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"As cultures encompass lifestyles, different ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs, the protection and promotion of their rich diversity invite us to rise to new challenges at the local, national and international levels. This will involve integrating the principles of dialogue and mutual knowledge in all policies, particularly education, science, culture and communication policies, in the hope of correcting flawed cultural representations, values and stereotypes."
2010 United Nations International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures
There exist a great variety of religious and sacred sites that are representative of the different cultures and traditions of the world. Approximately 20 per cent of the properties inscribed on the World Heritage List have some sort of religious or spiritual connection. These properties to be found in most countries around the world constitute the largest single category on the List. Specific and significant spiritual meanings are mentioned to justify the Outstanding Universal Value of a large number of the World Heritage properties. Numerous historic cities on the List possess components of religious significance and are recognized as holy cities by different communities.
According to ICCROM, living religious heritage has characteristics that distinguish it from other forms of heritage. Sacred sites, which, according to the UNESCO MAB Programme, "are indeed the oldest protected areas of the planet", and "have a vital importance for safeguarding cultural and biological diversity for present and future generations." Collectively, the religious and sacred properties capture a range of cultural and natural diversity, and each can singularly demonstrate the spirit of a particular place.
History and terminology
In recent years UNESCO played a leading role in the development and promotion of a powerful normative action related to the protection of cultural and natural heritage in all its forms. A corpus of standard-setting documents, including charters and recommendations, exists on the subject of monuments and sites. A number of research studies and analyses of religious heritage and sacred sites were carried out by the Advisory Bodies - ICCROM, ICOMOS and IUCN. There were a number of conclusions and recommendations drawn from previous meetings and activities on religious and sacred heritage, such as the ICCROM 2003 Forum on the conservation of Living Religious Heritage, the 2005 ICOMOS General Assembly resolution calling for the "establishment of an International Thematic Programme for Religious Heritage", and 2011 ICOMOS General Assembly Resolution on Protection and enhancement of sacred heritage sites, buildings and landscapes, as well as the UNESCO MAB/IUCN Guidelines for the Conservation and Management of Sacred Natural Sites.
Several recommendations directly or indirectly concern the safeguarding of the spirit of place, namely their living, social and spiritual nature, in particular the Nara Document on Authenticity adopted at the Nara Conference on Authenticity in relation to the World Heritage Convention held in 1994 and the Quebec Declaration on the Preservation of the Spirit of Place, adopted at the 16th General Assembly of ICOMOS in 2008.
The term "Religious property", as used in the ICOMOS study "Filling the Gaps - an Action Plan for the Future", defines "any form of property with religious or spiritual associations: churches, monasteries, shrines, sanctuaries, mosques, synagogues, temples, sacred landscapes, sacred groves, and other landscape features, etc.".
The term "Sacred site" embraces areas of special spiritual significance to peoples and communities; and the term of "Sacred natural site" corresponds to the areas of land or water having special spiritual significance to peoples and communities," as proposed by the UNESCO/IUCN Guidelines for the Conservation and Management of Sacred Natural Sites, 2008
Religious communities as World Heritage stakeholders
Understanding the continuing nature of religious and sacred heritage, having the capacity to protect its authenticity and integrity, including its particular spiritual significance, and sharing the knowledge of our common history, are the three pillars necessary for building mutual respect and dialogue between communities. Today, the international community should define the appropriate measures to preserve the values of religious and sacred places, which form the foundation of our cultures, thereby aiming to prevent any gradual loss of our traditions.
Within the context of the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures 2010, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly, an international seminar on the role of religious communities in the management of World Heritage properties was held in Kiev (Ukraine) from 2 to 5 November 2010, under the patronage of the President of Ukraine and UNESCO. For the first time in the history of the World Heritage Convention, the issue regarding the protection of religious and sacred heritage has been discussed at the international level, involving active participation of the religious authorities.
The main objective of this first major international meeting organized under the patronage of UNESCO on heritage of religious interest was to explore ways to reflect the complexity and importance of developing proper dialogue between all stakeholders for the common goal which is protection of World Heritage properties. It was noted that these World Heritage properties - especially living religious and sacred sites - require specific policies for protection and management that take into account their distinct spiritual nature as a key factor in their conservation and that such policies cannot be sustainable without in-depth consultation with the appropriate stakeholders.
The meeting considered the view that stakeholders need to work together to preserve sacred heritage while regarding the modernization and development of society in a culturally and historically sensitive manner, with a view to strengthening identity and social cohesion. Stakeholders include religious communities, made up of believers, traditional and indigenous peoples, as well as State Party authorities, professionals and experts in relevant fields, property owners, funding bodies and other interested partners.
At the closing of the Seminar, on 5 November 2010, the participants unanimously adopted the following Kyiv Statement on the protection of religious properties within the framework of the World Heritage Convention. Developed in close collaboration with national authorities, international experts, site managers and representatives of religious communities, is the first and most unique document to give general recommendations on this specific issue.
Decision of the World Heritage Committee adopted at its 35th session (UNESCO, 2011)
The information regarding this activity and the final report of the Seminar has been submitted by the World Heritage Centre within the framework of the secretariat report for consideration by the World Heritage Committee at its 35th session (UNESCO, 2011).
The World Heritage Committee "took note of the recommendations of the International Seminar on the Role of Religious Communities in the Management of World Heritage properties, organized in Kiev, Ukraine, in November 2010, and requested the World Heritage Centre, in collaboration with the Advisory Bodies, to elaborate a thematic paper proposing to States Parties general guidance regarding the management of their cultural and natural heritage of religious interest, and in compliance with the national specificities, inviting States Parties to provide voluntary contributions to this end." (paragraph 7, Decision 35 COM 5A)
The full text of the Decision 35 COM 5A adopted by the World Heritage Committee at its 35th session is available electronically at whc.unesco.org/en/sessions/35COM.
Implementation of activities to increase awareness and reinforce involvement of local Communities
(extract from the working document WHC-12/36.COM/5A.1)
The World Heritage Centre requested the States Parties by a circular letter (CL/WHC-11/20 restricted access only for the States Parties) to support the implementation of the World Heritage Committee's decision and the associated research by providing voluntary contributions, as well as by organizing meetings, conferences and seminars within its framework.
Further to the consultation process between the World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies, the elaboration of this thematic paper will be ensured in three phases: (i) preparatory and fund-raising activities; (ii) research, global thematic survey and data analysis; (iii) consultation/production of thematic paper. The World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies recommend the establishment of an International Working Group, which will be in charge of this activity, comprising representatives of UNESCO and the Advisory Bodies, and in particular experts of the IUCN Specialist Group on Cultural and Spiritual Values of Protected Areas, of the ICCROM Programme on Living Heritage and ICOMOS group of experts specialized in protection and enhancement of sacred heritage sites, buildings and landscapes.
The World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies also recommend the creation of a global network involving relevant stakeholders, such as heritage practitioners (through Advisory Bodies), policy makers, national and local authorities, representatives of traditional and religious communities which should ensure that the thematic paper takes into account all relevant studies, elements, global trends and national specificities. They further recommend the development of an international multidisciplinary research programme on heritage of religious interest through the network entitled Forum UNESCO - University and Heritage in order to involve renowned researchers to work with all the above groups of stakeholders, in close coordination with the World Heritage Centre, the Advisory Bodies and their existing programmes/networks.
Capacity-building activities for the representatives of religious communities
International Seminar for religious representatives involved in the management and use of the World Heritage properties
Within the framework of the World Heritage Committee's Decision concerning the state of conservation of the World Heritage property "Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands", Russian Federation (36COM 7B.86, St. Petersburg, 2012) and the Initiative on Heritage of Religious Interest, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, in collaboration with the Russian Orthodox Church and coordination with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, ICOMOS and ICCROM, has organized the International Seminar for religious representatives involved in the management and use of the World Heritage properties, Moscow from 14 to 16 May 2013. This Seminar is largely financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.
Multidisciplinary Workshop on the Strategic Framework for the Conservation and Management of the Mount Athos Cultural and Natural Heritage
Within the framework of the World Heritage Committee's Decision concerning the state of conservation of the World Heritage property "Mount Athos", Greece (Decision 36COM7B.38, St. Petersburg, 2012) and the Initiative on Heritage of Religious Interest, the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, in cooperation with the Mount Athos Holy Community and in coordination with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, ICOMOS and IUCN, organizes the Multidisciplinary Workshop on the Strategic Framework for the Conservation and Management of the Mount Athos Cultural and Natural Heritage. The Workshop will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, from 29 to 30 August 2013. This Workshop is largely financed by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.
Cycle of Regional Thematic Consultations : Properties of Religious Interest – Sustainable Management
First Annual Forum - Asian Buddhist Heritage: Conserving the Sacred (2013)
Regional Programme for developing contextual heritage policy guidance notes and/or principles (ICCROM).
As part of the MOU signed in 2012, ICCROM in collaboration with the Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) of Korea is launching a new programme to discuss different themes related to conservation and management of heritage focusing on Asia. The first activity will be a Forum on Asian Buddhist Heritage: Conserving the Sacred to be held in Seoul, Korea form 4-6 December 2013.
While focusing on Asia in particular and contributing to regional capacity-building processes, the programme should also prove beneficial on a global scale.
International Conference "Promotion, Protection and Preservation of Buddhist Culture and Heritage" (2014)
The International Conference "Promotion, Protection and Preservation of Buddhist Culture and Heritage" be convened at Lumbini, the birthplace of the Lord Buddha in Nepal from 15 to 18 November 2014. This Conference is related to the cycle of thematic and regional consultations on sustainable management of the World Heritage properties of religious interest contributing to the UNESCO activities on protection of heritage of religious interest and reinforcement of dialogue with religious communities. Meetings with international experts and religious communities can provide crucial inputs in developing the most appropriate approaches in tackling challenging problems of heritage protection and generating understanding and mutual respect.
Kyiv Statement on the Protection of Religious Properties within the Framework of the World Heritage Convention
- The main objective of the Kyiv Seminar 2010 on the Role of Religious Communities in the Management of World Heritage Properties was to explore ways of establishing a dialogue between all stakeholders, and to explore possible ways of encouraging and generating mutual understanding and collaboration amongst them in the protection of religious World Heritage properties.
- The stakeholders would include religious communities, which can comprise believers, traditional and indigenous peoples, as well as States Party authorities, professionals and experts in relevant fields, property owners, funding bodies and other interested partners.
- The participants of the Seminar welcomed the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly, as a valuable tool for the mutual exchange of experiences and dialogue between cultures aiming to foster respect for each other's beliefs.
They furthermore:
- Recognized the role played by religious communities in the creation, maintenance, and continuous shaping of sacred places, and the custodial role played by them in caring for these as living heritage.
- Reaffirmed the vital further role of religious communities in conveying, expressing and sustaining spiritual identity, meaning and purpose to human life, considering that these offer significant opportunities in a fast developing and globalizing world, as well as presenting serious challenges.
- Stressed that culturally and environmentally sustainable management of such heritage should be the responsibility of all stakeholders concerned, and that mutual acceptance and respect will bring different and complementary perspectives to shared cultural and spiritual values.
- Recalled that the protection of religious heritage represents a special challenge and opportunity that needs to be addressed in the effective implementation of the World Heritage Convention, and noted that living religious places have often been placed on UNESCO's World Heritage List specifically for their religious and spiritual significance; in other cases, religious properties and sacred places can be an integral part of larger ensembles, such as historic cities, cultural landscapes and natural sites. The significance of such sites and the interests of associated religious communities should be duly recognized in sustainable management processes.
- Emphasized that the continuing nature of religious heritage calls for dialogue and mutual understanding between the religious communities concerned and all other stakeholders, who must work together to preserve the significance of cultural, mixed and natural heritage sites associated with the sacred.
- Considered it particularly timely to define an Integrated Strategy for the development of a World Heritage Thematic Programme on religious heritage in collaboration and close coordination between all stakeholders, and that this Programme should create an action plan for the protection of religious heritage world-wide aimed at enhancing the role of communities and the avoidance of misunderstandings, tensions, or stereotypes.
- Recognized the need to raise awareness of all stakeholders of the importance of the management of religious places in order to enable mutual understanding and acceptance of the World Heritage significance and specificity of each heritage place, and its associated spiritual and religious values.
- In furtherance of this, and taking into account the resolution 17 GA 9 of the States Parties to the World Heritage Convention, they called for the establishment of integrated and interactive training programmes in the management of religious places in cooperation with the Advisory Bodies, ICCROM, ICOMOS and IUCN, aimed at helping representatives of religious communities to enhance and share their managerial skills.
- Concluded that safeguarding religious heritage of outstanding universal value for future generations requires new forms of action, and that the Kyiv seminar formed the start of a new ongoing process, and an opportunity to establish a platform for dialogue and shared knowledge among all communities involved in the preservation of our common heritage.
Kyiv, 5 November 2010
Evénements (6)
- [Uniquement en anglais] Religious heritage and tourism: types, trends and challenges 27 nov. 2014-28 nov. 2014
- [Uniquement en anglais] Promotion, Protection and Preservation of Buddhist Culture and Heritage 15 nov. 2014-18 nov. 2014
- [Uniquement en anglais] 1st UNWTO International Congress on Tourism and Pilgrimages 18 sept. 2014-20 sept. 2014
- Forum sur Le patrimoine bouddhiste en Asie: Conserver le Sacré (2013) 4 déc. 2013-6 déc. 2013
- [Uniquement en anglais] Multidisciplinary Workshop on the Strategic Framework for the Conservation and Management of the Mount Athos Cultural and Natural Heritage 29 août 2013-30 août 2013

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In a season when every single game is pivotal, the West Point Green Wave (5-1; 2-0) have not had a lot of time to breathe. Other than the week three bye that replaced a scheduled game with Columbus, West Point has been in high intensity mode for most of the season.
For many teams, this time of year means play with high intensity or risk falling out of playoff contention. The Green Wave are no exception to that, as conference play heats up, with just a little over a month to play in the regular season.
This Friday night, the Green Wave's storied season continues as Oxford High School (4-2; 1-1) comes to West Point for a division match.
Over the last two weeks, the Green Wave have been nothing short of dominant in early league play.
After defeating Indianola on the road, 34-8, the Green Wave continued district play last week, at home, against New Hope.
A big third quarter put the game out of reach, as West Point marched to a 24-14 victory. That win made it three in a row for West Point, which also defeated Noxubee County in a non-league game three weeks ago.
West Point's only loss this season was week four's 21-20 loss to Starkville, another non-district game.
Oxford comes into Friday night's game with a lot of potential on offense. Their ability to put up a lot of points in a hurry will have West Point needing to play tough for all four quarters.
Oxford has been outscored 59-41 in their two losses this season, but the Chargers have averaged over 30 points a game in their four victories.
That fourth win came last Friday night, in the form of a 37-13 win over Clarksdale. They were up 10-0 going into the third quarter, but a 27 point second half led to the dominating win.
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March 06, 06
Vol. 21 , No. 06
Music from the Grasslands of Inner Mongolia
SU LI, cello
DU ZHAOZHI, composer and piano
SU JIE, piano
ZHENG SHAOFANG, soprano
SUOYILA, soprano
LUNCH 11:45 a.m., PROGRAM 12:15 p.m.
A delegation of musicians from Xiamen University and Sujian, led by nationally renowned Professors Du Zhaozhi and Su Li, will present a concert of traditional and modern songs and music from Inner Mongolia. This concert includes Mountain Songs that have recently been recognized as a National Treasure by the United Nations.
Professors Du and Su will talk about the music—the origins and significance of each piece—prior to the performance.
This is a rare opportunity to hear distinctive ethnic music from China performed by professional artists inspired by the particular styles of Inner Mongolia.
Social Entrepreneurship: Ethos Water and the World Water Crisis
For Peter Thum '90, a business trip made all the difference. While working for the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, Thum was assigned to South Africa for six months in the winter of 2000-2001. The widespread poverty he witnessed was disturbing. Yet one aspect of it in particular sparked Thum's imagination and inexorably changed his path in life: the water crisis. His first-hand experience with the pervasive lack of fresh, clean drinking water among many citizens of South Africa, as well as his view of the resulting dangers and deprivations, inspired him to leave McKinsey & Company and develop a new company in the hopes of making a difference.
Thus in 2002, a water company devoted to using a portion of its profits to help the development of safe water resources in poverty-stricken nations, was born. Thum, along with Jonathan Greenblatt, founded Ethos Water. The company steadily prospered, and in April 2005 the Starbucks Coffee Company acquired Ethos Water, thus providing Thum a further platform from which to launch his humanitarian efforts. The Ethos Water Fund is currently directing funds to support water projects in Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Honduras, India and Kenya.
Peter Thum is currently a Vice-President at Starbucks Coffee. Before joining McKinsey & Company, he worked for six years in marketing and sales management at the Gallo Winery and as an English teacher at a language training center in Munich, Germany. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a Bachelor's Degree in Government from Claremont McKenna College.
Peter Thum's lecture is part of the series Life after CMC: Alumni on the Move and is jointly sponsored by the Athenaeum and the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights.
Fingerprint Evidence: Science, Psychology, Law
LUNCH 11:45 a.m., LECTURE 12:15 p.m.
Every week on TV crime dramas such as CSI, viewers can see crimes being solved because a criminal left his or her fingerprints at the scene of the crime. In the real world, many thousands of criminal defendants have been convicted or acquitted because of fingerprint evidence. But should we trust such evidence? Professor Simon Cole will discuss the history of the development of forensic fingerprint identification, focusing on the lack of scientific validation of latent print examiners' knowledge claims and the legal controversy over the admissibility of fingerprint evidence. The lecture will present a psychological perspective on fingerprint evidence and discuss how psychological research might better inform our understanding of fingerprint evidence. It will conclude by asking whether we can draw broader lessons concerning the relationship between science, psychology and law from the fingerprint controversy.
Simon A. Cole is Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine, where he is also an affiliate of the Center for Psychology & Law. He received his Ph.D. in Science & Technology Studies from Cornell University, and he specializes in the historical and sociological study of the interaction between science, technology, law, and criminal justice. Dr. Cole is the author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification (Harvard University Press, 2001), which was awarded the 2003 Rachel Carson Prize by the Society for Social Studies of Science.
African American Hebrews in the Promised Land: Race, Religion, and the Reconfiguring of Diaspora
The Black Hebrew Israelites of Universal Practical Knowledge make up in bombast what they may lack in name recognition. Infamous in many urban American communities for their confrontational anti-white rhetoric shouted from bullhorns on busy sidewalks by robed and bearded black men, the Black Hebrew Israelites would appear to be a male-dominated fringe sect with a racist agenda. The reality is much more complex. In his talk social anthropologist John Jackson will trace the group's transatlantic flow of practitioners, religious beliefs, and cultural practices as they reach from Israel to Harlem and North Carolina. He will discuss new fieldwork, done for his forthcoming book, suggesting that Black Judaism is constructing a new, self-styled vision of Black Diasporic possibility.
Dr. Jackson is an assistant professor of Cultural Anthropology and African & African American Studies at Duke University and a fellow at the National Humanities Center. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and was a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows. His award-winning first book, Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America (University of Chicago Press, 2001), examines vernacular theories of race, class and their performative intersections. His latest book, Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity (University of Chicago Press, 2005), uses ethnography to challenge scholarly assumptions about identity studies and black authenticity. He has also written, directed, and produced several films, including a nationally-distributed documentary, several internationally-screened film-shorts, and an award-winning 16mm feature.
Of Migration and Others
I personally believe that most artists are in one way or another reflections of their immediate surroundings . . . with the advent of a rapid globalization and the proliferation of information at all levels, this permits everyone, and particular artists, to take their ideas from a global well.
-Edouard Duval-Carrie
Edouard Duval-Carrie, born in Haiti and trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and Loyola University, Montreal, explores the theme of migration through his provocative paintings, sculptures, and mixed media installations. His works, blending mythology, history, and Haitian religious mysticism, have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide. His Athenaeum talk will include a slide presentation.
Duval-Carrie's lecture at the Athenaeum is part of the conference "Images and Representation—Visual Arts in Haiti" that seeks to examine different aspects of artistic creation in the context of Haiti today. This conference, which also includes artists Mario Benjamin and award-winning filmmaker Laurence Magloire, is sponsored by the modern languages department at CMC, the dean of faculty at Pitzer College, and the Athenaeum.
Speakers include two prominent contemporary artists: Edouard Duval-Carrie and Mario Benjamin, and award-winning filmmaker Laurence Magloire. They will examine different aspects of artistic creation in the artistic creation in the context of Haiti today. There will also be an exhibition of the artists' works in Lang Art Studio, Scripps College February 8-11.
In the Shadow of the Founders: The Meaning, and Significance, of "Generations" in American History
It is a cliché to remark that the lessons of the past remain relevant, and that many of the issues faced by past generations continue to haunt our societies to this day. Yet even more than most, Professor John Demos has spent his professional career illustrating the link between the past and the present in light of the early American experience. His vast research brilliantly demonstrates the inextricable link between the social currents of yesteryear and the societal trends of tomorrow for American individuals and American society. Moreover, by particularly focusing on the family unit in his historical scholarship, Demos explores an area of history that often receives less attention than it deserves; his focus on families and communities instills his research with a sense of perspective and outlook that is often lacking in historical narratives. The result is a body of work impressive in its depth and notable for its contribution to a greater understanding of early American life.
John Demos was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard College, and received his graduate training at Oxford, at the University of California at Berkeley, and Harvard. He has taught at Brandeis and at Yale, where he is currently Samuel Knight Professor of American History. His books include A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony (1970), Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England (1982), for which he received the 1983 Bancroft Prize, and Past, Present, and Personal: The Family and the Life Course in American History (1986). Demos' The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America (1994) received the National Book Award in 1994.
The lecture by John Demos is jointly sponsored by the Athenaeum, Gould Center at Claremont McKenna College, and the history department at Pomona College.
Distinguishing Truth from Objectivity: The Case for the Partisan Press
Can you trust a news medium that is explicitly partisan? Can a news source with a point of view be "balanced" and "fair"? Victor Navasky will argue for positive answers to these questions, in part by targeting The New York Times in his case against the objectivity norm in the news. He will also consider the great caricaturist David Levine as an example of how caricature, which by definition is unfair, can communicate truths, insights and perceptions which otherwise would be impossible to impart. Navasky's lecture is the 2nd in a series of Athenaeum lectures this semester on bias and objectivity in the news media.
Navasky, editor of The Nation since 1978, became editorial director and publisher in 1995, and is now its publisher emeritus. He is also the George Delacorte Professor of Magazine Journalism at the Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where he directs the Delacorte Center of Magazines and chairs the Columbia Journalism Review.
Before coming to The Nation he was an editor at The New York Times Magazine and wrote a monthly column about the publishing business ("In Cold Print") for the Times Book Review. He is the author of Kennedy Justice (Atheneum, 1977) and Naming Names (Viking, 1980), which won a National Book Award and has been republished by Farrar Straus and Giroux (2003) with a new afterword; and with Christopher Cerf, he is co-author of The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation (1984), a new version of which has been published in England under the title Wish I Hadn't Said That!. He was founding editor and publisher of Monocle, a "leisurely quarterly of political satire and social criticism" that appeared in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Navasky has served as a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellow, a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and a senior fellow at the Freedom Forum. And he has taught at Swarthmore College, Wesleyan University and was Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University.
The New York Times said of his new book "Anybody who has ever dreamed of starting a magazine, or worried that the country is losing the ability to speak seriously to itself, should read his new book, A Matter of Opinion" published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, May, 2005. It has been published in the U.K. by The New Press.
Service to Country: A Family and Community Endeavor
It is not just a Soldier that enlists or receives a commission into the Army; it's a larger personal network that includes immediate and extended family members, former teachers and coaches, fellow employees, employers, church members and other members of the community. Simply put, a Soldier's not alone in his/her service to country. The Soldier's honorable service reflects more than himself/herself. This is as apparent today as ever, as the United States enters the fifth year in its Global War on Terrorism. Today, active and reserve forces, representing communities across all states and territories, engage in the full spectrum of military operations around the world representing America and her citizens.
Brigadier Mark A. Bellini, a native of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the regular Army in 1979 following graduation from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania where he received a bachelor's degree in Economics. In addition to a bachelor's degree, Brigadier General Bellini holds masters' degrees in Business Administration, Military Arts and Science (Theater Operations), and Strategic Studies. After attending the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, General Bellini was assigned to the War College faculty as Director, Military Strategy in the Department of National Security and Strategy. BG Bellini, while in Europe also attended the German Military's Higher Command and Staff Seminar at the Fuhrungs Academy, Hamburg, Germany.
BG Bellini, the 49th Quartermaster General of the US Army, has been assigned to a variety of key command and staff positions in the United States and abroad. His most recent assignments include Deputy Commanding General, 21st Theater Support Command (Germany); Commander, 1st Infantry Division Support Command (Germany) where he deployed to Turkey in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom; Deputy Chief of Staff, US Army Materiel Command; and Commander, 27th Main Support Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division.
BG Bellini's awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit (with oak leaf cluster), Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and Meritorious Service Medal (with five oak leaf clusters).
Following remarks by BG Bellini, a tribute to America's Soldiers and those family and community members who have supported them from our earliest days to the present, will be presented.
Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
LUNCH 11:45 a.m., LECTURE 12:15 p.m.
According to many social scientists, Black women must contend with the double jeopardy of being Black and female in a society that continues to devalue both statuses. Drawing on the African American Women's Voices Project, a qualitative research study of 399 Black women, ages 18 to 88, from all walks of life, Kumea Shorter-Gooden will explore the impact of racial and gender bias on Black women's self-image and emotional well-being; lives at school, work and in houses of worship; and relationships with men. She will discuss the concept of "shifting" and the implications for any group that is marginalized or stigmatized; e.g., other people of color, women in general, or people who are gay or lesbian. Also included in the discussion will be challenges to and strategies for creating a fair and just world.
Dr. Shorter-Gooden was one of two Black girls to integrate The Madeira School in Virginia in 1966, and she graduated with a B.A. degree (Magna Cum Laude) from Princeton University with its first class of women. She later earned the Ph.D. in Clinical/Community Psychology from the University of Maryland. A Licensed Psychologist based in Pasadena, California, she has a private psychotherapy and organizational consultation practice, and is an active speaker and workshop leader around issues related to African American mental health, women's issues, and multiculturalism and diversity. Her luncheon talk is sponsored the Dean of Students at CMC.
Fascism: A Work In Progress
Fascism. Few words are more widely used and so poorly understood. As early as 1946, George Orwell proclaimed that "the word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'" Today's usage of the word makes Orwell's definition look like a paragon of precision. Jonah Goldberg peels back the history of fascism and its uses and abuses in the United States, offering a revisionist history of the word and discusses the perplexing popularity of the ideas on which it is based.
Jonah Goldberg is editor-at-large of National Review Online for which he writes "The Goldberg File" and a contributing editor to National Review. He also writes a regular column for The American Enterprise magazine, and his nationally syndicated editorial column, distributed by Tribune Media Services, appears in such newspapers as the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Washington Times.
Mr. Goldberg is a CNN contributor and regular panelist on Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, and an occasional guest-host on Crossfire. A former television producer, he has written and produced two PBS documentaries. An award-winning journalist, his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Worth, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, The Public Interest, The Wilson Quarterly, The Weekly Standard, New York Post, Reason, The Women's Quarterly, The New Criterion, Food and Wine, The Street.com, and Slate.
Jonah Goldberg's appearance at the Athenaeum is sponsored by the Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World.
Fraud on the Supreme Court: Civil Rights and the Japanese American Experience
The U.S. Government's decision to force thousands of Japanese Americans into mandatory internment camps during World War II will forever stand as one of the most egregious violations of civil liberties in this nation's history. But while this act has thankfully achieved the notoriety it richly deserves, the danger of recurrence remains uncomfortably high in our current age of terrorist threats and unseen enemies.
Dale Minami is one of the nation's leading advocates for the preservation of civil rights and civil liberties. As the lead counsel representing a Japanese American who had refused internment during World War II, Minami successfully overturned the 40-year-old conviction by challenging the legality of Korematsu v. United States—the 1944 Supreme Court decision that legitimized mandatory internment. He has received numerous awards for his dedication to the cause of civil rights, including the American Bar Association's 2003 Thurgood Marshall Award and the 2003 ACLU Civil Liberties Award.
Dale Minami received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Southern California and received his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He was admitted to the California State Bar in 1972 and is currently a partner with Minami, Lew and Tamaki, a San Francisco law firm specializing in personal injury and entertainment law.
The Lark Quartet Plays Bolcom, Gershwin, and Debussy
DEBORAH BUCK, violin
MARIA BACHMANN, violin
KATHRYN LOCKWOOD, viola
ASTRID SCHWEEN, cello
Monday, February 20, 2006
Nearing the end of its second decade as an internationally celebrated string quartet, the Lark Quartet has evolved into a virtuosic tour-de-force. "Simply one of the finest ensembles in the world!" declared one German newspaper. From Mozart Festivals in Europe to American Music retrospectives at the Library of Congress, providing the soundtrack for choreographer Bill T. Jones' award-winning "Still/Here," and recording the complete Beethoven Quartet Cycle, the Lark Quartet's extraordinary versatility continues to dazzle.
Masters of both the traditional string quartet repertoire and the works of recent artists who delight in bending the "Classical" mode, the artistic energies of this unusual foursome are fueled by this contrast of stylistic extremes.
The quartet discography comprises nearly one dozen CD recordings and a 1998 video documentary of the ensemble which recently appeared on Public Television stations nationwide.
In addition to their contributions to the Lark Quartet, each member of the ensemble is professionally distinguished in her own right. Graduates of esteemed institutions such as Julliard and The Curtis Institute, these musicians are prize-winning soloists, recording artists, and university faculty whose talents mingle and multiply in the classic quartet.
Back by popular demand, this fine ensemble will once again provide a splendid evening of music for those fortunate enough to find themselves at the Athenaeum.
Nuremberg, Sixty Years After: Rhetoric and Meaning
While bringing high-ranking Nazi defendants to justice for crimes committed during World War II, the Nuremberg Trials carried out by the International Military Tribunal in 1945-46 introduced the concept of crimes against humanity. One of the twentieth century's most important legal proceedings, these postwar trials and their implications continue to be of immense importance.
Acclaimed scholar Michael Marrus will discuss the rhetoric and meaning of these landmark trials. Marrus is the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a visiting fellow and professor at Oxford, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, UCLA, and the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
He is the author of, among other books, The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1945-46: A Documentary History (1997), The Holocaust in History (1987), and The Politics of Assimilation: French Jews at the Time of the Dreyfus Affair (1980). He was also a member of the international Catholic-Jewish historical commission to examine the role of the Vatican during the Holocaust.
After Nuremberg: Legal, Political, and Ethical Implications
In recognition of the 60th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials, the Athenaeum is privileged to present a roundtable discussion concerning the implications of those famous proceedings. The participants on the roundtable represent a group of internationally renowned experts on the many aspects of the Nuremberg Trials, including their legal, political and ethical consequences for the international community.
The discussion will be moderated by Jonathan Petropoulos, John V. Croul Professor of European History at Claremont McKenna College as well as the Director of the Gould Center and the Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights. The participants will include: Michael Marrus, the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto, whose publications include The Holocaust in History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined (1987), Vichy France and the Jews (1981), and The Unwanted: European Refugees in the 20th Century (2001); Juergen Matthaeus and Patricia Heberer, historians at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and scholars whose recent research into the ethical issues of the Holocaust have elevated them to the top of their respective academic fields; and John Roth, Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights.
Iraq and American Empire
As the importance of the Middle East grows almost on a daily basis, and as the United States becomes more and more involved in the intricacies and dangers of Middle Eastern politics, it is becoming clear that the basic Western understanding of the cultural and political forces of the region is sorely lacking. How did today's Middle East come into being, and what influence did western powers have in shaping the political and economic realities of the region? Where are the forces of nationalism strongest in the Middle East, and what effect does this have on Middle Eastern politics? What are the prospects for democratic growth among the many authoritarian governments in the region, and what are the challenges facing the region today?
Professor Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University, is internationally recognized as one of the leading voices on the formation and the development of the modern Middle East. He is the author or co-editor of a number of books analyzing the complexities of Arab nationalism and the question of Palestine, including Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1998); The Origins of Arab Nationralism (1991); and, most recently, Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004).
Professor Khalidi's talk is the second in the series Islam: Past and Present, a year long series at the Athenaeum focusing upon the confluence between historical forces of the Middle East and their implications for the present day.
16th Annual Kravis-de Roulet Leadership Conference
Followership: An Outmoded Concept
LUNCH 12:00 p.m., LECTURE 12:30 p.m.
Joseph C. Rost, a distinguished scholar in leadership studies, argues that thinking of followership as a separate process from leadership is essentially an industrial concept that is outmoded and unacceptable in a postindustrial age. The idea that there is a separate process called followership is contrary to the basic assumptions and essential values of the postindustrial society.
According to Rost, the word follower is also a concept that is troubling within the context of leadership studies, and much of the time people use it in a very traditional and old-fashioned way. In spite of the attempt by some scholars and practitioners to add assumptions and values to the word such transformation is not going to happen in the postindustrial era, as the concept of follower is antithetical to the basic assumptions and values of the postindustrial society. Professor Rost will suggest some ways out of the follower problem.
Joseph Rost is a professor emeritus of leadership studies at the University of San Diego in San Diego, CA where he was a professor of leadership from 1976 to 1996. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he specialized in the politics of education.
After his retirement in 1996, Rost collaborated with several graduates and doctoral students in leadership studies at USD to inaugurate the Institute for the Advancement of Leadership. He served as Executive Director of this nonprofit corporation until it stopped operations in 1999.
Rost's first book, Leadership for the Twenty-First Century, published in 1991 by Praeger, is one of the most quoted books about leadership in print. He is presently working on a second edition of the work.
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I notice that there's a link to Add Comments on postings even when comments have been disabled. I wonder if the Add Comments link could have some kind of if...then statement that determines if comments are turned on then it appears, but if comments are turned off then it doesn't show up.
iBlog2 Comments Link Appears When Comments Are Turned Off
Started by gregory-johnson , Oct 30 2009 03:29 PM
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Posted 30 October 2009 - 04:19 PM
Good point, Noted for improvement.
Posted 04 February 2010 - 10:46 PM
Is there any fix for this yet? Trying to nix that Add comments and comment bubble when comments are turned off.
Posted 05 February 2010 - 02:18 AM
I'll update this in the next release. Probably in a week or so.


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ATLANTA, GEORGIA -- On October 28th 2013, I was rear ended by a 70 yr old guy in a brand new Buick LaCrosse. The damage was so severe that the truck lid was stuck shut, passenger rear door was buckled, whole quarter panel was twisted and the fuel tank vent system was breached. Many warnings lights was on, parking sensors malfunction, fuel tank system warning, etc. The car wasn't drivable.
The insurance carrier of the person that rear ended me is State Farm. I filed a claim through my insurance company (Esurance) and with State Farm. Esurance claims representative called me back and said he wanted to make sure State Farm is handling this because they're the party at-fault and is 100% responsible. While I cannot talk about the injuries I have per my attorney, I will tell you how State Farm handled the repair of my 2007 BMW 328xi.
I brought my car to North State Custom bodyshop in Bedford Hills, NY because they're trained and certified by BMW to repair their cars. I told them only OEM parts can be used to repair the car. I made it a point that they need to contact me and discuss before repairing the car as I know it doesn't look good. A week later I get a message on my answering machine from State Farm saying the car is repairable and it costs approx $9,000. I called State Farm back and like expected, no one picked the phone up and they want to have a voicemail left. Approx 2 weeks later, more damage was found during dis-assembly. The bodyshop had to make a supplement twice.
I called State Farm and again no one picked up the phone. I stayed on the line and demanded someone pick up this claim right now. The lady who read out my claim said my car was flagged for a total loss and it costs $13,600 total for the repairs. She went on to say she doesn't know why they repaired my car because it was supposed to be a total-loss and she doesn't know who authorized the repairs. I told her I need copies of all the documentation and records on this.
She kept telling me she's not authorized to do that and will have to send me to my claim representative **. Her position is total-loss department. I finally got through to her and she told me my car is only $900 away from total-loss but it was flagged for a total-loss. She said they use 75% rule to determine if the car is a total-loss. I told her the car blue book is only 12-13 grand. She tells me they don't use the "blue book" way and they have a different system of valuing the car. I asked her what the car's value per State Farm is. She told me they value the car at $17,300. I said why wasn't it not totaled then? "Because the damage is severe and there's frame damage."
She basically stonewalled me at this point and said because it's only $900 away from total-loss and went on to tell me it didn't meet the total-loss per the car age and value. Said they're taking 100% responsibility for this accident and handling this case, thus telling me good luck at this point. State Farm closed the claim saying there's nothing they can do about this now. Esurance has keep their claim open because the problem with State Farm is not resolved.
To date I have not received any copies of documentation and explanation on how they came up with that value of $17,300. I got a copy of the estimate papers and it shows that recycled and parts from a similar year model is used and new parts are substituted with aftermarket parts and not all parts are new.
A week later I got a call from my bodyshop saying my car is fixed. It was in the shop for over a month, it needed over 100 manhours to fix it. I asked them who authorized the repairs because I never gave the go-ahead and the car was supposed to be totaled. They looked at me like they're in shock. They told me the State Farm appraiser told them to go ahead and repair the car. I found out State Farm sent the check directly to the bodyshop, very disappointed no one contacted me about this.
I had to return the rental car and pick up my car, it was close to closing time at the body shop and it was a Friday. The shop told me the car frame had to be pulled back to specs and the damage was so severe that the car that hit me probably did not use any braking. On the drive home, I hear a whirring noise under the car. Sounds like a wheel bearing or the transfer case. When I go highway speeds, there's bad vibration. The car never did this before the accident.
I noticed there are areas of the car that was not repaired to the way it was before the accident, such as the trim on the top of the bumper has a slight curve to it and it wasn't like that before the accident. Also the gap between the trunk lid and the bumper is bigger than before while the top part of the trunk lid is flush with the quarter panels. The replacement battery they used in the repair of the car is smaller than the OEM battery.
On the morning of January 22nd, I turned the windshield defroster on and made a right turn getting onto the parkway, I heard a cracking noise a few minutes later. There's a long crack on my windshield starting from the bottom of the driver's side and runs all the way to the bottom of the passenger side up a slight curve. Upon examination of the windshield from the exterior, there's no impact point or damage that could have caused it to crack.
At this point I'm thinking since the frame was pulled, it stressed out the windshield thus causing it to crack eventually. I contacted Esurance about this and the claims representative told me they will contact the bodyshop and ask them if they feel the frame pulling has caused this to happen. I know the shop will try to play it down. I filed a complaint with the Insurance department on this already. I contacted my insurance (Esurance) and they're trying to find out who dropped the ball at State Farm. But so far no luck because State Farm is not returning calls. I told them (Esurance) they need to push harder and get State Farm to fix this because the car should've been totaled.
MECHANICSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA -- My car (and me) were rear ended at a high rate of speed, while I was waiting to make a left hand turn. The person who hit me admitted it was their fault (100%) and the police report reflected this. State Farm admitted responsibility and promised to make good on the claim. My car was old (2000 Subaru Outback) but an excellent car. They valued my car at $5300 and the repairs at $4000. The car is drivable but needed to be repaired to pass inspection. They refused to repair it to it's before accident condition and "totaled" the car so I could not even fix it myself without going through a lot of inconvenient title changes and legal loop holes.
Anyone with decent values would fix the car to it's pre-accident condition in this situation. If I was at all at fault I would not be writing this. I do not care about "rules" "procedures" or profit margins, just write and wrong. This accident is going to cost me at least $3000 to get an equal car (after their "generous" settlement"). State Farm will gladly take money but all you get out of it is "peace of mine" not responsibility. Dealing with his company sucks.
I work for State Farm, claim representative for homeowners claims. I am not a fan of the company, only because it does not fit me and the "workflows" / customer service policies. Sorry, State Farm policyholders, not what you think... all they (State Farm) think about is trying to improve customer service (yet I think many processes are not helping.) Well, I do think they under pay employees, have a horrible rating system for employees, and micro-manage (and getting worse) their employees.
But as to what this web-site is for... hating State Farm for not paying money for claims. The policyholders need to read their policy and understand what it covers and does not cover, if you don't know (b/c it does look like reading a law review) ask your Agent, yet I feel most Agents don't know squat.
For everyone (I know and will discuss homeowners policies) your policy does not cover flood. It does not cover water that enters your home seeping through a wall or floor, running under doors (flooding, you want water running or seeping through walls, floors, doors, windows covered... you need flood insurance!!!! Even if you don't live in a flood plain and your mortgagee doesn't require it). The policy does not cover FLOOD, or water that backs up from a sewer or drain (read the policy).
The policy is not maintenance plan. If water leaks (pretty much anywhere, especially the roof) continuously or repeatedly it is obviously a maintenance issue, or negligence (b/c you didn't bother to fix it). Thus brings to me to... rot and mold. For things to rot or mold it has to have water affecting it for a long (loonngg) time. The policy covers damage that happens... boom, one time, right now. Thus... Accidental Direct Physical Loss (ADPL)... to me, this means (boom) happened right now. Hail hit your home, wind hit your home, tree fell on your home, wind may has blown rain into your home... ADPL.
Yes your roof decking (1x's or plywood or OSB) maybe rotted, but sorry it was apparently leaking for a long time, does it have to be fixed or replaced... yes, but insurance can't pay for it. Rot and mold does not happen after a couple of days or weeks (especially rot), thus why they are not covered (ADPL), you got to stay on top of what is happening at your home. Sorry for the rant. State Farm pays for what is damaged. Sorry but if only parts of your home is damaged, they are only going to pay for damage. If there is only damage to one slope of your roof, or 1 or 2 elevations of your home, they only owe you for that. Sorry it doesn't match, but... policy pays for (say it with me) ADPL.
When the wind blows or hail falls it typically (typically) comes from one direction, thus you will only have damage (typically) from on 1 side of your home. (By the way people can not see (AND AREN'T LOOKING AT) multiple sides of your roof or elevations at one time, so matching is a poor excuse.
HAIL - everybody loves it for insurance. Hail will effect every roof differently. (Although your neighbor got a new roof, you may not.) Older the roof more likely to get damage, (but color of roof, tree coverage, steepness, quality of shingle and direction of house will affect how quickly the roof ages), the steepness of roof, direction hail blew in it at, tree coverage, and quality of roof (funny how that hail damage is related to the factors that determine how quickly it ages) will determine if you have hail damage.
By the way Independent Adjusters get paid based on how much they pay you, so if they don't pay something they are taking money out of their own pockets, so what since does it make for them to pay for 1/2 a roof, unless there is not damage. (I spite those guys, they make WAY more money than us.) I really do hate my job. It is just not a fit for me. I am a home builder by schooling (Bachelor degree) with 9+ years of practice, and now stuck under fluorescent lights and a micro-managed schedule (to benefit the customer). But you got to know...
Something to keep in mind, there are 4 types of contractors (for insurance purposes): Contractor charges same (honest price) no matter what; Contractor who knows Insurance pays a lot more than normal and will accept the Insurance price (correct and fair price for damaged items); Contractor who doesn't know Insurance process, but knows Insurance pays a lot, so will nearly double price because they think Insurance will pay it; The dirt bag Contractor, who always rips off customers and will try to rip off customer and Insurance company. (Keep in mind Insurance Adjusters make mistakes (a lot of mistakes) so they miss items, miscalculate, invert #'s or just don't know.
If you were to have a contractor to your house and say how much for a new roof, (as example) contractor #1 will say $9,000 (or you don't need it) & #2 & #3 will say $10,000, and #4 will say $14,000+. Tell same contractors you got to Insurance claim: #1 will say $9,000 (or you don't need it), #2 will say how much will Insurance Co. pay?, #3 will say $12,000, and #4 will say $16,000+. By the way to replace the roof is probably $9,250. (#1 is just too honest).
Well, nobody will probably read this so I guess I will quit typing now, but before I am done, I hate my job (I am trained, not used to being micro-managed, under paid (used to make double salary with old career), and don't agree with how much money State Farm pays out for claims (too much)). We, State Farm, tries its very best to pay claims, and always bends the rules (policy) in the favor of the customer, any grey area of policy means pay the claim. But if policy says,"not covered" can't pay. PERIOD. So if you can't afford to pay for "some" damage to your home (without insurance) or pay your deductible (including Hurricane or Wind/Hail deductibles) don't own a house.
You fools are probably the people who put this real estate / home value / foreclosure / "bad market" into a downward spiral, thanks... I am now doing a job I hate, and you fools are filing claims for 3 shingles missing from your roof (buy a hammer, buy a friend, or have $250 in your checking account) in hopes to have something positive happen your lives... an insurance check (and now that you are laid off b/c of the bad market, you attributed to, you just want the money.) ** - if I ever handled your claim, or if you work with me, you know me (because I am blatantly honest all the time to everybody), and know this is all the truth.
PLYMOUTH, INDIANA -- If you think State Farm is a "GOOD NEIGHBOR" your wrong!! I purchased a car and 3 days later was hit from behind while sitting at a red flashing light. I was hit by a person who was not insured and was going 55 mph. My care was a total loss.. police stated it was 100% other drivers fault. State Farm has been rear ended me every since.. which was my insurance!!
They took forever to get an estimate, took forever when they finally did send someone out and took the whole back end of my car apart wanting to attempt to fix it with 10,000 dollars damage. Told them I was not fixing this car!! It was hit to hard and bent the frame in the back!! They still wanted to fix it!! Finally they agreed to replace the car and I had 5 days to purchase a new one, working until late every night at my job that meant I had 1 day to purchase another car.
Now I have to pay for the rent a vehicle!! And would not let me use my own renters insurance that I had paid for on my own policy.. then State Farm reported I was at fault!! What a nightmare State Farm has been.. I will NEVER recommend anyone to State Farm!!! Get out now if you have it, before this happens to you!!! Had to hire an attorney to fight my OWN insurance that I have paid for.
VILLA RIDGE, MISSOURI -- We are a small contracting firm in the St. Louis area specializing in insurance restoration claims. Our deal like most of the other insurance contractors is that we complete the work for the amount established by the insurance carriers. We have found that this has the minimal financial effect on our customers with the only out of pocket costs being the deductible and any upgrades. A large hail storm producing golf ball size hail and strong winds blew through Villa Ridge, MO on 5/13/10. Approximately 1 1/2 weeks later a storm came through producing 60+ MPH winds. One subdivision, Golden Pond has had approx 80-90% of the roofs replaced due to the hail.
We had several houses in this area that we recommended replacing the roofs. The State Farm adjuster met us at these sites and we both inspected the roof. He recommended replacing one roof, did not include any of the roof accessories, IE; vents, drip edge or pipe flashing and only one run of aluminum gutters across the back of the house. No consideration at all for the front gutters or any of the screens that were damaged. His comment to us was you know how the game is played. She is a disabled senior citizen that can barely walk. The adjuster was told, by our customer, to contact us about the claim and we would make the arrangements for any meetings that were needed.
He was left several phone messages and never called us back. He went to her home, without us present and settled the loss. I got a call and she was crying saying that she almost fell getting to the door, it takes her over 5 minutes to get to the door. He kept ringing the door bell until she answered. And he missed the interior damages as well. The other house in Golden Pond he recommended 1/2 a roof, 3 aluminum window wraps and no gutters. A few inappropriate and derogatory remarks about our customer were made by him, such as, "She is kind of goofy isn't she?." She was involved in an auto accident recently and had a brain trauma.
He recommended to the homeowner to withdraw the claim so she would not be charged with a claim and to file one later and maybe the front would be covered. Then came back 1 hour later and gave her a $1,500 estimate with a $1000 deductible and closed the file. This yard connects to the 1st house we wrote about. The neighbor on the north side, south side, west side and east side of her each had hail damages and got full roofs.
We had the same adjuster on 4 other properties in the area and an independent adjuster from State Farm on the 5th property. We googled a map of the area and these houses are all in a straight line with the yards connected 2 of them, and the street dividing the rest. He recommended paying for one roof, only half the gutters, a garage door, and had a repair recommendation of $76 for a metal door that was damaged. He denied the damages to the metal pole barn roof. The back yard connects to the independents roof, he did a 100% replacement with no problems.
Directly across the street our customer is another retired senior citizen who was denied. He was told there was no damage at all. We replaced the next door neighbors roof and our competition replaced the roof across the street from them.
Across the street our customer is with a different company and got a whole roof, gutters, siding and a roof on the pole barn. This yard connects to the property of a retired widow. He recommended replacing 1/2 of her dwelling roof, the back gutters, one metal roof and half of another metal roof. His comment to me was "I guess we will see how good your salesmanship is and you can sell her the other half of the roof. He then stated that he did not want to set a precedence on replacing the metal roofs because he does not think the structural integrity was effected by the hail.
We met him on site two weeks ago and she still has not received the estimate or check, but has been told at least 4 times that the check was in the mail, an out and out bold faced lie. When she asked for another adjuster she was told that State Farm will not send anyone else out, they have confidence in the adjusters assessment of the damages and his repair recommendations.
Another retired widow house was done half way as well, shingles only on the roof, no gutters, no roof turbines, and no screens. We met him for a re-inspection, he will not pay for one of the roofs on the property. His inspection was 2 1/2 weeks ago, still no check. In the mean time our customer has been hospitalized with heart problems and called me literally crying her eyes out and wanted to know what was going on. She told me her blood pressure was up again over this and she can not deal with it any longer, and that we should go ahead and complete the repairs and she will pay for it all. This is golf ball sized hail that caused the damages.
My last complaint is a customer that we replaced the roof next door to him from the wind. You can lift huge sections of shingles on both the slopes on the garage and house. State Farm recommended replacing 3 square of shingles, and some guttering, with no consideration of removing the tree off of the garage. He now has interior water damages.
MCMINNVILLE, OREGON -- This posting is in regards to an accident my daughter was involved in on April 16, 2010. She had stopped behind a car waiting to turn, and her vehicle was rear ended (and totaled) by another car who's driver wasn't paying attention. Our agent was very helpful in getting a claim started for medical coverage.
The issue is that the other driver was also insured by State Farm. I found out very quickly that this apparently changes the rules. The rental car coverage that I have been paying for all this time doesn't come into effect unless the claim is made on my policy; which of course it wasn't since the other driver was at fault. Therefore there is no rental car available to used to find a replacement vehicle, unless you pay for it out of your pocket, once the other claim makes an offer for your totaled vehicle over the phone. Not once you receive any money, which takes another few days in the mail; or you can pay for the rental yourself and drive the hour or so to go get it, and while you're test driving vehicles.
I owned the vehicle my daughter was driving for 9 1/2 years, took very good care of it and the engine had a lot of miles on it, but would have easily gone another 100,000+ miles. Please tell me where you can actually purchase an equally reliable running vehicle for $1400?
My daughter is a full time student & her school is paid per term, but she has to pay additional for any missed days to make them up in order to graduate. That's $80/day that's not covered by the insurance, unless she misses 14 days. She had a neck injury that kept her out of school for a few days, but not long enough to get reimbursed for it. She has to pay extra for those days to graduate.
In addition to all of this, even though we're State Farm customers the State Farm people from the 'other claim' were absolutely horrible to my daughter on the phone. The accident was on a Friday, and the following Tuesday she received 8 calls from them wanting information or telling her what she had to do. She was so stressed out by all of this that I talked with them and made sure they understood they weren't to call her about anything else.
There were several different people that called, and the information was very contradicting. Like one person telling us to take the car in for an estimate on the damages, then someone else telling us not to take it to a shop and that it didn't matter if we took it in for an estimate on the damages that their estimator had to look at it, then a different person told us that we were supposed to leave it at the shop where the estimate was done...huh? I had already moved it by then.
Then once the estimator looked at it and told me that it was totaled, the people in the claims office told me it wasn't totaled, then another person told me it was, and then yet another person told me that it wasn't really decided that it was totaled. It took 3 days to get a straight answer. My dilemma at this point was... do I start looking for a replacement vehicle or am I fixing this one?
Once they decided the car really was totaled, the claim was transferred to the total loss department. It took a few days for them to make an offer, which I refused because I had already gotten estimated values from a couple of web sites my agent had suggested, as well as multiple private party ads for the same year/condition vehicle that were much higher. They took a full week to make another offer, just a bit higher than the first one. By that time I was so disgusted with the whole experience that I decided it wasn't worth it and accepted the (lousy) offer, and moved on to researching new insurance companies.
I have been with State Farm for over 20 years. I have had auto, renters and home owners insurance through them. I kind of expected them to go to bat for me in dealing with the other claim. I actually expected them to protect me and my daughter during this experience. Oh yeah, they were sympathetic & all. My agent did get them to extend the rental car coverage for another 3 days. I still had to pay for a rental car out of my pocket, and then had to borrow a vehicle for the rest of the time till the vehicle could be replaced.
What a nightmare. I am very disappointed. All of the State Farm commercials say "State Farm is there...". They imply that they (State Farm) will help you. Not in this case. I am definitely moving to another insurance company. I really don't want anything else to do with State Farm. What's going to happen if there's another accident? I feel like I'm just throwing my money away, like they won't be there for me when I need them.
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA -- I consider myself a responsible person -- adult, who has never been responsible for any motor vehicle accident. I have no outstanding parking tickets. I take pride in my excellent driving record. I take pride in my character. I will assume responsibility for what I must, but I am not so inclined to take responsibility, particularly financial responsibility, for something of which I am not guilty. For 3 years. For an automobile accident I did not cause on November 4, 2009. I will not be accused of something for which I am not guilty.
State Farm grossly erred in their conclusion of this accident. I made a video recreating the accident. This is not a heavily trafficked area. There is no obstruction of view. How many times must I say I was already in the street, preparing to shift gears from reverse to 1st? I was STOPPED!!! The commissioner told me I was at fault because I had pulled out of my driveway. How many times must I say my car had to come to a full stop, there was a little movement. It's the law of motion. BUT MY CAR WAS STOPPED WHEN SHE HIT ME!!!
In my video, my driver indicated she was going 15 miles per hour. The uninsured teen driver talking on her cell phone told the police she was going 19. Look at the video. Going 19 miles per hour would have alerted this young lady there was on-coming traffic. Me. My car. Already out in the street. Coming to a full stop preparing to shift from reverse to 1st gear. I was already in the street, preparing to shift gears from reverse to 1st, that my car had to come to a full stop. YOU CAN'T CHANGE GEARS FROM REVERSE TO 1ST WHILE THE VEHICLE IS MOVING! How many times do I have to say that?
How many times must I say the uninsured teen was on her phone at the time of the accident? That I went in my house and called the police and my insurer, State Farm, on my phone? We both gave the officer our license, registration and proof of insurance. After impact, it took 5 seconds for me to get out of my car to go to her. My first concern was her. Was she hurt? She was not looking at me. She was not looking for her phone or dialing a number. She was already on the phone. Crying. She knew. How many times? She was reckless in her operation of a motor vehicle. Is it so unreasonable to think a cell phone distracted a teenage driver?
I agreed she swerved. She had to. It was just too late. Her car made contact with mine. Her front passenger panel was dented. The driver-side bumper on my car was ripped off. Had I been moving with any speed or in any other position, a side panel on my car would have been impacted. I don't have a cell phone, but I have a multi-policy coverage with State Farm, but not for long. State Farm never returned my phone calls. We pay you. I would appreciate a reversal of your imposition of increased fees and premium, and a reversal of my damaged driving record effective immediately. But it will never happen because State Farm paid to have her car repaired.
I would appreciate a restoration of my excellent driving record, I would appreciate the removal of and reimbursement of funds resulting from the premium increase and any and all associated fees and funds due and owing me, and the removal of the 3-year penalty. I would appreciate the removal of this from my file, which would never happen because it would be an admission of guilt on their part. State Farm apparently supports cell phone use while driving, particularly from high school teenagers who lack enough responsibility to have insurance, but a cell phone. That is, until the laws change, then they'll be more aggressive with no-phone zones for drivers.
The insurance commissioner said they sometimes rule against agents, but couldn't give me a number. He said, "It happens sometimes." "Well, how often?" "Oh, I don't have that figure in front of me." "I bet it's less than one percent." He was silent and told me he wasn't going to argue with me.
On April 15, 2010, Good Morning America reported two days after speaking with the insurance commissioner. ** April 30, 2010 is National No Phone Zone. STATE FARM SUPPORTS RECKLESS BEHAVIOR BY UNINSURED TEEN DRIVERS TALKING ON THEIR CELL PHONES, NOT THEIR CLIENTS! I did not cause this accident. How many times must I say this?
CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE -- I was involved in a 3 car accident. I was sitting at a red light waiting to turn left onto a 5 lane road (counting turn lane). As I waited a red Honda Passport was at my right waiting to turn into the complex I was coming out of. A 1979 Ford truck was coming from my left. They both had green lights, the Honda decided he could make it and DID NOT! His tires had no tread and the truck hit him and that slammed him into me. We had just left State Farm Insurance after over 30 years because of 2 claims that were not our fault but were handled poorly (I'll explain after this).
They got our car to the body shop. The trucks occupants went by ambulance to hospital. The passport was OK. My back started hurting but I did not go, I went to drive a couple of days later. They start puling my car apart and after fighting about the glass that flew at me and damaged my windshield then glass flew all over my cars drivers side and scrubbed the top of the car. There were 2 places on the roof that were damaged and they said they would fix. We found more scrapes on the drivers side of my car from the glass.
They told me at first they would paint the top then after having someone come look at the car again changed their minds because they said my car had been painted before and the spots were not damage from wreck but paint plume. Something of that nature they say was a bad paint job and starts at the bottom were the metal is and just pops up.
I told the girl I'm dealing with there were no problems before especially on the sides where you could see glass had hit and slid down the sides. They "changed" their minds and were now not going to fix it. I told her that in no way am I accepting the car and she told me to get out of their rental. I said fine. We left them before this because of a flood. We bought a car and had it 1 month to the day and it was totaled in a flood.
There were many cars in our complex totaled and they instead of towing them to the auto makers were going to a field and would have "experts" from each make come look at the cars and decide what's wrong. They called and said our car needed new carpet and that's it. I asked them if they knew it went to the field on a tow truck, they said yes, I said don't you think a car that just needed carpet wouldn't have to be towed in? After that they sent it to Mercedes which said if we wanted to strip it completely and start over they would build me a new one. They then tried to price it by comparing cars with 90 to 160000 more miles on it than ours. They are a crappy company. I'm glad we left and wish we had done it sooner!
MURFREEBORO, TENNESSEE -- State Farm Insurance Murfreeboro, Tennessee will start deducting money from employees paid check per State Farm survey.
In 2014 Murfreeboro, Tennessee, State Farm Insurance Headquarters's did a survey and decided that their employees where being paid more money than the national average. In the past this was a company who encourage the employees to get their licenses, etc to exceed and climb corporate ladder.
Starting August 2015 employees paid checks will see the first deduction over the survey amounts.
If the Level before survey paid 25,000.00 and then survey said it should be 20,000.00. There is a 5,000.00 difference. In 2015, 2,500.00 would be recalculated from pay check and employee would receive 22,500.00 per 2015. Then in 2016 the next 2,500.00 would be recalculated, leaving the employee making 20,000.00 per year instead of original 25,000.00 per year.
How would you feel if your company took money away from you that you had work hard to achieve for you and your family?
How would you feel if you transfer from other state to the Murfreeboro location and now getting a pay decrease?
Would you help State Farm customers to the best of your ability, after the company put the screws to you?
This is a lot to think about Dear Customers of State Farm. If you thought things were bad before, good luck future.
READING, PENNSYLVANIA -- I'm a retired insurance law instructor in Pennsylvania who now consults for local general contractors on insurance related matters. I attempted to contact several people here directly but emails bounce back, so I'm posting this for everyone to use... Even though State Farm is licensed to sell insurance in all states, there is no Federal regulatory agency to oversee insurance companies. Individual State Insurance Commissions have done a very good job overall, however whenever the government is involved there always exists the possibility of a laissez-faire attitude.
Contact your state insurance commission about the claim and use some phrases that only an "insider" would know. The only way to stop the consumer abuse by State Farm, Allstate, Travelers and others is a massive number of consumers complaining to the right people. Individual complaints are investigated, massive complaints cause the insurance company to be investigated. "Insurance is designed to restore the insured to the position he held prior to the loss". "There are 12 mandatory provisions in an insurance contract" (according to listed complaints, SF consistently violates at least 2). "Unfair Claim Settlement Practices" is what SF is guilty of. (This is a SERIOUS violation of state insurance regulations).
If you believe that your state insurance commission is "less than effective" I strongly recommend you file your complaint by Certified mail Return Receipt and copy the governor as he usually appoints the commissioner. Send a copy to the largest newspapers and local TV news stations for coverage, usually they have a consumer watchdog. SF hides behind anonymity, it's almost impossible to get a mailing address or the real name of anyone who works in their claims department or a supervisor. Everyone apparently only has first names, and they disconnect your call when the questioning becomes too hot for them.
Last time I asked for a supervisor, I was put on hold for 15 minutes only to be told that "he's going into a meeting, but will call you back." That was 2 weeks ago, still no return call, must be one hell of a meeting. **, the CEO promised shareholders 2 years ago that SF would never lose money [on claims] again. He's also the 3rd member of his family to hold that position. His family has controlled State Farm since 1954. Is it any wonder they don't give a damn about the consumer? This sounds more like a Monarchy than Corporate America.


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October 27, 2009
Winter Driving Advice for Teens
- Ask yourself
- Do I really need to be driving today/tonight? Are the road conditions within my experience? Is my vehicle ready for winter driving?
- Tell your parents your route(s) and if plans change, let them know.
- Clear all snow and ice from all windows, lights, hood, heater and air inlet vents, mirrors and wipers.
In Idaho, winter months had the highest number of crashes in 2006 and most fatal crashes occurred on Fridays and Saturdays.
- Why teens crash
- Driving too fast for weather conditions
- Distractions from passengers in the vehicle, talking on the cell phone and texting
- Following too close
- Neglecting stop signs and traffic signals
- Not enough driving experience
- If you have trouble
- Stay with your vehicle if you are stuck in the snow or slide off the road
- Tie something bright to your antenna and keep the interior light dome light on
- Run the engine at short intervals but crack the windows to avoid carbon monoxide fumes ( make sure vehicle exhaust pipes and vents are clear of snow and ice