Monday 11/23/2009

• Kayla Berger: Breakeven

  This summer I bought the debut album of an Irish rock group called The Script. My favorite song on the album is titled "Breakeven." It's an angsty song about a man who's taking a recent breakup a lot harder than ... more

• Pressville.org: Former Young Addicts Speak About Drug Abuse in Northfield

  BY DEBBIE WONG

  “In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, love.”

  Those words are displayed on the front wall of the Main Street Moravian Church in Northfield, and they are the words that Pastor Amy Gohdes-Luhman used ... more

• Julia Scatliff O'Grady '85: BenjaminBarber 242x163

  
  

  

  Last week, I had the opportunity to hear Ben Barber speak in Chicago at the National Communication Association National Conference.  Barber is a political theorist,  Distinguished Senior Fellow for Demos and the author of 17 books including Strong Democracy ... more

• Thomas Glessner Weaver '69: Eicher's of Miamisburg OH Betty, Billy and Minnie Stupp Eicher ca 1930's

  
  Bill and I sat in his home in N Lakeland FL area and looked at a box of old photos and diplomas related to his aunt, Betty, born in 1913, Ethyl Elizabeth Eicher, in Miamisburg, 14 years before William ... more

• Amy Reynaldo '88: Monday, 11/23/09

  NYT 3:41
  LAT 2:50
  Payne's Squeezeboxes #1, harder version untimed ( easier option with enumerations also available)
  CS tba
  BEQ tba
  
  If you use the NYT's applet, as I do, you rarely have difficulty loading the puzzle at the promised ... more

• Nat Case '88: Healing the Lowry Gash

  I spoke in meeting today, about how places heal. In particular, I was thinking about the great gash in the ground in Minneapolis around the Lowry Tunnel . When looking at old maps of Minneapolis ( here's one from 1900 ... more

Sunday 11/22/2009

• Elizabeth Tamny '88

  I'm fascinated, when not irritated or infuriated, by the managed flow of Fat in imagery. That is, the particular way that images of fat people are let in--or not--for public consumption. Everything is managed to varying degrees, but fat is ... more

• Thomas Glessner Weaver '69: Lakeland Florida Eicher Family History -Sharing with Cousin Bill Eicher

  
  Bill Eicher and I first met at the big cemetery, Woodland, the highest hill in Dayton Ohio after his dad passed over in Florida back in March of 2006. His father, William H Eicher, b Feb 16 1927, was ... more

• Avery Palmer '00: No Witnesses

  The owner of Restaurant Paradou ("a little bit of Provençal paradise in Manhattan's Meatpacking district") sent an email to his employees that I can't repeat here, as this blog, as I've said, is PG-rated. Anyway, he was upset that ... more

• Thomas Glessner Weaver '69: Theralac TruFiber National Autism Conference in Ft Lauderdale

  
  Thanks to Jeff Thurston of Master Suppliements for continuing to share in the education around marketing and teaching about functional digestion and the upgrade of the T- cells and the the eubiosis of the human gut. Gratitude for the ... more

• Thomas Glessner Weaver '69: Jupiter Lighthouse - Volunteer Servant on the East Coast Jupiter Inlet.

  
  Here I am for my first I phone photo, as my Canon decided to have a lens issue. Grateful for Patty Strunk who could walk me through learning about the I phone application at a watering hole just across ... more

• Dan Schofer '00

  11-22-2009
  Town Loop . 30 minutes. 4 miles.
  Relaxed and easy shakeout run with Marie alongside on the bike. 98 miles this week.

  

• Larry Sampas: Airspace KML files updated for the December 17 cycle

  I updated the airspace KML files again -- skipping one release. The latest covers from December 17, 2009 throughFebruary 11, 2010. You can find them in the archive here .

• Dan Schofer '00

  11-22-2009
  Mt. Vernon Rd. + Abbe Hills + Ink. 66 minutes. >9 miles.
  Slow and easy run.

  

• Thomas Glessner Weaver '69: Hollow Horn Bear Sundance Grounds by Xiaosong

  
  When I first ventured out to the St Francis area to support the sundance here, I mentored by a traditional teacher who lived on this land, by the names of Joe Eagle Elk. Since then, one of my teachers ... more

• Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Building Up An Appetite: Architecture With Good ‘Taste’

  
  Hungry for some tasteful architecture? These 10 mouth-watering buildings may look delicious but their designs serve a greater purpose: to project a brand image that warms the heart (while aiming for the stomach).

  Asahi Beer Hall, Tokyo, Japan

  (images ... more

• Pressville.org: Carleton Student Drive Collects Food for Northfield Pantry

  BY KATIE WILLIAMS

  

  Tyler BoddySpargo, Dia Davis

  A food drive last Friday on the Carleton College campus raised enough money to buy 65 pounds of fruit juice, milk, yoghurt and other foods that were donated to the food shelf ... more

• Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Islamic diversity

  Just a reminder of the diversity within the Muslim world. Sometimes we need reminders like this so we can avoid simplifications and stereotypes.
  
  Cleric Wields Religion to Challenge Iran’s Theocracy

  For years, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri criticized Iran’s supreme ... more

• Thomas Glessner Weaver '69: St Francis South Dakota - Gratitude Wopila Feast after Tree Inipi Ceremony

  
  One of the times I especially enjoy is sitting with friends and sharing food after a ceremony. Somehow, the human desire to share stories and share food is a universal way to connect and be in the present as ... more

• Thomas Glessner Weaver '69: St Francis South Dakota - Lavender Church - Pejuta Oyate Teachings

  
  Over the past 20 some years, I have been going out to the Rosebud Reservation to pray and connect with the Hollow Horn Bear Sundance as part of the Minnesota Tiospaye. Xiaosong took this photo of me in front ... more