Saturday, February 19, 2011
A Perfect Match?
JoBlo: Martin Scorsese's Jesuit priest drama Silence will be his next film, becomes re-attached to The Wolf of Wall Street
Will Sorceses's issues, whatever they may be, get in the way of his cultural Catholicism? He may get the apostasy right, but how about the Christianity? (If what Endo presents as the counterpoint can be called Christianity. I still haven't read the novel...)
Silence (沈黙, Chinmoku)
Matt Jones, Apostasy and Shusaku Endo’s Silence
The Christology of Shusaku Endo By Fumitaka Matsuoka
Amy Welborn
Shusaku Endo’s Silence: Novelist Sought a Christianity That Speaks to the Japanese Soul
Review at CA Forum
Will Sorceses's issues, whatever they may be, get in the way of his cultural Catholicism? He may get the apostasy right, but how about the Christianity? (If what Endo presents as the counterpoint can be called Christianity. I still haven't read the novel...)
Silence (沈黙, Chinmoku)
Matt Jones, Apostasy and Shusaku Endo’s Silence
The Christology of Shusaku Endo By Fumitaka Matsuoka
Amy Welborn
Shusaku Endo’s Silence: Novelist Sought a Christianity That Speaks to the Japanese Soul
Review at CA Forum
Army special ops continues to grow, increase optempo
Feb 17, 2011
By J.D. Leipold
How many of these operations are really necessary for defending the United States?
Feb 17, 2011
By J.D. Leipold
ARLINGTON, Va. (Army News Service, Feb. 17, 2011) -- U.S. Army Special Operations Command has more than doubled its manpower since Sept. 11, 2001, and according to its deputy commander, mission requirements and operations tempo will continue on an upward glide path.
Maj. Gen. Kurt Fuller said special operations forces are presently working on 116 missions in 53 countries -- and "that's actually sort of low. It's usually somewhere between 60 and 65 countries, small numbers of people in most spots that total between 5,500 and 6,000 people."
How many of these operations are really necessary for defending the United States?
NYT Review of Battle for Marjah
Battle for Marjah by Mike Hale
A Mission Documented With a Filter of Despair
A review at Global Security.
HBO, Trailer
More:
Pop Matters
Monsters and Critics
Military Times
On the Battle of Marjah:
Patrick Cockburn
Gareth Porter (and this)
Jeff Huber
Dave Lindorff
Common Dreams
Understanding War
Global Post v. Front Page Magazine
CS Monitor
From December 2010: U.S. General Richard Mills: Battle In Marjah Is Over
On Anniversary of Marjah Push, Escalation Strategy Still Failing
A Mission Documented With a Filter of Despair
A review at Global Security.
HBO, Trailer
More:
Pop Matters
Monsters and Critics
Military Times
On the Battle of Marjah:
Patrick Cockburn
Gareth Porter (and this)
Jeff Huber
Dave Lindorff
Common Dreams
Understanding War
Global Post v. Front Page Magazine
CS Monitor
From December 2010: U.S. General Richard Mills: Battle In Marjah Is Over
On Anniversary of Marjah Push, Escalation Strategy Still Failing
Not the Beginning of the End
because the Union Army has been SNAFU for a while:
Teaching begins for DADT repeal
Army Chief of Staff, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., launches the Army's Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal chain teach to senior leaders from across the force during the 4-star conference at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., Feb. 17, 2011. The Army's goal is to complete training for the Active Duty force by mid-July and the Reserve Component by mid-August. The training provided senior leaders with the tools they'll need to educate the force on what is expected in a post repeal environment. US Dept of Defense: DADT.
Flickr
Teaching begins for DADT repeal
Army Chief of Staff, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., launches the Army's Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal chain teach to senior leaders from across the force during the 4-star conference at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., Feb. 17, 2011. The Army's goal is to complete training for the Active Duty force by mid-July and the Reserve Component by mid-August. The training provided senior leaders with the tools they'll need to educate the force on what is expected in a post repeal environment. US Dept of Defense: DADT.
Flickr
What's a S-Line?
Someone posed this question in response to a post on FB: S-Line, V-Line, and 19 More Korean Body Lines.
Converts from Feminism
There are probably women who have decided to stay at home and give up a career or cut back on work hours once they became mothers, because they felt the "primal" urge to be there to take care of their children. Is this a good enough conversion? Would it be too much to expect that a woman would reject the life plans they had embraced not because of emotion and instinct, but on the basis of reason? I'll explain why -- women's subordinating their needs to the needs of their children may be facilitated through oxytocin and the nuturing "instinct," but it is not enough to turn them against feminism, if they continue to be feminists but within the home -- in how they treat their husband, their others expectations of life, and so on. There is a temptation for women to put a greater priority on their children their their married life and the needs of their husbands. Feminism would compound this. (Feminism might be working in tandem with an emotional response to a woman's bad experiences with their fathers or other men.)
Should we not expect that emotion/instinct to be subordinated to (or elevated through) reason for women? There are misogynists who would go so far as to claim that women are no better than children, mentally, and I think this is an incorrect assessment driven by strong emotions.
Should we not expect that emotion/instinct to be subordinated to (or elevated through) reason for women? There are misogynists who would go so far as to claim that women are no better than children, mentally, and I think this is an incorrect assessment driven by strong emotions.
Kinpachi Sensei Coming to an End
Tokyo Hive: Takeda Tetsuya reflects on the end of “Kinpachi Sensei” & his role
I've seen a couple of the series when they were broadcast on local TV a long time ago--it's a sentimental drama which tries to encourage students dealing with the culture of examination hell in Japan, but I've never seen it offer real suggestions for reform or reject the current system. Maybe I haven't watched enough of it. There were references to spirituality, benevolence, and such as a response to some of the issues that Japanese teenagers face, encouraging them to look at the bigger picture and to think of what sort of people they want to be. A simplified Japanese humanism? But television won't save Japan from its spiritual malaise, and the happy endings that Kinpachi Sensei offered may have only given the audience some measure of emotional satisfaction and not the truth that it doesn't seek to confront.
More info:
TBS
wiki
Drama wiki
KikuTV
jdorama
Tenkai-Japan
I've seen a couple of the series when they were broadcast on local TV a long time ago--it's a sentimental drama which tries to encourage students dealing with the culture of examination hell in Japan, but I've never seen it offer real suggestions for reform or reject the current system. Maybe I haven't watched enough of it. There were references to spirituality, benevolence, and such as a response to some of the issues that Japanese teenagers face, encouraging them to look at the bigger picture and to think of what sort of people they want to be. A simplified Japanese humanism? But television won't save Japan from its spiritual malaise, and the happy endings that Kinpachi Sensei offered may have only given the audience some measure of emotional satisfaction and not the truth that it doesn't seek to confront.
More info:
TBS
wiki
Drama wiki
KikuTV
jdorama
Tenkai-Japan
Yo-Yo Ma receives Presidential Medal of Freedom CCTV News
Yo-Yo Ma
White House page for the ceremony. (mp3)
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma receives the Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington February 15, 2011. (Reuters/Daylife)
US President Barack Obama awards the 2010 Medal of Freedom to cellist Yo-Yo Ma, during a ceremony at the White House in Washington, DC, February 15, 2011. (Getty/Daylife)
David Walker on Andrea Mitchell Reports
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
“Localization is the Economics of Happiness”
Yes!: “Localization is the Economics of Happiness”
We know what makes us happy—but too often our economic decisions stand in the way. Helena Norberg-Hodge, director of the Economics of Happiness, on how to change all that.
by Brooke Jarvis
We know what makes us happy—but too often our economic decisions stand in the way. Helena Norberg-Hodge, director of the Economics of Happiness, on how to change all that.
by Brooke Jarvis
Dominican Sisters Coming to the Sacramento Area
California Catholic Daily: “We’re going to build something that will last 200 years”
Traditional, habit-wearing nuns plan new priory in Loomis to accommodate explosive growth
Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist
Our Two California Missions
Our California Expansion
Where's Loomis? Maybe 20 miles to the northeast of central Sacramento.
Traditional, habit-wearing nuns plan new priory in Loomis to accommodate explosive growth
Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist
Our Two California Missions
Our California Expansion
Where's Loomis? Maybe 20 miles to the northeast of central Sacramento.
La Princesse de Montpensier (Bertrand Tavernier) - Bande Annonce
Friday, February 18, 2011
Nora Jane Struthers in Town
On Sunday she'll be at Mission City Coffee:
Fiddling Cricket:
Nora Jane Struthers & The Bootleggers
Winners of the 2010 Telluride Band Competition
Sunday, February 20th, 7.00pm $15/$17
AT MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING CO.
2221 The Alameda, Santa Clara, CA 95050
call 831-475-4938 or email Brundle@attglobal.net
Her West Coast tour:
Feb. 19, 2011
8:00P
The West Side Theatre
Tickets: $12 general/ $15 reserved
Newman, CA
Feb. 20, 2011
7:00P
Mission City Coffee Roasting
Hosted By: Fiddling Cricket
Ticket Price: $15
Santa Clara, CA
Feb. 23, 2011
8:00P
Strings
Oakland, CA
Feb. 24, 2011
TBA
Gray House Concert
rsvp: Kathy Gray
e: grayfun06@yahoo.com
Chico, CA
Feb. 25, 2011
8:00P
Oaksong Music Society at Bernie's Guitar
Tickets: $18
Redding, CA
Feb. 26, 2011
TBA
Rosecrest Music & Supper Club
rsvp: Jonathan Klein
e: jaklein@khklaw.com
Oakland, CA
Feb. 27, 2011
4:00P
Berkeley House Concerts
rsvp: Audrey Spector
e: audrey12@comcast.net
Fiddling Cricket:
Nora Jane Struthers & The Bootleggers
Winners of the 2010 Telluride Band Competition
Sunday, February 20th, 7.00pm $15/$17
AT MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING CO.
2221 The Alameda, Santa Clara, CA 95050
call 831-475-4938 or email Brundle@attglobal.net
Her West Coast tour:
Feb. 19, 2011
8:00P
The West Side Theatre
Tickets: $12 general/ $15 reserved
Newman, CA
Feb. 20, 2011
7:00P
Mission City Coffee Roasting
Hosted By: Fiddling Cricket
Ticket Price: $15
Santa Clara, CA
Feb. 23, 2011
8:00P
Strings
Oakland, CA
Feb. 24, 2011
TBA
Gray House Concert
rsvp: Kathy Gray
e: grayfun06@yahoo.com
Chico, CA
Feb. 25, 2011
8:00P
Oaksong Music Society at Bernie's Guitar
Tickets: $18
Redding, CA
Feb. 26, 2011
TBA
Rosecrest Music & Supper Club
rsvp: Jonathan Klein
e: jaklein@khklaw.com
Oakland, CA
Feb. 27, 2011
4:00P
Berkeley House Concerts
rsvp: Audrey Spector
e: audrey12@comcast.net
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