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What do Jews do, Christmas Eve, 2006
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I didn’t do any of the things described in this article, but it is a great read on what younger, unattached, Jews without dependents and living in New York City do on Christmas Eve. I’d heard of the Matzo Ball, the magazine Heeb, J-Dub (which records The LeeVees as well as found Matisyahu) and JDate. But all of those cultural milestone markers are really after my time. Sob.
Maybe the Corey er, um, Rubin Brothers know whether Cleveland has any of the incarnations described in the article. And if Cleveland doesn’t, well, maybe building a location for one could be the next Ratner/Miller Forest City plan.
Ooo – I know! A casino night on Christmas Eve at some FCE venue! I can just imagine my “what do Jews do, Christmas Eve, 2007″!
What did I actually do on Christmas Eve? I was at Great Wolf Lodge with my family watching the animatronic Native American girl and animals sing songs and fake snow blow all over the lobby, a lobby filled with a lot of Jews, Muslims and a smattering of everyone else. I couldn’t believe how many Jews we bumped into there. Must be the new Chinese restaurant.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:34 am December 30th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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Female blogger elected to Iranian City Council
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Outstanding. Mehrnoush Najafi’s blog is here though not in English. A report on her election can be read here, in the English version of Rooz.
Ali Eteraz urges people to publicize this kind of news because, he writes, “…this is the kind of stuff that will prevent war.”
P.S. She’s also a lawyer, and known as a womens activist.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:49 am December 30th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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Top Five Blog Posts by Comments, 2006
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5. Scripture Supports Lying and Maligning for Political Gain (22) (Ken Blackwell)
4. Now Tell Me, Who Are You? Who Are You? (24) (Paul Hackett)
3. Political Side Effects of Being a Woman (31) (Jennifer Martinez Atzberger)
2. The Full Million(s) (32) (Capri Cafaro)
1. Dave Hickman is in Touch With Anger (43) (obvious)
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:15 am December 30th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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Who is & how many are having abortions? Not the people or the numbers you think
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You’ll have to reach back into your fourth grade math memory and remember that mean, median, mode and range, not to mention ratios and rates represent different views of the same set of numbers. So, when you read this most recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on abortion (released 11/06), be very, very careful.
For example, “Women aged 20–24 years obtained 33% of all abortions for which age was adequately reported. Adolescents aged <15 years obtained <1.0% of all abortions in the 48 areas that reported age."
Get that: under 15? Less than 1% of all total number of abortions.
BUT… “Abortion ratios were highest for adolescents aged <15 Figure 2, Table 4).”
My emphasis on ratio. Look at the linked figure and table and you’ll see why. Women in the 30-34 age range are wanting babies and more likely married in greater proportion to girls under 15. Conversely, girls under 15 aren’t likely to be married or wanting to have babies. They also are pregnant in far fewer numbers than women 30-34, as we would hope.
There are a lot of stats in there and a lot to think about. Here’s info from the report’s summary that highlights what women who have unintended pregnancies say is the reason they obtained an abortion. It indicates that 4.6 million men and women, in the three months preceding the survey, had unprotected sex. It takes two to tango, fellas.
Inconsistent method use of the pill (75.9%) or condoms (49.3%) were the most common reason for unintended pregnancy reported by women obtained abortions (20). Unintended pregnancy is a pervasive public health problem for all population subgroups and women of reproductive age (8,61,67).
Although induced abortions usually result from unintended pregnancies, which often occur despite the use of contraception, the approximately 4.6 million women who have had intercourse during the 3 months preceding the survey but were not using contraception might be the most at risk for unintended pregnancy (16). Thus, a reduction in the number of abortions will require adapting complex strategies. Insurance coverage of reversible contraception has increased substantially since 1993 (68), although gaps in coverage remain substantial. Education regarding abstinence and contraceptive use, including emergency contraception, combined with access to and education regarding safe, effective contraception and family planning services, might help reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancy and, therefore, the number of legal induced abortions in the United States (69,70).
Last note: The abortion rate for legal induced abortions in 1973 was 14 per 1000 live births. In 2003, 16 per 1000 live births. Hardly numbers to evoke hysterics or serve as political motivation to criminalize this medical procedure. Religious reason? Maybe. Object on moral grounds? If that’s your thing. But not on political grounds.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:17 am December 30th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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28
Check this out, especially Jeff Coryell and Scott Bakalar. What can we learn from this method of attribution, to kind of codify the way in which others who want to use what we produce can use what we produce in a respectful, aknowledging way? Or, is there such a way? How might you alter what NowPublic is doing?
Big hattip to Amy Gahran of PoynterOnline. PS – Amy – I promise an update on my use of wikis with three different groups of people – two at my synagogue and one group of bloggers working on a grant application. It’s been very interesting and I hope to start a new experiment with it after the new year too.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:55 pm December 28th, 2006 in Politics | 2 Comments
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Citizen journalists give and get credit for others’ photos
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Check this out, especially Jeff Coryell and Scott Bakalar. What can we learn from this method of attribution, to kind of codify the way in which others who want to use what we produce can use what we produce in a respectful, aknowledging way? Or, is there such a way? How might you alter what NowPublic is doing?
Big hattip to Amy Gahran of PoynterOnline. PS – Amy – I promise an update on my use of wikis with three different groups of people – two at my synagogue and one group of bloggers working on a grant application. It’s been very interesting and I hope to start a new experiment with it after the new year too.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:55 am December 28th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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Woodward allowed to embargo knowledge that Ford disagreed w/Bush, Iraq war
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Is this okay? And Bob Woodward now has a byline set with a date of tomorrow on this information? He sure does like to keep secrets.
It’s one thing to respect a former president’s request to publish his opinion posthumously. But is it another thing for a journalist to withhold such information under any and all conditions?
Hattip to Democratic Veteran.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:20 am December 28th, 2006 in Politics | 4 Comments
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Woodward allowed to embargo knowledge that Ford disagreed w/Bush, Iraq war
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Is this okay? And Bob Woodward now has a byline set with a date of tomorrow on this information? He sure does like to keep secrets.
It’s one thing to respect a former president’s request to publish his opinion posthumously. But is it another thing for a journalist to withhold such information under any and all conditions?
Hattip to Democratic Veteran.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:20 pm December 27th, 2006 in Politics | 4 Comments
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27
First annual (?) OPEN Political WMD Awards
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Not sure how the voting went down on these, but Ted Wendling memorializes a few interesting – and unfortunate – moments that are now, thank goodness, history. (I should add that I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop; Wendling was just too nice to the newly elected Dems, and no real potshots at political blogging – could that be??).
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:43 pm December 27th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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Woodward allowed to embargo knowledge that Ford disagreed w/Bush, Iraq war
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Is this okay? And Bob Woodward now has a byline set with a date of tomorrow on this information? He sure does like to keep secrets.
It’s one thing to respect a former president’s request to publish his opinion posthumously. But is it another thing for a journalist to withhold such information under any and all conditions?
Hattip to Democratic Veteran.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:20 pm December 27th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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First annual (?) OPEN Political WMD Awards
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Not sure how the voting went down on these, but Ted Wendling memorializes a few interesting – and unfortunate – moments that are now, thank goodness, history. (I should add that I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop; Wendling was just too nice to the newly elected Dems, and no real potshots at political blogging – could that be??).
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:43 pm December 27th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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First annual (?) OPEN Political WMD Awards
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Not sure how the voting went down on these, but Ted Wendling memorializes a few interesting – and unfortunate – moments that are now, thank goodness, history. (I should add that I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop; Wendling was just too nice to the newly elected Dems, and no real potshots at political blogging – could that be??).
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:43 pm December 27th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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WSJ’s Rago is afraid of the Thunderdome, ignores the people that make up the mob
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I was unaware of this Wall Street Journal opinion piece until I saw this As Ohio Goes post listed in Lefty Blogs. Rago is, of course, entitled to his opinion, just like everyone else – whether everyone else has a blog or not, or gets paid to write their opinion or not. Holding an opinion is free. Still anyway. And most people like to give their opinion, if asked. Many give it without being asked too (and wouldn’t you rather have them do it on a blog than in your face anyway?)
Now, I don’t get the WSJ and I don’t read it unless someone flags something in it for me. I did, however, google Rago and this seriously insignificant trifle of writing popped up. Here’s Rago’s bio at the WSJ. It appears that he graduated recently from Dartmouth. Is he even aware of what Harvard, which perhaps rejected him, is doing with blogs for its political campaigners? After reading what I have found on Mr. Rago (though, Joe, I’m sure there’s a lot more to know about you – you just haven’t given me any reason to want to know it), I’m even happier that I don’t waste money on a paper that employs, as an opinion person, someone like Rago. For a guy who just wrote an opinion piece that says bloggers are narcissists crying for attention, it sounds more to me like bloggers should be saying back to him, “we know you are but what am I.” Just read that first piece of his writing when he was a college student two years ago.
Back to his “column.” Rants like Rago’s no longer anger me or evince in me a sense that the author is mean or mean-spirited. No. A year after Dick Feagler wrote his seminal column on blogs (which, of course, is no longer available online, thank you, Advance Publications), more than a year after I attended my first Meet the Bloggers (with Eric Fingerhut) and a year since I first started following Ohio politics with an embarrassing amount of vigor, instead, I say:
Mr. Rago – you’ve been played. You’ve been used. By those who want you to say what you’ve just said. And you look foolish and uninformed and parrot-like.
You completely missed the trees for the forest, yes, I mean “the trees for the forest.” You’re focusing on the mob when the focus when one writes about blogs, with what makes blogs undeniable and myriad, should be on the trees – on the individuals. On all the species and states of being of the 50-plus million blogs. Mr. Rago – you are following the pack, you are a sheep being herded by the in transition field of news gatherers and hunters. I’m one too – a news gatherer and hunter. Truth is – we want everyone to be a news gatherer and hunter.
That blogs contribute, or don’t contribute, has nothing to do with the MSM except out of coincidence. It’s like Thomas Friedman says – The World is Flat. And so long as the MSM continues to believe it, they will continue to employ and publish people who are willing to write what you just wrote.
But the world isn’t flat. And each and every single blog matters to the person who writes it – regardless of who reads it. Strip away all the people who do the crappy stuff with blogs about which you and everyone else complains, and you will find more than enough in there to justify the value of the tool.
But that would be too hard – that would require you to actually find the diamonds in the rough. And rough it is – you’ll get no argument from me about that.
Nevertheless, Mr. Rago, the phenomenon of the blogs is driven not because we can, but because people can’t – people can’t get their vote to mean something, people can’t get companies to hear the consumer complaints, people can’t get elected officials once they managed to get elected do what the voters want or what’s in the best interest of the country, spouses can’t get each other to listen, parents can’t get kids to understand, kids can’t understand their parents.
Frustration, not technology, is what’s given birth to blogs, Mr. Rago. And as a tool of expression, blogs work perfectly. They work better than perfectly. The proliferation of blogs has such a deeper meaning than the superficial bs you and others – within and outside the media (because blogs really have nothing to do with media – they operate because of their own drivers – the casual connection just isn’t there; it’s mere coincidence that blogs can do what traditional journalism tools can do) attribute to blogs as their M.O.
Simply, Mr. Rago? You don’t get it.
Frankly, if the WSJ wanted to do a real job on the weaknesses of the blogs, in all the incestuous glory, that could be done – by bloggers no less. Or by journalists. Or by journalists who blog and bloggers who used to be journalists.
Why they allowed someone as green as Rago to post something that merely reads as having been cut and pasted together from Dick Feagler and others harangues about blogs, I have no idea. But you know those decreasing profit margins for print newspapers? Rago might be the next casualty. Or should be. Then let him tough it out in the thunderdome, I mean, blogosphere.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:04 pm December 27th, 2006 in Politics | 3 Comments
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WSJ’s Rago is afraid of the Thunderdome, ignores the people that make up the mob
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I was unaware of this Wall Street Journal opinion piece until I saw this As Ohio Goes post listed in Lefty Blogs. Rago is, of course, entitled to his opinion, just like everyone else – whether everyone else has a blog or not, or gets paid to write their opinion or not. Holding an opinion is free. Still anyway. And most people like to give their opinion, if asked. Many give it without being asked too (and wouldn’t you rather have them do it on a blog than in your face anyway?)
Now, I don’t get the WSJ and I don’t read it unless someone flags something in it for me. I did, however, google Rago and this seriously insignificant trifle of writing popped up. Here’s Rago’s bio at the WSJ. It appears that he graduated recently from Dartmouth. Is he even aware of what Harvard, which perhaps rejected him, is doing with blogs for its political campaigners? After reading what I have found on Mr. Rago (though, Joe, I’m sure there’s a lot more to know about you – you just haven’t given me any reason to want to know it), I’m even happier that I don’t waste money on a paper that employs, as an opinion person, someone like Rago. For a guy who just wrote an opinion piece that says bloggers are narcissists crying for attention, it sounds more to me like bloggers should be saying back to him, “we know you are but what am I.” Just read that first piece of his writing when he was a college student two years ago.
Back to his “column.” Rants like Rago’s no longer anger me or evince in me a sense that the author is mean or mean-spirited. No. A year after Dick Feagler wrote his seminal column on blogs (which, of course, is no longer available online, thank you, Advance Publications), more than a year after I attended my first Meet the Bloggers (with Eric Fingerhut) and a year since I first started following Ohio politics with an embarrassing amount of vigor, instead, I say:
Mr. Rago – you’ve been played. You’ve been used. By those who want you to say what you’ve just said. And you look foolish and uninformed and parrot-like.
You completely missed the trees for the forest, yes, I mean “the trees for the forest.” You’re focusing on the mob when the focus when one writes about blogs, with what makes blogs undeniable and myriad, should be on the trees – on the individuals. On all the species and states of being of the 50-plus million blogs. Mr. Rago – you are following the pack, you are a sheep being herded by the in transition field of news gatherers and hunters. I’m one too – a news gatherer and hunter. Truth is – we want everyone to be a news gatherer and hunter.
That blogs contribute, or don’t contribute, has nothing to do with the MSM except out of coincidence. It’s like Thomas Friedman says – The World is Flat. And so long as the MSM continues to believe it, they will continue to employ and publish people who are willing to write what you just wrote.
But the world isn’t flat. And each and every single blog matters to the person who writes it – regardless of who reads it. Strip away all the people who do the crappy stuff with blogs about which you and everyone else complains, and you will find more than enough in there to justify the value of the tool.
But that would be too hard – that would require you to actually find the diamonds in the rough. And rough it is – you’ll get no argument from me about that.
Nevertheless, Mr. Rago, the phenomenon of the blogs is driven not because we can, but because people can’t – people can’t get their vote to mean something, people can’t get companies to hear the consumer complaints, people can’t get elected officials once they managed to get elected do what the voters want or what’s in the best interest of the country, spouses can’t get each other to listen, parents can’t get kids to understand, kids can’t understand their parents.
Frustration, not technology, is what’s given birth to blogs, Mr. Rago. And as a tool of expression, blogs work perfectly. They work better than perfectly. The proliferation of blogs has such a deeper meaning than the superficial bs you and others – within and outside the media (because blogs really have nothing to do with media – they operate because of their own drivers – the casual connection just isn’t there; it’s mere coincidence that blogs can do what traditional journalism tools can do) attribute to blogs as their M.O.
Simply, Mr. Rago? You don’t get it.
Frankly, if the WSJ wanted to do a real job on the weaknesses of the blogs, in all the incestuous glory, that could be done – by bloggers no less. Or by journalists. Or by journalists who blog and bloggers who used to be journalists.
Why they allowed someone as green as Rago to post something that merely reads as having been cut and pasted together from Dick Feagler and others harangues about blogs, I have no idea. But you know those decreasing profit margins for print newspapers? Rago might be the next casualty. Or should be. Then let him tough it out in the thunderdome, I mean, blogosphere.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:04 am December 27th, 2006 in Politics | 3 Comments
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WSJ’s Rago is afraid of the Thunderdome, ignores the people that make up the mob
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I was unaware of this Wall Street Journal opinion piece until I saw this As Ohio Goes post listed in Lefty Blogs. Rago is, of course, entitled to his opinion, just like everyone else – whether everyone else has a blog or not, or gets paid to write their opinion or not. Holding an opinion is free. Still anyway. And most people like to give their opinion, if asked. Many give it without being asked too (and wouldn’t you rather have them do it on a blog than in your face anyway?)
Now, I don’t get the WSJ and I don’t read it unless someone flags something in it for me. I did, however, google Rago and this seriously insignificant trifle of writing popped up. Here’s Rago’s bio at the WSJ. It appears that he graduated recently from Dartmouth. Is he even aware of what Harvard, which perhaps rejected him, is doing with blogs for its political campaigners? After reading what I have found on Mr. Rago (though, Joe, I’m sure there’s a lot more to know about you – you just haven’t given me any reason to want to know it), I’m even happier that I don’t waste money on a paper that employs, as an opinion person, someone like Rago. For a guy who just wrote an opinion piece that says bloggers are narcissists crying for attention, it sounds more to me like bloggers should be saying back to him, “we know you are but what am I.” Just read that first piece of his writing when he was a college student two years ago.
Back to his “column.” Rants like Rago’s no longer anger me or evince in me a sense that the author is mean or mean-spirited. No. A year after Dick Feagler wrote his seminal column on blogs (which, of course, is no longer available online, thank you, Advance Publications), more than a year after I attended my first Meet the Bloggers (with Eric Fingerhut) and a year since I first started following Ohio politics with an embarrassing amount of vigor, instead, I say:
Mr. Rago – you’ve been played. You’ve been used. By those who want you to say what you’ve just said. And you look foolish and uninformed and parrot-like.
You completely missed the trees for the forest, yes, I mean “the trees for the forest.” You’re focusing on the mob when the focus when one writes about blogs, with what makes blogs undeniable and myriad, should be on the trees – on the individuals. On all the species and states of being of the 50-plus million blogs. Mr. Rago – you are following the pack, you are a sheep being herded by the in transition field of news gatherers and hunters. I’m one too – a news gatherer and hunter. Truth is – we want everyone to be a news gatherer and hunter.
That blogs contribute, or don’t contribute, has nothing to do with the MSM except out of coincidence. It’s like Thomas Friedman says – The World is Flat. And so long as the MSM continues to believe it, they will continue to employ and publish people who are willing to write what you just wrote.
But the world isn’t flat. And each and every single blog matters to the person who writes it – regardless of who reads it. Strip away all the people who do the crappy stuff with blogs about which you and everyone else complains, and you will find more than enough in there to justify the value of the tool.
But that would be too hard – that would require you to actually find the diamonds in the rough. And rough it is – you’ll get no argument from me about that.
Nevertheless, Mr. Rago, the phenomenon of the blogs is driven not because we can, but because people can’t – people can’t get their vote to mean something, people can’t get companies to hear the consumer complaints, people can’t get elected officials once they managed to get elected do what the voters want or what’s in the best interest of the country, spouses can’t get each other to listen, parents can’t get kids to understand, kids can’t understand their parents.
Frustration, not technology, is what’s given birth to blogs, Mr. Rago. And as a tool of expression, blogs work perfectly. They work better than perfectly. The proliferation of blogs has such a deeper meaning than the superficial bs you and others – within and outside the media (because blogs really have nothing to do with media – they operate because of their own drivers – the casual connection just isn’t there; it’s mere coincidence that blogs can do what traditional journalism tools can do) attribute to blogs as their M.O.
Simply, Mr. Rago? You don’t get it.
Frankly, if the WSJ wanted to do a real job on the weaknesses of the blogs, in all the incestuous glory, that could be done – by bloggers no less. Or by journalists. Or by journalists who blog and bloggers who used to be journalists.
Why they allowed someone as green as Rago to post something that merely reads as having been cut and pasted together from Dick Feagler and others harangues about blogs, I have no idea. But you know those decreasing profit margins for print newspapers? Rago might be the next casualty. Or should be. Then let him tough it out in the thunderdome, I mean, blogosphere.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:04 am December 27th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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27
Do NOT change Winter and Spring Breaks to Christmas and Easter Recess
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I won’t douse myself with flammable liquid like this guy did, but I would certainly consider less self-injurious action. If you read the entire story as it’s being reported from the situs in California, honestly – it sounds so belligerent. How on Earth is that helpful, honorable or what we want our kids to be modeling? We live in a diverse country – GET USED TO IT. IT’S NOT GOING TO GET LESS DIVERSE.
Lucky for my school district, we don’t have an Easter recess, although I am already unhappy that a waiver day has been placed after Easter Sunday, when, just a week before, I will have to pull my kids from school to observe Passover. I’m guessing there are more Jews who observe Passover in my town than Christians who observe Easter Monday, aka Dyngus Day (when boys try to drench women – connected to Baptism from what I read) for natives of Poland (of which my grandfather was one though Jewish not Catholic) – but I could be wrong (Easter Monday is not a national holiday in the U.S.).
Either way, I can live with that burden. I know what’s important to me and what I want my children to understand is important, no matter what anyone names anything. However, as a peace on Earth and good will to all persons kind of thing? Don’t mess with the names of the school breaks in my town, okay?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:55 am December 27th, 2006 in Politics | 4 Comments
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Pork = $200/person; publicly financed elections = $6/person
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So says Just $6 Dollars. It looks like a rather dormant effort over there right now, but here are some interesting comments from over the last several months. Alternet also just posted this opinion piece about public financing of elections.
Given the U.S. Congress’s push against pork, why not expand it to a push for publicly financed elections? It will be nearly 300 million times $194 cheaper than letting pork pass.
If you want to see why we need change, watch PBS’s Votes for Sale?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:22 am December 27th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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Do NOT change Winter and Spring Breaks to Christmas and Easter Recess
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I won’t douse myself with flammable liquid like this guy did, but I would certainly consider less self-injurious action. If you read the entire story as it’s being reported from the situs in California, honestly – it sounds so belligerent. How on Earth is that helpful, honorable or what we want our kids to be modeling? We live in a diverse country – GET USED TO IT. IT’S NOT GOING TO GET LESS DIVERSE.
Lucky for my school district, we don’t have an Easter recess, although I am already unhappy that a waiver day has been placed after Easter Sunday, when, just a week before, I will have to pull my kids from school to observe Passover. I’m guessing there are more Jews who observe Passover in my town than Christians who observe Easter Monday, aka Dyngus Day (when boys try to drench women – connected to Baptism from what I read) for natives of Poland (of which my grandfather was one though Jewish not Catholic) – but I could be wrong (Easter Monday is not a national holiday in the U.S.).
Either way, I can live with that burden. I know what’s important to me and what I want my children to understand is important, no matter what anyone names anything. However, as a peace on Earth and good will to all persons kind of thing? Don’t mess with the names of the school breaks in my town, okay?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:55 pm December 26th, 2006 in Politics | 4 Comments
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Women’s Fund of Central Ohio receives $1 million
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When one part of the whole is suppressed, we all suffer the consequences. My vision is about empowering women so that the whole community benefits. For example, microfinance for women isn’t just benefiting them; it’s benefiting their families and their communities.
But it would be years before I came into a family inheritance and could fund serious change with serious dollars.
It wasn’t difficult to identify the Women’s Fund of Central Ohio as my “investment of choice.”
In its short five years, the Women’s Fund has already made a difference in the way the community thinks about issues affecting women and girls. Our focus is on social change rather than social service, specifically in women’s leadership, economic self sufficiency, life skills for girls and creating awareness that everyone can be a philanthropist.
Our grants, which total more than $500,000 in only four years, are already helping women and girls turn their lives around. This was a natural fit for me. One aspect I particularly value is the idea that we are all coming together to create social change. Not everyone can give at my level, but it is the collective power of all of us, whether giving $100 or $1 million that will make the difference.
Talk about stepping up. Thank you, Carol J. Andreae.
If you live in the seven-county region involved, you might be interested in this information the Fund gathered about the state of women and girls in Central Ohio.
FYI – There is a Mary Jo Hudson on the Women’s Fund Board.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:46 pm December 26th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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Pork = $200/person; publicly financed elections = $6/person
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So says Just $6 Dollars. It looks like a rather dormant effort over there right now, but here are some interesting comments from over the last several months. Alternet also just posted this opinion piece about public financing of elections.
Given the U.S. Congress’s push against pork, why not expand it to a push for publicly financed elections? It will be nearly 300 million times $194 cheaper than letting pork pass.
If you want to see why we need change, watch PBS’s Votes for Sale?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:22 pm December 26th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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