New Idea Society - Quiet Prism EP

New Idea Society is Mike Law and Chris DeAngelis, along with new members Trevor Watson and Marshall Ryan.

During 2008 New Idea Society was involved in a serious accident on Germany's Autobahn while on tour - as a result, main songwriter/vocalist/guitarist Mike Law was unable to play guitar. During his recovery period, he composed a number of songs, including Iradell and They Won't Find Us, on vintage synthesizers.

These tracks, along with the debut of the brand new song Autumn You (the first release from their upcoming full-length out later in 2010), and two other guitar-based tracks, make up the Quiet Prism EP.

Quiet Prism is a collection of songs created within a time of solitude and recovery. The songs are a prelude to

the larger scope and scale of the upcoming album. Some of the songs can even be classified as solo efforts, as Mike Law attempted to work every day, mostly alone in Brooklyn's Translator Audio while waiting for bones to heal.

New Idea Society (NIS) will tour the U.S., Europe and Japan in late 2010, in support of their upcoming full-length release.

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Many Faiths, One Truth by The Dalai Lama

  When I was a boy in Tibet, I felt that my own Buddhist religion must be the best - and that other faiths were somehow inferior. Now I see how naive I was, and how dangerous the extremes of religious intolerance can be today.

Though intolerance may be as old as religion itself, we still see vigorous signs of its virulence. In Europe, there are intense debates about newcomers wearing veils or wanting to erect minarets and episodes of violence against Muslim immigrants. Radical atheists issue blanket condemnations of those who hold to religious beliefs. In the Middle East, the flames of war are fanned by hatred of those who adhere to a different faith.

Such tensions are likely to increase as the world becomes more interconnected and cultures, peoples and religions become ever more entwined. The pressure this creates tests more than our tolerance - it demands that we promote peaceful coexistence and understanding across boundaries.

Granted, every religion has a sense of exclusivity as part of its core identity. Even so, I believe there is genuine potential for mutual understanding. While preserving faith toward one’s own tradition, one can respect, admire and appreciate other traditions.

An early eye-opener for me was my meeting with the Trappist monk Thomas Merton in India shortly before his untimely death in 1968. Merton told me he could be perfectly faithful to Christianity, yet learn in depth from other religions like Buddhism. The same is true for me as an ardent Buddhist learning from the world’s other great religions.

A main point in my discussion with Merton was how central compassion was to the message of both Christianity and Buddhism. In my readings of the New Testament, I find myself inspired by Jesus’ acts of compassion. His miracle of the loaves and fishes, his healing and his teaching are all motivated by the desire to relieve suffering.

I’m a firm believer in the power of personal contact to bridge differences, so I’ve long been drawn to dialogues with people of other religious outlooks. The focus on compassion that Merton and I observed in our two religions strikes me as a strong unifying thread among all the major faiths. And these days we need to highlight what unifies us.

Take Judaism, for instance. I first visited a synagogue in Cochin, India, in 1965, and have met with many rabbis over the years. I remember vividly the rabbi in the Netherlands who told me about the Holocaust with such intensity that we were both in tears. And I’ve learned how the Talmud and the Bible repeat the theme of compassion, as in the passage in Leviticus that admonishes, “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

In my many encounters with Hindu scholars in India, I’ve come to see the centrality of selfless compassion in Hinduism too - as expressed, for instance, in the Bhagavad Gita, which praises those who “delight in the welfare of all beings.” I’m moved by the ways this value has been expressed in the life of great beings like Mahatma Gandhi, or the lesser-known Baba Amte, who founded a leper colony not far from a Tibetan settlement in Maharashtra State in India. There he fed and sheltered lepers who were otherwise shunned. When I received my Nobel Peace Prize, I made a donation to his colony.

Compassion is equally important in Islam - and recognizing that has become crucial in the years since Sept. 11, especially in answering those who paint Islam as a militant faith. On the first anniversary of 9/11, I spoke at the National Cathedral in Washington, pleading that we not blindly follow the lead of some in the news media and let the violent acts of a few individuals define an entire religion.

Let me tell you about the Islam I know. Tibet has had an Islamic community for around 400 years, although my richest contacts with Islam have been in India, which has the world’s second-largest Muslim population. An imam in Ladakh once told me that a true Muslim should love and respect all of Allah’s creatures. And in my understanding, Islam enshrines compassion as a core spiritual principle, reflected in the very name of God, the “Compassionate and Merciful,” that appears at the beginning of virtually each chapter of the Koran.

Finding common ground among faiths can help us bridge needless divides at a time when unified action is more crucial than ever. As a species, we must embrace the oneness of humanity as we face global issues like pandemics, economic crises and ecological disaster. At that scale, our response must be as one.

Harmony among the major faiths has become an essential ingredient of peaceful coexistence in our world. From this perspective, mutual understanding among these traditions is not merely the business of religious believers - it matters for the welfare of humanity as a whole.

New York, NY, USA, 25 May 2010 (New York Times Op Ed by Tenzin Gyatso)

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Tracklist

01. Intro
02. Johnny Osbourne - 13 Dead
03. 13 Dead Version (Simba Records 12")
04. Mighty Diamonds - Jam Session
05. Jam Session Version (Live & Learn 7")
06. Midnight Riders - Youthman Invasion

07. Youthman Invasion Version (Thunder Bolt 7")
08. Midnight Riders - Posse Form A Line
09. Posse Form A Line Version (Thunder Bolt 7")
10. Patrick Andy - Sencimania
11. Sencimania Version (Hit Bound 7")
12. Michael Palmer - Modeling Girl
13. Modeling Girl Version (Tonos 12")
14. Michael Palmer - Ghetto Dance
15. Johnny Osbourne - Let Him Go (Midnight Rock LP)
16. Ghetto Dance Version (E.T. Records 7")
17. Corna Stone - In This Town
18. In This Town Version (Supreme 7")
19. Michael Palmer - Gowna School (Tonos LP)
20. Tony Ford - Money Make The Mare Gallop
21. Money Make The Mare Gallop Version (Music Industry 7")
22. Michael Prophet - Cop A Come
23. Cop A Come Version (Techniques 7")
24. One-A-Way - Sufferer
25. Little John - Fales News (Hit Bound 7")
26. Sufferer Version (Route 54 7")
27. Lionel Ganja Barrett - Rasta Cowboy
28. Rasta Cowboy Version (Chopper 7")
29. Michael Palmer - Give Me Your Love (Tonos LP)
30. I Sees - Break Your Heart
31. Break Your Heart Version (Temper Rose 7")
32. Coco Tea - Girl Get Ready
33. Girl Get Ready Version (Moodies 12")
34. Tony Tuff - Mi Love Mi Like
35. Mi Love Mi Like Version (Keeling 12")
36. Carl Meeks - Red Eye Lover (Redman International LP)
37. Conroy Smith - Suger Me
38. Dennis Brown - True True True (Digital B 7")
39. Suger Me Version (Jammys 7")
40. King Kong - Agony And Pain
41. Agony And Pain Version (Jah All Mighty 7")
42. Cocoa Tea - Big Sound (Jimpys LP)
43. Cocoa Tea - M.B. (Jimpys LP)
44. Cocoa Tea - Hail Jah Man (Jimpys LP)
45. Yami Bolo - Free
46. Free Mandela Version (Skengdon 7")
47. King Kong - He Was A Friend
48. He Was A Friend Version (Jah All Mighty 7")
49. Johnny Osbourne - Chain Grabber
50. Chain Grabber Version (Live & Love 12")
51. The Bloodfire Posse - Rude Boys
52. Rude Boys Version (Studio Worx 7")
53. Echo Minott - I Am Back
54. I Am Back Version (Jammys 7")
55. Vivian Withers - Hangin´on
56. Hangin´on Version (Trojan 12")

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Rape myths debated in schools

The Telegraph disapproves. I think it is a good idea:

Children as young as 11 are being asked to debate myths surrounding rape – including claims that “women ask for it by wearing short skirts”. A charity is distributing teaching materials to secondary schools as part of a campaign to end violence against women.
The pack, which schools can buy for £100, covers subjects such as domestic violence, female genital mutilation, forced marriages, prostitution and human trafficking. Rape Crisis said the lessons were intended to encourage mixed classes of boys and girls to discuss issues surrounding rape.
In one class, pupils are asked to debate claims that “women enjoy rape”, while another lesson instructs children to discuss the myth that “women ask for it by wearing short skirts, drinking alcohol etc”.

As long as we live in a society where people are still willing to victim-blame, we need education like this. And as with a lot of reports regarding schools, I suspect that eleven year olds are not being taught about the graphic aspects; it is just that they happen to be at the same school.

Rumbold @'Pickled Politics'