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aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
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Racial disparities in charging and sentencing
Nationally, black youths are significantly more likely to be tried as adults than are white youths, according to a January report from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. The same report states that while black youths make up 16 percent of the general adolescent population, they make up 38 percent of the approximately 100,000 youths being held in local and state detention facilities.
The irony, some say, is that mass outpouring of support in cases like the Jena 6 may, in fact, obscure the real issues, where many criminal-defense lawyers can point to examples of prosecutorial zeal when dealing with black defendants.
"The public at large basically thinks that these cases are aberrations, and that's one reason why so much attention is paid to them," says Professor Nunn. "It's the idea that it's the redneck sheriff doing this and not the way we sort of stack the odds against black criminal defendants. We can point to a few bad apples, say, 'See, it's them,' and the rest of us feel great because we're demonstrating how we disagree with racism."
Via a public defender who questions the assumption in the Jena 6 Mychal Bell trial that the public defender called no witnesses because he was angry:
Surely there's a transcript out there somewhere.
But a defendant doesn't always have to call witnesses. The State bears the burden of proof and the defendant can choose to leave the State to its burden. This is a frequent jury instruction and almost always a question during voir dire in a criminal case.
It is counter-intuitive, for sure. You have been accused of doing something, you tell your side of the story. If you have a defense, an alibi, you will present it. Prospective jurors, upon question, usually state that they understand why the defendant can choose not to present a defense. But do they believe it? I think the Jena Six coverage has a hint of that. He didn't call any witnesses!?! is the incredulous tone.
He's also the first place I've seen it noted that it was not just an all white jury, "the jury pool was all white. Which included a friend of the victim's father."
RELATED: Bell did not receive bail Friday. And Are the whites in Jena racist?
Racial disparities in death penalty in GA
The AJC's special report on the death penalty in Georgia found there are indeed racial disparities:
The death penalty carries a racial bias in Georgia, but it's not what most people think.
White killers are more likely to face capital prosecution and land on death row, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found. The reason: White killers are more likely to kill white people.
A statistical analysis shows Georgia prosecutors were more than twice as likely to seek the death penalty when the victim was white. [...]
"Black victims have to be really, really brutalized before they're treated the same as a white-victim case," [University of Maryland criminologist Ray] Paternoster said. [...]
The analysis showed a similar difference in sentencing. When facing capital prosecution, killers of whites were more than twice as likely to land on death row. Eighteen of the last 20 murderers executed in Georgia were white. All but one killed white people.
Remember: Do Not Call Registrations Expire
Numbers placed on the registry, begun in June 2003, are valid for five years. For the millions of people who signed onto the list in its early days, their numbers will automatically drop off beginning next June if they do not enroll again. "It is incredibly quick and easy to do," Lydia Parnes, director of the FTC's bureau of consumer protection, said in an interview with The Associated Press this week. "It was so easy for people to sign up in the first instance. It will be just as easy for them to re-up."
But Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., says people should not be forced to re-register to keep telemarketers at bay. Doyle introduced legislation this week, with bipartisan support, to make registrations permanent. "When someone takes the time and effort to say 'I don't want these kinds of calls coming into my house,' they shouldn't have to keep a calendar to find out when they have to re-up to keep this nuisance from happening," Doyle said in an interview.
The FTC built the five-year expiration date into the program to account for changes, such as people who move and switch their phone number, Parnes said. Doyle, however, points out that the list is purged each month of numbers that have been disconnected and reassigned to new customers. People can register their home and cell phone numbers or file complaints at http://www.donotcall.gov or by calling 1-888-382-1222.
Via James Joyner:
Why not simply outlaw the practice, period, except to people who have specifically opted in? This would, I'd wager, result in a much smaller database and make it far easier for consumers while also making it less likely that companies will be fined for accidental violation.
Cellphone hell: Gphone heaven on the horizon?
We're trying to get new cellphones. We've been with Sprint out of momentum; and a decent contract. We'd stay but we've got lousy phones. Apparently Sprint wants new customers but cares bupkis about the old.
With a family plan, 2 phones (one 2-years-old the other 1) we can't get a free or reasonably priced phone - even for signing another 2 year contract.
So goodbye Sprint.
But there are no easy alternatives and who among us wants to spend hours and hours and hours digging into the details of cell phone contracts? I wanted Google to win their points with the FCC over the 700 MHz spectrum auction.
Alas, They lost.
But Robert X. Cringely suggests there may be a fall-back plan. Bob's just guessing, of course, but then he's a pretty good guesser:
First let's start by looking at the infrastructure Google has already built or committed to building - the largest fiber backbone in the world and the largest and most widely distributed data center build-out in the world. Both are FAR in excess of Google's current or even future requirements UNLESS they are also intended to work with a massive 700-MHz wireless network.
Imagine a hybrid wireless broadband mesh network using 700-MHz connections for backhaul and some truly mobile links and WiFi for local service. Google has enough experience with WiFi in Mountain View to know that it isn't, by itself, a good solution for wide area networks. The key failing of metro WiFi networks is backhaul to the Internet backbone. But if Google used its 700 MHz band for that AND implemented it as a true mesh network, there would easily be enough capacity to serve almost any size network given a suitable number of backbone connections. [...]
Google has experience, too, with hybrid wireless networks. Every Google employee has the chance to take a company bus to work and every Google bus has an EVDO-to-WiFi bridge so Googlers can surf the net on their way to work.
It would be really cool if this Google hybrid network was truly flat and could be maintained entirely within a single address space like, for example, the 76 billion billion billion IPv6 addresses Google already owns. The sudden existence of a massive IPv6 network would throw other ISPs into a tizzy and quickly drag the rest of the net into the 21st century, something else I could see as a Google ambition.
Finally, what links all of this together is something else I wrote about long ago - the Google Cube. This is an access device that contains 700-MHz and WiFi radios, a tiny Linux or Linux-likeserver, and a few gigs of flash RAM memory cache. It's these Google Cubes that will mesh together, acting as both WiFi access points and 700 MHz mesh backhaul devices. Throw in some local caching, video preloading, and truly local DNS service and suddenly you have a pretty substantial network infrastructure that is not only massive and self-healing, IT IS ENTIRELY PAID FOR BY CUSTOMERS. All Google needs to provide are several thousand points-of-presence (cell towers) to connect the local mesh to the Internet backbone.
Google couldn't do this with WiFi alone, but with 700-MHz meshing and backhaul they could make it work fairly easily and the entire network could be deployed in a couple months.
For those who can't think past search, imagine this also as Google's key to dominating local- and location-based search.
Forget about net neutrality and forget about making nice-nice with broadband ISPs OR phone companies. Google would overnight become the largest U.S. ISP with direct and very high-performance access to its customers, including those using the new Google Phone or any other phone that supports WiFi connections, like the iPhone and many others. Google becomes the biggest and lowest-cost ISP and potentially the biggest and lowest-cost mobile phone company in the bargain.
Now that's what I am hoping for!
RELATED: Bob's piece includes his take on why the iPod Classic sucks. And here's an artful Google denial of an August Gphone rumor:
We don't comment on market rumour or speculation. However, Google is committed to providing users with access to the world's information, and mobile becomes more important to those efforts every day. We're collaborating with partners worldwide to bring Google search and applications to mobile users everywhere. However, we have nothing to announce at this time.


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I find the two bits of advice similar.
I find the two bits of advice similar.
I'll join you in the flame room, because I mount the vise a little to the right of center so I've got room to set a rotary table or a larger part to the T-slots on the left if I need to. It doesn't come off and on very much so wear to the table is not issue. And I customarily work from the left end of the vise because I can indicate the fixed jaw, zero the dials and always know the position of a part in the vise, unless I reset dials for a particular part.Originally Posted by daryl bane
I may rot in some machinist's hell for it, but it's been fun in the meantime.
"In theory theres no difference between theory and practice. In practice theres a lot of difference. Yogi Berra
Hehe, funny John...
I also like to put mine off to one side. It lets me get at that oiling screw that most people forget. And it lets me make small(ish) no-vise setups without removing the vise. At this very moment I have temporarily setup a tilting table (and spindexer) right beside the (still trammed) vise for a small job.
There used to be a DIY expert on the TV called Harry Green...that always told you ...over and over again to go round all three holes in a drill chuck whilst tightening ...with dia warnings that your chuck will wear out or the drill will come undone if you don't.
still cant figure out the logic of that.
anorak wearers and train ticket collectors take note
..if you were to number holes 1-3 that would be better ...use 1 ...next time next day use 2 ..and after that 3 and back to 1 again ..thats if you could be bothered..
all the best.mark
What ever works for you. Machines are made to wear out. at some point in time. All that means is it is then used to do a little less quality work . as it wears some more you do a little rougher work on it . At some point a shop will sell it and buy new, then we go ape over it.If you have any kind of decent machine and Don`t abuse it . and are doing HSM stuff it will out last you who ever you are. and after we are dead and gone it wont matter.
Every Mans Work Is A Portrait of Him Self
Mark, that Harry Green sounds like a pretty smart guy. I proved to mysellf yrs. ago that if you will go around all three holes on the the chuck it does improve the grip, and sometimes the runout on jobber drills. I always do it.
Any chance the guy simply knew what the errors were when it was right "there" on the table, and put it back "there" so it (he hopes) will be "just the same as last time"...?
I think that is slightly delusional if you mean to the nearest thou, but whatever. Still could be the point he was making.
BTW, I have noticed that most people, when trying to explain or teach, will make some "definite" statements that they likely can't back up. Dunno why, I have done it, seen others do it.... and have noticed that people who don't quite understand their subject do it more.
Darrell Hollands machine shop videos are the best instructional videos that I have seen to date. To those that would flame them Why not go to work and raise the mark. One good result of this discussion is that several different views and the arguments to support them have been presented. I may not agree with any or all of them but I have a better basis of understanding to support which ever corse that I choose to follow.
Byron Boucher
Burnet, TX
When it all boils down ,Is it not Just an opinion if you can't prove it?
I for one will put my vice off center,where I want it. Things wear out,I bought a used mill and expect to buy another when it wears out,If it wears out a year sooner because of vice placement so be it.
Argument #1: "it's the middle with equal hang-over and will shift the least when milling, besides being affected the least by table droop, so it's the most accurate".
Argument #2: "that's the area that is and will get, worn the most, and consequently will end up the least accurate. Other less worn parts of the table will be more accurate as the mill wears".
In the long run it probably don't matter.... some things are almost superstitious... The local baseball team used to have a shortstop who did backflips on his way to his position when the game started. It got to be a tradition that he did that, like he had to for them to win.... But later when he was older he didn't do them, and he played just as well....
So long as the guy doesn't carefully mill a pocket for the vise in the top of the table, it probably won't hurt anyone if he likes perfect symmetry... Some folks have weird fetishes like that.

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The 2012 Ford Fiesta sub-compact is the first American in the sub-compact segment that can actually run in the same circles as the Honda Fit, Toyota Yaris and Nissan Versa. The 2012 Ford Fiesta is available as both a 4-door sedan and 5-door hatchback (Ford calls it the "Hatch"), and runs the price range from entry-level bare-bones to a nicely-equipped commuter pushing into the $20,000 range. Beyond its slick European good looks, impressive 40-mpg fuel economy, and fun-to-drive factor, the 2012 Ford Fiesta sub-compact is loaded with features uncommon in this class, including a wide variety of wild interior and exterior color choices, a watered-down version of Ford's popular SYNC audio and communications system, and more interior room that one would expect.
If you're looking for a fuel-efficient small car, but you don't want to sacrifice the interior quality or modern features usually only found on larger, more expensive cars, the 2012 Ford Fiesta sub-compact is an easy choice.
If you're all about room and high resale, the Honda Fit trumps the Fiesta in both categories. Newer models such as the Hyundai Accent and Kia Rio offer just as much styling and features as the Fiesta, but at a lower price.
The 2012 Ford Fiesta sub-compact sedan and hatchback adds two new interior option packages to the SEL and SES trims, sees a revised Sport Package with more features, and makes integrated side blind-spot mirrors standard on all models.
Having driven the European Ford Fiesta, we were certain Ford would water down the car's excellent chassis to better suit American drivers. But, to our surprise and delight, the 2012 Ford Fiesta subcompact remains intact. On the highway, the Fiesta delivers a ride that is both comfortable and controlled, with only mild wind buffeting outside the windows to distract from an otherwise quiet interior. Push the Fiesta through a curving on-ramp or twisting back road and you'll discover a little slice of heaven on four wheels. We're not big fans of electric power steering systems, which generally deliver better fuel economy at the expense of driving feel, but the Fiesta's qualifies as one of the less-compromised units. If there is one drawback to the 2012 Fiesta's playful nature it can be found in the rather anemic 4-cylinder engine. With the 5-speed manual transmission, the driver can keep the rpm high enough to get some decent acceleration on level surfaces, but Fiestas equipped with the dual-clutch automatic lack a manual-control option, meaning you're at the mercy of the transmission computer for your fun.
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They're still sinning
Cause they letting every Tom Dick and Steve hit it
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Referring to Eve, who was a woman, took a bit from the apple (which was a sin), and therefore started sinning. Nowadays women just sin by letting anyone (Tom, Dick and Steve) have sex with them.
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Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Appalled by the Bush administrationâs foreign policy, and feeling let down by a compliant news media, many young Americans turned to Jon Stewartâs The Daily Show for some critical insight into what had gone so terribly wrong with their country, as well as some light relief from the horror of it all. Ironically, it seemed to many that the comedianâs fake news show was the only place where one could learn the truth about the âwar on terrorâ and other disastrous Bush-era policies. Summarizing the phenomenon, author Gene Healy wrote, âAn enormous chunk of Generation Y, those born roughly after 1977, gets its political information from Comedy Centralâs The Daily Show, a comedy news program devoted to the idea that weâre led by fools.â
With Obama failing to bring the âchangeâ that many believed in, the perceived need to tune in to The Daily Show is unlikely to waver anytime soon. But is the faith many Americans have in Stewart to help them understand their countryâs problems justified? The recent interview of a Palestinian politician and a Jewish American peace activistsuggests that that faith is seriously misplaced.
In the extended interview (not broadcast on Comedy Central but available on The Daily Show website) with Dr. Mustafa Barghouti and Anna Baltzer, Stewart made up to twenty factual errors. These can be broadly grouped into about half a dozen myths: Jews âreturnedâ to Palestine after 2,000 years in exile; Israel provided a haven for Jews suffering persecution in Muslim countries; Iran is developing nuclear weapons, with which it wants to âwipe Israel off the mapâ; Israel is unfairly singled out for criticism, mainly due to Arab anti-Semitism; both sides are equally to blame for the conflict; and Palestinians canât agree among themselves, so you can hardly blame Israel for not making peace with them.
Many of these myths â all of which serve Zionist interests well â are so transparently false that it is hardly necessary to debunk them all here. Instead, this article will focus on the last one: the question of Palestinian disunity. This will, it is hoped, also throw some light on the common source of Americaâs problems in the Middle East.
âIt seems like to me that the Palestinians and the Israelis both have to fight a civil war almost,â Stewart opined, âbefore they can get a chance to then, I guess, fight each other.â While it is of course true that no nation is âhomogenous,â his characterization of Palestinians overlooks a significant factor: the role played by Israel and its American devotees in promoting division among them
Israel began supporting Hamas in the late 1970s as âa competing religious alternative,â a former CIA official explained, âto divide and dilute support for a strong, secular PLO.â Almost three decades later, after Hamas won the 2006 elections, a faction within the Bush administration sought to divide Palestinians again.
The covert operation to arm Fatah so they could seize power from the democratically elected Hamas was considered foolhardy by many, however.
An exasperated Pentagon official asked rhetorically, âWho the hell outside of Washington wants to see a civil war among Palestinians?â More to the point, he might have asked, Who the hell inside of Washington wants to see a civil war among Palestinians?
David Roseâs 2008 article, âThe Gaza Bombshell,â in the Si Newhouse owned Vanity Fair, gives the impression that Condoleezza Rice and George W. Bush were the main movers behind the plot. To emphasize the point, the caption below a photo illustration of Rice and Bush with a blood red Gaza City skyscape in the background reads: âSecretary of State Condoleezza Rice and President George W. Bush, whose secret Palestinian intervention backfired in a big way.â
But there are reasonable grounds to doubt Roseâs credibility. Before the invasion of Iraq, citing a slew of unnamed intelligence sources, he suggested in a number of articles that Saddam Hussein had connections to Al-Qaeda, 9/11, and the anthrax attacks. Despite Roseâs pre-Iraq war disinformation, antiwar writer and activist Amy Goodman wasnât deterred from featuring his Gaza article on her popular alternative news show, Democracy Now.
Digging a little deeper than Rose and Goodman, Alastair Crooke and Mark Perry, co-directors of Conflicts Forum, a London-based group dedicated to providing an opening to political Islam, locate the origins of the failed plot.
In âElliott Abramsâ Uncivil Warâ they write, âThe Abrams program was initially conceived in February of 2006 by a group of White House officials â¦. These officials, we are told, were led by Abrams, but included national security advisors working in the Office of the Vice President, including prominent neoconservatives David Wurmser and John Hannah.â
In the popular consciousness, Dick Cheney came to be seen, particularly in the antiwar Left, as the Svengali who induced Bush to wage war in the Middle East in the interests of Big Oil. While Cheneyâs ties to Halliburton make that narrative appear plausible, a closer examination of the facts reveals that the Vice President had more intimate ties with a far more powerful and belligerent lobby.
An advisory board member of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), Cheney has long-standing ties with the Israel Lobby. Indeed, his staff was âhand-pickedâ by Paul Wolfowitz protégé Lewis Libby. Described as âalmost part of Cheneyâs brainâ by Bob Woodward, Libby selected Cheneyâs staff from neoconservative think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute, the Hudson Institute and WINEP.
It was these pro-Israel âscholarsâ not oil industry lobbyists who wrote the war propaganda for the executive branch. As Robert Dreyfuss points out in his American Prospect article on Cheneyâs office, âVice Squad,â Libby and Hannah produced âthe most inflammatory and inaccurate speeches delivered by Cheney and Bush.â
David Wurmser, one of the main sources for David Roseâs Gaza article, is no stranger to propaganda either. In 1999, he wrote Tyrannyâs Ally: Americaâs Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein, in which he warned Americans about the growing threat of Iraqâs WMD.
His wife, Meyrav Wurmser, an Israeli citizen, co-founded the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) with Yigal Carmon, a former colonel in Israeli military intelligence. Widely considered to be a propaganda front for Israeli intelligence, MEMRI translates and distributes, in the words of journalist Jim Lobe, âparticularly virulent anti-U.S. and anti-Israel articles appearing in the Arab press to key U.S. media and policymakers.â What better way to get Americans to believe that they and Israel face a common enemy?
Both Wurmsers worked with Richard Perle and Douglas Feith on writing the 1996 âClean Breakâ strategy for Benjamin Netanyahu. The plan for remaking the Middle East in Israelâs interest had to wait till after 9/11 to be implemented, however, when Bush became more susceptible to the very same advisers and their associates.
It was this neoconservative cabal that put Abrams into the position where he could instigate the Gaza coup. Writing in Salon magazine, an âanonymousâ veteran foreign service officer explained how Abrams, who had been convicted for unlawfully withholding information about the Iran-Contra scandal from Congress, came to be hired by Rice. In âThe State Departmentâs Extreme Makeover,â he wrote: âIn December 2002, Wolfowitz, Feith, Wurmser and Vice President Cheneyâs national security advisor, I. Lewis âScooterâ Libby, acting together, maneuvered Condoleezza Rice into appointing Elliott Abrams to the position of special assistant to the president and senior director for the Middle East at the National Security Council.â
Considering Abramsâ extreme Likudnik views, former CIA political analysts Kathleen and Bill Christison wryly commented on his appointment, âPutting him in a key policymaking position on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is like entrusting the henhouse to a fox.â
In a revealing comment on who exactly was directing national security during Bushâs first term, âAnonymousâ predicted that Rice would be the neoconsâ second choice to replace Colin Powell as Secretary of State. Since the Iraq debacle was likely to militate against their first choice, Wolfowitz, they planned âto again play behind Condoleezza Rice.â
It is worth noting that Abrams is the son-in-law of Norman Podhoretz. From his bully pulpit at Commentary magazine, the neocon godfather harangues Americans into waging âa very long warâ against what he calls âIslamofascismâ â a disparate group of enemies that looks suspiciously like an Israeli hit list.
As to where Abramsâ own loyalty lies, his 1997 book, Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America, is unequivocal. Jews âare in a permanent covenant with God and with the land of Israel and its people,â he claims. âTheir commitment will not weaken if the Israeli government pursues unpopular policies.â
Shouldnât Americans be more wary of national security advisers with an avowed uncritical allegiance to a foreign country, especially one which seeks to induce the United States to fight an endless war with one-fifth of the worldâs population?
And instead of poking fun at convenient scapegoats like Bush, Cheney and Rice for Americaâs disastrous Middle East policy â as The Daily Show did for eight years to great acclaim â hasnât Jon Stewart a responsibility to his many fans to sift the merely plausible from the hard facts? When those facts point to a handful of other Jewish Americans whose âcovenantâ with their tribal God endangers all Americans, to do otherwise is to make fools of his audience.


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August 31, 2011
From the Streets of Delhi
The give and take of learning with India's street children
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A young girl looks up from her book at Khushi Rainbow Home for Girls. Photo courtesy of The Dilse Campaign, New Delhi.
Meaning "from the heart" in Hindi-Urdu, the Dilse Campaign of the Centre for Equity Studies strives to do just that. A collaboration between government and citizens, the think-tank/action-research organization works to develop a sustainable, large-scale intervention model to uphold the dignity and rights of the urban poor — specifically the children and youth who live and work on the streets. Dilse's Delhi program includes a health clinic, a field team, a research arm and three community-based residential schools across the city. For the past year and a half, I have been working on developing English language and computer-skills education programs for these schools, in a mix of classroom teaching, curriculum development, teacher training and supervision, and staff soft-skill training and capacity building. While Dilse runs four similar schools in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, the organization's Delhi program currently works with more than 350 children and youth in-house, and provides services to more than 2,000 other children and families in the various communities in which we work.
One could say that I am engaged in the work of social justice and tikkun olam, as all of us at Dilse are working to build a more just and equitable world. Yet I often feel that the phrases tikkun olam and social justice have a self-serving ring to them: "Look what we can do for them." "They need help, and we can help them." To some extent, this is undeniable and unavoidable; in a world where some people have more privilege and were born into a world with more resources, more supportive communities and, frankly, more luck than others, certain people find themselves desperately in need of help and support, while others are in positions where they can grant it.
But what does tikkun olam really mean? As with learning, I believe that tikkun, or repair, can and should happen both ways, and it is never a one-way street. One of the most powerful lessons I have learned from working with the Dilse Campaign in New Delhi is that I am receiving tikkun as much as I am giving it. Every day I am challenged to grow in new ways as I interact with my physical and human environment. While this mutual process of learning took me by surprise at first, I now feel that this mix of tikkun olam, repairing the world, and tikkun atzmi, refinement of the self, is one of the most powerful ways in which I can connect with the children and young adults with whom I work.
This notion of internal and external repair also brings home a larger debate — where should we invest tikkun? And which olam, world or reality, are we talking about? Having grown up with a strong identity of my own and feeling interested in, welcomed by and invested in a culture very different from mine pushes me to ask what Judaism's commitment to peace, equality, justice and diversity really means, and how we are encouraged to live out these values. Are some people's olam more deserving of change than others'? Does tzedakah and service work within the Jewish community take precedence over intercommunity work?
It is our responsibility, as committed Jews, to work in other communities and find a common ground where we can both learn and be learned from. How can communities know and appreciate one another and the beautiful, subtle web of their differences and commonalities, and work toward making peace if they have never really interacted?
Dilse children teach us a powerful lesson in their phenomenal ability to act as bridges between communities. In their new environment, children like Fatima do not know the "rules of the game." As they learn both inside and outside the classroom, they depart from the arena of their previous lives and, unknowingly, they close a door behind them. Their worldviews, their expectations for themselves and their awareness of society's expectations for them are soon much wider than before. Even in doing something as simple as putting sounds together to read a word, children like Fatima go through transformational learning — where one is taken and changed into something different from what one was before. Yet the vast majority of those who have families maintain contact and strong relationships, going home to visit on holidays and special occasions, bringing back news, and often helping parents and family members get outside help and support. Despite all the changes they have gone through, they appreciate the learning from their previous context, and they are able to flit back and forth between worlds.
Supporting the children and helping them stay on track during this vulnerable period requires a lot of reinforcement. Resilience can be developed in the space between teacher and learner, caregiver and child. As a program developer, I am continually trying to come up with ways to expand, explore and make use of this space. To meet this challenge, a great part of my work is child-participation based, and I spend a lot of time both in the classroom and working with children after class in small groups. And though my primary role is to teach and develop education programs for the children, I am repeatedly awed and amazed by the powerful lessons they teach me every day.
Fatima taught me some of my most valuable lessons. Who would have thought that a foray into the old city and spending several hours at the Jama Masjid one Ramadan break-fast could make such an impression on someone? A little girl who observed me from afar remembered my face so clearly that she recognized me in a context completely removed from her previous reality. That day doing alphabets taught me two lessons: First, even the small things we do can have a lasting effect on something or someone, and so, we should be conscious and present in our day-to-day words and actions.
Fatima also taught me the beauty of going with the flow. A little girl whose world was full of big changes and instability, Fatima was nevertheless ready to absorb and process everything that came her way, one day at a time. Her patience and determination even in the face of external chaos are qualities I strive for in my own life. Working with Fatima gave me tikkun that day. I hope to keep Fatima's quiet, naïve bravery in mind when I grapple with my own life changes and the important but sometimes uncomfortable learning that comes my way.
As I sit on the mat, in the garden of the school in Old Delhi, with rambunctious little hooligans running in circles around me, thousands of miles from the city and community of my childhood, I feel I am living all the values I grew up with in a visceral and exciting way. Day to day at Dilse, my work is almost always an adventure fraught with Delhi's traffic, limited building infrastructure, the challenge of working with inexperienced teachers and the need to accommodate multilevel classrooms of children of all ages with multiple learning and social issues. But then there is the heady mix of naiveté, life experience and wisdom I so often encounter in these children, their unabashed honesty, and the electrifying moments when I find ways to connect with them and see those lights come on. I am often astounded by their remarks, by their application of new knowledge to current realities, and by their nimble ability to connect information and find meaning in what they learn. Some days these all come together, and I see them love learning and love themselves. In such moments I know that working with these children can be transformational — both for them and for me.
Rachel Firestone, 25, grew up in Los Angeles and is a graduate of Wesleyan University. She is currently living in Delhi, where she works with the Dilse campaign of the Centre for Equity Studies.
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Living in the desert is bad enough but sticking through it without water is even worse. Throughout our entire lease we had several times where Wynn Palms Apartment would decided to do changes or repairs to the water. Each time we would wake up prepared to start our day only to find out we can't take our morning shower, brush our teeth or even go to the bathroom. Not once did they ever even give us a notice they were shutting it off. We had the water shut off some months up to 5-6 times. Then it could be out anywhere from 2-10 hours on those days. There apartment affected my job, no job I have ever found wants employees to come to work with hair messed up, teeth not brushed or odor from not showering.
As if the water wasn't bad enough, as the summer came back around we noticed our air conditioning also was out of service. Throughout the winter we never used it, but May, June and July the heat became a problem. We had placed several complaints through the front office. Which they did send several repair men to the scene, but not once was the problem ever fixed. Our apartment reached heats of over 100 degrees. Also when our air conditioner was broke it wouldn't automatically shut off because it was always hot. So we would leave for the day only to return home and find out our unit ran continuously wasting much electricity.
We made several attempts to try to work out these problems but nothing was accomplished. The final time was on July 23rd around 7pm our air went out again, then the next morning (Friday) we woke up to find out our water was also out. Around 8pm that night out water finally came back on. However the heat was still out, we called the 24 hour maintenance and asked if the guy could bring us a portable unit, his answer was "No". We finally moved out on the 29th at that point the air was still out.
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Just so that people know on two of the three sections of the complex there are no building shut offs so in order to make any kind of water repairs to those sections we have two choices, make the repair under water pressure or shut the section down and wait for the Water District to come back and turn the water back on. If we make the repair under pressure there is a very big chance that the apartment will get flooded. And if the apartment is on the second floor the unit below will get flooded also.
We only do this if we have no choice. As far as the Heat and Cooling issues in the complex the former Maint Staff at the Wynn Palms did not take care of the units nor did they wire the units correctly. They wired the units and put parts in that did not work properly. Myself and two other guys work very hard to ensure that the residents have heat and cooling. If we are unable to do this we call in a specialist who can get the units up and running. Normally we have the units up and running within twenty four hours.
We are currently working extremely hard to deal with all kinds of issues, electrical, plumbing, etc. The complex took a few years to go down to the point it is and it will not come back to the splendor that it was in just a few days or months.
One final note anytime we shut down the water to two of the three sections we give residents twenty four hours notice and we work very hard to have the water back on as soon as possible. We will even work through lunch to get the repairs done quickly so that the residents have water as quickly as possible. But when we do call the water district it could take anywhere from five minutes to two hours for the water district to get there and get the water back on.
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High-rise Estates - Living in a Box by 'Ree, worker in Yarra.
One of the brilliant pieces written by students from The Monthly Masterclass
The high-rise estates in the City of Yarra house a diverse mix of cultures and ages, all living in very close confines, sharing laundries & stairwell with drug dealers. The 'old guard' are fearful of the young people - 'if there are two or more young people together, they must be up to no good'.
The image of the estates is so unbecoming to 'outsiders' - fences and signs symbolise the 'border gates'. Families from other countries, with many children, some who have their own children, but they won't leave. Why would you leave? These estates cover many hectares of prime real estate in inner city Melbourne, the City of Yarra, with trams running past their doors or only a couple blocks away, providing access to anywhere in Melbourne. And what magnificent views! Views across Melbourne, out to the Dandenong Ranges, the Yarra River, the MCG, the city lights. But they complain - about access, lack of access, maintenance, safety, car parking, drug dealers, the department of housing, the lifts, the laundries, the rubbish.
Many community supports are provided, although they are increasingly limited. Community development workers and Police Youth Resource Officers run soccer programs for the kids, Community Information Centres coordinate activities. There's the mothers groups, the singing groups, the Safety groups, the Men's Shed, Health and Wellbeing Groups, Community Gardens and much more.
Uniquely, the estates do provide a 'village' atmosphere where neighbours will become friends, carers, helpers, babysitters to each other's children, regardless of background or culture. Residents have the opportunity to escape their boxes, into their local neighbourhood house or community garden. Residents can spend their time growing and tending their veges, flowers or fruit trees.
Residents have come from all backgrounds, many from war torn countries to fid a better life in Australia. They are trying to integrate into the Australian culture, learn the language, learn the law, learn about justice, from a very narrow view of the world – a box. With security, with swipe cards, and locked doors, with concierge staff, people tailgate, people don't sign in, people get angry, and police are called.
What will become of the children and young people growing up on the estates, many left unsupervised, as their mothers are home in their boxes caring for their younger ones. Who is mentoring them, teaching them how to integrate, how to grow up in Australia, how to behave appropriately, how to behave respectfully to their parents, to authorities, to women, to each other.
And what of the broader Melbourne, Victorian, Australian community. What of the boxes that the broader community put the residents in? The stereotypes that create such a cultural divide, that residents who grew up on the estates carry with them into adulthood. These estate communities are great communities, rich and vibrant in culture and personalities. Currently there is a public housing shortage in Victoria. There is a government consultation, residents are scared of losing their housing. The information hasn't been translated, they don't fully understand what is happening. They are marching in the streets. This is their home, even if it is in a box.


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On the opening phrase of Parshat Mishpatim, "And these are the laws that you shall set before them," Rashi comments:
Wherever the term "and these" is used, it signals continuity. Just as the commands in Parshat Yitro were given at Sinai, so too were the commands in Parshat Mishpatim. Why are the civil laws in the beginning of Parshat Mishpatim placed in juxtaposition to the laws concerning the altar at the end of Parshat Yitro? To tell you to place the Sanhedrin near to the Temple.
Rashi continues by commenting on the words "that you shall set before them": G-d said to Moses, "You should not think that I will teach them a section or law two or three times until they know the words verbatim but not take the trouble to make them understand the reason and significance." The Torah states, "that you shall set before them" – like a fully laid table with everything ready for eating.
Three remarkable propositions are being set out here, which have shaped the contours of Judaism ever since.
The first is that just as the general principles of Judaism (aseret hadibrot means not "ten commandments" but "ten utterances" or overarching principles) are divine, so are the details. In the 1960s the Danish architect Arne Jacobson designed a new college campus in Oxford. Not content with designing the building, he went on to design the cutlery and crockery to be used in the dining hall and supervised the planting of every shrub in the college garden. When asked why, he replied in the words of another architect, Mies van der Rohe: "G-d is in the details."
That is a Jewish sentiment. There are those who believe that what is holy in Judaism is its broad vision, never so compellingly expressed as in the Decalogue at Sinai. The truth however is that G-d is in the details. The greatness of Judaism is not simply in its noble vision of a free, just, and compassionate society, but in the way it brings this vision down to earth in detailed legislation.
Freedom is more than an abstract idea. It means (in an age in which slavery was taken for granted – it was not abolished in Britain or the United States until the nineteenth century) letting a slave go free after seven years, or immediately if his master has injured him. It means granting slaves complete rest and freedom one day in seven. These laws do not abolish slavery, but they do create the conditions under which people will eventually learn to abolish it. Not less importantly, they turn slavery from an existential fate to a temporary condition. Slavery is not what you are or how you were born, but some thing that has happened to you for a while and from which you will one day be liberated. That is what these laws – especially the law of Shabbat – achieve, not in theory only, but in living practice. In this, as in virtually every other aspect of Judaism, G-d is in the details.
The second principle, no less fundamental, is that civil law is not secular law. We do not believe in the idea "render to Caesar what is Caeser's and to G-d what belongs to G-d." We believe in the separation of powers but not in the secularization of law or the spiritualization of faith. The Sanhedrin or Supreme Court must be placed near the Temple to teach that law itself must be driven by a religious vision.
The greatest of these visions, stated in this week's sedra, is: "Do not oppress a stranger, because you yourself know how it feels like to be a stranger: you were strangers in Egypt" (Shemot 23:9). The Jewish vision of justice, given its detailed articulation here for the first time, is based not on expediency or pragmatism, nor even on abstract philosophical principles, but on the concrete historical memories of the Jewish people as "one nation under G-d." Justice in Judaism flows from the experience of injustice at the hands of the Egyptians, and the G-d-given challenge to create a radically different form of society in Israel. This is already foreshadowed in the first chapter of the Torah with its statement of the equal and absolute dignity of the human person as the image of G-d.
About the Author: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, former chief rabbi of the British Commonwealth, is the author of many books of Jewish thought, most recently The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning.
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Yaakov Avinu spent the final seventeen years of his life in Mitzrayim. While there he lived in peace for the first time in many years and remained in that state for the rest of his life. Near the end of his days he called in his beloved son Yosef and made an impassioned request: "Please do not bury me in Mitzrayim."
This week's parshah begins with Yaakov Avinu on his deathbed. He called for and requested of Yosef not to bury him in Mitzrayim, but rather in Eretz Yisrael. Although Yosef agreed to fulfill this request, Yaakov asked him to swear that he would keep his word, which he did.
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In our story a couple of kids discover Chanukah within the walls of a gym.
Shemos Rabbah states that Yaakov transmitted the "secret of the redemption."
Just as the moon waxes and wanes and then totally disappears from view before returning to the night sky, so, too, the Jewish people.
Question: Why do women cover their eyes when they light Shabbat candles?
People thronged from all over Israel to take advantage of this opportunity.
At about 4 a.m. on cold and damp autumn mornings in London, Dad would try to wake us in time for Selichot, the pre-Jewish New Year dawn prayers. As we heard Dad's footsteps mounting the stairs, my brother and I would hide under our covers and mutter our displeasure at being disturbed.
It is not difficult to understand the care Joseph took to ensure that Jacob would bless the firstborn first.
The family had reached deadlock.
Joseph may have known ancient Egyptian traditions about seven-year famines.
A while back I inducted a new rabbi into office. It's something I do often, and there is a certain predictability to the proceedings. I give the new rabbi my blessings and encouragement. He in reply thanks those who have helped him through the years, and sets out his aspirations as a spiritual leader and his vision for the future of the congregation.
Bad things happen, and when they do, the leader must take the strain so that others can sleep easily in their beds.
The purchase of the Cave of Machpelah is evidently a highly significant event because it is recorded in great detail.
Leaders lead. They don't conform for the sake of conforming. They don't do what others do merely because others are doing it. They think outside the box. They march to a different tune.
Could we understand the history of Israel without its prehistory, the stories of Abraham and Sarah and their children?
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Alex Higgins
Some people will tell you that when Gazza broke down in floods of tears in Italia 90, it changed everything. It might have done for a lot of people, but I remember something before then: Alex Higgins's tears when he won the 1982 World Snooker final.
It's hard to separate one moment out of a sporting great's life and say there, that is who the person was, because it's all too easy to slip into the world of cliche, to imagine that everything was perfect before the world titles and there was some inevitable arc towards destruction and eventual death; it's easy to look back and imagine the dots got joined together by straight lines, but you have to suspect that things are even more complicated with Higgins than with anyone else. Here was someone who was quite rightly loved and hated, who acted appallingly and brilliantly. How can you separate it all out? How can you take one strand and say, this is who this person was? It's impossible.
There was always something of the outsider about Higgins. There was a look on his face of a man who'd been wronged, who wasn't quite right, who was always going to have to fight just to stand still. He was more crumpled, more battered, less together than the other neat and tidy snooker stars on television in the 1980s. Higgins didn't wear a tie, citing medical reasons. He'd sit there, screwing his mangled features up as he lit another cigarette, looking like everything could fall apart at any second... but then sometimes it didn't fall apart. Sometimes it all came together.
Higgins was the loser's hero, the guy who couldn't be relied upon to get anything right, but who could, when he did get it right, beat anyone. There's something almost childish about the risk-taking behaviour, the desire to try anything to try and win, to go for the near impossible when the safe option is there, but when it comes off, it's amazing. The more methodical sporting heroes - in snooker, Steve Davis or Ray Reardon - are always going to win more times with their approach. But in this bit of action from 1982, Higgins pulls off an amazing series of shots to crush Jimmy White:
Maybe there's a part of all of us who are failures, and losers, and defeated, who admire the courage of Higgins to go for it when the odds were against him. Those of us who are never going to amount to anything can look at someone like that and think, well, that's what happens when you really try, it might come off, and you might just do it. We all just want a millionth of what he had, and we'd be happy. Here was someone who was a fighter - against his rivals, against authority figures, against cancer, against everyone, including himself, of course. It was that battling spirit that saw him overcome cancer, though the operations and treatment, as well as the lifestyle he'd had, did for him in the end. But he raged against the dying of the light, like he'd raged against everything.
It's hard to like someone like Higgins, whatever you think of his sporting achievements. I dare say in real life he could be an awful person. I don't want to read all the stories from friends and lovers that will no doubt appear in the papers, but I imagine there will be some unsavoury stories that come out - those, after all, are the ones that attract the most attention, the bigger headlines, the potentially bigger payout. Who knows what really happened.
But I just remember being a younger person, looking at Higgins's face contorted in tears as he won that 1982 final. Tears of joy, that he could have won again, despite everything. Tears of relief, that it was all over. And probably tears for all kinds of other reasons, too. Here was someone so painfully, obviously fallible, and yet, there he was, champion of the world, best of everyone. He was a terrible ambassador for the sport, hounded for every tiny swear, cough, indiscretion and so on by the press, often rightly so, sometimes making a lot out of a little. But for those moments, as the tears fell, he was proven to be the best of the best. The rest of us can only dream of such magic. That's why a lot of us love sport, for the power to transport you to somewhere else, to see a glimpse of someone else's dream, to see a part of your own hopes invested in someone else.
And years later, they're gone, and you're still here. But still. If you could have a millionth of what they had, you'd take it right away. I know I would.
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Brilliant! Superb piece of writing.
Beautifully written. And that break remains one of the most jaw-droppingly inspirational moments in sport. R.I.P. Hurricane.
I think that's about the best obituary he's likely to get, or could wish for.
Quality Anton.
An article up there with a total clearance. Not quite in the league of the above piece of sporting theatre, or maybe Ronnie's (the next 'best' thing to Higgins) super fast 147; but certainly deserving of a long red starter followed by a fluent display of cue ball control and quality decision-making. Bravo.
I was really sad yesterday… "R.I.P. Hurricane." Although, to be honest, can you imagine Higgins ever doing anything in peace ;-P
I remember that year, and always felt White v. Higgins should have been the final and not the semi-final. It is also worthy of note that White v. Higgins averaged 19 minutes per frame, whilst Eddie Charlton v. Ray Reardon (the other semi-final) averaged 1hour 30 minutes. Just no comparison.
Excellent article, perfectly describes the feeling of connection in sport and sharing in the elation of victory and the pain of defeat. I'd recommend Bill Borrows book on Higgins for a real insight into his character.
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Dr Williams awarded University Teaching Fellowship
Dr Dylan P Williams has been awarded a University Teaching Fellowship. The University of Leicester awards Teaching Fellowships to promote, reward and celebrate excellence in teaching and related activities that support and enhance the Leicester student experience.
During the 2011-12 academic year Dr Williams has been working on a variety innovative approaches to teaching which have included the development of multimedia learning resources and the development of a new series of problem based learning (PBL) case studies which have been used in year 1 and 2 courses.
This is the fifth time a Leicester chemistry academic has been awarded a University Teaching Fellowship:
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A Texas teen had an incredibly close call with a bolt of lightning while boating on Lake Athens this past weekend.
The video uploaded by 16-year-old Tucker Owings shows just how close he came to being one of the unfortunate souls struck by lightning each year.
The clip is only five seconds long, but that's long enough to serve as a reminder to everyone that when a storm hits, get out of the water right quick. No dilly-dallying.
Commenters on Facebook chimed in with amazement, not only at the footage but also at Owings' good luck.
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There are some advantages to not having convenient wifi in this urban setting. It didn't seem like it but more and more of each day was spent responding to posts, thinking up new projects and content for the blog, checking email, Facebook, etc. Too much time was sitting in front of the computer. It's fun but was starting to cut into exercise time - it was easy to think "I can't walk right now - I have to get online". The dang PC was taking over my life! It's nice to log on just once or twice a day now.
Speaking of exercise - there will be plenty of it this weekend. I'm leaving early today and hoping to get a camping spot this morning. The campground will be filling up fast. The bike is on the back of the van so then it's just a matter of biking to all of the destinations for the weekend.
I'll be posting pictures on Sunday or so. There are some new destinations as well as some favorites... All of them will be visited by the bike.
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China's first gay pageant gives glimpse of new acceptance
The event is a striking sign of how far attitudes in China have changed and of gay people's increasing confidence. Gay sex was illegal until 1997. Homosexuality was classed as a mental illness for four years after that. Now an emerging gay community is busting stereotypes.
"We are intelligent, we're professionals, we're gorgeous – and we're gay," said contestant Emilio Liu, from Inner Mongolia. "I want the audience to know there are a whole bunch of people like us living in China. It's a wonderful life and it's not hidden any more."
These days there are gay support groups and websites helping people to explore their sexuality and meet potential partners. There are gay venues in most major cities; last year, the first government-backed bar opened in Kunming, in south-western Yunnan. Shanghai held the first Gay Pride week and in Beijing, campaigners called for same-sex marriages.
Now comes Mr Gay China, reported in approving terms in English-language state media. Eight finalists will take to the stage of a Beijing nightclub to strut their stuff in casual clothes and swimwear, exhibit their talents and answer questions. The winner – picked for his ability to represent gay issues as well as his skills, personality and looks – will head to Norway for next month's finals of Worldwide Mr Gay.
"I don't think people were ready before," said Ben Zhang, one of the organisers, recalling the "long and painful" process of discovering and accepting his sexuality, less than a decade ago.