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Expected to be good, Batavia baseball, Saints softball better than advertised
Prior to the start of the high school -- I can't wait until it actually starts feeling like -- spring season, two local teams were included among the annual preview stories.
Nothing fancy, nothing new.
Overlooked by some, Batavia's baseball team began its season last month with a game that wasn't even listed on its original schedule.
The Bulldogs opened with a 4-3 nonconference triumph over Wheaton Warrenville South at Lee Pfund Field in Carol Stream on March 26.
And with the exception of last week's 7-5 loss to perennial power Neuqua Valley, they haven't stopped winning since.
While defending champion St. Charles East and pitching-heavy Geneva grabbed the share of the early season spotlight, Batavia has proven that it means business in the always-tough Upstate Eight Conference River Division this season.
Coach Matt Holm's Bulldogs opened the season with an 8-game winning streak and improved their record to 11-1 with last Saturday's 12-0, 5-inning thrashing of West Aurora.
Anchored by starting pitchers Austin Shanahan, Luke Horton, Emilio Tenuta, Colby Green, and relievers Micah Coffey and Jake Piechota, the Bulldogs have been downright dominant, having allowed a total of 12 runs in 10 of their 11 wins with 4 shutouts.
After Neuqua snapped Batavia's winning streak, Holm took a realistic approach.
"I don't think anybody expected us to go undefeated," said the coach.
"One of the things especially with young men is how do you respond to anything? How do you respond to getting the bad news that somebody is sick? How do you respond when that bill is bigger than you thought?
"It's a game that we lost against a good team. We made some mistakes pitching and they took advantage of them. How do you respond to that?"
The next day, the Bulldogs (5-1 in UEC play) responded with a 10-run fourth inning during their 12-1, 5-inning rout of Metea Valley.
Last Friday, junior southpaw Green tossed a 2-hitter during Batavia's 2-0 win over previously unbeaten UEC foe South Elgin. The following day, Aaron Hurd and Horton each drove in 3 runs during the Bulldogs' 12-0, 5-inning victory over West Aurora.
Batavia's lineup includes a dynamic leadoff hitter in junior Laren Eustace, slick-fielding shortstop Billy Zwick, Coffey, 3-year varsity veteran Robbie Bowman, and junior catcher Dean Simoncelli.
"They're one of the best teams we've seen this year," Neuqua Valley coach Robin Renner said of the Bulldogs. "Up and down the lineup, they swing the bats and run. That's a tough combination to compete against."
How good are the Bulldogs?
Weather permitting, we might learn a little more after their 3-game, midweek series with St. Charles East.
For now, they appear to have what it takes to remain a factor in the UEC River race.
St. Charles East's softball team began its conference campaign in inauspicious fashion, letting a 4-0 lead after 5 innings slip away during a painful 5-4, 8-inning loss to Waubonsie Valley.
Things didn't get a whole lot better the next day during the Saints' 5-3 loss to South Elgin.
Faced with a 0-2 conference record, a lot of teams would have started to panic -- especially teams that possess more freshmen and sophomores (4) than seniors (3).
But the Saints didn't even buckle.
They came back and blanked Metea Valley 8-0 before sweeping a doubleheader against Fremd.
Last week, they enjoyed a perfect 3-0 mark.
"I just think that's a tribute to the kids I have up on varsity," said Saints coach Kelly Horan of her team overcoming a slow start. "I think it's a belief that we're good and that we're going to be OK. All the problems that we had were fixable ones."
Sophomores Olivia Cheatham (4-for-4) and Alex Latoria (tossed a 3-hitter) led the way during the Saints' 6-1 victory over Naperville North last Monday.
One day later, junior pitcher Haley Beno fired a 2-hitter with 4 strikeouts as the Saints handed Bartlett its first UEC defeat, 4-1.
Last Friday, St. Charles East (9-3, 3-2) saved its best for last.
Playing in bone-chilling conditions, the Saints' bats somehow stayed warm as Tess Hupe (4-for-5, 3 RBI), Olivia Lorenzini (3 hits, 3 RBI), and Kate Peterburs (2 RBI) were a part of a 16-hit attack during their 14-2 win over Lake Park.
Beating a team like Lake Park (11-2) is one thing -- a total demolition of the Lancers is quite another.
"I think it was a great test," said Horan. "It was cold and awful weather. But no matter what I do, I can't teach mental toughness. These young ladies have really bought into it."
The Saints are getting contributions across the board from 4-year varsity veteran leadoff hitter/shortstop Lexi Perez, Sarah Collalti, Shelby Holtz, freshmen Katie Kolb and Kelly Rinker, Lorenzini, Beno, Peterburs, Hupe, Cheatham, and Latoria.
"On any given day, somebody else is stepping up," said Horan.
In the circle, Beno and Latoria give the Saints 2 legitimate aces for Horan to choose from.
"It's pretty outstanding," said Horan. "Guta (assistant coach Jared Gutesha) calls a great game every day. One pitch sets up the next pitch but that's not effective if our pitchers don't have good stuff and don't hit their spots. Haley and Alex have really bought into that and it has translated into success on the mound."
A 6-game winning streak is nice but Horan realizes there's plenty of unfinished business.
"We're still figuring things out," said Horan, whose team hosts Neuqua Valley Tuesday. "All of this is great and it feels good but our goal is to win a conference championship and play well in the postseason. We're still very young but we're going to give everybody our best every single day."
Next week, the Saints will try to remove some of the sting that remains from their third loss last season to cross-town rival St. Charles North -- a 7-6, 8-inning regional semifinal defeat on the North Stars' home field.
A win over the North Stars might help the Saints clear a mental hurdle but Horan remains focused on the big picture.
"I don't think you can be satisfied until June," said the coach.
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LONDON (AP) — Prince Charles' funding from British taxpayers fell by almost 50 percent during the last financial year.
The prince's annual accounts showed Friday that his income from the government and a royal grant was 1.1 million pounds ($1.68 million) in the fiscal year that ended March 31, down from 2.1 million pounds a year earlier.
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celebrating, and storing, the humble potato
HOW DID A PLANT FROM THE ANDES turn itself into an international star, and the world's most-eaten vegetable, with more than 300 million metric tons consumed a year? Celebrate the humble but adaptable potato, Solanum tuberosum, with tips on growing, harvesting, and most of all storing, in case your harvest is in need of a winter home any week now. Oh, and yes, with recipes from my creative culinary colleagues—in a cross-blog recipe swap. Got one to share?
Yes, the potato has gone truly global; the intricate story of its journey through the centuries is probably best told by the International Potato Center.
China, and now India, are the biggest producers of potatoes today–once the claim of Europe, North America and the former Soviet Union–though I am hard-pressed to think of a Chinese dish featuring them. As much as I love French fries and baked (oh, and twice-baked) and crispy oven-roasted, I do also love potatoes with some kick: like Aloo Chole (Indian spiced potatoes with chickpeas), or potato salad with some Hatch chiles, perhaps, and Taquitos de Papa (anything stuffed with mashed potatoes is fine with me, actually, especially when it's my mouth).
storing potatoes
I COULDN'T SAY IT BETTER THAN the Farm Security Administration did to farmers and would-be farmers in the 1942 slides I borrowed from the Library of Congress (below). Potatoes, perhaps counter-intuitively, need humidity to keep well over the long haul. (Click the first thumbnail, then toggle slide to slide using the arrows by the caption.)
Last year I actually figured out the "right" storage spot at my place, and had my own potatoes right into spring. The hiding place, a closet in my mudroom, was as close as I could come to their ask of high humidity combined with dark and cold (ideally 40 degrees, but ranging from 38 to 45). First I had to cure them in a just slightly warmer place. Need all the potato harvest, curing and storage details?
growing potatoes
THE POTATO WOULDN'T BE the fourth-most-consumed food crop in the world (behind only wheat, corn, and rice) if it weren't relatively easy to grow. The biggest decision is what you're going to use to hill them up, as the process of applying more soil or mulch of some kind (I used straw, above) to the rambunctious plants as they get too tall for their own good is called. Some potato-growing basics.
sources of unusual seed potatoes:
not just meat and potatoes: recipe links
THE AVERAGE AMERICAN consumed 126 pounds a year in 2008, according to the National Potato Council. But in what form? Here's what my colleagues cooked up this week for Summer Fest:
- Alison at Food2: Boil 'Em, Mash 'Em, Stick 'Em in a Stew
- Kirsten at FN Dish: Twice-Baked Potatoes
- Sara at Cooking Channel: Duck Fat Roasted Potatoes
- Healthy Eats: A Day of Potatoes: Spuds for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
- Marilyn at Simmer Till Done: Baked potatoes and vintage "junior" cookbooks
- Caron at San Diego Foodstuff: Hatch Chile Potato Salad
- Nicole at Pinch My Salt: Taquitos de Papa, made with leftover mashed potatoes
- Caroline at the Wright Recipes: Indian Spiced Potatoes with Chickpeas (Aloo Chole)
- Paige at The Sister Project: French Fries to soothe a burnt-out cook's soul
- Cate at Sweetnicks: Bleu Cheese Potato Mashers
- Gilded Fork: A roundup of potato recipes
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Senate Democrats urged the White House on Friday to reconsider plans to shrink Afghan national security forces by a third after 2015, saying a robust Afghan fighting force will be needed to fight al Qaeda and its allies.
The appeal comes as President Barack Obama weighs how large of an American force to leave behind in Afghanistan after NATO declares the costly, unpopular war over at the end of 2014 and most foreign forces return home.
Officials say the White House is considering keeping between 3,000 and 9,000 troops in the country, a lower range than initially recommended by the top commander in Afghanistan.
Carl Levin of Michigan, head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and committee member Jack Reed of Rhode Island said Obama, a fellow Democrat, should use the U.S. troop level announcement - expected in the coming months - as an opportunity to revisit plans to slash the Afghan forces from 352,000 to 230,000 after 2015.
"We support the establishment of a small number for the post-2014 (American) force," they wrote to Tom Donilon, Obama's national security adviser.
"At the same time, we are convinced that it will be necessary for the success of the mission, i.e., to prevent Afghanistan from once again becoming a safe haven for al Qaeda and its affiliated organizations, to reconsider plans to reduce the size of the (Afghan forces)."
Ryan Crocker, a former U.S. envoy to Afghanistan, has estimated that the United States would end up paying about $2.5 billion a year for Afghan security forces totaling 230,000.
He called the expense "pretty cheap insurance."
Levin and Reed said the additional expense for keeping a larger Afghan force would be affordable, given the projected drop in funding for wartime operations.
"We recommend that when the president announces his decision on the post-2014 force, that he also announce he is reviewing the question of the size of the ANSF (Afghan National Security Forces) after 2015," they wrote.
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Interesting review of the packaging.... I'm mixed on the cover art. I like it that the art matches much of the scrap paper art that the R2 DVDs used... but I can clearly see how a video store patron browsing for something new might say "wtf????" and pass it by.
|2008-04-17, 13:31
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And I commented on the DVD over on AoD too, but I'll just say it here as well:
The huge "Lucky Star"-writing added in the OP is completely pointless, as the title was already written out in english, though it was extremely small. Now, the exact same title is written three places in the same frame...
Judging from the screencaps, the quality doesn't exactly seem fantastic, but whatever, I'm gonna buy it anyway. I've seen worse-looking releases than this one.
|2008-04-25, 11:22
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Hello everyone, i've been lurking around here for a couple of years now... i have no idea why i find it necessary to lurk for so long before actaully doing something, but anyway, i recieved my Lucky Star LE today, and so if anyone wants picks of what everything looks like let me know and i will post them up, sorry for being a moron if the pics have been floating around for a while now, but i haven't seen any.. ^^;;
|2008-04-25, 13:14
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h o u k a
I also got my Lucky Star LE today from RightStuf. I haven't ordered from them that much so I don't know if they always ship things early or what but oh well. At least I got it. XD
They learned from the Haruhi box. Those drawers inside the Haruhi box were a cool idea but hard to get things out of. With the Lucky Star box it's just like normal DVD boxes as it has to hold 6 DVDs (I think it was 6...) in it anyways unlike Haruhi. Oh, and it also still has the ribbon to pull the dvds out. It also smells like the Haruhi box. XD
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|2008-04-29, 11:04
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Beautiful fighter.
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Also, do we have a release date for the second volume yet?
|2008-04-30, 17:58
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Got my LE edition box today..... okay, the XL t-shirt with the schoolgirl outfit image on it is ... just strange. No, I will not be wearing it.
I figure either my wife or my son's girlfriend will end up using it as a nightshirt ....
Also got... a V1 LE Screenwipe in the form of a choco-cornet ... more wierdness.
The two CDs were nice bonus
The first one (Motteke) ... though I don't know that we needed an extended version of the OP (gets pretty wild) but now we have "official" lyrics for the rest of us. The second tune isn't too bad ... kind of typical anime-pop and a bit of rap-chant with synth music.
The second CD is an R1 release of character volume #1 (Konata) -- this is pretty weird in itself since rarely is a character CD released into the US (as opposed to imported). Its full of Konata anime karaoke and a remix of her dialog (waste of time to me but such things seem required in recent anime character CDs).
The DVD itself:
Watched an episode of the CD in English with English subtitles. They did an excellent job with the dialog versus the subtitles (different yet same). However... amazingly, I spotted several spelling errors in the subtitles ("supoosed"...).
The "dub hater" review:
Despite my concerns, I found the dub for L*S one of the EASIEST dubs to listen to that I've experienced. And being a Kagami-worshipper, I actually think the VA for Kagami did pretty well, being the Jekyll/Hyde type she is. Going from "sweet good girl" to "aggravated growly" ... she did fairly well though her "good girl" voice ends up sounding a bit too timid initially. Kagami's english VA really fits into her groove in ep 2 as her performance gets stronger.
Miyuki and Tsukasa sound a LOT alike so when they're speaking offscreen, it can get confusing. Kuroi-sensei's english VA has a nice brassy sound to her performance.
There was one major fail of subbing and voicing in ep 2 during the splitscreen of Konata and Tsukasa and their study habits - they totally ignored Konata's lines.
The Lucky*Channel segment is just .... strange. The two of them did pull it off fairly well. Excellent merging of the english with the japanese singing during the karaoke EDs.
Overall --- I'm amazed. I might actually be able to show this to people using the English dub rather than the subtitles.
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I agree with that to some extent. I liked the voices quite well despite my disbelief, but sometimes Tsukasa's voice seems a bit...Odd. As for Lucky Channel, Minoru and Akira sounded pretty good.
It was a nicer dub than I thought it to be.
Although the spelling errors in the subs made me laugh.
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Sure wasn't intentional!
I'll admit that I'm not typo-proof, though I'm generally pretty good about it, and when I drop the ball, they generally pick it up behind me. It's always tough working on a translation, though, and sometimes it slips through. Did you spot any others?
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I've a feeling I saw some sort of error at the bottom left of a screen, but I watched it late along with another DVD so I might be confused or just making this up ^^;
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Haven't watched all 4 episodes back-to-back (was skimming different scenes where I remembered translation challenges). I'll watch it this weekend with obsessive goggles on. I think I was more impressed how the dialog and subtitles were "different yet conveyed same information" and both tracked the JP script about as well as one could hope for during the alien pun moments.
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I already have the Motteke cd, so i'm not sure if I really want the LE box.
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What's with that shirt?
Do people not like things that they can actually wear?
It's good for humor value I guess, but surely something that's usable is just as good.
But then again, I'm not sure what they could use out of Lucky Star that will make a shirt wearable in public...
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Get more of these peeps to wear it, and everything will not be in vain!
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I've rewatched the DVD and seen no spelling mistakes in the subs (although there was one point where the word "had" was used that I think should be "has", but it may be a difference between UK and US grammar, or just my understanding of grammar since I failed English anyway). There is something in the liner notes that I think may be wrong though - it says "she is referring to a Japanese saying that says that only stupid people catch colds" - I thought it was the other way around?
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Kimi Raikkonen was looking ahead to 2015 rather than seeing Sunday's Hungarian grand prix as the start of an immediate Ferrari revival.
After an uncompetitive first half of 2014, the Finn finished a solid sixth in Hungary - his best result of the season.
And Raikkonen's teammate Fernando Alonso was in the running for the race win until the dying moments, when he was passed by winner Daniel Ricciardo.
F1 now breaks for three full weekends before hostilities resume in Belgium late next month.
But the Finnish media quoted Raikkonen as saying: "I don't see things changing much in three or four weeks. Next year things will get better.
"I am pleased with today, but on the whole I am very disappointed with the way things have gone. We need to make sure we don't make the same mistakes.
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A deep-fried journey through the Stampede midway
Some people come for the rodeo and chuckwagon races; others for the rides or to test their skills on the midway.
But for some, the Calgary Stampede is all about that midway food — those once-a-year greasy treats that tempt our tastebuds and empty our wallets.
And each year, the Calgary Stampede ups the ante with new offerings that intrigue and have us lining up for a taste. This year is no exception; the Stampede midway is home to 32 new foods covering off all the bases: deep-fried things, things on sticks and things deep-fried on sticks.
But there are also a few unusual entries that had eager eaters lining up. The scorpion pizza was sold out by the fourth day — though the kiosk owner said she was getting more of the stinging insects later in the week — while the bacon-wrapped pork belly was also off the menu. Even the nearly two-foot sausage had sold enough that a new shipment had just come in by Tuesday afternoon.
Armed with tweeted suggestions and my own curiosity, I hit the midway to sample some of the new foods making news.
Deep-fried Cheesies, $5:
Cheesies are delicious, deep-fried things are delicious and yet, somehow, this combination is terrible. Consider it the culinary equivalent of the worst of both worlds. Although still crunchy, the flavour of the cheesies is muted by the batter — which, despite the addition of oregano, doesn't have much going for it. Overly salty and kind of confusing (why deep fry something that is already deep fried?), this was a sad start to the midway eating tour. Just get the deep-fried cheese instead.
Almost Two-foot Sausage, $18:
If length and bravado for eating something so ridiculously large is the goal, here's the hotdog for you. Covered in fried onions and swaddled in the driest baguette known to man, the two-foot sausage doesn't have much else going for it other than a conversation starter. The wiener had good flavour but it was hard to get at it with all that bread and, ultimately, it was far to unwieldy to actually eat.
Teriyaki and Sweet Thai Chili Corn Dogs, $6 each:
Take a regular corn dog and swap out ketchup for either teriyaki or sweet Thai chili sauces and that's pretty much what you've got here. The teriyaki flavour came across as nothing but sweetness — likely overwhelmed by the dog and cornbread batter — but the sweet Thai chili version had a sweet and spicy kick that was a nice enough change from standard ketchup or mustard. The fact the sauces are drizzled over but also served with a bit extra in a cup was a nice touch.
Turkey Dinner Poutine, $12:
Winner, winner, turkey dinner. This dish is like a Thanksgiving dinner in a box, with the bonus of fries instead of mashed potatoes and hidden pockets of cheese curds. There's lots to this poutine — slices of turkey, cheese curds, stuffing and a dollop of cranberry sauce, all slathered in a healthy portion of gravy — and it's all flavourful (not to mention recognizable, which is an added bonus).
Red Velvet Mini Donuts, $6:
By far the most requested food from people looking for a review, these doughnuts left a lot to be desired. Such as flavour. Instead of any discernible taste, they were a sugar hit saturated with grease and topped with icing. My mouth felt like an oil slick and all I wanted to do after was buy some regular mini doughnuts and eat them to wash away the memory of the red velvet version. There's a reason those standard sugar and cinnamon doughnuts have withstood the test of time.


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Full-time study or research to women who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents; graduate and postgraduate study is supported The grants provide support for community-based projects that benefit women and girls in the fellow's home country. Deadline: mid-December.
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Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship
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Hilde Im planning a trip to Tanzania from 17th of August to 6th of September. I want to start with climbing kili, either the Rongai or the Marangu route. After that I will do a safari before I head out to Zanzibar. Would be great if anyone wants to join me, either for just one of the things or the total travel :)
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With more people eating at home as a result of the recession, an improved economy could encourage consumers to spend more money eating out in the coming months, which could be good news for cattle producers later this year and into 2010, said a Texas AgriLife Extension Service livestock economist.
"Do you think a new trend has been started with fewer people eating out and more eating at home?," asked Dr. David Anderson, AgriLife Extension Service livestock marketing economist at the recent 55th Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course. "Some of my colleagues think so. If the economy rebounds, I think not. That's going to lead to higher cattle prices when taking into consideration fewer overall cow inventory numbers."
Cattle prices will continue to their seasonal lows this summer, an expected pattern as producers sell off calf crops. But there's higher volume at auction markets in certain parts of the state due to drought. From Austin extending throughout South Central Texas, ranchers are coping with one of the worst droughts ever, Anderson said.
The southern region of the country is in the most extreme drought area, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, and accounts for 6 percent of the nation's total beef supply (more than 2 million beef cows are in the area) as ranchers further reduce herds, Anderson said.
AgriLife Extension economists have estimated $3.6 billion in losses, and that number could eclipse the $4.1 billion mark set in 2006. The only alternatives for ranchers who don't have grass is either to move animals to rented pasture where forage is sufficient or sell herds that have taken years to assemble.
With ongoing drought, Texas beef cow numbers continue to decrease. Nationally, that's having an effect on the overall U.S. beef cow inventory, Anderson said.
"We're producing fewer cows and consequently less beef," Anderson said.
Dairy producers are also taking a hit. The average producer cost for milk is $16 per hundredweight and income is $11 per hundredweight. When you factor in the woes of both the dairy and beef industry, it doesn't paint a bright picture on the supply side.
"I'm projecting fewer beef cows for next year and on into 2011," he said.
The downturn in the economy has also led to more consumption of lower-priced beef, Anderson said. The recession is the main cause as consumers continue to be cautious on how they spend their money and are looking for value at grocery outlets.
He expects cattle prices to move upward in 2010 if the current cow slaughter continues. That, coupled with an improved economy, could "trend calf prices even higher," Anderson said.
For more information about the beef short course, visit http://beef.tamu.edu.
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Amid the ongoing discussion of Pope Benedict XVI's remarks on condoms and AIDS comes a highly nuanced, well-thought-out piece by Jesuit Father Michael Czerny, director of the African Jesuit AIDS Network.
He believes what Pope Benedict said about condoms not being a good strategy to reduce AIDS is a true statement.
"There are two distinct issues here: the moral status of individual acts; and the viability of a strategy targeting whole populations," Father Czerny says. He discusses why African women are more vulnerable to HIV, how the church approaches ministry to married couples and the fact that "culture counts."
"The promotion of condoms as the strategy for reducing HIV infection in a general population is based on statistical probability and intuitive plausibility. It enjoys considerable credibility in the Western media and among Western opinion makers. What it lacks is scientific support," says Father Czerny.
The British Jesuits' online journal Thinking Faith published the article, "A human and spiritual wake-up call."


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Christmas for Jews
How Hanukkah became a major holiday.
The Hanukkah candles are burning brighter than ever before. Though traditionally considered a minor Jewish celebration, the holiday is now a commercial giant, a cultural staple, and an assertion of Jewish identity. In a 1998 article, reprinted below, David Greenberg traces the evolution of Hanukkah from the Old Testament to the Hallmark store nearest you.
The holiday season is upon us. Not the "Christmas season" but the "holiday season"—a euphemism for "Christmas with Hanukkah (and, perhaps, Kwanzaa) thrown in." If you place a tree in the town square, you need a menorah as well. We festoon offices with blue and silver Hanukkah decorations alongside Christmas trimmings, and on the Sesame Street Christmas special, Big Bird wishes Mr. Hooper a Happy Hanukkah. The only meaning of the phrase "Judeo-Christian," it seems, is the fusion of these two otherwise unrelated holidays into one big seasonal spree.
The problem, as any rabbi will tell you, is that Hanukkah has traditionally been a minor Jewish festival. It commemorates the successful Israelite revolt in the second century B.C. against their Syrian oppressors, and their refusal to assimilate into the prevailing Hellenistic culture. Specifically, it celebrates the miracle in which, according to lore, a day's worth of oil fueled the candelabra of the Jews' rededicated temple for eight days. Until recently, this observance paled next to the High Holy Days, Passover, even Purim. So how did it become "the Jewish Christmas"? And is this good for the Jews?
First, Christmas had to become Christmas, which originally wasn't a big deal in America. The Puritans who settled Massachusetts made it a crime to celebrate the holiday (punishment: five shillings). Only with the arrival of German immigrants after the Civil War did it emerge as the major American feast. With the revolution in retailing--marked by the rise of department stores and advertising--celebrations focused on throwing parties, buying and giving gifts, and sending greeting cards (first sold in 1874, they became a million dollar business within a few years). The Coca-Cola Co. adopted as its logo a jolly bearded man in a red and white suit, and Santa bypassed Jesus as Christmas' main icon.
Enter the Jews. Around 1900, millions of eastern European Jews came to the United States, congregating in urban enclaves such as New York's Lower East Side. Most adopted American traditions, including the newly secularized Christmas. "Santa Claus visited the East Side last night," the New York Tribune noted on Christmas Day, 1904, "and hardly missed a tenement house." Jews installed Christmas trees in their homes and thought nothing of the carols their children sang in the public schools.
The second generation of American Jews challenged this embrace of a festival that, despite its secular trappings, was fundamentally Christian. But parents couldn't very well deprive their kids of gifts or seasonal merriment, and Hanukkah benefited from convenient timing. Instead of giving the traditional "gelt," or money, Jews celebrated with presents, so as not to fall short of their Christian neighbors. Prominent religious leaders, more secure with maintaining a Jewish identity in America, now urged schools to let Jews abstain from yuletide celebrations or to provide all-purpose holiday parties instead. Lighting the menorah proved a satisfying alternative to adorning a tree with colorful lights.
Zionism, which gathered converts in the years before World War II, also boosted Hanukkah's stock. The holiday's emphasis on self-reliance and military strength in the face of persecution dovetailed with the themes of nationalists seeking to establish a Jewish state. The warrior-hero Judah Maccabee, leader of an ancient revolt, morphed into a proto-Zionist pioneer. At first, Zionist organizations used the holiday as an excuse to prod individuals to donate coins to the cause. In later years they packed Madison Square Garden for Hanukkah fund-raising galas, featuring such keynoters as Albert Einstein and New York Gov. Herbert Lehman.
After World War II, as Jews moved with other Americans to suburbia, Hanukkah shored up its place as their No. 1 holiday. In the early '50s, in a famous Middletown-style study of a Chicago suburb referred to as "Lakeville," sociologist Marshall Sklare found that lighting the Hanukkah candles ranked as the most popular "mitzvah," above hosting a Passover Seder and observing the Sabbath. Sklare attributed the holiday's popularity to its easy accommodation to Christmas rituals as well as to its ability to be redefined for modern times. The Hanukkah lesson being taught, Sklare noted, was no longer reverence to God for performing a miracle but rather the triumph over religious intolerance--a perfect message for liberal America in the age of the civil rights movement.
These Ozzie and Harriet Jews also modified their observances for the 1950s home. As one historian has written, a Jewish guidebook from the era included recipes for " 'Maccabean sandwiches' composed of either tuna fish or egg salad and shaped to resemble a bite-sized Maccabee warrior, or the 'Menorah fruit salad,' a composition of cream cheese and fruit that, when molded, resembled a menorah." By the late '50s, "Chanukah's accoutrements had grown to include paper decorations, greeting cards, napkins, wrapping paper, ribbons, chocolates, games and phonograph records." Like Gentiles, Jews extended gift-giving to adults; the Hadassah Newsletter pointed out that "Mah-jong sets make appreciated Chanukah gifts." Parents could now assure children that Hanukkah wasn't a poor man's Christmas but was, in fact, a "better" holiday because it meant presents for eight days straight.
Since then, Jews have become more integrated into American life, and Hanukkah has embedded itself in television, office parties, Hallmark stores, Barnes & Nobles, and other leading American cultural institutions. Except among the Orthodox, it has been thoroughly transformed into a major festival. Accordingly, religious leaders lament this development as another instance of the Jews' perilous assimilation--if not into a Christian society then into a secular, commercial one.
Yet the recent evolution of Hanukkah represents not a capitulation to the forces of Christmas but an assertion of Jewishness amid a multicultural society. Just as Kwanzaa, created in 1966, has returned many black Americans to their African heritage, so Hanukkah has helped tether Jews to their heritage and in some cases has brought them back to the fold. In a 1985 study, journalist Charles Silberman recounted how the writer Anne Roiphe, besieged with angry letters after she wrote an article about celebrating Christmas as a Jew, switched to observing Hanukkah and found it far more meaningful. Likewise, Silberman noted, more American Jews than ever preferred Hanukkah to Christmas. Three out of four lighted the menorah, an increase even over the 68 percent in Sklare's 1950s study. Today, the adherence to a modest Jewish ritual such as celebrating Hanukkah follows in the tradition of the ancient Israelites, who spurned the pressures to adopt Hellenism. Indeed, in acculturating to America while maintaining a Jewish identity, observers of Hanukkah may well be doing Judah Maccabee proud.
For further reading on Hanukkah's rise in the United States, consult (as I did for this article) the following books: The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture, 1880-1950, by Jenna Weissman Joselit; A Certain People: American Jews and Their Lives Today, by Charles E. Silberman; At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews, by Deborah Dash Moore; Adapting to Abundance: Jewish Immigrants, Mass Consumption, and the Search for American Identity, by Andrew R. Heinze; and Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier: A Study of Group Survival in the Open Society, by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenbaum. The author would like to thank Professor Arthur Goren of the Columbia University history department.
(Copy editor's note:Slate defers to The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual on all matters secular and spiritual. Hence our use of "Hanukkah" rather than "Chanukah.")