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National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah has agreed to participate in the next round of peace talks with the Centre in April.
Union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai revealed this here on Tuesday while speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the 58th meeting of the North Eastern Council (NEC).
The peace talks between the NSCN(I-M) and New Delhi was deadlocked for nearly one year, with the last round of talks held in March 2009.
Mr. Pillai said the Centre would appoint an interlocutor later this week for facilitating the peace talks.
In 2009, the Centre did not extend the tenure of the previous interlocutor, K. Padmanabhaiah, and held direct talks with the NSCN(I-M) leadership.
The former Union Home Secretary, Padmanabhaiah, was appointed interlocutor in July 1999 initially for one year and his tenure was extended every year till 2009.
"On the invitation of the government of India, the NSCN (I-M) leadership has proposed to come to India between April 1 and 10, 2010 to hold talks and carry forward the peace process. To that end, the government of India will be appointing an interlocutor to facilitate the talks and to bring about an early solution," according to a statement from the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio said there had been some progress in the peace talks although it had been taking a lot of time. "One good thing happening is that all the three groups — NSCN(I-M), NSCN(Khaplang) and FGN [Federal Government of Nagaland] — have been meeting under public pressure on the Forum for Naga Reconciliation platform. They have so far held seven summits in Chiangmai (in Thailand) and have signed a covenant in the seventh summit for ceasefire among themselves," the Chief Minister told journalists on the sidelines of the meeting.
On the issue of holding talks with the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), the Home Secretary said the recommendations of the official-level discussion held recently would soon be placed before Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram and Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, who would take the final decision.
Options to be placed
Asked if the talks would be held with the jailed leaders of the outfit and minus the elusive commander-in-chief of ULFA Paresh Barua, Mr. Pillai said a strategy was being worked out and various options would be placed before the political leaders.
Asked if the government had any information on the whereabouts of Barua, the Home Secretary said there were reports of the ULFA C-in-C travelling to Kunming in China primarily to take shelter and possibly to procure arms. He could now be on the Kachin-China border.
He said pressure was being mounted on the ULFA C-in-C through Myanmar and a coordinated action by India and Myanmar would be taken as agreed by both countries during his [Mr. Pillai] visit to Myanmar.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that when the ULFA leaders came forward to hold peace talks it would be held in a dignified manner. "I do agree that nobody can talk with handcuffs on. The moment they agree to come forward for talks they will be arranged in a dignified manner."
Mr. Gogoi said the government would like Barua too to come for talks but expressed doubt if he would respond positively.
No breakthrough
Vinay Kumar reports from New Delhi
The peace process with the NSCN(I-M) was started in 1997 by putting in place a ceasefire arrangement. Since then, nearly 50 rounds of talks have been held without achieving any breakthrough.
Officials said the Centre was trying to bring all underground and tribal groups of Nagaland under one roof and hammer out a new political and economic solution acceptable to all.
The Centre's proposed package includes financial largesse, greater devolution of powers, special steps for the protection of Naga culture and heritage.
Keywords: National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah), Thuingaleng Muivah, NSCN(I-M), ULFA, Gogai, Assam government


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A 71-yard interception return for a touchdown by JoJo Dickson early in the opening period gave the Vandals a 7-0 lead.
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IT CAME as no surprise when Hope Christian High School won the 43rd Metro Manila Tiong Lian Basketball Association-BonChon Chicken Juniors Championship.
After strengthening its basketball program in 2009 through the massive support of its generous alumni, including Hapee Toothpaste owner Dr. Cecilio Pedro, Hope Christian was expected to dominate the most prestigious Filipino-Chinese high school league in the country.
Last Thursday, Hope Christian defeated Xavier School, 62-55, thus ending 20 years of futility.
"It was worth waiting, this championship is very sweet," said team manager Bernard Yang.
It was the third title in six months for Hope Christian after ruling the Fr. Martin's Cup last September and the inaugural staging of the Philippine Secondary School Basketball Championship (PSSBC) in December.
Yang and coach Stevenson Tiu hope the title win could be the start of something big for the school, which has the strong backing from Hapee, Jumbo Plastic owner Jimmy dela Cruz, Infinite Graphix, Oceanic Terminal Inc., Amazon Inc., Fruitas, Anta and Hope Christian HS Board of Directors.
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If all we mean by "capitalism" is exploitation for profit, then Kenneth Stampp's The Peculiar Institution (1956) might have put an end to the discussion by demonstrating the profit-driven exploitation and cruelty of slavery. Johnson, however, has more in mind. Before turning directly to the production of cotton on plantations, he describes the violence of territorial conquest, the savagery of white responses to real and imagined slave revolts, and the ecological destruction of turning diverse natural landscapes into grids of cotton fields. Johnson then devotes three fascinating chapters to the world of the steamboats that plied the Mississippi River. The steamboat discussion begins with a genre of booster literature that Johnson calls the "steamboat sublime." In these writings, "the commercial geography of the valley was rescaled in the key of awe." The river, the boats, the fertile land, the exotic racial and linguistic diversity, the palpable threat of apocalyptic slave revolts, and the mud-caked elegance of commercial New Orleans (the world's fourth-busiest port in the 1840s)—all contributed to "the promethean grandeur of the river world," which seemed to astound even the alligators in the stream.
The steamboat economy of the Lower Mississippi, immortalized for modern readers in Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man (1857), was the domain of gamblers, hustlers, planters, thieves, slaves and free people of color, plus slaves who claimed to be free and people of color passing as white. There were ladies and gentlemen (or people claiming to be such) in the cabins and riffraff on the open decks. It was exciting and dangerous. Pilots raced, engines exploded and boats ran aground. Because profit margins were slim, boat owners skimped on expenses by installing inferior engines and pressuring crews to stretch their capacities. In 1852, the federal government stepped in to regulate this chaos by passing the Steamboat Act, which established licensing and inspection and mandated lifeboats, fire pumps and life preservers. But the basic problem on the Mississippi River remained: "too many boats making too many runs competing for too little business on too little water."
Once Johnson leaves the river for the plantations, he describes the horrifying daily violence inflicted on slaves—over and over, and in prose intended to shock, as if readers might fail to appreciate the fundamental evil of slavery. Extensive discussions of torture define "the human condition of owning" as "the condition of gazing, claiming, supervising, delighting, penetrating, climaxing, and maiming at will." Planters starved their slaves, used food to control them, and then gloated about the results in rhetoric that "processed starvation into racism." They raped women to "convert their own semen into capital," but such "forcible genital penetration of enslaved women by white men" was only part of their perverse sexual violence, which included stealing the milk of lactating women by forcing them to nurse "children too young to know that they owned the breast from which they hungrily sucked," and dressing children in cheap shifts that exposed "their buttocks and genitals—their penises, their pudenda." In Mississippi, whites considered slaves confessing to crimes under gruesome torture to be such a normal fact of life that "it became a settled principle of law that…slaveholders could make slaves say whatever they wanted."
Johnson also insists that the terms "inhuman" and "dehumanizing" should not be used to describe slavery, in part because their use can mask the actual humanity of the slaves. "We cannot any more separate slaves' labor from their humanity than we can separate the ability of a human hand to pick cotton from its ability to caress the cheek of a crying child, the aching of a stooped back in the field from the arc of a body bent in supplication, the voice that called time for the hoes from that which told a story that was centuries old." But there is also a separate issue. The oppression of slavery depended on slaveholders recognizing the fundamental humanity of their "property." Not only did they rely on their slaves to perform all kinds of irreducibly human tasks, but "the satisfaction that they got from violence…depended on the fact that their victims were human beings capable of registering slaveholding power in their pain, terror, grief, submission, and even resistance." Johnson then makes a puzzling suggestion: instead of thinking of slavery as dehumanizing, we should think of it as "a concerted effort to dishumanize enslaved people."
Johnson goes on like this, noting how the slaveholders bent even the landscape to their violent will. Fruit trees might signify agricultural diversification, but they also yielded the switches that, as an ex-slave narrator recalled, "cracked the skin so that the blood oozed out." Slaves trying to escape measured distances "not simply in miles, but also in suffering: in wounding and exposure, in the fearful nausea of a human being hunted like an animal, the mind-shattering loneliness of a person starving to death somewhere on an unknown map." Slaveholders created a "carceral landscape" and "visuality of mastery" that frustrated slaves' efforts to flee, permanently or merely for a few stolen hours, by withholding shoes, coats and blankets; by preventing slaves from learning how to read or swim; and also by clearing forests, riding horses and deploying "weaponized dogs." Material and spatial as much as economic and legal, the Cotton Kingdom "was built out of sun, water, and soil; animal energy, human labor, and mother wit; grain, flesh, and cotton; pain, hunger, and fatigue; blood, milk, semen, and shit."
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As powerful as the Mississippi Valley slaveholders were, they were haunted by the recurrent nightmare of a revolutionary slave revolt like the one that had established an independent black republic in Haiti. By the 1850s, with slavery also abolished in Barbados and Jamaica, not to mention the Northern United States, slaveholders saw imperial expansion and the forging of closer links to the slave societies of Cuba and Brazil as a way to fortify slavery in the Americas under their leadership. Their successes at home, meanwhile, had created another problem. High slave prices, spiraling beyond the reach of young white men who had not been lucky enough to inherit slaves, threatened to spark dangerous class conflicts within the ruling race. For some, the fantasy of empire was merely a show of bravado, but for many it bespoke real confidence in an expansive future. The Gulf of Mexico would replace the Mediterranean, declared â¨DeBow's Review, the voice of the Cotton Kingdom. New Orleans was Alexandria, and Havana could be "the Constantinople of our empire" if Cuba could be wrested from Spain. Nicaragua promised a new frontier of opportunity for would-be slaveholders if Americans could take possession. And the threat of class conflict could be kept in check indefinitely if planters liberated themselves from Maryland and Virginia by resuming direct importations from Africa, thereby lowering slave prices.
When Johnson turns to describing the "imperial" projects of the cotton planters, he mixes scenes of intense violence with jocular stories about con artists and fools in the business of "filibustering," a term that referred to unauthorized warfare waged by private armies rather than obstructionist speeches. We follow Narciso López to his inevitable doom in Cuba, in an invasion widely publicized in advance to raise money and men, and filled with false hopes—such as an army of Cuban rebels awaiting his leadership. Then there was William Walker, "a shape-shifter who had been a doctor in Nashville, a newspaper editor in New Orleans, a lawyer in San Francisco, a filibuster in Sonora" and, incredibly, a former president in Nicaragua. American railroad interests were attracted to Nicaragua for a route to the Pacific, a canal like the one that later would be dug in Panama. Walker, who recruited followers "with the insistent consciousness-raising of a late-night infomercial," presented a different vision, offering disappointed white men land and slaves on a new frontier, until he was finally undone "by a private army paid for by Cornelius Vanderbilt, captained by a British mercenary, and fighting under the flag of Costa Rica."
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These imperial ventures failed ignominiously, but they made sense as expansions of the same type of process that had built the Mississippi Valley. And establishing the success of that capitalist conquest is the overarching point of River of Dark Dreams. Its wrenching detail supports Johnson's description of a Cotton Kingdom resting on "the gradual process by which human life was turned to cotton: the torturous conversion of labor to capital, and of living people to corpses." It is no accident that this formulation evokes a more traditional analysis of capitalism. In Capital, Marx relies on similarly thick description to portray production as the consumption of human life: "Capital is dead labour which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour." A working day stretching into the night "only slightly quenches the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour." Mill owners were "spinning silk for 10 hours a day out of the blood of little children."
Johnson argues that "there was no â¨nineteenth-century capitalism without slavery," but the reverse is equally true: there was no nineteenth-century slavery without capitalism. The "ruling trinomial" at the heart of the Cotton Kingdom's murderous project—bales per acre per hand—might have been extracted in another way. But it was actually extracted by slavery.
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India only reduced its poverty rate by 9.3 percent between 2005 and 2010, the report notes, with 32.7 percent of the country's population falling below the poverty line in 2010. India also had the highest number of deaths in children under five in 2012.
"We don't have to be proud of what we've done," minority affairs minister Najma Heptulla told The Times Of India. "Poverty is the biggest challenge... I am sure when the next report comes, we will have done much better." Meghan DeMaria
The Eiffel Tower was closed to the public on Friday during a protest against petty crime at the landmark. Normally, the tower is open 365 days a year.
Workers from the company that manages the Eiffel Tower said the site has recently seen an increased number of pickpockets. The protest comes a day after Paris authorities said that Paris crimes against tourists are down because of increased surveillance, The Associated Press reports.
According to Paris authorities, pickpocketing was down 23 percent in January through April 2015 from the same period last year. But staff members who work at the Eiffel Tower believe too many tourists are being robbed at the site. BBC News reports that workers claim pickpocketing "gangs" have threatened to assault them, and the workers are asking for a permanent police presence at the site. Meghan DeMaria
A new Gallup poll released today finds that for the first time, equal numbers of Americans self-identify as socially conservative and socially liberal, with 31 percent placing themselves in each category. On economics, however, conservatives still lead by a 20-point margin:
This change is consistent with increasing support for gay marriage and the legalization of marijuana, while opinions on abortion show no such significant swing. Bonnie Kristian
In a report released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) admits that the mass surveillance capabilities authorized by Section 215 of the Patriot Act have not helped solve any big terrorism cases. "The agents we interviewed did not identify any major case developments that resulted from use of the records obtained in response to Section 215 orders," said DOJ Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz.
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Early Friday afternoon, the U.S. Department of State released 296 of the emails Hillary Clinton sent and received from a private account during her time as secretary of state.
The emails, which are available on the State Department's Freedom of Information Act website, include information on Clinton's response to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, which left four Americans dead. Some of the emails Clinton received on the private server contained information on Benghazi that is now-classified.
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Most prominent Republicans are wisely keeping mum about the controversy surrounding Josh Duggar, the conservative reality television star who on Thursday acknowledged reports that he had confessed to sexually molesting five underage girls when he himself was a teenager. But not presidential aspirant Mike Huckabee, who has come out with a forceful statement expressing his support for Duggar, saying, "No purpose whatsoever is served by those who are now trying to discredit Josh or his family by sensationalizing the story."
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Michael Sam is headed to Canada.
The Montreal Alouettes landed exclusive CFL rights to Sam while he was still in college at Missouri; the team announced that they had signed him to a one-year deal with a team option year on Friday.
"With the signing of Michael Sam, we have become a better organization today," Alouettes general manager Jim Popp said in a release reported by ESPN. "Not only have we added an outstanding football player, we have added even a better person that brings dignity, character, and heart to our team."
Sam, 25, became the first openly gay player to be drafted in the National Football League — by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh round of the 2014 draft. But the Rams waived Sam in their final round of cuts, and a short stint on the Dallas Cowboys' practice squad ended with him being released in October 2014. He participated in the NFL veterans combine in March, but no team chose to make him an offer then, either. Sarah Eberspacher
The original Poltergeist is famous for traumatizing children who grew up in the early 1980s, and today's Poltergeist remake seems primed to do the same for children in 2015. But over the years, 1982's Poltergeist (and its two sequels) have grown legendary for another reason: the whisperings of a "curse" that led to the real-life deaths of cast members.
What's the real story? The subject of a "curse" likely stems from the subject of Poltergeist — a family tormented by ghosts who are enraged at being disturbed — and the bare fact that four cast members from the Poltergeist series died within six years of the first movie's release:
1. Dominique Dunne, who played elder daughter Dana Freeling in the original Poltergeist, died in 1982 at age 22. She was strangled by her ex-boyfriend, slipped into a coma, and died several days later.
2. Julian Beck, who played the villainous spirit Reverend Henry Kane in Poltergeist II: The Other Side, died in 1985 at age 60. He was battling stomach cancer while shooting his role in Poltergeist II, and eventually succumbed to the disease before the film's release.
3. Will Sampson, who played the heroic spirit Taylor in Poltergeist II: The Other Side, died in 1987 at age 53. Six weeks before his death, he had received a heart-lung transplant; he died of complications related to his condition both before and after the surgery.
4. Heather O'Rourke, who played Carol Anne Freeling in all three Poltergeist movies, died in 1988 at age 12. An illness, originally thought to be the flu, turned out to be a bowel obstruction; she died of septic shock on the operating table during a surgery intended to remove the obstruction.
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Agility. (Marginal).
The rare individual in this case is Rick Dove, a man we've known, admired and worked with for several years. (Take that admission as a grain of salt of whatever size as you assess what follows.)
Unless you've been in a cave for the past decade, you've heard the term 'agile" bandied about with varying degrees of accuracy and recklessness. Dove is one of the three individuals who is responsible for having that word enter the discourse of organizations--though it should be noted that he is not responsible for the bastardization of the term.
For years Dove has been talking about the ability to make anything, anytime, anywhere ([A.sup.3]) That's agility. Perhaps it is also something unachievable. But nonetheless, industries including auto, where there are limits to what a given facility can produce, long changeover times, and an inability to respond rapidly to localized demands, that [A.sup.3] is something that ought to be worked toward.
Dove has recently written Response Ability: The Language, Structure, and Culture of the Agile Enterprise (John Wiley 6 Sons; 347 pp.; $55). Like everything Dove does, this book is provocative yet demanding. This is not one of those books with a handful of nostrums about dairy products that is meant to be read in an evening and applied the next day. Perhaps if there is a downside to the book it's that it does take serious consideration and not a small amount of work to get through. Of course, if achieving agility was easy...
What is notable about what Dove has done is to clearly delineate the fact that agility has two parts to it: the cultural and the physical. As he puts it, "We look at agility as deriving from both the physical ability to act (response ability) and the intellectual ability to find appropriate things to act on (knowledge management)." It is folly to try to create an agile organization by either buying a whole lot of equipment that allows quick changeover or running a few training classes and sticking up posters declaring a New Age of Responsiveness. The agile organization requires something deeper, something that is predicated on understanding where one's organization (technically and culturally) is, what the competitive landscape is, what tools and techniques are available for a transformation, and, perhaps most of all, a commitment to making a transformation, a commitment that has depth and breadth.
Although Dove maintains, "Agility does not come in a can. One size does not fit all. There are no five common steps to achievement," he does provide some tools that can be employed by organizations in order to make assessments and to drive change. Still, in order to use these tools, there must be a commitment--yes, that word again--to actually face up to the need for change and the willingness to see it through. In an industry like auto, one that's beset by pressures from an increasingly indifferent (or unemployed) market, by challenges from a variety of new competitors, by needs to become more efficient, and one that's in many ways hobbled by its past, commitment is something more easily talked about than lived. It isn't easy to become or to remain response-able.
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Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain says he and Arsenal teammate Theo Walcott want to finish the season as winners with England.
England face the Republic of Ireland tonight before travelling to South America to play Brazil.
Oxlade-Chamberlain, 19, is up for the latest challenge and told The Sun: "To finish the season on a high is positive for me and for Theo Walcott.
"The confidence from that can help us in the England games.
"The way we fought back when people doubted us showed that, with togetherness, you can go far. England, like Arsenal, have great players and on our day we can beat anyone.
"With Hodgson, we can do great things. To go away with England? It doesn't need any more motivation.
"As soon as you meet up, you get back in the swing of things.
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TAMPA – It's different for every individual player, but some members of the Bruins will be looking into the Kevlar "no cut" socks after the incident with Erik Karlsson and Matt Cooke last week.
Cooke and the Ottawa defenseman were battling in the corner for a loose puck and the Pittsburgh troublemaker came down with a skate blade on the back of Karlsson's foot that ended up lacerating his Achilles tendon. The injury means the reigning Norris Trophy winner is done for the season, and it's also sparked some healthy curiosity among NHL players around the league.
There wasn't a groundswell of requests inside the Bruins dressing room for the "cut proof" socks after the incident with Karlsson, but Gregory Campbell indicated it's something he's going to ask about after spotting the socks while watching hockey on Monday night.
"I was watching the Colorado/Nashville game and it made me want to ask the trainers about them. I had never even thought about it until the guy on TV showed them," said Campbell. "It's a simple thing like a sock and I'm sure it's just like any other sock. I know guys have the lining in their hockey socks, but an awful lot of times I have seen the cuts in the back. It's something that could definitely prevent a lot of injuries. It's a good idea."
Bruins defenseman Andrew Ference actually made sleeves out of patches of the Kevlar material and uses them to guard his wrists from potential skate blade cuts.
Dennis Seidenberg has been sliced at the top of both his calves and across his chest by errant skate blades over the years and has the Frankenstein scarring to prove it. But the tough German defenseman said he isn't consistent about wearing the protection from game to game.
If Seidenberg remembers to put the extra wraps around the back of his legs and wrists then he'll wear the protection, but he said it isn't a mandatory part of his daily game preparation. If anybody should remember it's a guy like Seidenberg that has seemingly been a magnet for skate blades, but he doesn't regularly wear all of the protection offered to Boston players.
Some players didn't like the heaviness of the socks as compared to their normal hockey socks, and Seidenberg said the models he tried weren't good for moisture absorption over the course of a game.
"I've tried them before but I never really wore them consistently. I wear a sleeve that protects the area [in the back of the leg], but not regularly. It's not the smartest thing, but that's how stubborn people are," said Seidenberg. "It's not the smartest thing. The next day [after Karlsson] I came in and checked all of my stuff. I have protection up above my knees because I've been cut on both sides.
"I definitely consider it, but it's an actual matter of going out and always putting [the protective equipment] on. The socks I tried before weren't that absorbent and the sweat would just roll right down into the skates and everything would get soggy. They weren't tight on the foot either. They kind of slid around."
The good thing for the Bruins: the B's equipment guys and training staff are armed with plenty of Kevlar sock samples in Wilmington and Boston if the players do get curious about trying out the "cut proof" sock protection for their Achilles tendons.
The odds are astronomical, of course, that something like the Cooke/Karlsson incident will happen again in the NHL this season, but the phrase "better safe than stupid" readily comes to mind if it's about simply changing the kind of socks a player is using for surefire foot protection.


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When John Steinbeck's classic novel The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, it caused a sensation. It won the Pulitzer Prize and was the best-selling novel of the year. Just months later, in 1940, the book was turned into a film by John Ford, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards.
For readers today, Steinbeck's migration saga remains relevant as a piece of (dramatized) social analysis. It's essentially a road novel about the Joads, a poor Midwestern migrant farming family. Throughout the novel, the Joads fight to keep their family intact while fleeing the 1930s Oklahoma Dustbowl for the hope of farm work in California.
In the wake of the tragic bombing in Norway this past weekend, we are left with an unsettling picture of the state of anti-Islamic sentiments in the United States. There were broad attempts to blame the bombings on Islamic terrorism before all of the facts of the attack were out, and even after the attacker became known as Anders Behring Breivik, a self-proclaimed Christian extremist, the discussion focused on Breivik's statement that he was responding to the threat Muslims pose in Europe.
In response to Sojourners' radio ads about the budget debates, the Family Research Council's political action committee has launched radio ads in Kentucky and Ohio arguing that deficit reduction should cut programs that serve poor and vulnerable people. The ads assert that it is the private individual, not government, who has a responsibility to the poor. The ads say, "Jesus didn't instruct the government of his day to take the rich young ruler's property and redistribute it to the poor. He asked the ruler to sell his possessions and help the poor. Charity is an individual choice, not a government mandate."
This could put the speaker of the House, a Catholic, in a difficult position. Catholic social teaching instructs that the government does have a direct responsibility to the poor and that private charity is only one of the ways that Christians express concern for "the least of these." This ad sets itself in direct opposition to that teaching and the values that it comes from. The speaker was already in a tough spot when the Catholic bishops came out with a strong critique of the House plan, but now he has a powerful political organization calling for him to ignore Catholic social teaching all together.
[Editors' note: Rev. John Stott, one of the world's most influential evangelical figures over the past half-century, died this Wednesday at age 90. Rev. Stott served as a contributing editor for Sojourners magazine, when we were known as The Post American, and wrote this article for the November/December, 1973 issue of the magazine. We will always remember Rev. Stott for his profound contributions to our community and the Church.]
It seems to be a characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon mind to enjoy inhabiting the "polar regions" of truth. If we could straddle both poles simultaneously, we would exhibit a healthy balance. Instead, we tend to "polarize". We push some of our brothers to one pole, while keeping the other as our own preserve.
What I am thinking of now is not so much questions of theology as questions of temperament, and in particular the tension between the "conservative" and the "radical."
Bamiyan is a central Afghan town, home to two monumental Buddha statues carved out of sandstone cliffs. In a zealous attempt to purge anything considered un-Islamic, the Taliban targeted these historic statues a decade ago when they occupied and controlled Afghanistan. The defamation of non-Islamic monuments and sites caused a global response. The efforts of national leaders failed, and the Taliban destroyed the statues in March, 2001. The world community -- from Russia to Malaysia, from Germany to Sri Lanka -- expressed horror at the Buddha's demolition.
Sitting over the Bamiyan Valley since the early sixth century, one of the Buddha figures stood nearly 180 feet tall and the other 120 feet. Before their destruction, these statues were the largest Buddha carvings in the world. They were once a major tourist attraction, but the decades of conflict drove away tourists years before the Taliban blew up the statues.
The markets are watching, the Republicans are watching, the Democrats are watching, the media are watching, the pollsters and pundits are watching. The public is watching and is disgusted with Washington, D.C.
When it comes to the bitter and ultra-partisan battles over the budget, the deficit, and the fast-approaching deadline for America defaulting on its financial commitments, the whole nation and even the world is watching.
But God is watching too.
"And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full. And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children." --Matthew 14:13-21
Immediately before the story of the feeding of the 5,000 is a description of a very different sort of meal: John the Baptizer's head on a platter. And just as women and children are included among the multitude fed on the beach (a detail unique to Matthew's version of the story), the female sex is also represented in the account of John's demise: Herodias, sister-in-law of Herod, asks for the head of the Baptist; her nameless daughter, with no detectable squeamishness, delivers the request to the king and serves up the plated head to her mother. (That women in all of their moral complexity are present throughout Matthew's gospel - recall also the women who appear in the genealogy of Jesus in chapter one -- is an observation worthy of closer scrutiny. See, for instance, Jane Kopas's 1990 essay in Theology Today).
"God is Watching," reads the headline for a full page ad Sojourners ran in this morning's Politico. It is the latest in a series of radio, print, and online ads we have put out on the budget debate and default crisis. On Tuesday, we launched radio ads in Kentucky, Nevada, and Ohio that were recorded by local pastors who lifted up the moral issues at stake in the debate.
Furthermore, our work in the past few weeks and the Circle of Protection meeting with the president has been covered by the Washington Post (and here), CNN (and here), MSNBC, Politico, Roll Call, and many local outlets from across the country. Behind all the ads and the press is the muscle -- and that muscle is you.
Where has all the sanity gone?
I, for one, never expected in my wildest dreams to pine for the days of Ronald Reagan. But I'm there.
And for everyone who is blaming "everyone" on this debt ceiling debacle, you're just dead wrong. The Democratically controlled House and Senate in the 80s did not hold President Reagan hostage when he had to raise the debt ceiling. And that is exactly what is happening. And the problem is that this is a train wreck that has been months in the coming. The only thing that we don't know is how bad the carnage will be.
We have come to an impasse in the negotiations to raise the debt ceiling because of several conceptual errors in our public discourse. These errors were most glaring in the remarks recently delivered by Speaker of the House John Boehner in his response to President Obama. The largest conceptual error is the idea that the government of a constitutional representative democracy is different from the people. Boehner said, "You know I've always believed the bigger the government, the smaller the people."
What does this mean? The government is composed of the people, and if people are paying attention and voting according to their own interests, the government ought to work toward the happiness of the people. The problem is that too many Americans have bought into this conceptual error that the government is some kind of leviathan, a monster that exists to take away their liberties. This is nonsense. A correction of another conceptual error in Boehner's presentation makes my point.
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"Keep it simple" and "surround yourself with beauty" are LA native Maddie Sadofski's decorating mantras. Her glamorous Melrose Avenue shop, Thanks for the Memories, is a mecca for original and beautifully restored furniture from the 1920s through the 1970s, paired with fun, one-of-a-kind accessories.


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As a regular listener of NPR, I was pleasantly surprised to hear a news report on the expanding world of self publishing in a report titled Self Publishing: No Longer Just a Vanity Project.
Seems every day the world at large is taking self published authors more seriously, and for good reason. Back 4 or 5 years ago, the self publishing landscape was vastly different, with much of the work being messy, unreadable, or underdeveloped.
But as the market for indie books has grown, the quality of writers improved with the market. They took the time to do things right, to get their books edited, proofread, and cared enough to build their platform and push their work out into the world. Now we have a treasure trove of high quality art indistinguishable from traditionally published works.
With this rise in quality, people like myself have seen an opportunity to help the artists who create the books we love. I'll tell you right now, there are many great small marketing, editing, and formatting business out there that will help make sure your book meets today's high standards and gets in the hands of readers.
However, there are also a small percentage who unfortunately rob writers blind. I don't want to say that Author Solutions goal is scamming writers, because I'm sure it's not. They may be populated by decent people who work hard in your best interest. I haven't worked with them, so it's not my place to bash them.
But I will say I've read some things about them that would make me think twice before utilizing their services. (Here are two blog posts that go into more detail: Beware of Author Solutions & Simon and Schuster Joins Forces with Author Solutions to Rip Off Writers)
Do some research before you choose how you want to release your book, know the pros and cons of what you're purchasing.


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Cardinal Glass LLC celebrated its 10th anniversary in Durant Saturday. The company invited the public along with city and community leaders to celebrate and tour the facility.
Tours provided an inside look to the community, allowing them to see how glass is made and distributed from here in Durant.
The company also provided hamburgers, hot dogs, snow cones and deserts to visitors as well as gifts for visiting the plant.
Plant manager Shaun Banner said it's great to be celebrating 10 years of Cardinal Glass operating in Durant.
"It's great to have a company that's been able to be successful for 10 years and still looking to the future," said Banner.
- Jessica Breger can be reached at (580) 634-2162 or on Twitter @jbreger_news


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Today there are any number of possibilities, especially between moderate Northeast Republicans like Olympia Snowe and Clintonian New Democrats such as Connecticut's Joe Lieberman. The two forged ties through different groups. Among the Republicans, there's the Wednesday Group (Jim Kolbe of Arizona, Nancy Johnson of Connecticut, and Amo Houghton of New York). Among the Democrats, there's the Blue Dog Dems, many of them Southern conservatives, and a wider grouping of Clinton's New Democrats based at the Democratic Leadership Council; all in all, there are thought to be some 70 New Democrats in the House and 20 in the Senate. Then there's the Republican Main Street Coalition and the Republican Pro-Choice Coalition, both of which seek to separate themselves from the right-wing leadership.
Centrist Democrats hew to "third way" approaches, joining moderate Republicans to, for example, oppose a permanent tax cut. They've acted as something of a brake on Bush in the Middle East by arguing for a mildly "internationalist" version of war against Iraq, squelching at least for the time being Cheney's preemptive strike doctrine. The New Democrats worked with moderate Republicans to get more resources for schools in exchange for accountability. They approve of careful oil drilling on public lands, and can be as tough on crime as anybody in the GOP, with some of their members even urging that prison labor be made available to private corporations.
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The following Philip Morris memo, dug up by the American Lung Association of Colorado and Tobacco Documents Online (www.tobaccodocuments.org), recently appeared on www.thememoryhole.com:
"Nine open Cambridge packs were examined to identify the insects causing the infestation. Live cigarette beetle adults were observed crawling throughout the sample bag, the open carton, and the individual packs of cigarettes. Copious amounts of cigarette beetles frass [i.e., debris and excrement] were found throughout each pack, the carton, and the sample bag. Extensive damage caused by cigarette beetle exploration and chewing was found in at least 80 percent of the cigarettes in any pack. Examination of the individual packs revealed 1-3 mm holes in the overwrap on and around the tax stamp on each pack. These holes, which were caused by the application of the tax stamp using heat, probably allowed entry of cigarette beetle adults into the packs. The presence of these holes indicates that the infestation occurred during distribution."
Results Not Guaranteed
Bureaucratic Iner-TIA
For the brave, selections from the Web site for the feds' Total Information Awareness (TIA) System, found at www.darpa.mil/iao/TIASystems.htm:
"Total Information Awareness of transnational threats requires keeping track of individuals and understanding how they fit into models."
"The TIA program strategy is to integrate technologies developed by DARPA (and elsewhere as appropriate) into a series of increasingly powerful prototype systems that can be stress-tested in operationally relevant environments, using real-time feedback to refine concepts of operation and performance requirements down to the component level."
"Planned Accomplishments: TBA."
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Jellyfish Trick Earns Researchers $1.4m
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STOCKHOLM A clever trick borrowed from jellyfish has earned two Americans and a Japanese scientist the Nobel Prize for chemistry. The $1.4m prize recognises Osamu Shimomura, now of Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts, Martin Chalfie of Columbia University in New York, and Roger Tsien, of the University of California, San Diego, for their discoveries with green fluorescent protein (GFP) – the genetic mechanism responsible for luminosity in jellyfish. Today, scientists use these glowing markers to show, for example, how brain cells develop or how cancer cells spread through tissue. Dr Shimomura made the first critical step, isolating GFP from an Aequorea victoria jellyfish found off America's west coast in 1962. In the 1990s, Dr Chalfie demonstrated GFP's value "as a luminous genetic tag", while Dr Tsien furthered the "general understanding of how GFP fluoresces".
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Syria's main Opposition group in exile says there can be no role for President Bashar Assad in any future transitional government.
In a statement, the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition also urges the international community to "prove its seriousness" ahead of a planned peace conference by securing humanitarian corridors so that aid can reach besieged areas of the country.
Tuesday's statement follows a United Nations announcement that the warring sides in Syria would attend a conference in Geneva on January 22, the first face-to-face talks to end the Syrian civil war.
Keywords: Syrian civil war, Syria peace talks, Geneva peace talks, Syria Opposition group, Syrian National Coalition, President Bashar Assad
UN finds systematic disappearances in Syria
'West abandoning regime change project in Syria'
Syrian planes pound Aleppo for fourth straight day
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UN- Syria peace talks to take place January 22
Air strikes kill 44 people in Syria, claim activists
Syrian Minister survives assassination attempt
Suicide bombs hit Syrian troops north of Damascus
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