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Ohh so THAT's what N.O. Explode is for! Makes perfect sense!Ranked #9 internationally at 118lbs by WIKBA http://www.womenkickboxing.com/wikba...rch%202009.htm
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When I was in the service, I took NO explode before every patrol and latrine duty. I kept it in my hydration pack so I can take sips of it every firefight and building entry. Once, my K-pot took a direct hit from a small handgun, and thanks to NO Xplode I blasted through that **** no problem.
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Funny that no mention was made of their having to pull their most popular flavor "Uncontaminated Water" after they were forced to admit that much of the powder refined at their main plant in Springfield, MA was found to contain bits of steel, rubber, and synthetic fiber. The company hopes to recapture market share in the coveted 25-40 male demographic with it's newest product, Forcible Grape already very popular in limited field trials with State Department and DOD contractors. A limited distribution of Forcible Vanilla Grape has proved especially popular among Saudi royals, and with teenagers participating in a summer trial in Sydney Austrailia.
Let's hope they clean up their act before someone gets hurt.
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When you compare his encoder presets from '09 with recent QL/live streams there is a really noticeable difference. I think he is getting lazy.
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From our point of view it's a balance between accessibility and exclusivity. As we mentioned in our last post many of our bespoke customers are heavily involved in the design process and are very clear about what they want. They would be extremely unhappy - quite rightly - if we were to then offer their design ideas to a broader audience when they've made such a big investment in exclusivity (some of the designs that customers commission are breathtakingly beautiful btw).
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If you were reading and paying much attention to the buzz surrounding this year's HOF voting, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that the BBWAA didn't elect anyone to the hall this year. Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa and those associated with the steroid era were denied. The closet was Craig Biggio, who fell 39 votes shy of the 75 percent required for election. Cleveland Indians Kenny Lofton (3.2%) and Sandy Alomar Jr. (2.8%) did not receive enough votes to remain on the ballot for next year. [Related: the Lofton HOF case]
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Mike Grimshaw (Sociology) has an essay titled, "The Irrelevance and Relevance of the Radical, Impure Tillich," in Retrieving the Radical Tillich. Full details of the books can be found on the Palgrave Macmillan web site.
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Mike Grimshaw (Sociology) is part of a multi-university research team that has had a paper "Regional Differences in the Psychological Recovery of Christchurch Residents Following the 2010/2011 Earthquakes: A Longitudinal Study" published in the open access journal PLOS ONE.
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Piers Locke has had an article published in Gajah, the journal of the IUCN's Asian Elephant Specialist Group titled "The Anomalous Elephant: Terminological Dilemmas and The Incalcitrant Domestication Debate". It considers the constraints of conventional nomenclature through an exploration of theories of domestication as biological intervention and social appropriation, arguing that the boundary between captive and free-ranging elephants is permeable, and that researchers should therefore acknowledge the complexity of social, historical, and ecological relations between humans and elephants.
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Piers Locke has had a short article published in the Making Tracks series of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, titled "Interspecies Ethnography and Human-Elephant Relations in South Asia". In this series fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center.
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Patrick McAllister and Zhifang Song are participating in an international research project on the revival of the interconnections between Southeast Asian overseas Chinese temples, native-place and common surname associations and their founding temples and ancestral halls in coastal Southeast China. With funding from the Max Planck Institute for Ethnic and Religious Diversity in Goettingen, Germany, they will be responsible for a project entitled Chinese-Vietnamese Temples: Temple Associations, International Links and Ethnic Identities in Ho Chi Minh City.
The most recent output resulting from Patrick McAllister's research on the Vietnamese lunar new year (Tet) is an article entitled "The Kitchen God Returns to Heaven: [Ông Táo Về Trời]: Popular Culture, Social Knowledge and Folk Beliefs in Vietnam" co-authored with Thi Cam Tu Luckman and published in the Journal of Vietnamese Studies (UC, Berkley), Vol. 10, Issue 1, pps. 110-150
6 March 2015
Piers Locke's ethnographic documentary film Servants of Ganesh, about captive elephant management at the Khorsor Elephant Breeding Centre in the Chitwan National Park, Nepal is now available to watch on You Tube:
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Congratulations to Kathy Harrington-Watt (Anthropology) who has had the following article published from her Masters Thesis:
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On January 8 Piers Locke gave a presentation at the weekly colloquium of the Rachel Carson Center, Munich, on the topic of "Humans, Elephants, and Interspecies Intimacy in Nepal". He spoke about his apprenticeship as a mahout in the elephant stables of the Chitwan National Park, arguing for the need to think through the implications of human exceptionalism in the humanities, the need for more-than-human forms of ethnography, and the possibility of extending personhood to elephants in order to rethink human-elephant relations. Piers also chaired a graduate seminar in which students discussed his work further.
Dr Ruth McManus's ground-breaking research into attitudes to funeral costs in New Zealand gained national media attention over the weekend with a live radio interview on Newstalk ZB, RadioLive, coverage by Maori TV and TV3 an article on p3 of the Press on Monday the 12th January. Also in the Dominion Post 13th January 2015.
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- The funeral grants available don't cover the cost of the most basic funeral.
- The process of getting grants is overly complicated and adds to the stress of the bereaved.
- People have to 'make do' and that can involve going into debt formally (e.g. on the credit card) and or to family and friends.
- Those who go into funeral debt are not always those who are on the poverty line.
- Those who are on the poverty line more likely to do as much of the preparation work themselves / informally as they can. Funeral directors are willing to help customers achieve a good funeral without bursting the bank. Increase in DIY and no funerals for those reasons - even though they may not be how the bereaved want to send off their loved ones.
- On an annual basis, we estimated that approximately 2800 could feasibly experience financial hardship over the costs of a funeral in NZ. Though a small number relative to the overall population, it's important to recognise that financial hardship is concentrated in vulnerable groups in NZ that include for instance the old, (especially elderly women), and those who are experiencing difficult life events such as illness. Government administrated (and means tested) funeral grants: WINZ, ACC. Informally: RSA, Lions Club and there are links to Veterans Affairs as there is a small grant for a memorial for veterans, which also sometimes covers repatriation of remains costs. Average cost of a basic funeral in 2008 was $6,500 – Funeral grant was $1,760.57. Average cost 2014/5, $7500 - maximum funeral grant is $1,998.57.
- While this research project finished a few years ago before the earthquakes, currently and in collaboration with CEISMIC, we have a summer studentship working on a project called Transitional Memorialisation comparing online memorials for Chch earthquake and Pike River Disaster.
Mike Grimshaw has been asked to guest edit a special issue on radical theologies for the open access journal Palgrave Communications.
Sports has inspired people after the earthquakes
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A University of Canterbury postgraduate student says sports inspired people in Christchurch after the earthquakes. (read article)
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San Francisco Giants first baseman-outfielder Aubrey Huff released a statement on Friday addressing his stint on the disabled list for anxiety. Huff was placed on the 15-day DL on Wednesday to deal with an anxiety attack he had earlier in the week. "Thank you to the fans, media and Giants organization for the outpouring of support during this very difficult week," Huff said. "I'm especially grateful for the texts and calls from my teammates, who are like my brothers and have let me know they're here for me. "My goal is to get back on the field as soon as possible. To do that, I have to focus completely on getting well. I know I'm in a public job, and I've been one of the more open guys. But sometimes you have to pull back and work on things in private. This is one of those times. I appreciate your understanding and patience." Huff was hitting just .182 before going on the DL.
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AboutYou and your guests are invited to the preview for Rebecca Gouldson's solo show 'The Industrial Shift' at Edinburgh Printmakers. Bristol based Metalsmith Rebecca Gouldson explores the heritage of our historic industries through Art. The exhibition âIndustrial Shift' sees Rebecca take a multidisciplinary approach to the themes, images and objects of historic industry, highlighting the beauty of the often overlooked relics of these industries such as tools, machinery, and industrial architecture, now left abandoned, without their original functional purpose. Using etching techniques more traditionally associated with printmaking, Rebecca makes metal wall pieces and sculptures. The rich metallic surfaces are adorned with etched images derived from photographs, drawings, and found material relating to the exhibition theme. Industrial Shift will run from 29 March to 24 May 2013 at Edinburgh Printmakers Gallery, 23 Union Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LR. Open Tuesday to Sunday 10am - 6pm Visit our website for more information. http://www.edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/exhibitions/rebecca-gouldson-preview
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Pope Francis and the "Poverty of Ambition"
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Writing for the Daily Beast, Joel Kotkin on Pope Francis's Laudato Si:
With Francis's pontifical blessing , the greens have now found a spiritual hook that goes beyond the familiar bastions of the academy, bureaucracy, and the media and reaches right into the homes and hearts of more than a billion practicing Catholics. No potential coalition of interests threatened by a seeming tsunami of regulation—from suburban homeowners and energy firms to Main Street businesses—can hope to easily resist this alliance of the unlikely.
That may (yet) overstate the impact that the Pope, raging against the Devil one day, against air conditioning the next, may actually have, but it is a reminder of just how foolish it was of Speaker Boehner to invite Francis to speak to a joint session of Congress. It's true that the encyclical had yet to appear when the invitation went out, but the fact that Francis is a profoundly political pope was no secret, and nor was the nature of his essentially Peronist politics.
But back to Kotkin:
There are of course historical parallels to this kind of game-changing alliance. In the late Roman Empire and then throughout the first Middle Ages, church ideology melded with aristocratic and kingly power to assure the rise of a feudal system. Issuing indulgences for the well-heeled, the Church fought against the culture of hedonism and unrestrained individualism that Francis has so roundly denounced. The Church also concerned itself with the poor, but seemed not willing to challenge the very economic and social order that often served to keep them that way.
Historically Medievalism represented a "steady state" approach to human development, seeking stability over change. Coming after the achievements of the classical age—with its magnificent engineering feats as well as an often cruel, highly competitive culture—the Middle Ages ushered in centuries of slow growth, with cities in decline and poverty universal for all but a few.
There's something else though. The medieval church's preference for 'stability' may or may not have been influenced by its perception that this was somehow better for the poor than any alternative (I doubt it), but it did have quite a bit to do with its realization that innovation and affluence represented a dangerous threat to its position in the intellectual, political and social order.
That, I suspect, is something that bothers Francis, who is no free spirit.
Kotkin's article contains so much that it seems invidious just to post a few extracts (read the whole thing, really), but here goes:
What makes the Pope's position so important—after all, the world is rejecting his views on such things as gay marriage and abortion—is how it jibes with the world view of some of the secular world's best-funded, influential, and powerful forces. In contrast to both Socialist and capitalist thought, both the Pope and the greens are suspicious about economic growth itself, and seem to regard material progress as aggression against the health of the planet….
… Given their lack of faith in markets or people, the green movement has become ever less adept at adjusting to the demographic, economic, and technological changes that have occurred since the '70s. Huge increases in agricultural productivity and the recent explosion in fossil fuel energy resources have been largely ignored or downplayed; the writ remains that humanity has entered an irreversible "era of ecological scarcity" that requires strong steps to promote "sustainability."
…Ultimately the green platform seeks not to increase living standards as we currently understand them (particularly in high income countries) but to purposely lower them. This can be seen in the calls for "de-development," a phrase employed by President Obama's science advisor John Holdren for all "overdeveloped" advanced countries, in part to discourage developing countries from following a similar path.
So Prince Charles, another individual whose, so to speak, business flourishes best in 'steady state' societies, turns out, Kotkin explains, to be something of a fan of the slums of Bombay, which apparently offer more "durable ways of living" for the developing world than those available in the suburbanized west, a comment steeped in the revolting blend of ignorance, condescension and smugness all too typical of the heir to the British throne. May the Queen live to be 120!
Kotkin does, however, note the encouraging (and entertaining) prospect that the ideas of the self-proclaimed 'Pope of the poor' will be rejected by, well, the poor:
Trying to sell anti-growth green ideology may prove a tougher in the developing world. Not surprising then that, no matter what the rhetoric that is adopted by the climate conference to be held in Paris this month, critical figures like India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not restrict building new coal plants—the country has tripled coal imports three fold since 2008. In the sweltering cities of the subcontinent, moves to ban air conditioning are simply not good politics. And Chinese President Xi Jinping, the leader of the world's largest carbon emitter and user of coal, clearly has no real intention of reversing rapid development, based in large part fossil fuels, till 2030, when reasonably priced alternatives may well be generally available.
And then there's this:
Architect Austin Williams suggests that sustainability, the new prayer word of spiritual greenism, "is an insidiously dangerous concept, masquerading as progress." It poses an agenda that restricts industry, housing and incomes in a manner that severely undermines social aspiration. Indeed, Williams argues, greens and their allies—now including the world's most important church—have created "a poverty of ambition." Williams suggests the common green view is that humanity is "destructive and in need of reduction" rather than "a source of innovation, creativity, imagination and socialization."
That is a profoundly anti-humane and, yes, dispiriting view. That Pope Francis has chosen to come so close to it says a great deal, little of it good.
Full Kotkin piece here (For some mysterious reason, I still cannot link): http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/05/green-pope-goes-medieval-on-planet.html
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The Changing Left-Right Nature of Atheism
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I remember when atheism was clearly aligned with the left. It was a mere decade ago or so that stem cell research and sundry other hot-button issues characterized the distinction between the atheist liberal community and the Bush-loving, religious conservative community.
Remember Leon Kass and the Council on Bioethics?
But in 2015, with identity politics not only ascendant but nearly firmly in place, atheism is switching sides. Or that's the impression one gets from this summary of a Dawkins/Dennett talk in Boston by Geoffrey Lee Hodge of the secular progressive TheHumanist.com in a piece called "Advancing the Atheist Movement: Dawkins, Dennett, and the Second Wave." Hodge takes issue with DD's reluctance to break bread with liberal Christians:
It should come as no surprise that insulting someone's beliefs is not an effective way to change their viewpoint. What is surprising is that even facts are often ineffective and sometimes even detrimental to changing someone's mind. To succeed, the atheist movement needs to win not just the minds of moderate believers, but their hearts as well. The overwhelming success of the gay marriage campaign in the US has not been due to a sudden increase in the number of people identifying as gay; the movement has succeeded because more and more moderate heterosexuals are convinced that it's unfair to limit access to marriage based on ancient discriminatory beliefs held by some religions. Nor has other social change occurred due to a sudden increase in the numbers of women or African Americans
Liberal churches address a need for spirituality and community without the harmful fundamentalist insistence that the rest of the world must conform to their ideas.
Hodge is correct that the political landscape isn't changing due to sudden bursts in the gay or black population. It's changing because a largely white and progressive media/professional class has changing interests. And you see it on display here. Instead of encouraging DD and their fans to reach out, say, to more black and brown atheists, Hodge encourages atheists to be less fond of atheism, to, one supposes, encourage more black and brown (and female) interest.
(Of course, appealing to the interests of a minority within a minority might seem an uber-progressive endeavor. But we all know that if you go too far down that road, you may very well end up in Ayn Rand "the ultimate minority is the individual" territory, where NO progressive wants to be.)
Hodge is right to point out that people are hardwired to be religious, and any overly zealous atheist movement is likely to find itself irrelevant, politically. In a democracy, anyway. But it's remarkable to see that even among the atheist left, the atheism comes second. Maybe even a distant second. There's been a distinct shift away from touting the benefits of a zero-tolerance policy with regard to anti-scientific thinking, and toward an obsession with the sex and race of the people doing the touting. What's being talked about is less important than who's doing the talking.
Less substance, more style.
No wonder godlessness is becoming associated with the right, who are increasingly difficult to distinguish from "problematic" liberals. Like Dawkins.
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The Encyclical – Old Nonsense in New (Green) Clothing
3 Comments · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in Church & State, politics, Religion
Writing in Reason, Brendan O'Neill takes a more secular look at the Pope's eco-encyclical:
Here's an extract:
[W]hat will be the end result of our wicked urge to own things? Mayhem, of course. All the pollution produced in the making of our things will increase "the threat of extreme weather events," [Pope Francis] says, echoing in green-friendly language the Old Testament God's promise of floods as punishment for mankind's sinful antics. We should also gird ourselves for the "catastrophic consequences of social unrest," since "our obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction."
…The Vatican is now a fully-fledged green institution. Which isn't surprising. The demonisation of human hubris and promotion of eco-meekness that is at the heart of the green ideology chimes perfectly with the asceticism of Catholicism.
The similarities between the pieties of environmentalism and the diktats of Catholicism are striking. Environmentalism rehabilitates in secular drag the stinging rebukes of humanity once delivered by pointy-hatted men of God.
Christianity's end-of-worldism is getting a new airing in the apocalypse obsession of greens, who warn of an eco-unfriendly End of Days. Its promise of Godly judgement for our wicked ways has been replaced by greens' promise that we'll one day be judged for our planetary destructiveness. A leading British green has fantasised about "international criminal tribunals" for climate-change deniers, who will be "partially but directly responsible for millions of deaths."
The Word of God has become the authority of The Science (greens always say "The" before "Science," to signal its definitiveness.) "Science has spoken," said Ban Ki-Moon last year, in a speech on why we should all obsess over climate change, just as Catholics insist the "Lord has spoken" so STFU. Greens breathe life back into Catholic guilt, too, urging us to feel bad about everything from flying abroad to eating strawberries out of season. Carbon-calculating, where people measure their every single production of carbon, is like Catholic guilt on steroids.
Of course, you can offset your carbon by planting a tree or something—what Catholics call penance. In the past, rich believers paid priests loads of money for an Indulgence, which absolved them of their non-mortal sins—today the eco-concerned wealthy spend their cash on offsetting their carbon farts, the modern equivalent of an Indulgence.
This is why Francis is so drawn to environmentalism: he sees it as a more acceptable, 21st-century way of pushing the guilt and meekness and anti-Promethean outlook that the Vatican has long been hawking.
O'Neill is right, and that's every reason to be worried. Apocalyptic fantasy, the pursuit of ascetism and "anti-Prometheanism" (From Eve's "sin" to the persecution of Galileo to Frankenstein to today's GMO scares) have sold well for thousands of years. There's no reason to think that they will not continue to do so.
Pope Francis's document is poorly argued, destructive in intent and adrift from commonsense; it will doubtless be adopted with enthusiam.
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A Premodern/Postmodern Pope?
Comments off · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in politics, Science & Faith
From First Things, an interesting take on the pope's eco-encyclical by R.R. Reno.
Here's an extract: "Everything is connected" is [the Pope's] mantra in Laudato Si. True to this principle, Francis links his suspicion of science with suspicions about other dimensions of the modern world. Progress has often been characterized as ever-greater prosperity. But economic globalization, a signature feature of the late modern world, and precondition for today's rapid growth in China and elsewhere, is excoriated again and again. Francis never tires of denouncing "finance," by which he seems to mean modern banking in all its forms. And of course we're destroying mother earth. "The post-industrial period may well be remembered as the most irresponsible in history."
Another feature of modernity and its faith in progress has been a political commitment to liberty, equality, and fraternity. To be modern is to believe that, for all our flaws, Western societies are more democratic, more egalitarian, and more inclusive than any in history. This is not the Pope's view. The West is rapacious. He quotes one source approvingly: "Twenty per cent of the world's population consumes resources at a rate that robs the poor nations and future generations of what they need to survive."
In effect, the present world system created by European and North American modernity—the world made possible by Newton, Locke, Rousseau, Ricardo, Kant, Pasteur, Einstein, Keynes, and countless other architects of modern science, economics, and political culture—is an abomination. Francis never quite says that. But this strong judgment is implied in his many fierce denunciations of the current global order. It destroys the environment, oppresses the multitudes, and makes us blind to the beauty of creation.
Indeed. And it's worth noting that these are not the first "fierce denunciations" (I'll stick with that relatively gentle phrase) that we have seen from a pope with something of a weakness for a demagogic, occasionally even paranoid style that would have played well in the Peronist Argentina of his youth, a time when he clearly learnt much and understood little.
But back to First Things:
Today's progressives are often critical of the West, and in that sense critical of "progress." Europeans can be hysterical about genetically modified food. They have renounced nuclear energy, the only feasible large-scale alternative to a hydrocarbon-based energy system. Democracy was the signal political aspiration of modernity, but the EU is a post-national political project, a technocratic, post-democratic project. Here in the United States, many are now educated to believe that the history of the West is one long story of oppression and injustice. Optimism has waned, which means that the pope's pessimism may be received warmly.
Perhaps, therefore, the most accurate thing to say is that Francis offers a postmodern reading of Gaudium et Spes and Vatican II's desire to be open to the modern world. He seems to propose to link the Catholic Church with a pessimistic post-humanist Western sentiment rather than the older, confident humanism.
There may be a strange genius in this. For more than two hundred years Catholicism has resisted a self-sufficient humanism confident in the triumph of reason and science. Now there are powerful forces in the West that regard the modern project of the West as a failure, and the worst-case accounts of global warming encourage us to draw this conclusion. Thus the encyclical's apparent focus, which is quickly superseded by a wholesale critique of every aspect of the current global system. Francis encourages the humiliation of modernity and the West, seeing in its failure the seeds of repentance and return to God.
Count me a skeptic. I prefer that approach of John Paul II and Benedict XVI. If global warming poses a dire threat to humanity—and it may—we will need all the moral strength, scientific integrity, economic vitality, and political legitimacy that Western modernity can muster. The same goes for the pressing problems of poverty and development. Instead of the voice of denunciation, we need the Church's counsel and guidance. We all need to repent. But when it comes to pressing ethical problems, revolution is a dangerous game to play.
Obviously, I'm not with Reno on the need for the guidance of the Roman Catholic Church (readers may disagree!), but his broader point is subtle and very well made. The fact is that Francis is a pope who is profoundly at odds with not just (what we understand as) the West, but with the best of the West.
And, I would add, this encyclical is far from being the only evidence of that.
Climate Change · Pope Francis · Religious Left · Roman Catholicism
Britain's Government: #PasCharlie
1 Comment · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in politics, Religion
The presence of British Prime Minister David Cameron, no friend of free speech, at the march in Paris after the Charlie Hebdo killings was, in the scheme of things, a comparatively minor moment of hypocrisy.
Nevertheless, it's always helpful to have reminders of where his government really stands.
Writing in The Independent, Francis Wheen:
Three years ago today, Saudi Arabian police arrested Raif Badawi for the crime of running a website "that propagates liberal thought". His blog had put the case for secularism in observations such as this: "States which are based on religion confine their people in the circle of faith and fear."
As if to prove his point, a Sharia court hauled Badawi back into the fearful circle, sentencing him to 600 lashes and seven years in jail for "going beyond the realm of obedience". Last year, deciding that he had been let off too lightly, a judge upped the punishment to 1,000 lashes and 10 years' imprisonment plus a fine of one million riyal (about £170,000).
What does our government think of this?
Asked about the flogging and jailing of Badawi, the Foreign Office minister Baroness Anelay said in the Lords last week: "We maintain our view that freedom of religion and belief and freedom of expression are core rights that lead to long-term stability and good governance."
But? Yes, of course there was a but, and one to take the breath away: "My Lords, I think we have to recognise that the actions of the Saudi government in these respects have the support of the vast majority of the Saudi population."
Do they? Last Friday I asked the Foreign Office how the minister could be so sure. No answer has yet been forthcoming. Perhaps the "vast majority" of Saudis are indeed fanatical sadists who rejoice to see liberal bloggers whipped. Or, then again, perhaps they aren't. No one knows: this is an absolute monarchy, not a marginal in the West Midlands being polled by Lord Ashcroft.
If I had to guess, the grotesque treatment of Badawi probably worries few in Saudi Arabia, but why Anelay had to say what she did, well…
blasphemy and defamation of religion · Raif Badawi · Saudi Arabia · UK
Laudato Si?
Comments off · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in politics, Religion
There's been some smart commentary in The Spectator from Damian Thompson, a former editor-in-chief of the Catholic Herald, on Laudato si the Pope's eco-encyclical, due to be released tomorrow, but already extensively leaked. It's (obviously) fair to wait to see what the final document actually says before making too detailed a critique, but the Vatican's complaint that the leak was a "heinous act" would suggest that what has been leaked is not too far off the mark, and so some discussion seems more than reasonable.
Thompson's comments are even-handed and I'd recommend reading them in full.
He also cites an article by Bjorn Lomborg in USA Today.
Here's an extract:
A cruel truth is that almost every significant challenge on Earth hits the poor more than the wealthy: hunger, a lack of clean drinking water, malaria, indoor air pollution. The question then is how we make the most difference for the most vulnerable. A reasonable starting point is to listen to the world's citizens. A United Nations survey of 7.5 million people found that many other issues are deemed more urgent. The top priorities were education, health, jobs, corruption and nutrition. Of 16 problems, the climate was rated the lowest priority.
One reason may be that today's climate policies themselves have a cost, which predominantly hits the poor. Cuts in electricity consumption require price hikes that hurt the worst-off and elderly. Relying on expensive green energy sources like wind and solar power makes electricity pricier and less available for those who desperately need it. The biggest problem with today's climate change policies is that they will cost a fortune for very little good. The toughest global warming policy today is the European Union's commitment to cutting 20% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. This will cost $235 billion. And cut temperatures at the end of the century by a measly 0.1ºF.
If Pope Francis is, like he likes to claim, interested in truly helping the world's poorest Lomborg suggests that he look elsewhere, to improved access to contraception, say, and lowering restrictions on trade. Well, we already know what Francis thinks about the former (Fair enough, but that does not remove the topic as a legitimate area of focus when assessing his contribution to the debate) and, as for the latter, well, let's just say Francis, sticking to his Peronist roots, is no fan of the mechanisms that have improved the lives of so many in the past few decades.
Lomborg is too diplomatic to say so, but the new encyclical creates the impression that – yet again – a Pope is genuflecting before the United Nations. Every recent pontiff has developed this bad habit. Their intentions are honourable, but I can't help wondering whether the long Catholic-UN romance owes something to a natural fit between the corrupt Roman Curia and its sleazy counterparts in the UN.
In this document, however, Francis goes further than his predecessors: he endorses the UN's diagnosis of and solutions to the complex problem of climate change. That's his prerogative, but don't let anyone tell you that he's speaking ex cathedra. Jeb Bush, a Catholic, has every right to say – as he did this week – that, with all due respect, he doesn't take his economic policies from the Supreme Pontiff.
Laudato si isn't just about the environment: it's a political statement by the Pope. He knows very well that climate change has been dragged into the Left vs Right culture wars, not only in the secular arena but also in the Catholic Church.
Indeed he does, and he's making very clear where he stands.
Meanwhile, remind me again why Speaker Boehner has invited Pope Francis to address Congress.
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Shocker: Salon Does Right by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
2 Comments · Posted by mupetblast in Biased reporting, Religion
Salon, the progressive website so enamored of SJW politics that even white belly dancers attract condemnation, today publishes a piece entitled, "Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs. Jon Stewart: Islam, Liberals, and the Media's Dangerous Double Standard." Excerpt:
A determination to avoid judgment consistently disorders rational thinking about Islam and draws too many progressives into thickets of idiocy where they entangle themselves in contradictions and assume positions that are nothing short of reprehensible. Let's not, they would say, criticize Islam (no matter what atrocities its votaries commit), because Muslims are a minority and are sometimes discriminated against. Let's not, in other words, "punch down."
Such a progressive is, sadly, Jon Stewart.
As you can see from the below, this article is a bit of an anomaly at Salon. But here's to hoping (not praying) for more such writing in the future.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali · Islamic fundamentalism · jon stewart · salon
In eliminating ancient architecture, ISIS is also destroying the architecture of minds. Until there is nothing between you and your judging, revengeful God. Not a single joyous distraction – of art or music or history or dance – to fill your heart. The work of 2,000 years gone in minutes. Nothing left but blood and sand.
Link: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article4448785.ece
ISIS · Islam · Islamic fundamentalism · Palmyra · Syria
He Was a Joker, That Tom
Comments off · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in history
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I would suggest looking at a Lenovo ThinkPad X230 (or, if you're looking for a touchscreen, the X230t). It is likely to remain usable for a longer time than a MacBook Air or the Microsoft Surface. It certainly is more upgradeable than either of those computers.
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If I was going to use Windows 8, I'd be using it on a ThinkPad. I don't think I'd bother with a Surface, I love just about everything about it, except the keyboard. I just cannot be doing without a decent keyboard and I don't see the point in having to lug around two devices - might as well just get a laptop.
I'm not anti-Mac, but I don't particularly like them either, however in this case if you're dead-set on one or the other, it'd be the Mac for me. If you're open to other choices, I'd ditch both and grab something like a ThinkPad or just a decent spec laptop, really.
Posted 20 August 2013 - 08:15
I'd be inclined to go and have a play with a Surface Pro before making a decision.
There are some limitations. For instance, using it "angled" on your lap is difficult, you can't really use the kick stand on your lap. The screen is smaller than that on the Macbook, but higher quality. The Pro gets warm/hot (not unbearably) and the battery life isn't amazing.. It's about 4-5 hours give or take. You need adapters to plug into a projector/ethernet cable (both can obviously be done wirelessly)
The benefit of the Pro is that you have a stylus (which is awesome with OneNote (Learn to love it, it's your best friend at University regardless of whether you get a Mac or PC)). It's one of the most portable devices on the market. It's getting pretty regular updates and it performs nicely. In all, I think it's a great choice SO LONG as you know the limitations
My choice would be the Pro, but you need to decide with the pros and cons of both.
Posted 23 August 2013 - 08:53
As good as tablets are, dead tree and graphite is still the king of the hill. They allow degrees of subtlety that are difficult to reproduce even with professional drawing applications like photoshop, and nothing else is nearly as intuitive. When you're trying to get your head around some difficult concept or keep up with a strange proof, the last thing you want is to be dealing with palm-print input, accidentally undoing, or dicking about with confusing application settings. Stylus also 'feels' worse than a pen/paper. It's not bad for doodling on the bus, but after 2 or 3 hours a day taking notes you'll start wanting the real thing.
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Erika was a graduate of Moorestown Friends School, Moorestown, N.J., in 1956, and Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., in 1960. A longtime resident of Huron, she served the community through her work with organizations, including St. Peter's Catholic Church, Victory Kitchen and Goodwill Book Sales. Erika was a strong advocate for peace in the world and was a founding member of Voices for Peace and Justice. She was blessed with many very close friends. Erika loved living in Huron and enjoyed its natural beauty.
Erika is survived by five children, daughters, Ann E. (Robert) Miller of Lynnfield, Mass., Monika M. (Stephen) Fitzpatrick of Freeport, Maine, and Erika M. (Chip) Lupacchino of Chicago and sons, Paul R. (Lori) of Wakeman and Christopher G. (Janet) of Amelia, Ohio; mother-in-law, Elizabeth A. Schlaak (100 years old) of East Longmeadow, Mass.; and seven grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her husband J. David; son, John; mother, Ann Paul; and father, Erich Paul and his wife, Myrtle.
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