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Via Michael Ledeen: an Iranian Twitter message for the non-meddling set: "The Iranian ppl want 2 B part of the world – how hard is that 2 understand?"
Bill Kristol spots the chink in the Democrats' armor on cap-and-trade: "I think Nancy Pelosi has made a huge mistake by defining everything in terms of jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. And Republicans are going to say for the next year and a half, 'Let's have that debate. Is unemployment lower than when President Obama became president? Is unemployment going up as slowly as President Obama said it would when he lobbied for a stimulus and today when he lobbies for energy?'" Kristol and Bob Herbert are in agreement!
Obama's approval/disapproval hits a new low in Gallup.
In Rasmussen: "Forty percent (40%) of U.S. voters now say President Obama has not been aggressive enough in supporting the reformers in Iran protesting the results of the presidential election. That's a five-point increase from a week ago."
Not good: "Latin America analysts said the Honduran coup will complicate President Obama's efforts to re-engage a region where anti-Americanism has flourished in some areas. These experts said they expect Mr. Chavez , in particular, to seize on the Honduran crisis to try to depict Central Americas under an ongoing attack by capitalist and Western forces. As a result, some say, Mr. Obama will need to call for the reinstatement of Mr. Zelaya, despite U.S. concerns that he's seeking to mirror Mr. Chavez's campaign to secure limitless rule." So now we're "meddling" to re-instate Chavez's pal who decided to emulate his patron by staying on beyond his term?
Mary Anastasia O'Grady has her doubts: "Yesterday the Central American country was being pressured to restore the authoritarian Mr. Zelaya by the likes of Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Hillary Clinton and, of course, Hugo himself. The Organization of American States, having ignored Mr. Zelaya's abuses, also wants him back in power. It will be a miracle if Honduran patriots can hold their ground."
If Mitt Romney keeps sounding like a presidential candidate people will think he's running for something: "And I think the party does have to stand up and be able to say, 'Listen, Mr. Axelrod, you're wrong when you say we don't have ideas.' We have a healthcare plan. You, you look at Wyden-Bennett, that's a healthcare plan that a number of Republicans think is a very good healthcare plan, one that we support. . . We believe that, with regards to energy, that putting a massive tax on the American public and on industry is not going to create jobs, it's going to hurt jobs."
And Tim Pawlenty is also out on the Sunday circuit: "Well, the president said not long ago in an interview quote-unquote, 'we are out of money.' With all due respect, Mr. President, if we're out of money, quit spending it. . .This is a nation that has got a debt load and a deficit load that is unsustainable. We're going to have, in my view, the federal government debt crisis equivalent of the mortgage crisis within 20 years. And notwithstanding the rhetoric, the Obama administration does not appear serious to address this out of control spending."
Democratic Sen. Mark Warner says "no" to the Fed as the risk czar. I suspect he'll have a lot of company.
Second thoughts already? "President Barack Obama said House legislation aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions represents 'an extraordinary first step,' but cast doubt Sunday on the bill's call for tariffs on goods from countries that don't match U.S. efforts to combat global warming." Maybe a trade war isn't the way to go.

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Antergos 2014.05.26 review – Cinnamon, GNOME 3 and KDE desktops
This article is a review of the latest edition of Antergos – Antergos 2014.05.26, a desktop distribution based on Arch Linux. Like Manjaro, another Arch Linux-based desktop distribution, it is a relatively young distribution, and like its parent distribution, is a rolling release distribution.
A rolling release distribution is an install-once-update-forever distribution. That is, once a system is installed, there's no need to reinstall when a new version is released.
The Antergos installer offers a choice of six desktop environments – Cinnamon, GNOME 3, KDE, MATE, Openbox and Xfce. This review features materials from test installations of the Cinnamon, GNOME 3, and KDE desktops.
Antergos Installer Antergos is one of those distributions that gives you easy access to a text-based (command-line) installer, besides a graphical installer. When you first boot the Live ISO image, you are presented the three options shown in this screenshot. I've never bothered to use the command-line installer, because I don't see the point of it. But the graphical installer is still a work in progress, designed to look and feel just like the Ubuntu Desktop installer.
The disk partitioning options are similar to the ones available on Ubuntu's installer. Full disk encryption and LVM, the Linux Logical Volume Manager, are supported. An option not offered on Ubuntu's installer lets you set up a /home directory on a separate partition or Logical Volume, if LVM is used.
And the manual partitioning features have a similar look to Ubuntu's.
The only real difference is that it does not support the creation of encrypted disk partitions
This screenshot shows the desktop environments supported by the distribution. The default is GNOME 3, with a default GNOME Shell. And that also is the desktop environment for the Live system.
And this shows a partial list of services that could be enabled or disabled during installation. Ufw firewall application is one of them.
This screenshot shows the default rules for the firewall. In general the installer works, even on computers with UEFI firmware. See how to Dual-boot Windows 7 and Antergos on a PC with 2 HDDs and UEFI firmware. The only drawback is the inability to create manual encrypted partitions. For that, you may have to use the CLI installer.
The Desktop Environments: The desktop environments that I tested sport a custom login screen, with a background that changes on each boot. For each desktop environment, the login process is a 3-step affair, as shown in this gallery, which is made up of images taken from an installation of the GNOME 3 desktop.
And talking about the GNOME 3 desktop, it features GNOME 3.12.2, with a default GNOME Shell.
Click on any image of this gallery to view other aspects of Antergos GNOME 3 desktop.
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Been using Antergos for about six months. Previous linux experience was Ubuntu and derivs. After spending about a day learning things about the system, I was up and running and never needed to look back. Peeps on the forums and on Google+ are about as nice and helpful as they can be. Like with any distro, YMMV, but I can say I have had more success with Antergos than I have had in my years using Ubuntu.
Antergos has the newest Gnome version, 3.12, while Ununtu-based distributions are still with Gnome 3.8, at my knowledge. For Wacom graphic tablet users, Gnome 3.10 and later versions provide possibility to match screen aspect ratio, so the circle on tablet will not become oval on screen, and support for tablet buttons. Krita, main painting program for Linux, is available for install through software manager PackmanXG, as calligra-krita package.
General inmpressions from Arntergos after Mint: feels as a breath of fresh air, fast and smooth. It has a lot of small puzzles that have to be researched, for the lack of Help in some programs, such as PacmanXG, screen saver, compact view in file manager, open as administrator and so on. Antegros forums are very helpful for this, mind the time difference between Europe and North America. Not as ready for use "out of the box" as Linux Mint, but almost there, if basic help info woulsd be readily available to smooth transition from Mint (Ubuntu based) to Antegros (Arch based). Try it, it's really nice.
pacmanXG is not developed by Antergos. I believe its from the AUR. I also think that its not in the philosophy of Arch to develop fancy package managers. that being said although pacmanXG is very ugly, it is very feature rich. If you want a prettier one download the package managers from the Manjaro project, Octopi or Pamac or use command line (the arch way) 😀
It is a nice and good distro. If you don't like the graphical package manager you can still use CLI.
An easy way to install pure Arch system with selectable goodies. Keep up the good work Antergos.
Looks like a nice distro.


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Slow rollout: KitKat found on less than 2 per cent of Android devices5 February 2014
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Hewlett-Packard has taken the wraps off its Slate 21 Pro all-in-one desktop at CES 2014 in Las Vegas. But instead of choosing Windows 8.1 or even ChromeOS for the desktop's software, the company has opted for Android. "Chrome doesn't allow for a lot... >>
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Sony Xperia users rejoice, Santa has come early this year and he's packing Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. The Android OS has begun rolling out to the Xperia Z, Xperia ZL, Xperia ZR and the Xperia Tablet Z. If you own any of these devices you can now perform... >>
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Interested people can visit the site, which includes background on the situation and photos of the bottle and packaging of both the real and the counterfeit drugs.
Those who are getting injections of Avastin, or caring for people who are, may want to discuss this matter with their doctors. The FDA is expected to provide additional information on this situation.
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….and the natives are restless
// May 10th, 2009 // Uncategorized
Got this little piece of "fan mail" over @ NESN.COM — in response to the piece I ran about our last game against the Gladiators.
Hey Lunn,
I think you fail to realize that you are playing (football) in a tiny village of Austria, for a 3rd tier team. It isnt Austrian Football" and neither does "Portschach" represent Austria. Its a tiny village in a state that is, well, different. The Carinthian Black Lions, your team, arent very good at all, and now that I read about your cigarettes at half time I do understand why they are so miserably bad. I think that if it werent for your DJ Hernandez who is an exceptional athlete, you wouldnt even be able to beat most Division 3 teams (like for example the Gladiators). So maybe next year you can play in a CITY of Austria for a CONTENDING team – although based on your performance thus far, I rather doubt they would pay for your services. The worst of it is though, how you expose your teammates and organisation to ridicule…they really got a lemon and although I dont like the Carinthian Black Pussy Cats, I do feel sorry for them.
Maybe you pass by Vienna some time again and we can show you a thing or two about real football in Austria.
Rgds, Cookie
Ahhh where to start with this? Am I the only one that finds humor in the whole "cigarettes at half time" thing? I hope not. Truth is, this IS Austrian Football—not American Football in Austria. Trust me, there is a difference (Personal Foul in the endzone = 2 points?–yeah, that happened). For the record, the Carinthian Black Lions did a number on the Gladiators, dismantling them and winning by more than 4 touchdowns. DJ has proved to be probably THE premier quarterback in the AFL, providing serious headaches for opposing defenses. And when it comes to me playing in a "real" city well, I'm no statistician but I'd say 8 sacks in 5 games isn't too bad. But, in the mean time me and my band of flunkies (read: The best group of guys in Austria) are gonna keep on keepin' on. Put that one in your translator and smoke it.
Questions? Comments? More Fan Mail? TheFatWhiteGuyATgmail.com
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Playin for the love of the game, bro.
I'd like to see this guys credentials… I feel like the only dickhead who would take the time to rag on somebody for playing in a lower-level league -in one of the most historic regions in the world- is a guy who probably played soccer in high school. (and btw, soccer is for pussies)
anyone else think cookie's lederhosen are pulled a little too high?
Ahhh… nothing says you are doing something right more than hate mail!
I sure do hope Cookie was more than a grass farie in highschool tho!
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Gentlemen and Scholars
In the name of equality, some would admit students to college and professional school by lottery. Though egalitarians of this kind are not numerous, neither are they merely eccentric. Their application of egalitarian doctrine to education may not be the only one possible, but it is a logical and consistent one. If it is unlikely to be put into effect, that is because not many even of them would like to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who owed his credentials to a lottery.
For the action of privilege and unfair discrimination, egalitarianism of this sort is the opposite reaction: lotteries are indiscriminate. Of course, privilege and discrimination are not quite what they used to be, but we have learned that resentment and indignation tend to wax as their objects begin to wane. And on the whole, in the occidental tradition a scholar has been a gentleman—which is to say that real education has not been for the populace.
Both in origin and in self-understanding, the occidental tradition is largely the Greek tradition. The Loeb Classical Library's editor and translator of the Politics tells us that for Aristotle "kalokágathos, "fine gentleman, connotes social as well as moral distinction," while bánausos, "artisan" or "tradesman," connotes "cramped in body" and "vulgar in taste." In the lexicons banausía is defined as "handicraft, the life and habits of a mechanic; hence vulgarity, bad taste." Why trouble to educate the banausic?
I am going to contrast the Jewish tradition about education to the Greek, and I am going to suggest that the Jewish tradition is a democratic mean between Greek aristocracy—and it was Aristotle who taught that aristocracy can easily degenerate into oligarchy—and the contemporary egalitarian-populist reaction against it.
There are two dangers attendant upon an argument of the sort I wish to make. The first is rhetorical or forensic, the temptation to speak only about the good on your side and the bad on the other. The second is substantive: Can it be right to speak of the Greek and the Jewish tradition?
From defenders of the faith you can hear, usually around Hanukkah time, hurrahs for the Jews and boos for the Greeks. That is not my inclination. The Greek legacy is a great and precious possession of the human race. As for Aristotle, whom I take to be in some sense representative of the Greek tradition, have we any record of genius stronger or more copious than his? He can be cold and harsh—but that, I believe, is because he did not have the benefit of a Revelation. If he had had a Revelation, he could scarcely have been Aristotle.
The pro-Jewish hurrahing and anti-Greek booing are pretty well confined to Jewish defenders of the faith, and among them to the more simple-minded. In the general culture, and especially its higher reaches, the normal bias is pro-Greek and anti-Jewish. There, even Jews—or rather men and women of Jewish parentage—are apt to have that bias. Simone Weil may be a bad example, because of theological complications. Julien Benda is a better one.
I shall try to avoid hurrahs and boos.
Can it be proper to speak of the Jewish tradition and the Greek tradition? May we think of them as entities? It is well to raise such questions—provided they are not answers in disguise.
Jewish history is so old, so dispersed, so varied, so diversely influenced that any suggestion of a univocal Jewish tradition must surely be wrong. But it is easy to pass from this understanding to a kind of runaway nominalism. There is a man who teaches that Judaism is what Jews do, and consequently that there are as many different kinds of Judaism, equally valid, as there are Jews. He would say, I suppose, that if certain witches and wizards are Jews, then their faith and practice are Jewish. The Jewish tradition is complex and its boundaries are fuzzy; but it is not so invertebrate as to disallow our saying that Jewish witches and wizards are un-Jewish.
Similarly with the Greek tradition, even more complex. Oxbridge dons were not paid enough to support them and their dependents; nor were British army officers; nor were (or are?) Members of Parliament. They were gentlemen, and gentlemen had private incomes. The causes of English society's taste for private incomes are to be found in English history—for instance, the fright that Cromwell's army inspired in succeeding generations of the upper class. But part of English history is the influence of Aristotle and the rest of Greek culture on the scholars and gentlemen of England, and through them on English life.
For the Greek tradition a key word, embodying a key concept, is skholé, "leisure." From skholé, in the Latin form schola, every Western language has received its word for "school" (and Yiddish its shul). No leisure, no schooling. Leisure is the opposite of business, or busy-ness. "Business, industry, occupation" is simply "absence of leisure," askholía. Skholastikós means "leisured"; also "learned"; also "pedantic."
- . . . the master's skill is that of using slaves. . . . But this skill has nothing great or grand about it. . . . Therefore, for those who can afford not to be bothered, an agent assumes this responsibility, while they themselves are politicking or philosophizing [Politics 1255b].
- . . . most people think . . . it impossible . . . for a poor man to govern well, since he has no leisure [lit., to govern well and have leisure, skholázein: 1273a].
- . . . the best state will not make an artisan a citizen [1278a].
- . . . as the adage has it, there is no leisure for slaves . . . [1334a].
Only gentlemen—and (for Aristotle) their superiors, the philosophers—have leisure. Artisans, and generally all those who have to earn a living, lack leisure. Legally freemen and citizens, they are in some measure like slaves, because whoever must be distracted from high and noble things by having to earn a living is not truly a free man. The education befitting one truly free is not for the artisan and the slave.
As representative of the Jewish tradition I take Avot (or Pirqe Avot), the "(Chapters of the) Fathers." It is the most accessible part of rabbinical literature, because easiest in content and language. It is also that part of rabbinical literature which is most liturgical, since it is read in the synagogue. Consequently it is the most widely known. Among Sephardim, it seems to have been used to teach rabbis the conduct and outlook appropriate to their station. Among Ashkenazim, it was used to teach the folk respect for rabbis and rabbinical law.
Avot is the Rabbis systematic assertion of their claim to uninterrupted, legitimate succession to Moses, whose authority was directly from God. The Ten Commandments begin with an authorizing, legitimating clause: "I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage." Then, having been told Who commands, and by what right, we are given His commandments. Just so, a royal edict will begin: "We, Henry (James, Charles, William, George) . . . by the grace of God, King. . . ." (Kings, viceroys, and popes use the majestic plural. God contents Himself with the singular.)
Avot begins with the Rabbis telling us how they received the right to teach and judge:
Moses received Torah [sc., both written and oral] from Sinai, and gave it over [masar; masorah/ masoret ="tradition"; English "giving over"= Latin traditio] to Joshua; Joshua to the Elders, and the Elders to the Prophets. The Prophets gave it over to the men of the Great Assembly. . . . Simeon the Righteous was one of the last of the Great Assembly. . . . Antigonos of Sokho received from Simeon the Righteous. . . . Yose son of Joezer . . . and Yose son of Johanan. . . . Joshua son of Perahiah and Mittai the Arbelite. . . . Judah son of Tabbai and Simeon son of Shetah. . . . Shemaiah and Avtalion . . . Hillel and Shammai. . . .
Avot, then, is the Jewish tradition's explicit account of itself. It is also a polemic against the Aristotelian-Greek tradition.
If for Aristotle and the Greeks the necessary good is skholé, "leisure," for Avot the necessary good is mela'khah, "work, occupation." (From this has been derived Calvinist work as vocation or calling.) "Shemaiah says: Love mela'khah and hate rabbanut [office, as in Shakespeare's 'insolence of office']. . . ." The commentators adduce the parallel in Nedarim 49b: "Great is mela'khah, which honors those engaged in it; and hate lordship." (Later, rabbanut came to mean "rabbinate." Though most Jews nowadays are not especially zealous in obedience to rabbinical injunctions. they make an exception for the injunction of shunning rabbanut.) The commentators also recall the Rabbis' insistence that a father must teach his son a trade; cite the Ten Commandments, where we are told to rest on the Sabbath and work on the other days of the week; and refer to the example of God Himself, Who did His mela'khah of creation in six days and rested (had leisure?) on the seventh. (Aristotle says that happiness is an activity, but that the activity of God, who is happy and blessed by his nature, is skholé.)
Aristotle hints broadly (1324a) that the contemplative life is better, more philosophical, than communal-political and active life. Earlier on he was emphatic that man is a communal-political being and that anyone so self-sufficient that he does not need the polis is not a man but must be either a beast or a god (1253a). We may infer that Aristotle wants us to regard the philosopher, who alone is capable of the withdrawn and contemplative life, as godlike.
In Avot the word for "scholar" is hakham, "wise man, sage." Among Jews the scholar occupied more or less the place occupied among Greeks by the philosopher. (Professor Henry Fischel of Indiana has written some remarkable things on Hillel as a Hellenistic sóphos, "sage," and on related matters.) Aristotle implies that philosophers may and perhaps should withdraw from society. Hillel tells the scholarly and the simple alike not to withdraw from the community.
For Aristotle the contemplative life is superior to the active life; but Simeon the son of Rabban Gamaliel (and grandson of Hillel) says: "Not midrash"—inquiry, study, the Jewish counterpart of theoria—"is primary, but ma'aseh"—action, deed, corresponding to prâxis. Later in Avot, hokhmah—wisdom, learning, theory—is likened to a tree's leaves, and deeds to a tree's roots: it is not leaves that will keep a tree from being over-turned in a storm. A scholar's normal temptation is to elevate theory over practice. The Jewish scholars resisted it.
Above all, the Rabbis repudiated the Greek aristocratic-philosophical conviction that work, livelihood, is only a necessary evil, fortunately limited to the artisan and the slave. A later Rabban Gamaliel, the son of R. Judah the Prince, says: "It is best to combine study of Torah with a wordly occupation [derekh eretz] because exertion in the two together represses"—causes to be forgotten—"sin; whereas all [study of] Torah in the absence of work [mela'khah] . . . will cause sin."
The standard interpretation of this dictum is that if a scholar does not learn a trade he will go hungry, and may therefore become a thief or robber. No doubt that is what Rabban Gamaliel son of R. Judah the Prince meant, but I think he also meant, in conscious opposition to Greco-Roman ideas, that work was desirable even for the prosperous, because—as the Calvinists were to be fond of saying—the Devil finds work for idle hands. I suspect that the aristocratic outlook was so foreign to the later commentators, and the need and virtue of earning a living by work so self-evident, that they did not realize Rabban Gamaliel was deliberately contradicting a self-evident truth of his civilization—that work was low and vulgar, and at best necessitous. It is for this reason, I think, that the Gaon of Vilna could refer Rabban Gamaliel's learning-with-occupation to something quite different, in a book of Scripture the Gaon did not know was Hellenistic: "Wisdom [hokhmah] is good with an inheritance . . ." (Ecclesiastes 7:11). An occupation is askholía, an inherited estate permits skholé . (Pindar says, in his second Pythian ode: "Best is to be rich, together with the good fortune of wisdom alotted."1)
But it is Hillel who most sharply and polemically teaches a philosophy of education contrary to the Aristotelian-Greek one. Hillel adds to his prohibition of withdrawal from the community another, which is usually translated more or less as follows: "Do not say, 'When I have leisure [likheshe'eppaneh] I will study.' What if you have no leisure?" In this translation Hillel is thinking about individuals. I suggest that he may also be thinking about classes: "You artisan or craftsman, do not say to yourself, 'If I ever become a member of the leisure class, I will then seek the appropriate liberal Jewish education.' Study now. Skholé is for the few. Will you allow yourself to be condemned to ignorance and vulgarity, like Aristotle's artisan, seeing that your lot will probably always be askholía?"
R. Yose the priest, one of the five famous disciples of Rabban Johanan son of Zakkai, says: ". . . train yourself to learn Torah, because it is not yours as a patrimony"—unlike an estate, which you inherit and which makes leisure possible. Merit and effort count, not birth.
One reads this, and one's eyes glaze with boredom. Could anything be more conventional and dull? In fact, it states a revolutionary ideology. It is the program and the self-justification of a newly dominant class, the scholars, who have ousted a previously dominant class, the priests. R. Yose is himself both priest and scholar. His priesthood he has received by inheritance—a kohen is the son of a kohen, back to the beginning—but his scholarship he has acquired by exertion. The scholar-priest says that scholarship by exertion is and should be more important than priesthood by inheritance. That the ideologists and beneficiaries of this revolution denied that it was a revolution, even to themselves, should not surprise us. Until modern times, revolutions were defended as reformations, or restorations. So, on R. Yose the priest's "Torah . . . is not yours as a patrimony," a very old commentary soothingly concludes that this must be God's will, since He chose as Moses' successor not (by the principle of birth and inheritance) Moses' son but (by the principle of individual merit) Joshua; and only two centuries ago the Gaon of Vilna recalled the same precedent. The Rabbis knew Scripture. They knew Deuteronomy 33:10, for example: "They [the Levitical priests] shall teach Jacob Thine ordinances, and Israel Thy law [instruction= torah]. . . ." Nor was this teaching prerogative of the priests something that had long since fallen into desuetude. Malachi, the last of the Prophets, was even more fervent about priestly authority (2:7): "For the priest's lips shall keep knowledge, and they shall seek torah from his mouth; for he is the messenger [angel?—mal'akh] of the LORD of hosts."
For the Rabbis, Scripture was the will of God. Yet they stripped the priest of the judicial and teaching functions Scripture had given him, taking those functions for themselves and leaving him only with cultic ones. They did as the French Revolution was to do, narrowing the importance of birth and broadening the importance of effort and achievement. The Jews' religion and society, once so priestly, were thenceforth to be lay. The Rabbis would have accomplished that revolution even if the Temple—source of the priests' power and honor—had been left standing.
The last, sixth chapter, not part of Avot proper originally but of a piece with the rest, agrees with R. Yose. It tells us how to reach the goal: "Such is the way [toward the learning] of Torah: eat bread with salt, drink water sparingly, sleep on the ground, live a life of privation; and labor at the Torah." Heed neither the supercilious aristocrats and oligarchs, with their birth and their effortless superiority, who would bar the way to the unprivileged; nor those so consumed by hatred of privilege that they would deny even the distinction of effort.
I have spoken of theory and practice, and of the Jewish tradition's elevation of practice over theory. But the Jewish tradition, and notably Avot, is itself a kind of theory. Has the Jewish tradition-theory also been the Jewish practice? Not entirely, maybe not mostly. In most of Jewish society, most of the time, the scholar was not an artisan. Mostly the scholar earned his living more easily than the artisan, and decisively outranked him. Tailor, shoemaker, carpenter, smith enjoyed no great esteem. Shemaiah's "love work" was an excellent principle, to pay lip service to. On the fatal identification of Jews with money-lending in the Middle Ages and almost to our time, Cecil Roth wrote that some Jews were willing victims, not resisting Christendom's assigning them to that pariah specialization. A moneylender had more time for study than an artisan. Asked what he liked about his job, a baseball umpire once said, "You can't beat the hours." Isaac of York could have said that.
So Jewish tradition-theory has not been identical with practice. But it has affected practice. It has kept practice from being worse. And it keeps insisting that work and merit are superior to birth and privilege, and to the equality of the lottery.
1 I am indebted to Martha Himmelfarb for this reference.


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There are eight indigenous groups in Costa Rica, numbering some 63,800 people, which comprise 1.7% of the national population. Half of them are now settled in 24 reservations or territories, which cover an area of approximately 325,470ha or 6.3% of Costa Rica. The indigenous groups are: the Cabécar, Bribri, Brunca or Boruca, Térraba, Huetar, Guatuso or Maleku, Chorotega and Ngäbe-Buglé. In 2001, two new reservations were created by law: Altos de San Antonio (for the Ngäbe-Buglé) and China Kichá (for the Cabécar).
The Ngäbe people number some 180,000, principally located in Panama, although around 4000 reside in southern Costa Rica, close to the Panama border. The Ngäbe- Buglé of Costa Rica inhabit five reservations or territories in the south of the country: Coto Brus, Abrojos Montezuma, Conte Burica, Altos de San Antonio and Guaymí de Osa. The 23,600ha of Ngäbe reservations maintain around 70% forest cover, consisting of a rich variety of habitats encompassing three of the five elevational zones found in Costa Rica (tropical, premontane and lower montane) and three of the four humidity provinces (rain, wet and moist). Examples are the tropical very wet forests of the Osa Reservation and the lower montane moist forests of Coto Brus.
The Costa Rican Ngäbe are among the poorest people in the country, but until recently there were almost no development initiatives taking place in their territories. This is due in part to difficulties in funding and cash flow problems. In part, it is also due to their legal status: the Ngäbe were not accepted as equal-rights Costa Rican citizens by Congress until 1993. The Ngäbe face a variety of major challenges, including the occupation of up to 25% of the reservation's area by non-indigenous settlers, poor access to health services and limited options for the production of food and cash. The abysmal indicators for all these problems are at odds with the generally good quality of life experienced by the majority of Costa Ricans.
Using a co-management approach in collaboration between the Ngäbe people and the NGO Fundación TUVA, the project "Support Project for the Ngäbe Indigenous People" (Proyecto de Apoyo al Pueblo Indígena Ngäbe) was set up to strengthen the organizational capacity and leadership of the Ngäbe, in order to reverse the loss of their culture, recover traditional political institutions and traditional medicine, support territorial defence and appropriate management practices, and improve continue reading–>


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There's no question the BlackBerry and other so-called "smart phones" have had a tremendous impact on how, when, and where we do work. But the "CrackBerry" phenomenon (a nickname spawned out of the addictive pull of the constant communication such devices allow) is having an equally large impact on the workplace landscape, affecting expectations of work turnaround, employee availability, personal interactions, and the increasingly rare notion of free time.
A recent research study conducted by MIT Sloan Professors Wanda Orlikowski and JoAnne Yates and doctoral student Melissa Mazmanian sought to look beyond the incredible popularity of the BlackBerry and examine just how the device is used in people's communication practices, as well as the individual and organizational implications of such usage.
By spending several months studying BlackBerry usage at a small, prestigious private equity firm in the U.S., the MIT Sloan team was able to discern the unwritten rules and expectations that go hand-in-hand with using such a device.
Four years ago, Plymouth Investments [a fictitious name to protect the privacy of the company] provided BlackBerrys to all its employees. While Plymouth is committed to the idea of work-life balance, the nature of its work in financial services is fast paced, requiring a great deal of autonomous, mobile work and extensive interactions via e-mail.
Ideally, the availability of the BlackBerry would help employees to work more efficiently by allowing them constant access to e-mail and other forms of communication.
And there's the added bonus of being able to do such work during "wasted" moments, like waiting for clients, traveling in cars or elevators, standing in line at the supermarket, or sitting in a church pew, to name just a few. By taking advantage of such previously "unproductive" times, more work is getting done quicker, and, in theory, designated free time can truly be free.
But as the researchers discovered, the attraction of constant connection is very strong, and once people are plugged in, they often find it hard to tune out. In addition to staying connected to the office while on the road during business hours, most members of the firm admitted to carrying their BlackBerrys with them on evenings and weekends and checking them regularly.
Ninety percent of the firm's employees described their behavior with the device as something akin to compulsion, confessing to an inability to refrain from checking the device. What results is a gradual blurring of the lines between "work time" and "personal time."
While individual personalities and work habits certainly play a role in how people interact with their BlackBerrys, the effect of the group dynamic in a firm such as Plymouth cannot be underestimated.
All Plymouth employees know that their colleagues have BlackBerrys. Although constant e-mail monitoring is not mandated by the firm, the usage norm has become for all employees to check e-mail frequently. This has created an environment in which checking e-mail at night and over the weekends has become the rule rather than the exception.
According to one employee, "I think we've all gotten used to answering each other instantly because of the BlackBerry, but it's not expected."
Another states, "I think people begin to build expectations ... of what your response time is going to be."
And then there is the nature of e-mail itself. Perceived as far less obtrusive than other forms of communication, it is utilized with increasing frequency. Combine that with the ease of sending and receiving messages through the BlackBerry and the firm members' willingness to be in regular communication, and e-mail activity can easily intensify and bleed into off-hours.
Says one Plymouth employee, "It brings responsiveness on nights and weekends to the level of responsiveness generally during work time."
According to the research findings, the perceived difficulty of disconnecting from such group communication relates directly to the shared knowledge of who uses a BlackBerry.
When it comes to the BlackBerry phenomenon, the old adage "you can't be two places at once" should be amended to include, "you can't focus on two things at once very well either."
In part due to its addictive pull, users often engage more with their BlackBerrys than with people in the same room. The frequent outcome is a withdrawal from the present, resulting in compromised interactions and the potential for missing important information.
In an effort to temper such BlackBerry-induced distractions, Plymouth, like many firms, has sought to limit or prohibit use of the device during meetings. However, the pervasive attraction of the device yielded only a temporary hiatus before full-blown usage crept back in.
This study focused on a specific firm in a particularly fast-paced industry, but the overall usage patterns and resultant expectations can be found in businesses of varying sizes and focus.
While clearly allowing for increased mobility and flexibility during work hours, BlackBerry usage also creates expectations of responsiveness that spill over into non-work time.
While interviewees in this study described their "compulsion to check messages" as a matter of individual choice, the MIT Sloan team found "their statements reveal underlying expectations of one another."
"After some probing, [interviewees] recognize the relationship between shared expectations, unobtrusive e-mail, and the lack of temporal/physical boundaries on messages with stress, burnout, and difficulties in changing."
Yet even after recognizing the downsides of BlackBerry usage, the group at Plymouth perceives the benefits as outweighing the costs, and after four years of usage, the overall reaction is very positive.
Says one senior support staff member, "It's a double-edged sword, but the benefits, for me at any rate, far outweigh anything that I might every once in a while think to myself [laugher] 'Just go away; just shush and go away.' "


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The official stress test results don't come out until next week, but if BofA fails, the government may have to pour tens of billions more into the bank. Ken Lewis' mismanagement of the bank already has taxpayers on the hook for up to $199.2 billion.
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The late Cory Lidle, who died this fall in a private plane crash in New York, will have a poker tournament that bears his name. The Cory Lidle Poker Tournament will take place Sunday at Hollywood Park's casino. The tournament is a benefit for the Make A Wish Foundation, which was a charity Lidle supported.
Bary Zito is supposed to be in attendance as are new Dodgers Mike Lieberthal and Randy Wolf. All three were former teammates of Lidle.
The buy-in is $300 but a discount is available for early entries. For more information go to www.corylidle.org.
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Stroke Center's rapid response pays off when every minute counts
This past April, Wayne Stoner, 42, was lying on the love seat in his home outside Little Falls, Minnesota, when the first attack occurred.
His daughter was hosting a sleepover for her birthday, and she'd just told her dad that she was looking for a spare pillow. But when Stoner tried to answer, he discovered that he couldn't move or speak clearly.
"That spell lasted about 30 seconds; then I came to and went out to get some air," he recalls.
Two weeks later, he had a recurrence—this time when the alarm clock went off for work. Stoner lay unable to move for about a half a minute, then got up, glanced at himself in the mirror, and decided, "I look fine."
He wasn't worried. Even though he smoked a pack to a pack and a half of cigarettes a day—and had a family history of stroke and heart disease—he says, "I thought my health was wonderful."
Stoner's state of denial ended abruptly with yet another attack later that weekend, when he experienced slurred speech and severe dizziness while watching a movie at home with his wife, Brigette. The following Monday, his family doctor ordered an MRI of his head.
Just days later, Stoner met with Adnan I. Qureshi, M.D., executive director of the University of Minnesota's Stroke Center, who told him he'd been experiencing TIAs, or transient ischemic attacks. Sometimes called "mini-strokes," TIAs are a red flag for an impending major stroke caused by the occlusion, or blockage, of blood vessels. Stoner's MRI images had revealed two small areas of damage due to arterial blockages in his brain.
He had, Qureshi informed him, a choice to make: Ignore the TIAs and go home, in which case he faced a high risk of being felled by a major stroke within the next few weeks. Or undergo neurointerventional surgery that would include an angioplasty (insertion of a balloon-like instrument or self-expanding stent that opens the blood vessel) and placement of a stent to keep the blood vessel open.
"I was scared, I'll tell you that," Stoner says. "I have a wife and three young kids. I didn't really feel like I had a choice."
He underwent the procedure on May 28.
"I was awake the whole time," Stoner marvels. Today, besides the aspirin he takes daily as a blood-thinner and the 15 pounds he's gained since he quit smoking, his life is back to normal. Stoner was lucky. Had he lived somewhere else, his story might have had a very different outcome—one that ended in death or long-term disability.
Stroke teams at the ready
Every year, some 10,000 Minnesotans are hospitalized for stroke. About 2,400 of them die. Stroke is the third-leading cause of death in the United States and the leading cause of disability.
Fortunately, Stoner ended up in the right place at the right time. Formed in 2006, the Stroke Center, which offers services at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview, and Hennepin County Medical Center, is one of only a handful of its type in the country—with a cross-disciplinary team of doctors, nurses, and other specialists trained in interventional neurology, neurosurgery, or neuroradiology to improve outcomes for stroke patients.
Although Stoner's TIAs required urgent care, his symptoms were temporary. When the symptoms don't clear rapidly on their own, a stroke is occurring, and the patient needs immediate treatment. Using clot-busting medications and other means, it is now possible to reverse some strokes if the patient is treated within three hours— and the sooner the better—of symptom onset.
The most common kind of stroke, called "ischemic" stroke, is caused by a blockage of blood flow to a region of the brain—the same condition that threatened Stoner's health. Ischemic strokes account for 85 percent of all strokes suffered in the United States each year. The other 15 percent are called hemorrhagic strokes—those caused by bleeding that most often results when a weakened portion of a blood vessel, known as an aneurysm, bursts. Both types of strokes require rapid treatment for optimal outcome, but the goal is clearest for those with ischemic stroke: to open the vessel and restore blood flow as soon as possible.
At the Stroke Center, almost 20 percent of ischemic stroke patients receive acute neurological treatment to open the blocked vessel. That's in line with research showing that 20 percent of stroke patients need that type of care. Nationally, however, only 2 percent of patients receive acute treatment.
What's more, the elapsed time between when a patient arrives at one of the Stroke Center medical facilities until neurointervention is just 43 minutes. Nationally, the average is an hour. And those 17 minutes can be critical, especially for patients who are experiencing a major ischemic stroke.
In their earliest stages, ischemic strokes cause a core of brain cells to die as a result of loss of blood flow. Around them is a "penumbra" of cells that are in danger but still living. "Time is brain" has become a familiar refrain in neurology circles because the more quickly a stroke victim receives acute treatment that restores blood flow, the greater the likelihood that the penumbral cells will survive.
Even 17 minutes can mean the difference between a quick recovery with few, if any, long-term symptoms and permanent disability or death. In fact, up to 40 percent of ischemic stroke patients achieve complete recovery with acute clot-buster treatment administered within three hours of onset, as opposed to only 25 percent of patients who don't receive treatment that quickly.
Combining research, education, and care
In addition to clinical care, the Stroke Center also offers education, training about six fellows a year, as well as research conducted through its investigational arm, the Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Research Center, to improve treatment methods already available, discover new therapies, and find ways to prevent strokes from occurring in the first place. The research center is off to a strong start, having published 85 research papers in scientific and medical journals in its first two years.
For Qureshi, the quest for new ways to treat and prevent stroke has roots in personal history. His mother, for whom the Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Research Center is named, died of a massive hemorrhagic stroke in his native Pakistan when she was only 39. The experience, he says, "was definitely a factor" in his decision to specialize in neurology. Meanwhile, the resources uniquely available at the University of Minnesota led to his decision to direct the Stroke Center.
"The University was the perfect venue because we don't just provide clinical care," he says. "We wanted a strong education and research component as well, which only the University can provide. We have one of the largest research and fellowship programs in the country right now."
Treatment advances
Formation of the Stroke Center followed more than a decade of dramatic improvements in the treatment of both kinds of stroke.
For ischemic strokes, "thrombolytic therapies"—mechanical or, increasingly, pharmaceutical, methods of dissolving or removing blood clots—have become standard practice. This approach has been coupled with the development of increasingly sophisticated endovascular therapy—the delivery of clot-busting drugs directly to the site of the clot.
"Endovascular therapy decreases the dosage of the drugs we need to use while at the same time increasing their effectiveness," says Mustapha Ezzeddine, M.D., director of neuro-critical care at the Stroke Center.
In fact, when this kind of therapy is used, the clot-busters are twice as effective in opening vessels as when they are administered intravenously—the standard approach until now.
Though hemorrhagic strokes are not as common as ischemic strokes, they are deadlier, with a mortality rate of 30 percent as compared with 10 percent for strokes caused by clots. Fortunately, new endovascular therapies have greatly improved survival and recovery rates for these types of strokes as well.
For example, "coiling" aneurysms has become a standard treatment for the half of hemorrhagic strokes in which an aneurysm has ruptured. In this therapy, a physician places a small coil of platinum inside the bulging blood vessel to provide structural support and prevent the vessel from rupturing again.
Meanwhile, aftercare for both ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes has also advanced. "Neurocritical care optimizes recovery and minimizes injury," says Ezzeddine. "It also treats the medical complications that often follow a stroke."
Says Qureshi, "The science of stroke is expanding quickly. We are seeing advancements in both rapid diagnosis and treatment."
And for that, Wayne Stoner is grateful. "The treatment I received was wonderful," he says. "I feel I was given a new lease on life."
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ACQUIRED IN 1990, Edgefield was the McMenamin brothers' first major historic renovation project. Originally built in 1911 as the Multnomah County Poor Farm, the property is now the crown jewel of the empire—a cozily sprawling complex of funky restaurants, a hotel, a cigar bar, a spa, a craft brewery, a distillery, a winery, and gardens.
Kimberley Kincaid has been at Edgefield from the start. A Portland native who was working as a gardener and florist in New Orleans when the McMenamins acquired the property, Kincaid was lured home by chief gardener McNurney (a friend) and the prospect of helping to shape such a large, fecund site. In the garden, Kincaid has skillfully fostered a whimsical, down-the-rabbit-hole experience at Edgefield. She accents the buildings with adventurous plant selections attuned to the acreage's microclimates: she wisely places more tender plants like Azara and Fremontodendron along south- and west-facing walls, and cold-tolerant conifers and hardy shrubs where the wind rips through from the east.
Strategically placed, Dr. Seussian plants like coastal redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) provide tongue-in-cheek punctuation while artistic details like the psychedelic, colorfully striped fence-post finials carry the indoors out and highlight the atmosphere of festive yet barely restrained chaos.
Nearly every visit to Edgefield reveals a new garden. Recent updates include the Southern Hemisphere and Asian-inspired additions around the soaking pools, which showcase plants with striking texture and year-round interest. But Kincaid is equally inspired by a sense of legacy: "Our role here is far more than just making this a pretty place," she says. "We need to be good stewards." The property's vast, productive kitchen garden, for instance, is a prime example of biointensive methods in action. Large specimens of unusual plants like graceful Azara microphylla trees with vanilla-scented flowers, magnificent, sunshine yellow–flowered California flannel bush (Fremontodendron californicum ), and flaming orange Chilean fire bush (Embothrium coccineum) demonstrate varying levels of cold-hardiness when the frigid Gorge winds blow through. The results are year-round flowers and showy plants that ?perform from spring to winter, a continuous illustration of the marvels of gardening in our felicitous Pacific Northwest climate.


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