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Situated in Elgin, this hotel is within 6 mi (10 km) of Hemmens Cultural Center, Grand Victoria Casino, and Raging Buffalo Snowboard Ski Park. Terrace Hill Golf Course and Sears Center are also within 9 mi (15 km).
Hotel Features
An indoor pool, a 24-hour fitness center, and a spa tub are available at this hotel. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include a 24-hour business center, conference rooms, and laundry facilities.
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In addition to an indoor pool, Country Inn & Suites By Carlson, Elgin, IL provides a spa tub and a 24-hour fitness center. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. A 24-hour business center is on site. A complimentary breakfast is offered. This business-friendly hotel also offers laundry facilities and complimentary use of a nearby fitness facility. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Free WiFi
- 24-hour business center
- Free use of nearby fitness center
- Number of floors - 3
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- Indoor pool
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- Laundry facilities
- Free breakfast
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- Total number of rooms - 98
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An indoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a 24-hour fitness center.
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Made from bamboo and recycled aluminum, the SimpleTech (Re)Drive is the most environmentally friendly external hard drive we've tested. It works well as a USB 2.0-only storage device and offers a unique ownership experience.
The SimpleTech Signature Mini Black Cherry is a compact, USB-only external hard drive that will tempt you with its sleek design, and then win you over with its capacity, performance, and price.
As far as basic external hard drives go, the SimpleTech SimpleDrive is compelling for its low price and generous online storage bundle. We like it.
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New external hard drive from simpletech that's super eco-friendly
Actually, the enclosure is free (today only, though), but shipping will cost you six bucks. It's a perfect way to turn an upgraded laptop hard drive into a portable USB drive.
Hitachi debuts two new external hard drives, one of which can withstand a 1-ton commercial class truck.
If you move a hard drive between the two operating systems, here's what you need to know.
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Bitterroot Plant Trivia
Traditional story
This story has been credited to the Shoshone and Flathead. It may very well come from other tribes:
One day an elderly woman couldn't find food for her family and started crying. The sun sent a red bird to comfort her. The bird told her that every place her bitter tears fell, a root -- nourished by her love -- would grow. The root would be colored by the woman's white hair. The taste would flavored by her bitter tears. The flower would be tinted by the bird's red feathers...and she would always have food for her tribe.
State flower information
The Bitterroot is the Montana State Flower.
Botanical information
The Bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva) is a member of the Portulacaceae family. Of Portulacaceae, the Portulaca -- also known as the "moss rose" -- is the most commonly grown member of this plant family.
The Bitterroot is a low-growing perennial with a fleshy taproot and a simple or branched base. The fleshiness of the Bitterroot reflects the water storing adaptation which parallels that of cacti and other "desert" succulents. The startchy roots can survive extreme dehydration. These stored carbohydrates are used to initiate growth.
The Bitterroots' ability to come back from what appears to be dried death is what gives rise to the species name, rediviva. From Latin, the word rediviva literally translates to "brought back to life."
Bitterroots typically grow in open woodlands, sagebrush shrublands, gravel river bars, or gardens.
The Bitterroot is found throughout the Rocky Mountain area, but it is especially abundant in western Montana.
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class : Magnoliopsida
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Portulacaceae
Genus : Lewisia Pursh
Species : rediviva
Large herbivores don't tend to forage for the Bitterroot because of its small size, but rodents eat the leaves and seeds.
Native American information
Native Americans called Bitterroot plant "spetlum" or "spetlem," which means bitter. (French trappers called the plant "racème amer" which means bitter root.)
Montana's Indians used the Bitterroot as an important part of their diet. The plant was also used for medicinal purposes (see below). Many different Indian tribes collected the Bitterroot. The Bitterroot was considered a luxury food or delicacy, as opposed to a staple. A sackful of Bitterroots was very valuable, possibly equal to the price of a horse.
The Flathead and neighboring tribes timed their spring migrations with the blooming of the Bitterroot. May was known as "Bitterroot month." As the plant ages, the root becomes woody, so harvesting young plants was important. The roots also have maximal startch content before flowering.
The Lemhi Shoshone believed the small red core found in the upper taproot had special powers, notably being able to stop a bear attack.
Lewis & Clark information
In 1805, as the Lewis & Clark party entered the Continental Divide area on the Montana/Idaho border, several advance scouts came upon some Shoshone. Spooked by the scouts, the Shoshone fled, leaving behind a bag of collected bitterroots. While Lewis found the Bitterroot to be indeed bitter, he saw how the Indians valued it.
Returning from the Pacific in 1806, Lewis collected a Bitterroot plant at Traveler's Rest, Montana. The Bitterroot was one of 134 specimens presented to President Jefferson as part of a collection of "uncommon" plants the expedition had encountered.
Once home, Frederick Pursh, a noted scientist, analyzed and identified these 134 plants. Pursh gave the plant its scientific name, Lewisia rediviva, commemorating Meriwether Lewis's role in "discovering" the plant and describing the plant's apparent ability to return from the dead. (Lewis' Bitterroot specimen had been without soil and water for several years, but began to grow again upon planting.)
Food information
Eaten raw, the nutritious Bitterroot root can vary from slightly bitter to so bitter you can't eat it. The starch of the Bitterroot is very hard to digest, which may account for the fact that even Indians ate small portions of the root, usually mixed with other ingredients. There is also mention of raw Bitterroot causing "great personal discomfort due to swelling."
Roots can also be dried, ground into a powder and used as a thickener for soups, porridge, mush, etc. The pulverized root can be mixed with wild game fat and moss to make patties.
Bitterness of the root also decreases after one or two year storage.
Medicinal information
Medical Disclaimer: BitterrootHeaven.com is not an expert on the medicinal uses of plants. Much of the information has been taken from other sources. You should talk to a medical professional before using any plant for health purposes. BitterrootHeaven.com can not take any responsibility for any effects from the use of plants.
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A new Public Policy Poll has Rand Paul with an 18-point lead over Trey Grayson heading in to tomorrow's Republican Primary. Only seven percent of likely voters remain undecided.
The poll shows "more Republicans are unhappy with the current direction of the party than those who are happy with it."
The poll also suggests a Rand Paul victory "will be a clear signal that Kentucky Republicans want the party to move further to the right.
Yesterday Paul said a clear-cut victory would have national implications.
"I think the larger the victory the more the mandate for the tea party."
Here are the latest numbers in the Republican Primary.
Rand Paul 52%
Trey Grayson 34%
Gurley Martin 7%
John Stephenson 2%
John Scribner 1%
Undecided 7%
Click here to review the complete results.
Here is the release from Public Policy Polling.
Raleigh, N.C. – Fueled by a high level of unhappiness with the direction of the Republican Party, Rand Paul appears to be poised for an easy victory over Trey Grayson in Tuesday's Kentucky Senate primary. He leads PPP's final poll 52-34.
There are more Republicans planning to vote on Tuesday (41%) who are unhappy with the current direction of their party than ones who are happy with it (36%). Among those discontented folks Paul has a staggering 59-28 lead which more than offsets the 47-45 lead Grayson has with the voters who think the party's current course is fine.
A Paul victory will be a clear signal that Kentucky Republicans want the party to move further to the right. 32% of likely primary voters think that the party is too liberal and Paul has a 71-21 advantage with them that accounts for almost his entirely polling lead. With the other 68% of voters who don't think the party's too liberal Paul is ahead only 45- 41.
What a Paul victory will not be is a sign that Kentucky Republicans want Mitch McConnell to go. 64% of voters think the winner of the primary should vote for McConnell as the GOP leader in the Senate to only 18% who say no. Even among Paul voters there is 58/22 support for keeping the state's senior Senator in his current leadership position.
Another thing Paul's victory will not be is a particular mandate for Libertarian Republicanism. We did a test of some of the leading 2012 GOP candidates in the state and Ron Paul registered at just 8%, well behind Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, and Mitt Romney.
"Rand Paul's remarkable success is one of the biggest stories of the 2010 election cycle so far," said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. "It's a clear sign of unhappiness within the Republican Party and should have establishment candidate facing primaries nationwide a little nervous about their prospects."
PPP surveyed 1,065 likely Republican primary voters on May 15th and 16th. The survey's margin of error is +/-3.0%. Other factors, such as refusal to be interviewed and weighting, may introduce additional error that is more difficult to quantify.
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Bill Henderson, 58, Greenwood was treated for tongue and throat cancer in 2011.
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Diagnosed with tongue and throat cancer in April 2011, the 58-year-old Greenwood man has survived surgeries, radiation and the loss of 50 pounds while his muscles wasted away.
Henderson has been on long-term disability from a career in sales. At first, he had trouble even getting out of a recliner chair.
But his recovery took a dramatic turn for the better in October, when Henderson's health-insurance company, Cigna, set him up with a host of rehabilitation services, including a personal trainer, as part of a new program.
After a few months of therapy and training provided by Achilles International, he was strong enough to walk in the Achilles Hope & Possibility 5-mile race through Central Park in New York on June 24. (Cigna covered all of the travel expenses for Henderson and his wife, Gail.)
The Hendersons have two grown children: Andrew, 37, Indianapolis, and Leah Nutini, 32, New Albany.
Survival, he said, has led to a renewed faith in God as well as a deep appreciation for the support of his family. He is considering becoming a pastor, a career he had pursued in the past.
"The apostle Paul likened our spiritual journey to a race with a prize at the end, and he encouraged us to 'press toward the mark,' " Henderson told The Star days before leaving on the New York trip. "On June 24, I'll complete a 5-mile marathon, and I look forward to saying, 'I see the finish line.' "
Henderson said anyone can contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com. We asked him to tell us more about his battle with cancer and what keeps him driving forward during his recovery.
Early in my adult life, I chose to believe the Bible is an inspired road map for life.
A few words spoken in a doctor's office can make you walk out realizing life on earth really is just a vapor.
Time stood still, and the rest of the world faded when I heard the words: "You have cancer."
I can't always dictate circumstances that come my way, but I can control my attitude in them.
Losing your facial hair can make you look like Fu Manchu without trying.
The tongue can get us in trouble but when you lose part of it, you choose your words more carefully.
First words after removal of part of my tongue were "I've got to pee."
When diagnosed with cancer, it doesn't mean you're going to die.
Important messages come in profound ways. While hospitalized, my 5-year-old granddaughter went to the gift shop and got me a rock that says "COURAGE."
We should build more memorials. It's good to look back so that we can continue to move ahead.
War is many things. When taking the hill, friends and family have your back.
It's disconcerting when you go to the doctor and he asks, "So, what do you want me to do about it?"
Our knee-jerk reaction when really bad things happen to us is to scream "Why me?" (and not the other guy). I learned to say "Why not me?"
Overcoming a challenging battle doesn't determine who we are in the fight. When all is said and done, it tends to reveal our true motives and feelings about the conflict.
While my head was wrapped in a mask and strapped to a radiation table, I learned that praise and worship works. Fear is an enemy that distracts us from trust and belief in a power beyond ourselves.
Roadblocks: When chaos hit, I reassessed. "So how's your attitude now, Bill?" Whether it's a boulder or pebble in the road, they can both trip us up and the hard questions must be asked. "Is this obstacle going to be a steppingstone or a stumbling block?"
If we are patient, we will find that everything will eventually work together to bring good. Good can come in the form of pain as well as pleasure.
There are many black holes in health care, they should create more bridges for patients so they don't fall between the cracks.
I heard "quality cancer care" a lot, but sometimes I felt that if my problem wasn't on their checklist, it didn't exist.
Life is a series of experiences that make us bitter or better. Drastic changes come our way, but if we choose to accept them, it becomes an easier pill to swallow.


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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has hit rock bottom. After years of working to lower the cost of hobbyist and educational computing, founder Eben Upton says it can go no further: at just $5 its latest creation is as cheap is it can make a computer.
Crellin views the students' local community as one of the primary resources for learning. They take any opportunity they can to use what's around them as the catalyst for a lesson or project. Crellin promotes learning that is rooted in what is local -- the unique history, environment, culture, economy, literature, and art of their community. This is valuable because it makes learning relevant to students, resulting in higher engagement and igniting students' passion for enacting change within the world around them.
Several weeks ago, I posted an article on my Facebook page about student fidgeting and the advantages of flexible seating. One teacher who commented was high school teacher Rebecca Malmquist, who described her own flexible classroom: "I have taken all the conventional desks out and replaced them with mostly tables and a number of different kinds of chairs; I've used garage sales and the generosity of friends to furnish my room this way. My classroom looks like a college apartment. But I also build in transitions every 15 minutes or so that require movement (to get into groups, turn something in, write on a paper-covered wall, etc). I have little to no fidgeting problems or issues with attention loss."
While I do a fairly good job of organizing my files in folders in Google Drive, it is so nice to have the documents that pertain to an event easily accessible through Google Classroom. When I open the calendar event, I can simply click on the links to the documents I need for that meeting or event. I do not have to locate them in Google Drive, and I do not have to wonder if I have everything I need.
Q. Is it possible to back up just my iTunes audio library to an external drive that I can then detach and connect to another computer to play?
"This special report aims to deepen educators' understanding about formative assessment, what it is, and how to use it effectively to get good information about students' learning progress in real time ..."
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"Here are more than 50 ways to use education technology in the classroom. Updated and specially created for Miami Device 2015 with lots of new edtech tools, [and} ideas..."
Jim Lerman's insight:
Davis has been a consistent leader in educational technology for quite a number of years. Her recommendations are well worth checking out.
Jovi Buendia's curator insight, November 15, 11:45 AM
This includes resources I haven't tried, as well as parent resources.
At J.H. Rose High School in Greenville, North Carolina, teachers have been building in time for students to engage in interest-driven, production-centered work across grade level and across disciplines since the beginning of the school year. A partner of the Tar River Writing Project, J.H. Rose received a 2014 LRNG Innovation Challenge Grant which enabled faculty and students there to launch the "Pop Up and Make" project, supporting the creation of mobile spaces where students can play, tinker, make, and collaborate on a host of projects that speak to their interests in informal learning pathways.
The DiRT Directory is a registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. DiRT makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software.
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Ramon Pavia's curator insight, November 5, 5:15 AM
Seems to work properly. User-oriented navigation...
Pierre Levy's curator insight, November 5, 11:10 AM
Registry of digital research tools for scholarly use.
One request I am often asked about Google Classroom is how to create documents for small groups. If you create a copy of a document for each student then each group member receives a copy, which can be confusing. I have created a script that will assign students into random groups (or non random) and create a copy of a template document for each group.
Kinematics Through Programming in Scratch Jeremy Smith - @PhysicsSmith Derek Segesdy - @dsegesdy Worcester Academy 2015 Massachusetts Association of Science Teachers Conference
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Quite a logical and systematic illustration of basic principles of motion using the Scratch program. Numerous links and resources. Well done!
For today's tweens and teens, technology is part of the fabric of everyday life. They're watching TV on lots of devices and using smartphones and tablets to maximum advantage -- texting, researching, sharing, connecting -- and generally causing lots of hand-wringing among parents who don't know how much is too much. As parents, we want to find ways to use media to support healthy development, learning, and community-building. But we can't begin to make sense of what these technological changes mean for kids until we understand what's being used and for how long and how kids feel about technology and media.
The tool does not increase student engagement or increase student learning. How the teacher uses the tool and designs the learning environment makes the difference. Try something new with these 5 tools!!
Over 100 video recordings of presentations by educators from around the world, all on the theme of global education. A cornucopia of riches.
Digital technology is allowing teachers and learners to explore new approaches to traditional school lessons. The growing availability of online instructional videos creates the opportunity to move the learning of new content to outside of the classroom, freeing up class time for teachers to coach, and students to actively work on developing their own understanding.
Jim Lerman's insight: Three practical guides to implementing the Flipped Classroom model in secondary level math education. The setting is schools in the U.K., with a particular emphasis on Khan Academy videos -- however, much of the material is generalizable. Be sure to look at each of the 3 different guides.
Becky Roehrs's curator insight, November 19, 9:23 AM
Check out different flipped models focusing on Khan Academy videos
E-learning Design: Case Studies for Better Online Courses :: CommLabIndia :: Maskapurapu Ranjith Kumar
Learning is a continuous process which consists of four phases - Review, Learning, Application, and Adaptation. The third phase, i.e. application deals with implementing newly acquired knowledge and skills effectively on the job. This is where case studies are very useful. A case study is an e-learning design technique based on a "real" story about an organizational problem and how it is resolved. Let us now see how case studies help learners perform better."
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Jennifer Turner's curator insight, February 24, 2014 1:33 PM
A great thing about Weebly is that they do not limit your web pages like some sites do. Weebly is very user friendly and fun to use. This site will help educators use weebly in their curriculum too!
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"Canva is a tool to create infographics, social media graphics, and more. If you need to gain traffic, you need a graphic. Canva is to graphic designwhat the Keurig coffee maker is to drinking coffee. It is free, but they make money by having stock images you can buy for $1 a piece if you want them. Everything I did was free. Here are some ways I've used Canva in the last 24 hours along with a tutorial video at the bottom on how to use it."
Jim Lerman's insight: Canva is the best free online graphic design program, hands down.
In the hopes of inspiring your own work, we've compiled 15 data visualizations that will not only blow your mind, they will also give you a clearer understanding of what makes a good visualization–and what makes a bad one.
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Augmented Reality is changing education. What started out as something that was simply "cool" has become a way to engage learners like never before.
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Billy Brick's curator insight, November 10, 5:06 AM
Not language specific but evidence of Augmented Reality being more widely used in education.
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Realidad Aumentada ..How to Transform Your Classroom With Augmented Reality (EdSurge News) | @scoopit via @NikPeachey http://sco.lt/...
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Resources for the flipped classroom: Students review content for homework, class time is for experiential activities, questions, and rich discourse.
Jim Lerman's insight: Outstanding resource on flipping, especially (but not exclusively) for those starting on the flip journey.
This guide is a great place to start if you are trying to improve the quality of your 3D printed parts. We have compiled an extensive list of the most common 3D printing issues along with the software settings that you can use to solve them. Best of all, the guide uses a large collection of real-world images to make each issue easy to identify when examining your own 3D printed parts. So let's get started!
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(Fox News) British police on Saturday arrested three more suspects in connection with the savage killing of an off-duty soldier that has raised fresh concerns about terrorism.
Scotland Yard said counter-terrorism officers arrested two men, aged 24 and 28, at a residential address in southeast London. A third man, 21, was arrested separately on a London street at the same time.
Police said they used a stun gun on two of the suspects. All three were detained on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder.
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Senate panel links 'kicker' to capital gains
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A state Senate committee voted Wednesday to advance a bill that would ask voters to reduce the "kicker" checks they get when state revenue exceeds projections.
In a compromise to pick up bipartisan support, lawmakers linked the proposed kicker changes to a reduction in capital gains taxes — an idea that could help it get through the Senate but which is likely to get a frosty reception in the House.
The Senate Finance and Revenue Committee sent the proposal to the full Senate on a 4-0 vote.
Corporations and individuals in Oregon get kicker checks when the state collects more in taxes than anticipated. Some lawmakers from both parties say the checks promote volatility in state budgets and make it difficult to save surplus money during good times for use during economic emergencies.
If approved by voters, the Senate proposal in SJR 26 would end kicker checks for corporations and cut them in half for individuals, sending the money instead to state savings accounts that could only be tapped during economic downturns.
"It's a very thoughtful, disciplined way of saving," said Sen Frank Morse, R-Albany, a chief proponent of changing the kicker.
The capital gains proposal would cut taxes in half for income on business assets held for at least five years. It also would reduce capital gains taxes by up to 40 percent on all other businesses.
The tax cut would take effect only if voters approve the kicker changes and would reduce state revenue by $354 million once fully implemented in the 2019-2021 budget.
Leaders in the House said capital gains and kicker changes should not be linked. Republicans are reluctant to scale back the personal kicker, saying voters want lawmakers to balance the budget on existing revenue. Democrats say the proposed capital gains cut is too large.
The two parties are sharing power in the evenly divided House.
Sen. Ginny Burdick, a Portland Democrat who has worked extensively with Morse on changing the kicker, said disagreements between the House and Senate are part of the legislative process and don't automatically doom a bill.
"We hope we come out of the process with something to stabilize an unsustainably volatile SYSTEM," Burdick said.
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NBC on Wednesday announced its long-rumored switch in late night, replacing Jay Leno at the "Tonight" show with Jimmy Fallon and moving the iconic franchise back to New York. Fallon will take over in about a year, the switch coinciding with NBC's Winter Olympics coverage. Veteran "Saturday Night Live" producer Lorne Michaels also will take over as executive producer of "Tonight."
NBC made no announcement on who would replace Fallon at the 12:35 a.m. "Late Night" slot, although SNL's Seth Meyers is considered a strong candidate.
The change at "Tonight," the longest-running and most popular late-night talk show, had been widely reported but not confirmed by the network until Wednesday. NBC reportedly just wrapped up negotiations with Fallon on a contract extension.
Steve Burke, chief executive officer of NBC Universal, said the network is purposefully making the move when Leno is still at the top of the ratings, just as when Leno replaced Johnny Carson at "Tonight" in 1992. "Jimmy Fallon is a unique talent and this is his time," Burke said.
Leno offered his congratulations to Fallon. "I hope you're as lucky as me and hold on to the job until you're the old guy," he said. "If you need me, I'll be at the garage."
Fallon said, "I'm really excited to host a show that starts today instead of tomorrow."
On his "Late Show" Wednesday on CBS, David Letterman feasted on the announcement. "[Leno is] being replaced by a younger late night talk show host — what could possibly go wrong? Honestly. They had pretty good luck with this in the past," he said, referring to Conan O'Brien's short-lived stint at the helm of the NBC show. NBC has been quietly building a studio for Fallon at its Rockefeller Center headquarters. "Tonight" began in New York in the 1950s, but Carson moved it to California in 1972. Starting next year, Fallon, Letterman, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will tape late-night shows in New York. ABC's Jimmy Kimmel and TNT's O'Brien will be the top California-based shows. NBC is worried that Kimmel will establish himself as a go-to late night performer for a younger generation if the network doesn't move swiftly to install Fallon.
Ebert says he has recurrence of cancer
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Marley sits alone on the window sill,
His company kept by keepsakes and flowers.
Eyes forever open on perpetual guard,
Glazed, inert and scrutinizing the middle distance with his proud burning buttons.
A curtain's swish and the play begins once more,
A show in infinite acts to bear his witness
And arrest his thoughts of halcyon days
When the air was ablaze with circles of laughter
And tears of chagrin and naked delight.
But now this bitter, perilous current with its silence and hate
And flailing arms and muted gasps
Of desolate pain and fuming, livid love
Sit easily in this room.
Marley waits for the curtain to close another act,
Here it comes, it's dark behind and to the fore
And he knows there will be a blessed quiet relief before it begins again.
For Marley is a bear with a thousand yard stare
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Filed under: Announcements,Conservative Rap Coalition,Feedback,Not Your Average
Written by: Robbie Ettelson
Jeff Garlin's dedication to the classic Lacoste polo knows no bounds. Salute this man.
It's been a big year here at Unkut Dot Com, what with the triumphant introduction of the Conservative Rap Coalition polo, the first edition of Executive Class and the introduction of Unkut TV, not to mention the support of everyone who fux with the site on a regular basis and all of you who contributed to funding my five week tour of duty on the east coast in June, where I spread the gospel of Rap Hands and poorly executed classic rap dance moves. While the era of the specialist music blog is clearly on the decline as larger operations have stepped into the game, not to mention the ever-present threat of the Hipster Music Mafia, Unkut will continue to give you more of the raw and continue to be cold gettin' dumb on you crumbs.
Having ended my stint in Mom's Basement, I'm currently putting together some more print projects to mark the upcoming ten year anniversary of the site, but in the meantime this seems like an appropriate juncture to hear what you all want to see from the site in the future. Do you prefer the classic recipe of long-form text interviews, themed compilations and brutally honest opinion pieces? Do you want to see more original video content? Or is there something else that will step the CRC movement up to the proverbial next level of the game? Speak ya clout…
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I am a big fan of the long form text interviews. I also like getting the CRC stamp of approval on albums.Comment by turtle 12.30.13 @
I prefer the classic formula (long-form text interviews, themed compilations and opinion pieces). Plus, Robbie, please tear down more of those more or less "classic" LP's, as you did with the Freestyle Fellowship joint.Comment by TimSki 12.30.13 @
I say the CRC needs to battle Clear Channel and Radio One in a steel cage match. There will be blood.Comment by @flyacoca513 12.30.13 @
I have only known about UNKUT for about half a year now but I'm in awe of all your work (sorry to admit that this is the first time I've commented) … I love the long-form text interviews and also the videos – you're doing a great service by capturing this history – thank you!! … My favorites of your recent postings are the interviews with Aaron Fuchs of Tuff City, also the heads-up re Pritt Kalsi's Paul C doc, and the early KRS-One Criminal Minded sessions. I don't know how to give actual links in these comment boxes, but I'll give the urls as text here, because, when I read others' comments, I always appreciate specific references:
Pritt Kalsi's documentary footage 'MEMORIES OF PAUL MCKASTY':
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Early KRS-One Criminal Minded sessions:
Aaron Fuchs at the new Tuff City in 4 parts:
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Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
More pissing off nerds who like shitty albums as well as pissing on nerds who like to shit on classic albums. Those who point out this as a "contradiction" will be cataloged and brutalized.
The interviews, as always, are the bread and butter here and I've found your ability to get interesting people from the "raperiphery" this year fascinating.
Figuring out if Kool Keith's slide into more sparse, keyboardy self-production and rapping about shitting, thongs and being a grumpy old man since around '99 was in fact him predicting whatever the fuck modern rap is.
Asking yourself if you want to align yourself with and cheer on the tightest fudge-packers in rap or become afflicted with the horrible, unspeakable "sickness of homophobia" (as Russell Simmons puts it) because there's going to be approximately one metric fuck-ton of that type of stuff in this new year.
Probably far beyond any of our powers, buuut: Trick Scaramanga into recording a new album.Comment by George Burns 12.30.13 @
i liked all the rare music divshare links you used to post after the interviews.got alot of good shit.more long interviews and more music!Comment by konnykon 12.30.13 @
First of all, much respect to Robbie for continuing all your fine work, time and energy despite the current state of hip-hop blog game. Rap (internet) is outta control but Unkut is definitely still on point.
The interviews are my favorite element of this site, followed closely by themed compilation posts. I don't think you'll ever run out of cats to interview. Any opportunity to download a zip file or individual song is also much appreciated since I'm not a spotify subscriber and many youtube streams have poor quality audio.
The new music posts are something I check less frequently but The 40 oz best of 2013 list was nice (downloadable zip, thanks) which put me on to some tracks that I hadn't previously heard. And although an aging skater type like myself will probably never wear a polo shirt, the pause tape and zine was a nice touch. Hopefully that last sentence doesn't get me banned from this site.Comment by hotbox 12.30.13 @
Keep the interviews and opinion pieces coming. Your choices of people interviewed were pretty fucking good. I also like to read what the other heads think when you lay a thinly veiled trap.
Overall, Salute to you and what you've given to us for 2013 and beyond!Comment by BKThoroughbred 12.30.13 @
Keep up the interviews especially those who played the background. One from the OG Weed Carrier E-Love would be good. Found one interview here http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-poor-chef/2008/05/03/ll-cool-js-former-right-hand-man-e-love-tells-us-about-his-years-with-the-legend !!! starts at 4.20
Also enjoyed the voting on greatest remixes, album covers etc.Comment by Dan E Fresh 12.30.13 @
Definitely like the long interviews. Would be cool if you could also have them on video in the future as well. Since video isn't always an option and the interviews may be conducted over the phone, just audio would be good too.
Please seek out more rappers, Producers, DJ's, and behind the scenes people that have been MIA for a long time. It's interesting when you find these people that have seemed to have fallen off the planet and get their stories.Comment by RigaTony 12.30.13 @
More reviews of NEW rap albums would be good..Other than that, Unkut is good money.Comment by lou 12.30.13 @
I like Unkut just the way it is and like everything you post on here, but perhaps more rap album reviews or maybe post up a CRC-approved-joint from back in the day (like Big L & Fat Joe – The Enemy) with a review or background info about the track and make it a bi-monthly feature?Comment by esto 12.31.13 @
Long form text interviews and articles. Some people have slow connections or browse unkut on their cellphones. Original video content will be a nuisance. Keep it as is: simple but with deep content.Comment by Truth Powell 12.31.13 @
Best interviews in hiphop, just keep doing 'em and I'll forever check the site – I've been checking here since you started.Comment by KQ 12.31.13 @
I agree with all of the above comments – if it ain't broke don't fix it. As I'm over 40 I don't understand some of the modern stuff, but the long interviews with the veterans are the best in the world. While I'm typing – When is the Flavor Unit special going to be continued? Thanks to Robbie for his dedication to the cause.Comment by Chris Ward 12.31.13 @
Bring back the Beck's rating system.Comment by turtle 12.31.13 @
If it ain't broke don't fix it, in terms of content.
The only gripe is that you often go weeks without posting. Interviews are also very infrequent. I get that you've got other things going on aside from running the site. Or maybe you don't. either way, maintaining a reasonable frequency of substantive posts, would be a good start.Comment by Larry Legend 12.31.13 @
Rob, I've been messin' with unkut since '09 (yeah I know, I was late) but I've been a loyal follower since. Don't change anything!! If anything, step the inteviews up. The video inteviews are cool too. I like the joint you did with IU. It's a desert out here and this site is a cold glass of Aquafina. Keep goin'…Comment by oskamadison 01.01.14 @
More 80s to early 90s features and interviews. I rarely fux with anything new im usually always let down. Do not conform or pander to. Im also with Chris Ward on the Flavor Unit special.Comment by P_Gotsachill 01.02.14 @
+1 long form interviews and div share of old rare music.
Also i would like to see some sanctions introduced on action Bronson. Pretty over it now, and I think doing a album with riff raff is pretty un-crc.Comment by Gx 01.02.14 @
congrats on the anniversary! id like to continue to see you break any of the current stuff thats worth listening to. its hard to sift through all the garbage thats out thereComment by jp 02.03.14 @
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Borghi: L'osteria di Fuletvia Gorolo 86, Borghi (RI) , Phone: 0541.947436
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Reviewed by: David from NY, review #1306
When: 2005
A new restaurant in the area that, in May 2005, had not yet built up a large clientele. Nevertheless, excellent food -- and company!
Directions: Borghi is about 10 km from Santarcangelo di Romagna. This restaurant is out in the countryside. Call for directions.
We met up with Karen (formerly of PA, now of Santarcangelo) and company and they chose this newish, local restaurant. Excellent choice. Outdoor seating is nice. Since we arrived full of antipasti that we'd scarfed down at Karen's house, we ended up only having primi and desserts. All were very, very good. I'd definitely recommend this restaurant. The chef certainly knows how to cook. The dishes are a bit more creative than the ordinary trattoria in the area, which I appreciated. Good wine list. We had a Montepulciano produced by Umani Ronchi (Marche) - great!
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Feds' sights set on our 401(k)s
Smokers, get ready to cough up more.
And if you're hooked on the saving habit, you'll at least be discouraged from overdoing it.
That's if President Obama's budget for next year passes. Let's hope Congress finds and kills some of the worst ideas in a document that approaches 2,500 pages. Two real duds stick out.
One is a near-doubling of the federal tax on cigarettes; the other, a virtual "cap" on 401(k) retirement plans. If you reach $3 million in 401(k) assets, you might as well stop there. Putting more money in wouldn't be tax deductible.
Both are bad public policies, but the slap to smokers might be worse. It hits the more vulnerable people.
Federal tax on a package of 20 cigarettes is already $1.01 (vs. 39 cents when the president took office). The fiscal 2014 budget would raise the federal grab by 94 cents to $1.95. (Not even to mention state taxes, manufacturing, retail and other pieces of the action.)
Millions have, of course, stopped smoking. But they tend to be middle- and upper-income folks, more cued in to health warnings.
Who's left? The poor, mainly. Also, teenagers acting out the foolishness of their years. And hard-core addicts, the yellow-fingered set that "can't quit." Government, which cannot curb its own addiction to spending every form of money, taxed, borrowed, and printed, is very severe with other sorts of human weakness. It banishes smokers from their desks, eating places, theaters and public transportation. For a nicotine fix, the outcasts must shiver beyond the doors of office buildings.
True, there's a theory that hyper-taxed cigarettes will be the last straw. Everybody will quit and live longer. But chances are, millions will stay hooked and pay more. A total of $7, $8 and more per pack can easily reach $2,500 a year. In a better world, we'd all invest so much.
But Uncle Sam as tax collector shows no mercy. The craving for revenue is paramount. And smokers have no friends, no lobby. They are sitting ducks.
Not so, it's hoped, are the savers.
The 401(k) plan is a stake in the future for workers who don't have a pension plan or who hope to supplement it. A part of their wages can be put aside long-term. They enjoy an immediate saving on current income taxes. Their employer might even throw in a matching amount. Eventually, in retirement, income tax is indeed paid as the "personal pension plan" distributes benefits. It's a fair deal all around.
But now comes Mr. Obama's budget team.
They've figured out that $3 million in 401(k) assets in 2013 should yield $205,000 yearly — "substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving," according to an official explanation. Therefore a tax deduction for anything more would be just a "loophole" for the rich.
Never mind how the Federal Reserve might be inflating future dollars away. Or all the investment benefits to the economy. And the social benefits to families that flow from saving as much of their own money (and needing correspondingly fewer "entitlements") as they can.
Another thing. When will the $3 million limit become $2 million or $1 million if government decides what's "reasonable?" The 401(k) is in the cross hairs. We're warned.
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Every once in a while, an idea comes along that changes the way we all look at ourselves forever. Before Descartes, nobody knew they were thinking. They all believed they were just mulling. Until Karl Marx, everyone totally hated one another but nobody knew quite why. And before Freud, nobody understood that all of humanity could be classified into one of two simple types: people who don't yet know they want to sleep with their mothers, and people who already know they want to sleep with their mothers. These dialectics can change and shape who we are so profoundly, it's hard to imagine life before the paradigm at all.
The same thing is true of Muppet Theory, a little-known, poorly understood philosophy that holds that every living human can be classified according to one simple metric: Every one of us is either a Chaos Muppet or an Order Muppet.


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Derrick Adams: Melanoma is fastest growing cancer in the U.S.
Deadly malady fastest-growing cancer in U.S.; the disease was first recognized in 1806 in France
You have heard the message by now: Melanoma is deadly.
You also probably know that it is the fastest-growing cancer in the United States and that one American every hour dies from melanoma. Millimeter for millimeter, it is the deadliest cancer. Rather than bore you with statistics on this horrid disease, allow me to share with you some fascinating background you may not have heard before.
There are few historical accounts of melanoma. It was not officially recognized as a disease until 1806 in France. Years prior, in 1787, a perplexed Scottish surgeon named John Hunter was confronted by a large black growth on the jaw of a 35-year-old man. He described it as a "cancerous fungus." Not knowing what it was, he did what surgeons do: He cut it out.
Amazingly, it wasn't until 1968 that somebody first looked at it under a microscope, confirming it was a melanoma. It had been preserved all this time at the Royal College of Surgeons of England Hunterian Museum in London and still can be viewed today I'm told. The patient evidently sought out Dr. Hunter a few years later for a recurrence of the growth in the same spot. In a drunken brawl he had been beaten with a stick and the "soft black mass" returned. The fate of the patient is lost to history. But we do know that it was highly unlikely his melanoma returned due to the beating he took.
Australia is melanoma capital
Since then, there has been no shortage of melanoma. It might surprise you to learn that many of the leading researchers for melanoma are based in Australia, not the U.S.
In the 1870s the British government established an Australian penal colony and sentenced criminals to live out there days with kangaroos. The forced emigration of pasty white English convicts to the sunny continent has led to an epidemic of melanoma several generations later.
Australia holds the distinction of being the melanoma capital of the world. We are not far behind, however. In 1935 it was estimated that only one in every 1,500 to 2,000 Americans would get melanoma. Several decades of bikinis and tanning salons later, the rate is now 1 in 65 and worsening each year. Predictions are now being made for 1 in every 33 of us in the near future; a staggering increase.
Disease of the upper class
Interestingly, melanoma is one of the few diseases I can name that tends to affect people from higher socioeconomic groups disproportionately. It is believed this is due to disposable income taking families to equatorial destinations for vacations. Vacations in Cancun and Florida equal short but intense periods of sun exposure — the exact same exposure one gets from a tanning bed.
It is believed that all those high school girls who tanned for prom back in the 1980s and 1990s account for the skyrocketing rates of melanoma we are seeing in women under 40 currently. Along with breast and thyroid cancer, melanoma is one of the most common cancers in young women. If you watch "Grey's Anatomy," you know that one of the favorite lead characters (a thirty-something blond) died from melanoma a few seasons back. While normally I don't pay much attention to those shows, I applaud the effort of the writers in raising awareness of this issue.
Gov. Brown just outlawed tanning bed use for those under 18 in recognition of the link between ultraviolet light and melanoma.
Genes also play role
Tanning is not the sole cause for melanoma, however. If only this horrid disease were that simple. Genetics play an equally sinister role in this story. We've known for a long time that if you have melanoma, your first-degree relatives are much more likely to get melanoma as well. Many of the new treatments specifically target various genetic mutations and genes associated with melanoma. Shared genes with pancreatic cancer and possibly now even some forms of breast cancer are being studied. But tanning is not off the hook. If someone's genetic makeup is the dry cornfield, tanning is the match and kerosene.
As far as mammalian skin goes, human skin in general is a disaster. It offers virtually no protection from the sun. Even very dark African-American skin has only a natural SPF of around 13-20. Pig skin is the closest equivalent to human skin in its makeup and organization. Surgical trainees usually begin their studies by operating and sewing pigs' feet and we still sometimes use pig skin grafts when necessary. It has been said "Also like humans, pigs enjoy lying in the sun, tan in response to the sun, and enjoy drinking large quantities of beer."
details of the disease
Now to bore you with a little scientific background: The melanocyte is a cell in our skin that makes our color. Melanoma is the uncontrolled growth of melanocytes. One bad mutation begets two. Then two begets four. Four begets 16, and on and on. The normal melanocyte resembles an octopus and makes the pigment in our skin. Its long tentacles deliver the pigment (melanin) to the other skin cells. The purpose is to shield the other skin cells from sun damage by absorbing the rays from the sun. When you tan, the melanocytes rev up production to make more of this shield. When you see tanning, you know DNA damage has occurred in the skin cells. Thus I like to think of a tan as tears of the melanocytes cried over their neighboring cells.
We are in the midst of a skin cancer epidemic with no end in sight. While most skin cancers are not life-threatening, they can necessitate extensive surgery and cause deformities that need surgical correction. However, melanoma is a different story. Luckily, the north state enjoys a stellar collection of dermatologists and surgeons skilled in these arts.
While almost 100 percent curable if caught early, melanoma has a dismal survival rate once it spreads beyond the skin and into other organs. There is no known definitive cure. (please read that last statement again)
Up until the last few years, we have really been no better off in the treatment of advanced melanoma than Dr. Hunter was back in 1787. The lack of progress in almost 225 years is embarrassing to me as a dermatologist.
treatments tested
Now the research pipeline is full of treatments coming our way. A melanoma vaccine led the way and has been extensively studied but has not lived up to the hype yet. One recent breakthrough medication turns the immune system against the melanoma cells. Unfortunately for Brits, it has just been rejected by England's national health care panel as not cost effective for their society. The drug boasts a 20 percent three-year survival rate (or put another way a full 80 percent of people with metastatic melanoma who take it will pass away in three years). At $120,000 per patient per year, it certainly raises a lot of philosophical and ethical quandaries.
Luckily, there are handfuls of other promising new treatments on the horizon. Hopefully they may be priced more reasonably.
If you or someone you know has metastatic melanoma, talk to your doctor about enrolling in a study. Gone are the days when you will be randomly selected to receive the study drug or doomed to unknowingly receive the sham placebo treatment.
I have several patients with advanced melanoma doing quite well in a few studies thus far. It also gives meaning to their suffering and a chance to fight back.
While preparing this article it dawned on me that perhaps no other cell in the body has been responsible for more misery in mankind than the melanocyte. Historically, the functions of your melanocytes could doom you to a life of slavery, limit your martial prospects, curb your economic potentials or simply make you drink from a different water fountain.
In conclusion, I would encourage each of you to see a dermatologist for a full skin exam. You may say to yourself, "My moles look fine. Nothing has changed." To which I would ask, "Would you bet your life on it?"
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Eric Voegelin Society Meeting 2008
Voegelin's Reception in
2008 Professor LI Qiang
Eric Voegelin wrote about
In the past several years, however, the name of Eric Voegelin has begun
to be discussed more and more in the Chinese intellectual world. His massive
writings are in the process of translating into Chinese. His main works have
been seriously studied by scholars and young students alike. Chinese scholars
treat Voegelin not only as someone who has contributed significantly to
philosophy, politics, religion, and history, but as an important source of
intellectual inspiration which might help Chinese to understand or even solve
the ideological predicament China is facing today.
In the following, I will first briefly review the current situation of
Voegelin studies in
Writings and translations
related to Voegelin
Voegelin's name was not entirely new to
until quite recently, there were rarely any discussions of Voegelin by Chinese
scholars. For instance, almost all Chinese introductory works on contemporary
Western political philosophy published in the 1980s and 1990s did not mention
Voegelin's name. Even in the area of studies of comparative history where
the name of Colling Wood, Toynbee, and many others were extensively discussed,
Voegelin's name was hardly mentioned. In an influential book titled Contemporary Western Theories of History, the author reviews
hundreds of important Western writings in theories of history. In the chapter
on "Comparative history in Contemporary West,Ф the names of Spengler, Mark
Bloch, Toynbee, even Barrington Moore are intensively discussed, there is,
however, no mention of the name of Voegelin.
By the end of the 1990s and early 2000s, Chinese scholars became aware
of the importance of Voegelin's ideas and the name of Voegelin began to
appear more frequently in Chinese writings. In a textbook, A
History of Western Political Thought, Tang Shiqi mentioned Voegelin, along
with Leo Strauss and Hannah Arendt, as representing the revival of classical
political philosophy in the age of liberalism and positivism.
In a quite influential book on conservatism, Liu Junning discusses
Voegelin briefly. Voegelin, along with Russell Kirk and Robert Nisbet is said
to represent cultural and moral conservatism in contrast with economic
conservatism as represented by Hayek and Nozick.
In the same time, Liu Xiaofeng, a renowned scholar on religion and
political philosophy, began to note Voegelin's notion of Gnosticism in his
writings by the end of the 1990s.
After an initial period of occasional mentioning of Voegelin's name,
there have been growing numbers of writings specially focusing on Voegelin in
recent years. Yang Long, a professor of political science at
In the midst of the growing interest in Voegelin, some graduate
students chose Voegelin as their thesis of research. Ye Ying wrote a Ph.D.
dissertation titled "Multiple Expressions of the Universal Order: Eric
Voegelin and the Issue of Empire in the Context of Modernity.Ф The
dissertation studies Voegelin's political theory in light of his views on
modernity and world-empire.
Chen Jiannan wrote a MA thesis titled "Voegelin on Gnosticism
and Modernity.Ф
In order to meet the growing interest in Voegelin's ideas, the main
body of Voegelin's writings is now in the process of translation. The five
volumes of Order and History and the eight volumes of History of Political Ideas are both in the process of translation,
and two volumes of History of Political
Ideas have been completed and published. In addition, Voegelin's "Political
ReligionsФ and "Science, Politics, and Gnosticism: Two AssaysФ have been
published in Chinese with the title of Modernity
without Constraint. Faith and
Political Philosophy; the Correspondence between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin
also has a Chinese edition.
Intellectual Context of
Voegelin's Reception in China
growing interest in Voegelin must be understood in the intellectual context of
China. The most important intellectual background which has facilitated the
reception of Voegelin in
significance of the emergence of cultural conservatism could be hardly
overestimated if we have in mind the overall picture of the evolvement of
political thinking in China since the late nineteenth century. Starting from
the late half of the nineteenth century, in the face of serious Western
challenges, the general tendency of Chinese intellectual thinking has been to
reject traditional Chinese way of thinking and embrace Western ideas and
institutions which are perceived as representing universal values. This was
the case for the Enlightenment Movement in the May Fourth period. It was also
the case for the Marxists. The Communist rule after 1949 was founded under the
guidance of Marxism which was held as universally valid doctrine.
Even during the period of Deng Xiaoping's reform, although
the main slogan for the Communist Party was "socialism with Chinese
characteristics,Ф it is quite clear that liberalism, if we define it in a
broad sense, was the main driven ideas for the reform. During the "New
Enlightenment MovementФ in the 1980s,
there was an overall consensus in the main spectrums of ideologies in
After the Tiananmen event in 1989, particularly after the
mid-1990s, however, the dominance of liberalism in the New Enlightenment
movement has been shaken. Liberalism encountered challenges from two main
directions. From the left, there emerged the New Leftist School in the 1990s.
From the right, there has been a surge of various forms of conservatism,
cultural conservatism in particular.
The main focus of the New Leftist School has been the social and
economic problems associated with the liberal oriented reforms. It thus has
little to do with the topic we are discussing now. The surge of various
conservative ideas, however, has formed the direct background for the
reception of Voegelin in
The shared thesis of various cultural conservatisms is to
reject modern Western values, such as individual liberty, democracy, and human
rights, as universal values, and thus reject Westernization as
The most significant form of cultural conservatism has been
the revival of Confucianism. In the past decades, Confucianism has become a
fad in
the encouragement of the Chinese government, there have been flood of writings
reinterpreting and advocating Confucianism. One telling case in this regard is
the sudden fame of Yu Dan's lectures on Confucianism. Yu is a Professor at
In a sense, Yu Dan's reinterpretation of Confucianism does
not entirely reject the Enlightenment project in modern China. Yu Dan's main
aim is to advocate some Confucian moral values to address what has been
perceived as social and moral evils in a capitalistic society. Yu Dan would
not reject Western ideas of democracy and human rights entirely.
In contrast with this moral conservative Confucianism, there
has been growing intellectual tendency to reinterpret Confucian political
ideas as counterpart to Western values of democracy and human rights. The most
influential case in this prospect has been Jiang Qing. Jiang Qing in his Political
Confucianism (2003) stands out for his unequivocal advocate for the
reconstruction of Confucian state in China. The book opens the arguments by
criticizing New Confucianism in China since the 1940s. The main argument of
Jiang claims that a proper interpretation of Confucianism can
build a modern Confucian state capable of dealing with the Сglobal
challenges of politics' and he also disputes if democracy is really the best
form of politics or better than Confucian visions of politics since both are
premised on different set of assumption, have divergent historical experiences
and excel in different areas.
revival of Confucianism has reversed the dominant intellectual tendency in
presenting the case for reevaluation of the Enlightenment project in modern
the surge of Confucianism and various forms of cultural conservatism, the old
issue of
debate is bound to touch upon some
fundamental questions well beyond narrow social, economic, and political
sense. In the past years, more and more discussions and debates have focused
on broad cultural and philosophical issues: Are there any universal values
applicable to humanity everywhere? Are modern Western values, such as liberty,
democracy, and human rights, values associated with particular culture or
shared by the humanity as a whole? Does the Chinese tradition have value in
the contemporary world? If it is believed to have certain values, on what
basis should one understand its values? Should the Chinese tradition be
justified on the basis of historicism, or on the basis of universal
Main themes of Voegelin as discussed in
In the context of the major ideological debate over
The most important ideas Chinese scholars try to adopt from Voegelin is
his sophisticated arguments on the issue of universalism versus particularism.
In his article "In
Search of Order in a Plural World: Voegelin on RepresentationФ, LI Qiang
tries to highlight Voegelin's contribution to the issue of universalism in
the context of various contemporary ideologies. He states:
of the key issues in contemporary political philosophy is the issue of
universalism versus particularism: Are there any universal moral and political
values by which one can evaluate moral and political behaviors? The holders of
universalism, liberals and Straussians alike, would have no hesitation to
claim the existence of certain universally valid values which form the
foundation for evaluating political institutions and behaviors. In contrast to
this universalism, positivism and historicism both deny the existence of
universally valid moral and political principles and holds that value
judgments are either individual's choice or closely related to different
cultures and traditions.
Li Qiang, both universalism and particularism have limitations. Universalism
tends to define universal values based on values in the modern West. Thus it
in fact tends to treat particular values in a particular locality at
particular time as universal values. Particularism, as it is embodied in
historicism, associates moral and political values exclusively with particular
cultural tradition, and thus denies the common nature of the mankind, and
undermines the human capacity of rational thinking in moral and political
theory,Ф Li continues, "contains some unique and profound insights which
allow us to understand the nature of the issue and go beyond the narrow
universalism and particularism.Ф
As Li interprets, Voegelin's particular methodology allows him
to escape the traps of narrow universalism and particularism. Voegelin
rejected the normative political philosophy and adopted the methodology of
Aristotle. His starting point for political science is to analyze the existing
political order and symbols. For in all political societies, political ideas
are essential in "evoking a political unit, the cosmion of order into
Theoretically political ideas in every political society are just
opinions in Plato's term. No particular political ideas, no matter whether
it develops from the West or from
What is the significance of Voegelin's ideas for Chinese
understanding of universalism versus particularism? Li suggests that Voegelin's
methods of interpreting Plato may shed light to us. In his lectures at
Li tries to combine Voegelin's different arguments to shed
light on
In addition to philosophical reflection on Voegelin's theory of
universalism, Voegelin's actual analysis of the order in
Now with the idea learned from Voegelin, there is an urgent
need for Chinese to describe, conceptualize, and analyze its own political
order. Voegelin is one of the few prominent scholars who understood
It is still in an early stage for Chinese to digest Voegelin's
analysis of Chinese order, not to mention go beyond Voegelin to develop a
reasonable account of the order in
In addition to adopt Voegelin's ideas to analyze traditional
political order, some efforts have been made to adopt Voegelin's conceptions
in analyzing current Chinese political order. Dr. Chen Wei analyzes the
current Chinese system of representation by adopting Voegelin's idea of
representation. The conclusion is quite conservative. Following Voegelin's
logic in New Science of Politics,
Chen argues that although
While political scientists have focused their studies of
Voegelin on the issue of order and representation, some philosophers have paid
great attention to Voegelin's studies of Gnosticism. Voegelin's "Modernity
without ConstraintФ and "Political ReligionФ have been translated into
Chinese and found many ready followers. Chinese readers are particularly
impressed by Voegelin's analysis of both Fascism and Marxism as modern
Gnosticism, as extreme form of political religion. Due to the general
ideological restriction, there have not been many discussions to relate
Voegelin's analysis with the Chinese situation. Nevertheless, Voegelin's
ideas have certainly added forces in discrediting Marxism.
I have briefly outlined Voegelin's reception in
Salvo Mastellone, Contemporary
European Political Ideas: 1945-1989, translated by Huang Huaguang,
He Zhaowu et al., Contemporary
Western Theories of History, Chinese Social Science press, 1996.
Tang Shiqi, A History of Western
Political Thought,
Liu Junning, Conservatism,
second edition,
Liu xiaofeng, "Does History
Yang Long, "Political
Philosophy of Voegelin,Ф Bulletin of
Chang Hao, "On Axial Age
Civilization from the Perspective of World Cultural History,Ф
Li Qiang, "in search of order
in a Plural world: Voegelin on representation,Ф Conference paper presented
in 2007,
Zhang Xinzhang, Gnosis and
Salvation: Myth, Philosophy, and spiritual salvation in the ancient
Ye Ying, "Multiple Expressions
of the Universal Order: Eric Voegelin and the Issue of Empire in the Context
of Modernity,Ф Ph.D. dissertation submitted to
Chen Jiannan, "Voegelin on
Gnosticism and Modernity,Ф MA thesis submitted to
Faith and Political Philosophy:
the Correspondence between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin, 1934-1964,
translated by Xie Yuhua and Zhang Xinzhang, Shanghai: Huadong Normal
University Press, 2007; Modernity without Constraint, translated by Zhang
Xinzhang and Liu Jinglian, Shanghai: Huadong Normal University Press, 2007;
History of Political Ideas, Volume I: Hellenism, Rome, and Early
Christianity, translated by Xie Yuhua, Shanghai: Huadong Normal University
Press, 2007; History of Political Ideas, Volume III: the Later Middle Ages,
translated by Duan Baoliang, Shanghai: Huadong Normal University Press,
the emergence and influence of "New enlightenment movementФ in
Cf. LI Qiang, "History and
Ideology: Teaching and Research on the History of Western Political Thought
Jiang Qing, Political
Liu Xiaofeng ed., Leo Strauss and
Classical Political Philosophy,Ф p. 6. There is a very interesting report
in the New Yorker lately which relates the surge of populist nationalism in
young Chinese with the influence of Strauss's ideas.
There have been flood of writings
in newspaper and internet debating the issue of universalism versus Chinese
tradition. One widely noted debate is the debates over an editorial of the Southern
Weekend on the issue of universal moral values.
Li Qiang, "in search of order
in a Plural world: Voegelin on representation,Ф p. 1.
LI Qiang, op. cit., p. 2.
Eric Voegelin, "Instruction to
the History of Political Ideas, The
collected Works of Voegelin, Vol. 19, p. 229.
Voegelin, The
Ecumenic Age, p. 376.
James Rhodes, Platonic
Political Theory: Eight Lectures at Beijing University, p.9.
Li Qiang, op. cit.
LI Qiang, "Introduction to Order and History, forthcoming.
Chen Wei, "On Political
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Doug Hill, executive director of the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania, said Gov. Tom Corbett's proposed budget is better than many others in recent years.
"A lot of those have had freezes and cuts in many of our most important line items," Hill said.
A preliminary analysis by his association said that funding for most human services line items would at least stay flat. But it also said that a decade-long pattern of underfunding and cuts has led to serious consequences for human services programs, such as county child welfare, community mental health and homeless assistance.
"On one hand, we're glad that there has been some stabilization," Michelle Hovis, executive director of York County Human Services, said of Corbett's proposed budget. "On the other hand, we certainly fall short of really being able to address all of the needs we have coming our way."
For the 2012-13 budget, certain human services programs received a cut of about 10 percent.
Hovis said the local human services division, which includes some services that are combined with Adams County, lost about $2.25 million in state funding for many human services programs, including for mental health, intellectual disabilities, drug and alcohol, homeless assistance, and children and youth. Those figures don't include aging program cuts.
The biggest cuts came for mental health programs, Hovis said. Waiting lists in York County increased as result, she said.
For 2013-14, Corbett is proposing increases in some Department of Public Welfare line items that go to county services.
"The increases that we're seeing here will help to mitigate some of those reductions," Public Welfare Secretary Gary D. Alexander said during a budget briefing on Tuesday. "...So I think the governor's showing a tremendous amount of investment."
Corbett is proposing $20 million in additional funds to reduce waiting lists for home and community-based services for individuals with intellectual disabilities.
The department says that will provide services for 1,080 adults graduating from special education programs and adults in at-risk situations where their families may not be able to continue caring for them, and 118 adults who receive autism services.
For the local division, Hovis said about 450 people with intellectual disabilities are on such a waiting list. She didn't know how many of them would benefit from the governor's proposal.
The County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania wants to see human services funding increased to at least the 2011-12 levels.
State Rep. Seth Grove, R-Dover Township, said he was glad Corbett proposed some increases.
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"Revenues are now coming in," Grove said. "So we're putting back money into the budget where I think it's needed."
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Corbett is also proposing to expand a block grant program, for certain county human services programs, that began with a pilot for the 2012-13 year.
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Corbett's proposal would expand the limited 20-county pilot program statewide, by giving all 67 counties the option to participate.
York County didn't apply to participate in the pilot.
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Michelle Hovis, executive director of York County Human Services, said she was still waiting for more funding details from the state.
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"Until you really get down into the weeds with (the Department of Public Welfare) or other regulatory agencies you don't really know that impact," he said.
The Department of Public Welfare is one of the funding sources for counties.
In addition to the $20 million increase to reduce waiting lists for people with intellectual disabilities, here's a look at what else Corbett is proposing for the Department of Public Welfare:
--- $21 million from increased lottery funds to allow 1,550 additional older Pennsylvanians to receive services at home. The administration says the agreement privatizing management of the Pennsylvania Lottery led to that increase.
--- $20 million in additional funds to expand home and community-based long-term living services for people with physical disabilities;
--- $7.1 million in additional funds to reduce the waiting list for child care assistance to allow 1,400 additional children of low-income families to receive subsidized child care services;
--- $3 million in additional funds for Rising STARS, an initiative aimed at creating incentives for early child care and education providers to provide higher quality child care for at-risk children;
--- a 2 percent payment rate increase for what nursing homes spend to treat Medicaid patients.
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