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(What's The Story) Stealing Glory?
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|(What's The Story) Stealing Glory?
| October 2 1995 (UK)
October 3 1995 (U.S.)
|Orchestral Tex-Mex
| Big Brother
|Noel Gallagher, Lennon, McCartney
(What's The Story) Stealing Glory? is the second in a series of cover albums by the British Orchestral Tex-Mex band Oasis. Though spanning the decades, the majority of the album's tracks originate from the sixties/seventies period.
The album's success was greatly profitable for all concerned, except, quite surprisingly, for the band themselves. This is because none of the songs, with the exception of the secret track, "Beatlejuice", which features a set of drunken vocals by rhythm guitarist and part-time nonentity Bonehead, were actually originally written. However, lead guitarist Noel Gallagher was quoted as saying:
|I don't give an arctic monkeys so long as we get free pints at every bar in the world. And cigarettes in hell.
edit Legal proceedings
Originally, the album was set to list "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" by Stevie Wonder. However, Wonder's lawyers soon caught on and threatened to sue should the song be on the final cut. In its place, the band were forced to hastily record a sketchy version of Led Zeppelin's Bring It On Home featuring Paul Weller on recorder and Evan Dando on kitchen pans. Critics actually claim this to be the best song on the album "for its comedy value".
Beatles guitarist and songwriter John Lennon would have also sued for the inclusion of Imagine, but was unavailable for comment at the time, as he was turning in his grave.
edit Album Art
Many claim the photograph on the cover of the album is an opportunistic snap taken by freelance photographer that features lead singer Liam Gallagher about to smash a Cockney/Damon Albarn/photographer outside a seedy nightclub in Burnage. This has since been confirmed as incorrect by band publicist Jamie 'Strawberry' Fields and later by Gallagher himself, who forcibly claims "he would never go back to that shithole if [his] life depended on it".


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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 4, No. 375. Monday, 21 June 1993.
Date: Friday, 18 Jun 1993 22:00:53 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: 4.0371 Re: Duncan (con't)
Comment: Re: SHK 4.0371 Re: Duncan (con't)
Michael Long's THE UNNATURAL SCENE, as Steve Urkowitz says, is worthy reading -
for many reasons, including Long's comments on MACBETH. Howsomever, my own dark
vision sees it differently these days. Duncan is probably just as self serving
as everyone else in Shakespeare's imagined Scotland. After Banquo and Macbeth
win the war for him, does he appoint either of them as the next king? No way.
He appoints his do-nothing son - who is perhaps just as bad as he later
presents himself in the play. Do you believe that he's merely testing Macduff?
Many of my students - cynical worldlings - believe that he's giving an accurate
presentation of his character. Can you prove otherwise?
Banquo is a time server - as his final soliloquy indicates. Macduff leaves
his family to the tender mercies of the evil king he has distrusted from the
beginning. Macduff's castle, by the way, is on the coast of Fife - a ruin that
you can see today. Why couldn't he bring his family along with him to England?
(If you tell me that I'm mixing history and literature, I'll cheer. I relish
the distinction. New Historicists and Cultural Materialists must remain
silent.) In any case, Macduff is not Mr. Nice Guy. I used to think that he was,
but Shakespeare gives him a chance to explain why he left his children and wife
behind - and Macduff says - nothing.
No, no, Scotland is a chthonic world - no Apollonian breezes blowing through
this bleak waste land. If anything, England's King Edward serves as a
contrast to the Scottish kings.
As to ambiguity, who is Bellona's bridegroom? A good case can be made for
Macduff, though the editors usually assure us that it's Macbeth. I'd expect the
Thane of Fife to be fighting the battle in Fife. If he isn't, what is Macduff
doing during the battle? Oh, dear! Could he be fighting with the rebels? Am I
asking questions that should not be asked? If Macbeth hadn't bumped off Duncan,
would Macduff have done the job for him? (Or was it REALLY Lady's dad?)
But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool, and time that takes
survey of all other world must have a stop.
Yours, Bill Godshalk

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Obama and Socialism
Socialism is socialism
Lenin -- Class-based International Socialism
Hitler -- Race-based National SocialismObama -- Class- and
Race-based Post-National Socialism
So the New Party claimed Obama as a member as of 1996. Progressive
Populist magazine agreed in this
New Party members and supported candidates won 16 of 23 races, including
an at-large race for the Little Rock, Ark., City Council, a seat on the
county board for Little Rock and the school board for Prince George's
County, Md. Chicago is sending the first New Party member to Congress,
as Danny Davis, who ran as a Democrat, won an overwhelming 85% victory.
New Party member Barack Obama was uncontested for a State Senate
seat from Chicago.
Barack Obama chose to affiliate himself with this band of
quasi-communists. As the nation moves closer to the election,
it is clear that Obama chose to affiliate with assorted anti-American
radicals. Machiavelli once noted that we can know a leader by the
people he surrounds himself with. What does it say about Barack
Obama, that he chooses to surround himself with people committed to
overthrowing the United States and capitalism?
Democratic Socialist Party of America was slightly more modest in
claiming Senator Obama as an adherent:
Still, it appears clear that as of 1996, the New Party and its parent
organization the Democratic Socialists of America considered Barack
Obama to be their guy--one of a handful of avowed socialists running for
office at any level in the United States. It strikes me that Obama
has some explaining to do.
"When I'm President, I will raise the minimum wage and make it a
living wage by making sure that it rises every time the cost of living
does. I'll start letting our unions do what they do best again --
organize our workers and lift up our middle-class. And I'll finally make
sure every American has affordable health care that stays with you no
matter what happens by passing my plan to provide universal coverage and
cut the cost of health care by up to $2500 per family."
"The philosophy behind the project is simple -- if poverty is a disease
that infects an entire community in the form of unemployment and
violence; failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat
those symptoms in isolation. We have to heal that entire community. And
we have to focus on what actually works."
• "Universal," "guaranteed" health care.
• "Free" college tuition.
• "Universal national service" (a la Havana).
• "Free" job training (even for criminals).
• "Wage insurance" (to supplement dislocated union workers' old income
• "Free" child care and "universal" preschool.
• More subsidized public housing.
• A fatter earned income tax credit for "working poor."
• And even a Global Poverty Act that amounts to a Marshall Plan for the
Third World, first and foremost Africa.
• "Universal 401(k)s" (in which the government would match contributions
made by "low- and moderate-income families").
Obama, Officials, Democrats Support Global Socialism
But at a "Global
Progress Conference" in October, Barack
Obama's pollster, Joel Benenson, acknowledged that socialized medicine
in the U.S. faces a serious obstacle. He said that while Europeans
are receptive to the expansion of government in their lives, in America
there is an anti-government culture which prevents people from
"expecting the State to solve their problems."
"This explains why Obama will find it
difficult to implement the social coverage plans such as a broader
health service,"
Benenson reportedly said.
The conference was held in Madrid,
Spain under the patronage of Spain's socialist Prime Minister José Luis
Rodríguez Zapatero, whose pro-homosexual and pro-abortion policies have
led to
street protests
by thousands of
supporters of traditional values. Zapatero is also under fire for
a jobless rate of nearly 18 percent.
Former Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean said on
December 8 that "cooperation" between European socialists and the
Democratic Party has "intensified significantly" over the last several
years and involves "regular contact" at "Congress, Senate, party and
foundation levels." He added that "efforts have been remarkable
from both sides."
Dean's comments came in
a video address
in which he joked that his failure to personally attend the Party of
European Socialists (PES) convention, which was advertised as a "carbon
neutral congress," was actually a smart move because he avoided flying
and contributing to global warming. "We've saved a lot of carbon,"
Dean said.
In his comments, Dean called for a
"long-term global vision" for the transformation of the global economy
and mentioned that disgraced Democratic President Bill Clinton had
previously spoken at a meeting of the PES-sponsored Global Progressive
Forum. The
April 2-3 Global Progressive Forum
also featured Robert Borosage of the left-wing group that calls itself
the Campaign for America's Future.
Global Progressive Forum
also sponsored by the Socialist International, whose U.S. affiliate, the
Democratic Socialists of America, includes long-time backers of Barack
globalization alone cannot achieve social justice," Dean told the PES
convention. "What the world needs is a global New Deal."
Continue reading how this will happen
here . . .
Obama Begins His Assault On Your Life Savings
"Under current law, workers who earn a salary
pay a flat tax of 1.45 percent of their wages to support the
Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund, but those who have
substantial unearned income do not, raising issues of fairness,"
says the summary. "The Act will include an additional 0.9
percentage point Hospital Insurance tax for households with incomes
exceeding $200,000 for singles and $250,000 for married couples
filing jointly. In addition, it would add a 2.9 percent tax
for such high-income households to unearned income including
interest, dividends, annuities, royalties and rents (excluding
income from active participation in S corporations)."
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..."Pragmatic cooperation" with the ICC-for
example, helping it with investigations and sitting in on court
bodies, [proponents argue] would give the U.S. a voice on decisions
that affect its interests, such as helping the ICC define the "crime
of aggression." U.S. officials were stunned that a recent
draft defining aggression was so wide-reaching that NATO would have
been criminally liable in the 1999 Kosovo war......The ICC's
indictments have so far targeted nasty characters in Africa, but the
court has always resisted outside oversight, especially from the
U.S. What's more, no amount of reform of the founding treaty
will change the ICC's inherent flaw. The ICC is a child of the
doctrine of "universal jurisdiction," which holds that courts can
adjudicate crimes [by their definition] committed anywhere in the
...the important decisions would increasingly be
undertaken by courts, especially by federal courts. It will be
the California referendum process writ national, a process by which
the decisions of millions of voters on matters such as racial
quotas, social services funding, and immigration policy have been
routinely overturned by single judges acting in the name of the
Constitution -- not the Framers' Constitution, but a "constitution
for our times," a "living constitution," resembling, sadly, the
constitutions of failed and despotic nations across the globe.
As various advocates of a 21st century constitution have urged,
[the constitution should] be interpreted to allow the invention of a
host of new "rights," and thus be construed to guarantee social or
economic equality. However pleasing this might sound to some
people, there should be no mistake: adopting this interpretation
will supplant representative decision-making with the
decision-making of unelected, unaccountable, and life-tenured
Jonah Goldberg has written
an important article in Commentary on what he calls the
"neo-socialism" of the
Obama administration. David Horowitz likes this label.
says is both accurate and more palatable than the term
"neo-communism" which I have applied to the hard left. But
given the twenty-year political partnership between
a neo-Communist like
Billy Ayers and Obama, and Obama's coterie of
Communist Party mentors and allies, it is at bottom a distinction
without a difference.
Neo-socialists are fellow travelers of neo-Communists and
vice-versa. The real division in the modern world is between
totalitarians and
libertarians, and pivot of this division is the inherent conflict
between liberty and equality. Since people are born unequal (in
talent, capability, brain power and physical beauty and prowess) and
since they develop unequally through circumstance, the only way to make
them equal is
to take away everyone's liberty. And of course this will not
make them equal because those who get to decide who is made equal and at
what pace constitute a new and oppressing ruling class.
This truth is
the focus of Federalist Paper #10 and is enshrined in the Constitution
which is why every leftist is at war with it and is dedicated to
rewriting it. So-called progressives are the 21st Century's true
reactionaries who have failed to learn the lessons of the most horrific
social experiment ever inflicted on the human race which murdered 100
million people and destroyed the lives of billions. The term
"neo-socialism" attaches them to that awful legacy and serves as a
warning to present and future generations of the price that will be paid
to achieve
"social justice" and also of the fact that the pursuit "social
justice" is an evil fantasy which can never be realized.
Horowitz has two quibbles with Jonah's excellent piece. First,
it was Rousseau (in The Social Contract), not Babeuf who
identified private property as the root of all evil. Second,
"social justice" is not a milder socialist impulse -- it is in fact a
code for communism in the hardest sense. Hayek wrote a brilliant
book called
The Mirage of Social Justice which argued that
1) there is no such entity as "society" which distributes wealth.
Hence the call for social justice is simply a mask -- a fake rationale
-- for distributing wealth politically and thus arrogating to one
political faction totalitarian control of everyone else.
• Washington Post "JournoListas" so far
identified include -- Alec McGillis, Greg Sargent, Dave Weigel
• The American Prospect "Journolistas"
include -- Spencer Ackerman, Dean Baker, Sam Boyd, Tim Fernholz,
John Judis, Ezra Klein (JournoList founder), Mark Schmitt, Adam
Serwer, Robert Kuttner (author of two books on the Obama
Administration) and Paul Waldman
• Democratic Socialists of America
affiliated "JournoListas" include -- Joel Bleifuss, Todd Gitlin, a
Progressives for Obama supporter), John Judis, Michael Kazin, Scott
McLemee, Rick Perlstein, Katha Pollitt (Feminists for Peace and
Barack Obama) endorser and Robert Kuttner
• Barbara Ehrenreich -- D.S.A. leader,
Progressives for Obama founder
• Christopher Hayes -- Washington
editor of The Nation, JournoList member, affiliate of D.S.A. linked
publication In These Times
• Gerry Hudson -- D.S.A. member ,
executive vice-president of the very pro Obama SEIU
• Michael Kazin -- co-editor of
Dissent, JournoList member, close to D.S.A.
• Harold Meyerson
It's tragic for so many reasons that Michael
died too young; his voice and his wisdom are sorely needed.
How he would marvel at the election of Barack Obama and the promise
that this victory affords all of us on the democratic left! He
is sorely missed. But were he alive, I would hope -- and
expect, that he and others who are informed by this vision of
democratic socialism would join with us in SEIU as we seek to take
advantage of a moment most of us have spent our lifetimes only
dreaming of.
"Our state cannot and should not continue
maintaining companies productive entities, services and budgeted
sectors with bloated payrolls (and) losses that hurt our economy.
Job options will be increased and broadened with new forms of
non-state employment, among them leasing land, cooperatives and
self-employment, absorbing hundreds of thousands of workers in the
coming years."
"We have to erase forever the notion that
Cuba is the only country in the world in which people can live
without working."
"I am glad to meet an Indian communist.
I am told that communists have been part of the (Indian) political
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By Mayumi Negishi
India may be the world's fastest-growing mobile-phone market, but no-one said it was a predictable one, or that success there would be easy.
That's a lesson Japan's largest telecom carrier, NTT Docomo, learned the hard way. Not only has it been reeling from stiff price competition from local carriers, in February last year, it was thrown for a loop when local authorities cancelled 122 telecom licenses granted to eight companies, citing fraud in the allocation of the permits that allow carriers access to chunks of airwaves to supply network services. The permits were then put on auction again. Tata Teleservices, in which Docomo holds a 26% stake, had three of its licenses cancelled.
While the ruling prompted soul-searching at Docomo, the company says it has no plans to sell any part of its Tata stake, denying Indian media reports it was looking for an exit from the market.
"We were thrown for a loop when we heard about (the auctioning of the revoked licenses and the rule changes), but we plan to hold on to our stake," Docomo President Kaoru Kato said in an interview Wednesday. "We're aware that growth may take time," he added.
He also denied reports Docomo was in talks to sell a stake in the loss-making telecom to Russian conglomerate AFK Sistema which owns Sistema Shyam Teleservices in India.
"We are in this for the long haul. So there are a few surprises. There is no mistake that growth will come," he said.


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text: Johannesburg - Bafana Bafana will host Mozambique in Gordon Igesund's second match in charge, officials have revealed, although Safa must still confirm the fixture, according to a report on the Sowetan website.It will be played in Nelspruit on Tuesday, September 11, with its position close to the border expected to deliver a bumper crowd.South Africa first have a prestige friendly against five-time world champions Brazil, marking the start of Igesund's regime. The game is set for Sao Paulo on September 7 and is being marketed as a symbolic hand-over from the previous to next hosts of the Soccer World Cup. The national team will then have to fly back across six time zones for their meeting with the Mambas - only the third against the country's eastern neighbour.


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It's mayor v motorists as Left Bank in Paris becomes pedestrian zone
It will be a lovers' dream — a chance to take a riverside stroll in the heart of one of the world's most romantic cities, amid gardens, restaurants and music.
But Paris council's decision to turn the Left Bank into a pedestrian precinct will be a nightmare for motorists, critics say.
They are predicting an upsurge in traffic jams when the expressway that runs along the Seine is closed next week in preparation for one of the most significant projects in the city since the Second World War. "This will be a catastrophe," said Pierre Chasseray, who leads 40 Millions d'Automobilistes (40 Million Motorists), the campaign group. "It will mean 300 or 400 more cars on every main road ... every hour."
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Choosing paper over plastic, Rachel McAdams was spotted getting a little shopping done with beau Michael Sheen in Los Angeles, California on Saturday (April 21).
Carrying a couple bags each, "The Vow" actress looked stunning in a simple red dress and matching flats as she smiled and chatted it up with her "Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans" boyfriend and, despite recent rumors, there was no sign of an engagement ring.
After falling in love on set of "Midnight in Paris" in 2011, the couple reportedly wants to exchange vows there, as a source told press, "Michael is planning on proposing to Rachel very soon. They both want to take their relationship to the next level. They are madly in love and want to start a family together."
Getting hitched seems to be in Rachel's plans, as she recently said, "(Getting married and having children) is something I've always wanted. A friend just got married to a guy she'd known for six years and had been living with for a long time. She was such a ball of nerves."
The 33-year-old's view of marriage has changed over time, of which she admitted, "She loves the guy and at first I was thinking, 'Isn't this part just the formality?' Then I realised there's a big difference between whispering sweet nothings when it's just the two of you and getting up and making the promise in front of all the people you love, who will be in your life for the rest of your life."
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Brazil's beef exports jumped 25 percent in the first quarter of 2013 compared with the same period a year earlier, thanks to a more favorable exchange rate and increased demand abroad, the head of the country's main beef industry group said on Friday.
Brazil, the world's top beef exporter, shipped 324,500 tonnes abroad in the first three months of 2013. Profits from those exports rose 18 percent to $1.44 billion.
Profits increased even though the average price per tonne of beef fell 5.5 percent to $4.62 in March compared with $4.88 from the same month a year earlier.
Brazil's currency, the real, bid 1.99 to the dollar on Friday, 1 percent stronger from the previous day but 8.6 percent weaker from a year earlier.
"The exchange rate is helping, the average price fell and this increased the volume exported, we were more competitive," Fernando Sampaio, the Executive Director of Abiec, told Reuters.
Sales to Russia, the top buyer of Brazilian beef, as well as Hong Kong, Venezuela, Chile, Egypt and Europe accounted for 60 percent of exports in the period.
"Sales went well in all these markets, but we beat a record in exports to Hong Kong, reflecting strong consumption in China and Southeast Asia," Sampaio said.
Exports grew even though a few small buyers have banned imports of Brazilian beef since the World Animal Health Organization said late last year that a cow that died in 2010 had atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the prion that causes mad disease, though it did not actually develop the dreaded illness.
Though Brazil is the world's top meat exporter, it actually consumes 80 percent of the beef it produces domestically.
Meatpacker Marfrig and JBS, the world's top beef producer, have said they expect an increase in the number of cattle available for slaughter in the second quarter of 2013, as the traditional rainy season ends in Brazil.
Renato Costa, chief executive of JBS, said at an event on Thursday he expected the number of cattle moved off of pastures and onto feed lots in Brazil to grow by 10 percent this year, driven by lower feed costs.
Brazil, which is famed for its grass-fed beef, is confining more animals to feed lots and converting degraded pastures into soybean fields.
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The case of what appeared to be a stabbing has reached a mysterious end, with police declining to comment further.
"It's basically not a police matter at this point," Brandon Police Service Const. Ron Burgess said on Wednesday.
Firefighter/paramedics helped a man out of a home on the 200-block of 12th Street on Tuesday afternoon.
The man was then assisted onto a stretcher.
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Avengers and other Marvel heroes visit Disney's Club Penguin
What's cooler than a frumpy superhero penguin with Captain America abs? Not a whole lot.
Characters from The Avengers and other good guys and villains from the world of Marvel Comics are invading the kid-friendly environment of Disney's Club Penguin, a Web-based game and virtual world for children that focuses on community, interaction, education and a mess of fun.
The club's Marvel Superhero Takeover begins Thursday and runs till July 3, and is the latest in Club Penguin's monthly themed "parties," where the island denizens of Club Penguin dress up for Halloween or don knight's armor for a medieval month.
But users and their penguins can get in the action more than ever with the Marvel superheroes. A meteor has hit the island and unleashed the powerful Destructobot, and kids of all ages can log in and choose from penguin versions of 14 different comic-book heroes and villains — including Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Loki and more — so they can then take sides and accomplish missions.
In addition, people's powered penguins can freely explore different destinations on the island such as a jail, a bank and a superhero headquarters, while Aunt Arctic, the new reporter for the club's newspaper, the Penguin Times, gives the lowdown on all the assorted battles.
Lane Merrifield, co-founder of Club Penguin and executive vice president of Disney Interactive Worlds, predicts the Marvel crossover will be one of the biggest parties ever in the community, which was launched in 2005 and to date has more than 175 million registered penguins.
"I think the team probably put in double the amount of hours as they would put into any other big event in Club Penguin — not because we asked them to, but simply because they were having so much fun," Merrifield says. "They were staying weekend and evenings just doing a few more designs of Iron Man."
Club Penguin's not just jumping on the Avengers bandwagon, either. Merrifield says they've been working on this bit of corporate synergy for months now. (Disney acquired Marvel back in 2009.)
"The fact that The Avengers is enormous is just sort of serendipity," says Rob Steffens, executive vice president at Marvel Entertainment.
The usual superhero suspects are coming to Club Penguin, including Hawkeye, Black Widow and Spider-Man, and also characters such as Nova, Iron Fist, Ms. Marvel, the Lizard and Venom that comic fans hold near and dear yet are unknown to the younger moviegoing set.
"That's the real win for us here," Steffens says. "Of course, Club Penguin was excited to work with some of our iconic characters, and we said, geez, wouldn't it be fun if we got to introduce some characters who are lesser known to young kids of today?"
In dealing with little kids like the ones who flock to Club Penguin regularly to play with friends and meet new like-minded children, entertainment's a goal, but so too is education and the safety of its members, Merrifield says. He also has strived to maintain a sense of innocence in the world, while other parts of the Internet and the real world have grown more cynical.
"Kids grow up in an era that they can't run off and explore, and they're not staying out till the street lights come on," Merrifeld says. "So for some of those kids, it's never going to be the same thing as running around in nature and getting out, but it can be a little bit of a proxy for a child who goes home and has to lock themselves in the house because mom's got a couple of jobs and won't be home until later."
It is a different world from the one he grew up in, "and if we can make that experience unique and fun and aspirational, even just for a few minutes after school, then I think we've done something right."
The users of Club Penguin range from as young as 6 years old to kids who are 15, and Merrifield even hears from teenagers who are still stopping by for the monthly parties even though they're about to go off to college.
Plus, with The Avengers being so popular, adults may feel inclined to take their own Iron Man penguin for a spin, and they'll be joined by parents and grandparents who also have accounts and play with their children.
"We've never seen it as a little kiddie world," Merrifield says. "The humor is a big part of it.
"If you want to go see the intense, realistic, awesome movie, then you go and see The Avengers. And if you want to have a chuckle a little about it afterwards, then you jump into Club Penguin."
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Raising strawberries can be a very difficult exercise. For one, these plants would need special care and equipment in order to bloom and bear fruit. Even getting the fruits to ripen can also be a tricky business. Transportation can also be a nightmare, too, since strawberries are pretty easy to bruise during transport. Damaged strawberries don't sell well in the market. And that's not all. Strawberries have a short shelf-life, so raisers would have to get their produce to the market fast. All these factors have a great effect on the supply of strawberries in the market, as well as the price in which they're sold.
Still, people do want to buy them. Who could resist the sweet, succulent flavor of strawberries, eaten on their own or dipped in cream? I'm sure no one can. That's why despite the relatively high price tag attached to that pack of strawberries, it's still an in-demand item in the supermarkets. If only there's a way to increase production of this wonderful fruit, and at the same time improving its shelf life and transportation qualities. We'd certainly want to have something nice, right? Too bad the traditional breeding methods are pretty slow to deal with it, and by the time one issue is solved, another big one comes in. Well, that's how things go. Better live with it.
That won't exactly be the case anymore. Scientists around the world has recently completed the gene map of the common strawberry, and it's hoped that the information it reveals can help in developing better varieties that can stand against the tests of growing, harvesting, and marketing. Of course, that would be treated quite carefully, since consumers like us don't want to hear that our beloved strawberries have become the recent recipients of genetic modification. That would be a very unthinkable event. Personally, I don't even want to think about it, anymore.
Over the years, strawberries have increased in price. Back in 1996, about 300 grams of strawberries would fetch for a little over$1.50 during the chilly February weather. But that's 2006. But last 2009, the same weight of strawberries can cost you almost $2.50. That much change over the years only shows just how much the production of strawberries have affected the way we buy them. Since they're relatively more expensive now, some customers now shift to other fruits. It's too bad since there is nothing to compare the exquisite flavor of that single red fruit. I'm sure there are some of us wishing for the return of the good old times.
It might happen, if the plans of the scientists push through. With the help of the now complete genome map, they would then be able to choose which plant variety has the traits favored by the market. This would result to improvements in strawberry production that is not easily obtained using the traditional methods. The old method would ask for more time and effort on the part of the raisers who want better crops. With the suggested new method, then we can finally get good strawberries, fast.
The only challenge that remains would be the customer's perception. The scientists doing the genome mapping had a hard time because strawberry raisers wouldn't fund them. The fear of getting a PR nightmare is probable too much for the farmers to take if people so much as get a whiff of suspicion that there's going to be some genetic modification happening to their plants. It's a pretty tough wall to breach, but it's got to be passed. There are many of us who want to enjoy our strawberries, and getting them cheap, fast, and at the peak of ripeness is a dream many of us want.


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The San Jose Earthquakes declined to exercise the 2013 contract option of veteran defender-midfielder Ramiro Corrales on Wednesday, meaning his time with the Quakes appears finished.
The Supporters Shield winners parted ways with Corrales, a 14-year MLS veteran who is also the last remaining active MLS originals from 1996. Corrales played in 22 games for the Quakes in 2012 and scored two goals with seven assists.
Corrales, from nearby Salinas, Calif., played for the San Jose Clash in 1996 and 1997, then returned to join the Earthquakes from 2001-2004. After three years abroad, he came back to the Quakes in 2008 and has been with them ever since.
San Jose also declined to pick the options on defenders Ike Opara and Tim Ward and midfielders Khari Stephenson and Joey Gjertsen.
Opara, a former Generation Adidas player, had been with San Jose since 2010 but because of foot injuries saw action in just 35 matches during those years, 16 in 2012.
Stephenson, 31, from Jamaica, played in 69 games for San Jose since 201o and scored eight goals with eight assists in that span.
What do you think of the Earthquakes' moves? Did Corrales deserve better? Share your thoughts below.
Tony in Quakeland
I think the moves make sense, although I would have liked to have seen more patience with Opara. I can't imagine anyone being surprised by the Crrales move, including him. He's been a solid pro, and he's had a great run, but I think it's time
Good moves.
Corrales was just awful when he was out there this year, often times I thought they were just playing him for sentimental reasons because he was an MLS original (like on his bobblehead day).
And Opara has the coordination of a baby deer, his coming in for an injured Bernardez in the second leg pretty much singlehandedly knocked the Quakes out of the playoffs. And that's after his awful performance during World Cup qualifying…
With these moves finding another CB obviously becomes a top priority.
Tony in Quakeland
You are too harsh on Opara. He was poor, but he has tools and has been injuried. CB, more than any other position, develop later with expereince. He will get another chance with someone. He may not develop – most people don't – but I owuld not be surpsied if he does.
I agree with everything you said here about Opara. But he was probably making too much money for a young CB project on a team looking to compete now. Meanwhile guys like Omar Gonzalez and George John make like 60k a year and are among the best in the league when healthy.
Omar Gonzalez makes 180k with a guaranteed compensation of 257k. George John makes 50k.
All player salary can be found here, just an fyi
I think you mean Olympic qualifying. Opara is still young for a CB. He will be a very good pick-up for another team.
I thought Corrales had a pretty good year, for a guy that doesn't have the speed anymore to recover when he's beat on defense. He's one of the savviest players on the team and I recall some really sweet crosses that he put into the box. Not to mention the sneaky goal he scored off a quick restart. Not a starter or a 90-minute player now, but a really good person to have on the bench. Gotta say, though, I have a real hard time thinking of him as a coach. Maybe because one of the indelible memories I have of Ramiro is him getting red-carded on the Spartan Stadium bench many years ago for snapping a towel at someone. For someone who started out a bit of a punk, he's done good….
I completely agree, the only thing limiting Corrales was his loss of speed. Technically he's as smooth as silk and his savvy distribution will be missed. At least he passed on the freaky anticipatory slide tackle to Morrow…he goes down into the slide about 2-3 seconds before the player and ball arrives… cracks me up to see Morrow pull it off…I will miss watching Corrales walk by guys off the dribble, but his pace has gone and his time has come.
LA tore up the whole San Jose team….it wasn't Opara's fault
You realize when Opara was not in we stomped the Falacy at home depot and Buck shaw. The second Opara came in Robbie moved to the right side and had a field day with the youngster. Get you facts right!
Stomped LOL?? Dillusional much? A gift goal in the first leg stoppage time is stomping? Ya, Opara got torn up, but so did the whole Quakes offense/midfield.
Ike Opara is available?! Sign him Red Bull NY! That guy has all the tools, just needs some time and guidance to develop. I think that's exactly the kind of American player we'd like to see in NY, and we can always use some centerback depth.
And you think NY can give him the guidance?
Rabid RBNY
Those were my thoughts. With the constant dishevlment of the RBNY backline players like Barklage could find their feet again. RBNY would have nothing to lose by giving Opara a chance with a trial. RBNY is going to overhaul anyway bing him in see if he can regain that confidance. It would also be consistant with what Roxburgh has talked about(this early on)why not?
Rabid RBNY
The Imperative Voice
Opara getting cut from SJ would be the pithy riposte to those who actually spitballed him as a NT CB. As if the whole U23 failure wasn't enough to attach "suspect" to a list of defenders and GKs.
A few years ago Tim Ward was a similarly poised backline prospect. You throw in Gale A. and a few others and you start to see where the current NT CB vaccuum comes from. You start to wonder what's going on development wise because I don't think the theoretical starting CBs of Cameron and Goodson were pipeline kids, ie, youth internationals groomed to step into their spots. They've instead stepped into a void left by a previous generation of Boca and Gooch….who were Bradenton/ youth NT pipeline kids in the 90s!!!……….the current bunch is more in the spirit of DeMerit who had to earn his respect the hard way. [FWIW, it's an interesting thought exercise to consider where we'd be sitting as a team if some of the Germans didn't switch.]
Anyways, back to Opara, etc……they'll get back Bernardez but you can take the Ward and Opara cuts as critical of the defense. All those regular season wins and goals and then LAG clobber them game one in basically one focused burst after Bernardez went out. As long as they do in fact recruit better defenders it's all logical and well-considered.
Tyler Kitchens
There's a reason why Goodson wasn't in the pipeline.. I think he's showed it damn near every time he sets foot on the pitch for the Nats..
In case you forgot
The Imperative Voice
I wasn't advocating for the non-pipeliners, I was simply pointing out that the CB pipeline is operating sufficiently poorly that someone like Goodson or Cameron can just step into a void. Cameron wasn't even a MLS Superdraft player, he was supplemental. Although I agree with your assessment of Goodson, I think it says something, all by itself, that we've seemingly not produced a NT CB through ordinary channels in about a decade.
Pretty common for NT CBs to come outside of the pipeline. You're typically gambling on size and athleticism when developing these guys but the most important skills for a CB are intangibles like consistency, focus, communication, anticipation, etc. these are things you can't really identify in a 15 year old. You have to take the athletic kids and hope they work out. If they happen to have or develop those qualities then you have great player, but it's pretty rare.
The Imperative Voice
Really? Gooch was a Bradenton kid, U17, U20, then Nats. Bocanegra was at least a U20. Pope was a U23 Olympian at least. Now, perhaps Alexi and Goose weren't pipeliners but that's not exactly a sales pitch, is it? I kind of thought we'd turned a corner on how we staffed the national team this decade.
Like I said, when it works out, then great, but it's tough to predict how much focus and consistency a 14 year old is going to possess in 10 years. Gooch was an exception and he came through the system as a forward. He's still, even to this day, a guy that doesn't have the ideal focus, anticipation and consistency you'd like to have in a CB. He's always made up for it with freakish athleticism. The man is IMMENSE yet, in his prime, had catch-up speed to the point where he could reel in forwards who had international level speed. Against Spain in the Confed he was blocking shots that had Spanish superstars shaking their heads because they didn't think there was any way the big man could get there that quickly. On the other hand, we've also seen Gooch get turned far too easily at times and lose his place on the pitch as well.
And both Pope and Boca were not pipeline guys, they developed in college. Eddie's first NT experience was a call up to the full Nats in his rookie year with DC.
Tim Ward has been on the injured list for three seasons for a "soft tissue" injury. It has been comical how he survived for so long without kicking a ball for years. The Opara debacle against LA greased the rails for his departure. He simply can't control the ball and has critical lapses reading the game…not good for a CB. The outside backs are very good, but we need another quality CB to pair with Bernardez. That is priority number one.
The Imperative Voice
As far as SJ is concerned, I think Yallop believes if they can plug in one or two new good defenders with the same offense, they can seal the deal next time. Ward, well, that may have been for insurance purposes. If he was guaranteed under the CBA/ contract then you're kind of stuck, though I think long term injuries could be pushed off the cap. So they might have left him on the books to honor the deal with the idea if he ever healed they might benefit, but if not they fulfill the contract and then cut bait.
Far as the Nats are concerned, based on the body type of Gale A. and Opara I get the idea the youth NT coaches are picking based on physique, but one gets the impression they are not sufficiently training up the big kids they are putting in the pipeline.
I think one emerging issue is the professionalization of the tail end of the youth pipeline, ie, that more of our kids are spending the U-17 to U-20 to U-23 type years on the books at a club, earning a paycheck but fighting for minutes, where before they might have been in either Bradenton or college or a club playing a lot. I think MLS is good at producing drilled veteran filler for the Nats but not a lot of the draft age talent is doing as well, people like Opara and Agudelo. Ironically, it seems like you'd do just as well getting at least a year or two of college like Berry or DeLeon.
I think now that these players are more with their pro teams like in England, and less able to reside in long term youth camps like were dominant when Donovan came up, we're going to ebb for a bit until the Academy and Reserve systems start doing better by the developmental players.
I think quality like CBs will continue to flow out of college. True defenders (not offensive wingbacks per se) like CBs, d-mids and keepers are all initially reactive positions, strikers, wings, CMs all make defenders react to them. It is easier to be an actor instead of a re-actor. Cbs and keepers need reps. Game after game, getting beat and learning. And honestly, unless you are preternaturally talented and fall into a good situation where the club is invested in you and willing to let you fail sometimes, (see Johnson, Sean; Hamid, Bill; both those guys have made some howlers, cost their teams games and precious points. But their respective clubs know the long term upside is potentially worth it. A cb who made mistakes like that would be benched) all players need reps and failures to improve. But if an offensive player fails 25 times in a match and succeeds once, it's ok. A defensive player who makes one mistake is the goat. Barring the existence of a lower league where players can make mistakes and learn with lower stakes, few teams will take the risk of developing a highly paid cb, there are too many less expensive vets who can help you now. So if you can sign an Ike Opara for forty grand and send him to a lower league to learn and get time, you will. But no one will pay him six figures to develop at the MLS level. Hence: college.
I agree, all the effort and resources will be directed towards CBs and defensive depth. Regarding the development of CBs, the whole system was incredibly flawed by prioritizing players that fit the classic stopper profile instead of looking for more cerebral sweeper types. It is really a shame that we didn't have the foresight to groom some of our best and brightest with vision and skill for the back line. To prioritize the overall elements and versatility that make the Italian defenders so great. I think we understand what we need to do now, but like you've posted previously, we have at least a decade gap…without the German-Americans we'd be toast.
Tim Ward can now pursue a career as Bob Bradley's stunt double.
There's conflicting reports on whether Corrales comes back as either a player or a coach (GM John Doyle says he'll be back but didn't say in what capacity), but the rest of the moves make sense. Stephenson & Opara had guaranteed salaries in 2012, so cutting them means room to find a CB to partner up with Bernardez as well as negotiating the return of Simon Dawkins and getting Wondolowski more money (maybe a DP deal?)
The Imperative Voice
Corrales only played in about 20 games this year, and is 36. He was fairly productive for $180K-ish but I'm sure Yallop is looking at the roster thinking where improvement can be had, because even if the team could produce a SS over another season I still think it's over-achieving based on the talent on hand, and thus suffers in the playoffs when everyone is pretty good every week.
For that matter, Corrales might want to retire, or Yallop might simply be concerned that this is the year a player this old falls apart, at that salary level.
As a Quakes fan I'm ok with all these moves. My guess is that Ike's GA status was up at the end of this year. If I'm not mistaken didn't Ives have a story recently about how they were shorter contracts. I remember when player salaries came out this summer I was shocked at how much Ike was being paid (granted not all by the Quakes.)
Corrales was also making a good amount of change as well. Maybe they bring him back at a lower amount?
I even think Joey Gjertsen was making a lot of cash for what he brought to the table.
Another positive I see out of this is that it will free up cash to sign Simon Dawkins to a long term deal and that a deal may be close to happening. Would much rather keep Simon over Ike and Corrales.
Now if we can just prevent Victor from going to Spain.
Yeah, if we lose big Vic we are completely screwed.
In the games that I watched, Opara's main problem was his inability/unwillingness to be physical. That might yet happen, and his athleticism is worth gambling on if I'm an MLS team. I'd love for the Sounders to pick him up and let him develop behind Hurtado and Parke (who is nearing the end, I'd guess)
I agree I think the Sounders should definitely try to pick him up.
Depends where he is on the field, I've seen him be very physical and completely dominating in the middle of the field. He is not comfortable at all when he has to track out wide. He plays too far off…way too passive when isolated on the flank. Especially since he is strong with very good pace. He should be right on top of the attacker.
Naked Animals
Doesn't matter the Quakes will likely be non-cup contenders next season, based on their most recent incarnation (after they moved to Houston) they are a "flash in the pan" team, good one year mud puddles the next.
We'll take him.
– Houston Dynamo
Run Opara run. Danish League is calling you.
David St. Hubbins
Tim Ward started the 2010 playoff game where the Quakes knocked off the heavily favored red bulls IN NEW YORK 3-1 (after being down 0-1 aggregate). I will be forever grateful for his service that season.
Great handle…you're absolutely right, he was fairly solid when healthy. I remember Convey playing out of his head and Wondo soaring for a header in the 3-1 win. I also remember Agudelo turning the entire Quake defensive inside out in the first game, fortunately he couldn't finish.


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USC's 2011 recruiting class officially began to take shape Wednesday.
Two junior-college players signed letters of intent, and four high school players signed financial-aid agreements, Trojans coach Lane Kiffin announced.
The six players will enroll in January and participate in spring practice.
Kiffin said he expects several more spring enrollees to sign with USC.
The junior-college signees are offensive lineman David Garness of City College of San Francisco and cornerback Isiah Wiley of Arizona Western College. Both will enter USC as juniors.
The high school signees are kicker Andre Heidari of Stockdale High of Bakersfield; quarterback Cody Kessler of Centennial High of Bakersfield; fullback Soma Vainuku of Eureka High; and quarterback Max Wittek of Mater Dei.
More details on the signees can be found after the jump.
- David Garness (OL, 6-5, 290, Bartlett HS, Anchorage, AK/City College of San Francisco)
- Isiah Wiley (DB, 6-1, 185, West Monroe [LA] HS/Arizona Western JC)
- Andre Heidari (PK, 5-11, 190, Stockdale HS, Bakersfield)
- Cody Kessler (QB, 6-2, 220, Centennial HS, Bakersfield)
- Soma Vainuku (FB, 6-2, 255, Eureka HS)
- Max Wittek (QB, 6-3, 205, Mater Dei)
DAVID GARNESS–He was a 2-time (2009-10) All-NorCal Conference first team selection as an offensive tackle at City College of San Francisco (Calif.)…CCSF went 10-1 in 2010 and was the state runnerup…In 2008, he briefly attended Alaska Anchorage and then walked on at Hawaii, but did not see any action…He was a 2-time (2006-07) All-State and All-Conference honoree at Bartlett High in Anchorage (Ak.), where he played on the offensive and defensive lines and was the long snapper…He could become the first Trojan letterman to claim Alaska as his home.
ANDRE HEIDARI–He kicked 8 field goals and 17 PATS, had touchbacks on 53 of his 65 kickoffs and averaged 38.4 yards punting as a 2010 senior placekicker and punter at Stockdale High in Bakersfield (Calif.)…As a 2009 junior, 59 of his 70 kickoffs were touchbacks and 20 of his punts pinned opponents within the 20-yard line (with a long of 63 yards) as he made the All-Southwest Yosemite League second team.
CODY KESSLER–His 2010 honors included Gatorade California Player of the Year as a senior quarterback at Centennial High in Bakersfield (Calif.)…He completed 175-of-251 (69.7%) of his passes for 2,831 yards and 36 TDs with just 2 interceptions in 2010 and rushed for 324 yards on 75 carries (4.3 avg.) with 8 TDs…He also averaged 36.4 yards on 32 punts in 2010, with a 13 pinning opponents within the 20-yard line and a long of 60 yards…Centennial was 10-2 in 2010…As a 2009 junior, he was named Cal-Hi Sports All-State Underclass and Bakersield Californian Area Player of the Year as he threw for 2,195 yards with 14 TDs and 6 interceptions and also ran for 12 TDs…Centennial was the CIF Central Section runnerup…He also played basketball at Centennial, where he averaged 29.5 points, 11 rebounds and 5 assists and was named the Bakersfield Area Player of the Year (becoming the first player to be so honored in both football and basketball).
SOMA VAINUKU–He originally signed with USC in February of 2010, but did not qualify for admission, so he returned to Eureka (Calif.) High but did not play football in 2010…His 2009 honors included Super Prep All-Farwest, Cal-Hi Sports All-State Medium Schools first team and All-Humboldt-Del Norte Big Four League first team as a senior linebacker and fullback at Eureka…He had 2,202 yards on 252 carries (8.7 avg.) with 38 TDs on offense and 14 tackles, 1 interception and 1 forced fumbled on defense in 2009…Eureka won the 2009 CIF North Coast Division II title…As a junior in 2008, he had 800 rushing yards with 14 TDs on offense and 34 tackles, 1 interception and 1 forced fumble on defense…As a sophomore in 2007, he had 1,500 rushing yards with 27 TDs…His father was a rugby star in Tonga…His cousin is former USC All-American (2005-08) and current Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Rey Maualuga.
ISIAH WILEY–His 2010 honors included NJCAA Region I Defensive Co-MVP and All-Western States Football League first team as a sophomore cornerback and safety at Arizona Western Junior College in Yuma (Ariz.)…Arizona Western went 10-2 in 2010…He also started at Arizona Western as a freshman in 2009…He earned 2008 Class 5A All-State first team honors as a senior defensive back at West Monroe (La.) High…He had 45 tackles and 2 interceptions in 2008.
MAX WITTEK–His 2010 honors included All-Trinity League first team as a senior quarterback at Mater Dei High in Santa Ana (Calif.)…He completed 153-of-282 passes (54.3%) for 2,252 yards with 24 TDs and 15 interceptions in 2010, plus ran for 175 yards with 6 TDs…As a 2009 junior, he made the All-Trinity League second team as he completed 136-of-230 passes (59.1%) for 2,126 yards and 15 TDs with 9 interceptions and ran for 189 yards with 2 TDs…He grew up in Connecticut.
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How we know, is at least as important as what we know: Before educationalists can begin to teach sustainability, we need to explore our own views of the world and how these are formed. The paper explores the ontological assumptions that underpin, usually implicitly, the pedagogical relationship and opens up the question of how people know each other and the world they share. Using understandings based in a phenomenological approach and guided by social constructionism, it suggests that the most appropriate pedagogical method for teaching sustainability is one based on situated learning and reflexive practice. To support its ontological questioning, the paper highlights two alternative culture's ways of understanding and recording the world: Those of the Inca who inhabited pre-Columbian Peru, which was based on the
"I note as I work that how I am
Physically and Mentally has also
Moved, my mind stilled, my senses
Freed to Walk with the Land."
How we know, is at least as important as what we know. Hence our approach to teaching needs to begin with a re-exploration of our own approach to knowing our world. As suggested by Simon cited by Giroux [
Most of the university curriculum, even in environmental science, is still conveyed only at the level of the mind and adheres to a Cartesian linear approach that suggests that 'thought and understanding is necessarily understood in terms of cause and effect' [
Critical pedagogy needs to encourage critical reflection between theoretical aspects of learning and the praxis of everyday life. For those of us working in higher education institutions, while we may need to acquire the technicalities of practical teaching, we need also to seek how to question the assumption that acquisition of knowledge is only about programmed learning and education; that it is also in the understanding and transformation that comes from 'a sense of critique and possibility' [
The following sections of the paper expand on the ideas that knowledge is 'constructed through social practice' [
Gergen suggests that 'beliefs about knowledge…inform, justify and sustain our practices of education' and he describes two main strands used to differentiate views of knowledge: Exogenic and endogenic, both of which place emphasis on rational frameworks of understanding, but from differing perspectives [
While still rational, but less objective in its stance, the endogenic approach to knowledge emphasizes the internal reasoning and 'the human being's intrinsic capacities for insight, logic or conceptual development' where the 'mental world [is] self-evident' and where 'limits to learning may be traced to the developmental stage of the cognitive system' [ First Nations people in western Canada see the forests of British Columbia as sacred spaces. People from a European background see them as resources to be 'used' or 'developed' even if for leisure. The giving of land back to First Nations people in Canada elicited the complaint that they do not 'do' anything with it. The idea that sometimes the point is to 'be' rather than to 'do' seems to have proved very hard to communicate [
First Nations people in western Canada see the forests of British Columbia as sacred spaces. People from a European background see them as resources to be 'used' or 'developed' even if for leisure. The giving of land back to First Nations people in Canada elicited the complaint that they do not 'do' anything with it. The idea that sometimes the point is to 'be' rather than to 'do' seems to have proved very hard to communicate [
It is likely that readers of this article are already convinced of the importance of taking a longer-term perspective on resource use, and would thus be sympathetic to the view as expressed by the First Nations people through the lens of a white, western woman researcher. Yet this is only the beginning of the lengthy process of understanding this wholly distinct worldview.
This nexus between differing world views and different knowledge and subsequent actions can both be an opportunity for new learning and an emergence of new knowledge systems. An example of the latter is demonstrated by Barnhardt in an article documenting the emergence of a new generation of indigenous researchers in Alaska [
So in this context of multiple perspectives and global crises, how can we establish a confident approach to teaching that conveys something meaningful to students without unduly privileging a view of the world that must always, necessarily, be partial? Before moving on to consider the practicalities of this task, we need to consider the methodological approaches that can help us provide the scaffolding to a new and deliberate curriculum for sustainability in higher education.
As Abram suggests, the philosophical approach of thinkers such as Merleau-Ponty may be useful in establishing a shared basis for communication and understanding, but without the need to establish an objectively 'right' position. In this respect, 'striving for objectivity is thus understood, phenomenologically, as a striving to achieve greater consensus, greater agreement or consonance among a plurality of subjects, rather than as an attempt to avoid subjectivity altogether'; objective reality is thus a theoretical construction 'an unwarranted idealization of intersubjective experience' [
Merleau-Ponty's writings on nature are pertinent here, when thinking about education and sustainability. Furthermore, Brook suggests that Evernden's bringing together of Merleau-Ponty's work and his own notion of people as 'fields of care' brings to the fore 'a realisation of our actual situation and a change in our response to the world' [
In many respects, our way of knowing the world, through a process of literary abstraction, may actually have impaired our ability to directly experience it, and hence to feel an affinity which may be the precursor to a sustainable stewardship approach. Before we were able to write, at least in the view of Abram, things were very different:
In the absence of formal writing systems, human communities come to know themselves primarily as they are reflected back by the animals and the animate landscapes with which they are directly engaged. This epistemological dependence is readily evidenced, on every continent, by the diverse modes of identification commonly categorized under the single term "totemism" [
In the absence of formal writing systems, human communities come to know themselves primarily as they are reflected back by the animals and the animate landscapes with which they are directly engaged. This epistemological dependence is readily evidenced, on every continent, by the diverse modes of identification commonly categorized under the single term "totemism" [
The relationship between the human community and 'the environment', made up as it still is by a multiplicity of other animate and inanimate beings, was more direct before the spread of literacy, and in Abram's opinion this impacted significantly on what we perceived to be the real world we were inhabiting. The issue here is not to rely on theories and abstractions but to 'interpret nature from our own natural perspective within it' [
As already suggested, in the western world, our confidence in the superiority of our way of knowing the world arises, we would contend, from its ability to manipulate physical systems with extreme precision and purpose; from what Val Plumwood calls the 'mastery of nature' [
As Cato and Hillier [
From this point of view, 'the traditional privileging of theoretical, discursive knowledge over practical understanding' [ Relationally responsive social constructionism highlights the intersubjective, dialogical and dialectical nature of experience, and consequently has implications for the type of knowledge we seek. I suggest this orientation emphasizes an embedded form of knowing, which is often intuitive, but can be explored through reflexive engagement with ourselves and our surroundings [
Relationally responsive social constructionism highlights the intersubjective, dialogical and dialectical nature of experience, and consequently has implications for the type of knowledge we seek. I suggest this orientation emphasizes an embedded form of knowing, which is often intuitive, but can be explored through reflexive engagement with ourselves and our surroundings [
Cunliffe suggests a continuum of attitudes towards knowledge, which she considers relates to a range from objective to subjective: 'At one end of the continuum, researchers take a subjective cognitive approach, focusing on how reality is objectified through interactive and/or discursive and/or processes of construction and sense-making.' [
It is within this kind of process, Cunliffe suggests, that we can create meaningful learning experiences for students; facilitating students in creating 'new readings of their experience' ; creating space for action and change [
The limitation of the view that 'our knowledge comes to us through words' has been exposed in the preceding two sections. None the less, our education system explicitly assumes that this is so. Academic learning takes place through media such as books, papers, essays and lectures. The era of computer-based communication has simply shifted these word-based forms of learning and teaching into an electronic system; it has not changed their fundamental support: The word. In a powerful exposition on the influence of the written word, Abram offers a concern that this reliance on such an abstract and abstracted form of knowing could be the origin of our dislocation from the planet, which is evidenced in the ecological crisis [
However, we need to make a distinction between the written word, in the context of this discussion, as emblematic of dominant ideologies of teaching and learning that provide us with a recognized and justified 'truth' or objective reality, and the use of language. In doing so, we can also recognize the temporal nature of the written word in how it is interpreted and re-interpreted by the reader, the receiver of the message, in the production of arguments and counter arguments. Furthermore, as Toadvine reminds us, for Merleau-Ponty the style of language (tone, accent, gestural and emotional significance) is linked with nature through the medium of the body and is a 'way of vibrating or resonating with its surroundings. Such gestural significations—words, vowels, phenomes—are…so many ways of singing in the world' [
The Inca civilization of Peru lasted for a century and a half before being overrun by the
The information about the state of the economy was transmitted from one end of the empire to the other by means of an impressive system of paved roads, many of which still exist. These were travelled by
This is clearly an example of a culture in which the storage and communication of information was understood quite differently from in our culture. While the knotted strings held the information, it was carried physically across large distances, and this was as much a part of the communication system as the
Whether this system of string and knots is a communicative device is still undecided. On the one hand it has been suggested that the
There is a striking contrast between the
Aboriginal Creation myths tell of the legendary totemic beings who had wandered over the continent in the Dreamtime, singing out the name of everything that crossed their path—birds, animals, plants, rocks, waterhold—and so singing the world into existence [
'Traditional people talk about their inner life as a story of movement between significant places, a journey through landscapes of meaning, conveying the events that occur on that journey, and at the ritual meeting places encountered along the way. Their inner life is lived in their outer life: Land, people, fauna and flora are one, and the dreaming and waka provide a context in which meaning arises.' This description is taken from a paper describing how the Australian and New Zealand Society of Jungian analysts found their experience of the land-based knowing that the songlines represent support in developing their own training practice [
In her travels to all corners of the globe undertaken to document the planet's last remaining wildernesses, Jay Griffiths describes the way the indigenous people of the Amazon understand their world through a different sort of songline:
[I]ndigenous people know how to 'think' the forests, know that the paths through this wilderness are songs, the song that each plant has. Song makes a thread of light, a path of the mind; each song tells of one plant's relationship to other plants and not only differentiates one plant from another but distinguishes between the uses of, for example, stem or leaf or root of the same plant. There is practical wisdom here but also psychological wisdom: you find your way and learn how to live unlost, not
[I]ndigenous people know how to 'think' the forests, know that the paths through this wilderness are songs, the song that each plant has. Song makes a thread of light, a path of the mind; each song tells of one plant's relationship to other plants and not only differentiates one plant from another but distinguishes between the uses of, for example, stem or leaf or root of the same plant. There is practical wisdom here but also psychological wisdom: you find your way and learn how to live unlost, not
On one level, what we can see with both of these examples are ways of recording information in non-routine, written formats. When presented in a particular order, the songlines provide a map or tracking of places over time and distance with recognizable landmarks and features. However, rather than an objective recording of territory and geography, the Amazonian and Aboriginal songlines present a real connection with the land as alive and sacred; more akin to the phenomenological concept of the life world [
Unlike the logical system of the As a pedagogical practice, performative interpretation suggests that how we understand and come to know ourselves and others cannot be separated from how we represent and imagine ourselves [which reaffirms] the need for people to speak affirmatively and critically out of their own histories, traditions and personal experiences [
As a pedagogical practice, performative interpretation suggests that how we understand and come to know ourselves and others cannot be separated from how we represent and imagine ourselves [which reaffirms] the need for people to speak affirmatively and critically out of their own histories, traditions and personal experiences [
Further, Giroux and Shannon posit that the bringing together of 'the language of the pedagogical and performative might provide…educators…an opportunity to address the effectiveness of pedagogical practices that are not only interdisciplinary, transgressive, and oppositional but also connected to a wider public project to increase the scope of racial, economic and social justice while expanding and deepening the imperatives of a radical democracy' [
The structures and processes of new managerialism and new public management have left their footprint on higher education in terms of internal management practices and increased bureaucracy, but more importantly in the incremental linkages with business and business needs. Curricula are developed around students' ability to demonstrate employability skills, usually with an emphasis on information retrieval and handling; communication and presentation; planning and problem solving; and social development and interaction [
This section describes two experiments, which we have been a part of in our home community of Stroud in Gloucestershire, U.K. Stroud is an exemplar sustainable community, where a significant minority of the population are self-consciously modeling radical new approaches to economic and social life—and others are just enjoying the creative atmosphere and stunning countryside of the Cotswold edge. Some examples of sustainability-related innovation in the town include:
Stroud Community Agriculture, the country's first co-operative community-supported agriculture business; The Space, a community-owned arts centre; Stroud Community Woodland, a small piece of woodland that was recently purchased as a community co-operative for artistic and sustainability-related activities [
Stroud Community Agriculture, the country's first co-operative community-supported agriculture business;
The Space, a community-owned arts centre;
Stroud Community Woodland, a small piece of woodland that was recently purchased as a community co-operative for artistic and sustainability-related activities [
What we are trying to explore, with and among students, is what we mean by sustainable education and learning and how we might build this knowledge into actions in our work and in our lives. To return to Deleuze for a moment, Semetsky comments on Deleuze's own experience and reflection of his own teaching that 'nobody took in everything, but everyone took what they needed or wanted' and that 'understanding, rooted in precepts and affects' is 'embedded in practice' [
Stroud Communiversity is an attempt to create a situation of shared learning in practice, in the projects and businesses that make up a sustainable community in-the-making. The Communiversity was set up in 2008 as a project of Stroud Commonwealth, which is a community brokerage organisation that was a key player in many of the developments listed above. It was the realization that people were coming to visit Stroud to learn about these developments that motivated the establishment of the Communiversity. A group of local people who had either current or previous experience in higher education made links with some of the town's social innovators, who at times felt overwhelmed by the level of interest their creativity had evoked. The decision was made to turn this potential problem into an opportunity by inviting those involved in sustainability-related processes in their own communities to engage in experiential learning in Stroud's various projects and innovative green businesses [
The first Communiversity, held in August 2008, was launched under the banner, 'Learning is like muck—the more you spread it around, the more growth there is!' and had a number of overlapping themes, including: Living lightly in our environment and work, livelihood and money. The event included visits to a range of local green businesses including Ruskin Mill in nearby Nailsworth, Stroud Community Agriculture, and the U.K.'s only new-build co-housing scheme at Springhill, and the emphasis throughout was on hands-on learning; hence the use of four muddy hands on the top of a spade that is the logo of the Communiversity. While information was shared in the conventional presentation-cum-discussion format, it was one of the guiding principles of the Communiversity that this should always be balanced by experiential learning in the projects themselves, and the opportunity to share emotional responses in the group as a whole and in smaller learning groups.
An action learning approach was used [
The feedback from the first Communiversity was universally positive with many people mentioning its impact in terms of inspiration and affirmation when they returned to their own home communities, where sustainability might not be as well developed as it is in Stroud. This, after all, is the role of a sustainability exemplar. A typical comment was 'it has been a great privilage to attend this course—inspiring, thought provoking and brilliant. I think the format is great. I really hope I can start to work with the ideas and put them into practice to help make a difference.' Another participant appreciated the action learning approach: 'Loved the action learning, at end of day to reflect.' Although several of the participants suggested the need to publish the outcomes of the event, this did not happen due to time pressures on the part of the organizers. This paper has another objective, but has allowed some opportunity to reflect on the value of this experiential learning approach in practice.
Walking the Land provides an even better example of a creative response to the dis-embedding of people from their landscape. It was founded in 2004 by three local artists in Stroud, Gloucestershire who 'share a passion for the landscape, using artworks to bring landscape and environmental issues to a wider public audience. As painters, sculptors, photographers, videographers, curators and educators, we produce work which refers to specific places, localities and environments. [
The activities are based in Gloucestershire and make links with other local community groups and projects including: Stroud's ambitiously titled Global Bee Project, the Stroud Festival of Nature, and the annual open studios events. The latter offer a particular opportunity to link local artists to the culture and history of the landscape, as in the Site 07 event Racking Fields where visitors to the installation artwork were invited to 'Help recreate the lines of color in the landscape by wearing a red top to add to the spectacle during this journey around Rodborough'. The Stroud scarlet cloth that made the town's fortune was traditionally dried in the surrounding fields, lending them a colorful appearance which became a temporary part of the landscape. During the second Communiversity in 2009 Walking the Land co-organised one of the days: An experiential walk in the Slad Valley, home of author Laurie Lee.
The Walking the Land experience is a rare example of that word being used appropriately. The direction from the organizers is deliberately low-key, although they take responsibility for planning the walk and making sure that people do not lose their way, thus freeing the participants to enjoy nature with all their senses. Although a notebook and pencil are encouraged, it is quite permissible to spend the several hours of the walk simply watching, listening and communing with the local environment, and some activities—such as the slow, meditative walk or the walk with eyes closed—are designed specifically to encourage passive experience rather than interaction. Overall, Walking the Land represents an example of how a whole community can deepen its community bonds and learn a new reality in relationship with nature.
Just as the irony of Abram using his book to exhort his readers to make direct connections with the natural world is not lost on us, so we acknowledge the paradox of communicating a message about re-embedding through a peer-review paper, perhaps the apex of a rationalist communication system, a paradox perhaps best symbolized by the sustainability pedagogue typing her paper into a computer whose screen-saver of a beautiful natural scene is the closest she will come to a direct experience of nature during the working day. Beyond irony, such a double standard may express itself to students as hypocrisy, undermining the genuine quality of relationship that a reflexive pedagogue needs to demonstrate. In short, if our argument that teaching sustainability requires a shared experience of wild nature carries conviction, then we will all have to find ourselves venturing out beyond the confines of the normal pedagogical setting, perhaps following examples similar to those discussed in the previous section.
As the experimental nature of the examples from Stroud make clear, we have made considerably more progress with the theory of re-embedding than with the practice. It is also notable that both events are currently outside the formal educational sector, although the authors are striving to bring similar experiences to their business students in a conventional higher educational setting. Since our approach to pedagogy is premised upon the understanding that it is a permanent work in progress, subject to constant refinement and revision by both 'teacher' and 'taught', formal conclusions seem inappropriate. What we have learned during our explorations into experiential learning in the field of sustainability is that 'You need to imagine first and foremost what it's like to be somewhere else in order to do the sorts of things people do there' [
What scope is there for breaking the boundaries of the business curriculum in terms of pedagogy as well as content? In our search for innovative practice, we have found some inspiration in third level education outside the mainstream higher education community. One example is the partnership between Schumacher College and the University of Plymouth [
In our own university we have introduced a new sustainability pathway through the standard Bachelor of Arts degree in Business and Management, called Managing the Transition, which begins to include some re-embedded teaching practice. A compulsory module in the second year is called 'Sustainability in Practice' and is to be taught partly 'in the field'. The course is to begin with several weeks of preparatory work, to ensure that students have a theoretical framework and an expectation about what sustainability might look like. They will then spend a week in Stroud, as an example of an exemplar sustainability community. This time will be spent visiting sustainability-related enterprises and experiencing the local environment, supported by members of Stroud Communiversity and Walking the Land.
This partnership between a higher education institution and a community education group offers opportunities for shared learning and the building of a community of practice. Potential future partners for the Sustainability in Practice module or the third-year field trip include the Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth [
So the dis-embedding and abstraction that our teaching methods seek to overcome has a long pedigree and we should not be too demoralized if our progress appears slower than we would wish, in spite of our sense of the urgent need to address the environmental crisis. Our conviction is that teaching sustainability requires that, before we step into the classroom with handouts and memory-sticks, we should first examine our relationship with our subject-matter, that is to say our students and the world we share. This self-exploration might deepen our understanding of why the subject matters, as well as our commitment to sharing a sustainability outlook with the future generations.
Relationally responsive learning: an overview. Source: adapted from Cunliffe [
The development of these arguments is beyond the scope of this paper although we acknowledge the relevance of articulating the dichotomies that exist and the available literature that address some of these issues. For example, Manley talks about organic relationships between ourselves and the environment, and Carolan discusses the distinction between episteme (science) and techne (art or skill). In addition, McGilchrist usefully argues for an appreciation of the synergy between right and left brain activity in order to decentralise the dominance of left brain rational and logical exposition of thought and reason and to give room to emotion and connectivity between mind and matter. Equally, Berman speaks of 'participating consciousness' —a wonderfully descriptive phrase which summons up connectivity and embeddedness and involved merger or identification with one's surroundings. See:


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