Judge rules Ten Commandments monument must go - Yahoo News

Judge rules Ten Commandments monument must go - Yahoo News

City attorneys say private individuals erected and paid for the monument under a 2007 city resolution. That resolution allows people to erect historical monuments of their choosing.

Bloomfield Mayor Scott Eckstein said he was surprised the judge would rule against "a historical document."

"The intent from the beginning was that the lawn was going to be used for historical purposes, and that's what the council voted on," Eckstein told the Daily Times (http://bit.ly/XMgAqu).

Schizophrenic and Wanting to Connect - NYTimes.com

Schizophrenic and Wanting to Connect - NYTimes.com



Needless to say, it should be obvious that dating is hard for me. But I
have friends, and they all know that I have schizophrenia and don’t seem
to mind. They seem to accept that mental illness is a disease and not
some defect of self. I can see the stigma lessening day by day, although
a lot of people are still afraid of it. It’s nothing that a few little
jokes and a sense of humor often can’t fix. Still, I know many others
with schizophrenia who don’t have it as easy, who suffer every day, and I
feel for them because I’ve sure been there.

BBC News - Textbook approach to Asia's disputes

BBC News - Textbook approach to Asia's disputes

Educationalists and historians have been meeting across borders to attempt the seemingly impossible - a common history textbook for South East Asia.

Not only will they have to accommodate diverse countries and a tangle of overlapping disputes, they have to contend with countries wanting to revise their history books to reflect territorial claims.

Dotting the Parks, Monuments to the Famous or Forgotten - NYTimes.com

Dotting the Parks, Monuments to the Famous or Forgotten - NYTimes.com

What exactly constitutes a monument is not cut in stone, so to speak.

“A monument can be an artwork, but it doesn’t have to be,” explained Jonathan Kuhn, the parks department’s director of art and antiquities. “It has to perpetuate memory and have a commemorative function. It’s everything from a marker in the ground to the triumphal arch in Washington Square Park.”