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- American Studies Association voted to boycott Israeli academic institutions
- Shmuley Boteach: With all the nations that are extreme human rights violators, why Israel?
- He says Israel is a thriving democracy that guarantees the right of due process to all
- Boteach: Americans should be ashamed that "scholars" have maligned a humane nation
Twenty-five years ago, nearly to the day, I arrived at Oxford University with my wife of six months to become the first rabbi in residence in decades. I had just turned 22. My mandate was simple: Deepen Jewish identity among the Jewish students and cultivate values-based leadership among the students at large.
What I never expected to be my mission, but what eventually became central to everything I did, was defending Israel against ferocious and unjust assault.
I quickly discovered that universities in general, and elite universities in particular, are breeding grounds for anti-Israel bias. We beat back many attempts over 11 years to slander Israel as an expansionist, neo-colonialist power and succeeded in portraying the true nature of the Middle East's only democracy. We hosted six Israeli prime ministers and countless other eloquent defenders of the Jewish state.
But since I returned to the United States, the situation among academics has only become worse.
Just after Pink Floyd's Roger Waters compared Israel to Nazi Germany, we have the American Studies Association, comprising about 5,000 academics, voting to boycott Israeli academic institutions. The group is refusing all collaborations with universities, although not individual scholars.
The reason, members say, is Israel's human rights abuses against Palestinians and the occupation.
The ASA has not boycotted any other country in a similar way. Not, say, China, which regularly jails political dissidents for lengthy sentences and commits them to near-slave labor without any judicial process. Liu Xiaobo, who won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, is serving an 11-year sentence on fraudulent subversion charges. His wife, Liu Xia, has been held incommunicado under house arrest for three years even though she has never been charged.
So why would Israel, a thriving liberal democracy that guarantees the right of due process to all of its citizens, including minorities, be singled out?
If you argue that the reason is Israel's "occupation" of Arab lands, the American Studies Association is surely aware of China's brutal occupation of Tibet since 1950. China faces no existential threat. It does not have terrorists blowing up schools and buses and does not have a neighbor building a nuclear bomb threatening to annihilate it. Israel, by contrast, has all of these things.
Israel has been under the threat of extermination by its Arab neighbors for six decades, has lost countless citizens to terrorism and has a nuclear-inclined Iran threatening to wipe it off the map. Surely a group of scholars would understand the unique security situation facing a nation that has suffered a genocide of 6 million people just 70 years ago.
So why Israel?
According to an article in the New York Post, ASA President Curtis Marez said that his group singled out Israel, knowing that many of Israel's neighbors have worse human rights abuses, because "one has to start somewhere."
At Oxford, I had the privilege of hosting and debating some of the world's leading intellectuals. Never before have I read a more inane quote from a man claiming to be a scholar.
That's your reason? One has to start somewhere and that somewhere just happens to be, yet again, the Jews?
If it's a matter of choosing a place to start, you could draw straws or perhaps throw dice or pull names from a hat. So, a group of academics just decided it was time to boycott some country and decided, arbitrarily, that Israel was as good as any?
This isn't even a case of anti-Semitism so much as buffoonery, not a case of prejudice so much as stupidity.
Let's state the real facts.
Israel is the Middle East's only democracy, guaranteeing a free press and the right to worship, as well as the rights of women and homosexuals. Although the Arab nations that surround Israel commit unspeakable human rights violations every day, Israel struggles under existential threat to balance its security needs with the freedoms it cherishes.
The 1995 interim agreement says, "Israel and [the Palestinians] will ensure that their respective educational systems contribute to the peace between the Israeli and Palestinian peoples." Yet Palestinian schools teach hatred of Israel. A U.S. government report finds that 84% of the references to Israelis in Palestinian textbooks are negative.
Palestinian universities promote extremism. In 2007, the Washington Institute reported in an article called "Teaching Terror" that university campuses are full of Hamas propaganda. Israel has roadblocks and builds fences solely because it got tired of seeing its citizens blown to smithereens.
Calling for an academic boycott of Israel for the steps it takes to defend itself is akin to calling for an academic boycott of Britain and the United States during World War II. And, mind you, Israel has never even come close to indiscriminately bombing civilian population centers the way the allies did in that war. Israel takes great care to protect the lives of innocent civilians even as it fights genocidal terror organizations Hamas and Hezbollah.
We Americans who cherish freedom, democracy and liberty should be ashamed that a group of our nation's "scholars" have so viciously maligned a most humane nation.
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Some of the best Queenstown attractions won't cost you a cent to enjoy! Here's our round up of five of the best free things to do in Queenstown...
If you're visiting the stunning lake resort town of Queenstown in Otago, New Zealand, the things available to see and experience are almost endless. Better yet, some of the best Queenstown attractions won't cost you a cent to enjoy.
Queenstown is built in one in one of the South Island's most spectacular locations on an inlet called Queenstown Bay on Lake Wakatipu. The views you see from Queenstown are incredible. The awe inspiring mountain range, The Remarkables, Cecil Peak and Walter Peak all surround the town.
Of course there are seemingly endless Queenstown tourist attractions to satisfy a wide range of visitors to the area. Hiring a car to explore the area is a great move. Once you have transport you will be able to discover some of the free experiences that the Queenstown area has to offer. Rest assured you can also leave your car at your base accommodation, as there are many free things to do in Queenstown within easy walking distance from the town centre.
Take a stroll through the Queenstown Gardens
Do you love botanical gardens? Then the Queenstown Gardens are a must. The gardens are just a five minute stroll from the town centre. They can be found on a peninsula on Lake Wakatipu. You can walk around the peninsula as well as through the gardens on several paths that will lead you past the duck ponds, the band rotunda and rose gardens. There is even an 18 hole Frisbee 'golf course' you can enjoy; as long as you have a Frisbee of course.
Visit an Art Gallery
If you are an arts and culture lover then you have a treasure trove of art galleries that feature renowned local and international artists. The Ivan Clarke Gallery, the Central Art Gallery, Artbay Gallery and the contemporary Toi o Tahuna are great places to start your artistic wanderings. All are located within the township and are easy to get to on foot.
Explore the Lakefront
The lakefront of Queenstown is a wonderful free attraction that you are sure to enjoy. There is plenty of seating so you can easily spend an hour or so watching people sailing on the lake, there are often buskers entertaining and on Saturdays there are markets at Earnslaw Park. And of course there are the magnificent views of Cecil and Walter Peaks to admire across the lake.
Embark on a Queenstown hike
Feel like getting into nature? Some of the best free Queenstown activities can be found a short drive away from the town. There are several walk/hikes close to Queenstown to suit a variety of physical abilities. Five kilometres from Queenstown, in Frankton, you will discover the Frankton Arm. A flat walk along Lake Wakatipu will reward you with gorgeous views. For those who want more of a challenge there is the Queenstown Hill. This hike leads you to the summit of the hill where you will be able to savour the stunning views of the surrounding area and the lake. This walk is a three hour return trip.
Drive to the Remarkables
A scenic drive up into The Remarkables is a wonderful excursion in all seasons. The views of Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu are magnificent. There are plenty of lookouts along the way up the hills and mountains so you are sure to have your breath taken away from these vantage points.


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The community atmosphere we're talking about is what makes this place magnetic. At Southern Wesleyan you can actively participate in real community and you'll be changed by the Southern Wesleyan University experience.
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At the core of the community experience at Southern Wesleyan is our unwavering focus on Christ and spiritual development. From great speakers and worship in chapel to stretching conversations in the dorms and in the classrooms, Southern Wesleyan has a passion for helping students discover and develop their life calling.
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"Possibly" and "necessarily" seem very much like "exists" and "for-all", but does the following hold true: $\neg \square P \equiv \lozenge \neg P$ in the same way as $\neg\forall P \equiv \exists\neg P$ ?
From the definition of "necessarily" in my book, being that $P$ should be true in all possible worlds, it seems to be so.
A corner case will be if there are no possible worlds. In this case, the "necessarily" is vacuously true, so its negation is false; at the same time, there are no possible worlds whatsoever, so there's no world where $\lnot P$ is possible, so the right-hand statement is false as well.
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A Morenci Little League meeting is scheduled at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, at City Hall to plan for the 2013 season.
Organizers will discuss restructuring the Little League board and elect officers. Interested people are needed to fill the offices of president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and league liaison.
Coaches are needed at all levels. Practices are scheduled to begin in April and the season will end at the beginning of July.
Organizers hope to move the Little League program back to the city parks and recreation program as it was many years ago.
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Houston Endowment, Inc. improves the life for the people of the greater Houston area though its contributions to charitable organizations and educational institutions. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse H. Jones established Houston Endowment on September 25, 1937, with a broad mandated that has enabled the Foundation to respond throughout the years to ever-changing needs of the communities it serves. Since inception, the Foundation has distributed over $1.2 billion to charitable organizations in Houston and beyond.
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Like Geniaus and Tanya Honey, I have recently purchased a Samsung Galaxy tab. Geniaus started the ball rolling as she was the one who alerted us that they were selling for the bargain price of $299, unlocked. I had thought about buying an iPad, but the price and the size deterred me. The Galaxy tab, being quite a bit cheaper and just a bit smaller, was exactly what I wanted!
Geniaus has written describing the applications and uses she has for her galaxy tab here, and Tanya Honey has followed suit here. This post describes my set-up starting at the more general which will apply to almost any modern machine or device, and then going on to a few things I have liked on the android platform (the Galaxy tab in particular).
I will be mostly using my tablet at home, or at the library, and so will be on wifi most of the time. Although I wanted the freedom to connect from anywhere, but only occasionally, I was reluctant to pay for mobile data access at the prices I had seen. Then I came across TPGs pay-as-you-go plan which is intended specifically for this sort of use. For no contract and $1 a month (yes, $1) I get inexpensive calls (which I don't intend to make on the Galaxy tab anyway) and a modest allowance of data per month. If I go over my data allowance, even a long way over, it's no big deal. It's only 2.75c for each extra MB.
Setting up data access wasn't as easy as it might have been. I found the information I needed here, but it was a remark in the comments about keeping one field blank that finally got everything working for me. Since then, I've had no problem at all. I would seriously consider ditching my current phone plan when the contract is up in favour of this plan as I rarely make mobile phone calls anyway.
Cloud services
I have a Windows 7 PC, an iPhone and now the Galaxy tab, which is an android. Despite being on three different operating systems, I want a seamless experience across my devices. The good news is that I (largely) have it. There are many cloud services on offer that allow you to synchronise information from one or more machines with "the cloud". If this is unfamiliar to you, it's not as scary as it sounds. I use the cloud services below for both genealogy and for general use.
Google calendar is, as the names suggests, Google's web calendar application. Most calendar applications on the iPhone and android systems will synchronise with a Google calendar. Enter a date on one device and it's there on another. Easy and free.
Toodledo is a free web based to-do site. The interface on the web site itself is full-featured (even more so if you paid for the premium version), but rather clunky. However, many 'to-do' applications synchronise with the site. I switch between to-do apps on my iPhone all the time but on the Galaxy I rather like Ultimate To-Do list and I actual prefer the clean interface of the mobile phone version to the tablet version. If you use the link above and take a paid subscription, I will get a few months of premium membership too. There's no advantage or disadvantage to you that I'm aware of.
Dropbox is a file synchronisation/backup service. With this I can access my genealogy documents from anywhere on any of my devices. I can also upload directly to my Dropbox account from any machine connected to the internet. No USB? No problem. I just upload whatever I have scanned at the library straight to my Dropbox and it syncs onto my home computer. A 2GB account is free - you and I will both get 250MB extra if you use the link above. Please do!
A similar service is SugarSync. I'm still deciding how I want to use it, but I am getting to like it even better than Dropbox, if that is possible! SugarSync offers 5GB of space for free and it's paid plans cost less than Dropbox's. It allows you to sync any folder on your computer; you don't have to rearrange your files to suit the service. Another nice feature is the android app automatically syncs any pictures you take with your device's camera. The main disadvantage compared to Dropbox is that it doesn't seem to be supported by as many other apps. If you sign up for a free account using the link above, you and I will both get 500MB of extra space. Another please do!
LastPass is a password manager. I have user accounts with so many sites, it's not funny. For the most part I have broken away from using a few "standard" passwords and now have a unique and complex password for each site I visit. I find LastPass to be easy to use and very light on system resources (unlike the password manager I formerly used). Installation on the PC is easy. Installation on the iPhone and Android less so – it involves some complex manoeuvrers to install bookmarklets which then don't work particularly quickly… but it can be done, the bookmarklets do work, and best of all it's free. (Are you detecting a theme here?)
Evernote is a free notetaking app that syncs between multiple machines and has clever handwriting recognition features. To be honest, I never quite found my feet with Evernote. Then a few months ago I discovered Microsoft's OneNote which is also a notetaking application, which syncs with Microsoft's SkyDrive (25GB of free space for everyone!) but it has a bit more structure to it. I didn't quite "get" it at first but once I did, I loved it. I've been using it for all my genealogy note taking and research logging ever since. Unfortunately it's not quite as cloudy (yet) as other cloud services. There is an iPhone app but it's only available in the USA. Instead I am using MobileNoter SE which is third party OneNote file viewer. I make new notes when I'm out and about in Evernote, which I can then sync to OneNote via a little converter app on the MobileNoter website. It's not as complicated as it sounds.
Other apps
I'll try to be less long winded! I'm talking about android applications here, but most are available on iPhone or iPad as well.
Genealogy - I am happy enough with FamilyBee as a viewer for my genealogy file. It plays nicely with Dropbox and there are no complicated file conversions to traverse, other than exporting my database to GEDCOM. While you can't edit the information you can save notes and images for later.
Books – I have the LibraryThing scanner app, which makes it possible to sit on the floor and catalogue a pile of books to my LibraryThing account. I am finally starting to put my LibraryThing account to use. I also have the Amazon Kindle app and have downloaded my first eBook. I didn't think I'd like reading from a screen but the Galaxy tab is a similar size to a paperback novel and it's actually quite comfortable to read on. I could get used to this. That one-click ordering button looks like a dangerous thing, especially on a touch screen!
Weather – It's got to be Pocket Weather AU which takes it's feed direct from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and includes those radar maps which have let me know on plenty of occasions if I should hurry home before the storm gets worse, or if I should wait for 10 minutes by which time it will all be done. I have the small version of the accompanying widget on the home screen of my tablet, so I can see at a glance just how cold I'm going to be today. Now that I think about it, that definitely doesn't get me out the door any quicker in the morning…
Games – Although instant entertainment to hand to the kids can be very useful, I'm reluctant to let them think they can play with the tablet too often. It's mine! All mine!! So, I have Angry Birds for emergency use and also a free app that is actually intended for small children, Kid Mode. Kid Mode locks up most functions so your kids can't alter your device by accident. It gives them age appropriate games and activities that are purportedly educational.
Battery – Like Tanya, I found a battery widget I liked that gives me a more accurate indication of how much power I have left. Last but definitely not least, to extend my running time between charges I have installed JuiceDefender. It's great! There's a free version but I upgraded all the way to Ultimate. It manages your wifi, data network and even cellular connections intelligently according the the parameters you set which can include different schedules for day/evening and for week/weekend (you say which days are your weekend). It's very clever and has worked very well for me.


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The number of full-time undergraduate computer science courses offered by UK universities has fallen by nearly a fifth since 2006, a report has revealed.
The University and College Union (UCU) report, which is based on data from universities admission service UCAS, found that 169 computer science courses were available in 2012, down 18 percent from 2006, when 207 courses were on offer.
Overall single subject STEM courses were down 15 percent, with the number of mathematics courses falling nine percent, from 75 in 2006 to 68 this year.
The report found that the total number of courses available at UK universities has fallen by 27 percent since 2006, with those in England cutting the highest proportion of courses (31 percent), compared to just a three percent reduction in Scotland.
Students in England will be expected to pay annual tuition fees of up to £9,000, from this autumn, while Scottish-domiciled undergraduates studying in Scotland do not have to pay any fees.
UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said: "While successive governments have been dreaming up new ways to increase the cost of going to university, the range of subjects available to students has fallen massively. As student numbers have continued to rise, choice has fallen across almost all disciplines, including STEM subjects, which governments have pledged to protect."
Neil Crockett, managing director of London 2012 at Cisco, said that UCU's findings were disappointing, and potentially "devastating".
"[STEM subjects] are the very subjects that have previously been called out as critical for UK growth and innovation, and with student uptake falling year-on-year, the future looks bleak for the UK tech industry.
"Although it may make economic sense in the short-term to make cuts, with a deficit of around 60,000 skilled workers in the UK technology and engineering sector, it is clear that the long-term result could be devastating."


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Creamy Herbed Chicken: This creamy herbed chicken recipe packs a ton of flavor. Made with garlic and herb pasta sauce mix, this slow cooker chicken recipe goes perfect with fettuccine.
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- Simple Salsa Chicken: Serve your chicken warm over a bed of rice. You could also shred it and wrap it in tortillas.
Chicken Chili
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- White Chicken Chili Mac: (shown above) White Chicken Chili Mac is a great slow cooker chicken chili recipe that is chock-full of fresh veggies, chicken, and pasta.
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Title of work: The
Death of Jim Loney and "Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat" by James Welch
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If you teach a work like The Death of Jim Loney, what kind of context does the student need? I think that's a very important question for a teacher. Someone off the reservation, perhaps, only sees it as a book about a half-breed drinking. That's dredging up the worst kinds of stereotypes. Jim Loney is trying to find some kind of dignity in living. He's awakened after ten years of alcoholism to realize his life is meaningless. So, in the end, he is the most alert, alive, conscious person.
Q & A with Kathryn W. Shanley
Can you give us some background information on James Welch, his family and ancestry?
Although Jim Welch is careful to leave autobiographical information out of his interviews, he does occasionally talk about his roots in Indian communities. And in a recent interview he does talk about when he was growing up -- particularly on the Fort Belknap Reservation -- and of hearing traditional stories. His father told him of the stories of his own people in terms of the difficulties arising out of the smallpox epidemics and then the massacre at the Marias River in 1870. In his first novel, Winter in the Blood, the elderly character, Yellow Calf, is an ancestor of Welch -- in a kind of a loose way. And then in Fools Crow, Welch's third book, a baby that survives the massacre is a relative, but he doesn't make the connections for you.
Describe the relationship between Welch's work and the Native American storytelling tradition.
The stories he grew up around in oral tradition are both stories about the mythological or the trickster figure -- the type of typical stories you'd think of when you think of Native American storytelling traditions -- but also they're family history and tribal history. And he has heard them throughout his life.
I think that James Welch would be the last person who would want to claim storyteller status for himself. Probably because he doesn't want to romanticize what he does. He knows it's a written art form, but he isn't prone to want to make the leap from oral tradition [to] the written. But he does have roots in the oral tradition, and it does come out in his work.
What does it mean for a Native American to read James Welch?
Well, even speaking from personal experience, when I first read Winter in the Blood, I felt an identification with the protagonist that I never would feel otherwise. I mean, even though I love literature and would suspend disbelief and identify with whomever -- the protagonist or some character in the work -- it didn't have the close personal connection that Winter in the Blood had for me. And to me the idea that Welch could capture something of the existence I knew growing up on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana was a miracle. And other Indians must have felt the same thing. But for my student to say in class, 35 or more years later, that Winter in the Blood is just like it is today means that there's a kind of relevance there that's a continuing of a social reality, and a vision, and other things perhaps more subtle.
How would you position Welch within the Native American literary tradition?
In an early interview, Welch once said that there were ... when he started writing, only N. Scott Momaday and Duane Niatum were Native people that he knew who were writing. There were other people before him, but those books weren't taught or available; many things have been reissued. And it wasn't the kind of situation where a person knew how to go and find those other voices.
He was an Indian, writing about what meant to be Indian, without romanticizing it -- trying to present it as the way it was. And he says that over and over. In fact, in a more recent interview that I did with him, he said the same thing -- that he tries to present Indian people's lives, or any person's life, in a way that is believable. So I think he's respected for those reasons.
He is considered one of the founders of the Native American Renaissance.
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Before European settlers arrived, the Blackfeet tribe controlled large swaths of the plains of northwestern Montana and southern Canada, and were considered a formidable military power. For the most part, the tribe had friendly relations with Europeans, trading animal pelts for guns and ammunition, which allowed them to dominate their local rivals, the Shoshone and Nez Perce. But the tribe's power began to diminish in the early 1800s after the United States began supplying their rivals with weapons. The Blackfeet now occupy two reservations, one in northern Montana (established by peace treaty with the United States government in 1855) and another in Alberta, Canada. The reservations are located on traditional Blackfeet territory, but in a greatly reduced area. Many of James Welch's novels are set in this area. Welch has said that the Blackfeet "weren't particularly noble Indians. They weren't particularly bad Indians. They were human beings. That's really what I wanted to get across, the idea that historical Indians were human beings. They weren't clichés."
Gros Ventre Indians
In the late 1600s, the Algonquian-speaking Gros Ventre tribe split from the Arapaho tribe. By the late 1700s, the Gros Ventre inhabited territory in north-central Montana and eventually joined the Blackfeet Nation. The tribe's name literally means "big belly," and was given to them by French fur traders who mistook the local Indian sign language for "waterfall" (rubbing one's hands over the stomach). The Gros Ventre refer to themselves as "A'aninin" or "white clay people." In 1855, the Gros Ventre signed a peace treaty with the U.S. government as part of the Blackfeet confederacy. After moving from one reservation to another, the Gros Ventre settled, in 1888, on the Fort Belknap Reservation in north-central Montana, a territory they share with the Assiniboine tribe.
"Mixed-Blood" Native Americans
Since the first contact between Indians, Europeans, and enslaved and free Africans, there has been intermarriage and offspring. In the same way miscegenation has been a common theme in African American literature, the "mixed-blood" Native American has become a historical and literary motif in many works by Native American -- and non-Native -- writers, frequently symbolizing uncertainty and a lack of connection to one's culture and past. Yet while oppression persists, they also offer hope for a future coming together of all peoples. Politics of economics, ancestry, and tradition are always part of discussions about mixed blood Indians.
Native American Storytelling Tradition
According to Native American scholar Kathryn W. Shanley, this tradition follows a "how and why" format, giving listeners explicit information about how something came into being, and implicit information about why a particular phenomenon exists. In this way, listeners must puzzle through a universe of possible meanings about the phenomenon. In addition, Professor Shanley says that the storyteller will not censor stories for the audience. Instead, it is expected that the listener will hear in the story what he or she is ready and able to hear. Greg Sarris, a California Miwok/Pomo Native American, says that storytelling in the classroom has much to offer, but it is highly context-bound and should be studied as such. That is, all narratives are influenced by a variety of factors during particular tellings, and to understand the story necessarily requires an examination of the context in which it is told.
Native American Renaissance
At the same time many ethnic communities in the United States engaged in political activism for civil and human rights, Native Americans banded together to fight for the same rights. According to scholar Kathryn W. Shanley, the American Indian Movement staged demonstrations at the Bureau of Indian Affairs offices, at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, and at Wounded Knee. A literary renaissance accompanied this political activism. While James Welch is one of the people who launched the Native American Renaissance in the early '60s, it became a recognizable literary movement with the publication of N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn in 1968 and the book's subsequent Pulitzer Prize (1969). Literary scholar Kenneth Lincoln used the term "renaissance" for this period when Native American writing began to flourish; Native American students in colleges and universities were demanding to be recognized and seen in the literature and the curriculum. At this time and shortly thereafter, other writers, such as Simon Ortiz and Leslie Marmon Silko, emerged and added their voices to the literary movement.
Suggestions for applying other theories to The Death of Jim Loney and "Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat"
James Welch's novels offer several entry points for inquiry. Teachers can have students catalogue questions as they read. Some students may have questions about specific details that are unclear to them; others may be interested in more symbolic or abstract references; and still others may want to pursue the philosophical or personal considerations which arise. The students should share their questions frequently as a class without attempting to answer any of them. Instead, the questions of the other students should "percolate" in the minds of readers as they read, providing new angles on the text that might not have been previously considered. The process of sharing helps students to find answers and refine their questions. Students can begin an inquiry once they have refined and catalogued a significant number of questions.
Cultural studies explorations might involve the relationship between images of Native Americans in popular culture and those presented by Welch and other major Native American writers. Students can sift through the similarities and differences, and make assertions about both. This should lead to further research.
A critical exploration of the works might revolve around Welch's treatment of mixed-blood characters within a literary and historical context. This could lead into a discussion of United States laws concerning blood counts and tribal roles, and the phenomenon of "fetishizing" Native Americans in popular culture.
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On Sunday, during the coming weekend's 114th California Library Association conference, you get an extra hour sleep (we revert to "standard" time from daylight saving) and the opportunity to hear master speaker Dr. Jonathan Reichental, at 2 pm. Dr. Reichental brings to California librarians that enriching mix of public and private experience, from the world of business and from that of government. In the tradition of CLA master speakers, this is the opportunity not only to hear about innovative and inspired outlooks but also to experience how to deliver a message to a large group and keep everyone focused and engaged in hearing it.
Dr. Reichental's presentation begins just after the exhibit hall closes for the conference. That means you can attend his talk and get your fill of exhibit discoveries beforehand.
So put together your Sunday schedule now, starting with that extra hour of sleep, visiting the exhibits (if you start at Booth 314, you can collect a treasure hunt map to help you focus on where else to go there), and remembering to come learn from a master speaker as well.
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Jeff Probst watches the remaining eight survivors compete in the Immunity Challenge during the twelfth episode of SURVIVOR: CARAMOAN – FANS VS. FAVORITES, Wednesday, May 1 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. #Survivor. Photo: Greg Gayne/CBS© 2013 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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I think we've all been there: you're young, you're bored, you decide to write some poetry about your favorite video game.
Actress/writer/musician/etc. Felicia Day sure seems to have been there, and she's gone ahead and shared some of her 12-year-old self's video-game poetry. It's called "Avatar Isle," and it's a tribute to the Ultima series.
I know she's got her share of detractors out there, but as I've written in the past, I think a lot of Ms. Day. This kind of thing is why; it's a total goof, but it's a fun one.


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Both those conclusions are inhospitable to accommodations for traditional religious believers. Even many people who have changed their minds on gay marriage view it as a difficult question of social policy. —Michael McConnell, a law professor at Stanford
The Supreme Court's decision to halt same-sex marriages in Utah indicates the court hopes to see a slower, more orderly process, legal experts say.
The stay issued Monday was no surprise to Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, who tweeted Sunday night that the court would likely issue a stay Monday and that it might be unanimous. He was right on both counts, it appears.
Hasen said he expected the court to move to forestall chaos in Utah and the other 32 states that now ban gay marriage. "Judges watch what others judges do," he said, "and I think the Supreme Court sent a very clear message to other lower courts that these things should be stayed until they are finally resolved."
On hot button issues such as abortion, gun rights and now gay marriage, Hasen said, the court prefers things to "move slowly and incrementally, and if there is going to be change it should be change from the top."
Part of the chaos centers on the 900 marriages in Utah performed during the interval before Monday's stay and whether those will be considered valid. California offers no real precedent because the marriages there took place under California law before the voters changed the law, Hasen said. In this case, the underlying Utah law remains untouched, should the state win on appeal.
"We have no idea," said Michael McConnell, a law professor at Stanford, on whether the marriages performed in Utah will be valid going forward. He added that the Supreme Court stay at least freezes the number of cases at 900, while it could have gone much higher. "It should have been zero," he said.
Some close observers of the court see hope for negotiated solutions that could allow for greater comity and respect on both sides. But whether the issues are settled in the courts or the legislatures, few see an easy path to a stable compromise.
Space for politics
Is this rapid movement, lurching and stopping what Justice Anthony Kennedy and the rest of the Supreme Court had in mind when they issued their decision in Windsor v. U.S. last summer?
Antonin Scalia seemed to think so in his dissent last summer when he pictured the court's majority as disingenuous schemers sending direct signals to lower courts that they were ready to find a right to gay marriage.
Scalia based this on a series of phrases in Kennedy's majority opinion that implied the majority of the court saw no fair-minded basis for opposing gay marriage. Any such opposition could only be driven by "animus," or raw hostility. When Judge Robert Shelby struck down Utah's law just before Christmas, he cited both Kennedy's language and Scalia's characterization of it as authority.
"I'm not sure Scalia's opinion was either accurate or helpful," said McConnell, who is director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford and a former Circuit Federal Judge.
McConnell, who has served as a member of the Deseret News Editorial Advisory Board, sees Kennedy as conflicted in his own thinking — revealing his own policy preferences but genuinely hoping to put off judicial policymaking if at all possible.
"The court was signaling that it wanted to allow space for politics," McConnell said. The court could have held gay marriage to be a fundamental right in the Windsor decision, he said, and the court also sidestepped the California Proposition 8 case, with Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer voting to avoid deciding it. In short, if the court had actually been prepared to throw down a gauntlet, the opportunity was there last summer.
Ginsburg and Breyer may have sidestepped the issue because they believed they would lose Kennedy, McConnell said. Or they may have also wanted to give politics time to work. McConnell favors the latter interpretation, noting Ginsburg's now-famous comments in which she lamented that Roe v. Wade may have been premature in that it forestalled political dialog.
"The lower courts are not showing the same interest in giving politics time to work," McConnell said. If McConnell is right, then Kennedy and perhaps others may be caught a little off guard that the lower courts have forced the issue so quickly.
Courts v. legislatures
Politics is preferable to judicial action, McConnell argues, because legislatures are more supple and better able to accommodate multifaceted, competing interests. When the courts strike down traditional marriage law, he said, they must find either that the law is irrational or malicious.
"Both those conclusions are inhospitable to accommodations for traditional religious believers," McConnell said. "Even many people who have changed their minds on gay marriage view it as a difficult question of social policy." But the court cannot say that, he adds, because then it would lack grounds to strike down the law.
In short, McConnell argues, legislative action is better able to blend difficult competing claims because it allows compromises on both principles and the policies that courts are poorly situated to make.
Harmless cranks
Courts deal in the rights of private parties, said Robin Wilson, a law professor at the University of Illinois, but they are terrible in navigating complex interests involving competing claims in the larger polity.
"You put same-sex marriage advocates in a room with traditional religious believers and in the end you get some exemptions," she said.
Wilson believes that a stable accommodation can be reached between gay-marriage advocates and traditional believers, and she argues that the latter need to begin such deal-making sooner rather than later.
Where the courts have mandated gay marriage, Wilson said, no such religious liberty accommodations are offered. The alternative to legislative negotiation, in her view, is to hold out against legislative compromise and risk everything in the courts. "My point is you have a closing window and you will be road kill," Wilson said. "It is way worse to gamble on getting no protection."
A compromise on such terms is of dubious value to Bill Duncan, executive director of the Utah-based Marriage Law Foundation. Duncan doesn't see a lot of difference between a hostile court decision and negotiated legislation, if either way religious dissenters are forced to accept that they are pariahs.
"The other side says we have to do that to avoid a backlash, but all it takes is a bill to remove the exemption," Duncan said. "Meanwhile, we have to admit that we are haters but would really appreciate if we could use our facilities for our admittedly anachronistic and strange practices."
In such a case, Duncan fears, "to be treated like a harmless crank is best you can hope for."
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OCEAN CITY — Staging work began this week for the dredging of the navigation channel at the entrance to a West Ocean City marina in a plan that includes depositing the dredged sand on Skimmer Island just north of the Route 50 Bridge.
In a continuation of a plan that began around this time last year, the Maryland Coastal Bays Program (MCBP), in conjunction with several private and public entities including Worcester County, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR), the federal Army Corps of Engineers, the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE), the Ocean City Fishing Center and Hi-Tide Marine, this week began work on a continuing project started last year to restore and replenish the large, low-lying island north of the Route 50 Bridge known as Skimmer Island, or Bird Island.
The project includes dredging the silted-in entrance to the Ocean City Fishing Center just south of the bridge and depositing the dredged material on Skimmer Island just north of the span. The project essentially serves two main purposes — the first being clearing the entrance to the marina, which fills in somewhat each year because of natural processes. The second element of the project is pumping the dredged sand onto Skimmer Island, a sandy, crescent-shaped spit of land just to the north of the bridge, which has eroded over the years to become a fraction of its former self.
Skimmer Island serves as a temporary home and nesting place for several species of colonial nesting birds, most notably the Black Skimmer and the Royal Tern, both of which are considered endangered in Maryland.
Black skimmers are short, stubby black and white birds that skim the surface of the water with the lower mandible of their orange and black razor-like beaks as they search for fish near the surface. The royal terns, also black and white, are similar but have a forked tail.
Both species are bare ground nesting birds that require a sandy area free of predators to lay eggs and raise their young. Nesting is perilous as the birds lay their eggs just above the high tide line and must hatch and raise their young before high tides and storms wash away their temporary nesting areas.
However, the two species have seen their traditional nesting areas in coastal areas of Maryland decline rapidly in recent years to the point they are in danger of disappearing from the state's ecological landscape. For example, in 1985, as many as 300 pairs of Black Skimmers nested and reproduced in various coastal areas of Maryland, but in recent years, the figure has dropped to as few as 25 pairs with dismal or no reproductive success. Similar figures bear out for other species such as the royal terns.
Part of the problem locally is the decline of natural islands and spits of land in the coastal bays suitable for bird nesting. Most of the small islands in the bays naturally migrate from year to year as sand is washed away from one side and deposited on the other. However, a variety of natural and man-made factors have changed the equation.
For example, when Skimmer Island was surveyed in 1998, it measured 7.1 acres. In 2003, it had been reduced to 5.6 acres, and in 2007, it was down to 3.9 acres, or roughly half the size it was a decade earlier. In the most recent survey, Skimmer Island had been reduced to just 2.7 acres.
To that end, the MCBP and its private and public partners last year began efforts to replenish the island. On the one hand, a site is needed to deposit material dredged from the channel at the entrance to the Ocean City Fishing Center, while nearby is a critical bird nesting habit starving for new sand. Moving the dredged material from the fishing center channel and depositing it on Skimmer Island presents a practical, economic and ecological solution to the problem.
"This project may very well be solely responsible for us not losing black skimmers and royal terns from the state of Maryland," said MCBP Executive Director Dave Wilson this week.
Wilson also praised the private sector partners for their important role in the success of the project.
"Special recognition goes to the Ocean City Fishing Center for their unwavering commitment to this project," he said. "This is a great example of a business working with the community to protect the treasures of our bays."
Staging work began this week with a large boom set up to pump sand from the channel on the south side of the bridge to the island on the north side. The dredging is expected to be completed by April 1 in order to protect young summer flounder and spawning horseshoe crabs that will soon enter the coastal bays, but site work might continue on the island until mid-April. Although the area is popular for clamming, the public is urged to keep off the island while the birds are nesting so that they are not disturbed during the critical time in their life cycle.


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Newport-Mesa shoppers can enjoy one-night deals and entertainment benefiting a New York charity when Fashion's Night Out at South Coast Plaza and Fashion Island on Thursday.
American Vogue, the Council of Fashion Designers of America, NYC & Co. and the city of New York created the international shopping event in 2009.
FNO returns to Fashion Island for the second consecutive year from 5 to 9 p.m., while South Coast Plaza retailers will participate from 6 to 9 p.m., according to the shopping centers.
This is the first year that South Coast Plaza has officially participated.
Fashion Island kicks off the event with a fall fashion presentation by top celebrity stylist Melis Kuris and L.A. Confidential Editor-in-Chief Sari Anne Tuschman at 5 p.m. in the Neiman Marcus-Bloomingdale's Courtyard.
In-store fashion and beauty events with musical entertainment, giveaways and cocktails will follow the presentation at more than 40 Fashion Island retailers.
Among the events will be Art and Fashion, an event co-hosted by Neiman Marcus and the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, free blow-dry touch-ups at Cristophe Salon, skin care consultations and mini facials at L' Occitane en Provence and a fall fashion show at the Children's Place.
Other Fashion Island retailers include Bloomingdale's, Nordstrom, American Rag Cie, Anthropologie, Elie Tahari, Ella Moss, Ever, G-Star, Inglot, JACK SPADE, Jonathan Adler, Kate Spade, Michael Stars, Original Penguin, Sperry Top-Sider, Splendid, Trina Turk and Vince.
The event begins at South Coast Plaza with a chance for shoppers to win a $1,000 shopping center gift certificate.
In-store events at about 100 retailers include Samba lessons led by Carnivale-costumed Samba dancers at Assouline, free mini facials and make-up consultations at Origins, card making demonstrations at Paper Source, make your own margherita pizza at Quattro Café and others.
Additionally, Costa Mesa firefighters will host a catwalk and fashion show at AnQi by Crustacean benefiting the Costa Mesa Firefighters Widow's and Orphan's Fund.
Other retailers include Anne Fontaine, Bally, Canali, Chanel, David Yurman, Intermix, J. Crew, Michael Kors, Prada, Tiffany & Co., Yves Saint Laurent and more.
The FNO 2011 official collection line includes cotton T-shirts for men and women, hats and tote bags. Merchandise is available online or at retailers during the event and 40% of proceeds benefits the New York City AIDS Fund.
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When: Thursday; times vary
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Tama County Community Foundation - Thanksgiving, A Time to Give By:Mary Fasse-Shaw
November 29, 2013
When I was a little girl, my father would take me to church on Thanksgiving Eve or maybe Thanksgiving morning. He would march me down the aisle and plop us two rows from the pulpit, right in front. Now, I never did know if that was because that is where he liked to sit, or if it was an attempt to keep me from fidgeting so much. The story goes that my parents had to wait three months to baptize me because I was very colicky and never slept. Neither did my parents, apparently. As I have gotten older, and for a variety of reasons, I am thankful that my father did march me down the church aisle. I reflect on my blessings this time of year, as I am sure many of you do as well. I am thankful for a family and friends who love me. I am thankful for my health and the health of my family. I am thankful that there is a wonderful trail system in Tama-Toledo so I can walk and take my dogs. I am thankful for my other pets and that I have a roof over my head and can be warm and comfortable this time of year. I am thankful that I have enough food to put on the table. I am, also thankful that we have many wonderful people in Tama County in our small communities who really care about each other. As the Development Associate for the Tama County Community Foundation, it is my job to share the "good news" about the Foundation and make sure people are aware of its benefits. Since November is the time to give thanks, this may well be the time of year that individuals, families, and organizations wish to consider making gifts of significance to express gratitude for our many blessings and to help others in our county. Several possibilities are offered through the Tama County's own community foundation. Scholarship Funds: By creating a permanent scholarship endowment fund with the Tama County Community Foundation (TCCF), an affiliate of the Community Foundation of Northeast Iowa, you can invest in your community's future and demonstrate your commitment to education. A scholarship fund through the TCCF could target any particular school district in the county, or it might be more general in nature. For example, a donor who has been a supporter of 4-H could establish a fund to annually benefit an Tama County 4-H member, no matter what school district he or she attends. Creating a scholarship endowment fund through the TCCF is a simple process. •You make a gift to the TCCF (cash, appreciated securities, real estate, grain, or other assets) •TCCF establishes a scholarship fund in your name, in the name of your family or business, or in honor of any person or organization you choose. •Your gift will be placed in a permanent endowment that is invested over time. •You receive significant tax benefits in the year your gift is made. •TCCF handles all administrative details and awards scholarships to deserving students in the name of the fund you establish. •You receive updates on the impact your gift is making, as well as recognition as a donor to the TCCF. Field of Interest Fund: These endowment funds help you target your giving to address specific areas of need in your community, such as arts and culture, senior care, education, or the needs of at-risk youth. Gifts to establish these funds in the TCCF have a bit broader scope, while still permitting the donor to focus giving on strong personal interests. Donor or Corporate Advised Funds: These funds allow you to make a gift to the TCCF and then remain actively involved in recommending grants from your fund each year. You receive maximum tax benefits for each new gift. Grant awards are issued to charities in the name of the fund or anonymously, if you prefer. Designated Funds: With these funds you can support the good work of one or more specific nonprofit organizations. If, for any reason, the organization you select ceases to exist or changes its mission, the fund can be redirected so that it continues to address your original charitable intent. One of the particular reasons one may wish to consider the TCCF is the Endow Iowa tax credit. Through this program, donors to the TCCF are eligible to receive a 25% state tax credit in addition to normal federal deductions for charitable gifts. This tax credit is only available to donors who establish or contribute to a permanent endowment fund at a qualified community foundation, like the Tama County Community Foundation. Saying thank you through the TCCF is a wonderful and deeply meaningful way to impact your community for generations to come. The TCCF has been created by and for the people of Tama County. The Foundation's primary goals are to support charitable projects and programs, to attract additional funds, and to assist donors in creating lasting legacies through a variety of giving options within Tama County. For more information about the TCCF, Brian Sokol, (641- 484-2980), Chair of the Tama County Community Foundation at and me, Mary Fasse-Shaw, (641-751-5251), Development Associate for Tama County. I hope that you are all blessed with family and friends this Thanksgiving and through the Holiday Season. The TCCF has been created by and for the people of Tama County. The Foundation's main goals are to support charitable projects and programs, to attract additional funds, and to assist donors in creating lasting legacies through a variety of giving options within the county. For more information about the TCCF, contact Brian Sokol, Chair of the Tama County Community Foundation, 641-484-2980, or Mary Fasse-Shaw, TCCF's Development Associate at 641-751-5251.
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MC Hammer has never strayed too far from the sports. He is, after all, a former sports blogger. Over the years, Hammer has helped the 49ers' sign Michael Crabtree in '09, he's done commercials for the Atlanta Braves, he's written open letters to Barry Bonds, and he even had his very own bobblehead night in Oakland this year. He doesn't seem to know what team he really wants to dedicate his allegiance to, but he keeps showing up.
And since 98.4% of life is showing up, or something like that, he's now a motivational speaker.
Yesterday, the 49ers invited the super dope homeboy from Oak-Town over to speak to the team about dealing with the "trials and tribulations" of being a public figure. There's no word on what he actually said to the gathered players, but they seemed to enjoy it—and thanks to Jay-Z, even the rookies knew who he was.
Hammer's mind, though, is on bigger things. He's become something of a public figure for the Occupy Oakland movement, and he's just released a new song that, at least initially, does not sound uplifting at all: "How Do We Live/Without Living To Die?"
Said differently: How do we quit/And still stay legit? Deep questions from a deep man.
MC Hammer delivers message to 49ers [CSN Bay Area]