg up it can get.
But UNH needs to start with the basics. It needs to build its image first from within. That means with faculty, staff and alumni.
As for the three logos, we expect if UNH officials move forward one of these will eventually grow on those who now object. But if UNH officials are smart, they will hit the pause button and invite new logo ideas from faculty, staff, alumni and anyone who thinks they can do better.
It's called Damage Control 101.
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TLC insists that it totally isn't mocking the folks featured on its upcoming special Virgin Diaries. The trailer makes that abundantly clear by intercutting shots of a virgin describing her hopelessly idealistic image of her wedding night with scenes of her yelling, "I'm scared," and "Ow, it hurts!" while she and her fiancé play on a seesaw.
As you'll recall, a TLC rep said, "We're not trying to make light of this or treat it in a sort of trivial way. We want to document these peoples' stories and why they make this decision." Let's take a look at a bit of the transcript from the totally respectful and nonjudgemental documentary clip we just watched:
WOMAN: [On seesaw] I'm scared!" [Cut to walking in a field] I think that you should take a shower first, and then I'll take a shower. Then I'll put on my lingerie. Then I'll come into the room.
MAN: And I'll have a surprise waiting for you!
WOMAN: But I'll have a surprise waiting for you and we'll have our robes on and we'll slowly take our robes off and then do foreplay and [woman makes grunting sounds on the seesaw] then have sex! [Back on seesaw] Ow, it hurts!
[Cut to CREEPY DAD, OR POSSIBLY UNCLE chuckling.]
Hopefully whoever edited this got a nice bonus. They really handled this young couple's personal lifestyle choices in a dignified manner and created a clip that definitely won't wind up on The Soup.
Okay, I know it's unlikely, but screw you, TLC. I hope these kids had mind-blowing and not at all awkward sex on their wedding night.


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Latinos enlisting in record numbers / Despite opposition to the Iraq war, pride motivates many to sign up for military duty
Amalia Avila never supported the war. But after her first son, Victor Gonzalez, told her he wanted to join the Marines, she felt a mixture of fear, concern and, finally, pride.
"This war makes no sense to me," Avila said last week in her Watsonville home. "I'd ask him why he wanted to go, and he'd just say his brothers needed his help. ... But when Victor did get into the Marines, when that day came, I was so proud of him."
Avila paused to allow her tears. "It was a beautiful day."
It was also one of the last days Avila saw her son. Gonzalez, 19, who was born in Salinas shortly after Avila arrived in the United States from Mexico, served a little more than a month in Anbar province before he was killed by a roadside mortar explosion in October 2003.
The discord between Avila's unsettled feelings toward the war and her son's sacrifice reflects a growing paradox within the Latino community. A majority of Latinos believe the troops should come home as soon as possible, according to Pew Hispanic Center surveys, yet enlistment of Latinos has steadily risen in the past decade.
According to the Department of Defense, in 2004, the most recent year of confirmed data, Latinos made up 13 percent of new recruits. This is an all-time high, nearly twice the percentage of 10 years earlier.
Latinos' presence in the military still does not match their 17 percent share of the overall population ages 18 to 24. And African Americans continue to be overrepresented in the military, making up about 18 percent of active duty personnel but only 13 percent of the U.S. population. Nonetheless, the absolute number of Latinos entering the armed forces continues to grow.
"The dichotomy is this," said Steven Ybarra, a member of the nonprofit political advocacy group Latinos for America, "on the one hand, our children view serving in the military as showing they are part of this community; while on the other, their grandparents and parents have seen this all before.
"But within the Latino family unit," Ybarra added, "maybe more than others, there's a value system where the parents will look at their son and say, 'Hijo, you're a man now. You're going to do what you're going to do, and I will respect that' -- even if it means going to war."
Historically, Latinos have been underrepresented in the military, said Beth Asch, a senior economist at the Rand National Defense Research Institute who has studied Latino recruitment trends. An informal theory held that the rising number of Latino enlistments during the 1990s and early part of this decade simply mirrored a rise in the group's overall population.
"Their growth in population was fast," Asch said. "Their growth in the military was faster."
Latinos accounted for about 17.5 percent of Americans ages 18 to 24 in 2000, while 13.7 percent were African American, 61.6 percent were non-Hispanic white and 4.1 percent were Asian American.
The reasons Latinos are drawn to the military vary, Asch said.
Carlos Montes, an organizer with Latinos Against the War in Los Angeles, cites a variety of reasons: aggressive recruiters who prey on youth; the enticement of skipping the usual five years that legal permanent residents must wait before applying for citizenship; the immigrant's desire to assimilate.
"When you're young and naive you see a guy show up on campus, all dressed up, promising things you don't have," Montes said. "That kind of influence, especially in the barrio, can be greater than even a parent's words."
Curtis Gilroy, director of accession policy for the office of the secretary of defense, said that in a national youth poll conducted last year, Latinos ages 18-24 simply showed a "higher propensity to serve" than other ethnic groups.
Gilroy said a full 25 percent of Latino respondents answered the question, "How likely is it that you'll be serving in the military in the next few years?" by marking the box "definitely" or "probably likely." Meanwhile, only 16 percent of African Americans and just 11 percent of whites showed the same interest.
"We just don't know why that is," Gilroy said. "We don't try and get behind the numbers too much."
On the ground in San Jose, Army recruiter Sgt. Brian Ditzler recently fashioned a theory behind the numbers. Ditzler, who was raised by his mother in Corozal, Puerto Rico, and speaks fluent Spanish, staffed a booth during the city's Cinco de Mayo festival. He said of the 22 recruits he enlisted last year, 15 were Latino.
"The remarkable thing that is consistent with Latinos is the sense of pride," Ditzler said. "More than any other group, they have a deep sense of pride about serving for this country."
By comparison, Ditzler observed that his Asian American enlistees were more interested in job-training skills, while African Americans spoke of college tuition as the trade-off. Whites, the recruiter observed, were most intrigued by the "sense of adventure" the Army provided.
"So, knowing that Latinos were focused more on pride," Ditzler added, "that's the thing I'm going to show them: how they can make themselves and their families proud."
For more empirical evidence, researchers such as Asch are just now beginning to examine the results from field studies. Already consistent with Ditzler's observations, Asch said recent post-enlistment surveys indicate Latinos noted "patriotism" and "service to country" as the top two reasons for joining, as well as "duty" and "honor."
Still, according to a Department of Defense poll conducted last year that was aimed at tracking the influences that lead a civilian to enlist, Latino parents were more likely than their African American counterparts to recommend military service to their children as a way to fight the war on terrorism.
"It's a conundrum, for sure," Asch said of the results.
When Orlando Mayorga, a 24-year-old in Antioch, told his mother he wanted to join the Army, he said she was happy for him. Mayorga, who is still awaiting a call for active duty, makes his living cleaning buildings in the East Bay. Born in Nicaragua, he migrated to the United States and obtained an alien resident card as a teenager, he said.
Mayorga enlisted to take advantage of President Bush's decision after Sept. 11 to speed the citizenship process for green card holders who enlist. "The first reason is for citizenship," Mayorga said flatly. "I don't have a second or third reason," he said.
Mayorga's father and three brothers still live in their native Nicaragua, and a sister lives in Costa Rica, he said. After his four-year service, Mayorga will be awarded full citizenship. If he dies while in the Army, citizenship is awarded posthumously.
Despite the risk, Mayorga said family discussions about his enlistment have focused only on what he stands to gain. Even though he signed up to obtain citizenship, his family is proud of his choice.
"My grandfather is proud that I'll be serving," Mayorga said. "My mother is, my father is. My whole family is."
Fernando Suarez del Solar, whose son, Marine Lance Cpl. Jesus Suarez, was killed in Iraq in 2003, said he felt a reluctance to discuss the casualty risk with his son, who had been a citizen since he was 15.
Suarez said Jesus enlisted only after a recruiter told him a year's commitment in the Marines would lead to a job as a Drug Enforcement Administration agent. Since his son's death, Suarez has become a counter-recruitment activist and recently participated in the immigration protests in Los Angeles. The combination of the rising Latino death toll, Suarez said, and the recent proposed immigration legislation has only stirred more contentious feelings within him.
"I feel it twice," Suarez said. "First it's: 'My son served this country in the military and died,' and now: 'They're attacking the parents with this legislation.' On one end of the school campus, they want our sons to enlist. On the other, they want us out of the country.
"When my son told me he wanted to join, I said, 'No, no, no!' " Suarez added. "I never believed in this war, but I believed in him."
Of the more than 2,400 U.S. casualties in Iraq since 2003, 270 have been Latino, according to the Department of Defense.
Jesse Martinez, 19, was killed after his vehicle crashed in Tal Afar, Iraq, in 2004. Jan Martinez described her son as a couch potato before he joined, the kind of teenager who, "didn't have a smile on his face most of the time."
As they watched the events of Sept. 11 on television from their Tracy home, mother and son had different responses.
Martinez said she sensed a war was coming. She did not favor it, she said, nor could she disagree with the action, either. Her son, meanwhile, felt compelled to join the Marines.
"I asked him to wait a little while," she recalled. "I asked him to let things blow over, because I knew things could get worse.
"But once he signed up, he started smiling. He felt good about himself. It gave him a sense of purpose."
After her son's death, Martinez said she still felt ambivalent about the war.
"There are good things and bad things that have come from this," she said. "One of the bad things is that kids die. ... But you still got to be proud of them."


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Woah. Passive aggressive.
16 thoughts on "Chapter 4: Trouble Every Day, page 69"
Is Flora okay? I hope so.
I'm going to go ahead and predict that Flora is dead, and Scipio's about to lose it.
she is so gonna kick his butt!
Lemme get this straight: When she's as small as she is, and he's as big as she is, and a trained bodyguard, "she's gonna kick his butt"? Have you been reading this strip? (Wow, now that's genius.)
Flora closed her eyes when Scip picked her up guys.
You know that thing cats sometimes do, where they're sleeping so hard they're completely limp no matter what you do to them and are difficult to wake up? Chickens do that sometimes too, if they're kept as pets for a long time.
I am going to be very shocked if Scip actually loses his temper. I think it would be scary, but he strikes me more as a "I'm so disappointed in you" type person.
I wish that girl was real so I could slap her.
"I'm not angry. I'm disappointed."
Plus he might ask her where the money from the stolen laptop is.
Ms. Spike, it straight up kills me the way you conjure up these people in an insane future, but they're people we all have in our lives here in the present. It's almost depressing to think that these personality archetypes are immune to any sort of progress, but we all probably guessed that already. I think everyone knows Scipio. I know I've got one in my life. What is WITH these Scipios? Do they always do this shit? Also, my Scipio turned out to be gay as the day is long, but this Scipio strikes me as a touch too enlightened to stay closeted for long.
Get a job, you bum!
When I first cast my eyes upon panel six, I interpreted it as a sexy bum and leg. I was like, "whoa, scipio!"
Now I can't unsee it.
Anyway, she's not gonna need any money, because her date just jumped out of the window when he saw her rap sheet.
I always tense up and wince at the exact moment when someone's about to stick their foot (and whole leg and torso) into their mouths.
Don't do it, Scip!
beautiful. just beautiful. the small scip n panel two. the truthfullness of "…that you can have,". very very good.
Thanks Spike.
That's real. I've been asked for money, but it's not always money that's for the other person to have. If you say the "no" firmly enough, it can be pretty clear that you're simply not going to give them anything, regardless what you have.


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By Brigadier Chitranjan Sawant,VSM
Maharishi Dayanand and Mahatma Gandhi both were born and brought up in Gujarat and spoke Gujarati as their mother tongue. Precisely speaking the two stalwarts were from Kathiawar in Saurashtra where the vagaries of Nature and limited rainfall make the sons of the soil tough and sturdy. Both were born in and nourished by the princely states where their fathers had found employment and cultivated their culture without acquiring an imprint of princely high brow. Both the great men took to mixing with masses like fish takes to water. The influence of the Hindu Dharma was so deeply etched on their body, mind and soul that other proselytizing religions of the middle-East was kept at arms's length by both. Indeed the deep chasm within the Hindu Dharm did not leave them unaffected. Maharishi Dayanand, as balak Moolshankar, was brought up as a Shaiv, whereas Mahatma Gandhi clung to the Vaishnav traditions through and through. The inward impact of the two strong religious traditions was indeed so noticeable in the outer manifestation of their personalities.
DAYANAND was born in 1824 and GANDHI in 1869; thus the former was fortyfive years senior to latter. Indeed a lot of time in between had passed by and much water had flown down the Sabarmati river in between. After Gandhi's arrival in this world, Dayanand lived on for a mere fourteen years before he breathed his last. Apparently there was no time and no opportunity for an interaction directly between the two great men who changed the religious, social and political set up of their beloved Bharat. The direct and indirect impact of their personality left no one untouched or unaffected. Dayanand always called a spade a spade irrespective of the fact whether the man in conversation with him was a king or a commoner. Once His Highness, the Maharana of Udaipur offered the Mahantship of the Ekling Mandir, to which is big State was dedicated, provided Dayanand gave up his criticism of the idol worship and advocated only the stuti of Nirakar Ishwar. Dayanand took umbrage and minced no words in retorting " Maharana, I can run across your principality in one go but if I disobey Ishwar and obey you, where will I go to hide myself?" The wise ruler understood the import and dropped the subject.
Gandhi, on the other hand, sent across an unpleasant message in a pleasant mode without causing an upheaval in the social set up. Once Gandhi was addressing a crowd of the Indian settlers in South Africa when the local administration decided to disperse the assembly in the town hall and trooped in to do so. Before the British officers of the Police and their constables could carry out the dispersal orders, Gandhi said that now his mission was over and that the assembly must sing "God Save the King", the national anthem. The police officers and constables had no choice but to stand to attention and sing their national anthem. Thus it was Gandhi's spiritual strength that he could overwhelm his adversaries with his mild manners. Those who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Dayanand was a follower and a preacher of the Vedic Dharm that advises its followers to carry and wield BAJRA to fight against and annihilate the enemy and his army. Gandhi, of course, believed in non-violence as a Vaishanavite and loved to sing the line " vaishnav jana to tene kahiye peer parayee jaane re" and one who can realize the pain and suffering of others will never indulge in violence. Gandhi loved the principle of non-violence and would practice it even if it cost him his life. So steadfast was he in observing the principle of non-violence.
Dayanand too advocated the philosophy of Non-violence. Writes the Rishivar in the Satyarth Prakash while discussing the Ten principles of Dharma as defined by Manu Maharaj, how he wished AHINSA was also included as the eleventh principle of DHARMA. Here I must hasten to add that the concept of Ahinsa of Dayanand meant that a strong man must not voluntarily torment a weak man and cause violence. Thus Dayanand's Non-violence did not give an immunity to an enemy that had intruded to destroy our Dharma, our home and hearth. Gandho, on the other hand believed in a kind of non-violence that was absolute. Dayanand and Gandhi both advocated observance of AHINSA but their definitions differed. Nevertheless, non-violence continued to be on their agenda throughout.
Dayanand wrote the first edition of the Satyarth Prakash, his magnum opus in 1874 and published it in 1875. Dayanand had the moral courage to write in the eighth chapter of his aforesaid book about throwing off the foreign yoke and establishing self rule thus: ( let me quote word for word in original in Hindi)
" koi kitna hi kare parantu jo swadeshi rajya hota hai, who sarvopari uttam hota hai. ….. apne aur paraye ka pakshapat shunya, praja par mata-pita saman kripa, nyaya aur daya ke sath- videshiyon ka rajya bhi purna sukhdayak nahin hai."
When Dayanand wrote these lines as a freedom fighter and it was the heyday of the British Empire where the word "sunset" was unheard of, Gandhi used to roam about the streets of Saurashtra in his night undergarments. Irrespective of the consequences, Dayanand wrote regarding self rule and exhorted his newly elected members of the Arya Samaj executive committee to be as fearless as the Yajurveda advises them to be. The Ved mantra on the state of Fearlessness to be cultivated by all Aryas is quoted again in the Shanti Karanam of the Daily Havan procedure. Thus two birds would be killed with one stone: even Vaishyas will become bold like Kshatriyas and the Arya Samaj would face the British boldly without fear or favour. Without making it public, Dayanand was once again experimenting with the theory of MANTRA MOTIVATION. INDEED IT WAS A GRAND SUCCESS.
The British Rule used to deal with " freedom-fighter elements" in society firmly and separated them from the rest of the masses. Life Imprisonment meant exiling the freedom-fighter to the Andaman and Nicobar islands and that in effect meant the rank and file not coming in touch with the Satyagrahis or the men and women who insisted on following the path of principles; path of TRUTH and Ahinsa.
The situation was grim but the freedom fighters were a determined lot prepared to make a sacrifice of life and limbs. India, that is Bharat was on the path of progress leading to its destination – the FREEDOM from FOREIGN YOKE. Much before volunteers of the Indian National Congress came forward, it was the Arya Samaj that had lighted the Lamp of Freedom and removed the darkness of slavery to a foreign power. Thanks to Dayanand and his Satyarth Prakash, the awakening was on the horizon. Before long the word, SWATANTRATA WAS ON EVERY LIP AND EVERY PHYSICAL MOVEMENT WAS TO 0UST THE FOREIGN RULERS AND FINALLY EVERY MENTAL MOVE WAS TO BID GOOD BUY TO THE FOREIGN RULERS AND USHER IN A RULE BY INDIANS, FOR INDIANS AND 0F INDIANS.
On going through the writings of Mahatma Gandhi I find that his views about the Arya Samaj were magnanimous when he was in South Africa. Of course, the Arya Samaj, under the leadership of Parmanand Ji had done yeoman's service to promoting the Hindu Dharm and Vedic sanskriti among the Indian youth living in that far off foreign land. I would like to quote Gandhi Ji's words that I borrowed from an article written by Dr Yadav and entitled SWAMI DAYANAND ARYA SAMAJ AND Mahatma Gandhi. The piece runs thus:
Mahatma Gandhi told, "You, Sir, belong to a band of self-sacrificing workers whom the Arya Samaj has given to India. You, in common with your fellow-workers, have given your lifetime to the cause of Religion and Education. We, therefore, feel honoured in honouring you. We hope that your brief visit to South Africa will result in the Arya Samaj deciding to send some self-sacrificing educationists to work among the Indians in South Africa. Proper education is one of the greatest wants of the Indian community in South Africa."4 Mahatma Gandhi told, "Mr. Lajpat Rai, from the Punjab, is no less noble in mind. He is the recognized leader of the Punjab. He has been devoting his earnings and his energy to the promotion of the work of the Arya Samaj."5 Mahatma Gandhi told, "I have studied the Gayatri. I like the words. I have also studied the book the Swamiji gave me. I have derived much benefit from its perusal. It makes me more inquisitive about the life of Swami Dayanand2. I see that the meaning given by Swami Dayanand to the Gayatri and several mantras of the Vajasaneya Upanishad is totally different from that given by the orthodox school now which meaning is correct? I do not know. I hesitate straightway to accept the revolutionary method of interpretation suggested by S. Dayanand."
Later in life Mahatma Gandhi, as a political leader and as a crusader of the Hindu-Muslim unity to gain SWARAJ became extremely critical of the thought process of the Arya Samaj and its leaders. He could not tolerate Arya Samaj proselytizing like the Christian missionaries and converting Muslims and Christians to the Vedic Dharm. Perhaps he found the edifice of religious unity that he was building like a castle in the air crumbling under the attack of the Arya Samaj pracharaks who minced no words in calling a spade a spade.
TRUTH was the main plank of both Maharishi Dayanand and Mahatma Gandhi . The former went whole hog in preaching and practicing Truth. The latter perhaps had political expediency in mind and his ultimate goal, namely independence of India was always the be all and the end all. No wonder Maharishi Dayanand made TRUTH the base of Five out of TEN Principles of the Arya Samaj formulated in Lahore in 1877. The Rishivar never deviated from the Truth, come what may. I shall not commit blasphemy by saying or even remotely indicating that Mahatma Gandhi deviated from the Truth. Nevertheless, I shall be failing in my duty if I do not point out that he was more critical of the Arya samaj in particular and Hindu elements in the Congress than he ever was of Muslims or Christians.
Gandhiji spearheaded the movement in India to restore Caliphate and the Sultan of Turkey after the World War I, just to please the Muslim clientele of his. If it was NOT a deviation from the Truth, from the ground realities of life, what else would be. The Muslims of Turkey were too happy to say good bye to their religious and temporal head and usher in a real secular social and political order under Mustafa Kamal Attaturk but Gandhiji closed his eyes to the grassroots Truth in Turkey. Let us rest the case here for the time being.
As a devout believer in the Vedic Dharm, Swami Shraddhanand Ji had launched a successful movement of SHUDDHI to bring back to the Vedic dharm those men and women who had strayed away and had been forcibly converted to Islam or allured by love of lucre to convert to Christianity. He had the support of Pundit Madan Mohan Malviya and Maharana of Udaipur in toto. However, this was N ANTHEMA TO Mahatma Gandhi but he had never raised a voice in protest when Muslims revolting against the British rule in Malabar had attacked the Hindu houses, adducted and raped their women and converted the weak kneed to Islam. So, why did Mahatma Gandhi's conscience prick now, if one may ask.
Maharishi Dayanand's disciples and Mahatma Gandhi were now on the war path, the bugles were sounded and the distant drums could be heard far and wide. Mahatma Gandhi wrote articles in self defence that Yogendra Yadav, a Gandhian scholar, has quoted to convince a modern reader that the Mahatma was impartial and if anything, he had lovingly mentioned time and again that both he and Swami Dayanand Saraswati were from that tiny part of India called Katiawar. Let us see what the Mahatma had to say warding off the VAJRA-LIKE ATTACKS OF THE OFFENDED ARYAS :
Mahatma Gandhi told, "A storm of indignation on the part of Arya Samajists is blowing against me. I have letters and telegrams of energetic protest against my references to the Samaj, its illustrious founder, Swami Shraddhanandji and the shuddhi movement. They are from Ghaziabad, Mutan, Delhi, Sukkur, Karachi, Jagraon, Secunderabad, Lahore, Sialkot, Allahabad, etc. I omit mention of individual letters. Probably all of them expect me to publish their protests; some have specially insisted upon my doing so. They will forgive me for not complying with their desire. The majority are worded after the fashion of the telegram I reproduced last week. All resent what they regard as an attack upon the Arya Samaj, the Satyarth Prakash, Rishi Dayanand, Swami Shraddhanandji and the shuddhi movement. I am sorry to have to say that my position still remains unaltered. I have read with careful attention the argumentative correspondence received by me. Those who have attributed my statement to my ignorance have done so probably to leave me an open door for a safe retreat. Unfortunately for me, I have left no such chance for myself. I cannot plead ignorance of the Satyarth Prakash or the general teachings of the Arya Samaj. I cannot even say that I might have been prejudiced against the Arya Samaj. On the contrary, I approached it with the greatest veneration. I had, as I still have, profound regard for the personal character of Rishi Dayanand. His brahmacharya was an object of emulation for me. His fearlessness commanded my admiration. And my provincialism, if I have any in me, was flattered by the fact of the Rishi being of the same little Kathiawar as myself. But I could not help myself. The conclusion I came to was in spite of me, and I published it only when its publication became relevant. Its suppression would have been a cowardly omission on my part. Instead of becoming enraged against me for an honest expression of opinion, I appeal to them to take my criticism in good part, examine it, try to convince me and pray for me if I cannot be convinced. Two letters have challenged me to substantiate my conclusion. It is a fair challenge and I hope before long to produce from the Satyarth Prakash passages in its support. My friends will not engage me in a religious discussion with them. I shall content myself with giving them the grounds of my opinion, So far as Swami Shraddhanandji is concerned, there is no question Of substantiating my opinion. My critics will oblige me by leaving him and me to ourselves. In spite of my opinion, I shall not quarrel with the Swamiji. Mine is the criticism of a friend. As for shuddhi, the critics in their blind fury have forgotten the qualification 'as it is understood in Christianity or to a lesser extent in Islam'. This is quite different from saying that there is no proselytism in Hinduism. Hinduism has a way all its own of shuddhi. But if the Arya Samajists differ from me, they may still allow me to retain my opinion. If they will re-read the statement, they will discover that I have said that they have a perfect right to carry on their movement if they like. Toleration is not a coinciding of views. There should be toleration of one another's views though they may be as poles asunder. Lastly I have not said that Arya Samajists or Mussalmans do kidnap women. I have said 'I am told'. By repeating what I was told, I have given both the parties an opportunity of repudiating the charge. Was it not better that I should publish what was being said, so that the atmosphere might be cleared? Let me point out to my Arya Samaj friends that their protests betray want of toleration. Public men and public institutions cannot afford to be thin-skinned. They must stand criticism with good grace. And now for an appeal to them. They have almost all entered their protests. I do not mind them. I assure them that I share their sorrow. It pained me when I wrote my criticism. It pains me now to know that it has hurt them. But I am not their enemy. I claim to be their friend. Time will prove my friendship. They do not want to quarrel with anybody or any faith. That is what almost all have said in their letters. Let them take to heart the tribute I have paid to the Samaj, its founder and to Swami Shraddhanandji. I know the purifying work that the Arya Samaj has done. I know that it has laid its finger on many abuses that have soiled Hinduism. But no one can live on his capital. I want them to outlive the latter and extend the spirit of their reform. In spite of their denial, I repeat that their shuddhi propaganda savours of the Christian propaganda. I would like them to rise higher. If they will insist upon reform from within, it will tax all their energy and take up all their time. Let them Hinduism the Hindu if they believe with me that Arya Samaj is a part of Hinduism. If they consider it as distinct from Hinduism, I fear it will be a hard task for them to convert the Hindus. Let them ascertain where they stand. I have criticized because I want them to help the great national and religious movement that is now going on. The Samaj has a great future if it can outgrow what has appeared to me its narrowness.
The disciples of Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati and followers of Mahatma Gandhi must bury the hatchet and move forward on the path of progress so that our motherland may attain the greatness that it was famous for in days of yore.
Mahashay Vishwanath Ji, a staunch Arya Samajist and a Gandhian, of the DAV College, Lahore fondly narrated an anecdote to me. Long ago in undivided India, he was on a Ved prachar mission in the interior of the Punjab beyond Multan. Hindi was neither spoken nor understood in that remote interior rural Punjab. Going in an ekka, he heard melodious bhajans in Hindi from a group of women WHO WERE ALSO WORKING ON THE SPINNING WHEEL OR CHARKHA POPULARISED BY THE SWADESHI AANDOLAN. Swadeshi was indeed so dear to both Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati and Mahatma Gandhi.
Here was a fusion of the Vedic spirituality popularized in the Punjab by Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati emerging as bhajans in praise of ISHWAR and lessons in self dependence through the CHARKHA that rekindled the freedom spirit awakened by Mahatma Gandhi. We of the present generation are proud recipients of the rich legacy of both the Maharishi and the Mahatma.
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