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On Wednesday, Jan. 31, the USDA released its proposals for the 2007 farm bill. This serves as a starting point and now over the next year, the House and Senate will consider the administrations proposals, provide their own plans, debate will take place, and eventually a new farm bill will be worked out.

So, the USDA plan is not the new farm bill and we have a long road yet ahead. I think it is useful, however, to take a brief look at some of the main proposals that apply to the commodity programs.

After reading through the 183-page report, my view is that the administrations goals are (1) to continue to provide a “safety net” for the producer while (2) addressing so-called “inequities” in payments and also while (3) moving toward becoming more WTO compliant.

  • Adjust Loan Rates. — Loan rates would be set at 85 percent of the five-year “Olympic average” (average of the previous five years, dropping the high and low) with the maximum loan rate to be the rate proposed in the House version of the 2002 farm bill. For upland cotton, the maximum loan rate would be 51.92 cents per pound and the projected average loan rate over the farm bill would be 45.7 cents per pound.

    Comment: The proposal objective is to set loan rates closer to recent market levels as compared to having a loan rate which, in the case of cotton, has been above the market in recent years. What will this do to use of the marketing loan as a tool for marketing and risk management? What implication does this have for merchants and marketing associations? A lower loan rate will mean lower LDP's.

  • Increase Direct Payments. — Direct Payments would be increased. No changes in bases or payment yield, but the DP would be increased. The Direct Payment on cotton, for example, would increase from 6.67 cents per pound to 11.08 cents per pound.

    Comment: It seems the objective is to shift dollars away from loan benefits toward fixed payments. While the loan rate would drop 6.3 cents from its current level (52 cents), the Direct Payment would increase 4.41 cents. So the net loss is less than 2 cents, but the DP is received on only 85 percent of base acres and at the DP Yield which is often less than the farms actual yield (LDP's are received on actual production). Thus, the decline in benefits will be more significant that it might appear. Also, an increase in Direct Payments may result in an even further escalation of land rent.

  • Revenue-Based Countercyclical Payments. — Currently, CCP's are received when the market year average price (MYA) is less than the Target Price minus the Direct Payment (72.4 - 6.67 = 65.73 in the case of cotton).

    The proposal would change CCP's from price-based to “revenue based.” The producer would receive a CCP when the national average revenue falls below the target revenue. The national average revenue would be the national average yield times the MYA price or the Loan Rate, whichever is higher. The national target revenue would be 2002-06 national Olympic average yield times the 2002 farm bill target price minus Direct Payment.

    Comment: All this is doing is adding a yield component to the existing CCP formula. In the case of cotton, the National Target Revenue would be approximately $517 per acre (786-pound yield × 65.73 cents per pound). If the actual national average yield were to be 800 pound and the MYA price 55 cents, for example, the actual National Average Revenue would be $440 per acre.

    The CCP would be 9.8 cents per pound ($77 difference divided by 786 pounds acre). This compares to 10.73 cents under the 2002 • Farm Bill CCP. — I haven't seen an example calculation on cotton so, I'm guessing at this point that this is how it might look.

    Repeal Step 1 and Step 3. Step 2 payments were eliminated as of Aug. 1, 2006. Step 1 is the authority given to the Secretary of Agriculture to lower the AWP when needed to improve sales and the flow of U.S. cotton. Step 3 is the import quota. Both are seldom used.

  • Conservation-Enhanced Direct Payment. — For producers agreeing to meet certain conservation requirements, this proposal would allow producers to elect to receive an additional 10 percent in Direct Payments in exchange for forgoing marketing loan benefits and counter-cyclical payments. We need to learn more about the conservation requirements and eligibility and how the math would work out, but it doesn't sound like much incentive on cotton base.

  • Bio-Energy and Conservation CRP. — A proposal would enhance the current CRP to include whole-field enrollment of land that could be used for production of biomass for cellulosic energy production.

  • Eliminate the Planting Restriction on Fruits and Vegetables. — Currently planting of fruits and vegetables on base acres is not allowed unless double-cropping and unless the farm has a history of planting fruits and vegetables. Planting fruits and vegetables on base acres, unless double-cropped, requires a temporary acre-for-acre reduction in base acres and payments.

    No detail is given on how this will take place and who will or will not qualify to produce fruits and vegetables. The restriction, since fruits and vegetables receive no price support, was originally part of previous legislation as a measure to protect price and markets for the fruit and vegetable. Can we assume that under this proposal fruit and vegetable growers will receive some form of compensation?

  • Payments and Payment Limits. — The Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) cap would be reduced from $2.5 million to $200,000 annually for commodity program payments. If a producer has an AGI of $200,000 or more, the producer would not be eligible for commodity program payments.

The three-entity rule would be replaced such that “payments are attributed to natural persons directly and through entities that are determined to be actively engaged in Agriculture.” The effective payment limits would continue to total $360,000 ($180,000 2X) but Direct Payments would increase from $80,000 to $110,000, Counter-cyclical Payments would decline from $130,000 to $110,000, and LDP's and loan gains decline from $150,000 to $140,000.

The separate payments limits for peanuts would be eliminated. According to USDA, the lower AGI will not affect more than 95 percent of U.S. farms.

I'll have to investigate the AGI calculation and see how some of our typical farms might fair. Eliminating the separate peanut payments and limits will be hurtful to larger farms. The impact could be softened by increasing the overall limit to more than $360,000.

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Ellen Kate Harman Carson

Pulaski native and longtime resident Ellen Kate Harman Carson passed away on Dec. 11, 2012, concluding a rich and vital life that touched countless friends, family members and business associates throughout her community.  She was 94 and had resided most recently at Warm Hearth Village in Blacksburg.

Born June 3, 1918 to John Caddall “Doc” Harman and Madeline Askew Harman, Mrs. Carson lived a life that in many ways was a half-century ahead of her time.  After losing her husband, Harvey William Carson Jr., in 1964, she exemplified what today is recognized as a strong, independent single mother capable of successfully juggling the multiple demands of family, career and civic responsibility.

Often described by those around her as a “firecracker,” Mrs. Carson pursued her more than 40 years in the life insurance business, as well as her many outside interests, with extraordinary energy and zeal.  Family members suspect that her remarkable will likely was forged during a two-year battle against tuberculosis, which struck while she was serving as a civilian employee of the Pentagon during World War II.  As Mrs. Carson recollected for her children, her supervisor at the time actually saved her life by refusing to accept her protests that she was too busy to take time off and get tested for the disease.

Throughout her life, a constant in Mrs. Carson’s many and varied interests was her deep faith and membership in the congregation of First United Methodist Church.  She was a devoted member from the time she was a child, and her church activities ranged from singing in the choir to teaching Sunday school.  For most of her life she rarely missed a worship service – even in her later years when she listened to the church’s radio broadcast at home.

A lifelong passion for the arts was heavily influenced by her father, who was known as “Mr. Minstrel” and “Mr. Show Business” for performances that included the portrayal of Santa Claus in Pulaski’s annual Christmas parade.  As a result of her father’s membership in the town’s Fire Department Band, Mrs. Carson had the opportunity to study with Mr. A.U. Fine, who had been a band director for the Czar of Russia before relocating to Pulaski.  She followed in her father’s footsteps as a band member after becoming especially proficient with the clarinet and saxophone – talents she complemented with an equal flair for dance.  After starting a family, Mrs. Carson took special delight in immersing her children in opportunities to explore their own creative talents.  And even while pursuing her professional career with New York Life Insurance Company, she remained actively involved with local arts by managing the Helen Spahr School of Dance and often attending Roanoke Opera as well as events at the Fine Arts Center for the New River Valley.  All the while, she never missed an opportunity to go dancing.

Politics and public service also were in Mrs. Carson’s blood.  She was the granddaughter of General Assembly member Col. King Edwin Harman, and her civic involvement included service as a delegate to the state Democratic convention and a term as Virginia state president of the General Federation of Junior Women’s Clubs.  She also served on the Governor’s Committee on Children and Youth and was a longstanding member of the Pulaski Chamber of Commerce as well as a Red Cross volunteer. She was especially proud of her role with the Junior Women’s Club in the formation of the state-funded Child Guidance Centers in the 1960s, which later became the Community Services Boards.  Mrs. Carson was particularly well known for her hospitality and involvement in local activities and organizations that included bridge and garden clubs as well as the DAR chapter.  She was a fantastic cook who loved to host social gatherings and welcome people into her home.  Many of her recipes included home-grown vegetables – Mrs. Carson was as comfortable tending her produce and flower gardens as she was conducting business in her downtown Pulaski insurance office.

Among Mrs. Carson’s most memorable traits was her dedication to health and fitness, a lifestyle she adopted long before regular exercise and healthy eating came into vogue.  Members of the Pulaski YMCA will remember her as an avid swimmer who typically was in the pool five days a week, a routine she maintained well into her early 90s.

Mrs. Carson, who was predeceased by her brother, King Edwin Harman, is survived by her son, William Caddall Carson of Pulaski; two daughters, Ellen Noel Carson, who resides in Floyd with her husband, Daniel Porter, and Shannon Askew Carson, who resides in New York with her husband, Gary Terpening; and two grandchildren, Shannon Kate Porter of Christiansburg and Kiah Benjamin Porter of Radford.  Like all who knew and loved her, they will treasure memories of her boundless enthusiasm for the many joys life has to offer.

A memorial service will be held on Wednesday Dec. 19, at 7 p.m. at Seagle Funeral Home.  The family will receive friends Wednesday evening from 5 until 7 p.m. service time.  In lieu of flowers, the family asks that condolences be expressed through donations to the First United Methodist Church or the Fine Arts Center for the New River Valley.  Online condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.seaglefuneralhome.com  Arrangements by Seagle Funeral Home, Pulaski.  540-980-1700

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Humped about the head

The Red Sox end a homestand with a disappointing 3-3 split …

Live by the knuckleball, die by the knuckleball. Wake just didn't have it for the second outing in a row.

The dry splitter is an enigma. I can live with its inherent mysteriousness. What I can't resolve are 3rd base coaches with their heads up their ass.

No joke. Sveum sends Manny from 2nd on a weak single to left when Manny runs like a Sleestack?!?!?!?

No shit. Sveum is channeling Wendell Kim. Remember him? The Sox ought to gut their losses and just install one of those machines they use at the airport that randomly selects people for extra searching. Stop. Stop. Stop. Go. Stop. Go. [Laughs] Would have as much success.

And I heart David Ortiz, but why is he ever in the lineup against lefties?

Yeah, when I see him flailing around in desperation, I all of a sudden feel as if I'm being humped about the head by giggling eunuchs.

[Laughs] Ouch. Or maybe not. Does eunuch humpification about the head hurt or just annoy? Hey, you do your write in voting for the Ortizzle?

25 times from the IP here. 25 times at home. 25 times from Wholly Donut's WiFi … You?

Ditto, dude, though only with multiple email identities from home. I don't think they're IP checking.

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Mike's eunuchs line is taken from Letters to Wendy's04-28-97 entry.

I think they're going to take their chances with Ortiz until Burks gets well. He's got the one home run off a lefty.

True. Though I worry the one homer is sorta like McCarty's triple the other night.

Making the best of what we have though. Is Trot Nixon ever coming back? The news seems very dreary on his recovery.

Simply awesome comic. I love the early exchange between the Sox fan and the non Sox fan.

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A Separate Peace

John Knowles

Analysis of Major Characters

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Themes, Motifs & Symbols

Gene Forrester

Gene is the novel’s narrator, and he tells the story as a flashback, reflecting on his days at the Devon School from the vantage point of adulthood. He is the source of all of the reader’s information in the novel and yet proves somewhat unreliable as a narrator—especially regarding insights into his own motivations. We first meet him as an older man returning to the place where he spent his adolescence; we thus initially attribute the wisdom of maturity to him and assume that he brings a certain degree of perspective to his memories of Devon. But even the adult Gene seems filled with fears and insecurities; his great worry, we realize, is that nothing has changed since adolescence—not the school buildings and not, most important, himself. We are then plunged into his memories of an idyllic summer session preceding his senior year in high school and his friendship with the athletic, spirited Finny. But what Gene initially presents as a perfect friendship soon emerges as nothing of the sort; his account of certain actions, along with statements that seem insincere or strained, soon betray his true feelings. Thus, Gene initially asserts that Finny resents him for his academic success. The reader quickly comes to realize, however, that it is Gene, in fact, who resents Finny—indeed, he resents Finny all the more for Finny’s lack of resentment toward him.

Finny’s fall constitutes the climax of the story, and, afterward, all of Gene’s resentments fade away. By crippling Finny, he brings him down to his own level. As Gene and Finny subsequently become increasingly codependent, the reader comes to see that Gene’s forced equalization of the two boys may have been darkly deliberate—it may have stemmed from a deep desire within Gene to blur his own identity, to lose himself in another. Gene’s act of putting on Finny’s clothes and standing in front of the mirror, feeling strangely peaceful, symbolizes his desire to leave behind his own self and become Finny. As the object of Gene’s jealousy, Finny is, in the language of the novel’s dominating metaphor, the object of Gene’s own private “war”; yet, as the mirror scene and other episodes make clear, Finny is also Gene’s great love. Because of Gene’s own insecurities and smallness of self, however, he can realize this love only after crippling Finny, for only then can his mixed awe and resentment give way to pure devotion. It is never clear whether, in jouncing Finny from the tree, the young Gene is motivated by an unconscious impulse or a conscious design. What he certainly does not know, however, is that the fall from the tree will set in motion the chain of events leading to Finny’s death, making Gene Finny’s killer, the destroyer of the thing that he loves most. Gene’s fatal tendency to blur love and hate, his deep desire to blur his own identity into Finny’s, is at the core of the novel’s tragedy.

Although we see all of the characters through Gene’s eyes, his perception of others is most significant in the case of Finny. Even as Gene resents his best friend and harbors dark, unspoken feelings of hatred toward him, he regards Finny at times with something akin to worship. His depiction of Finny contains a strong note of physical, if not erotic attraction. Finny is presented in classical terms, as a kind of Greek hero-athlete, always excelling in physical activities and always spirited—thymos, to use the Greek term. (These Greek heroes were, like Finny, fated to die young; the archetype was Achilles, who considered it preferable to live briefly and gloriously than to die of old age.) Energetic and vibrant, Finny is a tremendous athlete; friendly and verbally adroit, he is able to talk his way out of any situation. Finny finds himself in his element during Devon’s summer session; the substitute headmaster enforces few rules and Finny can let loose his spontaneity and boisterousness without restraint. Yet while he constantly tests the limits and asserts his own will, he seeks neither to emerge “victorious” in any argument or contest nor to “defeat” competing systems of rule. Blitzball, the game that he invents in which everyone competes furiously but no one wins, perfectly embodies Finny’s attitude toward life.

Finny’s perspective on competition speaks to a more profound wisdom and goodness regarding other human beings. Just as he dislikes games with winners and losers, so in life he always thinks the best of people, counts no one as his enemy, and assumes that the world is a fundamentally friendly place. These qualities, according to Gene, make Finny unique; Gene believes that humans are fearful and create enemies where none exist. But Finny’s inability to see others as hostile is his weakness as well as his strength; he refuses to attribute dark motives to Gene and he continues to subject himself to what may be a perilously—or even fatally—codependent relationship, never imagining that Gene’s feelings for him are not as pure as his for Gene.

Moreover, by assuming that everyone thinks like he does, Finny often acts selfishly, insisting that he and Gene do whatever he fancies. This carefree, self-absorbed attitude is one of the roots of Gene’s resentment toward Finny, though Finny, aware only of himself and seeing only the good in others, never seems to pick up on Gene’s inner turmoil. Finny is a powerful, charismatic figure—perhaps too good a person, as he inspires in Gene not only loyalty but also jealousy.

Elwin “Leper” Lepellier

A quiet, peaceful, nature-loving boy, Leper shocks his classmates by becoming the first boy at Devon to enlist in the army; he shocks them again by deserting soon after. Both of Leper’s decisions demonstrate important properties of the war: to the students at Devon, it constitutes a great unknown, overshadowing their high school years and rendering their actions mere preparations for a dark future. Leper’s decision to enlist stems from his inability to bear the prolonged waiting period, his desire simply to initiate what he knows to be inevitable. Later, his desertion of the army again demonstrates a horrible truth: despite their years of expectation, the boys can never really be ready to face the atrocities of war.

Leper’s descriptions of his wartime hallucinations constitute one of the novel’s darkest moments. He proceeds to outline to Gene, with terrifying detail, the hallucinations that he suffered in the army, disproving Gene’s belief that he, Leper, cannot possibly descend into bitterness or angry flashbacks when walking through his beloved, beautiful outdoors. This tension emphasizes the contrast between the loveliness of the natural world and the hideousness of the characters’ inner lives. Most of Leper’s visions involve transformations of some kind, such as men turning into women and the arms of chairs turning into human arms. In a sense, then, Leper’s hallucinations reflect the fears and angst of adolescence, in which the transformation of boys into men—and, in wartime, of boys into soldiers—causes anxiety and inner turmoil.

Brinker Hadley

Brinker Hadley is, in many ways, a foil (a character whose actions or emotions contrast with, and thereby highlight, those of another character) to Finny. Also charismatic and a leader of the Devon boys, Brinker wields a power comparable but opposite to Finny’s. Whereas Finny is spontaneous, mischievous, and vibrant, Brinker is stolid and conservative, a guardian of law and order. Finny, with his anarchic spirit and innocence, comes to be associated symbolically with the summer session at Devon, with its permissive atmosphere and warm, Edenic weather. Brinker, on the other hand, with his devotion to rules and his suspicious mind, is conceptually connected to the winter session, when the usual headmaster returns to restore discipline, the severe weather puts a damper on the boys’ play, and the distant war intensifies, looming ever blacker on the students’ horizons.

In many ways, Brinker represents the positive sense of responsibility that comes with adulthood. When he convinces Gene to enlist in the army, Gene moves toward accepting obligations and leaving the carefree realm of childhood behind. Yet Brinker also embodies the cynicism and jadedness of adolescence. He suspects the worst of Gene in contemplating his involvement in Finny’s fall. Only at the end of the novel does Brinker fully come into maturity: his earlier support of the war is, in many ways, as naïve as Finny’s insistence that the war is a big conspiracy; now however, he begins to resent the war for its injustice and madness.

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by jimmygaytens, November 25, 2014

Leper camps in his dining room after escaping the army, he also says he wanted to be in the ski unit. The dining room is a big part about Lepers escaping part.

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by baby_girl92, May 26, 2015

this book sucks and its meaning isn't noticeable I hate this book and would support any of it nor suggest is to somebody

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by haileykugel, August 14, 2015

Does anyone else believe that Finny is emotionally abusive towards Gene? Finny often tells Gene things along the lines of "you're not good enough to do that" and definitely takes control over Gene.

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 When i was small, i talked to you,

told everything of my life.

With innocent lips and clasped hands,

and eyes closed tight,

I brought every truth in light.

      I grew and talks turned to prayers...

my willingness to tell my life stories,

turned on to asking you , the truths of life..

and the chapter closed, but no answers from your side.

     I grew further and my prayers grew into demands,

the innocence turned to selfishness and truths to silence.

those demands that i throbbed upon you,

made me cry, when unfulfilled.

but you kept smiling .

    I grew and my cries & Your smile created a rift.

My faith hardened and isolation was a gift.

I now worked hard to earn a good life,

 with every step i took ,i reached a new height,

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... but forgot you.

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with hands joined for prayer...

i saw You talking to me...

i know i cannot forget You..

but as i am growing....

i miss my innocence ,

O God i really miss You!

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Uncle Kracker is a rock artist who makes country music. Thisis not terribly uncommon, but there’s something interesting about theway Mr. Kracker makes the rock-to-country transformation: None of thetracks on Seventy Two & Sunny remotely resemble “countryrock.” They all sound like pop songs (there are no waltzes or fiddlereveries or twang-infused references to rodeo clowns), yet they all feellike country songs. The result is a better-than-decent album that willappeal to those who don’t listen to music with sociology in mind, whichis probably 90 percent of America.

Part of what makesKracker compelling is his maniacal obsession with hit making. It’s toobad this dude wasn’t born in the late 19th century, because he wouldhave loved working on Tin Pan Alley. Hit singles are the only songs hehas any interest in creating. Even the boring songs on Seventy Two & Sunnycould reasonably exist on the radio, and most of the album follows theformula he perfected on the flawless 2001 chart-topper “Follow Me”(i.e., one sweeping hook, stupid yet charming lyrics, no dissonanceallowed). The songwriting is archetypal and casual, a Sublime-like,laid-back buskerism mixed with a less aggressive version of the “outlawcountry” his benefactor Kid Rock aspires to record. The best example is”Songs About Me, Songs About You,” where Kracker brags that he’swritten about everything from money to booze, and the only reason hehasn’t had a Top 10 smash about regret is that he hasn’t gotten aroundto it.

Somehow, Uncle Kracker has come to the conclusion that fakecountry music is the only authentic art remaining in America. “LastNight Again”–a duet with shirtless country star Kenny Chesney–makesme want to purchase Miller High Life even though it’s not in a beercommercial (yet). You’d have to work pretty hard not to like thesesongs, though I’m sure some people will try. I like his Tone- Loc-esquevoice, and I like most of these songs. You could do a lot worse.

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RENTON, Wash. – For the second straight season, the Seahawks had six players named to the Pro Bowl.

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Evin Demirel: Say What You Want, But Bret Bielema Can Flat Out Sell Football(s)

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Visit Evin's Author PageBret Bielema might have built his national reputation on old-fashioned, conservative offense, but the man’s public persona could hardly be more different. The outspoken Arkansas coach’s proposal to slow down college football by forbidding offenses to snap the ball until 29 seconds are left on the 40-second play clock is not a popular one. Indeed, he is one of only two coaches to publically support it. And Bielema’s reference last week to the death of a University of California football player during a discussion of how the rule changes would affect player safety was widely condemned as tactless.

The ensuing national outcry led one Sports Illustrated writer to opine Bielema is becoming the most reviled figure in college football now that Lane Kiffin is merely an assistant (and Bobby Petrino is nearly two years removed from his motorcycle spill).

Believe what you will about Bielema, but there’s one thing about him difficult to argue: The man doesn’t hedge. You know exactly where he is coming from, and where he stands, even if his logic backing those stances can appear confounding. Bielema may be unpopular on the Twittersphere, and his slow-down philosophy may make him contrarian, but he can hardly be accused of selling out.

But flat out selling?

Here’s a different story altogether. The man can and certainly has done that. Below, we see Bret Bielema at Hot Springs Village Razorback Club meeting on Tuesday night. A wooden football he’d autographed is being auctioned off with a starting price of $50. This is no ordinary football, mind you. An Alabama penitentiary inmate carved it by hand. For years, this convict had used his extraordinary carving skills solely for the purpose of Crimson Tide propaganda until one day a Razorback fan convinced him to turn from the Elephant and carve one for Razorback-kind. At least that’s the story, as told by Jim Webb, president of the Hot Springs Village Razorback Club.

The auctioning had only gotten underway when Bielema grabbed the reins and immediately started driving up the price. By the time the dust cleared, and the strutting son of an Illinian pig farmer had returned to his seat, his autographed ball had landed for the sum of $300  into the arms of Alan and Vivian Smith of Conway.

This isn’t Bielema’s first auctioneering rodeo. Last spring, at a similar event in Texarkana, he worked enough magic to drive up the price of an autographed ball to $1,000.

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    $325? Really? I just gave $100 to some Kid I’ve never seen before for his middle school wrestling team. You people are cheap.

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      Well then aren’t you going to heaven, Mr. I Am Awesome?

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        Dont hate the man just because he opened his wallet and spend more on some kid than you spend on making yourself anything other than the troll you are.

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    Available to comfort Susan.
  3. TigerVols

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    Great title.
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    If you label him, you negate him.

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    He was very good in "The Client."
  6. Songbird

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    It really is.
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    RIP. I loved 'Eight is Enough,' when I was a kid, and was also reminded that he was in the Robin Hood-spoofing TV series "When Things Were Rotten," which I also loved as a kid.

    Quick TV trivia bit: He played the ship's doctor in the TV movie "The Love Boat," which of course was the de facto pilot for the TV series, which recast the entire crew to the ones we know the best.

    Also, the comments in the link above mentioned his relation to actresses Joyce Van Patten (sister) and Talia Balsam (niece), but what hasn't been mentioned is that his half-brother (30 years younger) is Timothy Van Patten, who played Salami in "The White Shadow" and has since made a name for himself as a TV director for "The Sopranos" and numerous other HBO series.
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    Hey, Abbott!!!

    I wonder if they'll read the funeral rites in the New Latin.
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    I always thought Timothy Van Patten was his son! Wow.
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    The family humbly requests all-aye our-yay essings-blay.
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    Watched a thing TV Land did a few years back on a day in the life of Dick Van Patten - one of his sons always wondered why they lived in Sherman Oaks, Dick said it was because it was halfway between Santa Anita and Hollywood Park.
    Also probably hoodwinked generations of journalists into believing they could raise eight kids and buy a home on a newspaper salary.
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    Had an opportunity to interview Dick Van Patten once many years ago, and then, years later, interviewed his son Nels while the younger Van Patten was serving as a tennis coach for a young player I covered regularly.

    Just based on that experience, Dick's reputation as one of the most positive, congenial people one could ever hope to meet was well-deserved, and he apparently passed that outlook on to his son, with whom I also thoroughly enjoyed speaking as we talked at length about tennis, show biz and families.

    Youngest son Vince, more widely known as a regular "Wonderful World of Disney" child actor, also was a pretty fair tennis player back in the day, and I watched him play in a tournament once. I believe he pursued a pro-tennis career for a while.

    Great family. RIP, Dick.

    Thread title is a play not only on the show title but also on a book Van Patten wrote in 2009 called "80 Is Not Enough".
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Understanding this experiment sheds a brilliant light on the dark world of our inner motivations.

The ground-breaking social psychological experiment of Festinger and Carlsmith (1959) provides a central insight into the stories we tell ourselves about why we think and behave the way we do. The experiment is filled with ingenious deception so the best way to understand it is to imagine you are taking part. So sit back, relax and travel back. The time is 1959 and you are an undergraduate student at Stanford University…

As part of your course you agree to take part in an experiment on ‘measures of performance’. You are told the experiment will take two hours. As you are required to act as an experimental subject for a certain number of hours in a year – this will be two more of them out of the way.

Little do you know, the experiment will actually become a classic in social psychology. And what will seem to you like accidents by the experimenters are all part of a carefully controlled deception. For now though, you are innocent.

The set-up

Once in the lab you are told the experiment is about how your expectations affect the actual experience of a task. Apparently there are two groups and in the other group they have been given a particular expectation about the study. To instil the expectation subtly, the participants in the other groups are informally briefed by a student who has apparently just completed the task. In your group, though, you’ll do the task with no expectations.

Perhaps you wonder why you’re being told all this, but nevertheless it makes it seem a bit more exciting now that you know some of the mechanics behind the experiment.

So you settle down to the first task you are given, and quickly realise it is extremely boring. You are asked to move some spools around in a box for half an hour, then for the next half an hour you move pegs around a board. Frankly, watching paint dry would have been preferable.

At the end of the tasks the experimenter thanks you for taking part, then tells you that many other people find the task pretty interesting. This is a little confusing – the task was very boring. Whatever. You let it pass.

Experimental slip-up

Then the experimenter looks a little embarrassed and starts to explain haltingly that there’s been a cock-up. He says they need your help. The participant coming in after you is in the other condition they mentioned before you did the task – the condition in which they have an expectation before carrying out the task. This expectation is that the task is actually really interesting. Unfortunately the person who usually sets up their expectation hasn’t turned up.

So, they ask if you wouldn’t mind doing it. Not only that but they offer to pay you $1. Because it’s 1959 and you’re a student this is not completely insignificant for only a few minutes work. And, they tell you that they can use you again in the future. It sounds like easy money so you agree to take part. This is great – what started out as a simple fulfilment of a course component has unearthed a little ready cash for you.

You are quickly introduced to the next participant who is about to do the same task you just completed. As instructed you tell her that the task she’s about to do is really interesting. She smiles, thanks you and disappears off into the test room. You feel a pang of regret for getting her hopes up. Then the experimenter returns, thanks you again, and once again tells you that many people enjoy the task and hopes you found it interesting.

Then you are ushered through to another room where you are interviewed about the experiment you’ve just done. One of the questions asks you about how interesting the task was that you were given to do. This makes you pause for a minute and think.

Now it seems to you that the task wasn’t as boring as you first thought. You start to see how even the repetitive movements of the spools and pegs had a certain symmetrical beauty. And it was all in the name of science after all. This was a worthwhile endeavour and you hope the experimenters get some interesting results out of it.

The task still couldn’t be classified as great fun, but perhaps it wasn’t that bad. You figure that, on reflection, it wasn’t as bad as you first thought. You rate it moderately interesting.

After the experiment you go and talk to your friend who was also doing the experiment. Comparing notes you found that your experiences were almost identical except for one vital difference. She was offered way more than you to brief the next student: $20! This is when it first occurs to you that there’s been some trickery at work here.

You ask her about the task with the spools and pegs:

“Oh,” she replies. “That was sooooo boring, I gave it the lowest rating possible.”

“No,” you insist. “It wasn’t that bad. Actually when you think about it, it was pretty interesting.”

She looks at you incredulously.

What the hell is going on?

Cognitive dissonance

What you’ve just experienced is the power of cognitive dissonance. Social psychologists studying cognitive dissonance are interested in the way we deal with two thoughts that contradict each other – and how we deal with this contradiction.

In this case: you thought the task was boring to start off with then you were paid to tell someone else the task was interesting. But, you’re not the kind of person to casually go around lying to people. So how can you resolve your view of yourself as an honest person with lying to the next participant? The amount of money you were paid hardly salves your conscience – it was nice but not that nice.

Your mind resolves this conundrum by deciding that actually the study was pretty interesting after all. You are helped to this conclusion by the experimenter who tells you other people also thought the study was pretty interesting.

Your friend, meanwhile, has no need of these mental machinations. She merely thinks to herself: I’ve been paid $20 to lie, that’s a small fortune for a student like me, and more than justifies my fibbing. The task was boring and still is boring whatever the experimenter tells me.

A beautiful theory

Since this experiment numerous studies of cognitive dissonance have been carried out and the effect is well-established. Its beauty is that it explains so many of our everyday behaviours. Here are some examples provided by Morton Hunt in ‘The Story of Psychology‘:

  • When trying to join a group, the harder they make the barriers to entry, the more you value your membership. To resolve the dissonance between the hoops you were forced to jump through, and the reality of what turns out to be a pretty average club, we convince ourselves the club is, in fact, fantastic.
  • People will interpret the same information in radically different ways to support their own views of the world. When deciding our view on a contentious point, we conveniently forget what jars with our own theory and remember everything that fits.
  • People quickly adjust their values to fit their behaviour, even when it is clearly immoral. Those stealing from their employer will claim that “Everyone does it” so they would be losing out if they didn’t, or alternatively that “I’m underpaid so I deserve a little extra on the side.”

Once you start to think about it, the list of situations in which people resolve cognitive dissonance through rationalisations becomes ever longer and longer. If you’re honest with yourself, I’m sure you can think of many times when you’ve done it yourself. I know I can.

Being aware of this can help us avoid falling foul of the most dangerous consequences of cognitive dissonance: believing our own lies.

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( October 28, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The recent statement coming from the Sri Lankan army commander made in the Tamil Vanni area that if "anyone becomes extremists or tries to divide the country, it is not the country that will be divided but their heads that will be severed from their bodies" is a reflection of many things. While being a bombshell it is also a confession of sorts by a war criminal.

This is a threat held out with impunity not only against a section of elected representatives returned with overwhelming support by the Tamil people despite the numerous threats held out against them, but also a threat to the freedom of conscience guaranteed by the Sri Lankan Constitution for whatever its provisions are worth in so far as a true democracy is concerned, not to mention the freedom of speech, a freedom that is fast becoming a thing of the past in Sri Lanka, a luxury.

Perhaps this threat is a slight aberration of the explanation given by President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the recent interview with the Al Jazeera television where he said in references to the remarks on Navi Pillay by his ministers, that being a democratic country his ministers could say anything including officers. He also said: "We allow them to do that."--as if as a matter of deliberate policy. Accordingly, the army commander is an officer of the State and apparently he could make such statements.

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If the elected officers of the Council, which we believe is an eyewash, could be intimidated in such manner we shudder to imagine the fear in which the ordinary citizens living in the Tamil speaking areas would be subjected to. The statement by the army commander amounts to an admission of the atrocities and the massacres inflicted on the tens of thousands of the civilian population during the height of the war between January and May 2009.

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Today’s quater-final between Lukasz Kubot and Jerzy Janowicz was a tie with the pride of Poland at stake.

But was there a personality contest as well as a tennis match? The pair know each other from their Davis Cup matches together and The Diary senses that there’s definitely a Laurel and a Hardy in this double act. We know that Kubot ‘dances’ the can-can to celebrate victory. Janowicz (above), however … well, here’s an excerpt from Kubot’s most recent press conference:

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Andy Roddick may be retired (and sorely missed) but he can still get himself pumped for Wimbledon. When the rain started up over the Club yesterday, Roddick (right) started up on Twitter. “My favorite is when a tournament referee @wimbledon goes out to check the slickness of a court while wearing heels or loafers,” he wrote … “And kind of dabs at the court lightly w their foot … Used to drive me insane hahaha”. Hang on a second, asked one particularly astute reader. “What didn’t drive you insane about officials?”

“Valid point,” came Angry Roddick’s pleasingly self-aware reply.

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These ‘punks’ really rock!

The Bryan brothers, first seeds and semi-finalists in  the men’s doubles, are famous for two things — (1) being awesome at doubles and (2) being awesome at chest bumps in order to celebrate (1). But chest bumpin’ hasn’t always come easy. When the pair (above, after winning the men’s doubles at Queen’s) started doing it on the tour, everyone thought they were … well, here’s Mike: “A lot of the veteran guys were getting p****d at us and we had some words in the locker room cos they thought we were punks.” And now look, the punks have taken over the world!


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Sir Alex Ferguson has warned Manchester City that having the most cash does not guarantee they will end up with the best team.

City's new-found wealth has already seen them flex their muscle in impressive fashion, smashing the British transfer record by spending £32.5million on Brazilian superstar Robinho, but the Manchester United boss knows only too well it takes more than money to build a winning team.

"It depends how much money they want to throw at it but even then it doesn't always work," he said. "You can buy 11 individuals and not have a team as Sunderland proved."

He added: "When Chelsea did it we worried because we saw the quality they were bringing in. They got Michael Essien for £27million, which was a level we could not reach. You could tell they would be a handful.

"It is very difficult to say what will happen with City but we should not concern ourselves with what people are planning to do because it does not always work."

What Ferguson can guarantee is that United have no intention of relinquishing their position at the head of the Premier League.

If the Glaswegian can face down Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea, then City should be beatable too, although he will wait for the reality to emerge before he makes an assessment.

"There has been a lot of talk but it is a different matter when it actually comes to getting those players," he said.

"To think they could get Cristiano Ronaldo for instance is absolutely absurd. Negotiations are not easy nowadays, as we found with Dimitar Berbatov.

"Yes, we have bought big players, but Manchester United is not a cash cow, as people are talking about other clubs at the moment. At the moment it is all talk. We have seen it before and it will happen again."


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Moloney’s first TAC Cup game worth the wait

IT’S come a week later than planned, but South Warrnambool teenager Dominic Moloney will make his TAC Cup debut today.

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North Ballarat Rebels’ selectors had earmarked the defender-cum-wingman to play against Geelong Falcons at Warrnambool’s Reid Oval last weekend.

But Moloney tweaked his left knee at training on the Thursday, forcing a quick reshuffle of the Rebels’ line-up.

The Emmanuel College student has overcome the niggle and will play his first game for the Rebels today against Eastern Ranges at Box Hill City Oval.

It won’t be the first time Moloney has been thrown a daunting task this season.

Moloney, 16, spent time on Warrnambool spearhead Jason Rowan in his Hampden league senior debut in round one.

The 189-centimetre prospect said it was a tough-but- rewarding initiation.

“It was a good learning curve but he kicked a bag on me,” Moloney said.

Moloney, who lives on his family’s dairy farm at Panmure, said he was thrilled to make his TAC Cup debut as a bottom-ager.

The Rebels picked him as their 23rd player today, meaning he will play 50 per cent game time as the third-placed team attempts to stretch its winning streak to nine.

“I sort of thought I was a chance because I think I was meant to play in the Warrnambool game,” Moloney said.

Moloney said he wasn’t concerned when he injured himself last week.

“It wasn’t too bad but I couldn’t train the rest of the night,” he said.

“I thought it was minor because I did it at the start of the year too.”

Moloney said Eastern Ranges, starting the weekend  in eighth place, would test the Rebels.

“They have a few really good players and one who is likely to go top 10 (Christian Petracca),” he said.

Moloney said he entered the 2014 season eager to make his senior debut for the Roosters and play at least one TAC Cup game.

Today he will achieve those two goals, having played the opening two games of the Hampden league season under new South Warrnambool coach Matt Monk.

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An exciting shift in the air continues to ease us forward as Mercury sextile Mars this morning. We’re ready to gain strength and progress as Luna trines powerful Sun, persuasive Mercury, and seductive Pluto rx. Opportunities exist as we roll with positive forces onto new roads. Good news travels fast, which can be quite fortunate […]

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Deep, dark and dreary – all made better with Blu-ray?!  (Or maybe not!)  We’re taking a look at the Nicole Kidman/Aaron Eckhart drama "Rabbit Hole" hitting shelves April 19.

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   Cast: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Dianne Wiest

   Director: John Cameron Mitchell

   Rating: PG-13

   Runtime: 92 minutes

   Release Company: Lionsgate

The Flick: "Rabbit Hole" is a film with gloomy acting, hard-hitting emotion and a dark underbelly – not exactly an enjoyable night out at the movies.  Meaning while there are some high quality performances (Kidman is ever emotional and Eckhart is decent) and moving moments, the subject matter of the film is gut wrenching and frankly a real downer.  (How do you move on when your kid is killed?)  Important?  Yes.  Touching?  Certainly.  But is this flick to recommend to friends that gets better with multiple viewings?  Not likely.

Best Feature: The Deleted Scenes, which do give more insight behind some of the mysteries in the film.  (aka the woman who avoids Kidman and buying the b-day gift.)

Best Hidden Gem: Also in the Deleted Scenes, the answer to the line ‘How do you get fired from Applebee’s?” – “Politics.”

Worth the Moola: Watching this once is going to be a difficult enough, but owning it – not unless you’re a glutton for punishment.


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Buffalo Wild Wings appears to be really interested in getting into a new segment of the restaurant business.

The company made its name with a sports-themed empire of what are known in the business as “casual” restaurants, the kind where servers greet customers and take orders at the table. But the buzz in the industry these days is around “fast casual,” a format exemplified by the thriving Chipotle Mexican Grill chain.

Wild Wings has noticed the trend. It’s just invested in its second fast-casual restaurant company, one called Rusty Taco.

CEO Sally Smith downplays the significance, suggesting that the company might easily invest in a full-service breakfast restaurant concept next quarter.

Yet it wouldn’t be surprising if the company does more of what it’s been doing, investing in promising concepts in the segment of the industry that is currently growing rapidly.

The thing that makes a restaurant either a fast-casual or casual restaurant is really the service model. At a Buffalo Wild Wings, filled on busy nights with sports fans drinking beer and munching chicken wings, customers order at the table and the food comes to them. The customer generally pays for this service with a 15 to 20 percent tip in addition to paying the check.

At fast-casual restaurants, the customer orders at a counter and gets food perceived to be as good as if not better than the food served at a full service restaurant. The ticket is cheaper, sometimes a lot cheaper. And there’s no tip.

Not only is it cheaper, the customers still get to sit down in a comfortable and attractive room that doesn’t resemble the crew’s mess of the USS Iowa the way fast food joints do.

It’s a winning combination of good, fast and cheap, easily making fast-casual the hottest segment of the business.

Sales for the segment had been growing at a compound annual rate of about 11.2 percent over the past five years, according to the Chicago market research firm Technomic, stealing market share from both the fast food companies as well as full-service casual restaurants.

This is not to suggest that there’s any slowdown in evidence at Buffalo Wild Wings. Sales at restaurants open for at least a year increased 7.7 percent in the most recent quarter at the restaurants it owns, and 6.5 percent at franchised locations.

Same-store sales growth will eventually flatten, however, and opening new restaurants is how it will keep up its earnings-per-share growth. The expectations are lofty, with the analysts looking for just under $6 per share in earnings next year, which would represent a big move from $3.79 per share for 2013.

The Golden Valley-based company has more than 1,000 Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants, both owned and franchised, well over half the way to the 1,700 restaurants in North America that the company thinks might represent a fully built out chain.

That’s why it’s looking to make investments now in five to seven start-ups, not as a diversification strategy but as relatively low-cost way to find the growth vehicle that will drive earnings growth when the core concept of Buffalo Wild Wings runs out of headroom.

“Full-service dining is still on the radar of things we’re looking at,” said Smith. “It just happened to be that the first couple of them were fast casual.”

Smith said she and her team have looked at perhaps 150 different concepts, an effort that really extends back years when franchisees first started asking about what else the company had for them to build and operate in their own markets.

When she goes through her list of what she called “must-haves,” the list certainly seems to favor fast-casual.

Smith said she is looking for concepts that would appeal to customers throughout the country. And since part of the strategy is to find and refine a restaurant concept that can be easily operated by franchisees, it’s important that the operations be what she called “simple,” maybe a limited menu offered to customers in a simple and inexpensive space.

The really popular fast-casual niche in 2014 is pizza, and Buffalo Wild Wings jumped in with a minority investment in PizzaRev last year. It just opened its second Minnesota PizzaRev location this month in Edina. The company is far from the only one to have figured out the appeal of pizza, and there’s a long list of competitors in this niche.

Rusty Taco sells what it calls street tacos emphasizing fresh ingredients, a concept that seems to rival a hot dog stand for simplicity. There’s a long list of upstarts in the Mexican food niche as well, along with the reigning fast casual champ, Chipotle Mexican Grill.

It’s easy to see the appeal of fast casual concepts like Chipotle, explained restaurant consultant Allan Hickok, but it’s a stretch to suggest that the traditional casual segment is going shrivel to nothing.

Part of his explanation for disappointing sales in the casual segment is that chains like Chili’s, Applebee’s and TGI Fridays were all the hot companies of 25 years ago. Hickok called them the “class of 1990.”

The best managers can refresh the menu with new items and come up with effective ad campaigns, but the fact remains that a young adult in particular is not going to frequent the same restaurant where his parents went after their prom.

Young adults will go in droves, he said, to a Buffalo Wild Wings. He called it “their clubhouse.”

Yet the company deserve some credit for looking into new fast-casual concepts now, he said, and jumping into a crowded niche like pizza or simple Mexican foods makes good sense to him.

“This sounds a little counterintuitive, but to succeed you go to where the greatest competition is,” Hickok said. “So many chains are invented, do a course correction and then fail because they try to be different. The way you really want to compete is to be the same. Same as what? The same as the guys making all the money in the areas where all [the consumers’] money is being spent.”

And ignore any comments that there may be too many restaurants, he said. A well-managed company like Buffalo Wild Wings has plenty of growth opportunity.

“There aren’t too many restaurants in America,” he said. “There are too many mediocre restaurants.”


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Subject   Re: st: Rounding number
Date   Mon, 3 Mar 2008 22:37:57 +0900

Ziad El-Khatib wrote:

Hi STATA lister, tried to look for help round but did not understand it
how to round variable (weight) to have it 0 decimal, e.g. 5 instead of 4.20?

If the help for -round()- reads difficultly at first, then it helps to play
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Dear subscribers,

I would like to test system GMM is consistent in comparison with FE.
For this purpose, I did "hausman gmm fe" and keep getting the negative
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Hello all,
    I wrote a do-file a while ago with 4 arguments as follows:

begin dofile
set more off
args graph_type broker_id start_date end_date
qui odbc query indigo
odbc load, exec("select date(read_date) as date, count(*) as hits from readership where firm_id=`broker_id' and date(read_date) between '`start_date'' and '`end_date'' group by date")
if "`graph_type''=="pie" {
else {

The problem with this code was because args is a positional macros, whatever I enter as `1' would be graph_type, `2' as broker_id and so on. If I enter the following
do dd 2011-01-01 pie 2011-01-20 6429 => stata would take 2011-01-01 as graph_type and yields error.

This makes this code not so convenient and I would like to attempt to write a code (possible ado file with synatx) so that the code would run when

dd graph_type="pie" start_date="2011-01-01" broker_id=6429 end_date="2011-01-20"
dd end_date="2011-01-20" graph_type="line" start_date="2011-01-01" broker_id=6429

I tried but got stuck

begin adofile dd
program dd
syntax anything
qui odbc ...
odbc load, exec(".....

Could someone provide me an idea to accomplish this?

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Teaching Heschel and King by Leslie Hilgeman

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
– quote used by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I don’t often write about classes I take at rabbinical school. But every so often I am touched enough by some experience to share it publicly.

This fall I studied the work of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. That was great – but using what I learned to teach congregants this past Martin Luther King weekend really moved me.

I was born one year after King’s assassination and grew up in a middle class, white suburban neighborhood. My exposure to King was to his memory, filtered and largely sanitized by elders and Social Studies lessons about Civil Rights at school. I knew little about his faith leadership.

I don’t recall learning about Heschel at all as a young person – he died when I was two. Decades later, I learned about Heschel’s many contributions to 20th Century Jewish thought and theology. But even then I didn’t learn about his radical faith activism – the civil disobedience marches, the anti-Vietnam War prayer vigils at Arlington National Cemetery. Not usually where you would expect to find your rabbi!

The RRC class this fall raised up how radical Heschel and King really were, how powerful their prophetic message was in their time, and how powerful it still could be today – if only we taught it. How grateful am I that I took that opportunity to teach!

Preaching the Exodus
Both of these great faith leaders preached about the Exodus story.(1) King and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement saw themselves as embodying the Exodus: Pharaoh was the oppressive white society King faced every day. The Israelites were his fellow African-Americans, struggling for desegregation and equal treatment. King often saw himself as Moses, facing Pharaoh again and again and again, with a righteous cause and God’s support. Heschel in his speeches also likened African-Americans to the Israelite slaves, and Pharaoh to an oppressive white America.

This was a very powerful message to share with a Jewish audience, and I gave them time to really let it sink in. We try to embody the Exodus story too. It’s a Jewish tradition to re-experience the Exodus story in some way each year at our Passover seders. At the seders I attended, each year we ate sharp horseradish and dry Matzah and tried to imagine we faced the hardship and bitterness of slave labor, as if it were our own personal story – even though it never actually was.

Let me be clear – Jews do have a history of being persecuted, and I do believe there is anti-Jewish sentiment and oppression in our American society today, I’ve experienced it personally myself. But today’s American anti-Semitism is mild compared to the segregation, economic injustice and voter discrimination tactics African-Americans suffered through much of American history.

That difference really came home for me in teaching, seeing others respond to Dr. King’s impassioned plea for African-Americans to hold faith in the Exodus story, faith that once again God would deliver these modern-day slaves to freedom. He was really living that struggle for equality, in a way we never did.

One congregant described her efforts to support anyone in her environment who faces a power differential – there are many! The “Pharaoh” is still out there – today perhaps oppressing Muslims, Sikhs and Hispanic immigrants, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, and others. Who will stand up against mighty Pharaoh now?

Moral Call of Faith
Heschel, on the other hand, was also speaking out against an oppressive society – but he was white and often speaking to white, and especially Jewish white audiences. This was a moral call of faith, too, of a different kind.(2)

While Jews may have been oppressed in history, Heschel was making the point that here in American society we have also served as the oppressor – especially when we don’t speak out or act against the oppression of others we see. As Heschel famously put it: “An honest estimation of the moral state of our society will disclose: some are guilty, but all are responsible.”(3)

Conclusions from our learning? Our congregation committed to re-igniting a social action committee at the synagogue. And we all marveled how unusual it was to see the real pungency of King and Heschel’s message be shared in ways we’d never learned, even though we honor MLK with a federal holiday each year since 1986.

Surely theirs is a message that now, in light of the second-time inauguration of an African-American president, we can truly appreciate for the groundwork King and Heschel laid and for the example they set. Perhaps it’s also a message that now, precisely because of those very accomplishments, also challenges our Jewish faith communities to re-arm ourselves with their prophetic call to moral reckoning, press onward, and ask how we might help others face the “Pharaohs” in our society today.

(1) Heschel, Susannah. “Theological Affinities in the Writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King Jr.” Conservative Judaism 50:2-3 (1998), 126-143. See especially pages 128-131 and 134-135.
(2) Ibid., 135.
(3) Abraham Joshua Heschel, “Religion and Race.” Abraham Joshua Heschel: Essential Writings. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2011 (69).

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3 thoughts on “Teaching Heschel and King by Leslie Hilgeman

  1. Thank you for your reflection, Leslie! I’d love to hear more about what you’ve learned and what you’re teaching about Heschel and King. Krista Tippett’s On Being had a show back in December called “The Spiritual Audacity of Abraham Joshua Heschel” that I’ve been thinking about since, so I was happy to see your post appear on SofF’s Facebook page. Tippett quoted Heschel’s essay “No Religion is an Island.” I’d like to learn more about how Heschel and King teach us to be both prophetic and engage one another in dialogue.

    Anyway, thanks again!

  2. Really well written Leslie, and I view this essay not just as a personal anecdote but as a call to action – which I appreciate.

    In my own work, I’m preparing to journey through Latin America where I’m sure I will encounter many oppressed groups and power differentials. One thing that occurred to me as I read this essay is that the general stability of our country allows us to see those power differentials and makes it possible for activism to (potentially) make major changes.

    Many of the countries I’ll visit are less stable and have comparatively high levels of corruption – often with multiple groups vying for power. I expect the situation there will be less clear (which of these groups is oppressing which, and which will sincerely agitate for change?), making it harder to even know where to start.

    I suppose I’ve never recognized that one of the blessings of our country is to be able to clearly see who is the oppressor and who is the oppressed.

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