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Standing With Israel, The Prosecutor vs. The President, Left-wing Hate

Friday, May 4, 2018

Standing With Israel

It's been a busy week, my friends!  I was at the White House twice this week, and this morning I was honored to attend a Christian solidarity event at the Israeli Embassy.  I joined hundreds of Christian leaders demonstrating our support for the Jewish state.
We were there at the invitation of Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer.  If you have never seen Ambassador Dermer defending Israel on TV, you are really missing out.  He is exactly the fearless, unapologetic advocate that Israel needs right now.
The Jewish state is making headlines as it prepares to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the modern state of Israel.  Of course, Christians know that Jews have a connection to the land of Judea and Samaria that dates back thousands of years.
I am pleased to report that after eight years of the most anti-Israel administration in America's history, today we have the most pro-Israel administration in America's history!  The Trump/Pence team stands 100%, shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel.
Donald Trump has demonstrated his commitment to Israel by keeping a promise every recent president has made but broken -- the U.S. Embassy is moving from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem this month!
My friends, the U.S.-Israeli alliance has never been stronger -- and never more necessary.  The threats to Israel's existence are growing by the day.  As Prime Minister Netanyahu's dramatic address demonstrated, as the attempted drone attack from Syria proves, as the ayatollah's vitriolic rhetoric confirms -- the Islamic Republic of Iran means to annihilate Israel.
Please join me in praying for the peace of Jerusalem.
And with your continued prayers and support, I promise to continue standing with Israel so long as God grants me breath!
Fake News
Yesterday, NBC News reported that two reliable government sources, whom NBC has relied on before, told them that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had wiretapped Michael Cohen phones and at least one call from the White House had been intercepted.
For hours, there were streaming headlines about the White House being "in chaos," "scrambling" and "under fire."  Some people blamed these reports for a 400 point drop in the stock market early in the day.
Hours later, however, NBC issued a retraction. The phone calls were not tapped. Instead, a pen log was kept of calls going into and out of Cohen's phones in real time. In other words, Mueller knew who Cohen was calling and who was calling Cohen. But he did not have a recording or transcript of what was said on any calls.
Yesterday's report is reminiscent of a dozen similar fake news stories on Russia.  And that's why so many Americans don't trust the liberal media.
The Prosecutor vs. The President
As you know, Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is acting more like a grand inquisitor these days, wants to force President Trump to testify before his team of Clinton lawyers.  Mueller is even threatening to subpoena the president if he does not comply. Can he do that?
Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy discussed this issue on Fox News this morning. He said Mueller can try to subpoena anyone he wants. But there is a bar that must be met in any situation.
When it comes to the president of the United States, that bar is extraordinarily high. And Mueller would have to justify it to his bosses at the Department of Justice, which would be Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Here's what McCarthy said:
"They should not, at the Justice Department, allow Mueller to even request an interview [with the president] unless they can show that there is a serious crime, that President Trump is somehow complicit it in it, and that President Trump has information that the special counsel can't get from any other source.  If they can't show those things, the Justice Department should not allow Mueller to even request an interview."
If Mueller tries to subpoena the president, Trump could invoke executive privilege.  Now we're in the courts, and the president's fate could depend on what side of the bed Justice Kennedy gets up on.
By the way, Mueller's legal team ran into a buzzsaw this morning.  Judge T.S. Ellis seemed extremely skeptical of Mueller's authority to prosecute Paul Manafort, suggesting that the special prosecutor was really just trying to damage President Trump.
Left-wing Hate
It's no secret that the gods of Silicon Valley are trying to silence conservatives. Remember how Diamond and Silk, the pro-Trump sisters, were kicked off Facebook?
Twitter is routinely accused of shutting down conservative accounts, and Google censored Dennis Prager's conservative videos because it didn't like the subject matter.
That's why I recently joined dozens of conservative leaders in a public statement calling on the tech giants to prove their commitment to tolerance by respecting the free speech rights of millions of Americans who may not necessarily think like they do.
Well, here's the latest example of Big Tech's bias against conservatives.
Amazon recently launched a new program called AmazonSmile.  It allows users to donate a portion of their purchases to a non-profit organization.  The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), however, was banned from the list of participating charities in AmazonSmile
Why?  Here we go again. . .  Amazon relies on the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to identify so-called "hate groups."
The SPLC is a left-wing hate group!  It hates conservatives, and it is has smeared pro-life, pro-family, Christian groups for years as if they were the equivalent of the KKK.
The ADF is one of the finest Christian legal groups in the country.  It is one of the top litigators on matters of religious liberty.  Would the Supreme Court really allow a "hate group" to regularly argue cases before the justices?  I don't think so.
And Amazon shouldn't be taking directions from one.
Other News

  • Unemployment fell to 3.9%, the lowest level in nearly 18 years.  Black and Hispanic unemployment are at record lows.
  • The Associated Press acknowledges President Trump is right -- liberal judges are biased against him.
  • Senate Majority Leader McConnell says confirming conservative judges is a top priority.
  • President Trump recently ordered a review of federal education policy seeking to root out "overreach by the federal government" and return power to state and local governments.
  • President Trump's approval rating stands at 51%.


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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Its All In The Perspective

Its funny how things effect you differently after you've become a parent. Things that might have just slipped under your radar when yoiu're child free just seem to get at your more once your own children are in the picture. Case in point : Mick sends me a text today telling me that a young man who was king hit by a stranger in Sydney on the weekend has had died in hospital, and " that shit hits home " with him now - I mean, what if that happened to our Flynn? It snot like either of us were unfeeling bastards before we had children, but a story like that might have illicited some sympathy when initially seen on the tv, and be forgotten about by the next day. But now that we have a son of our own stories like that dig in deeper, hang on a bit longer, and when the outcome isnt so good it hits home that one day that could be our child. Its upsetting.

I've been feeling the same way about the child molestation "scandal " hitting the Catholic church in the past week or so. In the past of course i was upset for children who had fallen victim to paedophiles, and angry that justice just never seems to be served. Now that i have my own children ( or at leasti will have very shortly ) i'm not just upset and angry, but find myself full of vengeful rage when reading these stories. I like to think myself a calm, rational personal, not especially prone to violence - but i swear to you if ANYONE ever touches one of my children inappropriately i will hunt that person down and castrate them my bloody self. All my humanity would go straight out the window and the ferocious MamaBear would come out in defence of my children and their dignity.

Even things as small as the way young girls seem to be dressing and acting these days ( gawd, i sound like i'm 80 yrs old! ) evokes more of opinion that it would previously have had. I already feel a strong urge to protect my unborn daughter from all the bullshit of the world - from the bullies, from the societal pressures to " fit in ", from the nasty boys who might break her heart. I couldnt see the harm in some things before that i can most definately see now, from a mothers perspective.

Kind of makes me want to go and hug my parents and say " thank you " for rasing me the way that they did.....

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Watercolor Encaustic

This is an exciting new, albiet very old, way to use watercolor; a clear glaze of melted wax is floated over the surface of a finished watercolor painting creating a permanent, waterproof surface.  It is amazing to put the wax over the watercolor image and see no change to the surface except an enrichment and deepening of the color.  I can now create watercolor paintings on canvas and when the wax is applied the surface becomes as permanent as an oil painting.  I do not have to frame the picture behind glass.  The key to the process is the invention of a vegan gesso explained below.

Watercolor will float on top of an oil or acrylic gesso.  Oil and acrylic gessos will not work.  A vegan gesso has to be applied before you can paint watercolor onto wood or canvas.

GessoIngredientsThese ingredients can be obtained from a sculpture supply store.   I have listed a supply store on the resource page or perhaps you can find one in your area.

Making the gesso is quite simple.

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Mix up a batch of wheat paste.  Since wheat paste does not keep for very long periods of time do not mix more than you need to cover the surface of the canvas you want to gesso.  I usually do a number of canvases at the same time.

Image of how thick the gesso should be

Consistency of gesso thickness

Start with:

  • 2 cups prepared wheat paste mixture.  Most wheat paste jars come with instructions for mixing the whole jar.  I do calculations to make smaller batches.  For 2 cups I mix 1/4 cup wheat paste into 1.75 cup water.

[For a very small run I will mix 1 Tablespoon of wheat paste in 1/3 c. hot water. Adding the following ingredients is tricky with this small of an amount because if there is too much chalk and clay, the gesso will not harden and stick.]

Add to the wheat paste the following ingredients in this ratio:

  • 4 tablespoons of chalk
  • 2 tablesoons of kaolin clay
  • 1 tablespoon of terra alba (raw gypsum –  NOT plaster of paris!!)

Continue adding the ingredients in the 4part to 2part to 1part ratio until a soft whipped cream consistency is achieved (see photo left).  If you make the consistency too thick, there will not be enough wheat paste to adhere to the canvas and the whole business will wash off.  Trial and error is probably the best method, and, in this case, less ingredients are better than too many.

I have found that the canvases need to cure for a time before using them to paint.  If it has not had time to thoroughly dry out and bond the gesso may break down when water is applied.  Let the canvas stand for at least a week before using it for a watercolor painting.

Watercolor Painting

Once the gesso is dry you can paint with watercolor.  The gesso creates a rich velvety surface and it is a joy to paint on it.  It is also very forgiving.  If you want to ‘erase’ and repaint, just wet the surface, use a soft paper towel and blot up the paint.  I have done complete removals and then repainted the corrected image with no damage to the surface.  The surface also accepts graphite effortlessly.  I have not yet tried the gesso on stiff paper for pastel work, but I suspect it would work very well.  Considering the ease of graphite, charcoal would probably be quite thrilling to use on the surface.  However, you will not be able to put a wax overlay onto graphite, pastel or charcoal because those substances are free floating pigments.  Wax works as a binder for pigments and when it encounters a free floater like graphite, pastel chalk or charcoal, it will bond with the pigment and create paint.  Control of the resultant ‘paint’ would be tricky but it could be an interesting adventure.

Watercolor, on the other hand, is composed of pigments suspended in Gum Arabic which, when dry, is a solid surface.  Wax will not interact with the pigments in a dry watercolor painting.

Test reproduction of a Fayum mummy portrait

Scientists studying the Fayum Mummy Portraits have speculated that some of the paintings were tempera under painting with encaustic overlays.  To test the idea, I did a reproduction of an ancient mummy portrait.

Paint the board with gesso and let it dry

Paint the board with gesso and let it dry

Under Drawing

Paint the picture with water color

Paint the picture with watercolor

Varnish with hot wax

Keep in mind that once the wax overlay is applied, no changes can be made to the painting other than heating and adding more wax.

Melt bleached beeswax in an electric fry pan.  Be certain that the temperature of the fry pan is at most 170º Fahrenheit.  Wax melts at 140º and discolors at 200º Fahrenheit.  I find the 170º F temperature to be optimal.  You can experiment and decide what you like but be sure to keep the temperature under 200º Fahrenheit.  Keep in mind that at higher temperatures nearing 300º F wax will give off toxic smoke and when you go over 400º F you will risk a flash fire.  Please stay under 200º F.  It takes a bit longer to melt the wax slowly, but it is safer and you won’t kill yourself with smoke or burn the house down with a flash fire.

If the surface is cold the hot wax will solidify on contact.  Heat the board or canvas in a 170º Fahrenheit oven, or use a hairdryer or heat gun to warm the surface.  However, heat guns and hair dryers blow the wax and create a fine spray of wax all over the work area.  Because of that I prefer preheating in an oven.

Ancient references to encaustic mention super heated boards placed on embers from a fire.  Since doing the experiment I have gotten an electric griddle (a modern equivalent of the ancient fires) and can leave the canvas or board on the griddle while working.  The painting remains hot and the wax flows beautifully over the surface.


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MTV engaged Buck’s collective talents to produce “Infographica”, the data-focused portion of their “Elect This” Campaign. In addition to the custom scripted animations, we created a robust and dynamic Infographic template system, so the team at MTV could plug in facts and figures to easily release regular and timely videos about the issues their viewers care about.

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Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Euro gleich Mark or Euro gleich Euro?

In the Germany of the pre-hyperinflation era, the Reichsbank creed was a Mark is worth Mark whether paper or gold, in Berlin or Munich. This creed was also enshrined in the Euro when the new currency was adopted by the 17 European countries. To make sure that that was the case one of the fundamental principles of the Euro project was the free movement of capital and goods.
This was the case till last week when Cyprus was forced to liquidate one bank and break up another. The Cypriot government passed a law giving powers to the governor of the Bank of Cyprus Mr Panicos Demetriadis to stop the panic.

This is an extremely worrying development and in my view completely against the interest of the Euro-project and Cyprus. It is absolutely the wrong decision especially now that Cyprus has yielded on the entire Troika demands to restructure and clean their banking sector. Cyprus should refrain from imposing any capital controls that create a Euro of different value in Cyprus from that of Germany. A Euro is worth a Euro whether in Nicosia or Berlin. I am surprised that the ECB accepted such a blatant violation of the fundamental principles of the EU.
The Eurogroup made a gross mistake when it asked for insured deposits to be haircut and the ECB bears a lot of responsibility in not refusing to accept such a solution. The ECB should not make another mistake by accepting capital controls.

The ECB’s primary responsibility is price stability and financial stability. The Cypriot banks following the Sunday’s decisions to convert depositor to equity would have more than enough capital to be solvent. Any outflow of money would pose a liquidity shortage in the Cypriot banks and not a solvency issue. The solvency issue has been addressed.
Taking this into account the ECB should extend their liquidity to Cyprus either through the normal MRO or through the ELA of the bank of Cyprus. Any shortage of printed notes can easily be fixed by borrowing from other central banks in the same way the Bank of Greece borrowed tens of billions of printed notes from other banks.
This would restore faith both in the Euro and in the Cypriot banking system. There may be a spike in the outflow of funds in the first few days but as confidence is restored this would subside and possibly reversed. Cypriots and other Europeans would have faith that the cash in their pocket is worth what the ECB says it is worth.
It would also help the Cypriots believe that Europe is there not to punish them but help them in their hour of need.
The ECB should act now and support the Banking Cyprus banking system. It is in the interest of Europe and the ECB. A Euro is a Euro everywhere and should not be seen as a Mark.


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New Zealand Parliament outlaws use of physical force on children

There’s been a significant development in New Zealand, with their Parliament passing a law which has been described as making it illegal for parents to smack their children. According to a report on the ABC website, New Zealand now “joins only a handful of European nations to legislate against the use of unreasonable force in disciplining children,” (although according to this media release from last year by the Australian Childhood Foundation, “fifteen countries such as Sweden, Germany and Israel, have banned the use of physical punishment of children by parents.”)

This topic is a perpetually controversial one, and usually generates strong community debate. For a topic that is so controversial, it is fascinating that the law passed with such strong support in the New Zealand Parliament – with a full conscience vote on the matter producing a huge majority of 113 MPs in favour and only 7 against!

I think debate on this matter often suffers from people having different interpretations of what such a law would mean and how it would operate. This new law in New Zealand amends Section 59 of their Crimes Act to remove the ability of a parent to claim as a defence that they were using “reasonable force” in disciplining or correcting a child.

According to Sue Bradford, the MP who put the legislation forward,

“neither the Select Committee, myself or anyone else supporting the Bill has ever intended that all parents who ever lightly or occasionally hit their child should be subject automatically to investigation and prosecution.

What we have been simply seeking to do is to remove a defence which has allowed some parents to get away with quite badly beating their children, and most significantly, has stopped police taking action in many situations of violence against children.”

In Australia, Dr Joe Tucci, currently CEO of the Australians Childhood Foundation, has been campaigning on this issue for a long time. In this interview from 2002, he said

It’s legal to use physical discipline but it’s not legal to assault your child. And that’s the difference, the difference is not about, talking about whether parents should smack or not smack, this is about the law and whether parents who cause an injury to the child under the name of discipline should be held accountable.

A report released last year asserted that “45% of adults believe it is okay to leave a mark on a child as a result of physical punishment.

There is a difference between having a personal belief that smacking children is a bad idea and agreeing that it should be made illegal for parents to use physical force against a child. However, I wonder why our society continues to see it as OK, (and indeed many people see it as sometimes desirable), for a parent to use force in disciplining a child, but it is generally not legal for any other adult – a teacher, babysitter, child care worker or anybody else – to use force to discipline a child.

ADDENDUM: This link goes to a short backgrounder giving basic details about what is (and isn’t) in the New Zealand Bill that has just passed.

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  1. Have a read of the original bill, and you will see that what Parliament have done is they have legislated to ban the use of reasonable force for the purpose of correction.

    The stupid thing is that it is ok to use force for pretty much anything that is not correction (within reason of course).

    The one thing our Socialist Parliament does not like is the authority that the parents have over their children, and they want to get rid of it.

  2. Proverbs 22:15

    Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction will drive it far from him.

    Proverbs 19:18a

    Chasten your son while there is hope

  3. Hmmm, kind of scary comments there.

    Having worked in childcare for five years, I honestly believe that if you are forced to hit a child, you are letting your emotions get the better of you.

    We don’t let adults hit each other in everyday interaction, so why should it be acceptable with children?* You can, with sufficient thought, get children to behave like angels without raising a finger, even the bad ones.

    *Let the record reflect, I was a recipient of a few spankings, and even the dreaded wooden spoon as a kid, and I don’t think it did me any harm, really. But I do think it’s unecessary.

  4. Interestingly (and somewhat disturbingly) here in SA there is talk from Family First’s Dennis Hood suggests that they’re going to introduce a bill into state parliament to ensure protection from criminal prosecution for any parent who uses reasonable physical discipline on their child…. almost a direct opposite to the NZ law.

    From radio interviews in April he acknowledged parents are already protected under common law with the right of reasonable chastisement, however he believes introducing such a bill would protect parents from frivolous prosecution of child abuse when using reasonable physical discipline – which he said he knows of current cases.

    He also mentioned with great concern the Howard Government’s $2.5m grant to the Australian Childhood Foundation to produce a booklet which is called, Every Child is Important … and the booklet lists a number of recommendations with the very first recommendation being that State Governments review all of their laws and look to changing them so that parents no longer have the right to smack their children.

    My reading of the NZ law, and discussions with some NZ friends, was the fundamental premise to the new law was to remove a legal protection for child abuse…. which can only be a good move.

    As for Family First attempting to defend physical violence against children… one can only question how that could be strengthening and building healthy families?

  5. I find arguments based on bible quotes and defense of adults rights thrown up in roughly equal measure, while completely ignoring the child, very scary and very irritating also in roughly equal measure.

    There are endless ‘instruction’ type quotes one could pluck out of the bible and twist around to use as your particular guiding light. It doesn’t mean you should do so – and it doesn’t mean god intends you to do so.

    I do not believe god thinks you should take to your child with a rod, or a switch or anything else, however lovingly done. It’s offensive that god gets used as an excuse for adults to behave like bullies.

    Society has tolerated the systemic and on going abuse of children and lived with the consequence of that abuse for far too long.

    It is time to stop ignoring what has been an ever-growing crisis for a very long time and it is time to put our children and their welfare at the top of this country’s priority list.

  6. our Socialist Parliament

    compared to

    a huge majority of 113 MPs in favour and only 7 against

    Why I never knew socialism was so popular in the land of the wrong white crowd.

  7. I find it extraordinary that Israel have these laws as they happily shoot Palestinian kids in the head, murder them at play, study or on their way to school or the shops.

    They lock up refugee children and Palestinians and even their own kids in adult prisons for petty crimes and teach their children to write love notes on bombs as they cheer at the slaughter of Lebanese kids.

    How bizarre – nearly as deranged as Australia doing it while bombing Iraqi and Afghan kids to bits.

  8. We got a roasting in the national media today for supporting the NZ Crimes Act Amendment. I am so angry at the media for putting such a misleading spin on something that is so important.

  9. This amendment does very little. The old law already had a safeguard against execessive force. All the new law does is remove the defence of reasonable force and replace it with an exemption from prosecution for minor offences. Very little difference.

    It is more hot air than it is an improvement in the law. If you want to stop the REAL instancs of child abuse you’d spend more time educating parents and empowering DOCS with resources to pursue the cases of real abuse.

  10. “It is more hot air than it is an improvement in the law. If you want to stop the REAL instancs of child abuse you’d spend more time educating parents and empowering DOCS with resources to pursue the cases of real abuse.”

    Educating people by reforming the law so that people know that bashing children (which I presume counts as “REAL chlid abuse” Jeffrey G) is harmful and unacceptable, perhaps?

  11. Why do we want to hurt our children? What gives us the idea that children learn by being hurt? How do we feel when we are frightened, threatened, scared?

    Hurt people, hurt people.

    The justifications that are made for use of physical punishment, smacking or whacking, invariably are made with a lot of emotion – a sure sign of defensiveness or aggressiveness or both.

    There are only two feelings. Love and fear.
    There are only two languages. Love and fear.
    There are only two activities. Love and fear.
    There are only two motives, two procedures, two frameworks, two results. Love and fear.
    Love and fear.
    (taken from A Common Prayer, Michael Leunig, 1990)

    I grew up with wooden spoons and anger. I’ve spent years workings to heal the pain and confusion it caused me so that my daughter grows to know love, experience love, give love much more than fear.

  12. adam
    i have two adult children .both have had a few smacks from me .
    i did that to teach them that there are boundrys not to be crossed without consequence .
    i think that is wrong with a lot of kids today they are set boundrys but as soon as they cross them they are not punished.
    i also feel that some of the so called experts have no practical experiance unfortuatly thease are the ppl advising the govt.
    its just a shame that at times the govt takes notice of them.

  13. Adele, the law already showed that bashing children was unacceptable. It did this by prohibiting unreasonable force. Hardly an innovation or a reform if it doesn’t teach us anything new.

  14. Jeffrey, the trouble with that view is that the law didn’t define ‘unreasonable’. In practice, it gave a defence for the use of physical force that did not apply to any other adults and did not apply to physical violence by one adult on another. If it is not defined by the law, the notion of what is ‘reasonable’ defaults to what is general community opinion, which a court or the police then have to interpret or second guess.

    As the debate about ‘smacking’ shows, lots of people believe parents have a right to hit their kids and therefore a parent can argue they believed the force they used against their kids was reasonable.

    And as court cases have shown, this defence has been used to allow people to get away with bashing their kids, which therefore makes it acceptable under our laws. It also discourages police from acting bashing of kids, as it impedes them getting a conviction. And seeing people complain whenever someone suggests changing the law to stop this happening, it also appears the community believes it is acceptable too.

    This is hardly just a matter of “hot air”.

  15. Well, Andy Moore, would probably be one of these dreaded “socialists” you live in trepidation of, at least by your own no doubt narrow criteria, since I actually love Democracy. But I agree it is as fitful as to legislate against an exasperated parent giving a brat a smack for a tantrum in a supermarket as, say, it is to prosecute or legislate as to sneezing,various embarrassing gastric problems and lewd thoughts.
    Yet overseas there have been cases involving suburban mothers with resulting six month sentences, for exactly the sort of situation mentioned above. Yet malicious major assaults result in court bonds for louts.
    I always find it egregious, though, when those who condemn parents for smacking their kid often offer so little in the way of support, as against just sanctimony.
    Still, I can see why NZ passed the legislation. The case that prompted it involved the sort of sickening brutality that we see too often on the tabloid telly news these days. Some folk lack the “wherewithal”, it seems , as to a sense of proportion and it’s gross to see dead or maimed kids presented on the six oclock news.
    But, as was pointed out above, there are horrors right across the planet that put our part of the world into a disturbing context as to why so much comparative hysteria about local issues in this privileged part of the world, when many thousands die the death of dogs every day elsewhere without any recognition at all.
    The NZedders are just erring on the side of caution. That’s ok, if you think about it.
    I just hope the magistrates (for once!) show a sense of proportion in discerning between real cases of violence against kids, and just an exasperated normal parent merely activating a quick circuit-breaker, as to some pampered kid having a public tantrum.

  16. Interesting, the federal government can spend over $20 million in the “Australia says No” campaign but turns blinders on when it comes to children?

  17. On this one I agree largely with Paul Walter. The application of a process, applied consistently and with known escalation factors is the key to establishing an effective behaviour modification program. Whether the factors involve physical or non physical application is largely immaterial compared to the consistent application.

    However, in such a scenario there is no case for physical abuse and for any one who works in the field or has (as I have) the difference is patently obvious.

    How a defence of “reasonable force” could be argued successfully in court is beyond me and reflects either very poorly on the magistracy or the capability of the Police who laid the charges. For charges to be laid, almost by definition could only mean the injuries were in no way reasonable, and no defence except diminished capacity or remorse should ever be entertained.

    So I support this legislation.

  18. I’m thoroughly against this legislation, it’s the thin end of the wedge. Next they’ll be telling me I can’t give my girlfriend a gentle backhander when she gives me some lip! What’s next? Legislating against beating up fags when they wear short shorts? This New Zealand place sounds like it’s going to hell in a handbasket fast!
    If you can’t hit defenseless children whose care you’ve been charged with, who can you hit?

  19. Thank you Andrew for bringing this forward. The Commissioner for Children in Tasmania is strongly in favour of reviewing the common law and statutory defences to using force against children if only to promote debate and at least define contemporary social standards.
    There are as many responses to the issue as there are govts that have done it. The NZ Act took an interesting twist and distinguished between “correction” (making punishment illegal) and preventative discipline for 1 of 4 named purposes (legal if reasonable).
    The Churches supported the Bill and it was passed with 1 MP voting against it!
    Please keep talking about it.
    Paul Mason
    Commissioner for Children, Tasmania

  20. Yes, I think adults should be held accountable if they deliberately injure children – but this cannot be divorced from some of the causative factors.

    In the modern society, people are afraid of raising their voices, let alone smacking anyone and, consequently, a lot of children are out of control – in the homes, classrooms and elsewhere.

    A natural progression from this is that adults get very angry at disobedient children, causing the very problem we are trying to resolve.

    Tony Abbott wants the cane brought back to the schools, and I support this idea wholeheartedly.

    Unless troublemakers are very firmly disciplined, the learning opportunities of other students are limited by depressive illnesses and disruption in classrooms.

    If students continue to be led to believe they may do anything of their choosing (as they are from Year 1), they may choose to hurt other people and/or not learn anything.

    They may even be endangered inside or outside of school hours by their perceived possession of adult wisdom and power.

    In our high schools, exams are being “dumbed down” so that more students will pass – confirmed by a Science teacher only weeks ago.

    Applying the rod of education to the seat of learning would produce far better results than allowing children to do as they please.

    Lots of people have made excellent points, but I think Red Crab has really hit the nail on the head at post #12.

    The same applies to the adult society. There’s no point laying down the law if you have no intention of enforcing it.

    It is no coincidence that 30% of the adult community is on antidepressants, or that people are forced to commit retributive acts when judges support criminals instead of their victims.

  21. Instead of abusing the rights of adults everywhere they go, children need to learn the meaning of the word “obedience”.

  22. Thanks for putting this thread up again, Andrew.

    I know of 2 bus drivers who have reported problems with the same high school students to the police.

    About a month ago, there was a huge problem on the same bus route at the same time, involving the same students.

    They wouldn’t do what the bus driver told them – stop ringing the bell and clean up the food scraps they had spread everywhere – and when he ordered them off the bus, they refused to leave.

    Other kids jeered at the bus driver and he was getting nowhere. So I stood up and told the bus driver I would back him.

    Then an older man and I made the kids clean up the mess. The older man nearly hit one 16-year-old boy who was insulting me, but I asked him not to hurt him (but only for his own protection).

    Then a loud-mouthed girl started bossing the adults around. I must have told her to shutup and sit down 30 times before she would do what she was told.

    She told the older man he MAY NOT tell anyone else’s children what to do and started accusing him of assault, even though no assault had occurred.

    Then I asked her why she thought she could stand there telling a man old enough to be her grandfather what to do. That was what finally shut her up.

    When I got home, I phoned the police for advice and also notified both of the schools involved of the bad behaviour of their students.

    If bus drivers cannot control the students, they have to phone the police for assistance. If it happens again, I will be asking the bus driver to phone them.

    To me, there’s only one thing worse than parents causing injury to their children, and that’s children thinking they can call all of the shots themselves.

    As a society, we need to get away from both of these scenarios and walk a middle road.

    We need to use a variety of methods to control behaviour, and also give the kids a good smack when they need it.

    TV ads depicting very young children as “experts” on mortgages etc need to be taken off.

  23. In schools, it is considered an assault to place your hand on a child’s arm. Controlling children in schools is now nigh on impossible.

    Under the law, kids can get away with doing nearly anything they want, but adults trying to discipline them risk a lawsuit for the slightest touch, and are condemned for even raising their voices.

    From the age of 5, kids are taught that all of the choices are theirs, and from 2006, in Queensland the school rules have been presented as “suggestions”.

    My sister’s adopted Korean children have both come home from school (at the tender ages of 6 and 9) and told her that they are here to do whatever they like, without any input from Mum or Dad.

  24. I totally agree with the sentiments expressed by Marilyn Sheppard. The hypocrisy is just amazing. Children watching TV during the last week could see police people attacking innocent protesters.

    Coral, are you serious about supporting Tony Abbott’s view about returning to the horrific days of corporal punishment in schools? I made it clear to my 3 sons, that they were not going to school to learn manners – they’d been taught those at home. I also told them that I did not want to hear of any bad behaviour – none! However, I did tell them that they had the right to politely state their innocence if wrongly accused. That’s how they learn justice. I certainly did not send them to school to be assaulted by a principal or teacher. As a pupil at a catholic school in the 1950’s who was bashed by the nuns,I would have taken legal action against a teacher who attacked my children. I was determined, that they would not suffer the same cruel injustice. That was one major reason for sending them to a state school.

    Coral, there’s also a big difference between punishment and discipline. I admit to hitting out of anger and/or frustration on occasions when my 3 sons were growing up. I regret that, and of course I’m against abuse, but I do think that a smack is not damaging. It’s a bit difficult to have a discussion about the dangers of electricity with a 2 year old who wants to stick something in a power socket. But a smack on the hand makes an impression I believe. However, that smack is not discipline, it’s punishment!It’s too late to start to discipline a child in primary school, let alone High School. It’s far too late then!

    I think that a major problem that parents have with ‘losing it’ could be prevented if they had more support.In S.A.there’s a system in place, where mothers of new babies are visited regularly by a community nurse, weekly at first, and then every ? weeks for a year. What a great idea! Parents need all our support! It’s tough!

  25. Naomi

    I’m glad you mentioned the police during APEC.

    I couldn’t believe it when I saw them shove that woman to the ground. I thought it plain stupidity when they placed their hands on people’s heads and faces. That tactic only creates panic in an individual being arrested, and their first reaction is to get that individual out of their face. They’re in no position to cooperate while being arrested under those circumstances.

  26. Naomi:

    Yes, I am serious about the return of the cane to our schools.

    I, too, have 3 sons – aged 33, 32 and 15.

    Because I have a large gap between the second and third child, I have seen retrograde changes.

    Yes, discipline begins in the home, but it needs to continue outside of it.

    Most people don’t bother to discipline their kids, and if anyone else tries, the parents stick up for their ill-behaved children.

    I could cite many examples of children being put at risk due to lack of discipline, and adults being abused by children.

    Let me just quote this one from the primary school, where an excellent music teacher was put through hell by one of the most spoilt “only child” bullies in the school and his middle aged parents.

    She gave the boy just a little tap with his book, which didn’t do him any harm. The Principal called for witness reports from other kids in the class.

    Kids came to my home threatening to sue adults. I was completely outraged.

    Firstly, I wrote to the Principal and told him he was never to get my son to produce a witness report about ANY adult without my written permission.

    Then I wrote to the music teacher and told her how much I appreciated her excellent work at our school, and sent her a box of chocolates, which my 10-year-old delivered.

    He said she burst into tears and told him she had been put through 2 weeks of hell.

    I recently mentioned writing to the Principal of another primary school and telling him how well his (aboriginal) teacher had managed the students at the District Baseball Final.

    She had nailed that same kid’s hide to the wall without doing anything anyone could complain about.

    Last year, the high school lost the Head of the English Department after he hit one of the kids (barely a scratch on his chin). Most Teachers have had enough.

    There IS no justice in primary schools. Bullies can bash other kids, and the Principal may only be interested in protecting his legal hide.

  27. Naomi:

    It is now 50 years since you were bashed by the nuns. I do believe you.

    But now we are on the verge of having the children bashing us.

    Last year, my youngest son only barely prevented a student from bashing a teacher. According to him, the verbal abuse by students is incredible.

    Please re-read red crab’s post #12. He knows what he’s talking about.

    When other people fail to discipline their children, that lack of discipline comes to school.

    When teachers are prevented from taking appropriate action, lack of discipline comes back to all of our homes.

    Schools teach good manners, respect and responsibility – but it’s all talk and no action. What use is that?

    The school rules are “marketed” to little children as suggestions. Again, what use is that?

    Today my son was told he should not try to prevent big bullies from attacking his mates i.e. to turn a blind eye so he doesn’t get hurt himself.

  28. Preview:

    CORAL says:

    Your over-reactions to my past comments have led to unreasonable attacks across many threads.

    I tried to tell you that my son had a “D” grade teacher in an UNSTREAMED class. Only 3 students passed the exam. She used MP3 players as a Behaviour Management Strategy and could not teach her way out of a paper bag. They got rid of her from the school at the end of the year.

    Without her, my son is back to being an Extension Maths student.

    I’ve always had a good attitude towards most teachers, and supported them in as many ways as I could.

    I’ve worked with children referred from Child Guidance when I was a leader with The Scout Association – also for many years in schools.

    I stand by what I said in the link you provided. There are many issues which mitigate against children learning well in our schools.

    The first and foremost is lack of discipline (with resultant stress all round), but there are problems with SOME teachers and a LARGE NUMBER of parents which cannot be overlooked.

    I support an increase in the starting pay of teachers and an upgrade of discipline to attract more of the intelligent people. There is clearly too much paperwork involved in disciplinary action.

    My teenage son was not a happy boy yesterday. The thought that he must stand by while smaller students get bashed by bullies doesn’t sit well with him at all.

    He has terminated several bashings without hurting perpetrators, but the teachers and administrators seem more concerned about paperwork than hospital admissions.

    At the end of the year, our school is to lose a very competent young man to Medicine. This guy speaks 9 languages, is highly proficient in dance, instrumental music and singing. He teaches English, Maths and Science in the LOTE program – and those are just the things I know about.

    Due to insufficent remuneration, we get to kiss goodbye to one of the best young teachers ever recruited.

  29. i agree with Coral about everything she has said about child discipline and the lack of it.
    i am a highschool student and i see much more than the teachers ever will. i see year 8’s (13 year olds) standing up to teachers and older students and abusing them becuase they know they cannot be touched. i also work late at a fast food resaurant. the amount of drunken teenagers (some look as young as 12!) wandering the streets at all hours of the night! i constantly wonder where their parents are and if they gve a damn as to where their children are. something tells me that they only care that their children are out fo their hair.
    i would love to see the cane or some form of discipline brought back to schools, i garuntee it will make society a better place for everyone

  30. Thank you for your support for high school teachers’ Ashley. Your teachers’ must love you.

    However, I agree with Naomi that respect is taught at home. It is not the role of the school to use physical consequences.

    I recall reading research many years ago that ‘smacking’ is inappropriate past the age of 10 or 11. Obviously, it was in the days when physical punishment wasn’t questioned.

    In most cases, a phone call home to parents is all that’s needed to address behavioural matters.

    When dealing with an obnoxious bunch of teenagers disturbing the peace, it’s best, just as Coral has mentioned, to call the police. Confronting them may escalate the problem unfortunately.

    Measured, calm responses (not reactions by anyone) is needed for personal safety.

    Having said the above, I find most kids reasonable, and a small number lacking discipline.

  31. While I agree that there are many problems in schools, most of which go back to lack of resources in my experience, I’d like to know exactly how beating kids with sticks is supposed to make them believe that beating people is not OK.

    Could some pro-corporal punishment person explain at what age it can go up to? For example, should TAFE students be subjected to it? What about University students? Apprentices? New starters in the workplace? If you think some of those suggestions are silly, please explain at what magic age you advocate freedom from corporal punishment should begin, and why that is so special.

    Like capital punishment, corporal punishment sounds like a quick and easy solution to difficult social problems. My experience and training says that nearly all quick and easy solutions are not actually solutions.

  32. I think it is Ashley who really has his finger on the pulse. Thanks for telling it like it is.

    How about this? Whenever I attend a music concert at the high school, a huge percentage of parents don’t even bother to come. They’re also too mean to buy their kids a pair of shoes, so they go skating about in their socks. After the concerts, a huge number of students have to wait outside in the dark, because their parents are late in collecting them.

    This is not because the parents are too broke or too busy. A lot of them are drinking alcohol at home.

    It is my (proven) belief that everyone has to be able to discipline children on their own turf – at home, at school, in youth and sporting groups, on buses and in the community.

    Societal discipline is conducted by the society (police and courts included), not just by parents. Undisciplined children fail to learn and are at risk as to their personal safety (ignoring adults).

    In the primary schools, children are taught that everything is THEIR choice. They are allowed to make the classroom rules, and then guess what happens at home.

    Since 2006, the school rules have been put across to very young children as suggestions, and high school students are now expected to be self-disciplining, even though most of them don’t even know what discipline is, because they have never experienced it.

    There is no age at which corporal punishment should cease or begin, except for frail elderly people and babies.

    For adults, corporal punishment might be a cheap alternative to jail terms in some instances. We need to look at the deterrent value.

    Our police force is now a “police service”. Disciplinary actions are now “consequences” (lumped in with rewards) and punishment of children is a “criminal offence”. What a joke!

    A society that disempowers all of its authority figures (parents, teachers, police), and instead empowers little children and criminals is a society headed for disaster.

  33. ‘In the primary schools, children are taught that everything is THEIR choice. They are allowed to make the classroom rules, and then guess what happens at home.’

    It’s actually students who are abused at home that pose many of the discipline problems experienced in schools. A bullying style of parenting produces children who are bullies.

  34. Godo god, Coral – bus drivers or scout leaders beating children – well, well. I think that wil raise some eyebrows if ever proposed outside this forum.

    mmm, you sunk yourself here: “We need to look at the deterrent value.” I think you’ll find there is more to this issue than simply whether people will cop this (which Australians would not.) What gives another person the right to beat another?

  35. Donna:

    “Ashley” is generally the boys’ spelling of the name. Girls are usually “Ashleigh” or “Ashlea” – not that it matters.

    Very often, bullies are those who have never been disciplined at all, and others for whom do-gooders want to make excuses.

    I said nothing about bus drivers or scout leaders beating children. Don’t bother to put words into my mouth.

    It isn’t me who has sunk anything. The moral fibre of our entire society has dropped since laissez faire discipline came in.

    Consequently there are more adults on antidepressants, and more children on Ritalin, than there ever were before.

    A society needs to have well defined and maintained behavioural boundaries for its citizens to feel secure.

    It’s not about talking forever and doing nothing. Actions speak louder than words.

    Just as a stitch in time saves nine, sometimes a smack in time (or other forms of discipline) can save nine or worse.

    If there’s a problem with children or adults, it needs to be fixed quickly.

  36. Of course Coral, lack of discipline is an issue with students. But those students who bash others learn their bullying behaviour from their parents.

    I can think of at least one Ashley who is a girl.

    Ashley wouldn’t happen to be your son now would he Coral?

  37. Another thing – a society with well defined and maintained behavioural boundaries also has adults and children who actually like one another.

    A secure society has community-minded citizens – not people who turn a blind eye to everything, and treat their neighbours as if they don’t exist.

  38. Coral:

    You said this: “There is no age at which corporal punishment should cease or begin, except for frail elderly people and babies.” and this “It is my (proven) belief that everyone has to be able to discipline children on their own turf – at home, at school, in youth and sporting groups, on buses and in the community.”

    If that doesn’t mean that bus drivers or scout leaders in your opinion can use corporal punishment, what does it mean?

    But we are off the point – the legislation in NZ talks about “reasonable force” and injury resulting from parents over-stepping the mark.

    When is it OK to harm another person? As has been said, those of us who were beaten as children will have different views on this, and despite what some people might think, the effects of that abuse last a lifetime. I don’t think you can have suffered that, Coral, or you would not talk so glibly about it. We are not talking about little momentary slaps on the nappy or the back of the hand here – the point is protecting chidlren from HARM.

  39. ‘A secure society has community-minded citizens – not people who turn a blind eye to everything, and treat their neighbours as if they don’t exist.’

    What are you talking about Coral? Are you suggesting that posters that don’t agree with you are not ‘community mined citizen’ or ‘treat their neighbours as if they don’t exist’?

  40. togret:

    Corporal punishment (a smack) needs to be used judiciously in the home and the school (preferably by the Principal), where children spend most of their waking lives.

    In non-compulsory situations – on buses, in youth and sporting groups – other forms of discipline and exclusion are more readily available – and the time spent there by children is less.

    You’re jumping to nasty conclusions about other posters again.

    Ashley certainly isn’t my son or daughter.

    I meant what I said about the “society”, “community” and “neighbours”.

    I strongly disagree that all students who bash others have learned the behaviour from their own parents – but some definitely have. Unfortunately none of us has been in all of the homes to find out.

    All of my sons have received a smack in the home, along with various other forms of discipline. None has ever bashed anyone.

    I think that psychologists, social workers and policy makers should learn the difference between a disciplinary smack and a bashing.

    It would also help if the courts did not give serial rapists only a one year non-parole period, or if people who committed manslaughter (via a bashing) did not walk free.

    Adults cannot give a child a little tap for fear of being accused of a criminal offence – but they can get away with beating other adults to death.

    Talk about a double standard!

  41. And again, Coral, there needs to be legislation defending children (or anyone else) from harm caused by those who feel they have a right to mete out corporal punishment.

    Surely you must agree with that?

  42. A disciplinary smack does not fall under the heading of “harm”. It can even prevent harm from occurring.

    I support minor forms of corporal punishment in homes and schools.

    There is plenty of legislation in place in relation to various forms of assault – too bad the courts do not care to uphold it with an appropriate sentence.

    Two days ago, I caught the tail end of a talk show in which they said cases of theft would now only receive a $150 on-the-spot fine.

    Why? Because the courts are overloaded with thieves.

    Why? Mainly because of the “almost anything goes” society in which we live, where no real values are taught.

    The idea of no smack for children is part of that. That’s why we now have Adult Abuse – both verbal and physical – on the part of children.

    It’s a sad day when people don’t seem to be able to differentiate between a smack and a bashing – or between a pat on the arm and a sexual assault.

    This is why we can’t get many men into primary school teaching. Parents want to make a huge fuss about almost nothing.

    And why is that? Because most parents now have only one or two very spoilt children, and have spent very little time doing the childraising themselves.

  43. ‘A disciplinary smack does not fall under the heading of “harm”. It can even prevent harm from occurring.’

    that’s not what you’ve spruiked here. You’ve supported schools using corporal punishment

    Then you’ve attempted to link the lack of corporal punishment in schools to the unrelated issue of fines for theft … the ‘qualified’ knowledge you’ve gained from a talk show.

    This of course has led onto your favourite issue of all … sexual assault.

    This time, it’s not the product of our Indigenous communities, but of working Mothers of one or two ‘spoilt’ children.

    Now who is it that’s making a ‘huge fuss about nothing’?

  44. Donna:

    Yes, I support corporal punishment in schools and homes and it doesn’t fall under the heading of “harm”. It can actually prevent a great deal of harm from occurring.

    I understand very well the links between many things that go on in our society. I’m sorry that you don’t have the wherewithal to understand what I’m saying.

    Of course an undisciplined society would have more thieves. Discipline starts in the home and continues in the school, but it isn’t happening, is it?

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Andy Samberg and TLI help make the Sunset Tower's Holiday video

Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone lend entertainment industry hangout a hand.

NEW YORK - NEW YORK – The Sunset Tower’s holiday card -- starring Saturday Night Live trio Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone -- has hit the web. The Hollywood Reporter first reported the video’s creation earlier this month.

The New York-based comedians use the boutique hotel and entertainment industry hotspot as their home base in California and agreed to help owner Jeff Klein with the special season’s greetings for its 5,000 or so customers, according to the paper.

The video features maitre d’hotel Dimitri Dimitrov and is reminiscent of Andy Popping Into Frame, one of the first viral hits of the comedy trio in which Samberg popped into mundane footage from the streets of Manhattan.

According to the Times, Klein declined to say if he had paid the comedians to make the video, but said: “We always take great care of those boys when they stay with us.”

The dudes aren't in this video, but they put it together. They put lots of shots of Dimitri Dimitrov in the video, giving their "Andy Popping Into Frame" a little variety, but essentially it's the same concept and music.

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21 May 2008

Being Angolan, and Not

While I wish my most recent trial were ending, I cannot report such good news. I write to you from the comforts of my good friend's home in Maianga where there is air conditioning and, most importantly, electricity. The power in our part of the bairro went out early Friday morning and as of this moment (Tuesday afternoon) has yet to return. Our generator has not worked since day one in the new place and our water only runs if the pump has energy to retrieve it from the tank. Fortunately, we've had good luck with the spigot out front (which we usually use to top off the water tank) and, so, with a small amount of physical labor life at home remains almost comfortable.

It's been a somewhat convenient time for this to happen, as lately I've been contemplating my Angolan-ness. Having no power and having to carry all my water (though not nearly as far as most of my neighbors) has created a nice space in which to consider how well I'm adapting to life here. There are a few Angolan-isms with which I was born and a few that I've acquired in my time here. All-in-all, I'm assimilating rather well but it remains clear that I am not and will never be Angolan. Four months into my stay here seems as good a time as any to give you the current rundown.

I make noise CONSTANTLY, or so I'm told… This may or may not be apparent to you depending on the context in which we've spent time together, but it would appear that if I'm not playing a radio or music just loudly enough to annoy my spouse I am singing, talking, clicking (yes, clicking), whistling, or, worst of all, working. To be fair, making strange noises all day is kind of my job, but I suppose that this doesn't quite justify all of the other racquet. I would kind of like to deny the charge, but have been forced into a situation of self-awareness and I cannot. The good news is that I fit in perfectly here. In fact, if anything, I've got some headroom. Since arriving I've even made some somewhat surprising complaints about life here being too loud. For example, the ladies that we employ listen to the radio all day at volumes just loud enough really wear on you throughout the day; even I'm relieved when they go home and we can turn the damn thing off.

I am a master of the overly long and complicated precursor statement and I repeat the same point ad infinitum as though the slight variation in my examples carries profound meaning… No statement here begins without a precursor. The simplest variation is “olha” (look) as a clause at the beginning of nearly sentence (or, more commonly, “olha, olha, olha…”). Other favorites are, “É como assim…” (It is like this) and “É o seguinte…” (It is the following…) which begin most declarative statements but add no meaning whatsoever. I would be tempted to claim that my lead-ins are important and that they pave the way for the coming information in an important way, but to make such claims would be a folly.

I've picked up the habit of counting money out of a drawer… In every loja here in Luanda (I'd guess Angola, but I can't say for sure) the money behind the counter is kept in a drawer. Not a drawer, however, like you'll find in a cash register, but one rather like my sock drawer. Money received is tossed in casually and change is made by digging through a heap of crumpled bills. The result is best described as dinheiro soup. Larger or well organized shops have two drawers, one for small bills and one for large, with a result that is much the same. In what I must confess was a moment of pride, I recently found myself digging through (read: making a mess of) the top drawer of my desk, where I had put all of my money at the end of the day, for a 200 kwanza note.

I recently began improvising objects out of plastic... É como assim, I've needed a laptop stand for quite some time to facilitate the use of my external keyboard and mouse, and to help cool down an already hot-running laptop in the miserable heat. I didn't bring one because I didn't have room and expected I'd be able to make one out of something. I have been using a stack of books, which took up too much space and caused problems each time I needed to use one of the volumes. After months of contemplation in a world filled with plastic (I mean FILLED; seriously, this is a whole other post), the vision for my perfect laptop stand hit me like a bolt of lightning. With one container and a razorblade I had the below in under 5 mintues. I feel like I'm living the end of the first matrix movie when the hero is able to see that the world is really made of code and he can alter it as he sees fit. I have arrived.

But for all that I may have or may be gaining in common with your average Angolan, the degree to which I am not and will never be one is ever-present. Last week, for example, a woman we know that works as an empregada got beaten by her ex-husband for going to his home to ask for money to help support their three children. She was beaten over the weekend and subsequently missed work (and pay) on Monday as she was seeking care for her mangled teeth and dealing with unresponsive police about the incident. On Tuesday when she went to work, she learned that she was losing one of her two cleaning jobs (the one with more hours, of course) because the husband in that house was sick of paying for a cleaner when “all his wife does” is study full time in university. In her remaining job she works about 15 hours per week and gets paid $120 per month. That's less than $2 per hour but it's also a slightly generous wage by local standards. How she supports her three kids, I have no idea. If she spends her entire salary on food she's got around $4 per day to make it work out. That's about 6 eggs (or 2 small pieces of meat), 2 cups of starch, an onion, and a tomato per day. Give or take. I wish I could tell you her life was unusual or particularly unfortunate, but I can't. It could be going a whole lot worse for her – it is for others. And, while there is plenty of abuse and poverty in the US, but it doesn't compare to the quantity and depth of it here.

And so, really, as amusing as it maybe now and then to marvel at my own budding Angolan-isms, I'm working hard to keep things in perspective. Unfortunately daily life here provides plenty of reminders. I was born in a rich country. I was born with access to all of the privileges afforded white men. I have experienced financial insecurity and have wanted for food because of it, but I do not know poverty or hunger. I am well educated. I have opportunity. I also have an obligation to make a positive contribution in this world. I have yet to figure out how best to do so, but I will learn. Being in Angola will help me. And, maybe, as I work to figure it out, I can pick up that beautiful Angolan ability to laugh and sing and dance, to find a way be kind, to be generous, to be joyful, and to find beauty despite the crushing misery all around.

Vitor Pellegrino said...

Olha... (lol) that was an interesting overview about your life in Luanda. Definitely i want to be there someday, born a brazilian and afro-descendent, i think it would be somekind of religation with my ancestrals.

Please, keep on posting about your life there in Luanda. Sure i'll be around watching in detail :)

Grande abraço, vindo do Rio de Janeiro!

Vitor Pellegrino

Nils said...

Hi Matt, this is Nils. I`m impressed by your reckless effort to get to know the world, I wish I had the time to do so either.
There is a question coming up in me every time I get to read, hear or whatever something about poverty in Africa and I`ve been to scared to ask, since at first it sounds "Grotesk"(don`t know an english word for that). But I dare to ask you now: How far is there life just different from ours. I mean of course they suffer real poverty and other circumstances which are way beyon believe, but on the other hand they don`t suffer from those civilized diseases (psychological diseases). Though they probably don`t have the luxury of suffering on that since there just about to stavre to death, they find more easily good times on small things, as you discribed singing, dancing... I have a hard time seeing people in Germany cheerfully crowding the streets... They get up, go to work to finance a live which they can hardly participate at for people they love who they hardly see...
I can`t put it in better words, hope you understand what I want to say. I wouldn`t ever want to switch lives with an african. But I have a hard time with my life as well, .. why is it better to be rich and unhappy then it is to be poor and unhappy?
Take care
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matthew_pw said...

Hi, Nils! Thanks for reading and for your comment. Despite not knowing what "Grotesk" means, I do understand, I think, and agree that this can be a difficult topic for some to discuss. I don't have answers, but I do have a two quick thoughts that I would like to share.

The first is that it isn't so clear that mental illnesses, such as depression, are an affliction of developed nations. More and more evidence has come to light in recent years that this is as much of, if not more of, a problem for the poor than for the rich, even if it goes undiagnosed because of inadequate access to healthcare. A quick web search reveals a number of articles on this topic in the New York Times, the BBC, and the medical journal The Lancet, among others. There also appears to be evidence that those most effected are women, who also happen to be the ones hardest hit by poverty.

Secondly, I keeping coming back to your ending question coupled with an understanding of poverty as a lack of access and opportunity (not simply a lack of money). I presume that if one is rich and unhappy that one has the option, if one prefers, of being poor and unhappy, but that the reverse isn't necessarily true. This seems a critical difference to me.


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Ann Arbor Council Does Not Act on Budget

At the May 23, 2011 session of its meeting that had begun the week before on May 16, the Ann Arbor city council did not address two issues it was expected to settle so that it could adopt its fiscal 2012 budget: (1) ratification of a new contract under which the Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority would continue to manage the city’s public parking system; and (2) acceptance of prior contributions by the DDA to city projects, as payment for excess tax increment finance (TIF) revenues that have been captured in the DDA’s TIF district since 2003.

Instead of addressing those issues or any other budget issues, the council voted at the very start of the meeting to recess the meeting and continue it on May 31, 2011.

Per Ann Arbor’s city charter, the city council needs to adopt the city administrator’s proposed budget with any amendments no later than the second meeting in May. Failure to adopt the budget results in adoption of the administrator’s proposed budget by default. The city council is hoping to avoid some of the cuts to police and firefighters that are a part of that budget.

For a preview of the council meeting, see Chronicle coverage: “To Be Continued: Ann Arbor Council

The vote to recess, taken before any other item was considered or could be introduced, could be seen as a move to prevent Stephen Kunselman (Ward 3) from proposing a resolution to take back responsibility for managing the city’s public parking system from the DDA. The Ann Arbor DDA has a current contract with the city that runs through 2015.

However, Kunselman’s proposed budget amendment would have essentially ignored that contract, and restored oversight of the city’s parking system to the city’s public services unit, by transferring all of the DDA’s parking funds to the city and eliminating two full-time employees at the DDA. [.pdf of Kunselman's resolution as proposed]

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Tuesday, 12 February 2013

DIY Heart Tipped Nails for Valentines

What you'll need:
- Nail Polish Remover (Sally Hansen)
- Cotton Buds
- Nail Filer (OPI)
- Nail Cutter
- Sheer Nude Pink Nail Polish (Essie Mademoiselle)
- Top Coat (OPI)
- Red Nail Polish (Sportsgirl Kiss a Rose)

1. Make sure your nails are clean & relatively long (so that you make the shape of the heart tips).

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3. Do this with the rest of your nails.

4. File the pointed nails down (file both around and on the tip of the nails).

5. Paint your nails with the sheer pink nude nail polish.

6. Wait for it to dry and do a second coat.

7. Once your sheer pink nail polish has dried, use a red nail polish to paint heart tips on the nails. If you don't get the heart shape right the first time.. its okay! You can always paint over it again until you get the heart shape right.

8. Dip a cotton bud in nail polish remover and use it to clean up around the nails.

9. Apply Top Coat.

The finished result - Heart tipped nails

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  3. This is so adorable! I'll definitely try it once my nails are longer!


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