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By Nancy Rineman
Hampton Union, Friday, August 31, 2007
[The following article is courtesy of the Hampton Union and Seacoast Online.]
[Nancy Rineman photo]
HAMPTON -- As the new principal at Hampton Academy, Christopher Sousa was able to take part in an old tradition with the entire student body on the first day of school Tuesday.
The informal ceremony held at the beginning of the day was the ringing of the bell on the school grounds on Academy Avenue.
"This was the bell that rang to call students to school from 1859 to 1940," Sousa said.
As tradition dictates, the two youngest students in the school, one boy and one girl, had the honor of ringing the bell. The two brand new sixth-graders assuming the role this year were Ariana Fiacco and Joseph Sousa (no relation).
Principal Sousa said while the ceremony was a light-hearted affair, he took the opportunity to talk about the thousands of students who have walked through the halls of the school and the history that was being experienced at this time.
Sousa was principal of Proctor Junior/Senior. High School in Proctor, Vt., before he and his family made the move to Hampton. He said he was attracted to Hampton for many of the same reasons he was attracted to Proctor.
"What attracted me to Proctor was a great sense of community, and sense of small town," Sousa said, adding that he has experienced that same feeling in Hampton.
Sousa grew up in Providence, R.I., and spent many summer vacations right here on the Seacoast. His wife, Colleen, has family north of Boston, making the move here an opportunity to get closer to family and friends, Sousa said.
The principal spoke about the experience of his first day on the job July 1.
"The nice thing about the transition was that Fred (Muscara) was around," Sousa said, recalling that Muscara, who retired in June, was always ready to help through e-mails and phone calls, during his last months as principal. He said he also received a lot of help from Nancy Andrews, Centre School principal, and Marston School principal David O'Connor.
"My Number One support is Nancy York (his secretary)," Sousa said.
Sousa said while he and York and the custodial staff were at the school every day during the summer, the teachers were in and out all summer long as well.
"It's exciting," Sousa said. "I love the first day. Today, the kids being here, they're the life and blood of the school."
Sousa said he will be busy settling in and getting to know people, and the student body. He said he will also be working toward finding out what the community wants for the school.
"I plan to use my experience and expertise in helping to continue to build that sense of community at the academy I feel Fred Muscara started," Sousa said.
Sousa and his wife, who is teaching fifth-grade in Seabrook, have two children, a 2-year-old daughter, Olivia, and a son, Tirnan, who is just 5 months old.


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By Lisa Desjardins, CNN
(CNN) – Mitt Romney may be trying to separate himself from President Obama.
However, on foreign policy, most analysts have to squint to find much room between the two men on specifics.
Both support tight sanctions against Iran, a firm alliance with Israel, a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, indirect support of the Syrian opposition and full U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
There are degrees of contrast on each of those issues, but the real difference, a very large difference, lies outside the specific issues and in broad philosophy: how the two candidates approach the world and America's role in it.
[2:50] "Mitt Romney is trying to portray himself as a more aggressive leader on national security. Obama is more multilateral, some call it 'leading from behind'. Romney tried (in his Virginia speech) to show himself as someone who would lead from the front, suggesting a potentially more aggressive foreign policy" Leila Halil, director of the Middle East Task Force at the nonpartisan New America Foundation.
In his speech at the Virginia Military Institute Monday, Romney spelled out a philosophy of American exceptionalism and indicated a belief that the U.S. not only has the ability to be a dominant force in the world, but that it has that responsibility.
[3:17] "I believe that if America does not lead, others will, others who do not share our interests and our values. And the world will grow darker, for our friends and for us."
President Obama has also called for American leadership in the world, but not American dominance.
He told the United Nations in 2009, "No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation. No world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will succeed."
It is a sharp difference on key philosophy: how the U.S. sees itself and its relationship to the rest of the world.
Editor's Note: Listen to the complete interview above and join the conversation below.
The points that are missed are that Romney may like to have a bunch of women in bed with him at one time (no problem if they all pay the same amount), but Obama is one of our greatest communist leaders and definitely the best from Kenya. Step n' Fetch It paved the way!
Well, come 2013 we won't have public schools anymore. And that's fine because all poor young people need to learn is how to pull a trigger. We need to bring order to the world.
this video below is a MUST see...lara logan, of 60 minutes just gave a speech in chicago at the better govt association....its being reported widely, just not on cnn, nor on the nytimes, nor on abc or nbc, or even by her own network, cbs. Its really fantastic...now THAT is good journalism and COURAGEOUS HONEST journalism...FINALLY!!!!!
Oh that Lara Logan who's married to Joseph Burkett,, a U.S. government defense contractor from Texas? She's afraid that her husband is going to be out of a job?
I have no doubt that al qaida prefers Romney who wants to "lead at the front". That how they can find happiness in extending the war on terror.
Logan's Run?
So I guess she really doesnt have a hidden agenda, she is a "real" reporter...hehehehe. What a joke.
The US has always led. If we don't, someone else will, and we won't have anyone to blame but ourselves. Of course, that's not easy for Obama – to lead.
Ask Bush how that turned out. That is, if you can find him nowadays. The RNC folks tried to find him to give a speech at the convention but couldn't find him. Wait! That's not the reason why Bush didn't go to the convention?
Wolfgang W Halbig
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In the four years I have been gathering information about and evidence against Barack Hussein Obama, I have encountered hundreds of coincidences that strike me as amazing. None of those coincidences, by themselves, may mean much. But taken as a whole it is almost impossible to believe they were all the result of chance. Consider the Obama-related coincidences:
Obama just happened to know 1960s far-left radical revolutionary William Ayers, whose father just happened to be Thomas Ayers, who just happened to be a close friend of Obama™s communist mentor Frank Marshall Davis, who just happened to work at the communist-sympathizing Chicago Defender with Vernon Jarrett, who just happened to later become the father-in-law of Iranian-born leftist Valerie Jarrett, who Obama just happened to choose as his closest White House advisor, and who just happened to have been CEO of Habitat Company, which just happened to manage public housing in Chicago, which just happened to get millions of dollars from the Illinois state legislature, and which just happened not to properly maintain the housing"which eventually just happened to require demolition.
Valerie Jarrett also just happened to work for the city of Chicago, and just happened to hire Michelle LaVaughan Robinson (later Obama), who just happened to have worked at the Sidley Austin law firm, where former fugitive from the FBI Bernardine Dohrn also just happened to work, and where Barack Obama just happened to get a summer job.
Bernardine Dohrn just happened to be married to William Ayers, with whom she just happened to have hid from the FBI at a San Francisco marina, along with Donald Warden, who just happened to change his name to Khalid al-Mansour, and Warden/al-Mansour just happened to be a mentor of Black Panther Party founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale and a close associate of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and al-Mansour just happened to be financial adviser to a Saudi Prince, who just happened to donate cash to Harvard, for which Obama just happened to get a critical letter of recommendation from Percy Sutton, who just happened to have been the attorney for Malcolm X, who just happened to know Kenyan politician Tom Mboya, who just happened to be a close friend of Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., who just happened to meet Malcolm X when he traveled to Kenya.
Obama, Sr. just happened to have his education at the University of Hawaii paid for by the Laubach Literacy Institute, which just happened to have been supported by Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, who just happened to bea friend of Malcolm X, who just happened to have been associated with the nation of Islam, which was later headed by Louis Farrakhan, who just happens to live very close to Obama™s Chicago mansion, which also just happens to be located very close to the residence of William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who just happen to have been occasional baby-sitters for Malia and Natasha Obama, whose parents just happen not to mind exposing their daughters to bomb-making communists.
After attending Occidental College and Columbia University, where he just happened to have foreign Muslim roommates, Obama moved to Chicago to work for the Industrial Areas Foundation, an organization that just happened to have been founded by Marxist and radical agitator Saul Alinsky, author of Rules for Radicals, who just happened to be the topic of Hillary Rodham Clinton™s thesis at Wellesley College, and Obama™s $25,000 salary at IAF just happened to be funded by a grant from the Woods Fund, which was founded by the Woods family, whose Sahara Coal company just happened to provide coal to Commonwealth Edison, whose CEO just happened to be Thomas Ayers, whose son William Ayers just happened to serve on the board of the Woods Fund, along with Obama.
Obama also worked on voter registration drives in Chicago in the 1980s and just happened to work with leftist political groups like the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and Socialist International (SI), through which Obama met Carl Davidson, who just happened to travel to Cuba during the Vietnam War to sabotage the U.S. war effort, and who just happened to be a former member of the SDS and a member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, which just happened to sponsor a 2002 anti-war rally at which Obama spoke, and which just happened to have been organized by Marilyn Katz, a former SDS activist and later public relations consultant who just happened to be a long-time friend of Obama™s political hatchet man, David Axelrod.
Obama joined Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC), whose pastor was Reverend Jeremiah Wright, a fiery orator who just happened to preach Marxism and Black Liberation Theology and who delivered anti-white, anti-Jew, and anti-American sermons, which Obama just happened never to hear because he just happened to miss church only on the days when Wright was at his most enthusiastic,� and Obama just happened never to notice that Oprah Winfrey left the church because it was too radical, and just happened never to notice that the church gave the vile anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan a lifetime achievement award.
Although no one had ever heard of him at the time, Obama just happened to receive an impossible-to-believe $125,000 advance to write a book about race relations, which he just happened to fail to write while using the cash to vacation in Bali with his wife Michelle, and despite his record of non-writing he just happened to receive a second advance, for $40,000, from another publisher, and he eventually completed a manuscript calledDreams From My Father, which just happened to strongly reflect the writing style of William Ayers, who just happened to trample on an American flag for the cover photograph of the popular Chicago magazine, which Obama just happened never to see even though it appeared on newsstands throughout the city.
Obama was hired by the law firm Miner, Banhill and Galland, which just happened to specialize in negotiating state government contracts to develop low-income housing, and which just happened to deal with now-imprisoned Tony Rezko and his firm Rezar, and with slum lord Valerie Jarrett, and the law firm™s Judson Miner just happened to have been a classmate of Bernardine Dohrn, wife of William Ayers.
In 1994 Obama represented ACORN and another plaintiff in a lawsuit against Citibank for denying mortgages to blacks (Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Federal Savings Bank), and the lawsuit just happened to result in banks being blackmailed into approving subprime loans for poor credit risks, a trend which just happened to spread nationwide, and which just happened to lead to the collapse of the housing bubble, which just happened to help Obama defeat John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.
In 1996 Obama ran for the Illinois State Senate and joined the New Party,� which just happened to promote Marxism, and Obama was supported by Dr. Quentin Yong, a socialist who just happened to support a government takeover of the health care system.
In late 1999 Obama purportedly engaged in homosexual activities and cocaine-snorting in the back of a limousine with a man named Larry Sinclair, who claims he was contacted in late 2007 by Donald Young, who just happened to be the gay choir director of Obama™s Chicago church and who shared information with Sinclair about Obama, and Young just happened to be murdered on December 23, 2007, just weeks after Larry Bland, another gay member of the church, just happened to be murdered, and both murders just happened to have never been solved. In 2008 Sinclair held a press conference to discuss his claims, and just happened to be arrested immediately after the event, based on a warrant issued by Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, who just happens to be the son of Joe Biden.
In 2003 Obama and his wife attended a dinner in honor of Rashid Khalidi, who just happened to be a former PLO operative, harsh critic of Israel, and advocate of Palestinian rights, and who Obama claims he does not know, even though the Obamas just happened to have dined more than once at the home of Khalidi and his wife, Mona, and just happened to have used them as occasional baby-sitters. Obama reportedly praised Khalidi at the decidedly anti-Semitic event, which William Ayers just happened to also attend, and the event Obama pretends he never attended was sponsored by the Arab American Action Network, to which Obama just happened to have funneled cash while serving on the board of the Woods Fund with William Ayers, and one speaker at the dinner remarked that if Palestinians cannot secure a return of their land, Israel will never see a day of peace,� and entertainment at the dinner included a Muslim children™s dance whose performances just happened to include simulated beheadings with fake swords, and stomping on American, Israeli, and British flags, and Obama allegedly told the audience that Israel has no God-given right to occupy Palestine� and there has been genocide against the Palestinian people by (the) Israelis,� and the Los Angeles Times has a videotape of the event but just happens to refuse to make it public.
In the 2004 Illinois Democrat primary race for the U.S. Senate, front-runner Blair Hull just happened to be forced out of the race after David Axelrod just happened to manage to get Hull™s sealed divorce records unsealed, which just happened to enable Obama to win the primary, so he could face popular Republican Jack Ryan, whose sealed child custody records from his divorce just happened to become unsealed, forcing Ryan to withdraw from the race, which just happened to enable the unqualified Obama to waltz into the U.S. Senate, where, after a mere 143 days of work, he just happened to decide he was qualified to run for President of the United States.
Obama just happened to save $300,000 on the purchase of a $1.65 million Chicago mansion for which he deposited only $1,000 in earnest money, while the seller™s adjacent empty lot which was appraised at no more than $500,000 just happened to be sold at the inflated price of $625,000 to Rita Rezko, who just happened to earn only $37,000 per year working for Cook County government, and who just happened to be married to Tony Rezko, who just happened to be Obama™s main money man for his political campaigns, and who only days before the Obama mansion purchase just happened to obtain a $3.5 million loan from wealthy Iraqi Nadhmi Auchi, who just happened to have been kicked out of Iraq, and who just happened to have been convicted of corruption charges in France, and who just happened to ask Rezko to ask then-U.S. Senator Obama to help him obtain a visa to travel to the United States.
Rita Rezko just happened to borrow the money for the $625,000 empty lot from the Mutual Bank of Harvey, which just happened to be run by Tony Rezko™s pal Amrish Mahajan, whose wife Anita just happened to have been charged with fraudulently receiving $2 million in Illinois taxpayer dollars for drug tests never performed by her company, K. K. Bio-Science,which just happened to have a no-bid contract with the state, and whose computers just happened to disappear right before investigators arrived to take them away for evidence.
Obama just happened to obtain a $1.32 million mortgage for his mansion even though the payments of $8,000 per month (plus at least $1,500 per month in property taxes) exceeded 50 percent of his $162,100 U.S Senate salary income, and even though Michelle Obama was claiming that she and her husband were still paying off substantial student loans and were struggling to pay for piano lessons for their daughters, one of whom just happens to look remarkably like one of the daughters of Malcolm X.
Obama just happened to obtain his mansion mortgage from Northern Trust Bank, whose Board of Directors just happened to include Susan Crown, who just happened to be part of the wealthy Crown family, which just happened to donate to Obamas campaigns, and which just happened to have ownership in defense contractor General Dynamics Corporation, and the Crown family just happened to sit on the board of energy company Exelon, formerly known as Commonwealth Edison, which just happened to have had Thomas Ayers as its CEO, and the Crown family also owned the Maytag appliance company, which just happened to move its operations to Mexico, after its employees just happened to donate to Obamas campaign, after he just happened to pledge that he would keep their jobs in Galesburg, Illinois.
In June 2005, just months after Obama became a U.S. Senator, Michelle Obama just happened to be named a non-executive director� of the board of TreeHouse Foods, a supplier of Wal-Mart, for a salary of $51,200 in 2005 and $101,083 in 2006, and she just happened to be given 7,500 TreeHouse stock options, worth approximately $72,375, even though she just happened to know nothing about the private sector or running a business.
In 2006 Obama pushed for a $1 million earmark for the University of Chicago, and his wife Michelle just happened to be promoted to Vice-President of Community and External Affairs for the hospitals with a salary increase from $121,900 to $316,962, and she just happened to receive public relations help from Obamas now political strategist David Axelrod, whose mother just happened to write for a Communist newspaper.
In 2006, Sarah P. Herlihy, an associate of the Chicago law firm of Kirkland and Ellis, whose employees later contributed $87,722 to Obamas presidential campaign, and whose partner Bruce I. Ettleson just happened to be a member of Obamas campaign finance committee, just happened to write a paper calling for the elimination of the natural born citizen requirement in the U.S. Constitution.
Obama just happened to visit Kenya in 2006 to support his cousin, Raila Odinga, a Muslim socialist candidate for president, who just happened to have ties to both al-Qaeda and Libya™s Muammar Qaddafi, and who just happened to have been educated in communist East Germany, and who just happened to name his son Fidel, and who just happened to plan on establishing Shari™ah Muslim law in Kenya, and whose activities prompted the Kenyan government to lodge an official protest of Obama™s passport abuse and misconduct, and Obama™s actions just happened to have been denounced by the U.S. State Department as being in direct opposition to U. S. National Security, and after Odinga, for whom Obama just happened to have raised $950,000, lost the election, his Muslim followers just happened to burn Christian women and children alive..in a church where they had sought refuge.
In 2006 Obama endorsed Alexi Giannoulias in his race for Illinois State Treasurer and stated that he is one of the most outstanding young men I could ever hope to meet even though Giannoulias just happened to be only 29 years old and even though his familys Broadway Bank, just happened to finance Chicago crime figures like Michael Jaws Giorango, a Chicago thug with convictions for bookmaking and promoting prostitution, and even though virtually all of Chicago™s Democrat politicians were keeping their distance from Giannoulias, whose reputation was so questionable, he even failed to get the endorsement of the Chicago Democrat Party"which just happens to almost never be concerned about questionable reputations.
Obamas mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, once worked for the Ford Foundations Asia program, which just happened to be run by Peter Geithner, who just happened to be the father of Timothy Geithner, who just happened to neglect to pay Social Security taxes on much of his income, which just happened to somehow qualify him to be Obamas Treasury Secretary.
During the 2008 campaign Obama™s passport records just happened to have been illegally searched by an employee of a firm headed by John O. Brennan, and Lt. Quarles Harris, Jr., who was cooperating with federal investigators in connection with the incident, just happened to be found with a bullet in his head, and the murder just happened never to be solved, and Obama later just happened to make Brennan his terrorism and intelligence advisor.
On election night in 2008 in Chicagos Grant Park, Obama just happened to wear a black suit and a red tie, and his older daughter just happened to wear a red dress, and his younger daughter just happened to wear a stark black dress, and his wife Michelle just happened to wear an arguably unattractive black dress that appeared to have a giant red X design, which just happened to prompt some to wonder if their clothing just happened to denote black power, communism, and Malcolm X, and at the very least prompted others to wonder why anyone would have his daughter wear a jet-black dress for a celebratory occasion"or where one could even just happen to find a store that sells black dresses for little girls.
From election night forward there are hundreds of other 'just happened's, not the least of which is the long-form birth certificate released by Obama in April 2011 which just happened to consist of multiple image layers, including various objects which can be separated and rotated with computer software"which just happens to be impossible if a birth certificate is merely scanned and not computer-constructed by a forger.
Oh, and Obama just happened to have used more than one Social Security number over the years, and one of them is associated with 713 Hart Senate Office Building and starts with the digits 282, which signifies issuance in Ohio, a state in which Obama just happened to have never lived or worked,... and another Social Security number used by Obama starts with 042, which signifies Connecticut, another state in which Obama just happened to have never lived or worked, and it just happened that no one in the mainstream media has ever bothered to ask Obama why he has used multiple Social Security numbers or why the 042 number comes up as invalid in the E-Verify system used by employers to confirm whether immigrant job applicants have valid numbers.
Still waiting for somebody to explain the difference between Romney's policies and the FAILED policies of Bush that lead us head-long into the Great Recession.
Bush during 2000 debates: My tax cuts will be deficit neutral.
Romney during 2012 debates: My tax cuts will be deficit neutral.
Scary…….dominate the world? Mitts is back in the early 20th century. If you want another war, more Americans and innocent civilians killed, then Romney is the one. NO ONE can say the President is soft. Remember who gave the order to kill Bin Laden? Remember who gave the order to have the seals take out terrorists and save an American captain?
America & its people have believed in dominating people rather liberating people from torture & discrimination both in domestic as well international fields globally from 1700 century to present. America has liberated people from France to UK as well from South East Asia to others in Middle East. Romney policy is like thoughts of cow boy to dominate and lead by nose when status is low financially & economy affected by unplanned democracy for 8 years by republican president leading to financial cliff, jobless, less production or no manufacturing creating dependency on foreign countries for all consumer needs & creating jobs by transforming technology with investments abroad neglecting home from development, education, industry, technology, skills of management only just stores with army of clerks & cash counters to collect money & give to investors. This philosophy has hit hard people of America with no income, jobs, industry at home, no infrastructure, no energy, no technology development, no public transportation development etc. Republican theory & philosophy is nor workable & desired in modern world of cooperation & collective responsibility rather than leading the world to wars & destruction which are more disasters & uneconomical than peaceful persuasion & teethes elsewhere in in economic sanctions & human sanctions. There was economic destruction in 2008 when President Obama took over. People of America were disheartened & spiritually destroyed by collapse from Wall Street, Banking, AIG, Auto Industry & small businesses including closing of store's, USPS & others with indirect effects. It was like an economic storm driving everyone in destruction making people homeless, jobless, divorces & break up & shifting of millions of families with savings gone to Wall Street & foreclosures.
Always remember that Romney is a chameleon and will switch colors, mandates, thoughts, promises, etc. at the whim of his mind. He will say ANYTHING to get elected, then watch out when the real Romney emerges.
Dirty Nasty Parasitic Lazy Liberals
I think that the chances of Governor Romney being elected grow better each day. I will not regret it. I will be happy to have a leader who thinks of America first – not one that goes along to get along. Our enemies don't respect that, and that's not a true leader.
Hope you enjoy paying for all of the wars he will start!
Please tell me you don't think Obama won't go to war with Iran if he gets a second term, when and if it turns out they're planning to nuke Israel. . . . PRETTY please? I'll PAY you! . . . . Please?
Then why didn't he "lead from the front" when he had the opportunity to really serve his country in Vietnam instead of dodging the Draft?
He received College Deferments for two years, then spent two years on a "missions trip" in the South of France.
After he returned, he spent the remainder of his Draft eligibility enrolled in a Mormon University in Utah.
Toward the end of the War, Draft Boards in Utah were questioned about the extremely low number of Mormon men Drafted for Vietnam.
Post-debate bumps are always temporary. 100% of the time. 0.0000000000 exceptions, absolutely none, ever. This race is *dead*-even in the swing states which are the only ones that matter. I think it's probably almost 100% certain that it's going to have to be decided by the Supreme Court – again.
America first? Grow up. We are not first…..among the leaders, yes. I hope you are in the front ranks of the soldiers who will fight the next war if Romney is elected. No, wait….you are a chicken hawk. It is OK to have other fight, while you pound your chest and spout that nationalistic nonsense.
Always remember that Romney is a chameleon and will switch colors, mandates, thoughts, promises, etc. at the whim of his mind. He will say ANYTHING to get elected, then watch out when the real Romney emerges.
Read what I said before: Always remember that Romney is a chameleon and will switch colors, mandates, thoughts, promises, etc. at the whim of his mind. He will say ANYTHING to get elected, then watch out when the real Romney emerges.
The difference to me as an American is that Romney has the heart of an American Patriot. Obama is not American, by his actions and inactions. I think you don't know Romney. The point is we DO know Obama by now and last four years have really really taken us..... no where but DOWN. And that is the wrong direction this country should be taking.
What utter nonsense. Who died and left you in charge of deciding who has "the heart of an American patriot?" NONSENSE
Bill Clinton on Obama-"It is wrong that Senator Obama got to go through 15 debates trumpeting his superior judgment and how he had been against the war in every year, enumerating the years, and never got asked one time, not once: well how could you say that when you said in 2004 you didn't know how you would've voted on the resolution? You said in 2004 there was no difference between you and George Bush on the war, and you took that speech you're now running on off your website in 2004, and there's no difference in your voting record and Hillary's ever since. Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen."
I am a Republican but Romney scares me. I don't like the way he says "I will do this" and "I will do that". And his foreign policy remarks are just so Mormon-agenda-driven (Israel can do no wrong simply because they are God's chosen people). Yuck. In fact I don't like that his weird religion means so much to him – I find that particularly scary. I will be voting Dem for the first time in my life. Never thought I'd see the day.
And I will vote Republican for the first time in my life!! Obama scares me. What Obama ISN'T saying scares me. I've seen what he's done for this country and I don't like it. Too many out of work. He concentrated on his health care plan making it mandatory. Yet we have no jobs in order to pay for the mandatory insurance! Is that stupid or what?!! I believe Obama has Socialistic tendencies and doesn't see the US like American Patriots do. Everyone should look at General Boykin's video on Marxism in America under Obama. Example: the Homeland Security is directed by the White House. Homeland Security sent out a memorandum to all law enforcement that the biggest threats to this country were: right-wing 2nd Amendment supporters, Christians, and returning military members! Nothing in the memorandum regard Islamic terrorists! Whaaa? Marxism strives to depress and discredit the opposition-those most likely to oppose and speak up about the wrongs in this country. I wonder why so many military members DO NOT like Obama, and are under a gag to not discredit their commander in chief. But the anger is palpable in this country and it is directed at this administration for the lack of finding the "voice" of America. We lost it, when we hired Obama. I'd rather go with the "new guy" Romney. (And isn't Obama now part of the "good 'ol boy" network of Washington-–a fact that you Republican opposers criticized Gingrich for? If Gingrich was the Rep candidate, he would blow Obama right out of the water.
We have SEEN what 8 years under a Republican President got us...and everyone expects it to be fixed in a few years...yeah right! We have also heard the policies that Romney will put into place...crushing taxes on the middle class to finance tax breaks for the top 1% of earners. NOT the America I grew up in!
In my opinion most people have no idea just HOW BAD the complete collapse of the world economy was/is going to be if America didn't/doesn't get it's impending health care disaster fixed. There's 700,000 medical bankruptcies per year in this country; that is *not* economically sustainable. And China is the 900-pound gorilla in the room and they are NOT going to go away. First things first. The impending total collapse of the economy due to the coming health care disaster MUST be prevented first or nothing else is going to matter at all.
As a social liberal who will be voting for Obama based on the fact that he is the better candidate, I am going to implore you not to vote because you're rationale for voting blue is fucking stupid. His religion is what you can't tolerate? Not the fact that he flip flops constantly on everything he says he stands for....but because he is a Mormon? *facepalm*
IIt's people like you who make me think that we should remove all the warning labels off of bottles and let Darwinism weed out some of the stupid.
George W. is an example of an aggressive leader on national security so I suggest you look carefully before you buy.
Ronald Reagan was another leader that led from the front. Think before you renew your lease.
Reagan only had to deal with one enemy – Russia. After Bush's wars, the US now has enemies all over the world. With Romney's "lead from the front" promise, we'll be at war for years to come. One good thing is that there'll be lots of jobs created, all feeding the military industry. But the country will go broke quick enough.
HEHEHEHEHE... A bit Funny, a bit Sad, and all but true.
Yes. Reagan was also a disaster. He tripled our national debt in order to increase welfare payments to the military industrial complex welfare queen corporations. This at a time when the USSR was beginning to come apart anyway. Reagan simply lied about an arms race with the USSR would bankrupt the USSR. The USSR never even tried to engage in Reagan's arms race. Why would they need to? They had nuclear missiles pointed at the US. It was nothing but an excuse on Reagan's part to pump more welfare dollars to the military industrial complex welfare queens, and triple our national debt. Several years ago I was at a speech given by Gobachev. Someone asked him what they thought of Reagan's "tear down this wall speech". Gobachev said they were mostly busy with other issues, and besides they knew what Reagan's previous career had been (an actor).
"Romney tried (in his Virginia speech) to show himself as someone who would lead from the front..."
Great idea, so let's get all of his sons enlisted in the Army or Marine Corp and deployed to a front line fighting brigade ready to fight and possibly die for Israel in Iran.
You obviously misunderstood. He meant lead from the front of the podium.
Maybe he will guide the attack on China and Ryan will guide the attack on Russia.
"...Maybe he (Romney) will guide the attack on China..." - Are you kidding? China is our friend and Romney's investment partner!
I am not a Romney supporter at all but your comment is ridiculous. How does his desire to "lead from the front" have anything to do with his family? Silly comment.
Yes, leave Romney's sons out of it! Romney has always been about the 100%! We're talking about sons and daughters of non-privileged families, only those who do not have trust funds set up for them. During war time, they won't be able to find any job that's not military-related anyway. So what's the big deal?
Do you *actually* think World War Three won't start if Iran is permitted to nuke Israel as they plan to? Stop lying to yourself; Obama is going to go to war with Iran during his second term if he's elected. If and when air power doesn't work – THANKS China!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 – – – He's going to send in troops.
American Exceptionalism is the modern equivalent to German Exceptionalism (Arian Supremancy) in the 1930's and 1940's. Look what resulted from that ideology.
Goodwin's law. We are done here.
This is a claim, not a sustantiated statement; and therefore meaningless.
"The broader U-6 rate - which takes into account part-time workers who want full-time work and lots of discouraged workers who've given up looking - stayed unchanged at 14.7%. That's a better gauge of the true unemployment rate and state of the American labor market. ... The shrunken workforce remains shrunken. If the labor force participation rate was the same as when President Obama took office, the unemployment rate would be 10.7%. If the participation rate had just stayed steady since the start of the year, the unemployment rate would be 8.4% vs. 8.3%. ... The 114,000 jobs created would have been a good number ... but for 1962, not 2012. The U.S. economy needs 2-3 times that number every month to close the jobs gap (which is the number of jobs that the U.S. economy needs to create in order to return to pre-recession employment levels while also absorbing the people who enter the labor force each month.) At 114,000 jobs a month, the jobs gap would not close until after 2025.... We are still on pace to create fewer jobs this year than last year. In 2012, employment growth has averaged 146,000 per month, compared with an average monthly gain of 153,000 in 2011. ... Bottom line: The U.S. labor market remains in a deep depression with virtually no recovery since the official end of the Great Recession. But the Long Recession continues unabated." –American Enterprise Institute's James Pethokoukis
I think there's a good chance that Romney will be elected. I also think that if he is elected, America will regret it.
Al qaida attacked the US mission in Libya at this time for a reason. They want Romney and the GOP to win so as to make it easier to xtend their war on the US. You don't think they didn't embellish the Bush years?
Now his family wants us to disbelieve everything that he has said for years. Miracle moderate Mitt will fix it all, the economy and the world. How does Romney accomplish this? If he thinks that just by cutting taxes will do the job he will be very disillusioned in a short time. I am afraid he has no idea of the complexity of the presidential job and dealing with the GOP's extreme right wing in congress. He's in for a rude awakening if he believes they will compromise because he is president. The Tea Party has destroyed almost every moderate republican. If he goes to the middle and doesn't toe their line they will do the same to him
Obama has a very realistic world view, which in my opinion should help build bridges with the masses of the world. the failed policies of propping up dictatorships and supplying them with arms to kill their own people has got us to this mess. Foriegn policy should not be dictated by arms lobby. Having lived in middle east, south east asia and UK, I belive that Obama's policy has real substance. Hope people realize that they have a great opportunity with this president for a sound foriegn policy grounded in reality of our times and beyond

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Exploring together: The Global Exploration Strategy
Space activities help to define nations and their place in the world. Countries that explore space are envied as frontier nations with cultural vigour and leading technologies. The number of countries involved in space exploration is growing steadily and we are entering a new era of historic significance, in which we will extend human presence beyond Earth's orbit, both physically and culturally.
An action plan
The Global Exploration Strategy is key to unlocking humanity's future in space. With increasing intent and determination, our partners plan to return to the Moon and beyond with the goal of sustained and ultimately self-sufficient human presence beyond Earth. It is an enormous challenge that no single nation can undertake on its own. We must do it together.
This is why fourteen space agencies developed the Global Exploration Strategy: The Framework for Coordination, which presents a vision for human space exploration, focussing on destinations within the Solar System where we may one day live and work. It elaborates an action plan to share the strategies and efforts of individual nations so that all can achieve their exploration goals more effectively and safely.
A partnership between humans and robots is essential to the success of such ventures. Robotic spacecraft are our scouts and proxies, venturing first into hostile environments to gather critical intelligence that makes human exploration feasible. Humans will then bring unique decision-making capabilities that allow them to respond to new situations and proactively push the boundaries further.
Social, intellectual and economic benefits
This Global Exploration Strategy will bring significant social, intellectual and economic benefits to people on Earth. We will learn about the evolution of the Solar System and how to survive in difficult environments. This new knowledge will help us understand Earth better, and enable us to create more sustainable societies here.
This new era of space exploration will strengthen international partnerships and global security through the sharing of challenging and peaceful goals. It will inspire people everywhere, particularly youth. It will steer many students toward careers in science and technology and provide them with challenging jobs that encourage knowledge, innovation and creativity.
Europe cannot afford to remain at the margin of what is bound to be one of the greatest undertakings of this century. Expanding human presence in the Universe, namely on the Moon and later on Mars, will positively and permanently mark humankind, our societies and our citizens. We need to keep this direction and at the same time consider a step forward to enhance our role and increase our autonomy, both to reinforce partnerships and to better serve European interests.


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Regarding namarupa, consciousness specifically in Dependent Origination. I had to continually keep in mind that I was not looking for an experience which renders us inoperable or comatose, we are all seeking the insight to end suffering and the cause of suffering only. Whilst I have a body I still must feed it and interact with a complicated world. I say this because I noticed that imagination will make it harder for us and perhaps try to explain Dependent Origination or Unbinding as an experience of ending or ceasing in a way which it isn't i.e. it isn't a state of mental in-operability. Or we may feel overwhelmed, in a thicket of views, which again I feel was not Buddha's objective. So it is about just getting our heads around it.
As SN 12.2 namarupa or name&form ceases on the "Cessation of Consciousness". Some sources explain that Consciousness and Name&form arise together, so the explanation of DO is linear but we can consider that the parts arise together [1]. This makes it easier for me as I can tackle the topic more practically, where I see it most apparent through insight. By name and form I understand it is the way we see the world around us. We see each object having a quality, such as 'good' or 'bad'. I take a flower as good, but another person may see a flower as a bad weed. So we need to see all things with equanimity and to do so we need to remove the automatic sense of a quality in objects. We also need to remove our habitual clinging or craving/aversion to objects because we see good or bad in them as if they contain that quality as part of their nature, which they do not (anatta). Objects do not have any inherent self or quality so they are just objects or form (rupa), it is wrong view to cling to an object thinking it is a good object or let the feeling of aversion arise on sensing a 'bad' object. We can go through the world perfectly intelligently without craving and aversion.
SN 12.2 Paticca-samuppada-vibhanga Sutta:
"Now from the remainderless fading & cessation of that very ignorance comes the cessation of fabrications. From the cessation of fabrications comes the cessation of consciousness. From the cessation of consciousness comes the cessation of name-&-form. From the cessation of name-&-form comes the cessation of the six sense media. From the cessation of the six sense media comes the cessation of contact. From the cessation of contact comes the cessation of feeling. From the cessation of feeling comes the cessation of craving. From the cessation of craving comes the cessation of clinging/sustenance. From the cessation of clinging/sustenance comes the cessation of becoming. From the cessation of becoming comes the cessation of birth. From the cessation of birth, then aging & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair all cease. Such is the cessation of this entire mass of stress & suffering."
So when we understand the cessation of name&form, all the rest will cease to be a part of the system or chain which leads to dukkha.
What we are doing all the time is labelling form, as explained above with 'good/pleasure, bad/displeasure or neither good nor bad' this correlates to craving, aversion or delusion. In order to put an end to this once and for all we need to use anicca and anatta. If anatta and anicca are difficult to comprehend then we can engage in the Eightfold path and meditation.
Through anicca we can see that no object or any event has permanence, it arises and passes away. Keep a focus on how things end or cease, as this is 'letting go' and helps to remove any current ongoing clinging or aversion. Hence we will see there is no need to cling, and no need to label form as good/bad etc. We pull our attention back on how we automatically label things, and instead of labelling them we keep in mind anicca and anatta and let things pass through our senses without given them any label. So it could be a beautiful face or an ugly face, we just 'see' we don't need to label form with a name or feeling like "pleasurable" or "repulsive". By removing this labelling affect of the mind, through mindfulness of anatta and anicca, this will cease consciousness from going on to 'contact' and 'feeling' in the chain of DO. By being mindful at the 6 sense gates throughout our day it will make consciousness more clear and stop it from leading to craving and suffering.
Below is what the Buddha said on the "cessation of consciousness" and then "form", a potentially tricky topic. You will notice that he doesn't mean we become unconscious but rather there is a change to the run-of-the-mill consciousness in that it become more refined (my terms):
Sattatthana Sutta SN 22.57"He discerns consciousness, the origination of consciousness, the cessation of consciousness, the path of practice leading to the cessation of consciousness. He discerns the allure of consciousness, the drawback of consciousness, and the escape from consciousness.
"And what is form? The four great existents [the earth property, the liquid property, the fire property, & the wind property] and the form derived from them: this is called form. From the origination of nutriment comes the origination of form. From the cessation of nutriment comes the cessation of form. And just this noble eightfold path is the path of practice leading to the cessation of form, i.e., right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. The fact that pleasure & happiness arises in dependence on form: that is the allure of form. The fact that form is inconstant, stressful, subject to change: that is the drawback of form. The subduing of desire & passion for form, the abandoning of desire & passion for form: that is the escape from form.
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I hope this helps! I will also cover the 3 parts of DO and how I apply this practically if of interest.
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Here's the latest in homework-assignment mishaps: A 10th grade English teacher in Albany, N.Y., asked her students to write an essay from the point of view of a Nazi and to argue that "Jews are evil," according to The New York Times. The students were instructed to use historical propaganda and the skills that they learned in history class to construct their argument. The case bears similarities to an incident that occurred last month in a New York City school, when a math teacher asked students to solve problems about slaves getting "whipped."
Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard, the superintendent of the Albany school district, made a public apology last week, and said that though she does not believe "malice was the intent" behind the assignment, the teacher exhibited "a severe lack of judgment and a horrible level of insensitivity."
Reactions from the community have been mixed. One local rabbi told the paper that the assignment was "flawed in its essence." A student in the class said the teacher was just trying to teach different points of view. Another rabbi, Donald P. Cashman, argued that "hypothetical situations are often effective teaching tools," and that the assignment corresponded with Holocaust Remembrance Day (which took place on April 8).
According to Wyngaard, the teacher is facing disciplinary action, with the possibility of termination.


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Perhaps I am not aware of, it seems that there is no backup feature in CE (true at least for 7.1.3, the version I am using). You may argue that one could zip the directory structures but it not that feasible (or that convenient) if the size and number of documents are voluminous.
As such, I have started to use Python to read the database, match the repository and reconstruct the whole directory structure, together with tag in XML format. To avoid redundancy of work of the community, I am wondering anyone here is in the course of doing the same ?
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WillCovenbe the creepiestAmerican Horror Storyyet? Based on the title sequence, it seems likely.
CreatorRyan Murphytweetedout the show's opening creditsThursdaywith the caption, "Here it is! The sexy scary main title for AHS: Coven. Can you spot the clues?"
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The Commission on Human Rights,
Recalling that all States have pledged themselves, under the Charter of the United Nations, to promote and encourage universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion,
Recalling also General Assembly resolution 36/55 of 25 November 1981, by which the Assembly proclaimed the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief,
Recalling further article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Part II, paragraphs 22 and 38, of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (A/CONF.157/23), and other relevant international provisions,
Emphasizing that the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion and belief is farreaching and profound, and that it encompasses freedom of thought on all matters, personal conviction and the commitment to religion or belief, whether manifested individually or in community with others,
1. Takes note of the report of the Special Rapporteur on religious intolerance (E/CN.4/1998/6 and Add.1 and 2);
2. Condemns all forms of intolerance and of discrimination based on religion or belief;
3. Encourages the efforts made by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to coordinate in the field of human rights the activities of relevant United Nations organs, bodies and mechanisms dealing with all forms of intolerance and of discrimination based on religion or belief;
4. Urges States:
(a) To ensure that their constitutional and legal systems provide adequate and effective guarantees of freedom of thought, conscience, religion and belief to all without discrimination, including the provision of effective remedies in cases where the right to freedom of religion or belief is violated;
(b) To ensure, in particular, that no one within their jurisdiction is deprived of the right to life or the right to liberty and security of person because of religion or belief, or is subjected to torture or arbitrary arrest or detention on that account;
(c) In conformity with international standards of human rights, to take all necessary action to combat hatred, intolerance and acts of violence, intimidation and coercion motivated by intolerance based on religion or belief, including practices which violate the human rights of women and discriminate against women;
(d) To recognize, as provided in the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, the right of all persons to worship or assemble in connection with a religion or belief and to establish and maintain places for these purposes;
(e) To ensure that, in the course of their official duties, members of law enforcement bodies, civil servants, educators and other public officials respect different religions and beliefs and do not discriminate on the grounds of religion or belief;
(f) To exert their utmost efforts, in accordance with their national legislation and in conformity with international human rights standards, to ensure that religious places, sites and shrines are fully respected and protected;
(g) To promote and encourage through the educational system, and by other means, understanding, tolerance and respect in matters relating to freedom of religion or belief;
5. Emphasizes that, as underlined by the Human Rights Committee, restrictions on the freedom to manifest religion or belief are permitted only if limitations are prescribed by law, are necessary to protect public safety, order, health or morals, or the fundamental rights and freedoms of others, and are applied in a manner that does not vitiate the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion;
6. Encourages the continuing efforts by the Special Rapporteur to examine incidents and governmental actions in all parts of the world that are incompatible with the provisions of the Declaration and to recommend remedial measures, as appropriate;
7. Stresses the need for the Special Rapporteur to apply a gender perspective, inter alia through the identification of genderspecific abuses, in the reporting process, including in information collection and in recommendations;
8. Calls upon all Governments to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur on religious intolerance and to give serious consideration to inviting the Special Rapporteur to visit their countries so as to enable him to fulfil his mandate even more effectively;
9. Welcomes the work of the Special Rapporteur and reiterates the need for him to be able to respond effectively to credible and reliable information that comes before him, and invites him to continue to seek the views and comments of Governments concerned in the elaboration of his report, as well as to continue to carry out his work with discretion and independence;
10. Recognizes that the exercise of tolerance and nondiscrimination by all actors in society is necessary for the full realization of the aims of the Declaration;
11. Welcomes and encourages the efforts of nongovernmental organizations and religious bodies and groups to promote the implementation of the Declaration and invites them to consider what further contribution they could make to its implementation and dissemination in all parts of the world;
12. Decides to extend for three years the mandate of the Special Rapporteur appointed to examine incidents and governmental actions in all parts of the world that are incompatible with the provisions of the Declaration and to recommend remedial measures, as appropriate;
13. Considers it desirable to enhance the promotional and public information activities of the United Nations in matters relating to freedom of religion or belief and to ensure, as a matter of priority, the widest possible dissemination of the text of the Declaration by United Nations information centres, as well as by other interested bodies;
14. Requests the SecretaryGeneral to provide all necessary assistance to the Special Rapporteur to enable him to carry out his mandate, to submit an interim report to the General Assembly at its fiftythird session and to report to the Commission at its fiftyfifth session;
15. Decides to continue its consideration of this question at its fiftyfifth session under the agenda item entitled "Implementation of the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief".
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Ocean may exist beneath Titan's crust
Cassini has discovered evidence that points to the existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon Titan. The findings were made using radar measurements of Titan's rotation.
"With its organic dunes, lakes, channels and mountains, Titan has one of the most varied, active and Earth-like surfaces in the solar system," said Ralph Lorenz, lead author of the paper and Cassini radar scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland, USA. "Now we see changes in the way Titan rotates, giving us a window into Titan's interior beneath the surface."
Members of the mission's science team used Cassini's Synthetic Aperture Radar to collect imaging data during 19 separate passes over Titan between October 2005 and May 2007. The radar can see through Titan's dense, methane-rich atmospheric haze, detailing never-before-seen surface features and establishing their locations on the moon's surface.
Using data from the radar's early observations, the scientists and radar engineers established the locations of 50 unique landmarks on Titan's surface. They then searched for these same lakes, canyons and mountains in the reams of data returned by Cassini in its later flybys of Titan.
They found that prominent surface features had shifted from their expected positions by up to 30 km. A systematic displacement of surface features would be difficult to explain unless the moon's icy crust was decoupled from its core by an internal ocean, making it easier for the crust to move.
"We believe that about 100 km beneath the ice and organic-rich surface is an internal ocean of liquid water mixed with ammonia," said Bryan Stiles of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California, USA. Stiles is a contributing author to the paper reporting the findings.
The study of Titan is a major goal of the Cassini-Huygens mission because it may preserve, in deep-freeze, many of the chemical compounds that preceded life on Earth. Titan is the only moon in the solar system that possesses a dense atmosphere. The moon's atmosphere is 1.5 times denser than Earth's. It is also the largest of Saturn's moons, bigger than the planet Mercury.
"The combination of an organic-rich environment and liquid water is very appealing to astrobiologists," Lorenz said. "Further study of Titan's rotation will let us understand the watery interior better, and because the spin of the crust and the winds in the atmosphere are linked, we might see seasonal variation in the spin in the next few years."
Cassini scientists will not have long to wait before another go at Titan. On March 25, just prior to its closest approach at an altitude of 1000 km, Cassini will employ its Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer to examine Titan's upper atmosphere. Immediately after closest approach, the spacecraft's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer will capture high-resolution images of Titan's southeast quadrant.
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These findings appear in 'Titan's Rotation Reveals an Internal Ocean and Changing Zonal Winds' by R. Lorenz et al. in the March 21 issue of the journal Science.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the ESA and the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, USA, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. ESA developed the Huygens lander, while ASI managed the development of the high-gain antenna and other instruments of its participation. The radar instrument was built by JPL and the Italian Space Agency, working with team members from the United States and several European countries.


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Courting Controversy: Why (and How) We Teach Ethics
We teach ethics to our 8th grade students—and we do it from the very start of the school year. A lot of our colleagues wince at that. Aren't we nervous about teaching a subject usually reserved for parents? And whose ethics are we teaching, anyway? Here's how we respond.
As the study of morality, ethics is not the teaching of a specific set of beliefs. Rather, ethics is about learning to analyze and evaluate beliefs. As long as you communicate that clearly—and practice it in your classroom—there's no need to worry about "whose ethics you're teaching."
Middle school students engage in ethical decision-making daily. Listen closely to nearly any student's social musings and you'll hear a lot of talk about justice and injustice, about "right" and "wrong." Students constantly evaluate their experiences in this way, critiquing the fairness of the dress code or debating whether iPods should be allowed in class. Why not harness this interest for an intentional unit?
Middle school students are fascinated by morality. But ethics is often treated as an off-limits area of expertise "best left to adults" because "it's complicated." Go ahead and tell that to your students, who are eager to prove their mettle.
A little controversy can be a good thing. While no teacher wants unnecessary drama, the controversy that arises from ethical debates provokes intellectually challenging discussions, presents novel ideas, and encourages students to develop and answer meaningful questions.
Using ethical dilemmas as the basis for classroom instruction promotes critical thinking, participation, and self-efficacy. And that's why we like to start the year with ethics, hooking kids right out of the gate.
The Trolley Car Dilemma
We begin by adapting Harvard professor Michael Sandel's lesson from Justice, Episode 1. Sandel presents his students with a hundred-year-old ethical scenario called "The Trolley Car Dilemma."
Using a simple PowerPoint, we tell the story: "You're on a trolley car (a train) that has no brakes. On the track ahead of you are five workers. Because you are unable to stop the train, those five workers will soon be hit and killed. However, you can press a button that will change the track ahead, altering your direction. Only one worker is on that track. If you press the button, he will surely die." We diagram the scenario on the board.
We ask, "Will you push the button, killing one but saving five? Or will you choose not to push the button, allowing five to die while saving one?" First, we give students a couple minutes of private think time. Next, students talk with a neighbor. Finally, we begin the whole-class discussion by asking students to share their answer or their partner's answer.
Likely, most will advocate for pushing the button, remarking, "It's better to kill one and save five." Sandel's Harvard students reacted this way, too.
The second scenario asks students to imagine they are standing on a bridge. If they push a man over the railing, they could save the five workers. Ask whether they'd do this. You'll likely hear responses opposing their initial responses. Now you can raise a new intellectual challenge: "Why did you change your mind?"
As students' brains churn wildly, attempting to justify the discrepancy, capture this moment. Facilitate an all-class discussion, prompting students to reason through and question their positions.
Finally, present the students with Sandel's 20-minute discussion, which includes additional examples that will make them laugh and squirm. By the end of this lesson, the students will understand they have reasoned as well as the Harvard students did. And that's the payoff: your students' transformation into confident, critical thinkers. (Bonus: The next time a student says, "I can't do this," you'll be able to remind the student that Harvard begs to differ.)
The Cold Equations
Next, we introduce students to "The Cold Equations" and "The Lottery," two short stories steeped in sacrifice and moral dilemmas. Fresh off their discussion of Justice, the students will again consider, "Is it better to sacrifice the one to save the many?"
In Tom Godwin's "The Cold Equations," Sandel's dilemma gets a modern twist. An innocent girl on a space craft must die a violent death in order to ensure that humans on a frontier planet receive critical medical supplies. We prompt students to stand in the shoes of the craft's pilot: How would they handle this impossible situation?
As the girl nears the end of her life, students will search desperately for solutions. Have them record their proposed solutionsthen allow the class to gallery-walk and discuss these artifacts. At the story's conclusion, your students will have experienced that right and wrong are not the same as happy and sad.
The Lottery
Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" is another viciously vivid story reminiscent of the reaping from "The Hunger Games." (As you may recall, the prize in "The Lottery" is not an especially desirable payout.)
Prior to reading the story, hold your own class lottery. Students draw equal-sized slips of paper from a box, and one slip will have a black dot. Once the winner is determined, tell the student you'll let them know what their prize is after reading the story. (This exercise allows students to reflect on how they felt about winning or losing before—and then after—Jackson's story.)
"The Lottery" will shock your students. Focusing on an avoidable and seemingly arbitrary social dilemma, "The Lottery" will goad your students into realizing that justice can be defined in many ways. Here, justice is the sacrifice of one for the traditions of the many. They'll remember the story's cold-blooded conclusion for the rest of their lives.
Challenge students to imagine how they would respond if they won the lottery. What if they were bystanders? Give students the chance to identify the traditions and values of their community. Can they identify current social conflicts or dilemmas that go unquestioned?
Ethical dilemmas present students with authentic problems that summon rich critical thinking. If you use Justice, "The Cold Equations," "The Lottery," or similar texts as entry points to ethics and the year, you'll prompt your students to see themselves as college-level thinkers contemplating real problems. Also, you will feel more comfortable tackling ethics without fearing that you might step on someone's toes.
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|Beautiful Goddesses of Ancient Africa
Well now for my new tall one the Gods & Goddesses of Ancient Africa~
I have always been interested in all Gods & Goddesses of all countries of the world and I have already done quite a few posts on the Greek Gods & Goddesses of yet! I hope to do more in the future of my blog, however I have wanted to explore other Gods & Goddesses of different countries too. One that I have only touch on is the Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Africa. Which I find them to be so beautiful and their history so rich and interesting too. I hope to get to all the countries gods and goddesses of the countries at some point in my blog. For now I am going to give you a brief summary on the very proud ancient Gods and Goddesses of African. It seems that Africa has no shortage of legends with so many countries, regions, languages, tribes, cultures and imperialistic crossovers in the huge content Africa. There are many disputes throughout the world, on the place of origin of all humankind. Some have said it is Africa others say its Egypt or India and so many other countries around the world. To me its hard to say. I truly don't know, coming from the US myself one of the very youngest countries of the world. I heard that Africa has been shrouded in great mystery of both good and not so good, with various traditional African beliefs and spirits, ancestors and gods. I found that there has been a lot of voodoo in the country which has been quite popular. It is part of their religion. So have said it is good and others have said it could be quite powerful and use for bad uses too. As for the African Gods, and their people it was said that they were dissatisfied with their creations of their people. It seems that like the Greek God Zeus who at one time was very displeased with the human race in Greece and took his wrath upon them at some point in the history of the Greek Gods ~ It seems that the African Gods were displeased with their humans and would turn away in sorrow and avoid contact leaving the humans to fend for themselves. There are many writings on this about the African Gods and for that I leave that to your imagination. Some have said that it was that the African Gods just didn't like to be bothered and they believed their humans have to learn to be content with what they have. I believe that these African Gods & Goddesses were somewhat more erotic, lovers, adventurous in nature, deeply spiritual people, and quite powerful gods & goddesses. I feel the gods of Africa were quite beautiful captivating, glorious and enigmatic too. There happens to be over 400 of these Orishas Gods & Goddesses of African Culture. However, the photo's that you will see that I have provided for you dearest friends & followers are just a series of 20+ of the African Gods & Goddesses of the Ancient times. These are the more well-known ones; Agayu, Babalu Aye, Erinle, Eshu, Ibeji, Obatala, Obba, Ochumare, Ogun, Oko, Olokun, Olurun, Ori, Orunmila, Oshu, Oxosi, Oya, Ozain, Shango, and Yemaja.
The photographer of these beautiful images is James C Lewis from Noire 3000 Studios. Enjoy the vibrant full series below.
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Gods & Goddesses of Ancient Africa
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