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"Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a non-partisan law firm that defends all forms of religious expression."
I wonder if how they would define "all forms of religious expression". Would non-Christian expressions be included in their definition of religion? I remember a family member talking about birth certificate of his son issued in UAE with religion stated as "none". The only recognized option was Islam!
First I would love to know who fills out these surveys ? I have been an avid reader of the Economist for 6 years now and have probably only made 15 comments total including the two I've made today. Surely no working American has time to fill out a research questionnaire. You can't fill them out at work and once you get home your tired. So to site one research study as justifiable is not good reporting in my opinion unless you are trying to gear the audience towards a certain way of thinking. Second to say "Catholics" are divided based on statistical comparisons between train of thought and "religious affiliation" and then recompile those statistic result and then include a race is not a very good practice. No I'm not Catholic but if you asked how many of the Catholics we're practicing Catholics, not just go to mass, I'm almost certain your numbers would drop by half. Then remove those who are active in there local church because that's how they grew up or because there parents are "true Catholics" (those who believe and try ardently to follow Catholic doctrine) and your numbers would dwindle to very few. Religion guides thought not vice versa; if it's vice-versa then that's called manipulation (as all religion is inspired and suppose to be delivered by God).
Unfortunately, a lot of people still needs... Idiocy.
Basically what has happened in the US is that half of Catholics (and nearly the entire hierarchy) have decided to go the way of the Evangelical. The remaining Catholics are trying to steer along the old course or are leaving the religion altogether. I think the move towards Evangelism is regrettable because it leaves the US without a major religion that supports social justice.
"Conservative Catholics and conservative Protestants may disagree on papal infallibility and transubstantiation, but they share a common enemy. He is in the White House."
I guess it would mean that conservative Catholics and conservative Protestants would agree that the White House and hell are synonyms.
This article missed the point entirely. It should be bemoaning the fact that a two party system can not hope to encompass every one's feelings. Instead it tries to mash a series of beliefs into one of two parties. The Economist could write this same article about almost every apolitical entity in the world. None of them would fit succinctly into paradigm of the two party system.
Like many Americans I identify with and abhor the practices of both parties. However improbable, it makes more sense to create more parties that better reflect the electorate base. For me this would include taking pieces from socially liberal and fiscally conservative ideologies. Or we can continue to write articles about a circle peg that won't fit in a square hole.
Much I what I wanted to say has been said already... so I will just through in my two cents.
For a significant minority (maybe even a plurality) of Americans, organized religion plays either (1) no role in their political life or (2) a nominal role in their political life.
This is not to say that they are all heretics (or is it?). Take me for example, a 30 year old white male living in a fly-over state and a cradle Episcopalian. I grew up in the Church and still have respect for it... I love the liturgy, and always went to a Anglo-Catholic (high-Church) service.
But, I have completely separated politics from religion (as did my parents). I cannot stand it when the church becomes political. If you don't believe in abortions... don't get one. We live in a secular state, so go to church on Sunday (or whenever) but please don't conflate civic responsibility with religious dogma.
How the Catholic Church (and others such as the Southern Baptists, the "black church" and the Episcopal Church) remain political heavyweights in the 21st century is strange to me. I really don't get how people (smart, considerate, civic minded) continue to get up in arms over such things as Obamacare.
For example, birth control on health insurance plans. Obamacare does not mandate that every citizen take some form of contraception... thus "true" Catholics will have no need for it and will not purchase the drug from their pharmacists. So where is the problem? The problem (it seems to me) is that the Catholic Church doesn't want to have to pay for the sinful decisions of others. But all of the Catholic hospitals and Universities (such as the Jesuit institution I attended) have no problem accepting federal aid money, federal research grant money, or charging medicare and medicaid for billing purposes.
So, Religion should be about a desire to live a "godly" life. Catholicism and Anglicanism etc. can recommend the "right" path, encourage you to do XYZ, but they cannot force you to. You have to make those choices for yourself.
Sorry for the long and disjointed post, I have said my piece.
In my view the Episcopal Church no longer commands anywhere near the amount of power it used to command a century ago. It seems to be a highly liberal church with its acceptance of women and gay bishops and its indifference towards abortion. And liberalism and political power don't go hand-in-hand. A liberal church is less likely to issue diktats to its followers and its followers are also less likely to follow them.
So I would disagree with your comment that the Episcopal Church is a political heavyweight.
If you add the bills, Catholic charities and institutions to help the needy have given up a lot more than received in "federal grants" or others. But you hit the nail in the head, Catholics don't want to pay for questionable moral practices of others in matters of choice. That is not "forcing" their beliefs on anyone like you suggest, as they are still free to have them, but on the contrary they are supporting religious freedom. They are saying to the government, do not force us into giving up religious convictions on other's matters of choice by supporting them financially or otherwise.
Well... not in the same way. They are definitely not as powerful as they once were prior to the Civil War. But, Episcopalians are as numerous is the USA as Jews (i.e. not that many of them). Yet they hold a disproportionate amount of wealth. 18% of Jews are in the $1 million plus income bracket as are 12% of Episcopalians.
Despite their small numbers, the Episcopal Church has still garnered media attention for the very things you mention (such as becoming more and more liberal, gay bishops, and female priests etc.).
So, please don't think that I believe Episcopal Power=Catholic/Baptist Power. I don't, but it is a highly organized (and increasingly) political body (like Catholicism). And, as another poster pointed out, highly organized institutions are better at pushing political agendas.
So perhaps the best thing to say is this: Episcopalians have a disproportionate amount of wealth, power, and political power when compared to their small size.
Your point is well taken. That is why this is such a vexing issue. Catholic institutions do so much good... but because they enter into the marketplace of hospitals and education (and helping the general public) they naturally become entangled in the leviathan. It is then, that they jump back and say "we cannot do this because of our faith." One may suggest that their services are too essential to be fettered by religious hangups (to put it bluntly).
Certainly an interesting issue...
Indeed it is interesting, unfortunately too many of us put our own personal convictions and personal bias towards the church or organized religion ahead of the legal precedent.
You are correct that the Episcopal Church is politically less significant than "a century ago." However, your history needs updating.
A century ago the Episcopal Church was not politically especially liberal. If anything, it was a tad on the conservative side. As late as the 1950s it was the a popular destination for the wealthy or privileged.
It became liberal starting in the early 1960s (Bishop Pike?) As a result, it became the darling of the Left but its membership stagnated (and stagnates.) At the moment it is riven both in American and abroad over female ordination and gay clergy. The African communions have largely rebelled against leadership coming out of Canterbury.
As a general rule, churches lose political clout as they become politically liberal. The wan status of the UCC, Presbyterian Church (USA) and, yes, the Episcopalians illustrate that rule.
Those that are politically powerful -- Baptists, Mormons, Catholics -- are conservative.
"Catholics don't want to pay for questionable moral practices of others in matters of choice."
Your statement ignores the fact that religious institutions aren't required to pay for birth control under the PPACA.
But you were aware of that, right?
Indirectly they are. Also directly under the dubious definition of "religious employer" where many Catholic institutions both serve and employ non-Catholics.
That is exactly what I meant. When it was in its "heyday", it was much more conservative than it is today. And with increasing liberalism, it has increasingly lost its political clout.
Yes that is true. The Episcopalians do have disproportionate wealth and power in comparison to their numbers but that is not the same as the Church having power. The people who constitute the Church are powerful but the Church itself isn't powerful. This is because the Episcopalians tend to be more liberal than most other church-goers and so they are less likely to exercise their power along religious lines.
As to the question of it being highly organized, that is more a consequence of its history. It is one of the oldest Churches in the United States and it was very well established in the early years of the country. So it would be highly organized.
The problem is that employers and taxpayers are being made to pay for birth control as part of a mandated employer provided health plan. That's the coercion.
The article lucidly limns how American Catholics long ago ceased to be a voting bloc and scattered, instead, into the multiverse of American political opinion. The old New Deal coalition had Catholics as a prime component, along with unions and immigrants, but that was eighty years ago and Catholics long since have mainstreamed from their Old World ethnic roots and priestly obedience.
Let's skip jejune discussion about how "religions don't have the right to tell us what to do." Religious leaders have the same right to try and persuade and convince as anyone else. Maybe you thought you learned something different in high school civics but you were misinformed.
The Good Sisters, I mean the ones on the bus, are an altogether different issue. Public opinion seems entirely with them and against what it perceives to be a mysoginist male hierarchy given to pedophilia. The cheery sisters, by way of contrast, can tap into a pulsating vein of feminism that courses throughout American life today to draw strength. They are so much the underdog that Americans cannot help themselves for rooting for these nuns, even if those doing the rooting are not Catholic themselves. But, there is more to the story.
The Catholic hierarchy has been criminal -- literally, criminal -- in covering up sexual abuse of minors. It is a slow learner and only mounting financial judgments against it seem likely to make it do what conscience would seem to dictate -- protect the young. But, the church does not so much have a pedophilia problem as a gay problem. Ironically, although castigated as being homophobic, the church genially welcomed gays into the clergy so long as they were celibate. That was a mistake. The child abuse problem has not stemmed from the Reverend Rake seducing females. It stems almost entirely from gay adult men having illegal sexual involvement with underage males. Few gays are child molesters just as few heterosexuals are child molesters. But, those few have done so much damage that, remiss as it has been, the hierarchy cannot be blamed for seeming chary of modern sexual culture.
As for the nuns, much as we admire "feisty women" who "stand up" to men, the church sees itself as bearing the message of redemption through Christ. Everything else is supposed to be subordinate to that -- and "everything" includes the nuns. Militant feminism has permeated many of the orders and to the hierarchy this looks a lot like a rival set of beliefs pushing out the Gospel. Then, too, the hierarchy tries to construct a political and economic agenda consistent with its understanding of the Gospel. Looked at from the outside, it may seem to be doing a poor job of it. But, confronted with a society as militantly hostile to its teachings as this one seems to be, it does not need snipers in nuns' habits shooting at the ranks from behind.
Individual Catholics are understandably distraught and ashamed at the criminality in their church. But, that same church is trying very hard to present a minority report on ethnics and morals different from what modern liberal opinion likes to hear. That the messenger is dissolute and even criminal does not mean the message is false. It means the messenger needs a good talking to and a kick in the pants.
Catholics, meanwhile, will vote their pocketbooks and consciences like everyone else. Those who fear "Catholic power" can relax . . . it doesn't amount to very much anymore. What is said in the pulpit is no longer heard in the pews.
The nuns are part of the Catholic church that managed to widely avoid the entire mess of the past decade, largely because they either spend most of their time praying or doing good deeds. Also, since their authority over the faithful is so limited they don't really have much ability to abuse their authority. And yet ironically they still are actually pushed away from power. Such a wonderful way to convince women to become Catholic.
Basically, religions remain free to tell their followers how they should live, but they are not free to coerce them to live a certain way, nor are they free to enlist the government to reduce their followers' access to LEGAL things that are declared contrary to doctrine.
The abortion debate and now the contraception debates are about religion USING the government to enforce religious doctrine. All Americans should reject this intrusion on our liberty.
The reason, @drewskin, that your slavery analogy doesn't follow @guest-wsaooje's logic at all, is that his/her logical argument is in the form of, "if something is LEGAL, it does not necessarily follow that you MUST do it." Slavery isn't legal.
Churches are not enlisting the government to reduce adherent's access to anything. You've turned the situation on its head and set up a straw man.
The government is forcing churches to pay for something that is against their religious teachings. This is not about the Catholic church or the contraception issue specifically. This is about the government attempting to coerce religious organizations into acting directly against their teachings.
I find this whole debate fascinating and a bit horrifying because I cannot understand why anyone would defend this blatant violation of a fundamental liberty. "Sure, you're allowed to exercise your religion. You just have to do it how and where I say."
About the only thing you have right is that it is about religious freedom. Forcing somebody else to pay for others questionably moral practices in matters of choice is interfering with their religious freedom. The government is in fact imposing on the church religious freedom no to support such practices financially or otherwise. People could still have them, just not on the church's dime.
What if paying taxes is against my religion? Can I be excused from doing that then? Or if I don't believe in speed limits...shall there be an exception made for me then the next time I max out my car on the highway?
I'm free to make up my own religion, after all. No need to follow one which others made up for me, so I can set the rules.
If you live in a democratic country you're going to have to face the fact that everybody is equal and the laws apply equally to everyone. Separation of church and state. If something that the state approves of goes against your religion, tough luck. One rule for all is the only thing that works.
Republican view: We will fight for your freedom to buy condoms for yourself.
Democrat view: We will force you to buy condoms for someone else. If you refuse to do so, we shall put you in prison !!
Supercilious sophisticate.
The democrats' (small d) view is that it is in the pubic interest that condoms be available to all, and thus that all should contribute to their purchase.
This is the same logic that gave you Social Security, Public Schools, Police Forces, Standing Armies, et cetera.
The Republican view is: You can do what you want, but you get no help from me other than agreement to your right to do what you want--as long as you don't organise and take control of your own lives. (Cf., Mr. Scrooge)
Dr. Kick,
It is also in the public interest to force high IQ women to reproduce with low IQ men (and the reverse) in order to reduce income inequality. Just curious...how far are you control freek liberal progressive democrats willing to go for "the commom good"??
Never before have I seen condoms placed alongside the army, police and public school system as being of similar core responsibility for government. Are you saying the right gets the army in exchange for democrats providing condoms?? Your logic is slightly odd may I say!
What childishness!
The logic is simple: Unrestrained capitalism is quite harmful. The evidence is very clear.
The citizens of Baseball accept regulation/controls, why are you so frightened of them?
What childishness! What fear!
The logic is simple: Unrestrained capitalism is quite harmful. The evidence is very clear.
The citizens of Baseball accept regulation/controls, why are you so frightened of regulations?
You provide a perfect example of the mentality of fear that was inculcated into American society by those behind Sen. McCarthy.
Dr Kick,
Only 10% of the participants on the baseball field are referees.
In the United States combined federal, state, and local government spending is equal to 42% of GDP.
If you left wing liberal progressive democrats were in charge of baseball, I do indeed suspect that referees would represent almost half of the folks out on the field.
You confirm the concept of childishness.
The sport of baseball has many regulators--they are not all on the field; many are in owners' boxes, councils of senior umps, etc. And that is not counting the lawyers, etc., who regulate the business of baseball, much less individual games.
Baseball is much more democratic (thanks to Curt Flood) than you would wish it to be.
My, TryWorking, that was weak. Please try again later after you've given this some thought . . . .
You know what Dr. Kick..you are correct!! I thought about it and you are correct gosh darn it!! What we need in America is a working to regulating ratio of 1:5. We need five regulators for every one working stiff. You are right !! I will vote for Obama this November...I will !!!
Children go on pouting...
And make exaggerated claims...
Work is work is work. Whether on the production line, in the market, or as part of the referee system that helps us, in our rush to earn a living, to best 'do unto others'.
What you should be looking at is what economists call the "dependency ratio". It is increasing in the US, and most of that increase is traceable to the reduced regulation of the past three decades (under both GOP and Democratic Congresses/Presidents-but mostly under the GOP).
If you really want to read something written by what you call a liberal, read Richard D. Wolff's analyses.
Regarding your childish name calling: My perspective derives from living and working in a dozen different nations (and eight US states)--and with indigenous peoples too. You conflate toleration with what you call liberalism. I find it amazing that a generally liberal magazine like The Economist attracts your subscription.
The only thing the charts prove is that the coloring of one's skin is directly proportional to the chances of one being democrat.
One can claim that the Democrats pander to Latinos and blacks
OR that the Republican party is for white people
I dont understands why churches and religious persons are so interested in deciding other peoples life. If abortions are legal doesn't mean you have to get one if it is against your religion then don't. If gay marriage is legal doesn't mean you have to be in one if it's against your religion then don't. Just because alcohol is legal doesn't mean you have to consume it if it is against your religion then don't and so on. When it comes to the exception that religious institution have on birth control I don't get it. If they really are religious then they won't use birthcontrols anyway so what's the problem about letting it be in their healthcare package?
Religious institution are tax exemt. But if there is a fire the fire brigade will show up. If there is a break-in the police will investigate it. They use the infrastructure like everybody else but they dont pay for it, which is insane. Why should everybody else pay for them? I dont care about other peoples religions and you can eat/dont eat, wear/dont wear, drink/dont drink what ever you want for what ever reason, that is not my buissness but dont force others to do it and pay your fare share like everybody else.
So according to your logic, slavery is OK. If you don't like it, just don't buy a slave.
The reason why devout Catholics can't just sit by and allow abortion to exist is because they truly believe it is homoside. That's really the issue. if you beive the fetus is a fullk human person, then its pretty hard to say "I won't kill it, but you can kill it if you want." The status of the fetus is essential to the issue. Gay Marriage is a little different, but those who believe in marriage as being between a man and a woman believe that it is something unique and special so as to be recognized and supported by the state. By recognizing same sex unions as marriage with full equality, this takes away from the uniquness of traditional marriage. And that is the very point on both side of the issue. One side says the sex of the parties is not essential to the status of the union and, therefore, there should be equality. The other side says sex is essential to the status of the unin and by equalizing same sex ubins the state is devaluing traditional marriage. And that is enough to motivate many to political action. Note that the Catholic hierarchy does not say the state can't recognize and confer the vast majority of marriage benefits on ame sex civil unions.
There is very little theology that gives the status of human being to a fetus. If there were, the Catholic Church would find more support for its stand amongst other faiths. And other churches would not find contraception so acceptable.
The Bible says that humanity should go forth and multiply--but it is human arrogance that assumes that that multiplication is only of the human species rather than (say) a multiplication of all human abilities, not just procreation--or (recalling the ineffability of God) even some other meaning. [As David Brin shows in his Uplift novels--and as "Planet of the Apes" prompted--one way of multiplying might involve helping other species.]
I can see that abortion is a sin; but it is a very personal sin--one between a sinner and her confessor (and often her partner and his confessor). It is a sin that has very little public impact, and that impact has been found to be positive: Studies have shown that abortion rates drop in States where it is legal compared to States where it is illegal. And maternal deaths from botched illegal pregnancies drop to zero.
Abortion's harmful impact on society at large comes about when a church finds it important to attend only to such very personal sins in its public presentations, while at the same time it totally ignores the much more harmful and very public sins of lies, murder, theft, etc. By focusing on very personal sin, a church avoids its primary mission to address those sins that hurt the public the most. And in doing so, it aids and abets those who harm this planet and its people through such sin.
It is such public sins that allow excessive greed to destroy our environment, that tolerate the lies of bankers, brokers, politicians, etc., and that tolerate the inequity and deaths that result from those lies, thefts and destruction. And they even underlay many of the situations that make individuals think there is no option but abortion.
I'm not saying that one should ignore abortion; I'm saying that it is not something that belongs to the public. Solve the problem, treat the symptom.
You fail to mention the most beneficial albeit controversial externality of abortion, the reduction in the crime rate as suggested by Donohue and Levitt.
... not only not buy a slave, PAY for others to buy a slave.
You are setting up a straw man argument. Slavery is illegal in every civilized country for a number of reasons. Use of a prophylactic hurts no one and is perfectly legal. Two gay males deciding to marry does not cause physical or mental harm to anyone. Its not a crime, no matter how distasteful some people may find it.
The church trying to control legislation to support their own doctrine and control their own flock is an entirely different (and serious) issue... I agree with Drewskin on all his points, especially the one pertaining to taxation.
I worry when the Catholic Church (or any other church that believes in free will) works to deny its members the exercise of their own free will. That is what the Church does when it insists that it not be required to take the standard package for health insurance. That is also what it does when it sanctions elected officials who are its members and acting on behalf of a whole society, not just one church.
Why do I feel sorry? Because the core mission of the Church is pretty decent: Helping people to find ways to put Jesus' Great Commandment into practice in life, and especially in life's many gray areas. That mission gets lost too often in the human failings that lead to more attention being paid to the Church as an organisation than to its mission.
Sorry for the technical distinction, but Dr. your conflating "free will" and "free choice." Free will (as opposed to determinism in its many forms) deals with whether an individual is capable of moral responsibiulity in some sence (which the church teaches). What you are taliking aboult is why the church says some things should not be chosen or that an employer should not be required to present them as an option. It is not inconsistent to hold that people are capable of making choices with moral responsibility and at the same time that certain things should not be chosen.
It seems to me that you are conflating things.
This has nothing to do with capabilities for making choices and everything to do with the right and responsibility to make choices.
If one has free will, it it wrong for one's church to limit that will--to limit her/his choices.
The best defense against 'sin' is the same defenses one finds in science and democracy: the freedom to follow one's inclinations (to do)--and doing involves choosing.
"If one has free will, it it wrong for one's church to limit that will--to limit her/his choices."
Not sure what you really meant to say but moral teaching is all about how we should refrain from choosing certain things and how we ought to choose certain things. That we choose freely does not mean the Church, or anyone else, can't say "your wrong and I/we will not support that choice." Do you really mean to say that the Church is not allowed to have an opinion and is not allowed to act in accordance with that opinion with regard to its members and institutions?"
Fair question.
A church has pedagogical rights, not absolute rights.
Whether a member always adheres to a church's teachings is, given free will, up to that member.
A church should not assume a paternalistic attitude by telling Caesar that Caesar must not allow that church's members to use one of Caesar's programs, policies, etc.
Such use (or non-use) should be up to the member. Else where is the need for the Sacrament of Reconciliation?
That is much the same as when children become adults: Their parents still provide guidance, but otherwise have no formal controls.
as a 26 year old male white catholic i can say that i have two reasons for not voting for barack obama this fall.
1. his party is obsessed with persecuting the church. the left has always had a tradition of anti clericalism. Not giving religious exemptions for things like gay adoption to catholic orphanages is insane. All the catholic orphanages and adoption agencies in Massachusetts where shut down by the democratic party. insane. the made up priest abuse scandal (statistically the catholic church is the safest place for children in the world) has been engineered by the democratic party by passing senate bills ghost written by lawyers which have bankrupted diocese and ruin their reputation. Even if your institution is the best in the world their are still going to be thousands of cases of abuse. Until the democrats in americas state senates stop passing senate bills against dioceses i will not vote for a democrat .
2. i went to school my whole life in government factories. why couldn't i go to a catholic school instead. they are far better and far cheaper. this is the democratic parties fault too. I am sick of seeing people like barack obama who went to pretty boy private schools his whole life tell me that i must be forced to go to the public school system. i am sick of this policy of obamas bankrupting my church by making my beloved fellow parishioners pay twice for theirs kids schooling (pay once for private school tuition to go to catholic school and then pay again to go to public schools that they are never going to use).
The Catholic Church deliberately covered up the paedophilia of its priests - this is proven fact, and has been admitted by them, hence the huge payouts to the victims. And it isn't an America-only problem, the child rape in catholic orphanages in Ireland and other places were endemic. The victims were threatened and bullied, and the perpetrators protected. They care more about the reputation of the church than the well being of their flock. If you bothered to find out what it's all about, you would leave your church instantly if you had any humanity.
The simple fact is that the catholic church is a highly centralized, authoritarian and patriarchal organization, and like all highly centralized, authoritarian and patriarchal organizations, it is highly corrupt and abusive. That is why catholic countries are so backward and corrupt relative to protestant ones.
You guys both miss the point. It is like you see the trees, but not the forest.
The forest is that religions still function as if it were the 15th Century. All the population growth, scientific and geographical discoveries, etc., might as well not have happened.
Religions tend to care more about their organisation (Catholic, Methodist, Anglican/Episcopalian, Born-again, etc.) than they do about their mission of helping us poor sods to live decently (that is, to follow the Great Commandment) in a world that is too often indecent.
This is what led bishops to try to hide pedophiles (a problem I first read about 30 years ago from Andrew Greeley). It leads many churches to shun their members who associate with people of other faiths. It leads many churches to seek favor from governments, even.
If you want churches to focus on their mission, you will have to help them to see that it is more important than their organisation. Development is overcoming fear. As we quit using organisations for shelter we overcome our fears.
Well written Ned26. I am a 39 year old Catholic and prefer the traditional Latin Mass as said by the FSSP. In San Diego more than 1/2 of the abuse accusations were made against dead men by people on false claims of disability or some other lackluster attempt to drain the chest of Caesar, while Casesar uses them to destroy the Church. It is really actually quite sad - it is very much the way of The Divine Comedy. These nuns should be excommunicated.
You are missing a lot of the facts of the Massachusetts case. In fact Catholic agencies in the state had placed children with gay couples; it was the vatican that came down on the local groups, tried to get the anti-discrimination laws changed and failed (coincidentally, Mitt Romney was the one who told them tough luck). The church initiated the demise of Catholic adoption agencies in Mass, not the democrats. You also clearly have no grasp of either the facts involving the church abuse scandals, the role of the president in state-level prosecutions (hint - it's between zero and 0), or how taxes and taxation work. There are plenty of reasons not to vote for Obama, but everything you've listed is pure and utter nonsense.
>That is why catholic countries are so backward and corrupt relative to protestant ones.
Ehl Oh Ehl.
Like the shining paragon of virtue; America?
As a victim of one of your priests from hell, I received no money nor would I accept money, false apology or anything else from the church. As soon as I reached the age of 18, and could not be required by my parents to participate in it, I terminated all contact with that inhumane and unregenerate organization.
There may be people trying to shake down the church, but that doesn't mean all or even most are telling lies or looking for a profit [any more than that all priests are rapists or pederasts]. The Vatican immorally accuses the victims and the American press while continuing the cover-ups and by refusing to address the fundamental causes.
THIS is the organization that claims the President of the U.S. is persecuting Catholics. It is people like me, and like rape victims denied release from the consequences of criminal assault, who are persecuted by the Catholic Church.
"2. i went to school my whole life in government factories. why couldn't i go to a catholic school instead."
Why not indeed? The church offered the education for free, didn't it?
You are completely wrong on both points. I mean COMPLETELY WRONG. So what are your real reasons for voting for Romney?
Also as former Catholic I can tell you birth control is not part of the catholic religion, it is papal dictum and has nothing to do with Christianity. You do know the difference right? It's like eating meat on Fridays, once it was a sin, now it isn't - meaning that it never was and was never tied to the religion. But, if you hate having to think for yourself, then feel free to continue on, following orders.
no, the church does not offer its education for free as all catholic schools in america are private schools. The closest catholic high school to my house was $10,000 a year.
"i am sick of this policy of obamas bankrupting my church by making my beloved fellow parishioners pay twice for theirs kids schooling (pay once for private school tuition to go to catholic school and then pay again to go to public schools that they are never going to use)."
Since when did Obama become responsible for school districts levying taxes on property owners that have children in private schools? Is that something that Rush or Beck told you? Clearly your knowledge of state and local government is lacking.
As for "the made up priest abuse scandal," clearly you have a screw loose. Please go see a doctor for treatment.
obama is opposed to school vouchers and tax credits for private school tuition.
thats why
Will you please educate yourself about how the government works? Just look it up on wikipedia or something - a passing familiarity would be an immense improvement. Obama's opinions on school vouchers and tax credits matter not, because these are local and state issues over which he has no say. If you have an issue with vouchers and tax credits, take it up with your governor.
There is a pretty clean and easy solution to this problem. Left leaning Catholics can just become Anglicans and right leaning Anglicans can become Catholics. Nobody really has to change anything and everyone will be happier at the end of it. People like me can still visit the Vatican and see the Sistine chapel, and hey Canterbury becomes a new destination for tens of millions of new people.
I don't need any credit or compensation. Rowan Williams (did they elect someone new yet; we might want to rethink this whole Prime Minister gets a vote thing)and Pope Benedict can just put in a good word for me with St. Peter.
I can lean left and see the Anglican Communion as a cash cow that sustains itself because the Queen is the head of it.
I can lean right and see the Vatican also so tightly wound to the things of this world (Vatican Bank included) that they cannot clearly see that their mission is affected by that winding.
I cannot lean towards the Eastern Orthodox because they yet hunger for the political power of Byzantium.
Perhaps something like a "Declan Walsh" is what is needed. I certainly see no J23 or JP1 on the horizon.
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MOME Interview 3: Kurt Wolfgang |
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This interview is reprinted in its entirety from MOME Vol. 3. Kurt Wolfgang, the old man of MOME, was a late bloomer, which may be why he's the old man of MOME. He always drew and always drew comics, but he never read comic books as a kid, much less obsessed over them. He read a handful of newspaper strips, but as he sagely put it, most of the strips in the '70s were "crappy," so he didn't read many of them though he did manage to take one of Joe Kubert's ancillary weekend comics courses when he was 10 years old! His biggest influence was probably the '70s Mad magazine; his comics were largely parodic in nature or "slapstick nonsense." If he was utterly impervious to the lure of superhero comics, he was equally oblivious to underground comics: "I knew the undergrounds existed because just being alive you learn who Robert Crumb is, but I thought that just ended one day. Like 1970 hit or something and everything just ceased at that point. Everybody sobered up." He lived blithely through the '80s without discovering alternative comics, either. Kurt was, in short, what W.C. Fields once called "dangerously unobservant." That all changed in the early '90s when he stumbled into a bookstore that sold alternative comics in Gainesville, Florida, and bought an armful of "weird-looking" comics, including Hate and Eightball. This inspired him to focus and start producing his own minicomics: he says he really got serious about cartooning in '95-'96, which is when he started self-publishing his own showcase, No- Fie (of which he produced eight issues). He attended his first SPX in '98 where he realized "that all these other people were doing this." He has since become a mover and a shaker in the mini- and alternative comics scene, printing many minicomics for fellow artists, editing and publishing Low-Jinx, a comic that parodies other alternative cartoonists (the 3rd issue, a real gas, includes contributions by Sam Henderson, Jordan Crane, Johnny Ryan, Nick Bertozzi, Tony Consiglio and himself parodying such cartoonists as Art Spiegelman, Jeff Smith, Ron Regé and Johnny Ryan). Kurt was born in 1970 in Dover, New Jersey, which he described as "the kind of place that has the worst of both worlds, where you don't have any of the culture of the city, but pollution and crowding." His parents moved to Florida when he was a teenager and he dutifully moved with them. By the time he was 10 he was living in Gainesville, famous for a rash of student murders: "...The day I moved in, people started getting murdered all around me." He skedaddled back to New Jersey where he married the girl he met when he was 10 years old (he's evidently also a procrastinator), and has lived in the scenic town of Collinsville, Connecticut for the last 10 years. He is the father of three children, which makes his prolificacy no small miracle. My first exposure to his work was a beautifully self-published (and selfprinted!) little book titled Where Hats Go, where, for the first time, the formal and thematic elements of his work cohered into a distinctive vision — slapstick nonsense crossed with a bittersweet fable. He is currently working on an immense retelling of the Pinocchio story titled Pinokio, which, I have every reason to believe, will be among the best graphic novels of 2010. This interview was conducted in mid-November 2005, and edited by Kurt and myself. —Gary Groth kurt wolfgang: From the time I was born, I wanted to be a cartoonist, once I found out there was a thing called a cartoonist and he drew pictures and got paid for it. And I think I just kind of gave up on that somewhere along the way, it just kind of faded out. To me, you did Garfield or superheroes and that was it. It was at that point, my early 20s, when I decided that I wanted to be a cartoonist. I wanted to do this, I wanted to do it well, work at it. And then gradually I learned about different comics, started looking into the past and realizing that there was this amazing wealth from years and years ago. gary groth: You said you started sending your minis out in '96; to whom would you send them? kw: Oh, I sent them to Pete Bagge and Dan Clowes, just different people I was reading and enjoying. Then they all sent very nice, polite encouraging letters back. And I look back, and I just feel so foolish [laughs], when I think about what I sent them. [Groth laughs.] I started a lot later than other people to actually just sit down and draw several hours at a time. I think I did a lot of my really embarrassing stuff in my 20s when I think a lot of people had knocked that out of the way in their teens. You go through this period, I think a lot of people do, where their comics, especially when you do humorbased things, or at least humortinted things, you have a whole lot of stuff you're trying to get out at once. You're trying to show how clever you are to the point where you make these comics where it's just some guy running around narrating everything you hate in the world. You know what I'm saying? These clever wise-assy rant things, where it's like you have all these good ideas, but you just want to get them out there to show the world how fucking clever you are, and I think I had to work through a lot of that before I could... One day I actually just stopped
and said, "Is this the kind of work
I want to do?" And don't get me
wrong, I look back at a lot of that
work and I enjoy some of it, but I
really started to look at it. I looked
at the kind of work I was enjoying,
and seeing something meaningful,
more substantial, I wasn't making
comics like that. I was making silly
comics about how I feel about this,
how I feel about that; silly mundane
gg: What year did you start publishing No-Fie? kw: That would have been around, I'm guessing, '95, '96. I don't know. I should probably have some of this material, on hand. gg: I don't have the first four issues. The fifth one is '97. kw: Oh goodness, you have that, huh? You know, most of the drawing that I had done through my 20s would be like drunk bar napkins and whatnot. And the first few issues of No-Fie were nothing more than, I would take illustrations that I was particularly fond of and I would loosely string them together with text to make up a kind of story. Like that's how lame it was. But I think everybody has to go through that whole thing. Luckily, I didn't go through it too publicly. gg: [Laughs.] Right. What prompted you to publish your own comic? kw: First I made it for my friends. gg: And that was No-Fie? kw: No, that was like one-shot weirdo things that were not... They were no good. Sometimes they were just drawings, pictures, whatever, do these little 'zines and stuff with other people. Around No-Fie I moved back to New Jersey and moved in with the woman who became my wife, and we led this somewhat isolated existence, so I would sit and draw. When my children were born, strangely enough, that's when I really got into making comics. [Laughter.] Seriously. But what was really neat about it was, when you have kids, I started doing No-Fie just prior to my kids being born, but you learn do you have children? gg: Yeah. kw: You learn how to budget your time in this amazing way. It used to be, I would draw, I had to feel in the mood and have a pot of coffee on and the fucking moons had to align before you would actually sit down and do it when you've got all the time in the world. When suddenly your time is budgeted so tightly, because my two sons are a year apart, so I had two kids in diapers at the same time and you have to do things like, "OK, I have six minutes here, I can ink that line." And instead of dismissing it, "Oh, I won't get anything done in those six minutes," you just fill up those six minutes. gg: You really value every goddamn moment. kw: Right, right. You can turn it on and turn it off. There was a fast rate of improvement [laughs] in everything I did in a three-year period where I just was spending so much time drawing. I also had the benefit of, I had a night-shift job where I could just draw for hours at a time. gg: I was going to ask what you did, because you must have had a job. kw: Yeah, I had a full-time job, I worked the night shift for five years. In fact, I drew just about, I would say, 70 percent of Where Hats Go, let's fast forward a bit, that was drawn at work. I used to draw much smaller, too, so I would just take the top of a cardboard box, have it there, my supervisor would come by, I would just cover it up to hide what I was doing, because I was at work. gg: What were you ostensibly hired to do? kw: [Laughs.] I was running digital printers then. Like big huge industrial Xerox machines. gg: At a printing company? kw: At the printing division of an
insurance company, [which] did
all their printing. So I had access
to state-of-the-art copy machines.
You can imagine what happened
[laughter] when I had that. There
was a three-year period where I was
probably personally responsible for
printing most of the minicomics in
the world, because I could print
anything for any of my friends for
small window of time. We took
great advantage of that.
gg: That sounds like the perfect job. kw: It was nice. gg: Not for your employer, but... kw: No, no. And this is not a rationalization, by no means a justification, but what I printed, what we print in a day, you know, millions and millions of images, so for me to run off a thousand copies of Low Jinx or something is hardly a drop in the bucket. gg: My impression of No-Fie was basically that it was just a proving ground where you could rant and rave for a while. kw: Right, exactly. gg: And try out different voices so that you could find your true voice, which I think you're doing now. kw: It may have been that, or it may have just been purging [laughs], all this wise-ass energy, and all these... In all honesty, I look back at it, I still laugh at it, it was some of my earlier efforts to be a little more serious that are really cringe-inducing. I think what makes them so tough to look at now is, not only are they bad, but how good I thought they were for about 10 minutes. [Groth laughs.] You know what I'm saying? You think back, like, when I was in middle school, if you were 14 years old in 1984, you had some parachute pants. That's all there is to it. And if you had some parachute pants, you thought they were pretty fucking cool. Then you look back a few years later [laughs], and it's not only embarrassing that you wore these things, but you just remember how cool you felt in them. And I remember drawing some of this stuff when I first started moving away from humor [and thinking], "Wow, I'm really doing something good here." Then you look back and it's just so heavy-handed and it's that much more embarrassing. gg: Where Hats Go seems to be your first really major piece of work. I don't know if you'd agree with that. kw: Oh, most certainly. The last couple issues of No-Fie were, I believe, self-contained stories, wordless. And I started doing wordless comics almost as an exercise. I'd realized that the comics that I did for the most part were, as I described earlier, "clever, talking heads yelling things." I described it at one point as a verbal Punch and Judy, just back and forth talking heads, there was no story, there wasn't any meaning to it at all, and I really didn't know how to cartoon. I knew how to draw some pictures, I knew how to write things, but the things I'd do weren't necessary in comics form, they could have been some clever rant in a 'zine or something, there was really no reason for them to be comics. So I really wanted to work on visual narrative, telling a story, so I just dropped all words. And I hate lettering, too, that was also a part of it. gg: [Laughs.] Well, it solved that problem. kw: Oh yeah. And I'm still terrible at lettering [laughs]. But yeah, the last couple issues of No-Fie, I had these stories. I was really happy with them, and actually I really started to dislike the drawings at that point. I looked at work I liked and I wanted to be at least [sighs], I wanted to look professional, you spend so much time thinking, "Oh, I want to make it, I want to make it, why aren't I making it," but then one day you look at your work and you're like, shit, you're not ready. I remember at one point, I said to my wife, "You know, if someone asked to publish me right now, I'd say no, because I'm not ready." And she said, "Oh yeah, you're right, you're not." And I said, "Oh, fuck," I really wasn't expecting that level of honesty to be dropped on me. But yeah, we were both absolutely right. I started doing these wordless things
and really started to work on drawing.
I really liked the direction I was
going and when you kind of teach
yourself another language, I think
it inspires you to create a different
kind of work. It inspires different
kinds of stories. If you suddenly
pick up a banjo when you've been
playing a sousaphone, you're going
to start writing a different kind of
music. I think I learned a new aspect
of the language, all these stories
started coming to mind. When
I first started doing Where Hats Go,
it was going to be a 40-page story.
It was going to be a minicomic, and
Jordan Crane called me and asked
me what I was working on. I'd met
him a year or so before. I sent him
some pages that I was working
on, the first 10 pages. I'd told him
about the story previously. That's
when he asked me if he could use it
in Non. I said, "Well OK, it's going
to end up, I think, being 20, 25 pages,"
and I think it ended up being
a 150-something pages. And the 10
pages I'd showed him, we ended
up cutting out of the book anyway.
[Laughter.] What interested him
initially, never actually made it into
the book.
And I was still in this pretty heavy learning curve, hell, I still am, but you learn a lot when you double your output, your page-count output in one book. You're going to learn a lot in that time, so I actually had to go back to the beginning and redraw tons of pages. Also, foolishly enough, I started using a brush halfway through the book, of course, so I had to dumb it down a lot. I was like, "Wow, this brush could do these amazing things that I could never do before." gg: So you moved from a pen to a brush. kw: [Apologetic] Yeah, from a rapidograph to a brush, so it wasn't as if I had any sort of technique with variation other than pretty much trying to emulate the brush strokes by drawing them in. gg: Why did you do that? kw: 'Cause I looked at the work that I liked, and I saw things that could be done that I wasn't able to do. And it's that thing, you want to be a real cartoonist. You want to be for real. And it wasn't until I started making, doing wordless stuff that I felt like I was really doing anything worthwhile, that I really want to take this seriously. Prior to then, it was a hobby in every sense, because I wasn't really pouring anything meaningful in it. And when I started making these different kind of stories, elements would surface in them that (I'm trying to say this without sounding like a pretentious wad) little mirrors, you know, of my own life and my own experience would pop out from these stories and it began an entirely different thing. My work was telling me more than I was telling it. I don't know if that makes any sense. When I was making all these wise-ass things, you're pouring all this
you into it to show everybody
how clever you are, how funny you
are, look at me, look at this silly
or gross or outlandish thing. And
when I started telling a certain kind
of story, things came back at me,
where it's me, there's no way to say
this [laughs] without sounding really
hippy-dippy, but I really started
to learn things about myself and
comics for me became more of a
conversation with myself that other
people enjoyed eavesdropping
on than me talking to other people.
Does that make any sense at all?
gg: Yeah. I'd love to have you elaborate on that. Did that process of discovery start with your wordless comics? kw: Maybe it was letting my own guard down with myself, because in the process of trying to be a funny and cool and... and maybe that's what it is, maybe it's just telling a story and drawing upon real life experiences and real feelings and putting that into it rather than showing everybody what kind of person you are, convincing them what kind of person you are. You just say, "Fuck it," and you tell a story with that sort of freedom and, obviously not careless, but carefree sort of way, not concerning yourself with how this is coming across, what it says about you. gg: Another interesting thing is that in your piece in MOME #3, what I noticed was that you recycled part of a rant from No-Fie, except that you put it in an entirely different context, which was not the context of you screaming at the reader, but in the exchange between the two characters. And so that opened it up from a rant to a social exchange. Of sorts. kw: What part in particular? Oh,
probably about the "More Punk
Rock Than Thou?"
gg: Yeah, yeah, which echoed one of your rants in No-Fie #5 or #6. kw: Right, right. And that would make total sense. gg: Of course, instead of just ranting, he was ranting to the girl, so there was an exchange. kw: Right, right. Well, it makes sense I would do that too, you know, when you're younger, you kind of define yourself by your tastes. You like this kind of music, you need to throw that out there so everybody knows what kind of badass Rolling Stones fan you are or whatever, like that somehow makes you something. And as we get older, well, we don't need to put bumper stickers on our cars any more, we don't need to wear that shirt with that brand on it because we don't really care what you think of us any more. I think in art, you can't do anything until you get to that point. I don't think you'll get anywhere if you worry about other people. You might be good at entertainment, and I'm not trying to cut that down in any way, but I'm not really looking at entertaining people as the primary purpose of me doing this. Mostly it's totally selfish and self-serving. gg: So you believe in art for art's sake. kw: Certainly. One of the questions that I can never really satisfactorily answer when I ask myself or when people ask me is, "If you don't care what anyone thinks, and if you're doing this for you, then why do you even put it out there?" And I don't know if I could ever really come up with a good answer for that, except what I said earlier about trying to figure things out, like trying to figure out what it all means, or what it means to be alive or whatever. We all do these things, and we all bounce our attitudes off of other people's efforts. gg: Well, yeah, even if you don't care about the reader per se, all art has to be based on experience, and experience is communicable. kw: And when I say I don't care, I mean, don't get me wrong, I have an ego like anybody else, I'm not some kind of monk up here just sending pages out. I read reviews, [Groth laughs], I like it when they say good things, I don't like it as much when they say bad things. I certainly do like when people connect with something I do, that's obviously pretty neat, because I know how I feel when something touches me on any number of levels. Obviously, I like that, but if you start doing that, if you start worrying about what works, what doesn't, what they like, what they didn't, and you start tailoring your work to that, I don't want to do that, I don't want to do that any more. gg: You're like Bush, you don't read the polls. [Wolfgang laughs.] You're your own man [sarcastically]. In a story like Where Hats Go, to me, the important thing is not so much the story as it is the telling. kw: Yeah, it's the classic journey. It's little subtle things in there, that I just learned about myself and about relationships and how I deal with them without getting too heavy-handed here. gg: And you learned that because you had to work through it in order to finish the story, in order to... kw: Exactly, and when you're doing things wordless, to tell the story actually because you're forced to, how am I going to get this across? It's really easy to do a wordless story about making a sandwich and you get a bellyache from it, and it's real easy to do just do a rollicking... Well, not easy, I'm sorry, I shouldn't say that, a rousing physical-based adventure. It's a lot easier to come up with devices to get certain things across when it's a guy running around, let's say. To convey emotions is a little more difficult. It forces you to examine every aspect, more aspects that you were considering before, because suddenly you don't have this tool. I don't have time to do formalist exercises and things like that. Most of the drawing I do is for a finished page. Although at one point, I started doing wordless stuff as an exercise to teach myself something, I never thought I was going to learn the things that I did, I don't know, it sounds silly, I'm sorry. [Laughs.] gg: No, no, it doesn't. I have two versions of Where Hats Go, and I noticed that you redrew a lot of it from the 1st to the 2nd version. kw: One of the minicomics. gg: Yeah. And the reason you did that is because you were dissatisfied with the pen-and-ink version? I ask because you completely changed the compositions and drawings and the sequence. kw: Yeah, there were some things done that I think needed to be elaborated, and that's one thing where it's great to have somebody else looking at it, in that case Jordan [Crane] was editing this thing, which was incredibly helpful, and sometimes frustrating. When you draw an entire page, it's one panel, and it doesn't work, I think just naturally your brain is telling you, "No no, it's fine, it's fine." [Groth laughs.] We're all our harshest critics when it comes down to [it], but I think sometimes it takes that person to point out that thing you wouldn't even allow yourself to think about. And when the drawing looks very very pretty, well then obviously it should be there. Look at that thing. I think that sways you. And there were a lot of full-page drawings, you know. So when Jordan calls me up and says, "I can't even tell what's going on. What's he holding? What is that? This just makes no sense." Well, Jordan's a guy who reads comics, and if he's not going to understand it, chances are the average guy at Barnes and Noble certainly isn't going to understand it. It's good to have someone just for that. It's almost, you're proofreading rather than just simply editing, just checking for flow where I think if you know the story and you're that close to it, you know these characters, you know everything about them, you're likely to miss certain gaps in the narrative. So yeah, there were a number of reasons to redraw. Some where it needed to match up better, with the change in drawing styles. Sometimes things were redrawn because they were originally just bad [laughs], just lousy. Sometimes there was simply a better way to tell it. gg: You insist on cramming every panel with enormous amounts of detail, which is interesting, because I think you're one of the few guys who can make that work. kw: Thank you. That's good. [Laughs.] That's good to hear, because I often... gg: Why the compulsion to do that? kw: I think it's... I think it's maybe insecurity [Groth laughs], I think is maybe a big part of it. I wish I could let go of things. gg: It gives your work a really distinctive density and feel to it. Think of the first strip in MOME, for example. kw: Is this the first MOME?
Because that was one of the least
detailed things, that was my scaling-
everything-down style, if you
compare that to say, the Pinokio
stuff. There's no crosshatching in
that first MOME. Yeah.
gg: There are the cityscapes, and they're... kw: But compare that to a cityscape from Pinokio or Where Hats Go. gg: No, that's true, but the panels are still full. No negative space. kw: Part of it I think is some level of insecurity. I don't draw technically very well, so I figure if I fill, and I'm not being clear, but if I fill it up with lines, then certainly I intended it to look this way, all this work has gone into it. I don't think my work stands on its own in a more simple form. I think that's part of it. Another thing is a lot of the work I enjoy, have enjoyed through life, has been very dense. I've heard people say that they prefer art that leaves something to the imagination, to where you can imagine what's going on, that every bump on the plaster on the wall doesn't need to be there, it's not adding anything, but I disagree. I mean, there's movies I can watch that are terrible movies, but they just have such a nice look to them, and they set the tone so beautifully, and you're in love with the cinematographer in this terrible, terrible movie. Take the first Rocky movie, for example, and I like the first Rocky movie OK, I suppose, but the whole look of that movie is so beautiful. It's got this dinginess that maybe I can relate to from my youth or something, but it really tells so much of the story, and I find that... I was looking at some Charles Addams last night, and he had these one-line gags where he could have summed everything up with nine lines, and put so much lush detail and beauty into it. I know this is a foolish assumption, but once someone put so much work into it, I feel like they loved it. You know, they really put something into it, and they really spent time with this thing and had some kind of love for this to spend that much time with it. I love doing what I do, I really do, I really love making these little worlds, and if you're going to make a world, that's the most fun, including all the little things in it. Being the set designer and just going crazy. More books featuring Kurt Wolfgang (click covers for complete product details) |


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This training manual is for Fairtrade International liaison officers, support agents working with FLO producer partners and FLO clients. It was written in May 2007.
The manual introduces the historic and political context of Fairtrade, explains the standards system and provides detailed comments about the different standard requirements with regard to social and economic development. The environmental chapter will be dealt in a separate document.
Translations of the Fairtrade International Training Manuals into other relevant languages such as Spanish are planned.
Download FLO Training Manual 2.0 Introduction into the Generic Fairtrade Standards for Hired Labour (PDF)
3. Joint Bodies
This is a set of four training manuals for Joint Bodies.
Joint Bodies are committees of workers and management representatives, set up by companies as specified by the Generic Standards for Hired Labour. These committees are responsible for managing Fairtrade Premium funds on behalf of the work force.
The four training manuals are a practical working tool and reference document for Joint Body members and their supporters. They are based on practical experience in working with the Joint Body approach.
Joint Body principles (FLO training manual 3.0)
This manual deals with topics such as legal body, constitution, rules and regulations, internal audit committee, delegates model
Joint Body processes (FLO training manual 3.1)
This manual introduces planning, monitoring and evaluation, meetings, communication and internal organization. It has an annex:
Annex 1: Sample Joint Body calendar of activities and events
Joint Body financial management (FLO Training Manual 3.2)
This manual covers key aspects of financial management, such as financial planning, accounting and bookkeeping, financial reporting, financial procedures, financial control and auditing. It has five annexes.
- Annex 1: Budgeting
- Annex 2: Debit and credit
- Annex 3: Chart of accounts
- Annex 4: Forms
- Annex 5: Cash flow report form
Joint Body premium project management (FLO training manual 3.3)
This training manual provides guidance on developing projects that benefit the workforce and the community. It looks at questions such as:
- How can Fairtrade Premium funds be spent?
- How can projects be chosen?
- How to develop a project proposal?
- How to go about project implementation, and monitoring and evaluation?
4. Internal Control Systems (ICS) for small-scale producers
This training manual is for organizations of small-scale producers that want to the develop and implement an Internal Control Systems (ICS) to meet the related requirement in the environmental part of the generic Fairtrade standard for small-scale producers.
The training guide has been developed in cooperation with an environmental expert. It consists of the following elements:
- General Guidance chapter
- Master Planner
- Master implementation plan with proposal of useful formats and tools.
- List of ICS consultants and resources
Download the Training Manual for Small farmers' organizations on Internal Control Systems (ICS)
You can also download the following annexes:
- Annex 1: Storage and inventory record
- Annex 2: Regional map
- Annex 3: Producer member map
- Annex 4: Producer agreement
- Annex 5: Processing record
- Annex 6: Member list
- Annex 7: Materials inventory and use record
- Annex 8: Master planning timeline and calendar
- Annex 9: Individual farmer- internal inspection control points checklist
- Annex 10: Individual farmer - internal inspection GES checklist
- Annex 11: Harvest and delivery record
- Annex 12: Field description and history
- Annex 13: Education and training record
- Annex 14: Corrective action agreement
- Annex 15: Community map
- Annex 16: Whole organization internal inspection checklist
5. Generic Environmental Standards for small-scale producers
This training manual puts the environmental standard into the broader context of Fairtrade objectives, sustainability, markets and consumer demands.
Furthermore, the manual provides an explanatory table which provides additional explanation on each standard requirement and integrates examples of how the intention of the standard requirement is best manifested or fulfilled.
The manual is for management and board members of producer organizations and the support agents and partners they work with towards Fairtrade compliance.
Download the Training Manual on the Generic Environmental Standards for Small Farmers´ Organizations (PDF)


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Spokane, Wash. � They were friends before they were rivals, bonded by a shared enemy.
And now that they�ve run into each other again, Tom Izzo and Tommy Amaker, one entrenched and the other perhaps on the move again, paused to reminisce Friday.
About the different paths college coaches take, and the obstacles they face along the way. But mostly about solidarity.
They first met on the recruiting trail, Izzo in green and Amaker in blue, both of them chasing their tail, as it turned out. Chris Webber was headed to Michigan, not Michigan State or Duke, and there wasn�t much either assistant coach could do about it.
�We went through some interesting things back in the late �80s and early 90s together,� Izzo said, smiling at what was left unsaid as he stood in a hallway inside Spokane Arena.
Tonight, they�ll meet again on the sidelines, as Izzo�s Michigan State team faces Amaker�s upset-minded Harvard squad with a Sweet 16 berth at stake, not long after Steve Fisher�s San Diego State team plays on the same court.
�It is unique how the world works,� Izzo chuckled, �and what goes around comes around.�
Ironically, the fallout from Webber�s time in Ann Arbor � NCAA violations stemming from the Ed Martin scandal on Fisher�s watch � would come down on Amaker a year after he arrived on Michigan�s campus as their new head coach. A couple months after that, Amaker led the Wolverines to an emotional win over Michigan State, prompting premature declarations from media and fans alike about a rivalry renewed.
Taking the high road
Alas, it was one of only a few wins over Izzo for Amaker, who, despite all the talk about closing the gap on Michigan State, never managed to cut a path to where he is now with Harvard, in the NCAA Tournament for a third consecutive season.
Amaker took the high road when he left Ann Arbor in 2007, fired after a six-year stint at Michigan that ended without a single NCAA berth. Izzo, as he is prone to do, took a few shots at the administration that let him go, questioning the decision to dismiss a coach after consecutive 20-win seasons at a school where, as he put it then, �I don�t think they�ve stressed basketball.�
�He�s loyal, he�s an ambassador, he stands up for what he thinks is right,� Amaker told me Friday, when I asked him about Izzo and that stand he took. �And he�s not afraid to say what he thinks is right. He stands up for his friends. And that happens even with guys he�s competing against, like me, beating my brains in.
�But to hear him do what he did, the most important thing for me was just the fact I knew how much he cared about me and was checking on me. And he has always done that. I mean, that didn�t just stop when I got fired at Michigan. We�ve stayed in touch.�
Izzo reiterated all that again Friday, pointing to what Amaker has built at Harvard and what was left unfinished in Ann Arbor.
�He was getting that done at Michigan,� Izzo said. �He just went there during a tough time � He was just in a tough situation.�
He made it tougher on himself, no doubt.
The promised facility upgrades didn�t arrive until after he left, but Amaker, who once paid out of his own pocket for new office carpet, didn�t do enough to sell himself and his program, either. The recruiting improved, but the player development was lacking.
Michigan is paying market rate for its basketball coach these days, but the program is providing a better return on the school�s investment, too.
�I said when I was fired, �I understand, but I disagree,� � Amaker said. �But we�ve been in it long enough to know how it works. It�s not easy. �
�Bottom line is we didn�t win enough to go to the tournament. That�s the way it works,� Amaker said. �That�s the nature of our business. I wish we could�ve done that. But, you know, sometimes you get taken a different route to maybe find something different.�
Connected to Harvard
He found it at Harvard, where he has built an Ivy League powerhouse in a gym that seats fewer than 2,500 fans, creating a buzz on a campus where Nobel Prize winners are a dime-a-dozen.
�How much we�ve been a part of connecting Harvard � that blows me away,� said Amaker, whose wife, Stephanie, a clinical psychologist, also is on the Harvard Medical School faculty. �It�s been so cool.�
Aside from basketball, one of the coolest parts, he says, has been the monthly breakfast group he started with Harvard Law School professor Charles Ogletree, who once taught a fellow hoops junkie named Barack Obama. (Michelle, too.) It has grown to a group of 8-12 prominent African-American scholars and business leaders that meets regularly in Cambridge to, as Amaker jokes, �sit around and solve all the world�s problems.�
Problem is, he may not be there much longer, though if he decides to jump at the vacancy across town at Boston College, as many expect he will, the 48-year-old Amaker can probably keep his breakfast club. He wouldn�t even have to pack to move back into the ACC.
But for now, he�s a Harvard man. And as he comes full circle here in Spokane, of all places, it�s easy to see where he�s been.
�We have all been a part of things in the past � at least I have � where I look back and wish I had been able to see something before everyone else saw it or before it actually happened,� Amaker said. �It�s right there in front of me.�
A friend, and a foe, same as it ever was.


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The loss of Schwartz looks devastating on paper, but he didn't look particularly great during the preseason. Still, I'm not ready to panic about how the offense has looked until I've seen them play as one cohesive unit for four full quarters of football. I'm obviously not as high on the Lions as the folks in Vegas are, and I don't see the Giants losing no matter how much their passing game struggles Monday night.
so 47 sounds like some scoring going on. so offense cant be that bad unless they think a 45 - 3 score
Won't Schwartz miss at least the first 7 games of the season since the Giants have a bye Week 8?
Whats the deal with Adam Synder? I'm not going to pretend to know anything about him. But on paper he seems like exactly what the Giants need. A veteran, experienced, versatile O-lineman. What are the negatives? Why did the Niners release him?
Obviously Quarles is going to want a 53-man roster spot with some team, and if he can't find one to suit him, the Giants would be stupid if they didn't try to at least bring him back to their practice squad and waive someone else. Personally I wouldn't have kept Nat Berhe or Dallas Reynolds on the 53, but the Gmen felt differently, and that's why they lost him. I'm hoping they can bring Quarles back, even if it's only the practice squad.
Truth is you just have no way of knowing really what a team is until real games start. Preseason means little. You constantly here people say 'I don't put stock in the preseason'.... Right before they put stock in the preseason. It's basically what everyone has done with the Giants so far. Going into camp the narrative optimistic. It was the Giants were improved, had a great offseason in free agency, had the hot new offensive coordinator to revitalize the offense, a top secondary, JPP will be healthy etc.
And with each passing preseason game the outlook got more negative. I get it though, I would have liked to see more in the preseason, but what all these prognosticators have done is exactly what they say they don't do, and changed their outlook for the Giants based on the preseason.
I recall the Jets having a similar preseason offensively in 2012, not scoring a TD until the final preseason game. They scored over 48 week one.
@Lou Musto ..... Then you are an optimist or a homer. Detroit is said to have a shaky defense, but their offense is high octane and will carry their defense. The Giants will have their hands full, especially if they can't score. I would be surprised if the Giants won on the road Monday night, especially considering that their offense was so inept the entire preseason. Scoring over 21 points a game against 2nd and 3rd stringers is a lot different than playing an opponent's starting defensive lineup the entire game. Let's see how they handle that.
@spider43 I agree with you Spider, but when the Giants and Pats let a guy go it's usually a sign to teams that want to be like the Giants or the Pats that the guy is not a winner. Especially poignant that the Pats had him for all of 1 day and then jettisoned him. Belechick one of the best defensive evaluators in the sport doesn't mess around.
Anyways I'd like to see him on the practice squad because it's rare you see a guy with a motor like that and you know there are going to be injuries. (kuhn?)
@spider43 There probably isn't a better defense out there for the Giants to get rolling against than Detroit's. The pass rush has potential, but their secondary is atrocious. A quick passing approach should open up major opportunities downfield later in the game. I also think the Giants have one of the more underrated defensive units. QB pressure is the concern going into the season and Stafford will be a good first test. If you can pressure him, he wilts and the Lions struggle. Just look at the Giants-Lions game from last season.
Call me an optimist, but I really don't think we got an insightful look at what the Giants offense can truly be this season.


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Enty needs new glasses. The article clearly states that it's just her starfucks. I'm waiting for the Ass to Ass list to be released!!
ReplyCancelLiLo was a hot starlet for a time & party girl once she really became legal & was going to get her money soon, so these names don't surprise me…doubtful at this time LiLo will write a tell all…she still seems to think she will have a come back, & she has time, because of her age, etc…when she gets to her 30's all bets are off…she will then try to write something, but her own memory due to the drugs will probably suck & she lies so much you won't be able to believe the majority of it
ReplyCancelI said it on Radar, and I'll say it on here. Marilyn Monroe had a similar list, and this is an attempt by Lilo to draw more comparisons between the two. It's pathetic, desperate, and delusional. Why are women always Single White Femaling each other? Get your own identity, and get a f-ing life.
ReplyCancelLiLo is careless with her self, her family/friends, & her possessions…
She also seems to think because she sees someone a few times at the same club or is in rehab or whatever else they are her friend…when really they are using her & she shouldn't blab her life story to them.
ReplyCancelDon't know what Lindsay is trying to pull here, but there's some real bs in her list. Zac and Franco? Really doubt it. But I'll bet her true number, celebs and regular folk combined, would make Xaviera Hollander blush. It's got to be well into the hundreds.
MsReilly is probably right in that Lindsay wants to be compared to Marilyn …… both are/were lousy actresses so she's got that going for her. Maybe Obama or the next president will have her wacked. Then she will have two things in common with Marilyn.
ReplyCancelI'd be so ashamed if I were one of these guys & it was now public knowledge. Then again if you do the deed then you have to live with the consequences.
Handy list though for everyone else to now know who to avoid in future. Paris Hilton should release a list of all those she slept with too. Public service to everyone so we know who to avoid.
ReplyCancelThree random thoughts. Firstly, it depends when she was with them. Up til twenty, and no I don't want to speculate on a starting age, she was a reasonably cute starlet with promise of a future career. So guys who knew her, in the biblical sense, before then weren't complete writeoffs. Anyone who knew her since then can be correctly classified as douches. Secondly, supposedly the blanked out names are married/long term relationships. While I agree that would reflect poorly on LiLo we should acknowledge that the guys displayed equally bad behavior. Thirdly, back in the days when people actually believed LiLo could/would/wanted to turn around her behavior, the recurring theme was that she absolutely couldn't stand to be alone. I will let you do your own analysis of her childhood. So have a little sympathy that her headcount may be less sexual wantonness and more the cost to be paid to ensure someone will stay the night.
ReplyCancelLohag actually has very neat handwriting. Anyone remember the notes she was writing to Shawn Holley in one of her court appearances? It looked like she was an engineer. Seriously surprised the hell outta me. Or ooota me as TTM would say. Speaking of…where's our Canuklehead Princess today?
ReplyCancelAhhh… Slut shaming at its finest.
Not the kind of choice I would make, but she is her own person and if she chooses to screw 10 or 10000 that is up to her. They participated as well, so why aren't their lists out??
Just think of how many people have their "laminated list" of celebs they would get a pass from their SO on. She just has access to them.
I'd just like to know which of the blurred out ones are married and desperate for it not to get out!
ReplyCancelFrom what I had heard from a few sources is that Heath was hooking up with one of the Olsen Twins…they are supposed to have the best coke…& it was confirmed his maid called one of the Olsen Twins first, but he could have hooked up with Linds…LiLo seemed to have the same sort of affliction Brit had, believe the crap lines male actors feed them to get in their panties & start fantazing that it's TRU LUV & they will become a great HW power couple, etc…
ReplyCancel@7of11-Garrett hooks up with all his female co-stars, he hooked with with Leighton, then cheated on her with KScrew, Leighton dumpted him, he then hooked up with KiKi, which is another of the many reasons why Kiki & Kscrew hate each other, KiKi is as big of a lush as him, so they are currently still together or at least until she finds out when he cheats again
ReplyCancel@Oopsy Daisy and I are on the same wavelength. There's a lot to criticize in Lilo's life, but she's in her 20s and cute, so hells bells, so what if she sleeps around a lot? My number for that age is up there (and I'm 58 now, so don't even ask.) It's not who you do or how many you do, it's how you live.
ReplyCancel@Count – No doubt. But it doesn't change the fact that people are far too interested in guffawing over a woman's number of conquests. We do still live in an age where a man is a stud and a woman is a slut if they have multiple partners or hell, in some areas, sex before marriage.
ReplyCancelNo shaming here. My list is way longer. I mean I don't actually HAVE a list since that seems really juvenile, but it would be way longer than this. It's not like she's 18. She's had a lot of time to rack those up, and she's been single a lot.
The married/relationship guys she's hooked up with is mostly on them, imo. But not very surprising for Hollyweird.
ReplyCancelLiho wishes she was that fresh! 36, doesn't include her paid dates, all the arabs and europeans, all the women which must be in the hundreds by now, she was deep in that scene when she moved out here as a teen. Never mind all those "favors" she calls in for jets, hotel stays, cars, and houses. 36 sounds like a slow month for liho.
ReplyCancelI do agree with what you're saying, but I think / hope the tide is turning. It's not as though John Mayer or DiCaprio are revered for their ways,… didn't Scorsese pull Leo aside recently and tell him he stood no chance of an oscar while his notorious private life was such a laughing point? Can't remember if that was on here or in a magazine. Hopefully we're getting there slowly but surely : )
ReplyCancelI know I'll be accused of being a pearl-clutching old lady, but if Lilo were really happy with her lifestyle, would she be an alcy/drug addict? (I've been both, BTW). People who are truly happy aren't constantly trying to justify/glorify/brag about their excesses and personal lives. They also aren't anaesthetizing themselves day after day.
ReplyCancelShotinthedark really? Interesting…
We all have a "list" it just isn't occupied by famous names. This isn't any different than Shelly Winters. She had the opportunity to bed famous men and by God she did!
Sometimes it isn't about fear of being alone or a low self esteem. Sometimes it's about feeling powerful. Nothing better than having the ability to seduce a good looking and/or powerful man and let them worship you for a few hours.
Be safe, be smart and do your best not to intentionally hurt someone. Write a diary for yourself and when you're an old lady you can relive those heady times when you were young and attractive and wanted. Every woman should do it!


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