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I was sad to hear of the passing of one of the finest women I have known. She was more than a sister in law to me. I remember in the early days of her marriage to my brother that they often spent weekend days at Grampa's cottage on Honeoye Lake. Waterskiing and swimming. She enjoyed meeting the great aunts and uncles and hearing gramps Ralph tell of his lumber jack youth. I regret that we were not close these past years. She will be missed. Paul and Laurel,Stephanie and Scott you had the privilege of knowing and loving one of the most remarkable women of her generation. Be truly proud of her. Love Aunt Pam
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Stephanie+Paul, My wife and I were saddened at the loss of your Mom. I was in graduate school at the U.of R with your Dad when Kodak sent him back to get his Ph.D. We met your Mom when they attended our wedding. I enjoyed working with your Dad and hearing many family stories from him.


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Microsoft's October patch release cycle promises to be a busy one as Redmond announced plans to roll out 11 security bulletins in its Tuesday security release. Four are "critical," six are deemed "important" and one received a "moderate" rating.
All four critical patches have remote code execution (RCE) exploit considerations. The six important items are split between RCE and elevation-of-privilege bug implications. The moderate item is focused on preventing information disclosure hacks.
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Ian Buruma's Murder in Amsterdam – a direct challenge to my liberal values
[Note: I am moving this post up because I invested a lot of energy/emotion in it and don't want it to drop off the homepage yet.]
Ian Buruma's Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance is a slender volume with big type and lots of white space that nevertheless forced me to challenge some of my most cherished liberal principles. I loved this book because it made me think. It showed me a side of life in contemporary Europe that I didn't know much about. Yes, I had an idea of the Muslim 'ghettoes' that have become a standard feature of many great European cities, but I must admit, I hadn't realized how serious a threat they now pose.
That was a dangerous sentence I just wrote, and a reluctant one, too: it hurts to have to acknowledge that we can be too tolerant, that in fact being too tolerant is just as dangerous as accepting intolerance.
This is a point Buruma drives home forcefully. Even today the Dutch remain traumatized by the extermination of most of their Jews during WWII. Why didn't more Dutch citizens speak out? Why did so many of them collaborate? How could they have allowed this to happen? The ghost of Anne Frank is alive and well in the conscience of just about everyone in the Netherlands, Buruma tells us. In reaction to that horrible time when the Dutch closed their eyes to intolerance, they have since gone off in the opposite extreme, tolerating anything and everything. We all know Amsterdam is famous as the city where you can smoke hashish in the bars, as a 'gay Mecca' and as a city where absolutely anything goes.
Okay, so far I'm fine with that. But let's look at the darker side of this toleration. The Netherlands became known, also in thanks to its tolerance, as the easiest place for immigrants fleeing despotic regimes to enter. For a variety of reasons, huge numbers of Muslims from many different countries chose to settle there. Now, the US, too, was the recipient of millions of Muslim immigrants, also due in part to our own policy of tolerance and welcoming immigrants. But there the comparison ends. Most of the Muslims in the US are famously well integrated, which explains why we have never seen the kind of mini-civil-wars now going on in France.
In the Netherlands and other European cities, however, something different happened. The Muslims stayed together and failed to integrate, eventually becoming the majority is various neighborhoods, creating what are known as "dish cities" – large neighborhoods that in every way look like they could be out of the Middle East, with Muslim restaurants, signs and menus and documents written in Arabic, with all their citizens connected to the outside world mainly by satellite dishes tuned in to Middle Eastern satellite TV. Even at this point, my liberal side tells me we must be tolerant. Isn't it their right, after all to live as they please? Is it any different from the Hasidic Jews in Williamsburg or the Amish in Pennsylvania?
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A priceless essay on this infuriating topic, from which I will offer but a small sample:
Apparently 17.5 million people have started blogs in China. Because you often find insults, curses, libel and even fraud on blogs, the relevant departments have will require bloggers to register with their real names. This way the problem can be stopped.
This is a kind of logic that would destroy Hegel.
I wonder how much water has entered the brain of the individual who came up with this? The idea that forcing people to use real names will put an end to unsavoury online discussion is like a Grimm's fairy tale.
Insults and swearing did not start because of the Internet or blogs; libel started when people first started writing. Fraud and confidence tricks are ancient crimes, you can't just blame them on the Internet. Is it possible that the real name system will solve al these problems? It's like that old joke: if the eighth steamed bun is the one that makes you full, why bother eating the first seven?
It then gets better, more funny and more serious. Definitely check it out now. Those last two paragraphs are so funny, yet so serious. Priceless, the whole thing.
I am over my head in class and work and am aware of the dearth of new posts. We're working on it, but can't make any promises for the next 24 hours. Meanwhile, if you can read Chinese, check out this post on how China is going overboard in rounding up unlicensed dogs in Beijing (via this site).
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The comments to the post below on Vietnam have become inexplicably inaccessible. You can use this space for comments (as long as it, too, doesn't get corrupted). I've been having IT problems all day.
Update: Hmm, now the comments seem to be okay. The site has been down on and off throughout the day, as has the Duckpond. Apologies.
The next China?
Keep your eye on this one. When I was there I was told that in the past year or two property values in the big cities had soared by as much as 1,000 percent and more (I actually think the guide said 10,000 percent – is that possible?). Anyway, all I could think about as I walked the streets of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City was how similar it seemed to China, in that everyone seems to be running a business, everyone's selling something. There's that same sense of irrepressible entrepreneurialism. What I also noticed was the kinder, gentler environment – people smile, cars and motorbikes yield to one another (which isn't to say there aren't massive traffic jams, but they are friendlier traffic jams than those in Beijing) and the people in general looked happy. Of course, this was through the eyes of a naive first-time tourist. Who knows what lurks beneath the smiling exterior? But based on my first impressions, if I were an American manufacturer trying to choose between Guangzhou and Hanoi, I know which one I'd pick. (Remember, that is qualified by the phrase "based on first impressions.")
Be sure to check that article if you have any doubts at all about Vietnam's incredible success story.
He really is evil.
Torture in America
This is, quite simply, the most devastating and most breathtaking post I've ever seen on the evils of torture and the bullshit jutifications we are always spoonfed by the right – especially the noxious and absurd "ticking time bomb" scenario. Here is a very small sample from a post I hope you can visit for yourselves. It deals specifically with the "ticking time bomb" we see all the time on 24. And there's a reason we hear about it all the time – it's the only conceivable way to justify the barbarism of torture, even if the scenario is hopelessly false and cynical.
That fictional invention continues to be criminally abused by the torture advocates. As I explained in the spring of 2003, the problem with this fantasy is an epistemological one: the example fails because of the specific means by which we acquire knowledge, and the patterns in how we do so. The "ticking bomb" scene is common in a certain kind of Hollywood thriller, and it has been made cheap and utterly unoriginal by endless repetition and imitation. However, it is virtually, if not entirely, impossible that such a situation would ever develop in this manner in real life.
The fact that those who advocate the "legitimated" use of torture find it necessary to avail themselves of such an obviously false hypothetical reveals that other concerns drive their campaign to make the most monstrous kind of inhuman brutality "acceptable" to any degree at all. They pretend to bring intellectual rigor to their unforgivable task — but their allegedly "serious" arguments are full of the most obvious defects. The pretense at intellectual engagement serves a crucial function: it is the cover for much darker motives, which they do not care to face — or to name. I will deal with those motives, and with the forces that drive advocacy of this kind of extreme cruelty, in the final parts of this series.
And he does deal with the motives, splendidly. No one is spared – not Bill and Hillary Clinton, not Alan Dershowitz, and best of all, not the odious Charles Krauthammer. This is a goose-bump-inducing piece, one that is so visceral and raw and ruthlessly brilliant you feel a physical reaction as you read it.
The Chinese Invented Soccer, Part 2
My first post about this topic still brings googlers to this blog every day. Now, an article in the New Straits Times brings up the topic once again, and makes it clear (to their own satisfaction, at least) that soccer was first played in China.
Who actually invented soccer? For the British, the first soccer ball was the head of a vanquished Danish prince. In Egypt, soccer evolved from a harvest ritual where a linen ball was belted across a field. Even Eskimos played a type of soccer on a wide ice pitch.
Did soccer fever ever rage in China? In Ancient Soccer, the second instalment of Chinese Whispers, Zhang journeys across China and into the past in search of the answer, following the whispers of an ancient game called cuju dating back to the Qi kingdom more than 2,500 years ago and way before Europeans had their first free kick.
Cuju was so popular that it was played by the emperor, court officials, peasants, children and even women. The game spread to Japan and records show that a match was held between Japan and China around 50 BC. The Chinese were very serious about this game that it was literally a matter of life and death.
My own attitude is, who cares? But it was fascinating to see how emotional readers became when discussing this topic. Does this movie settle the question for good? Or is relating cuju to soccer a big stretch?
Chinese wonder how to improve media for foreigners
Man, I wish they had invited me to this conference:
Chinese communication experts convened at a forum in Beijing on Saturday to discuss ways of improving the reporting of domestic affairs for an international audience. "The Chinese should develop more efficient ways of communicating with the outside world," said Wu Jianmin, president of the Foreign Affairs College and former Chinese Ambassador to France.
"An acclaimed foreign expert on China once told me China's distorted image would be the largest obstacle for its further development," Wu said. "Sometimes, even when information is reported objectively, it can still send the wrong signals."
For example, some media focus too much on China's GDP or exports growth, giving the foreign audience an impression that everything in China is rosy, but they forget the cost of the successes, for example harm to the environment, Wu said.
The Chinese media which provides overseas services include Xinhua News Agency, CCTV 9, China Radio International, China News Service and several other TV channels and daily newspapers, magazines and websites.
CCTV and Xinhua giving foreigners too rosy a picture of China? Perish the thought. Look, as long as these media so blatantly and embarrassingly sing the party line and regurgitate all the tired myths and slogans, foreigners will continue to see them as a joke. As long as CCTV-9 news begins every hour with fascinating stories of Hu attending some land-use seminar in Xinjiang, no foreigner is going to take it seriously. As long as Dashan is on the air, no foreigner's going to take CCTV seriously. As long as Lei Feng's birthday is celebrated in all the media like it's the second coming, no one can take these media seriously. It's not a matter of tweaking the foreign-language media. It's about razing them to the ground and starting over.
Xinjiang Travelogue
Just go there. What a great read. Not my idea of a dream vacation (the cold is my greatest enemy in life, which explains why I own a house in Phoenix, Arizona), but hilarious and replete with priceless images.
A new China news aggregator
This one looks better than most in terms of simplicity and thoroughness. I suspect I'll be adding it to my list of must-visit-at-least-once-a-day sites. Check it out.
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I spent 9 years of my life attending a Quaker school, the Baltimore Friends School.
And that surprises the majority of people, I guess because when most people hear the word "Quaker" they think of that jovial Amish-looking man on the Quaker Oats box.
But the truth is that by the time I became a student at Friends School in 1980, the stereotypical Quaker looked less like that black-hatted oatmeal fellow, and more like a tie-died Woodstock alum. In fact, by the time I attended Friends there was almost nothing that was traditionally Quaker about the school at all. Except for one thing.
Once a week we students were required to walk up the hill to attend "Meeting for Worship" at the school's 200-year-old stone Meeting House. A Meeting House is a large, bare room with rows of benches facing the center of the room, where a small table sits with a Bible upon it. Unlike other forms of Christianity, there is no minister. And no crosses. And no service. And no sermon.
At Meeting for Worship we would simply spend 45 minutes sitting silently, while we were supposed to be attempting to get in touch with our "inner light." Our Divine soul. And when someone was "Inspired by the inner light" he or she would stand up and speak.
And more often than not, one of those speakers was me. I would share a meaningful story from my life. Or an insight about existence. Or some piece of wisdom I had learned.
And I gave in, because I wanted to entertain my classmates. And also because speaking broke up the 45-minute boredom for me too. So I would stand up to speak, not because I was "inspired by the inner light," but rather just in order to pass the time for me and my classmates.
And that embarrasses me to this day. It embarrasses me that I opened my mouth when I didn't have anything to say that was really coming from my heart.
Nowadays, I tend to only think about the near quarter of my life I spent at Friends School when I'm getting nachas about the black and white contrast between my own American Quaker-ish school experience and the experience of my Israeli kids at their Orthodox school….
But that isn't really fair. My 9 years at Friends School shaped me as a human being in many ways, and one of the most formative experiences of all was standing up week by week and sharing my own "inner light' with my friends and classmates and teachers.
And just yesterday it occurred to me out of the blue that there is a strong connection between those Meeting for Worship monologues of long ago and JewishMOM.com of today.
My mission for this website is that it will be a place where I can share my Inner Light with you JewishMOMs. And most of the time this website is just that, it's a place where I share only those thoughts and experiences and insights that touch my heart most deeply.
But not always. Sometimes I just post stuff since I want to post something, and I can't come up with anything better.
But I don't want to do that anymore, JewishMOM.
What I really want, what I'm really strive for, is to only open my mouth when I have something important to say. When I feel my inner light stirring within me, and I just have to open up my browser and start typing. And send some words straight from my JewishMOM heart to yours.
I do that too on my blog. I could never put my finger on it, but there are times when I'm just "itching to write". I guess writers know what I'm talking about. It's when you read something or experienced something and all these feelings are almost jumping right out of you. I say to my husband, "I need to write a blog right now, before this feeling goes away." He asks me, "What are you going to write about?" And the funny thing is, I have no clue! I just know I need to put my fingers over that keyboard and the words will just flow.
I have written many blogs that people comment and say, "That was so thought-out and well-written." And I know that those are the blogs that I had sat down and had no idea what I wanted to say. I love the feeling of a blog just flowing out of my fingers, almost as if someone else is writing it! I guess that is what you mean when you say, "feeling the inner light move you"!
I admire your honesty and perceptiveness.
Your intentions have always been pure…whether trying to entertain your friends in the "meeting house" to pass the time, or posting a quick post for the moms who try to read your blog regularly, like me.
When I was about ten, I had poor penmanship. In order improve, my mother suggested keeping a daily journal. She said it didn't need to be a full page, sometimes it could even be a drawing of what happened in my day with a few words.
I did it for 4 years in a row and then on and off. My handwriting really did improve. If I thought I had to write a full page every day, I think I would've given up after a week.
You do a great job of inspiring mothers! Thanks for all you do, great and small with your blog. May Hashem continue to guide and bless you with many more years of success in all you do.
I think you are doing a great job and keep up the good work! You always have something interesting to share, and even if it's not inspiring, your posts are fun to read and provide a welcome distraction to us busy moms. If readers smile or laugh when reading your posts, that is something important too! Not everything has to be so serious and meaningful. Taking time to actually enjoy the lighter things in life makes us well rounded, happier individuals – not to mention better wives and JewishMOMs!!! So keep it up and please don't change what you've been doing. After all, it's our choice if we want to read the post or not. I have been a fan of yours for years and I have learned so much from you. May Hashem bless you to continue your holy work with health and all good things!
keep doing it!! ican't wait to your next post, and check your site every day!! great miss jenny, you are a model to us!!
I used to blog years ago. I found that over time, I veered from my original intent which was simply to record and share important or humorous things about being a mom and wife. Once I gained a few dozen readers, I suddenly pressured myself into an obligations to write for motives that didn't match my original intent. Is it people pleasing? Pride? I'm not sure, but it took the joy right out of it. Volume isn't where it's at. Words from the heart are…frequent, infrequent, funny, sad, inspiring, powerful, life changing!
And here you were, my model for devoted and systematic blogging. I'm sure you will be equally successful in your new approach.
I would like to add some things, both positive and negative, about the Quakers. I learned a great deal about them when I was doing research for my book Five Thousand Years of Slavery a few years ago. Aside from two very early Jewish sects (the Essenes and the Therapeutae)the Quakers were the first religious group to condemn slavery — in the seventeenth century, in both Britain and the United States. Their founder, George Fox, wrote to his fellow Quakers shortly after he began the religion reminding them that all people were equal, for all own an element of God's spirit. And it was the Quakers who were the first organized group, in Britain, to work for the end of slavery in Britain's West Indian colonies. Unfortunately, they were considered oddballs, with their plain dress at a time of laces and periwigs. (And they refused to remove their hats for royalty!) But when Thomas Clarkson, the non-Quaker who did actually organize the truly successful campaign against the slave trade, got the movement going, it was the Quaker network he allied with, and they published his first anti-slavery pamphlet. British slavery would not have ended without the Quaker (and Christian Evangelical) infrastructure. It is sad today to note that some of the religious opposition to Israel now comes from Quaker activists, who no longer see as clearly as they did in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Chana Jenny, you have never wasted our time.


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Koray Malhan gives Lecture about Design & Pathos – Products Oblivion and Rothko
Dusseldorf/Berlin, 02.11.2017. Koleksiyon will participate in the world's largest international architectural event, the World Architecture Festival, from 15th until 17th November in Berlin. Koray Malhan, Koleksiyon's Chief Design Officer, will give a talk titled "Design & Pathos" on the stage of the connected Inside Festival of Interior Design. Based on his research in the fields of music, philosophy and sociology as well as linguistics and semiology, Malhan presents his inspirations and the philosophy behind his designs. Two products of this design approach can also be seen at WAF: the large conical room-in-room system Oblivion and the complex workstation system Rothko. Both systems are part of the "Self-Organised workplace", Koleksiyon's approach to the office of the future.
Visitors have the opportunity to meet Koray Malhan and the managing director of the German subsidiary of Koleksiyon, Dirk Boll, for a professional exchange.
The World Architecture Festival (WAF) not only provides a comprehensive overview of current trends and developments in architecture and urban planning, it also brings together international experts of the architectural scene. The finale of the event is the awarding of the "WAF Awards", which are considered as the Oscars of architecture and recognize architectural excellence in the areas of buildings, future projects and landscape architecture. Competition entries from over 60 countries compete against each other in 30 categories. The festival will take place in Berlin for the first time and also offers eleven different tours through the capital under different architectural perspectives.
You can find Koleksiyon at WAF in the Arena Berlin, booth E 20 & E 30.
Lecture Koray Malhan: 15.11.2017 from 17.00 - 17.40 on the stage of Inside Festival.
For more information: www.worldarchitecturefestival.com
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