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He wants to ask the caller why too.
"I really want to understand what it was about my physical being or what it is that I was doing that appeared to be so threatening to this lady that she felt it was important to call the police," he said.
Komi Olaf: "I really want to understand..."
"And jeopardize our lives," she said. "Whenever black people interface with the police we know that our lives are always in jeopardy whether it is that we ended up on the curbside face down on the concrete or we walked away alive. It's just by the grace of God, the universe that we walked away alive."
Kenzie Smith was grilling with a friend in Lake Merritt park in Oakland, Calif. on April 29, when a woman called the police. The now infamous woman --wearing a navy sweater and sunglasses holding a green cell phone — has become a viral meme known as "BBQ Becky."
Smith says the woman saw them grilling and said she was going to call the police.
She told the police she was being harassed and the men were illegally using charcoal. Smith says he was profiled as a black man and is now going to run for Oakland's parks and recreation council to affect change.
"She saw us and basically told us that we were trespassing on private property. She told us I was going to jail," she said. "She told us that we were not wanted she said and the citizen's arrest just continued — went on for three hours."
"There are some people who just think that it's normal to call the police for anything," she says.
Former White House staffer Darren Martin was excited to move into his new apartment in New York City on April 27. The Bronx native was happy to be back in his hometown. But then the police showed up in response to a report of an armed robbery.
"I was hurt. I did feel unwelcome and at points unsafe because I know that there are folks here who are suspect of me," he said.
What he wasn't, was surprised. He knew without his business suit on, some of his new white neighbors might deem him suspicious even with a U-Haul and clearly marked moving boxes.
Darren Martin: "I still wear this black skin"
"No matter how early I get up in the morning to leave in my suit or how late I come back in my suit when I take that suit off I still wear this black skin," he said. "Folks see that and you're often criminalized as a black man you know for being black."
A video he took of the incident went viral and he hopes it makes white people who call the police on black people recognize the internal biases that might be driving that call.
Because false calls like the one made against him, could risk his life, he said. Someone told the police he was armed. He is leading the call for Congress to hold a hearing on the matter.
On April 30, two Native American brothers were on a college campus tour at Colorado State University. Thomas Kanewakeron Gray, 19, and Lloyd Skanahwati Gray, 17, saved their own money to visit what was their dream school their mother told reporters at the time. But then a parent on a tour called the police on the two teens because they made her "nervous." She told the dispatcher they weren't part of the tour and were lying. She said they were "just really odd" and were wearing clothes with "weird symbolism or wording on it." On the call she is asked if the teens are white and she says "I think they're Hispanic, I believe," then adds "One of them for sure. He said he's from Mexico."
CSU police call: "There are two young men..."
Body cam footage from Colorado State University's Police Department shows the boys being pulled off the tour and questioned. Police ask why they weren't responding to questions and Thomas says that Lloyd is shy. Lloyd then scrolls through his emails to find one showing he was registered for the tour.
The boys' mother told reporters at the time that it broke her heart. The university said "We deeply regret the unwelcoming and concerning experience they had while guests on our campus," and offered to reimburse the prospective students for their costs to join the tour. They drove seven hours from their home in New Mexico to visit the school.
The poetry group Muslim Girls Making Change arrived at the Elks Club in Burlington, Vt. to perform on May 7. The teens, two black, two brown, waited outside. They were excited, laughing and talking loudly. They'd just been invited to the National Education Association's Human and Civil Rights Awards ceremony. This year other awardees include Michelle Obama and Colin Kaepernick, a football player and human rights advocate.
"We were like 'oh my God it's happening, I can't believe it's really happening' and everything. So we might have been a little loud," said Kiran Waqar, one of the teen poets.
A man came outside and told the girls, "I've called the police and told them you're doing drugs."
Kiran says they were all shocked. They were invited guests, and the only things they had on them were Arizona iced teas.
"White people need to go through trainings and make sure that they understand before they act like that," Waqar said. "You know thinking about 'would I call the police if these were four blonde girls of color. Am I using the police's time well' ... it could have been resolved very easily if you just talk to us."
The police confirmed they were called over kids being disruptive on the property. They responded and found that the kids were invited performers — the poets did perform that night.
Other incidents involve people napping at a dorm lounge in Yale, golfing, going to the gym and working as a real estate developer.
Should I tell my first-grader about the racist, imperialist, and misogynist legacies I detect in the book she's reading?
When we live in God’s grace, the distinction between wilderness and city collapses.
Salty water stings, but it also heals.
The etymology is uncertain, but the meaning is clear.
This information is contained in a report in the Washington Post. The suspension rate in May and June is said to be twice the rate of suspensions back in October of 2017.
Twitter under increasing pressure to stop various "bad actors"
Many have complained that Twitter has failed to stop abusive users, trolls, and spam. Particularly since the Russian ad campaign Twitter as well as Facebook have been under pressure to filter out "undesirable" tweets.
While the change could result in a decline in users for the second quarter, a Twitter executive said that many of the accounts rarely tweeted and thus the company's active user count might not change too much. However, in its first quarter shareholder letter this year the company said that its information quality efforts had a negative impact on the number of monthly active users and that the increased vetting of accounts could very well continues to have an impact on active user numbers.
Del Harvey, Twitter's vice-president for Trust and Safety said in an interview that Twitter was changing the calculus between promoting public discourse and preserving safety. She added that Twitter has only recently been able to dedicate the resources and technical ability to target malicious behavior in the manner it is doing.
Harvey said: “One of the biggest shifts is in how we think about balancing free expression versus the potential for free expression to chill someone else’s speech. Free expression doesn’t really mean much if people don’t feel safe.” The truth is often threatening to people and of course governments as well. Free expression does not mean much if it cannot make people and governments uncomfortable.
Any publication that criticizes Trump he calls fake news. He has a particular dislike of Jeff Bezos CEO of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post. There are dangers in quoting anonymous sources but sometimes it cant be avoided. Often Trump has no sources but confidently asserts falsehoods as truths. Where are his sources for the statement that both papers will be out of business in 7 years?
Nestlé has trained no fewer than 35 Ogun State Health workers on nutrition as part of the efforts to impact positively on the Nigerian economy.
At a two-day nutrition academy organised by the Nestle Nutrition Institute Africa (NNIA), in collaboration with the Ogun State Ministry of Health held in Abeokuta, the NNIA Regional Manager in-charge of Central and West Africa, Mrs Chioma Emma-Nwachukwu, who spoke on the theme: “Nurturing a healthy generation of children” disclosed that the event was put together in line with the set vision to curb children from dying young.
She said the nutrition academy which was expected to train 500 health workers in both 22 West and Central African (11 Anglophone and 10 Francophone) countries chose Ogun State to train 35 health workers that would retrain others on the importance of nutrition on children and family units.
In her remarks, the Head, Paediatric department, Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, Dr Morufat Ogundeyi, noted that nutrition plays important roles in the health development and growth of a child.
According to her, malnutrition does not only affect a child but the entire family unit.
“If a child is malnourished it would affect the entire family unit. Malnutrition causes cognitive impairment which affects the way of thinking and reasoning of a child. It will affect his or her education and will fall into the category of the unemployed in the society that are burdens.
“Thus, economically, a malnourished child will affect his or her contributions to the Gross Domestic Products (GDP) which is an instrument to determine the growth and development of a country”, said Ogundeyi.
Besides, she stressed that in contributing to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) there is the need to achieve adequate health care through sustainable agriculture whereby the governments at all levels will give support to the agricultural sector that will increase foreign exchange earnings and also reduce unemployment.
He gave voice to the infantrymen of the First World War with his unflinching studies of the horror of conflict.
Now, a century on from his stay at Edinburgh’s pioneering Craiglockhart War Hospital, a garden of remembrance is to be created in honour of the poet Wilfred Owen.
A plan of the garden, which will be unveiled this week.
The brainchild of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), the Wilfred Owen Association, and Glen Art, a veterans’ charity based in East Dunbartonshire, the garden will be unveiled this week.
Featuring a specially commissioned bust of Owen, created by the award-winning sculptor Anthony Padgett, the One Hundred Years of Remembrance garden has been described as a fitting way of marking the poet’s time in Edinburgh.
He was diagnosed with shell shock after serving with the 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment, and was sent for treatment at Craiglockhart, now part of Edinburgh Napier University’s Craiglockhart campus.
During his time in the city, he met fellow war poet, Siegfried Sassoon, who would play a pivotal role in encouraging the young Owen to document his experiences.
Over the course of just four months in Edinburgh, he became the editor of the hospital magazine, The Hydra, and wrote dozens of poems. They included Dulce Et Decorum Est and Anthem For Doomed Youth, two of his most enduring works which addressed, in Owen’s words, the “pity of war”.
The garden, which will also commemorate the centenary of the CWGC, is being created by veterans with post traumatic stress disorder.
A spokesman for the Wilfred Owen Association said: “The association is delighted to have an opportunity to commemorate Owen’s time in Edinburgh, where he was sent to recover from shell shock in 1917.
After his time in Edinburgh, Owen returned to France, but he was killed while crossing the Sambre-Oise canal on 4 November 1918, exactly a year to the day from his departure from the capital, and a week before the signing of the Armistice. He was just 25.
The garden will be unveiled this Friday at the Gardening Scotland event, taking place at the Royal Highland Centre.
It was designed by Robert Ross from the CWGC, who is also a member of the Royal Scottish Horticultural Association.
Ross explained that the garden brought together different styles, from the large flowering plants popularised by Gertrude Jekyll to the more regimented planting of modern cemeteries.
He said: “When I was asked to design this garden, my thoughts immediately turned to the rich gardening heritage of the Commission and the way our planting has evolved.
“I sought to bring together these two eras that speak of the formal structure of our cemeteries abroad, with the Luytens-designed bench providing a place for rest and contemplation.
Fiona MacDonald, director of Glen Art, said the project was “particularly important” as it allowed veterans to pay tribute to the fallen of the First World War.
Kashmir remained an unresolved issue only because former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru tackled it in the wrong way, leading to Pakistan indulging in terrorist acts, BJP President Amit Shah said here Thursday asking the Congress not to politicise the issue.
Addressing a large meeting of BJP workers here, Shah said Pakistan was indulging in terrorist acts because of Kashmir.
"Kashmir is simmering because of Jawaharlal Nehru. Had Patel been the prime minister at the time, Kashmir would not have remained a problem," he added.
Lashing out at the Congress for "politicising" the recent terrorist attack on CRPF personnel in Pulwama, the BJP president said the opposition party was not to going to derive any benefit out of it.
The Congress has not even left the issue of terrorism in its futile bid to remove Modi.
"For Narendra Modi, the nation's security is the top-most priority. He is toiling 18 hours a day for that. Congress... don't teach patriotism to us. We are the ones who are ready to lay down our lives for Bharat Mata," Shah asserted.
Today was the much ballyhooed #TebowFreeTV edition of First Take. The “Tebow free edition” came about because the talented DJ Steve Porter won a Webby for his “All He Does Is Win” video mashup featuring Skip Bayless.
I wanted to take in this spectacle, if only to see First Take collapse on itself like an aging star by not mentioning Tim Tebow. Except this is First Take, so the “Tebow Free edition” was actually an excuse to talk about Tim Tebow more than ever before. You see, only Skip Bayless couldn’t say Tim Tebow while it was fair game for others. Pretty much the entire show consisted of ESPN personalities coming on First Take to rip Tim Tebow while Skip Bayless offered shocked and dismayed and heartbroken facial expressions while remaining silent.
Of course, Skip couldn’t make it the entire show without saying Tebow and walked over to the camera screaming Tebow’s name several times like a crazed lunatic at the end. No, that’s not some kind of sarcastic overexaggeration trying to be funny. That actually happened. The above count is almost accurate, except for the two times the DJ Steve Porter mashup was shown with Skip Bayless saying “Tebow” and Stephen A. Smith getting in one more mention after the final count. That means the “Tebow free edition of First Take gave us well over a half hour of Tebow time and over 125 mentions of Tebow’s name. Keep in mind that First Take mentioned Tim Tebow only 52 times in one episode during the middle of the NFL season and it has been 130 days since Tim Tebow played an NFL game.
I’ve tried to put the abject horror of First Take into words before, but this particular show on Wednesday May 23rd, 2012 is beyond anything I’ve ever seen to this point in my years walking this sphere known as Planet Earth. In fact, I pysically and mentally can’t even put into context how terrifying these two hours were to witness. Maybe some day, the human race will have advanced to the point where they can find words and a language that appropriately describe this madness. We’ll surely all be dead by then, but in the age of flying cars and transportation devices and advanced telekinesis, maybe someone will finally be able to effectively communicate what was witnessed today. For the sake of our great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren, I hope it happens.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A new poll suggests Mexico's presidential race is tightening.
The polling firm GEA/ISA says the lead of candidate Enrique Pena Nieto has dropped to 7 percentage points. He had a 20-point lead in a January poll by the same company.
The survey says 36 percent of voters favor Pena Nieto, while 29 percent back Josefina Vazquez Mota of the conservative National Action Party that now governs Mexico. Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party ruled Mexico from 1929 to 2000.
The poll published Thursday by the newspaper Milenio says 17 percent of voters back leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
The February 17-19 poll of 1,000 potential voters has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
Australian systems integrator, I-Comm, has signed an OEM agreement with Sybase to provide a wireless tracking service for trade/sales persons on the road. I-Comm will provide the field force automation systems via its existing Bhive product.
The system was developed specifically for trade services such as HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), plumbers or electricians, and sales companies, providing these staff in the field with the ability to track jobs for service and installation, and or manage sales requests.
The Bhive system was built using the Sybase SQL Anywhere product suite and could bring together various disparate systems that were present within many organisations, I-Comm general manager of mobility, George Christopoulos, said.
"Our experience in the voice, data and mobile solutions market and recent partnership with Sybase allows I-Comm to provide a fast and easy way to improve mobile workforce productivity by making it possible for employees working remotely to access company data," he said.
The deal was a significant one for the company. "It completes the full circle of services and solutions of voice, data and mobility that I-Comm provides to the market place," Christopoulos said.
"Customers are looking towards organisations as a one-stop shop when it comes to their voice, data and mobility needs. Proposing a solution to a customer and having to involve two, three and sometimes four various entities becomes a daunting task. Organisations today are not prepared to chase up the various entities and determine who is required to address a problem when it arises."
The new arrangement with Sybase came about when I-Comm looked to expand on its voice and data services to include mobility/field force automation. "We had the in-house skill-set and experience to make this transition; it was purely a decision of the right technology and partner that would allow us to move this forward," Christopoulos said.
"Sybase has excellent personnel, from management right through to technical support."
A Moscow court has rejected an electoral fraud lawsuit by the democratic Yabloko party and refused to cancel the December 4 parliamentary vote results at one of the capital’s polling stations.
The party claims that its observers had recorded serious violations and election fraud at polling station № 1348.
Particularly, according to a record handed over to the monitor, the Fair Russia party got 160 votes, 135 citizens voted for Yabloko, 260 cast their ballots for United Russia, and 12 people preferred Right Cause, the Yabloko official website reports.However, later, the Moscow City Election Commission published completely different numbers, with Yabloko getting only 10 votes and the ruling party United Russia 561 votes.
Judge Elena Zhdanuyk from Moscow’s Lefortovo Court, though, found no grounds for annulling the vote results even after a member of the district election commission with full voting status confirmed in court that his signature on “the falsified record” was forged.
Earlier, several other Moscow courts also threw out Yabloko’s complains against alleged election violations.
Meanwhile, Grigory Yavlinsky, a Yabloko co-founder – one of the oldest Russian democratic parties – is set to take part in the March 4 presidential poll. The politician has already submitted required documents to the Russian Central Election Commission.
Now, to be officially registered as a candidate, he has until January 18 to collect 2 million signatures from supporters and submit them to the CEC. Yavlinsky, 59, is confident that the party will manage to fulfill this requirement.
“There’s never been such atmosphere as it is now,” he noted in an interview with Vesti-24 news TV channel. “A huge number of people” are coming to Yabloko offices offering to put their signatures on the candidacy list.
“In a few days, by January 1, we will have half-a-million signatures,” Yavlinsky said.
We are still having temperatures below zero on some mornings. We also received a few more inches of snow. The local paper said we have had 41.5 inches of snow this year and the average temperature has been zero. We are getting an idea of what life feels like in Alaska! There have been very few days that the temperature was warm enough for the children to go outside to enjoy the snow. On days that were warm enough they enjoyed sledding, building igloos, etc. The boys had Stormy the pony pulling several sleds.
Lovina uses Minnie, our miniature pony, to pull her sled. Pulling a sled is a good way to exercise the ponies in the winter months. Benjamin and Joseph built a wooden sled and now are getting to enjoy it. I think the sled will outlast the plastic store-bought ones. This seems to be more like the winters we had when was growing up. I have fond memories of going places with the big bob sled hitched to our team of Belgian work horses or two of the driving horses.
I remember sometimes on a Sunday morning Uncle Chris and family would come driving in to pick us up with their bobsled to go to church. Sometimes another family on the way to church would be picked up also. We didn�t mind being crowded on those cold rides. Bales of straw were placed in the bobsled to make seats and some of the smaller children would sit on the floor wrapped in thick buggy robes. It was always such a cozy ride. Uncle Chris would stand at the front of the bobsled dressed in a big, long thick coat to protect him from the cold wind as he drove the team of horses down the snow-covered roads.
I can remember when the 1978 blizzard hit us. It took an hour for the road in front of the house to be plowed out. There wasn�t any traffic for a week. The milk truck couldn�t come to pick up milk, but we still had to milk the cows. We milked cows and ran out of milk cans so every container and bucket that could be filled was full of milk. The kitchen was shut off to help keep the rest of the house warmer. The milk was stored in the cold kitchen and the dining room was used for our kitchen. We would go outside and could walk over the fence posts and mailbox. We could walk up to the roof of the sheds and write our name on the roof in the snow. I was almost 7 years old and remember when the bus finally came to pick up my older siblings. I would stand on top of this huge snow pile to wave goodbye. I was young enough to not have the worries that I imagine my parents had until the roads were opened. I do remember that when we went out to do the milking Dad told us to hold on to one of our older brothers. It was hard to see in the dark with the blowing snow.
Our highlight this week was daughter Verena�s return from Florida. We missed her being gone eight days. The children made a big �Welcome Home Verena� sign with balloons on it. They hung it on the shed door so she could see it when they arrived home. She had a nice, memorable trip. It was nice to all be together again to eat supper that night. This was the first time to have one of our children be away from us that long. God bless you all! I will share a new pizza crust recipe I received from a friend.