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		2 0 0 3 DECEMBER 01 NOVEMBER 04 NOVEMBER 03 NOVEMBER 02 NOVEMBER 01 OCTOBER 03 OCTOBER 02 OCTOBER 01 SEPTEMBER AUGUST 02 AUGUST 01 JULY 02 JULY 01 JUNE 02 JUNE 01 MAY 02 MAY 01 APRIL 02 APRIL 01 MARCH FEBRUARY JANUARY WEDDING L I N K S AAA Abulafia Boardwalk Bread CHN Christ Lutheran Church Neighborhood Research Institute Old Oaks Olde Towne Polyphony INTP Business First Business First Daily Edition Call and Post Columbus Alive Columbus Dispatch Columbus Free Press Columbus Post Communicator News The Daily Reporter Inner Art The Lantern The Other Paper Suburban News Publications Short North Gazette NBC4 Columbus WSYX 6 10TV WBNS ONN BBC World Service CNN Christian Science Monitor The Guardian IndiaTimes Newsday New York Times StarTribune Washington Post Washington Times AfricaPundit William F. Buckley Jr. Command Post Crooked Timber Daniel W. Drezner John Ellis David Frum Hit & Run Instapundit Mickey Kaus Joshua Micah Marshall The Note OxBlog Virginia Postrel Wes Pruden Jim Romenesko Andrew Sullivan Volokh Conspiracy Day by Day Doonesbury Ted Rall Peter Steiner Tom Toles Tom Tomorrow Rob Pegoraro Matt Drudge Cronaca Languagehat Language Log Open Brackets PaleoJudaica Arts Journal Communication Arts Mooch Blue Ridge Blog Candid Colors Conscientious Dublog Ecotone Wiki Found Magazine London and the north Maps and territories Mysterium Smoky Mountain Journal Writing with light D.U.I. Studio Acme Art Company Ballet Met CCAD Columbus Arts Columbus Arts Festival Columbus Metropolitan Library Columbus Museum of Art Columbus Symphony Dialogue Franklin Park Conservatory Glass Axis Music in the Air Opera Columbus Thurber House Wexner Center City of Bexley City of Columbus Columbus City Council Columbus Police Columbus Public Schools OTENA egroup OTENA-NIC egroup OTENA-tours egroup OTENA-trustees egroup Old Oaks egroup Ohio Parsons Blockwatch egroup				> DECEMBER 03 s D E C E M B E R 1 3 , 2 0 0 3 Relaxing evening A long hot bath, several chapters of my book, bright Christmas decorations make the light dusting of snow (and possible two to six inches forecast for tomorrow) easier to take. Before the snow -- the birds of Whittier Peninsula. Cookie baking Mom and Grandma are over and work with Stephanie -- lots of good cookies Complaints of the day 1. Stores that display "open" signs even though they aren't. 2. Packaging designed to prevent anyone from opening it without applying weapons of mass destruction. f D E C E M B E R 1 2 , 2 0 0 3 Communication problems 101.1 seems to be channeling WNCI 97.9 on my radio this evening -- that's all that comes in on CD101's frequency. I called the police to report a prostitute soliciting on Main Street and was on hold for four minutes. I was close to giving up. Preparing for a vacation from work Eileen and Janet bought holiday decorations for the editorial department. They decided on a theme of gaudy and kitschy. And succeeded in that theme admirably. Dancing and singing Santas. They have a whole week to wear them out before I return. I have encouraged them to do so. Still bullish on Greenspan Greenspan's finest hour? \| Robert Samuelson The avoidance of calamity may not seem like a big deal, but it is. The Fed can never deliver the economy into paradise, but it can, through well-intentioned mistakes, push it into purgatory. The hazards of the post-bubble economy were sufficiently unfamiliar to risk a major miscalculation that might have severely damaged the U.S. and global economies. If Greenspan has prevented that, people may not notice now -- but history will. This story was allegedly edited Police: Woman stole purses at day-care centers Williams allegedly preyed on other centers \| NBC4 Columbus A Columbus woman was arrested Thursday for allegedly stealing purses out of cars left running at a local day-care center, NewsChannel 4 reported. Powell police Chief Gary Vest said Rene Michelle Williams allegedly victimized a local woman who had to fight to regain her own legal identity after Williams allegedly snatched her purse while she dropped a child off at The Goddard School in Powell. "That person happened to have a Social Security card, credit cards and checkbooks," Vest said. "That leaves the victim without ID themselves." Vest said Williams allegedly preyed upon day-care centers in Reynoldsburg and elsewhere in Franklin County r D E C E M B E R 1 1 , 2 0 0 3 Choir rehearsal Extended work on O Nata Lux (Track #3) The tight harmonies are difficult, especially the repeated drop from d to a in the tenor where the bass moves from f# to g. By the end of the practice, you could actually hear the music instead of just the notes. Beautiful. Praise to the Lord, the Almighty is the piece for Sunday. The arrangement we are doing is by Mack Wilberg, and it incorporates a translation by Catherine Winkworth who died in 1878. The archaic language is just enough off from what we are accustomed to that it surprises -- we are changing some of it to the LBW translation. Borne as on eagle wings, safely His saints He sustaineth. And as on wings of an eagle, uplifting, sustaining. Hast though not seen how all thou needest hast been Have you not seen all that is needful a has been granted in what he ordaineth sent by His gracious ordaining. All that hath breath, join with Abraham's seed to adore Him! All that has life and breath come now with praises before Him! Let the "amen" sum from our praises again Let the "amen" sound from His people again Now as we worship before Him. Gladly foraye we adore Him. (I'm forever doubtful of the "foraye," but ...) History of totalitarianism Q&A: A fresh look at the Soviet 'Gulag Archipelago" \| Anne Applebaum ... [T]he primary purpose of the gulag, according to both the private language and the public propaganda of those who founded it, was economic. This did not mean that it was humane. Within the system, prisoners were treated as cattle, or rather as lumps of iron ore. Guards shuttled them around at will, loading and unloading them into cattle cars, weighing and measuring them, feeding them if it seemed they might be useful, starving them if they were not. They were, to use Marxist language, exploited, reified, and commodified. Unless they were productive, their lives were worthless to their masters. Nevertheless, their experience was quite different from that of the Jewish and other prisoners whom the Nazis sent to a special group of camps called not Konzentrationslager but Vernichtungslager-camps that were not really "labor camps" at all, but rather death factories. There were four of them: Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor, and Treblinka. Majdanek and Auschwitz contained both labor camps and death camps. Upon entering these camps, prisoners were "selected." A tiny number were sent to do a few weeks of forced labor. The rest were sent directly into gas chambers where they were murdered and then immediately cremated. ... But the most important explanation for the lack of debate is not the fears and anxieties of the ordinary Russian, but the power and prestige of those now ruling the country. In December 2001, on the tenth anniversary of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, thirteen of the fifteen former Soviet republics were run by former communists, as were many of the satellite states. To put it bluntly, former communists have no interest in discussing the past, it tarnishes them, undermines them, hurts their image as "reformers." And this matters: the failure to acknowledge or repent affects politics and society across the region. Would the Russians truly be able to conduct a war in Chechnya if they remembered what Stalin did to the Chechens? During the Second World War, Stalin accused the Chechens of collaboration with the Germans. But instead of punishing collaborators - if there were any - he punished the whole nation. Every Chechen man, woman, and child was put on a truck or a cattle car and sent to the deserts of Central Asia. Thousands wound up in camps; the rest went to exile villages like camps. Half of them died. To invade Chechnya again, at the end of the twentieth century, was the moral equivalent of Germany re-invading Poland, yet very few Russians saw it that way. Good news in small doses Cairo sheikhs find book bans tougher \| Christian Science Monitor Egypt's 300 publishers release about 15,000 new books a year, a tiny number compared with most Western countries. Al Azhar reviews about a thousand of those and bans perhaps 20 a year, according to the university. The strength of Al Azhar's "recommendations" has always been influenced by the political climate. The first book to be censored in 1925 epitomized the struggle between religious and political power. "The Principles of Governing in Islam" argued that there were no fixed rules for governing in Islam. Exciting discoveries 'Lost' sacred language of the Maya rediscovered \| Independent via Cronaca Linguists have discovered a still-surviving version of the sacred religious language of the ancient Maya - the great pyramid-building civilisation that once dominated Central America. For years some Maya hieroglyphic texts have defied interpretation - but now archaeologists and linguists have identified a little-known native Indian language as the descendant of the elite tongue spoken by rulers and religious leaders of the ancient Maya. The language, Ch'orti - spoken today by just a few thousand Guatemalan Indians - will become a living "Rosetta Stone", a key to unravelling those aspects of Maya hieroglyphic writings which have so far not been properly understood. The Hayden Mausoleum at Green Lawn Cemetery is rumored to be haunted. w D E C E M B E R 1 0 , 2 0 0 3 Some in Westerville don't want CVS \| Dispatch In central Ohio and across the country, residents and city officials are rebelling against the familiar "big box" chain stores. Liberty Township area residents are fighting a proposed Wal-Mart off Sawmill Parkway. Hilliard’s planning commission recently rejected a CVS store for Cosgray and Scioto-Darby roads. Many mourned in 2000 when Walgreens tore down the Kahiki, a Polynesian restaurant that looked like a huge war canoe, and replaced it with a "big box" store at 3583 E. Broad St. Communities across the country too easily give in to corporations, said Edward T. McMahon, vice president of the Conservation Fund in Arlington, Va. "A lot of places look like they’ve been built with Legos and interchangeable parts," he said. Posted photos \| Link Columbus State Community College Columbus State Community College -- Passage Fashionetta Broad & High Rhodes Tower Sacred Heart t D E C E M B E R 9 , 2 0 0 3 Holiday decorations at the office. Slow start Slow day m D E C E M B E R 8 , 2 0 0 3 Posted Brewery District photos \| Link Brewery District, One Brewery District, Two How-to Now "Blueprints" Begun, completed, and everything else Wise caution from the Blue Ridge In my backyard \| Marie Freeman \| Blue Ridge Blog Something in my workplace has been bothering me recently. It is not a huge issue for me, but it has caused me to reflect upon how our paper covers our community news at the Watauga Democrat . Our editor has signed all the reporters up to receive the daily blog called Al's Morning Meeting . It is a blog supported by the Poynter Organization . The purpose of the blog is to feed ideas to reporters on national stories that have the potential to be 'localized'. The problem I have with this is that it is a subtle homogenization of the news--and potentially makes reporters lazy and less creative in finding their own community stories. There are umpteen-gagillion stories to be found in Watauga County. We shouldn't need Al to tell us what might be important to the folks up here. An overabundance of bullets In this town. A van on I-70 at Brice Rd. was shot in a road rage incident, the sniper investigation goes on near I-270, gunfights in Eastland Mall ... Amy to Akron n D E C E M B E R 7 , 2 0 0 3 Mama Mimi's What is it about the pizza? The Great Christmas Tree Runaround We tried to find a place to cut our own tree, but the Grove City-area farm is on the other side of the sniper's territory, and that just didn't seem worth driving through. The north of Johnstown farm is a very long way away. And the two Delaware farms we tried were on the expensive side, not to mention the muddy and watery sides. We did try them both, however; hoping that the car would be able to power itself out of the mud in the parking area of the first, and towing a sled behind us as we walked through ankle-deep water at the second. We gave up and got a white pine from Oakland Nursery. Second Sunday in Advent With Pastor Jeff Wise preaching on the importance of history (A "supply" pastor -- "we could use some more pencils, a ream of paper, and a pastor out of the supply cabinet, please ...") > DECEMBER 01