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July 03, 2009
Reviews: Foreign films
I recently ranted about the quality of the movies on the Entertainment Weekly 100 New Classics list. I will now, and not grudgingly, point out one positive attribute of the list: it has foreign films on it. The AFI lists necessarily would not—they’re explicitly counting down great American movies (though they have slipped a few films in there which are arguably British)—but it’s been a treat to experience films from other countries, not in the least because I have no prior knowledge of them.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
This I knew about, of course. I was conscious and following award ceremonies back in 2001 when it was the biggest thing. "They fight crazy Asian fights and fly over trees and stuff!" was pretty much all anybody had to say about it. I knew that it was important artistically, but I had no idea that the plot would be so compelling, and that was an unexpected pleasure for me.
The story was interesting from all angles--who was avenging who and who had trained who and who was the masked bandit and who’s going to defeat who--even the romantic angles of the thwarted romance between the two older characters and the potential romance between the younger ones. I don’t have a problem with movies having love stories in them, just with movies foregrounding the love story and leaving everything else in the dust. Crouching Tiger did it exactly right; the love stories were interwoven with the more action-oriented stuff, and not a minute of storytelling was wasted.
I also have to mention how awesome it was that chicks fought dudes, and chicks fought chicks, all through the movie and without anyone batting an eye. Not only were the women as well-trained as the men in whatever kind of martial arts this was (never said I was an expert), not only did women meet men as equals in combat, but the fights between two women were just as important as the fights that had men in them. There was no indication that the director ever thought, “This scene with the two women fighting? The men in the audience are gonna get bored…better have them rip each other’s clothes off.” They just took it for granted that the women’s plots were as important as the men’s. That is so…not the way things usually go. And it was quite beautiful to behold.
Two more great films, after the jump.
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Entry is tagged: brecht | crouching tiger hidden dragon | foreign films | gabriel yared | in the mood for love | movies | schindler's list | summer movie watch | the lives of others
July 03, 2009
On the pursuit of happiness
On this day before independence day, I am posting again a reflection from two years ago on what to me is one of the most intriguing phrases in the US Declaration of Independence. It is contained in the famous sentence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
I have always found the insertion of the phrase "the pursuit of happiness" as a fundamental right to be appealing. One does not expect to see such a quaint sentiment in a political document, and its inclusion sheds an interesting and positive light on the minds and aspirations of the people who created that document.
But the problem has always been with how happiness is attained. And in one serious respect, the suggestion that we should actively seek happiness, while laudable, may also be misguided. Happiness is not something to be pursued. People who pursue happiness as a goal are unlikely to find it. Happiness is what happens when you are pursuing other worthwhile goals. The philosopher Robert Ingersoll also valued happiness but had a better sense about what it would take to achieve it, saying "Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so."
Kurt Vonnegut in his last book A Man Without a Country suggests that the real problem is not that we are rarely happy but that we don't realize when we are happy, and that we should get in the habit of noticing those moments and stop and savor them. He wrote:
I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are probably the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government.
Yes, this planet is in a terrible mess. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any "Good Old Days," there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, "Don't look at me, I just got here."
There are old poops who will say that you do not become a grown-up until you have somehow survived, as they have, some famous calamity -- the Great Depression, the Second World War, Vietnam, whatever. Storytellers are responsible for this destructive, not to say suicidal, myth. Again and again in stories, after some terrible mess, the character is able to say at last, "Today I am a woman. Today I am a man. The end."
When I got home from the Second World War, my Uncle Dan clapped me on the back, and he said, "You're a man now." So I killed him. Not really, but I certainly felt like doing it.
Dan, that was my bad uncle, who said a man can't be a man unless he'd gone to war.
But I had a good uncle, my late Uncle Alex. He was my father's kid brother, a childless graduate of Harvard who was an honest life-insurance salesman in Indianapolis. He was well-read and wise. And his principal complaint about other human beings was that they so seldom noticed it when they were happy. So when we were drinking lemonade under an apple tree in the summer, say, and talking lazily about this and that, almost buzzing like honeybees, Uncle Alex would suddenly interrupt the agreeable blather to exclaim, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."
So I do the same now, and so do my kids and grandkids. And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."
Good advice.
POST SCRIPT: Mark Sanford: The Movie
Here's the trailer.
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July 02, 2009
Energy Act and Appalachia
Recently House passed a bill called H. R. 2454, a.k.a Clean Energy Act. The intentions of the bill are good because one day we have to learn to live without fossil fuels, no amount of "drill baby drill" will help us in postponing the inevitable.
I was looking at the coal statistics for USA this morning, what struck me was that 25% of the coal is produced in Appalachian. It can be argued that Applachian economy is not coal dependent but its impact on economy can be never understated. To understand the poverty in Appalachia and how it moved Presidents Kennedy and Johnson see here .
Have things changed after all these years, I don't think so, this ABC report Diane Sawyer report says that, look at all the clips and especially one where an Indian doctor says that poverty in one of the coal producing areas is more compared to the place comes from in India.
You can also see this Frontline Country Boys documentary if you have six hours to spent,it shows the struggle of two boys in coal producing region to make something out of their life.
I am faced with a lot of questions, when a government mandate will impoverish an already impoverished region. I am not acting like a Luddite, is war on poverty is inconquerable in certain parts of the country?, despite best efforts. Lot of these people worked in industrial mid west before moving back after the industrial collapse, so the arguement these people are lazy doesn't stick.
As I travel through the region I can see people living in decrepit trailers and having miserable existence, as energy act rolls out I only pray something is done for rehabilitation of these people.
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July 02, 2009
Stecher Collection of Darwiniana
The Robert M. Stecher Collection of Charles Darwin Books and Manuscripts is an outstanding resource for the study of Charles Darwin. It is an excellent example of what a knowledgeable and enthusiastic collector can do for scholarship. Over a period of thirty-seven years, Dr. Stecher collected both the works of Darwin and other 19th century naturalists and those writings that influenced Darwin's thought. Over 175 manuscript letters by Darwin, his family and his contemporaries (such as A.R Wallace, Grant Allen, Henry W. Bates, J. Brodie Innes and many others) are also an invaluable part of the collection. These letters document Darwin's daily life and reveal the struggle of the Victorians to formulate and accept the theory of evolution.
A link to the collection is here.
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July 02, 2009
See our pictures!
This is a quick note to let people know that the Flickr page has been updated with pics of the new house. Follow the link on the sidebar or just click here!
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July 02, 2009
Case Daily
Recent Graduate Wants to Make Her Mark in Cleveland, Contribute to Region
Emily Fox has no plans to leave Cleveland now that she has graduated from Case Western Reserve University.
After three years, she left campus with the Master of Business Administration, Master of Science in Social Administration, and a certificate in nonprofit management.
The recent social work graduate wants to be part of the solution to rebuild the city instead of leaving.
Campus News
The university will be closed on Friday, July 3, to observe the Fourth of July holiday. Case Daily will resume publication on Monday, July 6.
The Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences is hosting an information session from 5 to 7 p.m., Wednesday, July 15, at the Mandel School. The community is invited to learn about a social work degree from one of the highest-ranked graduate social work programs in the nation. The session will focus on the master's program, field education, and financial aid. Contact the admissions office at 368-2280 to register.
NetWellness, a free consumer Web health site sponsored and operated by Case Western Reserve University, Ohio State University, and the University of Cincinnati, allows users to ask medical questions of experts from the universities.
For Faculty and Staff
Faculty members are invited to apply to become fall 2009 University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education Learning Fellows. The program promotes collaboration with teachers from across the university. The application deadline is July 6. Learn more.
For Students
This section will be updated occasionally during the summer. Refer to the "Campus News" section for general information.
Events
IngenuityFest, Cleveland's annual showcase of arts and technology, will take place July 10-12 in downtown Cleveland. Boltz, coordinated by Case School of Engineering alumnus Ian Charnas, will feature the Tesla Orchestra transforming "lightning bolts" emitted from a tall aerial into musical sounds. Case Western Reserve faculty, staff, students and alumni can use the promo code CASE when calling to purchase tickets through Playhouse Square (216-241-6000) or at the gate any day of the festival to receive a 50 percent discount.
The views and opinions of those invited to speak on campus do not necessarily reflect the views of the university administration or any other segment of the university community.
July 2, 2009
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Case in the News
Medications' shelf life vs. expiration date: a NetWellness column
The Plain Dealer, July 1, 2009
Darrell Hulisz, associate professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, explains the difference between shelf life and the expiration date of medications.
Teenagers are building their own job engine
New York Times, June 27, 2009
Unemployment for 16- to 19-year-olds is at its highest rate since 1992. That is causing some teenagers to rethink their notion of work and to embrace entrepreneurship. Scott Shane, professor of entrepreneurial studies at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, comments.
Dead money and cap ballast
ESPN.com, June 30, 2009
ESPN counts down the Summer of 2009's Top 15 Dead Money Players and Cap-Killing Contracts. The article references Jamaal Tinsley of the Indiana Pacers. When Tinsley received no counter to his buyout proposal, he proceeded with a grievance in which he will argue before arbitrator Calvin Sharpe. Sharpe is professor of law and director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict and Dispute Resolution at Case Western Reserve University.
Betting blind on ACES
National Review Online, June 29, 2009
Jonathan Adler, professor law at Case Western Reserve University, writes a column about the American Clean Energy and Security Act.
Higher Ed News
New commission on graduate school formed
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, July 2, 2009
The Council of Graduate Schools and the Educational Testing Service have announced the formation of a Commission on the Future of Graduate Education in the United States.
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July 02, 2009
Recent Graduate Wants to Make Her Mark in Cleveland, Contribute to Region
Emily Fox has no plans to leave Cleveland now that she has graduated from Case Western Reserve University. After three years, she left campus with the Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Science in Social Administration (M.S.S.A.), and a certificate in nonprofit management.
Fox has lived in the area since the age of 13 when her family moved to Shaker Heights from San Francisco. The recent social work graduate wants to be part of the solution to rebuild the city instead of taking flight to other places.
"Cleveland is a place that needs people. I like the challenges it offers," she says.
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Entry is tagged: Alumni | Cleveland | Community Outreach | Mandel Center for Non-Profit Organizations | Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences | Weatherhead School of Management | news
July 02, 2009
links for 2009-07-02
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The emergency room at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital is seeing more patients over the past six months. Many with behavioral problems such as depression. The local police chief says they are making frequent trips to the ER.
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Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen and AMA president Dr. J. James Rohack discuss health care reform.
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A two-year effort to create a countywide health program for Cuyahoga County's poor and uninsured is at risk of falling short of its ultimate goal as the group's members debate exactly how much money and other resources they are willing to commit.
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Documentaries about health-care and food are all the rage. Cue the lights - bring the music up - action.
Posted on HEALTH DISPARITIES BLOG by David Porter at 12:04 PM
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July 02, 2009
Bsbal Rned by Txt Msgs?
I think I have seen everything now. No longer is at least one team of the West Akron Baseball League using their traditional dugout hand signs for the base coaches. To be a coach on this team, you better be on the same "network" as the team manager. The commands to the base coaches are being delivered by text messages. The Akron Beacon Journal reported that the team manager, the son-in-law of the former Cleveland Indians skipper Mike Hargrove, has started utilizing the technology because the coaches were missing the signs. I can already see how this will play out in the next Major League movie.
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July 01, 2009
Why people believe in god-3: What do religious people actually believe?
Apologists for 'moderate' religion always start by saying that they accept science, and begin with arguments for god that seem to be superficially compatible with science, but ultimately end up saying they believe in absurdities that violate almost every major scientific principle, such as virgin births or that people can actually come back from the dead. However sophisticated religious apologists may argue intellectually, they seem to need the same emotional crutch of magical thinking as much as any religious fundamentalist, and desperately want to believe that there is this invisible entity who is looking out for them personally. Religious scientists like Francis Collins, Kenneth Miller, John Lennox, and John Polkinghorne all start out arguing on a high intellectual plane, but they end up making almost the very same assertions of belief of the average churchgoer in the pew on any given Sunday.
So what do religious people actually believe? There are no simple answers. In his book God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist (2007, p. 12), Victor J. Stenger tries to pin down the philosophical foundations of people's belief in god. But I am interested in more practical questions.
The vague "Do you believe in god" type questions that are usually asked of believers are useless because it is not clear what people believe even if they say yes. Is it the deist god Deigod or Gosh or the full-blooded, omnipotent, omniscient, miracle working Supergod or (as is most likely) some personally concocted hybrid?
So here are some questions that would help make the discussions more fruitful. I wish that the polling agencies would ask questions like these as this gives a much better picture of what people actually believe.
- Is god a (a) material or (b) non-material entity? (i.e., is god made up of the same kind of stuff like protons, electrons, etc. with properties like mass, charge, spin, etc. that every other thing in the universe is made up of, or is he made of something that is non-material?)
- Does god exist everywhere in space?
- Is god a sentient being like us, with thoughts and feelings?
- Can god change the past?
- Does god know the future?
- Does god know absolutely everything that happens every moment, including every thought of every being?
- Can god intervene in events whenever and wherever, to violate natural laws and change their course (i.e. perform miracles)?
- Do you believe that you have a soul or spirit that will continue to exist in some form (perhaps reincarnated) even after you are dead?
My experience suggests that most religious people would answer the above questions as follows: 1: (b), 2: yes, 3: yes, 4: no, 5: yes, 6: yes, 7: yes, 8: yes
I also have bonus questions for those who call themselves Christians:
- Do you believe Jesus was totally human when he lived on the Earth, with a fully human body, with no powers or abilities not possessed by any other human?
- Do you believe that Jesus really died on the cross, with his body experiencing the same changes after death that any human body does?
- Do you believe that the same physical body then came back to life?
- If the answer to question #3 is 'yes', where is that physical body now?
I suspect that most Christians will answer: 1: yes, 2: yes, 3: yes, 4: heaven.
Of course, all these answers lead to all manner of severe contradictions, either because they are internally inconsistent or they violate basic scientific principles. For example, the idea that god took a fully human form in the shape of Jesus is central to Christian dogma. Otherwise what was the point of the whole exercise? But if Jesus is totally human, how could he perform his miracles? It is to evade this type of contradiction that religious language and concepts like 'kenosis' or the doctrine that Jesus is fully god and fully human are introduced, which make no consistent logical sense but can be interpreted in any way that the situation requires.
As for the second question, we know that our bodies undergo irreversible decay rapidly after death, which is why organ removal for donations must be done immediately. So if Jesus was totally human and his body decayed for three days, how did he recover the use of his organs when his body was resurrected?
There really is no way to escape these contradictions without resorting to saying that Jesus is at least on occasion Supergod.
More sophisticated religious believers know this is a problem and will try to avoid answering the questions I posed, likely retreating to an extreme form of religion-speak suggesting that we do not, and perhaps cannot, know the answers to such questions because god is so deeply mysterious that any attempt to understand his nature in any concrete way is doomed to failure. This non-answer enables them to avoid having to publicly acknowledge any contradictions while privately assigning any properties they want to god that gives them emotional satisfaction. Or they will give the answers I provided and wave away any contradictions by invoking the 'mysterious ways clause' that allows god to circumvent any contradictions in ways that we cannot know.
I know that some readers of this blog are religious. I hope they will take a stab at answering those questions so that we can get a grip on what exactly we are talking about.
POST SCRIPT: Hey, I never promised you a rose garden
God makes Jesus an offer that he thinks of refusing.
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July 01, 2009
Why people believe in god-2: When good physicists get theology
All believers in an even minimally activist god face the challenge of explaining why there seems to be no evidence for his actions, and why the world seems to be understandable and explicable without postulating his existence. They cannot face up to the fact that the logical conclusion is that there is no god, and this is where the vague and cloudy language of theology comes in, trying to mask this fundamental problem.
Physicist John Polkinghorne in his book Faith, Science, and Understanding (2000) pulls the same trick as chemist Francis Collins, biologist Kenneth Miller, and mathematician John Lennox, arguing first for the possibility of a deist god (whom I have called Deigod), and then asserting without argument that this makes it rational to believe in Supergod. But Polkinghorne has a weapon that the other two don't have. He has studied theology formally and so can dress up the same weak arguments in obscurantist language.
Polkinghorne is a highly able and respected particle physicist. He was a former professor of mathematical physics at Cambridge University and is a Fellow of the Royal Society who, at the age of around fifty, gave up physics and became an ordained priest in the British Anglican Church. So he has studied both physics and theology in considerable depth. In his book he invokes the usual staple of the anthropic principle as an argument for god, which essentially suggests that the universe seems to be exquisitely fine tuned in order to allow for human life to emerge and that this suggests that it must have been designed. It is a popular argument amongst religious scientists. As Polkinghorne puts it:
The wonderful order of the world is perceived…as being a reflection of the Mind of the Creator, and the universe's finely tuned aptness to the evolution of life is perceived as an expression of the Creator's fruitful intent. (p. 22)
Another physicist Victor Stenger in his book God: The Failed Hypothesis has effectively demolished that anthropic argument. But that has not stopped it from being regularly advanced because it has proved very lucrative, especially recently for physicists, with the annual Templeton prize essentially rewarding those who concoct new ways to try and make science and religion compatible, and being repeatedly given to physicists who invoke variations of the anthropic principle.
Some new atheists argue that the Templeton Foundation exists essentially for this sole purpose, to use its wealth to co-opt scientists and journalists to keep on forever discussing the issue of how to find ways of reconciling science with god, thus perpetuating the idea that such a reconciliation is even conceivable. They suggest that we should fight back against the pernicious influence of the Templeton organization by not going along with this strategy and by boycotting these 'dialogues'.
Polkinghorne also goes in to some depth about how the uncertainty principle and chaos and complexity theory, all of which introduce elements of unpredictability into the world, and thus can be postulated as the vehicles of god's action that escape detection. He also invokes consciousness as a deep mystery that is inexplicable without reference to god. All this is to establish the possibility of existence of Gosh (the God Of the Scientific Holes).
But then he too makes the great unexplained leap to assert the existence of Supergod, and says that he actually believes that Jesus rose from the dead and performed the miracles claimed in the Bible, without making any attempt at all to explain what, if anything, the uncertainty principle or chaos or complexity theory has to do with such miraculous, macro-level science-defying events. All of these people think that allowing for the logical possibility of any god at all allows for the existence the particular god they want to believe in.
While I have criticized the books by religious scientists like chemist Francis Collins book and biologist Kenneth Miller for the faults in their reasoning, at least they both write clearly about their religious beliefs, without using the usual impenetrable theological jargon. Physicist John Polkinghorne, on the other hand, while he writes well when explaining physics, because he is also a theologian has the unfortunate ability to revert to the usual theological linguistic obscurity when discussing how god works. Here is a passage from his book:
God's act of creation would not only have involved a divine kenosis of omnipotence, resulting from allowing a creaturely other truly to be itself, but also a divine kenosis of omniscience, arising from allowing the future to be truly open. (p. 150)
The meaning of the above passage was initially incomprehensible to me but I thought that it may be due to the fact that I was unfamiliar with the work 'kenosis', which is the kind of neologism that sprouts all over the place in theology. So I looked up the word in the dictionary and it means "the relinquishment of divine attributes by Jesus Christ in becoming human." So I think that what he is saying is that when God chose to appear in the human form of Jesus, he gave up the powers of omnipotence and omniscience. But why not simply say so? What is the need for things like the "creaturely other truly to be itself"?
If he did speak more straightforwardly and people understood what he was saying, then some obvious questions would arise in their minds. People might ask how Jesus, if he was not omnipotent, could bring Lazarus back from the dead or walk on water or transform water into wine, and all the other tricks claimed for him. Or how, if he was not omniscient, he could know in advance that Peter would deny knowing him. Polkinghorne cannot help speaking obliquely because, to paraphrase taking a cue from George Orwell, religious speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible, designed to make lies sound truthful, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Reading this kind of passage in Polkinghorne's book brought back memories from the time when I used to indulge in this kind of metaphysical talk as part of my religious training. It is possible to convince oneself that this kind of thing makes sense, as long as one keeps it on a high abstract plane and do not demand concrete examples of what is being said. And of course, one has to want to believe that there is some sense to believing in god.
POST SCRIPT: Jesus the Supergod
Maybe Jesus didn't fully invoke the 'divine kenosis of omnipotence' and become a 'creaturely other truly being itself'.
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July 01, 2009
HR 2454 amednments
mentioned by Green Hell blog
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July 01, 2009
H.R. 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act, (Cap-and-Trade Climate bill)
as passed by the House, 1428 pgs.
Posted on JUST IN CASE: The blog of The Judge Ben C. Green Law Library by Andrew Dorchak at 08:10 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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July 01, 2009
Study to explore vision, quality of life in dementia patients
A multi-institutional team of researchers, led by the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, will begin a five-year, $2.9 million National Institutes of Health-funded study. They will examine the lives of patients with both cataracts and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) to document how restored vision improves everyday life for people with dementia.
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July 01, 2009
National Discussion on Health Care Reform (online)
White House July 1, 2009, 1:15 pm
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July 01, 2009
Software Center Announces Discounted Microsoft Software
The Case Western Reserve University Software Center has entered into an Academic Select Plus License Agreement with Microsoft. This agreement allows Case students, faculty or staff to purchase licenses and media for Microsoft products, such as Visio, Project, full Operating System licenses, server software, etc., at significant discounts. Licenses and media may be purchased for work related or personal use.
The Case Software Center has contracted with CDWG/JourneyEd to be the reseller of Microsoft Academic Select Plus products to the campus. To purchase products, simply log onto the Software Center. Students will see a link titled “Adobe And Microsoft Discount Software For Students” and faculty/staff will see a link titled “Microsoft Software For Faculty And Staff”. Both links will take you to JourneyEd where you may browse a catalog of the discounted Microsoft software. Products are purchased from the JourneyEd website. Academic verification of your status as a Case faculty, staff or student is required and is done automatically during the check out process.
To visit the Software Center, please go to http://softwarecenter.case.edu
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July 01, 2009
Case Daily
Campus Community Has Opportunity to Brush Up on Skills With Summer Classes at KSL
Although summer seems like a good time to wind down, it's actually a great time to brush up on skills with a CaseLearns class at Kelvin Smith Library.
Summer opportunities await the campus community via free classes. Learn how to maximize online meetings, work with digital texts, get the most out of library databases, and more.
A calendar of classes and registration information is available online. Learn more.
Campus News
Effective Monday, July 6, the S10 gate between parking lots S10 and 1B will be secured at all times, as the Euclid Corridor is now open. Contact Access Services at parking@case.edu or (216) 368-2273 for questions.
The campus community is invited to sign up to receive e-mail alerts regarding Human Capital Management (HCM) system maintenance and updated functionality. Go online and click "subscribe" on the left side of the screen.
For Faculty and Staff
The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) is hosting a discussion on "Case Western Reserve University's World of Second Life" from noon to 1 p.m., Thursday, July 2, in the Allen Memorial Medical Library's Herrick Room. Since the university began its venture into Second Life more than two years ago, it has been on the cutting edge of research and experimentation, supporting health care, bioethics, civic engagement and a coalition of government, medical facilities, libraries and schools in the community. Sue Shick of ITAC (Instructional Technology and Academic Computing) will share what exactly new development is all about. Come learn about this exciting new development and what it means for our community. Pizza and beverages will be served. RSVP by email to UCITE.
The Department of Human Resources will host a session on "Becoming an Effective Team Member" from 1 to 3:30 p.m., Thursday, July 2, in Nord Hall 310A. Participants will learn the essential skills necessary to develop and maintain highly effective teams. Whether the participant is a team member or a team leader they will gain the skills necessary for effective team performance. Register online.
For Students
This section will be updated occasionally during the summer. Refer to the "Campus News" section for general information.
Events
Curt Moll, retiring chairman and CEO of MTD Products, Inc., will visit campus Monday, July 6. Under Moll's leadership, MTD—a global manufacturing corporation, which produces outdoor power equipment and appliance components—has challenged its U.S. workers to participate in developing strategies to produce top-quality, cost-effective products to position the company against offshore competitors with significantly lower labor costs, and still meet the just-in-time needs of large-volume retailers such as Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Sears. Moll will share his insights with students in TiME's Materials Manufacturing class.
The views and opinions of those invited to speak on campus do not necessarily reflect the views of the university administration or any other segment of the university community.
July 1, 2009
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Case in the News
Ruling in firefighters case fuels critics of Sotomayor
Los Angeles Times, June 30, 2009
The Supreme Court's reversal Monday of a discrimination ruling involving a group of white Connecticut firefighters has provided critics of high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor with some fresh ammunition. Jonathan Adler, a professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, comments.
How Europe began flexing financial-regulation muscle
BusinessWeek, June 30, 2009
The European Union's financial regulations are shaping up to be a big deal for companies based in the U.S. and elsewhere—even beyond their European operations. History suggests Europe's regulatory boldness won't end with this financial crisis and global recession. Indeed, research by Elliot Posner, a Case Western Reserve University political scientist, suggest it was already stirring before the crash, and is likely to linger.
A new business on the horizon
CoolCleveland, July 1, 2009
How do businesses get started in Northeast Ohio? Well, this one got started by accident using clay and water. That's way too simple you are thinking. Add a freeze dryer and some polymers and you've got the new clay aerogel composite material developed by David Schiraldi, associate professor of engineering at Case Western Reserve University, and his research group.
Renewed Cornell Road Bridge to reopen after being closed for four and a half years
The Plain Dealer, July 1, 2009
There will be no fireworks but lots of celebrating on Thursday when the Cornell Road bridge, a vital link between Little Italy and University Circle, reopens to traffic. Dick Jamieson, vice president for campus services at Case Western Reserve University, comments.
Higher Ed News
Paying college tuition with credit card gets costlier
USA TODAY, July 1, 2009
Across the nation, a growing number of universities are making it harder—and costlier—for students to use credit cards.
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July 01, 2009
Music Tracks Recorded on iPhone
Are you amazed how much you can do with each new generation of phone compared the even the computers of a decade ago. Here is another one of those moments delivered by the iPhone. The music group The 88 recorded one of their songs using a iPhone application.
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July 01, 2009
links for 2009-07-01
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Health insurance is supposed to offer protection — both medically and financially. But as it turns out, an estimated three-quarters of people who are pushed into personal bankruptcy by medical problems actually had insurance when they got sick or were injured.
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The widespread use of expensive cancer drugs to prolong patients’ lives by just weeks or months was called into question by an article published Monday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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The disagreement centers on a critical issue: What’s the best way to cover impoverished Americans? Is it by expanding Medicaid? Or by providing subsidies for the poor to buy private insurance on new health insurance exchanges to be created by the legislation?
Posted on HEALTH DISPARITIES BLOG by David Porter at 12:05 PM
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June 30, 2009
Race origins and health disparities
An article out of the Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science tries to connect the dots between race origins and health disparities.
Efforts to simplify the complexities of race— including genetic, cultural and socioeconomic variations—have made race-related research “a minefield of often premature and ultimately wrong conclusions,” [lead author Nina T. Harawa said.]
To understand health disparities in the various population groups, she said, researchers need to understand how today’s racial categories evolved from the negative assumptions made hundreds of years ago to justify slavery.
The article appears in Ethnicity and Disease Journal and a pdf version of the first page can be found here.
Posted on HEALTH DISPARITIES BLOG by David Porter at 08:30 AM
Entry is tagged: Health Disparities | Health Inequality | Health Inequities | Minority Health | Race | Racial Health
June 29, 2009
Case Farmer's Market at the BRB
Very small market as of now. But it's all local.
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June 30, 2009
Epic Wednesday: Westerns
Tomorrow was meant to be a double header of two classic films based on novels, films which decided to recreate the experience of reading the novels by taking approximately as long to watch them as it would take to read them. I.e., Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia.
Unfortunately, Lawrence of Arabia is apparently an extremely hot property. It's been borrowed from both Case's library as well as Cleveland Heights'.
Subbing in, then, are the following movies:
High Noon
Shane
The Searchers
The Wild Bunch
Unlike war movies or mob epics, westerns actually tend to clock in at extremely short and manageable times. High Noon is an impressive 83 minutes long. Shane and The Searchers both fall just on the sweet side of two hours at 118 and 119 minutes, respectively. The Wild Bunch is slightly over two hours, but this is not a problem both because my movie stamina is at Olympic levels right now, and also because it's got William Holden in it.
See you tomorrow, Bill!
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June 30, 2009
Camera Comparison
Here are some popular camera models that will work with Adobe Connect.
| Manufacturer | Logitech | Logitech | Logitech | Microsoft | Microsoft |
| Model | QuickCam | QuickCam Deluxe | QuickCam Communicate MP | LifeCam VX-3000 | LifeCam VX-5000 |
| OS | Windows 2000, XP, Vista | Windows 2000, XP, Vista | Windows XP, Vista | Windows XP (SP2), Vista | Windows XP (SP2), Vista |
| Support/Stand | Clip | Clip | Bendable Stand | Stand | Bendable Stand |
| Features | RightSound™ Technology | RightSound™ Technology, ightLight™ Technology | RightSound™ Technology, ightLight™ Technology | High Definition, Automatic Face Tracking | World-Class VGA Optics, Fun Flexible Design |
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June 30, 2009
Download Add-In
Acrobat Connect Add-in allows meeting presenters and hosts to share their screen, control other users' screens, and upload their files to meetings. There is an add-in available for users on computers running the Windows and Macintosh operating systems.
Audience:
- Meeting Administrators
- Seminar Administrators
- Event Administrators
Install
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June 29, 2009
West Side Market and Case Market Meals
My first time cooking fish...
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June 29, 2009
Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts
(citing CWRU professor Paul Giannelli!)
Boston Globe article (on the Supreme Court opinion)
New York Times article (on the Supreme Court opinion)
Ohiolink record for Scientific Evidence, 4th ed. (2007) by Profs. Giannelli and Imwinkelried
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June 30, 2009
Case Daily
Case Western Reserve Receives $5M
from Third Frontier Commission for the
Center For Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine
The Center for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine (CSCRM), comprised of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, and Athersys, Inc., has received $5 million from Ohio's Third Frontier Commission under the Research Commercialization Program. The funding will help support new and innovative stem cell technologies including two commercial, four emerging and three pilot projects. This funding will be matched by each of the projects to create a $10 million grant benefiting stem cell and regenerative medicine in Ohio.
"This funding provides CSCRM the support it needs to continue to aggressively move new technologies from academic labs towards commercial development," said Stan Gerson, director of the Center for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine.
The continued research efforts will result in efficient clinical applications and commercialization of stem cells to benefit patients throughout Ohio. Read more.
U.S. Supreme Court Cites Law Professor's Work
In the recent Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts ruling, the United States Supreme Court recently cited Paul Giannelli's work. He is a professor of law.
This is the seventh time his work has been cited by the Court. Both the majority and the dissent cited his text, Scientific Evidence. Read more.
Campus News
The university's book club is currently reading The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. Those interested in discussing the book are invited to attend the group's next meeting from noon to 1 p.m., Tuesday, July 14, in Crawford Hall 720. Contact Susan Benedict for details.
The summer barbecue season continues Wednesday, July 1, with an All American Barbecue theme and music by Megan Slankard. There will be different menus and musical styles from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the Crawford Deck every Wednesday through July 8. The events are open to the public. Each barbecue event costs $7.75 per person, and includes a full menu, beverage and dessert, as well as a front row seat to the entertainment. CaseCharge, CaseCash and cash accepted. Go online for more information.
For Faculty and Staff
The Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) reminds researchers about the July 1 quarterly competition for small pilot funding of up to $10,000 to support activities provided by any of the CTSC Core facilities. The program is being supported by Case Western Reserve, University Hospitals of Cleveland and MetroHealth Medical Center, and investigators whose primary appointments are based at these sites are eligible. Investigators at the Cleveland Clinic have access to internal pilot funds for clinical and translational research through the RPC Program. Additional details are available online.
The Department of Human Resources, in collaboration with TIAA-CREF, is offering an onsite Investor Education Series. All interested staff and faculty are eligible to attend. Whether you currently have investments with TIAA-CREF, another investment firm or no firm at all, this series of workshops will prove timely and informative. The next session, "How Am I Doing?: Understanding and Achieving Your Long-Term Financial Goals," will meet from noon to 1 p.m., Wednesday, July 1, in Crawford Hall 209. Go online to register and learn more about the series.
For Students
The Women in Science and Engineering Roundtable will present a summer fiesta from 5:30 to 7 p.m., Thursday, July 9, at the Village at 115 courtyard between Houses 1-3 (rain location: House 2 Great room). The event is open to all women undergraduates on campus.
Events
Joseph C. LaManna, professor of physiology and biophysics, neurology and neurosciences, announces that the Annual Meeting of the International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue (ISOTT) will be held for the first time in Cleveland July 5-9. ISOTT is an interdisciplinary society featuring international members. LaManna is the organization's president. The annual meeting brings together scientists, engineers, clinicians, and mathematicians in a unique forum for the exchange of information and knowledge, the updating of participants on latest developments and techniques, and the discussion of controversial issues within the field of oxygen transport to tissue. The featured presenter will be Jay Dean on "Oxygen and the World War II Aviator." Go online for additional details or to register.
The views and opinions of those invited to speak on campus do not necessarily reflect the views of the university administration or any other segment of the university community.
June 30, 2009
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Case in the News
High court's bias ruling may reshape employer policies
The Online NewsHour (PBS), June 29, 2009
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a group of white firefighters was unfairly denied promotions because of their race. Analysts examine the impact on future labor policy. Jonathan Adler, professor of law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, offers insight on the ruling.
Case Western Reserve University School of Law professor Paul Giannelli's research used by Supreme
The Plain Dealer, June 30, 2009
The U.S. Supreme Court drew on the research of Paul Giannelli, professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, in ruling that defendants in criminal trials have a constitutional right to cross-examine lab analysts who prepare reports on drugs and other research used at trial.
CHA mixed-income building has class clash
The Chicago Tribune, June 30, 2009
Low-income apartment dwellers and middle-class condo owners have shared Westhaven Park Tower since the building opened in 2006—an innovative setup that the city hoped would unite residents and exemplify Chicago's $1.6 billion overhaul of public housing. Mark Joseph, assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University's Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, said results of the effort are mixed in Chicago and nationally.
Auto struggles drive parts makers down
American Public Media, June 29, 2009
Chrysler is reopening several U.S. assembly plants, but it may be too late for some parts suppliers. Susan Helper, professor of economics at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management, comments.
Top 10 gangster films hit their marks
The Plain Dealer, June 29, 2009
Al Capone had Congress to thank for Prohibition, creating bootlegging millionaires who controlled large chunks of American cities in the 1920s. And Hollywood has Capone to thank for a brazen personality that inspired legions of films. Lou Giannetti, film professor emeritus at Case Western Reserve University, comments.
How BioEnterprise helps a startup
The Plain Dealer, June 28, 2009
To build a business, you need talent to lead it and money to seed it. That's BioEnterprise's mission. The company works closely with researchers at Case Western Reserve University.
Higher Ed News
New plan ties reduced college loan payments to income
New York Times, June 29, 2009
Starting Wednesday, the federal Education Department will begin offering a repayment plan that lets graduates reduce their loan payments, based on their income.
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May 29, 2009
Big Sun Scholarship for Athletes
Applications available online: http://www.bigsunathletics.com
Application Deadline: June 25, 2009
Amount of Scholarship: $500
Qualifications
All student athletes are eligible regardless of the sport they are engaged in. The student must be a high school senior or be attending a post secondary institute.
Deadline
The application deadline is June 25, 2009. The winner will be notified within 2 weeks and the name of the winner will be posted on this website at that time. The award is mailed within 2 weeks of the deadline.
Submit:
Submit a short essay answering one of the following questions:
Have you ever struggled for something and succeeded? What made you feel that you were successful?
Have you ever struggled for something and failed? How did you react to this?
Contact Info
Website: http://www.bigsunathletics.com/
All essay submissions should be sent to: athleticawards@bigsunathletics.com
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June 30, 2009
Case Western Reserve University Receives $5M from Third Frontier Commission for the Center For Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine
Funding supports multiple commercial, emerging and pilot projects
The Center for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine (CSCRM), comprised of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic (CC), University Hospitals (UH), and Athersys, Inc. has received $5 million from Ohio's Third Frontier Commission under the Research Commercialization Program. The funding will help support new and innovative stem cell technologies including two commercial, four emerging and three pilot projects. This funding will be matched by each of the projects to create a $10 million grant benefiting stem cell and regenerative medicine in Ohio.
"This funding provides CSCRM the support it needs to continue to aggressively move new technologies from academic labs towards commercial development," said Stan Gerson, director of the Center for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine. "We have linked corporate partners to our major projects and have been gratified by the development of a stem cell biotechnology commercial landscape in our region. Our goal is to rapidly move stem cell research from the lab to patients through clinical trials, using our strong background in preclinical models."
The continued research efforts will result in efficient clinical applications and commercialization of stem cells to benefit patients throughout Ohio. To date, such efforts have brought in $170 million in new commercial development and investment in Ohio.
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June 30, 2009
More on the new atheist-accommodationist split
As I wrote last week, quite a scuffle has broken out between the so-called 'accommodationists' (who feel that we should not offend 'liberal' religious people by pointing out that science and religion are incompatible) and the so-called 'new atheists' (who feel that this accommodationist strategy has been pursued for a long time with no success and should be abandoned).
New atheists like Richard Dawkins, Jerry Coyne, P.Z. Myers, and others have argued that there is no justification for the belief that science and religion are compatible, and that professional science organizations like the National Academy of Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Center for Science Education should refrain from making statements to that effect and stick to simply advocating good science, avoiding all questions of religion altogether. The undoubted fact that there are many scientists who are religious and that there are many religious people who support science (and oppose fundamentalist versions of religion) only provides support for the uncontroversial idea that it is possible for people to simultaneously hold contradictory views in their minds, nothing more.
The 'new atheists' have been criticized by other nonbelievers like Chris Mooney and Barbara Forrest who believe that the real danger to science comes from the 'bad religion' of religious fundamentalists, and that scientists should seek common cause with religious moderates who advocate 'good religion', and not alienate them by implying that science and religion are fundamentally incompatible.
As I wrote last year, what this argument reveals is a misunderstanding of the basic nature of coalition politics. In a coalition, people come together to advance one set of issues they agree upon while staying true to their positions on other issues where they could well differ strongly. So it should be quite possible for the 'good religion' group to join forces with the new atheists to combat the bad social and political influence of the 'bad religion' group, while at the same time disagreeing with each other as to whether science and religion are compatible.
For the 'good religion' group to ask the new atheists to not debunk the idea of compatibility (for the sake of political expediency) makes as little sense as the new atheists asking the 'good religion' group to stop talking about their religious beliefs in order to avoid offending atheists. Each group should come into the coalition for the sake of an articulated common good (in this case combating the immediate and manifest evils of 'bad religion') while retaining the right to disagree on other issues. As veterans of coalition politics know, a united front always hides a divided rear. We just have to live with it.
The reason that this well-known aspect of coalition politics is not understood in this particular context is because for far too long, religion has been granted a privileged place in public discourse. There has been an exaggerated 'respect for religion' trope, which has been interpreted as requiring that one should not critique those religious beliefs that are strongly and sincerely held by 'good' people. This tradition has shielded mainstream religion from the kinds of deep critiques received by other irrational belief structures, like astrology or witchcraft. Because of such criticisms, neither of those latter beliefs is deemed to be intellectually respectable anymore.
H. L. Mencken deplored this practice of deference to religion way back in 1925, when he wrote in The Baltimore Evening Sun in the wake of the Scopes trial:
[E]ven a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights. He has a right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities as long as he pleases, provided only he does not try to inflict them upon other men by force. He has a right to argue for them as eloquently as he can, in season and out of season. He has a right to teach them to his children. But certainly he has no right to be protected against the free criticism of those who do not hold them. He has no right to demand that they be treated as sacred.
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The meaning of religious freedom, I fear, is sometimes greatly misapprehended. It is taken to be a sort of immunity, not merely from governmental control but also from public opinion. A dunderhead gets himself a long-tailed coat, rises behind the sacred desk, and emits such bilge as would gag a Hottentot. Is it to pass unchallenged? If so, then what we have is not religious freedom at all, but the most intolerable and outrageous variety of religious despotism. Any fool, once he is admitted to holy orders, becomes infallible. Any half-wit, by the simple device of ascribing his delusions to revelation, takes on an authority that is denied to all the rest of us.I do not know how many Americans entertain the ideas defended so ineptly by poor Bryan, but probably the number is very large. They are preached once a week in at least a hundred thousand rural churches, and they are heard too in the meaner quarters of the great cities. Nevertheless, though they are thus held to be sound by millions, these ideas remain mere rubbish. Not only are they not supported by the known facts; they are in direct contravention of the known facts. No man whose information is sound and whose mind functions normally can conceivably credit them. They are the products of ignorance and stupidity, either or both.
What should be a civilized man's attitude toward such superstitions? It seems to me that the only attitude possible to him is one of contempt. If he admits that they have any intellectual dignity whatever, he admits that he himself has none. If he pretends to a respect for those who believe in them, he pretends falsely, and sinks almost to their level. When he is challenged he must answer honestly, regardless of tender feelings.
Salman Rushdie wrote something similar more recently:
At Cambridge University I was taught a laudable method of argument: you never personalize, but you have absolutely no respect for people's opinions. You are never rude to the person, but you can be savagely rude about what the person thinks. That seems to me a crucial distinction: You cannot ring-fence their ideas. The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it's a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
Despite Mencken's protests, religion still retains, because of the strong pressure to not make criticisms of it, some of its standing as something that reasonable and rational people can believe in. But what Mencken hoped for is now beginning to emerge. The new atheists are making a concerted effort to end the false notion that 'respect for religion' means freedom from criticism. It is a good sign that skeptics are getting more numerous and outspoken. Their voices are breaking through the protective veil that religious beliefs have shrouded themselves in for so long.
POST SCRIPT: Michael Jackson
Just after I heard the news of Michael Jackson's death, I realized that although he was a pop phenomenon who had an enormous number of fans, I was not even faintly familiar with even a single song of his. Somehow his entire music oeuvre has passed me by, showing just how out of touch I am with some elements of popular culture, which is a little odd since I know a lot of the music of his contemporaries, and grew up with the Motown sound.
Jackson was undoubtedly a tragic figure, and yet retained a curiously childlike innocence that was somehow appealing. Ishmael Reed describes the awful treatment Jackson received from the media, which seemed to delight in tearing him down just as they once built him up.
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June 30, 2009
links for 2009-06-30
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Because Insurance policies come with limits even the insured may not get access to new drugs or a needed transplant.
Posted on HEALTH DISPARITIES BLOG by David Porter at 12:04 PM
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May 10, 2009
Here we go...
Hi! My name is Mariya Topolyanskaya and I'm a rising senior here at Case. I have three majors: Psychology, Natural Sciences and Environmental Studies. When I get out of Case I'm looking at Law School, a BA in Environmental Studies, or both. Who knows?
I've started this blog to talk about my Capstone project, for which I will attempt to eat locally and sustainably in Cleveland. Stay tuned...
6/29/90: It just occurred to me that I should probably make this disclaimer.. Some of these entries will contain criticism (constructive, I hope!) of stores, markets, and etc. Please keep in mind that these are just my personal opinions, and I am relatively new to the world of local/sustainable eating. I'm ignorant about many things in this area, but am trying to comprehend everything in the most intelligent way I can. I fully allow the possibility - actually, its more of a fact - that I miss things when I go to check places out. So, please don't be offended if I knock your favorite store or market! Tell me why you disagree, because I want to know. :)
Considering there's probably only 5 people reading this, I don't know how necessary that was, but oh well. Just in case~!
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June 29, 2009
Cuomo v. Clearing House Association
WSJ Law blog (strange alignment)
Posted on JUST IN CASE: The blog of The Judge Ben C. Green Law Library by Andrew Dorchak at 04:07 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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June 29, 2009
Ricci v. DeStefano
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