Sources, taken from readings I'm doing presently, or verified and moved from the Dear Habermas teaching essays and materials in the Dear Habermas site index, as sometimes they matter even more than they did 13 years or so ago. jeanne

• Yarnbombing Updates
  Great place for getting ideas. Just please remember to gift someone with your pieces. Don't leave them somewhere that no one will be responsible for taking them down when their beauty has faded or been besmirched. jeanne 07.05.2011.

• Learning Democracy by Doing Alternative Practices in Citizenship Education and Participatory Democracy. By Katherine Daly, Daniel Schugurensky, and Krista Lopes, Editors. Transformative Learning Centre, Ontaro Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, July 2009.

  Available online, free access, and some studies that look like they matter to our Public-Sphere Awareness Project. For example:

  "Citizenship Participation and Participatory Democracy: Limits and Possibilities" Daniel Schugurensky, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. At p. 50.Accessed by jeanne on July 4, 2011.

  Susan, I think this piece is particularly useful for our cross-national project. I'll put up a summary and contents later, especially since many of those who participate in the project won't want to access the original source. Praxis doesn't have the same requirements as peer review. You just have to trust the reviewer. jeanne

  "Advancing Democracy and Happiness: The Leadership Development Frameworks of Different Types of Charismatic Political Leadership" Johnny Welchjeanne, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. At p. 73. Accessed by jeanne on July 4, 2011.

• Access Link from Robert Link, Esq. Supports open access worldwide.

• Living in the Bonus Round
  Steve Schalchlin's Diary about living with AIDS. It needed a new link on our site. And I'll have to check out the older files to update links and material. But personally, it's quite a thrill to find Steve again after such a long time by googling his name after finding the broken link to his diary. He's alive! And I'm alive, though an awful lot older than he! And we've both pretty much accomplished what we wanted to. I even found him through a Wikipedia article/a>! jeanne

• Sexuality

  This link came through the website of Steve Schalchlin, whom I contacted years ago about sharing his diary with the Dear Habermas projects at CSUDH. We lost touch, but we each went on with our goals. Maybe when I get the site all updated I can find the time to get in touch again.

  An e-mail list to join for parents and friends of gays and lesbians. Subscrie by sending an e-mail to: listproc@Youth-Guard.org

  In the body (with a blank subject line) say:

  subscribe pflag-talk FirstName LastName

  subscribe pflag-announce FirstName LastName

  Regardless of your personal feelings on issues of sexuality, it's a HUGE part of our lives and affects every one of us. The above website and e-mail list are essential for friends and family who need to learn how to support their loved ones. It fits so beautifully into our "arrogance of knowledge" discussions. How can we understand diversity even minimally, if we think we know how all things (including sexuality) feel to all people. I thought only God was omniscient and the rest of us were just human.

  I will never forget the day a young man in one of my classes (I think it might have been Love 1A) said that he needed to talk to me. We had read the famous love scene in Andre Gide's Faux Monnayeurs. He said, "I think I might be gay, and I don't know what to do about it." I never dreamed that a young man, in a California State College in Los Angeles, California could find himself in such a predicament. Parts of L.A. are so cool and sophisticated. And parts are like tiny small towns. The young man was so honest and innocent in asking for help, and so in awe of his predicament, revelation, his sincerity stood out above all. I was lucky. There was a gay faculty member I could take him to. But the pflag-talk e-mail list would have been so helpful back then. Please don't ever use this e-mail address to subvert the intent of the service. it is so desperately needed by some young people who are not socially aggressive. jeanne

• Leo Buscaglia and Dear Habermas Just found this when I was too tired to pack up and go to bed. Just having fun like this for the last half hour. Good night. jeanne 07.02.2011.

• Equal Justice Works Updated source on student debt relief.

• The Investigative Fund
  This fund sponsored Jeff Sharlet's research on The Family at C Street.

• C Street Inside the Washington, DC residence known as C Street, home to the fundamentalist group The Family, piety and corruption live side by side.">

• cats0001src.htm
  Sources that need to be added. jeanne 06.14.2011.

• cats0001srcwar.htm
  Add these, too. jeanne 06.14.2011.

• catsindxaj.htm and catsindxkz.htm
  jeanne 06.14.2011.

• The American Prospect Liberal collection of articles.

• Afri Twin - pairin of schools in South Africa with schools in the UK. - Investigating possibilities of sharing our site with them. jeanne

  Afri TwinSharing Education Together/

• Jared Bernstein's Blog Vice President Biden's economic advisor.

  "Jun 02, 2011 | Categories: New Posts | 6 Comments » Our Infrastructure Deficit: This Time, It’s Personal"

  "Jun 01, 2011 | Categories: New Posts | 8 Comments » Note to Congress: Stop Screwing Around and Raise the Debt Ceiling?

• Congressman Weiner: When does morality inescapably intrude on political action? Even when we admit the insanity of discussing sexting on the same level as the future financial security of our country? Sexting is the issue, and should never have been. Will come back to this. 06.13.2011 I came back, but it's all sickening. Never mind. jeanne

• www.rockpoolcandy.com > reef structures Perfectly beautiful crocheted art pieces that came in today from Yahoo's FF crochet group. Do visit the site. But this is a tad more advanced than I had planned to try, at least in the beginning. jeanne and Ming

• Rortybomb

  "The Importance of Deficit Cutting to Liberal Economists, pre-Crisis Edition. Posted on June 2, 2011 by Mike Konczal.

  "About

  The Internet Friendly Finance Opinion Unit Shifter Blog

  Rortybomb named one of the Top 25 Best Economic and Finance Blogs by Time Magazine.

  Mike Konczal is a fellow with the Roosevelt Institute, who also blogs at New Deal 2.0. He works on financial reform, the 21st century economy, unemployment, inequality, access to financial services and what it means to have a social contract in a financialized, post-industrial economy. He’s written papers for the Roosevelt Institute about financial reform several times as well as the deficit and the unemployment crisis. His work has appeared at The American Prospect, NPR’s Planet Money, Slate, Baseline Scenario, Atlantic Monthly’s Business Channel and The Nation. Originally from Chicago, he enjoys finance, economics, sociology, theory, tacos and center-left politics on the side.

  Feel free to contact him here.

  See also Mike Konczal's take on Peter Orzag's The Democrats' Jobs Plan. These are answers I can understand. jeanne

• QE2 - We'll need to understand this term on Fed policy. QE2 is the Fed's experiment at buying up more treasury notes and bonds to give banks more latitude to lend. Or at least I think that's why they did it? Don't we desperately need the banks to lend so we can rebuild the economy and create jobs? jeanne

• Planet Money. NPR. June 2, 2011.

  "QE2, Extended Remix"
  Categories: Government, Finance
  11:50 am
  June 2, 2011
  by Jacob Goldstein

  For the past six months, the Federal Reserve has been creating money out of thin air at a rate of billions of dollars a day. This will stop later this month, as planned.

  In one sense, this will mark the end of the latest round of quantitative easing (QE2), in which the Fed created $600 billion and used the money to buy government bonds.

  . . .

  In other words, the drastic measures that the Fed has taken in the past few years to lower interest rates and goose the economy aren't winding down. They're still in full force, and will remain in place until further notice.

  This is how the Fed looks at things. Ben Bernanke said as much at his press conference this spring . . . "

  Bloomberg News, Business Class Is QE2 a Savior, Inflator, or a Dud?: Business Class. By John H. Cochrane, Jun 2, 2011 1:42 PM PT

  See also

• MACROECONOMIC POLICY IN THE 1960S: THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF A MISTAKEN REVOLUTION Christina D. Romer, University of California, Berkeley. September 2007. To be presented at Plenary Session A of the Economic History Association Annual Meeting, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, September 7, 2007. I am grateful to David Romer for extensive comments and suggestions.

  "I want to discuss what has happened to macroeconomic policy inthe decades since 1980. One of the most striking facts about macropolicy is that we have progressed amazingly in some areas, but have remained frighteningly stuck in the 1960s inothers. The inflation and instability of the 1960s and 1970s led policymakers to develop (or, as Iwill suggest, rediscover) more sensible models of short-runmacroeconomic behavior. This evolution of beliefs has led to dramatically better short-run stabilization policy. In my opinion, better policy, particularly on the part of the Federal Reserve, is directly responsible for the low inflation and the virtual disappearance of the business cycle in the last 25 years. In this area, the policy mistakes of the 1960s were a painful, but not permanent, detour on the road to excellent economic performance.

  "But, in another area, the policy decisions of the 1960s have had a more enduring consequence. At the same time that policymakers have done such a remarkable job at figuring out short-run stabilization policy, they have steadfastly remained on a path of fiscal irresponsibility. . . ."

  At pp 1-2.

• Sacum Tenent Rabbit Tapestry Luggage
  Source of bespoke purse I am trying to replace. jeanne

  "The Rabbit tapestry is drawn from a detail in La Vue, one of the famous La Dame a la licorne series of milles fleurs hangings on display at the Cluny museum, Paris, and completed in 1470.The tapestry is exclusively woven in Belgium on looms developed to reproduce the depth of colour found in medieval wall hangings.

  "Densely woven in cotton for strength and stability, the jaquard fabric is available in twenty-two sizes of rabbit to custom fit either the handbag range or the travel pieces. Each piece is double stitched, handles are reinforced, the finest quality zips and solid brass fittings are used and the larger pieces have a solid base with feet to give structure and support. The tapestry is backed on a water resistant interlining and bags are lined in sumptuous brocades, silks and cottons with a variety of zipped or open pockets.

  "All Rabbit bags are made to order to customers' personal requirements based on a core range of twent two styles."

  "My luggage collection has featured in exclusive emporiums throughout Europe and North America including: Aspreys, Harrods, Purdeys, Fortnum & Masons, London - Pandiva , Turin - Folli Folli, Mantova - Eduard Meir, Munich - Bergdoff Goodman, New York - Gumps, San Francisco - Stefan Mann, Scottsdale - Barzina, Palm Beach - Greenes Luggage, Chicago - The Baggage Claim, Aspen"

  "I served my apprenticeship in cutting, design and tailoring at Angels Theatrical Costumiers in London. I made my first bag in 1979 from the offcuts of material from which I had cut a waistcoat for Anthony Hopkins. Actors and actresses attending Morris Angels for fittings saw and ordered my unique travel pieces.

  Two years of world travel as nanny to the children of a famous American writer finally brought me to New York and enabled me to indulge my love of fabrics in the 7th Avenue garment district.

  "Hiring a heavy duty sewing machine was the next step and finding an amiable cab driver prepared to load the machine into the back of his yellow cab and help carry it up to the 2nd floor apartment in Greenich Village. Within six months every tenant in the building had bought a weekend bag for Martha's Vineyard or the Hamptons.(contd. press on button for next page.)

  "My return to London coincided with the opening of the craft market in Covent Garden where, over the following eight years, I earned the loyalty of an international clientele.

  "During this Covent Garden period I retained a large display case at the Savoy Hotel and sold to Fortnum and Mason and Harvey Nichols. A natural progression dictated opening my own shops in London and Glasgow, the latter opened by Prince Charles.

  "Finally in 1988 the development and introduction of in-house tapestries drawn from museums established the exclusivity of the collection.The following year I determined to sell to Bergdoff Goodman, New York. Meeting the store's vice chairman in the elevator, I took an order for the entire range between the 1st and 7th floors.

  "Over the past 17 years, collections have retailed in prestigious stores in Europe and the U.S.while my growing list of private clients numbers many of the actors and actresses who first discovered me at Morris Angels. Growth in private custom has freed me to close my shops and concentrate my talent and energy on the design side in my studio sheltered in the tranquil woodlands of rural Worcestershire.

  "Welcome to my collection of unique bags designed and tailored using the finest quality tapestries, velvets, tweeds, brocades and silks.  

  "Whether a bag is required to survive the rigours of everyday life or a journey across distant continents, my bags are built with function and strength as a priority and style and beauty as a bonus .Each piece is issued with a service guarantee certificate.

  "Approaching my 32nd year in business, from a stall in Covent Garden to Bergdoff Goodman in New York, I have developed my range of bags with attention to my customers' needs rather than any transient fashion fad.

  "There are two main collections : The Rabbit : handbags and travel pieces made to order and Originals : unique bags limited in quantity every month by the amount of time available after I have completed the bespoke and shop orders. To purchase any of the Original bags or to discuss a bespoke piece, please contact me directly by either telephone, e-mail or post. The [originals] page has a slide show of bags currently available."

  "Bernadette Erskine-Hornyold"

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  rootsaction.org
  

  "Vital Truths Behind Debt Ceiling Debate - Compassion or Corruption?
  by Truthout on May 16, 2011

  "We're borrowing that money from rich Americans and corporations - instead of taxing them like we used to. As of January, over 42 percent of our debt was owned by people and institutions in the United States! . . .

  "The rich and powerful in the US are perfectly happy with deficit spending - they love lending money instead of actually having to pay taxes. By conveniently avoiding this fact, the media discussion can be full of bombast and political posturing between the two parties, without ever getting to the truth."

  Truthout
  Reader supported non-profit for progressive news.

  "Truthout works to broaden and diversify the political discussion by introducing independent voices and focusing on under-covered issues and unconventional thinking. Harnessing the expanding power of the Internet, we work to spread reliable information, critical thought and progressive ideas. - Mission"

  Medical alerts to keep us informed: http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-midlife-osteopenia-20110430,0,6749099.story
  Plain English explanation of osteopenia as a precursor of osteoporosis. Article in Los Angeles Times by Amanda Leigh Mascarelli on May 16, 2011.

  "Osteopenia is normal — it's like gray hair," says Dr. Nortin Hadler, a rheumatologist at the University of North Carolina and author of "Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America." . . .

  "If you look at the way we define osteopenia, it's defined very crudely with very low sensitivity," Hadler says. "So almost everyone who is osteopenic is not in the group who's going to get fragility fractures. They're just in a greater risk group." . . .

  "The drugs used to treat osteopenia and osteoporosis, called bisphosphonates, aim to increase mineralization of the bone. They include the brand-name medications Fosamax, Boniva, Actonel and Aclasta. . . .

  "But the treatments can cause problems. . . .

  "Dr. Alexander Fishberg, medical director at the Center for Family Medicine at Florida Hospital, acknowledges that some physicians have fallen into the trap of treating osteopenia like a disease rather than an increased risk. . . . "I think some women may get treated where the risk of fracture is very low," Fishberg says.

  "But he says that patients shouldn't shrug off concerns about osteopenia, and he points to evidence that many women in the osteopenia category will get fractures.

  The discussion between a patient and her doctor should involve factors such as lifestyle, exercise, calcium and vitamin D, [Dr. Fishberg] says.

  Like everything else in life, it's complicated. What risks should be counted, and how much they should be counted, is a complex medical decision that should include your doctor, as you make it, and as we learn more about it. jeanne 05.19.2011.

  Thanks to the Los Angeles Times for such informative reporting.

  Cry Wolf Project

  "a nonprofit research network that identifies and exposes misleading rhetoric about the economy, regulation, and government."

  Not 'Job Killers'
  By Donald Cohen. Los Angeles Times, Thursday, May 19, 2011. Hard copy and on site, consulted by jeanne. 05.19.2011 Donald Cohen is the director of Cry Wold Project.

  Xenobia Bailey ~ Re-Possessed / Fiber Work ~ at The Fuller Craft Museum
  the link was on FF crochet, but I didn't have time to stop and read the whole exchange on Sunday, May 14, 2011.

  Free Drawing Lessons Online
  At Jerry's Artarama, an online art store with 15 local stores on the East Coast. I don't have time right now to check out the videos, but it's always a good idea to learn a little more. Try them, and let me know how you like them. hf: 05.09.2011 jeanne

  AN ADVANCE ORGANIZER APPROACH TO DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE PRESENTATION John W. Coffey1 and Alberto J. Cañas2

  http://www.icte.org/T01_Library/T01_153.PDF PDF file URL for AN ADVANCE ORGANIZER APPROACH TO DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE PRESENTATION John W. Coffey1 and Alberto J. Cañas2

  It may be clear that since I am the webmistress for the Dear Habermas site, I was into distance-learning back when that and artificial intelligence were in their relative infancy (the 70s). Yes, that makes me old. But it also means that I had to have a thorough grounding in learning theory and a recognition that somehow my computer skills were essential to enabling the academy to strengthen its outreach to include the broader community of the "town," since most of us were in large metropolitan areas.

  Back then, I could get to the university from my home in a half hour on a good day. Today, on a good day, it would take an hour. On a bad day, just a couple of traffic tie-ups and it could take well over an hour. It once took me three hours to get home from school at about 7 in the evening. What that means is that traffic in many of our large cities has become so jammed that in addition to building and strengthening the infrastructure, it's time to learn to use effectively the technical facilities that many of us can afford. Make that "could afford before the United States financial meltdown of 2008, from which we are far from recovered.

  The combination of the impossibly high tuition at "good" schools, the traffic obstacle to covering the clogged metropolitan streets in a reasonable amount of time, and the environmental cost of high fuel, oh, and yes, of course, the ever-increasing cost of gasoline for the cars that haven't enough to room to move through the streets anyway, make this a great time to work with our local communities to look for better ways of getting across the kind of socio-emotional and civic practice learning across distances and transplanted into local communities, in which one really could walk a few blocks to meet with other humans. That's the mission of this website. Has been its mission since we first launched it in December of 1998.

  To the end of transplanting my skillss into your local (walkable or near walkable) communities, I'm going to include references like the PDF file above and the Novak, J. D., & Gowin, D. B. (1984). Learning How To Learn. Ithaca, New York: Cornell Press. Susan and I are planning to have enough contact with most of our local community groups at this early stage of the field project that there will be plenty of interaction time for everyone to pick up useful concepts like using advance organizers, and such other tools from learning theory. But there are usually some, like me, who want to understand more deeply.

  The PDF file should give you a sense of how these guys write. Remember they're academic professionals whom Scott Warner (governor, at least for now, of Wisconsin) is forcing to show just how professional and esoteric they have to be if they don't want to be treated like working class union members. Yikes! What a political mess! But 'tis true that if you're not recognized as both professional (whatever that really means) and performing essential services (whatever that really means within today's ideological commitments), you're going to have a hard time making a stable living for you and your family.

  This dilemma has been decades in coming, and we're not going to fix it overnight. Neither is Wall Street or Washington going to fix it overnight. So I figure we better at least be up front and honest about what we're trying to do, and what the academy is trying to do.

  Over the years we have paid so much attention to testing, teachers have had little time to enrich the curriculum and take students into understanding more deeply. It's one thing to memorize a formula. It's quite another to know when the formula is appropriate, when it needs to be supplemented by other measures and techniques.That's what we're trying to do here. As we teach crochet, we'll teach some more important, less easily tested techniques, like when to follow the rules, and when to choose to just move on to making something you like. How to decide how much you want to follow rules, and when it's a good idea to do so. When to question authority (in the form of the older generation) and when to ask aggressively to have the freedom to express yourself in your own voice.

  Make no mistake. It's not just the young people who need this teaching. Most of us adults have been restrained repeatedly by authority. We, too, need to learn that it's ok to color outside the lines, think outside the box, trust our instincts when they tell us something is wrong here, and think things over for ourselves and form our own opinion. Making things and the dissemination of the wonderful goodies we produce to share with each other, with our friends, and, hopefully, with relative strangers are the glue that will hold each of our local groups together. The real goal is to bring humans together again, across ages, across gender, across professions, to experience each others' respect and caring.

  It will be much more agreeable to fund our safety nets when we see each other as people, people with stories, people with different skills, different talents, and likeable people just like us. Then it will have more meaning when we talk about the disabled, who cannot guarantee their own quality of life without us, the poor, who were not born to the advantages the middle class and the wealthy have had. Then we can rethink what our values as a nation are. Susan and I would like to see us all become more skilled in not only whatever we have chosen to unite us as a group, but also in coming to recognize how each human contributes uniquely, in his/ her own way, to the world we live in together.

  Susan and I haven't enough energy to disseminate this program to all the myriad local, national, international communities that count in each of our lives. To that end, we will do our best to recruit others, who like us, want passionately to re-engender caring, empathy, the humility to realize that there, but for the grace of God, go I, too. Severe illness, tragic accidents, floods, tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes could happen to any of us. When the world was less populated, and agrarian families lived with far more space and distance between them, they came together to aid one another in coping with disaster, so that no one family suffered alone. The competitiveness of the urban complex, where neighbor doesn't know neighbor, maybe not even neighbor's name, we have lost the community CROCHET This Week?">CROCHET This Week?">

  To Damian
  and all Cats who Crochet

   

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  Sources Way Beyond Crochet: General
  Not Filed into Sections Yet
  About Us - What's NEW?
  Site Navigation - Index or What's on the Cats who Crochet Site?

  CATS who CROCHET Sites:
  Community Site: Jeanne (Los Angeles)
  UWP Site: Susan (University of Wisconsin, Parkside)
  

   

  University of Wisconsin, Parkside (UWP)
  California State University, Dominguez Hills
  Created: April 12, 2011
  Latest update: May 19, 2011
  E-Mail to Jeanne in L.A.
  E-Mail to Susan at UWP.

   

  Sources - Not Yet Filed by Topic Category

  Sources, taken from readings I'm doing presently, or verified and moved from the Dear Habermas teaching essays and materials in the Dear Habermas site index, as sometimes they matter even more than they did 10 years or so ago. jeanne

  • Medical alerts to keep us informed: http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-midlife-osteopenia-20110430,0,6749099.story
    Plain English explanation of osteopenia as a precursor of osteoporosis. Article in Los Angeles Times by Amanda Leigh Mascarelli on May 16, 2011.

    "Osteopenia is normal — it's like gray hair," says Dr. Nortin Hadler, a rheumatologist at the University of North Carolina and author of "Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America." . . .

    "If you look at the way we define osteopenia, it's defined very crudely with very low sensitivity," Hadler says. "So almost everyone who is osteopenic is not in the group who's going to get fragility fractures. They're just in a greater risk group." . . .

    "The drugs used to treat osteopenia and osteoporosis, called bisphosphonates, aim to increase mineralization of the bone. They include the brand-name medications Fosamax, Boniva, Actonel and Aclasta. . . .

    "But the treatments can cause problems. . . .

    "Dr. Alexander Fishberg, medical director at the Center for Family Medicine at Florida Hospital, acknowledges that some physicians have fallen into the trap of treating osteopenia like a disease rather than an increased risk. . . .

    The discussion between a patient and her doctor should involve factors such as lifestyle, exercise, calcium and vitamin D, [Dr. Fishberg] says.

    Like everything else in life, it's complicated. What risks should be counted, and how much they should be counted, is a complex medical decision that should include your doctor, as you make it, and as we learn more about it. Thanks to the Los Angeles Times for such informative reporting. jeanne 05.19.2011.

    . . . glue that once existed in extended families. We found evidence over the years that our students bonded over this program. We would like to see our local communities bond over it today. jeanne and Susan

  • Learning How To Learn. Novak, J. D., & Gowin, D. B. (1984). Ithaca, New York: Cornell Press.

  • Open Culture.com
    Free on the web. Looked good. jeanne

  • jcls2516.htm#topic
    Hirschman, Albert O. Rhetoric of Reaction, Summary in Topic of Week
    Albert O. Hirschman, 1991
    The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-76867-1 (cloth) and ISBN 0-674-76868-X (paper). An excellent practical discussion of how liberals and conservatives shout at one another without really saying anything. The one-sided argument, par excellence. Mature reading, but worth the effort to understand public discourse as it often takes place, especially in the seats of government. jeanne

  • Hockenberry, codes of silence
    Hockenberry was crippled in an accident. He makes us feel what it's like to be trapped by social rules that don't let us talk about certain things, like being confined to a wheel chair when you are young and athletic. His autobiolgraphy is fascinating reading. One good way to gain empathy.

  • The Truth about Paul Ryan
    Article in the Progressive about Paul Ryan. Remember that one version of truth is what the hearer hears and what the sayer says. In this case, the sayer is the Progressive, a very liberal Web site. You must take that fact into consideration. One explanation I have for what Andre Gide said in "Je deteste" is that those who understand me too quickly haven't take the time to really hear me and process fairly what I've said. That's also what Albert O. Hirschman is saying in the rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy. See Progressive article to Paul Ryan linked and analyzed in issue for Week of April 17, 2011. I think it's under Topics for Discussion.

  • Videos of crochet art work. Crystal Gregory, Org.

  • Research Proposal for Collaborative Learning of Writing in 2nd Language
    May not be collaborative in our sense of learning inner discipline for enhancing skills, but want to check it out. Consulted by jeanne on 05/02/2011.

  • Life-Time Learning Sources:

    • In Our Time

      Deep Thinking on the Web in Education | February 17th, 2010

      "This morning, a New York Times editorial is helping get the word out. Deep thinking is alive and well on the web:

      "There is a lot of talk about how the Internet is driving culture ever lower, but it also makes a wealth of serious thinking available. From the comfort of home, one can download free audio books by authors like Jane Austen and Joseph Conrad and free podcasts of university lectures (openculture.com has an assortment of both)."

      "The rest of the piece rightly focuses on a BBC podcast called In Our Time (iTunes – Feed - Web Site). It’s listed in our Ideas & Culture Podcast Collection, along with many other thoughtful programs that make meaningful subjects relevant to a broader, global audience. (For something similar in video, see our collections of Intelligent Video Sites and Smart YouTube Channels.)

      Consulted by jeanne on February 17, 2010.

    • Thinking Allowed

      "What is Thinking Allowed? Thinking Allowed is a long-running independent public television series and an extensive video library developed from the series. Hosted by Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D., Thinking Allowed aims to provide an open, non-adversarial forum for the exchange of intelligent, alternative ideas. New programs are no longer being produced. The series was presented by Thinking Allowed Productions, produced by Jeffrey Mishlove and Arthur Bloch and directed by Arthur Bloch." Consulted on February 17, 2010 by jeanne.

  • Checking Your Facts: Truth versus Rumor

    PolitiFact.com - Public Service by St. Petersburg Times

  • Checking the Meaning of Words and Ideas

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