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We've all heard stories about deceased sports fans being buried in their favorite team jersey or with a valued piece of sports memorabilia but one Indiana church is telling a woman her late husband can't proclaim his sports allegiances —or the place he watched them from — above the ground in the hereafter. Shannon Carr commissioned a black granite headstone to mark the grave of her husband Jason Carr and show his love of sports and the outdoors. The $9,000 headstone is shaped like a couch and features images of a deer, a dog and color logos of NASCAR and the Indianapolis Colts. Now Carr is suing the St. Joseph Catholic Church for refusing to install it. The Rev, Jonathan Meyer, a priest at the church, said the headstone didn't meet the cemetery's standards because of its secular nature and couldn't be placed in the church's century-old graveyard. "We provided the family funeral rites, prepared a funeral meal and offered family members individual counseling after the services," Meyer said. "We were with them the entire way until this matter came up." Carr claims in her lawsuit that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis Properties Inc., which owns the cemetery, never produced any regulations for the plot until a year after she tried to have the headstone installed in 2010. The issue has divided the church community. "They told her not to move forward with the purchasing of the monument, but she went ahead anyway," Meyer said. "We have consistently communicated the same message prior to the purchase and after the purchase. We did not think a granite couch was an appropriate monument in our historic cemetery." Now maybe if Carr had been an Angels fan...
I am putting my money on the widow in this fight. Any woman willing to pay $9000 for a headstone shaped like a couch for her husband is definitely not one you want to mess with. By the time she gets done with this the catholic church is going to be paying her for the headstone and burial plot.
Wrong. The cemetery is privately owned and they can set their own rules. If widow Ovaltrack doesn't like it she can plant hubby somewhere else.
OUCH! I am Catholic...but I gotta say...the Church in Indiana is off base on this one. I've been in a few Catholic cemeteries...and seen some headstones that were somewhat ornate and referenced some past enjoyment of the deceased...sports, fishing, traveling etc. I think they're off base here. They might want to reconsider. It isn't as if it's done in garish bad taste or something.
Now when she comes to visit her husband's grave, she can sit. Spend some time. Like people used to do. Spread a blanket and have a picnic.
Let her have the bench!
>>> I am Catholic...but I gotta say...the Church in Indiana is off base on this one. I've been in a few Catholic cemeteries...and seen some headstones that were somewhat ornate and referenced some past enjoyment of the deceased...sports, fishing, traveling etc. <<<
Also have been in a few Catholic cemeteries myself and never saw anything you described.
I agree with the church.
Ouch, I used to be Catholic, when it was a truly devout religion. Graveyards are no place for frivolity. It trifles life instead of giving tribute to it. Respecting the dead is not a joke.
exactly what mustang6984 said!! I am not Catholic but Jason was a friend of mine and this issue has our small community in an uproar!! I live only a few miles from this cemetary and just about a mile north on the same road is a commemorative park bench on a grave that is also right on the road! Let Shannon and his children honor his grave as it should!!!
If Shannon and her children insist on burying their deceased with a NASCAR-themed headstone, the were previously warned against using, then they can do so in the cemetery you described, a mile north on the same road. Or, they could ditch the cartoon headstone, buy one that meets the standards and honor their deceased in the Catholic cemetery. They have a choice.
It is well within the Chruch's right to do this. A TASTEFUL logo or two is one thing. But with that ugly NASCAR logo on top. that tombstone looks as tacky as a NASCAR car.
Hmmm... You are as out of line as the crazy ass priest in this one... I would hate to see what lands on your headstone at your time of passing... P.S. Might want a rag or some T.P. in there with you... Just say'n...
Do us a favor and go back to sleep, would you?
Lakawak is correct.
While I think it's great the wife wants to honor her husband I think that if she was told that the marker wouldn't be permitted then she shouldn't have gone ahead with the purchase. People do have to remember that cemeteries are all privately owned and some have more rigid policies than others. If this is truly a historic cemetery then a sofa head stone would take away from its appearance. If the wife wants this headstone on her husbands grave then she needs to shop around for a cemetery that allows it then pay to have the coffin moved. Don't forget BUYER BEWARE! even when it comes to funerals and burials.
I agree!
If you are going to be put in a Church Cemetary you follow the rules of the Church, its called having respect for the church. If you dont like the rules, you get a burial plot in a regular cemetary, there many many nice ones to choose from and the rules are pretty easy going. Most cemetaries will allow any headstone for a nominal fee.
A PERFECT example of the Catholic Churches hypocritical nature, it s ALL about money, when my wife (who is catholic) and I (not catholic) were married, we were told by the Church that since I was NOT Catholic we could not be married in their church, HOWEVER, after my father in-law made a sizable donation to the church we were allowed to wed Catholic, (IT WAS DEVINE $$$$ INTERVENTION).. Im sure that all this grieving widow has to do is donate ENOUGH money and the church will change their mind... My wife is no longer Catholic, I never was, we refuse to follow hypocrits....
>>> A PERFECT example of the Catholic Churches hypocritical nature, >> it s ALL about money,>> when my wife (who is catholic) and I (not catholic) were married, we were told by the Church that since I was NOT Catholic we could not be married in their church,>> HOWEVER, after my father in-law made a sizable donation to the church we were allowed to wed Catholic, (IT WAS DEVINE $$$$ INTERVENTION).. >> Im sure that all this grieving widow has to do is donate ENOUGH money and the church will change their mind... >> My wife is no longer Catholic,>> I never was, we refuse to follow hypocrits.... <<<
What is clear is that you're short on knowledge about how the Church actually works, but long on delivering criticism. Typical.
>>> A PERFECT example of the Catholic Churches hypocritical nature, <<<
What hypocritical nature?
>> it s ALL about money, <<<
Says who?
>> when my wife (who is catholic) and I (not catholic) were married, we were told by the Church that since I was NOT Catholic we could not be married in their church,>> HOWEVER, after my father in-law made a sizable donation to the church we were allowed to wed Catholic, (IT WAS DEVINE $$$$ INTERVENTION).. <<
Unlikely story. In a nutshell: Before the Vatican II council, non-Catholics were not permitted to marry in the Church. Period. After Vatican II, baptized, non-Catholic Christians were permitted to marry in the Church. Money doesn't enter into the question.
Isn't the cross a logo. It surely doesn't represent atheist,agnostic,ashram
Stop right there...
Maybe you missed the part where it said this was a CATHOLIC cemetary.
I also agree with the church. "THEY TOLD HER NOT TO...."
Not appropriate. Fine for her own backyard.
First they illiminate the sport logos, then what will be next, Veteran markers? Height restrictions because you didn't give enough money to the church while you were alive.
Being that this is an historic cemetery, I have to side with the church on this one.
I am sorry for the woman's loss. However, I think she needs to drop her frivolous lawsuit, choose a more appropriate marker for her husband's grave and install the brightly colored marble sofa in her own backyard or garden as a place for her to go to reflect on the memory of her beloved husband. This marker does not have to be on his actual grave to serve that purpose.
Nicely stated!
To me,respecting those who have past is to respect their life and how they enjoyed it and if they were into sports or what ever I am sure they would want that part of their life remembered and something on their grave should be just fine.
i think you catholic have the right to tell every one what they can do in life and now in death it is none of there or anyone elses how this woman wants to honor her husbands passing. I have seen some pretty ugly gravestones in churchs lots before i dont take offence of them each to their own. Stop being so judgemental beleive it or not catholic people are not god.
Nobody's "playing God" here. The Church, as the owner of the cemetery has a right to set and enforce their own standards. The Church will win this lawsuit before the judge has a chance to clear his throat.
P.S. If this issue hadn't involved the Catholic Church, it wouldn't have even made the news.
Nobody's playing God, here. The cemetery is privately owned, by the Church and they have the right to set their own rules as to how it should look.
Hypocracy at it's best! If you don't like the way it looks then DONT LOOK! PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!! And who is to say what is
"APPROPRIATE" ... remember, the Catholic Church thought it appropriate to cover up the molestation boys! SHAME ON YOU!!!!! Next thing you know the Catholic church will order all images of Jesus to have short hair!!! Live and let live! Support your team in LIFE and dump them after death huh? REALLY? GOOOO NASCAR!!!!!
>>> Hypocracy at it's best! <<<
I fail to see where you are claiming hypocrisy.
>>> If you don't like the way it looks then DONT LOOK! >> And who is to say what is "APPROPRIATE" ... <<<
Um, ... I'm going to go out on a limb and say the owner of the cemetery has a right to say what is appropriate in their own cemetery.
>>> the Catholic Church thought it appropriate to cover up the molestation boys! <<<
No, individuals working within the Church wrongly attempted to cover up the crimes you mention. The Church does not, never did and never will condone child molestation. Don't confuse the the gross mistakes of errant clergy with Church Law.
It is not a matter of telling someone "how" to honor their loved one. Rules are rules. Respect the rules.
What I want to know is why this woman even chose an historical cemetery to begin with. Clearly, she does not truly appreciate the tradition and aesthetics of it enough to want to uphold the particular atmosphere one provides. There are plenty of modern cemeteries where this headstone would not have been a problem. She should have opted for one of those and left this one to people who want a more traditional resting place for their loved ones.
Am I the only one who thinks the Catholic Church should concentrate on the generational pedophile problem they have amongst their clergy instead of some headstone? From the looks of it, the problem dates back to the 1950's at least. I think it dates back a lot longer than that ..like centuries. Let's not pretend it doesn't exist and wish it would just go away. Children's lives have been ruined and they pass it down on to their children and then on and on. This is the cycle of abuse. The catholic church needs to punish ALL who were in anyway invovled...not pass them on to another parish so the molestation continues..What about all the fetuses they found under a Cleveland nun's quarters during an excavation of the grounds. I believe the Church has MUCH MUCH more MAJOR issues than some headstone!!
This isn't about that... AT ALL.
Think about the families of the other occupants of this historical graveyard, many of whom no doubt opted to bury their loved ones where they did because they liked the tradition and aesthetics associated with that particular cemetery... don't THEIR wishes count for anything?
>> Am I the only one who thinks the Catholic Church should concentrate on the generational pedophile problem they have amongst their clergy instead of some headstone? <<
Why do you feel the need to cast the question as a false dilemma?
I worked in the cemetery and funeral home biz for many years. All cemeteries, whether private, district or church owned have regulations regarding headstones; some only allow flat bronze, some only dark black granite, some have virtually no rules while others are somewhat strict, etc.
I would question the company that sold her the headstone, they should have checked with the cemetery to see what they do and don't allow.
The church told her from the start NOT to buy that stone. She does anyways , and now the church is the bad guy? And don't blame it on the stone company.....they just sell them.It is not their job to know if the church allowed it.PEOPLE HAVE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR BEING PIG HEADED AND STUPID !
Im catholic and think this is rediculos. Watch a nascar race some day and youll see its the ONLY sport where theres a prayer said before the race. Check out how many racers after a win first words are Id like to thank God. Come on even you stonch catholics have to admit the church has better ways to spend money then fighting a rediculos law suit like this. As to it angering the allready existing residents, Well there dead! I dont think they will be bothered much and to those snobs that are bothered i say get a life!!
>>> Watch a nascar race some day and youll see its the ONLY sport where theres a prayer said before the race. <<<
So, what?
sounds to me like your just anti catholic not just against this marker being placed.
What?!?? Because I think it insignificant to this issue that NASCAR folks say a prayer before each race, makes me anti-Catholic? Let's just say your reading comprehension is a little lacking.
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text: on Nov 23, 2013 @ 12:31 AMNov 23, 2013 @ 12:31 AM PublishedIndianapolis Colts - TeamReportNFL Team Report - Indianapolis Colts - INSIDE SLANTThe 2013 National Football League season has turned into a reunion tour, of sorts, for the Indianapolis Colts.First it was second-year quarterback Andrew Luck's road trip to San Francisco to face the team led by his former college coach, San Francisco's Jim Harbaugh. Harbaugh is also a former Colts player, leading the team to the AFC title game in 1995.Then it was Indianapolis head coach Chuck Pagano's meeting with his brother's team, the San Diego Chargers. John Pagano is the Chargers' defensive coordinator.A week later, former Colts quarterback Peyton Manning made his return to the city that he called home for 13 seasons when Denver visited Lucas Oil Stadium.This week the tour heads west as Indianapolis travels to University of Phoenix Stadium to face the Arizona Cardinals. Arizona's head coach is former Colts offensive coordinator/interim head coach Bruce Arians."Really, it's there, the relationship's there, we all know what happened and what transpired and all that stuff," Pagano said Friday. "But it's about our players. It's about the Colts playing the Cards. It's about two teams trying to get another win. It's playoff football, that's the mindset. Like we said, we'll shake some hands before the game. But then it's about our players. It's about their players. It's about the game. It's about trying to win a football game."Also on the Cardinals coaching staff is former Indianapolis offensive coordinator Tom Moore, who is Arizona's assistant head coach; offensive coordinator Harold Goodwin, the Colts' offensive line coach last season; and outside linebackers coach James Bettcher, Indianapolis' special defensive assistant in 2012.And then there's former Colts cornerback Jerraud Powers, now with Arizona, and ex-Cardinals cornerback Greg Toler, who is returning from a groin injury and is expected to start for Indianapolis on Sunday.The Pagano-Arians connection, though, will attract the most attention.Arizona's first-year head coach earned NFL Coach of the Year honors last season as he filled in for Pagano, who was undergoing treatment for leukemia. The Colts head coach missed most of the year and Arians led the team to a 9-3 record (Indianapolis was 11-5 overall) and a wild-card spot in the AFC playoffs.It was largely due to the fact that Arians had done such a good job leading the Colts that he wound up as the head coach in Arizona. He was a veteran NFL assistant coach who had come out of a forced retirement after being released by the Pittsburgh Steelers.For both head coaches, Sunday's game in the desert can't come soon enough."I think our guys are excited to play the Cardinals," Pagano said. "It's the next game. (But) it's going to be a tough one. (Arians has) got a really good football team, solid in all three phases and well coached. It will be challenge for our team."Playing a team with a head coach who knows the Colts so well does have its disadvantages. It also might give the Indianapolis coaches a better feel for the Cardinals."I think it probably goes both ways. There's probably some things from a communication standpoint more than anything else. Again, system change, new coordinator, things like that," Pagano explained. "I don't know how much intel there is. We've got ours, they've got theirs. We got to play the game on the field."The Indianapolis head coach and Arians go way back as friends. They were assistants together in Cleveland and Pagano was quick to bring the Cardinals head coach to Indianapolis prior to last season.Pagano knows what Arians wants to do offensively."Run it and throw it down the field as far as you can and complete a lot of them," he said. "He's been doing it a long time. He's a great play caller. We all know that. You see a lot of similarities in there and he's utilizing their talent very well."We try to go into (this week's game) saying (Arizona will) throw it down the field. It's just as much an opportunity for us (defensively) as it is them."The game has playoff implications for Arizona, which is in a tight field for a possible NFC wild-card berth. But Pagano also views Sunday's matchup as having an effect on the Colts' post-season chances."It's them and the same thing for us," he said. "So (for) our guys, it's all playoff football right now,"SERIES HISTORY: 15th regular season meeting. Colts lead series, 8-6. The Colts are 6-4 against the Cardinals in home games and 2-2 on the road. The Cardinals' last win in the series occurred on Dec. 2, 1990 with Arizona posting a 20-17 home-field decision. The Colts have won their last four meetings with the Cardinals (Dec. 20, 1992, 16-13, RCA Dome; Sept. 1, 1996, 20-13, RCA Dome; Jan. 1, 2006, 17-13, RCA Dome; Sept. 27, 2009, 31-10, University of Phoenix Stadium). The overall series between the former St. Louis Cardinals and former Baltimore Colts began in 1961. Sunday's game will be the Colts' third-ever trip to Arizona (1990, 2009, 2013). Former Colts QB Peyton Manning completed 24-of-35 passes for 379 yards, four touchdowns and one interception in the last meeting between the two franchises. In that game, Colts WR Reggie Wayne caught seven passes for 126 yards and a TD and former Colts TE Dallas Clark had seven catches for 62 yards and a TD.-----------------------------------------------NFL Team Report - Indianapolis Colts - NOTES, QUOTES--Colts head coach Chuck Pagano half-way joked recently that he isn't going to talk about the team's slow starts anymore. Pagano's humorous view is that the more he talks about the situation, the worse it gets: "I just think it could be one of those deals, the more you talk about it. Again, I don't know if it's like a batter that's in a slump, the harder you press, the harder you swing, things might tend to get worse instead of just sticking to the process. There's some things we can pinpoint in the last three ballgames in the first half that you can put your finger on and say if we get these things corrected."--RB Donald Brown says that he doesn't mind sharing carries with RB Trent Richardson in the Colts' offensive backfield: "That's the way the National Football League has taken shape. There's only a few teams out there that really use one back because the backs take a punishment. You need to even out the load a little bit for productivity purposes and this is a long season. The more weapons you have, the better offense you'll be and the better team you'll be. And that's our goal."--Without WR Reggie Wayne in the Colts' offensive lineup, the team is averaging 21.7 points per game and are converting just 31.6 of its third-down plays. With Wayne, who is sidelined for the season with a torn ACL, Indianapolis was averaging 26.7 points per game and were converting third downs at a 42.7 clip.BY THE NUMBERS: 2 -- The Colts will go into the Arizona game with a 2-1 won-loss record against NFC West teams. Indianapolis has posted wins over San Francisco (27-7, Sept. 22) and Seattle (34-28, Oct. 6) and lost to St. Louis (38-8, Nov. 10).QUOTE TO NOTE: "Like I said, you can't put a price tag on it. If I've said it once, I've said it 1,000 times. What he did for not only myself but, more importantly, this organization, our players, our coaches, everything, and it was everybody had a hand in it, the players and the coaches and him leading the charge. Again, very, very grateful obviously." -- Colts head coach Chuck Pagano on his appreciation for the job current Arizona head coach Bruce Arians did as Indianapolis' interim head coach last season. Pagano missed most of the 2012 season as he battled leukemia. Arians was the Colts' offensive coordinator last year.-----------------------------------------------NFL Team Report - Indianapolis Colts - STRATEGY AND PERSONNELThe Colts waived WR Griff Whalen from the active roster and signed former Pittsburgh Steelers RB/KR Chris Rainey.Indianapolis also elevated rookie TE Justice Cunningham from the practice squad to the active roster. OLB Erik Walden, meanwhile, has been suspended for the Arizona game by the NFL after an altercation with Tennessee Titans TE Delanie Walker last week.Walden tore Walker's helmet off and then head-butted the Titans player. While he was flagged for a personal foul, Walden was not ejected from the game. The suspension was appealed but not upheld.INJURY IMPACT--ILB Kavell Conner (ankle) left Thursday's practice and was ruled out vs. Arizona by coach Chuck Pagano on Friday.--RB Dan Herron (ankle) was listed as probable Friday.--RB Trent Richardson (calf) is listed as questionable, but expected to play Sunday at Arizona.--S LaRon Landry (toe) is listed as questionable. Landry's injury has been described as an "aggravated toe."--FB Stanley Havili (concussion) was not cleared by Friday and has been ruled out of the Arizona game.--CB Greg Toler (groin) did not practice Friday and was ruled out against Arizona.--CB Josh Gordy (groin) was listed as questionable Friday. Gordy has not played since he was hurt in the Oct. 20 home game with Denver.--S Delano Howell (neck) returned for full practice this week and is listed as probable. Howell has been sidelined since he was hurt in the win over Denver on Oct. 20.--WR Darius Heyward-Bey (ankle) fully practiced this week and is listed as probable. Heyward-Bey was hurt in the first quarter of last week's game at Tennessee.PLAYER NOTES--S Antoine Bethea was selected as the Colts' 2013 Man of the Year in recognition of his many off-field charitable contributions in Indianapolis and in his hometown of Newport News, Virginia. Bethea is now a candidate for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award.--PK Adam Vinatieri was named as the AFC Special Teams Player of the Week, the 14th time during his NFL career with New England and Indianapolis that he has won the award. Vinatieri had three field goals in the win over Tennessee, including one from 50 yards out. The kick allowed Vinatieri to tie his career-best for 50-yard field goals in a season (four), which was set in 2012.--OLB Bjoern Werner says that he is ready for his first-ever NFL start. Werner, the Colts' top draft pick last spring, has been working as a backup to starters Erik Walden and Robert Mathis since the start of training camp. With Walden suspended for Sunday's game at Arizona, Werner will get the call to replace him.--OLB Robert Mathis isn't happy with how NFL game officials are "protecting" the league's quarterbacks. He has been fined "four or five times" during his career with the Colts for illegal hits. "I did not agree with any of them," Mathis said recently. "(It's) definitely not easy. But I guess you've got to play within the rules. You've got to do your job."GAME PLAN: Start fast. Well, start faster. The Colts have been struggling with sluggish starts on both sides of the ball for the past month. Against a team like Arizona, which is battling for its playoff life, Indianapolis can't afford to drop behind by too much too quickly.Offensively, the Colts want to be able to get the ball out quickly and keep the Arizona defense off balance. Defensively, Indianapolis has to be able to keep pressure on the Cardinals and try to force turnovers.One thing is for certain. The Colts have to play smarter and be able to keep their poise in what will be a loud environment.MATCHUPS TO WATCH: Colts RBs Trent Richardson/Donald Brown vs. Cardinals run defense -- Brown is coming off his best game of the season in last week's win over Tennessee. He scored a pair of rushing touchdowns and ran for 80 yards in 14 carries. Richardson continues to struggle but it a threat to have a big game. Arizona's run defense ranks second in the league, allowing only 81.4 yards per game.--Cardinals RBs vs. Colts defensive front -- Arizona has had its own issues in the running game, averaging 85.6 yards per game. That ranks the Cardinals 25th in the league in running the football. Indianapolis' run defense is ranked 28th in the NFL, allowing 126.1 yards per game. Something has to give.


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(b) The term "supervisor" in this part refers to a representative of the Secretary of the Interior, under direction of the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey, authorized and empowered to supervise and direct operations under oil and gas mining leases, to furnish scientific and technical information and advice, to ascertain and record the amount and value of production, and to determine and record rentals and royalties due and paid.
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nounpl. satrapies
the government, authority, or province of a satrap
Origin of satrapyFrench satrapie ; from Classical Latin satrapia ; from Classical Greek satrapeia
nounpl. sa·tra·pies
- The territory or sphere under the rule of a satrap.
- A nation, state, territory, or area controlled as if by a satrap: "No military legions from the West are going to liberate their Eastern European satrapies" (John Hughes).
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- The territory governed by a satrap.


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Carol and Brian were great, more than helpful, as were the other neighbors we met (Pam and Barry).
The cottage kitchen was wonderfully equipped, we had everything we needed to create any culinary masterpiece. The living room was cosy and the log burner looked so inviting - but the weather that we had meant that there were no matches lit for the fire!
The bedrooms were spacious with the most wonderful views across the Painswick valley.
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Local man charged in connection with Hospital Pharmacy West burglaryJuly 3, 2014
SHERIDAN — The Sheridan County Attorney's Office filed charges against Robert Kelly Weber, 34, of Sheridan on Friday in connection with the burglary of prescription medications from Hospital Pharmacy West in 2013. According to the Sheridan Police Department, information received throughout the investigation implicated Weber in the theft of a large amount of prescription medications. Read More
P&Z denies rec center, again
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Judge hears oral arguments in Press' case against SCSD2
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Rodeo tickets selling fast; grab yours now
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Ranchester passes final 2015 budget
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New crosswalk on Brundage Lane to be completed soon
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Native American photo display this July
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I must say, your art is so amazing and I really admire your style. Your ability to draw hair is just...so perf ohmygoodness. ;w;
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As a teen swept up in social networking, I understand the critical role our new digital commons has played in the democratic uprisings across the Middle East — call Twitter and Facebook the dictator-busters of our age. But I've discovered another "commons" that deserves equal attention for its power in transforming the Arab world: the public square.
The ancient squares of the Middle East have never been more relevant to our modern age. During the week that Egypt's government shut down the media, the protests in Tahrir Square grew larger than ever. Even without the Internet to spur them, hundreds of thousands of protestors converged on Tahrir to overthrow Mubarak's regime. Perhaps democracy depends less on cyber space and more on public space.
Mubarak understood the power of the pubic square. He worried about citizens meeting and mingling. He knew how places where people promenade and perform could quickly turn into places where they protest and revolt. A true midan — Arabic for public square — isn't just a public meeting space; it's a physical expression of democracy that can topple an autocracy. Fearing this, Mubarak planned his cities strategically. He dismantled and depopulated Cairo's squares, like Tahir and Ramses, and even city gardens and parks. He subdivided and fenced off public spaces, turning squares into traffic circles. Under Emergency Law in Mubarak's Egypt, a congregation of citizens on public grounds could be grounds for arrest.
But Mubarak underestimated the square's power. Without vibrant public gathering places, cities deteriorate. Civic pride erodes. Discontent rises. Little did Mubarak know that repressing and neglecting the public square — policies meant to secure his regime — created the perfect launch pad for his demise. I can't help but wonder what it means for Saudi Arabia that public squares don't exist there — the closest thing to a meeting place is a shopping mall under close supervision by the religious police.
This past week tens of thousands of Egyptians in Tahrir Square — formerly Mubarak's traffic circle — gathered to celebrate the ousting of Morsi. Egyptians cheered, "God is great!" and "Long live Egypt!" Just weeks ago, Tahrir was the center of violent and vociferous anti-government revolts against the Muslim Brotherhood. And, of course, two years earlier, Tahrir facilitated and symbolized the global push for freedom.
Like Prague's Wenceslas Square in 1969 or China's Tiananmen Square in 1989, all across the Arab world public squares have become ground zero for democratic change.
In Bahrain, Sunni revolutionaries, inspired by the Arab Spring, camped out in Pearl Roundabout to call for greater political freedom and an end to monarchy. After a brutal crackdown, the army cleared Pearl Roundabout of protestors and destroyed the square's iconic statue.
In Libya, Qaddafi's regime came to an end when rebels captured Green Square, later renamed Martyrs' Square. After Qaddafi forced his supporters to protest in his favor at the square, it soon became a hotbed of political dissent in Tripoli.
In Yemen, Freedom Square, which some even call Tahrir Square, emerged as the epicenter of protests against President Ali Abdallah Saleh. Even though Saleh has been removed from power, protestors remain in their tents, continuing to call for change.
In Tunisia, the name of the main square in Tunis has been changed to honor Mohammad Bouazizi, the now world-famous street vendor whose suicide sparked a revolution.
In Iran, the government has banned dissidents from Tehran's Revolution Square, but citizens have found ways to gather in smaller public spaces, like Valiasr Square and Vanak Sqaure. In Taksim Square, progressive Turkish citizens voice their grievances against Erdoğan.
This week, Morsi declared, "Justice dictates that voice of the masses from all squares should be heard." His message may have been too late, but the message of the square endures, as common ground for the dreams and demands of democracy.
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Noted with interest!
Thank you for the news.
Sorry for the misspelling in my previous posting - it's late here already:
It should read: Rabaa al-Adawiya Mosque
To Anne M. How can you call more than 30 Mio people on the streets a BUNCH OF FANATICS AND SORE LOSERS? The fanatics are those in Raba Al Awayda = Moslem Brothers.
As for democratically elected this case is still as of today in the courts. Of all the candidates which were in the race the two least likely to win any grounds were at the end the only ones left in the race! The Egyptians then had the choice as the saying here goes between the cholera and the plague. I dont want to go into all the ballot boxes which were unattended over night outside the ballot centers nor do I speak about the numerous power cuts in the centers nor do I speak about the thousands and thousands of filled out ballots which were found in the fields and in the garbage.
Morsi failed the people on each and every account the people had and have every right to get rid of him.
He took the oath swearing to honor and respect the constitution. The next day he overrode the constitution by a tyrannical constitutional declaration which granted him godly powers. In the face of massive protests he took back the declaration retaining its consequences in full force. Of those consequences retained was 1) giving his decrees immunity against court orders and 2) unconstitutionally firing the prosecutor general.
The court orders he expected and was trying to nullify included a) dissolving the Parliament which was widely believed to be unconstitutional and b) to write off the Constituent Assembly also formed on unconstitutional basis. To try and appear like he was offsetting that he promised an additional 2 months to continue national dialogue on the new constitution being written which was faced with nationwide opposition. Only 48 hrs later he announced the same objectionable constitution draft final and put it to a national referendum and made sure that it was shoved down the throat of all Egyptians.
Furthermore he overruled the courts and amassed his gangs to surround the High Constitutional Court and made it impossible for it to convene. He further amassed his thugs outside Media City to try and gag the free media. Protesting the constitutional declaration he made people were gathering outside the presidential palace where he set his thugs lose on the peaceful demonstrators and killed a number of them in cold blood. And so and so forth.
You still dont see the absolute right - even the duty! - of the people to dispose of such a President?
To Jamie - I agree with your statement but would like to expand it:
""Arab uprising happened because of US meddling into affairs of the Middle East and stirring up conflict." and it continues despite the ongoing meddling of the US into our affairs.
As evidence I'd like to offer two events:
1) Various leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood where received during GWB tenure although poor them had to enter the White House through a side entrance . We should NOT allow ourselves to forget that the Muslim Brothers were opposed to the revolution of Jan 2011 and only jumped on the band wagon once they realised (or were informed?) that the USA will drop Mubarak. Only then did they join in - once they felt safe. Once a coward - always a coward. Nothing new from these bearded retards.
Latest proof of the meddling is Amb. Patterson's visit some 10 days before the 30th of June uprising to Khairat El Shater. He holds no official position in the government nor is he an official big head at the Muslim Brotherhood. Yet we all know that he is the grey eminence and pulls the strings at the MB and finances them. What was Patterson doing in his office? He is not even handsome enough to think of anything romantic ...
2) The USA was all for and helped in grooming Gamal Mubarak (the second son of Hosni) as his successor. The various times Gamal "Jimmy" Mubarak was invited to speak in front of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) and was praised over the moon speaks volumes. On
To janice b. - Be fair now.
Many, not all, of us who sit behind our computers and complain are doing something else. If we're here on Care2, as are you behind your computer, we are signing pwtitions, getting others to sign petitions, and if we can afford it, giving a few bucks to our causes. Many Click to Donate on some, or even all, the causes listed on a daily basis just so sponsors will donate for us. We have earned the right to complain because we are NOT just sitting here...
I firmly believe that if you don't vote you have NO right to complain about how the Country is going. Complaining is a priviledge, not a right. It has to be earned. The only exception to this I allow is for Vets - they did their tours, they paid the prices tenfold. They have earned the priviledge to sit bk if they so choose...altho most do not.
As far as complacent - don't know why any are that way- frankly, could care less. Their choice.
Tyrants fear any place where the public gathers in solidarity, united in cause and purpose, that is hostile to those tyrants. I think tyrants everywhere are becoming aware their days of control and oppression will soon be over. People all over the world have been inspired by Occupy Wall Street and then the Arab Spring. People have realized that tyrants are no match for people acting collectively with a common purpose. I promise you the Chinese Spring and Russian Spring is not far behind and if the right wing and corporate America continues to dominate the discussion in American politics I assure you an American Spring is not that far off either.
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South African schools don't really study The Giver by Lois Lowry as prescribed reading, so I finally read it last weekend. I had been putting it off for years but it is such a quick and easy read that I could read it in an afternoon.
Guys, I had so many thoughts about it afterwards. On GoodReads I gave it a pretty high rating, BECAUSE THERE WAS NO "QUESTION-MARK" OPTION! I have never felt so conflicted about a book before. Okay, maybe once before, in Lord of the Flies, after that whole thing with the rock happened. That was unnecessary.


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Spoonhub, "a Github for recipes" took away the grand prize challenge at today's TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon. It's a beautiful looking app, as this video of the team presenting it on the emulator shows.
And then here is the award announcement.
The team also has a web based client with a "recipe feed." You can also "fork" recipes. They may have won the XBox Kinect and Windows Phone prize package for best use of puns embedded into a client.
Here are eight other apps put together by hackers. These guys each won a Nokia Lumia800:


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Ritchey Trailmasters: Singletrack In The Hills
Our Jon's impressions of the three day event, plus full report from eventual winner, Ben Price of Torq
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Summary: Shunryu Suzuki is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. This most influential teacher comes vividly to life in Crooked Cucumber, the first full biography of any Zen master to be published in the West. To make up his intimate and engrossing narrative, David Chadwick draws on Suzuki's own words and the memories of his students, friends, and family. Interspersed with previously unpublished passages from Suzuki's talks, Crooked Cucumber evokes a down-to-earth life of the spirit. Along with Suzuki we can find a way to "practice with mountains, trees, and stones and to find ourselves in this big world." ...show moreSummary: Shunryu Suzuki is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. This most influential teacher comes vividly to life in Crooked Cucumber, the first full biography of any Zen master to be published in the West. To make up his intimate and engrossing narrative, David Chadwick draws on Suzuki's own words and the memories of his students, friends, and family. Interspersed with previously unpublished passages from Suzuki's talks, Crooked Cucumber evokes a down-to-earth life of the spirit. Along with Suzuki we can find a way to "practice with mountains, trees, and stones and to find ourselves in this big world." ...show less
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David Chadwick selected and edited the accounts that make up To Shine One Corner of the World, drawing on hundreds of interviews and notes amassed in the creation of his acclaimed biography of Suzuki, Crooked Cucumber, and from his ongoing oral history of Shunryu Suzuki. Chadwick himself began study with Suzuki Roshi in 1966 and was ordained by him in 1971. He is also the author of Thank You and OK!: An American Zen Failure in Japan.
Childhood 1904-1916 Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring. High winds blew across the green hillside, driving rain into the storm doors of Shoganji, an obscure Japanese country temple, when on May 18, 1904, Yone Suzuki gave birth to a baby boy. Her husband, Sogaku, the priest of the temple, gave his first-born son the name Shunryu, using the written characters for Excellent and Emerging, a rather formal Buddhist name full of high expectations. It was the year of the dragon, the thirty-seventh year of the reign of Emperor Meiji. Fierce battles were being fought on the plains of Manchuria between Imperial Japan and Czarist Russia, and Sogaku was preparing the main hall of Shoganji for yet another young soldier's funeral, as Shunryu had his first taste of life in a small tatami room. Cherry trees interspersed with shrub bamboo lined the steep road up to Shoganji, a small four-hundred-year-old temple on a hill above the village of Tsuchisawa, on the edge of the city of Hiratsuka in Kanagawa Prefecture. From the temple ohaka--a peaceful sanctuary where the ashes of local families and prior abbots were interred below weather-worn stone markers--there was a commanding view of Sagami Bay, which opens into the Pacific with Tokyo Bay to the northeast. Kamakura, the ancient political and Buddhist center, lay at the edge of the green and blue vista. Shoganji's handsome grass thatch roof could be seen from afar, surrounded by forested mountainsides, just beyond the smoke of Yokohama's burgeoning industries. As a child, Shunryu Suzuki was called Toshitaka--Toshi for short. Toshitaka is the old Japanese way of pronouncing the characters that make up Shunryu, with a softer and more casual feeling. Toshi grew up playing around the temple with his older half brother from his mother's first marriage, Yoshinami Shima. When he was three his sister Tori was born, and at six he acquired another sister, Aiko. Toshi was small yet strong, eager to learn, impatient to do things before he was old enough, sensitive, and kind but prone to quick bursts of anger. And he couldn't keep track of anything. Schoolwork and books, caps and coins--whatever it was, he'd leave it at home or at school, wherever he wasn't. Toshi began his six years of compulsory education in April 1910, when he was almost six. It was at school that he became aware that his family was uncommonly poor. Most people wore zori, straw sandals with a dividing cord between the first two toes. When the cord broke on one, children would throw away both. Toshi would take the good ones home and make new pairs. Unwilling to spend money on a set of hair clippers, his father would shave Toshi's head like his own. All the boys at school had short-clipped hair, but not shaved heads. Lean and proper, approaching fifty, Butsumon Sogaku Suzuki was old to be having his first son. Priests of the Soto school of Zen had only begun taking wives a few decades earlier, encouraged strongly by a government bent on diminishing the power of the Buddhist clergy. The practice was easing in, though it was not yet permitted by the Soto school. At first families had to live outside the temples apart from the priests, but by 1904 it was beginning to be acceptable for families to live in. There were no family quarters at Shoganji; they slept in the buddha hall, the room used for daily services, and shared their home every day with neighbors and temple members. Shoganji didn't have a large or a wealthy danka, the community of supporting members, nor did it have extensive temple lands that would bring in a sizable rice tax. Sogaku and Yone had to augment the temple income with outside work and practice meticulous thrift. Yone was short and plain, with the tough look of a hard worker, and a softness that had withstood the rigors of a difficult life. She taught teenage girls at a vocational high school how to make clothing. She knew a good deal about sewing and would study till late at night from books to make herself a better teacher. As her reputation grew, she began sewing classes at the temple, eventually acquiring many students. Yone was the stricter of the parents. Her children were taught to be proper and respectful and to do well at school so as to make a good impression on temple guests and not to bring shame to the family. People came to Shoganji for seasonal Buddhist holidays, for funerals, advice, or neighborly greetings. If Sogaku had guests, Yone would serve them tea and rice cakes. If he was out, she'd sit with them herself. This was in addition to tending to the children, cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, and other labor-intensive, pre-electric tasks. Sogaku made candles for the temple from an iron mold. He would pour extras, and when he had a good load he would walk five miles to Ohisa City to sell them. On the way back he would pick up discarded vegetables from the roadside, storing them in a bag he carried. It wasn't just because he was poor that Sogaku did this. It was his way. His son would talk about it half a century later.
There was a creek in front of my father's temple, and many rotten old vegetables would float down from higher up the mountain. Farmers and other people would throw them away. They were vegetable-like things, not exactly vegetables! [laughing] They might have been good for compost, not for eating. But as soon as he'd find them he'd cook them up and say, "Everything has buddha nature. You should not throw anything away!" Wherever he went, he talked about how valuable food is and how you shouldn't throw it away.
Sogaku also raised pigs to supplement the family income, a rather shocking thing for a priest to do, but Japanese Buddhism in general and Soto Zen in particular have not been known for strict vegetarianism. In a 1971 talk, Shunryu Suzuki remembered the pigs.
Buddha is always helping you. But usually we refuse Buddha's offer. For instance, sometimes you ask for something special. This means that you are refusing to accept the treasures you already have. You are like a pig. When I was young, as my father was very poor, he raised many pigs. I noticed that when I gave the pigs a bucket of food, they would eat it after I went away. As long as I was there, they wouldn't eat it, expecting me to give them more food. I had to be very careful. If I moved too quickly they would kick the bucket over. I think that is what you are doing. Just to cause yourself more problems, you seek for something. But there is no need for you to seek for anything. You have plenty, and you have just enough problems. This is a mysterious thing, you know, the mystery of life. We have just enough problems, not too many or too few.
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"Suzuki left a lasting legacy as the man who introduced the spiritual discipline of Zen to the West . . . and Crooked Cucumber affords a wonderful opportunity to meet him."
--Los Angeles Times
"A generous glimpse of the humanity and message of one of the great spiritual teachers of the modern world."
--Publishers Weekly
"A moving and eloquent biography of that quiet man who was to become the most widely revered Zen teacher in this country. Conveying his spirit lovingly and well, it becomes in itself a wonderful manifestation of his gentle teachings."
--Peter Matthiessen, author of At Play in the Fields of the Lord and The Snow Leopard
"It's impossible to imagine a better book about Suzuki-roshi. Its precise picture of Suzuki's values, hopes, and problems makes it a major primer of Zen itself."
--Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
"A touching account of Suzuki-roshi's life, full of funny stories, brave and generous."
--Robert Bly, author of Iron John and The Sibling Society
"Shunryu Suzuki comes to life through these pages to a degree I would not have thought possible. Chadwick has produced a remarkable biography of a truly remarkable man."
--Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions
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