Sunday, November 28, 2010

Nonreligeous Wedding Ceremony Programs



Josep Vicent
Lerma Levante-EMV, 28 de noviembre de 2010

Las anteriores entregas «Sepulcros de Cristal» (Levante-EMV, 16-06-2009) y «Reis, tombes i savis» (Levante-EMV, 28-09-2010), en las que se reflexionaba respectivamente sobre la exhibición patrimonial de restos humanos en museos y la pertinencia o no de las exhumaciones en curso de reyes y otros personajes históricos célebres, han conducido casi indefectiblemente a centrar la presente meditación intelectiva en torno al rol reservado en la sociedad contemporánea a la blasfemia ordinaria.

En este orden de cosas y desde la propia etimología griega de la palabra cual injuria de la reputación celestial, blasphemy, understood as an affront to God or disrespect towards any religion revered, although it is logically prohibited by law in some countries ruled by theocracies, democracies like ours denominational or secular par excellence of the French Republic, seems to be a social and legal reserve paradoxical or anachronistic.

So, not to mention the scatological outbursts as thoroughbred in their own language areas of the former dominions of Latin, which is a good example of the angry reaction of the pastor of Almussafes to the staging of a play of The Fera Ferotge group: "What most serious of representation is that shit on God, on the Cross, with St. Peter and the carpenter who made "(sic) (Levante-EMV, 07/15/1999).

More inklings about the calibration in accordance with the dogma of happened, sacrilegious or blasphemous abdominal mere relief urged by the lack of toilet facilities for workers, they still remembered around the foul ups and downs of the rumored appearance near the altar Cathedral of suspected defecation, at the risk of last-minute rush to inaugurate the exhibition Llum de les Imatges in February 1999 (Levante-EMV, 02/23/1999). Bracket episode worthy of a grotesque Gothic windows Consulate of the Sea, which represents the Aesop fable in which a wise man squatting empty stomach or gargoyle "fake" in the style tower was rebuilt in the Market (1902) in the form of evacuated children, sustained by a female figure.

deserves a special mention unedifying recent exchange of slaps Rotova between a priest and one of the revelers of the Divine Aurora, inopidamente for throwing some of them to the ground a consecrated wafer, which according to Canon 1367 literally means the penalty of excommunication "latae sententiae" automatically. Although fortunately the Eucharistic desecration far today as to the severity of punitive sanctions of the European land occurred in Brandenburg in 1510, where they were executed 38 Jews burned at the stake, covered with hoods or corozas infamous in the subsequent order of faith in a Germany still Knoblauch then Catholic.

surprising, however, the survival of express restrictions painted on the walls of some of the traditional Valencian ratchets where they develop significant cash bets, sometimes entire crops, around the ball game, "Prohibit blasphemy."

But the reality is that it was not until 1988 that the blasphemy was decriminalized in theory by Organic Law 5 / 1988, even though Article 525 of the English Penal Code as a crime is failing those who "made public in speech, writing or any type of document, a mockery of dogmas, beliefs, rites or ceremonies, or vejen , also publicly, to those who profess or practice "and the singer Javier Krahe is in the dock awaiting sentence for the television broadcasting of the video" How to Cook a Christ. "

socio-cultural mess in which it is aligned to end Eiximenis Francesc tirade when he preached satirically as "blasphemers blaspheme the ass of God" and theses releasing Albert Hauf collected at the symposium Riu de L'Home to a decade ago, in the sense that along the History, blasphemy has been playing a role on transgressive or emancipatory, as a safety valve social, to mock the power at times of increased repression clerical, in a plausible parallel with the pragmatic purpose of the ancient Roman style defixiones slander "Quintula semel cum sit et numquam Fortunali" marked on a sheet of lead or talisman 'in pedis plant. "

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Carrot Juice Or Chemo

BLASPHEMY IN PRAISE OF THE POLITICAL AND SCIENTIFIC The (On the work of Max Weber)

Ricardo González Villaescusa

Review appeared in Science and Technology Notes No. 21 , December 2006, pp. 50-51.

"Also the early Christians knew very exactly what the world is ruled by demons and who was involved in politics, ie who agrees to use as a means of power and violence, has sealed a deal with the devil, so that is not true that good activity occurs only good and evil evil, but often the opposite happens. Who does not see this is a child, politically speaking. "

Max Weber, the politician and scientist, 1918.

It very difficult to summarize a book published in the early twentieth century, constantly cited and on which there are numerous papers and citations in scholarly journals and internet, however, as a consequence of having quoted this author His work in the forum of members of AACTE, the head of this section requested to inform the work and the author. We do not claim to be more than a few notes I encourage readers of our magazine to read a book that maintains a very fresh despite the years he has edited.

is not really a book conceived as such but two conferences of the author, whose recipients were college students, which must be understood in that context some of the obvious provocations that are released throughout the work, as well as clear and direct style. Moreover, the English edition under review is prefaced by Raymond Aron , making the book into a great work of reflections of two authors who separated the two great wars (both were mature men erupted first and second World Wars) and his strong belief that links anti-Marxist.

Max Weber is the social scientist who proposed the alternative stronger scientific Marxist paradigm of social sciences and liberal sociologists and historians drink in their sources, which are numerous as it is an author of a very extensive and varied work. It was a clear anti-positivist, which deeply marked the distinction between social and natural sciences, which only begins to fade today, considering that "the truths in economics, sociology and political science are always partial and reflect only part of the social complexity .

Regarding the work in question, Weber expressed a "contradiction" lived in first person, being a scientist, the son of a senior politician and Otto von Bismarck's Germany, and being himself a man of action who came to participate in the creation of a reformist political party (Partido German Democratic) that aimed to unite the social democrats and liberals. The radicalization of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century led to the failure of a project that, ironically, could be the basis of politics practiced in our days on the mainland for almost every game of electoral spectrum.

At the first conference and the largest part of the book, Politics as a vocation, the author defines the policy and the qualities that should be those dedicated to it. Since the definition of the state as a "human community within a given territory (...) calls (successfully) for the monopoly of legitimate physical violence", understands that to gain control of the state produces the unavoidable use power and violence as inevitable means for achieving other ends, whether selfish or altruistic, as reflected in Weber's own header to this article.

Politics is a constant struggle to achieve the impossible, with passion, sense of responsibility and moderation, tenacity and perseverance. Qualities that are summed into a politician with such a vocation, humility. A politician must overcome vanity, every hour of every day, the enemy of "giving to a cause and all restraint." And this is where we find the first major difference with the scientist. In academic circles vanity is an "occupational disease" but completely harmless to not distort the work of scientists. The specialization of science in those years had "entered a phase of specialization previously unknown and which is going to stay forever," allows the "experience of science" that feeling that you have the anonymous scientist Weber puts in his mouth the phrase, "it took thousands of years before I came along and thousands waited in silence for me to test this hypothesis." Without this experience of science, it is not possible vocation as a scientist to Max Weber, which is absolutely incompatible with that humility which calls for the politician.

In the second part, the author devotes a good place to applied science, the meaning of science, criticizing the address at that time had acquired between young scientists of the early twentieth century. Despite all the achievements, progress, knowledge and problems new man "will never be able to capture more than a minimal portion of what the life of the spirit shines continuously." Questioned, and then, if the medicine can raise questions (reference values) about whether life is worth living or when they cease to be (a statement of values), when the lifeline of the terminally ill to end by saying that In short, "all natural sciences respond to the question of what we do if we want to master life technically."
Therefore, it is impossible to be both a man of action and man of science without going into deep contradictions between the two vocations. This contradiction manifests itself more so when totalitarianism is worth of science, especially the humanities and social sciences, to submit for the purposes of scientific research for political action. Thus, physicists from the former USSR they could do "communicate" with dialectical materialism but could not dictárseles their formulas and equations. Thus "Max Weber never tired of showing that, in politics, no concrete steps could take the dignity of a scientific truth. It is impossible to favor one group without hurting another, demonstrate that progress in global production is not paid too expensive to ruin small traders or impoverishment of a disadvantaged region. One can only say with certainty that a particular measure is in the common interest when increasing the satisfaction of some without decreasing anyone "( From the review of Prometheus Editorial ).

To R. Aron, in his introduction of the edition consulted the contradiction between the two vocations is at the point that "there is not a single example of opposition [political] that the government used against unfair or deceitful arguments consisting criticized for not having achieved success nobody could have achieved or made no concessions have been avoided. For Professor social science that wants to enter politics this is a permanent tension (...), the vocation of science is unconditionally true. The political profession does not always say it. " And the best example to understand it focuses on the basic principle of the welfare state. The greatest satisfaction that occurs among the poor by allocating the resources of the richest whose degree of dissatisfaction is lower than that achieved by the first result of this charge in the form of tax, reducing the income of the first to benefit of seconds, not a scientific truth, only political action that has produced quite a few "rewards" between large masses of population throughout the twentieth century, especially after the two world wars in the West, have achieved middle class status. I thought it worth asking whether, in fact, this show is not the result of a social scientist, Raymond Aron, who is clearly positioned liberal approach, defending the political and economic liberalism.

Therefore, the debate in Forum members AACTE which alluded to the political quality and / or scientific new head of the Secretariat of State for Universities and Research is so old it was well worth remembering in terms that occurred in Germany in early last century.

Monday, November 22, 2010

Reference Letter For Study Abroad

NO SCIENTIFIC OR INTELLECTUAL

LEVANTE-EMV, Editorial
November 21, 2010

Inhibition of scientific and humanistic thought of the social dialectic Valencia is one of the biggest drags on the current society and Valencia impossible to configure a common area of \u200b\u200bcollective deliberation, one of the nuclear axis of the sphere of democracy. Is a deficit that is more apparent today because, by contrast, participatory wealth gloss recent past. The gnawing emptiness of experts and intellectuals on public platforms, where the criterion of authority has proposed to dissect, analyze problems and spur awareness, today is a resounding lack that instructs involutional temperature in the index of social progress. Perhaps the experts do not want to be involved, as before, in civic engagement, or take risks supposedly wicked.

may think that his intellectual has to be available on areas in need of education prior to capture their trials. You can even add to their reluctance sketches nihilistic or skeptical to depart, their opinions, think, should not alter the course of events, much less have change public awareness. Maybe. But his 'flight' of public space makes a more sterile and resigned. And there is plenty of material for their participation: the huge debt and legacy coercive Valencia, weak financial map and the fragility of the Consell, the relevance of education to European standards and their material miseries, totems identity forgers but still Valencian forth from optical, corruption to the political dismemberment. Just numb and brittle societies do not miss the absence of intellectuals and scientists in public debate. Valencia has turned the red light.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

How Do You Take Out Stud Earrings

ARMIES, WAR AND WAR ARCHAEOLOGY


Archaeology, Cultural Property, and the Military (Laurie Rush Ed.), Boydell Press, 2010.

Laurie Rush is a civilian employee of the Department of Defense was responsible for major public awareness campaign on the heritage of the conflict zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, for the soldiers and political leaders. Among other measures (such as the creation of a sort of theme park heritage character to train soldiers, Fort Drum , or distribution between the military mapping of archaeological charts area) highlights the issue, printed in 40,000 copies of a deck of poker with images of monuments and sites in areas with slogans such as "Lots of ruins, not pass through" the 5 of Clubs, "The way the Iraqi heritage part of your heritage, "" Do not do graffiti "or" Buy antiques finances the insurgency. " Campaign that has earned a scholarship from the American Academy in Rome of 2010-2011 for a program that will seek to raise awareness in developing countries through education and support organizations, such as the Defense College of NATO.
Without wanting to take any importance to these measures or to any achievements, and, without prejudice to the substantial destruction and looting carried out during the second Gulf War, it is surprising how homo homini lupus parentheses can do to avoid destroying the material evidence of the same man as kills himself.


In the book's introduction
From Lawrence of Arabia to the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art participating students in this volume, have been involved in the conflict zones in issues involving fighting, and unlikely partnerships professional military. The motives and methods have changed drastically in recent years, but the main theme of this volume is management. In each case, the authors have found a situation in which their experience enabled them to help save archaeological, historical buildings and places of worship - or has documented permitdo good. Based on the significant contributions of seven armed forces, among others, this book is to apply the obligation to protect cultural heritage under international conventions, providing a series of case studies of current military practice, and describe efforts to improve current management heritage in conflict areas. In general, offers examples, anecdotes and lessons learned from experience that can be used for integration in the planning of archaeological management worldwide. Contents


  • 1 Archaeology and the Military: an Introduction
  • 2 The Obligations Contained in International Treaties of Armed Forces to Protect Cultural Heritage in Times of Armed Conflict Rescuing
  • 3 Europe's Cultural Heritage: The Role of the Allied Monuments Officers in World War II
  • 4 The UK's Training and Awareness Programme
  • 5  US Army Civil Affairs: Protecting Cultural Property, Past and Future
  • 6  Cultural Property Protection in the Event of Armed Conflict: Deploying Military Experts or Can White Men Sing the Blues?
  • 7  Good Training and Good Practice: Protection of the Cultural Heritage on the UK Defence Training Estate
  • 8  In-Theatre Soldier Training through Cultural Heritage Playing Cards: a US Department of Defense Example
  • 9  Dealing the Heritage Hand: Establishing a United States Department of Defense Cultural Property Protection Program for Global Operations
  • 10  Teaching Cultural Property Protection in the Middle East: the Central Command Historical Cultural Advisory Group and International Efforts
  • 11  Cultural Resources Data for Heritage Protection in Contingency Operations
  • 12  Time not on my side: Cultural Resource Management in Kirkuk, Iraq
  • 13  US Military Support of Cultural Heritage Awareness and Preservation in Post-Conflict Iraq
  • 14  Operation Heritage
  • 15  Cultural Property Protection in the Event of Armed Conflict - Austrian Experiences
  • 16 Role of the Swiss Armed Forces In The Protection of Cultural Property
  • 17 Preserving Global Heritage from Space in Times of War
  • 18 Appendices: 1954 Hague Convention and Its Protocols Two

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

What Is Deborah Sampson Quotes



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