Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

Ernestine Meyer

Religious Studies Club

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Second and Fourth Fridays
Tallwood

Coordinator:   Steve Goldman

This new club is designed to provide a forum for ongoing discussions and explorations of a wide range of religious studies topics. All OLLI members with an interest are welcome, including those of any faith traditions as well as seekers, secular humanists, agnostics, and atheists. The participants will shape the club’s agenda, format and focus. No topic will be considered too controversial or off-limits for discussion. Some of the initial topics to be explored will include the following:

  • What principles do religions hold in common and where are the differences?
  • Are some actions inherently good or evil - or does it depend on the situation?
  • How does one identify a “sacred text?”

Spanish Club

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Second and fourth Wednesdays (in term)
Sept. 26, Oct. 10, Oct. 24
Second and fourth Tuesdays (out of term)
Nov. 13, Nov. 27, Dec. 11
Tallwood
Coordinators: Dick Cheadle                    dbcheadle@verizon.net
                           Mark Ramage          markramage@cox.net
This club is designed for those who are in the intermediate stage of understanding and speaking Spanish—further along than 1-2-3 and A-B-C, but not fluent. The club members leading a particular class will choose the subject and prepare the lesson for that class. Members will not have to participate beyond their comfort level. NOTE: There will be one meeting in the first half of September before the fall term starts; date and time will be announced.

 

 

 

 

OLLI Photo Club - Catalog Covers

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Overview • Galleries (See Galleries) • Monthly Themes • Field Trips • Speakers • Projects

 

OLLI Catalog cover images are usually selected from photos taken and proposed by club members. It is important to think well ahead in planning to submit seasonal images for catalog covers since selection is made prior to the start of the season depicted on the cover.  For example, the photograph for the winter 2015 Catalog cover had to be selected by early October 2014. Consequently that photo was taken on a snowy day the previous winter.

Requirements.

  • Photo must be in portrait orientation.
  • Sizing must be 300ppi at 8 inches by 10 inches.
  • Note from the examples that text may be placed within the image at the top, bottom and right.  Key subject elements should not intrude upon these areas.

 

    

 

 

 

 

Overview • Galleries (See Galleries) • Monthly Themes • Field Trips • Speakers • Projects

 

 

Test

Russia Discussion Group Ends

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Interest both in the US media and in OLLI has diminished considerably as events in Ukraine and Russia have become overtaken in importance by our new War on ISIS. For that reason, I am suspending meetings of the group until further notice. If events warrant, I will resurrect the group.

Gordon

Final Meeting?

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Remember that we meet again on Friday, Sept 26, at 9:30 in the Tallwood Annex. Only about five people showed up for the last session, so if interest continues to be low this week, I will go ahead and dissolve the group. It looks stalemated and is apt to drag on for years (see Georgia-Russian relations).

A former US Ambassador to Ukraine recently visited Kiev and provided this recap of his impressions: http://tinyurl.com/nbppjf4

Club will meet at high noon in TA-1 tomorrow

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Last Tuesday’s Washington Post featured an editorial on the Ukraine crisis entitled “Making Mr. Putin feel the heat of sanctions” arguing for greater sanctions. This is a quote:

“The status quo in eastern Ukraine should not be acceptable to the United States or any European nation…… Mr. Putin has paid an insufficient price internationally for invading an independent country.”
That raises some interesting questions for our discussion tomorrow:
1. Which vital “US national interest” is involved in Ukraine’s independence?
2. Why is it OK for example to bomb Syria, Libya, and Serbia as long as we don’t put boots on the ground? Isn’t bombing a violation of national sovereignty?

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