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Is there perhaps an error in the Tom Lehmann's New York Style Pizza Recipe that's in the recipes section of the web site? The recipe text mentions sugar a couple of times, but sugar is not one of the listed ingredients.
isaacc,You are correct. There is an omission in the recipe you referenced. That recipe originated with the PMQ Recipe Bank at http://www.pmq.com/Recipe-Bank/index.php/name/New-York-Style-Pizza/record/57724/. The omission of the sugar has been pointed out several times before, including over at the PMQ Think Tank, but never corrected.My recollection from other things that Tom has written is that he recommends that sugar be used in the NY style dough only when the cold fermentation period is to exceed two or three days. A typical percent might be 1-2%.Peter
Pete, just out of curiosity, why would Tom recommend sugar if cold ferment was longer than 2-3 days? It would seem that sugar speeds up the ferment and would help a shorter ferment time, but maybe I'm missing something?


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What is TRAD? TRAD is the Tax Refund Allocation Dilemma, and it's a hazard this time of year. Here's one reader's puzzle:
Q: I'm getting about $1,200 back for my tax refund. There are three things that I would like to do. What is the best use of that money?
If I use the money to pay off a personal loan, I'd be debt free, except for my car and student loans.
But maybe I should save the money, because I don't have a "rainy day" fund.
Or, I was in a hit-and-run a few months ago, and I'd like to get my truck fixed, but my deductible is $1,000.
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Put $200 toward your personal loan. That's a nice chunk toward being debt free—and it's all you can afford right now, given your lack of savings protection.
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|ISOSPEED Black Fire 17 String Scores
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Isospeed Black Fire is not only a firm and durable monofilament made for big hitters, but it also has an impressive level of shock-absorption for a poly-based string. Over the course of our playtest, however, the surprisingly smooth impact was trumped by this string's tremendous control. Indeed, because the power level was so manageable and the trajectory so predictable, we were able to reach maximum stroke speed without the slightest pause. This resulted in confident targeting, and it allowed us to swing big enough to generate effective spin. Ultimately, for the advanced poly player looking for a significant increase in control without decreasing comfort, Black Fire is well worth a test drive. Did we mention that this is a good option for big hitters?
Judging from our team's comments, it's no wonder that Black Fire received the lowest power score to date. Our biggest hitter, Andy, got quite a workout. He said, "I felt like I had to slug the ball to get it to go anywhere. This is definitely a dead, low-powered string. However, low-powered isn't a bad thing for polys because it lends itself to the kind of control many of the biggest hitters require. I felt like I could be really precise with my shots because the stringbed was very consistent and predictable."
Chris, who puts a full bed of poly in his wood racquet, felt right at home with Black Fire. He said, "This was a low-powered string. It was low on power and high on control even when I dropped the tension. The response suited me just fine. It allowed me to supply the power and take a big cut at the ball. It definitely had the firm feel and low-powered response of a traditional poly, yet it pocketed the ball much better. The power level reminded me of Babolat Revenge when it is strung at low tensions (say 5 lbs below the tension of Black Fire). I'd say Solinco Tour Bite had a similar power level at a similar tension."
Black Fire allows a player to take huge cuts at the ball, which helps greatly with spin production. However, it isn't shaped and does not have the vicious snapback of an RPM Blast or ALU Power. These facts didn't bother Chris, who said, "I found decent spin from this string. It didn't spit the ball out with nasty spin like some co-polys, but the spin was solid and it was also very predictable. The low power level allowed me to swing aggressively, which also helped me keep my swings fast and allowed for good access to spin. This string worked well in a powerful racquet like a Volkl Organix 7 310 because it offered the firm and relatively dead response needed to utilize the power and spin potential of the racquet. In a lower powered racquet, like the ProStaff 6.0 95 that I used for the majority of the test, it allowed me to swing very aggressively. Even when I was slightly off and not hitting the ball as cleanly as I'd like, I found I was getting enough spin to have the ball hook and stay inside the lines."
Andy was decidedly less enthusiastic about the spin potential. He said, "I felt the spin potential was pretty average for a poly, but because it's so dead feeling I had to use a lot of racquet head speed, which then leads to spin. The ball bite was pretty average; there's good ball feel and pocketing but not as much bite as I get from a shaped poly."
Players often have to trade some comfort to get the desired firmness offered by the more control-oriented polys. According to Chris, Black Fire manages to sidestep this trade-off. He said, "Black Fire is somewhat unique on the comfort front. It felt firm, yet it pocketed the ball well. Pocketing without a soft feel is a rare combination, but this string has it. The result was a string that played with a firm and stiff feel when it came to power, but actually had a pretty comfortable response. It played much like a traditional poly in many ways, but I could tell there was something added to the mix to increase the elasticity of the string, and that made it feel more comfortable than I expected. I tried this string in many racquets, and had it close to 60 lbs in more powerful racquets with absolutely no comfort issues. Very impressive considering its firm response."
Andy also noticed the friendlier response. He said, "Though the string feels dead, it is quite soft and comfortable, similar to a Luxilon ALU Power Ice. Though I really had to slug the ball with this string, it's not jarring or painful at all. It's dead but soft, thus comfortable."
One area of absolute agreement between our testers was the outstanding control they got from Black Fire. Andy was impressed, saying, "Even though I like a little more zip in my polys, I can definitely see why Big Foot would put this string in his shopping cart. Let's face it, there is nothing like the feeling that comes with not having to worry about over hitting. Attention stringers: Keep this string in the bag for the customer whose strokes are too long for the court."
Also very impressed with the control was Chris, who said, "By far the best aspect of this string for me was its control. I loved the feel and response. I felt like I could get the ball exactly where I wanted and the response of the string felt very predictable. I was able to swing away and have confidence the ball would stay within the lines. It added a useful level of control to every racquet I tried it in. I found good ball pocketing, which gave the perception of some added dwell time. The result was a high level of confidence on drop shots, touch volleys and topspin lobs. I felt like I could hold the ball well and disguise my passing shots and direction changes during points. I liked the overall feel and response of the string, and that upped the control level even more for me."
Many of the newer, more elastic co-polys have a short racquet-life because they lose resilience and power too quickly. According to Chris, Black Fire solves this problem by having nothing to lose in the first place. He said, "I have a set in one of my racquets that is three weeks old as I write this, and that puts it well beyond my usual two-week benchmark. I think that because the string is so low powered there isn't much room for it to change in playability. It starts out feeling low powered and as the tension drops out it continues to feel low powered. You should find that you can keep it in your sticks a little longer than other polys."
Andy's experience was closer to what you would expect with a polyester. He said, "The playability duration was pretty standard, about two weeks, for a polyester. After that I lost quite a bit of control as it lost tension."
Andy - "This is a nice control-oriented polyester for players with long, fast strokes. You really need to provide your own power with this one, so it's more for the high-level player who really slugs the ball. However, it's a nice option for players who like a dead poly because of the comfort it offers."
Chris - "I like the feel of traditional polys, and this string definitely checks the right boxes when it comes to offering that firm and low powered response. I think Black Fire suits the traditional poly player who is seeking a more comfortable option or a string which will last longer."
Andy - "I liked the control I received from the strings, along with the soft, comfortable feel."
Chris - "I like the control, the firm feel and the fact I don't have to cut it out every two weeks. This has become one of my go-to strings."
Andy - "I would have liked a little more liveliness and a little more ball grab to add even more spin, but I tend to gravitate toward a little crisper, livelier string."
Chris - "None, really."
Andy - "It felt similar to Luxilon ALU Power Ice, being soft and dead, but I think this feels even more dead. It's also quite similar to Solinco Revolution."
Chris - "The power level is just a tad lower and the feel not quite as sweet as my usual string, Volkl Cyclone, but this one is very, very close. This string plays like the black Gosen Polylon, but it lasts longer on the playability front and pockets the ball slightly better. However, the playability difference is slight, unlike the price difference, which is a shame. I also think players who like the firm feel of Kirschbaum strings will like this one, although it doesn't offer quite the elasticity of a Pro Line Evolution or Touch Turbo."
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Over four decades ago, two well-known scientists, John Weske and John Terborgh were on expedition in central Peru when they rescued an unusual looking black, turkey-sized bird from the camp cook's dinner prep table. They suspected it to be a subspecies of an existing curassow from Bolivia called the Horned Curassow (Pauxi u. unicornis), and described it as the same in a peer-reviewed journal.
|Sira Curassow (Pauxi koepckeae) in nature
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For many years the 'Peruvian Horned Curassow (Pauxi unicornis koepckeae)' was believed to be only a subspecies of the Bolivian form, until recent evidence showed otherwise. The bird in question is a unique species endemic to Peru's Sira mountain range, and thus was renamed the Sira Curassow (Pauxi koepckeae).
The fact the Peruvian form is separated at least 1000 km from the Bolivian species is a strong indicator that these are both distinct species. Some of the parameters distinguishing the Sira Curassow from Bolivia's Horned Curassow include thriving in different habitat at higher elevations, different behavioral patterns including the call, and of course different morphology.
In former posts I've explained my interest in Cracids – the rarest family of birds in the Americas, to which the Sira Curassow belongs. While preparing Action Plans to prioritize and direct Cracid conservation efforts, whenever we came to status of the Peruvian Horned Curassow we just sort of sat around scratching our heads, as nobody definitively knew if it was a valid species. I always had the hunch that it was valid, but without the proof of data, we'd just be telling a good story.
About a decade ago I put out a call for expeditions to locate the bird in nature to determine its status. Melvin Gastañaga bravely answered the call, venturing solo into the Sira Mountains in search of 'Peru's unicorn'. It was challenging work – of the several expeditions into the region the bird was not located during the first three, but Gastañaga remained tenacious, returning to find the bird in March 2005.
The work conditions were difficult, with several hours of hiking mountainous terrain just to locate the birds. The efforts and results obtained by Melvin and her husband Ross MacLeod are nothing short of miraculous. It goes without saying that they are the heroes in this story – the bird still would not be a species today if it wasn't for them. Indeed, weather conditions and other elements were less than cooperative, making the work all the more challenging. I was honored to be a part of the new discovery, providing the morphological assessment.
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OK. Eddie wanted us to start discussing so here it goes. For the last 3 years I have simply not had the time to read a book for the simple pleasure of reading. Last year that changed as I read the Harry Potter series for the first time (yes, a little behind on the times I know) and was blown away by them.
Then I decided to read a classic children's series The Chronicles of Narnia. Just finished the last book and was curious to get anyone's feedback on either of these franchises. Personally I loved the first 5 Narnia books with The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe, and The Horse and His Boy being particularly satisfying. However I completely disliked, almost loathed, The Magician's Nephew and barely like The Last Battle. I know Lewis was religious, but to me these two books were overly preachy and in some cases discriminatory against "darkies" as he called them. People across the desert (Arabs) pwere portrayed as worshiping a satanic/pagan god and participating in all sorts of immoral acrtivities.
If I could erase the last two books from my memory I would say it is one ofthe best series I have ever read.
Lastly, just revisitted an old friend "Catcher in the Rye". Use to read this every christmas but haven't picked it up in the last 5 years. But I have already commented on my love of this book in previous discussions.


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REDWOOD FALLS – Services for Harlan J. Whipple, 72, of Redwood Falls will be at 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Lower Sioux Community Center with visitation from 3-5 p.m. Visitation will continue on Wednesday at noon at the Oyanke Community Center in Santee, Neb. Services will be held again at 1 p.m. in Santee. Burial is in the Most Merciful Savior Episcopal Cemetery in Santee, Neb. Stephens Funeral Service – Redwood Valley Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.
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Soros Buys JCP Shares, It Must Be a Liberal Conspiracy
I made an attempt to contact conservative media tycoon Glenn Beck for his thoughts, but was only able to reach a gnome. Apparently, Beck, floating his second conspiracy theory in as many days, connects the Soros' purchase with JCP's stance on gay marriage .
Because you never know with Beck, I guess I have to explicitly state that I am joking.
In any event, why would Soros buy such a large chunk of JCP? Is there anything to indicate, on any level, that this company deserves long-term investment of any size? Consider that question rhetorical because it has the most obvious answer .
Beyond Soros's rationale, which we do not know and will never truly know (even if he goes public with media talking points), there's a scary aspect to this story. People -- rank-and-file retail investors -- will consider following Soros into this trade. In response to TheStreet's coverage of the Soros' news, we already have people pondering the question on Twitter:
"@thestreet: Soros Takes JCPenney Stake to Lead Retail Higher go-tst.com/krUVT" do we follow?— Aruns Point OF View (@ArunsPOV) April 26, 2013
Unless you're a nimble trader, run away. Soros -- intentional or not -- will set off the type of prolonged dead cat bounce we have seen in Best Buy
He buys. The media finds and over-reports the SEC filing confirming the purchase. The stock pops. That's phase one.
In phase two, the fairy tale kicks in. As we have seen with Best Buy, expect sentiment on JCP to turn mysteriously positive. The media will turn it into meme with story after story of the "turnaround" at JCP. The stock rises even higher.
Several months go by. Soros skims some profit. JCP's true colors show. The business crumbles again. He's rich. You're not. Move on the next target.
Now, I am not saying this is Soros's M.O. But, whether he's gaming the market or not is really beside the point. That's the way the dominoes fall when a guy such as Soros takes a large stake in a loser like JCP.
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Football's Mills Suspended Indefinitely
Published: June 11, 2014, 11:57 AM (CT)
Updated: June 11, 2014, 04:14 PM (CT)
by Michael Bonnette (@LSUBonnette), Sr. Assoc. Athletic Director/SID
BATON ROUGE – Junior defensive back Jalen Mills has been indefinitely suspended from the LSU football team for his involvement in an off-campus incident, head coach Les Miles announced on Wednesday.
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Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) is pleased to announce that we are seeking applications for grants from Amateurs across Canada in the following categories:
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- Community Grants for charitable institutions, senior homes, and youth centres
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The Board of Directors is especially interested in awarding grants to deserving young Amateur Radio operators who are furthering their education at the College or University level in an Electrical Engineering course. If you are enrolled in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) program we also encourage you to submit a request. Send your College / University name, recent transcript, Amateur Radio Certificate and a brief biography to RAC. Further details and application forms are available at the RAC web site: http://www.rac.ca/en/rac/donations/foundation/grant-info.php.
If you have a child or grandchild in college or university this would be a great way to assist them furthering their education in the technology fields. Using the knowledge obtained from their Amateur Radio skills to further their engineering ability.
The Board of Directors is pleased to thank all the Amateurs across Canada who have generously donated to this program. If you wish to contribute please contact RAC HQ for further details.
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NEW ULM – A 61-year-old Sleepy Eye man who earlier faced three counts of felony electronic solicitation of a child, received a stay of adjudication Monday for one count. The other two counts were dismissed.
Jon R. Jahnke of rural Sleepy Eye was sentenced to 45 days in the Brown County Jail, staggered sentences beginning Sept. 20, March 20, 2014 and Sept. 20, 2014. He was fined $1,500 with credit for out-of-pocket treatment and polygraph exam costs.
Jahnke was placed on three years supervised probation, monitored by the Minnesota Department of Corrections, Field Services. Successful probation completion results in a dismissal. Conditions include participation in a sex offender treatment program, individual counseling and no contact with females under age 18, unless a family member.
According to the complaint, a Wisconsin Department of Justice special agent working undercover as a 15-year-old female in a Minnesota Yahoo online chat room got an instant message on Jan. 20, 2010 from "justaguy58160," a screen name belonging to a person identified later as Jahnke.
Text messaging the agent that he was 32 years old, Jahnke e-mailed a photo of himself with a number of other men, wearing red vests at a formal ceremony, plus explicit photos he claimed were of himself and another underage female. Jahnke described sexual acts in detail and asked to meet the girl to have sex, according to the complaint.
In an interview with a Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) Special Agent Sept. 5, 2012 at the Brown County Law Enforcement Center (LEC), Jahnke said he never made physical contact with anyone he met electronically in chat rooms, but e-mailed them photos of himself, according to the complaint.
Jahnke stated in court Monday that much of his life over the past few decades was spent taking care of his family and his wife's family, working in a variety of low-paying jobs, and as a Sleepy Eye Hockey Association volunteer at an outdoor rink and later at the Sleepy Eye Hockey Arena.
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Travel to the woods of Maine and encounter Kate Braestrup's landscape from a falconer's perspective. Audio producer Samantha Broun and photographer Amanda Kowalski follow the story of a red-tailed hawk on the hunt. It's a hidden world.
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Home alone at the end of a Thanksgiving weekend of food and family, tonight I was putting away the last leftovers while listening to Speaking of Faith. Your amazing conversation with Kate Braestrup stopped my busy-ness and set me down to listen to the lovely presence of her voice. I needed to hear what she was saying.
Just this morning, I had a difficult conversation about faith with my wonderful but traditional young adult children. A life-long liberal Christian, I complained about how I longed for a faith community to match my sense that God is not a person, but is instead an incomprehensible spiritual source of love and goodness. I explained that holy moments for me are those rare resurrection experiences in which love is so real, so raw, we feel compelled to laugh and cry at the same time. That, I told them, is what I try convey with my words as a poet, storyteller and speaker through InSpiritry. Their faces told me they wished I could just be more normal.
Tonight as I listened to Kate talk about her ministry, I was filled with gratitude for her life and her stories. Her inspiring ability to be mindful of the God in very difficult situations filled my heart with hope and restored my faith in my spirituality and my work.
Just as she has done for so many precious families, Kate offered me the gift of being "here if you need me." I am grateful to both Krista and Kate for the blessing!
I downloaded Kristas
I downloaded Kristas conversation with Kate Braestrup and dearly loved listening to it many, many times. I found it very interesting that your sense of God is very much the same as mine. As a volunteer at an Aids hospice a nurse came from a room nearby and encouraged myself and another volunteer to sit with a resident that had just died. Inside the room we sat for just a few minutes before I sensed a presence in the room and an essence filling the room little by little. I'm sure it was God as an essence of LOVE that was very, very deep and real. Since then I have had other similar experiences and keep open for them to manifest from time to time as they do. Thank you for triggering this moment.
I have listened to your conversation with Kate Braestrup three times today. Yesterday I had never even heard of your show. Great stuff, it reminded me immediately of the Bill Moyers/Joseph Campbell 'Power of Myth' series as well as a little novel by Maugham called 'Razor's Edge'. But what I thought was most striking was to hear Miss Braestrum speak of the presence of love even in situations which are irreversable and tragic (her story of the young woman who was raped and murdered). It leaves me speechless. Thank you for putting together this program, I look forward to tuning in.
By the way, I have to admit I started listening simply because I thought you were interviewing Holly Hunter -their voices are very similar.
laughing at myself, -Mi.
Dear Ms Tippett,
I have listened to your program for many years and often meant to write you with my thanks. I suffered a life changing loss this month and my optimism has been shaken deeply.
I am finally moved to write to you a note of thanks after listening this evening to your interview with Reverend Kate Braestrup. Thank you! Thank you Reverend Braestrup. I really appreciate the balm to my soul that you both gave to me.
Warm Regards,
Frederick Baron
Thank you for this wonderful program today! The story about the woman who lost her husband to night time ice skating really touched me. I didn't expect to be crying into the frying pan while cooking my brunch, but there you have it. I've always been interested in Unitarian Universalism, but having grown up Catholic (and still working out some residual stuff) I'm pretty wary of religion. But I think I'll do some more research. Certainly I will reach out to more people. Your guest is a boon to humanity. We're lucky to have people like her doing such good work. Love and light to her and to you!
Hello - Although I loved hearing Kate's story, my experience of my husband's death by suicide was 180 opposite: disenfranchised grief, no support. I was a contract-worker, so I did not get help at work; no major attention paid to my children ages 9 and 10 at school; both families backed away; no one called; were were basically 'scapegoated' in our suburban community. Yes, if hell is 'no support/love,' then I would say that her spirituality excludes my experience. And if it excludes the experience, then it, by definition, creates another 'definition' of hell - which she acknowledges. Situations of brokenness can throw you back on your inner self ~ Rev. Henri Nouwen's "Inner Voice of Love" and much of Buddhism. Sometimes I think of the phrase 'children of a lesser god' and understand exactly what that means. -- Barbara who loves your program!
Kate Braestrup criticizes Christianity, and rightly so. But her characterization doesn't represent all Christians. Christians are divided along at least two lines*: (1) those who believe the Gospel concerns personal salvation or (2) those who follow Jesus' Gospel of the nearness of the Kingdom. The former often results in the horrifying triumphalism and tribalism that Kate detests. But the latter conforms with the agape love Kate espouses. Both Gospels can be combined together to a single Gospel. Many do so. But for others, like me, the latter is most meaningful and the former is rejected for its deleterious moral consequences.
*References: "God's Politics," (Wallis) and "Jesus before Christianity." (Nolan)
Really appreciate your
Really appreciate your comment. I think I'm a "Unitarian Christian" type. I've spent most of my nursing career , 30 years (now retired, caring for oncology and Hospice patients. Also became a Hospice chaplain. These patients and their families taught me so much about Life and Death and Faith. Last year I wrote a book about some of their stories, Transitions: A Nurse's Education about Life and Death. Blessings!! Like the book Love Wins too.
Kate Braestrup is a Unitarian-Universalist minister and author. She steps in when accidents happen. I found it extremely interesting when Krista Tippet says that Kate considers herself religious but not spiritual. I have never heard this before, and especially after listening to Kate speak it appears that she is very spiritual. I almost wonder if that was a mistake, because it is very common to hear "I'm spiritual NOT religious." It seems as I listen on, the way Kate sees the world, and God, is beautiful, and very spiritual, if I say so myself.
I think that there is something remarkably beautiful about what Kate had talked about where God is in things that happen, like accidents and tragedies. "God is love." God is the force that really drives us to really see each other and care for one another. It's always so easy to question God in times like tragedies, like all the incidents Kate has seen, the man who fell through the ice, the young woman who was raped and body was missing in the woods; that she still sees how God was part of it. It was in the love of all the people who helped and searched, and risked their own lives to help find these people. It's all in the love, and that's where God is. "Once you accept that death is a given, that becomes the thing to look for and the mark" Kate said. The mark being the love and kindness in the event, and that where God is. To be loved and to be honored, in the event of someone's death, is actually a beautiful thing. The value of our connections with people is held on a higher standard than our own lives. The existence of love between these people and their lost loved ones, is of a nature that shows almost a silver lining in bad events.
This reminds me of an assignment I had to do in a high school writing class, where we had to describe the "perfect day." Now this was just a journaling exercise, and while people were scribbling on about, shopping, and fun events that they were doing, and who they were with; mine simply stated "my funeral." Everyone in class was taken aback, even the teacher, and I let myself try to explain. It is the one day that you will be held with the utmost respect by all the people who knew you. Hopefully the place will be filled with people, all people who loved me. Maybe even a few surprises as to who would show up. Hopefully nobody will speak ill of me, because it is true, it is the one day, that everyone accepts their feelings for you, that you would not have otherwise known. That's why I am absolutely in love with what this woman, Kate Braestrup had do say about the love that comes from these accidents and tragedies. It's what I have always felt in the world, and the love with others, and that's what can guide a spiritual force.
I think it was interesting that she says "we practice our entire lives for death". This to me seems very cynical, but on the other hand it makes sense because we tend to want skills that will keep us safe i.e. balance, wisdom, or logic.
The concept that Kate lives by is to show as much love to others as possible. I feel like if more people were to consider this, life would be easier for more people. Showing compassion towards others is normally what people need.
Yesterday I happened to watch Incident at Oglala, the documentary movie made by Robert Redford about what happened at Pine Ridge in the seventies, a series of interviews with the principals involved in the bloodshed on the reservation that implicated Leonard Peltier and others. This same day, towards evening, I opened SOF on my computer, and read about Sitting Bull. This was a powerful coincidence for me. I am feeling, God is in the wings!
Leonard Peltier has been in prison for over thirty-three years for what many believe is a gross miscarriage of justice, and I believe anyone interested in this Native American and in the legacy of Sitting Bull and others ought to read deeply the literature on this subject.
Peter Mathiessen wrote a seminal book on the incidents at Pine Ridge and about the American Indian movement many years ago.It is a book about more than the facts of this case, containing as it does, an outrage for what has happened over the years, to the American Indians and how they have been so cruelly treated.
Leonard himself wrote a book, My Life is My Sun Dance, and I am reminded by this moving commentary about what happened to Sitting Bull about a history that gives most of those who care about sacred and spiritual values, deep and ongoing "reservations" that have to do with the treatment of the American Indian in history.
When Amnesty International cannot get movement on a case they feel is a total miscarriage of justice, as Leonard Peltier seems to have been targeted for a murder he says he did not commit, and when a man has been before appeals boards repeatedly and is never allowed parole, when Clinton himself pulled back, when people like Barney Frank and so many others, thousands around the world, including Nobel prize winners, cannot move this case, then one has to wonder about the notion of justice and also about the values that we say we totally cherish, the values that are about Touch the Earth, the values of deep spirituality, deep love of environment of the sacred in all things, our legacy from the Native American Indian culture.
So I am saying, it seems mighty strange I watched this movie yesterday, and then came to this site. But beyond my own recorded constant history of coincidence I am saying something is so wrong with this picture. Maybe it's time to speak out for justice and that a spirituality that includes social action is a step worth taking, so we can all be in step, about the issue of humanity, and a mandate I do totally believe is our "man date", namely to act to ensure justice and equality for all and a reverence for the American Indian and recognition of the unjust ways we have treated these peoples, this culture.
December l8 was yesterday and I am aware of the significance of numbers, yesterday being Chai, for LIFE in Hebrew.
This morning a friend sent me a wonderful article by Simon Jacobson, a Rabbi, about the unitary metaphoric connects that do bind all life. It was poetically stated, and I recognized the thread within as being ONE we are all writing about, each in our own unique and very special ways. Kate's life, in terms of the tragedy that suddenly envelopped her, when her husband was killed in the car accident, is a case in point, and she is very clear about how, in the events that followed, she felt supported, in ways that were magical, by other people who came into her life at this time. In fact, she took on his calling and went on to study in the ministry herself, what her husband had been about to do. This was a life changing experience, that within the deepest of tragedy, came with it, also, the light. Yes light within dark. It seems an ongoing religious, certainly, spiritual theme for us all.
When we examine the existential content of our individual and collective lives, there is story within, and there seems to be a lesson or many lessons, that can be derived from the distillation of the experiences, even those that do overwhelm us and cause us to question a Deity. We can ACT to help each other, to make the experiences that truly hit hard, into something of gold, of silver, an amalgam of kindness and caring. Could it be all stories are crated by a Divine Hand to make us think, and to bring us further up Jacob's ladder, one rung at a time. DING, as in what is ringing, what is rung, a realization that story itself is for climbing, as stories are also, for climbing.
We are just not coming back (as far as we know). There is this one precious life. In it there will be joy and loss and there is no hiding from the loss, no "get out of jail" card for the loss, no "redo." If that is the case, how much more special and rare the time we have here; how much more sacred and redemptive the love. How much more important to be the love for oneself and others instead of adding to the loss.
I was very taken by Kate's story about the death of her first husband, and how her life many years later is great and still she carries with her his loss. It is both, together. She is refreshingly honest about death, which I find comforting. Her honesty about death helped me understand her appreciation and deep engagement in life - human life within a community of love. Yet, she made the love more significant than death. As in death is inevitable, but love is a choice that transcends every moment. I wish more of us would take this choice and run with it for all we are worth.
I also happen to be married to someone who tends to crash about in his physical space. He is the person who wants to know exactly how fast his motorcycle will go, and tests it to find out (175 mph - no, I was NOT there that day). He would have things in common with accident victims she and the wardens encounter. People who just want to live. Before I met my husband I was much more afraid of dying. Now I am much more aware of how amazing this life is, yet that is because my husband lives his life with such zest. But that zest is a choice on his part, knowing how hard and cruel the world can be - live it well like you mean it. I agree with Kate, the living is really the key to what we can know now.
Today's show with Kate Braestrup, the UU minister, was terrific and I could really relate to her story and how she relates to those whose lives intersect with hers. Too often, I find the interviews by Krista Tippett to be very 'precious' and too vague or ethereal to be resonant with my life as a person of faith (Quaker, social justice activist, planner/engineer). But as one who lives in north western NH along the CT River and has similar stories to those told by Kate from Maine, I found this interview excellent.
Thank you,
Shawn Donovan
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This was another wonderfully humanizing and comforting show. I found comfort and recognized the true humanity in Ms Braestrup's own admission of weakness, past and recurring, when she visited the wall that immortalizes her late husband along with the thousand other fallen law enforcement officers. On Jan 1, 2001, I lost the biggest cheerleader/support system I've EVER had, my uncle Greg, a TN State Highway Patrolman and talk about a helluva impact!!
I was not yet 30, but this time changed me forever! It felt like I slept through the worst nightmare ever for the next 5 or 6 years because of it. In an instance of heroism and simply doing what he loved - protecting his community - I'd lost my surrogate father just when I needed him most. I was about to be a divorced, single mother of a 1 yr old boy living in Washington, DC with NO family support and he'd prepared to drive later in the week from Nashville, TN to DC to move me into an apartment for the safety of myself and my son. We'd confirmed our plans on 31 Dec and the last thing out of his mouth was "You'll be fine, I promise. I love you." He never made it here, needless to say and I had to make his promise to me true in a vulnerable state of mind/body/spirit. I still have moments...lots of them, when the loss HITS me just like the impact of the drunk driver in the pick up that ended his life on the icy roads of Nashville on New Year's Day that year. And yes, I have no i dea sometimes how to deal with the grief. I do FEEL as if I'll lose my mind, but I think about him and realize that's NOT what he'd do. Today a fellow mourner made me FEEL better about HOW I FEEL about the loss and how I allow others to help me grieve.
To date, I'm the only family member who has NOT participated in the week-long activities for family members' of The Fallen though I've lived here since the family started attending in 2001. I don't go and the family has stopped asking me to go. So I've resigned myself to the solitary visits when I occasionally steal away from my own family and venture down to the memorial and honor him with a flower, or just sitting and being, or crying like a new born baby - audible with all of the torment that comes with that loss tied to times when I WANT him here with me. Sometimes when I visit it, I'm comforted in knowing that the others visiting, are my kindred living through their own pain or as she put it celebrating the life that their loved one lived kind of in spite of how they died.
Thank you Minister Braestrup, for sharing and confirming for me that I'm not alone.
Thank you Krista Tippett and staff of On Being for this show in particular.
I heard the interview with
I heard the interview with Kate Braestrup this morning and found it profoundly meaningful in light of yesterday's school tragedy. How fortunate that circumstances "aligned" so that it this sad morning. I believe those mourning parents would have found it helpful, too. As a retired Presbyterian minister, I concur with her statement that heaven and hell are not about death, but about how we live life and utilize the time available to us, Thanks to her for common-sense, simple-yet-practical view of God/love. And thanks to Krista for her enriching programs. I listen regularly and often share things I hear with the Adult Class I teach on Sunday mornings. Your program is truly an important, if lonely, breath of fresh air among all the "stuff" on today's radio-tv.
Love the book! I'm a retired
Love the book! I'm a retired nurse spending the bulk of my career in Oncology and Hospice and also became a Hospice Chaplain. I started writing to process my emotions at my husband's suggestion. This turned into a weekly newspaper column, Beyond Statistics. I continue to penn this column weekly. The first one was May 1986. So with another suggestion from my husband last year I wrote a book sharing some of my patients stories. Some with pre-death visions, some with NDE 's, some humorous, some heart wrenching. You see, they were always teaching me so many lessons. Transitions:A Nurse's Education about Life and Death
blessings to Kate and especially today and many days ahead to all who are suffering loss and those who walk beside them.
Love and Light, Becki
I listened to this podcast
I listened to this podcast for the first time yesterday morning (Dec. 14, 2012) while walking my dog as the tragedy and heartbreak was occurring in Connecticut. I was caught up in my own thoughts and grief of losing my sister unexpectedly at Thanksgiving. When I returned home and heard the first news reports, the grief was overwhelming but the words from Kate Braestrup helped to guide me to find my own "best practices" for how to respond and "just be" with my family when there are no words that suffice. Thank you for replaying this podcast. I have listened to it again today and sent it on to others as well.
I heard this program for the
I heard this program for the first time on December 16, 2012, two days after the Newton, Connecticut shooting where a 20-year old male shot 20 young children, 6 school personnel, his mother, and himself, to death. As the President said, we in this country have been through this too many times. The combination of a general mindset very different from that of Kate Braestrup and Krista Tippett and the 300 million guns owned by the citizens of this country indicates we will go through it again and again, unless we can change as a nation.
This program is most certainly part of the foundation of that change. I don't pretend to be able to conceive of or understand a being present in human emotions and also in exploding galaxies. I'm glad this program doesn't presume to be able to psychoanalyze God and tell us what He or She would like us to think and do today. I have some anger myself at those who claim to have that knowledge, and I realize that there are places in the world where that claim is made more vehemently than it is here in the good old USA. But we're the ones with this particular gun violence problem, and I hope that the human kindness and goodness that comes through so fully in the voices of Kate and Krista can be heard by those who have not heard it before. It's the only countermeasure I can think of right now.
I loved the interview with
I loved the interview with Kate Braestrup the first time you broadcast it. But today, Sunday, Dec 16, 2012, the repeat broadcast proved even more intensely moving, coming after the horrors of last Friday in Newtown. It was consoling. Thank you. I know it was not planned this way--how could it be?--but perhaps, well, Providential?
In gratitude,
Pamela Starr
I'm sorry, but this woman on
I'm sorry, but this woman on your show today left me with a "gag me with a spoon" response. How is it that ordinary human love and kindness has to be associated with a "god"? And that she makes such a big issue of Mainers who come out for "public: emergenies worries me. Did she live her life apart from normal kind caring people. You know, response to an emergency is just one example of human kindness. I look at my own neighbors, several of whom are avowed agnostics, and would never ascribe their good will or generosity to a god, and see the characteristics she extolls as so amazing among people of her state happening each and every day. And it annoys me that she has now made a career and gets to be on the radio about this.
I think, with all respect,
I think, with all respect, you're misunderstanding the nuance of what Kate said. She's not saying that love and kindness are proof of God or only because of God. She's saying that love and kindness are the essence of what a "God" would be, whether you believe in an actual God or not. That the sacredness that we think of as God is found and embodied in human kindness. It's very consistent with what many agnostics and thoughtful atheists believe (not surprising, given she's a Unitarian Universalist and admits to her own skepticism about the existence of God).
I loved this interview the
I loved this interview the first time I heard it, and I wrote a blog entry in response. It's too long to post here, but the link is:
Someone asked why "ordinary
Someone asked why "ordinary love and kindness" has to be associated with a god. If you believe in God,you believe that we were
constructed that way by God. Even if you don't believe in God, you can see that "ordinary love and kindness" has an evolutionary value. Those who help one another help in the survival process of others.
I have been a listener for a
I have been a listener for a couple of years, maybe more. I have found virtually all of your interviews interesting and many have been inspirational. She spoke of finding God (Love) in places we normally do not think of. Today, I found God (Love) in this conversation.
I had listened to this
I had listened to this program shortly before the Newtown shootings and returned to it three times during that week to help make sense with that tragedy. Again yesterday I listened to it after the Boston marathon bombings. I thought of her simple but comforting words, God is in the people who come to help. Thank you for this show. For some reason it serves as a touchstone about the goodness of habits to me, in a season of senseless violence in my beloved New England. May we find peace again soon.
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I really enjoyed your interview with Kate Braestrap. I have dealt with a terrible loss of my own, and having someone try to shove their religious beliefs on me would have been aweful. I think that it's great that Kate doesn't do that. It seems like she approaches each situation differently depending on the environment that she walks in to. It doesn't suprise me that she has had success in her life because of how she can not only relate to the grief that people go through, but also that she can approach a situation like she mentioned with the ice skater. She was told right off that the widow didn't like cops or religion, and instead of pushing the subject, Kate saw that the women had the support that she currently needed. I think that if she would have pushed further, she would have made things worse. It takes a wise person to know when to push, and when to back off.
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I had missed the interview with Kate Braestrup in 2013 and picked it up today. I found her insights so rich and pertinent to the tense situation today between police and Black Life Matters and with the Refugee issue confronting Europe today and with the confusion of living day to day in what often feels chaotic and out of our control. Kate basically lives the truth that what we are here on this planet to do is Love. Death is a given, living in Love is our road.


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Where to Run in Thailand
- Khao Yai National Park is easily accessible for tourists and locals. For information on camping and bungalows, visit: www.dnp.go.th/parkreserve/nature.asp?lg=2
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Icaro Doria, a 25 year young Brazilian who works for the magazine Grande Reportagem in Lisbon via FCB Publicidade (*the ad agency) created this poster campaign of flags together with Luis Silva Dias, Joso Roque and Andrea Vallenti.
The flag-campaign is for Revista Grande Reportagem, and the idea is to 'bring across concept that the magazine offers profound journalism about topics of real importance to the world of today.'
The flags have hit a nerve as they've circled the earth once or twice already in chain letter emails even though they were only intended to be a poster campaign, won a well deserved gold at the One Show, and over at Brazilian artist .net they have a short email chat with Icaro Doria where he explains that they used data from Amnesty international and UN. Because the UN keeps lists of how many Americans don't know where Iraq is.
Update: a slight change in the above text, just adding the *asterix to make it clear that FCB Publicidade is an advertising agency in Lisbon (a good and quite famous one at that). It seemed necessary as this post about the flag-ads for Grande Reportagem (Portugals "TIME" magazine) has been all over the web described as anything but an ad campaign.
It's either "art" or a "political statement" and it's even (gasp!) been fictitiously nominated as "an entry for contention in the Nobel Prize of Political Marketing." (see here). There's no such thing.
Well, kids, if it's on Adland you can be damn sure it ain't nothing but a good old fashioned ad campaign. ;)
Grande Reportagem is the client, Icaro Doria is one of the creatives and FCB is the ad agency.
Client: Grande Reportagem
Ad agency: FCB Publicidade
Creative: Icaro Doria, Luis Silva Dias, Joso Roque and Andrea Vallenti.
I found the person who claimed they counted the pixels in the image rather amusing. They sure are being extremely nitpicky and way over analytical.
I like the ads. I think they work.
Brilliant campaign. Doesn't matter if the 'figures' are accurate or not. The point is made.
Wish I'd done it.
One campaign. One shot. Congrats Icaro (and Joso Roque). Curiosly I've met Icaro 3 years ago at Leo Burnett Lisbon and then TBWALisbon, before he moved to FCB Lisbon last year (he then moved back again to FCB S. Paulo). He's a young ambitious creative with great talent. Congrats again, 2005 will be his year. PS:: By the way, he won the Young Creatives 2005 in Brazil, therefore will be at Cannes this year.
Good! Then he'll give some of the mediocre teams that I know are going there some stuff competition. ;)
This misses the Angola Meet the World flag.
The American flag one doesn't work. If only 25% of Americans couldn't locate Iraq on a world map that would be extremely impressive.
What country is the green\red one with 1 yellow star?
This is really interesting. The only thing that caught me up was the Brazilian flag. I think the key would be clearer with amounts expressed mathematically (ex: 10>100).
Your reply does shine a light on why this type of comment happens: This series is being posted to various forums, and out of context, the original intent of this series is unclear. It is thereby often taken at face value to be a visual representation of statistics. Looking up those statistics does quickly bring some of these visuals into question though. While apparently the original intent of the magazine was to "bring across the concept that the magazine offers profound journalism about topics of real importance to the world of today" and use the colors of flags to new effect, that abstract notion isn't clear apart from the immediate identification of this campaign with their magazine. The viewer is led to interpret the visual as an artistic graphic of actual statistics, and is thereby misled. This is both a poor reflection on journalism and a lesson on how art can be essentially meaningless.
Once it becomes clear that the images and facts have potentially NO correlation at all, the issue itself is easily discarded. Which is terribly alarming considering some of the issues. It's easy to dismiss it as "merely" an ad, or art, or to tell people they're missing the point. But this does show that not only are both sides capable of missing the point, the point isn't even always what you think it is. If this were intended as art, it could be seen as merely inaccurate but more focused on an abstract point. As a graph it's both inaccurate and unclear. As a model of a news magazine's mission statement? It leaves the client potentially open to a ridiculous level of ridicule with it's inaccuracy, but provides an immediate visual punch. It's acclaim and prize status is justifiable, but it's also making it pretty clear that when you put something out in front of the public you no longer control the message.
"It's acclaim and prize status is justifiable, but it's also making it pretty clear that when you put something out in front of the public you no longer control the message."
Or the expiration date. I assume you realize this is eight years old, right? This didn't come out yesterday.
As pointed out, it is not art, and it isn't making a political statement. It is an ad. It isn't an actual diagram based on a poll. It is an ad. It is selling a magazine and the wide range of coverage found within. That's it.
And judging by the fact it is still being discussed nearly nine years later, I'd say they did an amazing job at it.
Did anyone proofread this article? Because none of the images embeded to text are working.
I still don't understand how people can seriously believe that flags, original flags in the correct colors and with the stripes and colors in the sizes they always are on each countries flag, somehow are exact representations of the numbers presented with them.
The "for Iraq war, Against Iraq war" are stereotypes at best.
The exports or cocaine vs coffee-beans a clear joke.
This is being taken far too seriously, considering how banal ad simplified it actually is.
The inaccuracies matter because they perpetuate stereotypes and mislead. The Colombian flag perpetuates the notion that the number #1 Colombia export is cocaine. It isn't, petroleum is (twice as much petroleum as cocaine as a matter of fact).
This stuff then gets to uniformed Americans that proceed to vote for Pro-Drug War candidates. So, no, this campaign does more harm than good.
PS. Colombia exports more flowers than bananas. So why choose bananas? Banana Republic?


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Confession: As a career-preneur, I rarely take a vacation. I travel constantly, but I'm always working. And it's bad—for me and for my business. I'm writing this as much for you as a declaration for myself.
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