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Aug. 17th, 2010 22:13Monday August 16, 2010 Aviva Ben-Ur. Review of Kunin, Seth Daniel, _Juggling Identities: Identity and Authenticity among the Crypto-Jews_. H-Judaic, H-Net Reviews. August, 2010.
URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=29438
In the US Southwest, there are Hispanics for whom there may be evidence of Jewish ancestors who converted to Christianity but secretly continued to be Jewish. There is little agreement on how solid the evidence is.
I see parallels to the Wiccans whose families allegedly practiced the Old Religion in secret and preserved it through the generations.
***I've said that I want a computer which can be rolled up and put in a shirt pocket -- with fullsized screen and keyboard.
Office Depot had a step in that direction: calculators with flexible keyboards. Cost: $1.00.
While I was in Downtown Minneapolis, I picked up bus and LRT schedules at the Metro Transit store.
On to Walgreens near the 46th St LRT station. I tried their store brand black cherry soda. It tasted a bit better than the usual, I think mostly because it used sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup.
***Public Release: 16-Aug-2010
University of Washington engineers are developing the first device able to transmit American Sign Language over US cellular networks. The tool is just completing its initial field test by participants in a UW summer program for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Hannah Hickey
hickeyh@uw.edu
206-543-2580
University of Washington
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-08/uow-dhs081610.php
MobileASL website: http://mobileasl.cs.washington.edu/
***Change and hope were central themes to the November 2008 U.S. presidential election. A new longitudinal study published in the September issue of Social Science Quarterly analyzes suicide rates at a state level from 1981--2005 and determines that presidential election outcomes directly influence suicide rates among voters.
In states where the majority of voters supported the national election winner suicide rates decreased. However, counter-intuitively, suicide rates decreased even more dramatically in states where the majority of voters supported the election loser (4.6 percent lower for males and 5.3 lower for females). This article is the first in its field to focus on candidate and state-specific outcomes in relation to suicide rates. Prior research on this topic focused on whether the election process itself influenced suicide rates, and found that suicide rates fell during the election season.
Richard A. Dunn, Ph.D., lead author of the study, credits the power of social cohesion, "Sure, supporting the loser stinks, but if everyone around you supported the loser, it isn’t as bad because you feel connected to those around you. In other words, it is more comforting to be a Democrat in Massachusetts or Rhode Island when George W. Bush was re-elected than to be the lonely Democrat in Idaho or Oklahoma."
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/PressRelease/pressReleaseId-80217.html
URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=29438
In the US Southwest, there are Hispanics for whom there may be evidence of Jewish ancestors who converted to Christianity but secretly continued to be Jewish. There is little agreement on how solid the evidence is.
I see parallels to the Wiccans whose families allegedly practiced the Old Religion in secret and preserved it through the generations.
***I've said that I want a computer which can be rolled up and put in a shirt pocket -- with fullsized screen and keyboard.
Office Depot had a step in that direction: calculators with flexible keyboards. Cost: $1.00.
While I was in Downtown Minneapolis, I picked up bus and LRT schedules at the Metro Transit store.
On to Walgreens near the 46th St LRT station. I tried their store brand black cherry soda. It tasted a bit better than the usual, I think mostly because it used sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup.
***Public Release: 16-Aug-2010
University of Washington engineers are developing the first device able to transmit American Sign Language over US cellular networks. The tool is just completing its initial field test by participants in a UW summer program for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Hannah Hickey
hickeyh@uw.edu
206-543-2580
University of Washington
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-08/uow-dhs081610.php
MobileASL website: http://mobileasl.cs.washington.edu/
***Change and hope were central themes to the November 2008 U.S. presidential election. A new longitudinal study published in the September issue of Social Science Quarterly analyzes suicide rates at a state level from 1981--2005 and determines that presidential election outcomes directly influence suicide rates among voters.
In states where the majority of voters supported the national election winner suicide rates decreased. However, counter-intuitively, suicide rates decreased even more dramatically in states where the majority of voters supported the election loser (4.6 percent lower for males and 5.3 lower for females). This article is the first in its field to focus on candidate and state-specific outcomes in relation to suicide rates. Prior research on this topic focused on whether the election process itself influenced suicide rates, and found that suicide rates fell during the election season.
Richard A. Dunn, Ph.D., lead author of the study, credits the power of social cohesion, "Sure, supporting the loser stinks, but if everyone around you supported the loser, it isn’t as bad because you feel connected to those around you. In other words, it is more comforting to be a Democrat in Massachusetts or Rhode Island when George W. Bush was re-elected than to be the lonely Democrat in Idaho or Oklahoma."
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/PressRelease/pressReleaseId-80217.html