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Haworthia ID
I'm getting ready for our local C&S club show and sale. (We didn't have one last year, so I'm really pumped!!) I've had a few rough years (long story) and lost lots of tags. Thankfully, I have my photo site to find some IDs, but I have some I never posted photos of. This is one of those. Has the coarctata appeal - kind of makes me think of a cross between coarctata and Manda's hybrid. Very appealing, but WHAT is it? Should I just call it a Haworthia hybrid??
Denise in Omaha
A little tweaking on the name, Denise. I found my pix.
Originally, I had as xAstroworthia bicarinata or xAstroworthia skinneri (so brain wasn't clicking on all cylinders the other night).
In a previous forum post, I had it using the first name above & found this info as well: Bayer article says "Astroworthia bicarinata/skinneri is the hybrid H. pumila ÃÂ¥ A. corrugata (muricata!)"
Pix of mine with & without CA tan, click for larger view:
Yours is a nice, big plant! Let us know how you do in the show! =)
I look forward to seeing you here more when you retire (when will that be?). =D

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A Letter From Susan B. Anthony
Ethical Calendar
Habits: The good and the bad
From Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/am-i-right/201503/habits-are-necessary-make-us-thoughtless
Self-isolation is the right thing to do
Your Body and Good Senses
Here are 17 thoughts on the body. Psychology Today found it too poetic for their site, but I wanted to share it with you.
Enjoy what nature has given you.
To deny your gifts is an offensive against yourself.
Your senses take you here.
Therefore, love what is before you.
Your imagination takes you there.
Therefore, love what you have never known before.
Food is both a necessity and a pleasure.
Eat in ways that are healthy and enjoyable.
Food is a gift of nature.
Respect the source of the gift.
Be grateful for the food you eat.
Remember those who do not have enough to eat.
- Pleasures of the body are one of the joys of life.
Too much pleasure makes you dull.
Dullness interferes with good judgment.
Poor judgment impedes future pleasures.
- Too little pleasure and you die of thirst.
Too much pleasure and you drown.
Keep still — that is the sun you feel.
Keep still — that is the taste of pollen on your tongue.
Keep still — that is life that you smell.
Keep still — that is love that you see.
- To experience pleasure is a gift of life.
To deny pleasure is to dishonor life.
The greatest pleasure comes from doing the right thing.
The right thing comes from a generous heart and a thoughtful mind.
Your ears are yours alone.
Tell others what you alone can hear.
Your voice is yours alone.
Tell others what only you can say.
Your eyes are yours alone.
Show others what only you can see.
- Take care of yourself.
Let the world in.
What Makes for a Terrorist
From Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/am-i-right/201503/the-attraction-terrorism
You Are More Trusting Than You Think
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Leader's Message – "Reclaiming the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – February 2015
On November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill making Martin Luther King Day a federal holiday as of January 20, 1986. The proclamation read, "This year marks the first observance of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a national holiday. It is a time for rejoicing and reflecting. We rejoice because, in his short life, Dr. King, by his preaching, his example, and his leadership, helped to move us closer to the ideals on which America was founded. . . He challenged us to make real the promise of America as a land of freedom, equality, opportunity, and brotherhood."
Today there are myriad ways to honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., including interfaith commemorations, service projects and marches. This year, I chose to join a group of young activists and community organizers who drew attention to issues of persistent racial injustice, especially in police enforcement and criminal justice. The deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO and Eric Garner in Staten Island, NY, and the decision of the respective grand juries not to indict the police officers who killed them, brought together, under the banner of The Gathering for Justice (http://www.gatheringforjustice.org/), a social justice organization founded in 2005 by Harry Belafonte, a diverse task force calling themselves Justice League NYC, whose demands include passage of transparency rules called the "Right to Know Act," an end to NYPD's "Broken Windows" policing tactics, and juvenile justice reform.
These young civil rights activists, here in NYC and across the country, are unlike traditional leaders, having more in common with the Occupy movement than with the NAACP. While they respect Dr. King, most don't see him – or his movement, with its oratory, top-down organization, misogyny and Christianity – as a model to be copied. The people I met, including Carmen Perez, a protégé of Belafonte's who helped form Justice League NYC; Tamika Mallory, Community Affairs Director for local Radio 103.9; and Linda Sarsour, executive director of the Arab American Association of NY, inspired hundreds of people to join them on January 19 for a march from 110thStreet and Lenox Avenue to United Nations Dag Hammarskjold Plaza on East 47th Street. We were young and old, of many origins, faiths and colors; united in the hope of realizing the dream Dr. King expressed in 1963 of judging people not "by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." The day before, at NYSEC's annual MLK Remembrance platform, we welcomed Kira Shepherd, newly appointed Executive Director of The Black Institute, another young civil rights leader whose interview with me you can view at
According to Peniel Joseph, director of Tufts University's Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, "There's no one iconic leader now. Instead you have thousands of young people who brought other people into the street. They're Millennials [defined as being born between 1977 and 1992]. They didn't come through a conventional civil rights organization." As the rapper Tef Poe put it at a St. Louis rally: "This ain't your grandparents' civil rights movement." This younger generation communicates through speeches, as well as art, music and social media. They are impatient with the spotlight-grabbing of their elders, choosing to organize direct and peaceful actions that call upon diverse coalitions.
To answer "life's most persistent and urgent question" of what I am doing for others, I stand with today's young leaders. I support them and will give them a platform. With their inclusive and horizontal organization structure, with their creative devotion to human rights, they are inspiring not only their generation but all generations. They are our hopeful future.
Leader's Message – Social Justice Call & Response – January 2015
As the Humanist representative at interfaith vigils, I am often called upon to speak. Sometimes I reflect upon the person or situation, but I recently found a poem by Rebecca Parker that I revised as a call and response. It affirms the responsibility to use one's gifts to serve humanity
Social Justice Call & Response
"Choose to Bless the World" adapted from a poem Rebecca Parker
Your gifts—whatever you discover them to be—
can be used to bless or curse the world.
Choose to Bless the World
The mind's power,
The strength of the hands,
The reaches of the heart,
Choose to Bless the World
Any of these can serve to feed the hungry,
Bind up wounds,
Welcome the stranger,
Praise what is sacred,
Do the work of justice
Or offer love.
Choose to Bless the World
Any of these can draw down the prison door,
Hoard bread,
Abandon the poor,
Obscure what is holy,
Comply with injustice
Or withhold love.
Choose to Bless the World
You must answer this question:
What will you do with your gifts?
Choose to bless the world.
The choice to bless the world is more than an act of will,
A moving forward into the world
With the intention to do good.
It is an act of recognition, a confession of surprise, a grateful acknowledgment
That in the midst of a broken world
Unspeakable beauty, grace and mystery abide.
Choose to Bless the World
None of us alone can save the world.
Together—that is another possibility waiting.
Whose Birthday Is It Anyway?
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The Most Ridiculous High School Classes Ever
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Renewing Our Vows After 50 Years
Lyn and I participated in a mass wedding/renewal ceremony to help celebrate the legalization of same sex marriage in Florida. Here is the article we wrote about the experience.
Doctors Need to Do More Than Look at a Computer Screen
From my Psychology Today blog:https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/am-i-right/201501/doctors-need-listen-more
Ethical Culture Is a Platypus
Wealth gap threatens democracy worldwide
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My Life As a Soldier
Part 3 of 4
"Are you busy right now? I can use your help," Arata said.
"I have a class in a half-hour."
"This won't take longer than about fifteen minutes."
* * *
My brother, who had been in the army band, warned me, "Never volunteer for anything in the army." Not everyone heeded this sage advice, though. Just before the first weekend pass during basic training, our company sergeant, Torres, asked who played an instrument. A number of hands went up. He told them to bring their instruments from home, for he was creating a marching band. From then on, the musician soldiers marched through the New Jersey Pine Barrens in the summer, not only with rifles and packs, but also with their musical instruments.
Once, the bass drummer, trying to balance himself on a log as he crossed a creek, stumbled and fell in. Maybe Sgt. Torres had shouted a warning to him. But, even if he had, there was no way to know what he meant. Everything in "this man's army" was a grunt—haa, huu! or huu, haa! With his thick Spanish accent, it became impossible to understand anything he said.
Another time we were in formation in front of our barracks, ready to break at the end of the day. Since this was basic training, we had been trained to respond to orders the split second they were issued. So, when Torres barked and our platoon sergeant repeated the same "Haa, huu!," some of us thought we were ordered to fall out, but others thought he said "Huu, haa!," and stood at attention. There was a crash and clang of steel and rifles, helmets and bodies piled up quickly.
Nothing stopped the marching band, though. Wherever we went, they went, too. While other soldiers marched to the cadence of left-right, left-right, your-left, your- left, we double-timed to the beat of the bass drum. Other troops waited quietly in front of the mess hall, but we arrived in style and did the bunny hop to the chow line.
I violated the "never volunteer" advice once. My company was going to the field, a dirty day when we might again be exposed to tear gas. A deal was offered: Donate blood, take the rest of the day off. I raised my hand.
Cots filled a large gym. Mine was somewhere in the middle. Orderlies began inserting needles at one side, moved to me, then to the end of the line. By the time they were finished putting the needles in, they returned to the beginning to take them out. By now, the bags were filled. Mine had little in it, though. Thin veins, I think they said. They reached the end of the line and returned to me. Only a trickle collected. Now they took out the needle and stuck it in again, in another part of the arm. Five minutes later, there was no more blood than before. They put the needle in the other arm. Same results. Finally, the doctor came over. He looked down at my pale face and saw that the tube to the bag had a knot in it. He untied it, the blood flowed. Only when I'm feeling sufficiently guilty for not doing a good thing do I now donate blood to the Red Cross.
* * *
"What do you need?" I asked Arata.
I thought that maybe he wanted me to read something he had written.
"I want you to be part of the panel."
Was I going to make a mistake by volunteering yet again?
* * *
The first year after active duty, at summer camp in Ft. Drum, I was directed by my commanding officer to run the projector for our weekly meetings. This prospect didn't appeal to me because it meant coming early to meetings to get things ready, then staying late to pack away the film. But my CO was sending me to projectionist school, so I could receive a license. The army wouldn't let anyone touch a projector without a license.
"Don't worry," the teacher said, reassuring the class. "By the end of the day, everyone will have a license." Not me, I thought. Most of the mornings, I sat diligently writing not notes but letters to Lyn who by then was my fiancé. At first, the instructor was impressed with my eagerness to take down his information, but he grew suspicious as the morning drew on. He'd walk by my desk, and I'd put my arm over the paper so he couldn't see. Finally, he insisted, and I had to show him my love letter. He didn't find this amusing and issued me a warning. I put away the paper. After lunch, I decided to ask questions. I wanted to know how the picture appeared on the screen; I wanted to know how to get sound from celluloid. I continued to ask technical, obscure questions, and all he wanted to do was show us how to thread the film and fill out a packing order.
At the end of the day, he gave out certificates to everyone but me. "You're going to the CO," he told me.
The commanding officer sat imposingly behind his dark desk. This wasn't a reservist, like my reservist CO. Perhaps I had gone too far this time. "I've heard about what you did today, private," the colonel said. "I'm going to report you. Your commanding officer will discipline you." He dialed the phone as I left. When I returned to my barracks, a group was outside, including my CO. They cheered and congratulated me. My CO, it turned out, had no more military discipline in him than anyone else in my reserve unit.
My Life as a Soldier – Part 2 of 4
Arata likes giving orders. I don't. He can also take orders, something I also have trouble with. This is partly the fault of my small learning problem—mixed-brain dominance, an educator friend called it, when I explained that, although I'm a righty, there are some things I prefer doing with my left hand, such as shooting a rifle. This makes me naturally clumsy. Once, when my mother saw me play basketball, she wanted to know why I spent so much time on the floor.
I met Arata because I was working on a book of applied ethics that included moral dilemmas, and I wanted a military response to one of the questions. One day, he was in the hall with an inspector general. I introduced myself to them both and asked the white-haired senior officer if he would agree to answer a question for the book. Arata, afraid I was a lunatic anti-ROTC professor, like a good junior officer, deflected the request and said he would like to see the question himself.
ROTC and The New College, where I teach at Hofstra, were uneasy neighbors housed in one building. The New College began as an alternative to traditional education in the 60's, and by the 1990's contained the rump of progressive causes, a place sometimes identified by the rest of the university, and the local press, as a bastion of feminist and Marxist ideologies. For years, my only association with ROTC was looking at a display on the ground floor, trying to remember which ranked higher, colonel or major.
Arata read the scenario I presented to him about a West Point cadet caught between the honor system and loyalty to a cheating friend and asked if he could contribute to the book. Arata, it turned out, wasn't like any professional soldier I had known before, and, over the next several months, we developed a fondness for one another.
During the Vietnam War, I declared myself a conscientious objector. This was largely a symbolic gesture, since I already had finished my military obligation. When I was a teenager, it was simply assumed that you would be drafted. It was only later that young men drank quarts of honey to raise their blood sugar to dangerous levels or had their doctors write reports on their delicate constitutions. In 1961, when I joined the army, these options were beyond consideration.
My friend Joel Feldman told me that, if we joined the army reserves before we were 18, we would only serve three-and-a-half years attending weekly meetings and two weeks of active duty during the summer, instead of the usual six years required of reservists. There was no way we could escape six months of active duty, though, and, for that period of time, I would have to be a real soldier.
The added bonus of joining the reserves so young was that we could choose whatever unit we preferred. We heard about a Special Services company, a unit that during WWII ran the R&R (Rest & Recreation) center at the French Riviera for American troops. The group also met in an office building in midtown Manhattan, and no one wore uniforms. The company required that its members take an audition to demonstrate a talent, but none of us had any. Still, because of our youth, we had to be accepted.
Joel, Marty Schlow, and I signed up and joined a company of soldiers who were opera singers, musicians, athletes, dancers, and directors. Some of the reservists were also comedians and TV comedy-show writers. One night, someone instead of using a training film showed the Hollywood movie Picnic, running it backwards, so we saw it from end to beginning. Another night, we watched a first-aid demonstration in which the instructor, explaining how to treat a cut, swathed a companion in bandages from head to foot like a mummy.
During summer camp, a ballet dancer led our PT exercises in the quadrangle in front of the barracks.
"OK, men," he said, with no authority whatsoever. "Take your positions. Now, hands on hips," and we bent our knees, feet straight ahead—one-two, one-two, now one foot at a right angle, up-down, through all four ballet positions, thirty Tinkerbells in combat boots. Soldiers from other companies stopped their exercises to watch us place our arms over our heads and position our feet now splayed 180 degrees.
Another day at camp, we had a lecture on camouflage. One of the men found a tree limb and stuck the limb taller than himself into his belt, wrapped a roll of toilet paper around his head, and sang an Israeli song as he charged around as if crazed from a blazing desert sun.
These antics didn't sit well with our supervising officer, an earnest soldier from the Pentagon who had apoplectic fits, which only further undermined whatever respect the others may have had for him. In exasperation, our commanding officer issued dire warnings: If we kept this up, our reports to the Pentagon would be so bad that we were in danger of being disbanded.
During our second year in the reserve unit, we were told that we had to wear our uniforms to the next meeting. Despite the protests that some didn't even know they had a uniform, that morning we lined up in the hall of the office building in which we met. There were dress green trousers that weren't hemmed, patches sewn upside down on sleeves, loafers with fatigues, sport shirts with khaki field jackets, argyle socks, and silk ties. Soon after this costume ball, the unit was disbanded. I was transferred to a company of journalists and issued typewriters at meetings to men who sat and wrote stories about fictitious battles.
I didn't make any better soldier than I did a Boy Scout, an affiliation that lasted through one week at summer camp. I cried so bitterly when my parents visited on the weekend that they had to take me home. I hated wearing a uniform. I hated being told what to do. I hated washing dishes and scrubbing pans in the mess hall.
I also cried the first time they visited me at boot camp in Ft. Dix. One Saturday, they found me behind the mess hall scrubbing the underside of a removable walk-in refrigerator floor. I had KP duty thirteen times during eight weeks of basic training; I lost weekend passes because my blanket didn't fit tight enough on my bed. During advanced infantry training, I was tossed out of the color guard because my boots didn't shine sufficiently; I never learned to put my rifle back together in the dark, and the machine gun always wound up with extra parts after re-assembly. When I received my honorable discharge in 1965, I hadn't made PFC, an amazing achievement since Private First Class is a rank usually achieved by simply not expiring.
Arata wears a uniform most of the time. You can't avoid uniforms in the military, even at night, as this time calls for boxer shorts and T-shirts. I always slept in pajamas and saw no reason why I should give up the practice now that I was in the army. Mine were red polka dot. My bunk was at the far end from the hall, so when the commanding officer came in just before lights out, we jumped to attention and stood mutely at our bedsides. He inspected the troops as he walked by solemnly in his paratrooper-starched uniform. Finally, he reached my end of the barracks and, for the first time, saw me. He walked past, then returned. He stared and said, shaking his head, "Dobrin, I've been in this man's army for twenty years, and I've never seen anyone wear pajamas before."
My Life as a Soldier: Part 1 of 4
Guns Were Forbidden in My Home
"I need a favor from you," said Steven Arata, a man too likable to be a professional warrior. But that's what he was the commanding officer of the Reserve Officers Training Corps at Hofstra University and a veteran command officer in Haiti.
Being friends with Lieutenant Colonel Arata, even for a short time, was something that surprised me since the military and I were never on good terms. He went to West Point and made a career of the army; the moment I joined the army, I knew the date I was leaving. Arata went to West Point partly for a tuition-free college education but also as part of his family tradition. The only military tradition in my family was running from it. It began with my maternal grandfather who fled from being conscripted into the Czar's army. I was proud of having served in the Peace Corps; no one in my family was proud of my military service.
Having a toy gun in my house was as forbidden as pork in my grandparents' home. As far as I know, my father had never touched a gun. He had been too young for WWI and too old for WWII. Although he wasn't in the military, he did serve, as an air raid warden, watching Brooklyn skies for German planes during blackouts. My father kept his gear after the war and stored it in a box of assorted galoshes and old coats on the floor of his closet. I often played with his heavy white helmet and gas mask with the crack in one lens, imagining shooting down German bombers over my school.
When an aunt bought me a cap gun as a present, my mother and her sister argued about its appropriateness, and the gun went into the garbage as soon as my aunt left. This didn't put a stop to my attraction to guns, though. I used my forefinger and thumb to kill bad guys and put myself in the comic book ads for Daisy rifles. I played with a real BB gun in Junior's basement when I was about ten. One of us took target practice as another ran past an open doorway with a pillow across his face. I also used a handmade gun made out of wood that used a rubber band to shoot small squares of linoleum.
Another difference between Arata and me is that I don't put much stock in patriotism. Possibly I can trace this to the time when a relative gave me a small silk Japanese flag. I took it out to the street. Junior thought I was a traitor for carrying a flag of America's recent enemy. He insisted that I grind the flag under my shoe. I refused. He took it from me and did it himself, thereby ripping a hole in it. Junior and I parted company when he went from guns that shot BB's and cut-up floor covering to zip guns that used real bullets.
At that time, I didn't know that my neighborhood was a Mafia center. That prosperous church by Linden Boulevard? Mob hangout. The weedy marsh by the abandoned waterworks? A burial ground. The candy store, the one I wasn't allowed to go to? Headquarters for a numbers racket. I went to Mr. Flicka, the Jewish barber, but the other barbershop? A bookie joint. Some of the boys who frightened me from walking one block away, on Crescent Street, became infamous as mobsters. When, as an adult, I heard about all this for the first time, I thought about Junior's father who was a bricklayer and parked his vehicle in front of his house, a black van that looked suspiciously like a hearse.
My mother didn't want me to go to the local high school because it was a rough and dangerous place full of switchblades, black leather jackets, and engineer boots. I didn't confront a real gun until years later, when at the gate to the Jomo Kenyatta Airport in Nairobi one night, a soldier stopped our two buses on an unlit road. Lyn and I were leading a safari to Kenya, and after two weeks we were heading home having safely taken care of thirty anxious Americans. He told Lyn to get out of her bus and opened the luggage bin.
"Out with the bags!" he ordered. "All of them."
She talked to the soldier in Swahili.
I talked to him in English. I explained that we wouldn't get to our plane on time. The bus owner began to berate him, as he began to examine the bags. I knew what his automatic rifle could do. It was more sophisticated than the M1 I had been issued in the army. After a bribe, we reloaded the luggage and just made it to the plane.


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The legacy of Sara Schenirer as taught in the Orthodox world is direct first-hand testimony from her students and colleagues. To suggest that there was a conspiracy to change her legacy is ludicrous and seems contrived to support a revised feminist view of her contributions.
If selected for publication, it will appear as soon as possible on Haaretz.com.


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Skye McCole Bartusiak, Actress in 'The Patriot' & '24,' Dead at 21
Skye McCole Bartusiak, who is perhaps most remembered for her role in 2000's 'The Patriot,' was found dead Saturday in her home in Texas. She was only 21 years old.
Skye McCole Bartusiak, who is perhaps most remembered for her role in 2000's 'The Patriot,' was found dead Saturday in her home in Texas. She was only 21 years old.
Despite three very different new challengers, 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' continued to rule over the box office this weekend. This doesn't spell disaster for the newcomers, but it does spell further success for the sequel to 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes,' which is riding extremely positive word of mouth to a big box office tally.
Last night (July 19), Beyonce mysteriously posted a 'Fifth Shades of Grey' teaser announcement that the first trailer for the highly anticipated film will be released this Thursday, July 24.
Hollywood has lost a legend today as CNN reports that James Garner, best known for his iconic role in TV's 'The Rockford Files,' has died at the age of 86. Police believe he died of natural causes.
A crime thriller, an animated romp and a raunchy comedy—just the dose of variety the movie doctor ordered for what's been a rather bland summer season at cinemas so far.
On the day of his fifth wedding anniversary, Channing Tatum posted an adorable family selfie with his wife Jenna Dewan Tatum and their daughter Everly.
It's been about four years since Guillermo del Toro and Disney announced that they were developing a film based on 'The Haunted Mansion,' the classic Disney theme park attraction, but today the director has offered an update on the long-gestating project -- and the good news is that it's definitely still happening.
Can you imagine Katy Perry's name in bright lights over Broadway?
This Labor Day weekend, for one week only, you can see the 1984 comedy classic 'Ghostbusters' on the big screen, digitally restored in all its slimy, Stay-Puft glory. And now Sony has delivered a special 30th anniversary trailer for the film, which will also be getting a special Blu-ray re-release. Hail Gozer!
His new movie, 'Affluenza,' opens this Friday July, 11th theatrically and on demand.
Eve Mendes and Ryan Gosling are allegedly expecting a baby together.
We have some aca-awesome news for you, 'Pitch Perfect' fans!


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Wow-- where to start? Why is Japan such a bewildering mystery to foreigners? The language barrier? Culture? Business practices? Every time I read an economic treatise on Japan, the words 'mystery' and 'below the surface' and 'enigma' invariably appear within the first two paragraphs.Japan is only a 'mystery' because it is so complex-- but no more complex than the US or UK or any other advanced free-market democracy. That complexity is poorly understood because of the language barrier and because of slightly different motivations among managers. However, these can all be decoded and understood on a certain level once one learns the language and spends enough time in the office.To me, Japanese behaviour is actually quite predictable, once the proper set of motivating factors can be included. Too often, I fear, gaijin reporters cannot get over their 'mysterious Japan' complex, and as a result pull up short when trying to explain why something happens in my beloved adopted homeland.
I've lived and worked in Japan since 1981. By my experience, "[my] correspondent" is either high on something or suffers from delusions, and his Japanese interloper is perpetuating outmoded generalizations ofmythical proportions that serve the interests of nationalist who wish the Japanese were a cookie-cutter people. H. Roark's response is pretty much spot on in many ways. Also, there are places in Japan where you_will_ find centuries-old houses, temples, shrines, and castles, all well cared for and preserved. The west sentimental? The usual formulation is the opposite: that the Japanese are sentimental ("wet" in local parlance) and Westerners (undefined) are unsentimental and ruthlessly rational ("dry").You need to recall this guy before he misleads anyone or undermines _The Economists_'s total credibility. This kind of reporting--mentality, even--is not worthy of your newspaper's reputation.
jbviajero - what a strange response! Who wants to live in a society of self-sacrifice!? (as is depicted in this article). as for the depictions in this article, they are wrong - There is a very big difference between rhetoric and the actual here. Thankfully. Though I've lived in Japan with a local family, I'm not trying to be mr.japan, my points I'd apply to most articles that attempt to explain a foreign culture. "The ideal form of beauty for the Japanese is the cherry blossom"Oh how mysterious and charming you say? Bullshit, I say. (And then you go on to say sentimentalism of the past is a Western notion!? this is your stereotype phrase from a samurai film series!)Stop listening to what people say and start watching what they do. There are three factors that are better at explaining the replacement of old buildings for new:-very high land-values-hugely subsidised, protected and politically influential building industry. -job-creation valued more by the voting public at large than preservation, for multiple reasons tied to economic and political structure (which impacts current social structure)Certainly there is generally less an appreciation for preservation of old buildings in Japan. But this side to culture doesn't need to be analysed through ancient history, it can be as fleeting as a fashion if situations turn through progress or policy and there becomes less utility to the individual to openly claim value to preservation, or self-sacrifice for that matter. How do you explain the extreme preservation of pottery and samurai swords? Consider the difference between general Chinese rhetoric 40 years ago and how people actually were (or are), and to those who look at ancient history to explain the present, compare the China of 40 years ago to today. Academics love to talk 'individualist' vs 'collectivists' societies, as it were the actual people that are different beings. Bullshit. In each and everyone is an extent of selfishness and selflessness, but here's the lesson: everyone is by nature mostly selfish. Hence our ancestors survived and you and I are here. Now it might pay more in a society to Show selflessness more than another. People might even Think themselves to be selfless, but that's all there is to it. You want to see individualism in Japan? Look at any Japanese invention, or any progress through capatilism. You want to see collectivism in the West? Look at a anti-societal punk-goth, he still belongs somewhat to the punk-goth collective. To talk of many signs of collectivism in Japan, is more to say that Japan is rather homogenuous, an enormous collective or very much a country (for other terms), while the west (on the other hand) is more divided, made up of more numerous, less-corresponding collectives.
The analyst acquaintance in this piece seems to have misunderstood a few things about doing business here. First, whenever you evoke "officialdom", everything becomes very, very rigid. Rules will be followed and customary procedures observed. You don't want to go "official" with any matter until it is already informally dealt with. That's the mistake he did with both of the two first items.* Evoking an acquaintance as working at a ministry is making it a semi-official connection to that ministry. Bad idea if that ministry affiliation isn't critical to begin with (it wasn't in this case); even worse was that the acquaintance didn't even know about the feud between the ministries and his own place of employment's position (the feud between the education and industry ministries is long and legendary).What he should have done was to talk about his acquaintance not as a ministry employee, but as his squash partner, or university friend or some such. That keeps the ministry connection incidental and unofficial.* In the second case, he should of course have gone to the deputy first, informally (and probably through a common acquaintance or other introduction), and talked it all over with him. Only once the meat of the business is taken care of do you call a formal meeting where the already agreed-on stuff will be approved.The third item is different. He does not seem to know how work introductions normally work. You don't just refer an unknown like he did. When you introduce someone like this, you are taking personal responsibility for their performance. You are essentially being the guarantor for their work. If the new employer does good then credit flows to you as well; if they screw up, then you do take part of the blame. Depending on the place of employment you may even be expected to guide their career and act as their mentor for most of your working life. If you try to introduce a new prospective employee but can't answer basic questions about their work experience, performance and personality you come off as someone who hasn't done their own homework or due diligence on an important matter.
Oh god, Mr Economist Reporter chap, you don't know what kind of furious backlash you have unleashed with your report!
You do realise that now every English Teacher, Otaku (nerd) and general japan-o-phile within a 200 mile radius will now hone in on this peice of biased reporting and will spend weeks finding ways of poking holes in it.
Leave our correspondent alone guys, it doesn't take a year working in the JET program to understand that he's just calling it as he sees it and that he has to work in a journalistic environment far removed to what we're used to in the West. This is a journalistic blog much like "From our own correspondent" on BBC.com and not a 300 page essay on Japanese culture and ethics.
So, please, leave the nitpicking for the inevitable "The Economist doesn't understand Japan!" panels at Otakon or Anime Central and give the man some slack.
"Japanese organisations are rigidly hierarchical and closed to outsiders—even ones that would be beneficial to the organization. Either you are a part of the group or you are nothing."
Just the same as in Italy. ;(
Two points:
Japan has earthquakes; big ones, and lots of them. That is bad for masonry. Not surprisingly, woodworking is a highly developed craft in Japan. But wood burns readily, as it did copiously in 1945.
Also, eastern philosophy sees life as more cyclical and transitory. An eastern garden reflects and echoes nature, a western garden controls and defies it. A western man understands his existence as the degree to which he has changed the world forever. An eastern man understands it as the degree to which he has understood and moved within the world's essential cycles.
prestwick-uk, do expect a backlash when an article is posted into digital WWW. It'll be scrutinize by innocents or jaded alike. I work for a Japanese company and there's quite an upheaval behind closed doors. The writer was simply stating a point of view that I can relate to. But of course, there are more unraveling if you look closer. Mind you, did you ever wonder how I got into this Japanese company? Because my boss is a maverick. Yep, he based his decision on my credentials (yes, he's westernized)and that's an odd ball. A Japanese coworker told me Filipinos (Philippines) are known to be prostitutes. Of course, I know this to be true because they are MADE To be such by mafia-force. How will you feel if you're labeled as a prostitute in Japan? that includes my beloved mother, sisters, cousin etc. Scratching my head, I replied, "Why do school girls engage in enjo kosai or prostitution - dating with older men? " I'm sure he was surprised I know that. Puhleeze, read Time magazine. After much contemplation on this matter, Filipinos have a great reputation in the US, Canada, Europe, Singapore, HK. They're known in the service industry, but I cant fully grasp why its only in Japan they're branded as prostitutes. In essence, its hush-hush in my workplace. Blend in or stand out to face consequences. That's how it works in a Japanese setting where the unpredictable is frowned upon. (though i CANT blend in when I see child pornography 13 - 15 year-old legal DVDs in Japan. Mangas and TV dramas included----- Hush, hush)
Your correspondent seems to have too many acquaintance who are
experienced at "handling" gai-jin reporters, showing him what he
wants to see.
Regarding Tuesday's diary about fleeting nature of Japanese
cityscape, I would really recommend him to take a long holiday
and tour Kyoto, Nara, Ise-Jingu, and Kumano shrines. He needs
to dig into Japanese History and realize that Tokyo is a
relatively new city in Japan, being only 405 years old. Kyoto
is now in its 1212th year, and Nara is celebrating its 1300th
anniversary. If he can't find time for the above, the next
best thing would be to make a day trip to Kamakura, founded in
1192 and containing many temples and shrines that are as old as
oldest colleges of Oxford. While it is true that wood rots and
burns, with proper maintenance wooden structures survive almost
as long as stone ones (Some temple buildings in Nara and Kyoto
are more than a millenium old!).
I think JanneM has done a very good comprehensive comment on
Wednesday's diary so I have no more to add.
Regarding Thursday's diary, I recognize the photo of the Tully's
coffee shop as the one near Tokyo Station, as I also visit that
shop frequently, and I remember that there is a good Thai res-
taurant in the same building. Maybe I am wrong, but that photo looks too familiar to me...
Thanks god that Japan is unique, different from US or Europe. And let's hope it keeps own way, out of the box, because it's so boring to see everywhere McDonalds, Starbucks, Disney, etc... it's so massive, so American. What's funny is that American like to define individual themselves.
I have a friend who worked as a journalist in Tokyo and married a local. He is in the US now, and he CANNOT function. He loved Japan and found it easier to operate there. He had more friends there and a better social life. Overall, Asian societies tend to open up to those who can function there. I lived in Taiwan and my dreadful Chinese slowed me down. I really think language skills determine one's acceptance. All the cultural stuff opens up with time anyway.
I rest my case!
Some people seriously over analyse and misread things, case in point with some of these comments.
He wasn't stating anything as matter of fact, he was merely recounting one of the many conversations he has when doing the rounds as a journalist in Japan and describing that what journos do in Japan is radically different to how journalists are breifed in the UK or the United States.
This discussion isn't about blogs. If you'd listened to even one episode of "from our own correspondent" (a BBC radio series that has been in existence since the 1950s at least) you would have known that. This is just about me pointing out to you that maybe you should be arguing with the shadowy investment banker who recounted most of this to our correspondent in Tokyo. It was you chaps, I believe, who turned this into a referendum on our man in Tokyo's in-depth knowledge of the history of Japan's town planning system.
By all means, continue your nit-pick fest! Have a nice day!
Ermmmmmm...It's about time somebody took Occam's Razor to this why-do-the-Japanese-tear-down-old-buildings thing...Two words: Wood rots!(Everything in Japan was built out of wood until the Meiji Restoration. It was just taken for granted that you'd have to tear down and replace these sporadically. How many 150 year old wooden buildings can you think of in the West?)
I've lived in Japan and must agree with H Roark. Actually, I was informed about building industry corruption from my Japanese friend. To the outsiders (especially westerners) Japan is mysterious land with geishas (actually prostitutes, but don't tell that to a Japanese) and samurais, shoguns etc. But if you scratch a surface you will see Japan's other face - stories about racism (gaijin is actually offensive word, similar to nigger in English), discrimination, brutality and cruelty (just read about Japanese war crimes in WWII)and corruption and secret societies with political connections all around. Most of Japanese companies operates like mafia families - with wide range of allies and political influence. Maybe the best insight in how Japanese companies actually operate is in the book about reviving Nissan wrote by current CEO of Nissan, Carlos Ghosn. There is no free competition and liberal market in Japan. It is still feudalism over there.
I have a friend who worked as a journalist in Tokyo and married a local. He is in the US now, and he CANNOT function. He loved Japan and found it easier to operate there. He had more friends there and a better social life. Overall, Asian societies tend to open up to those who can function there. I lived in Taiwan and my dreadful Chinese slowed me down. I really think language skills determine one's acceptance. All the cultural stuff opens up with time anyway.
Great article! What you have written reflects the shop talk that goes on around our coffee machine at work. All of the people there, myself included, have been in Japan for a decade or more, and the talk typically revolves around just how difficult it is to effect change -- even changes that are no-brainers, clearly helpful and easy to implement. I feel your colleague's pain!!One point you wrote about really rang true. I have worked at the same university for the last 17 years, and as somebody who is literate in Japanese, I'm one of those "gaijin" who tends to walk point when we need to get administrative approval for changes in our department. This is not easy, since our section of the Humanities Department works very much according to Western standards. Recently, the issue came up that teachers were needed to teach some of our less-than-successful students in 20-hour intensive courses. I couldn't get the admin to commit to a specific payment for teachers. They didn't even want to talk about it. But when pushed, it became apparent that this was to be considered a "service to the university." Put in English, that means, "Work for free." But Westerners aren't over here to work for free, so something had to be done. Eventually we came to a firm agreement that everybody seemed happy with. But is this really indicative of any kind of shame or "dishonour" with wanting to talk about money or profit (as mentioned in your article)? In fact, I think the Japanese LOVE to make money. And on an individual basis, your average young "shacho" will be sporting the most ostentatious ware and bling that yen can buy. I'd suggest that a lot of this talk of the dishonour in wanting profit has more to do with those who HAVE the money trying to bully those who NEED the money into working for as little as possible. By couching this "work for free" mentality as being honorable and "the Japanese way," it becomes more palatable to the Japanese workers. But the constant complaints of over work and underpay by my Japanese "eigyoman" (sales and customer reps) friends would indicate that it still isn't easy to swallow.asia-travelbug.blogspot.com
It was an interesting observation of how East Asian nations tend to tear down buildings rather than preserve them. I don't know about Japan but I have read one historian's belief that in China, at least, history is more about the preservation of written language and written history rather than physical spaces. SO you can hear schoolkids learning poems that are seceral thousand years old, and you can read texts of the same age. But since buildings are destined to eventually fall down some day anyway they are seen as more temporary than in Europe.
Is your correspondent english? I am and, despite your correspondent's amazement, I would have behaved in a very similar manner to the japanese father in those circumstances. The child was fine: it was in the capable hands of its mother. Father's role is to deal with everything else, including apologising for the inconvenience/disturbance caused to, and allaying the concerns of the other people.
Wow, Stefano, you have stolen the words from my mouth!
I totally agree and confirm! Italy is still feudal!!
An article from the book of cliches...so boring! Totally misses the point about Japan!
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One of the best ways to learn chemistry is by doing chemistry, in a lab, side-by-side with a faculty member, using the same sophisticated tools that professional scientists use. That's why student research is a signature strength of our chemistry program.
Nanotechnology, polymer chemistry, chemical biology and organic synthesis, groundwater contamination and molecular synthesis are just some of the areas student researchers have explored in recent years.
A Cortland chemistry degree opens many doors to your future. Our chemistry majors are engaged in rewarding careers in research, business and industry. They are readily accepted to medical schools or to graduate programs in chemistry and other fields.
Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship Program
The fellowships provide an opportunity for undergraduate students and their faculty mentors to engage in eight weeks of full-time scholarly activity during the summer of 2013. The fellowships are intended to support student's original research projects, not for merely being a research assistant on a faculty member's research project.
2015 News
- Student Life Center Ribbon to Be Cut March 10, 2015
- Woods Tea Co. to Perform March 28 March 09, 2015
- Students Offer Free Tax Prep Services March 09, 2015
- Physical Education Student Teachers Honored March 06, 2015
- Women's History Month Theme is 'Weaving' March 06, 2015
- College Creates Online Physical Education Degree March 04, 2015
- Nominations Sought for Civic Engagement Awards March 02, 2015
- College Lands Big Sean for Spring Fling February 25, 2015
- Sports Info Director Earns National Honors February 24, 2015
- 'Topographies' Explores Landscape Through Art February 24, 2015
- Research Lab Named in Professor's Memory February 24, 2015
- Professor to Discuss Giant Tortoise Conservation February 24, 2015
- 'R/Evolution' Series Continues during March February 24, 2015
- SUNY Cortland to Honor Peter DiNardo '68 February 24, 2015
- College to Launch Student Opinion Survey February 24, 2015
- Adolescence Education: Chemistry (7-12) [ACM]
- Biochemistry [BCH]
- Chemistry [CHM]
- Chemistry leading to the 3 + 2 Engineering Program [CEN]
- Chemistry Minor [CHE]
- Chemistry: Concentration in Environmental Science [CHM/ENVS]
Graduate Programs
The Chemistry Department has a student affiliate chapter of the American Chemical Society (Chem Club). This club, which is partially funded by student activity fees, provides a focus for students in all areas of chemistry to study together, to obtain tutoring services and to socialize. A special Chem Club office provides working areas and a place for joining in the clubs activities. Chem Club sponsors visiting speakers and each year takes a major trip to a scientific meeting or to a site of interest to the club members.Read More About Chemistry Department Clubs