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UPDATE: Amazon itself has issued via its Amazon Web Services official blog the following rebuttal:
"There have been reports that a government inquiry prompted us not to serve WikiLeaks any longer. That is inaccurate.
There have also been reports that it was prompted by massive DDOS attacks. That too is inaccurate. There were indeed large-scale DDOS attacks, but they were successfully defended against.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) rents computer infrastructure on a self-service basis. AWS does not pre-screen its customers, but it does have terms of service that must be followed. WikiLeaks was not following them. There were several parts they were violating. For example, our terms of service state that "you represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content… that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity." It's clear that WikiLeaks doesn't own or otherwise control all the rights to this classified content. Further, it is not credible that the extraordinary volume of 250,000 classified documents that WikiLeaks is publishing could have been carefully redacted in such a way as to ensure that they weren't putting innocent people in jeopardy. Human rights organizations have in fact written to WikiLeaks asking them to exercise caution and not release the names or identities of human rights defenders who might be persecuted by their governments.
We've been running AWS for over four years and have hundreds of thousands of customers storing all kinds of data on AWS. Some of this data is controversial, and that's perfectly fine. But, when companies or people go about securing and storing large quantities of data that isn't rightfully theirs, and publishing this data without ensuring it won't injure others, it's a violation of our terms of service, and folks need to go operate elsewhere.
We look forward to continuing to serve our AWS customers and are excited about several new things we have coming your way in the next few months."
— Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services kicked WikiLeaks off its self-service cloud servers Wednesday after staffers from the US Senate's Homeland Security Committee called the company following news reports that Amazon was playing host to the renegade site.
The naïve self-appointed secrecy-puncturing "whistleblower" site sought refuge on Amazon after its own site in Sweden was downed by massive denial of service attacks that started when it began publishing equally massive amounts of purloined American diplomatic e-mails and private State Department documents.
Senator Joe Lieberman, who chairs the committee, released a statement saying "Amazon.com decided to terminate its relationship with Wikileaks."
His full statement reads:
"This morning Amazon informed my staff that it has ceased to host the Wikileaks website. I wish that Amazon had taken this action earlier based on Wikileaks' previous publication of classified material. The company's decision to cut off Wikileaks now is the right decision and should set the standard for other companies Wikileaks is using to distribute its illegally seized material.
I call on any other company or organization that is hosting Wikileaks to immediately terminate its relationship with them. Wikileaks' illegal, outrageous, and reckless acts have compromised our national security and put lives at risk around the world. No responsible company – whether American or foreign – should assist Wikileaks in its efforts to disseminate these stolen materials. I will be asking Amazon about the extent of its relationship with Wikileaks and what it and other web service providers will do in the future to ensure that their services are not used to distribute stolen, classified information."
Naturally Amazon is bound to catch some "First Amendment" flak for pulling the plug from people who think it's their God given right to read other people's mail.
WikiLeaks is leading that parade. It twittered: "If Amazon are so uncomfortable with the first amendment, they should get out of the business of selling books" and "WikiLeaks servers at Amazon ousted. Free speech the land of the free--fine our $ are now spent to employ people in Europe."
WikiLeaks has now reportedly returned to its Swedish host Bahnhof AB.
Amazon's move is unprecedented and although it has now curled up tighter than a ball it can claim that WikiLeaks violated its terms of acceptable use which ban illegal activities, content that "may be harmful to our users, operations or reputation" or jeopardizes the "security or integrity of any network, computer or communication system."
Meanwhile, as the US tries to figure out how to charge him with espionage, Interpol has a "Most Wanted" arrest warrant out for WikiLeaks' 39-year- old Australian-born "editor" Julian Assange on allegations of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. The Swedish police want to talk to him.
Reuters, quoting the British press, says he's been in the UK avoiding the Swedish authorities since October and that the bobbies know where he is but have so far refused to act on the international warrant.
Assange, like WikiLeaks, has no visible means of support and a nomadic lifestyle. He's been offered asylum in Ecuador and his going to ground hasn't stopped him from giving interviews to the press.
He told Time magazine that in its four years of existence WikiLeaks "has never caused an individual, as far as we can determine or as far anyone else can determine, to come to any sort of physical harm or to be wrongly imprisoned and so on." Maybe he'd like to tell that to the parents of 22-year- old Pfc Bradley Manning, Assange's alleged source, who's reportedly been cooling his heels for seven months in solitary confinement and is looking at spending the rest of his life in jail so we can know that Maliki's a stooge, Karzai's a crook, Mubarak's son's not competent and Pakistan's president is incapable.
The files reportedly came off of the classified Defense Department SIPRNET administered by the NSA, Defense intelligence Agency and the Defense Information Systems Agency.
Manning reportedly told he guy who ratted him out that the system had "weak servers, weak logging, weak physical security, weak counter- intelligence, inattentive signal analysis…a perfect storm."
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, will discuss how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money! Speaker Bio: Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, has spent 16 years as a marketing, product management, and busin...
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Samsung VP Jacopo Lenzi, who headed the company's recent SmartThings acquisition under the auspices of Samsung's Open Innovaction Center (OIC), answered a few questions we had about the deal. This interview was in conjunction with our interview with SmartThings CEO Alex Hawkinson. IoT Journal: SmartThings was developed in an open, standards-agnostic platform, and will now be part of Samsung's Open Innovation Center. Can you elaborate on your commitment to keep the platform open? Jacopo Lenzi: Samsung recognizes that true, accelerated innovation cannot be driven from one source, but requires a...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, will exhibit at Internet of @ThingsExpo, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services. As the connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, a...
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P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash Inc., will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone a...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Matrix.org has been named "Silver Sponsor" of Internet of @ThingsExpo, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Matrix is an ambitious new open standard for open, distributed, real-time communication over IP. It defines a new approach for interoperable Instant Messaging and VoIP based on pragmatic HTTP APIs and WebRTC, and provides open source reference implementations to showcase and bootstrap the new standard. Our focus is on simplicity, security, and supporting the fullest feature set.
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BSQUARE is a global leader of embedded software solutions. We enable smart connected systems at the device level and beyond that millions use every day and provide actionable data solutions for the growing Internet of Things (IoT) market. We empower our world-class customers with our products, services and solutions to achieve innovation and success. For more information, visit www.bsquare.com.
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How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic • Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural style...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that SOA Software, an API management leader, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 15th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. SOA Software is a leading provider of API Management and SOA Governance products that equip business to deliver APIs and SOA together to drive their company to meet its business strategy quickly and effectively. SOA Software's technology helps businesses to accelerate their digital channels with APIs, drive partner adoption, monetize their assets, and achieve a...
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From a software development perspective IoT is about programming "things," about connecting them with each other or integrating them with existing applications. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Yakov Fain, co-founder of Farata Systems and SuranceBay, will show you how small IoT-enabled devices from multiple manufacturers can be integrated into the workflow of an enterprise application. This is a practical demo of building a framework and components in HTML/Java/Mobile technologies to serve as a platform that can integrate new devices as they become available on the market.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Utimaco will exhibit at SYS-CON's 15th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Utimaco is a leading manufacturer of hardware based security solutions that provide the root of trust to keep cryptographic keys safe, secure critical digital infrastructures and protect high value data assets. Only Utimaco delivers a general-purpose hardware security module (HSM) as a customizable platform to easily integrate into existing software solutions, embed business logic and build s...
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Connected devices are changing the way we go about our everyday life, from wearables to driverless cars, to smart grids and entire industries revolutionizing business opportunities through smart objects, capable of two-way communication. But what happens when objects are given an IP-address, and we rely on that connection, sometimes with our lives? How do we secure those vast data infrastructures and safe-keep the privacy of sensitive information? This session will outline how each and every connected device can uphold a core root of trust via a unique cryptographic signature – a "bir...
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Internet of @ThingsExpo Silicon Valley announced on Thursday its first 12 all-star speakers and sessions for its upcoming event, which will take place November 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California. @ThingsExpo, the first and largest IoT event in the world, debuted at the Javits Center in New York City in June 10-12, 2014 with over 6,000 delegates attending the conference. Among the first 12 announced world class speakers, IBM will present two highly popular IoT sessions, which will take place November 4-6, 2014 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif...
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Almost everyone sees the potential of Internet of Things but how can businesses truly unlock that potential. The key will be in the ability to discover business insight in the midst of an ocean of Big Data generated from billions of embedded devices via Systems of Discover. Businesses will also need to ensure that they can sustain that insight by leveraging the cloud for global reach, scale and elasticity.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is going to require a new way of thinking and of developing software for speed, security and innovation. This requires IT leaders to balance business as usual while anticipating for the next market and technology trends. Cloud provides the right IT asset portfolio to help today's IT leaders manage the old and prepare for the new. Today the cloud conversation is evolving from private and public to hybrid. This session will provide use cases and insights to reinforce the value of the network in helping organizations to maximize their company's cloud experience.
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How Wolves Change Rivers: What Happened When Wolves Were Re-Introduced Into Yellowstone National Park in 1995
Yellowstone National Park is on my personal To Go List. This is one of the reasons!
You might have seen this video running around the social platforms. I can't get enough of it myself.
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Marie's Dictionary
Well done, Marie!
This short documentary tells the story of Marie Wilcox, the last fluent speaker of the Wukchumni language and the dictionary she created in an effort to keep her language alive.
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It's a plastic world
Watch this! It's important.
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TED talk: Julian Treasure – How to speak so that people want to listen
Have you ever felt like you're talking, but nobody is listening? Here's Julian Treasure to help you fix that. As the sound expert demonstrates some useful vocal exercises and shares tips on how to speak with empathy, he offers his vision for a sonorous world of listening and understanding.
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Compassion for World Farming: The Secrets of Food Marketing
This is a must-see talk!
No amount of marketing makes factory farming acceptable. You can stop the spin here.
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TED Talk: Anne Curzan – What makes a word "real"?
One could argue that slang words like 'hangry,' 'defriend' and 'adorkable' fill crucial meaning gaps in the English language, even if they don't appear in the dictionary. After all, who actually decides which words make it into those vaulted pages? Language historian Anne Curzan gives a charming look at the humans behind dictionaries, and the choices they make on a constant basis.
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Balan the Blowpipe Maker
Only a few elders of Borneo's Penan tribe still know how to make their unique hunting tool, the blowpipe. Balan is the last person in his village who practices the dying craft.
This short film is an extract from the 30 minute documentary Sunset Over Selungo, which will be released online later this year.
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Pro Infirmis, a Swiss organization who helps people with disabilities, created this experiment. It's not only touching. It makes you think.
Get closer!
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Jim Carrey delivered an inspiring commencement speech to Maharishi University of Management's class of 2014.
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Homeless Homes Project
Such a lovely project!
The awesome Homeless Homes Project in Oakland gather materials from dumpsters, curbs, and commercial waste and create innovative, mobile shelters for homeless people. So not only do they recycle, they put it into fantastic use! And creative too. I love it.
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The video is made with humor to catch more people's attention on such an important topic.
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Alfred Ernest Dipper (9 November 1885, Apperley, Gloucestershire, England – 7 November 1945, Lambeth, London, England) was a cricketer who played for Gloucestershire and once for England. Dipper made his first class debut in 1908 when called into the Gloucestershire side which was a man short for the match against Kent at Tonbridge. He batted at number nine and top scored, but failed to keep a regular place in the team. He re-emerged as an opening batsman in 1911 and was then a regular in the team until 1932, when he retired. A defensive batsman in what was, until the arrival of Walter Hammond in the mid 1920s, usually a weak batting line-up, Dipper exceeded 1,000 runs in a season 15 times and went on to 2,000 five times. His full aggregate of 28,075 runs puts him 73rd on the all-time list of run-getters and he made 53 centuries. Dipper played in just one Test match for England,
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Communications • October 2, 2014
For the past several months, Speaker of the House John Boehner has traveled the country to discuss his "Five Points for Resetting America's Economic Foundation." These five points are simple and straightforward: · Address the debt. · Reform the tax code. · Fix the legal system. · Rein in excessive regulations. · Strengthen education. …Read More
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While the numerous Obamacare computer glitches, complicated applications, and security breaches have been significant setbacks to Americans, what Obamacare is doing to the economy is more than annoying – it's downright detrimental. In a Forbes' article over the Labor Day weekend, health care expert Avik Roy outlined three big reasons the economy is still weak, six years after the …Read More
Communications • July 17, 2014
By the time you read this, the graphic above may need to be updated. That's because the House continues to address the priorities of the American people. Below are four bills the House passed this week and what they mean for you: 1. H.R. 5016 – Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2015. This is the 7th …Read More
Communications • July 16, 2014
One of the government's most powerful agencies has recently proven to be one of the most incompetent and corrupt as well. That's right, we're talking about everyone's favorite – the IRS. So this week, House Republicans addressed the agency's misconduct through the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act of 2015 (H.R. 5016). Here are 10 things H.R. 5016 will do to …Read More
Policy • February 25, 2014
Fast Facts: The Regulatory Burden The estimated cost of federal regulations in the United States is $1.806 trillion annually, a figure that amounts to 11.6 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP).[1] In 2013 alone, federal regulators imposed an additional $112 billion in indirect costs to the economy.[2] In addition, the paperwork burden rose …Read More
Policy • December 4, 2013
The patent system is a vital part of our national identity, stimulating American ingenuity and enhancing our global competitiveness. Innovation is so entrenched in U.S. history that the Framers included safeguards for inventors in the Constitution. Traditionally, patent holders have asserted their patents against those who produce infringing technologies. But in recent years, abusive patent …Read More
Policy • November 20, 2013
America's recent domestic oil and shale gas revolution is largely attributable to innovations in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. These technological advances have unlocked vast domestic oil and gas reserves that were historically inaccessible. The impact of these technologies can't be overstated: they have transformed the U.S. from a nation dependent on natural gas imports …Read More
Policy • October 30, 2013
On September 20, 2013, the EPA announced proposed greenhouse gas standards for new fossil fuel-fired power plants.[1] If finalized, it will mark the first time a uniform national standard on power plant carbon dioxide emissions has been imposed. The proposed regulations create separate emissions limits for new natural gas plants and for coal fuel-fired plants.[2] …Read More
Policy • July 31, 2013
Federal regulations have an enormous impact on families, small businesses, and the overall economy, yet the costs they impose are difficult to comprehend. Costly regulations touch many aspects of our lives: the price we pay for groceries, the cars we drive, and the appliances we are allowed to use in our kitchens. As Americans continue …Read More
Policy • July 9, 2013
Policy Feature Issue: EPA Regulations under President Obama Since 2009, the Obama Administration has proposed or finalized thousands of pages of costly regulations, including many that impact the energy sector.[1] In some cases, the regulations impose costs of more than $1 billion each.[2] Collectively, their combined impact on energy costs and on the overall U.S. …Read More


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Here's a good storey from today in Oslo, Norway.
A brand new Model S parked outside the city town hall on one of the dedicated parking spaces for EVs got a parking ticket. It read "illegal parking on EV parking space". LOL! I guess the traffic warden didn't think it looked much like the "motorized raincoat" (Buddy) standing alongside it! :-))) He should maybe have gotten it when noting down the license plate number starting with "EL"...
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Was it plugged in? Where I live you must be plugged in while in an EV space. If not, you will be ticketed.
No I don't think you need to do that. You must however have this "dial" in the front windshield indicating how long you've been parked there:
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Nike 2014 Spring Air Safari Black/Sail & Team Red/Sail
The Tinker Hatfield-designed Nike Air Safari returns this spring in a duo of great colorways: black/sail and team red/sail. Both options feature mesh and suede with safari print panels on the toe box and heel. Contrasting white collars, Swooshes and soles finish the look for both pairs. You can find both now at select stockists including COUTIE.
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Matt Reyes 2013 "Wheel Talk" Fixed Freestyle | Video
Fixed-gear freestyler/filmaker, Matt Reyes, has spent the better part of 2013 riding — and shooting — on both coasts. Filmed during the course of the year in both San Francisco and New York, his latest "Wheel Talk" video promotes the sport with a bit of street riding at some of each city's best spots. The short clip was shot on the Canon 60D using Canon 18-135mm film and a Vivitar 7mm lens, and features a soundtrack courtesy of Woodkid. Watch the video above and let us know what you think.
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Jen on Third Gender Radio with Bailey Jay
Jen Richards interviewed by Bailey Jay for the podcast Third Gender Radio. Subscribe via iTunes here.
Show Notes:
- Chicago trans feminine group: No Boys Allowed
- Janet Mock and Girls Like Us
- Camille Paglia – Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
- William Irwin Thompson: The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture
- Julia Serano: Whipping Girl
- Auntie Kate
- Tobi Hill-Meyer – Doing it Again: In Depth
- Special thanks to my We Happy Trans partner Noah Alvarez!
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I just discovered Bailey and her show, and it brought me to your page. I really like what you are doing for everyone, Jen: being so positive and inclusive. It is great: full transition, partial… half… its all good…
If you need a DJ….
Jen you have a great smile,also cute dog you have there.


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October 31, 2014
A Minnesota man said he won't fight extradition to Iowa to face charges that he killed his wife in Iowa City more than 16 years ago.
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The former University of Iowa researcher is accused of killing 57-year-old Frances Bloomfield in September 1997 at the home they shared in Iowa City.
Bloomfield's Iowa attorney, Leon Spies (speez) told the newspaper that Bloomfield will plead not guilty when he is formally charged in Iowa.
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Comrades and Families,
Hello again, I know it's been a while since you've heard from anybody at the VFW. I have begun the large task of calling each member that is listed in the roster for Post 3838. I can tell you that I have made several calls already and am pleased to hear from those that I have phone numbers for. With the cell phones that people are using now with more frequency some have canceled their home phone numbers. This makes it challenging for me to contact some but hopefully in talking to those that I can, word will get out to those who I can't contact and they will let us know their new numbers and addresses. I am pleased to tell you that those who I have contacted are feeling well and appreciate the VFW and the mission of the Post. Some have strong opinions about things that have happened in the past and I appreciate the comments and the opportunity to make the future of the Post better and more able to help the Veterans of this community and the community as a whole. I do realize that the image of the Post is not as good as it could be but with the involvement of more and more members this Post and the community will benefit from the passion that our members have for service to Veterans.
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Teaching a class on the "rise of the nones" tomorrow. Found this great 2012 video of Neil deGrasse Tyson talking about his personal attitudes toward religion. I think it nicely illustrates some of the major concerns of the nones. At the very least, it illustrates the kind of things I want my students to think about. Tyson swears he's not an atheist, but an agnostic: "I don't play golf. Do non-golfers gather and strategize? Do non-skiiers have a word [like 'atheist']? … At the end of the day, I'd rather not be any category at all."
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Jason Bivins, "Religion of Fear" (2008)
Jason Bivins, Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism (2008)
Grant Wacker insists that students in his seminars learn to distinguish between what is important and what is merely interesting. Religion of Fear makes important contributions to the study of evangelicalism. At the intersection of conservative politics, evangelicalism, and American popular culture, a "religion of fear" has developed. Emerging after the 1960s, this religio-political impulse used the medium of popular culture to scare the Hell out of people—literally. The religion of fear offered readers and audiences an "interpretive template that posits demonological causes for political decline… [one that situates] readers in a historical framework and [defines] for audiences a coherent, unchanging place therein" (9). Part of Bivins's project consists of documenting the rhetorical and affective strategies of anti-rock preaching, Hell Houses, Jack Chick's cartoons, and the Left Behind novels. The creators of these works, he argues, act as savvy "technicians of identity," engaging fear and horror in specific ways to create a politically charged range of acceptable religious identities (16).
Despite its claims to fixity and stability in a declining culture, Bivins declares that the religion of fear is actually animated by two instabilities: 1) the erotics of fear and 2) the demonology within. The "erotics of fear" describes the fact that fear's discourse, though strongly condemnatory toward American culture, nonetheless displays deep fascination with what is forbidden. Evangelical teenagers compete heartily for the right to play the sexually active, unmarried couple in a Hell House play. Jack Chick's most interesting drawings show sinners writhing in pain for their wrongdoing. The final book of the Left Behind series contains about a hundred pages of Jesus unleashing blood-drenched wrath on God's enemies. In the religion of fear, forbidden evil goes on display. The "demonology within" describes the basic irony of using popular culture to condemn popular culture. The pure Christian self is constituted by its Others. You define yourself as a Christian teenager by not listening to Slayer—but this means that you know what Slayer is, that the demons behind the Slayer lyrics might grab hold of you at any moment.
But it's Bivins's approach to his subject that makes the most important contributions to the field. Far too few books explore the felt-life of evangelicalism. Emotion takes center stage in this book about political religion—"fear" isn't some clever heuristic for explaining evangelical theology or its "relation" to governmental politics, it's a feeling that certain religio-political popular culture artifacts engage and frequently try to produce in viewers, readers, and listeners. Bivins offers new ways of thinking about conservative evangelicalism: rather than an agglomeration of cleanly theological or political "movements," conservative evangelicalism emerges from this text as a messy mélange of discursive strategies, techniques of identity, body practices, products of entertainment. And Bivins doesn't shy away from criticizing this religion of fear when he thinks it warrants it. If scholars of religion abandon all claims to normativity and all forms of social critique in the name of taking our subjects "seriously," we play the conservatives' game: Bivins doesn't want to play that game, and argues that scholars should counter fear with "sober political vision" instead of reactionary disavowal or willful indifference (228). Fear thrives when democratic culture atrophies. The point is not for scholars to proceed recklessly against our subjects, but rather to suggest that we scholar-citizens have a responsibility to remain politically engaged. That responsibility doesn't disappear when we put on the mantel of scholarship. Bivins models his vision of social critique by engaging fear's political vision seriously and carefully: "fear's political vision should be contested in the name of politics itself, with the goal of a reaffirmation of a democratic process allowing for the pursuit of reasonable compromises of principled differences" (235).
Paul Gutjahr, "An American Bible"
Paul Gutjahr, An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880 (Stanford Press, 1999).
Review by A.T. Coates
Gutjahr's groundbreaking work An American Bible examines the Bible's history as an American book. That is, Gutjahr illuminates the Bible's changing role in 19th-century American print culture by focusing on its qualities qua book—especially how its changing contents and packaging changed its role in American life. While once the good book stood at the center of American print culture, by the 1880s Americans had become a people of the good books. The mass-production of cheap scriptures, proliferating "accurate" translations, ornately illustrated commoditized Bibles, "life of Jesus" adaptations, and non-biblical school textbooks dislodged the Bible from its once-dominant position. The Bible's cultural role changed as its material qualities as a book changed.
Chapter 2, which traces the history of Bible illustration, offers the most interesting arguments for students of visual or material culture. As the century progressed, publishers seemed to add more and more detailed illustrations to larger and larger Bibles. Commercial concerns mingled with sentimentalist education strategies, the Common Sense philosophical impulse to verify the Bible's stories led publishers to include maps, charts, and detailed (even fanciful) pictures that would bring interpretive insight. Publishers claimed that their illustrations helped readers interpret the Bible more accurately, which brought the convenient side effect of higher sales.
Joel Osteen, "Your Best Life Now" (2004)
Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential (Warner Faith, 2004)
Review by A.T. Coates
Osteen's Your Best Life Now! exudes positive thinking, affirming words, supernatural victory, and a can-do perspective on Christian life. Relentlessly. To a sarcastic person like me, it proved almost unbearable. Your Best Life Now is a performative text, in which the "smiling preacher" Osteen speaks affirming "words of faith" into your life in order to transform you supernaturally. The book bubbles with one-liners that a reader could easily memorize and recite as mantras: "If one dream dies, dream another dream" (85), "God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner" (191), "Sow a seed in your time of need" (259). Positive thoughts, positive attitude, and positive speech produce tangible, positive results. Written in a conversational tone (and frequently in the second person), the book leads you through the seven steps to living your best life now: 1) enlarge your vision, 2) develop a healthy self-image, 3) discover the power of your thoughts and words, 4) let go of the past, 5) find strength through adversity, 6) live to give, 7) choose to be happy.
Kate Bowler's forthcoming book, Blessed, identifies four key markers of the prosperity gospel that fit Osteen's book neatly: faith, health, wealth, and victory. Supernatural faith. Divine healing. Financial blessing. Christian victory. Using jokes, urban legends, split infinitives, and countless anecdotes about his beloved "Daddy," Osteen performs this classic prosperity message with relatively little jargon. Packaged for easy consumption and practically made for Wal-Mart's book section, Osteen's text seems more like a self-help book than a work of esoteric theology. Everyone deserves the "best life." To have it, readers need only experience the right way to think, speak, and act.
Your Best Life Now joyfully celebrates the creative agency of individual subjects. This is its most pernicious element. Though almost never mentioned by name, the social forces of race, class, and gender stand as the foils of Osteen's positive faith. If your parents were poor, and your grandparents were poor, and their grandparents were poor, that doesn't mean that you have to be poor: "God is a progressive God. He wants you to go further than your parents ever went" (24). For Osteen, multigenerational cycles of poverty are simply illusions that faith can overcome. Gendered oppression shouldn't stand in your way of positive-thinking your way into a promotion—nothing can constrain the power of God, who showers blessings on those who speak and act in faith. Osteen frequently warns against adopting a "victim mentality," writing, "There is no such thing as the wrong side of the tracks with our God" (109). Such statements strongly imply that structural racism and other forms of social oppression do not exist. The individual, as a creative agent, must choose to think positively despite circumstances and rely on God to effect change. Those who remain oppressed have only themselves to blame.
Hal Lindsey, "The Late Great Planet Earth" (1970)
This generation will probably witness the end of the world.
My used copy of Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth boasts almost 3.8 million copies of the book exist in print. It's from 1974. One figure I saw claimed that, by 1990, 28 million copies lined American shelves. Frankly, the book contains nothing but standard dispensationalist fare: biblical prophecy refers to events in the future, our current age is coming to a rapid end, Jesus will return soon to rapture the church, everyone should expect to be duped by the charismatic antichrist, Gog and Magog are on the move against Israel. If you don't spend your days and nights thinking about dispensational premillennialism, this probably seems like a bunch of gibberish—in fact, I can usually end a conversation just by uttering the word "dispensationalism"—but Lindsey offers no particularly innovative content. Clarence Larkin's Dispensational Truth, William Blackstone's Jesus is Coming, The Scofield Reference Bible, even the Left Behind novels use very similar concepts and terms. To be fair, Lindsey never describes his project as "dispensationalist." But he probably wouldn't protest the label. Like Blackstone's and Scofield's before it, this derivative dispensationalist book sold copies in the millions. Answering why could fill a whole book…
Lindsey reads contemporary global events as fulfillments of biblical prophecies. The establishment of the Israeli state and the Six Day War loom large in his text. So do the USSR and Mao's "Red China." World War III will happen soon, when the Soviet Union lands amphibious troops at Haifa. If America thinks it has a special role to play, it needs to think again: only widespread spiritual revival will save the nation from becoming a nuclear crater when the antichrist takes over as global dictator. The Vietnam War flies mostly under the radar. Lindsey's book waves the banner of anti-communism and largely avoids American domestic politics. It's much more interested in Middle Eastern and global affairs.
Lindsey makes dispensationalism culturally relevant and accessible for his contemporaries. Though he deploys the technical term "rapture," he carefully explains its meaning clearly and puts it in a chapter called "The Ultimate Trip." He presents dispensationalism as an alternative to a youth culture of experimentation with drugs and various kinds of spirituality: to those who yearned for a fulfilling, mind-expanding, and just-a-little mystical spirituality, Lindsey suggests poring over newspapers for Signs of the Times instead of dropping acid or chanting with the Hare Krishnas. After explaining why biblical prophets can predict minute details of the future (80), he discusses the "Great Tribulation," "yellow peril," and "Millennial Kingdom." He describes what Christians' "eternal bodies" are like (141). Mystical stuff, man. But this book isn't entirely at home in its culture. In ways I find particularly interesting, technology both entices and troubles Lindsey. He revels in the gory details of the nuclear war he's almost sure will come by the 80s: "Imagine cities like London, Paris, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago—obliterated! John says that the Eastern force alone will wipe out a third of the earth's population (Rev 9:15-18)" (166). Flash. It's over. The bomb fuels Lindsey's spiritual imagination.
But Lindsey also thinks we shouldn't trust technology, especially computers. The digitization of records, the computerized calculations, the credit cards, all revealed the antichrist's clever plans: "In our computerized society, where we are all 'numbered' from birth to death, it seems completely plausible that some day in the near future the numbers racket will consolidate and we will have just one number for all our business, money, and credit transactions. Leading members of the business community are now planning that all money matters will be handled electronically" (113). Though he's no Luddite, clearly Lindsey doesn't sing the praises of the digital world emerging around him. Though he relies on a network of information and images to piece together his coherent picture of our situation in these Last Days, he sees a computerized society as one waiting only for the right dictator to seize its information. Given our current love affair with networks as academics, Lindsey's book serves as a useful reminder that networks produce fissures as well as connections, apprehension as well as applause.
Surely, the end is nigh.
– Review by A.T. Coates
Joel Robbins, "Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society" (2004).
Joel Robbins, Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society (2004)
Review by A.T. Coates
Robbins's Becoming Sinners explores the concept of cultural change through the lens of morality. Based on his fieldwork with the Urapmin, a group of about 400 people in western Papua New Guinea, Robbins seeks to understand the cultural changes effected by the group's conversion to charismatic Christianity. Though he describes the Urapmin's Christian culture using the term "hybridity," Robbins wants to go a step further: rather than seeing this "hybridity" as simple mixing or blending, he seeks a more robust theoretical account of the interaction between the constituent parts of hybrid cultures. According to Robbins, when the Urapmin adopted Christianity they became inhabitants of two opposing cultural systems. Unlike in other postcolonial settings, the Urapmin's traditional bases of life (family, gardening, hunting, etc.) remained unchanged before and after conversion, as did the culture that structured them. Rather than assimilating Christianity into their existing cultural categories or having Christianity transform the structural relationships between their cultural categories, the Urapmin held their traditional culture alongside their Christian culture (7-10). But the largely individualist demands of the new Christian culture conflicted with the largely relational demands governing traditional Urapmin society. As a result, the Urapmin found themselves in a perpetual state they called "sin": the regular interactions of social life caused them to be sinful, so the Urapmin constantly had to perform Christian rituals to rid themselves of sin. Living in two cultures left the Urapmin "troubled" (314).
As it turns out, the Urapmin are not only charismatic Baptists—they are also dispensational premillennialists. This, argues Robbins, gives them particular outlooks with regard to their place in time and space. The Urapmin explain their history in episodic terms, episodes characterized by radical disjunction. Discussing the group's conversion, people like to say, "Now is God's time… Now is now, and before is before." (164). Living in constant expectation of the coming Millennium, the Urapmin experience "a sloping temporal order in which people are forever pitched forward, placing their best attention on the future and their best energy on their efforts to be ready for that future" (164). Drawing on dispensationalism, the Urapmin also conceive of space in millennial terms. They map the world according to racial categories of "black" and "white": the Urapmin see themselves and Papua New Guinea as "black" and most of the rest of the world as "white" Christian countries. "Blacks" like themselves, the Urapmin say, have very little self-control, act more immorally than whites, and are not good at getting things done. Dispensationalism plays a complex role in this racial system. The Urapmin see Christianity as a "white" religion—Robbins himself frequently heard that Jesus was white like him, and the Urapmin felt that most "white" countries were Christian. But they also see themselves as participants in a transnational Christian community. Jesus is white, but he "came for the sinners" like the Urapmin: unlike other whites, Jesus is willing to befriend and work with them despite their insufficiencies. When they attend church on Sunday, they see themselves as participants in a worldwide white community. More, the Urapmin believe they will finally be able to overcome their racial deficiencies when Jesus returns. Thus, they spend most of their lives preparing themselves for a future change.
Robbins's chapter "Contemporary Urapmin in Millennial Time and Space" should be required reading for any course on fundamentalism/dispensationalism in America. The chapter provides much insight into cultures of dispensationalism. Obviously, not everything about the Urapmin case holds for nineteenth- and twentieth-century Americans. But Robbins's anthropological approach challenges us to consider how historical American dispensational premillennialism operated at the cultural level. Robbins demands that we think about what, say, dispensationalism did to people's experiences of the present/past/future, how it fostered transnational identities, how it interacted with cultural conceptions of space, how it related to issues of race, etc. In other words, this book has the power to do what anthropologists do best: it makes strange the familiar. Robbins challenges scholars of American history to engage and theorize Christianities as cultures, to reimagine how dispensationalism works through the case of the Urapmin.
Lawrence, "Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt Against the Modern Age" (1989)
Bruce Lawrence, Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt Against the Modern Age (1989)
Review by A.T. Coates
Lawrence's Defenders of God argues fundamentalism needs to be understood comparatively. Writing at a time when many wanted to proclaim the death of fundamentalism, Lawrence insisted that fundamentalism was alive and well around the world. For Lawrence, fundamentalism is a religious ideology, one modern to the core. He writes, "Fundamentalists do not deny or disregard modernity; they protest as moderns against the heresies of the modern age" (ix). As he says over and over again, fundamentalists are moderns—but not modernists. Emerging from the context of modernity, they protest against the totalizing ideology of modernism, declaring that some things can't be systematized, counted, or subsumed under the authority of the nation-state. They love modern technology, but hate the ideological claim that science can unlock all truth about the world. With painstaking precision, Lawrence spells out precisely what he thinks modernity is, what it means for fundamentalism to be a religious ideology, and how his comparative categories yield insight into movements as diverse as Protestant fundamentalism, Khomeini's Iran, and the Haredim in Israel.
In its day, Lawrence's text shifted the register of scholarly conversations about fundamentalism. He insists that modernity provides the essential ingredient for the emergence of fundamentalism. Without modernity, fundamentalism cannot exist. This observation still has the potential to yield important insight. As the lively AAR panels about John Modern's Secularism in Antebellum America and Jeremy Stolow's edited volume Deus in Machina revealed, we still have a lot to learn about the blurred edges and spaces between modernity, technology, consumption, religion.
Defenders is a book of a particular generation. The preface and introduction would still work in an undergraduate classroom setting, but much of the book proceeds meticulously through the histories of arguments on the use of particular categories: so-and-so said this about ideology, which was rebutted by someone else who said such-and-such, to which still another replied with something else, etc. In defending its comparative perspective against the prevailing attitudes of its day, the book focuses quite heavily on the fundamentalist protest against modernity. Wanting to avoid the positive theological definition of Sandeen (fundamentalism is millenarianism), it carefully lays out a case for the kind of modern protest against modernism that fundamentalism enacts. But in this scheme, much like in Marty's fundamentalism project, fundamentalism remains locked in oppositionalism. Anti-modernism makes the "religious ideologies" of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim fundamentalism comparable. Family resemblances unite fundamentalisms in their opposition to modernism. Fundamentalists are 1. "advocates of a pure minority viewpoint against a sullied majority;" 2. fundamentalists are "oppositiona;" 3. fundamentalists are almost always secondary-level male elites who appeal to the unmediated authority of scripture; 4. fundamentalists are speakers of a specialized language that unites them against outsiders, 5. fundamentalists have "no ideological precursors," emerging only as ideological opponents of modernism, whenever it happens to appear in a particular context (100-101).
Kathryn Lofton, "Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon" (2011)
Kathryn Lofton, Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon (2011) by A.T. Coates
Katie Lofton's Oprah: Gospel of an Icon is one of the most exciting recent works in American religious history. As I said of the "secularism" in John Modern's Secularism in Antebellum America, I see this book as far more than just a text "about" Oprah. Though it certainly brings insight into its subject, it presents something much more important: Lofton, along with a cohort of young scholars, has inaugurated a new way of doing scholarship in this discipline. The book doesn't just drape theory over its subject, but advances new theoretical models for the study of culture/religion. It doesn't stand in admiration of the creative agency of its subject, but critiques a politics and theory that would celebrate the agentive subject. It's difficult to avoid performing this book while reviewing it. Lofton's book reminds me of the babysitter I had who used to come over wearing a Kurt Cobain t-shirt, ripped jeans, and redolent of cigarettes: idiosyncratic and confident, casually nonconformist, supremely knowledgeable and world wise, and way, way cooler than me…
This book tears down the wall between religion and culture. Oprah is a celebrity and an icon, a brand and a philosophy, a CEO and spiritual leader. She has a weight problem and an anxious bench, a multimedia corporate empire and a plan of salvation. By discerning the deep religious roots of Oprah's language, rituals, and practices, Lofton tells a much bigger story about the relationship between religion and culture in modern America. In Oprah's realm, consumption transforms—Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jew, or none besides, if you buy the dress that flatters your figure and feel fabulous about yourself, you practice Oprah's spirituality. If you come up to the couch and share your awakening story—whether you realize that you're too fat, that you have been abused, that you're gay, that you need a new hairstyle—you can transform, receive the gifts of O, and begin to experience your best life, now. Writes Lofton, "Oprah… emerges as the exemplar of… the combined categorical freight of religion, spirituality, commodity, and corporatism. To study modern religion—to study the modern American economy—requires thinking of these categories as conjoined, and not distinct" (10). In this supposedly secular modern age, Oprah reveals just how blurry the boundaries between religious freedom and consumer choice have always been.
In analytical terms, Oprah: Gospel of an Icon doesn't always satisfy. Though Lofton offers an extended meditation on the iconic O of Oprah's empire, we hear very little about what an icon might be, what makes this an icon and not that, how this O becomes special. On a similar analytic note, some of the deep religious resonances Lofton identifies in Oprah don't sit easy with me: why, for example, should readers believe that Oprah's Book Club shares more with the Chautauqua circuit than with, say, a Christian Science reading room? Why, as a revival preacher, is she more Finney than Moody? The only halfway satisfying answer I've come up with is that this book says so, I believe it, that's good enough for me, and this book is too important to be bogged down with such quibbling. Often, I got the feeling that I was being swept along by this book and just had to accept its unusual sources and claims for the sake of its larger argument. Lofton cites omnivorously, from Jorge-Luis Borges to Candy Gunther Brown, from David Chidester to a University of Chicago BD thesis from 1922. In terms of sources and historical precedents, the book just seems a little too selective, its tone just a little too dynamic and not quite precise enough.
But this book's significance far outweighs my petty objections. Like the babysitter who taught me what grunge was, it puts something new on our scholarly horizons. Lofton argues that we don't need to fawn over our subjects to take them "seriously." She insists that we stop upholding the imaginary divide between religion and culture. She demonstrates that our critical posture and practical agnosticism do not mean we have to remain politically disengaged, merely observing the American religious landscape with wonder. She dares to suggest that religious studies has something important to teach others about what it means to live in a modern, consumerist, "secular" age.


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Lavender Ice Cream--Mashti Malone's
- George Jul 4, 2006 02:43 AM
I made my way to Mashti Malone's on LaBrea the other day. They don't always have it--maybe just in summer?--but they had made up an amount of lavender ice cream, and had even pre-packed some pints in the freezer section.
I recommend it!
I had it two weekends ago. I thought it was delicious. I also really liked the black cherry ice cream. If anyone hasn't been there, I highly recommend it myself. It's a truely unique place that has really creative and novel ice creams.
lavender ice cream!! thanks for the tip, will definitely have to try it. i had the lavender lemon bar from surfas, and that was definitely interesting. i'm not sure i would recommend it.
Two months ago, my finacee promised to make me a home baked ultrea chocolate chip cookie in a pizza pan mounded with Mashti's ginger rosewater (and possibly a little mango on the side.)
Next time you go, try a mashti, or one of the yummy banana splits!
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Yes, they got creamy rosewater, non-dairy rosewater, and rosewater ice.
Haven't tried the lavender, will have to--my fave remains the pomegranate, when they have it.
Thanks for the website. I went back tonight, the 4th of July. They still have lavender.
Bought another pint. Hand-packed this time: seemed better than the one out of the freezer, which was pretty great to begin with. I'm glad all you hounds haven't bumrushed MM's to eat all the lavender, so I can get some more!
Also picked up a pint of the sour cherry faludeh.
Homeless guy started yelling at the guys working: "I DIDN'T KNOW YOU MADE SHAKES! SINCE WHEN DO YOU MAKE SHAKES!"
They make shakes.
re: slacker
Just checked their website--they now have a location in Glendale!
re: slacker
The Glendale location is not nearly as good -- they have issues with the transport, and sometimes issues with the freezers in the shop, and so it ends up being melted and refrozen -- which is no good.
I can't recommend the Glendale branch -- it's worth the trip to La Brea for me.
I've also bought rosewater saffron ice cream (not Mastro's brand) at Bristol Farms. And, I've had rose gelato from Ciao Bella.
The new glelato place on Sunset in Silver Lake had a lavender/rose gelato last week that was divine (if Mashti's has run out).


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Could Microsoft upgrade the Xbox One's hardware to fix the PS4 performance gap? August 5, 2014 at 12:05 pm
As you are well aware, there is a sizable gap between the hardware specifications of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. But who says this will always be the case? It's not unusual for a console to be tweaked or upgraded multiple times throughout its lifetime as new (cheaper) hardware becomes available. Because both consoles use fairly standard PC hardware, could Sony or Microsoft upgrade their consoles to close (or widen) the current performance gap?
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The vegetable kind! You can never really accuse someone of being obsessive over their garden in a negative way if it produces something they can eat. That is my theory. Plus any garden that yields fruit, herbs, vegetables etc. is technically impressive in its own right. If you want to get really fancy you can try things like companion planting to improve the longevity of plants and as a natural form of pest control. Probably don't buy things like "bulbs" and steer clear of petunias.
This sounds like a problem that is going to require some conscious effort. Clearly you've got some level of awareness of what's going on, which is GREAT, it means you've noticed this pattern and it will be much easier to try and curb the habit. It sounds like the first thing you need to do is love yourself. Physically. Metaphysically. Emotionally. Secondly you need to realise that everyone you meet will have flaws and part of caring about someone is accepting this. These are quite difficult things to do and will not happen overnight. (except Julia, she has no flaws. She is perfect and beautiful like an angel.) [Yep, relationships between two perfect people are pretty easy]