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Toward a Renewed Anthropology by Mary Aquin O'Neill
Toward a Renewed Anthropology
by Mary Aquin O'Neill, R.S.M.. Loyola College, Baltimore.
Published in Theological Studies 36 (1975) pp 725-736.
As indicated by the range of topics included in this issue of TS, the new feminism, popularly known as the women's liberation movement,(1) presents a serious challenge to the areas of language, interpersonal relationships, work in the world, and ministry in the Church. Beneath all these topics, however, lies a crucial issue for theology as a whole: an adequate understanding of what it is to be human. As the Dutch phenomenologist F. J. Buytendijk has correctly noted, "it is of the essence of human being always to be either man or woman."(2) This differentiation of the human race into two sexes, which most feminists take to be a primal and paradigmatic differentiation,(3) demands an adequate understanding of the distinct dimensions of female as well as male existence. Moreover, it demands that the perspective of each sex, with all the experience, history, insight, and imagination which is its own, contribute to the description of human being and of God which grounds a theological anthropology.
It is the contention of feminists that the prevailing ideas about what it means to be human have been male-oriented and male-shaped. This is what is meant by "sexism." Theology, no less than any other discipline, is being called to an examination of consciousness; for this reason, everyone engaged in the work of theology needs to listen to the rising chorus of feminist authors. To facilitate this encounter, we intend to survey here books and articles of the past ten years that have pushed forward the frontiers of consciousness about the mystery of humanity, male and female. My survey will deal with publications that do not have a consciously religious framework; Anne Patrick will concentrate on specifically religious publications, works which address more directly the question of an inclusive theological anthropology through interpretations of Scripture, tradition, and church practice.
Feminism itself is an elusive and much-disputed term.(4) Here it is used in the broad sense articulated by Henrietta Rodman in 1915: "Feminism is the attempt of women to grow up, to accept the responsibilities of life, to outgrow those characteristics of childhood - selfishness and cowardliness - that we require our boys to outgrow, but that we permit and by our social system encourage our girls to retain."(5)
The work of feminist thinkers, then, is threefold: (1) to identify those specific traits of sexism that pervade the society within which we live and by which we are shaped; (2) to offer theories about the causes of sexism, in order (3) to formulate strategies for change. These attempts must be met with a critical response, so that we can see what is at stake in each formulation and what questions are posed to theology and theologians.
Ever since Betty Friedan debunked the "feminine mystique" in 1963,(6) feminist authors have been determined to lay bare the awesome gap between the rhetoric about women and the reality of attitudes embedded in societal structures. Marily Webb sums up her insight into how women are commonly viewed in her article "Woman as Secretary, Sexpot, Spender, Sow, Civic Actor, Sickie."(7) One of the best anthologies to date, Woman in a Sexist Society,(8) expands on this initial insight by offering articles which cut through the cult of beauty, the image of women in advertising, textbooks, and American fiction, the results of voluntarism, and the ways in which women are socialized into a sexist society through the psychotherapeutic relationship.(9)
Nothing has angered women more than the realization that the socialization processes have been based on a thoroughgoing double standard that has succeeded in keeping women from the centers of power, making of them perpetual outsiders.(10) Judith M. Bardwick and , Elizabeth Douvan have carefully analyzed the patterns of child rearing ' that eventuate in preparing young boys for a life in the world while reinforcing in young girls those tendencies which are best suited for the private, interpersonal world.(11) Caroline Bird and Cynthia Fuchs Epstein deepen this analysis in two works which concentrate on the debilitating effects of being born female and prepared for woman's place for anyone who aspires to a professional career and economic independence.(12)
The women's liberation movement, however, is interested in more than exposing the distorted images of women; it is committed to challenging and changing them. This cannot be done without facing the charge that it is "unnatural" for women to seek to be different. In one of the most widely quoted articles of the last eight years.(13) Naomi Weisstein has met the chief perpetrator of the "two natures" theory(14) on its own grounds. Weisstein argues that psychology has been a major force in limiting the potential of women, yet in truth it can tell us nothing about what women are really like, because (1) it has looked for inner traits when it should have taken into account the social context" and (2) it has operated out of theories that do not stand up when put to the test of empirical evidence. On this second point, she recounts an incident from her experience as a graduate student at Harvard.
...I was a member of a seminar which was asked to identify which of two piles of clinical tests, the TAT, had been written by males and which by females. Only four students out of twenty identified the piles correctly, and this was after one and a half months of intensively studying the differences between men and women. Since this result is below chance. . .we may conclude that there is finally a consistency here; students are judging knowledgeably within the context of psychological teaching about the differences between men and women; the teachings themselves are simply erroneous.(16)
It is not enough, however, to challenge the categories which keep women from developing those capacities which are encouraged and rewarded in men. An equally important aspect of the new feminism is the determination to call into question the very standards by which excellence and success in the public world are judged. An unusual and highly readable example of this is Nora Scott Kinzer's article on "Sexist Sociology."(17) It is basically a reflection on failure.(18) With the clarity of hindsight, the author confesses that her doctoral research on "Role Conflict of Professional Women in Buenos Aires" was more an imposition of North American role-theory on Latin American experience than an attempt to study the culture itself. She now sees that her acceptance of the ideals of objectivity and value-free research blinded her to reality because it prevented the operation of sympathy for the other. Kinzer questions the hegemony of these ideals:
. . .women social scientists seem doomed to follow the same false gods. Why must we make the same mistakes and do the same dreary research in the same pedantic way?. . .Caring, loving, being sympathetic to another person's feeling and respecting another nation's culture are eminently worth-while traits. If these are "feminine" traits, then the feminine eye is a humane perspective.(19)
Beverly Wildung Harrison has written a very important piece which touches the same theme. Arguing that the new consciousness of women is a valuable sociopolitical resource, Harrison gives clear expression to the tension experienced by contemporary feminists: that they must "stand and fight the hokum of the ideology of pedestalism, with its double- standard" in a public world which is alien to the values that women hold dear. The tragedy, she maintains, is that these values have lost their, relevance to the public world, and she calls upon women to "translate their meaning in a direction which overcomes their privatism and personalistic overtones in short, in a way which gives rise to community." (20)
Increasingly, then, women want more out of life than to be programed for one particular role; but some also want to be true to an ancient feminine skill: listening to experience, particularly their own. Elizabeth Janeway has noted that "for the first time in history, perhaps, it is women's experience which is changing faster and more radically than that of men. In itself, that bears witness to the profundity of the changes and it might alert men to the value of taking a look at them."(21) Jane Howard's A Different Woman (22) is an excellent place to begin. After the death of her mother, with whom she had never talked about the experience of being a woman, Howard decided to tour the country interviewing women from as many walks of life as possible. This is a work, which transcribes living voices - a mountain artisan of West Virginia, a fisherwoman of the west coast, women in communes, women in the deep South - and does much to counter a monolithic approach to feminine experience.(23)
A significant effect of the rising consciousness is that women are beginning to write about sex. In Free and Female: The Sex Life of the Contemporary Female (24) Barbara Seaman rejects the notion that women are less capable of enjoying sex and less interested in it than men. Instead, she argues, it is the female who has been endowed by nature with the greater capacity, and civilization has had to devise ways to rein her in for the good of the family and ultimately of the race.
The research done by Masters and Johnson has sparked a debate among women writers about Freudian sexual theories. In a widely reprinted article, Anne Koedt maintains that the definition of frigidity as the inability to attain a vaginal orgasm has been very destructive. Women who are perfectly healthy are thus taught that they are not, so that, in addition to being sexually deprived, they are told to blame themselves.(25)
It is impossible to report adequately on the growing body of literature about the sexist character ofsociety in such a short survey. What we have given is but an indication of important areas of concern. Before leaving this topic, however, it should be noted that there is another way to try to subvert the sexism which permeates contemporary culture: in addition to argument, documentation, and persuasion, there is humor. No one has surpassed Dorothy Sayers' exercise in role reversal, originally written in 1947 but reprinted in recent years to the delight of feminists everywhere:
Probably no man has ever troubled to imagine how strange his life would appear to himself if it were unrelentingly assessed in terms of his maleness .... If he were vexed by continual advice how to add a rough male touch to his typing, how to be learned without losing his masculine appeal, how to combine chemical research with seduction, how to play bridge without incurring the suspicion of impotence . . . . If, after a few centuries of this kind of treatment, the male was a little self-conscious, a little on the defensive, and a little bewildered about what was required of him, I should not blame him .... It would be more surprising if he retained any rag of sanity and self-respect.(26)
...Three Faces of Feminism
The logic of the human imagination is such that one cannot come to such an awareness of the many ways in which women have been sold short, kept down, convinced of their inferiority without seeking the cause of such a state of affairs. Since men are the ones who seem to be "on top," it should not be surprising that a great deal of feminist venom has been directed at men." The Redstockings Manifesto of 1969 clearly identified the agents of oppression. Male supremacy is seen as the oldest, most basic form of domination, with all other forms of exploitation as, extensions of it. " All men receive economic, sexual, and psychological= benefits from male supremacy. All men have oppressed women. "(28) Not all feminists of this persuasion conclude with Robin Morgan that the, solution is to "kill your fathers, not your mothers,"(290 but a violent rhetoric is very much part of the tactics adopted by these authors. At a minimum, they have in common the determination to change men, being convinced that none of the blame for the current situation can be put on women themselves. For some radical feminists, this leads to a call for separatism, an exhortation that women refuse to sleep with the oppressor - or share his life in other ways. Lesbianism and celibacy, then, are seen by this group as political tactics.(30)
An interesting and very different version of the "men are to blame face of feminism is proposed by Elaine Morgan in her book The Descent of Woman. She postulates that all the hostility between women and men can be traced back to that point in the evolutionary process when copulation changed from the dorsal position to the ventral. "For the first time in history," Morgan says, "the sex act had been accomplished by force "' in an atmosphere of hostility and fear and violence. The first tenuous mental connections had begun to be laid down between sex and ruthlessness on one side, and sex and suffering on the other." In Morgan's estimation, then, this was the event that led down the road to the sex war, sadomasochism, and to the whole "contemporary snarl-up" of prostitution prudery, Casanova, white slavery, women's liberation, Playboy magazine, crimes passionels, censorship, strip clubs, alimony, pornography, and a "dozen different brands of mania."(31) It is difficult to tell how seriously she intends her proposal to be taken, but, as women are beginning to learn, mythical thinking is a very powerful force in overcoming myths.(32)
A second approach is to place the blame for women's sense of inferiority and powerlessness on women themselves. Though by most standards hardly a feminist, Midge Decter does want women to grow up. In her important work The New Chastity and Other Arguments against Women's Liberation, Decter levels a stinging critique of the movement and of women - a critique which deserves serious attention. Decter examines the four areas of work (in the home and outside it), sex, marriage, and child-rearing from a single point of view. It is not opportunity for fulfilment that is lacking to American women, she argues; it is the willingness to accept responsibility for the individual decisions which rapid social change has forced on her. No longer can women depend on society's expectations to tell her what role in life to play, when to go to bed with a man, whether or not to take the risk of personal commitment to another, whether or not to have children and how to raise those that come. No single quotation can capture the complexity of this book's response to the women's movement, but a portion from the last chapter may give an indication of Decter's force as a writer and thinker:
. . .finally, for women to announce that their very womanliness results only from a bad and meretricious culture is the expression of a deep hatred for themselves. Such an expression of self-hatred is, indeed, exactly the primary emotion that informs Women's Liberation's diatribes against the impositions of motherhood. Neither society nor the current organization of the family but the womb itself - that "infirmity in the abdomen" - is ultimately the object of this movement's will to correct, to alter, to extirpate. There is no more radical nor desperately nihilistic statement to issue forth from the lips of humans than that there are no necessary differences between the sexes. For such differences do in themselves constitute the most fundamental principle of the continuation of life on earth.(33)
It must be noted, however, that Decter's views are frankly individualistic. Any woman can make her way if she will just shape up to the demands of the adult world. But Decter herself sees no need to call these demands into question. Despite vast differences in style and popular image, there is a strange similarity between Midge Decter and her nemesis, Germaine Greer. Greer's major work, The Female Eunuch ,(34) is an exposé of the various ways in which women have been deprived of the rich possibilities of their bodily experiences (thus the title). More than any other writer to date, she has explored the particularities of women's experience, and has done so in a very personal way. Yet, for Greer too, everything comes down in the end to "a failure of nerves." Women, in her estimation, have not dared to win for themselves the spurs of freedom (primarily sexual freedom) because they are afraid. She, no less than Decter, fails to question the value of that liberty which men, it seems, have enjoyed.
The third face of feminism turns a critical eye toward the kind of society we have created. In one of the most balanced and objective works to date,(35) Elizabeth Janeway searches out the mythological roots of the ancient saying "It's a man's world - woman's place is in the home," in order to show the effects of this division on the structure of society. Myths, Janeway says, are psychic truths expressed symbolically. They are bound up with emotion, desires, wishes; and they try, by means of a description, to bring about what they declare to exist. Fundamental to the age-old division of the world are two myths about women: the myth of female weakness and the myth of female power. The first, which is older (and connected psychically to the shadow of the all-powerful mother), holds the second at bay. If we realize that myths help us to maintain order in the world, we will understand that the pressure on women to stay in their own sphere is based on a deep fear that failure to do so will overthrow the tenuous world order we have succeeded in establishing.
The social role that the society assigns to women, Janeway demonstrates, grows out of the twofold myth about women. Yet the idea that, for one sex, there is a role, a place-predetermined and fixed-puts women at odds with the whole long trend of Western civilization toward individual freedom and individual responsibility. This is especially critical for American women. Women's traditional role in itself is opposed to a deeply significant aspect of their culture and involves them in "the kind of conflict with their surroundings that no decision and no action open to them can be trusted to resolve."(36)
In a series of chapters, Janeway argues that it is isolation from the ideals of the society in which she lives, from the objective standard by which to measure herself and her actions, that has produced the being which we call "feminine." The drastic changes in what women now want to do are based on a profound longing to be different kinds of persons.
Women want to get out of a place that has become isolated from the mainstream of life and too narrow for them to use their abilities - that's very clear .... It seems to me quite remarkably hopeful; for in a time of disruption and uncertainty, women are refusing to sit passively by in their old protected place. Man's world is in trouble, and in spite of this, women are hell-bent to get out into it and go to work on its problems! One can, of course, see this as simply silly, as a badly timed and slightly hysterical decision to join the rat race. Or one can see it, more encouragingly, as a hardheaded refusal to put up any longer with vicarious living, a determination to find out what's going on out in the world even if the experience is not all rewarding.(37)
Shulamith Firestone, leading spokeswoman of the radical feminists, thinks the task cuts more deeply into the societal web than anything Janeway has envisioned. Not only must women question the kind of society we have created; they must challenge the created order that has been given to us: "Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization of nature."(38) Taking her cue from Simone de Beauvoir and her analysis of woman's status as "Other," Firestone argues that the deepest division in society is the distinction between the sexes and that all class distinction is based on that primal reality. There can be no good life for all, she maintains, until the fundamental biological inequality between men and women has been overcome. Thus she proposes that all the power of technology be used to offset the limitations imposed on woman by her body. This basic demand for artificial reproduction will result in the liberation of childhood, the destruction of the nuclear family, and economic independence and self-determination for all. If Janeway's vision is of one world where women and men co-operate in building the future, Firestone envisions a future in which there will be no women or men - or at least, in which "genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally."(39)
Although not all feminists in this last category go as far as Firestone, they are united in the effort to change the structures of society which oppress everyone, so that women as well as men may have more options open to them in the future. Women have begun to dream that things might be different. Alice Rossi has written one version of such a dream(40) and the fact that it has been included in so many recent anthologies is a tribute to the fact that it has touched the imaginations of many.
The imagination, powerful as it is, breaks no real bonds. If changes are to be effected, someone must design social policies that will embody the vision of enlarged opportunity for all. Constantina Safilios-Rothschild has written the most comprehensive work on the strategies for such social change.(41) There she offers specific proposals on how to liberate women, men, marriage, the institution of the family and family life, and tactics to free society itself from the sexism inherent in language, counseling, law, politics, and religion.
Three Visions of Humanity
Out of this cacophony of voices there emerge three basic ways of understanding the division of humanity into female and male. The first and more traditional position sees a polarity in which each sex embodies different possibilities of human being - possibilities which are denied the other.(42) The difficulties with this approach cannot be overlooked. [1] It entails an extrapolation of meanings from the male and female bodies (activity-passivity, reason-intuition, emotion-will, etc.) which runs counter to experience and desire, especially the desires of women themselves.(43) [2] It limits the scope of human activity available to each of the sexes severely. [3] It involves an acceptance in some measure of the "anatomy is destiny" theory and results in a denial or diminishment of the specifically human capacity to exercise control over nature - even human nature - with a view to increasing the free exercise of judgment and decision. [4] It ignores the effects of cultural conditioning and social expectation on human behavior. [5] Neither sex can embody the fulness of humanity, nor can a person of one sex serve as a model for the other. The emphasis of this first position falls on difference and complementarity.
Though this way of understanding humanity has been seriously questioned by feminists (de Beauvoir, Rossi, Janeway, Firestone), there seems to be a curious rebirth of it in the insistence of some contemporary feminists that there is a female culture, long ignored or positively suppressed which must be rescued (Fourth World Manifesto), in the move toward separatism (Radical Feminists), and in the call for "sisterhood" and the proliferation of consciousness-raising sessions designed to heighten awareness of the specifically female experience.(44)
A second position sees the goal of human life as androgynous existence (Rossi, Janeway, Sayers, de Beauvoir, Safilios-Rothschild). While these thinkers admit that, there are sexual differences, they will maintain that such differences are "purely biological" and affect only the reproductive functions of human beings. Otherwise women and men should be free to adopt a style of being which comprises the best of traditional masculine and feminine values and roles. The more one approximates this in one's life, the more human one becomes. According to this view, life increasingly requires that individuals know how to take the initiative and to be receptive, to be aggressive and sensitive, to nurture and discipline, to be strong and gentle, etc. Thinkers who hold androgynous existence as the ideal tend to emphasize the similarities between women and men much more than the differences. Indeed, the image of human existence is the same for both sexes. This position is also not without difficulties. At a time when philosophers (particularly of the phenomenological tradition) are discovering and defending the importance of embodiment to human existence,(45) it is difficult to accept or understand the assertion that the male or female body has "purely biological significance." Moreover, some research indicates that quite the opposite is true.(46) A second problem is that such an ideal of androgyny runs the risk of reducing the differences which contribute to the "spice of life."(47) "Vive la différence," says the Frenchman, and many think he has a point. Though present experience indicates that there is still a difference between a woman who has learned to take up into her way of being some of the qualities which are admirable in men and vice versa, the specter of genetic manipulation can make one chary of adopting one ideal, even if it be a middle ground .(48)
The final way to approach the question is to adopt a unisex goal. Theoretically, it would be possible to envision a world in which that sex were female, but the most dramatic presentation of the unisex vision (Firestone) seeks to free women from the tyranny of the female body. Thus the sex is, to all intents and purposes, male. This is the ultimate denial of the goodness of sexual differentiation and the supreme victory of the "male" way of being - yet it has been espoused by a radical feminist. If the androgynous view seems to alter the spice of life, the unisex one robs it of all flavor save one. Yet this approach is extremely important because of its implications. Does it not mean that we have reached a stage where "male" characteristics are so highly valued and rewarded that (some) women are seriously considering a psychological and physiological alteration of the self in order to have a chance at the good life? It is a frightening prospect; yet this offbeat note in the feminist symphony may just be the desperate move needed to awaken people of reason to the realization that one cannot remain marginal forever.(49)
In a variety of ways, then, the new feminism presents challenges to any theological anthropology. What is the vision of the good life in the Christian revelation? Is it the same for men and women? Is it a sin to prefer one way of being in the world over another? If so, how does the salvation that Christians believe to have been begun in Christ Jesus touch concretely the age-old dominance of the male perspective? What does it offer - NOW - to women who feel defined out of the divine-human experience? Finally, what role does human desire play in the apprehension of God's will for us?
1. For an excellent overview of the movement, see Donald McDonald, "The Liberation of Woman," Center Magazine 5 (May-June 1972) 25-42. For a very different approach, see also Jo Freeman, "The Origins of the Women's Liberation Movement," in Changing Women in a Changing Society, ed. Joan Huber (Chicago, 1973) pp. 3049.
2. Woman, A Contemporary View, tr. Denis J. Barrett (New York, 1968) p. 34.
3. See Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, tr. H. M. Parshley (New York, 1952), and Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectics of Sex (New York, 1971).
4. Beverly Harrison has recently developed a distinction between "hard" feminists (those who reject the two human-natures theory) and "soft" feminists (those who recognize a special nature in women and want to "feminize" the public world). See "The New Consciousness of Women: A Socio-Political Resource," Cross-Currents 24, 4 (Winter 1975) 445-62.
5. June Sochen, ed., The New Feminism in Twentieth-Century America (Lexington, Mass., 1971) p. 50.
6. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (New York, 1963).
7. Motive 24, 6-7 (March-April 1969) 48-59.
8. Ed. Vivian Gornick and Barbara K. Moran (New York, 1971).
9 Una Stannard, "The Mask of Beauty," pp. 187-206; Lucy Komisar, "The Image of Woman in Advertising," pp. 304-17; Marjorie B. U'Ren, "The Image of Woman in Textbooks," pp. 318-28; Wendy Martin, "Seduced and Abandoned in the New World: The Image of Woman in American Fiction," pp. 329-46; Doris B. Gold, "Women and Voluntarism," pp. 533-54; Phyllis Chesler, "Patient and Patriarch: Women in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship," pp. 362-92.
10. Vivian Gornick, "Woman as Outsider," in Woman in Sexist Society, pp.126-44.
11. Judith Bardwick and E. Douvan, "Ambivalence: The Socialization of Women," ibid., pp.225-241.
12. Caroline Bird, Born Female: The High Cost of Keeping Women Down (New York, 1969); Cynthia F. Epstein, Woman's Place (Berkeley, 1971).
13. Naomi Weisstein, "Psychology Constructs the Female," in Woman in Sexist Society, pp. 207-24.
14. Weisstein is concerned chiefly with Erikson, Bettelheim, and Freud.
15. See esp. R. Rosenthal and L. Jacobson, Pygmalion in the Classroom: Teacher Expectation and Pupil's Intellectual Development (New York, 1968).
16. Weisstein, art, cit., p. 185.
17. Center Magazine 7, 3 (May-June 1974) 48-59. On the same theme, see Betty Richardson, Sexism in Higher Education (New York, 1974).
18. It is interesting to note that when Kinzer outlined the paper to a male colleague, he cautioned her not to make such an admission.
19. Kinzer, art. cit., p. 59. See also Jessie Bernard, "My Four Revolutions: An Autobiographical History of the ASA," in Huber, op. cit., pp. 11-29.
20. Harrison, art. cit. This drive toward community is also noted in Bernard's discussion of the "agentic" and "communal" modes of sociological and psychological research; cf, art. cit., pp. 22-23.
21. Elizabeth Janeway, "The Weak Are the Second Sex," Atlantic, December 1973, p: 104.
22. New York, 1973.
23. See also Woman an Issue, ed. Lee R. Edwards, Mary Heath, and Lisa Baskin (Boston, 1972), and Growing Up Female in America: Ten Lives, ed. Eve Merriam (New York, 1971).
24. New York, 1972. See also Mary Jane Sherfey, The Nature and Evolution of Female Sexuality (New York, 1972).
25. Anne Koedt, "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm," in Radical Feminism, ed. Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine, and Anita Rapone (New York, 1973) pp. 198-207. Germaine Greer differs from Koedt in The Female Eunuch (New York, 1970) pp. 304-5. See also Anselma dell'Olio, "The Sexual Revolution Wasn't Our War," Ms. Spring 1972, pp. 104-10; Susan Lydon, "The Politics of Orgasm," in Sisterhood is Powerful, ed. Robin Morgan (New York, 1970) pp. 197-205; Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Our Bodies, Our Selves (New York, 1971).
26. Dorothy Sayers, Are Women Human? (Grand Rapids, 1971) pp. 39-42.
27. See Susi Kaplow, "Getting Angry," and Pamela Kearon, "Man-Hating," in Radical Feminism, pp. 36-41 and 78-80.
28. The Redstockings Manifesto," in Masculine/Feminine, ed. Betty Roszak and Theodore Roszak (New York, 1969) p. 273. See also Valerie Solanas, "The SCUM Manifesto" Masculine/Feminine, pp. 262-68.
29. Robin Morgan, "Goodbye to All That," ibid., p. 245.
30. See Judith Brown, "Towards a Female Liberation Movement," in Voices from Women's Liberation, ed. Leslie B. Tanner (New York, 1970) p. 363; Radicalesbians, The Woman Identified Woman," in Radical Feminism, pp. 240-45; Anne Koedt, Lesbianism and Feminism," ibid., pp. 246-58; Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love, "Is Women's Liberation a Lesbian Plot?" in Woman in Sexist Society, pp. 601-21; Simone de Beauvoir's discussion of lesbianism as a response to the pressures of a male-dominated society in The Second Sex, pp. 379-99.
31. Elaine Morgan, The Descent of Woman (New York, 1972).
32. See Elizabeth Janeway, Man's World, Woman's Place (New York, 1971), for a detailed analysis of the way in which myths function in society.
33. Midge Decter, The New Chastity and Other Arguments against Women's Liberation (New York, 1972) p. 180. For a much harsher (and less responsible) indictment of women, see Esther Vilar, The Manipulated Man (New York, 1972). For two responses by men, see Andy Hawley, "A Man's View," Motive, March-April 1969, pp. 145-50, and Warren Farrell, The Liberated Man (New York, 1974).
34. Greer, op. cit. For very interesting reviews of the work from the point of view of radical feminists, see Arlyn Diamond, "Elizabeth Janeway and Germaine Greer," in Woman an Issue, pp. 275-79, and Claudia Dreifus, "The Selling of a Feminist," in Radical Feminism, pp. 358-67.
35. "Man's World, Woman's Place (n. 32 above).
38. Firestone, op.cit., p.2.
40. Alice S. Rossi, "Equality between the Sexes: An Immodest Proposal," in The Woman: in America, ed. Robert Jay Lifton (Boston, 1967) pp. 98-143. It is increasingly clear that we need to pay more attention to the whole area of the imagination. For an excellent study of the way in which the female imagination has dealt with social problems, see Patricia Meyer Spacks, The Female Imagination (New York, 1975); Diana Trilling, "The Image of Women' in Contemporary Literature," in The Woman in America, pp.52-71. For examples of imaginative works by women with a new consciousness, see Psyche, ed. Barbara Segnitz ' and Carol Rainey (New York, 1973); Rising Tides, ed. Laura Chester and Sharon Barbra, (New York, 1973); Barbara A. Wasserman, ed., The Bold New Women (Greenwich, Conn., 1970)
41. Constantina Safilios-Rothschild, Women and Social Policy (Englewood Cliffs, NJ., 1974).
42. The classic work is Gertrude von le Fort, The Eternal Woman, tr. Maria Cecilia Buehrle (Milwaukee, 1962). See also Karl Stern, The Flight From Woman (New York, 1965); Marie Robinson, The Power of Sexual Surrender (New York, 1962); Alan Watts, Nature, Man and Woman (New York, 1970).
43. Buytendijk, op. cit., attempts such an intepretation of meaning. I have been told that when his wife finally read the book she said: "So long a time we have lived together and you know so little about women!"
44. See Barbara Burris, "The Fourth World Manifesto," in Radical Feminism, pp. 322-57; Sisterhood is Powerful, ed. Robin Morgan (New York, 1970); "Consciousness Raising," in Radical Feminism, pp. 280-81.
45. See Alphonse de Walhaens, "Phenomenology of Body," in Readings in Existential Phenomenology, ed. Nathaniel Lawrence and Daniel O'Connor (Englewood Cliffs, 1967), and Existence et signification (Louvain, 1958).
46. See Tom Alexander, "There Are Sex Differences in the Mind, Too," Fortune, February, 1971, pp. 76-134. One should keep in mind the criticisms of Weisstein and others about scientific investigation of sex differences.
47. See Simone de Beauvoir's rejection of such criticism in The Second Sex, p. 686.
48. Indeed, innate differences need not stand in the way even of the most homogenized androgyny that some radical feminists call for. If that were what society really wanted, it might one day be possible to use hormone pills to make males and females think and behave very much alike" (Alexander, art. cit., p. 134).
49. See Phyllis Chesler, Women and Madness (New York, 1972), for a description of the many ways in which women have protested this feeling of being marginal in the world.
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Friends And Family Of SF DJ Killed In Bangkok Plan Memorial
by Bay City News | February 4, 2012 12:40 pm	| in News | 0
Friends, family and fans are mourning the loss of a popular Bay Area disc jockey who was killed in a car crash Tuesday while on tour in Bangkok.
Solomon Kahn, 34, was riding in a taxicab with his fiance, a Santa Cruz woman, when the cab stalled on a Bangkok freeway and a car struck the taxi, according to Ammon Haggerty, Kahn's older brother.
He died a short time later, and his fiance was seriously injured.
Also known as DJ Solomon, Kahn was renowned in the Bay Area and
international music scenes for his hip-hop style turntable skills and his technical ability, Haggerty said.
Over the past six years, the San Francisco resident and Marin County native was also the Golden State Warriors' in-house DJ and one of three resident DJs for the San Francisco Giants.
He regularly spun records at several San Francisco nightclubs and performed last month at the San Francisco Ballet's opening night gala.
In recent years, he performed with a range of top hip-hop artists, including the Black Eyed Peas, De La Soul, Digital Underground and Groove Collective, according to Khan's MySpace page.
Even with his success, Khan "didn't have an ego," his brother said. "He was always really enthusiastic about all his gigs, even his small ones. He loved what he did."
In addition to mastering the bass guitar in a jazz band as a teen, Kahn was also influenced by his parents' creativity, Haggerty said.
Their mother, Tammam Kahn, is an author and poet, and Kahn's father, Shabda Kahn, is a prominent classical Indian musician and well-known Sufi spiritual leader.
His brother said that while their musical styles differed, the younger Kahn also brought a sense of spirituality to his performances.
"It was clearly an intent that he had to bring a kind of deeper experience and try to bring joy and positivity to the people he played for," Haggerty said. "He was really good at reaching a lot of people and he had a really universal appeal, both as a person and through his music."
The family is planning a public memorial pending the return of Kahn's fiance, who is being treated in a hospital in Thailand for multiple bone fractures and will likely undergo surgery, he said.
The couple had planned to marry in September.
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A Harlandale ISD student is gracing the pages of a distinguished national magazine.
Columbia Heights art student Abigail Granado appears in an article written about San Antonio's Centro Cultural Aztlan recently published in the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) magazine.
The article, which highlights how the art gallery connects with the community by supporting local artists and students, features a photo of Abigail holding her certificate of completion of the 24th annual "Superhero Art Contest," sponsored by Centro Cultural Aztlan.
"We are all proud of Abigail not just for participating in this meaningful art contest, but the fact that she was at the right place at the right time," Columbia Heights Art Teacher Noe Garza said. "Being published in the NEA magazine is a once in a lifetime experience."
The fifth grader was also honored by her school on Oct. 20 during an attendance assembly.
"This is what happens when we constantly showcase our students beyond our district," Garza said. "It takes immense energy and commitment to do so, but we embrace it."
Columbia Heights Elementary participated in the "Superhero Art Contest" in late April 2017.
"Abigail was one of the 75 entries from our school alone. We had the most entries of any school, any division," Garza added.
The annual "Superhero" exhibition is designed for students from kindergarten to 12th grade to create artwork that is based on real-life heroes, comic book art, anime, mythological figures or a positive role model they know and admire.
"This project is important for our students as it allows them to create art based on positive role models in their lives such as their mom, dad or someone like Cesar Chavez or Selena," Garza explained.
Abigail's artwork, which was a portrait of herself as a superhero with powers to save people, was displayed in the art gallery for a month.


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Team News: Wenger On Welbeck, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Debuchy + More
By mac14 on May 22, 2015
It's been another busy day of team news at Arsenal so I'll bring you a round-up off all the updates from Arsene Wenger.
The boss spoke to the media at his pre-match press conference on Friday morning ahead of our clash with West Brom on Sunday and he gave the latest on the fitness of Danny Welbeck, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Mathieu Debuchy.
Welbeck hasn't featured in any of our previous four games because of a knee injury but Arsene confirmed that he was due to take part in training today.
Danny won't be available to face WBA this weekend but the boss is hopeful he will get himself match fit quickly which could put him in the frame for the FA Cup final next week.
The Ox has been on the sidelines for over two months with hamstring and groin injuries. He also returned to full training today but it's going to take him a little longer to regain match fitness which means he's facing a race against time to take on Aston Villa next week.
Debuchy is the third player who was back out on the training pitch this afternoon and while he also won't be available on Sunday, he could be back in contention for the cup final.
The boss told Arsenal.com:
on team news…
We have no basic injuries from our last game. We had a few jaded legs maybe at the end of the game but we'll see how everybody recovers for Sunday. Do we have anybody back for Sunday? Danny Welbeck no, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is back in full training today [Friday], and Mathieu Debuchy as well. They might be a bit short.
on Welbeck…
There is a good chance that he will be available for England. It's difficult to know. He had a little knee problem and will go out today for the first time. We have to wait for the response to that to know if he responds in a positive way. He could be fit very quickly.
on whether he will have to play in FA Cup final to play for England…
Certainly yes because if he is not available for the FA Cup final, I can't see him being competitive enough for England.
on Oxlade-Chamberlain playing in the final…
It's not impossible because he starts full training today. We'll see how he responds to that.
on Welbeck being in England squad but not Oxlade-Chamberlain…
The difference is that Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has not played in any competition for a long time. That lack of competition takes some time to come back to a good competitive level. Danny Welbeck has not been out for a long time and he has nothing at all on any scan, just bone bruising on his knee. That's just the pain that will decide if he is fit or not.
on if he's changed training to help jaded players…
Yes, we have our medical tests to see how everyone recovers. We have given a lot physically and mentally at Manchester United and it [the time before the Sunderland game] was a bit short maybe for us to recover completely. This time we have a bit longer to recover and we have our tests to see how well everybody recovers. I might rest one or two maybe but overall I believe that the team will be similar to the team that played on Wednesday night.
So we'll have a very similar squad to the one that faced Sunderland in midweek and it will be interesting to see if Arsene decides to rotate or not. He suggests in his comments above that he'll only rest a couple of players, which I think would be a mistake.
My priority would be the cup final so I'd rest several of our key men, you can see the line-up I'd select for the West Brom game here.
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Two members of Missouri Southern's Mock Trial Team were recognized with awards during the Mid-Missouri Mock Trial Invitational at the University of Missouri in January.
Marina Rojas, a senior criminal justice administration major, received an Outstanding Attorney Award. Brent Olson, a freshman general business major, was recognized as both an Outstanding Attorney and Outstanding Witness.
This year's case is a civil trial involving an animal trainer and a television studio which blames him after a fatal chimpanzee attack on a late night talk show. Team members must be prepared to argue both sides of the case.
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Dear Harmony Tigers,
We are excited about the upcoming 2018 – 2019 school year we are busy planning and preparing everything for our students. We would like to take this opportunity to provide you with some important information.
Our front office will open August 1st at 8:00 a.m. to answer any of your questions or concerns.
Uniforms:
We will begin selling uniforms beginning August 9th during our student orientations. Prices will be as follows:
Short Sleeves Shirts:
• 1- 2 Shirts per family: $15 each with Tax $13.86 w/out tax
• 6 + Shirts per family: $10 each with Tax $9.24 w/out tax
Long Sleeves Shirts: (add $2 each to the prices of the short sleeves shirts)
Uniform Jacket: $20
School Supply List: The list is available on our school website at hsabrownsville.harmonytx.org or you may stop by our front office to pick a copy.
Student Orientations:
Orientations will be Thursday, August 9 or Friday, August 10
Elementary: Thursday, August 9th from 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 or 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Middle School: Friday, August 10th from 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM
*If you have children in multiple grade levels you only need to come to one orientation.
Meet the Teacher:
Friday, August 10th from 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Back to School Night:
Wednesday, August 15th from 4:00 – 9:00 at Peter Piper Pizza
We look forward to seeing all of our parents and students during orientation, meet the teacher night & our back to school night.
Queridos padres de familia,
Estamos muy emocionados con el próximo ciclo escolar 2018-2019.Estamos planiando y preparando todo rigorosamente para nuestros alumnos. Queremos aprovechar esta oportunidad para brindarle información importante.
Nuestra oficina abrira sus puertas apartir del 1ro de agosto a las 8:00 a.m. para responder a todas sus preguntas o dudas.
Uniformes: Los uniformes se pueden comprar a partir del 9 de agosto durante las orientaciónes de los estudiantes. Los precios serán los siguientes:
Camisas de Manga Corta:
• 1- 2 Camisas por familia: $15 cada una con o $13.86 sin impuestos
• 3 – 5 Camisas por familia: $12 cada una o $11.09 sin impuestos
• 6 + Shirts per familia: $10 cada una o $9.24 sin impuestos
Camisas de Manga Larga: (agrege $2 a cada camisa)
Sueteres: $20
Utiles Escolares: La lista de utiles escolares esta disponible en nuetra pagina web en hsabrownsville.harmonytx.org o puede pasar a nuesra oficina para recoger una copia.
Orientaciones: Las orientaciones seran el 9 o 10 de de Agosto.
Primaria- El Jueves 9 de Agosto de 8:30 AM- 12 PM y de 1:30 PM- 3:30 PM.
Secundaria- El Viernes 10 de Agosto de 8:30 AM- 12 PM
*Si tiene hijos en diferentes grados solo necesita venir a una orientacion.
Conoce A La Maestra:
Viernes, 10 agosto de 4:00 PM- 6:00 PM.
Noche de Regreso A Clases
Miercoles, 15 de agosto, 4:00 PM- 9:00 PM. En Peter Piper Pizza.
Esperamos ver a todos nuestros padres y estudiantes durante la orientación, conocer la noche del maestro y nuestra noche de regreso a la escuela.
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Odisha Chief Minister attended the first preparatory meeting to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
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New Delhi/2/5/18: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today attended the first preparatory meeting for the programmes to be held to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
Addressing the gathering at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, Naveen said, "The most important aspect of Mahatma Gandhi doctrine of non-violence is that poverty and social injustice are the greatest violence. As Gandhiji said, as long as poverty exists freedom is only a wooden loaf. To remove poverty is the greatest task faced by any government. This cannot be achieved without non-violence."
"Progress requires peace. Progress requires the defeat of those who divide society on the basis of class, caste and religion", said the chief minister.
"I believe the greatest tribute India could pay Gandhiji on his 150th birth anniversary is to include the 'uniquely' Indian Ideal of Ahimsa, of Non-violence in the Preamble of India's Constitution", Naveen proposed.
"This will ensure that future generations not just of Indians but also people around the world, will be reminded of the profound truth of this principle", he added.
Modi, in a letter to chief ministers, had stated that the government would be organizing various programmes in the current year to mark the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
"The 150th birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation will be celebrated in 2019. We shall use the preceding year i.e. is 2018, to rededicate ourselves, through our actions, to the ideals that the Mahatma Gandhi taught and lived by. We also aim to bring the Mahatma's message alive for the generations across the world that have not the privilege of living during his lifetime," Modi wrote in a letter to chief ministers.
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If your scene/opponents are fine with dice apps then that's all good but that's a fairly hot button issue. 30arrerboyz certainly won't win you many friends at 1k but if you have a competitive meta then it would probably be fine. I can't even bring myself to run one Kunnin Rukk at a tournment let alone two.
Allegiance: BonesplitterzOrruk Warboss (140)- Great Waaagh Banner- AlliesManiak Weirdnob (120)- General- Trait: Waaagh Monger - Artefact: Savage Trophy - Lore of the Savage Waaagh: Brutal Beast SpiritsManiak Weirdnob (120)- Artefact: Ju-ju Wotnotz - Lore of the Savage Waaagh: Hand of Gork or MorkWurrgog Prophet (140)- Artefact: Mystic Waaagh! Paint - Lore of the Savage Waaagh: Squiggly Curse10 x Savage Boarboy Maniaks (280)10 x Savage Boarboy Maniaks (280)10 x Savage Boarboy Maniaks (280)10 x Savage Boarboy Maniaks (280)Snaga Rukk (170)Icebone Warclan (160)Total: 1970 / 2000Extra Command Points: 2Allies: 140 / 400Wounds: 144 I keep coming back to this list but is it too few bodies? Its alot of points in battallions but the extra movement from icebone seems good since cogs isn't guaranteed.
Scions them into position. That's what I've been doing with mine.
Thats how I figured it worked since it doesn't explicitly say. Looks like I can try out my list this weekend after all.
So the scions rule says you can set up one Stormcast unit in the heavens for very unit deployed normally. Now there isn't the stormcast keyword applied to what's deployed on the table. Does that mean allies count towards the limits for what can be set up in the heavens?
Why SCE is doing even worse in tournaments compared with previous version?
Gavriel only interacts with hammers of sigmar keyword which you need to be hammers of sigmar stormhost to use.
Why do you feel that's sad?
Option 3 Then buy 2 more boxes for another unit of 10. Charge into things and delete them. Repeat.
For me I don't want him in combat and I already own the dual hammer one so I'm sticking with him. Although if I was to buy one now I'd probably get the Grand hammer because he looks cooler.
As that list stands with the 12 units I would drop 2 Castigators and either 3 ballistas and Azyros or 4 ballistas and rely on the Azyros movement most likely. If I swap the Incantor for an ordinator then I'll drop him with 3 ballistas along with the 2 Castigators.


Is This the Future of Computing – A Virtual PC to Run on Any Device?
What if no matter what device you were on all of your information and accounts always had a way of finding you? Sounds great, doesn't it? There are already virtual PCs that exist solely in the cloud.


The Free State Provincial Government is committed to help needy students obtain higher education, while also addressing the lack of scarce skills in the province. Funding is made available every year for Free State students studying any of the scarce skill professions at higher education institutions throughout the country. It will fund tuition fees, accommodation and stationery needs for students who meet the necessary requirements.
Bursary holders are expected to work hard in their studies, complete their courses within the required time and return to work in the province. On completion of their studies, bursary holders will have to work in the Free State for the same number of years they were funded during their time of studying. Students' performance is monitored jointly by the Department of Education and the Office of the Premier who are required to report to the Free State Executive Council. The Premier, Members of the Executive Council, Heads of Departments and other senior government officials undertake annual visits to tertiary institutions throughout the country to meet with bursary holders, other Free State based students as well as the management of the tertiary institutions. The Bursary Scheme is presently administered by the Free State Basic Education Department. For more information about the Free State Bursary Scheme, contact the Free State Department of Basic Education at tel. (051) 447 2764.
Where else can I get a bursary / funds to further my studies?


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John M Hayes goes back to school to find next generation of costs specialists
Posted By Neil Rose On April 30, 2014 @ 12:05 am In Costs,News | No Comments
Morris: comprehensive teaching platform
Leading costs firm John M Hayes is moving away from just recruiting graduates by launching a three-year traineeship aimed at A-level students.
The company is looking to recruit one trainee in all but one of its 11 offices, to start in September. Applicants need three A-levels at grade C or higher.
Philip Morris, regional manager of John M Hayes's Birmingham office, claimed that no other costs firm offered "such a comprehensive teaching platform" for trainee costs professionals.
"Nearly everyone in our company started as a trainee or apprentice, all of whom we have taught the skills to become a fully competent law costs draftsman following a successful tried-and-tested in-house training programme developed by our team over many years." Many of these draftsmen have since become costs lawyers.
Mr Morris said that in launching the traineeship scheme, the firm was "mindful of the government's concern about youth unemployment and also of the plight of many graduates with huge debts unable to find work".
He explained: "We have previously had great success in recruiting graduates, a good many of whom have made the grade and stayed with us for many years.
"We thought, however, that we might start a little earlier, particularly given the fact that many students who do not want to go to university can be at a disadvantage in the labour market."
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Yuck! The Senate Won't Clear the Way for States to Label Genetically Modified Food
A proposal that would have allowed states to require clear labels is rejected by Republicans and Democrats.
By John Nichols
An anti-GMO rally in Seattle. (Flickr/Alexis Baden-Mayer)
Simple concept: people who consume food should have information about what's in their food.
And if foods contain genetically modified organisms, consumers surely have a right to know.
Who could disagree? Most senators, that's who.
While sixty-four countries around the world require labeling of foods with genetically engineered ingredients, while the American Public Health Association and the American Nurses Association have passed resolutions supporting this sort of labeling in the United States, the Senate voted 71-27 to keep Americans in the dark.
US Senator Bernie Sanders proposed an amendment to the federal farm bill that would have allowed states to require clear labels on any food or beverage containing ingredients that have been genetically modified. Sanders said, "I believe that when a mother goes to the store and purchases food for her child, she has the right to know what she is feeding her child."
Fearing lawsuits from multinational biotechnology, agribusiness and food production firms—which also maintain some of the most efficient lobbying teams in Washington—even states with long histories of consumer protection and right-to-know legislation have been cautious about introducing this sort of food labeling. The Sanders amendment addressed that threat, establishing a clear federal policy that states are allowed to require clear labels so that consumers know what they're eating.
"Monsanto and other major corporations should not get to decide this, the people and their elected representatives should," said the independent senator from Vermont, where the state assembly recently voted 99-42 to call for labeling.
When the Senate vote came on Thursday, however, only twenty-four Democrats, two independents (Sanders and Maine's Angus King) and one Republican (Alaska's Lisa Murkowski) backed the labeling amendment. As Food & Water Watch's Patty Lovera noted, many of the "yes" votes came from senators who "represent states with active grassroots campaigns to pass state laws on GE labeling, including both senators from Alaska, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and West Virginia, as well as Senator Bennett from Colorado, Senator Tester from Montana, Senator Reid from Nevada, Senator Heinrich from New Mexico and Senator Schumer from New York."
Of the 71 "no" votes, twenty-eight came from Democrats—many of whom fancy themselves consumer advocates and backers of the public's right to know. The other forty-three "no" votes came Republicans, almost all of who say they want to free up the states to experiment and innovate.
Unfortunately, some of the loudest lobbyist voices in Washington say different.
John Nichols is the author (with Robert W. McChesney) of the upcoming book Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex Is Destroying America. Hailed by Publisher's Weekly as "a fervent call to action for reformers," it details how the collapse of journalism and the rise of big-money politics threatens to turn our democracy into a dollarocracy.
John NicholsJohn Nichols is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation. With Senator Bernie Sanders, he's the co-writer of an upcoming book on public policy, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism (Crown). He's also the author of Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis, fromVerso; The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace's Anti-Fascist, Anti-Racist Politics, from Verso; Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse: A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous People in America, from Nation Books; and co-author, with Robert W. McChesney, of People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy.
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Facing a Divided Congress, Biden Takes a Populist Stance
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! Something of the awfulness, even of Death itself, is referable to this. No more can I turn the leaves of this dear book that I loved, and vainly hope in time to read it all. No more can I look into the depths of this unfathomable water, wherein, as momentary lights glanced into it, I have had glimpses of buried treasure and other things submerged. It was appointed that the book should shut with a spring, for ever and for ever, when I had read but a page. It was appointed that the water should be locked in an eternal frost, when the light was playing on its surface, and I stood in ignorance on the shore. My friend is dead, my neighbour is dead, my love, the darling of my soul, is dead; it is the inexorable consolidation and perpetuation of the secret that was always in that individuality, and which I shall carry in mine to my life's end. In any of the burial-places of this city through which I pass, is there a sleeper more inscrutable than its busy inhabitants are, in their innermost personality, to me, or than I am to them? It's amazing to think that every human being is a complete mystery to every other human being. When I enter a big city at night, I think how every one of the houses clustered together in the dark holds its own secret inside; and every room in every house has its own secret; and every one of the thousands of people in the city keeps a secret from those closest to him. In a way it's like death. When I am dead I can no longer turn the pages of life's book, and vainly hope to read all of it. I won't be able to look at the mysteries of life, and catch glimpses of hidden truths. Life ends in an instant, when I've only begun to experience it. It ends with its mysteries forever unsolved, leaving me without answers. The same is true of my friend, neighbor, or dearest love, all of whom will die. Death turns the secrets each individual carries into permanent mysteries, just as my secrets will never come out once I've died. Are the dead in London's graveyards more mysterious to me than its living inhabitants are, or am I as much of a mystery to those inhabitants myself?
As to this, his natural and not to be alienated inheritance, the messenger on horseback had exactly the same possessions as the King, the first Minister of State, or the richest merchant in London. So with the three passengers shut up in the narrow compass of one lumbering old mail coach; they were mysteries to one another, as complete as if each had been in his own coach and six, or his own coach and sixty, with the breadth of a county between him and the next. In a way, our secrets make us all equals. Jerry, the messenger, possessed as many secrets as the king, or the first minister of state, or the richest businessman in London. The same is true of the three passengers closed up in the lumbering old mail coach. They were all mysteries to each other, as unknown to each other as if they had each been in different coaches, traveling in completely different places.
three-sided spittoon . And they looked out over the large scarf that covered his chin and throat and went down nearly to his knees. When he stopped for a drink, he would remove the scarf with his left hand while he drank with his right, and as soon as he was done, he would cover his face again.


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Qualcomm Introduces 5G Chipset Purpose-Built for IoT
Qualcomm Technologies has unveiled its next-generation modem purpose-built for Internet of Things (IoT) applications such as asset trackers, health monitors, security systems, smart city sensors and smart meters, as well as a range of wearable trackers.
The Qualcomm 9205 LTE modem brings together global multimode LTE category M1 (eMTC) and NB2 (NB-IoT) as well as 2G/E-GPRS connectivity, application processing, geolocation, hardware-based security and support for cloud services.
The modem is engineered to reduce power consumption by up to 70 percent in idle mode for battery-powered IoT devices that need to operate for 10 years or longer in the field. The Qualcomm 9205 LTE modem is also 50 percent smaller and more cost-effective than its predecessor – for IoT applications requiring low-power, wide-area connectivity in a small form factor device. The new modem is also software-compatible with the Company's prior LTE IoT solutions, which allows module manufacturers to reuse software investments to develop new module solutions.
"The innovations included in the Qualcomm 9205 LTE modem are critical to support many of the 6 billion IoT devices expected to use low-power, wide-area connectivity by 2026," said Vieri Vanghi, vice president, product management, Qualcomm Europe, Inc. "LTE IoT technologies are the foundation of how 5G will help connect the massive IoT, and we are making these technologies available to customers worldwide to help them build innovative solutions that can help transform industries and improve people's lives."
Global multimode LTE IoT modem and connectivity: Support for both 3GPP release 14 Category M1 and NB2 for operation with networks using any of these LTE IoT modes, as well as 2G/E-GPRS to allow for connectivity in areas where LTE IoT is not yet deployed. Category M1 mode also supports voice for applications such as monitored security panels, and mobility for applications such as asset trackers.
RF transceiver with fully integrated front-end: The Qualcomm 9205 LTE modem features an RF transceiver with extended bandwidth support from 450 MHz to 2100 MHz. It also integrates a comprehensive RF front-end, a commercial first in the cellular IoT space, which is designed to greatly simplify the design and certification of products using the new modem, and therefore accelerate time to commercialization.
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Teaching Graphic Novels: Katie Monnin named one of six 2013 Eisner Awards Judges!
Katie Monnin named one of six 2013 Eisner Awards Judges!
Maupin House is proud to announce that author Katie Monnin is one of six comics experts selected to judge the 2013 Eisner Awards, which take place at Comic-Con International in San Diego. Katie is the author of Teaching Graphic Novels (2010, a finalist for ForeWord's Educational Book of the Year Award), Teaching Early Reader Comics and Graphic Novels (2011), Using Content-Area Graphic Texts for Learning (2012), and Teaching Reading Comprehension with Graphic Texts (2013). According to the Comic-Con website, "The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, considered the 'Oscars' of comics, turn 25 in 2013. The most prestigious of the industry's awards, the Eisners are given out at a gala ceremony on the Friday night of Comic-Con International: San Diego." There are more than two dozen awards categories for both creators and works, and the judges choose the nominees to appear on the 2013 Eisner Awards ballot.
Comic-Con International is "a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to creating awareness of and appreciation for comics and related popular artforms. primarily through the presentation of conventions and events that celebrate the historic and ongoing contributions of comics to art and culture."
To read more and browse bios for all six judges, click here.


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Meet the Teacher-Mrs. Kara Sadlon
My name is Mrs. Kara Sadlon. I grew up in Hamilton and attended school in the Hamilton Catholic District School Board. My post secondary education began at St. Jerome's College at the University of Waterloo in 1990 where I graduated with a degree in English Literature and History. I later completed my primary teacher education at the University of Western Sydney in Australia in 1995. My first teaching position was with the Hamilton Wentworth District School Board. After four years teaching in Hamilton, I moved up to Barrie to marry my husband and was blessed to be hired by the Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board in 2001 where I have been teaching ever since.
During my 17 years with the Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board, I have taught at seven different schools mostly in kindergarten and grades 2 and 3. I have been a teacher at Sister Catherine Donnelly School since it opened in 2003. Some of the school activities that I help to coordinate are: the SCD Phoenix co-ed hockey team (gr. 6-8), SCD Choir and the Spring Talent Show. I have a vested interest in this community as I am also a parent at SCD and often attend SCD Parent Council Meetings. My husband and I have one daughter in grade eight. We love to spend our free time reading, playing games, travelling and running around outside with our dogs.
Meet the D.E.C.E.-Mrs. Terri Panico
My name is Mrs. Terri Panico and I grew up in Mississauga, where I attended school in the Dufferin Peel Roman Catholic District School Board. I then attended York University and graduated with a BA in English and Political Science. After York I attended Humber College where I completed my 2 year Early Childhood Education degree. I have been working with children for over the past 25 years. While I was in University I worked as an uncertified supply teacher for the Dufferin Peel Roman Catholic District School Board. I also worked for the Toronto District School Board during the summer months in their Summer Kindergarten/Early Primary Programs. I started working full time in childcare once I graduated College.
I moved up to Barrie about 10 years ago and I was hired as a supply ECE by the Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board in 2012. I got a full time position at Sister Catherine Donnelly School in 2014. During my five years at SCD, I have had the pleasure to work with the same teaching partner, Mrs. Kara Sadlon. I truly love this community. I live nearby, and I was also a parent at SCD-my 13 year old daughter is starting at St. Joseph's High School this fall! As a family we love to watch movies together, play board/card games, and travel.
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Caitie possesses a lifelong passion for creating and has a firm belief in the therapeutic & healing values of art in all of her students' lives. She was a 4-year attendee of the Wyoming State Art Symposium. After completing her A.A. degree and independent study under Dr. Florence McEwin she continued to further her education in art & women's studies at the University of Wyoming.
Caitie has painted countless freelance commission pieces that have been shipped internationally as well as murals for homes & businesses and custom hand-painted signs & instruments. She has worked sketching ancient rock art on archaeological dig sites, instructed private art sessions for clientele, and founded the social media based 801 Art Community local to the Salt Lake Valley.
In her free time Caitie enjoys painting in her home studio, scuba diving, paragliding, and spending time with her husband, stepson, and two small dogs - Milo and Cash.


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Scouting Scratch: Notes from the backfields
- Through two days of game action, the standout performer at the plate has been infielder Michael Chavis. Chavis has made hard contact in almost every at-bat, including a home run, double, and triple on Wednesday along with two singles and another hard-hit line drive for an out on Thursday. Chavis doesn't have a prototypical third baseman physical profile, listed at 5-foot-10, 180 pounds. He has a physically mature body for his age, with a strong lower half, core, and upper body and limited physical projection remaining. At the plate, Chavis hits from a slightly open stance with some pre-pitch movement before eventually settling into a solid hitting position. Chavis has a very advanced bat for a high school draftee with plus bat speed, quick hands at the plate, and excellent bat control. The ball really jumps off his bat and he has shown the ability to barrel it up with backspin. What has stood out the most, however, is his ability to hit to all fields with power. Out of his five hits, four of them went the other way to right field with the home run the only hit he pulled. He doesn't try to do too much, rather taking what the pitcher gives him. The 19-year-old demonstrated this on Wednesday by staying back and driving outside fastballs to right field on his double and triple then kept his weight back to clear out a changeup down and in for a home run to left field. Chavis' advanced bat and demeanor at the plate are more than ready to handle an initial assignment to full-season ball, where he should serve as one of the key cogs in the Greenville lineup.
- Though Yoan Aybar has yet to appear in a game, based upon how he has looked in morning defensive workouts and batting practice, it is easy to understand why he is considered one of the more exciting prospects in the low minors. Still only 17 years old, Aybar has a tall, projectable frame, but a very young face. He is very lanky at present, with plenty of room to fill out without losing any of his present athleticism as he physically matures. Aybar's length stands out in the outfield where he covers ground very quickly with long strides. During outfield drills, he got good reads and showed a quick first step. However, he did have some trouble with the transfer from his glove to his throwing hand when charging in on balls. At the plate, Aybar hits from a slightly open stance with wide base. He keeps his hands high and uses a toe tap timing device. In live batting practice, he had some trouble recognizing off-speed pitches, but with someone his age that is to be expected. Aybar has quick hands and utilizes his whole body in his swing. During batting practice, he showed the ability to square a ball up with backspin, but due to his lack of strength over-the-fence power could take some time to develop. Aybar is a long way from being a finished product, but the raw tools are impressive. If his development goes as planned, he is someone that could work his way up towards the upper echelon of prospects in the system.
- Jamie Callahan has filled out considerably since he joined the organization, especially in his lower half. He has also cleaned up his delivery, but he still throws directly over the top with a long arm action and a slight pause at the height of his delivery. He sat 91-93 mph, topping out at 95 mph in his first inning of work. However, he lost some velocity as he worked deeper into his outing and struggled to control the pitch. When he didn't finish his delivery, he left pitches up in the zone where it was on the straight side and very hittable. He also mixed in a 74-76 mph 12-6 curveball and mid-to-high 80s changeup. The curveball showed the most potential as he spun off a couple solid-average ones.
- 2014 27th-round pick Taylor Nunez struggled with his command and control, but his raw stuff was intriguing in a bullpen role. Nunez has a solid pitcher's frame, listed at 6-foot-4, 185 pounds with some room to fill out. He throws from a high three-quarters arm slot with a stab when he brings the ball behind his body. He has a live arm, his fastball sitting 92-94 mph with late movement. He struggled with his command of the pitch especially when trying to locate it to the glove side. Nunez also showed an 11-5 curveball at 80 mph with some depth through the zone when he snapped it off.
- Edwar Garcia has a tall, lanky frame with some physical projection remaining. He sat in the low 90s Wednesday, mixing in a 76-77 sweepy 11-5 curveball and an 86 mph changeup that was on the firm side. There are some issues with his delivery, as it is arm-heavy, not effectively incorporating his lower half. He was also landing hard and off balance and wasn't keeping his line to the plate. The result was his command and control suffered.
Photo credit: Michael Chavis and Jamie Callahan by Kelly O'Connor
Ian Cundall is Director of Scouting for SoxProspects.com. Follow him on Twitter @IanCundall.