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Following retirement from the Army in 1999, Mr. Hastings served as Chief of Staff and Vice President, Communications for BAE Systems, Inc., a $15 billion defense and aerospace company employing more than 50,000 employees in the U.S., U.K., Sweden, Israel and South Africa.
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A native of Ocean City, Maryland, Mr. Hastings earned a Bachelor's Degree in Government Studies and History from the University of Maryland in Heidelberg, Germany, and has completed executive studies at the Wharton School of Business and the University of Michigan.


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Hemisphrex Biopharma Announces Fiscal 2010 Year Results
As previously announced on February 17, 2011, the Company received a notice from the Staff of the NYSE Amex (the "Amex") that the Company was not in compliance with Section 704 of the Amex Company Guide which required the Company to hold its 2010 Annual Stockholders' Meeting no later than December 31, 2010. The Company was given until March 21, 2011 to submit a plan to regain compliance with this requirement. The delay in holding the 2010 Meeting resulted from the time required to respond to comments the Company had received from the SEC related to the SEC's review of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009. The specific comments causing the delay related to the Company's accounting treatment of the May 2009 warrants discussed above. Despite the Company's best efforts to resolve the matter to allow the annual meeting to be held by December 31, 2010, final resolution of the SEC staff's accounting comments did not occur until mid-February 2011. The Company immediately filed an amended and restated 2009 10-K, amended and restated quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the first three quarters of 2010 and its definitive proxy statement for the 2010 Meeting. The 2010 Stockholders' Meeting was held on March 17, 2011. As a result on March 23, 2011, the Company received formal notification from the Amex that "the Company has resolved the continued listing deficiency referenced in the NYSE Amex LLC's letter dated February 17, 2011".
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Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc. is an advanced specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in the manufacture and clinical development of new drug entities for treatment of seriously debilitating disorders. Hemispherx's flagship products include Alferon N Injection® (FDA approved for a category of sexually transmitted diseases) and the experimental therapeutics Ampligen® and Alferon® LDO. Ampligen® is an experimental RNA nucleic acid being developed for globally important debilitating diseases and disorders of the immune system. Hemispherx's platform technology includes components for potential treatment of various severely debilitating and life threatening diseases. Hemispherx has patents comprising its core intellectual property estate and a fully commercialized product (Alferon N Injection®). The Company wholly owns and exclusively operates a GMP certified manufacturing facility in the United States for commercial products. For more information please visit www.hemispherx.net . Information contained in this news release, other than historical information, should be considered forward-looking and is subject to various risk factors and uncertainties. For instance, the strategies and operations of Hemispherx involve risk of competition, changing market conditions, change in laws and regulations affecting these industries and numerous other factors discussed in this release and in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Any specifically referenced investigational drugs and associated technologies of the Company (including Ampligen® and Alferon® LDO) are experimental in nature and as such are not designated safe and effective by a regulatory authority for general use and are legally available only through clinical trials with the referenced disorders. The forward-looking statements represent the Company's judgment as of the date of this release. The Company disclaims, however, any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements. The planning, completion, results or submission of clinical trials do not imply that any study product will ever be approved commercially for the studied or other treatment indications. Similarly, the resumption of commercial sales of Alferon N Injection® is predicated on certain technical achievements and acceptance by FDA of resulting data reports, which may or may not occur. Similarly, the new diagnostic initiatives of the Company in CFS may not be validated in wider clinical trials and thus may not be accepted by the FDA as a basis for evaluating the potential efficacy of Ampligen®.
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Make sure to stop at Bollinger Mill State Historic Site in Burfordville while participating in the annual Mississippi River Valley Scenic Drive on April 28-29. Missouri State Parks will sponsor special activities at the historic site both days and the public is invited to attend.
Visitors can enjoy the 19th century gristmill and the oldest covered bridge in the state of Missouri. Free tours of the mill will be offered from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Blacksmither John Abernathy will demonstrate his trade in the day-use area. Visitors can bring a picnic lunch and make it a day filled with fun and history.
The Mississippi River Valley Scenic Drive is a regional driving tour that includes a stop in Burfordville. The scenic drive is an invitation from the rural communities of southeast Missouri to join them as they celebrate spring with good food, festivals, folk music, dancing, crafts, living history events, camping, scenic vistas and much more.
Bollinger Mill State Historic Site is the site of a Civil War-era mill where visitors can learn how corn and wheat were ground into meal and flour by water power, just as it was done long ago. Burfordville Covered Bridge, the oldest of the four remaining covered bridges in the state, was built in 1858 and stretches 140 feet across the Whitewater River, which powers the mill.
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After much discussion Chris and I have come up with a plan to get the house jump-started again.
As many know, we have been consulting in Kamloops for several months. I've been almost full-time and Chris 2-3 times a week. It's been lucrative work. We didn't NEED to earn this money to finish the house, but while we were taking a "break" from the house it felt right to earn some money. It's been great. This week, though, I will begin training somebody to take over most of my duties at one of my clients' place of business and Chris' hours are also beginning to stabilize. We hope to work no more than two days a week in Kamloops and we hope to make them the same day to maximize fuel costs.
Having EXTRA cash has given us some options. And we've been throwing around ideas for several weeks. We've watched our friends, the Robinsons, finish their cob home on Vancouver Island in exactly a year. They did it by hiring some of the work out. The downside to this, is that they have a small mortgage. The upside is…they are now living in their house!
We have always stuck to our guns and did all the work ourselves to avoid taking on debt. Downside? We are still not in the house. Upside? No debt.
So we have been thinking about what work we would be prepared to hire out, if we were to do it. How much could we spend on outside labour without taking on debt? It came down not to which jobs we were prepared to hire out, but who would we be prepared to employ to move a few of those jobs along.
To that end, James Hornett, is going to become our paid employee for the three weeks leading up to August, when he flies to Japan, to hopefully bring back his wife, Asami, who has been waiting out the immigration process there since February. (Fortunately, she was 400 kms away from the tsunami.)
James was one of our very first volunteers in 2009, when he stayed nearly two weeks to help us. He's since come back several times to help out and we've found him thoughtful, helpful and a great worker. Since coming to BC from Newfoundland in 2009, James has been working in conventional construction in Vancouver. With his interest in sustainable building he is continually questioning conventional construction practices. James has also become a great friend of ours, and of my brother Tom and sister-in-law Stephanie, who have been luring him into Vancouver poker games and divesting him of small change. Check out our FB page, The Darfield Earthship, for James, who we recently added as an administrator (so that he could upload pics).
We're looking forward to having him back again starting next week. He was only just here last week getting us started on skylights and it was this that prompted us to think our plan just might work.
It's meant Chris and I have been scrambling to figure out the order of events, prepare for each job and accumulate materials. We have some cleaning to do, both in the shop (to organize tools) and the earthship (so that we can move around better in it). Not to mention (but I will) cleaning the house as we will all share one tiny bathroom, eating facilities and a tiny living room.
Jobs that we will start/finish include the rough-in of electrical. We will also start thinking about plumbing, including the planters. We have lists started and questions to answer before we move forward.
These include setting the floor height. We need to figure out how much space radiant floor heating will take up so that we can set finished floor height so we can set the electrical outlet heights and the planter heights. This will allow us to set the plumbing heights. We are madly researching in floor heating and perusing all new information on building planters on the many excellent earthship blogs out there. We expect to spend a whack of money in the next two weeks to accomplish all of this.
Anybody with any knowledge of these areas is welcome to wade into the discussion ASAP! Chris plans on posting a sketch of what we think the radiant floor heating might look like, so that we can set height. We will send an email out to a few of our friends who have recently installed such a floor (and covered it with an earthen floor).
Our plan coincided with the arrival of summer weather. As most of our work will be in the nice, cool earthship, I think this is pretty GOOD planning!


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Literary critic Terry Eagleton, who is, insofar as I can tell, an atheist himself, nevertheless engages in a nuanced take-down of some of the pretenses associated with contemporary atheism. And he focuses in particular on the two most articulate writers within the neo-atheist movement---Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. For purposes of convenience (since Dawkins and Hitchens, in numerous instances, offer similar arguments) Eagleton amusingly conflates their names into a singular entity that he calls "Ditchkins."
Eagleton sees the neo-atheist movement as a reaction to the resurgence of Islamic and Christian fundamentalism after 9-11, and he sees that reaction as largely obtuse, both intellectually and psychologically. Eagleton, for example, sees real value in the Bible, and in the story of Jesus in particular, and what it can teach us about life and social change. Eagleton's readings of the Ten Commandments and the story of Jesus were especially dazzling, and illustrated his point that one needn't throw the religious/mythic babies out with the fundamentalist bathwater. Eagleton is also an unreconstructed Marxist, which I think is a rather dubious intellectual position itself. Nevertheless, it gives him a vantage for making sharp and astute critiques of Ditchkins's complacency with regard to the role that capitalism and Modernism have played in creating a world of religious fundamentalist reactionaries. Eagleton sees fundamentalism as the West's psychological shadow---and points us to Euripides's Bakkhai as a play we would do well to study. In that play, King Pentheus treats Dionysus, who inhabits the borders of his realm, with enormous arrogance and without self-critical awareness, and the result is his own destruction. In this part of the book, Eagleton is rehashing material that he dealt with in more detail in a previous book ("Holy Terror"). Eagleton's book is strongest in its first half. The first chapter was especially thought provoking, for in it Eagleton offered a brilliant aesthetic defense of God's existence that could (almost) make me a believer. Eagleton's argument is a reversal of Liebnitz-like utility, in which God must do everything perfectly---and this must be "the best of all possible worlds." To the contrary, Eagleton suggests that God may have made the universe for a very different purpose. The universe may be (if we are to attribute it to God) a contingent art project, utterly inefficient and without utility---an act of freedom, not necessity. This, of course, has its own problems, but Eagleton has offered a clever retort to traditional theodicy. Why did Eagleton write this book? If I may engage in a bit of armchair psychoanalysis, I think it is because Eagleton perceives the universal acid of reductionist rationalism heading his way. It's coming after religion now, but it's coming after poetry, literature, and Marxism later. In other words, Eagleton's book is, at one level at least, a battle against an obtuse utilitarianism which sees the price of everything and the value of nothing. I saw Eagleton's (perhaps unconscious) motive leaping from page 34 of his book, in which he wrote: "That a great deal of [religion] is indeed repulsive . . . is not a bone of contention between us. But I speak here partly in defense of my own forebears, against the charge that the creed to which they dedicated their lives is worthless and void." In some sense, this book is Eagleton (as a Marxist critic) fighting for his own life---defending the importance of nuance and measured judgment against the crassest forms of reductionist cynicism---and making a case for the value of some form of hope for POETIC JUSTICE in the future.
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It's astonishing how many people have reviewed this book thinking that's it's a defense of religion, when Eagleton himself is atheist, or agnostic at best. It indicates that not all of us are reading this book as closely as perhaps we should be. Clearly, quite a few of us are predisposed to take offense on behalf of Dawkins and Hitchens, every time Eagleton flourishes his dry British wit. But this is how the British debate: witheringly and dramatically.
I'm glad someone is pointing out that Dawkins leaps gleefully into a chasm of hypocrisy by attacking religion's crimes (which are many) while obtusely dismissing how science has enabled us to wreak havoc on one another. Eagleton romps from one end of the book to the other, slaughtering sacred cows, and is clearly enjoying himself. Again, I don't claim to be an expert on textual analysis, but I'm seeing a lot of misfires in the reviews section here. It's a very nuanced style, and sometimes you have to slow down quite a bit to grasp what he's saying. For example, there is not, in fact, any indication that Eagleton thinks Hitchens is a closet Marxist. If anything, Eagleton repeatedly confirms the man's strident and misbegotten *fascism*. Which dovetails into his argument about how Enlightenment values can end up producing the opposite of the intended effect. Then there's the matter of taking seriously such cast-off, joking comments such as the one he makes about the phases of the moon. For some reason, people are latching on to this as a confirmation of some character flaw. They are elevating it beyond the confines of the statement; erasing the ambiguous humor from the page because a certain interpretation allows them to dismiss more serious statements elsewhere. That's intellectually dissonant. Basically, the message of the book is this: Dawkins and Hitchens see the debate on religion and secularism in overly broad terms, and their underlying worldview has an inherently *mystical* bias (such as blind faith in the Path of Progress). You may not agree with it, but I don't see many people on these pages disagreeing with what Eagleton is actually saying. Many of them don't even seem to understand his personal religious disposition. In essence, they're proving his point about obtuse cognitive tunnel vision.
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dissing the "ditchkins",
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The atheists Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have suffered their share of critical reviews, but perhaps none have been as categorical or vociferous as this one from their fellow Brit Terry Eagleton. By some accounts, Eagleton is the most influential literary critic in Britain; by all accounts he is an unreformed intellectual bad boy, and not only for his Marxist socialism. In the present volume he combines his rapier wit, encyclopedic knowledge, and spirited prose to dismiss the "Ditchkins" as pitiful pikers whose ramblings deserve our disdain.
True, the "Ditchkins" make some good points. But their sloppy thinking, strident language, and dogmatic condescension are warning signs of an atheism bought "on the cheap." Their stock in trade includes vulgar caricatures of religion, an "abysmally crude [and] infantile version of what theology has traditionally maintained," ignorance, cultural supremacism, an "eminently suburban" love affair with the Enlightenment myth of liberal progress, the refusal to acknowledge that religion has done any good anywhere or that science has done any harm, and an either/or mentality that ignores ambiguity. They are defenders of the political status quo, and hardly the revolutionaries they purport to be. Eagleton was raised as an Irish Roman Catholic in working-class England, and although he has been ambiguous about his own personal faith, he says that one reason he wrote this polemic was to defend the faith of his forbears as something worthy of a defense. Christendom has betrayed the truly revolutionary nature of original Christianity, he says, and so in addition to attacking the secular left he undertakes the Kierkegaardian task of distinguishing between the genuine article and its many counterfeits. The revolutionary gospel does not conform to the geo-political and economic ways of the world and, in the end, "is absurdly, outrageously more hopeful than liberal rationalism" and its myth of progress. "Any preaching of the Gospel which fails to constitute a scandal and affront to the political state is in my view effectively worthless." Along the way, Eagleton has harsh words for capitalism, which he considers inherently atheistic (as did Karl Barth), postmodernism, Oxford High Table, globalization, the corridors of power in Washington and London, and western civilization's failure to understand and engage Islam in a meaningful way. If you enjoy unapologetic iconoclasm of the highest order, Eagleton makes for a good read. In addition to his forty books, he's scheduled to deliver a single Gifford Lecture in March 2010.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Guilty Pleasures,
This review is from: Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (The Terry Lectures Series) (Hardcover)
Reading books by the Marxist literary and cultural critic Terry Eagleton is one of my guilty pleasures. After reading his biting critique of religion in After Theory (2003), imagine my surprise when I found Terry Eagleton "defending" religion in his latest book, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009).
I use quotation marks because Terry Eagleton is still an unbeliever, but, curiously, he finds religion more congenial to his Marxism than the liberal humanism so prominently displayed in the recent books of militant atheists like Christopher Hitchens (God is Not Great)and Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion). I enjoy reading Terry Eagleton because his prose is often eloquent, stimulating, and insightful. His clever analogies make me smile. For example, he says the contention that science and technology have made religion superfluous is like "saying that thanks to the electric toaster we can forget about Chekhov" (7). He further observes that "science and theology are for the most part not talking about the same kind of things, any more than orthodontics and literary criticism are" (10). Eagleton sees four worldviews competing for dominance in our time: liberalism (both economic and humanistic), socialism, religion, and science (136). In the books by Hitchens, Dawkins, and their ilk (a group he labels "Ditchkins"), he finds secular liberalism trying to ally itself with science against religion. "The difference between science and theology," Eagleton opines, "is one over whether you see the world as a gift or not; and you cannot resolve this just by inspecting the thing, any more than you can deduce from examining a porcelain vase that it is a wedding present" (37). Thus, religion is fundamentally no more opposed to science than is socialism, and science must not become the private domain of liberalism or be commandeered to serve its capitalistic agenda. While Eagleton rejects religion as simply unbelievable, he does see Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism in their purest forms as compatible with his ideal of socialism. "The mainstream Christian theology I have outlined here may well be false," he writes, "but anyone who holds to it is in my view deserving of respect" (33). "I also seek to strike a minor blow on behalf of those many millions of Muslims whose creed of peace, justice, and compassion has been rubbished and traduced by cultural supremacists in the West" (34). As a radical thinker, Eagleton finds a kindred spirit in Jesus. "If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining to do" (27). Obviously, though, Eagleton would rather deliver lectures at Yale than end up dead himself, so his radicalism is mainly limited to his thoughts. But liberalism can never become a true ally of religion, he maintains, because "the advanced capitalistic system is basically atheistic" (39). Why? Because its values, beliefs, and practices are "godless." What really unites socialism and religion, according to Eagleton, is their sense of "tragic humanism," by which he means "that only by a process of self-dispossession and radical remaking can humanity come into its own" (169). Neither religion nor Marxism is as optimistic about human nature and human perfectibility as is a secular humanism that puts its faith in the idea of progress and firmly believes religion is the chief obstacle to such progress. While I find Eagleton's spirited defense of biblical theology gratifying, I also view it as disingenuous. As an unbeliever, he must know that the socialist's faith that "the powerless can come to power" (27) is far different that the Christian's belief that Christ was "crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God" (2 Corinthians 13:4). Socialism and Christianity may be compatible in many regards, but they have completely different outlooks. The New Testament's solution for sin and suffering comes at the Day of Judgment--and not by revolution on earth. Likewise, Eagleton's naďve appreciation of Islam seems wrongheaded. If he has read the Qur'an (3:28; 4:56; 8:55; 9:5; 98:6), he is surely aware that it does not suffer infidels gladly. Were he to loudly proclaim his atheistic views in Bagdad or Kabul or Islamabad, I doubt he would find "peace, justice, and compassion" for very long. Ultimately, Eagleton is not so much defending religion as he is taking advantage of a golden opportunity to criticize liberalism, the sworn enemy of his socialist philosophy. You might say he is temporarily and hesitantly making religion, the enemy of his enemy, his friend. "Our age," he says, "is divided between those who believe far too much and those who believe far too little" (137). I suspect he himself belongs in the latter category. While his critique of liberalism as an ideology without the moral authority, intellectual insight, or political will to defend itself is often spot on, he never makes a convincing case for his own Marxism. It, too, has already been weighed in the balances of history and found sadly wanting. The books of Terry Eagleton are my guilty pleasures. They are rhetorically and stylistically satisfying, but the food for thought contains a lot of empty calories and, in the last analysis, is not very good for you.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A devastating criticism of different sorts of fundamentalism,
This review is from: Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (The Terry Lectures Series) (Paperback)
The Booklist description in the Editorial Reviews for this book is very accurate. This book is a brilliant and telling put-down of fundamentalism in various forms: the fundamentalist version of Christianity of, say, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, the fundamentalist version of Islam of the suicide bombers, the fundamentalist version of the Enlightenment of Dawkins and Hitchens. This book also captures the essence of the New Testament gospels. It is ironic that today the most likely place to find such an exposition is in a book by a Marxist atheist, Terry Eagleton. This book is also a devastating put-down of the political, social, and economic policies of the United States of America, where Terry Eagleton occasionally (and justifiably) sounds like an Old Testament prophet. Thank you, Terry Eagleton, for this book.
I would like to add that the section on faith and reason contains a short discussion on the idea of an unexpected "event" which breaks through and is a pointer to a truth which hitherto was hidden from us. Eagleton writes about the importance of this idea to the left-wing, atheist, French philosopher Alain Badiou. "Badiou grasps the point that the kind of truth involved in acts of faith is neither independent of propositional truth nor reducible to it. Faith for him consists in a tenacious loyalty to what he calls an 'event' -- an utterly original happening which is out of joint with the smooth flow of history, and which is unnameable and ungraspable within the context within which it occurs. Truth is what cuts against the grain of the world, breaking with an older dispensation and founding a radically new reality. Such momentous 'truth events' come in various shapes and sizes, all the way from the resurrection of Jesus (in which Badiou does not believe for a moment) to the French Revolution, the moment of Cubism, Cantor's set theory, Schoenberg's atonal composition, the Chinese cultural revolution, and the militant politics of 1968." One can easily make a short list of these truth events for the United States: the utterly appalling realization that our leaders entertained that notion that it was not the height of evil to instantaneously kill 100,000 inhabitants of Hiroshima (and another 100,000 who died a lingering death), the non-violent protests of the civil rights struggle led by Martin Luther King, Jr., the coming within an inch of destroying the world in the Cuban Missile Crisis, the massive protests in the streets against the Vietnam War, the disastrous Crusader-like reaction or our leaders to 9/11 and our blindness to anything that we did that just might have motivated the destruction of the Twin Towers, the spontaneous outbreak of the Occupy Movement, the climate change crisis, the natural resources crisis, the population crisis.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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I Tired a Bit of the Ditchkins Label, But ...,
By Gary Presley "author of SEVEN WHEELCHAIRS" (Springfiend in the Ozarks) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (The Terry Lectures Series) (Hardcover)
The power, complexity, and originality of Eagleton's apologia will find an eager audience only among the intelligent, the open-minded, and the curious, but readers interested in He Who Was Before the Big Bang and She Who Lives Beyond the Universe's Edge will find the author's work is erudite and compelling and will profit from reading and thinking about his thesis.
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A Conversational Snapshot of the So-called "God Debate",
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"Religion has wrought untold misery in human affairs. For the most part, it has been a squalid tale of bigotry, superstition, wishful thinking, and oppressive ideology. I therefore have a good deal of sympathy with its rationalist and humanist critics" (Terry Eagleton, p. xi).
So Terry Eagleton begins his critique of the so-called New Atheist movement. Eagleton, Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster, England, clearly is not advocating an uncritical acceptance of religion. In fact, his stinging analysis of the "Polyanna-ish" faith in human progress manifested by New Atheists like Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins (whom he humorously lumps together as "Ditchkins") is balanced by his just-as-stinging indictment of a Christianity he feels has largely betrayed its initial ideal of social justice and human transformation. Eagleton was invited to deliver the 2008 Dwight H. Terry Lectures at Yale University. His initial delight in the invitation was tempered when he discovered the lectures "are traditionally devoted to two subjects I know embarrassingly little about, namely science and religion" (2). His lectures were compiled and edited--retaining the conversational format--into the new book Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate. The author is a strange brew--part Marxist, part liberal Catholic, all rolled into a British literary theorist. Eagleton's four lectures are divided into the book's four chapters: "The Scum of the Earth," "The Revolution Betrayed," Faith and Reason," and "Culture and Barbarism." Throughout each lecture he is outspoken in regards to money, politics and capitalism, post-modern foundationless self-congratulation, faith in the cult of science which some believe, if followed, guarantees a bright future for all, and perhaps above all, he damns the way certain critics of religion "buy their rejection of religion on the cheap" (xi). What does he mean by this? Essentially, such critics are taking the low road in their treatment of religion: "A huge number of the charges that Ditchkins levels against actually existing religion are thoroughly justified...Indeed, it is hard to imagine how any polemic against, say, the clerical abuse of children or the religious degradation of women could be too severe or exaggerated. Yet it is scarcely a novel point to claim that for the most part Ditchkins holds forth on religion in truly shocking ignorance of many of its tenets" (49). Indeed, while exalting science and condemning faith (a dichotomy Eagleton finds problematic to begin with) critics like Dawkins "castigate the Inquisition, for example, but not Hiroshima" (133). What many New Atheist writers put together is usually "a worthless caricature of the real thing" (xi). But Eagleton doesn't say he particularly blames them for such lapses. For one thing, he notes they view religion as silly from the start, so of course they won't spend due time becoming properly familiar with it. "What profit is to be reaped from the meticulous study of a belief system you hold to be as pernicious as it is foolish?" (51). For another thing, many Christians have, in his view, "squalidly betrayed" their own "revolutionary origins. Christianity long ago shifted from the side of the poor and dispossessed to that of the rich and aggressive" (55). Eagleton recognizes, however, that his own critique of Christianity would be impossible without the "Judeo-Christian legacy itself," something most New Atheists seem pleasantly unaware of (58). In the end, Eagleton explores the problems of Christian faith in a liberal (Western) society. There seems to be, he says, a "certain creative indifference to what people actually believe" as long as the economics work out. Taken to an extreme, "Liberal society's summum bonum is to leave believers to get on with it unmolested--rather as the English would walk by if you were bleeding at the roadside, not because they are hard-hearted, but because they would be loathe to interfere with your privacy" (144). Though Eagleton focuses mainly on Christianity for the "Religion" parts of the book, he occasionally includes Islam in the discussion. For instance, the peaceful integration of Muslims in the West, Eagleton argues, need not require their wholesale conversion or destruction or the west's wholesale indifference. Instead, "if the British or American way of life really were to take on board the critique of materialism, hedonism, and individualism of many devout Muslims...Western civilization would most certainly be altered for the good" (154). Not that Eagleton is really holding his breath. He is painfully aware of a "liberal paradox that there must be something close-minded about open-mindedness." Liberalism (in the traditional sense) fears being overly-liberal when it comes to its own founding principles. The irony is made explicit in comments like that of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair: "Our tolerance is what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here" (127). Eagleton would counter what he sees as the liberal humanism of Ditchkins with his own sort of "tragic humanism" with a religious twist (168). "Tragic humanism," he concludes, "holds that only by a process of self-dispossession and radical remaking can humanity come into its own. There are no guarantees that such a transfigured future will ever be born. But it might arrive a little earlier if liberal dogmatists, doctrinaire flag-wavers for Progress, and Islamophobic intellectuals did not continue to stand in its way" (169). Eagleton's book is a brisk and welcome contribution to the ongoing discussion about the place of religion in the world today. Readers will find plenty to challenge them in this brief snapshot of today's "God Debate."
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5.0 out of 5 stars
An Intelligent Leftist Take on Religion,
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This collection of essays is written in Eagleton's incomparably beautiful style that is funny and incisive at the same time. The theme of the essays is fascinating: Eagleton offers an approach to religion from the Left that is neither reductive nor stupid, as similar books often tend to be. The playfulness with which Eagleton talks about religion offers a beautiful contrast to the usual deathly gravitas informing the style that academics both on the Left and on the Right employ to discuss religion.
With his incomparable sense of humor, Eagleton makes fun of the entity he calls "Ditchkins." This is his new term for referring simultaneously to Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. Eagleton ridicules Ditchkins's reductive and simplistic vision of religion that forces them to enter into an unproductive science versus religion dichotomy: "Unlike George Bush, God is not an interventionist kind of ruler. It is this autonomy of the world which makes science and Richard Dawkins possible in the first place." Religion, says Eagleton, deserves an analysis that is at least a little bit more profound than the usual all-religion-is-bad approach taken by many Liberals. In their defense of rationalism, the critics of religion often demonstrate an irrationalism which is as strong as the one they keep denouncing. Eagleton doesn't stop at destroying the pseudo-rationalist piety of the so-called progressive scientists. He also demonstrates - in his inimitable, hilarious way - the ridiculous nature of the US fundamentalist Evangelicals and their utter failure to understand pretty much anything about the religion they claim to hold in such a high regard. Of course, as happens with every good book, there are things in Eagleton's essay collection that I find unconvincing. Eagleton surmises that the resurgence of the importance of religion in the late capitalist society is a postnationalist phenomenon. I am a lot more weary than Eagleton of accepting the very existence of post-racism, post-feminism, post-nationalism, and the likes. In the US, for example, virulent nationalism and fundamentalist religiousness walk hand in hand and do not exist without each other. Evangelical fundamentalism has become the national idea of the US for the lack of any other set of beliefs or concerns that can possibly bind this country together. Whenever somebody begins to talk about post-nationalism and post-racism, I know that this is either a fan of the Oprah Show or an academic hiding deep within the ivory tower. Among other things, Eagleton's Reason, Faith, and Revolution is such a joy to read because of his brilliant deconstruction of Christopher Hitchens's obnoxious God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything: "Hitchens seems to hold the obscure Jewish sect of the second-century BC known as the Maccabees responsible not only for the emergence of Christianity but also for the advent of Islam. It is surprising that he does not pin Stalinism on them as well." Eagleton is absolutely right when he suggests that atheistic fundamentalism is in many respects an exact copy of religious fundamentalism. It is just as intransigent, dogmatic, reductive, and obnoxious. Everything I have said so far might produce the erroneous impression that Eagleton is trying to create a defense of Christianity. This is, of course, not true. The critic is opposed to a unilaterall dismissal of this complex and intricate worldview but he recognizes that "Apart from the signal instance of Stalinism, it is hard to think of a historical movement that has more stupidly betrayed its own revolutionary origins." Apart from Eagleton's unintelligent characterization of Stalinism as stupid, this statement could not be more true. Many people's hatred of Christianity has nothing to do with Jesus's teachings but is rather addressed to what many of the proponents of this religion have done with it. Are the actions of many of its followers enough, however, to discredit Christianity once and for all?, Eagleton asks. Haven't the tenets of Liberalism, the ideals of Enlightenment, the central points of Marxism suffered the same fate? Does this mean, then, that we should abandon all of these ideological and intellectual movements in their entirety? In his brilliant analysis, Eagleton hits upon an absolutely wonderful definition of Christianity: "Any preaching of the Gospel which fails to constitute a scandal and affront to the political state is ... effectively worthless." It is amazing that a Marxist like Eagleton has been able to understand the very nature of the New Testament so much better than all the quasi-religious freaks out there put together and multiplied by five. One of the things that make Eagleton's philosophy especially endearing to me is his passionate defense of the values of Enlightenment. He enumerates the ways in which Enlightenment has come to defeat its own basic propositions but still maintains that the task of Enlightenment is far from over. Just like Christianity, Enlightenment has been discredited by the atrocities done in its name by its misguided, unintelligent followers. This is why so many people today fall over themselves in their rush to abandon the Enlightened philosophy as wrong, evil, and outdated. These thinkers are just as wrong as the wholesale deniers of the value of religion. It is impossible to read this book by one of the greatest living philosophers and literary critics without having uproarious fun on every single page. If you want to indulge yourself by reading a philosophical treatise that is exceptionally well-written and that will make you laugh until it hurts, Eagleton's new collection of essays is perfect for you.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not run-of-the-mill,
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Just a brief review here. Most of the reviewers who rate the book with only one star have an ax to grind, as far as I can tell. Simply reading the review excerpts provided by the publisher will give the potential reader enough information to know that, at the very least, this is a well written and interesting book. If you don't agree with the author, that's something different. If you want a view about anti-theists Dawkins and Hitchins, this is a higher-level and different-than-average approach. Most critiques of the two come from Christians, often evangelistic/protestant. Here you get a view that is from a Catholic influenced Marxist. So sit back with an Irish coffee--and dictionary if your vocabulary is rusty--and enjoy.
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A Interesting Polemic Against Shoddy Thought, Fundamentalisms, and Hypocrisy,
By John R. Robison "friarjohn00" (Laurel, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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In this short work, originally given as lectures at Yale University, Eagelton, hardly a believer, turns his gimlet gaze upon three of the Four Horsemen (Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennit, called "Ditchkens" for short) of the New Atheist Movement. Far from a standard "Science doesn't touch on the topic of God" rhetoric, although that is present, Eagelton instead attacks along a few interesting lines: intellectual dishonesty, bourgeois banality, and narrow dogmatism. On an interesting side note, he leaves the fourth Horseman, Sam Harris, alone. This is despite Harris' record for supporting the torture and death of those who would refuse to go along with his Brave New World. Perhaps Eagelton found him beneath his notice.
On the First point, Eagelton points out that "Ditchkens" tends to blame all of the evils of the world, unreservedly, on religion. Eagelton points out that the sanctified science of Ditchkens has played as much a role in the destruction of lives and the furtherance of suffering, typically under the banner of the Enlightenment, as the hated religion. He also points out, through a scathing bit of satire, that behind the cheap theatrics and overblown arguments, Ditchkens arguments are, at best, category errors. For example, Hitchens' argument that religion is a failed attempt at explaining the Universe is the same as saying that " ... ballet is a failed attempt at running for a bus." He also attacks this as a form of Straw Man Arguments, not worthy of much more than scorn.He also assaults the Pollyanna like belief in "progress" that studs the prose of Ditchkens works. His distaste for what he calls Liberal Humanism, as expressed in this one sided, shallow humanism is as palpable as his disdain for the rest of the naive simplicity of any fundamentalism. On the second point Eagelton blasts the bourgeois betrayal of social justice by Ditchkens. Chiefly he lampoons the "North Oxford" character of Dawkins, the failed revolutionary pretensions of Hitchens, and the obdurately clueless ponderings of Dennit. To be specific, he points out that these men are all cheerleaders for the neo-conservative war on terror, as well as any other number of self aggrandizement that they find. They have turned there back upon those who have suffered, generally at the hand of the much vaunted Enlightenment. He traces the hand that the Industrialized West has helped bring about the current rise of Islamism, and the role that science and "progress" have played in that. He particularly lifts up Hitchens, a former Marxist/Trotskite, up to scorn for not only betraying the Revolution (Eagelton is after all a Marxist) but for becoming the enemy. The third point touches on the first, but is separate in that it is a special species of intellectual arrogance. To be exact, Eagelton points to the narrow, dogmatic, and almost silly extremes that Ditchkins will go in order to indite religion. Nothing is allowed to cloud the view that religion is not only wrong, but evil, and that Ditchkins is the enlighten bringer of good news. He holds up the hypocrisy of making their metaphysical and philosophical arguments into "science" while pointing out that they are actually harming the thing they seek to defend. In parallel to his critique of Ditchkens, Eagelton also attacks the failure of Christianity to live up to what he sees as it's revolutionary potential. It, too, has cast its lot with power, and has betrayed what he sees as it's first commitment to truth and to the human race. When not excoriating the New Atheists, he is whipping the Church for it's weakness. At the end Eagelton bids us to look to what he calls "Tragic Humanism" as a remedy for the failed Liberalism of Ditchkens and the rest of the New Atheist crowd. In all, this is an excellent book, one that should be read, not just for it's assaults, but for it's call to something better. |
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Primitive Violence's Jean Saiz Packages Pocketknives in Cassette Releases
I know you have the Forest of Tygers tape out and the packaging on that is monstrous. What are the legalities of including a blade in the release?
Hmm... not sure, nor do I want to investigate! Before we decided on the pocketknife we had toyed with including human teeth, but they proved to be too pricey to procure and there may have been some weird legalities with including them.
Your releases are relatively cheap. At $5 a pop, that's cheaper than what most labels/stores want for a 7"er. Is this model on purpose? Can you manage to turn a profit at that rate?
The only profit I'm interested in making is to fund future releases, that's it. So far it's worked out and worked out well enough to keep the model going. I'm not planning on doing more than two to three releases a year, so it pans out well.
Like I said before, I never intended this to be a proper label, and the idea of "turning profit" is kind of a turn-off. I just want to help and facilitate in creating something cool and unique for bands that I enjoy; bringing money into the fold would turn an enjoyable project into something stressful, and I have enough of that at my regular full-time job.
I like the "bagged" idea. It reminds me of the incredibly complex and sophisticated packages found in mid-'90s noise releases. What kind of packaging ideas have you toyed with that we could expect to see?
For now I'm keeping with the polybag motif, if only because I really like the way everything is packaged together and it reminds me of old toy packaging or comic book stores and the weird and wonderful packages you'd find therein. I have toyed with incorporating wood, leather or other materials as far as packaging, but it would really drive my costs up, and right now I'd like to maintain everything at a feasible working level.
The things that I'd like to focus more on is the weird trinket or "extra" object that comes with the limited edition releases; for Shroud Eater I found these ceramic Death charms from Peru that went with the whole "Dead Ends" vibe, Orbweaver had trading card packs with the characters from their crazy narrative, and with Forest of Tygers' release I have the stainless steel engraved pocketknife, which has this cold, surgical vibe that I think went really well with the aesthetic for their release.
It's part of the fun to try to come up with some odd object to include with the releases because it has to make sense with the band and with their music, so who knows what weird shit will be included with the next release!
What's next for Primitive Violence?
Well the Forest of Tygers' tape has been released into the wild and is doing well. I'm in talks with another band for a possible fall release, and it's a band I really enjoy and who are a lot of fun, so I'm definitely excited about that project. I'd also like to incorporate more of my illustrative work under the Primitive Violence umbrella and push that aspect as well, and generally just try to get some more exposure as a label/illustration house so that in turn, it gains more exposure for the bands.
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Sony's latest line of bluetooth headphones is aimed solely at the cyborg-obsessed sports crowd. The DR-BT160AS headphones are splashproof, built-in volume and play control buttons, a microphone for cellphones and massive behind-the-ear pods that house the batteries and workings. An inelegant solution, but frankly, it's better than the alternative: your expensive MP3 player ripped by the cord out of your pocket at a thousand miles per hour as you catch it on the handle of the cross trainer, which happens to me once per workout. I just wish someone would dust off Nikolai Tesla's patent for beaming music straight into the brain, already, but I guess there's not much accessory money in that.
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This headline came tumbling into my Twitter inbox: Married Women Hate Sex.
Whoa! With a headline like that, I pretty much had to read it. It turns out it's a study that Mom Logic, a parenting Web site, did, asking 2,500 married women about their sex lives.
A samping of results, you can read them all here:
- 50% of women find sex either depressing, embarrassing or a hassle.
- 29% of married women say they are too tired for sex.
- 24% of married women would rather take a bubble bath than have sex.
- 26% of the women surveyed say their sex lives took a turn for the worst after they had children.
So what do I think? First, I have to acknowledge my husband reads this blog, so I'll be a little careful about what I say. Do I hate sex? No way. Am I often so tired that it becomes less of a priority than it was before I had kids? Sure.
To me, once you have kids you are meeting others' needs all the time, so it's easy to forget about your own needs. That's especially true when your children are babies and their neediness is constant. In the first few months after my kids were born, I'd have opted for sleep over sex but only because I was getting so little sleep. (Sorry, honey.)
I don't think that means you hate sex. I think that means you're tired and overwhelmed.
Things do get better as your kids get older, and you and your mate can make time to be alone. The fact is, many families -- including mine -- have more than one child, so obviously there's some sex going on. (Remember when you were a kid and you'd think: "There's three of us, so mom and dad had sex three times.")
So what do you think, married women and men? Post a comment.


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Enjoy the cuisine, wines and culture of the Basque country from Bilbao to San Sebastian-Donostia and Laguardia, in the Rioja Alavesa.
Mugaritz, Spain
Errentería, Spain
Tel: 34 943 522 455
Website: www.mugaritz.com
If you're just looking to sate your hunger, steer clear of this restaurant just outside San Sebastián. Chef Andoni Luis Aduriz's place, set in a rustic yet modern caserío (country cottage), is better suited to those seeking gustatory revelation. Aduriz's dishes combine flavors and textures in unexpected, always delicious ways: Flourless gnocchi are made with kudzu starch and Idiazábal cheese and served with an Ibérico ham broth; lamb shoulder, cooked at a low temperature for 30 hours, is paired with root vegetables and glazed with a slightly bitter honey. Desserts like violet ice cream with chocolate shavings and almonds are similarly wonderful. You can order à la carte, but it's a much better idea to indulge in the heavenly tasting menu (eight to 12 courses).
Closed Mondays. No dinner Sundays; no lunch Tuesdays.
Asador Portuetxe, Spain
San Sebastián, Spain
Tel: 34 943 215 018
Website: www.portuetxe.es
For a classic but casual Basque meal, head to this 400-year-old farmhouse in the university district of Ibaeta. The historic structure, surrounded on all sides by high-rise buildings, is a charmingly stubborn testament to another era. Inside, it's all white walls, wood beams, and long tables, and the menu reads like a culinary history of the region: Gernika and piquillo peppers, grilled hake, bacalao omelet, lettuce hearts with anchovies, and baby squid with caramelized onions. Order an assortment of things to share, including the wonderful chuleta, a massive hunk of tender, grilled ox meat, and you'll be thankful that the place has survived the vagaries of time.
Villa Soro
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Hotel Marqués de Riscal, Spain
Elciego, Spain
Tel: 34 945 180 880
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.luxurycollection.com/marquesderiscal
In the heart of the Rioja wine region (about an hour south of Bilbao) this 2006 Frank Gehry-designed hotel has titanium curves that echo those of Bilbao's Guggenheim. From the outside, the main structure, with its 15 irregularly shaped rooms, shimmers like a large present that's been wrapped in crinkly, shiny paper. Inside, the rooms are airy and light, with contrasting white-linen and blond-wood furnishings, and slanted windows with views of the surrounding vines. (There's also a second building, which contains 29 slightly larger, less quirky accommodations.) The Starwood chain seems to have pulled out all the stops for this place: Besides the rooftop lounge with its open fireplace, there's a restaurant helmed by talented chef Francis Paniego, serving traditional Rioja cuisine; the hotel also houses the swanky Caudalie Vinothérapie Spa, where you can be soaked and slathered in products containing wine. If consuming vino is more to your taste, that's an option, too, at the in-house wine and tapas bar. Guests are guaranteed a reservation for the 90-minute tour of the famed Marqués de Riscal winery, which would otherwise need to be booked months in advance.
Hotel Iturregi, Spain
Getaria 20808, Spain
Tel: 34 943 89 61 34
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.hoteliturregi.com
Andra Mari, Spain
Galdakao, Spain
Tel: 34 94 456 0050
Website: www.andra-mari.com
Entering this converted Basque farmhouse, set next to a 13th-century church in the small town of Galdakao—about a 15-minute drive from Bilbao—feels like stepping into a storybook. After being seated in the dining room with its beamed ceiling and embroidered table linens (or, weather permitting, the porch with its view of the mountains), you'll be greeted by a waitress in a traditional bonnet and apron. Chef Isidro Arribas's six- and ten-course tasting menus give you a chance to try a variety of traditional dishes, like marinated bonito served with garlic oil and tomato bread crumbs, or a fragrant, smoky, roasted choricero pepper that comes with a fresh anchovy. You can also order à la carte.
Mon.—Thurs. lunch only. Fri. and Sat. lunch and dinner. Closed Sundays.
Aizian, Spain
Bilbao 48001, Spain
Tel: 34 94 428 0039
Website: www.restaurante-aizian.com
Chef José Miguel Olazabalaga serves up some truly inventive creations in this angular, glossy wooden box of a dining room. Foie gras is wrapped in a thin skin of smoked bread, served with a gelée of salted cherries and arugula mayonnaise; grilled squid are drizzled in pumpkin and almond cream; and Iberian pork comes with black rice and a sunflower-seed turrón (like nougat). If you haven't the time or inclination to try the full seven- or nine-course tasting menus, you can simply order à la carte.
Open Mondays through Saturdays.
Gaminiz, Spain
Zamudio, Spain
Tel: 34 94 431 7025
The culinary headquarters of native chef Aitor Elizegi, Gaminiz is set in an improbably pretty industrial park 20 minutes' drive outside Bilbao. Here, Elizegi fuses flavors and textures with thoroughly satisfying results. Fresh anchovies, topped with coarse-ground salt and served with celery gazpacho and green apple "tartare," are a perfect balance of salty, sour, and sweet. The marmita de txipirón, strands of baby squid cut to resemble fettuccine and served with a savory Parmesan broth, is a playful take on a classic Basque ingredient. Pork fans shouldn't miss the papada, a cube of salted jowl served with artichoke carpaccio and a tangy lime meringue foam. If you can't get out of the city, try visiting Elizegi's sister restaurant, Baita Gaminiz (meaning "also Gaminiz" in the Basque language), located in the center of Bilbao (20 Alameda de Mazarredo; 34-94-424-2267; closed Sundays, no dinner Mondays).
Mon.—Wed. lunch only.


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President's Report
Looking Back at 2010 and Forward into 2011
2010 Annual Report completed and submitted in January of 2011. Received recommendation for full status based on compliance of all standards and requirements for NLN Affiliation.
Board held meetings throughout the year with most being conference calls.
A total of 33 members during the year.
NEW: Spring Journal Article Discussion held in May with dinner at Parker's Smokehouse and discussion related to Nursing Education Perspectives articles focusing on clinical evaluation.
Co-sponsored 5th Annual Nurse Educator Seminar CEU event with Southeast Community College: Simulation 101.
$250 Education Stipend given to CSM doctoral student.
2nd Annual Excellence in Nursing Education Showcase in September with seven poster presenters.
Annual Meeting held in February at Clarkson College. NLN testing services presented their products and provided light meal at the meeting.
Nomination and elections held in February/March, new board includes faculty from Southeast Community College AND program in Lincoln.
Spring Journal Article Discussion held in early April with dinner at a Mazatlan II in Lincoln and discussion related to Nursing Education Perspectives articles focusing on the future of nursing education and changes to current curriculums.
Upcoming Events:
Education Stipend to be given in June 2011
Another Journal Article Discussion Dinner during the Summer
3rd Annual Excellence in Nursing Education Showcase in Omaha in the Fall
Respectfully submitted,
Kassie McKenny, MSN, RN, CNE
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