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POPSRacial Healing Kellogg Grant RFP If you are running a community-based program trying to resolve problems between or within racial communities, this $400,000 grant might be for you - especially if you are working with children. Might be great to work on not passing on existing tensions between African-American and Hispanic communities, or First Nation/Native Americans and Euro-Americans.
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POPSSanta Monica Meeting Venues The Santa Monica Convention & Visitors Bureau can help you find santa Monica meeting venues. They know Santa Monica inside and out and can offer you no-cost, professional planning advice like advice on Santa Monica meeting venues. They have a whole section of their site dedicated to Santa Monica meeting venues and a simple Request for Information (RFP) form available online. http://www.santamonica.com/meeting-professionals
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POPSAZA And you thought the animals were cared for my no accounts lol
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POPSBarack Obama is Mr Darcy --Maureen Dowd Dowd reports that some women won't vote for Obama because he's skinny, some because he seems haughty. That's no sillier than voting for him because he resembles Jane Austen's most popular hero, Mr Darcy. I'm not wild about the train of thought that says women vote based on fictional heroes. However, it may be an uncomfortable truth, and not only about women. Much of voter opinion is based on looks, style, and media hype--not content. I do give Dowd credit for making an unusual analogy. The "Pride & Prejudice" title fits the current politics in some ways, and Dowd correctly points out that the success of the Austen novel rests of changing the views of *both* sides.
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POPSSalon on Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight" A perceptive article. It's interesting that Miller mentions the placeholder theory, which holds that writing a flat character lets the reader insert him or herself into the role. That's an old theory and dated in some ways, but it's possible that teenagers do at times insert themselves into stories, imagining themselves as central characters.
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POPSFranken-Pets: A total loss of perspective
I'm going to have to start by saying I love people, and I love animals, I even love people who own animals. I've had pets myself, and I'm not attacking you personally when I say... THIS IS TOTAL INSANITY!!!! People who are obsessed with anthropomorphizing domesticated animals are really starting to freak me out. (Consider the wing-nuts who care for feral cat colonies even though they decimate the local ecosystem, and in Texas, kill off endangered species!) At a certain point we have to consider the situation realistically and draw some boundries, because it seems like our love could very well qualify as animal cruelty. After all, isn't treating an animal like a human, and placing upon it the expectations and burden of fictive human emotional relationship really unfair to the animal? Look at what we've done to them in the name of our narcissistic obsession! We are destroying them to satisfy our own emotional needs. Don't be cruel to your cat: be realistic.
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POPSScientists clone glow-in the-dark cats The cats glow due to a gene that is a marker gene, that can show a gene transplant can be possible, before more functional genes are used. The treatments and methods can then also be extended to other species including humans.
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POPS3 Books on Male Sexuality... and Splooge --Chronicle, 9/07 Reviewer Camille Paglia has been called a "feminist that other feminists love to hate," a "post-feminist feminist," and one of the world's top 100 intellectuals. She describes three very different books on male sexuality, with thoughtful criticisms of each. I quoted from "Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid" by Lisa Jean Moore, simply because it's a funny passage. The other two books are Murat Aydemir's "Images of Bliss: Ejaculation, Masculinity, Meaning" and Angus McLaren's "Impotence: A Cultural History".
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POPS"Girly" book covers discourage boys--Times, 9/07 The article highlights a couple of books with plots that should appeal to boys. It's a pity they're given bright pink covers. Surely that increases boys' resistance to reading, and especially their resistance to reading books with female protagonists. (For more on that, see: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1494932,00.html and: http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/09/why-women-read-more-than-men-or-not.html
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POPSPatron Removes Kids' Sex Book From Library--PW, 9/07 Karkos could have challenged the book through a formal process within the library and its board--and thus allowed the community to participate in deciding the fate of the book. Instead, she took it into her own hands to decide for everyone what is moral and what books should be available. By holding every copy of the book, she prevents anyone else from reading it and forming their own opinions. Regardless of the content of the book, Karkos' actions fly in the face of civil society and its crucial community aspects.
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POPSEast African Views on Sci Fi, 9/07 I'm intrigued with the developing world's view of western sci fi. Our technology-centric culture, and our western mythologies, must sound foreign in more ways than one. (Note that this article is actually from Kenya, one of the more developed African nations, with strong universities and reasonable internet access.)
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