| Maren Schmidt: The heart of relationships: communication
To know who children really are, we need to observe our children at work and play. J Krishnamurti, an Indian philosopher, wrote that the highest form of human intelligence is observing without evaluating. The more I observe the more I understand Krishnamurti. Observation and evaluation serve us best as separate activities. Observing people's behavior and keeping the observation free of the evaluating components of judgment, criticism and psychoanalysis can be challenging to say the least. Some might say impossible. Observing the child having a temper tantrum, we tend to think and judge: My, what an awful child. Criticism enters: Why don't the parents do something? Analysis begins: Poor child. Not enough sleep or adult guidance. A good snack and a nap will fix that.
Appeals court blocks terminally ill killer's execution
Gov. Bob Riley, who vowed that he would not block the execution of terminally ill killer Daniel Lee Siebert, now must decide what to do after a federal appeals court has blocked it. Riley spokeswoman Tara Hutchison said the governor was still studying the appellate court's Wednesday ruling to see what the state's next move might be. But the governor doesn't need more study to determine what he thinks of the court's decision blocking the execution of the convicted killer whose crimes Riley said "were monstrous, brutal and ghastly." "We respectfully disagree with the court," Hutchison said. The court, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, reversed U.S. District Judge Mark Fuller in Montgomery late Wednesday afternoon, granting a stay of execution to Siebert, who claimed his cancer medication would interact with a lethal injection, causing him unnecessary pain.
Crime Is On TV, But TV is Often The Bigger Crime
MediaChannel New York, New York: You just know this happens. A group of media mavens in suits sit around a big table to come up with new ways to get us to pay for stuff we already get for free. The water people figured it out, and in some cases even bottle water from municipal systems while packaging it as something else. In another instance, a brilliant entrepreneur, took a stone, called it his pet rock and sold millions as a novelty. But whats happened in television makes all the scams we know about pale in comparison. The airwaves, as we know, belong to all of us, but thanks to regulations shaped by big industries, they were allocated (ie. handed out) FOR FREE to big commercial enterprises who then used their clout to monopolize the marketplace and dominate the spectrum. There are many crime shows on TV, but few if any ever deal with TV itself and how our broadcasting system was hijacked for the greater glory and ever escalating profits of a handful of moguls and their brands.
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