Monday, September 14, 2009

“Reader comments - MaineToday.com” plus 3 more

“Reader comments - MaineToday.com” plus 3 more

Reader comments - MaineToday.com

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 07:38 AM PDT

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SlyME of Augusta, ME knowyaroll of midtown, ME
Sep 14, 2009 10:05 AM
"What does religion have to do with this issue."

That would make an excellent question for those condemning Maine statutes. It does appear to be very confusing for the "children."report abuse

SlyME of Augusta, ME bg of belgrade, ME
Sep 14, 2009 9:56 AM
"As for polyandry, it seldom becomes an issue because no woman in her right mind could possibly want more than one husband."

Is it traditional for these denominations to care what a woman wants?report abuse

SlyME of Augusta, ME bg of belgrade, ME
Sep 14, 2009 9:52 AM
"I believe 'testament' is related to 'testes' in that to 'testify' is, in essence, 'to show one's balls'"

Going with that for the moment, what then do you think is the origin of the superstitious apotropaic ritual of clutching the testes to ward off evil?

Is this commonly observed when these people rally?report abuse

SlyME of Augusta, ME revelation of Waterville, ME
Sep 14, 2009 9:45 AM
"Looking at it from God's prospective ..."

"A prospectus is a legal document that institutions and businesses use to describe the securities they are offering for participants and buyers. A prospectus commonly provides investors with material information about mutual funds, stocks, bonds and other investments, such as a description of the company's business, financial statements, biographies of officers and directors, detailed information about their compensation, any litigation that is taking place, a list of material properties and any other material information. In the context of an individual securities offering, such as an initial public offering, a prospectus is distributed by underwriters or brokerages to potential investors."

Good analogy, rev. Business as usual, ay?report abuse

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Posted: 14 Sep 2009 04:39 AM PDT

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UN names Cambodian genocide museum leading archive - Newsday

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 05:43 AM PDT

September 14, 2009 By The Associated Press  SOPHENG CHEANG (Associated Press Writer)

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia's Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, formerly a prison and torture center operated by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, has been declared by the U.N. to be an archive of worldwide significance for its historical documents.

The Cambodian government and U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization — UNESCO — opened a meeting Monday to establish a national committee to oversee the museum's operation as a newly designated "Memory of the World" site.

A UNESCO meeting at the end of July in Bridgetown, Barbados named the museum as one of 35 archives worldwide added to a list of almost 200 that are exceptional historical repositories.

The museum, formerly a high school in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, was turned into S-21 prison after the Khmer Rouge took power in 1975. Of the estimated 16,000 men, women and children who passed through its gates, only a handful survived. An estimated 1.7 million people died as a result of the communist Khmer Rouge's radical policies from 1975 to 1979.

The museum's archive includes 4,186 confessions — often falsely given by prisoners under torture — 6,226 biographies of prisoners, 6,147 photographic prints and negatives of prisoners and other items.

The prison was headed by Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, who is currently being tried by Cambodia's U.N.-assisted genocide tribunal for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

About 30 people attended the workshop, including officials from Tuol Sleng, the National Museum and the Culture Ministry, government advisers and UNESCO officials.

Helen Jarvis, a government adviser, told the workshop that the archive constitutes the most complete extant documentary picture of the Khmer Rouge regime and an essential part of Cambodia's recent history. It is also being used to provide pivotal evidence at the Khmer Rouge tribunal, she said.

Some aspects of the Memory of the World project deal with man's inhumanity to man, and the Tuol Sleng museum has "documentation of one of the most extreme examples of crimes against humanity in the 20th century with a major impact on world history," Jarvis said.

UNESCO established the Memory of the World Program in 1992 to respond to the growing awareness of the problems of preservation of, and access to, documentary heritage in various parts of the world.

Its guidelines state that the world's documentary heritage should be preserved, protected and made permanently accessible to the public.

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UNESCO Memory of the World project:

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'Deaf Life' magazine shines light on deaf culture - Democrat and Chronicle

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 06:55 AM PDT

When Matthew Scott Moore was studying social work and filmmaking at Rochester Institute of Technology, he realized media could be a powerful tool for change.

Today, after 25 years at the helm of his own production company and nearly 15 years of magazine publishing under his belt, he's trying for international change.

Moore, 50, who lives in southeast Rochester, is working with a media company in Japan to launch a Japanese version of his monthly Deaf Life magazine.

Oh, did we mention that Moore can't hear?

But all these years of publishing magazines and books, organizing events, running Web sites and making appearances haven't been about what deaf people can't do.

In Moore's words, his purpose is "to show what the deaf community can do and what's happening." The change part comes in how deaf people are viewed and the opportunities that result.

Joan Naturale, a librarian at RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf, called Deaf Life "a one-of-a-kind publication which brings together all facets of deaf cultural life."

She mentioned articles on the history of Martha's Vineyard, where all residents used to sign, and a profile on an artist who founded an art movement that expresses resistance to oppressive education of deaf students.

Moore's company, MSM Productions, does some things for the hearing community, too, or at least for those in contact with deaf people.

There's For Hearing People Only, a book, now in its third encyclopedic edition, that attempts to answer questions about the deaf world.

The chapters are taken from a column by the same name that appears in Deaf Life, which has published for a total of 15 years there were some gaps since 1987.

"My copy editor, Linda Levitan, and I started the 'For Hearing People Only' feature in Deaf Life as a result of the questions we'd been asked 'Do all deaf people read lips?' 'Is there one sign language for all countries?' 'How do deaf people use the telephone?'" he said in an e-mail interview.
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