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December 5 to 13, 2007

Andy and an I visited Chabot Observatory and just had to have our pictures taken in the zero-G simulator.

What a time it has been since my return from Antarctica. Julia and I hosted our "big trip" going away party in San Francisco. It was great fun to see all of our friends although in one place. The bar we picked to host the party was very loud; but the drinks were good. Lawrence returned home to Australia on Saturday 9 and made it home safely. I will see him soon in Japan. Soon Andy my good skiing friend from Australia dropped in on his way back home from a veterinarian seminar in Georgia. It was good to see Andy and he will join Lawrence, Julia, and I in Japan too. Andy was extremely happy as he was looking for an 8 gigabyte SD card and we found it at Best Buy. Gone are the days when men went out to hunt game to bring back to the table; now we go out to hunt gigabytes! Andy returned home with his gigabytes and two Apple Iphones in hand; he has plans to sell then and make a killing on eBay.

From Julia: It was a relief to see the Antarctic explorers back safely with their land legs working properly. David and Lawrie were close to scurvy after a week of steak only in Argentina and goodness knows what on the boat in Antarctica, so we celebrated their return with lots of huge and delicious meals loaded with fresh fruit and veggies (and wine). With less than a week until we take off I am enjoying every moment of last minute planning, packing, and saying goodbyes. I am contemplating various luxury problems, such as how many shoes to take, and if It's worth taking an extra party dress just in case I need something for New Year on the train to Luxor.

Friday, December 14, 2007

The view from the Dipsea trail.

From Julia: In a desperate last minute attempt to get fit enough to keep up on the hiking trails with Mary and David S. (my super fit mum and her super fit partner) when we get to England, David and I hiked on Mt Tam for the day on part of the Dipsea trail. It was an absolutely perfect day for hiking; cool with bright winter sunshine.

The hike ended back at Muir Woods and we felt like wilderness survivors as we trudged out of the National Monument past all the clean, non-sweaty tourists fresh off their tour buses. After getting home we ate our way through the whatever was left in the fridge, actually quite a good thing to do when you will be away for 6 months. We devoured all remains of David's chocolate stash in the bottom drawer, then collapsed to sleep.

All I can add is that I am continually amazed at how beautiful California is. There was a time in my life when I would argue to the death that Melbourne and Australia was all that one could want for a place to live. But having now experienced California I find I must expand my dogma. Wales has a lot to beat; but you never know.

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Dee Calls New Solo Album 'For The Love Of Metal' A 'Passion Project'

TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider was interviewed by Antihero Magazine earlier this month during the Days Of The Dead horror convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. The full conversation can be viewed above. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET).

On his forthcoming solo album, "For The Love Of Metal":

Dee: "I had no intentions of doing another record. Mentally, I was done until [HATEBREEDfront man] Jamey Jasta got a hold of me on his podcast and literally challenged me to do a true metal record — a new, contemporary metal record. I said, 'Look, I'm down, but who's going to produce this thing?' He said, 'I will.' I said, 'Who's going to write the songs?,' because I'm trained in a different style of metal writing. He goes, 'Everybody will want to write for Dee Snider.' We went without a record deal, just purely inspired and for the love of it all — hence the title, 'For The Love Of Metal' — and people came out of the woodwork. We got people from DISTURBED and LAMB OF GOD and KILLSWITCH ENGAGE writing for this record. You've got Howard Jones [ex-KILLSWITCH ENGAGE] on there duetting with me; you've got Alissa White-Gluz from ARCH ENEMY duetting with me. It just turned into a passion project, and then all of a sudden, every metal label was bidding on the record."

On working with a "newer generation" of artists:

Dee: "It is incredibly flattering. I'm an egomaniac like any artist, but you're in the forest — you don't really see the trees. For Jamey Jasta to say, 'Dude, we need a metal record from Dee Snider. Your voice is iconic, and it's as strong as ever,' is very flattering. To have these great contemporary artists come forward and be excited to participate — no budget, no money, no nothing, just for the love of it all — is just incredibly flattering."

On whether it was challenging to make the album:

Dee: "I'm a fan of contemporary metal. My kids are metalheads — particularly my daughter, who's dragged me around from festival to festival and venue to venue from the time she was about 12 or 13. I know a lot of the bands; I met and became friends with a lot of the bands; and I've enjoyed a lot of the bands, particularly the passion of the young bands — and by young, I mean pretty much everybody from the 2000s on, because the money's not really there anymore. You don't do it for money; you do it because you've got to. Seeing these bands, I get inspiration from them. Going into the studio, when Jamey started playing me the songs, I heard it. He channeled me in the creation of the songs and got me in the lyrics. It was like they were coming out of my own pen. From the very first moment I opened my mouth, the first growl I did, it just came [from] my soul. I was like, 'Oh yeah — I'm down with this.' They were inspiring me with the music, and I was inspiring them with my singing, and it just went back and forth."

On whether Jasta "pushed" him vocally:

Dee: "I can't say that he 'pushed' me. It was things I've done before — maybe more focused, eliminating some of the more ultra-melodic side of my singing, and keeping it channeled into the roar. Sometimes, I would start going too far Jamey Jasta, and he'd go, 'No, no, man — you've always been about melody. You shouldn't lose melody. That's Dee Snider.' He says, 'I don't do melody. Dee Snider is melody. Don't be Jamey — be Dee.'"

On what fans can expect from the album:

Dee: "You can expect inspiration. It started with Jamey being inspired by me, and Jameyinspiring me. In the studio, the songs inspiring me, me inspiring the musicians and the songwriting, and it just fed off each other. Lyrically, the songs are inspirational — a lot of the messages I've always had, about standing up, believing in yourself, fighting back, a lot of anti-bullying themes, which I think has always been in my music anyway. The song with me and Alissa is called 'Dead Hearts', [and] is a specifically anti-bullying song. During the time I was recording, my mom got hit by a car and became brain-damaged and eventually died a few months later. That was all during the process, and that was part of it too. The beauty of metal, the beauty of rock is that it's great for expressing pain and anger, sorrow, happiness, depression, whatever. It's such a healthy place to go when you need to just let out these dark emotions, and I was letting them out. I dedicated the album to my mom's memory — [who was] not a fan of my metal career, by the way, but still brought me into this earth, inspired me. She was an artist and inspired me just with the way she was in her 80s, and still teaching art and still painting. Here I am in my early 60s, and I'm still making music. My mom's a bit of that inspiration."

On channeling his emotions into his music:

Dee: "Rock, especially metal, has always been that outlet for me. I was not a popular kid. I was not the cool kid. I just came home every day and would go in my room, lock the door, put on the heaviest stuff I had because I'm an O.G. headbanger, and just start thrashing and jumping around. I'd be sweating, and I'd feel better. That's what I love about it, that it allows you that release. I always say it's better to be in the pit moshing and throwing your fists in the air than beating people up. You've got to let these emotions go somehow, and this is healthiest way. When this was all going down with my mom, I didn't cancel a show. People thought I was going to, and I said from the stage, 'No — I need this. I need to come out here with you people today and just rage, and just scream and sweat and jump. What the music has always done for me as a fan and as an artist, I need it now more than ever."

On what he'd still like to accomplish:

Dee: "I always think that there's nothing more for me to accomplish, and then something else rears its ugly head, whether it's doing this album, which came out of left field, or I just signed a deal with Netflix for a new children's animated series that I co-created and I'm writing the music for, which is going into production with Titmouse [Editor's note: an animation studio that produces animation television programming]. I didn't see that coming. I can't announce [it] formally, but I started a horror production company. We've got multiple films slated, and we're rebooting a major franchise I just got the rights to. None of these things were on my bucket list. The call came in, and I was like, 'All right, cool. It's something new, something challenging.' That's what it's all about to me, is to feel challenged. I left TWISTED SISTER on the best of terms. [I'm] proud of my legacy, love the guys, but I didn't want to keep doing, I call it 'Back To The Future'. We're playing the same songs for 40 years, and it's great — I love those songs, and I'm proud of them, but I want to be challenged, and things I'm doing today are challenging me."

"For The Love Of Metal" will be released on July 27 via Napalm Records.

Snider's last solo album, "We Are The Ones", was released in October 2016 via Red River Records. Produced by Damon Ranger, the disc was described by Dee as "an album that is think part FOO FIGHTERS, part IMAGINE DRAGONS, part THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS."

TWISTED SISTER called it quits in 2016 after completing a farewell 40th-anniversary tour.

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This past Sunday in Chicago, comedian and long suit enthusiast Steve Harvey held a taping for a two-hour special of his eponymous daytime program. The theme of the show was “What Men Really Think,” and to that end, Harvey packed 2,000 dudes into a theatre downtown. And those men, according to several attendees, did their jobs, calling female guests bitches, hounding them with catcalls, howls, and whistles, and lobbing homophobic slurs at one man in the audience.

On Facebook, one Chicago comedian named Tim Dunn described what he saw during the 10-hour, two-part taping. The show was apparently spun to the men in attendance as a sort of male-only summit on dating and relationships. (Before coming, the audience members were asked to answer a 53-question survey via email.) But when the taping started, Harvey revealed to the audience that there would actually be hundreds of women onstage, too. This turned out to be a bad idea. From Dunn’s Facebook post:

- Over a hundred women were seated onstage, and when they got up to speak they were catcalled. This resulted in the warm-up comic asking the men to stop catcalling, as the vibe in the room had become “too rapey.”

- When women skyped in to ask Steve for advice, their image was displayed on large screens, which men would either catcall or groan at based on the women’s looks. And like, if you looked at the guys groaning, spending a night with any of these women would be the absolute best night of their lives.

- During a segment about how often men want sex, a young man got up and mentioned that he is sometimes too tired from work to have sex with his girlfriend. He was immediately booed and had homophobic epithets yelled at him.

- During the same segment, a woman got up and described a time when she didn’t want to have sex because she had just finished a tiring road trip. In that time, she was first catcalled, then booed, ending with a man yelling “you haven’t done your duty!” in response to her story.

- To end that segment, Steve said it should be the woman’s decision whether or not to have sex. Only the women onstage, the comedians in our row, and a few other men throughout the theater applauded that statement.

All of these stories were echoed on a podcast composed of other local comedians in Chicago, hosted by one named Sammy Tamimi, who tipped me off to this story. On Tamimi’s podcast, Bryan Duff and Tyler Samples describe men in the audience essentially claiming some of the women on-stage—“I call the one in yellow!”—screaming things like “you bitch,” describing a woman who appeared via Skype as a “pump it and dump it,” and yelling “pussy” and homophobic slurs at the aforementioned man who said he was sometimes too tired to have sex.

To be clear, Duff and Samples aren’t exactly heroes here. During the podcast, Duff talks about going to the taping as a character called “Rape Culture” and—as he tells it, unintentionally—inciting the crowd by acting out misogyny while “in character.” In imitating the men in the crowd, they also slip into voices in which they are obviously referring to black men. (That said, photos from the taping make the crowd look relatively diverse.) They also argue that a male member of the on-stage panel was actually in the closet, and went on to parody his effeminate voice.

Nonetheless, both the Facebook and podcast accounts seem to argue that Steve Harvey, in his quest to show “what men really think,” got a little more truth than he might have wanted. Duff and Samples also noted that warm-up comic Rubin Ervin told the crowd it was getting too “rapey,” and say that they saw one woman on-stage try and tug the bottom of her skirt down in response to the catcalls.

Harvey, they say, did not exactly help matters. Per Duff and Samples, Harvey at one point threatened to fight someone in the audience who was complaining that the crowd hadn’t been fed. As far as his on-topic moderating went, they say Harvey frequently returned to the concept of men as hunters and women as prey, as well as the idea that women can be “meat” or “traps.” None of that is exactly especially regressive amongst the general population of straight men, except Harvey is a New York Times best-selling relationship author several times over. His book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy and Commitment was used as the fulcrum of the 2012 film Think Like a Man, as well as its sequel Think Like a Man Too, both of which have been criticized previously for turning back the clock on feminism.

It’s not clear yet when the two-part special will air, or if the show’s editors will choose to, or be able to, edit out audience members yelling “bitch” at female speakers or audibly and loudly groaning at women who they didn’t collectively find attractive. Steve Harvey is a syndicated show distributed by NBC Universal.

UPDATE (3:45 p.m.) According to an emailer, the special will air on September 8 and 9.

If you were at the taping and would like to relay your experience, feel free to email me.

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31 May 2007

I’m noticing lately that my personal central heating system has definitely changed over the years that I’ve been here. Today it’s been around 24 degrees, but I still needed to keep my cardigan on top of my t-shirt whereas even some Italians had just a t-shirt on top. Isn't it supposed to be the other way round - me hot, them cold?

When I see tourists in shorts and t-shirts before July I wonder “Aren’t they chilly?” I never considered myself as someone who felt the cold before, it’s more just a consequence of being in a generally warmer climate for a long period I think.

I’ve been asked many times by Italians why English people go out at night when it’s nearly freezing with no coat on. My only explanation is that the alcohol warms them up but to be honest it’s a mystery even to me. Maybe they don’t have nice coats. Boh. I love to wrap up when it’s cold.

30 May 2007

Little packets of heaven

...This is what these are. An important factor is to have a microwave, which not everyone has here. A quick blast and they come out a little bread-cake with melted chocolate chips in. OMG! Bliss. They're extra good if you have an hard to control sweet tooth like me as they come individually wrapped. That's not to say that I couldn't open two with a little (very little) effort.

If you can't get these where you are, that's a shame, believe me they're YUM!

28 May 2007

O' Mar'

As I had a day off today I planned on avoiding the weekend crowds and having my first trip of the year to the beach. "Oh no you don't!" said Signor Weatherman as the clouds came over and the winds picked up. Still determined to get some sea air, I went to a beach in Bacoli for a walk this morning. It was too windy and cloudy to go in the sea, so I just had a bit of a paddle and breathed in the sea air. So bikini stays under wraps for a while longer (phew :D).

There's nothing more relaxing than being by the sea. I love to watch it when it's rough, still, at night, early morning - always! In this photo there are two islands in front of me. The first one is Procida, whilst the one behind it (with the hill) is Ischia.

It's really blowing a gale outside now!

27 May 2007

Che Munnezz'

Here I am! I've been to my homeland :) Hence my short break from the blog world. Or did you not notice...? :D

I've seen that the rubbish problem (ie, it not being collected) is still in the news. The Camorra is rumoured to be behind the problems, as it is behind most of the problems in Naples. Although the media's reporting would lead you to believe that the whole of Naples is one big rubbish pile with fires burning, the main problems from what I have seen are in the periphery of the city. Certain areas on the outskirts even have an increased death rate because of the rubbish problems (it's not a new problem). In very central areas where more tourists go, the rubbish rarely builds up (for example around Piazza Plebiscito). Whereas in city residential areas it will build up for a few days, but not normally for more. Here's a picture of the bin outside my house today. Tutto tranquillo.

What amazes me in all of this is that no one is encouraged to create less litter, non of the big stores are pushed to use less packaging. Shop owners will wrap you everything and put it in a bag without thinking...

17 May 2007

Why oh why?

This is what I found outside the window at 23:05 the night before last. It's a religious procession, but I don't know for what reason exactly. I was in bed at the time on the verge of sleep and heard the singing so I got up to investigate.

Now, I'm quite open minded about people's religious practices, but do these people really think that gone 11pm on a Tuesday night is the most appropriate time to hold a procession complete with megaphone (notice it on the car at the top of the photo?

Shakes head.

15 May 2007

When we moved into our new apartment about a year ago Telecom Italia connected the phone line and gave us a new phone number. I’m not sure what goes into reactivating an existing line (pressing a button?), but it cost us 150euro. Within time it became evident that Telecom had given us a recycled number, this means that a few times a day we get a call from random people asking for some kind of medical studio. I think they’re calling for a medical practice or a switchboard rather than for one doctor as the request varies. We’ve had a few wrong numbers for a plumber too. The mind boggles. I have thought of having a bit of a joke: “Yes, I am the plumber”, “Yes I am the doctor” etc, but decided against.

Anyway, because we only had a cordless phone which crackles constantly, this weekend we bought a fixed phone. Oh the joy of being able to hear every word the other person says! I quite liked the old fashioned style phones, but because of the problem with the wrong numbers, we opted for one which displays the incoming call number – so the label said. When we got it home we discovered that to have this feature in action you have to pay E1,55 a month to Telecom. Not a lot of money, I know, but it annoys me to pay it because it’s Telecom that caused the problem in the first place, plus add it to the 35euro a month line rental we give them… The new phone has another feature helping us in the fight against wrong numbers and Telecom, which is that it rings only if we get a call from a number in the inserted phone book. Clever, if not a bit extreme, but at least now I don’t have to answer the phone and say “ha sbagliato numero” everyday. And straight away they redial and still get me.

It’s my aim to completely remove the Telecom line one day and just make calls using the computer via our ISP (which is not Telecom Italia). I’m not sure if you can do that, but I’d like to think you can. The only thing that I like about Telecom is their deal of unlimited calls to England for 10euro a month. Apart from this I barely use it. Thieving so-and-sos.

13 May 2007

Oh. My. God.

I was watching re-runs of an old Friends series this morning when it hit me that Janice and Amy Winehouse are one and the same person. Oh. My. God!

Janice/Amy: They tried to make me go to rehab. I said no no no.

Janice/Amy: Where's my sweet Bing-a-ling? I said no no no.

It's Mother's Day en Italie oggi, plus in America, NZ and probably elsewhere too. We Brits celebrated it in March, I wonder why we celebrate it on a different day.

Yesterday, I said to the OH "What can we get for your mum for Mother's Day?" She is a good cook and enjoys cooking so I said (answering my own question) "what about something kitcheny like a nice serving dish?"

OH: "Yes, something for the kitchen, what about one of those things we've got where you put the lettuce in and spin it around"

Me: "A salad spinner you mean?"

OH: "Yes, one of those"

Me: "You want to give her a salad spinner for Mother's Day?!"

Is it just me, or do you agree that you can't give a salad spinner as a gift? I suppose it makes a change from the usual chocs and flowers. What we decided to get in the end was still a practical gift, a new mobile phone.

I just heard that Ilary Blasi (as in Totti's wife) gave birth early this morning. On Mother's Day - good timing Ilary. It's a girl.

12 May 2007

Scratch 'n' Sniff Blog

The Jasmine plant is finally in full bloom! I took this photo this morning. I wish I could blog you the scent of it too. Maybe they'll create scratch 'n' sniff blog one of these days.

10 May 2007

Just a quick moan. Just got in after attempting to do some grocery shopping. I say attempt because most food shops close on a Thursday afternoon so it's near impossible. I do know this, so you could say I shouldn't have even tried, but I was hoping I'd be lucky.

Why do they have to close on Thursday afternoon? Are they so over worked that they need to do that? Just the food shops close though, the other shops close on Monday morning until it gets hot then they close on a Saturday afternoon (because everyone goes to the beach) and open on a Monday morning. Are you following all of this? There'll be questions later.

6 May 2007

Look at him now!

Back in January you may remember (say/pretend you do) that I couldn't bear to put the Christmas tree out into the cold with the other abandoned trees. Eventually I moved him out onto the balcony and look at him now! Despite what I thought, with him coming from warmer climes, he's loving the Neapolitan sunshine. See the new branches at the top of the tree - this is what I've tried to capture in the photos - just in case it's not clear :)

The plant you can see near Christmas tree is Jasmine which is in full bud and is wrapping her branches around the Christmas tree. Because we only have a balcony and no garden, space is limited so they have been forced together. They are now, literally inseparable. Aw.

5 May 2007

I bought a Braun minpimer yesterday. I don't know what minipimer means but as far as I can see it's an hand-held blender. For the inauguration this morning I made a banana and kiwi smoothie (see photo). I used banana, kiwi and a little milk. I think you can add ice too, maybe in the summer that would be nice.

I'm not sure the kiwi option was the best choice - loads of seeds, including the inevitable one stuck in my teeth for hours after. I love smoothies with strawberries. Just strawberry, or strawberry and banana. Must buy strawberries. Any other good fruit smoothie mixes? Dimmi tutto.

Although I eat loads of veggies, I rarely fancy fruit so this is a good way to eat more fruit. I eat loads of tomatoes though, aren't tomatoes fruit? Anyway, I think we'll do some veg pureè with the new gadget and try doing a zabaglione too. I've never had zabaglione but I'd like to try it. It sounds like a Rocky Balboa kind of dessert with raw eggs and sugar being the main ingredient.

2 May 2007

I’ve been watching Jamie Oliver’s “Jamie at Home” series. I know I’m a bit behind the times but I’ve only just discovered it on Sky TV.

If you’ve watched this you’ll know that Jamie spends a lot of time in his garden, raving about the vegetables he’s grown and cooking them.

Inspiration soon hit and off I went to stock up on my own seeds. I’m now waiting for lettuce, tomatoes, spring onions and parsley to grow. (Please let them grow!) I’ve also planted a few bulbs too - fressia and irises. I’ve heard it’s too warm for them now, but I’ll have a go. In it to win it and all that.

It's true that gardening is therapeutic. I don’t have a garden, but I’ve lined up the pots on the balcony and have quite enjoyed digging into the dirt with my hands.

Something which alarmed me about Jamie's prog, but more so the OH, was that Jamie made a pizza and put every ingredient he had to hand on it, then he held it up, like a frisbee and said “look what a great pizza I’ve made.” A pizza isn’t supposed to be like cardboard Jamie! He’s quite a ketchup fan too which would be questioned here. On the whole he does some nice recipes, some of which are very simple, for example bruschetta.

The series is dubbed rather than subtitled. It sounds like the voice-over was told that he has to sound “young and exciting” as he sounds a bit forced into enthusiasm. Can't remember how they translate "pukka".

1 May 2007

Il Ponte

A great Italian invention is the bridge. Not the bridge as in Ponte Vecchio etc - though of course that type of bridge is nice too. What I'm talking about is when there is a public holiday mid-week, for example today it's the first of May - the holiday for workers, so by putting Monday in as a day off you get a four day weekend. Fabulous! This is known as creating a bridge (ponte). Even if you don't have a day off to create a bridge, at least a mid-week hol breaks the week up.

In England all public holidays are on a Monday so there's no bridge building. If I remember correctly Berlusconi proposed for Italy to be this way as so many work days are lost with the Italian way. They did not vote him back in.


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Delight your wedding guests with some hilarious quick sketch caricature entertainment!

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Caricatures at Weddings

Live caricature fun with an accomplished on the spot caricaturist always goes down a storm at weddings and although I get booked for all sorts of events, weddings are always the most fun!

A quick search for wedding caricaturists will show you there are plenty to choose from; read on and hopefully I can at least persuade you to ask me for a quote! If you decide book me for your BIG DAY you can rest assured that you will enlist an enthusiastic, experienced, easy going professional and a very able exponent of the art – don’t just take my word for it; – you can check out dozens of online  reviews from my previous customers.

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Wedding Reception Caricatures: mixing and mingling after the ceremony

Between the ceremony and the wedding breakfast is often a perfect opportunity for a walkabout caricaturist to engage with your guests. People can gather round and watch as I work and I usually draw a crowd. A bit of banter is always part of the fun during the champagne and canapes. There will be other things going on – a photographer will need to borrow the guests and the bride and groom will be in high demand. I might be working along side a string quartet or a magician; needing nothing more than a pad and a pocketful of markers I can easily fit in whatever the plan is.

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It can be great fun to have a caricaturist ‘table hopping’ during a meal , but it is important for the caricaturist not to be too intrusive; Not everyone likes to be drawn while they are eating their main course although some are quite happy with it. At times it is best to hold back and wait to be called over – and of course, it is vital stay out of the way while food is being served. Table layout makes a big difference to any table hopping entertainer; if there is a long table next to a wall then those guests facing the wall will be hard to get a look at and if the tables are very close together it can be very difficult to move around. It is easier to work small tables than large ones and table decorations can be a bit of a problem if they block my view. Having said that, it is nearly always possible to get plenty of laughs around the room; I will normally aim to spread myself out, drawing one or two couples at each table to make sure as many people as possible have a bit of fun whether actual ‘victims’ or the audience in general. Although table hopping can present a few challenges, it can also provide a unique opportunity to ‘target’ selected guests; a visit to the top table is a must and  will provide the ideal opportunity to catch the immediate family and, of course, to capture the bride and groom’s caricature!

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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Make Your Own Fruit-Infused Vodka

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Ever though of making your own vodka? Whether you're entertaining or would like to give it as a great gift, the process is a pretty simple one. Here's a great recipe for a Rasmopolitan that we found on Martha Stewart Weddings

1 - ounce (2 tablespoons) citrus-flavored vodka
1 - ounce) 2 tablespoons) Raspberry Infused Vodka
½ - ounce (1tablespoon) Chambord
1 tablespoon freshly squeezed limejuice
1 tablespoon Simple Syrup
2 tablespoons cranberry juice
Raspberries for garnish

Fill cocktail shaker halfway with ice. Add vodkas, Chambord, limejuice, syrup, and cranberry juice. Shake until well chilled. Strain into a martini glass. Garnish with raspberries; serve.

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Researchers from IIT Bombay fabricate highly efficient transistors using graphene nanoribbons

As electronic gadgets dominate many aspects of our lives, smaller devices that pack more functionality and consume lower power are increasingly becoming popular. Transistors—one of the basic building blocks of these devices—dictate their size, speed, efficiency and battery life. In a recent study, Ms Poonam Jangid, Mr Dawuth Pathan and Prof.Anil Kottantharayil from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) have developed a technique to fabricate graphene transistors as small as 20 nanometers wide (5000 times smaller than the thickness of a sheet of paper). These graphene transistors consume less power in the standby state and can facilitate faster circuit operations.

Silicon and similar semiconductor materials have been traditionally used to build transistors. However, there are significant challenges to making smaller but faster silicon transistors. An alternative is graphene, which is a crystalline form of carbon that is made up of a single layer of carbon atoms. In its pure form, graphene is a conductor. But, by altering its structure, it can be turned into a semiconductor, making it an ideal candidate for next-generation transistors and other electronic devices.

Graphene nanoribbons are strips of graphene made by creating parallel channels on its surface by removing some carbon atoms. Previous studies have shown that the conductivity of graphene can be controlled by changing the width and structure of the edge of the channel; the narrower the width of the ribbon, lesser is the conductivity. “Compared to silicon transistors, graphene transistors can be 100 times faster," says Prof. Kottantharayil.

So far, graphene nanoribbons are synthesised either through chemical processes or by etching on graphene films using nanocrystals of metals like nickel, copper or iron. However, neither chemical synthesis nor any known method of etching yields graphene nanoribbons with a smooth and desirable edge structure. In this study, published in the journal Carbon, the researchers have fabricated graphene nanoribbons by etching graphene films using platinum nanocrystals. Since platinum is a nearly-inert material and is a useful chemical catalyst, it yielded good quality graphene nanoribbons, with a width of 10-20 nm and smooth edges. The process was carried out at a temperature of about 10000C in the presence of a mixture of hydrogen and argon gas.

Transistors act as switches that allow current to flow when they are turned on and stop it when they are switched off. However, in practice, a small, negligible current, called leakage current (IOFF), flows even when the transistor is off. It is because of this leakage current that electronic devices consume battery power even in the standby mode. Ideally, an efficient transistor would aim at having the lowest possible value for the leakage current. A higher value of the current passing through a transistor when it's on (ION) indicates that the device has a higher conductivity, and can be turned on and off faster. “ION/IOFF is a figure of merit for the switching efficacy of transistors. High ION results in faster circuits and low IOFF is desirable for low standby power,” explains Prof  Kottantharayil.

The new graphene transistor designed by the researchers showed a high ION/IOFF ratio of 600 at room temperature and a high conductivity compared to not only traditional transistors but also to graphene nanoribbon transistors made by other methods. Although graphene nanoribbon transistors fabricated using nickel nanocrystal-based etching have a higher ION/IOFF ratio of 5000 at room temperature, they have very low conductivity, which may tend to heat the device, reducing its efficiency.

Although the findings of the study are exciting, graphene nanoribbon transistors are still far away from reality. “To be used in nanoscale circuits, it is essential to fabricate graphene nanoribbons on a large scale with lesser defects. Graphene nanoribbons are at least ten years, if not farther, from widespread applications,” says Prof Kottantharayil.

A major drawback of synthesising graphene nanoribbons by etching is that they contain many defects. Hence, to produce nanoribbons on a large scale, non-etching based techniques need to be developed. “Some possible research direction include directed movement of catalyst nanoparticles that are deposited or grown at specific locations of interest. Some of the techniques used in our research along with etching based techniques could be interesting to study,” Prof. Kottantharayil signs off.

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Sweet Baby Aria

Hey welcome back! A couple weeks ago we posted Jesse & Alyssa”s wedding to lead up to this post. Meet Aria. She is sweet as pie! It is so cool to see your friends become parents and we are so happy we got to do these photos for them. Enjoy! xoxo Ashley

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Sunday, March 4, 2012

Monday's Lunch: Comfy Tummy

I let Bubs pick out everything in his lunch for Monday. He said, "Everything I picked out shouldn't make my stomach feel like it is going to explode, like BOOM!" The kid makes me laugh constantly.

In this bento:

*Chicken and apple sausage kabobs
*Fruit snack bunnies
*Gluten free crackers
*Laughing cow cheese wedge
*Gluten free banana bread
*Juice box
*Snack: Veggie Chips packed in small Spongebob Squarepants container (not pictured)

Packed in:
*Spongebob Squarepants sandwich container from Tupperware

P.S. A box of gluten free crackers cost me over $5. I about had a coronary!

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  1. LOL, that is the bummer part - GF products can be costly :-/ If you're able, I mention Chebe bread in my post from yesterday: It's an inexpensive bread mix. Tastes delish too! Could be made any size/ shape, depending how you bake it, and not break the bank.
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The Link between Health, Disease and Philosophical

Ask any graduate in medicine to define health, and you will hear: “Absence of Disease”.  Then ask what disease is, and you will get an endless list of names, many of them of people, cataloged as if they were museum specimens. Ask further to see a “disease” and you will obviously see a sick person, a man or woman showing symptoms of some disorder or other.

Continue by asking any official of any Ministry of Health what their business is, and you will hear: “Running hospitals and making medicine available to the sick.” “Wouldn’t a better name be Ministry of Disease? You would get no answer. Bureaucrats are not trained to think.

Something is drastically wrong with healthcare in all its forms. The home of health has been on fire for more than a century, with flames far more burning and dangerous than the glow of cigarette ends in the mouths of diehard smokers.

The original arsonist was the scientist Herr (Baron) Justus von Liebig (1803-1873), who discovered that humus did not feed plants, as was widely believed at the time.

He made the fatal mistake of defining humus as “dead matter insoluble in water”. Had he been a biologist instead of a chemist, he would have realized that humus is a living substratum, the microflora of the soil. One hectare of land contains 100 tons of humus, with myriads micro-organisms incompletely known. These microorganisms extract minerals from the soil and convey them to the roots of plants in the time and mode dictated by nature.

The root system benefits first, becoming deep, strong and immune from attacks by most parasites. When the plant germinates and thrives, it synthesizes a whole range of nutrients perfectly adapted to sustain the health of man and beast.

Farmers therefore knew, without the “benefit” of faculties of agriculture, that the only sensible practice was to nourish that flora with manure, composting it by fermenting plant and animal residues in appropriate heaps. It was long and hard work, but what results! Every crop had its flavor; food had all it takes to sustain health, and people ate and stayed well.

Justus von Liebig acknowledged his error and rectified, but too late. Inorganic fertilizers had begun their unstoppable massacre of the microflora.

For this is the gist of this article: health is to be sought in the soil and in what one eats out of it, not in artificial foods and medicines.

Shortly after Liebig’s death the Hungarian engineer Hoffenberger poured fat on the fire by inventing and commercializing the flat-disk mill. It not only separated starch from the husk and germ of the wheat grain, but also produced huge quantities of flour, thus bankrupting the small “inefficient” millers and concentrating the industry into the hands of few “efficient” ones. By selling the three components separately, it obtained unexpected profits, but denied the former staying power of bread to those who ate it.

Bread became tasteless. Millers now had to “improve” it with ingredients wholly foreign to wheat. Hence the pap bought in supermarkets, “prepacked, pre-sliced and preternaturally awful” in the words of a British housewife to a newspaper.

The First World War saw explosives manufactured by liquefying and distilling atmospheric nitrogen. At the end of the hostilities unused explosives were sold as agricultural fertilizers. The industry was now in a position to distribute “large dividends” to its shareholders both in peace and in war time. And people’s health continued to deteriorate.

The (then small) pharmaceutical concerns noted that sales soared, as did profits and shareholder dividends. Starting in the 1950s they offered free samples to medical doctors, together with smartly printed reassuring brochures praising the products of what would become an industry worth billions. But what was in these products? Chemicals, which counterbalanced the effects of permanent malnutrition by suppressing its symptoms.

But a symptom suppressed today here reappears tomorrow elsewhere, often in disguise, so that another “product” is needed to suppress it (and to make a third one appear) etc. It doesn’t take long to see what a windfall the whole represents for Big Pharma, thus pouring even more fat on the house of health on fire.

The use of chemical fertilizers, imposed on American farmers since the 1950 by Rockefeller-controlled policies, broke the sulphur cycle, thus eliminating aminoacids essential to health.[1]

Kenya has the material, the labour and the means to reverse this noxious process at minimum cost. It only needs political will. The material is the 9 000 tons of dung daily produced by the 9 million cattle roaming the arid and semiarid areas of the North.

Dung falls to the ground where produced, but if paid by appropriate Ministry of Agriculture centres at an attractive price, pastoralists would be enticed into conveying as much of it as they were able to such centres, to be composted as a public service. Such compost could then be distributed to farmers at cost or even free, since the gain in health by Kenyans throughout the country would offset any expenditure.

Add a second windfall: By advertising itself as a chemical fertilizer (and OGM) –free country, the large sums saved by not importing foreign fertilizers would be completed by the large gains of a tourist industry based not only on seeing wild animals and scenery but also eager to gain in health by eating well.

The first blunder was made by Descartes (1594-1650), who decreed that the body of a living being is but a machine. It follows that the bodies of individual of the same species are all the same, and that a certain disorder can be corrected in the same way wherever it appears. A disease is thus promoted to the status of being. That is why faculties of medicine the world over show off chairs of “Pathology” with endless lists of “diseases” each decorated with the name of the “discoverer”, as if it was a trophy.

But nature is not mocked. She has decreed the human being to be a composite of matter and spirit, and that health is but order of the two as well as between the two. When this order for whatever reason deteriorates or is lost, one or more symptoms of health disappear.

It is time so seek remedy, failing which disease arrives, inexorable. And there is no reason why a given symptom must be that of a given disorder. The immense complexity of the human being sees to it that the same cause may have different effects in different individuals, just as different causes may show the same symptom in different individuals. That is why doctor oftentimes fail to hit the mark despite their good will.

Hippocrates of Coos (c. 460-377 BC) had indeed hit the mark. Any disease is the result of metabolism gone astray, and whose toxic byproducts are kept in the body instead of being expelled. It is enough then to stimulate the great excretory organs: intestine, kidneys, lungs and skin, for the curing strength of nature to take over and restore health.

“Modernity” abandoned Hippocrates for Paracelsus (1493-1541), the first to propose inorganic substances as “remedies”. It can be affirmed that Big Pharma is founded on the assertion of a quack killed at 49 by a foul brew concocted as “unfailing remedy”.

Before moving in any direction, though, food must be given back the nutritional principles of which it has been robbed by an agriculture impelled by usury.

A second blunder prevents modern medicine from seeing its way back to Hippocrates. Its author was none other than Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) and his “germ-theory of disease”. The micro-organisms that regularly appear together with a given disease are construed as causes. The error is philosophical. An organic being (a micro-organism), cannot possibly be the cause of a disorder, which when all is said and done is a non-being.

But aren’t “infectious” diseases cured by getting rid of “germs”? Not always. When they do, it is not that the “germs” have caused the disease, but that they are the more obvious effect of the disorder. The organism, with an enemy less, has one possibility more of recovering. But when this does not happen for one reason or another, it is the end.

A further reason to shun Hippocrates is his long sittings near the patient, following the pulse and the vital functions for days if necessary. The doctor’s emoluments are evidently small. The suppression of symptom, on the other hand, is fast, so that many more patients can be taken care of, with a corresponding higher income.

The successes of modern medicine cannot be gainsaid. People live longer. The most spectacular success though is Big Pharma. What more desirable than a captive, long-living population with almost everyone ill?

Given the natural, indissoluble link between medicine and agriculture, it would be most desirable if the same link existed at all levels, including the political one. Ideally, the two ministries should be integrated into one. Less ideally, the Permanent Secretary of Agriculture should be a medical doctor, and that of Health an agronomist. But this is only utopia. What can the man-in-the-street do?

  • Educate himself. Know how to define health and monitor its seven symptoms: appetite, sleep, urine[2], stool, resistance to infection, closing of wounds and physical fitness.
  • Seek nourishment, not just “food” Grow your own (check the Net for ideas). Buy from farmers, not supermarkets. The symptoms of a healthy farm are multiculture, rotation of crops and animals, the compost heap, the structure of the soil (the “crumbs”) and its characteristic odour even after a light shower. Needless to say, pay your farmer according to justice, not to predatory economic “laws”.

Do not be afraid. In the wise words of Dr Hedley-White[3], “We doctors don’t cure anything. We cannot. Our only task is to hang around and inspire confidence, while Nature takes care of and cures the patient.”[4]

[1] Specifically the sulphur-containing aminoacids cystine, cysteine and tryptophan

[2] A pH 8 urine spells perfect health. Balance the diet with a judicious mix of acid and alkaline foods.

[3] He had lived and worked in East Africa since the 1930s.

[4] Dr Ronald Weiss of New Jersey has decided to close down his practice and return to Hippocrates on a 348-acre farm where he uses organic produce as medicine.

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The Passionate Torah

Danya Ruttenberg, ed., The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism (New York: New York University Press, 2009). 320 pp. $19.95.

Postmodernism, feminism, and queer liberation have raised “a whole new set of questions with which to address our time-honored traditions,” Danya Ruttenberg says in her introduction to this collection of eighteen essays by diverse hands. The intention is to explore such topics as “queer sexuality,” masturbation, “female sexual empowerment,” prostitution, “inter-religious coupling,” monogamy, modesty, and “the erotics of sexual segregation” in hopes of finding “a new model of [Jewish religious] practice for the future.”

The hope is repeatedly disappointed. And the reason is that all of the answers to Ruttenberg’s new set of questions are provided by modernity and postmodernity. By addressing Jewish tradition, Ruttenberg and her contributors really mean that the tradition will just have to adapt.

A good small example appears in an otherwise useful survey of birth control and procreation by Elliot N. Dorff, an ethicist and ordained rabbi who has helped to decide such questions for Conservative Judaism. Observing that the Talmud “prohibits masturbation as ‘wasting of the seed’ (hashhatat zera),” he abruptly turns and announces without warning that “masturbation, which is harmless, is preferable to nonmarital sex. . . .” Dorff is a trained philosopher and perhaps the clearest thinker in Ruttenberg’s volume. The non sequitir escaped his notice, most likely, because the assertion that masturbation is harmless seems uncontestable to him. Medical science has established the fact, regardless of what the Talmud says.

And that is the point. When one of the most Jewishly learned contributors to The Passionate Torah disregards the Talmud, because the testimony of medical science is silently treated as superior to it in wisdom, the result is not to ask how “new ways of thinking” impact Jewish understanding, but rather to dress up in a quasi-Jewish vocabulary to talk about what literary intellectuals, academics, and the young always want to talk about—sex.

Judaism is not silent about sex, but its speech is consistent. It can be reduced to variations on a single refrain: Judaism is a sexual discipline, which is demanded of a Jew in order to sanctify the body. Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik explains:

Disciplining the body, interfering with its pleasure-seeking drives, organizing them into a meaningful whole, and relating them to a higher frame of reference by refusing to yield to the powerful push of the flesh and by resisting the rush of primitive lust, are attainable only at a high price in terms of self-denial, self-despair and self-sacrifice. Desires unfulfilled, pleasure pursuits interrupted when attainment is in sight, and withdrawal from something fascinating are painful events.But to experience the pain and self-denial of a sexual discipline, Soloveitchik concludes, is to experience “the dynamics of holiness.”[1]

The language of sexual discipline is entirely absent from The Passionate Torah. Discussing a famous story in tractate Menahot in which a rabbi stops himself from bedding a prostitute when his tsitsit strike him in the face—the prostitute, moved by his restraint, converts to Judaism and ends by marrying him—Melanie Malka Landau says that “one way” to interpret the story is that “sex that began as ‘illicit’ becomes ‘holy’ within the appropriate framework.” But this is no guarantee against sexual objectification, she says. The truth is that “good sex” (her phrase) also depends upon “a deep recognition of humanity.”

A beautiful doctrine, but what are its consequences? Landau moves immediately to call into question the traditional Jewish conception of a husband’s obligation in marriage. “Male access to ongoing heterosexual sex from their partners is secured through the guise of a commandment incumbent on the male to pleasure his wife,” she writes, reversing the priorities of the tradition. Besides, she goes on, “the woman’s consent in sex is potentially ambiguous, perhaps because sex is construed as part of her husband’s obligation to her.” The deep recognition of humanity, in short, is a better guide to the sexually perplexed than Jewish law. And even when the law appears to promote “female sexual empowerment,” the opposite is probably the case.

Contrast this to the views of the Orthodox thinker Eliezer Berkovits, whose sexual ethic parallels Landau’s to a striking extent. Berkovits founds his conclusions upon the principle that “man is not an animal,” a “Jewish affirmation that cannot be given up without surrendering Judaism itself.” Because sexuality is not merely biological, it is not to be rejected; but because it is also biological, it has the power to turn a man into an animal. In that case, “[i]t is not what man does,” Berkovits writes, “but what is happening to man.” The danger is not simply that the partner will be objectified—that the sex act will become, in Landau’s phrase, a “power play”—but that man will become the object of his lust. Animal sexuality is a “pointing from genital to genital”; human sexuality is a “call from person to person.” For Berkovits, though, the drama of sexuality does not end there. Persons are called to persons, but Jews are also called to God. Sex is not merely “a deep recognition of humanity,” but also a mitsvah. He tells the same Talmudic story as Landau, but his conclusion is utterly different. After the rabbi marries the ex-prostitute, the mitsvah of wearing tsitsit is “fulfilled, not only in ritual observance, but also in recovered personal dignity.” Human sexuality deepens one’s obligation to God.[2]

Ruttenberg’s own contribution to the book is an attempt to reconceive tsniut (“modesty”) so that it no longer involves either hypocrisy or “the absolute erasure of female potential.” The argument is grounded in the ideas of the feminist Audré Lorde, who “defines the erotic as that which embodies the deepest and most fundamental connection to the self. . . .” Lorde is treated as a source whose authority equals the Talmud—which Ruttenberg then quotes, but not in a way that is indispensable to her argument. Her prooftext is feminist theory, not the Torah.

She concludes that “true modesty involves a subjective connection to the erotic,” and thus its definition must be placed “in the hands of each individual.” But this is incoherent. Ruttenberg is not talking about tsniut, but self-expression. For modesty is not yet another means of establishing personal autonomy; it is a matter of social and communal concern. It is the price for entering into a community where one’s individual standards are submerged in the mutual agreement to treat one another as fully deserving of respect and welcome, or separating oneself from the community to pursue one’s subjective connection to the erotic.

The book is at its best when the contributors stick closely to Jewish texts. Gail Labovitz, for example, gives a reading of Kiddushin 81b that turns the traditional interpretation on its head, making a rabbi’s wife into a “legal guerilla” and a model for feminist sexual ethics. She does not belabor the last point, however, recognizing that hers is only one reading “among several possibilities.” Rather than twisting the story further to press it into the service of practical reform, she permits her interpretation of the text to stand on its own. In similar fashion, Judith R. Baskin provides an entertaining survey of biblical and rabbinical texts on prostitution. Only in her closing sentence does she turn to the question of practical consequences. At their best, the contributors’ textual interpretations can be enjoyed by ignoring the utilitarian recommendations that grow out of them.

A common error throughout the book is to assume that Jewish ritual must be reinterpreted to make it available to a new generation. How can anyone expect young women to practice sexual separation from their husbands during menstruation if the laws of niddah suggest they are unclean? The error here is to confuse belief in with belief that. A believing Jew guards the mitsvot out of belief in the God who ordained them, while not permitting his occasional disagreement—his inability to believe that they are universally true—to interfere with his obedience. The performance of a mitsvah is not symbolic, but intrinsically meaningful; it does not require an extra layer of interpretive validity to validate it.

None of the contributors to The Passionate Torah comes out of Orthodoxy, and the first language of most is postmodern theory. Small surprise, then, that their primary goal is not for Jews to recover the mitsvot, but (in the words of Haviva Ner-David) to “reevaluate their implementation of these laws.” Ner-David recommends, for example, that a couple “celebrate” the wife’s menstrual cycle by going to the ritual bath together so that both might immerse themselves, one after the other. Again and again, the question in this up-to-the-minute book is not how contemporary Jews might serve God through observing his commandments, but how the commandments might be reinterpreted and revised to serve the sexual needs of contemporary Jews.

[1] Joseph B. Soloveitchik, “The Redemption of Sexual Life,” in Family Redeemed: Essays on Family Relationships, ed. David Shatz and Joel B. Wolowelsky (New York: Toras HoRav, 2000), pp. 73–104.

[2] Eliezer Berkovits, “A Jewish Sexual Ethics,” in Crisis and Faith (New York: Sanhedrin Press, 1976), pp. 41–82.


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Finding the right coach for you is quite a task honestly. I wish I could help more people but everyone has only 24 hours in a day and I can only help so many people.

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A Fundamental Disagreement

Things got heated between Greenwald and Maher on Real Time last Friday:

David Atkins criticizes the arguments on both sides for being “too simplistic to be taken seriously”:

Maher and Greenwald are both right, and they’re both wrong. Yes, the problem has much to do with oil, imperialism and oppression. But it’s not quite as simple moral relativist academics might like it to be. And yes, the problem is religion–but not in the way that Maher thinks it is.

The problem, as it is everywhere, is fundamentalism. The problem that causes anti-choice terrorists to bomb abortion clinics, Timothy McVeigh to blow up a federal building or Eric Rudolph to bomb innocents at the Olympics, is the same problem that causes so many Muslims to become entrapped in terrorism and anti-progressive movements. It’s a struggle against modernity and against progressivism that occurs : 1) whenever religion of any kind is allowed to be the sole driving force of organizational activity in resistance to oppression, and 2) when people are free enough to congregate and resist without being enslaved or mass murdered, but not free enough to hope for true social advancement.

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Unfortunately, David chose to represent Greenwald’s views as being some sort of simplistic “blaming” of all the world’s ills on imperialism. That’s not what he said. Indeed he said several times, in response to Maher’s repeated insistence, that he did not believe that. He was referring specifically to the perennial question of “why they hate us.”  He believes that the beef stems from American foreign policy of the past six decades and not out of some religious hatred for The Great Satan.

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It does seem that Islam is struggling somewhat with the modern world. Whether that is more due to some inherent doctrinal issue or European colonialism followed by six decades of American meddling and violence preventing the emergence of a modern society is fun to argue about, but basically irrelevant. Muslim theology is up to Muslims. …

American Christians can never be part of the intra-Muslim theological discussion. What America can do is try to break out of the cycle of violence which has characterized our relationship with the Middle East for the past half century. We keep pursuing our perceived interests, and in the process trampling one country after the next into the dirt and creating yet more pools of angry, brutalized young men.


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