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Canadian: Why we still need a Women's Day
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Saturday, February 27, 2010 - 01:00 PM
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 by Sarah Bingham
Monday, March 8 is a global celebration of International Women’s Day. Some of you might be asking, why the heck do we need an International Women’s Day? What’s the point? Women have already achieved equality, right? Wrong!
Sad as it is to say in this day and age, despite all of the strides women’s rights have made, even in Canada, the differences between women and men are fairly substantial. For proof look no farther than Canada’s own independent agency for collecting data, Statistics Canada. The StatsCan publication, “Women in Canada: A Gender-based Statistical Report”, released in 2006, has some pretty shocking information in it. The report itself is chock-full of all kinds of interesting statistics presented in a not-so-interesting way so we’ll just cover some of highlights to save you the trouble of reading through the entire 309 pages.
Right from the get-go we learn that “substantial gender gaps persist on most major socio-economic variables”, which essentially means that in a lot of really important things, women and men experience things very differently. There’s employment, income, violence, and a slew of other factors, but let’s stick to the big one: money.
Read the complete article: Ottawa Region News
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Why Economists Fail
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Posted by: Makarios on Friday, September 25, 2009 - 09:00 AM
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By John Michael Greer
<snip> By 2005, accordingly, a good many people outside the economics profession were commenting on parallels between the housing bubble and other speculative binges; by 2006 the blogosphere was abuzz with accurate predictions of the approaching crash; by 2007 the final plunge into mass insolvency and depression was treated in many circles as a foregone conclusion – as indeed it was by then. Yet it’s a matter of public record that among those who issued these warnings, economists – who should have caught onto the bubble faster than anyone – could very nearly be counted on the fingers of one foot. On the contrary, the vast majority of the economists who expressed a public opinion on the subject insisted that the delirious rise in real estate prices was justified and that the exotic financial innovations that drove the bubble would keep banks and mortgage companies safe from harm.
These comforting announcements were wrong. Those who made them had every reason to know at the time that they were wrong. No less an economic luminary than John Kenneth Galbraith pointed out decades ago that in the financial world, the term “innovation” usually refers to the rediscovery of the same limited set of bad ideas that always, without exception, lead to economic disaster. Galbraith’s books The Great Crash 1929 and A Short History of Financial Panics, which chronicle the carnage caused by the same gimmicks in the past, can be found on the library shelves in every school of economics in North America, and anyone who reads either one can find every rhetorical excess and fiscal idiocy of the housing bubble faithfully duplicated in the great speculative binges of the past.
If this were an isolated instance of failure, it might be pardonable, but the same pattern repeats itself as regularly as speculative bubbles themselves. Identical assurances were offered – in some cases, by the identical economists – during the last great speculative binge in American economic life, the tech-stock bubble of 1996-2000. They have been offered by professional economists during every other speculative binge since the profession of economics came into being. Take a wider view, and you’ll find that whenever a professional economist assures the public that some apparently risky course of action is perfectly safe, he is usually wrong.
Read the complete article: The Archdruid Report
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Avoiding Pagan Dollars
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Sunday, September 06, 2009 - 03:00 PM
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by Jason Pitzl-Waters
The shops in a quaint tourist-trap “village” in Adamstown, Pennsylvania are apparantly split over a local Pagan group renting out the place for their Celebrating Earth Spirituality Festival (a local take on the national Pagan Pride Day gatherings), with several refusing to open or closing early to avoid touching Pagan money.
Jane Lesher, who owns The Soxy Lady but doesn’t live in Stoudtburg Village, said her business, which is usually open on Saturdays, will be closed during the festival … As a merchant, Lesher said, she believes the Earth Spirituality Festival is “not the image we want to portray for Stoudtburg Village.” … Lesher said that if the event were held in a “more urban place, it might not have the negative image it would have around here … I am a Christian, and anything that is not worshipping God is something I object to. You can’t force it on another, but you don’t need to support it in any way, either. I base this on what God says. I’m not just a stick-in-the-mud and can’t change my mind, but I base it on what I believe is an absolute.”
Read the complete article: Wild Hunt
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Sacred Texts legacy
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Friday, September 04, 2009 - 11:00 AM
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By Ramona Turner
When John Bruno Hare first set foot on the UC Santa Cruz campus in 1972 to study linguistics and anthropology, he never thought he'd wind up owning a Web site about world religions. "It was always one of those side projects I never really had time for," said the former full-time software engineer who lives in Santa Cruz. After leaving the high-tech world in the late 1990s, Hare launched Sacred-Texts.com, a non-denominational site featuring more than 2,000 rare, uncopyrighted religious books, some based on beliefs that date back to 5,000 B.C. While the site's content is free, Hare sells DVDs, CDs and Kindle e-books to customers worldwide.
Hare finds his work enlightening and hopes visitors to the site will feel the same. "What I've learned is that there are infinite paths to God and that everyone is trying to do the right thing," said Hare, who says he's not a religious person. "If everyone could see that, we wouldn't have as many conflicts. That's what this site is about." Sacred-Texts.com is well-read. Considering the millions of sites online, it ranks in Google's top 19,000 viewed sites, battling head-to-head with the Vatican's site on some days, Hare said. Now, his goal is to make Evinity Publishing, which he started this year as a parent company for his site and other products, continue to educate curious minds long after he passes on. "Essentially, this is my gift to the world," he said. "I don't want it to go away if I die.
Read the complete article: Santa Cruz Sentinel
Note: ...Save Sacred Texts. Buy book CDs.
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The Power of the Pagan Dollar 2.0
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Posted by: Makarios on Sunday, August 23, 2009 - 12:00 PM
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<snip> Time after time in the history of my beloved United States we have seen how the ethnic, sub-cultural, and religious communities that form up the patchwork quilt of the United States have been able to strengthen the their communities and build their social ties, and their economic, and political power by concentrating money into community owned businesses and interests. These decisions include supporting Pagan-owned and Pagan friendly businesses, as well as supporting local and national Pagan community organizations, and Pagan charities.
Pagan Owned and Pagan Friendly Businesses The first thing that I would like to say is that a Pagan business is not necessarily a metaphysical or occult shop. I know, I know, some of you out there are going… “Well, DUH! Pax!”
But it was both interesting and instructive for me to notice that many, many times, on many separate occasions, when I tried to communicate with others about the idea of supporting our Pagan businesses that the idea of a Pagan business often seemed to be all but consumed by the idea of a metaphysical book and paraphernalia shop.
Read the complete article: Witchmoot
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Tourist Routes Seeking Witches to Attract Visitors
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Posted by: sawwhet on Friday, August 14, 2009 - 05:00 PM
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Spanish tourism needs to find new ways to attract visitors from all over the world, and for that task there is nothing better than to take advantage of local traditions, including witchcraft, as the region of Navarre has done.
That northern region has risen to the challenge of competing with the mystic traditions of Galicia, in the northwest, which up to now, because of the traditional fire spell there, has occupied the privileged position in Spanish witchcraft.
This joining of Galicia and witchcraft and the claim that there are witches in that region, however, has been superseded – at least touristically – by Navarre’s initiative to exploit the richness of its own black magic traditions.
Read the complete article: laht
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Are campers safe from vampires? Forks' tourism boom
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Posted by: sawwhet on Friday, August 14, 2009 - 11:00 AM
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Twilight fans making pilgrimages to the setting of their favorite novels have led to jaw-dropping numbers at the Forks Visitor Center, said Marcia Bingham, chamber executive director.
A total of 16,186 people passed through the Visitor Center in July, doubling June's number of 8,702, and in one month nearly reaching the entire year's total for 2008 -- 18,485 people.
"What a gift this has been," Bingham said. "We are only doing one logging tour a week. We used to do three. This certainly is nothing like the old days. Just thinking about it, my jaw drops."
In addition to the sheer numbers, the guests come with some interesting questions.
Among them, Bingham lists:
• Is it safe to go camping with the vampire problems in the area?
• Where is Port Townsend, and is it anywhere near Forks?
• And Bingham's favorite: When do the deer turn into elk?
Read the complete article: peninsuladailynews
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Is it time for a gender bailout?
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Posted by: Makarios on Friday, August 14, 2009 - 10:05 AM
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Perhaps what ails us in the U.S. can't be solved by any amount of financial bailouts. Perhaps what we really need is a gender bailout. Instead of throwing money at our problems, why not women? Both Norway and Spain have mandated gender equity on corporate boards. Should the U.S. government demand the same?
Let’s review the numbers:
Women hold only 15 percent of all board seats in this country.
A new report from the National Council for Research on Women (NCRW) titled "Women in Fund Management" shows women are under-represented in fund management positions. Ten percent of all mutual fund managers are women and only three percent of the trillions of dollars invested in hedge funds are controlled by women.
There are similarly low percentages when you look at the number of female CEOs in the Fortune 500, female partners in law firms, women in newsrooms, women in Congress, etc. etc.
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Fifty-one percent of the country's population is female.
Women make 85 percent of all consumer purchasing decisions in this country.
Almost half of all workers in the U.S., and one third of all business owners, are women.
Read the complete article: Echidne of the Snakes
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Nature, Wealth, and Money
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Posted by: Makarios on Monday, August 10, 2009 - 12:05 PM
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<snip> The elimination of economic diversity has been discussed in previous posts, but it deserves more attention than I’ve given it so far. Diversity is the basis of stability in any ecosystem, human or otherwise; when a significant proportion of goods and services are produced in the household economy, for example, the vagaries of the market economy have a limited influence on everyday life; that limitation goes away once goods once made at home have to be purchased in the market with money. Thus it’s no accident that over the last four centuries, as the market has supplanted the household economy and other patterns of production and distribution of wealth, economic crises have become progressively more frequent, more severe, and more widely felt. The effects of the Dutch tulip mania and the South Sea bubble were restricted to a relatively small proportion of their respective societies; this was hardly true of the Great Depression of the 1930s, and seems to be turning out even less true of the Great Recession now under way.
The second distinctive feature of a money economy is that it makes it harder, not easier, to value certain classes of goods. What E.F. Schumacher called primary goods – goods produced directly by nature without human intervention – are perhaps the best examples. Most traditional societies around the world, it bears noticing, have no trouble whatever recognizing the value of primary goods and finding ways to integrate that value into their own systems of exchange. The salmon ceremonies of First Nations along the northwest coast of North America are good cases in point.
These societies have a gift economy in which rank and social influence are gained by giving away goods – a system that once provided a very efficient means of distributing wealth of many kinds through their societies – and they treat the arrival of the annual salmon runs in exactly the same spirit, as a mighty gift from the Salmon People that must receive an appropriate response. Anthropologists who treat these arrangements purely under the heading of religion (or, less politely, superstition) are missing one of their central points; they are, among other things, ways of integrating relationships between human communities and the natural world into the traditional economy, so that the value of the salmon harvest is always weighed in decisions that might affect it, and traditional practices that preserve salmon runs are given potent economic sanction.
Read the complete article: The Archdruid Report
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Rivalry, witchcraft and sex for interviews
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Posted by: sawwhet on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 03:00 PM
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If you have a good job and you are totally at ease, thank your gods! I don’t know if it is about lack of employment but the sort of rivalry over some jobs is quite scary.
Apparently, in Uganda, everyone with a position worth competing for must be on their guard at all times. If you do not find a beheaded chicken at your door-step, then it will be assassins coming at you in the middle of the night!
What used to be healthy competition at work has turned into a melee, involving witchcraft, dirty games, slander and even physical fights.
Read the complete article: theobserver
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Does your organization use volunteers or interns?
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Thursday, June 04, 2009 - 11:00 AM
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This is the time of year when college students start serving summer internships. Often, students offer to work without pay just to get the experience. But does this influx of possible free labor carry hidden risks? Perhaps. Allowing a student to perform the work that a regular employee would otherwise perform could violate the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The internship has to be carefully structured so that any work the intern performs is largely educational. <snip> On the other hand, a true volunteer most likely won’t be able to sue for discrimination. As the following case shows, the key to liability is that the position is paid or that the volunteer somehow is remunerated for the work. Otherwise, Title VII does not apply.
Recent case: William Shaver claimed that he was turned down for a spot as a volunteer firefighter. Shaver alleged he was a victim of bias because: (1) his wife is bisexual, (2) has an explicit MySpace page and (3) both practice Wicca, a neo-pagan religion.
Although the case was dismissed on a technicality, the court explained why Shaver wouldn’t have had a case even if he had prevailed on other grounds. The court said that strictly speaking, true volunteers aren’t covered by Title VII unless they can show that they were somehow remunerated for their efforts. (Shaver v. Cooleemee Volunteer Fire Department, No. 1:07-CV-00175, MD NC, 2008)
Read the complete article: Business Management Daily
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