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Posted in Manga Reviews on May 4, 2009 by Johannaby Hitoshi Iwaaki; adapted by Andrew Cunningham
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I think that's the creepiest cover yet for this series. I'm probably reading too much into it seeing the giant eyeball as symbolic of the opening scene, in which Shinichi is forced into a kind of staring contest.
The police have captured a serial killer who's able to detect parasites, and they've sent Shinichi against him because they suspect the boy of being inhuman. As the first chapter makes very clear, the killer is disgusting in what he's done to his victims. He attributes his ability to the way "animals… know if you're one of them or not", but he's got it backwards. He thinks he knows humans and so can tell when something's not — but really, he's a monster, and so he can recognize his own kind.
The killer's atrocities, so similar to those of the parasites, are contrasted with the ways they have protected Shinichi. In other words, this particular human detector would gladly kill those of his kind, while the aliens take care of someone not their own.
I'm really impressed how effective these scenes of people sitting at a table staring at each other are. Hitoshi Iwaaki varies the expressions in detail and uses illustrated flashbacks to keep the pages visually interesting … and that diversity makes the silent head shots all the more powerful when they do occur.
The majority of this volume follows an army unit as they seek to root out a squad of parasites who have infested a town hall. With so many humans also occupying the office building, they must correctly identify and dispose of the monsters while rescuing the people without causing panic. It's a big, visual sequence, with a combination of tactics, action, and suspense. The balance of power swings back and forth several times as each side tries to outwit the other, with violence and death spiraling out of control.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter much to the reader, because it's just setup to make the bad guy seem like an immense threat. That way, we really fear for Shinichi's future; he's the one we care about, since we've been living with his worries and changes from the beginning. In that way, we're not that different from the parasites — only certain deaths matter to us.
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The Ultimate Jewish Staycation
For the first time in years, my husband and I have chosen to take a staycation. Our parents and siblings live on the East Coast, so we generally spend our vacation time shuttling back and forth between cities in the Northeast, lugging over-packed suitcases on an off planes and in and out of rental cars, toting around tired children, strollers, and car-seats. You get the picture. Although I love the opportunity to see family and friends and feel deeply grateful that I have loved ones to visit, this winter we decided we just couldn't take another big trip. We needed to stay back and regroup in our own space, in our own home here in Austin, TX.
There's no school, so the kids can stay up late and sleep in. (And, thankfully, I have two young children who love to sleep in, so that means mom gets to sleep in too.) Although my husband and I are trying to get some things done around the house, nobody is "on the clock," so to speak. We are enjoying being together and sharing time and space with one another — playing and singing together as a family, socializing with friends, and lingering in each other's presence. We are not focused on homework, after school activities, work obligations, and what "has to get done," but instead embracing our essential selves. This week is about appreciating "who we are" and not "what we are doing." This evening I realized that this staycation feels a lot like Shabbat.
Shabbat happens every week. It isn't a vacation, because the goal isn't to escape to another destination. Quite the opposite. It's a staycation — an opportunity to be present, right here, right now. On Shabbat we have the opportunity to set aside our alarm clocks and our tight schedules, connecting instead with the people in our lives whom we cherish most. It is, as Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel said, "an island in time" — an opening to reacquaint ourselves with who we truly are, to nourish our minds and our souls.
In just a few hours, the sun will set and Shabbat will be upon us. The term "staycation" is rather new, but the staycation of the Jewish people — aka Shabbat — is over 3,000 years old. There is a reason we've kept this tradition around. It works. Our souls need this seventh day of rejuvenation. As January approaches and my family returns to our regular, beloved activities, I am grateful to know that another staycation is always less than a week away.
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Getting Our B'nei Mitzvah to Understand (and Love) Torah Study
Helping 13-year-olds understand a 3,000-year-old text is challenging, to say the least.
After all, trying to glean lessons from the Torah for 21st-century America is hard enough, even if you have some background in text study. So when you have only 13 years of life experience, go to religious school for only two hours twice per week, and are still learning the skills you need to write and speak effectively, it's even harder.
Yet as our kids become b'nei mitzvah and create their d'var torah – the teaching they deliver about the weekly Torah portion on that Shabbat morning — we often miss a great opportunity. Not only can we help them understand the content of that particular Torah portion, we can also help them appreciate the process by which we can engage with serious Torah study.
In other words, we have a golden opportunity to use the "what" as a vehicle to develop excitement around the "how."
Formulating Good Questions
At Temple Beth El, we wanted to help our students truly embrace the process of Torah study. So to prepare our b'nei mitzvah, we decided to experiment with the "Question Formulation Technique" (QFT), designed by Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana and outlined in their outstanding book Make Just One Change.
The purpose of the QFT is to shift how learning occurs: rather than having students respond to questions proposed by the teacher, the students themselves develop the questions that most effectively direct their own learning. After all, if the students are the ones posing the questions, then they will naturally develop a deeper level of ownership over their own learning.
The rules are simple — the teacher begins with a prompt that can lead to multiple lines of inquiry. For example, the teacher might write on the board something like, "Religion does more good than harm," or "A synagogue should be a sacred and spiritual community."
Then, in small groups, learners need to come up with as many questions about that prompt as they can. Their instructions are:
• Ask as many questions as you can.
• Do not stop to discuss, judge, or answer the questions.
• Write down every question exactly as it is stated.
• Change any statement into a question.
After creating their long list of questions, the learners then focus on the handful that speak to them the most — and so that's the direction where the research, the discussion or the conversation goes. And so since the learners create their questions, and the learners then choose the ones that excite them the most, the paradigm shifts radically: instead of the teacher imparting information from the top down, the students are creating their learning from the bottom up.
Sacred Questions about Sacred Texts
In Judaism, questioning has always been a sacred activity. Throughout Jewish history, when we study Torah, we are asking questions like, "What might this verse mean? How can we read it in a new way? What other allusions does it have?" So applying the QFT was a natural way to help our b'nei mitzvah develop their d'var torah.
As part of our family education program, eight families came together about four months before their children become b'nei mitzvah. And we began by having them write a collective d'var torah, in order to help them understand the process. We focused on a passage from Deuteronomy 8: "You may say to yourself, 'My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.' But remember Adonai your God, for it is God who gives you the ability to produce wealth…" (v. 17-18).
First, we unpacked what this meant — that we are not the sole producers of our success, but that we need to have a level of humility and gratitude if we have been blessed with wealth. The text doesn't say, "wealth is bad," but rather, "if you are wealthy, make sure you remember the true source of that wealth."
I then wrote up four words on the board: "Gratitude for material things." And then I told them to write down as many questions as they could about that idea, that they weren't allowed to answer or discuss the questions, to write down every question exactly as it was stated, and to change any statement into a question. And then I simply walked around eavesdropping on the conversations.
Almost instantly, the families created a flood of questions. In less than five minutes, they had come up with over twenty different questions: "What's the difference between what we want and what we need?" "How do we show gratitude?" "If we show gratitude, does it have to be towards God?" "What's the difference between material and non-material things?" "What happens if you don't show gratitude?" "If you lost all your material things, would you still show gratitude?"
The energy was palpable, as everyone was considering what it really meant to "show gratitude for material things." After a short discussion, we decided to go in depth about how gratitude acts as a check on entitlement — an issue that is as relevant today as it was 3,000 years ago. We studied commentary, explored interpretations and shared our own opinions. And most crucially, the students now had a process to apply to the study of Torah, discovering ways to find meaning from the text.
So now, it was time to have them use this process on their own Torah portion.
They began by focusing on their specific verses that they would be reading, and came up with an eight-word description of the verses' gist — "the special clothes Aaron wore," "the detailed instructions for building the tabernacle," "the laws of keeping kosher." As two to three families joined together as a small group, each student's summary acted as a prompt for creating a list of questions. After hearing and creating many, many possible questions, the bar or bat mitzvah student then chose the one question they would be most excited to research.
We then placed copies of Torah commentaries (The Torah: A Modern Commentary and The Torah: A Women's Commentary) for all the families and said, "Take a look — see if you can find responses to your questions. What have other scholars had to say about what you're wondering about?" For the next thirty minutes, families were poring over texts, excitedly yelling, "Oh! I found something!", and began crafting their own thoughts. They proudly shared with me their ideas, and were so excited about what they themselves had created.
It was simply remarkable. Afterwards, the parents and the students shared how much they loved learning as a family, how much they enjoyed researching commentary on the Torah portion, and how smart and successful they felt as they drew lessons from the Torah. Not only did the quality of the divrei torah improve dramatically, but the students had clearly gained a new set of skills they could apply to study a whole range of texts, and perhaps most importantly, truly owned their learning process.
Building Skills for Life-Long Learning
Too often, preparing students to become bar or bat mitzvah feels like "studying for the test." And as anyone who has ever "studied for the test" knows, the day after the test, all the information goes in one ear and out the other.
Instead, becoming bar or bat mitzvah should truly be about making a transition — namely, from being a child in the Jewish community to becoming an adult. And so as our 13-year-olds grow and develop, and as we celebrate their entrance into the Jewish community, we have an opportunity and a responsibility to teach them skills for life-long learning.
What are those skills? To be able to connect the present to the past and to the future. To be able to add their voice to a Jewish conversation that is 3,000 years old. And most of all, to be able to formulate good questions, since after all, what we learn is simply defined by the questions we ask.
So let's help our students learn how to ask good ones.
(This post also appeared on Sinai and Synapses.)
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What 'All-American Muslim' can teach our Jewish teens
Working with Jewish teenagers, I've seen it demonstrated that one very effective way to get them thinking deeply about their identity and the role that their religious values, beliefs and practices play in their daily lives, is to engage them in a comparative religion class. Whenever we begin such a course together, we always start by looking at the various reasons that are often heard for studying other religions. For example:
- To learn about another religion and come to better understand it.
- To explore the similarities and differences between our faith and the faith of others.
- To find common ground and, through understanding, build stronger relationships with people of other faiths.
All of these reasons are true, but the one that I find to be most true in terms of actual impact over a relatively short period of time is that we come to better understand and know ourselves.
And so, during this year's course that I teach in our local Hebrew high school program one night a week, we recently came to end of our 4 week introduction to Islam. During this same period of time, the incredibly well-crafted TLC TV show, 'All-American Muslim' has been airing. A number of the students have been watching it, and it has provided not only a wonderful window into the lives of a diverse group of Muslims living in Dearborn, Michigan but, as we reflect on how questions of practice, observance, gender roles, interfaith relations, conversion, childbirth, and more, are part of the discourse of the families portrayed in the show, so the Jewish teens that I work with have found many of these topics to offer a powerful lens to look at their own lives and the diversity to be found in the Jewish community.
Our mini-unit culminated with a visit from a mother and daughter who live locally, to engage in a conversation about their own journey of faith. Mom is from Puerto Rico, and converted from Catholicism to Islam in 2000. Her daughter, raised as a Muslim, shared her own interfaith experiences with members of her family, the multiple identities of being both Muslim and Puerto Rican, exchanges she has had with students at school who understand or do not understand the co-existence of these identities, and the personal spiritual path she walks as she navigates life as an American teenager and a practicing Muslim.
While my students had many questions for our guests, our guests in turn had questions for our students. Why don't your names sound Jewish? What is a Hebrew name and how is it used? Why is it that we say our culture is Puerto Rican and our religion is Islam, but being Jewish is both culture and religion? How do you deal with explaining Jewish holidays and taking holy days off school?
I sat back and listened to my own students provide incredibly articulate answers to these questions, even as they were thinking out loud and learning about the kinds of questions that those who see us as 'other' might ask; things that we might take for granted but yet cause us to reflect deeply on who we are and how we live our faith when we are asked the questions. In a brief 45 minutes, I saw my students articulate aspects of the meaning of their faith and identity in a way that two years of preparation for a bar or bat mitzvah could not achieve in the same way. At the end of our class, our guests joined us for the mid-evening break, to enjoy latkes and apple sauce with our students.
I am well aware that there has been a vicious campaign attacking 'All-American Muslim' in recent weeks. I wish those who attack from a place of ignorance and fear could have been present in my classroom last week. Our exposure to and interactions with each other strengthen the bonds between us, and strengthen our own individual sense of identity and faith.
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Will the Real Chanukah Hero Please Stand Up?
As the eight days of Chanukah wind down, I am thinking of a question I posed as the festival began – who is the real hero of the story? When I asked this question of a class at the synagogue, I was not surprised at the first response: the oil. We then had a spirited discussion about the other possible heroes and realized we didn't have a clear-cut conclusion.
Now, a week later, I realize why.
First, let's talk about the oil. How could the oil be a hero? I admit to frustration for the way this story is told and passed from one generation to the next. With such a powerful story of Jewish survival, resting on guts and smarts and passionate commitment to the Jewish people, the watered-down version of the story that leaves out the essential message is more than a disappointment. It is a huge missed opportunity to reinvigorate pride and commitment to covenantal Judaism and the Jewish people.
Then there is the obvious second choice for the hero: Judah Maccabee and his band of warriors who fought valiantly to defeat an oppressive tyrant who threatened Jewish sovereignty in the land of our ancestors, and crushed Jewish learning and devotion during a time of confusion and change. "The Maccabees", as they came to be known, saved Torah and the Jewish people. While this heroism inspires our generation, it still does not define us. Jews outside of Israel do not take up arms to defend the right to be Jews. And we pray for a time when Jews in Israel no longer need to do so as well.
There are the mythic heroes, not as often recalled. Hannah and her seven sons, a story of a mother who witnesses the martyrdom of her sons one after the other until her own death, has been an inspiring story for generations of Jews who were disempowered and persecuted, sometimes facing martyrdom themselves. Given the choice between eating pork/worshipping idols or death, Hannah's family gives their lives rather than giving in. Visiting a typical "Jewish deli/kosher style" restaurant (as is common in Northern New Jersey) that boasts matzah ball soup alongside bacon and eggs, it seems clear that few Jews are motivated by Hannah's sons' passion for keeping the commandments as such. Nor are American Jews afraid that we must be prepared to give our lives to save Judaism itself.
Then there is the mythic Judith of the extra-biblical Apocrypha, who single-handedly saves the Jewish community by seducing and then beheading the general Holefernes, whose army is threatening the Jewish community. Judith's story is great fodder for feminists at this time of year, the counterpoint to Judah Maccabee, and indeed an inspiring heroine. But with the memory of physical threat to Jewish survival fading for younger Jews, Judith's courageous story (though a bit barbaric) is relegated to an interesting past with little connection to the present.
For American Jews, a new model is needed. Who is our hero?
In North American today, the hero of Chanukah is the person who raises Jewish children in a secular world and teaches them to love and cherish the blessing of being a member of the Jewish people. This hero uses the American blessing of individual empowerment to better the Jewish experience for their family and for all Jews. Embracing both the American and the Jewish civilizations in which they live, this hero teaches their children to recognize and honor the integrity of Jewish distinctiveness. This hero appreciates and honors the value of other religious traditions and people of faith, but cherishes the primacy of their Jewish identity. This hero demonstrates love for Jewish wisdom and ideals, culture and customs, by creatively, lovingly, energetically, and thoughtfully infusing contemporary Judaism into their home.
This is our new Chanukah hero, fighting against the forces of assimilation by embracing and shaping Judaism for themselves and the next generation. As I look around at my community, I see many Chanukah heroes. And that is the miracle of Chanukah.
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Bringing the Light
The schools of Hillel and Shammai disagree (surprise!) about the way Chanukah candles are to be lit. Are we to light one candle the first night and then add one each day, or are we to begin with eight candles, and subtract one each day?
The Shammaite approach is understood by later interpreters (BT Shabbat 21b) this way: Chanukah is a reflection of Sukkot, and by starting with eight candles on the first night, and then subtracting one candle each night, we mirror way in which the bulls were sacrificed during the fall harvest festival. The approach also has the advantage of more accurately reminding us of the legend of that little cruse of oil whose light lingered far longer than expected.
And yet, the approach of the Hillelites was accepted. We began lighting our chanukiyot last Tuesday night with one light, and will conclude this evening with eight. The rationale: "in matters of holiness, we ascend rather than descending." Our eight nights of celebration have seen the light grow brighter and brighter, and tonight all of the candles will be lit.
There's an optimism inherent in the light that grows stronger each day, and on the last few nights of the holiday it is as if the very heavens rise to meet our efforts at adding light to the world. The darkest, longest nights of the year are the mostly moonless nights near the end of the month of Kislev, always near the Winter Solstice. These are the first days of Chanukah. As Chanukah ends, a new moon appears in the western sky at sunset, a little brighter and for a little bit longer on each of the last nights of the holiday. With solstice behind us (at least in those years when Chanukah "comes late"), the nights grow shorter; the waxing moon means they grow brighter, too.
Jews in the northeastern states (where the preponderance of US chanukiyot will be lit) may have to take it on faith this year. But those of us in the rest of the country stand a good chance to see the moon of Kislev in the western sky at lighting time. Let's take a moment — perhaps just after the candles have guttered — to stand in the light of that waxing moon. As this year's lighting comes to an end, let's recommit ourselves to the ascent. May we bring light.
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The Message of Chanukah
Hanukkah has been for as long as I can remember one of my favorite Jewish holidays. Throughout my life different aspects of the holiday celebration stood out to me. When I was a child I loved playing dreidel and getting Chanukah gelt (tin foil wrapped chocolate coins) and singing Chanukah songs with my family. As time went on I was mesmerized by the miraculous story of the oil that lasted eight nights instead of only one and as a teenager I thought it was so cool that there was a holiday that celebrated Jewish military might and victory as a bright light on a rather depressing and tragic timeline of Jewish history. During the past few years I have begun to appreciate Chanukah for yet another element that I believe plays a crucial role in today's society.
Oxford University Press published earlier this year a remarkable book authored by Dr. Christian Smith of the University of Notre Dame entitled Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood. The book is the result of an in-depth study done of 230 emerging adults (ages 18-23) from a broad array of cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. The research gives us a glimpse into the contemporary value system that young adults are embracing and calling their own. It is one marked by incredible display of moral individualism and an equally serious inclination towards moral relativism. One quote from an interview recorded in the book succinctly demonstrates this phenomenon. The interviewee is discussing the morality of slavery and comments:
"Who am I judge? I mean back then, if that's what you believed [that slavery is acceptable] and that's what happened, you know that's your right, if you thought it was right at the time. I wasn't alive then, so I can't really pas judgment on it, though in today's world I would think it'd be utterly ridiculous, like I wouldn't agree with it. But, like I said, it's society, it changes."
- Lost in Transition, pp. 27-28
It is within this cultural milieu that Chanukah enters and makes a remarkable statement: There are things in life that are so important that you have to be willing to stake your life on them. The first step is to discover what are those things in your life that are inviolable. Chanukah celebrates the miracle of the oil and it is a time for family gathering and dreidel games and chocolate gelt but even more than all that it is an annual reminder to first discover and then fortify the things we hold so truly dear and precious, that define us as who we are down to the very deepest level of our being.
Dr. Jon D. Levenson of Harvard Divinity School recently published an article in the Wall Street Journal which poignantly made this point. He wrote the following:
"But as the story of the martyrs shows, the victory was also associated with the heroic dedication of the Jewish traditionalists of the time to their God and his Torah. If Hanukkah celebrates freedom, it is a freedom to be bound to something higher than freedom itself."
We can and must celebrate our generation's openness to new ideas and genuine respect for the different viewpoints and perspectives that our society, in the words of Professor Diana L. Eck, acting like an exquisite jazz composition brings forward and yet we also must affirm our core identities and be able to civilly assert our unique perspectives into the public square. We can draw on the narrative of Chanukah to strengthen us in this endeavor and by so doing be able to be both compassionate listeners and appreciators of the perspectives of others and articulate and passionate advocates for our own unique values, viewpoints and perspectives.
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A Maccabeats Miracle
Last Chanukah the world was introduced to the Maccabeats with their runaway hit "Candlelight." This year another song, "Miracles," has entered the YouTube universe.
But it wasn't the song or their new video that drew me in, but their fundraising efforts on behalf of the Gift of Life Foundation through the website www.MakeSomeMiracles.com.
The Maccabeats are inviting donations of ten thousand dollars a day for each day of Chanukah in the hope of securing much needed funds for Gift of Life, a bone marrow registry organization.
With a personal video narrated by Mayim Bialik and each of the members of the Maccabeats, their call is honest and sincere. As of this writing they have already raised $22,000!
I clicked on the donation button. Suddenly, I was involved in making a miracle for Chanukah — not just receiving an ancient one. The miracle that the Maccabeats are giving light to is a miracle that keeps on giving life and hope to people with cancer beyond this holiday season.
So can we make some miracles?
Many interpretations suggest that the miracle of Chanukah was that we didn't give up even when we had no chance of winning against the Greek/Syrians. In spite of the powerful forces that encourage our continued assimilation or disappearance we have survived and adapted to the modern world in which we live in as Jews. We live precariously on the edge while we persevere through a revolving door of constant change. The miracle of the Maccabeats is the miracle of our people.
We have come a long way from the Adam Sandler's Chanukah song from "Saturday Night Live" in 1994 which centered on the theme of Jewish children feeling alienated during the Christmas season, and Sandler's listing of Jewish celebrities as a way of sympathizing with their situation.
With the Maccabeats, the traditional and the contemporary merge to create a blend of Judaism and Jewish music that continues to define our communal confidence with viral velocity.
We revel in religious freedom in America. A Yeshiva University a cappella group has reached beyond their ivory tower borders to educate and entertain. We all received the instant messaging. Again, history has shown us, that we are the miracle of Chanukah!
Yes, we can make modern miracles. Click and contribute to a new miracle this Chanukah 5772!
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The Nuts and Bolts of Peace with Iran
"Even if the messiah tarries, nonetheless, I believe and wait for him, but peace with Iran? Impossible." When I asked a group of twenty well educated religious Jewish adults the question, "Can you imagine Iran and Israel making peace," their unanimous answer was, "No." Can you imagine peace in the Middle East in your lifetime? Call me crazy, but I can. What can I say, I'm a rabbi, I'm all about faith. I asked the group about Iran because they are largely seen as the most power negative actor in the region (by no means the only one, just the most troublesome). What to do about Iran? Like our congress, I have no idea, still, I believe we will eventually find peace.
Recently, the US Congress considered an increased oil embargo of Iranian oil, to teach them a lesson, to isolate them even further. Even as the Senate voted 100 to 0 to freeze the assets of Iranian Central Bank, they decided against an oil embargo against them. Why? Because even if the intension was to hurt Tehran, the result could very well be a rise in oil prices which actually helps Iranians instead. How to navigate around such a dangerous, crazy, and powerful foe? Again, I have no idea.
So why be hopeful? Again, I am a rabbi, I have a strong proclivity toward faith in a better future. But beyond that, there is a little known secret that keeps me going – pistachios. Israel and Iran have a long history together. I live in Los Angeles, with a large and proud Farsi community. The Tehrangelinos that I know, both Jewish and non-Jewish, religiously observant and not, all take great pride in the the Purim story. The story of Esther and Mordechai draws parallels, if not direct connection to, King Cyrus allowing the Jews back to Israel, and to rebuild the Temple. There is a connection. In fact, there is a tradition that there is a tunnel from Hamedan, Iran, the site of the Persian claimed
tomb of Esther and Mordechai, all the way to Israel (some claim their burial site to be in a forrest near Safed, Israel). Before the Revolution, and into the early 1980's most of Iran's weapons were American sold via the Israelis. See, we can play nice together (see Iran-Contra). Have the Israelis broken ties with Iran? They'd have to be nuts, and they are, for pistachios (In fact, there is really fun rumor that the payment for some of the arms were transfered via cheap pistachios). According to an LA Times article, Israel has the largest per-capita pistachio consumption rate in the world. And their greatest supplier? Via third parties, Iran.
Do I really think that Middle Eastern Peace can be settled over nuts? Not really. But here is what I take from the lesson: Be it oil, or pistachios, or major arms deals, or even the even more potent concept so desperately sought by Iran's majority of young people, freedom – no amount of Government intervention can shut down the back doors to what what people really want. It can take time, it can be difficult, but if it's not impossible, well, that makes it possible. My concern is that we suffer from a lack of hope. Hope in a human future which is greater than today is perhaps the greatest by-product of a religious outlook on life.
The inability for religiously minded people to believe that there can be peace in the Middle East is to fly in the face of the great Prophets of Israel, and even for the non-religious, it is a stance so defeatist that it is no wonder there is such apathy around the cause of peace. Religious or not, faithful or pragmatic, there can be no progress without the idea of hope. That idea does not reside only with the Iranians, or the Israelis, or the Senate, or any single person. Hope is of the mind and of the soul. I am not so foolish as to imagine that just believing will make peace come (I've clicked the heels of my ruby slippers and nothing, so, It's not like that route hasn't been tried). I understand it takes work. My contention is with a mindset that says "we have to accept things the way they are." A lack of hope is a poison.
To my mind, it helps accounts for the epidemic of depression and loneliness that we have become accustomed to in the fast paced age of the 21st century. Regardless of one's religion, regardless or one's religious observance of his or her religion, regardless if one even has a religion or not, I believe that hope, a move from darkness to light, is always possible. Ultimately speaking, faith and hope are the enduring purposes of Hanukkah, without a little bit of light, on future that we can only just imagine, we will sink into darkness.
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What is Hanukah?
"What is Hanukah?" the Talmud asks and typically each year at this time we are reminded by a variety of writers what the "true" meaning of Hanukah is. From the pages of the Wall Street Journal to numerous websites, scholars, rabbis, educators, and the "man (sic) on the street" offer their take on the nature of Hanukah. To be clear, many of these pieces are quite engaging and informative and this year I have certainly profited from their insights.
It is in this vein, I want to share an approach of Rabbi Isaac Hutner obm. In one of his teachings R. Hutner suggests that the lasting impact of Greece on Israel was the development of machloket-differences of opinion as to the practice of Torah. The Greeks, through their decrees, caused Torah to be forgotten and it was this forgetting that created differences of opinions as to what the correct practice was and should be. It was the war with the Greeks and their defeat at the time of Hanukah that created the "war over Torah", the sometimes acrimonious debates in which rabbis and sages engage in order to recover what was lost during the persecutions by the Greeks . The legacy of Greece is the legacy of the darkness caused by the accurate tradition of Torah being lost. However, this legacy of darkness and forgetting is compensated by the recovery project of the sages, the "war over Torah" which increased the knowledge of Torah itself. Debate led to new understandings and insights. Even the rejected positions had to be justified and explained. The legacy of Hanukah is the increased light of knowledge of Torah overcoming the darkness of the forgotten Torah. It was the forgetting caused by the Greeks that allowed Torah to expand exponentially in its scope and knowledge.
This rather inadequate summary of my reading of R. Hutner's teaching I hope will lead the reader to explore it in depth in the original. To be sure not all agree with R Hutner's understanding of the origin of machloket- differences of opinion. In the context of his teaching I do want to reflect on "war over Torah". While the tradition itself hopes and expects that the "enemies" in this battle, who are after all sages, will become "lovers" in the end, there is a danger in intellectual/religious battle that one go overboard and flex one's muscles in a way that ventures far beyond a search for truth to a destruction of civility. There are examples of this in the Talmud. We certainly see this problem pervading our own political and religious discourse. Perhaps even in this pursuit of truth we may have to stop sometimes and not use it as a license for slamming those with whom we may have even profound disagreement.
However R. Hutner asserts something that may appear at first as counterintuitive. True love he says only can emerge from those with whom you have disagreement. Becoming "lovers" is only possible because you had profound differences and were able to engage them in a way that brought you closer in the end. Becoming closer does not mean reaching full agreement, but it does mean having a deep attachment to your ideological opponent. What might our discourse look like if we retained this as a goal even while maintaining our deep convictions and commitment to pursuing the truth as we conceive it?
Is this true of our most intimate relationships as well? Might it be that learning how to truly argue without achieving full agreement is what can bring lovers the closest? The answer to that I leave to you, in the meantime Happy Hanukah.
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Closing the Gender Gap
People often ask me why I decided to become a rabbi. Some would say in a condescending tone, "You want to be a rabbi? What kind of job is that for a nice Jewish girl?" In response, I would smile and say, "A very good job, thank you." But it would not be lost on me that those who expressed this question did not think that women should be rabbis. Though I entered rabbinical school almost a decade after the Conservative Movement started ordaining women, and almost two decades after the Reform and Reconstructionist Movements had done the same, a woman becoming a rabbi was still an oddity.
My path seemed strange to almost everyone I encountered. There were no rabbis in my family, so I was not building on a family tradition, and I did not grow up going to Jewish camps or day schools. I did however have a rich Jewish home life, and discovered Jewish feminism in college. Jewish feminism hooked me. Yes, I know, this sounds strange to many. But I voraciously read about the Jewish women's movement and emerging feminist theologies in writings by Judith Plaskow, Blu Greenberg, Rachel Adler, and Paula Hyman. Their way of looking at the traditionally patriarchal Jewish tradition through a feminist lens captivated me. My mind whirled with images of a female God, of women's seders, and stories based on female biblical characters. This was my way into Judaism. I saw that Judaism was not a closed tradition ruled by men is long beards, but rather was something living and growing before my eyes. The idea that I could add my voice to creating new rituals, writing new stories, and opening up Jewish wisdom to others excited me. And so, I found myself applying to rabbinical school much to everyone's surprise.
What I encountered when I entered the professional Jewish world was not quite what I expected. I naively thought that the major battles had been won. Women could be rabbis right? That meant that the Jewish world was open to women in leadership roles, that women would get jobs, be paid equal salaries, and not suffer sexual harassment and stereotyping right? Right?
Take a look at the survey published last week by the Jewish Daily Forward. The article's title says it all, "Gender Equality Elusive in Salary Survey." In the Jewish professional world, Jewish non-profits, women earn 62.5 cents to every dollar a man earns, and women make up just 12% of the top leadership positions. An article in The New York Jewish Week last spring chronicled the difficulty women rabbis are having finding jobs. Surveys of women rabbis also find that they are paid less then male rabbis in the same positions and that a stained glass ceiling exists. Only one woman in the Conservative Movement is serving a congregation with more than 500 families. (The larger the congregation, the larger the salary of the rabbi, generally speaking.)
Contrast this to an article in the New York Times this week with the tile, " They Call it the Reverse Gender Gap" which states that: "For starters, young women today — and not just in the United States — are moving quickly to close the pay gap, or in some cases have closed it already. ….Women are ahead of men in education (last year, 55 percent of U.S. college graduates were female). And a study shows that in most U.S. cities, single, childless women under 30 are making an average of 8 percent more money than their male counterparts, with Atlanta and Miami in the lead at 20 percent."
There is more work to be done in the Jewish community. I am still inspired by the first wave of Jewish women who fought for women to be counted equally in a minyan, who argued that women could be synagogue presidents, read from the Torah, and be rabbis. This week, as one of the women who inspired me down my path, Dr. Paula Hyman, who was the was one of the founders of Ezrat Nahim a Jewish consciousness-raising group that advocated for women's equality in American Jewish life, and who went on to be the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale, died from cancer. her death is a wake up call. Though women have accomplished a great amount in the past thirty years, there is more work to be done!
Many borders still exist in the Jewish community. In the next thirty years I hope to see them come down. Women who choose to enter the rabbinate, or become leaders in Jewish non profits should have the same opportunities as men, and should be paid the same salaries. According to The New York Times, the rest of America is already there. The Jewish community should be too. I want other women to be excited about what they see happening in both secular and religious Jewish life and want to join it, just as I did. They should not encounter low salaries, organizations run mainly by men while women make up 90% of the other positions, and lack of parental leave.
My path into Judaism and the rabbinate may have been strange. But I fully believe that there are many paths someone can take. We need to keep those paths open and welcoming. We are all created in the image of God. It is time we treated each other that way.
Dedicated to the memory of Dr. Paula Hyman
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COMPARISON OF SERUM MICRONUTRIENTS BETWEEN OKINAWAN AND OREGONIAN ELDERLYHiroko H. Dodge, Ph.D. |
The recent news published by the Alzheimer's Association is gloomy:
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent type of dementia. Although there is no cure, modification of lifestyle factors (e.g., diet high in antioxidant nutrients and enriched, stimulating environment) may play an important role in preventing or postponing AD onset and progression. Dementia is an age-associated disease, which means the risk of developing dementia increases as we get older. The fastest growing segment of the population in the United States and most other developed countries is that aged 85 and older (so called "the oldest old"). Unfortunately, this group has a high risk of getting dementia because old age itself is an important risk factor.
We are interested in whether diet and lifestyle explain differences in dementia prevalence. Therefore, we chose to compare Americans and Okinawans. Okinawa is the most southern island of Japan. The island is well known for its high prevalence of centenarians, and past studies have shown that Okinawan elderly not only live longer, but also survive with better physical and cognitive health. Table 1 shows life expectancy for Americans and Okinawans at birth, age 65, and age 85.
At age 85, Okinawan women live 9.0 more years on average, while U.S. elderly women live 6.7 more years. Two years difference in life expectancy at this old age is a very big difference. Table 2 shows the prevalence of dementia in the elderly in the U.S. and Okinawa. The Okinawan elderly seem to have a lower prevalence of dementia. One important factor contributing to their health suggested by the Okinawa Centenarian Study is their low total caloric and saturated fat intake, along with a diet rich in fruits and vegetables.
A pilot grant from the Linus Pauling Institute allowed us to examine whether Okinawans have higher amounts of antioxidant nutrients in their blood, possibly prolonging their healthy lifespan and helping maintain cognitive function.
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Among the relatively healthy elderly participants age 85 and older, the Oregon group contained over 56% obese (BMI>25) and 31% with high triglycerides. The prevalence of these factors was significantly higher than among the Okinawan elderly, of whom about 30% were obese and 13% had high triglycerides. Both groups had a high proportion with hypertension (85% and 87% for Okinawan and Oregon groups, respectively). Metabolic syndrome is characterized by abdominal obesity, elevated triglycerides, high blood pressure, and other factors. People with this condition have an increased risk for heart disease and diabetes, and some studies have shown an association between metabolic syndrome and AD risk, especially among those with atherosclerosis. Therefore, our results among the Oregonians raise some concerns regarding their risk of getting AD in the future. On the other hand, Okinawan elderly had a higher proportion of those with high sodium. It is well known that the Japanese diet is low in fat but high in salt, which contributes to hypertension and resultant cerebrovascular diseases. For example, in 2005, 6.6% of total deaths in the U.S. were from cerebrovascular diseases, while the rate in Japan was 12.3%, almost twice as high as the U.S. rate. On the other hand, 28.9% of total deaths in the U.S. were due to heart disease, but in Japan it was only 16.0%.
At the beginning of the study, the concentration of alphatocopherol (vitamin E) in the blood from Okinawans and Oregonians was nearly identical, but blood samples from Oregonians had more than twice the concentration of gamma-tocopherol, which is the most common form of vitamin E in the American diet.
Folate levels in blood are three times higher in the U.S. subjects than in Okinawans. Since 1998, it has been mandatory in the U.S. to fortify cereals and flour with folate. Possibly because of this high folate intake, Oregonians' homocysteine levels were slightly lower than those in Okinawa, but the difference did not reach statistical significance.
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I often question if I'm doing the right thing by putting my personal life on show for anybody to read. As a teenager I wrote pages and pages in my diaries and wondered how it would feel if other people read my most secret and shameful thoughts. I approached the idea with a cavalier "that'll teach them to mess with me" attitude, almost hoping that somebody would find my diaries so the world could know how unjust it had been.
Of course, my diaries eventually got read; it's not long since I found one in my mother's room, tucked away in a chest of drawers. The teenage romance of justice suddenly felt very shallow indeed; my life was exposed, and I didn't like it. I'd been writing Halfway Between for a year before that happened, and I admit it did bring a new fear of being judged. Knowing my mother read that diary served as a reminder that real people are following what I'm saying.
I think writing a personal blog can have a lot of negatives, especially when it comes to subjects you've laid yourself bare on. My mother doesn't understand why anybody would speak about themselves on the internet, and I'm still not quite sure why I do. Yes, it helps me rationalise emotions and let off dangerous steam, but not everybody will understand that. Not everyone who reads my posts will know how I'm really feeling at that moment, and nobody knows my entire history. In each post I write there's an opportunity to criticise me, and sometimes the fear of that keeps me awake at night.
Don't get me wrong. I know I can't sit in an ivory tower and demand exclusion from all criticism because it inevitably upsets me. I'm not a special little snowflake by any means, and I can't expect the world to surround me in bubble wrap until it feels safe. By putting my world out there, I leave myself open to everything, and I really do question why I do that. I know it helps, but I can't help but wonder just what would happen if somebody really pushed me.
You see, I'm far from invincible. A lot of my more extreme behaviours are under control but I still have the underlying fear of being abandoned, and to my addled mind criticism = abandonment. As far as I've come, that fear still triggers that fight-or-flight response, and I'm not yet strong enough to stop the self-destructive thoughts which smack me in the face whenever I feel trapped in a corner by harsh words. I may not always act on those thoughts anymore – swapping knives and bulimia for writing this blog – but just knowing I still think them is a hard thing to deal with. Sometimes, the concern that I'll act on them grows into a massive ball of fear, and one tiny strand of all those worries is the fear that I'll be judged harshly on my words or actions.
You see, I don't do this for attention. Nobody ever claimed I did, but I do know some bloggers consider personal diaries to be self-indulgent affirmation for weak souls.
Personally, I don't see how writing a personal blog can ever be anything other than self-indulgent, and I don't understand why that necessarily needs to be a bad thing; especially if it's beneficial. Through reading blogs similar to my own, I've come to the comforting realisation that I'm not as fucked-up as I perceived myself to be. Most importantly, I've learned I'm not alone, and that's something everybody needs to feel now and then.
Over the past couple of weeks, I've been overracting to minor events, turning them into a mess of anxiety and confusion and lashing out verbally in an attempt to protect my corner. So when I received criscism on Facebook this evening regarding a post I wrote on depression, it pushed me into a place I didn't feel at all safe in. Despite all my efforts to reign in the urge to prove myself, I freaked. My first thought was to retreat here and smack the keyboard a little until the panic subsides, but then I questioned myself.
Do people really need to hear this?
I've become convinced that my blog is taking up time and space which could go to a much better cause. I get these feelings sometimes – a favourite hobby is beating myself down – but right now I honestly think I'm pushing it by assuming my feelings mean anything outside my own, fuddled head.
Now, my worry is that this post will be taken as a cry for attention and a bit of sympathy; an ego-boost for the damaged soul. Perhaps deep down it is. Perhaps it's all that keeps me afloat sometimes. All I know is I don't want to undo the progress I've made by becoming wary of putting a step wrong every time I post, and there's only so many times I can apologise for slights only I can see.
A while ago, a blogger commented that my posts were too negative. I didn't understand it, and I still don't to this day; is there a programme I should be following? Should I gee up my posts and pretend everything's hunky-dory because things are getting a little morbid?
I'd be lying if I did that and lying has never brought me anything but trouble, so I avoid it these days.
The reality of writing a diary for everybody to see is far from the romanticised revenge of years ago. I don't want revenge anymore. I don't care for sympathy, or sit comfortably with platitudes. Empathy, yes. False best-wishes? No, that's not for me. I no longer feel 100% secure in what I write and the possible consequences my words could have. Despite appearences, I loathe attention, and writing this blog has certainly attracted plenty of that. It's a hard thing for me to deal with; something entirely new which I was never prepared for. Like compliments, I shy away from attention because the reality of accepting either is something I just can't process. I may have a big voice and type thousands of words about myself, but that doesn't mean I feel comfortable doing it.


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Climbing strawberries
I'm going to be square foot gardening for the first time next year, and was wondering if it was possible to train my existing strawberry patch to climb that nylon trellis netting. I figure the way that strawberry plants put out those runners, maybe it will work. Opinions? Anyone tried it and/or succeeded?
ohhhh man, that's an awesome idea! i was kinda wondering that myself(something like it LOL), and i kinda dont see why not, i mean they make them strawberry towers. which is what we're gonna be doing. so i don't see why not. although i'm not the person to give the answer!! LOL just the opinion!! LOL **big grinn** ~Medo
I'd never thought of that. We're doing strawberries this year so I'll be watching this thread to see some answers/opinions :) .
I am a brand new gardener, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. I have a strawberry plant, and I don't think it would work with a regular variety of strawberry. The runners send out new little plants to be rooted in soil. My strawberries actually are on the center of the plant. I guess I'm saying, the strawberry leaves don't vine, just the runners do and it would be pointless to trellis those, because they are looking for soil. Thus, I sort of think you'd end up with a bunch of dead runners tied to a trellis. Does that make sense? Maybe there is a climbing strawberry variety that I don't know of. They do alot of research on strawberries because they are so easy to manipulate genetically, so I suppose an internet search would be in order.
I was thinking about that last night Carolyn. I never do see vines on the strawberries when we go picking, but I've never seen runners either so thought maybe those had been cut back by then. However, sounds like they are like sweet potato vines which do the same thing trying to root into soil to grow.
I am on the fence with strawberry vines, pardon the pun. However, we are considering using something along the lines of the verti-gro stacked strawberry growing method. We actually saw this at Disney World and thought this was too cool. We were hooked with the Hydroponics although we havent had much time to actually start the Hydroponics.
Check out the link below. Granted its not what you were asking about but it might present an opportunity to grow a larger volume of strawberries in a small space. Personally, I am impressed with the idea but think its too pricey. I am a typical male who thinks me can builds it for less.
My wife typically rolls her eyes and grabs my wallet and credit cards......
Here is a link that might be useful: Stacked Strawberries
I have seen a system for strawberries that is like the one just mentioned, but it was made out of large PVC pipe that had circles drilled in the sides of it for planting the berries. They all shared the same soil in the middle of the pipe and were watered from the top. Sounds like a great way, much less expensive way, to have the vertically growing strawberries.
For those that haven't seen these type of strawberry pots, the link below is for a commercially produced small pot like I was describing above that could be homemade and much bigger, too.
Here is a link that might be useful: Special Strawberry Pots
You know veggiesrus, I wouldn't ever buy something I could make cheaper and those tomato planters are $189.00 EACH. Holy freaking cow! No way I would pay that if I could set up a beautiful pyramid like the one on mel's site for less. I have to admit, the concept of growing that many strawberries in that little space TOTALLY appeals to me.
Ooh, and Mel has a place for hydroponics on the sfg website, too. I just cajoled the hubby into letting me make earthboxes, so there will be no more garden spending for me for at least a month.
Keep in mind, Carolyn, with growpots you have to order at least 3 of them and pay shipping/handling, too. It still adds up to fairly expensive. If you have a drill, just buy a bit that drills a hole the size you need and go for it with the PVC.
I've tried to find the pic I ran across awhile back for about 2 hours now searching Google and can't find a picture... ugggh... but, trust me and save yourself a load of money.
The only link I could find was for HGTV instructions without photos, and I've included that below. The one I saw was much bigger. I would call it more of a strawberry tower, than a strawberry pot. It had about 18 inches at the bottom of it that didn't have holes for strawberry plants because the bottom got too moist with top watering.
I will be trying this myself come spring and I promise to report back here and let you guys hear all the details.
Here is a link that might be useful: HGTV instructions for handmade strawberry pots
Ooooh, my! I just found the coolest idea for compact strawberry planters (see below)! You can buy them from the site or, as you can probably see, these type 'planters' wouldn't be hard AT ALL to make! I am sure that I will be doing this method as well! hee hee
Here is a link that might be useful: Thompson Morgan Website
Okay, I'm fully obsessed with planting strawberries and the different kinds of planters to take advantage of limited space, so here goes one more time.
I found about the easiest looking planter and the pic with all the berries in it is amazing. You just have to see this! Of course, I'm thinking how easy this would be to make at home, too, and how beautiful this would look on my front porch on each side of my front door. Oh... I just have to have these ones with loads of strawberries next year!
Here is a link that might be useful: Bloom Master Planters
Yes, I think SFG is the best method that I've ever seen, too. I probably wouldn't be gardening if it were the old row style because I don't have the space for that and if it's too hard, you tend to quit. I just got my sister the SFG book and starter supplies for one small bed for her birthday. She is very excited, too.
Okay, back to strawberries. LOL I finally found a pic of the PVC tower strawberry planter thing I was trying to show you guys before. The link is below...
Here is a link that might be useful: PVC Tower Strawberry Planter
It leaches LEAD
i use drinking water safe hose and a camper filter to get some of the chlorine out (chlorine kills beneficial germs in soil)
God/Ess only knows how bad it must be to grow things in PVC
sorry folks PVC is bad stuff
Here is a link that might be useful: lead free garden hose
It's called Rich Earth.
It's mined from prehistoric forests.
I'm posting a link for everyone to check it out.
Here is a link that might be useful: Rich Earth
here's another link on PVC toxicity,
i would think one could better build something similar to the PVC concept out of wood, i might even try it.
Here is a link that might be useful: lead.org.au
I know that your postings on this subject are a couple of years old but I got an email from Gardeners Choice today advertising Climbing Strawberries. Don't know anything about them, so it might be risky but u can get 3 plants for 6.95 so I might give them a try. Hope you get this and hope it helps.
Here is a link that might be useful: Gardeners Choice Climbing Strawberries
Apparently they don't technically "climb," but they have exceptionally long runners that can be trained/tied on a trellis.
Here is a link that might be useful: Climbing Strawberries
That Gardener's Choice site is suspect. Zero Latin names that I saw and every sentence ends in an exclamation point. If they can't be decent enough to give you the Latin names of the product they want you to consume, they are hiding something.
Nonetheless, strawberries do not "climb". You can put in a lot of work to get them to grow upward but they do not climb.


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As early as the 1830s in the U.S. the Graham Journal of Health and Longevity espoused a regimen called "Nature's Bill of Fare" which advocated eating meatless meals which contained no more than three different articles of food and no desserts, condiments, or beverages other than water. Diners were to chew very thoroughly and eat at precisely the same time each day. Needless to say, the anti-hedonistic "Grahamites" were very much at odds with the majority in this country who expected to eat meat three times a day. As far as I've been able to discover it wasn't until the 1890s that vegetarian restaurants appeared.
The first may indeed have been the well-named "Vegetarian Restaurant No. 1″ opened in the Hotel Byron on West 23rd Street in New York City in 1895. It was sponsored by the New-York Vegetarian Society, which did not tolerate either taking life for food or drinking alcohol. A few years later Boston and Los Angeles got their first vegetarian restaurants. The nut and grain-based food products served in the new kinds of eating places – Granose, Nuttose, Wheatose, and others – were produced by the Battle Creek Sanitarium Health Food Company in Michigan. A dinner at the Sanitarium (shown above) in 1900 featured few familiar dishes. Innocent of all high-flown copywriting, the menu offered unappetizing sounding selections such as Gruel, Dry Gluten, Protose Salad, and a choice of Nuttose C., Nuttola, Nutta, or Nuttolene.
The vegetarian movement and its restaurants got a boost from rising meat prices as well as stockyard scandals as the 20th century began. New customers mobbed vegetarian restaurants and hotels and restaurants of all kinds added meatless dishes such as spaghetti and omelets to their fare, an exercise they would repeat under the austerity measures of World War I. Up to and during the war, vegetarian cafes flourished and chains began to form, such as the Physical Culture Restaurants in New York, with branches in Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, and Chicago. Sadie Schildkraut also built a string of 15 vegetarian restaurants in New York, while in the early 1920s Los Angeles added two raw food restaurants and a Sephardic kosher café to its list of meatless eating places. A chain of vegetarian cafeterias appeared in the South, including one in Knoxville.
Although meat rationing during World War II would bring back menus featuring vegetable plates, the vegetarian movement would not experience another boom until the counter-culture-inspired food revolution of the 1970s.
© Jan Whitaker, 2008


text: m&p 15 sport any good? after the advice i received from my other thread and due to my experience building ARs (none) ive decided to buy a complete rifle rather than a kit. saw this M&P15 sport and it looks real nice. im not sure what the differences are between this and the other m&p15s but it is alot cheaper. my question is has anyone had any experience with the sport and did you like it? is it worth around $700 or should i save for something better? thanks for any input


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By now, we've read about the tragedy of the bridge collapsing in Minnesota. For several years, there have been many news articles about our infrastructure being badly in need of repairs. Our older areas have old bridges, tunnels, sewers, and so on. The cost of bringing these things up to standard is probably astronomical. I think taxes will have to be raised to address these problems. A quick search led me to this: http://www.asce.org/reportcard/2005/index.cfm How will we come up with the $1.6 trillion to restore our infrastructure?
Personally I trust the older bridges and tunnels (like the Tobin and Callahan) more than I do the newer ones (like the Zakim and Ted Williams).
Wasn't that the cost of the Big Dig alone Seriously though, I was watching MSNBC this morning and they made the point that repairing these are usually low priority in a lot of municipalities. Put a new civic center, shopping mall or sports stadium up to a vote and see how far down the ladder fixing a bridge goes.
It's a big problem. I have walked across the Longfellow Bridge, from Cambridge to Beacon Hill. That Bridge is a wreck, with some of the railings practically rusted through and parts of the sidewalk in bad disrepair, and one gets the feeling that it's not a good bridge for supporting trucks, cars, and the Red Line. Boston has been talking about repairing it for years, but maybe the tragedy in Minnesota will be a wake up call. At any rate, this is the perfect kind of issue for the Boston Herald. I hope they start a series on our crumbling infrastructure. I do think that to address our infrastructure will require a substantial tax increase, and the longer we wait, the greater the increase.
Roads, bridges and stuff, isn't that what the gas tax is supposed to pay for ? Regardless, you guys in Boston, or wherever, can feel free to pay for it how you like - my federal dollars shouldn't be going towards it.
I'm sure it is a big problem. And now after the totally indefensible rip-off debacle of the Big Dig fiasco, I'm sure that people in the Boston area are scared shirtless about committing money to any more infrastructure improvement "proposals". I sincerely hope the goose that layed the golden egg has not been eaten for dinner already. //
The Bridge: How long before the "Conspiracy Stuff" starts, Bush's Fault Cheney's Fault Haliburton's Fault GLOBAL WARMING'S FAULT. There was one bugged eyed reporter blabbing and drooling on the news awhile ago saying a Jack Hammer caused it. This bridge was inspected in 2006, they said it didn't need repairs until 2020 A Jack Hammer :singing: You Can't Believe A Damn Thing That The Scum Bag Politicians Tell You Today I can't wait for their next debate about sex. :bricks:
Here's one of the liberals' favorite tricks: 1) Liberal says "we need to raise taxes to provide support for our failing infrastructure." 2) General population responds "we don't like tax raises, but this is certainly a good idea worth funding." 3) Taxes are raised, much revenue gets generated. 4) Over the next few years a few minor, cosmetic repairs are made but the vast majority of the new revenue is swallowed up by the bureaucracy and the corrupt unions. 5) Liberal says "we need to raise taxes to provide support for our failing infrastructure." 6) Go to step 2.
They need Democrat Jack Hammers, those damn Republican Jack Hammers are no good. I still think Global Warming had a lot to with this. Chavez Oil----------Good Haliburton Oil-------Bad
If we want to live in a civilized society, with police, firefighters, teachers,decent roads,and bridges etc. All the things we take for granted. We have to pay dues. Those's dues come in the form of taxes. All of us want to pay less in taxes,but if we want the things I mentioned above they have to be payed for some how. Unfortionatly many times our tax money is used for things we don't want,or to line the pockets of politicians,and others.
The Liberals would be all over me, if it was the Muslims Ann Coulter will get to the bottom of it and let us know THEY'RE NOT ALL BAD
Thats why the democrats love to raise taxes, instead of using the money to fix bridges they will use it "To Buy Condoms For Africa" and if there is any Left Over they will take it home and put it in their Freezer with their Chicken Wings. :singing:
Thanks for the bulletin. I think we pay enough : Federal Income Tax. State Income Tax. Sales Tax. Property Tax. Gas Tax. Inheritance Tax. Capital Gains Tax. Medicare (tax). Social Security (tax). Car Registration (tax). Sin tax(es). Probably a few others I forgot. Seems like it's enough to me
This is what kills me about the bridge collapse. The super structure had a rating of 4 after inspection. A 5 means it has to be corrected ,its deteriorated to the point of haveing to be fixed. The road surface recieved a 6. So what was money targeted for LOOKS, the road surface. It's annalagous to putting a new roof on a house that the cellar walls,and main beams are failing.
As usual, the righties have no solutions. They're simply trying to pass blame. No wonder they're starting to lose elections. They lack ideas to real problems. If our infrastructure is in bad shape, it will obviously cost an enormous amount of money to fix it. Do the righties continue to favor deficit spending? Do they favor borrowing for the WOT and for our infrastructure? I think it's clear they simply favor trying to blame someone else and shirking responsibility. The righies might talk about personal responsibility, but they're always the first to blame the other guy.
I have a great solution... stop giving free welfare, free housing and free health care to every single illegal immigrant that manages to break into our country (including the ones already here). Take the savings from that and spend it on infrastructure improvements. Of course, the moonbats just fall back on the solution they always fall back on... MORE TAXES!!
One trillion and counting for the Iraq debacle, if that money could be used for infrastructure and the schools we might be in much better shape. I have to laugh at the righties who laugh at the lefties over spending, this adm has spent more than any other, instead of raising taxes and paying as they go they passed the debt on to our children and grandchildren.. what a fiasco, talk about double speak.


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