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Link reblogged from The Curiosity Chronicles
The Magi are popularly referred to as Three Wise Men. The word magi comes from the plural of the Latin word magus, in turn borrowed from Greek μάγος magus, which was used in the original Greek text of the Gospel of Matthew. Traditions identify a variety of different names for the Magi;…
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Link reblogged from When Tempest Toss'd, Embrace Chaos.
Paul Chambers (http://twitter.com/pauljchambers) was found guilty today after sending a tweet,(details here http://bit.ly/hackofkentsummary ) he has been fined £1,000 and now has a criminal record. His total expense now is approaching £2,000, not a small sum to anyone really, more…
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Post reblogged from DC Women Kicking Ass
I have one last guest post for you this week. This is from a high school senior, Kate O’Donoghue. As soon as I asked for guest posts Kate shot her hand up and then continued to request the opportunity. Comics needs persistent, passionate fans like Kate. I hope you enjoy her thoughts that follow:
I live in two different worlds. Sadly, neither have superheroes, but both are pretty great. One is always there, keeping me up, making me laugh, making me cry. The other is always there, keeping me up, making me laugh, making me cry. Both teach me, but never the same lessons. I exist on the Internet, but I live in high school.
I’m sure you’ve all heard the tales. The girl is taunted, her books shoved from her hands and across the coffee stained floors, all because she happened to be wearing a Batman shirt and reading the latest issue of Wolverine. I won’t be telling you that tale. Yes, I am a high school student. Yes, I am a girl. Yes, I read comic books. No, actually, I have never heard any flack about it.
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Link reblogged from Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability
The week that was has been full of activity on climate change, adaptation, and, involved an important recognition of environmental scientist and tertiary educator, Professor Frank Fisher.
Those of you who have studied with Frank as a teacher will know that Monday brought together a hall…
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Link reblogged from Beyond Broadcast
ICA preconference co-organizer and speaker Patricia Aufderheide sums up lessons from the Future of Public Media project:
In 2005, the Center for Social Media took on a six year gig providing a think-tank function for the Ford Foundation’s initiative on the future of public…
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Post reblogged from BOOKS OF THE SOUTHWEST
Working on the Railroad, Walking in Beauty: Navajos, Hózhǫ’, and Track Work by Jay Youngdahl, 2011, Utah State University Press, Logan, Utah 84322-3078, USUPress.org.
A vast richness of experience is lost in the world view that believes there is nothing to know from primitive or natural cultures. This book demonstrates many necessary truths about how humans cope with existence, and sometimes—rarely—find a way to ascend towards beauty despite extreme physical and psychological hardship.
This is a book about Navajo railroad workers and their attempts to hold onto the important way of life, the Navajo way, of “walking in beauty.” It may be not readily assumed that a book about railroad workers could reveal something every human would benefit to know. The revelations in this book are truly hard and beautiful at the same time because they are told through the firsthand accounts of devastated peoples who have little to no hope in the American economic grip over their well-beings. Their only hope lies within their ability to create and know beauty within the universe, or at least try to maintain an effort to be in harmony with it.
Source: art.com
These two disparate ideas—the American economic grip (and the unlimited corruption and abuse which emanates from it) and the core of harmony within one’s self are completely at odds with one another. This book looks carefully at what happens when the two meet in the lives of these Navajo railway workers.
Despite what is essentially unending efforts by American culture to separate them from their own cultures and even their humanity, these Navajo laborers find a way to get through the hard times, endure long separations from their families, and deal with brutal injuries by trying to keep in harmony with the natural order, mainly by having ceremonies when they come and go in order to be able to do the work that they have to do to survive.
While there is much to be known about this way of being, many Navajo rely on the traditional ceremonies to provide protection from dangers, such as for sons who were deployed to Iraq. The railroad workers felt an immense need to carry with them the protection of the Blessingway ceremonies. One could argue whether there was belief in a superstition or if the harmonizing effect was able to carry them through. One benefit certainly is the sense of belonging and community that is so desperately needed in the horrible conditions, powerlessness and displacement they suffer.
Technically, the Navajo do not have a “religion.” Their ancestral history is to know their place in the universe and try for harmony with that. Traditionally, this plays out into every facet of their lives; it is an ascent to radiance, harmony, and beauty.
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Post reblogged from ASQ Knowledge Center
ACHIEVING DESIRED RESULTS WITH LESS
Visit the online library of the Aviation, Space & Defense Division to access presentations from the 2012 Conference on Quality in the Space and Defense Industries. Presentations are now available open access.
Topics include cost of quality, achieving results with less, integrated industry standards, and innovation.
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Quote reblogged from A bit lateA few critics, writing quietly and well, bring something extra into their work. Arlene Croce, a fine ability to describe. John Russell, a piece of education in art history. Hilton Kramer, something in the realm of ideas. A few others bring a consistent personal voice, a sort of chat whose underlying proposition is: this is what happened in my field today; here’s what I have to say about it; draw what conclusions you will, on the basis of your familiarity by now with my style, my quality of mind, and the range of my association, in short with who I am.
Renata Adler on types of critics.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1980/aug/14/the-perils-of-pauline/?pagination=false
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Link reblogged from Asian Community AIDS Serviceshttp://acastoronto.tumblr.com/post/43274551594/lunar-new-year-update-and-acas-volunteer-appreciation
ACAS wishes every one had a very prosperous and joyful lunar new year. While we continue to work on developing and redesigning a new website, here are some of the highlights to keep you updated on what we have been doing this new year:
Have you seen the pretty pink printed bags at…
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Quote reblogged from Adventures in Learning
What I do want to tell you is that you need to stop using the “wives, sisters, daughters” argument when you are talking to people defending the Steubenville rapists. Or any rapists. Or anyone who commits any kind of crime, violent or otherwise, against a woman.
In case you’re unfamiliar with this line of rhetoric, it’s the one that goes like this:
You should stop defending the rapists and start caring about the victim. Imagine if she was your sister, or your daughter, or your wife. Imagine how badly you would feel if this happened to a woman that you cared about.
Framing the issue this way for rape apologists can seem useful. I totally get that. It feels like you’re humanizing the victim and making the event more relatable, more sympathetic to the person you’re arguing with.
You know what, though? Saying these things is not helpful; in fact, it’s not even helping to humanize the victim. What you are actually doing is perpetuating rape culture by advancing the idea that a woman is only valuable in so much as she is loved or valued by a man.
The Steubenville rape victim was certainly someone’s daughter. She may have been someone’s sister. Someday she might even be someone’s wife. But these are not the reasons why raping her was wrong. This rape, and any rape, was wrong because women are people. Women are people, rape is wrong, and no one should ever be raped. End of story.
The “wives, sisters, daughters” line of argument comes up all the fucking time. President Obama even used it in his State of the Union address this year, saying,
“We know our economy is stronger when our wives, mothers, and daughters can live their lives free from discrimination in the workplace, and free from the fear of domestic violence.”
This device, which Obama has used on more than one occasion, is reductive as hell. It defines women by their relationships to other people, rather than as people themselves. It says that women are only important when they are married to, have given birth to, or have been fathered by other people. It says that women are only important because of who they belong to.
Women are not possessions.
Women are people.
I seriously cannot believe that I have to say this in 2013.
On top of all of this, I want you to think of a few other implications this rhetorical device has. For one thing, what does it say about the women who aren’t anyone’s wife, mother or daughter? What does it say about the kids who are stuck in the foster system, the kids who are shuffled from one set of foster parents to another or else living in a group home? What does it say about the little girls whose mothers surrender them, willingly or not, to the state? What does it say about the people who turn their back on their biological families for one reason or another?
That they deserve to be raped? That they are not worthy of protection? That they are not deserving of sympathy, empathy or love?
And when we frame all women as being someone’s wife, mother or daughter, what are we teaching young girls?
We are teaching them that in order to have the law on their side, they need to be loved by men. That they need to make themselves attractive and appealing to men in order to be worthy of protection. That their lives and their bodily integrity are valueless except for how they relate to the men in their lives.
