tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359806822024-03-15T18:09:49.526-07:00 ☼ Hardscrabble Sockdolagers ☼Idaho (and now PA) Opinion Pieces, Letters of Public Interest and other aimful musings.JBanholzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410822155850772756noreply@blogger.comBlogger1026125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980682.post-32946418280457980052023-09-12T20:01:00.000-07:002023-09-12T20:01:46.402-07:00Non-time and Hauntology <p> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">May 5, 2011</span></p><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a class="postlink" href="http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/140675-/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s;">http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/140675-/</a><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19.92px; line-height: 23.1072px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff0040; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Non-Time and Hauntology</span></span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">by Rob Horning</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">There are lots of plausible and interrelated explanations for why the pop-culture future can no longer occur.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">I went to a talk last night at NYU by Mark Fisher about “hauntology,” which refers to a kind of intermediate space-time between places palpably shaped by organic time and nonplaces (shopping malls, etc.—see Marc Augé), which are wrenched out of time and posit an unending nontime, the end of history, an undisruptable retailing present that perpetually recurs. I didn’t really get what hauntology was all about: it seemed to have to do with cultural productions that are aware of the nonplace/nontime crisis—the way neoliberalism has foisted non-space/time on us, along with a subjectivity without depth that must flaunt its requisite flexibility by shuffling the deck of floating signifiers—and are “reflexive” and “critical” and “negative” about this condition. Fisher made this point with music: British pop music now is blithely appropriational of the past without foregrounding that in any particular way; retro has ceased to be a meaningful descriptor. So music made now would not be at all disruptive, he argues, if someone living in 1979 heard it. There would be no retroactive future shock. It doesn’t sound like the future; the future that should be occurring now has been thwarted, lost, effaced. The sense of cultural teleology is gone, vanished, perhaps, in the now pervasive relativism that regards all culture product as potentially valuable.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">There are lots of plausible and interrelated explanations for why the pop-culture future can no longer occur, including:</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">(1) The demise of a hegemonic culture industry (and the rise of digitization and peer-to-peer distribution) brought the end of a shared sense of the cultural moment. We’re not all watching the same TV show at the same time and hearing the same records on the radio. Instead we have access to all culture all at once, on demand—whether it’s, say, Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, the complete works of Margaret Cavendish, yesterday’s episode of Survivor, or all of them at once. This AV Club article by Steven Hyden about Def Leppard’s Hysteria gets at the idea:</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">As everything changes rapidly around us, we as music fans in many ways still think we’re living in a Def Leppard world, where winning a Grammy means you’ve arrived, and going to No. 1 on the charts makes you a pop star. In reality, we live in a culture where the terms “mainstream” and “underground” have become virtually meaningless, as practically every song by every band ever is equally accessible, frequently at no cost, to anyone with an Internet connection and the interest to seek it out ... It’s clear that music rarely unites us under the banner of mass-accepted artists anymore; even in a concert audience, we’re all just a bunch of individuals, with little connecting us to one another beyond a shared interest in the artist onstage—one artist among hundreds on our abundantly stocked iPods. Sounds lonely, doesn’t it? Sometimes I yearn for the old world, the one I grew up in, a place where dinosaurs like Hysteria stomped around pop culture for months, if not years, leaving sizable impressions in the hearts of a generation, whether they liked it or not.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">The availability of everything means that particular works of pop music lose “symbolic efficiency” to use (and possibly misuse) a term from Žižek. Nothing successfully connotes the zeitgeist; everything invokes a desire to one-up with a better reference or a new meme or detournement of the contemporary. We are too knowing and skeptical to accept anything as unproblematically representative of the now.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">(2) Neoliberalism/post-fordism/late capitalism has projected itself as the end of history, normalized nontime, and generalized the reception of conditions of ontological insecurity as freedom. We lack a subjectivity that can experience or recognize historicity.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">Fisher links the idea of a “missing future” with the disappearance of negativity and criticality in contemporary pop culture, which (as I interpret it) has no space for anything oppositional or which transforms oppositional gestures into postures that circulate only as signifiers of personal identity. It reminds me of Douglas Haddow’s “Hipsters are the dead-end of Western culture” argument:</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">An artificial appropriation of different styles from different eras, the hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning. Not only is it unsustainable, it is suicidal. While previous youth movements have challenged the dysfunction and decadence of their elders, today we have the “hipster” – a youth subculture that mirrors the doomed shallowness of mainstream society.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">Hipsters don’t experience non-time negatively, as a loss, as melancholic, as indicative of deep alienation. Instead they seem to be thoroughly subjectivized by neoliberalism to the extent that they regard it as opportunity to show off how creative they can be in their cycle of appropriations. That last thing they want is to be reminded of how their personality is conditioned by the times they live in; in nontime, one can feel transcendent and immortal, one can permanently defer adulthood.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">Hauntological music (like Burial) tries to at least evoke the feeling of loss, tries to register the missing future as a kind of catastrophe, Fisher argues, though it can’t actually instantiate this missing future. It tries to at least restore meaning to the concept of retro, foregrounding the appropriations of the past by sounding like a scratchy record, and so on. (I don’t know; all electronic music literally sounds the same to me.) I wasn’t persuaded that a work’s reflexivity about how symptomatic it is itself of the impossibility of escaping non-time made it viable as a mode of resistance. I’m probably too skeptical of reflexivity to ever regard it as resistance; I see reflexivity as the quintessential mode of neoliberalist subjectivity—a calculating self-consciousness that can’t be escaped, that forces us to be considering our identity as an alienated thing to be developed and invested entrepreneurially. (The following is highly provisional and may ultimately prove embarrassing): Whatever is reflexive needs to become collective. The problem of non-spacetime is that of an isolated individual subject who admits of no possibility for intersubjectivity, which is perhaps the primary way we experience history, through how our relations with others subjectivize us in particular, contingent ways. Reflexivity about our loss of that intersubjectivity seems to still cling to the individuation, to see and secretly cherish one’s isolated uniqueness and incontingency in the recognition of it as a loss.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">In my view, social media have become the extension of non-spacetime, where nothing, no identity or incident, is necessarily contingent or organic, and one is doomed to the “freedom” of endless ontological insecurity, the forever search for a grounding authenticity that can only generate more memes. Social media are where we go to protect our experience of nontime, which is threatened by the Real, by historicity, by death. Facebook is the ultimate nonplace. Being on it is to enter non-time, to maintain a continual pseudo-presence.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">The non-spacetime crisis, I think, is a crisis of presence. When we exist in non-spacetime, presence becomes impossible—or it is known by its absence, in a kind of negative theology. To put that less cryptically (or maybe not): technology has basically dissolved the unity of the subject in a particular place in time. Smart phones, etc., let us be in many places at once, conducting any number of conversations and self-presentations asynchronously. This casts an air of provisionality over everything we do; our lack of total commitment to a that place at that moment is always implied, always understood. No one is even bothered anymore when someone they are talking to looks at their phone. There is no ethical requirement to be fully present, and without that, there is no genuine (I know, how can you even ever define “genuine”) intersubjectivity. The refusal to be fully present is a restatement of the refusal to permit our identity to be socially contingent or to be palpably collective. The smart phone reserves our right to check out of any collective identity formation at any time. This is the essence of contemporary “convenience,” which I have long interpreted as being able to avoid interaction with other humans and being forced to empathize with them and recognize their existence as other. (We can only tolerate other people when we regard them as extra in our movie.)</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">Fisher referred to Jameson’s distinction between psychological nostalgia and formal nostalgia, between the ability to evoke a real lost past and being trapped in pastiche. What I took from this is that the postmodern/neoliberal subject cannot access psychological nostalgia, but can only simulate it through pastiche, as this sort of subject has only existed in nontime as opposed to historical time. My sense is that this subject doesn’t yearn for historical time at all but worries about historical time erupting into nontime via some sort of terrible Event. When something that threatens to be an Event happens, subjects rush to assimilate it to nontime by mediatizing it, “sharing” it in social media, or meme-ifying it. I’m not sure if this holds, but it may be possible to interpret the ad hoc celebrations of Osama bin Laden’s execution this way—an effort to experience a historical moment in a way that dehistoricizes it—puts the partyers back at the center of their personal hermetic history, claims the Event as just an event in their individual story.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">Because we have no access anymore to psychological nosalgia, we end up nostalgic for the capability for nostalgia, we feel homesickness for a home we never had. These leads to a compensatory attraction to childhood kitsch, to moribund objects (joining a typewriter club is an extreme manifestation of this), to anachronism, atavism, whatever seems genuinely and indelibly marked by a past. This perpetuates the cycle that denies the creation of a distinctive future, guarantees that the future is a more attenuated and annotated reconfiguration of detritus from the past.</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">continued discussion:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=32011">rigorousintuition.ca • View topic - Non-Time and Hauntology</a></div>JBanholzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410822155850772756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980682.post-10232279190718157722023-08-13T08:01:00.000-07:002023-08-13T08:01:07.173-07:00<p> </p><table style="color: #663300; 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In dealing with the restoration of the sacred liturgy, the Fathers of the Council were led by their pastoral concern for the whole Church to regard it as a matter of highest importance to urge the faithful to participate actively, with undivided faith and the utmost devotion, in the celebration of this Most Holy Mystery, to offer it to God along with the priest as a sacrifice for their own salvation and that of the whole world, and to use it as spiritual nourishment.</p><p style="font-size: 11pt;">2. For if the sacred liturgy holds first place in the life of the Church, then the Eucharistic Mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy, since it is the font of life that cleanses us and strengthens us to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united to each other by the closest ties of love.</p></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"></p><span style="font-size: small;"><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"><i>Reaffirmation by Vatican II</i></p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">3. In order to make the indissoluble bond that exists between faith and devotion perfectly clear, the Fathers of the Council decided, in the course of reaffirming the doctrine that the Church has always held and taught and that was solemnly defined by the Council of Trent, to offer the following compendium of truths as an introduction to their treatment of the Most Holy Mystery of the Eucharist:</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">4. "At the Last Supper, on the night when He was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic Sacrifice of His Body and Blood. He did this in order to perpetuate the Sacrifice of the Cross throughout the centuries until He should come again, and so to entrust to His beloved Spouse, the Church, a memorial of His Death and Resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, a paschal banquet in which Christ is eaten, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us.''</p></span><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"></p><span style="font-size: small;"><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"><i>Both Sacrifice and Sacrament Highlighted</i></p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">5. These words highlight both the sacrifice, which pertains to the essence of the Mass that is celebrated daily, and the sacrament in which those who participate in it through holy Communion eat the flesh of Christ and drink the blood of Christ, and thus receive grace, which is the beginning of eternal life, and the "medicine of immortality" according to Our Lord's words: "The man who eats my flesh and drinks my blood enjoys eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day." (2)</p></span><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"></p><span style="font-size: small;"><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"><i>Restoration of Liturgy Linked to Eucharistic Devotion</i></p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">6. And so We earnestly hope that the restoration of the sacred liturgy will produce abundant fruits in the form of Eucharistic devotion, so that the Holy Church may, with this salvific sign of piety raised on high, make daily progress toward the full achievement of unity, (3) inviting all Christians to a unity of faith and love and drawing them to it gently, through the action of divine grace.</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">7. We seem to have a preview of these fruits and a first taste of them in the outpouring of joy and eagerness that has marked the reception the sons of the Catholic Church have accorded to the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy and to the restoration of the liturgy; and we find these fruits too in the large number of carefully-edited publications that make it their purpose to go into the doctrine of the Holy Eucharist more profoundly and to come to a more fruitful understanding of it, especially in terms of its relationship to the mystery of the Church.</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">8. All of this brings Us deep consolation and joy. And it gives Us great pleasure to inform you of this, Venerable Brothers, so that you may join with Us in giving thanks to God, the bestower of all gifts, who rules the Church and makes her grow in virtue through His Spirit.</p></span><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"></p><span style="font-size: small;"><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">REASONS FOR PASTORAL CONCERN AND ANXIETY</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">9. There are, however, Venerable Brothers, a number of reasons for serious pastoral concern and anxiety in this very matter that we are now discussing, and because of Our consciousness of Our Apostolic office, We cannot remain silent about them.</p></span><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"></p><span style="font-size: small;"><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"><i>False and Disturbing Opinions</i></p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">10. For We can see that some of those who are dealing with this Most Holy Mystery in speech and writing are disseminating opinions on Masses celebrated in private or on the dogma of transubstantiation that are disturbing the minds of the faithful and causing them no small measure of confusion about matters of faith, just as if it were all right for someone to take doctrine that has already been defined by the Church and consign it to oblivion or else interpret it in such a way as to weaken the genuine meaning of the words or the recognized force of the concepts involved.</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">11. To give an example of what We are talking about, it is not permissible to extol the so-called "community" Mass in such a way as to detract from Masses that are celebrated privately; or to concentrate on the notion of sacramental sign as if the symbolism—which no one will deny is certainly present in the Most Blessed Eucharist—fully expressed and exhausted the manner of Christ's presence in this Sacrament; or to discuss the mystery of transubstantiation without mentioning what the Council of Trent had to say about the marvelous conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the Body and the whole substance of the wine into the Blood of Christ, as if they involve nothing more than "transignification," or "transfinalization" as they call it; or, finally, to propose and act upon the opinion that Christ Our Lord is no longer present in the consecrated Hosts that remain after the celebration of the sacrifice of the Mass has been completed.</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">12. Everyone can see that the spread of these and similar opinions does great harm to belief in and devotion to the Eucharist.</p></span><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"></p><span style="font-size: small;"><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"><i>Purpose of the Encyclical</i></p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">13. And so, with the aim of seeing to it that the hope to which the Council has given rise—that a new wave of Eucharistic devotion will sweep over the Church—not be reduced to nil through the sowing of the seeds of false opinions, We have decided to use Our apostolic authority and speak Our mind to you on this subject, Venerable Brothers.</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">14. We certainly do not deny that those who are spreading these strange opinions are making a praiseworthy effort to investigate this lofty Mystery and to set forth its inexhaustible riches and to make it more understandable to the men of today; rather, We acknowledge this and We approve of it. But We cannot approve the opinions that they set forth, and We have an obligation to warn you about the grave danger that these opinions involve for true faith.</p></span><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"></p><span style="font-size: small;"><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">HOLY EUCHARIST A MYSTERY OF FAITH</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">15. First of all, We want to recall something that you know very well but that is absolutely necessary if the virus of every kind of rationalism is to be repelled; it is something that many illustrious martyrs have witnessed to with their blood, something that celebrated fathers and Doctors of the Church have constantly professed and taught. We mean the fact that the Eucharist is a very great mystery—in fact, properly speaking and in the words of the Sacred Liturgy, the mystery of faith. "It contains within it," as Leo XIII, Our predecessor of happy memory, very wisely remarked, "all supernatural realities in a remarkable richness and variety of miracles." (4)</p></span><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"></p><span style="font-size: small;"><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"><i>Relying on Revelation, Not Reason</i></p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">16. And so we must approach this mystery in particular with humility and reverence, not relying on human reasoning, which ought to hold its peace, but rather adhering firmly to divine Revelation.</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">17. St. John Chrysostom who, as you know, dealt with the Mystery of the Eucharist in such eloquent language and with such insight born of devotion, had these most fitting words to offer on one occasion when he was instructing his faithful about this mystery: "Let us submit to God in all things and not contradict Him, even if what He says seems to contradict our reason and intellect; let His word prevail over our reason and intellect. Let us act in this way with regard to the Eucharistic mysteries, and not limit our attention just to what can be perceived by the senses, but instead hold fast to His words. For His word cannot deceive." (5)</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">18. The scholastic Doctors made similar statements on more than one occasion. As St. Thomas says, the fact that the true body and the true blood of Christ are present in this Sacrament "cannot be apprehended by the senses but only by faith, which rests upon divine authority. This is why Cyril comments upon the words, <i>This is my body which is delivered up for you</i>, in <i>Luke</i> 22, 19, in this way: Do not doubt that this is true; instead accept the words of the Savior in faith; for since He is truth, He cannot tell a lie." (6)</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">19. Hence the Christian people often follow the lead of St. Thomas and sing the words: "Sight, touch and taste in Thee are each deceived; The ear alone most safely is believed. I believe all the Son of God has spoken; Than truth's own word, there is no truer token."</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">20. And St. Bonaventure declares: "There is no difficulty over Christ's being present in the sacrament as in a sign; the great difficulty is in the fact that He is really in the sacrament, as He is in heaven. And so believing this is especially meritorious. " (7)</p></span><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"></p><span style="font-size: small;"><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"><i>Example of the Apostles</i></p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">21. Moreover, the Holy Gospel alludes to this when it tells of the many disciples of Christ who turned away and left Our Lord, after hearing Him speak of eating His flesh and drinking His blood. "This is strange talk," they said. "Who can be expected to listen to it" Peter, on the contrary, replied to Jesus' question as to whether the twelve wanted to go away too by promptly and firmly expressing his own faith and that of the other Apostles in these marvelous words: "Lord, to whom should we go? Thy words are the words of eternal life." (8)</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">22. It is only logical, then, for us to follow the magisterium of the Church as a guiding star in carrying on our investigations into this mystery, for the Divine Redeemer has entrusted the safeguarding and the explanation of the written or transmitted word of God to her. And we are convinced that "whatever has been preached and believed throughout the whole Church with true Catholic faith since the days of antiquity is true, even if it not be subject to rational investigation, and even if it not be explained in words." (9)</p></span><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"></p><span style="font-size: small;"><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"><i>Proper Wording of Great Importance</i></p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">23. But this is not enough. Once the integrity of the faith has been safeguarded, then it is time to guard the proper way of expressing it, lest our careless use of words give rise, God forbid, to false opinions regarding faith in the most sublime things. St. Augustine gives a stern warning about this when he takes up the matter of the different ways of speaking that are employed by the philosophers on the one hand and that ought to be used by Christians on the other. "The philosophers," he says, "use words freely, and they have no fear of offending religious listeners in dealing with subjects that are difficult to understand. But we have to speak in accordance with a fixed rule, so that a lack of restraint in speech on our part may not give rise to some irreverent opinion about the things represented by the words.'' (l0)</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">24. And so the rule of language which the Church has established through the long labor of centuries, with the help of the Holy Spirit, and which she has confirmed with the authority of the Councils, and which has more than once been the watchword and banner of orthodox faith, is to be religiously preserved, and no one may presume to change it at his own pleasure or under the pretext of new knowledge. Who would ever tolerate that the dogmatic formulas used by the ecumenical councils for the mysteries of the Holy Trinity and the Incarnation be judged as no longer appropriate for men of our times, and let others be rashly substituted for them? In the same way, it cannot be tolerated that any individual should on his own authority take something away from the formulas which were used by the Council of Trent to propose the Eucharistic Mystery for our belief. These formulas—like the others that the Church used to propose the dogmas of faith—express concepts that are not tied to a certain specific form of human culture, or to a certain level of scientific progress, or to one or another theological school. Instead they set forth what the human mind grasps of reality through necessary and universal experience and what it expresses in apt and exact words, whether it be in ordinary or more refined language. For this reason, these formulas are adapted to all men of all times and all places.</p></span><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"></p><span style="font-size: small;"><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"><i>Greater Clarity of Expression Always Possible</i></p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">25. They can, it is true, be made clearer and more obvious; and doing this is of great benefit. But it must always be done in such a way that they retain the meaning in which they have been used, so that with the advance of an understanding of the faith, the truth of faith will remain unchanged. For it is the teaching of the First Vatican Council that "the meaning that Holy Mother the Church has once declared, is to be retained forever, and no pretext of deeper understanding ever justifies any deviation from that meaning." (11)</p></span><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"></p><span style="font-size: small;"><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">EUCHARISTIC MYSTERY IN SACRIFICE OF THE MASS</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">26. For the joy and edification of everyone, We would like to review with you, Venerable Brothers, the doctrine on the Mystery of the Eucharist that has been handed down, and that the Catholic Church holds and teaches with unanimity.</p></span><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"></p><span style="font-size: small;"><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"><i>Re-enactment at Heart of Doctrine</i></p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">27. It is a good idea to recall at the very outset what may be termed the heart and core of the doctrine, namely that, by means of the Mystery of the Eucharist, the Sacrifice of the Cross which was once carried out on Calvary is re-enacted in wonderful fashion and is constantly recalled, and its salvific power is applied to the forgiving of the sins we commit each day." (12)</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">28. just as Moses made the Old Testament sacred with the blood of calves, (13) so too Christ the Lord took the New Testament, of which He is the Mediator, and made it sacred through His own blood, in instituting the mystery of the Eucharist. For, as the Evangelists narrate, at the Last Supper "he took bread, and blessed and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, This is my body, given for you; do this for a commemoration of me. And so with the cup, when supper was ended, This cup, he said, is the new testament, in my Blood which is to be shed for you." (l4) And by bidding the Apostles to do this in memory of Him, He made clear that He wanted it to be forever repeated. This intention of Christ was faithfully carried out by the primitive Church through her adherence to the teaching of the Apostles and through her gatherings to celebrate the Eucharistic Sacrifice. As St. Luke is careful to point out, "They occupied themselves continually with the Apostles' teaching, their fellowship in the breaking of bread, and the fixed times of prayer." (l5) The faithful used to derive such spiritual fervor from this practice that it was said of them that "there was one heart and soul in all the company of the believers." (16)</p></span><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"></p><span style="font-size: small;"><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"><i>New Offering of the New Testament</i></p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">29. Moreover, the Apostle Paul, who faithfully transmitted to us what he had received from the Lord, (17) is clearly speaking of the Eucharistic Sacrifice when he points out that Christians ought not take part in pagan sacrifices, precisely because they have been made partakers of the table of the Lord. "Is not this cup we bless," he says, "a participation in Christ's Blood? Is not the Bread we break a participation in Christ's Body? . . . To drink the Lord's cup, and yet to drink the cup of evil spirits, to share the Lord's feast, and to share the feast of evil spirits, is impossible for you." (18) Foreshadowed by Malachias, (19) this new oblation of the New Testament has always been offered by the Church, in accordance with the teaching of Our Lord and the Apostles, "not only to atone for the sins and punishments and satisfactions of the living faithful and to appeal for their other needs, but also to help those who have died in Christ but have not yet been completely purified." (20)</p></span><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"></p><span style="font-size: small;"><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"><i>Offered Also for the Dead</i></p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">30. We will pass over the other citations and rest content with recalling the testimony offered by St. Cyril of Jerusalem, who wrote the following memorable words for the neophytes whom he was instructing in the Christian faith: "After the spiritual sacrifice, the un-bloody act of worship, has been completed, we bend over this propitiatory offering and beg God to grant peace to all the Churches, to give harmony to the whole world, to bless our rulers, our soldiers and our companions, to aid the sick and afflicted, and in general to assist all those who stand in need; we all pray for all these intentions and we offer this victim for them . . . and last of all for our deceased holy forefathers and bishops and for all those who have lived among us. For we have a deep conviction that great help will be afforded those souls for whom prayers are offered while this holy and awesome victim is present." In support of this, this holy Doctor offers the example of a crown made for an emperor in order to win a pardon for some exiles, and he concludes his talk with these words: "In the same fashion, when we offer our prayers to God for the dead, even those who are sinners, we are not just making a crown but instead are offering Christ who was slaughtered for our sins, and thus begging the merciful God to take pity both on them and on ourselves.'' (21) St. Augustine attests that this custom of offering the "sacrifice which ransomed us" also for the dead was observed in the Church at Rome, (22) and he mentions at the same time that the universal Church observed this custom as something handed down from the Fathers. (23)</p></span><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"></p><span style="font-size: small;"><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"><i>The Universal Priesthood</i></p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">31. But there is something else that We would like to add that is very helpful in shedding light on the mystery of the Church; We mean the fact that the whole Church plays the role of priest and victim along with Christ, offering the Sacrifice of the Mass and itself completely offered in it. The Fathers of the Church taught this wondrous doctrine. (24) A few years ago Our predecessor of happy memory, Pius XII, explained it. (25) And only recently the Second Vatican Council reiterated it in its Constitution on the Church, in dealing with the people of God. (26) To be sure, the distinction between the universal priesthood and the hierarchical priesthood is something essential and not just a matter of degree, and it has to be maintained in a proper way. (27) Yet We cannot help being filled with an earnest desire to see this teaching explained over and over until it takes deep root in the hearts of the faithful. For it is a most effective means of fostering devotion to the Eucharist, of extolling the dignity of all the faithful, and of spurring them on to reach the heights of sanctity, which means the total and generous offering of oneself to the service of the Divine Majesty.</p></span><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"></p><span style="font-size: small;"><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"><i>No Mass is "Private"</i></p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">32. It is also only fitting for us to recall the conclusion that can be drawn from this about "the public and social nature of each and every Mass." (28) For each and every Mass is not something private, even if a priest celebrates it privately; instead, it is an act of Christ and of the Church. In offering this sacrifice, the Church learns to offer herself as a sacrifice for all and she applies the unique and infinite redemptive power of the sacrifice of the Cross to the salvation of the whole world. For every Mass that is celebrated is being offered not just for the salvation of certain people, but also for the salvation of the whole world. The conclusion from this is that even though active participation by many faithful is of its very nature particularly fitting when Mass is celebrated, still there is no reason to criticize but rather only to approve a Mass that a priest celebrates privately for a good reason in accordance with the regulations and legitimate traditions of the Church, even when only a server to make the responses is present. For such a Mass brings a rich and abundant treasure of special graces to help the priest himself, the faithful, the whole Church and the whole world toward salvation—and this same abundance of graces is not gained through mere reception of Holy Communion.</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">33. And so, We recommend from a paternal and solicitous heart that priests, who constitute Our greatest joy and Our crown in the Lord, be mindful of the power they have received from the bishop who ordained them—the power of offering sacrifice to God and of celebrating Mass for the living and for the dead in the name of the Lord. (79) We recommend that they celebrate Mass daily in a worthy and devout fashion, so that they themselves and the rest of the faithful may enjoy the benefits that flow in such abundance from the Sacrifice of the Cross. In doing so, they will also be making a great contribution toward the salvation of mankind.</p></span><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"></p><span style="font-size: small;"><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">CHRIST SACRAMENTALLY PRESENT IN THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">34. The few things that We have touched upon concerning the Sacrifice of the Mass encourage Us to say something about the Sacrament of the Eucharist, since both Sacrifice and Sacrament pertain to the same mystery and cannot be separated from each other. The Lord is immolated in an unbloody way in the Sacrifice of the Mass and He re-presents the sacrifice of the Cross and applies its salvific power at the moment when he becomes sacramentally present— through the words of consecration—as the spiritual food of the faithful, under the appearances of bread and wine.</p></span><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"></p><span style="font-size: small;"><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"><i>Various Ways in Which Christ is Present</i></p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">35. All of us realize that there is more than one way in which Christ is present in His Church. We want to go into this very joyful subject, which the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy presented briefly, (30) at somewhat greater length. Christ is present in His Church when she prays, since He is the one who "prays for us and prays in us and to whom we pray: He prays for us as our priest, He prays in us as our head, He is prayed to by us as our God" (31); and He is the one who has promised, "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there in the midst of them." (32) He is present in the Church as she performs her works of mercy, not just because whatever good we do to one of His least brethren we do to Christ Himself, (33)but also because Christ is the one who performs these works through the Church and who continually helps men with His divine love. He is present in the Church as she moves along on her pilgrimage with a longing to reach the portals of eternal life, for He is the one who dwells in our hearts through faith, (34) and who instills charity in them through the Holy Spirit whom He gives to us. (35)</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">36. In still another very genuine way, He is present in the Church as she preaches, since the Gospel which she proclaims is the word of God, and it is only in the name of Christ, the Incarnate Word of God, and by His authority and with His help that it is preached, so that there might be "one flock resting secure in one shepherd." (36)</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">37. He is present in His Church as she rules and governs the People of God, since her sacred power comes from Christ and since Christ, the "Shepherd of Shepherds," (37) is present in the bishops who exercise that power, in keeping with the promise He made to the Apostles.</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">38. Moreover, Christ is present in His Church in a still more sublime manner as she offers the Sacrifice of the Mass in His name; He is present in her as she administers the sacraments. On the matter of Christ's presence in the offering of the Sacrifice of the Mass, We would like very much to call what St. John Chrysostom, overcome with awe, had to say in such accurate and eloquent words: "I wish to add something that is clearly awe-inspiring, but do not be surprised or upset. What is this? It is the same offering, no matter who offers it, be it Peter or Paul. It is the same one that Christ gave to His disciples and the same one that priests now perform: the latter is in no way inferior to the former, for it is not men who sanctify the latter, but He who sanctified the former. For just as the words which God spoke are the same as those that the priest now pronounces, so too the offering is the same." (38) No one is unaware that the sacraments are the actions of Christ who administers them through men. And so the sacraments are holy in themselves and they pour grace into the soul by the power of Christ, when they touch the body. The Highest Kind of Presence.</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">These various ways in which Christ is present fill the mind with astonishment and offer the Church a mystery for her contemplation. But there is another way in which Christ is present in His Church, a way that surpasses all the others. It is His presence in the Sacrament of the Eucharist, which is, for this reason, "a more consoling source of devotion, a lovelier object of contemplation and holier in what it contains" (39) than all the other sacraments; for it contains Christ Himself and it is "a kind of consummation of the spiritual life, and in a sense the goal of all the sacraments." (40)</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">39. This presence is called "real" not to exclude the idea that the others are "real" too, but rather to indicate presence par excellence, because it is substantial and through it Christ becomes present whole and entire, God and man. (41) And so it would be wrong for anyone to try to explain this manner of presence by dreaming up a so-called "pneumatic" nature of the glorious body of Christ that would be present everywhere; or for anyone to limit it to symbolism, as if this most sacred Sacrament were to consist in nothing more than an efficacious sign "of the spiritual presence of Christ and of His intimate union with the faithful, the members of His Mystical Body." (42)</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;">Continues here:</p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_03091965_mysterium.html">Mysterium Fidei (September 3, 1965) | Paul VI</a></p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></p></span></span></div></div></div>JBanholzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410822155850772756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980682.post-16877730099829904972023-08-11T04:29:00.002-07:002023-08-11T04:29:19.548-07:00NY Post: climate-scientist-admits-the-overwhelming-consensus-is-manufactured / module=conversation<p><a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/09/climate-scientist-admits-the-overwhelming-consensus-is-manufactured/?utm_content=sp_Sx8YukwE_28252116_c_2Tm2AjpOWjShUVCtmKEfemX2dxS&spot_im_redirect_source=share&spot_im_comment_id=sp_Sx8YukwE_28252116_c_2Tm2AjpOWjShUVCtmKEfemX2dxS&spot_im_highlight_immediate=true&utm_medium=Share&ow_module=conversation">Scientist admits the 'overwhelming consensus' on the climate change crisis is 'manufactured'</a><br /><br />Remarks<br /> <span style="color: var(--spotim-color-scheme-l5); 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The Lithium-ion battery shipped from California to PA was involved in a rail transport delay caused by mechanical failure or possibly a train derailment. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">My suspicion of a derailment or crash increased when the package arrived with parts, wires and several components widely askew. </span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>I made an official report of this issue to the store and they said this would be easy to return. So the next week I bussed into the store with the battery repackaged as directed. But then the store rep said they cannot accept hazardous materials such as batteries. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>I inquired why they didn't mention this when I made the official report, knowing that it was about a battery. The Store Rep said that this happens frequently and it can't be helped because it's set in stone in their computers. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>I found this dismaying and beseeched the Store Representative and her Team-Leader to try to do something to avoid similar frustrating circumstances for future battery consumers. I even mentioned that they could become folk heroes of sorts, and if the store they worked for had sense they would reward workers who persistently suggested simple solutions to such longstanding problems. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Nope - I could see clearly on their plain non-whistle-blower faces. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>And this made me sad that these workers had given up on any chance of penetrating several levels of management to resolve this ongoing hazardous battery issue. </b></span></p>JBanholzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410822155850772756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980682.post-66206856613862842372023-06-02T19:56:00.001-07:002023-06-02T19:56:09.561-07:00Careless Whisper's lick on 100 instruments (but without saxophone)<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/ZgM3p_Scnh0" frameborder="0"></iframe>JBanholzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410822155850772756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980682.post-54345740718668364832023-04-13T19:02:00.000-07:002023-04-13T19:02:01.968-07:00Made it to State College and back<p>As I've been expanding E-Trike rides into larger loops, today I finally achieved the goal of reaching College Township. <br /><br />It was a warm Spring Day and I made the ride via Boalsburg through mostly impressive safe bike paths along the roadside. </p><p>Attended a Fellowship meeting while charging the bike battery, and then entered Schlow Library for more recharging and some Jack London and President JFK reading . Then traveled through Friedman Parklet to linger with the sunbathers for a bit before scoring some free bread and bagels from the Saint Andrews dinner. </p><p>On the last leg however, the Trike began behaving funny a couple of times. Then, although the battery still indicated two bars of power the Trike konked out three miles before home. Several times I rebooted the electronic power train, but it kept indicating an error message. This looked similar to what happened before when it broke down. </p><p>The Trike electrical components may have simply overheated as the temperature was hovering at 85 degrees. Plus, I was carrying a heavy load up several medium sized back road hills. </p>JBanholzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410822155850772756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980682.post-33510014011153875922023-04-10T18:19:00.000-07:002023-04-10T18:19:16.431-07:00Slightly further explorations<p> <span style="font-size: medium;">Hello Weblog Readers, </span></p><p>Today I made it to the Mount Nittany Trail head, which was exactly my goal. I'm surprised that only recently I realized this trail is even here. This reminded me of not knowing about the well traveled Bald Mountain Trail in Sun Valley until I lived there for a few years. </p><p>It was a twenty mile round trip on the E-Trike. The battery held up until the last few miles, and then I switched it out for a fresh one to prevent it going out on the last leg. </p><p>I'm hoping to expand the riding horizons over to Boalsburg sometime in the next few days. And then all the way to State College a few days after that, weather permitting. </p>JBanholzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410822155850772756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980682.post-45670502639951608562023-04-04T19:03:00.004-07:002023-04-04T19:08:44.695-07:00My E-Trike<p><span style="font-size: medium;">I've noticed that the Culver Mobility E-Trike I obtained last year can be quite a nice and interesting conversation piece. When it's operational that is. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Amish folks in our community certainly eyeball it as I cruise through their nearby <a href="http://www.anagramgenius.com/archive/amish-countryside.html" target="_blank"><b>countryside</b></a>. Relevant questions folks sometimes ask are: <i><b>"How far can I travel on the battery? How much do I need to pedal? How fast can it go? and How much weight can it reasonably carry?" </b></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">After the assembly person completed his work, one item he overlooked was strapping a front cable in tightly enough, which after a few weeks started frazzling against the front tire. This shortly knocked out the power-train. At first I attempted to repair this myself but soon realized that if I tried operating on it much more that I might void the warranty. So I called in an <a href="https://www.blacklist.bike/" target="_blank"><b>expert mobile repairman</b></a> to assist. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Jim from Blacklist Bikes came out a few times diligently finagling around; however, we both realized that since the more complexity there is,<b> <a href="https://magicvalley.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letter-to-the-editor-more-complexity-means-more-chances-of-failure/article_ae819ee7-1b4a-521b-849c-c89146b62b39.html" target="_blank">the more chances for failure there are</a></b> and it would work better if he took the e-trike to his warm shop and worked on it there along with consultation from his work partner. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, Culver Mobility, the Canadian manufacturer apparently went out of business, which caused us difficulty in finding the proper repair parts. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Since then the Trike has been running mostly fine, though the brakes require frequent adjustment.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I recommend for other folks looking to purchase one that they read the user reviews and look at Trade magazines such as Consumer Reports and then go out to test ride one at a local bike shop as well as consulting with the technicians there. </span></p><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-15/the-electric-vehicles-we-need-now-are-e-bikes" target="_blank">Related</a><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>JBanholzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410822155850772756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980682.post-54790086755741335542020-01-20T22:50:00.001-08:002020-01-20T22:50:15.973-08:00Sending a Girl and 12 Cats to Space - Dark Footage<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9XScEDMBN2w" width="480"></iframe>JBanholzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410822155850772756noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980682.post-22411300029612612082020-01-17T16:33:00.001-08:002020-01-17T16:33:40.287-08:005 Mysterious Documented Mermaid Sightings<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3BgSXHdghmk" width="480"></iframe>JBanholzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410822155850772756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980682.post-42146617885885293122020-01-10T02:23:00.003-08:002020-01-10T02:23:45.123-08:00Especially Pennsylvania<h2>
List One</h2>
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<li><a href="https://visitpa.com/article/11-hiking-trails-abandoned-ruins-pennsylvania?fbclid=IwAR1hptdRgGfSMsBBxIORVpn_Ezu4_jTRlCXPbU03ff3EoJFrotC7PO5BWhw">11 Hiking Trails to Abandoned Ruins in Pennsylvania</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.pennlive.com/life/2017/03/know_before_you_move_to_pa.html">Things no one tells you before you move to Pennsylvania</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/09/pa-hyperloop-discussed-by-public-private-officials-geography-is-a-key-issue-an-official-says.html">$2 million study looks at hyperloop – 700 mph transit – that would cross Pennsylvania</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mister-rogers-honored-with-first-annual-statewide-day-of-kindness-in-pennsylvania-143-day/"> Mister Rogers honored with first annual statewide day of kindness in Pennsylvania</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.pennlive.com/life/2017/09/philosophers_stones_and_doomsd.html">Philly hermit who said world would end in 1694 proven wrong</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.pennlive.com/uniquelypa/2019/08/is-pennsylvania-weird-11-reasons-why-pa-is-the-strangest-state.html">11 reasons why Pa. is wierd</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/united-states/pennsylvania">Dumb Laws in Pennsylvania </a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.pennlive.com/life/2017/04/17_strange_abandoned_places.html">Abandoned & overgrown in Pa.: 16 strange spots from theme parks to trolley graveyards</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/german-language-newspaper-declaration-independence-day-signing">The German-Language Newspaper That Got the Scoop on American Independence</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.pennlive.com/life/2019/06/where-are-pennsylvanias-bigfoot-hotspots.html">Bigfoot in Pennsylvania</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.pennlive.com/entertainment/2019/05/this-pa-amusement-park-has-the-worlds-oldest-roller-coaster-when-it-opens-and-how-to-ride.html">This Pa. amusement park has the world’s oldest roller coaster</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire">Centralia mine fire</a></li>
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JBanholzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410822155850772756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980682.post-6174132133225585872020-01-03T18:03:00.003-08:002020-01-03T18:05:22.795-08:00William Bronston, "The Shape of a Marathon," 1979<a href="https://blogs.uoregon.edu/autismhistoryproject/about-the-project/">https://blogs.uoregon.edu/autismhistoryproject/about-the-project/</a><br />
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Marathon,” 1979, Carton 11, Folder 18, William Bronston Papers, [BANC MSS
2002/227 c]. Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California,
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Complete original source available <a href="https://blogs.uoregon.edu/autismhistoryproject/files/2018/11/Bronston-Shape-of-a-Marathon-1jhu2dv.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a>.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">William Bronston was a physician and
activist whose career reflected the rise of disability rights consciousness in
the 1960s and 1970s, especially as it applied to children and adults with
developmental disabilities. Bronston worked for several years at Willowbrook
State School in Staten Island, New York, a massive residential institution that
housed thousands of developmentally disabled children. In 1972, parents filed a
class action lawsuit against the state because of the school’s deplorable
conditions, which included overcrowding and physical abuse. Willowbrook became
a national rallying cry for deinstitutionalization and a symbol of all that was
wrong with segregated institutions. An agreement was reached in 1975 to move
Willowbrook children into community placements but the school wasn’t finally
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Born and educated in Los Angeles,
Bronston returned to California in 1975. He first served as Medical Director of
the State Department of Developmental Services and later as Medical Director in
the State Department of Rehabilitation. This excerpt illustrates how
significant <a href="https://blogs.uoregon.edu/autismhistoryproject/topics/normalization/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">normalization </span></a>was for
professionals like Bronston. He described it as the state’s official philosophy
when it came to shaping the lives of developmentally disabled children in the
1970s and beyond.</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There officially exists in
California a philosophy of services that is based deeply in values. It submits
that in order to grow, each person deserves:</span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">love, honor and freedom from stigma throughout life</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">celebration of being special</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">a life-sharing family, home and nurturing support</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">a community of concern and friendship</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">economic security, health and the full benefit of
modern technology with a varied continuum of services</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">freedom from the threat of injury due to pollution of
food, air, water, and the earth on which we dwell</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the opportunity to grow, learn, choose, work, rest,
play, be nourished, to experience well-being</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">solitude when needed</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">comfort and beauty in which to discover him/herself</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the power to improve his/her environment</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">justice</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the dignity of risk, joy and growth of spirit</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">a valid social future.</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Such philosophy sums up many of the
deepest held beliefs about quality of life. These beliefs are at the root of
our current and emerging civil rights and human services laws and standards.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">How any of us, as human beings, are
perceived decides how we are treated in society…. Normalization in theory and
operation offers a standard of minimum acceptability on which human services
must be conceived, planned, provided, and judged.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Normalization advocates the use of <u>means</u>
which are culturally normative in order to offer a person life conditions <u>at
least as good</u> as those of the average citizen and, as much as possible, to
enhance and support personal behaviors, appearance, experience, status, and
reputation to the greatest degree possible….</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Normalization insists upon
accentuating the positive and eliminating the negative by doing everything
possible to integrate people who have special needs into everyday lives so that
they may enjoy all we value for ourselves.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Normalization dictates use of the
least restrictive or drastic means to help people grow and change to avoid stifling
personal liberty….</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">How do we assure not only that we do
no harm, but that we uplift the persons we serve in the eyes of their fellow
citizens?….</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The idea [of normalization], like a
dandelion seed carried on the wind, spread to consumers, planners, teachers,
service providers, advocates and researchers alike. If we do our job well, we
may at least derive the following service benefits or actions:</span></div>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Institution placements prevented</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Persons returned from institutions</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Emotional breakdowns prevented</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Family breakup averted</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Loneliness dispelled</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Health preserved or restored</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Services or social participation enhanced</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Proper treatment provided</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Persons habilitated</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dollars saved</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Personnel needs reduced</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Justice rendered or preserved.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We are still in the first mile, a
mere decade, into a marathon that will stretch on and on towards the excellence
of attainment and fulfillment….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is meant to be a small commitment
to common humanity and respect for every human being.</span></div>
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if so, how much did each spend on their investments? I suppose there
are methods for charting tobacco sales by age? Probably Stock
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But besides
the main health concerns regarding tobacco, what else do folks storing
large tobacco quantities need to consider? How to keep tobacco fresh and
safe? And other related questions and insights I haven't thought of,
but that others may have?</div>
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Even
though I grew up in Virginia where tax was 3 cents a pack and our High
School had a vast outdoor, but partly-sheltered smoking lounge, where 14
to 16 year olds could smoke with a parent note, smoking didn't appeal
to me, so I'm unfamiliar with many of its aspects. When I quit drinking
though, I traded that danger (for me) for chewing tobacco and don't look
forward to having to quit in the future. I must say I find chewing
tobacco in right doses and favorable brands, to be surprisingly more
refreshing and stimulating than I had imagined.</div>
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Indeed,
its timely and refreshing ironic now that our new law banning cigarette
sales takes effect today, a traditional day for quitting. What happens
when under-agers bum cigarettes now? A new level of trouble to be aware
about for someone trying to be kind, by giving one cigarette to a
college student bumming out trying to take a refreshing smoke-break,
while intensely cramming all night during important Finals Week.</div>
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JBanholzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410822155850772756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980682.post-8810051908548679072019-12-23T22:16:00.003-08:002019-12-24T06:50:43.944-08:00Psychology, Recovery and Mental Health - Links of Interest / December 2019<h2>
Psychology, Recovery and Mental Health</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://drgabormate.com/topic/addiction/#articles-interviews">Dr. Gabor Maté on Addiction</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aeon.co/amp/essays/do-hold-your-breath-on-the-benefits-of-conscious-breathing">Breathtaking</a></li>
<li><a href="https://csgjusticecenter.org/jr/pa/">Council of State Governments Justice Center - Pennsylvania</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aeon.co/ideas/how-jungs-collective-unconscious-inspired-alcoholics-anonymous"> How Jung’s collective unconscious inspired Alcoholics Anonymous </a></li>
<li><a href="https://longreads.com/2019/08/30/in-the-age-of-the-psychonauts/"> In the Age of the Psychonauts Three psycho-spiritual “events” of the 1970s — involving Philip K. Dick, </a></li>
<li><a href="https://bigthink.com/personal-growth/9-self-actualized-historical-figures">9 self-actualized historical figures</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-approach-to-treat-mental-illness-electrical-engineering/">A New Approach to Treat Mental Illness: Electrical Engineering</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.philanthropy.com/article/With-Government-Skittish-About/246170?key=GCZRFFWJmdWfHIIYJmst8JP0M4DTMThB3J8gWMr73DvMQUzdvlnIckIeopOfeeXEQzk0Y0xhRF9fcWRWUGIyYTctTklFRXFZdTRyRVA1aFUwbGdhN0hPUk9tOA">A Psychedelic Renaissance</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.virgilstuckerandassociates.com/single-post/2019/04/23/An-uncertain-path-psychiatry-in-the-US-over-the-last-200-years?fbclid=IwAR1y8xHX0KxvfyCcAzArJm1ilPJBFMEcPURYYHaePjdDVqbJrM4bBxjW59U">An uncertain path: psychiatry in the U.S. over the last 200 years.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/08/19/simone-weil-attention-gravity-and-grace/">Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gizmodo.com/for-men-who-will-try-anything-to-get-taller-theres-a-w-1834382203">Carrying larger sticks</a></li>
<li><a href="https://psmag.com/social-justice/75-years-alcoholics-anonymous-time-admit-problem-74268">Challenging the 12-step hegemony.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://allthatsinteresting.com/deep-brain-stimulation">China Is Using Brain Implants To Treat Addiction In A World-First</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.popsci.com/physical-surroundings-cities-mental-illness">City life damages mental health in ways we’re just starting to understand</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.anagramgenius.com/archive/complete-utter-gibberish.html">Complete and utter gibberish</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.gq.com/story/clean-musicians">Creating While Clean</a></li>
<li><a href="https://allthatsinteresting.com/ancient-shamans-pouch-discovery">Earliest Evidence Of Ayahuasca Use Discovered In Ancient Shamanic Pouch In Bolivia</a></li>
<li><a href="https://psmag.com/news/empathy-is-too-much-work-for-many-of-us">Empathy Is Too Much Work for Many of Us</a></li>
<li><a href="https://greenvanholzer.blogspot.com/2008/03/following-your-dream-or-just-getting.html">Following your dream or just getting high?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/13/685533353/a-playful-way-to-teach-kids-to-control-their-anger?fbclid=IwAR0cU3F8z-0lZq6Hf0-SZeJvVv4Smc5KBii0uvliZwsicir9tyrjyVVvBXU">How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger</a></li>
<li><a href="https://psmag.com/ideas/how-lakota-horse-culture-is-helping-treat-child-trauma-in-south-dakota">How Lakota Culture Is Helping Treat Child Trauma in South Dakota</a></li>
<li><a href="https://lithub.com/how-psilocybin-could-be-used-in-mental-health-treatment/">How Psilocybin Could Be Used in Mental Health Treatment </a></li>
<li><a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/is-medicine-overrated/">Is Medicine Overrated / Cross-check S.S.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/addiction-methadone-buprenorphine-opioids.php">Life-saving opioid addiction treatments get a negative slant</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.nature.com/news/lsd-helps-to-treat-alcoholism-1.10200">LSD helps to treat alcoholism</a></li>
<li><a href="https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/05/mens-emotions-women-labor-patriarchy.html">Male Loneliness Starts in Boyhood</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23631530-300-mind-menders-how-psychedelic-drugs-rebuild-broken-brains/">Mind menders: how psychedelic drugs rebuild broken brains</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/04/american-addiction-centers-publicly-traded-rehab/">Mother Jones spent five months investigating deaths at American Addiction Centers.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://infinitecomplacency.blogspot.com/2012/11/narconon-introduction.html">Narconon No-no's</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201904/one-mystical-psychedelic-trip-can-trigger-lifelong-benefits">One Mystical Psychedelic Trip Can Trigger Lifelong Benefits</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/opioid-epidemic-west-virginia-doctor/586036/">Physicians Get Addicted Too</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radical-drugs-policy-is-working-why-hasnt-the-world-copied-it">Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it? </a></li>
<li><a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/should-mental-disorders-have-names/">Should Mental Disorders Have Names?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5968650/">Snake Venom Use as a Substitute for Opioids: A Case Report and Review of Literature</a></li>
<li><a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bly/madhouse/madhouse.html">Ten Days In a Mad-House. BY NELLIE BLY.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://greenvanholzer.blogspot.com/www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/the-irrationality-of-alcoholics-anonymous/386255/">The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous</a></li>
<li><a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/psychedelic-medicine-is-coming-the-law-isnt-ready/">The Law isn't ready for Psychedelic Medicine</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/charles-duhigg-american-anger/576424/">The Real Roots of American Rage</a></li>
<li><a href="https://elemental.medium.com/the-risky-business-of-psychedelic-therapy-5ff60b25e095">The Risky Business of Psychedelic Therapy</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/spiritual-gift-of-madness-the-failure-of-psychiatry-and-the-rise-of-the-mad-pride-movement/oclc/856529614/viewport">The Spiritual Gift of Madness</a></li>
<li><a href="https://thewalrus.ca/the-untapped-promise-of-lsd/">The Untapped Promise of LSD</a></li>
<li><a href="https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/walk-a-message-to-the-class-of-2017-1795137963">Walk</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ideas.ted.com/heres-a-question-to-consider-what-if-theres-nothing-wrong-with-you/?utm_source=pocket-newtab">What if there's nothing wrong with me?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://themaintainers.org/blog/2019/7/30/why-do-people-neglect-maintenance">Why Do People Neglect Maintenance?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.leafly.com/news/science-tech/why-dont-we-know-more-about-cannabis-and-psychosis?fbclid=IwAR3E9itK6lZFwmj9Ym-pjZJvCH_rpUPLzKNtG-OBAQcTbV2NL9UA6d_-XcY">Why Don’t We Know More About Cannabis and Psychosis?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ranprieur.com/readings/wildthings.html">Wild Things</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fox8.com/2019/01/11/woman-in-china-wakes-to-find-she-cant-hear-mens-voices/">Woman in China wakes to find she can’t hear men’s voices</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26ZDB9h7BLY">Yorkshiremen!</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/aphantasia-software-engineer-blake-ross-writes-mind-blowing-post-about-being-unable-to-imagine-a7000216.html">You might not be able to imagine things and may not know it</a></li>
<li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/youre-not-getting-enough-sleep-and-its-killing-you/">You’re not getting enough sleep—and it’s killing you</a></li>
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JBanholzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410822155850772756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980682.post-34522780746816709432019-12-09T13:46:00.001-08:002019-12-09T13:46:27.676-08:00The Wild World of Inuit Folklore<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7s6VfSOuZpQ" width="480"></iframe>JBanholzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410822155850772756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980682.post-79688673572248347762019-10-10T18:59:00.000-07:002019-10-10T19:00:46.692-07:00Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison, Jeremy Hammond Uses Allocution to Give Consequential Statement Highlighting Global Criminal Exploits by FBI Handlers <br />
[NEW YORK, NY] Jeremy Hammond, a 28-year-old political activist,
was sentenced today to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to
participating in the Anonymous hack into the computers of the private
intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor). The Ceremonial
Courtroom at the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York was
filled today with an outpouring of support by journalists, activists
and other whistleblowers who see Jeremy Hammond’s actions as a form of
civil disobedience, motivated by a desire to protest and expose the
secret activities of private intelligence corporations.jeremy hammond by
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Jeremy Hammond, by Molly CrabappleThe hearing opened
with arguments as to what sections of the court record will remain
redacted after sentencing. While Jeremy’s attorneys initially erred on
the side of caution in previous memorandums and kept large pieces of the
record redacted, both the defense and prosecution agreed this morning
that many of the sections should now be made available for public view.
The prosecution, however took stiff exception to portions of the court
record being made public that indicate victims, specifically foreign
governments, that Jeremy allegedly hacked under the direction of Hector
“Sabu” Monsegur, the FBI informant at the helm of Jeremy’s alleged
actions. Judge Preska ordered that the names of these foreign
governments remain sealed.Jeremy’s lead counsel, Sarah Kunstler, who is 9
months pregnant and due to give birth today, delivered a passionate
testimonial as to the person that Jeremy is, and the need for people
like Jeremy during our changing socio-political landscape. She was
followed by co-counsel, Susan Keller, who wept as she recalled her
experiences reading the hundreds of letters from supporters to the court
detailing the Jeremy Hammond’s selflessness and enthusiastic
volunteerism. She pointed out that it was this same selflessness that
motivated Jeremy’s actions in this case. She closed her testimony by
underscoring that, “The centerpiece of our argument is a young man with
high hopes and unbelievably laudable expectations in this world.”Susan
was followed by Jeremy Hammond himself, who gave a detailed, touching
and consequential allocution to the court. The following is Jeremy’s
statement to the court. We have redacted a portion [marked in red] upon
the orders of Judge Preska. While we believe the public has a right to
know the redacted information therein, we refuse to publish information
that could adversely effect Jeremy or his counsel.JEREMY’ HAMMOND
SENTENCING STATEMENT | 11/15/2013<br />
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Good morning. Thank you
for this opportunity. My name is Jeremy Hammond and I’m here to be
sentenced for hacking activities carried out during my involvement with
Anonymous. I have been locked up at MCC for the past 20 months and have
had a lot of time to think about how I would explain my actions.Before I
begin, I want to take a moment to recognize the work of the people who
have supported me. I want to thank all the lawyers and others who worked
on my case: Elizabeth Fink, Susan Kellman, Sarah Kunstler, Emily
Kunstler, Margaret Kunstler, and Grainne O’Neill. I also want to thank
the National Lawyers Guild, the Jeremy Hammond Defense Committee and
Support Network, Free Anons, the Anonymous Solidarity Network, Anarchist
Black Cross, and all others who have helped me by writing a letter of
support, sending me letters, attending my court dates, and spreading the
word about my case. I also want to shout out my brothers and sisters
behind bars and those who are still out there fighting the power.The
acts of civil disobedience and direct action that I am being sentenced
for today are in line with the principles of community and equality that
have guided my life. I hacked into dozens of high profile corporations
and government institutions, understanding very clearly that what I was
doing was against the law, and that my actions could land me back in
federal prison. But I felt that I had an obligation to use my skills to
expose and confront injustice—and to bring the truth to light.Could I
have achieved the same goals through legal means? I have tried
everything from voting petitions to peaceful protest and have found that
those in power do not want the truth to be exposed. When we speak truth
to power we are ignored at best and brutally suppressed at worst. We
are confronting a power structure that does not respect its own system
of checks and balances, never mind the rights of it’s own citizens or
the international community.My introduction to politics was when George
W. Bush stole the Presidential election in 2000, then took advantage of
the waves of racism and patriotism after 9/11 to launch unprovoked
imperialist wars against Iraq and Afghanistan. I took to the streets in
protest naively believing our voices would be heard in Washington and we
could stop the war. Instead, we were labeled as traitors, beaten, and
arrested.I have been arrested for numerous acts of civil disobedience on
the streets of Chicago, but it wasn’t until 2005 that I used my
computer skills to break the law in political protest. I was arrested by
the FBI for hacking into the computer systems of a right-wing, pro-war
group called Protest Warrior, an organization that sold racist t-shirts
on their website and harassed anti-war groups. I was charged under the
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and the “intended loss” in my case was
arbitrarily calculated by multiplying the 5000 credit cards in Protest
Warrior’s database by $500, resulting in a total of $2.5 million.My
sentencing guidelines were calculated on the basis of this “loss,” even
though not a single credit card was used or distributed – by me or
anyone else. I was sentenced to two years in prison.While in prison I
have seen for myself the ugly reality of how the criminal justice system
destroys the lives of the millions of people held captive behind bars.
The experience solidified my opposition to repressive forms of power and
the importance of standing up for what you believe.When I was released,
I was eager to continue my involvement in struggles for social change. I
didn’t want to go back to prison, so I focused on above-ground
community organizing. But over time, I became frustrated with the
limitations, of peaceful protest, seeing it as reformist and
ineffective. The Obama administration continued the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan, escalated the use of drones, and failed to close Guantanamo
Bay.Around this time, I was following the work of groups like Wikileaks
and Anonymous. It was very inspiring to see the ideas of hactivism
coming to fruition. I was particularly moved by the heroic actions of
Chelsea Manning, who had exposed the atrocities committed by U.S. forces
in Iraq and Afghanistan. She took an enormous personal risk to leak
this information – believing that the public had a right to know and
hoping that her disclosures would be a positive step to end these
abuses. It is heart-wrenching to hear about her cruel treatment in
military lockup.I thought long and hard about choosing this path again. I
had to ask myself, if Chelsea Manning fell into the abysmal nightmare
of prison fighting for the truth, could I in good conscience do any
less, if I was able? I thought the best way to demonstrate solidarity
was to continue the work of exposing and confronting corruption.I was
drawn to Anonymous because I believe in autonomous, decentralized direct
action. At the time Anonymous was involved in operations in support of
the Arab Spring uprisings, against censorship, and in defense of
Wikileaks. I had a lot to contribute, including technical skills, and
how to better articulate ideas and goals. It was an exciting time – the
birth of a digital dissent movement, where the definitions and
capabilities of hacktivism were being shaped.I was especially interested
in the work of the hackers of LulzSec who were breaking into some
significant targets and becoming increasingly political. Around this
time, I first started talking to Sabu, who was very open about the hacks
he supposedly committed, and was encouraging hackers to unite and
attack major government and corporate systems under the banner of Anti
Security. But very early in my involvement, the other Lulzsec hackers
were arrested, leaving me to break into systems and write press
releases. Later, I would learn that Sabu had been the first one
arrested, and that the entire time I was talking to him he was an FBI
informant.Anonymous was also involved in the early stages of Occupy Wall
Street. I was regularly participating on the streets as part of Occupy
Chicago and was very excited to see a worldwide mass movement against
the injustices of capitalism and racism. In several short months, the
“Occupations” came to an end, closed by police crackdowns and mass
arrests of protestors who were kicked out of their own public parks. The
repression of Anonymous and the Occupy Movement set the tone for
Antisec in the following months – the majority of our hacks against
police targets were in retaliation for the arrests of our comrades.I
targeted law enforcement systems because of the racism and inequality
with which the criminal law is enforced. I targeted the manufacturers
and distributors of military and police equipment who profit from
weaponry used to advance U.S. political and economic interests abroad
and to repress people at home. I targeted information security firms
because they work in secret to protect government and corporate
interests at the expense of individual rights, undermining and
discrediting activists, journalists and other truth seekers, and
spreading disinformation.I had never even heard of Stratfor until Sabu
brought it to my attention. Sabu was encouraging people to invade
systems, and helping to strategize and facilitate attacks. He even
provided me with vulnerabilities of targets passed on by other hackers,
so it came as a great surprise when I learned that Sabu had been working
with the FBI the entire time.On December 4, 2011, Sabu was approached
by another hacker who had already broken into Stratfor’s credit card
database. Sabu, under the watchful eye of his government handlers, then
brought the hack to Antisec by inviting this hacker to our private
chatroom, where he supplied download links to the full credit card
database as well as the initial vulnerability access point to Stratfor’s
systems.I spent some time researching Stratfor and reviewing the
information we were given, and decided that their activities and client
base made them a deserving target. I did find it ironic that Stratfor’s
wealthy and powerful customer base had their credit cards used to donate
to humanitarian organizations, but my main role in the attack was to
retrieve Stratfor’s private email spools which is where all the dirty
secrets are typically found.It took me more than a week to gain further
access into Stratfor’s internal systems, but I eventually broke into
their mail server. There was so much information, we needed several
servers of our own in order to transfer the emails. Sabu, who was
involved with the operation at every step, offered a server, which was
provided and monitored by the FBI. Over the next weeks, the emails were
transferred, the credit cards were used for donations, and Stratfor’s
systems were defaced and destroyed. Why the FBI would introduce us to
the hacker who found the initial vulnerability and allow this hack to
continue remains a mystery.As a result of the Stratfor hack, some of the
dangers of the unregulated private intelligence industry are now known.
It has been revealed through Wikileaks and other journalists around the
world that Stratfor maintained a worldwide network of informants that
they used to engage in intrusive and possibly illegal surveillance
activities on behalf of large multinational corporations.After Stratfor,
I continued to break into other targets, using a powerful “zero day
exploit” allowing me administrator access to systems running the popular
Plesk webhosting platform. Sabu asked me many times for access to this
exploit, which I refused to give him. Without his own independent
access, Sabu continued to supply me with lists of vulnerable targets. I
broke into numerous websites he supplied, uploaded the stolen email
accounts and databases onto Sabu’s FBI server, and handed over passwords
and backdoors that enabled Sabu (and, by extension, his FBI handlers)
to control these targets.These intrusions, all of which were suggested
by Sabu while cooperating with the FBI, affected thousands of domain
names and consisted largely of foreign government websites, including
those of XXXXXXX, XXXXXXXX, XXXX, XXXXXX, XXXXX, XXXXXXXX, XXXXXXX and
the XXXXXX XXXXXXX. In one instance, Sabu and I provided access
information to hackers who went on to deface and destroy many government
websites in XXXXXX. I don’t know how other information I provided to
him may have been used, but I think the government’s collection and use
of this data needs to be investigated.jeremy hammond hearing<br />
Sketch from inside Judge Preska’s courtroom by Molly Crabapple<br />
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The
government celebrates my conviction and imprisonment, hoping that it
will close the door on the full story. I took responsibility for my
actions, by pleading guilty, but when will the government be made to
answer for its crimes?The U.S. hypes the threat of hackers in order to
justify the multi billion dollar cyber security industrial complex, but
it is also responsible for the same conduct it aggressively prosecutes
and claims to work to prevent. The hypocrisy of “law and order” and the
injustices caused by capitalism cannot be cured by institutional reform
but through civil disobedience and direct action. Yes I broke the law,
but I believe that sometimes laws must be broken in order to make room
for change.In the immortal word of Frederick Douglas, “Power concedes
nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just
what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact
measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and
these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows,
or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those
whom they oppress.”This is not to say that I do not have any regrets. I
realize that I released the personal information of innocent people who
had nothing to do with the operations of the institutions I targeted. I
apologize for the release of data that was harmful to individuals and
irrelevant to my goals. I believe in the individual right to privacy –
from government surveillance, and from actors like myself, and I
appreciate the irony of my own involvement in the trampling of these
rights. I am committed to working to make this world a better place for
all of us. I still believe in the importance of hactivism as a form of
civil disobedience, but it is time for me to move on to other ways of
seeking change. My time in prison has taken a toll on my family,
friends, and community. I know I am needed at home. I recognize that 7
years ago I stood before a different federal judge, facing similar
charges, but this does not lessen the sincerity of what I say to you
today.It has taken a lot for me to write this, to explain my actions,
knowing that doing so — honestly — could cost me more years of my life
in prison. I am aware that I could get as many as 10 years, but I hope
that I do not, as I believe there is so much work to be done.STAY STRONG
AND KEEP STRUGGLING!To schedule interviews with Jeremy Hammond’s
attorneys and supporters following today’s sentencing please contact
Andy Stepanian, 631.291.3010, <a href="mailto:andy@sparrowmedia.net">andy@sparrowmedia.net</a>.JBanholzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410822155850772756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980682.post-61230302488741666732019-10-04T21:42:00.002-07:002019-10-04T21:42:27.360-07:00Kudos for Tony Tekaroniake Evans's public presentation at the Community Library <a href="http://archives.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005136464&var_Year=2011&var_Month=05&var_Day=04" target="_blank">Verily, a dream project come true </a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some highlights I especially enjoyed are: Mohawk Social Dance; The Rabbit Dance <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=247s" spellcheck="false">04:07</a>
<br /><br />Brief explanation and etymology of Tony's Mohawk name Two Skies: <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=312s" spellcheck="false">05:12</a>
<br /><br />Interview quote from Pulitzer winner Elizabeth Fen: "Native History IS American History, there is no separation between the two." <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=403s" spellcheck="false">06:43</a> <br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1970, the likeable Georgian 3rd grade teacher, while studying "The First Thanksgiving teaching what she had been taught, telling Tony there were no more Indians, while studying "The First Thanksgiving." <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=489s" spellcheck="false">08:09</a>
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Kids Love Indians!: <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=601s" spellcheck="false">10:01</a> <br /><br />
Major resolution of a 3rd Grade Indian- teaching oversight, with School District purchasing book copies.: <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=765s" spellcheck="false">12:45</a>
<br /><br />Tewa: <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=840s" spellcheck="false">14:00</a> <br /><br />
Mini Pow Wow in Sun Valley: <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=900s" spellcheck="false">15:00</a>
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Friendship & Education
Big Al Ross: Scottish Schoolteacher turned Fur Trapper discovers a arrow-wounded grouse just over Galena Summit. <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=1055s" spellcheck="false">17:35</a>
<br /><br />A highly questionable "Doctrine of Discovery."
Sheepeater Indians:
<a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fhistory.idaho.gov%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F08%2F0024.pdf&redir_token=b8iXqtImYcFKHpANCYf0bZFP6_d8MTU3MDMzNTMyMEAxNTcwMjQ4OTIw&stzid=UgwFrdIV_7JyWio9ixZ4AaABAg&event=comments" rel="nofollow" spellcheck="false" target="_blank">https://history.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/0024.pdf</a>
"Archeologists missed a lot." -will elaborate later...<br /><br />
Indian maps and trails: <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=1380s" spellcheck="false">23:00</a>
<br /><br />Spellbinding Redfish Overhang experience with guardians (near lake outflow): <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=1442s" spellcheck="false">24:02</a>
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Serious troubles on the Camas Prarie.
Need to roast the very nutritious camas bulbs properly.
Provisions here were promised. Promise broken.
American Army had little tolerance, bloody conflict ensued.
Cover of Owyhee Avalanche newspaper advertised $5 for child Indian scalp. <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=2040s" spellcheck="false">34:00</a><br /><br />
Hailey's Hop Porter Park was an Indian camp and trade center. <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=2160s" spellcheck="false">36:00</a><br /><br />
Powerful Buffalo hunting bows were crafted by Indians from Bighorn Sheep horns. <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=2288s" spellcheck="false">38:08</a> <br /><br /><br />
Some forbidding assimilation policies: <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=2432s" spellcheck="false">40:32</a> <br /><br /><br />
Even Medicine Men were jailed for practicing their sacred healing ceremonies: <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=2520s" spellcheck="false">42:00</a>
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Wagon Days Pow Wow with Fort Hall Ghost Drum Group playing and singing and Tee-Pee raising. <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=2610s" spellcheck="false">43:30</a>
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Some things archeologists missed: Elkhorn "tool making site" was actually a strategic lookout for hunting animals. That's why there's a 7,000 years layering of piles of chips. A small fine perfect arrowhead masterfully crafted, becomes a holy grail, valuable enough to become currency. : <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=2662s" spellcheck="false">44:22</a>
<br /><br />More comprehensive signage honoring Indigenous History highlights, which have been much obscured until now, would complement Idaho's already popular and successful Statewide Roadside Historical Signage program. Remember: Kids love Indians! <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=2725s" spellcheck="false">45:25</a>
<br /><br />Only seven thousand people (?) still speak the native Bannock language.
Modern linguists have developed 'Rosetta Stone' tools to assist in easier learning of the now much obscure Bannock language. <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=2918s" spellcheck="false">48:38</a><br /><br />
Ketchum's Museum features a broad array of Indigenous artifacts: <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=2940s" spellcheck="false">49:00</a><br /><br />
Russ Fields an early 1900's Fairfield homesteader, would see Indians come through on horse-drawn wagons during Camas root harvest season. He finally made an effort to meet many of these Indians, who were abiding by their (broken, by being cheated) treaty, harvesting camas lily bulbs. <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=2980s" spellcheck="false">49:40</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Story goes into more depth...
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Tony broke the story of the new friendship between Lionel and Curly, the friendship which led to Camas Lily Days and much more, indeed much of what's here in this video. <br /><br />
A Cornell Hall of Fame Track Star, slowing down for a second for a nice snapshot. <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sdXfj_Wfw&t=3400s" spellcheck="false">56:40</a>
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Revising history more accurately in the Stanley Basin, e.g. perhaps explaining better or elaborating more of why "Roving Indians," reminded me of something that happened to us when Boise Professor Tom Trusky as part of his "Statewide Movie Signage Proposal" suggested a legend for a small tribute to Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider film.
Tom, Brad N. and I came up with a suggestion for the legend, which included the words: "With a theme as timeless as the Boulder Mountains, a nameless preacher protects a poor prospecting town from a gang of ruffians, send by a greedy mining corporation to intrude on their claim."
The State liked our proposal, but took out the wood 'greedy' and instead of posting a full tribute the film (remember the SNRA cell tower controversy) near the Boulders, posted a smaller mention on the Wood River Mines sign north of Bellevue.
Anyone interested in this type of stuff would likely enjoy reading Dr. James W. Loewen's book "Lies Across America.'
When reading this be sure to check out the chapter about Almo, Idaho, near City of the Rocks. Dr. Loewen rates the lies there about the made up Indian raid that never happened as second place in his eye-opening book of signage lies.
-J.B.</span>
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JBanholzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410822155850772756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980682.post-29381449809344899632019-10-04T21:04:00.002-07:002019-10-04T21:04:20.799-07:00Indian Presentation I am impressed and find it refreshing to see this long and multi-faceted
effort by Tony, Mike Healy and others, reach fruition in several areas.
The detailed way in which these authors have passionately documented
local Indigenous History and distilled it here with clarity so well is a
crowning achievement and excellence at its best. Some cultures might
even call it a gift of "Owl medicine."
Some highlights I especially enjoyed are: Mohawk Social Dance; The
Rabbit Dance 04:07
Brief explanation and etymology of Tony's Mohawk name Two Skies: 05:12
Interview quote from Pulitzer winner Elizabeth Fen: "Native History IS
American History, there is no separation between the two." 06:43
In 1970, the likeable Georgian 3rd grade teacher, while studying "The
First Thanksgiving teaching what she had been taught, telling Tony there
were no more Indians, while studying "The First Thanksgiving." 08:09
Kids Love Indians!: 10:01
Major resolution of a 3rd Grade Indian- teaching oversight, with School
District purchasing book copies.: 12:45
Tewa: 14:00
Mini Pow Wow in Sun Valley: 15:00
Friendship & Education
Big Al Ross: Scottish Schoolteacher turned Fur Trapper discovers a
arrow-wounded grouse just over Galena Summit. 17:35
A highly questionable "Doctrine of Discovery."
Sheepeater Indians:
https://history.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/0024.pdf
"Archeologists missed a lot." -will elaborate later...
Indian maps and trails: 23:00
Spellbinding Redfish Overhang experience with guardians (near lake
outflow): 24:02
Troubles on the Camas Prarie.
Need to roast the very nutritious camas bulbs properly.
Provisions here were promised. Promise broken.
American Army had little tolerance, bloody conflict ensued.
Cover of Owyhee Avalanche newspaper advertised $5 for child Indian
scalp. 34:00
Hailey's Hop Porter Park was an Indian camp and trade center. 36:00
Powerful Buffalo hunting bows were crafted by Indians from Bighorn Sheep
horns. 38:08
Some forbidding assimilation policies: 40:32
Even Medicine Men were jailed for practicing their sacred healing
ceremonies: 42:00
Wagon Days Pow Wow with Fort Hall Ghost Drum Group playing and singing
and Tee-Pee raising. 43:30
Some things archeologists missed: Elkhorn "tool making site" was
actually a strategic lookout for hunting animals. That's why there's a
7,000 years layering of piles of chips. A small fine perfect arrowhead
masterfully crafted, becomes a holy grail, valuable enough to become
currency. : 44:22
More comprehensive signage honoring Indigenous History highlights, which
have been much obscured until now, would complement Idaho's already
popular and successful Statewide Roadside Historical Signage program.
Remember: Kids love Indians! 45:25
Only seven thousand people (?) still speak the native Bannock language.
Modern linguists have developed 'Rosetta Stone' tools to assist in
easier learning of the now much obscure Bannock language. 48:38
Ketchum's Museum features a broad display of Indigenous artifacts:
49:00
Russ Fields an early 1900's Fairfield homesteader, would see Indians
come through on horse-drawn wagons during Camas root harvest season. He
finally made an effort to meet many of these Indians, who were abiding
by their (broken, by being cheated) treaty, harvesting camas lily bulbs.
49:40
Story goes into more depth...
Tony broke the story of the new friendship between Lionel and Curly, the
friendship which led to Camas Lily Days and much more, indeed much of
what's here in this video.
A Cornell Hall of Fame Track Star, slowing down for a second for a nice
snapshot. 56:40
Revising history more accurately in the Stanley Basin, e.g. perhaps
explaining better or elaborating more of why "Roving Indians," reminded
me of something that happened to us when Boise Professor Tom Trusky as
part of his "Statewide Movie Signage Proposal" suggested a legend for a
small tribute to Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider film.
Tom, Brad N. and I came up with a suggestion for the legend, which
included the words: "With a theme as timeless as the Boulder Mountains, a
nameless preacher protects a poor prospecting town from a gang of
ruffians, send by a greedy mining corporation to intrude on their
claim."
The State liked our proposal, but took out the wood 'greedy' and instead
of posting a full tribute the film (remember the SNRA cell tower
controversy) near the Boulders, posted a smaller mention on the Wood
River Mines sign north of Bellevue.
Anyone interested in this type of stuff would likely enjoy reading Dr.
James W. Loewen's book "Lies Across America.'
When reading this be sure to check out the chapter about Almo, Idaho,
near City of the Rocks. Dr. Loewen rates the lies there about the made
up Indian raid that never happened as second place in his eye-opening
book of signage lies.
-J.B.JBanholzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410822155850772756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980682.post-80211007372226203082019-10-04T00:08:00.001-07:002019-10-04T00:08:41.552-07:00Rent from Rigorious Intuition - Sixth comment thread
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Think how far we have come: from Shirtwaist factory at minimum wage all the way to Shirtwaist dormitory at maximum rent.</div>
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Protests in Toronto making news in Washington
(where the blatant disregard over disparity between extremes in wealth
and poverty is <span style="font-style: italic;">never </span>visible <img alt=":roll:" src="http://rigorousintuition.ca/board2/images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif" title="Rolling Eyes" /> ).<br /><br /><blockquote class="uncited">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">Fine dining ‘with a view’ experience protested for being within view of homeless encampment</span></span><br /><br />by John Gage <br /> <br /> April 08, 2019 <br /> <br />An
anti-poverty group is staging protests against Toronto’s fine diners at
the new pop-up restaurant experience Dinner With A View, which allows
its guests to enjoy a luxury three-course meal while seated in a
transparent dome with a 360-degree view. <br />The dining room is within sight of a homeless encampment. <br /><br />“Toronto,
like most cities, is in the midst of a housing crisis,” an organizer
Yogi Acharya told the Washington Post. “There are people who are
homeless who have nowhere else to go but under a highway. The brazenness
of putting on meals like that not far from where people were hungry and
cold all winter was jarring, and we believed it demanded a protest.” <br /><br />The group, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty has labeled the restaurant “Dinner With A View — of the Rich.” <br /><br />“Homes
Not Domes” and “Evict the Rich,” are just a few of the signs held by
protesters angry that this fine dining experience would be placed under
an overpass that the homeless, just a mile away, had been evicted from
recently. <br /><br />The luxury dome experience costs a minimum of $550,
Canadian, for a group of four people to enjoy a menu of Italian, French,
and Mexican-inspired food. <br /><br /><a class="postlink" href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fine-dining-with-a-view-experience-protested-for-being-within-view-of-homeless-encampment">https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... encampment</a></div>
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<br /><br /><img alt="Image" src="https://beta.ctvnews.ca/content/dam/ctvnews/images/2019/4/6/1_4368758.jpg?cache_timestamp=1554526638147" /><br /><br />From the restaurant's website:<br /><br /><blockquote class="uncited">
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A
completely luxurious dining experience in a highly unexpected setting.
The adventure begins as guests are ushered into a unique outdoor space -
a wondrous environment perfect for sharing via social.<br /><br />Our domes
are transformed into terrariums with distinct terrains. A terrarium is
an elegant encapsulation of an ecosystem; a living biosphere captured in
time. Here, we bring that notion to life inside our domes, each
corresponding to a different region of the earth’s terroir: tundra,
tropical, grasslands, arid and boreal forest. These extraordinary spaces
are designed using resplendent materials such as live flora, luxurious
textiles and elegant illumination.<br /><br />The dining experience is
anchored by the Chef’s savoir-faire, and the landscape from which our
food is grown. For example, from award-winning René Rodriguez’ Mexican
heritage to his exploration of French and Italian cuisine, the chef’s
menu is truly embodiment of regional diversity.<br /><br />The ingredients
have been locally sourced by Chef Rodriguez, who designed and prepares a
delicious 3-course blind menu, including meat, fish and vegan options.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Artistic
spectaculars will frame the stage which will offer opportunities to
capture that perfect photograph against an iconic urban background</span>.”<br /><br /><a class="postlink" href="https://www.dinnerwithaview.ca/en/about">https://www.dinnerwithaview.ca/en/about</a></div>
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<br /><br /><br />'Dinner With A View' guests can join celebrity chef René Rodriguez in rubbing salt into the wounds of hunger and homelessness...<br /><br /><img alt="Image" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRswXtrcNnsHEk5-c8D4lIJSf_kl0JfpPG8MVBcr4q5oZUsUuVU" /><img alt="Image" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRHR-RG1o_JWG_grGoToaAcR1H0tGW65G5W1SuNr0jOOh_vs8uo" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />...in the other domes with <span style="font-style: italic;"> their</span> 'iconic urban background'.<br /><br /><img alt="Image" src="https://images.thestar.com/wytC5UpK2bdH3UNzUzieELxHfCU=/1200x879/smart/filters:cb(1548116265958)/https://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/opinion/star-columnists/2019/01/17/its-tough-to-be-homeless-in-toronto-and-its-getting-tougher/gardiner_tents_2.jpg" /><br /><br /><img alt="Image" src="https://images.thestar.com/k06gRiwOitUgEwcuSSbb9Cpp9Bc=/1200x776/smart/filters:cb(1548212924966)/https://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/opinion/star-columnists/2019/01/22/homelessness-is-an-emergency-but-we-have-to-do-more-than-just-treat-it-like-one/gardiner_tents.jpg" /></div>
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I'm halfway convinced the design of those dining
domes was intentional. Sort of a sick joke that even the patrons don't
get. Maybe a little disdain for the uppity eaters. I can't quite wrap my
head around it, if instead, it's upscale role playing of the worst kind
in such a blatant display. Perhaps it's a bit of both.</div>
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^^^I agree, and if their patrons didn't get it
earlier, they do now (as they get a police escort to dine in their
symbolic domes).<br /><br /><img alt="Image" src="https://nowtoronto.com/downloads/99787/download/Dinner%20With%20A%20View-Of%20The%20Rich_Toronto_4.5.2019-10.jpg?cb=16d3f3806b8590ad5d12843790f9f2d7&w=1050&h=" /><br /><br /><blockquote class="uncited">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">Dinner With A View: Toronto's middle finger to the poor</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Anger
and contempt: protest of chi-chi dining pop-up under the Gardiner
exposes the ever-widening fault line between haves and have-nots</span><br /><br />by Peter Biesterfeld <br /><br />April 10, 2019<br /><br /><img alt="Image" src="https://nowtoronto.com/downloads/99788/download/Dinner%20With%20A%20View-Of%20The%20Rich_Toronto_4.5.2019-6.jpg?cb=b942e1ff5e628cb28b4f74f7c5f627d7&w=1050&h=" /><br /><br /><br />Most
of the 300 or so people who showed up to protest the swishy Dinner With
A View dining pop-up under the Gardiner on April 5 are long gone. But
the angry sound from the drums of Rhythms of Resistance, the
samba-inspired collective that plays for social justice, continue to
resound in the night, ricocheting off the concrete pillars soaring over
the Bentway. <br /><br />The popular event space that operates as an
independent charity leased space to the Amex-sponsored dinner promoted
as a “completely luxurious dining experience – in a unique outdoor
space,” with locally sourced cuisine “designed” by Top Chef Canada
winner Chef René Rodriguez.<br /><br />But the “part pop-up restaurant, part
outdoor oasis” offering up $100-a-plate dinners inside heated geodesic
domes (reserved for an additional $149 and a short distance from where a
tent city of homeless people was evicted last month) only serves to
expose the widening fault line between haves and have-nots in the city. <br /><br />The
domes, each an illuminated “living biosphere,” sit like intergalactic
pods waiting for lift-off behind a steel security fence lined with a
black curtain for privacy. Swaths of the curtain come down when people
gathering for the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty’s (OCAP) protest,
called Dining With A View – Of The Rich, begin rocking the fence to
reveal the diners in their bubbles.<br /><br />The sarcastic outburst of
applause from demonstrators that follows is met with equally
contemptuous clinking of the wineglasses of a few of the diners who
toast the protestors.<br /><br />“I’m repulsed that somehow we are not all
offended and enraged,” says Sarah Shartal, a lawyer who works with
people who are marginally housed.<br /><br />“It tells us something about
the state of our city, who feels welcome, who feels safe, who has power
and in this case, who profits,” says Ryan Hayes, a researcher with
Workers United Canada and one of the featured speakers at the protest. <br /><br />“Dining in a bubble for people who live in a bubble,” offers another demonstrator.<br /><br />But
in the battle of sound systems, dinner music for patrons in their domes
is overpowered by OCAP’s speakers booming out Phil Ochs’s 1966 anthem,
Ringing Of Revolution: “And the merchants of style, with their red
velvet smiles….”<br /><br />Meanwhile, at the busy Strachan Avenue entrance
to the domes, police are escorting patrons past protestors who are
banging pans and shouting “Shame on you!” Placards that read “Your
privilege is showing” and “You’re being pretty shitty” are hoisted above
the crowd. Safely inside, one of the patrons turns to face protestors
and holds up both middle fingers.<br /><br />OCAP organizer Gáetan Héroux
says the decision to protest the event reflects a deep-seated anger over
growing inequalities in our city. Says Héroux, “Like hell you’re going
to flaunt your wealth in front of us while we suffer.”<br /><br />On the
grassy knoll overlooking the domed encampment, James Cushing, a retired
union activist with the Ontario Public Service Employees Union joins the
crowd in giving a collective middle finger to those in the domes below.<br /><br />“It’s
pretty disgusting that this takes priority for the city over
homelessness,” he says. “That upsets the hell out of me.” On this side
of the fence, volunteers are serving up their own dinner – samosas,
roasted vegetables, cold-cut sandwiches and chocolate cake – to a long
lineup of supporters.<br /><br />Zoë Dodd, an organizer with the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society (TOPS), delivers the most poignant speech of the night.<br /><br />TOPS,
a collective of volunteers who opened the first overdose prevention
site 18 months ago in response to the opioid crisis – saving hundreds of
lives – now finds itself fighting the Ford government, which wants to
shut them down. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">“We cannot just
be on our Facebook pages and on social media or be at rallies,” Dodd
says. “We need to be seriously organizing because our earth is fucking
dying, and people are living in arenas."<br /><br />She nods in the
direction of the Fort York Armoury nearby where the city temporarily
warehouses homeless people during extreme cold weather alerts. “We can’t
pay our rent and our province is being destroyed by cuts. And fuck the
audacity of these motherfuckers eating here in their domes. I hope
they’re uncomfortable.”</span><br /><br />MORE: <a class="postlink" href="https://nowtoronto.com/news/dinner-with-a-view-protest/">https://nowtoronto.com/news/dinner-with-a-view-protest/</a></div>
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<br /><br />The outrage expressed by Toronto's homeless advocates needs to spread far and wide.<br /><br />(I
wasn't familiar w/the concept of 'Pop-up' restaurants until now.
Previously the 'Dining w/a View' website showed more urban
locations--including several in the U.S--for upcoming dates, but they've
since been scrubbed from their site. Does that mean they're abandoning
their dome project and will re-group in a different style of bubble, or
that these will pop back up again when the pressure dies down? <img alt=":shrug:" src="http://rigorousintuition.ca/board2/images/smilies/confused0024.gif" title="shrug" /> )<br /><br /><blockquote class="uncited">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Basics of Pop-Up Restaurants</span><br /><br />Originally
started as supper clubs back in the 1960s, pop-up restaurants have seen
a resurgence. Just as their name implies, pop-ups often occur in
unexpected places, for a limited time.<br /><br />Many chefs open a pop-up
restaurant as a way to showcase their talents to a wider audience,
perhaps drawing in investors for a restaurant in the future. Other
pop-ups are a test run by would-be restaurateurs who are thinking of
opening their own restaurant. Pop-ups are also used by community groups
as fundraisers. Some pop-up proprietors seek to offer high-quality food
at more affordable prices, allowing more people access to gourmet
dining.<br /> <br /> <a class="postlink" href="https://www.thebalancesmb.com/pop-up-restaurants-2888299">https://www.thebalancesmb.com/pop-up-re ... ts-2888299</a></div>
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They remind me of '<a class="postlink" href="https://www.wikizero.com/en/This_Other_Eden_%28novel%29">Claustropheres</a>', from (tosser) Ben Elton's (shitty - don't bother) novel 'This Other Eden':<br /><br /><blockquote class="uncited">
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<br /><br />Then perhaps more 'pop-ups' would be a good thing.<br /><br />At any rate, rent is high because washing hot money through real estate is so damn easy.</div>
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<br /><br />Dunno;
maybe we'll find out since their website now shows Chef Rodriguez will
take his dining in the dome zone to other cities including, early next
year, the city w/ the fourth largest homeless population in the U.S, San
Diego......<br /><br /><img alt="Image" src="https://timesofsandiego.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Homeless-tents-downtown-2--1024x576.jpg" /><br /> <br /><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">I’m
reminded of way back in the early 1980's, when Washington D.C.’s
leading homeless advocate, Mitch Snyder, and the Community for Creative
Non Violence made National News by serving 30 members of Congress a
homemade gourmet meal that included crab quiche and berry shortcake made
with ingredients brought in from supermarket dumpsters.</span></b></i><br /><blockquote class="uncited">
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“CCNV,
a controversial but innovative group that occasionally tangles with the
law, has also made a cause celebre of salvaging edible food from
supermarket dumpsters. It catered for a congressional committee a highly
publicized lunch including crab quiche made from what they scavenged:
food from a dumpster, discarded for being beyond the ''pull date'' and
cosmetically imperfect produce. As a result of that demonstration and
attendent publicity, both Giant and Safeway Supermarkets in Washington
have agreed to allow authorized feeding groups to pick up daily loads of
produce, dairy, and baked goods slated for the dumpster, screen them
for edibility, then distribute them to soup kitchens and other
programs.”<br /><br /><a class="postlink" href="https://www.csmonitor.com/1982/1210/121044.html">https://www.csmonitor.com/1982/1210/121044.html</a><br /></div>
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<br /><br />Had Snyder lived, would he be shocked by how<span style="font-style: italic;"> much </span>things have worsened post Reagan? <br /><br />On
a more positive note, in San Francisco last year one group took
creative cooking, job training and homelessness to open another, more
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;"><br />At These Pop-Up Dinners, The Chefs (And The Guests) Are Homeless</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Farming
Hope teaches culinary skills to San Francisco’s homeless, and then
serves meals where homeless diners eat side by side with people who pay
full price for the meal. </span><br /><br /><img alt="Image" src="https://images.fastcompany.net/image/upload/w_937,ar_16:9,c_fill,g_auto,f_auto,q_auto,fl_lossy/wp-cms/uploads/2018/04/p-1-at-these-pop-up-dinners.jpg" /><br /> <br />By Adele Peters<br /><br />On
a recent night at a pop-up dinner in San Francisco’s Civic Center
neighborhood–with a menu including seared mushroom red potato tostada
and roasted broccoli with honey sriracha, some of the guests had paid
$55 for a ticket for the multi-course meal. Other people, who are
homeless, paid nothing. They sat together and talked, eating food
prepared by people who are also homeless.<br /><br />The startup nonprofit
behind the dinner, Farming Hope, wants both to provide new job training
for people who are trying to work their way out of homelessness–so they
can later land jobs in the Bay Area food world–and to bring people
together around food in a different way.<br /><br />“We want an environment
where it’s not just a restaurant where no one who’s very poor is coming
to eat, and it’s not just a soup kitchen, where it’s only homeless
people eating donated food as quickly as possible,” says Jamie Stark,
one of the cofounders of Farming Hope. “It’s a nice environment where
people want to be, where there’s a unique mix of people, and where some
of that empathy and understanding and human-centered thinking can
spread.”<br /><br />Stark and cofounder Kevin Madrigal met as students at
Stanford, where both had an interest in food as a tool for social
empowerment and social change. They incubated the nonprofit in a summer
business incubator at Stanford’s design school. In January 2017, they
began working with their first cohort of employees in San
Francisco–people who wanted to find jobs and begin to move out of
homelessness.<br /><br />As they initially began to design the nonprofit’s
approach, they interviewed people experiencing homelessness and
identified a key component–to feel needed. “Homelessness is not just a
crisis of economic poverty, it’s also a crisis of social poverty,” Stark
says. “So kind of rebuilding that sense of being needed in a community
is incredibly important if you’re actually going to do transformational
justice work, and get people into a different space and into the life
they want to live.” Helping homeless people work with food and serve it
to others, they realized, would be one way to address that need.<br /><br />The
program teaches participants to grow some of their ingredients, working
in community gardens–including a rooftop garden on a local homeless
shelter–and then offers training in cooking and serving restaurant
guests. They quickly pared the training course down to three months to
match the length of time that someone can have a bed at a homeless
shelter.<br /><br />“When we started last January, we were having guys doing
really well with us–and then they would lose their beds and be off in
the streets and they would drop off, because they didn’t have the
stability,” says Stark. “So we really realized we had to work faster and
better identify the folks who were very ready to get into employment,
but they needed a job on their resume, they needed the confidence and
the money, and somebody who could write them a letter of recommendation
before they could get there. And we needed to push them to do this in a
short enough timeline where they wouldn’t have everything upended when
they had to move yet again.”<br /><br />After the program, the nonprofit
will help participants apply for a jobs. In the video below, one person
who went through the program talks about the job he got with Whole
Foods. Of eight participants in the startup program in 2017, four went
on to get long-term, full-time employment.<br /><br />MORE: <a class="postlink" href="https://www.fastcompany.com/40563529/at-these-pop-up-dinners-the-chefs-and-the-guests-are-homeless">https://www.fastcompany.com/40563529/at ... e-homeless</a></div>
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Homeless in San Francisco's 'Clinton Park'... <span style="font-style: italic;">between a rock and a hard place</span>.<br /><br /><blockquote class="uncited">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;"><br />Everybody must get stoned: Clinton Park boulders are San Francisco’s clumsiest metaphor</span></span><br /><br />By Joe Eskenazi | Sep 30, 2019 <br /><br /><img alt="Image" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/missionloca/mission/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/30025249/Clinton-Park-rocks-with-sleeper-1024x640.jpg" /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">A
sleeping man finds room between the anti-homeless stones placed on
Clinton Park, purportedly by fed-up neighbors. Photo by Taylor Ahlgren</span><br />....<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">In San Francisco</span>,
perhaps the richest city in the history of cities or money, we’re
fighting a proxy war over rocks. We’re doing this while the level of
suffering on our streets resembles a scene out of a failed state. We’re
doing this after the city’s neglect regarding unsafe and miserable
conditions on this and so many blocks led residents to consider
vigilantism as an attractive option (there was, apparently, no city
permission sought nor granted prior to dumping tons of rocks on the
sidewalk — this, in a city where installing a pink flamingo in the front
yard likely requires several rounds of permitting). <br /><br /><a class="postlink" href="https://missionlocal.org/2019/09/everybody-must-get-stoned-clinton-park-boulders-are-san-franciscos-clumsiest-metaphor">https://missionlocal.org/2019/09/everyb ... t-metaphor</a></div>
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<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 85%; line-height: 116%;">(clever 'prop'--empty carton of Rolling Rock.</span></div>
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^^^Very worth watching--Thanks!<br /><br />S.F.
Apodments for $1,200/month (more for upper bunk safety bars, or more for
floor-level shoe space and under-bunk storage? What about the Pentpods?
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(CNN)If you're in the market to rent a home in
San Diego, this backyard shed could be yours for a whopping $1,050 a
month. Yes, really.<br /><br />The studio is located in the backyard of a
home in the North Park neighborhood, which is one of the city's most
walkable neighborhoods.<br />The listing calls the shed a studio, but neighbors aren't exactly convinced.<br /><br />"I
was amazed it was going for that much money," Joe Moreno, who lives
nearby, told CNN affiliate KGTV. "Does it have plumbing? I mean, does it
have facilities?"<br /><br />The 200-square-foot studio apartment does have
plumbing, an air conditioner, stove and small refrigerator. It doesn't,
however, have a washer and dryer or parking, the listing said.<br /><br />While
the rent seems outrageous to some, the asking price is $300 per month
less than a typical studio in the area. The company renting out the
property, J.D. Property Management, doesn't expect to have an issue with
the price, considering the former tenant paid $1,100 a month for two
years.<br /><br />"Maybe it is high for what it is offered at, but the
reality is that the square footage and the location is exactly what this
market needs," housing industry analyst Alan Nevin told KGTV.<br /><br />Applicants
interested in renting the shed must have a credit score of 650, an
income of 2 1/2 times the rental amount, no history of evictions and
rental references, <a class="postlink" href="https://www.zumper.com/apartment-buildings/p411204/4733-35-oregon-st-north-park-san-diego-ca">https://www.zumper.com/apartment-buildings/p411204/4733-35-oregon-st-north-park-san-diego-ca</a>.<br /><br /><a class="postlink" href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/02/us/san-diego-backyard-shed-for-rent-trnd/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/02/us/san-d ... index.html</a>JBanholzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410822155850772756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980682.post-59893853414366335802019-10-03T17:13:00.003-07:002019-10-03T17:13:36.216-07:00Multi-tasking thoughtsI encountered a twelve year old Atlantic Magazine article:<br />
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The Autumn of the Multitaskers</h1>
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<b><i>"Neuroscience
is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and
driving us crazy. One man’s odyssey through the nightmare of infinite
connectivity"</i></b></div>
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<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/11/the-autumn-of-the-multitaskers/306342/" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/11/the-autumn-of-the-multitaskers/306342/</a></div>
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-and while reading this, remembered a nearly century old <a href="https://strandmag.com/the-magazine/history/" target="_blank">Strand Magazine</a> article about THE ULTIMATE MULTI-TASKER: <b>HENRY KAHNE</b>.</div>
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<a href="https://greenvanholzer.blogspot.com/2009/01/ultimate-multitasker-focuses-over.html" target="_blank">I blogged about Mr. Kahne before</a>, making the argument that multitasking can help keep about-to- doze-off-drivers more wakeful. Now looking at this again, see that the Copyright is due to expire in a little over 3 years. </div>
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For now, here's the gist of it, with a link to the original 1925 article:</div>
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Strand Magazine</i></b> (October 1925)</span> <br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;"><span><br />
"The Man With The Multiple Mind"</span></span></b> <br />
<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">An Interview with Harry
Kahne, Whose Brain can do Six Things at the Same Time</span></b>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">By Fenn Sherie</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">It is said that Mohammed and
Caesar could, upon occasions, perform two distinct mental
operations --- such as writing a letter and carrying on a
conversation --- simultaneously. Not having interviewed either
of them I am unable to confirm this. I can, however, vouch for
the fact that the present generation has produced a remarkable
young man who can make his brain do six different things at
the same time --- involving, according to the psychologists,
no fewer than 14 separate mental processes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;"> </span> <br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">When I first heard of his
existence I was (as the reader may be at present) a little
dubious. However, now that I have witnessed his public
performance, put him through several private tests and chatted
with him regarding his remarkable talents, I am in a position
to state the facts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;"> </span> <br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">His name is Harry Kahne, his
age is 28, and his native land is America. He has a charming
personality, a nasal accent, and above all, a wonderful brain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;"> </span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">His demonstrations of
multiple mind concentration have to be seen to be believed,
but the reader will gather some idea of his remarkable
abilities from a careful study of the accompanying photographs
with their descriptive captions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;"> </span> <br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">Whether he is performing
before music hall audiences or learned professors of
psychology, Mr Kahne has the happy knack of keeping his
audiences amused as well as amazed. Even whilst jotting down
rows of figures, writing them upside down and backwards, he
manages to maintain a steady flow of amusing chatter.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;"> </span> <br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">"Will somebody please call
out a number?" he asks. "You may call out your age if you
like. Ladies may call out the age of their lady friends."</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;"> </span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">And whilst he is writing out
news headlines backwards and doing difficult mathematical
calculations at the same time, he continues to invite
questions from members of the audience, to all of which he has
a ready reply.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;"> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">"Talk to me! Talk to me!" he
pleads.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;"> </span> <br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">"What is the population of
Manchester?" shouts a voice from the back of the hall.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;"> </span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">"The population" --- he
writes two letters and adds a figure --- "of Manchester" ---
he writes two more figures and another letter --- "is 730,551.
Anybody else? Talk to me!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;"> </span> <br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">"Are you married?" shouts a
girl in the gallery.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;"> </span> <br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">"No", he answers, promptly,
jotting down a word as he talks; "It’s my work that makes me
act like this."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;"> </span> <br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">And in his final
demonstration of "word-juggling", clearly explained in the
photograph on the next page, he maintains the interest by
hanging upside down and reciting a poem!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;"> </span> <br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">"That boy will go mad", said
a woman sitting behind me in the theater where I first saw Mr
Kahne perform.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;"> </span> <br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">"He is a genius", exclaimed
a gray-haired gentleman who looked like a medical man."Very
wonderful, but he won’t live long", he added, shaking his
head.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;"> </span> <br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">But to talk to Mr Kahne is
to discover that, although he has exceptional abilities, he is
not by any means a freak. If he displays genius, it is not the
kind that is akin to madness, but rather of the more
creditable variety, generally spoken of as "an infinite
capacity for taking pains".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">Strand Magazine article continues here:</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.rexresearch.com/kahne/kahne.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;"> http://www.rexresearch.com/kahne/kahne.htm</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">Now, back to my other six works-in-progress... </span> JBanholzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410822155850772756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980682.post-39235840955664932632019-09-29T05:15:00.001-07:002019-09-29T05:15:59.070-07:00On the air with Dayle Ohlau<div class="m_1458501511862400887subscriber-preview">
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Idaho Mountain Express</div>
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resident Dayle Ohlau knew what she wanted to do with her life when she
was in second grade, wrapping a jump rope around a plastic flute to
fashion a microphone to interview her little brother.</span></div>
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knew I wanted to be in radio when I was 6 years old,” said Ohlau, now
59 and soon to take over as general manager of <a href="https://kdpifm.org/meet-the-djs/" target="_blank">KDPI</a>, the local nonprofit
community radio station based in Ketchum.</span></div>
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Dayle Broadcasting from Disneyland in the early 1990's<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Ohlau grew up in San Diego, where her
father attended barber school, ran three salons and worked with the
Chamber of Commerce to help develop the town of Chula Vista.</span></div>
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her parents divorced, she led a peripatetic existence with her mother,
attending 16 schools in nine years from California to Indiana.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">“My mother needed to explore,” Ohlau said. “Moving around taught me resilience and how to meet people.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">In
fifth grade Ohlau interviewed a disc jockey to learn about the craft of
hosting a radio show. During her senior year at an Indiana high school
she worked at the student-run WGBD. From then on, her life has been
punctuated by a series of radio station call letters, beginning with
WNON in Lebanon, Ind., where she cut her teeth in commercial radio by
driving 100 miles round trip to work the 7 p.m.-to-midnight shift.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">At
DePauw University she worked at student-run station WGRE and joined
Sigma Delta Chi, founded in 1909 and now known as the Society for
Professional Journalists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">“The
goal of the organization was to grow the idea of ethics and truth in
journalism,” said Ohlau, who also joined the Association for Women in
Communications, a national organization geared toward supporting female
journalists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Ohlau returned to
San Diego to work at several stations, eventually hosting for three
years an award-winning public affairs show called “Time for Women” at
KWXY.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Tragedy struck when
Ohlau’s brother committed suicide, and she soon found herself in an
acrimonious divorce. She hung up her microphone and came to the Wood
River Valley in 2002. Her son and daughter entered the school system and
she put down roots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">“I didn’t want my kids to have the wandering life I had as a kid,” she said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Ohlau
taught communications classes at the College of Southern Idaho campus
in Hailey and worked for two years as news director at three local radio
stations before a staff consolidation left her again jobless.“The
new owners basically used stories from the Idaho Mountain Express and
so they no longer needed their own news director,” she said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">With
her children old enough to take care of themselves, Ohlau journeyed to
Spain to walk the Camino de Santiago, a medieval Christian pilgrimage
route sought out by those in need of change.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">“I
had a lot of things to let go,” she said, “including my brother’s
death, a divorce and family dysfunction. It turned out to be a
transformative experience that recalibrated my life.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Ohlau,
who had previously earned a master’s degree in human behavior, decided
to return to academia. She enrolled at the California Institute for
Integral Studies in San Francisco to pursue a Ph.D. in the School of
Transformative Studies.</span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Two and
half years later, she has completed her coursework and is preparing an
80-page thesis proposal titled “Homo-Spiritus: Radical Compassion, a New
Paradigm for Spirit-Based Journalism.”</span></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">“My
work is theoretical rather than quantitative,” Ohlau said. “It traces
our history from the end of World War I to today, and studies media
biases that led us to where we are now, with a distrust of the media and
a weakening of the Fourth Estate [journalism]. We have become so
tribal. Due to our confirmation biases we only listen to or read what we
already believe.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">A recent
$11,000 donation from 100 Men Who Care, a local philanthropic group,
drew Ohlau back to the nonprofit station that she had helped General
Manager Mike Scullion get started in 2013. She will be able to draw a
small salary putting together new ideas for the station.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">“For
me this will be a synergy between my studies and my radio career,” she
said. ‘It’s an opportunity to generate compassionate and ethical
communication in our community. I think of it as harkening back to the
days of the town square.”</span></div>
JBanholzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410822155850772756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980682.post-29413912703932567162019-09-27T17:50:00.002-07:002019-09-27T23:51:38.460-07:00A recent follow up Letter to PennDOT regarding some transportation safety concerns<div class="iw ajw">
<span class="hb"><br /><span class="g2" data-hovercard-id="Penndot@conduent.com" dir="ltr" name="Penndot"></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Thank you M.,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">As
I relayed <a href="https://greenvanholzer.blogspot.com/search?q=bus" target="_blank">earlier</a>, I'm primarily curious for now about how transportation
businesses in general handle their red-flag info gleaned from the
newfangled data recorders. Having myself, a strong background driving
trucks, taxis and limos, I can understand how complicated and hectic
managing ever-mobile vehicles, while trying to juggle noisy dispatching calls
often becomes. And this bustling busyness is a likely contributor of why
red-flagged reckless driving is suspected of being overlooked. Who has
time for that, if they're always short-staffed, as one driver with five
years experience told me they always are?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I
wonder if transportation companies and business's even budget one hour
per month to check in or follow up on this sort of safety concern? If
not, or rather, if so; then perhaps the season now is ripe for some of
them to re-prioritize their allotted time for specific safety area
focuses like this / these. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Some
places already have safety-prevention managers who are responsible for
overseeing these crucial areas. I imagine that you M., and / or your
PennDOT work-colleagues know of some of these people. Safety managers
who are located, may have some of these same concerns. I
encourage you to see if these experts already have broad ideas to
expound upon and solutions to suggest, in what ways would be most viable
to investigate and improve Commercial reckless-driving accountability. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Thank you, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: medium;">& Best regards</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">JB </span>JBanholzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410822155850772756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980682.post-11176745144716147122019-09-21T08:47:00.001-07:002019-09-23T17:07:42.288-07:00Attendant Parking<span style="font-size: large;"><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x _1n4g">"When I used to drive a truck for Sagebrush Interiors, which was located on the far opposite corner from here and where <a class="" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1423432825" href="https://www.facebook.com/sarahiconoclast.hedrick?hc_location=ufi">Iconoclast</a>
set down for a decade after that, there was <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6835097,-114.3617577,3a,37.5y,5.14h,78.04t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sl9ubUaTiJGdLyFOOfhOL3A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656" target="_blank">a line of parking</a> adjacent
to the Community Library where you could legally parallel park ALL
NIGHT, even in winter, because it was actually private property which
extended into the road.<br /><br />Anyhow, parking the
work-truck there would upset some seasonal high-end condo owner who lived
<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6836335,-114.3615832,3a,75y,180h,78.04t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s5MCHc_mmBgaWtISeD_Qv0A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656" target="_blank"> in the complex</a> in the top portion of this photo. Twice he walked out
angrily and asked / demanded we find a different spot for the truck
because seeing it there tainted his view. <br /><br />It's hard
to say actually what the true cause of his peculiar anger was, but my
work colleagues speculated it was because he had invested a large sum of
money in his condo, and eventually had it dawn on himself that it was
overvalued. And now he was desperately projecting this by nit-picking
visual details.<br /><br />The artwork painted on the
truck-side, visible from his window view was a stand-out photo of a
cowgirl amidst lasso action, and meticulously painted by a local esteemed
artist. Ironically, when Sagebrush closed and sold
that same truck to the Open Room, a fight ensued over the highly valued
painting when another artisan removed it for the new logo. <br /><br />But
beholden in the eyes of the penthouse owner, the truck featuring this
same Wild West themed masterpiece was so distasteful to his view that he
ended up letting it bug him to the point that he became confrontational
about it." </span></span></span>JBanholzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12410822155850772756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980682.post-14232662256148085112019-09-19T22:34:00.005-07:002019-09-23T23:06:19.232-07:00Unfunny for the sensitive<br />
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<span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif"; font-size: large;">This fresh idea of
<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-third-hand-smoke/" target="_blank">third-hand smoke</a>,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif"; font-size: large;">It is no
longer, not merely a joke,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif"; font-size: large;">If you hug a smoker
or two today,</span><br />
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sticks, and then relays,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif"; font-size: large;">Unto innocents,
via dark shirt,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif"; font-size: large;">Bad Smoke shall not filter, it is not inert,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif"; font-size: large;">New fanged
Chemical Scientists insist,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif"; font-size: large;">For third-time transfers,
then rich<a href="http://www.davehitt.com/blog2/third-hand-smoke/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">$</span></a>smoke must exist!</span><br />
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From: <b class="m_-3581998908005693266yiv1212277275gmail_sendername">JB</b><br />
Date: Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 6:22 PM<br />
Subject:
Opinion / Letter of Public Interest / Re-submission /
Let's make certain we're utilizing the futuristic safety tools we
already have<br />
To: <<a href="mailto:letters@pennlive.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">letters@pennlive.com</a>></div>
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Hello Editor,</div>
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I
received a call from your office this afternoon to confirm this letter
and I believe this new draft will show more strength and understanding.
You have my permission to edit this as you see fit. Thank you for your
consideration of publishing this. I will try to call your office in a
short while to confirm this letter as well.</div>
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Best regards,</div>
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JB.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "new"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Let’s make certain to utilize the futuristic safety tools we
already have</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "new"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dear Editor, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "new"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’ve been living in Central PA for
two years now, after relocating here from Idaho. Out West, I worked driving
large trucks for 20 years, and also focused on aircraft safety at Horizon Air
for six. In addition, I’ve been a frequent newspaper opinion contributor,
sometimes writing with a strong emphasis on transportation safety issues. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "new"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now, as a disabled person, I’ve been
working at a Work Skills Program since 2018, and am grateful for this type of
productive work. From my house, I catch the bus to and from work, and though I’ve been
impressed with every parameter of their excellent, efficient and friendly
service for thousands of miles, a handful of times I’ve sensed danger that we
can avoid better. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "new"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The majority of my fellow bus
passengers are also disabled and some don’t have much of a voice there, since
their guardians or advocates are seldom aboard. Some may not have enough
experience or the ability to notice every hazard, so I try to speak up for them
and their equal rights for harmless environments. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "new"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "new"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My top concern for now is
this: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "new"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "new"; font-size: 12.0pt;">While riding in a
crowded Public bus in spring of 2018, the driver hit a long undivided two lane straightaway and
sped up. Soon she was exceeding 80 mph in a posted 55 zone, and continued this
rate steadily over our next 5 to 6 miles. I wish that my camera then would have
been of enough high quality to zoom in to show this clearly. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "new";">A Mobile Logic Unit being assembled</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "new"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Months later I experienced a
synchronicity when work management trained me for a new task of assembling
“Mobile Logic Units” for bus fleets. When I asked our bus drivers about the
inner workings of these black-box-like devices, they told me that these
recorders transpose and save tremendous amounts of data. For instance, in areas
where commercial motorists exceed speed limits, the variegated maps are
programmed to mark these spots, and indicate them with red flags.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "new"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’m curious though if busy bus managers
make time to address these warnings about bending or breaking speed laws.
Because by many standards operating a commercial vehicle at 25 mph over the
posted limit is consider reckless driving – and with a bus full of nearly
voiceless disabled people to boot! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "new"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Coupled with <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://greenvanholzer.blogspot.com/search?q%3Dbus&source=gmail&ust=1568949015790000&usg=AFQjCNEqKzxyTBQYKYBaEcbs8BBAiyVurg" href="https://greenvanholzer.blogspot.com/search?q=bus" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">some previous driver-distracting concerns, to which bus management
inadequately responded*</span></a>, my intuition niggles at me rigorously that
perhaps they do not. And if PennDOT has authority to conduct audits for such
vital bus information, I suggest they investigate bus and other transportation
services to detect if there’s a pattern of missed warning flags, After all, why
would our tremendous public bus services invest in such expensive cutting-edge
safety features if managers might be too busy to notice them, or even worse: <b><i>willfully
ignoring these</i></b>? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "new"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Indeed, endangering already disabled
passengers like my colleagues should be held as an uppermost consideration to
be avoided at all costs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "new"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <b><i>Note to Editor: Last week I sent
this suggestion to PennDOT in a similar message</i></b>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "new"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thank you,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "new"; font-size: 12.0pt;">JB </span></div>
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