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Judge S. Arthur Spiegel, Senior United States
Judge of the Southern District of Ohio has
published a new book: Trial on its Merits: The
Life of a Judge (hardcover). Shown in
photographs on left, is Judge Spiegel at his
book-signing celebration on On June 3, 2009.
His book describes his life as seen from the
vantage point of a federal judge, a position which
he has held since 1979. As a young man of 21,
Judge Spiegel became a Marine officer and saw
action in the Pacific theatre during World War II.
After the end of the war, he went on to obtain a
law degree from Harvard Law School and he
Judge of the Southern District of Ohio has
published a new book: Trial on its Merits: The
Life of a Judge (hardcover). Shown in
photographs on left, is Judge Spiegel at his
book-signing celebration on On June 3, 2009.
His book describes his life as seen from the
vantage point of a federal judge, a position which
he has held since 1979. As a young man of 21,
Judge Spiegel became a Marine officer and saw
action in the Pacific theatre during World War II.
After the end of the war, he went on to obtain a
law degree from Harvard Law School and he
returned to Cincinnati to practice law.
After 30 years of distinguished service
on the bench, Judge Spiegel is the
longest serving and much beloved
federal judge in the District. Judge
Spiegel is 88 and he continues to
oversee an active trial docket. His
memoirs Trial on its Merits: The Life of
a Judge is available on the internet by
clicking here.
After 30 years of distinguished service
on the bench, Judge Spiegel is the
longest serving and much beloved
federal judge in the District. Judge
Spiegel is 88 and he continues to
oversee an active trial docket. His
memoirs Trial on its Merits: The Life of
a Judge is available on the internet by
clicking here.
On 6/29/2009, the Association of Ohio Commodores
launched the Ohio Ambassador Program in Cincinnati,
Ohio. Shown in Photo on left is Curtis Fuller
introducing the panel discussion on Ohio
Ambassador: The State of Perfect Balance. Ohio
Ambassador is a joint project of the Ohio Department
of Development and the Association of Ohio
Commodores with the mission objective of sharing the
Ohio story locally and globally. Southern Ohio,
anchored by Cincinnati, is a key region of the Ohio
success story. For more information on Ohio
Ambassador click here.
launched the Ohio Ambassador Program in Cincinnati,
Ohio. Shown in Photo on left is Curtis Fuller
introducing the panel discussion on Ohio
Ambassador: The State of Perfect Balance. Ohio
Ambassador is a joint project of the Ohio Department
of Development and the Association of Ohio
Commodores with the mission objective of sharing the
Ohio story locally and globally. Southern Ohio,
anchored by Cincinnati, is a key region of the Ohio
success story. For more information on Ohio
Ambassador click here.
| 6/18/2009: Shown in Photo Above is Mr. Robert Lee Harris. Mr. Harris is one of five Cincinnatians selected from 91 nominees to be honored as Civil Rights Pioneers during Major League Baseball's Third Annual Civil Rights Game 2009. Congratulations Robert! |
Photo on left: On 6/10/2009, Prof. Elizabeth F.
Collins of the Department of Classics and World
Religions of Ohio University conducted an
informative lecture and discussion on Indonesia.
The event was hosted by the Islamic Center of West
Chester, Ohio. This presentation is a preview of
Indonesia which is the country celebrated at Midfest
International 2009 in Middlletown during October 2,
3, and 4, 2009. For more information click here.
To read more comparative law essays on Indonesia,
click here.
Collins of the Department of Classics and World
Religions of Ohio University conducted an
informative lecture and discussion on Indonesia.
The event was hosted by the Islamic Center of West
Chester, Ohio. This presentation is a preview of
Indonesia which is the country celebrated at Midfest
International 2009 in Middlletown during October 2,
3, and 4, 2009. For more information click here.
To read more comparative law essays on Indonesia,
click here.
Photo on left: On 4/6/2009, Charleston Wang
presented a lecture at the College of Business
Administration of Miami University. The
presentation entitled CONFUCIUS: The Key to
Doing Business in the Pacific Rim in the 21st
Century was given by invitation for students who
will be going on travel-study program to China
this summer. A question and answer session
followed the lecture. A summary of the lecture
material may be downloaded free by clicking
here.
presented a lecture at the College of Business
Administration of Miami University. The
presentation entitled CONFUCIUS: The Key to
Doing Business in the Pacific Rim in the 21st
Century was given by invitation for students who
will be going on travel-study program to China
this summer. A question and answer session
followed the lecture. A summary of the lecture
material may be downloaded free by clicking
here.
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Crown Thy Good
With Brotherhood
Reflections On Life In the Turn Lane
by Beverley Jones, July 4, 2009
I’m not sure I can give this day the honor it traditionally deserves. I’m surely grateful to those
founding forces and fathers who wrenched this land into a country, and to my ancestors, too. Their
misfortune and good sense pushed them from their Welsh and German homelands in the
1700-1800’s and landed them, and me, in this grand experiment we call the U.S.A.
Like the child who is convinced he was adopted or born to a different family, I wonder if, maybe, I
was intended to live somewhere else, so out of step am I with the main-stream currents of my region
or maybe even the country. I found evidence for this theory in Rick Steves’ Travel As A Political
Act.
I knew after I traveled to Scandinavia several years ago that – aside from months of semi-darkness
– it was a place most simpatico. I liked their emphasis on the human scale – their inclusion of
children everywhere, warmed towels in the bathroom, scores of bicycles waiting unmolested for their
owners at bus stops. Steves description of Europe today confirms my theory that I am meant for a
different place: “While we care individually, they care collectively. What’s perceived as good for
the fabric of their community (such as having bike lanes, heroin maintenance clinics, public
broadcasting, after-school for children of working parents, paid maternity and paternity leave, and
freeway art) trumps business interests.” Travel As A Political Act,
Here’s another aspect of European ethos dear to my communal heart: “...Europe is
enthusiastically capitalistic. Europeans are just more comfortable with a higher degree of
socialism. Most Europeans continue to favor their existing high tax rates because they believe that
collectively creating the society of their dreams is more important than allowing individuals to create
the personal empire of their dreams.” And, as I understand, creating the society of their dreams
includes “free” public education, including college - even medical school. Imagine that!
I haven’t given up on us. I think we’re trying to create a society of our dreams, too, but the way
we do it is a cumbersome and drawn out process. Of course, Scandinavia came to their state of
welfare through bloody clashes of labor unionists with the elites in the late 19th & early 20th
centuries. Maybe our wars of words and media will save us some bloodshed. Or maybe we’ll just
continue our individual-community battles while improved lives for many of us wait on the
political-business horizon.
By ‘improved lives’ I don’t mean more stuff. I answer an emphatic “yes” to Steves’ rhetorical
question: “Would you make do with a smaller car if you knew you didn’t have to pay for health
insurance premiums and co-pays? Would you be willing to give up the luxury of a big flat-screen TV
and live in a smaller house if you could cut back to 35 hours per workweek and get a few extra
weeks of paid vacation?”
I have another theory – that church attendance and affiliation is so low in Europe because many of
the tenets of our faith are fulfilled in their societal structure – the meek inheriting the earth; love
your neighbor. On this side of the pond we need a place apart to protect and practice compassion,
to get in touch with our communal needs, to find ways to help others. Church allows that for us.
Our current health care reform debate is the arena for our human need-compassion-money-
business debate. Apparently many main-line Christian churches have moved toward support of the
single-payer proposal – not because it’s politically possible, but because it best represents their
faith traditions: Presbyterians and United Methodists have resolutions calling for single-payer; UCC
discusses such a resolution this summer. Lutherans and Episcopalians are more pragmatic –
calling for universal health care without specifying the means - in order to avoid “squandering what
credibility and influence we have in a town where private, monied interests get heard more often.”
“Pursuing the Possible”, Christian Century, July 14, 2009.
What would Dietrich Bonhoeffer do? For that matter, what would Jesus do?
I love Garrison Keillor and his affection and faith in the basic goodness of America and our people.
I literally grew up in a “Lake Wobegon”, right next to Minnesota, and most of the time the U.S. flag
and the fireworks speak to me of that past and potential. But this year their flip side is more in focus
and lighting a Yahrtzeit candle to commemorate what we’ve lost and are losing seems a better fit.
But I cannot resist Erich Kunzel and Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever.
I know! My good ole American ingenuity will use that energy to see that our star-spangled banner
may yet wave o'er a land of the comforted as well as the free and the brave.
© Beverly Jones 2009 - Doing Good. Together.
With Brotherhood
Reflections On Life In the Turn Lane
by Beverley Jones, July 4, 2009
I’m not sure I can give this day the honor it traditionally deserves. I’m surely grateful to those
founding forces and fathers who wrenched this land into a country, and to my ancestors, too. Their
misfortune and good sense pushed them from their Welsh and German homelands in the
1700-1800’s and landed them, and me, in this grand experiment we call the U.S.A.
Like the child who is convinced he was adopted or born to a different family, I wonder if, maybe, I
was intended to live somewhere else, so out of step am I with the main-stream currents of my region
or maybe even the country. I found evidence for this theory in Rick Steves’ Travel As A Political
Act.
I knew after I traveled to Scandinavia several years ago that – aside from months of semi-darkness
– it was a place most simpatico. I liked their emphasis on the human scale – their inclusion of
children everywhere, warmed towels in the bathroom, scores of bicycles waiting unmolested for their
owners at bus stops. Steves description of Europe today confirms my theory that I am meant for a
different place: “While we care individually, they care collectively. What’s perceived as good for
the fabric of their community (such as having bike lanes, heroin maintenance clinics, public
broadcasting, after-school for children of working parents, paid maternity and paternity leave, and
freeway art) trumps business interests.” Travel As A Political Act,
Here’s another aspect of European ethos dear to my communal heart: “...Europe is
enthusiastically capitalistic. Europeans are just more comfortable with a higher degree of
socialism. Most Europeans continue to favor their existing high tax rates because they believe that
collectively creating the society of their dreams is more important than allowing individuals to create
the personal empire of their dreams.” And, as I understand, creating the society of their dreams
includes “free” public education, including college - even medical school. Imagine that!
I haven’t given up on us. I think we’re trying to create a society of our dreams, too, but the way
we do it is a cumbersome and drawn out process. Of course, Scandinavia came to their state of
welfare through bloody clashes of labor unionists with the elites in the late 19th & early 20th
centuries. Maybe our wars of words and media will save us some bloodshed. Or maybe we’ll just
continue our individual-community battles while improved lives for many of us wait on the
political-business horizon.
By ‘improved lives’ I don’t mean more stuff. I answer an emphatic “yes” to Steves’ rhetorical
question: “Would you make do with a smaller car if you knew you didn’t have to pay for health
insurance premiums and co-pays? Would you be willing to give up the luxury of a big flat-screen TV
and live in a smaller house if you could cut back to 35 hours per workweek and get a few extra
weeks of paid vacation?”
I have another theory – that church attendance and affiliation is so low in Europe because many of
the tenets of our faith are fulfilled in their societal structure – the meek inheriting the earth; love
your neighbor. On this side of the pond we need a place apart to protect and practice compassion,
to get in touch with our communal needs, to find ways to help others. Church allows that for us.
Our current health care reform debate is the arena for our human need-compassion-money-
business debate. Apparently many main-line Christian churches have moved toward support of the
single-payer proposal – not because it’s politically possible, but because it best represents their
faith traditions: Presbyterians and United Methodists have resolutions calling for single-payer; UCC
discusses such a resolution this summer. Lutherans and Episcopalians are more pragmatic –
calling for universal health care without specifying the means - in order to avoid “squandering what
credibility and influence we have in a town where private, monied interests get heard more often.”
“Pursuing the Possible”, Christian Century, July 14, 2009.
What would Dietrich Bonhoeffer do? For that matter, what would Jesus do?
I love Garrison Keillor and his affection and faith in the basic goodness of America and our people.
I literally grew up in a “Lake Wobegon”, right next to Minnesota, and most of the time the U.S. flag
and the fireworks speak to me of that past and potential. But this year their flip side is more in focus
and lighting a Yahrtzeit candle to commemorate what we’ve lost and are losing seems a better fit.
But I cannot resist Erich Kunzel and Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever.
I know! My good ole American ingenuity will use that energy to see that our star-spangled banner
may yet wave o'er a land of the comforted as well as the free and the brave.
© Beverly Jones 2009 - Doing Good. Together.
Greetings: Please join me in thanking Representative Oshiro and
his staff for establishing a state law curtailing the obscene practice
of using human corpses for entertainment and profit. Great work
Hawaii! Click here to read the new law. Maybe we can get the
attention of your former citizen, President Obama, to cast an eye at
this diabolical and dehumanizing practice. Although I very much
enjoyed working with the team in California and was disappointed
that Governor Schwartzenegger chose not to sign that bill, there is
hope elsewhere. In Florida, for instance, a bill is on Governor Crist's
desk. Hawaii has broken the ice and we hope that others will follow
in droves. If I hear any more significant news I will pass it on.
Thanks for listening. Wishing you peace.
Sarah Redpathaka, Mom de Guerre. 6/30/2009.
Click here for 2008 WANGNEWS report on BODIES in Cincinnati.
his staff for establishing a state law curtailing the obscene practice
of using human corpses for entertainment and profit. Great work
Hawaii! Click here to read the new law. Maybe we can get the
attention of your former citizen, President Obama, to cast an eye at
this diabolical and dehumanizing practice. Although I very much
enjoyed working with the team in California and was disappointed
that Governor Schwartzenegger chose not to sign that bill, there is
hope elsewhere. In Florida, for instance, a bill is on Governor Crist's
desk. Hawaii has broken the ice and we hope that others will follow
in droves. If I hear any more significant news I will pass it on.
Thanks for listening. Wishing you peace.
Sarah Redpathaka, Mom de Guerre. 6/30/2009.
Click here for 2008 WANGNEWS report on BODIES in Cincinnati.
A Reflection on the
Uighur-Han Cauldron
Over the July 4-5 weekend, communal rioting erupted in Urumqi, the capital of the
Xinjiang Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China. An examination of
news from various sources indicates that an evening gathering of Uighurs to
protest the deaths of 2 Uighur workers from an ethnic brawl in a toy factory in
Shaoguan in far-off southern Guangdong Province on June 26 turned violent with
attacks on buses, cars and shops. It appears the majority of the 150+ dead and
many more injured were ethnic Han Chinese.
The government has deployed tens of thousands of armed police in a massive
show of force to restore order in the streets of Urumqi and is worried about rioting
in other cities. As to be expected, Beijing is linking the rioting to Uighur separatists
operating from outside China. There have been subsequent attacks on the
Chinese Consulates in The Hague, Netherlands and Munich, Germany on July 6
and on the Chinese Embassy in Ankara, Turkey on July 7.
The situation in the Uighur-Han cauldron of Xinjiang is volatile. The Uighurs are a
Turkic minority race who are seeing their numerical majority in Xinjiang dwindle as
the ethnic Han Chinese from the east continue to migrate into this northwestern
“New Land Across the River.” In bustling Urumqi, the Han is already a majority and
the Uighurs feel increasingly displaced and marginalized.
Of course, Beijing is dominated by Han Chinese although the reality of minorities in
China is recognized for a long time. An examination of the “Five Stars Red Flag” of
the People’s Republic will provide a clue. The five stars have been construed to
represent the most prominent five racial groups of China - the Han, Manchus,
Mongols, Tibetans, and last but not least the Uighurs (there are more smaller
groups in addition to the five for a total of 55). Dyed-in-the-wool Marxist
bureaucrats will refute this assertion, preferring to construe the diversity of stars as
the specialization of workers in a socialist state with the big star being the
Communist Party. The five color striped flag of the first Chinese Republic explicitly
recognized the racial diversity within China.
Arcane flag symbolism aside, the situation on the ground in Urumqi is dangerous.
Add to the ethnic schism, the explosive issue of religion, for Uighurs are Muslims
who see a creedal affinity to Muslim Ummah to their west and south. This lends
ammunition to the Chinese fear of an independent Islamic Uighuristan (aka East
Turkistan). Indeed, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, independent Uighur states
have briefly existed in 1933 and 1944-49.
In fairness to Beijing, the security forces so far have acted with restraint by seeking
to separate the avenging Han mobs from Uighur neighborhoods and retreating in
the face of wailing mothers and daughters donning headscarves. All this has been
captured on video, but one wonders what the security police is doing after the
onset of darkness. I would venture to guess that door-to-door arrests of "trouble-
makers" are in the works as China has shown an iron fist against separatists and
hundreds of Uighurs have been executed by gunshot in the recent past.
A specter is haunting Xinjiang. The specter of communal violence driven by ethnic
and religious animosity is an ugly thing. The authoritarian government of China
will not countenance dissent, not to mention, separation. The Uighurs are angry
because they see the Han getting the best out of Xinjiang. Nevertheless, even
Marx envisioned a perfect egalitarian society without racial and religious division,
albeit under the hegemony of communism, the champion of the poor.
There must be a middle ground on which the Uighur and Han can co-exist, co-
operate - and share - in the communal advancement. The Uighur-Han cauldron of
Xinjiang is a pressure-cooker - some mechanism must exist to relieve the
pressure. It is reported that the 600 or so Uighur workers in the toy factory whose
brawl may have been the match to the latest conflagration in Urumqi have spoken
out against this violence, at least according to Chinese news sources. An
Opinion by Charleston C. K. Wang - July 7, 2009.
Uighur-Han Cauldron
Over the July 4-5 weekend, communal rioting erupted in Urumqi, the capital of the
Xinjiang Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China. An examination of
news from various sources indicates that an evening gathering of Uighurs to
protest the deaths of 2 Uighur workers from an ethnic brawl in a toy factory in
Shaoguan in far-off southern Guangdong Province on June 26 turned violent with
attacks on buses, cars and shops. It appears the majority of the 150+ dead and
many more injured were ethnic Han Chinese.
The government has deployed tens of thousands of armed police in a massive
show of force to restore order in the streets of Urumqi and is worried about rioting
in other cities. As to be expected, Beijing is linking the rioting to Uighur separatists
operating from outside China. There have been subsequent attacks on the
Chinese Consulates in The Hague, Netherlands and Munich, Germany on July 6
and on the Chinese Embassy in Ankara, Turkey on July 7.
The situation in the Uighur-Han cauldron of Xinjiang is volatile. The Uighurs are a
Turkic minority race who are seeing their numerical majority in Xinjiang dwindle as
the ethnic Han Chinese from the east continue to migrate into this northwestern
“New Land Across the River.” In bustling Urumqi, the Han is already a majority and
the Uighurs feel increasingly displaced and marginalized.
Of course, Beijing is dominated by Han Chinese although the reality of minorities in
China is recognized for a long time. An examination of the “Five Stars Red Flag” of
the People’s Republic will provide a clue. The five stars have been construed to
represent the most prominent five racial groups of China - the Han, Manchus,
Mongols, Tibetans, and last but not least the Uighurs (there are more smaller
groups in addition to the five for a total of 55). Dyed-in-the-wool Marxist
bureaucrats will refute this assertion, preferring to construe the diversity of stars as
the specialization of workers in a socialist state with the big star being the
Communist Party. The five color striped flag of the first Chinese Republic explicitly
recognized the racial diversity within China.
Arcane flag symbolism aside, the situation on the ground in Urumqi is dangerous.
Add to the ethnic schism, the explosive issue of religion, for Uighurs are Muslims
who see a creedal affinity to Muslim Ummah to their west and south. This lends
ammunition to the Chinese fear of an independent Islamic Uighuristan (aka East
Turkistan). Indeed, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, independent Uighur states
have briefly existed in 1933 and 1944-49.
In fairness to Beijing, the security forces so far have acted with restraint by seeking
to separate the avenging Han mobs from Uighur neighborhoods and retreating in
the face of wailing mothers and daughters donning headscarves. All this has been
captured on video, but one wonders what the security police is doing after the
onset of darkness. I would venture to guess that door-to-door arrests of "trouble-
makers" are in the works as China has shown an iron fist against separatists and
hundreds of Uighurs have been executed by gunshot in the recent past.
A specter is haunting Xinjiang. The specter of communal violence driven by ethnic
and religious animosity is an ugly thing. The authoritarian government of China
will not countenance dissent, not to mention, separation. The Uighurs are angry
because they see the Han getting the best out of Xinjiang. Nevertheless, even
Marx envisioned a perfect egalitarian society without racial and religious division,
albeit under the hegemony of communism, the champion of the poor.
There must be a middle ground on which the Uighur and Han can co-exist, co-
operate - and share - in the communal advancement. The Uighur-Han cauldron of
Xinjiang is a pressure-cooker - some mechanism must exist to relieve the
pressure. It is reported that the 600 or so Uighur workers in the toy factory whose
brawl may have been the match to the latest conflagration in Urumqi have spoken
out against this violence, at least according to Chinese news sources. An
Opinion by Charleston C. K. Wang - July 7, 2009.
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