The Lloyd House Virtual Salon: Weekly 5/3/07

We had a fabulous Spring Party Saturday. In thanks to the “dial tones” who showed up -- a 6 piece pro band-- and played for free, we want you to go hear them at the Head First, a club on 3rd street downtown opposite the Paul Brown stadium. See notice below in Announcements. This is one cool band... Very friendly music, gets you up and dancin’!

Salon Weekly

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Table Notes
Events & Opportunities
Articles, Letters
Books, Reviews, Films, Magazines

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................................................... Section One: Table Notes ............................................................................ (Note: these notes were taken at the table and have NOT been approved or corrected by the speakers. Reader
beware of inevitable misunderstandings and misrepresentations. E.B.)
At the Table on Wednesday, 5/2/07
Himavat Ishaya, Janet Kalven, Mary Biehn, Steve Sunderland, Chad Benjamin Potter, Marvin Kraus, Gerry Kraus, Spencer Konicov, Ellen Bierhorst, Mira Rodwan

Darfur demonstration at NURFC Last night. 700 people. Many high schools. No press coverage.

Geo. Tenet, former CIA head. On 60 min., on Fresh Air.

Marvin: Tenet seemed incompetent.
Steve: when asked “did you torture prisoners?” He said No, we don’t torture; we did use extreme interrogation. Then he claimed that he had conducted the CIA with high ethical principles.
Ellen: gap between national myth and reality. Will we summon the national will to make our practice in line with our myth as good guys?

Steve:   Michael Scheuer (sp?) the head of the Osama desk at CIA said he holds Tenet responsible for 911, for our failure to capture Osama, for not resigning before Iraq was started, since he knew it was phony. Had he resigned and Powel resigned, we would have not gone to war.

Gerry we were in D.C. last week. Nobody drives into the city; they park and take the train.
Marvin in some cities you get free parking if you have a hybrid car.
Spencer: imagine they required all cabs in NYC to be hybrid.

Gerry read the Preamble.

ANNOUNCEMENTS AT THE TABLE:

Steve conference on hunger and peace at UC. Chad was there… 120 participants. We learned a lot. Schroder H.S. came. Students committed to learning about hunger. … Delightful. Before that, I have been enmeshed with this neo Nazi march issue. I’d like to discuss the absence of any real human rights group in Cinti. Who can help us respond? I was shocked at our mayor and our city mgr. in their poor responses to this situation. The mayor said in a meeting looking at alternatives, he thinks we should all get clown suits and march next to them in clown suits. The city mgr. spoke, and said the Nazis were cowards. Sitting at that table were leaders from all religious groups, other groups. I was stunned at the inability of the group to come out with a strong statement affirming human rights and the will of the city to stand for dignity and respect for all.
We did have a meeting at Wash. Park and we read a statement. Cheryl Meadows, dir. Of Cinti. Hum. Rels. Commission.
Suggest we discuss: Should Cinti. Have an active interfaith group to propose positions of human rels. And peace in our city.

Gerry: we have AMOS project.
Steve: it is not that.
Mira: we have MARC.
Steve: that isn’t it either.

Mira: I want to add to the “communities of faith” the people who are secular.
Topic nomination: Darfur.
Spencer I thought the mayor’s suggestion about clowns was good.
Mira: topic: of the Darfur demonstration.
Marvin: the destruction of the melting pot of America. It is going the other way.
Ellen: world salvation through salons and internet.

TOPIC # 1 (of 2) by popular acclaim: the absence of a city wide group for addressing human rights issues AND the mayor’s suggestion re. clowns.

Mira there already is a human rights group… the group that gathered last night for the Darfur demonstration.
Steve: Last night at the freedom center was inspirational. But what we need is a group that can come together representing business, secular, religious, educational communities who can propose a statement to the city gov’t, a statement of leadership, “This is what we want to respond to the violation of human rights.” I was shocked that the old groups like MARK, the Catholic archdiocese, … also the NURFC had no good ideas.
            We met for a week and nothing came out of the meetings. Futile.
Mary I kind of like the marching clowns in response.
Chad the clowns are a great idea but that is one facet of a larger plan of action. The org. should be called “the voice of Cincinnati”.

Gerry: We are still talking about the neo Nazi’s march. I thought the ACLU insisted the Nazis had the right to march. You could not stop them.   I thought the clown idea was good, too.

Mira I think it should be called the Collaborative. Collaboration in the best sense can be the solution. I would like to see any group that has disagreement a chance to speak in this group... no fear that they wouldn’t be represented.
Spencer: the response of the mayor in suggesting the clowns was brilliant. Image of Harpo Marx as clown and squirting people with a watering flower. … If you make fun of the Nazis you subtract from their power.

Marvin I agree with what Chad said. You get everybody who wants to say anything and get them all together in one room and you figure out What’s the problem, and then what can everybody do to solve the problem. …Collective problem solving.
            Second: everybody says “Let’s talk about this, about that.” You have to have action, not just talk.
Himavat when people like the neo Nazis show up, people get afraid, get angry. Historically, when there is enough dark hearts, the fascist party… there must be a response. Cannot be ignored. Some kind of action should show up in the face of the hatred that the neo Nazis represent. … Any intention to create violence wants to be met by something greater, in my world that is non-violence, which is more powerful. I don’t know what that would look like.   I know that most people want peace.

Ellen: clowning would be effective in Clifton, but the problem is that the Nazis were marching in OTR where they would enflame the black youth with their blatant racism. The youth would then throw rocks, get arrested. The wrong people would be behind bars… the Nazis deserve to be, but it wouldn’t be them. So it is a very tough problem. I don’t see the solution. Not easy.

Chad misinterpretation of what it means to be a clown. I am going to clown university.
In Los Angeles there have been very effective clowning … like a dance hall situation. Crunking. A dance. Have a dance off to compete… gangs compete in dancing. Called “raze”.
Mira:    … Truth and Reconciliation project like from S. Africa. Listening carefully to the other people.
Gerry the clown concept. Rather than feel demeaned, Chad, you should feel honored. IN Shakespeare the clown was the wise person. … Other methods have been tried, and look at the mess the world is in. Humor can be tried. Chad, you underestimate the power of laughter.
Steve Toledo is now a ghost town. If we had a riot in OTR we would continue the exodus out of the city. The Nazis are coming to try and foment a riot. If we don’t take it seriously, don’t partner with the OTR citizens then the riot possibility is greater. … The inability of us to understand fear in the neighborhood makes us more separate as people. If this city is going to have a future, black and white, rich and poor, Hispanic, secular, religious, then we have to have ways of talking and working together when the community is under attack. Many people here feel what the Nazis are saying: that blacks should be driven out, to reclaim the city downtown for middle class people. … The mayor’s strategy scares me. We need to put down guns and talk together and work together with compassion.

Marvin several people referred to Nazis inciting to riot. The city could deny the permit. Then the Nazis could march anyway, and then get arrested. Then you have defused the situation.
Gerry: I remember, “The only thing you have to fear is fear itself.”
We are living in a climate of fear. Not productive.
Himavat: assuming there is a march, for me there is something golden: an opportunity to ask everyone What do you want? Come to the table. People need to discover that we need to cooperate. Raise the vibration, realize that we all need to participate, talk, recognize we are in community together. Help the youth, the angry people to channel their anger. Show them choices. Could be very positive.
Marvin: think of what could be constructive suggestions. We’ll talk about that next week.
Mira tell the angry people, the youth: we acknowledge that you have never had a fair hearing. When you are at the margins, you don’t …

TOPIC #2: MELTING POT:

Marvin: part of what is going on is that we are having man Mexicans, other nationals. 45 million Hispanic people living in the US, legal and illegal. They are not integrating into American society. We are not recognizing that this is happening. People coming to public schools with no English. Our society is not dealing with this.
Mira I think we should try to get an interpreter and try to conduce the salon in Spanish. There is a certain amount of looking down our noses at other people. We should identify with the marginalized. Invite them to the salon.
Janet: if you want to make the effort to speak Spanish, ok, it’s a big effort. I’ve been in many groups, like in the Grail this comes up, a lot of people of Spanish background. There is no simple solution.
Spencer: the US is not the welcoming country that we were. Some say, “Let everyone come in.” Others, “Keep out the minority worker.” The desire to come here to the US is the same: come here, there is opportunity. But the USA has changed. … today on the radio I learned about the Haitians. If they come here, they are not illegal until and unless they have been adjudicated as illegal. Until that is done, they are here legally. Cubans coming here are given asylum. But Haitians have to prove that they would be persecuted if they were returned.
Mary Many of the immigrants are not making the attempt to learn English, but their children and grandchildren are. These people will be assimilated eventually.
Gerry that is contrary to the article we read that engendered this topic. …When I was growing up everyone came out for the 4th of July parade. Now only in the neighborhoods. … since ’65 a rise in multiculturalism. In one sense good, but you can’t have it both ways. It is more difficult to be a good American and value the American way and still be within your own ethnic group. This article says the second and third generations are not learning Eng., but are living in their own enclave and speaking their own language (Spanish).
Chad One big difference is that in the “olden days” of immigration, people came to stay, but today people are coming to work and then go back home. They are not interested in learning to join this society. I just finished reading Fast Food Nation. Figures on the amount of wages sent back to Latin Amer. Countries from the workers here…in the billions. …I am a little worried. My little sister said a few years ago, “Why should I learn Spanish? They should learn English.” That’s not right either.
Steve I want to say that this is an illusion that we are a welcoming country. Never have been. Brutal quotas since the beginning of 20th cent. Many laws putting barriers against immigrants. Intelligence tests were invented to show that “those people” were inferior. “the yellow peril”. … A battle for people to seek respect, fair employment has been bloody. It is an absolute miracle that we have had groups working for respect for the immigrant groups. Awful what we did to Japanese residents during WWII. We have new groups of immigrants doing the lowly work, in the shadows. We begrudge them citizenship. … The number one group benefiting from free education in ‘70s in NYC were the Italian immigrants. … The American story is that you fight like crap to get here, and battle for a place here. … We are still a young country, asking What is our identity.
Janet: how many here have grandparents born in this country? (4, a minority.)
Spencer: You can prove anything by taking topical examples. Only when you look at the statistics of the whole. Yes there are Hispanics coming here and sending money back. Those people would rather bring their families here, but we won’t let them. The 20 billion that they send home is not such a lot of money when we consider the huge incomes of corporate executives. … We may not be so welcoming as a country, but we are the only country who really accepts them. … the Chinese took in numbers of Jews in the 40’s and did not persecute them. Absorbed them.
… We had all this open land, and needed people for our economy. … As we balance this…
Marvin I had a great grandmother who sat in a rocker in my grandmother’s house. I was 10 years old. Here was this old person, and I couldn’t talk to her, she only spoke Yiddish. What I could have learned from her!
Himavat the two tendencies: experience the duality—“You are different.” The other tendency, “Yes, I want to learn English.”
Is making more separation going to help? The point is to acknowledge what is at work. I am all about “we are all in this together”.
Ellen: Change. Public Spanish signage. Airports… etc. You hear foreign language in public places. Never did in the 40’s, 50’s. SO our society is changing. One never likes that. We have to get over ourselves and go with it. I say, “Learn Spanish!” Better yet, learn Mandarin Chinese... More humans speak it than any other language.

~ End of Table Notes~

Hugs to everyone,
Ellen

Section Two: Events & Opportunities

This is a reminder that the A Small Group monthly gathering is tomorrow, Friday, May 4 from 4:30 to 6:00PM at Peaslee Neighborhood Center*. I hope to see you there!

Collette

Collette Thompson
A Small Group/ Peter Block's Office
215 East 14th Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
513-451-0166 office
513-607-8346 cell
www.asmallgroup.net

Have you said something great about Cincinnati today?

*Peaslee used to be a public school... It is at the N end of Washington park, that green space in front of Music Hall. E.B.

The Band, “The Dial Tones” that played for the Lloyd House Spring Party

Appearing this Friday (tomorrow) downtown:

Hi Ellen,

Thank you for making us feel so at home Saturday night and allowing the Dial Tones to play in your beautiful home. We all had a ball!!
We are playing at bar called Head First on 3rd street in down town Cinci. on Friday night. It is located in the same block as the free way entrance(75/71 south) about 800 west 3rd. It would be great if you could make it.
I also do house painting and have vast experience doing interior or exterior. I am sober, honest and dependable. If you would have a need I would appreciate the
opportunity. Kurtis

Cell 513 478 2310 or kurtis@fuse.net

Rescheduled due to Rain…

The 6th Annual Rawson Woods Clean-up

Join your neighbors to pull invasive garlic mustard
and garbage pick up

New Date
Saturday, May 5, 2007

10.a.m. – 1 p.m.

Wear gloves, long pants and sleeves and bring water bottle

Call 221-8285 (Joy Lohrer) for more information

More on this event:

Hello,

Just a reminder that James (Reischman, our Rolfer) will be performing the night of May 5th at 7:00PM to benefit Highlands Nature Sanctuary at Greaves Hall, Northern Kentucky University (5 minutes from downtown Cincinnati). If you are familiar with The Nature Conservancy, Highlands Nature Sanctuary is very similar, but is dedicated to preserving the Arc of the Appalachia in southeast Ohio. More information about the sanctuary can be found at http://www.highlandssanctuary.org/ . If you are interested in tickets, James has them for sale at his office for $20 each. Call 513-731-3194.

Yours,
Shirley
(Reischman, our homeopath)
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Schewe [mailto:unaka@tds.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 4:18 PM
Subject: SAVE THE DATE - May 5 - Dancing the Tarot

Good day!!!

I wanted to let you know about a fundraising event that Kristi and I are involved with in the Cincinnati area on May 5, 2007. We are both dancing in the production... I am involved with 2 other Tai Chi practitioners in a movement inspired by staff forms, Wuji, and cloistered monks.   Kristi and I have one movement together. Kristi also has movements with several of her girlfriends as well as Gaiananda (A tribal-fusion bellydance troop from Cincinnati). I have been working on the music for three of the pieces with Alex & Arundas.

Tickets may be purchased in advance (I suggest doing this...get together a group of folks to come with. We hope you can make it!!!!!

Here are the details:

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  COMING IN MAY........Pass on to your friends and family!!

  Dancing the Tarot

  A night of tarot-themed Middle Eastern Music and Dance to benefit Highlands Nature Sanctuary
  Greaves Hall, Northern Kentucky University (5 minutes from downtown Cinci)
  May 5th, 2007
  7:00pm
  Tickets: $20.00 ON SALE NOW!!

  This unique show will explore each card of the tarot's major arcana through music and dance. The story line is comparable to the "hero's quest" in mythology. Join us for this unique opportunity to watch your favorite tarot cards come to life with narration by Fanchon Shur! All proceeds donated directly to Highlands Nature Sanctuary. www.highlandssanctuary.org

  For more information on the show, email Mahsati at Ltdancer40@yahoo.com

  Tickets on sale NOW at the following locations!!!
  Center for World Rhythms and Movement (Gaiananda),St. Bernard
  Lion of Babylon Studio of Arabic Dance,Oakley
  Aquarius Star, Downtown Cincinnati
  Kaleidoscope Productions,

  online ticket purchase at:   www.kaleidoscopeproduction.com

  Ali's Boutique,Northside
  Body of Light,Maineville
  Midnight Muse,Downtown Cincinnati
  Mantra Wellness Center,Blue Ash
  7th Street Gifts,Newport, KY
  Dharma,Columbus, OH www.shanti-dance.com
  Shakira,Columbus, OH efannin@columbus.rr.com

I got a lot of thank yous for my email about Bill Moyers’ program last night on the War. Incidentally, I have a VHS tape you may borrow. Attia Huff sends another announcement in kind:

ellen,

thanks for the info. here is one back at you. also informative and amazing:

After all, one good surge deserves another
Submitted by jimstaro on Sat, 04/21/2007 - 10:17.

A night of G.I. Resistance on National Television (sundance channel, cable TV; Monday 7 May, 9 pm)

http://www.diatribune.com/after-all-one-good-surge-deserves-another

atia

EarthSave Cincinnati co-sponsors

the Woman’s City Club 14th annual National Speaker Forum
in cooperation with WVXU
Diane Rehm,
host of the award winning Talk Show on National Public Radio,
A conversation with Diane Rehm.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007, 7:30pm
Plum Street Temple
9th & Plum, Downtown Cincinnati, 45202
Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door.
For more information or to buy tickets see or call

Mary-Jane at 513-591-0133

Tri-State Treasures

Tri-State Treasures is a compilation of unique local people, places, and events that may enrich your lives. These treasures have been submitted by you and others who value supporting quality community offerings. Please consider supporting these treasures, and distributing the information for others to enjoy. And please continue to forward your Tri-State Treasures ideas to jkesner@nuvox.net.

Information about Tri-State Treasures and how to submit Tri-State Treasures is at the bottom of this email. Please help me by providing all basic information and formatting your submissions as described below.

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These aren't unique to the Tri-State, but cool sites nevertheless...

USA Track & Field Running Routes: Whether you're a walker, runner, biker, roller-blader, or something else, this site is great for determining the distance of a route you wish to explore or have already conquered. Just start clicking your mouse on the path to determine the mileage. Also useful for exploring routes proposed by others. Go to www.usatf.org/routes/map/.

Global Incident Map: View of terrorism & other suspicious events around the word @ www.globalincidentmap.com.

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Pure Drop - Irish Music [Thursday 3 May @ 7:30 PM]: Cincinnati Folk Life presents Craobh Rua (creeve rua) in concert, the Belfast-based band that has delighted audiences & earned wide acclaim & recognition. This exciting foursome is recognized globally as one of the finest exponents of traditional Irish music. These impeccable musicians bring their own individual experience to the group & fuse their talents to bring life to a wide array of instruments, mixing traditional uilleann pipes, tin whistle, flute, fiddle, & bodhrán, with banjo, mandolin, guitar, bouzouki, & great vocals. Craobh Rua takes a refreshing, unpretentious but uncommonly skilled run at some of the greatest music in the world. $25 admission. At the 20th Century Theater, 3021 Madison Road, Oakley, Cincinnati, OH 45209. More info & tix @ 513.533.4822, cfl@zoomtown.com, & www.CincinnatiFolkLife.com.

International Festival [Thursday 3 May @ 11 AM - 2 PM]: Sample international food & culture. Free. Sponsored by SSA & PSSA. On McMicken Commons, University of Cincinnati, Clifton, Cincinnati, OH 45220. More info @ www.uc.edu/sald.

Wine Tasting, Featuring Worldly Wines [Thursday 3 May @ 5-7 PM]: Sample great wines from around the world. $10/person. Hosted by Mick & Mack's Contemporary Cafe. At Tangeman University Center, University of Cincinnati, Clifton, Cincinnati, OH 45220. More info @ www.uc.edu/mainstreet/.

Travel To China [Thursday 3 May @ 7-9:30 PM]: Experience Chinese culture through performance, exhibition, & sampling of traditional cuisine. Free. In the Great Hall, Tangeman University Center, University of Cincinnati, Clifton, Cincinnati, OH 45220. More info @ www.uc.edu/mainstreet/.

Postal featuring Eddie Bayard @ Friday Jazz at the Hyatt [Friday 5 May @ 8:30-12 PM]: $10 cover; Free for Jazz Club Members; $5 for CCM & NKU students. Under 18 free. At the Sungarten Room, Hyatt Hotel Cincinnati, 151 West 5th Street, Downtown Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.579.1234, waltb31@fuse.net, & www.jazzincincy.com.

MUSE Cincinnati's Women's Choir 24th Annual Spring Concert [Friday-Saturday 4-5 May @ 6:30 PM]: Honoring the earth in song, word, & deed. Earth Fair @ 6:30, guest speaker @ 7:30, concert @ 8 PM. Meet the earth fair participants. Hear the singers, see the Multimedia presentation, have kids join in the singalong, & hear current guest speaker topics - Peak Oil, Piketon Nuclear "recycling" site. Tickets: $20 online; sliding scale ($10-50) available from MUSE members, MUSE office, or ticket vendors; $25 at the door. At New Thought Unity Center, 1401 E. McMillan Street, Cincinnati, OH 45206. More info @ 513.221.1118, muse@musechoir.org, & www.musechoir.org.

Voices of Light - The Passion of Joan of Arc, with Lebanon Symphony Orchestra & Chorus [Saturday 5 May 8 PM]: An unforgettable evening of music & theater, merging the original version of Carl Dreyer's silent film masterpiece "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928) with a live performance of Richard Einhorn's music performed by the Lebanon Symphony Orchestra & Chorus (including our friend, Suzanne White). Anonymous 4 will appear as the voice of Joan of Arc. Mr. Einhorn will be present at this performance. "An overwhelming experience" ~ Chicago Tribune. Tri-state premiere. Urbancrest Baptist Church, 2634 Drake Road, Lebanon, Ohio. Advance: adults $20, students $10; At door: adults $25, students $15. More info & tix @ 513.228.0346 & www.musicinlebanon.com.

Taste Of India [Saturday 5 May @ 2-7 PM]: Event to expose the community to Indian culture, features performances & food. Free. Sponsored by the Association for India's Development. In the Great Hall, Tangeman University Center, University of Cincinnati, Clifton, OH 45220. More info @ www.uc.edu/mainstreet/.

Dancing the Tarot [Saturday 5 May @ 7 PM]: Innovative Middle Eastern music & dance performed by more than 40 professional artists from the Tri-State area convening to present a fabulous evening of enchantment. Narrator, Fanchon Shur, weaves together each dancer as they explore the heroic mythology of various tarot cards through vibrant costuming, choreography, & music. A fundraiser to benefit the Highlands Nature Sanctuary (www.highlandssanctuary.org); $20 per guest. Kaleidoscope Productions. At Greaves Hall, Northern Kentucky University, 100 Nunn Drive, Highland Heights, KY 41076. More info @ 513.478.6831, ltdancer40@yahoo.com, & www.kaleidoscopproduction.com.

Introductory Course on Buddhist Philosophy & Meditation [Saturdays 5, 12, 19 & 26 May @ 2 PM]: What goes around comes around (Karma). Everyone is responsible for their own action. Many times we don't know how karma works & create negative actions that cause suffering. Understanding karma can help transform our lives & prospective, which can bring happiness. Class will be offered by Lobsang Dorje, one of the sangha monks. He is a western monk studying Buddhism, sometime under the guidance of Ven. Kuten lama resident teacher & many other respected teachers. Free; donation are appreciated. At Gaden Samdrup-ling Monastery, 3046 Pavlova Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45251. More info @ 513.385.7116, gsl@ganden.org, & www.ganden.org.

Business As Unusual: Heroes of the Holocaust [May 5- July 29]: This exhibition tells the story of Oskar Schindler & his actions to protect Jews during the Holocaust which have earned him a special place among honored rescuers. Woven into this well-known story of courage is the story of a Cincinnati family that followed this same difficult path & the positive role of corporate social responsibility in fighting injustice & social crisis today. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati OH 45202. More info @ 513.333.7500, ETurner@nurfc.org, & www.freedomcenter.org.

The Sound of Seasons - A Unique Concert In A New Genre of World Music [Sunday 6 May @ 4 & 6:30 PM]: The Sound of Seasons – A Musical Celebration of Time is a unique & exciting child-centered multi-cultural, multi-generational, multi-media musical event. It will feature the Cincinnati Children’s Choir, the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, the Greater Cincinnati Indian Children’s Choir, & guest singers from the Shanti Choir. Conceived & composed by visionary musician, composer, & music educator Kanniks Kannikeswaran, the performance is the culmination of a year-long workshop that has brought together about 65 children of Indian origin in the Cincinnati area to learn & explore Indian ragas. Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, will attend & address the audience at the 4 PM show. Presented by the American School of Indian Art (ASIA), the original music score is enhanced with storytelling & imagery that celebrates the changing seasons. Tickets: $10. At Sycamore High School, 7400 Cornell Road, Cincinnati, OH 45242. More info @ 513.478.1094, 513.779.9388, & 513. 509.4670, tippeytours@hotmail.com, & www.kanniks.com.

Latinos & U.S. Catholicism in the 21st Century: Diversity in the Catholic Church [Tuesday 8 May @ 7:30 PM]: St. Xavier High School presents its annual Spring Lecture. Professor Timothy Matovina will speak on "Latinos & U.S. Catholicism in the 21st Century," examining Hispanic Catholicism, particularly developments in the decades since World War II, & focus on the significance of these developments for ecclesial life & ministry in the increasingly diverse Catholic Church of the 21st century. Matovina is associate professor of theology at Notre Dame, & Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the university. His expertise is theology & culture, with a specialization in U.S. Catholic & U.S. Latino theology & religion. His most recent book is "Guadalupe & Her Faithful: Latino Catholics in San Antonio, from Colonial Origins to the Present." A reception with Professor Matovina will follow the lecture. Fee. At Chapel of the Holy Companions, St. Xavier High School, 600 West North Bend Road Cincinnati, OH 45224. Free. More info @ 513.761.7815x412, mdaley@stxavier.org, www.stxavier.org.

The History of Computing at UC: the Astronomy Twist [Tuesday 8 May @ 7:30 PM]: Imagine a world without computers. Not long ago, computers were a novelty. "I think there is a world market for, maybe, five computers." ~ IBM chairman Thomas Watson (1943). "Computers, in the future, may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." ~ Popular Mechanics (1949). The 1st astronomy “calculators” were women making the computations by hand. UC Professor Russell McMahon explores the history of computing at UC & the pioneers at the Cincinnati Observatory who recognized the potential of the 1st “modern” computers for complex astronomical calculations. McMahon is assistant professor & assistant department head of Information Technology in the UC College of Applied Sciences. $10 for general public; $5 for students & Observatory members. At the Cincinnati Observatory, 3489 Observatory Place, Cincinnati, Ohio 45208. For info & RSVP @ 513.321.5186, Observatory@fuse.net, & www.cincinnatiobservatory.org.

Clean Energy & Climate Film Festival [Tuesday 8 May @ 4-11 PM]: Film festival featuring 8 movies about issues about climate change & sustainable energy. Includes discussion with experts in the field & a reception for those attending. Free event. Free popcorn. Sponsored by Resident Education & Development, the Residence Hall Association, & Mainstreet. At Mainstreet Cinema, Tangeman University Center, University of Cincinnati, Clifton, OH 45220. More info @ www.uc.edu/mainstreet/.

Outdoor Music Series [Every Wednesday in May starting May 9th @ 12pm]: A free outdoor music series presented by the University of Cincinnati, for the lunch crowd. Free. In the Bearcat Plaza (between the SSLC & TUC student buildings), University of Cincinnati, Clifton, Cincinnati, OH 45220. More info @ www.uc.edu/mainstreet/.

Climbing Up The Beanstalk: The Story of Young Jack [Thursday-Friday 10-11 May @ 8 PM & Saturday 12 May @ 2 PM]: Written by Irene Evans, Voices From The Earth, Inc. Directed by Tommy Reese, Reader's Theatre with Puppets. Spring Term 2007. With support from the Cincinnati State Humanities Division, & Student Activities Department. $5 general admission; $2.50 with SURGE Card; 50¢ for Children under 12 & Children Over 50. At ATLC Theatre, Cincinnati State Technical & Community College, 3520 Central Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45223. More info @ actordirect@fuse.net.

Dr. Susan Mendelson Author Signing [Thursday 10 May @ 1-3 PM]: Author of "It's Not About the Weight" will attend a book signing. Copies of the book are available for $17.95, event is free. In the Tangeman University Center Bookstore, level 3, University of Cincinnati, Clifton, OH 45220. More info @ www.uc.edu/mainstreet/.

Family Night: Charlotte's Web [Friday 11 May @ 5 PM]: Free viewing of the film "Charlotte's Web" for families. Free. Sponsored by Friday Night Live. In the Mainstreet Cinema, Tangeman University Center, University of Cincinnati, Clifton, OH 45220. More info @ www.uc.edu/mainstreet/.

C.R.E.A.T.E. You Teen Week [payment required by May 15 -- Monday-Friday 11-15 June @ 10 AM - 4 PM]: Designed especially for girls ages 12-16, take a week to explore who you are now & who you are becoming. Art, crafts, journaling, yoga, photography & more. No experience required or expected. $245 includes supplies; bring lunch each day; reservations plus $50 required by May 15. At Creative Catalysts, Studio #231, Essex Studios Complex, Cincinnati, OH. More info @ 513.368.1994 & www.creativecatalysts.net.

Dinner & Movie [Wednesday 16 May @ 7 PM]: Pre-pay for dinner & movie ticket, dinner at the CenterCourt dining area at the University of Cincinnati, & then a showing of "Letters from Iwo Jima" at the Mainstreet Cinema. $8 tickets. Sponsored by & located at Mainstreet Cinema & CenterCourt Dining, University of Cincinnati, Clifton, Cincinnati, OH 45220. More info @ www.uc.edu/mainstreet/ & www.uc.edu/food/centercourt/centercourt.html.

Ongoing Tri-State Treasures

Rites of Passage 2007 [thru Friday 25 May]: Works by college seniors from KY, NY, OH, & TX. Conceived & initiated in 2005, the Rites of Passage exhibits support student excellence by offering a public venue to display advanced creative research; to promote young artists as they move into their professional careers; & to bring the positive creative energies of regional institutions together in one place. This year, 22 works by 7 artists were selected from among 276 submissions: Rebecca Nebert, Tim Parsley, & Jessica Rahn (University of Cincinnati), Trey Hoover & Taylor Stephenson (Thomas More College), Hana Studer (Baylor University), & Nathan Sutton (University of Buffalo). On exhibit will be large scale figurative abstraction, oil on aluminum screen, moving lights, domestic chores, luminescent microscopic structures, & primitive nudes. Refreshments sponsored by Café MoCA & the Echo Restaurant. At Manifest Creative Research Gallery & Drawing Center, 2727 Woodburn Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45206. More info @ at 513-861-3638, jason@manifestgallery.org, & www.manifestgallery.org.

Collecting a Legacy: The Bernard Kinsey Collection [thru June 3]: This exhibition offers a roadmap to the cultural journey & transformation experienced by African American art collectors as they embrace & acquire art & artifacts. Within the context of their own history & the past that speaks to them, we discover how the Kinseys are changed & nurtured by what they chose to collect. Ranging from painful-to-see slave owner’s documents, to brilliantly fiery expressions in sculpture, to private glimpses into thoughts of the ancestors, the Kinsey Collection reflects a rich cultural heritage which they have been driven to capture, inspire & sustain for future generations. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati OH 45202. More info @ 513.333.7500, ETurner@nurfc.org, & www.freedomcenter.org.

BILL BULLOCH TO PRESENT AT SALON MAY 16

Bill Bulloch will make a special presentation at the salon on Wednesday 16 May on
Landscaping and Yard Work in harmony with nature spirits, similar to the Findhorn approach. His presentation is titled, ‘Going Beyond Organic, how to work co-creatively with Nature”.

Bill is an experienced landscaper/designer and also is trained in Tantra Kriaya Yoga and nature spirit attunement. Join us for “the Green Man” in landscaping!

LLEE SIVITZ TO PRESENT AT SALON MAY 30:

Hippocrates, the Father of Modern Medicine, said, „Let food be your
medicine‰.

Come and learn about the link between nutrition and the prevention of
degenerative disease. This information-packed presentation by Llee Sivitz
will provide some simple ways to improve the health and well-being of your
entire family. Llee will also introduce the whole food-based supplement she
has given her family for years, called Juice Plus.

Llee Sivitz
Sharing 21st Century Nutrition for Better Health
513.541.5270 (office)
513.205.9236 (cell)
lleesivitz@hotmail.com
www.juiceplus.com/+ls02753

"The news isn't that fruits and vegetables are good for you, it's that they
are so good for you they could save your life." TIME Magazine, Oct 2003
24-hr information line 1-800-942-1260 - hear what health professionals are
saying!

SWAMI HIMAVAT TO PRESENT AT SALON JUNE 6

Swami Himavat, Ishaya monk, Teacher of Enlightenment, (and salonista!)

will present at the Salon Table on June 6, on "Calm in
the Face of Stress; Clarity in the Face of Tension"
It is your birthright to be enlightened. This
translates into having more of what you truly want in
your life. Come listen, ask questions, laugh

together, and share energy.

Section Three: Articles

Contents:

You should inform yourself about RFID (real federal identification). Do you want Big Brother to be able to watch you? Important.
Hamilton County one of Worst for Air Quality
THE HOUSING BUBBLE: smart article
link to another article on housing bubble

Karen Vossler (salonista, tax non-complier hero) sends this on the RFID: never heard of it? READ THIS NOW.

Ellen,
I think that this might be of interest to the Salon members.
For your consideration...
Sincerely,
Karen Vossler

Original Message -----

Subject: [Caspian-newsletter-l] EAS/RFID: Urgent development affecting
RFIDand consumer privacy

If you've read Spychips, you know that our worst consumer privacy
nightmare is for those little anti-theft tags (known in the industry as
"EAS" tags) to someday be combined with individually trackable RFID
chips and slipped into consumer products. (See Spychips Chapter 4:
"The Spy in Your Shoe" for details.)
Well, those tags are now here.
An article in Friday's RFID Journal (posted below), reveals that
Checkpoint Systems has actually developed a product tag that combines
anti-theft and RFID tracking capabilities. The tags will debut this week
at the RFID Journal Live! Conference in Orlando, Florida. What's more,
Sensormatic, Checkpoint's only serious competitor, is running a whole
conference session to describe the benefits of using this combined
tracking technology.
This is beyond a doubt the #1 most important -- and dangerous --
development in the consumer privacy arena today. It means consumers may
soon be buying, wearing, and carrying products tagged with RFID at the
item level, because Checkpoint and Sensormatic specialize in hiding
anti-theft tags deep inside of products, then distributing those
products to nearly a million retail locations worldwide.
Now they want to do the same thing with RFID spychips. If they are not
stopped, Checkpoint and Sensormatic will soon be hiding these dual-use
tracking devices in your belongings, where they will be able to silently
and secretly transmit information about you to marketers, criminals, and
Big Brother.
This will be a consumer privacy nightmare -- and no one will even know
it's happening. That's because industry lobbyists have prevented RFID
labeling legislation from passing anywhere in the nation. There is no
requirement that retailers or manufacturers tell us when they're hiding
RFID tags in our clothes, shoes, books, or anything else.
Our only protection against this threat is the strength of our voices --
and the power of our protests.
Below is a list of relevant companies attending the RFID Journal Live
conference in Orlando this week. They will all be hearing from
Sensormatic and Checkpoint what a good idea it would be to start hiding
RFID tags in the individual items you buy. Please look over the list,
and if you see a company you buy from, tell them politely but firmly
that if you catch them using RFID at the item level you will not only
boycott their company, but you will tell everyone you know to boycott
them, too.
Companies attending the RFID Journal Live! Conference:

Academy Sports & Outdoors,
Albertsons, The ALDO Group,
Anheuser-Busch,
Best Buy,
Blockbuster,
Blommer Chocolate,
Brass Eagle,
CDW Corp.,
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream,
Electrolux,
Energizer Battery,
Fuji Photo Film USA,
The Gap,
General Mills,
Gillette Company,
Hampton Products,
Hasbro,
Hershey Foods,
Hewlett Packard (HP),
Hunter Fan,
Hy-Vee, Inc.,
Jockey International,
Johnson & Johnson,
Johnsonville Sausage,
Kellogg Co.,
Kimberly-Clark,
Limited Brands,
L'Oreal USA,
Loblaws,
Louisville Bedding,
Lowe's Companies,
Luxottica Retail,
Maidenform Worldwide,
Mars,
Marubeni America,
Masterfoods USA,
McIlhenny Co.,
Meyer Corp.,
Nestle USA,
Newell Rubbermaid,
OfficeMax,
Pacific Cycle,
Payless Shoe Source,
Pharmavite,
Procter & Gamble,
S. C. Johnson,
SAKS Inc.,
Sara Lee Foods,
Schick,
Scott Paper Limited,
Sears,
Sears Canada,
Sherwin-Williams,
Storekraft,
Stride Rite Corp.,
Tanimura & Antle,
Target Corp.,
The Valvoline Co.,
Unilever,
Wal-Mart,
Walgreens,
Wm Wrigley Jr Co,
Wegmans

[To learn more about the conference, and to see a video on it,
see: http://www.rfidjournalevents.com/live/ ]
Write to as many of these companies as you can, and cc: us on your
emails. Let them know how strongly you oppose RFID spychips. When you're
done writing an email, call their customer service lines for good
measure. Send a fax, write snail mail, send a singing telegram. But
whatever you do, don't take this lying down. We're counting on you to
put a stop to this.
And because they just don't seem to get it, here's a special message for
our friends in retail and consumer product manufacturing who may think
now is a good time to start spychipping products.
I strongly suggest you reconsider.
Item-level RFID tagging of consumer products is simply unacceptable. It
was not acceptable in 2003 when we launched boycotts against Benetton
and GIllette for running trials, nor when we exposed the Auto-ID
Center's confidential (and very incriminating) PR plans. It was not
acceptable when we sued the nation's largest conference center for
interfering with our right to protest the launch of the EPC network. It
was not acceptable in 2004 when we outed Metro's spychip-laced loyalty
card and sparked outrage across Germany. It was not acceptable in 2005
when we launched a boycott against Tesco, Britain's largest retail
chain, live on BBC television.
Item-level tagging was not acceptable when we outed the entire industry
(including IBM's "person tracking unit" ) in our award-winning book,
Spychips, which hit the top ten Amazon nonfiction bestseller list and
galvanized readers worldwide. It was not acceptable when we disclosed a
tagging trial by Levi Strauss and generated an avalanche of angry
letters. It was not acceptable when we demonstrated outside of Wal-Mart
stores in two states. Nor was it acceptable when we shamed American
Eagle Outfitters and American Express into publicly backing away from
their privacy-invading RFID customer tracking plans.
We've done over 2,000 television, print, and radio interviews in
virtually every media outlet in the world, and in every one we've
clearly said the same thing: Item-level RFID tagging is not
acceptable.
It's hard to be any clearer, but in the event there is anyone in the
industry who still doesn't get it, here is a promise. If any company
purchases dual EAS/RFID technology from Checkpoint Systems or
Sensormatic and places even one EAS/RFID tag on a single consumer
item,
I will personally wage a worldwide campaign to expose and oppose you.
Hidden or not, we will find you out and hold you up to public scrutiny.
We trust you will do the right thing. Meanwhile, may God bless and guide you all, and hold us all in His wisdom, compassion and love.
In freedom,
Katherine Albrecht, Ed.D
============================================================
Dr. Katherine Albrecht
Founder and Director, CASPIAN Consumer Privacy
kma@spychips.com
Co-author (with Liz McIntyre) of "SPYCHIPS: How Major Corporations and
Government
Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID"
http://www.spychips.com // http://www.nocards.org
Bio online at: http://www.spychips.com/media/katherine-albrecht.html
============================================================
Checkpoint Combines EAS Tags With RFID
The labels contain both a Checkpoint 8.2 MHz RF antitheft inlay and an
EPC Gen 2 UHF RFID tag.
By Mary Catherine O'Connor, RFID Journal, April 27, 2007

http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/3280/

April 27, 2007â•"Checkpoint Systems unveiled today the Evolve
product
family of labels, which marries RFID technology with Checkpoint's
electronic article surveillance (EAS) technology. Checkpoint developed
the dual-purpose labels to offer its retail customers a means of
leveraging RFID tools for in-store inventory visibility while continuing
to use the EAS tags as a theft deterrentâ•"without having to apply
two
separate tags to their products.
The Evolve labels contain a Checkpoint 8.2 MHz radio frequency (RF) EAS
inlay, which does not contain a microprocessor or carry a unique ID. The
inlay is designed to trigger an alarm if passed through an EAS reader
stationed around store exits unless first deactivated at the point of
purchase. The labels also contain an 850-950 MHz EPC Gen 2 RFID inlay,
to which an EPC can be encoded to identify and track individual
products.
The initial Evolve tag design, the Evolve 410, involves the placement of
an EAS antenna around the RFID inlay, containing an Impinj Monza chip on
an adhesive paper substrate. The label dimensions are slightly less than
2 inches square, enabling it to be attached to most hangtags for apparel
and footwear products.
"Before joining Checkpoint, I spent 20 years in the retail industry, and
whenever there's a big technology change, such as RFID, retailers face
so much [transition]. There's training staff, converting software, new
data to manage," says Checkpoint's CEO, George Off. "Anything that can
offer [retailers] flexibility [in adopting new technology] and enable
them to pace their investments really helps during these transitions.
That's what we're trying to do with Evolve."
Off says Checkpoint envisions working with retailers to incorporate
Evolve tags as part of CheckNet, the company's global logistics and data
communications platform. Retailers and their contract manufacturers can
use the system to order product tagsâ•"including Checkpoint's EAS
tagsâ•"
that are applied to house-brand products at the point of manufacture.
This, in many cases, is done overseas.
Using the Evolve labels as part of the CheckNet platform, retailers and
manufacturers alike would be able to leverage the RFID tag applied to
products and track their movement through the supply chainâ•"from
the
factory down to the store level. "Retailers," says Off, "want both EAS
security and inventory tracking."
Presently, Checkpoint is still in the early stages of discussions
regarding incorporating Evolve product labels into the CheckNet
platform, Off says. To deploy such a system, Checkpoint would need to
develop a means by which the EPC encoded to the labels would be
generated, managed and shared with supply-chain partners. The required
RFID hardware infrastructure would also need to be put in place at
manufacturing and retail warehouses and facilities. To leverage the RFID
tags for inventory tracking inside retail stores, he adds, interrogators
would be needed in the back rooms, and possibly on store shelves and at
point-of-sale terminals as well.

Howard Konicov sends: Amer. Lung Names Hamilton Co., OH as one of 25 Worst Counties for Air Pollution

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mank, Bradford (mankbc) <MANKBC@ucmail.uc.edu>
Date: May 1, 2007 8:39 AM

Hamilton County made the list of the 25 worst counties in the nation for air pollution, according to a report out today from the American Lung Association <http://lungaction.org/reports/stateoftheair2007.html> .

The American Lung Association's report ranks cities and counties most polluted by ozone, 24-hour particle pollution and annual particle pollution. It reports county-by-county populations at risk from unhealthful levels of the most dangerous forms of air pollution. Clermont County scored an improved grade of a D from an F for high air pollution days. Butler, Hamilton and Warren counties got Fs.
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070501/NEWS01/305010017 <http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070501/NEWS01/305010017>

Bradford Mank
James Helmer, Jr. Professor of Law (for identification purposes only)
University of Cincinnati College of Law
P.O. Box 210040
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0040
Tel: 513-556-0094; Fax 513-556-1236
e-mail: brad.mank@uc.edu

WHY THE BURSTING OF THE HOUSING BUBBLE WILL BRING ABOUT THE MODERN 1930s
by Thomas P. Au, CFA
Author & Market Analyst
April 13, 2007

*The bursting of the housing bubble means that band-aid has been ripped off the country’s Achilles heel, the cash-strapped average American consumer.

* The resulting two-decade pullback in living standards would represent “the modern 1930s.”

*The promise of the 1990s will be fulfilled only in the 2020s.

Richard Suttmeier on Real Money hit the nail on the head when he said yesterday. that the real estate explosion is about to implode. Like him, I believe that the subprime lending collapse is not just a speed bump in the “New Economy.” Instead, it is a sign of wider problems in mortgage lending that threaten the viability of the New Economy itself. That’s because the collapse of the housing bubble means that a major “band-aid” has been ripped off the country’s Achilles heel, the cash-strapped, savings short American consumer, exposing the scab underneath.

Who would have thought it would come to this? For three decades after World War II, the average American worker’s income grew by 2-3% a year after inflation, and stateside consumer spending grew apace. But after the mid-1970s, these income gains slowed to a crawl, while spending growth continued at the same pace. But Baby Boomers felt that the 2%-3% average annual real income growth enjoyed by their parents was their birthright. And when they didn’t get it, they settled for “the next best thing,” 2%-3% average annual spending growth financed by artificial means. The result is that the average American is now spending at a level not sustainable by income, but only by asset values, specifically in real estate. And when those asset values collapse, and they’re doing so as we speak, so will U.S. consumer spending and overall economic growth.

But that can’t be so, some might say. The country is much wealthier today than in the 1970s, which would support much higher consumer spending. That much may be true for the country as a whole, but it’s not for the whole country by any means. The reason is that while (President) John F. Kennedy’s “rising tide lifted all boats” through the 1960s, most of the gains since then have accrued to the top 20% of the population. For instance, as late as 1980, the average CEO made only 40 times as much as the average worker, now it’s more like 400 times. On the other hand, antipoverty programs and removal of lingering discrimination have greatly reduced the number of the truly poor. So the person in top decile (90th percentile and higher) of the economic ladder (where thestreet.com subscribers are overrepresented), is decidedly better off than the equivalent thirty years ago, and someone in the bottom decile (10th percentile and lower) is somewhat better off. But the average person (the one at the 50th percentile, and 30 percentiles on either side) is the one who has gained very little real income in the past three decades. Nevertheless, it has been in the interest of U.S. economic policy to pacify this person by allowing him/her to maintain spending growth at historical (post World War II) levels, even though income growth hadn’t been keeping up.

The housing bubble was a good a tool as any for this purpose. At first the gap was plugged by reduced savings. But as savings rates plummeted in the 1980s, this fuel could not last for long. So credit card debt took up the slack. But that soon played out, especially when the deduction for credit card interest (but not mortgage interest) was removed in the 1986 tax reform. The ray of hope was the fact that interest rates were falling through the 1980s, and periodic refinancings meant that homeowners could save money by capturing progressively lower rates on their mortgages, and using the difference for spending. What’s more, interest on this mortgage-related spending could qualify for the tax deduction denied credit card interest.

But if falling interest rates meant that constant mortgages required progressively lower monthly payments, they also meant that a homeowner could choose to “invest” by maintaining constant payments, taking out larger mortgages, and buying more house. And if a synchronized housing boom was underway, or at least could be orchestrated, many might be persuaded to do so. And so it was done, which is why housing values doubled in real terms between 1996-2006, an unprecedented rise in American history. Now the consumer had a house (or two) that could also double as an ATM, i.e., the best of both worlds (a framework that could serve as both a place to live, and a source of “income” for other consumer spending). Using this twisted logic, going over one’s head (taking out a mortgage that consumed 50% or more of income) was a smart thing to do because it meant a more valuable asset and more spendable income down the line.

Thus housing became the nation’s latest Ponzi scheme, one that could work only if more and more people were sucked into it. But even if the housing market was on fire, as it was in the past decade, it needed firewood to burn. And if there was a growing shortage of “firewood,” to feed this boom, there was always “kindling” (soft materials such as leaves and hay that burn for only a short period of time), in the form of such monstrosities as interest only and negative amortization loans to subprime borrowers. From a financial point of view, however, such borrowers were placed in the position analogous to “tearing down their (financial) house for firewood” (pun intended), i.e. being forced create a problem of less house for tomorrow because today’s problem of freezing to death was so severe.

The collapse of the housing bubble is bringing about an end to this game, and will soon face average American consumers with the fact that their consumption standards of the mid-2000s, were way out of whack with income levels that had reached only a mid-1980s trendline (given perhaps ten, not thirty, iterations of 2%-3% growth off the mid-1970s base). To bring income and consumption back into balance, average Americans will have to fall back two decades in terms of standard of living, which would still put them back at Western European levels of today. But such a pullback would represent “the modern 1930s.”

That’s because the original 1930s took American consumption back to 1910s levels, which then represented “prosperity” by prevailing global standards. But that was a big comedown for an American public that had just experienced 1920s, which gave a glimpse of a prosperity that would be experienced in the 1950s by their children, but not by themselves. Likewise, the Internet Boom of the 1990s gave adult Americans of the time a glimpse of the world that their children will inherit for their middle age—in the 2020s--as the Boomers get ready to shuffle off this mortal coil. Like the peers of Moses, who saw the Promised Land but never got to enter it, Americans will wander the desert for two generations until their children are ready to take the big step. (And yes, I believe that those children will fight the modern “battle of Jericho” to get there.) But getting from here to there will not be a pleasant experience.

© 2007 Thomas P. Au
Editorial Archive

CONTACT INFORMATION
Thomas P. Au
R. W. Wentworth
New York City, NY

And, here’s a very good article by Carolyn Baker (a pundit) on the housing bubble also:
http://carolynbaker.org/archives/conspiracy-if-youre-not-in-one-you-need-to-start-one-by-carolyn-baker

Section Four: Books/Magazines/Reviews
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Come on... send me names of books and stuff you are enjoying. ellen
...................................
Still reading The Time of our singing by Richard Powers ... what an amazing book, beautiful, powerful, luscious writing, important ideas about race. Also enjoyed L. M. Bujold’s Cordelia’s Honor and sequels-- sci fi feminism. Great characters. Gripping plot. Also now reading His Dark Materials third novel in the series of 3: The Amber Spyglass ... theology, sci fi, angels, gripping plot, child heros... Just my meat. Ellen

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