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BENNINGTON A member of the Bennington Rural Fire Department was charged with a misdemeanor Monday after police said he pulled in front of a motorcycle while driving a fire truck Nov. 18 in Bennington, causing a crash that seriously injured the motorcycle rider.
Gregg Barr, 22, of Bennington, pleaded innocent Monday in Bennington criminal court to a misdemeanor count of negligent operation of a motor vehicle. Barr was released without bail.
In an affidavit, Officer Thomas Bull, of the Bennington Police Department, said police were notified of the crash, which took place in front of the Bennington Rural Fire Department West Road Station on Route 9 around 5:20 p.m. Nov. 18.
Bull said he spoke to the motorcycle rider, Kimberly Hathaway, 54, at the scene. He said she told him she had hit a firetruck that pulled into her lane.
Bull said Barr told him he hadnt seen the motorcycle but told another officer he had sped up while turning from Route 9 into the fire station, so he could get out of the way of the oncoming motorcycle.
Police said they learned that Barrs license required that he wear corrective lenses but Barr was not wearing them at the time of the crash.
Hathaway suffered numerous pelvic fractures and an open fracture to her right knee, as well as burns to the bottom of her left foot where it touched the motorcycles muffler.MORE IN This Just InBy Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli Full StoryBennington College and Middlebury College both top a list for most entrepreneurial colleges in... Full StoryWas the response to an alleged assault at College of St. Full Story
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- iRedMail has SPF check enabled with Amavisd-new and perl module perl-Mail-SPF after queue, so you don't need this if after-queue SPF verification is ok for you.
Using the Python version of SPF Policy Server for Postfix it is possible to implement checking of SPF of incoming messages in Postfix, with immediate reject or pass (if desired). This article will describe how to achieve this feature.
- There is also a Perl version of the software, but it is not recommended because it does not scale well and should only be used for small scale servers.
- This tutorial was written for a CentOS-based system. Please adapt it to fit your distro and configuration.
- It is assumed that the user has good knowledge of the technologies used therein.
- Download the latest version of pypolicyd-spf from the project's home page.
- Unpack it and install it by using the instructions in the README file.
Set-up your /etc/python-policyd-spf/policyd-spf.conf to fit your needs.
At the beginning, make sure you set:
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For example, a quite good configuration for fighting spam (but not losing legitimate messages) would contain
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The meaning of each parameter is explained in the README file and in the man page (man 5 policyd-spf.conf).
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Edit your master.cf file and add at the end:
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"To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em."
Ted Nugent - speaking at the NRA convention April 17, 2005
For some reason I've always been fascinated by the .38 Super, but I've never coughed up the money for the proper slide.
The .38/9mm frame theoretically has a different feed ramp shape, but there's such a wide variation among manufacturers it's lost in the noise.
.38/9mm use a different ejector. They're cheap and many different configurations are available to play with.
The magazines are different between the .38/9mm and .45; feed lip width, mostly. They're the same size in the main body.
The slides are different between the .38/9mm and .45. The width of the slot where the case head rides onto the breechface is narrower on the .38/9mm. Some people have had good luck using .45 slides with the small cartridges, but Colt felt it required a different slides. There may be a third breechface for the .40-based cartridges.
There were some other minor differences, like the smaller diameter firing pin used with the small cartridges, but a lot of .45s use that nowadays.
Major factory calibers are: .38 Colt, .38 Super, .38 Special, 9mm Parabellum, .357 Sig, .40 S&W, 10mm S&W, .45 ACP. Yes, rimmed .38 Special, with the bullets loaded flush with the case mouth like a Nagant. Colt sold them for target shooting several decades ago. .38 Colt is the base cartridge for Super, and pretty much obsolete.
Some aftermarket calibers are: .45 Super, .460 Rowland, 9x23 Dillon, .41 Avenger. The Super is just a high pressure .45, the Rowland is ballistically equivalent to a .44 Magnum (take THAT, Desert Eagle fanboys!), the 9x23 was designed around "high power" pistol shooting rules.
With a little "adjustment", 7.62 Tokarev can be made to work. Search "1911 Tokarev" to find Tok'11's threads on it.
1911-based pistols are made in .50 GI and .357 Magnum, but the frames are cast with larger grips to accomodate those cartridges. There are also some "double stack" .45 frames floating around; many internal bits needed to finish one of those are rare and expensive.
Several 0% builds and caliber conversions at the bottom of this page: 1911 Internet Thread Archive
ok dug a couple pix up for you... this is my RIA 1911 converted over to 7.62TOK..
its a blast to shoot and is actually very easy on both the gun and the shooter.
"To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em."
Ted Nugent - speaking at the NRA convention April 17, 2005
best thing is that you arent doing anything to the gun that you cant undo and just swap back out to 38super in a matter of minutes..
so you get a true multi cal 1911 that way. :-)
oh BTW: everybody knows my pictures suk! LMAO
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
'Teens for Jeans' campaign ramps up
The Timberland High School DECA and marketing classes, under the direction of Jillian Coffin, are off to a great start with the 2013 Teens for Jeans campaign.
This program is sponsored by Aeropostale, which distributes gently worn jeans to needy teens.
The program is under way, and will continue until Feb. 10. Please bring your gently worn jeans to Ms. Coffin's Room (B-108).
Parents and community members may drop the jeans off at the front office. We need your help for this worthy cause.
The winning school in the nationwide contest, by collecting the most jeans, will earn a grand prize of $10,000. In 2012, THS Teens collected 700 pairs of jeans.
Pennies for Patients
The Timberland High School Interact and FBLA clubs are collecting donations for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society Pennies for Patients until Feb. 8.
The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) strives to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
The LLS is the world's largest voluntary health agency dedicated to blood cancer. LLS funds lifesaving blood cancer research around the world and provides free information and support services. Its priority is to help blood cancer patients live better, longer lives.
Each teacher at Timberland is participating to raise money for this great organization.
Parents and students, please donate your pennies or change. We are accepting any denomination of money to support this great cause. You can drop your pennies or change off at the school office or send them by any student.
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text: Bobbie West, 72, of Altus, passed away Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, at Jackson County Memorial Hospital. Funeral services have been scheduled for 2 p.m., Saturday at Kincannon Memorial Chapel with Bro. John Skinner and Bro. R.C. Cathey officiating. Burial will follow in the Altus City Cemetery under the direction of Kincannon Funeral Home.Bobbie Jo Williams was born May 24, 1940 to Johnny and Corine (Clayton) Williams in Altus. She attended school at the Lincoln High School, where she served as a majorette. After graduation, she attended some college. She married Nathaniel Jenkins in 1958. She then married Clyde Morgan in 1963. She was a teachers aide at the Lincoln Head Start Center for 15 years until her retirement. She married Bobby West, Sr. in September 1987. She later went on to work as a caregiver in home health. She was a member of the Pecan Street Church of Christ in Altus. She enjoyed life, especially fishing, singing, helping out at church, and going to garage sales.Bobbie was preceded in death by her parents; two husbands, Nathaniel Jenkins and Clyde Morgan; a brother, Robert Williams; a great-grandson, David DeAndre Robinson; and a step-granddaughter, Michelle Broughton.She is survived by her husband, Bobby West, Sr. of Altus; three daughters, Nita Shepherd and husband Jeffery, Nadine Broughton, Marcia Streater and husband Juan, all of Altus; three sons, Nay Jenkins and wife Nadine, and Randy Morgan, all of Altus, and Lanny Morgan of Oklahoma City; two stepchildren, Christy West of Oklahoma City, and Bobby West, Jr. of Midwest City; 27 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren; a special friend, Ervin Crowder of Altus; and a host of nieces, nephews and relatives.The family will receive friends from 6 to 7 p.m., Friday evening at the Kincannon Gathering Room.Online tributes may be made at kincannonfuneralhome.com


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Student Media Work Continues to Earn National AwardsPosted Nov. 9, 2012
"Best of Show," "TV Station of the Year" and "Multimedia Story of the Year" are just a few of the national awards recently earned by Kent State University's student media organizations.
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TV2, Kent State's student-run television station was named the College Media Association Pinnacle Awards' 2012 "TV Station of the Year" at the College Media Advisers' annual fall convention in Chicago, Ill. The station also won the award for "Best TV Sportscast."
In order to be a finalist, TV2, KentWired and KSUBuzz had one of the top three entries in five separate categories of the Pinnacle Awards, out of 18 total categories.
Kentwired.com was a finalist for "Breaking News on the Web" for its coverage of College Fest last spring and "Best Multimedia Feature Presentation" for its multimedia Web page "Primary 2012." KSUBuzz was also a finalist in the "Best Mobile Apps/Plug-Ins category for its work creating an app for the Kent-Akron football game last fall.
"Student media work continues to improve every semester, and we continue to be aggressive in our pursuit of the best ways to tell stories and deliver news and information to our audience," said Student Media Advisor Sue Zake. "We go head to head in these contests with some of the largest journalism schools in the country and more than hold our own. Our students work incredibly hard and are eager to adopt and develop new technology as it becomes available."
TV2 Advisor John Butte is overwhelmed by all the hard work, dedication and commitment the students put in every week.
"It is quite remarkable to win this award especially knowing that TV2 is managed, staffed and operated top to bottom by students," he said. "It is also extraordinary considering the volume of programming TV2 produces each week. It competed with stations that have greater degrees of professional guidance and supervision."
The College Media Association represents the people who advise the nation's collegiate media newspapers, yearbooks, magazines and electronic media.Associated Collegiate Press
The Daily Kent Stater, KentWired.com and The Burr received "Best of Show" awards at the recent convention of the Associated Collegiate Press, the oldest and largest national membership organization for college student journalists. Best of Show honors are awarded only to those attending the annual convention and are judged as the convention takes place.
"The courting of Cope: Behind the scenes of a $1 million withdrawal" earned third place in the "Multimedia Story of the Year" category.
"This award for the Cope Court coverage means it was selected as the third best college student multimedia story for 2011-2012 in the nation, not just among those who attended the convention," said Mark Goodman, Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism. "Co-sponsored by The Deadline Club and the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Story of the Year Awards is arguably the most prestigious reporting award for college student media anywhere. It's a big deal."
This year, there were slightly more than 400 entries in the "Best of Show" categories at the Associated Collegiate Press fall convention, with more than 2,500 people in attendance from roughly 370 schools.
The Burr earned second place in the feature magazine category; KentWired.com took eighth place for best website in its circulation category; and the Daily Kent Stater earned third place in the four-year daily broadsheet category.
"I think there is always going to be a mixture of excitement and nervousness when we put our work on a judgment table like we did in Chicago," said Daily Kent Stater Editor Emily Inverso. "The work we produce is always a representation not only of ourselves, but of our publications, the journalism school and Kent State University. When we handed that work over to professionals, I was so anxious. When we heard the final announcements of all the awards, even those I am not the direct editor of, it was just an overwhelming feeling of pride. We all work so hard to produce the best content we can. To have confirmation that we continue to stand out on a national level was incredible."College Broadcasters, Inc.
TV2 General Manager Casey Braun and anchor and reporter Rich Pierce accepted seven awards for TV2 at the national convention of the College Broadcasters, Inc., an organization which ensures a commitment to education and the student pursuit of excellence through active involvement in electronic media.
Braun, senior dual-enrolled public relations graduate student and electronic media production major, and Pierce, senior broadcast journalism major, accepted four finalist awards for best sportscast, best comedy, best general entertainment show and best promo and first place honors in best sportscast, best comedy and best general entertainment show. The Agenda was namedBest Comedy and Best General Entertainment Show, and Pierce earned a Best Sportscast award.
"It was an honor to represent TV2 at a national convention, hear how other stations operated and compare ourselves with other stations," Braun said. "Being there amongst all the other schools in the country really showed me how strong our program in JMC is. We sat in a lot of the sessions in Atlanta thinking, 'Wow. We've done all this stuff before.' It's really shows how strong our faculty and curriculum are here."
Braun and Pierce met with TV2 and Kent State alumna Carol Costello of CNN while in Atlanta.
"It was great to talk to Carol," Pierce said. "I recently did a live shot for her show on CNN when President Obama came to Kent, so it was nice to meet her in person. It's always nice to meet a former TV2er who has succeeded on such a big stage."
TV2 has named a Lifetime Achievement Award after Costello to recognize a graduating senior each semester. She has been invited to TV2's winter banquet where the first award will be given out, Braun said.
"It's great to know how connected she still feels to the program and how much love she still has for TV2," he said.
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Washington, Sept. 4, 2008--The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that surveys are under way, in and around Worcester, Mass., to determine the scope of an Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) infestation in the area.
Inspection crews will survey the northern portion of Worcester and in the neighboring towns of Boylston, West Boylston, Holden and Shrewsbury. Crews will inspect ALB host tree species for signs of the beetle using a combination of ground work, specially trained tree climbers and bucket trucks.
Signs of ALB infestation include: adult beetles themselves during the summer and until frost; the perfectly round exit holes (about 3/8 to 1/2 inch in diameter) made by adult beetles when they emerge from trees; the pockmarks on tree trunks and branches where female beetles deposited eggs; frass (wood shavings and saw dust) produced by larvae feeding and tunneling; early fall coloration of leaves or dead branches and running sap produced by the tree at the egg laying sites, or in response to larval tunneling.
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McCarthyism or Corporate Survival?
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels April 4, 2014 - 2:56pm
Mozilla Firefox is my browser and it works. Every now and again I get an update; sometimes a note asking for a contribution to what is largely/wholly a public-spirited effort to keep the internet open source (or something like that). For some reason, I thought it was an Italian effort (as in Mozarella), but it turns out it organizes itself right here in the U.S. drawing on sources from global techies.
Brendan Eich, its recently appointed CEO is now its recently resigned former CEO. The issue: he donated a thousand dollars to California's proposition 8 campaign in 2008. It was an effort to turn back a California court decision allowing same-sex marriages in the state. Apparently when this contribution was discovered, there was a social media uproar (didn't see it on Mozilla though). There were calls for his resignation, and according to this story in the NYTimes, he did resign.
The great debate: Should Eich have been penalized for his views and his contribution? Andrew Sullivan thinks not in this post on the Dish, "The Hounding of a Heretic." And continues here. And on Sunnday posted this [HT: Ann Olivier]. Meanwhile, Farhad Manjoo explains at the NYTimes why Eich had to go: The very nature of Mozilla required it.
UPDATE: Saturday's NYTimes story: The issue of Mr. Eich's social skills comes up. What would social skills consist of in a libertarian context? The story suggests to me that no Mozillian has much in the way of social skills! Or at least, it can't be much of a job requirement.
UPDATE2: Many comments here link to posts elsewhere on this issue. Michael Kelly @4/7,9:04 quotes some particularly interesting comments on the Supreme Court's treatment of donor lists.
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Wait a minute, wait a minute--Sullivan's stance seems to be to throw around more accusations of supposed gay intolerance, but isn't he spinning this very, very hard by claiming that it was Eich's donation in favor of Prop 8 that did him in (in other words, one little "expression" from several years back)? Isn't the truth that Eich had to go after people found out that he'd also donated to Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan
(Fwiw, I left Firefox a long time ago for Waterfox, and have left Waterfox for Chrome anyhow--but I would have quit using Firefox had I not already done so.)
Sorry for multi-posting, but I just wanted to add that I see Eich's getting ditched not as an instance of persecution, but as a loss of privilege. I believe it is this relatively sudden decrease in scoial privilege that has lots of Christians crying persecution.
So, according to Manjoo, Eich had to go because Mozilla is different. It's an activist organization. Ergo, the CEO's political views are not his own but belong to the collective.
Hobby Lobby is different. It's an activist organization. Ergo, the government should let it alone.
Neither of those Ergos is mine, but let me try for an Ergo. Mozilla collectively is with-it in a progressive, left-libertarian way. Ergo, it collectively hates Catholics and their church. I don't know if that's true or relevant or an intelligent conclusion, but what the hell.
I'm with Andrew Sullivan. That intrepid defender of both gay rights and the First Amendment sees that honorable people can disagree and work together anyway for common benefit. That we should respect people who hold opinions which we find hateful is a basic principle of both democracy and Christianity. This does not imply that we become inconsistent and embrace their hateful ideas. It only implies that we respect the persons, not all of their ideas.
If gay marriage had anything to do with producing Mozilla it would be different, but it's totally irrelevant to producing and selling browsers. If the CEO were discriminating against gays in hiring, that would be relevant, but apparently he doesn't discriminate. So leave the guy be.
That we should respect people who hold opinions which we find hateful is a basic principle of both democracy and Christianity.
This is ludicrous. Who on God's green Earth should we respect less than those whose ideas we find hateful?
Calm down, Abe. It's Friday. Sit down and have a drink.
Andrew Sullivan is exactly right.
From the poorly reasoned NY Times article:
Is this an instance of political correctness run amok?
Is it a sign that Silicon Valley has become militantly tolerant, unwilling to let executives express their personal viewpoints on issues unrelated to their jobs?
It's a sign that Silicon Valley has become militantly intolerant.
But it's a mistake to draw any such conclusions in this case, for one simple reason: Mozilla is not a normal company. It is an activist organization. Mozilla's primary mission isn't to make money but to spread open-source code across the globe in the eventual hope ofpromoting "the development of the Internet as a public resource."
Having a sweetly utopian, non-monetizing mission that dooms them to eventual failure and extinction doesn't exempt them from rules of human conduct.
I am drinking.
I wonder how many people would want to work for a company who's CEO spent money trying to annul their marriage or the marriages of one of their friends. This would hurt the company, but it probably wouldn't have been enough to sink him if he handed declined to put some space between himself and the racist, anti-Semitic, and homophobic Pat Buchanan of 1992 to whom he had also given money.
Ann Olivier,
Are there beliefs that you believe would make someone unfit to be CEO of a company that you patronized, worked for, or owned?
Abe --
Although we're called on to respect different people to greater or lesser degrees, we're still called on to respect them ALL. Everyone is capable of change, with God's grace, that is. Treating someone as if he is essentially evil will only confirm him in his wickedness.
Here's an example of someone for whom I have not had much respect (I think he's the worst president we've ever had), but he tries to paint portraits which show the good qualities that he has found even in his political and diplomatic opponents. That's an admirable lesson he's teaching us with his art, and I respect him for it. (And the guy can paint -- the eyes are amazingly expressive!)
Must say I wouldn't want to meet Putin at night in a dark alley.
Point: We must encourage the good in others, not exacerbate the evil.
Ryan --
Some opinions would disqualify some people for some positions -- when the opinions prevented the person from doing the actual job well. For instance, someone who firmly believes that a woman's place is in the home wouldn't make a good editor of Ms, and someone who thinks the cosmos is only 7,000 years old wouldn't make a good geologist at an oil exploration company. In those cases the opinions bear upon the work.
Where do American get the idea that we have a right to a perfect world full of perfect people???
I wonder what the Mozilla community's views on abortion are. Might the new CEO have to be both pro gay marriage and anti abortion? Surely the views of one's spouse should also now be relevant.
Ya plays the game, ya takes yer chances.
So mostly I am with Andrew, I don't think political point of view should be the basis for firing someone under just about any circumstance. But I think it is evident that your customers and partners are as free as your CEO to make their own decisions about who they want to deal with or contribute to. If you are in a very high profile position, this is what happens when you become the issue. It's generally bad for business.
Here's some data about how many people at some Fortune 500 computer companies in Silicon Valley contributed to defeat Proposition 8. It's from Nate's new site. You might be surprised at how many actually agreed with Eich -- 60% at Intel did, for instance, but 96% at Google supported the other side. Hmm.
Andrew Sullivan is a libertarian, not a liberal, so it's not surprising he holds such views.
It seems that some historians think that the original "liberals" of the Enlightenment were pro-individualism as well as pro-the common good. They saw the two as dependent on each other. But then two distinct and then separate movements emerged. The liberals emphasized the common good, and the conservatives emphasized the freedom of the individual especially from the domination of a central government. Libertarians combine elements of both positions, as does Sullivan. But like any artifacts, the parts of the movements can be combined in any combination, so a search for "true" liberals or "true" conservatives is bound to be fruitless. There is no one such thing.
Insisting on his removal seems a kind of extreme response to to a $1000 donation several years ago to what was (at least at the time) a mainstream cause. I supported the Chick-Fil-A boycott, although I thought doing so was a little unfair to the franchisees- but in that case, the executive was putting millions and millions of dollars of corporate muscle into opposing mariage equality.
Forcing Eich to step down in this case makes him a sympathetic figure and I can't imagine it changed anyone's posiiton at all on marriage equality.
This is not a First Amendment issue. It's not the government which cost Eich his job, it's the private sector.
I agree with Sullivan, but I think it helps to understand this if you remember that companies like Mozilla have always seen themselves as different from the rest of companies. I was a software engineer in the 80s and 90s, and the cutting edge companies were always proud that their employees could show up when they wanted, dressed any way they wanted, groomed any way they wanted, or work from home. They could nap on the job, eat from the company stocked refrigerator, and expect fresh baked cookies every day at 4. They were not just inventing a new industry, they were creating a new kind of corporation, a libertarian utopia. Corporate team spirit was always encouraged (think Google and Apple). It seems to me Eich's departure was less "we have to get this guy fired" than "I'm not sure I want to be involved with a company that has him for a leader". And that's really dangerous in a world where switching from Firefox to Chrome is free for the user and top-tier software people are in very high demand.
Yes, there's irony in the fact that Eich was thrown out of a libertarian utopia because of what he believed, but the problem wasn't -- I think -- his moral stance on same-sex marriage so much as it was his active support for a profoundly anti-liberarian agenda.
Ms. Stockton: Not the government, per se, but a case about political speech. As we know from Monday's SC decision, money is akin to speech, if not speech itself. Brendan Eich's $1000 donation was a form of political speech, which is protected by the First Amendment.
As I recall, (Jim McCrea will correct me if I'm wrong), part of the proposition 8 impetus grew from the fact that the decision about same-sex marriage was a court decision. This provoked a counter-argument (rightly or wrongly) that it was not a wise move for a court, and that such issues should be left to legislatures or referenda, i.e., some form of representative or popular vote. Again as I recall, some proponents of Porposition 8 supported it for those reasons, and not necessarily because they opposed s-s marraige. Brian Eich's purposes I don't know though it appears he was opposed.
After the fact, there may have been efforts to force the proponents of Proposition 8 to make their donors' list public. Don't know what became of that. But apparently Eich's contribution was known, even before he went to Mozilla. Did they think this would not be a problem?
Well, two board members resigned in advance of Eich's appointment because they did not want to work with him so they had a pretty good idea it would be a problem. To Mark's point above, Mozilla more than any other tech company depends on the goodwill of its community. There is a belief among some techies right alongside the mostly libertarian outlook that only coding and technical skills matter. Maybe Eich was part of this group. But how could anyone say that for the position of CEO? Who, as often as not, is more likely to need the skills of a cheerleader than a coder. Try to remember that Steve Jobs was not really a technology guy, but a savvy marketing guy who knew his customer base. It seems to me like Eich was probably not CEO material whatever his donation history was, because he seems to have a very narrow view of what constitutes job related skills for the position of CEO.
Re the SC, Justice Roberts says, "No matter how desirable it may seem, it is not an acceptable governmental objective to 'level the playing field,' or to 'level electoral opportunities,' or to 'equaliz[e] the financial resources of candidates.'" (From the New Yorker article here:
But if it really is not an acceptable governmental objective to even address the issue of whether we're happy with our current oligarchy, aren't they ultimately ruling out anything but revolution? It takes one's breath away. I keep wondering which moment future historians will look back on as the "let them eat cake" moment.
Abe R informs us above that Eich also contributed to Rand Paul. Still a libertarian as far as I know.
I don't think the tech world is 'libertarian' but 'liberal'. Being a CEO of a company like Mozilla is not about being a coder, it's about being a 'public face' for the company . As this New Yorker article points out ... "Mozilla depends on the goodwill of its supporters more than most corporations do; it relies on their willingness to donate their services in pursuit of the broader Mozilla project, which is all about keeping the Web transparent and accessible. If it alienates them, Mozilla's entire mission will be at risk" ... http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/04/how-mozilla-lost-...
There should have been nothing wrong with the same-sex marriage decision in California being one from the court instead of the legislature. When an issue is about minority rights, public opinion is often unfair to those minorities. This was why the decision to legalize interracial marriage was also a court ecision.
Mark P. ==
It seems to me that the Constitution doesn't guarantee that the people will act within the limits of the Constitution in such a way that justice will be always maintained. So, given unwise choices of the populace, constitutionally permitted injustice is possible. And, yes, that might in some circumstance require a revolution of some sort. Revolution was not an unthinkable act for the framers of the Constitution -- they had no moral scruples about revolting against the British monarchy.
You might be surprised at how many actually agreed with Eich -- 60% at Intel did, for instance, but 96% at Google supported the other side. Hmm.
Right - this may well be a generational difference. Intel and Google are, both literally and figuratively, different generations of the hi-tech industry. Roughly speaking, the parents of the brilliant scientists and engineers who are building Google, were the brilliant scientists and engineers who built Intel. A genuine issue in Silicon Valley is that engineers in their 40s and 50s at places like HP and Oracle find it difficult to move to the new start-ups, in large part because the culture is so different: the oldsters require a fairly normal, regimented corporate life, and living on cold pizza and Pop Tarts and coding 90 hours a week doesn't work for (nor appeal to) them.
Apple has managed to maintain, or recreate, the cachet that makes grad students from MIT and Stanford want to work for them. Most of the previous generation of hi-tech companies haven't.
I am not sure to what extent this is Libertarian. I don't think Sullivan is wrong to evoke Orwell and Animal Farm: this whole thing smacks of a Socialist purge.
Socialist purge? The church does this all the time - firing people who it believes don't adequately represent the beliefs of the institution.
As an aside. The best thing of all this is to see that a lot of people do not use Microsoft Explorer any more. It is a bad browser from a bully company which rightly lost its dominance.
Margaret: The First Amendment says that CONGRESS shall make no law abridging freedom of speech. Eich did not run afoul of any law when he contributed to the Prop 8 campaign. But the First Amendment does not mean, and never has meant, that you can say anything you want and suffer no consequences.
When Laura Schlessinger's TV show was canceled, she and her fans called it a violation of her free-speech rights. Not so: she had/has every right to speak her mind. She does not have the right to force a TV or radio network to BROADCAST her speech.
The McCutcheon case was not about whether or not money is speech; Citizens United settled that. It was about how much money a donor is entitled to give. Sean McCutcheon says that having won his case, he intends to donate even more generously to conservative candidates. But he does not have the right to be free from criticism for doing so.
Josh Marshall has a perceptive take on this issue:
It is focused on two intersecting realities: the position of the CEO of a company that relies on its user community, and the views of that user community being uniquely emphatic in favor of equality for LGBT people.
Angela Stockton's points are essential. Modern American society has a general *desire* that we should be able to say anything we wish and suffer no consequences - as we also generally wish to act without consequences, truth be told - but there is absolutely no Constitutional or common-law privilege of this sort. It is Government (Congress or, by extension, Executive) that may not interfere with free speech.
Sullivan has been very clea that he sees no "free speech" issue in the Eich matter, and even Dreher agrees with that. Sullivan's driving concern is that intolerance of beliefs and priate actions ill behooves the gay-right community.
For what it is worth, Sullivan self-identfies as a Michael Oakeshott-style Conservative.
Barbara: Talking Points Memo is perceptive and does a nice job of slicing and dicing the historical condensing that has gone on with same-sex marriage issue. What was majority opinion a decade or so ago, is no longer. Somewhere today (maybe it was here, or maybe it was Andrew Sullivan), someone asked whether people will go bonkers over Hillary Clinton on this if she runs since she only came out in favor of s-s marriage in 2013.
Angela Stockton: Okay, thank you.
Crystal Watson: Yes, the Catholic Church does this from time-to-time. You are among the most vociferous objectors. Just saying.
JP: Yes, there must certainly be a lot of generation differences, as you point out, even within what we luddites see as the techie wave of the future.
As the "corporate" behavior of Mozilla gets further exposure, how can it have survived this long? It appears that their Board was decimated by this choice of CEO. How many Board members can be left to choose the next CEO?
"Crystal Watson: Yes, the Catholic Church does this from time-to-time. You are among the most vociferous objectors. Just saying."
True. It's a distinction that's hard to qualitfy, I guess.
The church does this all the time - firing people who it believes don't adequately represent the beliefs of the institution.
By "the church", I assume you mean the Catholic church, although in reality, all Christian denominations by their very nature, including mainline liberal Protestant denominations, have a core set of beliefs and tenets, and find themselves embroiled in doctrinal disputes and even schisms.
But we're not talking about a religious denomination or a political party. We're talking about a hi-tech company (or maybe Mozilla isn't a corporation - it's not clear from these media descriptions precisely what it is). Whatever it is, its mission seems to be to create open-source Internet products. What does that have to do with same sex marriage? I'd think that reasonable people would answer, "Nothing whatsoever". Or maybe its mission is really, "To create open-source Internet products, but only by and for people who think the correct thoughts". Which, come to think of it, isn't "open" at all.
On this issue at least, political liberals in the US could usefully take lessons in liberalism and tolerance from Andrew Sullivan. Liberals would do well to consider that, on this issue, liberals are proving conservative talk-radio cranks to be precisely correct. The cranks' narrative goes something lik this: liberals are, in reality, the least tolerant people in our society, will never rest until they've policed the thoughts of every American, and are satisfied with Brendan Eich's firing only because they haven't been able to think of a crime to charge him with yet.
Whatever it is, its mission seems to be to create open-source Internet products. What does that have to do with same sex marriage?
Couldn't one argue that Hobby Lobby is a chain of retail arts and crafts stores, and that has nothing to do with contraception? If a chain of arts and crafts stores can take a position on contraception, why can't a high-tech company that creates Internet products have a position on same-sex marriage?
Suppose Brendan Eich, while being a perfectly law-abiding person himself, whose personal behavior was above reproach, contributed to a campaign to abolish all age-of-consent laws so that adults could legally have sex with children. Or suppose, while he had never discriminated against any group in his capacity as a businessman, he wrote articles that women should not be in the workforce, and if it were necessary to tolerate women in the workforce to some degree, they should never be allowed to be managers.
It seems to me it is generally held that some ideas are just not acceptable—pedophilia, racism, sexism—and few would question the fact that people who support such ideas inevitably will pay a price for doing so. So it seems to me what you are arguing is that opposition to same-sex marriage (which many people would look at as discrimination against gay people) should not be classified as a position for which proponents must pay a price. You are arguing, it seems to me, it should be socially acceptable to actively support discrimination against gay people. Many proponents of gay rights are arguing it should be no more socially acceptable to support discrimination against gay people than discrimination against black people or women.
It seems to me that there is a paradox or an internal contradiction in the idea of tolerance if by tolerance is meant that virtually everything, including the worst kinds of intolerance, must be tolerated, otherwise those who advocate tolerance are hypocrits.
I have mixed feelings about what happened with Brendan Eich, but I don't think it should be used as a stick to beat liberals over the head with as hypocrits who preach tolerance but don't practice it. Maybe Brendan Eich should still be CEO of Mozilla, but that doesn't mean that people who advocate tolerance must be forbidden from drawing a line somewhere.
I'm guessing that most people opposed to marriage equality use Internet Explorer anyway...
I still miss Nescape Navigator; I wonder where that would put me on the political spectrum.
David N. --
Good point. I think the problem with it is that there are degrees of unacceptable ideas and behavior and degrees of severity of social action that should be taken against them. There is, I think, a whole order of behavior that should be dealt with by shaming. But where does it begin and end? And what are the acceptable weapons of shaming?
Yes, this is a matter of social disciplining, and shouldn't be a matter of legal discipline. We do not belong in jail for every infraction of the social order (assuming, of course, that we know just where the social order begins and ends). The question then becomes: how does one discover how to draw lines of intolerance (yes, intolerance) of behaviors generally thought to be socially unacceptable but legal? Yes, this does imply that the legal order will always be less than a perfect one.
"What does that have to do with same sex marriage? I'd think that reasonable people would answer, "Nothing whatsoever"."
A compnay's ethical persona matters, especially that of communinty-based internet-associated comapanies, and to be against marriage equality is on a par with racism and sexism. Remember Google's motto (which in some ways they haven't always kept to, but still ...) - it was "don't be evil". As the Wikipedia article mentions, "Google claims to have made "Don't Be Evil" a central pillar of their identity as part of their self-proclaimed core values. The words: "Don't be evil" form part of the sixth point in these Core Values, and in full states: "Do the right thing: don't be evil. Honesty and Integrity in all we do. Our business practices are beyond reproach. We make money by doing good things." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil
Ann O said: (And the guy can paint -- the eyes are amazingly expressive!)
Here's a slightly different perspective on that:
" Modern American society has a general *desire* that we should be able to say anything we wish and suffer no consequences ..."
I think that Modern American society wants people not to suffer prior restraint when it comes to free speech. But, depending on what is being said and who said it, Modern American society is more than willing to withdraw financial support, patronage or reader/watchership for those with whom we do not agree.
There's quite a difference.
MOS: I think your reading of the Prop 8 brouhaha is correct. There were those who felt that equal access/equality under the law is not something that should or CAN be voted upon, with others felt that they had a right to vote. Thank you Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and the California Council of Catholic Bishops for your generous use of Catholics' money to attempt to punish some Catholics. You will NOT be forgotten!
I was and, of course, remain on the site of the "no voting on equality under the law" side.
Andrew Sullivan (linked above) and Frank Bruni (in Sunday's NYTimes) gingerly but rightly raise the complications for or the situation of folks who have changed their mind about s-s marriage later rather than sooner. Or who may have not changed their minds but are no longer going to oppose it or argue about it.
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Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur and Everton are in a four-way battle for the two remaining spots in the top four behind Manchester United and Manchester City.
Rafa Benitez's men currently have the edge as they occupy third place ahead of their clash with Liverpool on Sunday, and Torres insists they cannot afford to slip up.
He told Sky Sports News: "It is crucial for everyone. We are at Chelsea because we want to win trophies and the Champions League is one of them, maybe the most important.
"If you want to play in the Champions League you have to finish at least in the top four.
"Obviously it is not the target we had at the beginning of the season but it is the reality now. We must focus on the games we have to play this month and we have to qualify."
Chelsea have an opportunity to win some silverware this season after making it through to a Europa League semi-final against Basel, and Torres is hopeful they can be successful on two fronts.
He added: "We have a bonus in the Europa League. Hopefully we can win this competition and finish in the top four and have the chance to play next season in the Champions League and the European Super Cup."


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Cat,Some logical thinking goes a long way too.Exodus 21:6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever/owlam.=> slaves don't live forever Jeremiah 7:7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever/owlam and ever/owlam=> multiple owlams/eternities?There are many more similar verses; but I think the above two prove that owlam does not (always) mean eternal.
I just need to find something similar for 'aionios' now
There are many more similar verses; but I think the above two prove that owlam does not (always) mean eternal.
But surely some ET will say: You are completely right Cat, the duration varies, and in this verse about hell it means for ever....
It's been suggested that 'aionios' doesn't mean 'age- during' but rather 'pertaining to an age' which surely is not in keeping with it's Hebrew counterpart 'olam'. We have seen that 'olam' is referring to 'time' but time we aren't always aware of, or that we can measure.


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Mountaineers Hold on to Become Bowl-Eligible
Tavon Austin turned a flip pass into a 75-yard touchdown, and West Virginia's defense finally made a play when it needed to as the Mountaineers held off Iowa State, 31-24, Saturday afternoon at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa.
"I'm proud of the guys the way they just kept fighting," said West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen. "We knew exactly what we were going to get into tonight. This is a team that was not going to beat themselves. The environment was going to be hostile; it was going to be cold, and it was going to be windy.
"I can give you a thousand different excuses of reasons why we wouldn't be able to play and come out of here with a victory, but the guys were determined to get the win and I'm proud of them."
On the go-ahead score, Austin took a quick flip from Geno Smith to the near side of the field, made one quick move and turned on the jets to get past the Cyclone secondary for the game's biggest play with less than seven minutes remaining and West Virginia trailing 24-23. Austin also ran in the two-point conversion, stretching the ball across the goal line, to give the Mountaineers a seven-point lead with 6:31 to go.
But as has been the case during West Virginia's five-game losing streak - and all seven Big 12 games this year - the ending wasn't without a whole lot of drama.
Iowa State (6-6, 3-6) took over at its own 35 after a short Tyler Bitancurt kick and soon faced a third and eight at its 37. West Virginia had Cyclone quarterback Sam Richardson stopped six yards short of the sticks, but linebacker Josh Francis foolishly pushed Richardson's face mask into the ground after the play, and the Mountaineers were flagged for a 15-yard penalty to give Iowa State a first and 10 at the 46.
A pair of Richardson runs wrapped around a Shontrelle Johnson 13-yard carry gave Iowa State another first and 10 at the Mountaineer 14. Two incomplete passes from there presented Iowa State with a third and 10, and once again it looked like West Virginia had a stop when Richardson's pass intended for Albert Gray fell incomplete, but this time Will Clarke was flagged for illegal hands-to-the-face to give Iowa State a first and goal at the 7.
On Iowa State's next play, Richardson gave the ball to 239-pound fullback Jeff Woody, and he ran into West Virginia's Darwin Cook at the 5. Fortunately for the Mountaineers, the football kept traveling into the end zone where safety Karl Joseph was there to scoop it up.
The game's only turnover gave West Virginia the ball at its 20 with 3:55 left. A 14-yard Austin run put the ball at the 34, and four straight Shawne Alston runs – including a big third and 3 carry to the West Virginia 44 - were just enough to move the sticks and force Iowa State to burn its final timeout.
Two plays later, Austin ran for 10 yards to the Iowa State 44, allowing the Mountaineers to run out the rest of the clock.
"You've just got to keep playing no matter what's going on if they get a few plays on us or get down to the red zone we've got to make sure we get a stop," Holgorsen said. "Iowa State's M.O. is to force us to field goals and they did that all day long and we had to get a stop sometime in the red zone and we did."
Austin finished the game with 261 all-purpose yards – 14 carries for 74 yards, six catches for 99 yards and 88 yards in returns – and he could have had even more but his 78-yard punt return for a touchdown was walked back to the Iowa State 36 when K.J. Dillon was called for holding.
It was one of 11 penalties called on West Virginia for 107 yards for the day.
A fierce wind and some frigid weather conditions forced both teams to try and utilize field position and play it more closely to the vest today.
West Virginia relied on the 240-pound Alston to take a 17-14 lead at the break, with the senior getting 81 of his season-high 130 yards in the first half. Alston, who has been slowed by a deep thigh bruise sustained against James Madison, easily had his best performance since starting the season with a 123-yard effort in the season opener against Marshall.
"It makes a big difference having him in there," said Holgorsen. "He's going to grind it out. I'm just glad he's finally healthy. It isn't anybody's fault – it is what it is – but that's the game of football."
Alston scored a 1-yard touchdown run early in the second quarter, and six minutes later, Stedman Bailey caught his 21st touchdown pass of the year when he got free down the near sideline to reach the end zone for a 6-yard score.
Before that, Tyler Bitancurt kicked a 42-yard field goal for the only points of the first quarter.
Iowa State's two second quarter scores came from the arm of Richardson – an 8-yard toss to Jerome Tiller and an 18-yard pass to Josh Lenz with just 18 seconds left in the half.
Richardson's third touchdown pass went to Quenton Bundrage for 35 yards with 4:56 remaining in the third quarter. It was the 31st play of 30 yards or longer allowed by the West Virginia defense and the 11th touchdown pass covering at least that distance this year.
Bitancurt (35 yards) and Edwin Arceo (49 yards) traded fourth quarter field goals.
Both teams finished the afternoon with 24 first downs and were effective running the football – West Virginia finishing with 239 yards and Iowa State ending with 234.
Smith completed 22-of-31 passes for 236 yards and two touchdowns to become the first quarterback in school history to throw for more than 11,000 yards, Geno now shows 11,054 yards with one regular season game remaining against Kansas in Morgantown next Saturday.
Richardson finished the day 13-of-31 for 162 yards and three touchdowns while also running 18 times for 119 yards. It was the first time the Mountaineers have allowed a 100-yard rusher this season. Iowa State's 396 yards were the fewest West Virginia has allowed since giving up 351 yards against Maryland back on Sept. 22.
West Virginia (6-5, 3-5) becomes bowl-eligible with its sixth victory and now has a shot at getting win No. 7 next Saturday in Morgantown against Kansas.
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"You hear nothing. You see nothing. You only serve." Such are the instructions Cecil Gaines receives as he embarks on his daunting new job at the Eisenhower White House in "Lee Daniels' The Butler."
Movie review
4 1/2 (out of five stars)
Director: Lee Daniels
Cast: Forest Whitaker, David Oyelowo, Oprah Winfrey, Lenny Kravitz, Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Robin Williams, James Marsden, John Cusack, Liev Schreiber, Alan Rickman
Rated: PG-13 for some violence and disturbing images, language, sexual material, thematic elements and smoking
Running time: 2 hours, 12 minutes
But of course Gaines, played by Forest Whitaker in a moving, grounded performance that anchors the film and blunts its riskier excesses, hears and sees everything.
And that means that over more than three decades on the job, he has a Forrest Gump-like view not only of the White House under eight presidents, but of the long arc of the civil rights struggle in 20th-century America.
Much has been said about this movie's potential future as an Oscar powerhouse. The speculation is natural, especially given its star-studded cast, but it takes away from the more important discussion of its simpler virtues, as an absorbing film that has the potential to teach a new generation (and remind an older one) about these crucial events.
The story is inspired by a Washington Post profile of Eugene Allen, a White House butler from 1952 to 1986. Some anecdotes remain, but much is different. Most importantly, Daniels and screenwriter Danny Strong create a father-son dynamic between Gaines and a rebellious older son, Louis (a terrific David Oyelowo) that serves as a backdrop against which the civil rights struggle can play out: through the eyes of black characters, not white ones, for a refreshing change.
This is done most strikingly in a key montage in which Cecil and his fellow White House workers set up an elegant state dinner, china and crystal and all, while down South, Louis is protesting at a segregated lunch counter, leading to a harrowing confrontation.
But the story begins in 1926, with the death of Cecil's own father at the hands of the barbaric son of a landowner on a Georgia cotton farm. The elderly landowner (Vanessa Redgrave, beginning the celebrity cameo parade) takes Cecil into her home, where he first learns to be a butler: how to act, she tells him, like the room is empty even when he's in it.
Years later, working in a Washington hotel, Cecil is noticed by a White House official, leading to a job there. His wife, Gloria, is immensely proud. Gloria, as you may have heard, is played by one Oprah Winfrey, and her performance is often restrained and quite moving. To her credit, you're not thinking "Wow, Oprah!" in every scene; that in itself is no small triumph.
Not all the star performances are successful. When we first see Robin Williams as Eisenhower, his head bald, it almost feels like we're about to witness a "Saturday Night Live" skit. Williams doesn't overdo it, but the casting choice seems forced.
James Marsden, on the other hand, is a good choice as John F. Kennedy, with his handsome grin, boyish demeanor and Boston drawl. Liev Schreiber is amusing if a little broad as LBJ, and John Cusack is interesting as Richard Nixon, even though he looks nothing like him. Alan Rickman and Jane Fonda, making the most of her one scene, make a surprisingly satisfying Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
But what makes the film work, finally, are the soft-spoken Whitaker, whose dignified portrayal rivals his Oscar-winning work in "The Last King of Scotland," and the powerful Oyelowo, whose Louis progresses over the years from determined and brave to angry and cynical, and ultimately to a seasoned older man.
Their relationship gives structure to the broad story of civil rights in America: a story crucial to tell, and crucial to hear.
Daniels and company may not have made a masterpiece, but they have made a film you should see.
Chloe Barach as Caroline Kennedy (from second left), Minka Kelly as Jackie Kennedy, James Marsden as President John F. Kennedy and Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines (third from right) in a scene from "Lee Daniels' The Butler."×
Jane Fonda as Nancy Reagan (center left) and Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan in a scene from "Lee Daniels' The Butler."×
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Suns' Alvin Gentry focused on his team, not his future
December 11, 2012: Gentry's job is safe through the end of the season
Even before this new collection of players gathered for the first time back in September, the head coach made it clear this season was not going to be about him.
Yes, Alvin Gentry is in the final year of his contract. But no, it's not something he is concerning himself with on a daily basis.
What's foremost on his mind these days is how to dig his club out of its current hole. The Suns currently own the second-worst record in the Western Conference.
It's that 7-15 mark and season-high seven-game losing streak (longest such slide since 2003-04, the season before the return of Steve Nash) that has national pundits talking and asking questions of ownership.
Suns managing partner Robert Sarver recently told USA Today that Gentry "is not an issue for us this year. We're not looking to make a (coaching) change."
Sarver's support -- while on some level appreciated, is not anything Gentry needed to hear. In other words, it's not going to affect how he attacks his job, which is trying to lead the Suns to the playoffs, a destination they have not reached in either of the last two seasons.
"I don't really worry about that," he said Tuesday when asked about Sarver's comments. "I come to work. I do the best I can. I do everything that I can to prepare the team. That's out of my hands. That's not my decision so I don't spend time worry about it. I really don't.
"I try to get the team in the position for us to play," Gentry continued. "No one really likes to lose. No one likes to be in the situation that we're in. Me, the players, the assistant coaches, management or the ownership, no one likes to be in that situation. I'm not going to spend my time worry about that because I don't have any control over that. I have control over what goes on out here (on the court) and how hard we work and how we prepare and that's all that I'll ever do."


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Scholar: Disagreement good for the interfaith soulWritten by David Yonke Editor, ToledoFAVS.com | | email@example.com
Arguing has always been an integral part of Jewish tradition, going back to Abraham's debate with God over the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham didn't win that one, but his ancestors have carried on his and other Jewish prophets' knack for argumentation, according to Loyola University professor Devorah Schoenfeld.
"We love to argue," Schoenfeld said at the 12th Annual Jewish-Christian-Muslim Dialogue Feb. 10 at the University of Toledo. Her topic was "Disagree: The Power of Sacred Dissent."
She displayed copies of the Talmud, a Jewish text in which Scriptures are surrounded by commentaries and interpretations by rabbis.
Arguing, challenging, and asking questions are "life-giving" activities, Schoenfeld said, and she encouraged participants in interfaith dialogues to discuss their differences and not be afraid to challenge one another's beliefs.
"When I have somebody who challenges me, who confuses me, then I have the possibility of growing," she said. "If I have a partner who just tells me I'm right, then I stagnate; then I die. It's tragic."
An assistant professor of theology/Judaism at Loyola University in Chicago, Schoenfeld was the keynote speaker at the dialogue, which alternates among religions in leading the annual dialogue. Peter Feldmeier, professor of Catholic studies, and Ovamir Anjum, professor of Islamic studies, both of the University of Toledo, presented brief responses from their own traditions' perspectives.
Schoenfeld gave the audience of about 65 people an assignment: to read a selection from the Talmud aloud to a partner, then discuss, interpret and take a stand on the text.
Reading aloud and debating the meaning of a text is taught in yeshiva, or Jewish schools. "In a yeshiva, it's not quiet; it's not a library," Schoenfeld said, adding that reading aloud and listening are important parts of the process of interpretation.
In the Talmud passage, a rabbi and his student both thrive when they debate Scripture. When the student dies, the rabbi's new student agrees with everything he says and it leads to the rabbi's frustration and, ultimately, his death.
"When your mind is challenged, you stay alive. For Rabbi Yochanan, when nobody is challenging his mind, it kills him. It's the worst thing that could happen to him," Schoenfeld said.
"There's a danger in disagreement," she said. "There's a danger in saying things that are too harsh, hearing things in a way that isn't receptive. Still, there's a way in which disagreement is essential. There's a way in which disagreement can give life. There's a way that it can be dangerous and there's a way in which we as Jews, Christians, Muslims in dialogue with one another can't live without it."
Feldmeier said the Roman Catholic Church does a good job of discussing differences with other Christian groups, but not within the Catholic Church itself.
"Maybe surprisingly to some of you, I think that we do this well in ecumenical dialogue," he said. "We know how to find legitimate similarities and also even to sympathize and try to understand legitimate distinctions among Christians and even appreciate alternative ways of thinking about things."
But within the Catholic Church, "We've gone from arguing with each other to … mostly ignoring each other. And the divide between the theological community and the bishops of the church has grown larger in the last 20 years for sure," Feldmeier said.
He cited an effort by the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago to encourage discussion of such topics as the role of women in the church, the nature of sexuality, and the inclusion of Latino and Asian cultures. But Bernardin's "Common Ground" project never got off the ground, with other bishops saying that "error has no room in dialogue."
Feldmeier also quoted the late Pope John Paul II's statement that "the unity of the church is not in uniformity but organic blending of legitimate diversities." He added, however, that despite the pope's promise of diversity, "in no sense does this model really reflect the actual dynamics of the Catholic Church."
Anjum said diversity and debate had flourished within Islam for more than 1,200 years, but said there is truth to observations of "a contemporary bankruptcy of Muslim thought."
He said colonialism and post-colonial modernizing Muslim governments stifled intellectual freedom and diversity within the Islamic world, but he sees signs of change – including events such as Monday night's dialogue.
"Interfaith dialogue with Jews and Christians is one of the places where this tradition is coming back, and coming back with full force," Anjum said.
David Yonke is the editor and community manager of Toledo Faith & Values (ToledoFAVS.com), a website that provides in-depth, nonsectarian news coverage of religion, faith and spirituality in the Toledo area.
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Hi everyone! This is my first post and boy am I ever glad I found this website and forum! I finally feel like I have found a common place to share my experience where people will actually understand what I went through!
Where to begin.. well I should start by saying that I am 4 weeks pregnant (I know still very early) and I am all of a sudden terrified and very anxious about this pregnancy after having had HELLP Syndrome with my first. I haven't put any thought into it since being home and healthy a few weeks pp. My first born son is now a happy and healthy 22 month old!
I am looking to here for some helpful advice on 2nd pregnancies after HELLP because the stats are so scary!! All my doc's /OB have told me not to worry and not to let it stop my from having another but now that that day is here.. I'm freaking out because the risk is still very much there!
ok now for my story.. Before I got pregnant with my son i had 2 miscarriages both before 10 weeks with no explanation. Still hopeful, we tried again and this time things seemed to be perfect! Had a very easy pregnancy, no complications at all. The week I was due went to see the OB everything was fine, BP was good.. set an induction date b/c there was no signs of labour. Saw doc day before induction date, BP was high(sign #1) on 2 BP machines, they chalked it up to the machine must be acting up bc my BP had been perfectly fine the whole time (these tests were done by one of the student helpers). He said ok, everything looks fine your 2 centimetres dilated, if I don't see you later tonight I will see you tomorrow.. go home and rest.. so tried while having contractions 10 mins apart.
Midnight rolls around and I wake up with severe pain on my right side under my right breast and felt like I had to vomit. I ended up vomitting several times and could not sleep any more and went into the spare bedroom so my husband could get his rest. Finally, at 5:30am I could no longer handle the pain and woke my husband up. (Btw I was on call from 6am that morning to be induced) He said thats it we are going to the hospital, I don't care, there could be something wrong with the baby!
Got to the hospital by 6am feeling a lil stupid and got treated as such because of being on call. They were not going to help me bc there were 2 ppl waiting for a c section and another that was more critical than me. I started crying bc I was in soo much pain and my husband lost it on the nurses insisting that they do something bc we were not leaving. Finally a doc comes to see me and decided to run some blood work, waiting for those results took what seemed like forever. When they came back the doctor said you both need to sit down.. she tried to explain things very calmly and said that I had been bumped up to #1 priority and that we need to get this baby out asap!
We really, at the time, did not understand what was happening bc it was all happening so fast. Going from fine to most critical was so confusing and all I could think about was yay we are having the baby finally! They started the magnesium sulfate drip right away. Along with meds to help my dilation. I was eventually induced and rounds of bloodwork every 3 hours. My platelets were dropping at an unbelievable rate! I almost did not have enough time to get an epidural (bc they feared I would bleed to much getting it in) and they were planning a c section. As soon as I hit 10 cm (which was around 11 at night) they started screaming push.. within 15 mins I delivered my beautiful, healthy baby boy (that we were told was a girl, yes shock of a lifetime on top of being sick!!) They latched him on to my breasts right away and thank goodness he was a natural latcher (one easy thing!). Right after breast feeding for the first time I went unconscious. I remember waking up to a team of ppl around me calling my name and being like ya, I'm here, Im fine! lol
Immediately after delivery the lights were out and no visitors aloud. This room was my home for the next 3 days with blood work round the clock every 3 hours. my platelets were still dropping and my liver and kidneys were starting to fail, as expected a bit of a decline after birth before rebounding. MY platelets got down to under 10,000 and at 50 they were already talking blood transfusion but were trying to hold off. Last round of blood work before transfusion and it started to climb!! Yes finally! So I ended up not having one, miraculously things started to change and I slowly started to get better! The road to recovery was not easy! I ended up staying in the hospital for 5 days and was only able to feed my son while laying down in bed and could not even hold him!
I owe my life to my wonderful husband and all the amazing doctors and nurses that took such good care of me and my baby while we were there! I did not understand just how close I was to dying until after I was home and researched it. All medical staff kept telling me I was "very sick". Sorry but I don't associate very sick with dying! I was just thinking ok.. so Im sick.. thats fine, Ill get better not that i was dying and might not make it out alive. Two very different things!!
Sorry for the long post, thank you for taking the time to read my rant! Hopefully you can see why Im so terrified, I do not want to experience anything like that again!! Hoping and praying for a better outcome this time! xx


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