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Let's see: A 63-0 win for No. 74 Bishop Gorman, 56-6 for No. 5 Phoebus, 49-0 for No. 58 Columbus, 43-0 for No. 38 Carver and 35-0 for No. 45 Mullen.
Did any of our Top 100 teams get a test Thursday night?
Oh, yes - the Game of the Week. Which certainly proved to be worthy of the title as No. 75 Franklinton (La.) High overcame a 15-point second-half deficit to knock off No. 42 Slidell (La.) Salmen, 35-28.
It turned out to be a game of redemption for wide receiver Vincent Wilson, who caught the game-winning 38-yard TD pass with 52 seconds remaining.
The normally sure-handed Wilson had dropped three potential TD passes earlier. He was so bad, in fact, that even he wasn't sure he was going to get the ball.
"At first, when they called it, I didn't think [Terrance Magee] was going to throw it to me because I dropped the first three touchdown passes I had," Vincent told PelicanPreps.com. "He still trusted me to come down with the catch so I had to make the play when it matters."
Magee completed 18 of 27 passes for 213 yards and four touchdowns and ran for 79 yards and another score. Wilson was able to hang on to three of his passes for 46 yards.
A big game? Sure. But both squads know they may meet again in the state playoffs - they met last year. A state title remains the ultimate goal.
"We thought we were prepared; thought we did everything in practice to come out and win the football game, but they were the better team tonight," Salmen QB Matt Lipham said. "We had mistakes here and there that could have changed the outcome, but they capitalized. It's not the end of the season. It is a big game. We lost. But that is not our goal. Our goal is to win a state championship."
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Pursuant to the Constitutional mandate to provide all Filipino learners with free basic education in public elementary and secondary schools, and to achieve the country's targets for the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on universal primary education and this Department's objective of Education for all (EFA) in 2015, there is an urgent need to minimize, if not eliminate, financial constraints among parents/guardians during the opening of classes, and to implement effective school/classroom management.
Accordingly, the implementing policies on the collection of voluntary school contributions (VSCs) shall be strictly observed.
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The implementing guidelines on the wearing of student uniform and identification (ID) cards are the following:
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The release of MOOE in cash advance to schools shall be guided by this policy. Schools division/city superintendents (SDSs) are directed to release MOOE funds to schools without fiscal autonomy in the form of a cash advance and in adequate amounts proportional to the enrolment size to ensure that the operating funds are available at the start of the school year.
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Only hours after defiantly refusing to back off on his controversial bid to seek co-ownership of the St. Louis Rams, conservative talk host Rush Limbaugh has reportedly been dumped by his own ownership group.
ESPN's Adam Schefter is reporting that Dave Checketts, chairman of the St. Louis Blues and head of one of the groups attempting to buy the Rams, will drop Limbaugh from the ticket, so to speak, and it will be soon. The talk host has been under fire from players, owners, pundits such as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and even NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, for past comments that many view as racially insensitive. Checketts obviously feels that he is holding a losing hand, and must dump Rush if he is to save the bid.
Three-quarters of the league's 32 owners would have to approve any sale to Limbaugh and his group. Earlier this week, Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay predicted that Limbaugh's potential bid would be met by significant opposition. Several players have also voiced their displeasure with Limbaugh's potential ownership position, and NFL Players Association head DeMaurice Smith, who is black, urged players to speak out against Limbaugh's bid.
Ultimately, the sources said, Checketts must reconfigure his group and find another investor to make his bid more viable.
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The Douglas County school board, the most consistently innovative elected panel in the state, is at it again. A district court judge may have ruled last year against the board's Choice Scholarship Program — aka vouchers — but that hasn't stopped it from finding other targets for reform.
Board members' latest initiative may well infuriate many on the political left almost as much as the voucher plan (which has been appealed), but it shouldn't. In fact, the sort of reformist Democrats who two years ago supported a law mandating at least half of teacher evaluations be related to the academic growth of students might find a lot to like in the Dougco board's latest proposal — however reluctant they might be to admit it.
In contract negotiations with the district's teacher union, the board has signaled it wants to move toward a system in which pay scales are related to the relative scarcity (or abundance) of various categories of teachers. That way, the district hopes to attract the best possible applicants.
In other words, if the district gets hundreds of applications every time it has an opening for a physical education instructor but only a few applications to teach AP calculus, why should it pay the same for both of those career paths?
"We'd like to start looking for more engineers, scientists and math specialists, but they're harder to get," board president John Carson told me. "We've got to pay more for those folks. If we're competing for someone with an engineering degree, it's very difficult if they can command two or three times as much elsewhere."
Carson said he couldn't specify how many pay categories or "bands" the district envisions, since more study is required and the district only intends to adjust wages to market signals on a small scale at first. But it's clearly the case, he said, "that we have a greater supply of candidates" in the humanities than in math and science, so that's one potential distinction.
The board also would like to phase out pay hikes based on continued education — for example, upon earning a master's degree — a theme that has been at least partially endorsed by no less than the U.S. secretary of education.
"Districts currently pay about $8 billion each year to teachers because they have masters' degrees," Arnie Duncan said in a 2010 speech, "even though there is little evidence teachers with masters degrees improve student achievement more than other teachers — with the possible exception of teachers who earn masters in math and science."
The idea is not to reduce salaries but rather to restructure the pay system so it rewards performance and results more than longevity and credentials. That's also why the board wants to phase out "extended service severance" payments, in which teachers may pocket nearly $40,000 if they leave the district after 15 years, moving the money into retention bonuses.
Carson describes the payouts as an incentive to leave the district.
The most controversial proposals — and the ones most likely to divide outsiders along party lines — go after union privileges. The board wants to stop deducting union dues from paychecks, halt the outrageous practice of shelling out an estimated $300,000 yearly in salaries for union officials who don't teach, and require the union to give notice when it wants to use district facilities or email.
"We collect more than $500,000 a year for the union, and yet very little of that is staying in the district," he maintains.
Let the union collect dues on its own. There's nothing stopping it.
By consent of both parties, this year's negotiations are being conducted in public. It could be worth claiming a ringside seat to see how the district's student-friendly package fares.
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The Bartlett School was out in force in Brighton at the weekend for the marriage of history and theory guru Iain Borden, and Claire Haywood, former student and now with Sheppard Robson. Among the guests, I noticed Professor and Mrs Peter Cook, Professor and Mrs Adrian Forty, Mr and Mrs Graham Ive, the partners of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris with spouses, babies etc, Jeremy Till, Sarah Wigglesworth, Jonathan Hill, Graham Stirk and many others too numerous to mention.
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Ever since Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy were caught kissing last week they clearly have decided they don't need to hide their love any longer. The couple have been very public and they can't seem to keep their hands off each other. Everything about this picture is cute, except her shoes. They are totally growing on me as a couple. Let's hope these two have finally met their match.
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thedrywallgirl 9 years
Pop, tha shoes aren't the only hideous thing in this pic. Wtf happened to Jim Carey? Not that he impressed me that much in tha first place but DAYUMMM!!! Think it's time to make a trip to the SUPERCUTS guy.
pink_magnetism 9 years
I'm not sure about them..
mle983 9 years
um, i think they're kinda sweet together in a wacky sort of way...but i hate her clogs with that outfit.
JK-Boogie 9 years
*shudders* gruesome twosome
malibu-stacey 9 years
wow, i kinda wish they'd go back into hiding... i find them both kinda hard to take...
lickety-split 9 years
I'll give her the shoes as a side effect of being in love and him sayinf "They're cute". Thought they were not good at first, but they won me over; love a happy ending.
MissSixty1 9 years
Sorry but i just cant see these two lasting, they are very much alike but ill bet anything it doesnt last more then a year..nevertheless good luck to all people who are in love. lol
punkpie 9 years
I just cannot picture them gettin' busy... busting out weird faces and voices and stuff. Anyone else remember Jenny when she was on MTV's Singled Out? That was at least ten years ago... man I'm gettin up there LOL!
jaxon 9 years
More power to them. I hope they can make it last although these days it is very rare so I guess they will have a wild ride while it lasts.
ethiopian_princess 9 years
I hope they work out. I feel like they are the only people who can stand each other.
texastime 9 years
I LOVE Jenny McCarthy....I always have ever since Singled Out. And now that she has those books, I seriously think she is like my friend.(I am not delusional-don't worry!) My friend met Jim Carrey at a party in L.A. and said he is super cool, very mellow and good looking in person. I hope they work out.
kidcrazy2 9 years
I would love to listen in on one of their conversations.
JennyJen2 9 years
Think she filed for divorce, but that it is not finalized yet.
pinkangelmonkey 9 years
reeree: the jaws of breakup devour them...yikes that is quite the picture, nice term. i like a funny couple. i am going to hope they dont last just because so many people hope they do last and usually that seems like a curse!
Reeree 9 years
I hope they last, even though they seem an odd match. But knowing this is another Hollywood couple, the odds are very against them. Atleast they'll share a ton of laughs until the jaws of breakup devour them.
cali4nagirl 9 years
They seem like a good match, both are crazy and outgoing. Who knows, stranger things have happened.
ann_fancy 9 years
I don't think they are a good match. But They have the same chins! Yes Indeed those shoes are horrible.
elaine 9 years
when did she get divorced??? and whos raising her baby?
ManicMauritian 9 years
Yep somehow they make a good pair
pinkangelmonkey 9 years
they will have funny kids dwg guy, good point. and hopefully they look like her. sorry i like both of them!
hotstuff 9 years
I guess I can see these 2 together but I can't help but think they are annoying as hell.
dwg-guy 9 years
Just think if they have babies there going to have some funny little kids
tra 9 years
Hate the shoes / Like the couple
JustSomeChick 9 years
I am not really sure how I feel about these two together. Jenny McCarthy irritates me to no end. But if they are happy, then I can be happy for them!


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Q. We discussed one of my favorite questions during a seminar today: I had back-to-back meetings scheduled today. With ten minutes left in the first one, it was still going strong. I didnt know what to do, so I sat there and ended up being 15 minutes late to the second meeting. That didnt go over well. What should I have done?
A: Ouch! You were stuck between the proverbial rock and hard place. Stay at your first meeting and you risk being late for or missing the second one. Leave the first meeting before it is over and you risk dissing the people there. Doing nothing and just sitting there like a lump on a log didnt resolve the situation as you clearly left the people in the second meeting hanging and felt your own anxiety level rise with every second that ticked by. What can you do or say to resolve the situation without angering either group?
You had two choices. At that ten-minute mark you could have decided to be at your second meeting on time and announced, I notice its ten of the hour, and Im due at another meeting at 11:00 so could we schedule a follow-up to continue the discussion? Or you could have decided to stay at the first meeting but explain to the participants, This discussion is really important, and it looks like it will go past the hour. I need to let the people at my 11:00 meeting know that Im going to be delayed. Ill be right back.
Which of these two options you use depends on the answer to a simple question: Which meeting is more important? For instance, you might be meeting with your CEO in the first meeting. In that case its not likely youll announce at 10:50 that youll have to end your meeting with her to meet with your team. Conversely, if your second meeting is with your CEO, you need to wrap up the first meeting so you can be sure youll meet with the CEO on time.
The best way to deal with back-to-back meetings is to prevent them from happening in the first place. Keep a 15-minute buffer zone between meetings . And remember to allow for travel time to get from one meeting to the next. At the very least, before the start of your first meeting talk to the person running it, and let him know you have a tight schedule and will need to leave when the meeting is scheduled to end. That keeps you on schedule, with no announcement necessary.
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Cape Town - A CAPE artist has penned a song dedicated to slain Reeva Steenkamp.
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He posted the song and a photo of himself alongside an image of a younger Pistorius on Soundcloud with a message.
It reads: "Yesterday I visited the University of Pretoria and took this picture of myself next to Oscar Pistorius. I wrote and recorded this song with a fictional opinion about what Reeva's last words were... This song is not just about Reeva and Oscar , many people are in tough situations daily. This is also for you. (sic)" - Daily Voice
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For some gamers, finding a girl to date and play games with is sort of like the holy grail. But these ladies — gamer girls, as they're often called — are said to be quite rare. So where can you go if you're looking to find the most gamer girls? Perhaps unsurprisingly, the answer is apparently Japan. According to data collected by the Chinese gaming site 17173, girls make up 66 percent of Japan's gamers, compared to 37 percent in Korea and just 27 percent in China:
Now, I'm not sure exactly how 17173 compiled this data, and it seems pretty unlikely that they conducted a rigorous scientific study. But the results do seem to make sense, at least based on my own admittedly anecdotal understanding of the markets in these countries. It's especially unsurprising to see China rank so low given the country's gender imbalance and the general perception among many in China that gaming is a rather unladylike hobby. (That's a prejudice that's common in plenty of countries, including some of the Western ones in that chart, by the way).
17173's survey also shows that Chinese gamers would prefer a gamer girlfriend at a rate of more than 2 to 1, so clearly the country's male gamers are in for a bit of disappointment. But of course, there's a strategy for dealing with that, according to many of the survey's respondents: simply date a regular girl and then try to turn her into a gamer girl.
It's worth saying that the whole idea of a "gamer girl" is a little ridiculous at this point — everyone plays games on their phone, so at what point does someone magically become a "gamer"? — but as is evident from the 17173 survey, that doesn't stop many of Asia's male gamers from dreaming about meeting a girl who kicks ass on a date and in a round of League of Legends.
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Work Is Going Ahead on Greek Debt Swap Plans, IIF's Tran Says
Banks, Greek authorities and other officials are pushing ahead with work on a proposed bond exchange, even as political turmoil cast doubt on when Greece's next rescue package might be implemented.
"We assume that the agreement reached on Oct. 26 and 27 would remain in operation," said Hung Tran, deputy managing director of the Institute of International Finance, a Washington-based banking trade group that negotiated the bond exchange as part of marathon talks in Brussels last week. Work on technical details continues, even though there's no timeline for when the swap and broader rescue effort might take place.
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou clung to power today after abandoning a referendum on bailout terms that had triggered a suspension of European aid. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was pushed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to accelerate an austerity drive as his country's bond yields jumped to a euro-era record.
The IIF is backing the debt swap, which it describes as a voluntary program that will take shape as authorities work out details of the maturity, coupon and collateral terms for the new bonds. "We may as well use the time to do that and then we'll see where we are in the next few days," Tran said by phone today.
European leaders agreed to boost the European Financial Stability Facility's firepower to 1 trillion euros ($1.4 trillion), set aside 100 billion euros for Greece and provide 30 billion euros in collateral for a debt swap that will give Greece's investors new, lower-risk bonds at 50 percent off the existing debt's face value.
Tran also praised the European Central Bank's decision today to cut interest rates. The ECB unexpectedly and unanimously lowered the benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 1.25 percent at Mario Draghi's first meeting as president.
"I think that is a wise move and will do its part to help sustain the economy," Tran said. The rate cut is a "a very good decision on the part of Mario Draghi, who looked at all the evidence in front of him."


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China/Hong Kong: Make Report Reflect Democracy Demands
Document Should Echo Cries for Universal Suffrage
Sophie Richardson, China director
(New York) – Hong Kong's chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, should present to the central Chinese government a report reflecting strong demands from Hong Kong residents for genuine universal suffrage, Human Rights Watch said today.
The chief executive is to present the report on July 15, in a long-awaited step in the process toward electoral reform in Hong Kong. His report will request that the Chinese National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), the executive body of China's legislature, approve the start of the reform process. It is also supposed to summarize the views of the people of Hong Kong regarding electoral reform collected through a five-month public consultation exercise.
On the same day, the Hong Kong government will release a more detailed summary of the public consultation. The NPCSC will meet in August, and is expected to hand down Beijing's definitive view on the future of democracy in Hong Kong.
"The chief executive's report should reflect the desire for greater political rights so clearly articulated by people in Hong Kong in recent weeks," said Sophie Richardson, China director. "Failure to accurately reflect the views of Hong Kong's people will make a mockery of this exercise, and risk further galvanizing public sentiment."
Hong Kong's Basic Law, the territory's quasi-constitution, states that the chief executive will be selected by "universal suffrage upon nomination by a broadly representative nominating committee in accordance with democratic procedures." Until now, membership on the nominating committee has effectively been controlled by Beijing.
Proposals by prodemocracy groups have advocated "public nomination," a process to require the nominating committee to put forward candidates who receive a certain number of nominations from ordinary voters. In June, nearly 800,000 people in Hong Kong voted in an unofficial referendum organized by the prodemocracy group Occupy Central. The vast majority endorsed proposals that include an element of "public nomination."
Hong Kong and Beijing officials have repeatedly stated that "public nomination" is against the Basic Law. Beijing officials have also indicated that the committee will continue to be restricted to a small group of people in Hong Kong selected by Chinese authorities. This group acts as a screening mechanism to return "patriotic" chief executives who will not confront the central government.
A nominating process that screens out opposition candidates would violate international human rights standards, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which the British applied to Hong Kong when it was a colony and which continues to apply to the territory.
There is a five-step process to reforming Hong Kong's electoral methods. First, the chief executive must submit a report to the National People's Congress Standing Committee on whether the city needs to amend its electoral methods. The standing committee then needs to give its approval. Third, the Hong Kong government will announce its chosen reform package – a step it is expected to take later, and then possibly conduct a second round of consultation. Fourth, the proposal will have to be approved by the Hong Kong Legislative Council and then by the chief executive. Finally, the standing committee has to give its final approval.
The first step of presentation of the chief executive's report to the standing committee comes in the context of increasing tensions over Hong Kong's autonomy and respect for fundamental human rights. Since early 2014, there have been attacks on a prominent editor, Kevin Lau, and owners of media outlets known to be critical of the central government, and deeply politicized arrests of and threats made to hundreds of organizers of and participants in peaceful demonstrations in early July. In June, the central government issued a white paper on Hong Kong that included statements that appear to contravene the rights and freedoms set out in the Basic Law and the terms of the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration, the international treaty governing the transfer of Hong Kong from Britain to China in 1997.
Following the presentation of the chief executive's report, it is expected that during its August session, the standing committee will articulate a framework for Hong Kong's political reform.
The Occupy Central movement has said it will stage a nonviolent sit-in in Hong Kong's financial district if the Hong Kong and central governments fail to deliver genuine universal suffrage in the current debates about reform. Benny Tai, one of the three leaders of Occupy Central movement, has said that the sit-in could take place as early as August, after the standing committee session. But Tai also did not rule out the possibility of the nonviolent action beginning after the release of the chief executive's report if it that document rules out genuine universal suffrage.
"It's in the interests of Hong Kong and Beijing governments to expand political rights in the territory," Richardson said. "Curtailing rights is not only anachronistic, but also likely to increase tensions and alienation among the people of Hong Kong, who have waited patiently for years for the realization of the promise that 'Hong Kong people rule Hong Kong.'"
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Revenue climbed 6.4 percent to $1.85 billion compared with the same period in 2011, the company said. Provisions for future losses on bad loans rose 32 percent to $232 million. Discover released $110 million from the reserves, compared with a $401 million release last year.
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Write-offs of credit-card loans deemed uncollectible fell to 2.65 percent in May from 4.82 percent a year earlier, regulatory filings show. Loans at least 30 days overdue, a gauge of future losses, fell to 1.93 percent from 2.88 percent.
Expenses jumped 18 percent to $749 million, including a $71 million increase in legal costs, according to the firm. The "bulk" of the gain is tied to a regulatory probe into Discover's marketing of fee-based products, including payment protection, Graf said.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. plan to take a joint enforcement action as a result of the probe, which could hurt net income, Discover said in January. The matter is not yet resolved, Graf said.
Purchases made with Discover cards in the second quarter increased 5 percent to $26.1 billion from a year earlier, the company said. Net interest income climbed $122 million, or 10 percent, to $1.32 billion.
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Regulators are scrutinizing the marketing and interest rates of private student loans as college costs spiral, which Discover is watching "very closely," Graf said. The firm charges interest rates of between 6.79 percent and 9.99 percent on fixed-rate student loans, he said.
"I feel very good about the way we tackle and approach that business," said Graf, who declined to say how much profit Discover makes from student loans. "We feel very strongly that the student loan business is a very good business."
Discover gained 2.3 percent to close at $33.57 in New York. The firm's shares climbed 45 percent in the past year, the top performance in the 81-company Standard & Poor's 500 Financials Index.
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I suspect that there can be dozens of types of community and for each type there can be thousands of communities - each unique with its own flavor.
I suppose this is a bit like art: there can be dozens of types of art and for each type there can be thousands of pieces of art.
It is my impression that most people that discuss community insist/demand/require that all community must follow one pattern. Or be structured one way. Or follow one path. It is really difficult to discuss alternatives with these folks.
One type of community is .... online forums. And this forum is one piece of art. Of the thousands of other forums, this one is different. It appeals to a very few. It is boring to most people and utterly wrong and unacceptable to many people (like the people that have been banned, or have quit because of my "tyranny").
And, of course, there are communities of many people living under one roof, eating at one table. Some of these communities are four or five people. Some are more like 60. Some are managed with consensus. And some are managed with something else.
Some paintings are landscapes. And some paintings are nudes. One painting is the mona lisa. A lot of people like that, but like the last supper better. And some might think the birth of venus is the best.
Some people might stay at one community all of their life. Others might move around a lot - not because things went wonky, but because they seek a life with more diversity.
I felt the need to express my position that I wish for there to be many communities and many types of community. And when somebody says there can be only one, I wish to suggest that there can be at least a thousand more.
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Yes, I agree completely. I have lived in a community for four years and visited many others., and none of them are the right place for everybody or even close. That diversity is one of the great things about intentional communities, in my opinion. So much human suffering and misery comes from the belief in there being only one right way to live. Some ways work and some don't, for sure, but "ways" in the plural is the key, rather than a single way that tries to force everyone to conform.
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Community doesn't grow best when cultivated. It's a wild and spontaneous thing that forms when the conditions are just right for its growth. I cringe a little bit whenever I hear the term "intentional community" for this reason. When we set out guidelines for community-building, all we're doing is setting ourselves up for a commitment to forever micro-managing something that should be a self-stable system.
Not to go all halcyon-days on you, but when I think of a community, I think of the group of friends I grew up with on my block. We just happened to be there together, and though some of us didn't really get along, we still all came together because we were mutually bored. We managed to have fun and be functional without rules, guidelines, or scheduled group activities. There's really no more effective way to de-stabilize a group of people than to start telling them that they need to do something to be part of the group. Because we never had those prescriptions for community, we had a community that functioned for years while it was needed, and then disintegrated when it was no longer useful. Now each of us belongs to a different community that functions the same way.
It's almost like a marriage. You can get the little piece of paper that says you're married, do the things that you're legally required to do as a married person, and fill the role that marriage prescribes for you. But all of that means precisely shit without the promise made to each other. That promise can only be made and kept by individuals with integrity. So it is with a community. If people are of a certain disposition, they will respect a community unit and function well within its bounds without being told how to act. If the community only functions because of some mechanism of legislation and enforcement, it's not a community; it's a club or a cult.
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I popped over here from the F-Word thread (
) because Paul offered the link and it makes sense to me that language use is a dimension of diversity. It's actually my personal favorite form of diversity, because I think if more people learned how to communicate well
-- specifically, among people using different languages with interpreters -- then all kinds of communication skills would improve and we'd have more people in more places solving serious problems - and, as Paul points out, creating art.
Interesting to read Jonathan's critique of the intention in intentional communities....would you describe the need to use an interpreter for communication as a contrived or otherwise detrimental rule-bound structure?
How one defines intentional is the same kind of 'meaningless drivel' debate as that happening over use or non-use of the F-word. Towns are communal, for instance, intentionally so - how do we draw the line against all the agreements of civil society? I am coming to appreciate the barrier that values of independence and autonomy pose to making wise decisions for the collective good. When Paul talks about governance (like above), it seems he's referring more to constitutive actions -- those that determine future possibilities -- than to day-to-day living arrangements, but maybe these categories are too artificial.
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